Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-12-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 30 Nov 2000, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Is there a command available in Debian to determine what > resolution is being used in an X session? xdpyinfo xvidtune ...RickM...

Re: dpkg dependencies

2000-12-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:41:46AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm thinking of removing python, but before i do, i want to know which > packages depends on it. is there a dpkg/apt command that will show me > what the dependencies are? dpkg --no-act --purge python or apt-get -s remove py

Re: [OT] Apple IIe help please

2000-12-02 Thread Lizard
At 06:25 PM 12/1/2000, D-Man wrote: Hi all. I apologize for the off topic-ness of the message and the cross-post. I have a friend who has a program she likes (written in BASIC) on an Apple IIe. I have a way to get into the code and list it on the screen. What I am looking for is someone who

Re: scanner doesn't scan...

2000-12-02 Thread dirk
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:36:37AM +0100, Peter Wollny wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a Mustek 6000SP scanner which refuses to work with Debian. I tried > to use the same configuration as with SuSE 6.3 but xsane still prompts "no > devices available". > > I made MAKEDEV sg, Hmm, I know I had thi

Re: keyboard auto repeat in X stops

2000-12-02 Thread Christoph Groth
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > use xset to set the repeat and other stuff (mouse acceleration/speed/ > monitor dpms...) (man xset) Thanks! I guess I should have read the whole X manpage before asking. > login out and login back in using xdm restarts X server AFAIK This explains

Re: scanner doesn't scan...

2000-12-02 Thread Peter Wollny
I have the symlink /dev/scanner pointing to /dev/sg0 but I only have /etc/sane.d with a real mustek.conf file, no link. I still don't understand. pit Le Saturday 02 December 2000 09:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:36:37AM +0100, Peter Wollny wrote: > > Hello, > > >

Re: scanner doesn't scan...

2000-12-02 Thread Alec Smith
I think what Dirk meant was he's got an /etc/sane.d/mustek.conf which has a line /dev/scanner as its contents. After the mustek.conf file includes that line, /dev/scanner should be symlinked to /dev/sg0. On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Peter Wollny wrote: > I have the symlink /dev/scanner pointing to /

does anyone use psgml with XEmacs?

2000-12-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
In September I changed Linux distributions, and since then I have been getting the following errors from XEmacs psgml-mode: Docbook documents: /usr/lib/sgml/entities/ISOamsa line 11 col 22 entity ISOamsa /usr/lib/sgml/entities/docbook-3.1/dbcent.mod line 54 col 9 entity dbcent /usr/lib/sgml/dtd/d

Re: Problems install debconf SOLVED

2000-12-02 Thread Mike
Mike Werner wrote: > Has anyone managed to install the debconf from woody? I've been trying to > install it with no luck. It keeps claiming that it depends on libapt-pkg2.7 > which I can't find anywhere. But when I check debconf's dependancies on the > packages.debian.org site, the libapt-pkg2.7

does anyone use psgml with XEmacs - followup

2000-12-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
I notice that if I make alterations in the effected file I can change where the error shows up, for example I get this error when parsing the DTD for a Docbook document: /usr/lib/sgml/entities/ISOamsa line 11 col 22 entity ISOamsa /usr/lib/sgml/entities/docbook-3.1/dbcent.mod line 54 col 9 entity

Colour scanning - blocks of colours rather than correct image

2000-12-02 Thread Phillip Deackes
I am having a problem with my Agfa SnapScan 310 SCSI scanner. Using The Gimp/Sane the scanner works fine when I set xscanimage to do a grescale scan. When I set it to colour, however, I get just a series of colour blocks. The downward spiral started a while back with previous versions of Sane - I w

RE: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread Bob
Hi. In older days a /usr/local was recommended because this is where you would install all the "alien" software on your system. By alien I mean, Things that did not come prepared for your system, or things you compiled yourself. Ourdays it is quite rare (at least from what I see), to find 'thing

