Kernel 2.0.34 -> 2.2.17?

2000-11-18 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I seem to need to finally upgrade my kernel to 2.2.17. I have been posponding this as long as possible, not because of the fine Debian upgrade package, but because of expected networking trouble whilst having to part with ipmasq. Now it seems I need to take the dive (In comes the first Win2000 bo

RE: Network config

2000-11-18 Thread 李威儒
> Yes you need to have the module loaded for your network card > before you can actually use the eth0 interface w/ ifconfig and such. > Silver if I don't have a built-in network driver, how do I configure the driver. Thanks. > > > > > > On Tuesday 14 November 2000 10:49, Knud S鷨ensen wro

can't send with mutt and exim

2000-11-18 Thread ktb
I posted earlier but have some more to add. I'm trying to send mail with mutt through exim from my debian box through my openbsd box (firewall NAT). This is the message I get in the log when I try to send mail to my self at my isp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). 2000-11-18 00:56:56 13x1vk-IX-00 <= [EMA

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 -> 2.2.17?

2000-11-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 07:22:46AM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > > I have a Linux 2.2 (upgraded from 2.1 apart from the kernel) box that i assume you mean `Debian' and not `Linux' Linux is just a kernel, GNU/Linux is the operating system, Debian is the distribution. i assume you now have

Re: Netscape 6.0/konqueor

2000-11-18 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Can you please tell me which version your ssl packages are (0.95?) because I also don't have https support and want to veryfy if it's because of the firewall which I use for http connections or if it's because of wrong libs. Thanks in advance, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message ---

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:49:56AM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > Q> What software, from the debian distro, would you suggest which is > easy to set up for sending PS files, for example. I have used efax for a few years now and can recommend it. Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336 / 023

75dpi font default-haw?

2000-11-18 Thread Tino Ionescu
Please advise haw can the 75dpi font be set default, as opposed to 100dpi font. Thank you Florentin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail

which kernel option provide char-major-100 modules

2000-11-18 Thread oacl
after i recompiled my new kernel,some of my applications tell me that cannt find the module of char-major-100(maybe this name),maybe i erase some options of the kernel that provide this module,does anyone know which options provide this module? thanks for u reading my questions! :)) --

/dev/dsp and the audio group

2000-11-18 Thread Alessandro Amici
hi, I installed potato and now upgraded to 2.2r1 and have a problem with sound. permissions of the /dev/dsp* devices are crw-rw and ownership is root.audio. this seem to be sane if as a counterpart audio applications were owned by root.audio and set sgid, but this is not the case! I checked mp

Re: 75dpi font default-haw?

2000-11-18 Thread sena
On 18/11/2000 at 01:23 -0800, Tino Ionescu wrote: > Please advise haw can the 75dpi font be set default, > as opposed to 100dpi font. > Start X with "startx -- -dpi 75"... Regards, sena.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://decoy.ath.cx/~sena/ gpg fingerprint: F20B 12A8 A8F6 FD1F 9B1D BA62 C424 8E73

Re: /dev/dsp and the audio group

2000-11-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:15:19AM +0100, Alessandro Amici wrote: > hi, > > I installed potato and now upgraded to 2.2r1 and have a problem with > sound. > permissions of the /dev/dsp* devices are crw-rw and ownership is > root.audio. > this seem to be sane if as a counterpart audio applicatio

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-18 Thread Andre Berger
USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

apt-get upgrade caused Perl trouble

2000-11-18 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
Well, I did an apt-get upgrade just like usual on my Woody system, only this time something happened to Perl. And as Perl is required to upgrade packages, my system is currently in a freeze. It seems I need to put a Glob.pm in a directory, but I'm not exactly sure which one. Could someone send m

xlibs install problem

2000-11-18 Thread Phillip Deackes
I cannot install the latest xlibs (xlibs_4.0.1-5_i386.deb) on my Woody system because it complains about /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. I get the following error message using apt-get or dpkg: Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-3 (using xlibs_4.0.1-5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibs ...

