Re: WM for GNOME

2000-12-06 Thread Timothy C . Klein
Yes, I have used WM and GNOME together. It works fine, but there is some overlap between the two (the panel and Wharf do a lot of the same stuff, for instance) It works fine though. Just start GNOME, and tell it that you want Window Maker as you window manager in the Contol Center. Tim On T

tar help

2000-12-06 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hallo! Could anyone help me? I tried to restore specific files from the second archive on my DAT-Tape (i think they are in the second archive but I'm not sure) into an specific path. The following procedure doesn't work: 1) moving into the directory where the files should be restored 2) forward th

Re: samba 2.0.7 vs. 2.0.5

2000-12-06 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 21:20:00 -0200, Rogerio Brito writes: >On Dec 05 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: >> Shouldn´t samba 2.0.7 depend on a kernel >= 2.2 then? This seems >> like a bug to me (I ran into the same problem but have put samba on >> hold since then). > > Well, that would be a problem fo

Re: Adaptec 2940U2W

2000-12-06 Thread Nate Amsden
all of em will work ...the type of connector really isn't important as far as the kernel is concerned.. (all of them = all of the 2940U2Ws ..) nate Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > > I have a selection to make and, unfortunately, I have to make it fairly > quickly. There are two different Adaptec

Dear Sacred Geometers

2000-12-06 Thread celdyn
Dear fellow researchers and students of Sacred Geometry, Hi, I'm Nancy Baumgarten, MLA ASLA a landscape architect turned calendar-maker driven by Spirit to create this work to really show how we all are interconnected to Universe through the reality of our yearly cycles. In looking for others

all mail getting deferred

2000-12-06 Thread Nate Amsden
very curious problem here, before i goto sleep i think i need to post to see if anyone knows what is goin on. i have one of my servers here on a fast DSL line, static ip, both forward and reverse DNS working, i even have a MX record pointed at it for one of my domains(linuxpowered.net), however al

Re: Matrox, X4 and potato (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 packages and Potato)

2000-12-06 Thread Erik Noort
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Dec 05 2000, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > > Indeed, if you get it to work, PLEASE tell me too, 'cause I've been > > trying for days now, to no aval. > > What exactly is your problem? A while back, I got a G400 to > work with packages

DHCP klient problem

2000-12-06 Thread Piotr Kowalik
I've got a problem with DHCP. dhpcd work fine when klient is Linux, Windows NT or 98 problems starts when on kient side is MS Windows milenium. Any idea ??

Re: tar help

2000-12-06 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:06:38AM +0100, Thomas Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hallo! > > Could anyone help me? I tried to restore specific files from the second > archive on my DAT-Tape (i think they are in the second archive but I'm not > sure) into an specific path. The following procedu

How to make diald coexist with eth0?

2000-12-06 Thread Krzys Majewski
How can I set things up so that, if the eth0 interface can't be upped (for example, the cable modem is unplugged, or something is broken on the remote end), diald is started? I guess I could put an "if ifconfig eth0; then ..." in /etc/init.d/diald. But is this the best way? Just now

Re: Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-06 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, The jar chrome has to go in with java? Ah, he we have to find out how... I'll post again. Thanks. Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Re: How to make diald coexist with eth0?

2000-12-06 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:18:44AM -0800, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How can I set things up so that, if the eth0 interface can't be upped > (for example, the cable modem is unplugged, or something is broken on > the remote end), diald is started? I guess I could put an

games-pipemania

2000-12-06 Thread Richard Hunt
Sorry, I lost your original post. But I remember you posted a couple of days ago. I just found a game on an ftp site called xpipeman and its entry on happypenguin says that it is a plumbing game which you have to keep the ooze flowing by placing pieces of pipe. Sound about right? I haven't playe

Re: Matrox, X4 and potato (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 packages and Potato)

2000-12-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:57:05AM +0100, Erik Noort wrote: > > Hmm, according to the documentation 3.3.6 only supports the G200, so if > you've got it working please tell me how... i have a G400 i have been using with XFree 3.3.6 for a long time with no problems. i use the SVGA server. here

Need Java to run new chrome themes??