"multiple" logins NIS

2000-12-02 Thread Florian Kessler
Hi all, we use a network with NFS / NIS here. Actually it´s possible to use one account to login to more than one computer at the same time. Is there any way to disable this? Tanks in advance Florian

Re: "multiple" logins NIS

2000-12-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Florian Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >we use a network with NFS / NIS here. Actually it´s possible to use one >account to login to more than one computer at the same time. Is there any >way to disable this? An elaborate set of scripts and lockfiles on a share

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread Christoph Simon
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:16:19 - "Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In older days a /usr/local was recommended because this is where you would > install all the "alien" software on your system. By alien I mean, Things > that did not come prepared for your system, or things you compiled yourself.

mouse middle button not working in X

2000-12-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have a 3-button mouse; Microsoft-compatible. It works as expected in the console but the middle button doesn't work in X. Also, I have to turn it off in the console when I'm in X, otherwise the pointer freezes. Any ideas about this? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Wi

Re: mouse middle button not working in X

2000-12-02 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
When I was using a ps/2 mouse, I got the middle buttom to work by changing the Device in the "Pointer" Section of /etc/X11/XF86Config from Device "/dev/psaux" <-- yours might have something else to Device "/dev/gpmdata" Jeremiah Anthony Campbell wrote: I have a 3-button mouse; Microsoft-compa

Re: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:47:24 -0800, Jinsong Zhao wrote: > People would expect stability and high quality from commercial tools and > people pay for these features. It's hard to believe Redhat use the > unstable gcc 2.96 despite the very warning from the very producer. Actually, Red Hat release

How do I print .sgml files?

2000-12-02 Thread Robin Collins
This is crazy, but I can't find out how to print .sgml files. I installed the debian-sgml package and got a raft of files installed but just _WHAT_ is it that I do to print a file? I tried using man sgml to no avail, looked for all *sgml* in /usr/bin but only found three utilities, and now have n

Re: How do I print .sgml files?

2000-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:37:20 +, Robin Collins wrote: > This is crazy, but I can't find out how to print .sgml files. The short answer is: you don't print them. The longer answer is: SGML files contain structured documents; they do not contain any layout information. By applying a styleshe

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:17:23AM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > > Wouldn't it be nice to give it more use even today. Maybe someone can > find a way to have the stable distribution in the main tree and the unstable > in local. There seem to be many people using stable, but wishing to > get also

Re: what is > ?

2000-12-02 Thread Colin Watson
Harry Henry Gebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [inside single quotes] >The single quote retains it's special meaning because otherwise you >would have no way to stop typing the argument, the backslash retains >it's special meaning in case you have to insert a single quote >character into the argume

help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, I have a spare machine (a PIII 550) without monitor/keyboard/mouse nor _hd_, but with onboard (SIS) ethernet card, disk (3 1/2) and cdrom drives. I want to set up a small LAN with my main machine (debian woody, kernel 2.4.9) as a server, and this machine just to run some CPU intensive (but not

Re: dpkg dependencies

2000-12-02 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >i'm thinking of removing python, but before i do, i want to know which >packages depends on it. is there a dpkg/apt command that will show me >what the dependencies are? 'apt-cache showpkg python-base', though note that this will show everything that depends on it, whe

Re: why doesn't modprobe log errors?!?

2000-12-02 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1. whenever i boot, i get warnings that modules rtl8139, ppp and sg can't be > found by modprobe. for example: > > Calculating module dependencies > done > Loading modules: ppp modprobe: >Can't locate module ppp [...] >q

creative labs sound card

2000-12-02 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I've got an old sound card that I'm trying to get running. All I know about it is that it's a: Creative Labs Model No CT3600 and I found this number on one of the bigger chips on the board CT2502-SDQ Any thoughts? Also what is a good way to check and see if the sound card i

Enlightenment Mouse Configuration

2000-12-02 Thread Richard Hunt
I'm trying to use GNOME/Enlightenment, but it takes over all the buttons on the desktop. The configuration programs don't include one for the mouse button bindings. How do I change them so that left and right buttons do nothing in enlightenment? There used to be one program for configuring all of

Re: help setting up a slave machine .