Re: SB AWE64 configuration problem

2000-11-18 Thread Willy Lee
"Willy" == Willy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Regarding the problems I'm having with getting sound to work, I found a clue. Now if I only knew what it meant! This is what syslog says after attempting to modprobe to load the sound modules: Nov 18 03:07:16 geldar modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.c

Re: xlibs install problem

2000-11-18 Thread Johannes Zellner
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:07:31AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I cannot install the latest xlibs (xlibs_4.0.1-5_i386.deb) on my Woody system > because it complains about /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. I get the > following error message using apt-get or dpkg: > > Preparing to replace xlibs

Re: netbase & nfs server

2000-11-18 Thread Johannes Zellner
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:33:11PM +0100, Johannes Zellner wrote: > > After upgrading netbase, the nfs-server doesn't work any more: > > Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno > > = Connection

Re: capt segfaults

2000-11-18 Thread Johannes Zellner
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:46:28PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > Sig11's are often diagnostic of memory errors. Look at ! Folks ! Although I'm new on this list I've yet /some/ knowledge about what SEGV could mean. (Thanks for your help anyway, help is always appreciated). > http://www.bitwizar

Re: xlibs install problem

2000-11-18 Thread Johannes Zellner
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:20:24PM +0100, Johannes Zellner wrote: > but in one of the dpkg scripts. oops: ^but^bug -- Johannes

Re: Okay, I give up. What do I put in apt-get's sources.list?

2000-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
"Joe Emenaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want apt to be able to get to the goodies at: > http://www.sandalwood.net/~terubou/linux/deb/ > >What do I put in sources.list? deb http://www.sandalwood.net/~terubou linux/deb/ ... seems to work. (The trailing slash is required if you want to speci

Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

2000-11-18 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:39:54PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I can probably dredge up quite a lot from my sent-mail folder, with > things that I've answered frequently. Not sure when I'll have time to > write it up well. A lot of people obviously don't read the FAQs that are > already in exis

Re: which kernel option provide char-major-100 modules

2000-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > after i recompiled my new kernel,some of my applications tell me that cannt > find the > module of char-major-100(maybe this name),maybe i erase some options of the > kernel that > provide this module,does anyone know which options provide this mo

Re: AC-97 audio and MC-97 modem?

2000-11-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > [...] > > I've an Asus KX133, the on-board audio (VIA VT82C686) works quite well with > > ALSA > > (version 0.59d), if you really want OSS, the current stable kernel (2.2.17) > > has only > > support for 8 bit SB emulation, but there is a new driver in the next > >

Re: exim thru firewall

2000-11-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:50:17PM -0600, ktb wrote: > What I'm trying to do is send mail from my debian box (potato) through > my firewall (openbsd) to my isp. Could someone give me some pointers on > how to get this done? So long as your firewall passes through TCP port 25 there should be no p

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

2000-11-18 Thread Richard Klinda
> "Ra" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ra> I'm having a hard time fighting with XEmacs and/or CPerl. Ra> For whatever reason the DEL key deletes backwords in XEmacs, but ONLY Ra> in CPerl mode. [...] Same here. :-( (Wow, random sig... ;-)) -- ...sutongi tti olleh

Re: capt segfaults

2000-11-18 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Johannes Zellner writes: >> http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ It could be a real problem >> in capt, but if it's seemingly random and/or unreproducable, look into the >> possibility that the error is in hardware. If it's not random and it's >> reproducable, file a bug. > this is the problem: it

Re: netbase & nfs server

2000-11-18 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:25:42PM +0100, Johannes Zellner wrote: > no. This is not the problem. The problem is that the > new netbase is somehow broken. With the new netbase, > programs like ifconfig and ping are missing, I don't > know if this is related. It was the problem you presented last ti

Kernel UPdate

2000-11-18 Thread dude
Would you know where i can read about updating my kernel to 2.4 ? thanks