2000-12-06 Thread Jonathan Gift
That's a 14MB dl on 56K! Anyway to get the Netsacpe6 and Mozilla themes read? Thanks, Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Re: Xircom PCMCIA Etherent/Modem Card

2000-12-06 Thread RP
At 05:13 06-12-2000 +1030, Paul Scull wrote: I've found that the card work well.. provided you put it into promiscious mode. ifconfig eth0 promisc (The Kernel developers know about this one.) It uses the tulip_cb module in the 2.2.0 kernel... or xircom_tulip_cb in the 2.4.0 kernel. I am usi

q ad running X-apps on machines w/o X

2000-12-06 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m running some debian machines which don´t have X installed at all (servers et al) because they don´t need it. But I´d like to be able to run simple apps like xload -display some.other.host on them, so I´ve simply copied the xload binary to the remote machine, and, et voila, xload -disp

Re: 100Mbs ether cards talking @ 10Mbs ...

2000-12-06 Thread Jan Pfeifer
> The only way to really measure the speed of the cards (and not of hard > disk, nfs-subsystem etc) is to send _huge_ amounts of data really, > really fast. > > Personally I like netcat (it´s debianized) for that sort of stuff, just > dd if=/dev/null | netcat 1.2.3.4 > and, on the other side

mutt question...

2000-12-06 Thread Ricardo Rodrigues Morais Diz
How can I put in my ~/.muttrc file an option so that whenever I start mutt all threads are collapsed? Thanks in advance, Ricardo Diz

Re: mutt question...

2000-12-06 Thread Olivier Billet
Maybe you can add this line: folder-hook . 'push \eV' On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:41:07PM +, Ricardo Rodrigues Morais Diz wrote: > How can I put in my ~/.muttrc file an option so that whenever I start mutt > all threads are collapsed? > > Thanks in advance, > Ricardo Diz > > > > -- > To

Re: Exim Install & localhost configuration.

2000-12-06 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:07:46PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Alson writes: > > Never noticed, my direct-dilivered mail is always accepted > > Do you have a dynamic IP? Yup, and hostname like i0554.pvu.euronet.nl, possibly not recongized by other host as dynamic IP, they can't really see the dif

sendmail

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Schramm
I am running Debian Potato as up to date as possible. I stay online all the time through a 56K modem I have no trouble sending mail to anyone on the web except for Mindspring.com addresses. This just started recently (within the last 3 months). As soon as I send a mail message out to mindspring

Re: sendmail

2000-12-06 Thread Robert Waldner
The DUL (http://maps.vix.com/dul/) springs to mind... try using your ISPs mailrelays as smarthosts. hth, &rw On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 08:07:48 EST, Brian Schramm writes: >I am running Debian Potato as up to date as possible. I stay online all >the time through a 56K modem I have no trouble sending

Re: mutt question...

2000-12-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Olivier Billet wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:41:07PM +, Ricardo Rodrigues Morais Diz wrote: >> How can I put in my ~/.muttrc file an option so that whenever I start mutt >> all threads are collapsed? > > Maybe you can add this line: > > folder-hook . 'push \eV' These days mutt allows yo

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
Harry Henry Gebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >All this capability (which is great in those situations where you need >it) is overkill for many applications. An HTTP connection on the other >hand is very simple, the client makes a request and the server makes a >reply (well, it's a little more compl

Re: Exim Install & localhost configuration.

2000-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Alson writes: > ...they can't really see the difference between static and dynamic > ips,... There are blocks of IP's that are known to be used only for dialups. There isn't a formal standard or anything for this, so it may be that the people that publish the blacklists haven't noticed that the b

Re: exim+logrotate

2000-12-06 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:09:33PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > I have a few questions, and I will appreciate very much any help: > > 1) I have entries for exim in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.daily/ and > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. I can understand the last entry, it starts exim when I > dial-u

bind & sendmail both as non-root

2000-12-06 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
Hi there,I use potato r0. On my system bind (8.2.2) and sendmail (8.9.3-23) arerunning together.Bind run as non-root daemon, sendmail is running by inetd. When sendmail isrun as root is OK. When I chown sendmail to mail:mail and tell inetd to runas mail then sendmail writes to log    ... re