2000-12-02 Thread Sebastiaan
Simple. Just do a standard install, configure your network properly ad then you should be able to telnet, ftp etc. between the computers. So you can do almost everything that you can do with telnet. For a ore advanced configuration, you could configure your server with nfs, o your slave has acces

Re: help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Sebastiaan
ops, forgott one thing: you do not have a harddisk in your slave. For that, have a ook at the linux diskless terminal server project at www.ltsp.org. Maybe there is more information you could use. Sorry for my stupidity, Greetz, Sebastiaan

Re: DESTROY (perl experts please) (fwd)

2000-12-02 Thread pigfoot Chen
¡°¡mWayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>¡n¡G > Subject: Re: DESTROY (perl experts please) (fwd) > Date: Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:07:06PM +1100 > In reply to:Damien > Quoting Damien([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > hrm. afaik, unstable refers to the helixcode distribution - thus unstable > > helixcode w

fips/win swapfile ?

2000-12-02 Thread Dale Morris
I'm installing 2.2 on a friends computer. He wants to keep windows onboard, but I seem to have misplaced my old PartitionMagic CD and don't want to spend the money to buy another one. Hence, I'm using FIPS. Reading the help file for fips, it tells me that I have to remove the windows swap file man

Few question of newbie | need urgent help.

2000-12-02 Thread New Star Service Company
1) I install Debian 2.1 today , I'm single user. I need setup internet dialup network urgently. I use "pppconfig" to setup internet connection. setup is ok. I use #pon in root for dial, connection ok , everything ok. but when i use $pon command in my user account (/home/satyaji

Re: gnome without window manager

2000-12-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thanks a lot to Hubert and Timmy for the advices! I was able to configure the window manager from the gnome control panel regards, Marcelo __ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-02 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've tested Chimera2, Express, Arena, and gzilla. Anything else out there as a simple web browser capable of getting through the gimp-manual? Of the lot, the only one that didn't crash after 30 secs from Chimera2. Any other choices aside Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, for something low footprint?

Re: Few question of newbie | need urgent help.

2000-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 21:49:56 +0600, New Star Service Company wrote: > 1) I install Debian 2.1 today The current release is 2.2. > I use #pon in root for dial, connection ok , everything ok. > but when i use $pon command in my user account (/home/satyajit), I > received > error

Re: Few question of newbie | need urgent help.

2000-12-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
New Star Service Company wrote: > > 1) I install Debian 2.1 today , I'm single user. > I need setup internet dialup network urgently. > I use "pppconfig" to setup internet connection. setup is ok. > I use #pon in root for dial, connection ok , everything ok. > but when i use

balsa lib dependences

2000-12-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! I've downloaded the last version of balsa (1.0.0-2) in a deb format. When I run dpkg -i package-balsa.deb, the installation complains about the following libraries are not instaled: 1- libbonobo1 (>=0.23) 2- libgal1 3- libgtkhtml5 (>=0.7) 4- libltdl0 5-liboaf0 6- libpspell2 (>= 0.11.0.1-

Re: Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 16:55:12 +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Any other choices aside Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, for something low > footprint? For browsing documentation, a text-mode browser such as lynx, links or w3m usually suffices. w3m is my current favourite because it supports both frames/t

Re: scanner doesn't scan...