Re: Kernel UPdate

2000-11-18 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, dude wrote: > > Would you know where i can read about updating my kernel to 2.4 /usr/src/$YOUR_KERNEL_SOURCE/Documentation/Changes, Current Minimal Requirements section. []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP

Re: Problems with Matrox G400 AGP

2000-11-18 Thread paolo massei
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 07:42:13PM -0200, Rogerio Theodoro de Brito wrote: > > I've tried to use both XFree86 3.3.6 and 4.0.1e (Branden's > packages from Debian) and after working for 2 or 3 *seconds*, > the whole machine hangs *hard*: no desktop switching, no > ctrl-alt-fx

changing network settings

2000-11-18 Thread Daniel Knights
Hi, I am new to debian and to change the network setting I edited the hosts, hostname, host.conf, networks and resolve.conf files and restarted the box. Is there a one stop shop for this like yast for SuSe or linuxconf for redhat. Cheers Daniel Regards, Daniel

Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

2000-11-18 Thread John Hasler
Egbert Bouwman writes: > As a provocation it served its purpose. The only purpose served by such provocations is to cause me to consider ever more seriously quitting Debian. And to killfile you. >plonk< -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

xfree86 4

2000-11-18 Thread Manuel Hendel
I've updated to xfree4. Everything is okay, exept the keyboard, this is in english, I need it in german. Where can I do these changes. I tried it wiht xf86cfg, but this didn't run proper. Can anyone help me to get this fixed? Thanks, Manuel

Re: bookmarker/PHP/MySQL problem

2000-11-18 Thread Corey Popelier
Yes you need a line under Dynamic Extensions that says: extension=mysql.so Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, John Griffiths wrote: > >Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function > >mysql_pconnect() in > >

help on linux

2000-11-18 Thread vivek shetty
I bought a Linux CD containing Red Hat Linux 5.2. I like Linux & therefore decided to install it. I ran fips & a new partition was created. Then as mentioned in the mannual I rebooted the system with the Linux boot disk inside, it started the process. But for some reason I had to go out so I

Re: Okay, I give up. What do I put in apt-get's sources.list?

2000-11-18 Thread Corey Popelier
Erm there *may* be an issue there with the ~ character. I don't know if its still the case, but you don't use ~, you use %7E to generate the ~. So the apt line would be: deb http://www.sandalwood.net/%7Eterubou linux/deb/ Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas O

Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco there is wonderfull perl module for configuring Cisco routers. besides that you've got all default tools like telnet;),snmp utils like mrtg etc..

Re: help on linux

2000-11-18 Thread ktb
> vivek shetty wrote: > > I bought a Linux CD containing Red Hat Linux 5.2. I like Linux & > therefore decided to install it. I ran fips & a new partition was > created. Then as mentioned in the mannual I rebooted the system > with the Linux boot disk inside, it started the process. But for > some

debconf errors

2000-11-18 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, upgrade of debconf (woody) is choking with: Setting up debconf (0.5.20) ... Use of reserved word "our" is deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 18. Global symbol "@ISA" requires explicit package name at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 18. syntax error at /usr/lib/perl

exim and mtt probs continue

2000-11-18 Thread John-Mark
i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to  answer some of the questions I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible mail name. To be honest i have used the default settings to set

NEWBIE: qpopper

2000-11-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have a problem with reading mail with qpopper. Reading mail with pine work fine. I installed this package, but when logging in on the pop3 port, qpopper gives some errors: $ telnet localhost 110 +OK QPOP user sebas pass haha -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own i

Re: 75dpi font default-haw?

