Re: X4 and DRI

2000-11-17 Thread John
Im using a voodoo5 5500. I think i have seen this mentioned elsewhere, the problem is the dri kernel module is a different version from what the X server expects . A bit like mixing kernel modules with a different kernel :). I started playing with X4, shortly before they came into woody so i hav

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
Neither navigator nor communicator are part of Debian proper, so won't be on the CDs--they're not DFSG free, so are in the non-free section (which is not officially supported by or officially part of Debian). Some vendors include a non-free CD, but a good portion do not. Once you set up apt for

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
It was unofficial: netscape's non-free. On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > I have installed netscape, though I cannot remember if it was from the > official cd or from an unofficial one. You can also try to install the > package communicator-smotif-473 or navigator-smotif-473. >

pci network configuration

2000-11-17 Thread 李威儒
Hi! I have a potato box with dlink dfe 530 tx. I recompile my kernel with via-rhine driver bulit-in. And next? $cat /proc/pci I found Bus 0, device 14, function 0: Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 66). Vendor id=1106. Device id=3065 Medium devsel. I

Creating Debian image for installfests

2000-11-17 Thread Jesse Goerz
Our local LUG is doing installfests once a month and it seems I'm the only Debian user in the whole bunch (the damn heretics!;-) I would like to get some advice on this: I'm trying to create a bare bones system with all the things a new Linux user would be semi-familiar with. (i.e. Netscape, K

Re: Apt-get UPgrade today

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
do a dist-upgrade and that should bring down the number of "not installed"... On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, dude wrote: > > > Hello all. > > I've Just > Upgraded today and have noted that exactly 41 packages have not been fully > installed or removed > > The only error is get is: > > /var/cache/apt/

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-17 Thread Arthur H. Edwards,1,505-853-6042,505-256-0834

Re: fetchnews running automatically?

2000-11-17 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:33:27PM +, Ekkehard Kraemer ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it > > fetch news automatically? > What's your crontab entry look like Mark Brown has cleared it up - I ha

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:29:15PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Greetings, > > I've installed Netscape 6.0 for a friend of mine. It looks pretty > cool, finally the user can change displayed font size without going to > preferences... The ugly HTML forms' elements are gone, too. However > the

softwareraid

2000-11-17 Thread Manuel Hendel
Hi, I have to setup a machine with a sofwareraid, just a mirror. Which tool should I use, raidtools, raidtools2 or mdutils? I already set up the machine on one disk. I made the five partitions, boot, root, swap, usr, var. Is it possible to mirror the whole disk and boot from the boot partition? B

Re: quake - installation

2000-11-17 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 05:29:44PM +0100, Michael Mertins wrote: > after installing the jdk I want to give Quake a try. > i saw via apt-cache search quake that there's quake-3dfx available (I have > a voodoo3-2000 running here). > so can i just install the package and run the game by typing 'quak

Re: isdn timeout

2000-11-17 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:37:05AM +0100, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > i'm using potato and a normal isdn installation. > i get disconnected when i'm idle for about 2 minutes. In your /etc/isdn/device.ippp0 there should be an entry like: isdnctrl huptimeout ${device} xxx Set the xxx to your desire

Re: softwareraid

2000-11-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya manuel.. none you already have mirroring part of the kernel... just setup /etc/raidtab for raid1 == mirroring http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid/raid1.conf http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid you can tell it

Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail (SOLVED)

2000-11-17 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:51:36PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > I do not really know what I did, but I installed sendmail, hoping that > that would solve the problem. Did not, removed sendmail, installed Postfix > again, moved all mail from /var/mail to /var/spool/mail and removed > /var/mai

Re: softwareraid

2000-11-17 Thread Manuel Hendel
Thanks for the first time. that's what I wanted. But is it possible to boot than from the mirror. How does this funktion? Thanks, Manuel > hi ya manuel.. > > none you already have mirroring part of the kernel... > > just setup /etc/raidtab for raid1 == mirroring > > http://

Re: softwareraid

2000-11-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya manuel.. sounds like you want a "root-boot mirror"...not just mirroring.. which is trickier... - i say just run lilo on the mirrored disk... each time you change the booting thingies ( kernels, lilo, etc ) - than it should boot if you do get to hdb instea

Re: softwareraid

2000-11-17 Thread Manuel Hendel
I gonna try that. I'll tell you the results. Thanks, Manuel > > > hi ya manuel.. > > sounds like you want a "root-boot mirror"...not just mirroring.. > which is trickier... > - i say just run lilo on the mirrored disk... > each time you change the booting thingies >

VALinux box -> NT4 -> Debian emergency!