Re: gmc package status

2000-12-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. It has slowly dawned on me that, since I installed Debian almost 2 months > ago, gnome midnight > commander has never worked properly. Yes, same here. This is due to mc not being compiled with the new glibc version. > the reading I have done it

Re: Debian/apache, update

2000-12-06 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:49:23PM -0500, Eireann Lewy wrote: > Okay. An update: > > 1) the /etc/profile is in fact profile and not .profile. This is what > happens when one e-mails when running on a negative amount of sleep and > such. > > As for recreating that whole making-a-dir-with-bad-perms

X Keymap

2000-12-06 Thread Debian User
Hello, I am new to Debian, but I have been using Linux for a while now. First of all, I think debian is really a great distribution, I think its perfect for me. Now about my problem. I live in Southamerica and I often have to use accents when I type in spanish. (áéíóú) But I also own an english k

Re: modinfo [was: Re: 3Com network card]

2000-12-06 Thread urbanyon
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:41:04PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > this relates to a problem i've been having as well - > > > > do you know what the command-line arguments are for the 3c59x module (if > > any)? i have a 3CSOHO100-TX card. > > modinfo -p

Re: LDAP for accounts

2000-12-06 Thread Daniel Sand
Re, Russell Coker wrote: dn: cn=test2, ou=Users, dc=coker, dc=com, dc=au objectClass: posixAccount cn: test2 uid: test2 uidNumber: 505 gidNumber: 100 homeDirectory: /tmp userPassword:: encrypted-string loginShell: /bin/sh gecos: testing description: testing I have the above in my LDAP director

instalation of 'potato'

2000-12-06 Thread Tom
Hi Now, I`m using Windows 95 (with MSDOS), but I yet have the Debian2.2 CD for instalation. But I erased (for a mistake) the CD-ROM`s drive of my computer. To install the potato from debian2.2 CD, will I need to install again the CD-ROM drive (of the windows) , or no ? How must I do ?

Re: instalation of 'potato'

2000-12-06 Thread Robert Waldner
just insert the CD and select "CDROM" for the boot-drive in your BIOS. hth, &rw On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 12:54:02 -0200, "Tom" writes: >Now, I`m using Windows 95 (with MSDOS), but I yet have the Debian2.2 CD for >instalation. >But I erased (for a mistake) the CD-ROM`s drive of my computer. >To instal

Re: instalation of 'potato'

2000-12-06 Thread Ray Percival
On any newer machine you should be able to just boot from the CD. -- Original Message -- From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:54:02 -0200 >Hi > >Now, I`m using Windows 95 (with MSDOS), but I yet have the Debian2.2 CD for >instalation. >B

Re: instalation of 'potato'

2000-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
"Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I erased (for a mistake) the CD-ROM`s drive of my computer. > To install the potato from debian2.2 CD, will I need to install again the > CD-ROM drive (of the windows) , or no ? That's not strictly necessary. On many systems, you can just boot from the

sawmill-client problems

2000-12-06 Thread Richard Hunt
I'm using a version of Debian Potato, and the sawmill package isn't working properly. Sorry, I'm not on my own computer just now so I can't tell you what version of the package it is. When I select it in the the GNOME control centre it complains to the shell that it can't start sawmill-client. As

Re: Number of processors

2000-12-06 Thread Michael Sauer
> A little off topic... > > Does anyone know how to get the number of CPU's > that a machine has using the "C" programming > language?Any URL's on the subject? open /proc/cpuinfo and look how many processor entries it has. mfg Mischel S aus P Homepage: http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~waldi

Route annoncement on web

2000-12-06 Thread Adrian Nims
Does anybody know a web site where I can see route announcement ? I want to see from outside if my routes are announced correctly or not. Thank you, Adrian Nims begin:vcard n:Nims;Adrian x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Galaxy Telecommunications srl adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PRO

Re: bind & sendmail both as non-root

2000-12-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:08:58PM +0100, Krzysztof Mazurczyk wrote: > Hi there, > > I use potato r0. On my system bind (8.2.2) and sendmail (8.9.3-23) are > running together. > Bind run as non-root daemon, sendmail is running by inetd. When sendmail is > run as root is OK. When I chown sendmail t