2000-12-02 Thread dirk
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:06:31AM -0500, Alec Smith wrote: > I think what Dirk meant was he's got an /etc/sane.d/mustek.conf which has > a line > > /dev/scanner > > as its contents. > > After the mustek.conf file includes that line, /dev/scanner should be > symlinked to /dev/sg0. > Indeed, thi

Re: upgrade errors: libgnomeprint-bin 0.25-0.1, overwriting files

2000-12-02 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > Problems upgrading libgnomeprint11 because of libgnomeprint-data > dependencies because libgnomeprint-bin tries to overwrite > /usr/bin/gnome-font-install which is also in lobgnomeprint6. All these error messages (I saw a lot of them in the last time) depends on dpk

Re: Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've tested Chimera2, Express, Arena, and gzilla. Anything else out >there as a simple web browser capable of getting through the >gimp-manual? Of the lot, the only one that didn't crash after 30 secs >from Chimera2. If you

Re: Potato install termwrap problem

2000-12-02 Thread USM Bish
I have faced the same problem with a fresh installation with Linux Central binary CD distribution. Downloading a fresh base system and installing from hard disk made no difference. Secondly, the lp module is also not being configured on doing a Configure of the Installed kernel. No clues on th

Re: [OT] Apple IIe help please

2000-12-02 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:25:07PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > Hi all. I apologize for the off topic-ness of the message and the > cross-post. > I have a friend who has a program she likes (written in BASIC) on an Apple > IIe. > I have a way to get into the code and list it on the screen. What I

Re: [OT] Apple IIe help please

2000-12-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 1, Lizard did write: > At 06:25 PM 12/1/2000, D-Man wrote: > > >Hi all. I apologize for the off topic-ness of the message and the > >cross-post. > >I have a friend who has a program she likes (written in BASIC) on an Apple > >IIe. > >I have a way to get into the code an

Unix/Linux Congress

2000-12-02 Thread Luz Futten
Hi, the 15th of november started a free congress in a spanish irc network. Some conferences are in spanish and some others in english, if you're interested, have a look at: in spanish, latest calendar: http://umeet.uninet.edu/spanish/des.html info in english: http://umeet.uninet.edu/english/p

Re: Few question of newbie | need urgent help.

2000-12-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, New Star Service Company wrote: ->1) I install Debian 2.1 today , I'm single user. -> I need setup internet dialup network urgently. -> I use "pppconfig" to setup internet connection. setup is ok. -> I use #pon in root for dial, connection ok , everything ok. ->

Re: Few question of newbie | need urgent help.

2000-12-02 Thread John Hasler
Antonio Rodriguez writes: > If I am not mistaken, the name of the dialout group is "dip" or > similar,... The dialout group is "dialout", but that is not what you want for ppp. The correct group for ppp is "dip". A user must be in "dip" to run pppd but need not be in "dialout". -- John Hasler [

XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Does anyone know id there is s deb package of the XFCE WM? I tried an "apt-get install xfce" and it failed with a not found. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux

Mosaic work?

2000-12-02 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I dl the latest Mosaic for Linux and it tells me to uncompress and run it. I did but it makes a request for a LibXt.so.6 file which is there. Is this version viable? Are there others? Thanks, Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Re: libmng problem

2000-12-02 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Frank Frijns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After collecting all the needed packages (debian; e.g. .deb) I fail to > collect all needed ones. One of them is libmng. [...] > KDE (Kdebase for instance) won't install because of dependencies with > this package. Has anyone a good package (this failing

Re: XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:13:42 -0500 (EST), Christopher W. Aiken said: > > Does anyone know id there is s deb package of the > XFCE WM? I tried an "apt-get install xfce" and it > failed with a not found. > Point your sources.list to woody. I just d/l it a week ago and it works fine i

Re: swap size

2000-12-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:35:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > a couple of days ago a was configuring a bunch of boxes with 1G ram > and i allocated 1G of swap, because my boss said so. a co-worker then > told me that the appropriate amount of swap to allocate should be > twice the ram. i r

Re: help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Jan Pfeifer
yes, no harddisk. But I found the following: ".../linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt" and the program "bootparamd" and I think I found my way. I'm still in doubt about which files should be shared ("/home", "/usr" a part of "/etc") and which not ("/tmp", "/var", another part of "/etc"). And how t

Re: help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 16:27:55 -0200, Jan Pfeifer writes: >ps.: I don't have a hub, is it possible to connect the cards directly >with a common cable ? (one of the cards don't take coaxial cables) You need a crossover-cable, if you don´t know how to crimp one yourself, ask your local dealer ;-) &r

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Re: [UNIX help]

2000-12-02 Thread Tino Ionescu
Did you try what is available free? Download courses from internet these are 2 places where u can start : http://www.linuxtraining.co.uk/ http://www.oase-shareware.org/shell/links/index.html. Also, many universities have very good specific application Florentin "Alex Horsnell" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: what is > ?