2000-11-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:24:42AM +, sena wrote: > On 18/11/2000 at 01:23 -0800, Tino Ionescu wrote: > > Please advise haw can the 75dpi font be set default, > > as opposed to 100dpi font. > > > Start X with "startx -- -dpi 75"... Assuming you are using XFree 4.01 ... Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xs

Re: netbase & nfs server

2000-11-18 Thread Johannes Zellner
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 03:14:19PM +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:25:42PM +0100, Johannes Zellner wrote: > > no. This is not the problem. The problem is that the > > new netbase is somehow broken. With the new netbase, > > programs like ifconfig and ping are missing, I

url forward

2000-11-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I am new to domain name servers, so I may ask stupid questions, but I hope someone can help me. I have just set up a nameserver which works fine. Now I want to forward my www to my internet provider, but there is a slight problem. My page does not have an ip, but is in fact a directory on

screensaver/dpms

2000-11-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I had posted this quetion a week ago and got the response: man xset This does not appear to do what I require. How do I turn off the screensaver and/or dpms by default for all users. Also wish both to be off while users are logged out to the xdm login screen. The command xset reverts to de

Re: NEWBIE: qpopper

2000-11-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:39:20PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > I have a problem with reading mail with qpopper. Reading mail with pine > work fine. I installed this package, but when logging in on the pop3 port, > qpopper gives some errors: > > $ telnet localhost 110 > +OK QPOP > use

Re: url forward

2000-11-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:50:10PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to domain name servers, so I may ask stupid questions, but I hope > someone can help me. I have just set up a nameserver which works fine. > Now I want to forward my www to my internet provider, but there is a > sli

Re: bookmarker/PHP/MySQL problem

2000-11-18 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes you need a line under Dynamic Extensions that says: > extension=mysql.so Actually, I've _got_ that line in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini. To re-iterate, bookmarker *was* working; I can only assume that t

Re: can't send with mutt and exim

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 01:04:25AM -0600, ktb wrote: > I posted earlier but have some more to add. I'm trying to send mail > with mutt through exim from my debian box through my openbsd box > (firewall NAT). This is the message I get in the log when I try to > send mail to my self at my isp ([EMA

not breaking the "sources"

2000-11-18 Thread Tomas Sanchez
Hi! I would like to install wxPython htat is available in woody, but not in potato. Last time I tried to download something thru dselect I broke my sources file. My main sources are a 3cd set and this broke last time when I trid to update the packages files. My q is: How do I get wxPython, an

OT: working with cisco gear (Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s))

2000-11-18 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 15:08:02 +0100, Dariush Pietrzak writes: >> I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco >there is wonderfull perl module for configuring Cisco routers. >besides that you've got all default tools like telnet;),snmp utils like >mrtg etc.. which are

Re: OT: working with cisco gear (Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s))

2000-11-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> which are useful unless you have to manage lots of those boxes, I wouldn't know. but isn't that what OpenView is for? and is unbeatable in that field?

Re: NEWBIE: qpopper

2000-11-18 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:39:20PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a problem with reading mail with qpopper. Reading mail with pine > > work fine. I installed this package, but when logging in on the pop3 port, > > qpopper gives some error

Re: not breaking the "sources"

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 02:02:27PM +0100, Tomas Sanchez wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to install wxPython htat is available in woody, but not in > potato. Last time I tried to download something thru dselect I broke my > sources file. > > My main sources are a 3cd set and this broke last time w

Re: netbase & nfs server

2000-11-18 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:42:10PM +0100, Johannes Zellner wrote: > I've installed netkit-ping, I didn't find iptools-ping and a search > on the debian site for iptools returned nothing. Maybe iputils-ping ? > Ahh. Yes. iputils-ping seems to provide ping. oops, my mistake, I was thinking about one

Re: url forward

2000-11-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Ok, does anyone know an elegant (and fast) method to accomplish this, so that the original domain name (www.dorpsnet.nl) stays in the url (so that www.dorpsnet.nl is equivalent to 194.235.126.184/~sebas)? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2

Re: exim and mtt probs continue

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 03:01:22PM -, John-Mark wrote: > i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run > eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to answer some of the > questions > I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible ma

Re: netbase & nfs server

2000-11-18 Thread Johannes Zellner
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:50:28PM +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote: [...] > Sounds like a problem indeed. You have the same version as I do, so my > guess is that your installation or dpkg database is corrupt. > Reinstalling net-tools should help. yeah. That helped. Thanks! -- Johannes

