Re: Mutt and mounted file system via nfs

2000-12-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:02:25PM -0800, Henry House wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: > > I have a problem with mutt and /mnt/mail/fayard with is my mailbox > > (/usr/mail is mounted via nfs). Mutt can read this mailbox but can't write > > on it. I don't th

Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous version. What's up? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: .scr files

2000-12-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:58:36PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Does anyone know what a .scr file is? Have received several attachments with > varios names. latest is midget.scr .. have no idea as I don't know the > extention. Is this some type of virus? its a windows screensaver execu

Re: Debian & Apt-get

2000-12-19 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi Chris! Am Don, 14 Dez 2000 schrieb Chris: > Does any one know how I can get a listing of the commands and their > function? I think man apt-get or apt-get --help will give you some answers. Perhaps may may take a look at /usr/doc/... Bye...Thomas -- Bitte E-Mail an: Thomas Wegner <[E

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 06:38:55PM +0100, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > meant to add this my my 1st reply, > > I have heard that you can embed javascript in pdflatex files for > presentations, for example. > > does anyone know if this is true? Yes. I saw a presentation or some such about it. Have

Re: Debian & Apt-get

2000-12-19 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:24:07AM +0100, Thomas Wegner wrote: > Hi Chris! Am Don, 14 Dez 2000 schrieb Chris: > > > Does any one know how I can get a listing of the commands and their > > function? > I think man apt-get or apt-get --help will give you some answers. Perhaps > may may take a look at

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:33:02PM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lee Elliott writes: > > I saw this in a posting in an Amiga mailing list that I'm still > > subscribed to: > > > > >The first place Genesis looks for anything is in db/hosts, and > > > if the ad-servers are listed t

Re: .scr files

2000-12-19 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Does anyone know what a .scr file is? Have received several attachments with > varios names. latest is midget.scr .. have no idea as I don't know the > extention. Is this some type of virus? > normally, they are win95 screen savers. I've al

Re: KDE2 on potato

2000-12-19 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2000 00:43 schrieb Matthew Dalton: > Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Just upgraded KDE2 on a potato machine. Now "startx" or "kdm" don't work > > claiming: > > > > ksplash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: > > undefined symbol: getButtonS

No cut/paste?

2000-12-19 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just did a dist-upgrade of my woody box and now I can't cut and paste between my xterms or ETerms anymore... Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when q

making bootable CD iso images ?

2000-12-19 Thread will trillich
what packages would a brand-new debian machine (potato) require in order to create ISO images for burning onto CD that would make the cd bootable? it'd be nice to have a bootable CD with maybe a few variable settings files pulled off floppy. is this feasible? how? -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

nvidia geforce2 mx overclocking in linunx?

2000-12-19 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I have found articles all over internet how to overclock nvidia's geforce2 mx in windooze... since nvidias card's are around 10% slower in linux I thought I would overclock it in linux, but I couldn't since there is no programe to do it, at least none that I know of. A friend of mine said he s

package pools

2000-12-19 Thread John Beining
Is the package file dd. 12/18/00 /dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz complete? Where are the links with the files in the pools?

apt-get source question

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
This is an abbreviated re-post. My original posting is in the archives here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0012/msg01267.html Is there a way to find out exactly from where apt-get is planning to fetch a particular package? The reason I need to know this is because of a bug in apt-get, found

Re: Installing new software under (debian/storm linux)

2000-12-19 Thread Tor Slettnes
> "dem0nline" == dem0nline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dem0nline> I just installed Storm Linux and I am have a question dem0nline> about adding new software to my machine. When I run dem0nline> dpkg -i someapp.deb it tells me that it fails about a dem0nline> dozen dependencies

Re: A step backward for woody?

2000-12-19 Thread Tor Slettnes
> "walt" == walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: walt> Am I hallucinating, or did the woody ftp sites just take a walt> step backward in time today? [tale of packages downgraded] walt> I feel like I just came thru the Twilight Zone... No, you are just running your machine faste

Scanner support??

2000-12-19 Thread Angel Parra
Hello, I have a Tawain scanner, it's a pararel port scanner, Tawain, 9600P. Which program, driver,.. I need to use it. It's this scanner suported by SANE? Thank you for all. Angel

Re: Installing Debian Potato with ReiserFS on a laptop (take 1)

2000-12-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Do these really need to go to -devel? -user only seems more appropriate. -- - mdz

diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi I am about to start installing some diskless workstations. I have found this documentation Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO Diskless-HOWTO NFS-Root mini-HOWTO NFS-Root-Client-mini-HOWTO But they seams to be based on rethat linux. Is the any advises or documentation specific for debian ?

Load crash from speakers at startup

2000-12-19 Thread David Purton
Hi, just recently my speakers have started making a load crash sound at startup around when the sound card is initialised. It's an awe64 pnp isa card setup using sndconfig and isapnp. I can't think of anything that could have caused this - I recompiled my kernel to include masqerading support,

Re: Stupid question

2000-12-19 Thread garyjones
At Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:12:10 + , Matthew Sackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It generally doesn't matter: so long as you are able to dial up then the other >processes take care of themselves. [...] >the details are >in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ There are similar files for isdn which I use, and you a

Re: Re(2): The better ftp server for Debian...

2000-12-19 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:04:54PM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi... > I use Proftd and it is 100% free...(99% sure) > and it seems to be easy to use and > works well... I'm running muddleftpd now, quite stable for me. hasn't as much features as proftpd, but i don't use proftpd for now on my s

Re: .scr files

2000-12-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Does anyone know what a .scr file is? Have received several attachments with > varios names. latest is midget.scr .. have no idea as I don't know the > extention. Is this some type of virus? As a few have already mentioned, an .scr file is *normally* a Windows screensaver. In your case, there's

Re: making bootable CD iso images ?