2000-12-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 01:27:24PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Harry Henry Gebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The single quote retains it's special meaning because otherwise you > >would have no way to stop typing the argument, the backslash retains > >it's special meaning in case you have to ins

Re: missing info pages (eg emacs)

2000-12-02 Thread Chris Gray
> Jeremiah H Savage writes: jhs> I'm running a freshly installed Potato system on i386. It jhs> seems there are 14 packages for which no info pages have been jhs> installed, most notably emacs. But I have installed emacs20 jhs> and xemacs21. I have checked for a package such as

sources.list

2000-12-02 Thread Bud Rogers
apt-get update gives me these errors: Err http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Sources 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/source/Sources 404 Not Found

Re: Hi all

2000-12-02 Thread Tim Uckun
At 08:59 AM 12/2/2000 -0500, you wrote: Yikes! Run level 2 is the debian default. You sure didn't need to reinstall on that score. Sorry if I was too late. Actually SSH was not working ither. It was never installed (wh not?) then I did a apt-get ssh and it said there was a dependency for l

repairing corrupted kernel to boot

2000-12-02 Thread lists
My potato linux partiton won't boot - I assume it was damaged by a series of power outages. I initially got a "crc checksum" error upon booting. /boot is on /dev/hda2 & / is /dev/hda5. When I use the debian boot floppy ( "rescue root=/dev/hda5" ) I get the usual startup messages, then: VFS: m

/var/cache/apt/archives

2000-12-02 Thread Christopher W Aiken
I want to install Debian 2.2 to a second machine. I have used "apt-get" to get and install a whole lot of stuff (over 65MB of files) on my first machine. After I install on my second machine can I copy "/var/cache/apr/archives" from the first to my second machine and do a "dpkg -i *.deb" to ins

Re: Hi all

2000-12-02 Thread Tim Uckun
At 03:03 PM 12/2/2000 -0500, you wrote: In a message dated 12/2/00 2:52:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why runlevel 2? That makes no sense to me. It's the second one you need. I thought runlevel 2 was no network? I have always ran linux on runlevel 3. The tricky

Re: sources.list

2000-12-02 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 02 December 2000 13:38, Bud Rogers wrote: > I believe the relevant line in /etc/apt/sources.list is > > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US > > which is right out of /usr/share/doc/apt/examples. I would > appreciate a hint on what that line should be. I answe

LILO installation

2000-12-02 Thread Franco Vecchiato
My PC is a Pentium 200 MMX, 64 MB RAM and 10 GB HD, and I tried to install Debian 2.2 rev 0 (directly from CD-ROM).I think my Bios full supports this HD because I see 10 GB when I run it.I have a 3 GB bootable primary partition for Windows (system) = hda1 and a 1.5 GB logical partition for W

Re: XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "CWA" == Christopher W Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CWA> Does anyone know id there is s deb package of the XFCE WM? I CWA> tried an "apt-get install xfce" and it failed with a not CWA> found. I solve these problems by surfing to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages an

Re: apt-get libgnomeprint

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 01:50:25AM +0100, Defresne Sylvain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello > > * Some Linux User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i wrote previously about this. whenever i run apt-get i get stuck on this: > > Unpacking libgnomeprint-bin (from > > .../libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-0.1_i3