Re: Firewalling in potato

2000-12-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
^chewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:11:54AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > > > > Hello All: > > > > I wanted to know what the proper way would be to set up firewalling rules > > in a potato system. Putting the ipfwadm or ipchains lines in > > /etc/init.d/networking (

Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3

2000-12-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
Yesterday I updated to 2.2r2 and decided to give Xemacs and Gnus a try (I had been playing with Emacs 20.7 and Gnus 5.7 and it worked fine). The problem seems to be that Gnus is ignoring the .newsrc-dribble file and is reading the entire active file from my ISP's news server. First I encountered t

Re: Route annoncement on web

2000-12-06 Thread Robert Waldner
look at www.aco.net for example, good looking glass. (or search for "bgp lookingglass" on google&co). hth, &rw >Does anybody know a web site where I can see route announcement ? I >want to see from outside if my routes are announced correctly or not. -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network

gnome-terminal and xterm-debian

2000-12-06 Thread ktb
I searched the archives and thought I would get a million hits for "xterm-debian" but got 5 that provided no help. My problem is I can't figure out how to get gnome-terminal off xterm-debian. I can of course "TERM=xterm" from the command line but I would li

Re: Exim Install & localhost configuration.

2000-12-06 Thread garyjones
Alson van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:07:46PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> Alson writes: >> > my direct-dilivered mail is always accepted >> >> Do you have a dynamic IP? >Yup, and hostname like i0554.pvu.euronet.nl, possibly not recongized >by other host as

potato instalation

2000-12-06 Thread Tom
I think my last mail did not arrive in this list. Let-me write it again : My computer is old, and it don`t have the opition of boot for CD-ROM. And my CD-ROM`s drive is erased. How can I install the potato ? Tom.

Re: Route annoncement on web

2000-12-06 Thread Arnd Vehling
Adrian Nims wrote: > > Does anybody know a web site where I can see route announcement ? I > want to see from outside if my routes are announced correctly or not. http://nitrous.digex.net/ regards, Arnd -- NetHead Network Design and Security Arnd Vehling

Re: apache woes.

2000-12-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: apache woes. Date: Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:37:32PM -0500 In reply to:Jim Lynch Quoting Jim Lynch([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I looked at the bugs on www.debian.org and didn't see mine described, so > I thought I bounce it off of this group. > > I installed potato. That was m

Re: potato instalation

2000-12-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:44:28PM -0200, Tom wrote: > I think my last mail did not arrive in this list. Let-me write it again : > > My computer is old, and it don`t have the opition of boot for CD-ROM. And my > CD-ROM`s drive is erased. > How can I install the potato ? yes just get rescue.bin a

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-12-06 Thread Aaron Solochek
Both of those (perl-5.6 and perl-5.6-base are installed. By removing a large portion of my X system I reduced the errors to just those relavent to debconf: Setting up debconf (0.5.32) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linu

Opera web browser

2000-12-06 Thread Rob VanFleet
Is there any way to apt-get Opera, or must one just download the deb from opera.com and use dpkg to install it? -Rob

pppd and wvdial

2000-12-06 Thread Tim Condit
Hi, I've installed potato from CD-ROM, and am having a few problems. My ppp connection was working okay for a day or two, but now it's not. I'm using wvdial, and have previously connected to my ISP, so I know the /etc/wvdial.conf (and /etc/resolv.conf) info is correct, but here's what I'm seeing:

RESOLVED: all mail getting deferred

2000-12-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know how..or why .. but when i got in to work today i checked my system at home and all mail was delivered(haven't gone bakc in the logs yet), i sent another test mail from 2 different internet accounts and both arrived without being deferred. thats a big relief. maybe the DNS on that mach

mutt question

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, this is a pretty complicated question... when i get spam, i like to send complaint letters to the people responsible for the ip and/or zone that the spam came from. i also like to use traceroute to send a complaint to the system upstream from them, since that usually belongs to the sam

Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3

2000-12-06 Thread Willy Lee
"Nate" == Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yesterday I updated to 2.2r2 and decided to give Xemacs and Gnus a > try (I had been playing with Emacs 20.7 and Gnus 5.7 and it worked > fine). The problem seems to be that Gnus is ignoring the > .newsrc-dribble file and is reading the entire

Re: pppd and wvdial

2000-12-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Tim Condit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've installed potato from CD-ROM, and am having a few problems. > My ppp connection was working okay for a day or two, but now it's > not. I'm using wvdial, and have previously connected to my ISP, so > I know the /etc/wvdial.conf (and /etc/resolv.conf) i

Re: Exim Install & localhost configuration.

2000-12-06 Thread John Hasler
garyjones writes: > Some people seem to think that because most U*E comes out of dynamic IPs, > most dynamic IPs are sources of U*E, and therefore block attempts to > deliver to them directly from such an IP. Well, that does block many potential spam sources, and shouldn't inconvenience the accoun

Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3

2000-12-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Willy Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Nate" == Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yesterday I updated to 2.2r2 and decided to give Xemacs and Gnus a > > try (I had been playing with Emacs 20.7 and Gnus 5.7 and it worked > > fine). The problem seems to be that Gnus is ignoring th

Re: bind & sendmail both as non-root

2000-12-06 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I don't know what you did to your email font/bg, but I ended up with a VERY black screen with BLACK words! :| Once I clicked on the REPLY button, the new msg was then readable. Might want to look at your email settings, and I will do the same - i'm using kmail with kde2.0.1. Regards On

OT: codefusion

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i was asked to review codefusion for a linux magazine. i guess i'm a good candidate to write this thing, since i'm a hardcore console/vim/gcc/gdb programmer. i've always felt lost with IDE's, so this may be a good test of how easy codefusion is to use, and their documentation. so fa

Re: xserver-xfree86 4.0.1-9

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Boonstra
Charles > Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-9) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config: [: -eq: unary operator expected I saw this too, but it did not end up being a problem. B

Re: How to purge and reinstall XFree86 [woody] ? SOLVED

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi folks This was solved by Marc Wilson's answer to someone else's problem...they asked about problems that were fairly similar. Both task-x-window-system and using dexter instead of xf86cfg were useful bits of advice. - Brian Marc's respons was: You do

util-linux in woody

2000-12-06 Thread Gryn
I'm having trouble upgrading my potato distribution to woody. Most notably, I'm having errors when installing util-linux . I'm supposing there is some fiddling I need to do with perl 5.6 to get this to work, but I'm quite clueless as to what that would be. Any suggestions? :) Ciao, -Gryn ---

exmh broken

2000-12-06 Thread Dominique ROUSSET
Hello, Since a couple of days, one update of woody broke my exmh (tcl/tk based mail client). Trying an input (evan a single alt) in a composing window causes exmh to segfault immediately. receiving mail is still ok any clue ? Thoanks.

Re: [OT] Need to sync a directory tree _to_ a WinNT ftp server

2000-12-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I'm building an HTML tree on Debian potato that I need to move > over to a (gasp!) WinNT web server. The web server admin gave me > ftp access to the WinNT machine. Ideally, I want to run a script > that uses ftp to keep the files on the NT machine in sync with my > development tree

nvidia + GL = X crash

2000-12-06 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I have tried to install nvidia geforce2 MX with debian woody, but have failed ćvery time.. the card works, but 3d acceleration is allmost worse than my ati [EMAIL PROTECTED] in another machine... I have set up everthing, replaced the GL libs, recompiled the GLUT, but I when I run tuxracer it c

xfce

2000-12-06 Thread Jesse Goerz
Has anyone used xfce? I'd like to try it but first wanted to get some input on how it is. Jesse

Re: pppd and wvdial

2000-12-06 Thread Sebastiaan
> Also, I don't have traceroute installed! Surely there is a free > version of traceroute available. Any suggestions on where it's > located? > Almost everything can be installed with apt: # apt-get install traceroute For a search: $ apt-cache search traceroute will display every packet that has

way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Hi, I know that you can get a complete list of things installed on a system with dpkg --get-selections, and can set those to be installed on another system with dpkg --set-selections. Is there, however, a way to extract from an _old_ /var/lib/dpkg/ tree the same output as one would get on a worki