Re: Problems with the 3Com 3c905B NIC

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:08:22AM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I got this OEM 3Com 3c905B card and added it to my system (ABIT-BH6, > Celeron 300A) which already has a generic 10/100 PCI NIC that has thus > far been working perfectly with [EMAIL PROTECTED] service. > > BTW, the other NIC tha

Help getting PS/2 mouse working, please

2000-11-18 Thread Stan Brown
I'm just installing Debian (Potato) after a long absence from the Linux/Debian community. The machine I am presently installing it on is a clone, and has a bit of wierd hardware. The mose's PS/2 card for instance is on an add in card, the serial and paral

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >You can also try to install the > package communicator-smotif-473 or navigator-smotif-473. ^^^ ^^^ Better get -475 instead, which has better encryption and less securi

Re: Tools available for..

2000-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to set up a server, and I would like to know about some of > the tools I should be using for the following tasks: > > Bandwidth monitoring/restriction on a per-user basis > > Traffic (total data transfered per time unit) monitoring/restriction

Re: Dependency problems

2000-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
The latest dpkg upgrade seems to have removed the force-overwrite feature from apt, which is normally set in the unstable branch, but removed when it comes to stable. Add the lines: DPkg { Options {"--force-overwrite";} } to the file /etc/apt/apt.conf (or create one if it don't e

Re: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > I don't think that's what Sean meant. If, in dselect, you use '-' to > mark a package for removal - or use 'apt-get remove' - then a package's > configuration files won't be removed, and some state about the package > will remain in the system. However, i

Re: OT: working with cisco gear (Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s))

2000-11-18 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:18:31 +0100, Dariush Pietrzak writes: >> which are useful unless you have to manage lots of those boxes, >I wouldn't know. >but isn't that what OpenView is for? and is unbeatable in that field? I consider BrokenView to be in the field of BigBuckMoneyBurn-ware ... If you´r

imagemagick is not installable

2000-11-18 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hi, me again, If I've installed geomview installing imagemagick fails because: ... Unpacking imagemagick (from .../imagemagick_5.2.5-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_5.2.5-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/animate.1.gz', wh

Re: Problems with the 3Com 3c905B NIC

2000-11-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
FWIW I've got a working PIII/3c905b/terayon setup. My only initial problem with it was dyslexia: 509 is not the same as 905! IOW, you need to use the right driver, which in my case means alias eth0 3c59x in /etc/modutils/aliases. Before that I tried two different NICs to no avail, which lea

Re: screensaver/dpms

2000-11-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
Look in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset_0 Put something like xset -dpms xset s off in one or some or all of these files. -chris

capt & locale-zh

2000-11-18 Thread Johannes Zellner
wow! Trying to updgrade `locale-zh' with capt results in: [-] Packages that will be deleted [+] Req libc6base 2.2-1 3083 8312GNU C Library: Shared libra

Re: Problems with the 3Com 3c905B NIC

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 09:35:58AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > FWIW I've got a working PIII/3c905b/terayon setup. > My only initial problem with it was dyslexia: 509 is not the same as > 905! IOW, you need to use the right driver, which in my case means > > alias eth0 3c59x > > in /etc/modu

Auxiliary screen

2000-11-18 Thread Frodo Baggins
Hi debianers, I put my hands on a old 15" screen and scavenged a old PC to get a S3 PCI graphic card which can be installed on one of the free PCI slots of my current potato box. I would like to configure things in such a way that the new screen is say tty8 so that I can use it to display some in

Re: screensaver/dpms

2000-11-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:56:13PM +0100, Daniel Faller wrote: > On Saturday 18 November 2000 16:50 Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > I had posted this quetion a week ago and got the response: > > man xset > > This does not appear to do what I require. > > > > How do I turn off the screensaver and/or d