2000-11-17 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi. I've an urgent question, and I'd be most grateful if anyone with an answer or advice would reply to me directly, as I only receive the digest for the debian-user list. I'm trying to propel my office which currently uses NT4 servers to serve Mac workstations, to Linux servers. We need a new box

Supporting non-english (was: Re: Quiero saber si...)

2000-11-17 Thread Tomas Sanchez
Hi Debians! This message is cross posted to debian-devel, debian-user and Miquel who posted the original message. Hi debian-devel: >From time to time a message in a foreign (as opposed to english) language >lands into the deb-user list and mostly nothing happens. I think that this >could chang

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:37:24 -0700 (MST), John Galt wrote: > >Neither navigator nor communicator are part of Debian proper, so won't be >on the CDs--they're not DFSG free, so are in the non-free section >(which is not officially supported by or officially part of Debian). Some >vendors include a

unable to run pppd (was wvdial)

2000-11-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi to all! On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:17:27 -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: >On Thursday 16 November 2000 12:53, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > >> connection. How should I define the right privileges in order to run >> wvdial or pon from my personal account? >> Thanks in advance! > >Add your personal acco

XEmacs & CPerl: DEL doesn't forward-delete?

2000-11-17 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, I'm having a hard time fighting with XEmacs and/or CPerl. For whatever reason the DEL key deletes backwords in XEmacs, but ONLY in CPerl mode. In the scratch buffer or in CC mode DEL works as expected. The same is true for XTerm windows (i.e. works as expected.) Option "Delete Key Dele

what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-17 Thread Thomas Halahan
dear deb-users, I have a stand allone debian box with a fax modem. I want to send faxes from my box (but I don't really have to recieve them). Q> What software, from the debian distro, would you suggest which is easy to set up for sending PS files, for example. Thanks Tom

Re: softwareraid

2000-11-17 Thread Manuel Hendel
I did all shown in the Softare-Raid-HOWTO, but it didn't work. I did the mkraid /dev/md0 with the umounted partition /var. It aborted and wanted me to look at the syslogs. But if the /var partition is umounted, there's no place to log to. What can I do now? Thanks, Manuel > > I gonna try

Re: Apt-get UPgrade today

2000-11-17 Thread dude
thanks ill give it a try g On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote: > > do a dist-upgrade and that should bring down the number of "not > installed"... > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, dude wrote: > > > > > > > Hello all. > > > > I've Just > > Upgraded today and have noted that exactly 41 packages have not

bc - calculator

2000-11-17 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi all I have a lot of data that has to be processed, means 100 numbers having to be divided by another 100 numbers. I did a job like this for adding numbers to others by bc < input-file > output-file with input-file: one # eg. 199+243 operation # 198+392 per

Re: unable to run pppd (was wvdial)

2000-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:34:08AM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi to all! > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:17:27 -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > > >On Thursday 16 November 2000 12:53, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > >> connection. How should I define the right privileges in order to run > >> wv

Re: unable to run pppd (was wvdial)

2000-11-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 03:42:48 -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: >did you logout after adding yourself to group dip? group membership >does not take effect until the next login. > Thanks! I didn't know that I have to relogin! I will see this tonight. Regards, Marcelo _ Marcelo

Re: unable to run pppd (was wvdial)

2000-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
/me didn't look close enough... On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:42:48AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > and after ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd I got > > > > -rwxr-x--- 1 root dip 183504 Nov 4 19:07 /usr/sbin/pppd ^-not suid. that will also cause this problem, though the error above still looked mo

Re: bc - calculator

2000-11-17 Thread Christoph Simon
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:39:21 +0100 Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was really great and saved me hours of time. The problem is now, > that I have to do the same thing with divisions, meaning 3/4 = 0.75. But > bc spits out 3/4 => 0 and 4/3 => 1. Any Idea how I can change this > beh

Which processor type for Celeron?