Sound Blaster 16 Module

2000-12-02 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I just bought a new soundblaster 16 sound card. I have never installed a kernel module so could someone help me on this please? Actually this will hopefully be the first time I have sound on a Linux box. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMA

mutt startup view

2000-12-02 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, Can I configure mutt that way that the first screen is the folder view. If I use mutt -y not every folder shows up, even if I mentioned it in the mailboxes directive. Ciao, Timo<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- .-'~~~-. .'o oOOOo`. | Timo Benk ;~~~-.oOo o`. | Ger

Re: repairing corrupted kernel to boot

2000-12-02 Thread Sebastiaan
Hmm, strange. Maybe you should try to boot a rescue floppy and do the job from there. I do not have experience yet with Debian rescue disks, but you can also go to redhat and download the bootdisk and the rescue disk. After you have booted, you can mount whatever you want and fix it (or do a chroot

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-12-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:00:55PM -0500, Christopher W Aiken wrote: > I want to install Debian 2.2 to a second machine. I have > used "apt-get" to get and install a whole lot of stuff > (over 65MB of files) on my first machine. After I install > on my second machine can I copy "/var/cache/apr/a

A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
Hello I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item menu that loads the kernel and don't execute xdm (for use the text console)? Regards, Javier

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-12-02 Thread Brian Stults
Rob VanFleet wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:00:55PM -0500, Christopher W Aiken wrote: > > I want to install Debian 2.2 to a second machine. I have > > used "apt-get" to get and install a whole lot of stuff > > (over 65MB of files) on my first machine. After I install > > on my second mach

dselect problem

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
Hello: I have a problem with dselect (or was the dependencies involved). I would use the libesd0-alsa that provides libesd0 and conflicts with libesd0. That's Ok. I deselect libesd0 and select for install the alsa part. And then dselect follow the dependencies and displays that gtop and others pac

Re: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 02 December 2000 15:21, Javier Sieben wrote: > Hello > > I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item menu that > loads the kernel and don't execute xdm (for use the text console)? This is not a lilo issue. xdm is being started by the rc.d scripts. You can stop xdm from

Re: Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:55:12PM +0100, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I've tested Chimera2, Express, Arena, and gzilla. Anything else out > there as a simple web browser capable of getting through the > gimp-manual? Of the lot, the only one that didn't crash after 30 secs >

Re: Sound Blaster 16 Module

2000-12-02 Thread Erik Steffl
IMO you'd better go with alsa. you need to recompile the kernel with modularized sound support, but do not pick any actual sound modules. See the docs in /usr/src/linux (or wherever your linux kernel sources are) to see how to compile kernel. get the alsa stuff then, you need at least alsa-

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Debian User Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 06:38 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question >On Saturday 02 December 2000 15:21, Javier Sieben wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item

Re: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Erik Steffl
1) you can also create a lilo entry that will boot debian into a run level that does not start xdm. 2) you can also specify run level at lilo prompt during boot 3) the other option is to change default run level to a run level that does not start xdm, see /etc/nittab and look for lines like

Re: XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread Moritz Schulte
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > you'll see there is a version now in unstable. > > If you're using stable, then I would first try to the unstabe deb, and > if there was no luck with it, I would build from source. It's very > easy to do this with xfce. [...] Or build the binary

Voodoo 3, XFree 4.0 and DRI

2000-12-02 Thread Michael Sauer
Can anybody tell me, what I have to install / configure to have a working GL-lib based on DRI with hardware acceleration? mfg Mischel S aus P Homepage: http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~waldi E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #27995885

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Debian User Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 07:01 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question > 1) you can also create a lilo entry that will boot debian into a run >level that does not start xdm. > > 2) you can also spec

Re: XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "MS" == Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> Or build the binary debs for your system from the source debs MS> in woody. Thanks. For some reason, in all the years I've been using Debian, that is a method I have never used. (I think I once futzed around with a lynx src deb,

laptop install

2000-12-02 Thread Jane Rose
I am having problems installing Debian 2.1 on my Toshiba 2545xcdt. I am unable to boot either from the rescue disk or the CD ROM "Debian GNU/Linux." "root.bin.." loads but linux seizes up. Any suggestions?? -- MZ