RE: util-linux in woody

2000-12-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Dec-2000 Gryn wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading my potato distribution to woody. Most notably, > I'm having errors when installing util-linux . I'm supposing there is some > fiddling I need to do with perl 5.6 to get this to work, but I'm quite > clueless as to what that would be. Any

3dfx/Mesa on Potato

2000-12-06 Thread Rob VanFleet
I've been trying to set up mesag3-glide2 to work with a Voodoo3 on my Potato box, and I've met a few snags. Here is my primary problem, specifics will follow: Any time I try to execute any OpenGL app, like the morph3d, I get this message: "_GlideInitEnvironment: libglide2x.so expected Voodoo Grap

Re: nvidia + GL = X crash

2000-12-06 Thread Terry Warner
I just want to make sure for my own benefit that you are using the nvidia glx stuff? as well as the nvidia kernel module correct? What may also be the case is you may want to check to see if some files are installed that need to be removed, basically: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcor

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-12-06 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:56:48AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Both of those (perl-5.6 and perl-5.6-base are installed. By removing a large > portion of my X system I reduced the > errors to just those relavent to debconf: > > Setting up debconf (0.5.32) ... > Data::Dumper object version 2.10

Re: pppd and wvdial

2000-12-06 Thread Tim Condit
Hi, On 6 Dec 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Tim Condit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've installed potato from CD-ROM, and am having a few problems. > > My ppp connection was working okay for a day or two, but now it's > > not. I'm using wvdial, and have previously connected to my ISP, so > >

RE: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I have a system whose root partition died part way through an > incremental backup cycle. I'm afraid the "full" increment was spaced > too far, because I'd made a number of changes to the system in the > few days before the hard drive died (yes, I know, I should have done > a full backup then

bootable 2.1 CD question

2000-12-06 Thread Ken Weingold
At what point of booting to the Debian 2.1 CD would I know if my SCSI adapter is supported? The cdrom drive is run off the adapter. It is an Adaptec 2930CU. I can't figure out from the Hardware-HOWTOs whether it is supported or not. It boots and goes into the install process, but at one of the

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:32:02AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > let's see . > > /var/lib/dpkg/status. Every package marked 'Status: install ok installed' is > installed. Yes, but it's in a big file with a lot of extra data (whereas the output from --get-selections is just lines indica

Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3

2000-12-06 Thread Veit Waltemath
check if tht TM-Mime stuff is installed.If so, remove it, it conflicts with builtin-mime-support of gnus 5.8.x.

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Dec-2000 Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:32:02AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> let's see . >> >> /var/lib/dpkg/status. Every package marked 'Status: install ok installed' >> is >> installed. > > Yes, but it's in a big file with a lot of extra data (whereas t

Re: CD Image debian 2.1

2000-12-06 Thread Gregory G Baker
> But I could not figure out from which site I can download > a CD image for Debian 2.1 You might be best off to contact some of the people who sell official CDs (http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors) and see if they have one they'd send you for the postage. You might also check the full list of

Mozilla and SourceForge?

2000-12-06 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to loging to SourceForge via ssl using Mozila in woody. It's refusing my connection. I've verified my pass and used netscape 475 to verify the site is up. Anyone have any ideas? Does Mozilla not accept SSL yet? Robert :wq! -

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Yes, but it's in a big file with a lot of extra data (whereas the > output from --get-selections is just lines indicating package and > state). I know that I can just pull the relevant bits with some > regex work, but I wondered if there was a way to make dpkg read its > d

dselect: recommends are evil

2000-12-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
IMHO there should be some way to override a recommends once and not have to do it every time that dselect is invoked. If this is not feasible, most recommends should probably be downgraded to suggests. For example, every time I run dselect it tries to remove timidity and libasound1 (which timidit

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Andrew Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Yes, but it's in a big file with a lot of extra data (whereas the > output from --get-selections is just lines indicating package and > state). I know that I can just pull the relevant bits with some > regex work, but I wondered if there was a way

Re: modinfo [was: Re: 3Com network card]

2000-12-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:30:06AM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:41:04PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > > this relates to a problem i've been having as well - > > > > > > do you know what the command-line arguments are for t

Xdefaults being ignored?