2000-11-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
Which processor type should you chose for Celeron when compiling the kernel? I'm using 586 - is this correct? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical essays: http://www.cix.co.uk/~aca

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:13:05PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > yes, remove netscape 6 and run: > > apt-get update > apt-get install mozilla > > mozilla is much better then netscape 6 which is just an older mozilla > snapshot with lots of AOL crap layered on top. however mozilla is My experie

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-17 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Robert wrote: > If your problem is that name service isn't working (despite the hosts file), > it could be that Goofy is trying to find mini and mickey on the internet, > where they are not visible. I suggest not using a valid internet domain. > I'd suggest "orion.home" or something more creative

Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems

2000-11-17 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Colin, the make procedure fails on the command "gawk": > > Change this to: > > install: compile > mv -f $(CONF) $(CONF).old > gawk -f mod_conf $(CONF).old > $(CONF) #!!! > echo "alias sound $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) > echo "alias midi $(NAME)" >> $

Re: bc - calculator

2000-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This was really great and saved me hours of time. The problem is now, >that I have to do the same thing with divisions, meaning 3/4 = 0.75. But >bc spits out 3/4 => 0 and 4/3 => 1. Any Idea how I can change this >behaviour to get the real results? Would save me some more h

Re: bc - calculator

2000-11-17 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: Re using bc. Start bc. then type scale=5 ( for five decimal places for example) Then you can do your divisions. Hope this helps. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810

Re: bc - calculator

2000-11-17 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:39:21 +0100 > Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This was really great and saved me hours of time. The problem is now, > > that I have to do the same thing with divisions, meaning 3/4 = 0.75. But > > bc spits out 3/

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:57:39PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:13:05PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > yes, remove netscape 6 and run: > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get install mozilla > > > > mozilla is much better then netscape 6 which is just an older mozilla > >

Creative Soundblaster PCI238 and kernel

2000-11-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have Creative Soundblaster Audio PCI238 sound card. I can't see this in the menu for the current kernel. Amyone know which entry to use? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical ess

Re: Which processor type for Celeron?

2000-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:56:54PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Which processor type should you chose for Celeron when compiling the > kernel? I'm using 586 - is this correct? if its a recent celeron you can use 686, thats what i have been using without problems: 4:21am up 158 days, 30 min

Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems

2000-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 at 12:40:27 +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > This is the log: > > MINI:~/drivers/sound/aureal# make install20 > make install AUCHIP=AU8820 > make[1]: Entering directory `/root/drivers/sound/aureal' > cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DAU8820 -mpentium -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer > -W

Soundblaster AWE 64: potato package update wrecked sound

2000-11-17 Thread Berthold Cogel
Hello! I had a working sound configuration until last weekend with Debian 2.2, Kernel 2.2.17 and Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold. Then I decided to update my system from potato-stable (about 32 packages/25 MB). Since the next reboot the module sb wants to use IRQ7 and sound isn't working anymore. This

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread Daniel Borgmann
> > My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as > > Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. > > i have found its certainly more of a pig, and its interface is very > sluggish, it does tend to be less stable too, but only for certain > sites. i think for most people sticki

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread vijay
At Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:44:05 +0100 , Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as >> > Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. >> >> i have found its certainly more of a pig, and its interface is very >> sluggish, it does te

Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI238 and kernel

2000-11-17 Thread Michael Epting
In 2.4.0-test10, it´s Creative Ensoniq AudiioPCI 97 (ES1371). I have heard that some older PCI128´s might be ES1370, which is also available. If you check the archives, you will find several people saying that you need the ALSA drivers to make this card work. I can verify that it works with ALS

CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-17 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco routers and/or other Cisco gear. I was thinking about things like analytical tools and configuration tools. Mainly I am interested in anything that is happening now and/or being developed. Any info much app

'Stable' tracks 2.2r0, 2.2r1,...?

2000-11-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, A simple question here: If I have a machine that is using apt-get to stay in sync w/ the security updates and bug fixes in stable, does this automatically keep it up w/ the latest stable version? i.e., my install cd's were 2.2r0. Now 2.2r1 is out. Soon (hopefully) 2.2r2 will be out. Wil

Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-17 Thread Youri Albinovanus
Debian Ghost wrote: > Hey Guys, > I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco > routers and/or other Cisco gear. I was thinking about things like > analytical tools and configuration tools. Mainly I am interested in > anything that is happening now and/or being devel

Re: Re: Conexion a internet

2000-11-17 Thread manurung
please send to me again thanks ** Original Message ** Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Shortly: Thinks connects to isp with Debian 2.2 potato, modem zoltrix external >56k, > >pentium 200 ,wvdial. Netscape does not go beyond "looking" > > > >If you want wide help, wri

Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 17 November 2000, at 9 h 25, the keyboard of Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco > routers and/or other Cisco gear. Everything is in Debian packages: m4 (to create configuration files) mrtg (to get stats

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, robert_wilhelm_land spoke on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:31:16PM +0100: > > What does "bind for domain name resolution" mean? Does the mashine > want to contact a internet nameserver? yes, that's exactly what it means. > > Surprising that today after boot-up GOOFY _can_

Re: Apt-get UPgrade today

2000-11-17 Thread dude
still Didnt help install xlibs which seems to be the root of the problem g On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote: > > do a dist-upgrade and that should bring down the number of "not > installed"... > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, dude wrote: > > > > > > > Hello all. > > > > I've Just > > Upgraded to

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Daniel Borgmann wrote: > > > > My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as > > > Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. > > > > i have found its certainly more of a pig > ... > i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. I just installed Skipstone, and it l

Re: install 2.2 with 2.2.13 kernel

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:19:32PM +0100: > > > Hi, > > sorry for my stupid question but how can i install debian 2.2 with the 2.2.13 > (or 2.2.15) kernel ?? apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.15 cd /usr/src tar -xIf kernel-source-2.2.15.tar

Re: 'Stable' tracks 2.2r0, 2.2r1,...?

2000-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:31:28AM -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: > Hello, > > A simple question here: > > If I have a machine that is using apt-get to stay in sync > w/ the security updates and bug fixes in stable, does this > automatically keep it up w/ the latest stable version? > i.e., my insta

Re: Create an Installation CD from /var../archives

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Robfrank spoke on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:58:30AM +: > I would like to create an instalation CD from my archived packages in > /var/cache/apt/archives. > > What I have tried is to create a bootable CD with the 2.88mb recue.bin and > include a directory of all of

apt-get dist-upgrade error

2000-11-17 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Did an apt-get dist-upgrade last night and ran into the following problem: 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up debconf (0.5.01) ... Can't locat

Re: VALinux box -> NT4 -> Debian emergency!

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 17 November 2000 04:57, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > A small complication as that we need to practise installing NT4 onto the > new server as we have a completely new IT support department who don't Blasphemy! ;-) > much experience in this area. I'd like to get the VALinux box, possib

RE: Netscape 6.0/konqueor

2000-11-17 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
On my box konqueror has been a breath of fresh air.. with the exception of https support, which isn't there. Anyone know if that's a KDE thing or is it just not compiled into the packages at kde.tdyc.com? tim > -Original Message- > From: Daniel Borgmann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >g

Re: PHP setup with apache

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, John Griffiths spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:07:10AM +1100: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all. > > I'm trying to get a Linux Apache Mysql Php (LAMP) setup going on a > machine on my home network. > > running a potato base install i'

apache problem

2000-11-17 Thread Martin Würtele
hi, after the last woody update i have a strange problem with apache: i can't start apache and when i look in /var/log/apache/error.log i get the following line: apache: dl-close.c:122: _dl_close: Assertion `new_opencount[0] == 0' failed. any idea, what could be wrong? tia martin

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread Daniel Borgmann
> > i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. > > I just installed Skipstone, and it looks good (suits me better than > Galeon, at least). Apart from being leaner than Mozilla/Netscape (small > wonder, it aims to do much less), it has the one single feature which > made me pay for the

Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:47:54 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: >On Friday 17 November 2000, at 9 h 25, the keyboard of Debian Ghost ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco >> routers and/or other Cisco gear. > >Everything is in

Problems wit ps/2 mouse

2000-11-17 Thread Edwin Hoff
I'm running debian potato on my computer. The problem is, that the system doesn't initialize my ps/2-mouse automatically. To get access to the mouse i always run gpmconfig "manually" as root, after this procedure the mouse works. Which settings are necessary to have the mouse configured automatica

Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Chris Howells spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:25AM +: > I have just obtained the full three CD-ROM Debian CD-ROM set. I wish to > try it out on my old computer first, which does not have a CD-ROM drive > capable of booting. > > Therefore I must make a boot fl

Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI238 and kernel

2000-11-17 Thread Ray Percival
opensource.creative.com -- Original Message -- From: Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 06:21:19 -0800 >In 2.4.0-test10, it´s Creative Ensoniq AudiioPCI 97 (ES1371). I have >heard that some older PCI128´s might be ES1370, which is al

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-17 Thread Jorgensen, Jens
I like efax. It works with Class 1 modems too which is a bonus. It handles PS files very well and knows what to do. In fact, it relies on ghostscript to generate the fax image files. Thomas Halahan wrote: > dear deb-users, > > I have a stand allone debian box with a fax modem. I want to send >