Re: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Javier Sieben wrote: > > -Mensaje original- > De: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Para: Debian User > Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 07:01 p.m. > Asunto: Re: A lilo config question > > > 1) you can also create a lilo entry that will boot debian into a run > >level that does no

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Oliver Elphick Para: Javier Sieben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 06:23 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question >"Javier Sieben" wrote: > >Hello > > > >I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item menu that loads the > >

Re:

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On , said: > Hi, > > I just bought a new soundblaster 16 sound card. I have never installed a > kernel module so could someone help me on this please? Actually this will > hopefully be the first time I have sound on a Linux box. > I installed a Creative soundblaster last week

Re: Sound Blaster 16 Module

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 16:10:32 -0500, Eileen Orbell said: > Hi, > > I just bought a new soundblaster 16 sound card. I have never installed a > kernel module so could someone help me on this please? Actually this will > hopefully be the first time I have sound on a Linux box. > >

debianhelp.org is down?

2000-12-02 Thread QBA
Hi, There is a link to www.debianHELP.org on www.debian.org/related_links#misclinux but when I clicked on it I got message 'Cannot open the HTTP connection to www.debianhelp.org port 80; [No route to host].' Can anyone tell me what is going on with this host. And btw, is it a good site for debian

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: debian-user Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 07:23 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question >Javier Sieben wrote: Is much easier in this form. Thanks, Erik. Javier

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:38:25PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > EB> On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:17:23AM -0200, Christoph Simon > EB> wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be nice to give it more use even today. Maybe >

Re: laptop install

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 05:17:42PM -0500, Jane Rose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am having problems installing Debian 2.1 on my Toshiba 2545xcdt. I am > unable to boot either from the rescue disk or the CD ROM "Debian > GNU/Linux." "root.bin.." loads but linux seizes up. Any suggestions?? I'd

Re: Which gives an error message.

2000-12-02 Thread Brenda J. Butler
--- Begin Message --- Tim, On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 07:43:57PM -0800, Tim Uckun wrote: > I am having an odd problem when I type which "something" it says > shell-init: could not get directory: getcwd: cannot access parent > directories: nosuch file or directory > > Can anybody clue me in as to why

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-12-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:33:23PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > Is it common for people to keep all the debs after they've been > installed. I always delete mine (or rather I allow dselect to do it). > If I kept all the debs that I've installed I think it would take up a > whole lot of disk space

apt-get & apache init script problems.

2000-12-02 Thread horton
Hello, while trying to remove sendmail from my box, I get this error with apt-get remove sendmail: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: sendmail 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgr

Re: swap size

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:01:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:35:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > a couple of days ago a was configuring a bunch of boxes with 1G ram > > and i allocated 1G of swap, because my boss said so. a co-worker the

Re: hda not recognized during install

2000-12-02 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 01 2000, Hannes Schuddel wrote: > My harddisk is not recognized during bootup so > I am not able to install the system from harddisk. > > I use an ASUS A7V mainboard, > with ata100 controller > and Maxtor DMax 5400/512 harddisk. I have this exact motherboard and it is really imp

Re: swap size

2000-12-02 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:41:02 -0800 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:01:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:35:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > a couple of days ago a was configuring a bunch of boxes with 1G ram >

XF86Config Missing

2000-12-02 Thread Mike
Hi, My friend has just reinstalled Debian Potato and upgraded to woody but XF86Config seems to be missing so he cant configure x4 for his videocard. He has a geforce 2 so he needs to use xfree4. It also seems to be missing on my on my woody installation as well. It used to be there but it isnt

Kernel error

2000-12-02 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I am trying to recompile my kernel and keep coming up with a error: Basically I downloaded the latest kernel and unzipped it.. Ran make xconfig make dep make bzImage On make bzImage I get this error at the end: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsec.s make[1] as86: Command not found make[1] *** [

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