Re: exim and mtt probs continue

2000-11-18 Thread Timmy Douglas
"John-Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run > eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to  answer some of the > questions > > I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible mail > name. To b

incomplete cookies with PHP

2000-11-18 Thread Greg Strockbine
Debian potato, Apache 1.3.12, PHP _4.0.3pl1-0potato1.deb I've tried the PHP mailing lists, archives, knowledge bases, etc. out of desparation I'm posting here. when I use session_start () I get a cookie or /tmp/sess* file that only contains the variables' name but no value. I've rebuilt PHP abo

global file for exporting variables (not profile)

2000-11-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I need a file that I could export variables such as MESA_GLX_FX (ones that do not depend on the shell), but I don't know of one, please, if you know of one, share it with me.   thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: exim and mtt probs continue

2000-11-18 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 03:01:22PM -, John-Mark wrote: > [...] what is my visible mail name [...] The visible name should be the name you gave to your computer. > I can't fine where to set up the isp smtp info re sending mail. When exim asks for your smarthost, enter the name for your provi

Re: A call for documentation

2000-11-18 Thread Pavel Minev Penev
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:10:27AM +0100, Tomas Sanchez wrote: > My idea is to write a new sort of documentation. (I did read something about > something like this some year(s) ago, but I can't find it in the archives, > and I think that the developer "just" wanted to learn xml and later dismisse

Couple of questions from a recent convert

2000-11-18 Thread JD Kitch
Does the default install support an SB AWE32 for sound without recompiling the kernel? And if so, what do I need to do to get it working? I've not had any luck getting it to make any noise. :P Secondly, can anyone point me to a place I could get the most recent version of PostgreSQL complied for

Re: Help getting PS/2 mouse working, please

2000-11-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [PS2 mouse] > How can I test and make certain it is working, and get it configured > corectly so that it works in console mde, and passes data on through > to the X server? Have you already installed 'GPM'? It should ask you some questions after it's insta

Re: incomplete cookies with PHP

2000-11-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I had a problem like this once: cookies wouldnt set. Session variables wouldnt get registered. Solution was simple enough: turn off misconfigured junkbuster (in my case it doesnt let cookies through). But my script was a little different: I had session_start(); $product1="Hal2000"; session_registe

Re: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: >> I don't think that's what Sean meant. If, in dselect, you use '-' to >> mark a package for removal - or use 'apt-get remove' - then a package's >> configuration files won't be removed, and some state about the

Re: global file for exporting variables (not profile)

2000-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
"Cameron Matheson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need a file that I could export variables such as MESA_GLX_FX (ones >that do not depend on the shell), but I don't know of one, please, if >you know of one, share it with me. Try /etc/environment. This is read by pam_env, which needs to be configure

Re: exim and mtt probs continue

2000-11-18 Thread Griffith Feeney
At 08:13 AM 11/18/00, you wrote: i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to answer some of the questions I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible mail name. To be honest i have used the

Re: Skipstone [was: Netscape 6.0]

2000-11-18 Thread mcclosk
|> i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. but |> unfortunatly there is only a woody version :( is there any way to get |> skipstone for a potato system? I have Skipstone running fine on my potato system, and I really like it. I installed Mozilla from Debian (M18-3 in stable), an

Re: url forward

2000-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am new to domain name servers, so I may ask stupid questions, but I hope >someone can help me. I have just set up a nameserver which works fine. >Now I want to forward my www to my internet provider, but there is a >slight problem. My page does not have an

Re: How to change imwheelrc to scroll with mozilla line by line ?