Re: Simple question

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Salvador Petit Marti spoke on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:24:48AM +0100: > Sorry, I am a newbie in debian mailing lists... > Is debian-user a good place to ask questions about usability/problems with > woody? or there is another place?. I am subscribed to debian-testing

Re: apt-move dain-brammage

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 17:13, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > I'm running the Potato version of this, if that matters. > > it does, woody as apt-move 4.x instead of 3.x shipped with potato, maybe > that release will work, it has a quite different apt-move.conf format so i > can't send you min

Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi, I'm getting some weird display behavior in X and I need some help. I do a lot of work using virtual consoles. Quite often when I'm in a virtual console, if I press ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to X, my screen goes blank. I try to go back to a virtual console by pressing ctrl-alt-f1 (or f2 - f6)

Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-17 Thread Chris Howells
paolo massei wrote: >> to edit the file, even if I specify >> >> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > ^^ > > Perhaps here is the error: try with > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > ^^ Thanks. 'msdos' turned out, *surprisingly* to be the correct option. It still hasn't helped me g

System.map

2000-11-17 Thread Debian Ghost
Recently I started getting a message when I do a ps -ef | grep *something. The message reads about my system map not matching my kernel. I recently recompiled a kernel to include msdos support, but that is all I've done. Anyone help with this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ps -ef | grep netscape {no_ha

Re: Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Digital Overdrive
Casey Henderson wrote: > > Hi, > I'm getting some weird display behavior in X and I need some help. I > do a lot of work using virtual consoles. Quite often when I'm in a > virtual console, if I press ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to X, my screen > goes blank. I try to go back to a virtual console

Re: apt-move dain-brammage

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 17:13, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > > I'm running the Potato version of this, if that matters. > > it does, woody as apt-move 4.x instead of 3.x shipped with potato, maybe > that release will work, it has a quite different apt-move.conf format so i > can't send you m

RE: System.map

2000-11-17 Thread Jason Holland
You can recreate your System.map by running make install in /usr/src/linux, or wherever your kernel source is that you recently recompiled. Jason > > Recently I started getting a message when I do a ps -ef | grep *something. > > The message reads about my system map not matching my kernel. I re

Re: System.map

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Debian Ghost spoke on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:34:40AM -0500: > Recently I started getting a message when I do a ps -ef | grep *something. > > The message reads about my system map not matching my kernel. I recently > recompiled a kernel to include msdos support, but

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-17 Thread USM Bish
For small time requirements that you envisage, the efax program is good enough. It is on the main sub dir of Debian. Has an utility called "efix" which does the job of conversion between fax, text, bit- map, greyscale, ps and other formats. For heavier workload, most people vouch for mgetty + se

installing multiple versions of a given package

2000-11-17 Thread Walter Tautz
I am curious to know whether it would be possible to have two or more version of a given package exist compatibly and have the alternatives tool be able to pick one. REASON. Sometimes the features of one version are so annoying that one isn't interested in the `newer' version. I suppose most peop

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-17 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> I like efax. It works with Class 1 modems too which is a bonus. It |> handles PS files very well and knows what to do. In fact, it relies on |> ghostscript to generate the fax image files. I second this. Efax is small, light and very dependable. It's author (Ed Casas) and maintainer (Dirk Edde

emai client

2000-11-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi!! I am looking for a X e-mail client which could look to different mailboxes in different ISPs. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules

2000-11-17 Thread Ken Januski
Hi I downloaded msql-mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz today from CPAN. But when I ran make I got these errors: "LD_RUN_PATH -"/usr/local/." cc -o /blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib dbdimp.o mysql.o -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -/mysqlclient -lm -lz -L/usr/

is possible mp3?

2000-11-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, Is it possible to add content to an exsisting mp3? I would like to take a particular track and add an voice identifier to it.. If so, what utility would I use to edit/create mp3's? tia, regards -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m

Re: Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules

2000-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
"Ken Januski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I downloaded msql-mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz today from CPAN. But when I >ran make I got these errors: >"LD_RUN_PATH -"/usr/local/." cc -o >/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib dbdimp.o >mysql.o -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/loca

Re: [Xpert] Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Casey Henderson
Sorry, forgot the details. =) I'm using an S3Virge video card (2 mb video ram) with the S3V server (XFree 3.3.6). If you need anything else just ask. Thanks. Casey -- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~hender97/

Fwd: Re(2): [Xpert] Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Casey Henderson
Sorry, forgot the details. =) I'm using an S3Virge video card (2 mb video ram) with the S3V server (XFree 3.3.6). If you need anything else just ask. Thanks. Casey -- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~hender97/

Re: VALinux box -> NT4 -> Debian emergency!