2000-12-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I have the weirdest problem: Whatever I enter into my ~/.Xdefaults seems to be ignored entirely. I tried to make my mouse wheel work with netscape; pasted the relevant lines from http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ to ~/.Xdefaults - nothing. I edited (for test purposes) ~/

Re: Mozilla and SourceForge?

2000-12-06 Thread Sam TH
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:55:40AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I'm trying to loging to SourceForge via ssl using Mozila in woody. > It's refusing my connection. I've verified my pass and used netscape 475 > to verify the site is up. Anyone have any ideas? Does Mozilla not > accept SSL

Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3

2000-12-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:31:34AM -0800, Willy Lee wrote: > > This is what I would try: > > If you have the ~/.newsrc and ~/.newsrc.eld files, you should delete > the ~/#.newsrc.dribble# file (when Gnus is not running), then start > Gnus again. See if that works. Essentially, that is what I tr

Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3

2000-12-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:50:53PM +0100, Veit Waltemath wrote: > check if tht TM-Mime stuff is installed.If so, remove it, it conflicts with > builtin-mime-support of gnus 5.8.x. I don't see a Debian package by that name, so I am reasonably sure it's not installed. FYI, I installed the xemacs21

Re: nvidia + GL = X crash

2000-12-06 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 06-12-00 at 19:27 Terry Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > I just want to make sure for my own benefit that you are using the nvidia glx > stuff? as well as the nvidia kernel module correct? > > What may also be the case is you may want to check to see if s

Re: Matrox G450 and XF4.0.1: solved

2000-12-06 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
> Thanks for the clue. I will try this asap. I would like to know > if in your XF86Config "Device" section you have an entry like: > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" and Screen 0. > Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Graphics Device" Driver "mga" EndSection I only have one monito

Re: Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-06 Thread joeytsai
> Any other choices aside Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, for something low > footprint? I'm really impressed with the new nightly CVS builds of Galeon lately. http://galeon.sourceforge.net For fast text-based browsers, I use links. apt-get install links // joey tsai

Re: nvidia + GL = X crash

2000-12-06 Thread Terry Warner
Want to send me a log of the X crash? I want to see what might be causing it. Thanks Terry On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:27:40PM +0100, Bostjan Muller babbled: > * On 06-12-00 at 19:27 Terry Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +Here quoted text begins+ > > I just want to make sure for my ow

Re: updated mount packages for Potato

2000-12-06 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "FG" == Fred Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FG> Hi, The recent Debian 2.2r2 release shipped with the > FG> 2.2.18pre21 kernel, which includes significant changes to the > FG> Network File System (NFS) code. Unfortunately, it di

log rotation, syslogd and debian

2000-12-06 Thread CaT
Ok. I've pondered but couldn't figure it out. Why does debian not use logrotate for the rotation of syslog files and stuff? It seems easy enough. The only possible reason I can think of is that you folks don't want syslogd restarted after each file. But then that's easy enough to get around by put

Re: newbie XDM question

2000-12-06 Thread Marcin Landowski
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:53:40PM -0600, sc wrote: [...] > - > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by serverM > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to ServerM > xrdb: Can't open display ':0' > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by serverM > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Se

Re: dselect: recommends are evil

2000-12-06 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> IMHO there should be some way to override a recommends once and not Bob> have to do it every time that dselect is invoked. If this is not Bob> feasible, most recommends should probably be downgraded to suggests. [cut] Yup.

Re: Non-root kernel compiling--Continue...

2000-12-06 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 05 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > just to toss my personal preference in... i created a dedicated > user account for building things like kernels and locally installed > software I did something similar to this, but not only to build things. I use a dummy user for evaluating p

Re: Mozilla and SourceForge?

2000-12-06 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Sam" == Sam TH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sam> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:55:40AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: >> >> >> I'm trying to loging to SourceForge via ssl using Mozila in woody. It's >> refusing my connection. I've verified my pass and used netscape 475 t

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