2000-11-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Michael Meding, > > mozilla keeps scrolling a page up or down even after adding a mozilla > > section in the imwheelrc (exactly like the navigator section) and then > > changing Page_Up and Page_Down to just Up and Donw respectively. > > I have found that the best solut

Re: Question about shortcuts

2000-11-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Brian Kallinen wrote: > Hi, > > I had a question about about using shortcuts under Debian (kern > 2.2) running Gnome desktop under Sawfish. At the present time, I have > shortcut icons for my applications in the bottom panel, but I was > wondering how to setup up a key shortcut for the same appli

screensaver/dpms solved

2000-11-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Thanks for the help. Adding xset -dpms s off in /etc/X11/xdm/ Xsetup and Xreset files worked. Kevin

Network routes

2000-11-18 Thread Kyle J. Moore
I have just started using Debian in something other than a simple network. I'm looking for what file and syntax I should put entries for static routes. I'm used to RedHat and things seem to be different in Debian. Most of the docs I've seen while researching this refer to putting things in the /etc

Re: OT: working with cisco gear (Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s))

2000-11-18 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:30:59PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:18:31 +0100, Dariush Pietrzak writes: > >> which are useful unless you have to manage lots of those boxes, > > >I wouldn't know. > >but isn't that what OpenView is for? and is unbeatable in that field? > > I

Re: Network routes

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:41:10AM -0800, Kyle J. Moore wrote: > I have just started using Debian in something other > than a simple network. I'm looking for what file and > syntax I should put entries for static routes. I'm > used to RedHat and things seem to be different in > Debian. Most of the

Re: Help getting PS/2 mouse working, please

2000-11-18 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Nov 18 13:51:07 2000 Moritz Schulte wrote... > >"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >[PS2 mouse] >> How can I test and make certain it is working, and get it configured >> corectly so that it works in console mde, and passes data on through >> to the X server? > >Have you already inst

Re: OT: working with cisco gear (Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s))

2000-11-18 Thread John Kramer
> > which are useful unless you have to manage lots of those boxes, > I wouldn't know. > but isn't that what OpenView is for? and is unbeatable in that field? > Openview doesn't manage those boxes specifically. It's an expensive SNMP-mib collector/network-discovery-agent/oh-crap-this-node-went-

during make-kpkg I get i386-none not in remapping table

2000-11-18 Thread Michael Meding
Hi all, I use potato with dpkg and debhelper from woody. When I try to compile 2.4.0-test11-pre7 after configuring it and doing a make-kpkg I get an error saying that i386-none is not in remapping table and not found in arch. So I have to specify --arch=i386. Doing this I get after a while of comp

Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

2000-11-18 Thread Jesse Goerz
Uhh... In my opinion... >As a provocation it served its purpose. However I admit that I was unfair. >But I still think that my question for a more in-depth HOWTO is a valid one > > Some people suggest that I should read the developer's or packaging > manuals or even the source. But I am not a

Re: xfree 4: "unknown reason for exeption"; clock problems

2000-11-18 Thread Gerhard Kroder
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote: > You probably wanted [EMAIL PROTECTED] no, i intentionally posted to mailinglist first. But since nobody could help i'll goto bugs... Gerhard

XFree86 4.01

2000-11-18 Thread Ian Lee
I am running Debian 2.2, with kernel 2.4 test10. I have downloaded and installed the glibc21 binaires of 4.0.1, I run XF86Setup and find that there is no Voodoo 3 option in the cards list.   The XFree86 site days the card is supported but I can't find it.   Can anyone help?   Ian.  

Re: XFree86 4.01

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 08:45:57PM -, Ian Lee wrote: > I am running Debian 2.2, with kernel 2.4 test10. > I have downloaded and installed the glibc21 binaires of 4.0.1, I run > XF86Setup and find that there is no Voodoo 3 option in the cards list. > > The XFree86 site days the card is support

Re: XFree86 4.01

2000-11-18 Thread Michael Meding
Hi Ian, what does "X -configure" does on your machine ? That should work, also you can use a sample config like the ones supplioed by dri.sourceforge.net on the ressources page. http://dri.sourceforge.net/resources/XF86Config.voodoo3 Hope that helps. Greetings Michael Meding

Re: Couple of questions from a recent convert

2000-11-18 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* JD Kitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [181100 14:17]: > Does the default install support an SB AWE32 for sound without > recompiling the kernel? No the default install does not support SB AWE32. You need to patch the kernel and recompile. If your SB AWE32 is a pnp card, you will need to configure it

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