2000-11-17 Thread Michael Smith
I put disks in and out of boxen all the time. The trick is to label everything. That way, you don't erase the good stuff. Otherwise, have fun. Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Friday 17 November 2000 04:57, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > A small complication as that we need to practise installing N

Re: is possible mp3?

2000-11-17 Thread Nick Zigarovich
Jaye, You can decode the MP3 to WAV format (can be done using mpg123 -w), and use your favorite WAV editor (waveforge, xwave, sweep) to layer in your content. I've never done any editing or mixing with the available Linux utilities, so I can' thelp you with specifics. Abstractly speaking, I w

Re: VALinux box -> NT4 -> Debian emergency!

2000-11-17 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:57:38AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. > I've an urgent question, and I'd be most grateful if anyone with an > answer or advice would reply to me directly, as I only receive the > digest for the debian-user list. > > I'm trying to propel my

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:14:40PM +, Ekkehard Kraemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Daniel Borgmann wrote: > > > > > > My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as > > > > Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. > > > > > > i have found its certainly more of a pig > >

Re: Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Jim Crumley
> Sorry, forgot the details. =) I'm using an S3Virge video card (2 mb > video ram) with the S3V server (XFree 3.3.6). If you need anything > else just ask. Thanks. Well give the regular xserver-svga a try. Its supports S3 Virge and I think it less buggy (and better maintained) than the xserver

Re: Apt-get UPgrade today

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
xlibs conflicts with the version you have ATM (at least it did for me last week when I apparently dealt with the problem). dist-upgrade should've solved it (that WAS the whole point of dist-upgrade at one time). If you know the culprit, just plain install it. My usual process for unstable upgra

Re: basic xscreensaver question

2000-11-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Ethan Benson wrote: > > 2.I have the GL screensavers turned on, but I get errors about not > > setting my MESA_GLX_FX variable. Right now I have it so that it sets it in > > my bashrc. What would be a better (global) file to put that it so all > > programs could take advantage of it? > >

Re: bc - calculator

2000-11-17 Thread Daniel Freedman
Or you could just use: 'bc -l' on invocation to get bc to treat numbers as 'longs' HTH -Daniel > From: Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: bc - calculator > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; char

capt segfaults

2000-11-17 Thread Johannes Zellner
capt segfaults from time to time with the following message: Exit: "Signal Handler (sig11)" is this a known problem ? -- Johannes

Re: Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules

2000-11-17 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks Colin, that solved the problem. ken - Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules > "Ken Januski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I downloaded msql-mysql-modules-1.22

Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Lessem
Now that woody is based on glibc2.2 I thought I would play with large file support. Perhaps this was a mistake, as I have managed to create a 3GB file, but I can't remove it. Any access to the file with the fileutils package (ls, rm, etc.) returns with "Value too large for defined data type". I

Synchronizing the files on two machines

2000-11-17 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hello, I would like to be able to synchronize the *certain* files on two machines that are *not* directly connected to each other. More precisely, I have to transfer data daily between two machines and the only convenient way to do that is through floppies (ZIP / rewritable CDs). Do you know a p

Re: is possible mp3?

2000-11-17 Thread Scott Patterson
Of course, mp3 is a lossy format. So, every time you re-compress the mp3 it will sound a little worse. However, since mp3's sound pretty good to start with, one re-compression shouldn't sound much different:) A better solution would be to squeeze the audio directly into the file. I don't know i

Synchronizing the files on two machines

2000-11-17 Thread Allan F. Caetano
> "Christophe" == Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christophe> Hello, Christophe> I would like to be able to synchronize the *certain* files on two Christophe> machines that are *not* directly connected to each other. Christophe> More precisely, I have to tran

Installation problems

2000-11-17 Thread James Copland
I'm having problems installing Debian on my system. I have the Promise UDMA66 card, a SiS 6326 video card and an Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830 sound card. None of these install, nor does my /dev/lp0 even though I know it is ECP, at 0x378-0x37F and 0x778-0x774 on IRQ 7 and DMA 3. I finally worked out how

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