2000-12-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> what packages would a brand-new debian machine (potato) > require in order to create ISO images for burning onto CD > that would make the cd bootable? > > it'd be nice to have a bootable CD with maybe a few variable > settings files pulled off floppy. is this feasible? how? I may be misunderstan

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as >obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous >version. What's up? It's the transition to the new 'testing' distribution - see the recent archives of debian-deve

Re: not all packages showing up with "dpkg -l"?

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maciej> Let me explain: of recent, I've noticed that for certain >> Maciej> (few) packages if I do "dpkg -l foo" and it produces no >> Maciej> matches/output, a subsequent "apt-get install foo" *WILL* >> Maciej> find and install the desir

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Michael Meding
Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2000 14:33 schrieb Colin Watson: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as > >obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous > >version. What's up? > > It's the transition to t

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-19 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I just put ad servers in /etc/hosts with an IP of 127.0.0.1. Karsten M. Self writes: > I believe this is an acceptable solution. It may incur a timeout. It doesn't. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Jan Pfeifer
I've just done it a couple of weeks ago, and it's working great. Read the stuff, because mostly it works the same for Debian :) Anyway there are different configurations for a diskless machine, and each one requires different steps. Just as an overview: * kernel for DL (diskless machine): may be

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello, * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as > obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous > version. What's up? It's because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing'' distr

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2000 14:33 schrieb Colin Watson: >> Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as >> >obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous >> >version. What's up

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Xucaen
Hi! May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I have a friend who want to install a diskless workstation but we can't seem to find any information. thanks! xucaen --- Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > I am about to start installing > some diskless workstations. > > I

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>What about the Xfree packages and the KDE packages since they change in >>a very frequent interval ? > >I'm not sure what happens to packages like this. My best guess is that >older versions of the packages are put into testing, wh

Horde/IMP problems

2000-12-19 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I've done a fresh install of potato (r2) with horde/imp and I'm experiencing a weird behaviour. Almost everything seems to be correct: I've a vhost on apache, which is answering correctly (at least I can get the login screen). I can log in, and see the message list.

apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

2000-12-19 Thread Manegold
Hi all! Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere on a system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have Packages.gz files (how are those created anyhow?). The reason I ask is, that I have a system that has fast internet access and apt-get works great in su

Woody upgrade = no startx

2000-12-19 Thread bryan
Hello, Yesterday I performed an apt-get -f dist-upgrade on my Woody box. Everything seemed to be going well. This morning, I closed out my X session and when I attempted to restart X, I got the following error: bash: startx: command not found Sure enough, it is gone. Has anybody else ha

Re: No cut/paste?

2000-12-19 Thread David Z. Maze
Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RLH> I just did a dist-upgrade of my woody box and now I can't cut and RLH> paste between my xterms or ETerms anymore... Okay; you should diagnose the problem in a little more detail and report a bug. See http://bugs.debian.org/ for details. -- David

Re: apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

2000-12-19 Thread David Z. Maze
Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere on a M> system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have M> Packages.gz files Nope. M> (how are those created anyhow?). Install the dpkg-dev package, and look at the dpkg-s

Re: apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere on a >system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have >Packages.gz files (how are those created anyhow?). You need a Packages.gz file. They're not hard to create, though. dpkg-scanpackages

Re: Load crash from speakers at startup

2000-12-19 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:55:13AM -0500, David Purton wrote: > just recently my speakers have started making a load crash sound at > startup around when the sound card is initialised. > > It's an awe64 pnp isa card setup using sndconfig and isapnp. > > I can't think of anything that could have c

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread sena
On 19/12/2000 at 06:36 -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi! > May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I > have a friend who want to install a diskless > workstation but we can't seem to find any > information. > thanks! > You can find them at many more at your local Linux Documentation Project mirror

Sylpheed

2000-12-19 Thread Cam Ellison
I have seen a couple of references to this application (suppposedly a .deb package) over the last few months, but can't seem to find it at the US, Canada, and Japan (where it apparently was originally) sites. Does anyone know where it has gone? TIA Cam

Need some help with Cyrus/Postfix configuration

2000-12-19 Thread Chris Mason
I've installed posfix and Cyrus useing the debs, and both appear to run fine. I can connect to the IMAP port and create folders in my user account from another workstation. I was able to pop mail fine, postfix was deliving properly to my unix account. Now I have modified /etc/postfix/main.cf to unc

Re: Load crash from speakers at startup

2000-12-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:55:13AM -0500, David Purton wrote: > > just recently my speakers have started making a load > > crash sound at startup around when the sound card is initialised. > > I had the very same thing happen to me a while back. I narrowed > > it down to be the SoundBlaster mod

Re: Package pool information?

2000-12-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:12:51PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: > I'm really interested in the package pools implementation that's going > on now. > > Which list(s) are the best to subscribe to/and/or read archives of if I > want to keep up-to-date with this new feature (issues, decisions, > announ

Re: Sylpheed

2000-12-19 Thread Christoph Simon
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:46:01 -0800 Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen a couple of references to this application (suppposedly a > .deb package) over the last few months, but can't seem to find it at the > US, Canada, and Japan (where it apparently was originally) sites. Does > a

Devices for SCSI Tape Drives

2000-12-19 Thread Victor R. Cain
Could some one tell me where to find descriptions of what the different device designations mean, especially the /dev/nst* and /dev/st* devices? Thanks, Vic Cain -- Prediction is very hard -- especially when it's about the future -- Yogi Berra The future will be better tomorrow - J. Danforth

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-19 Thread Shao Zhang
How about just using dvipdf if you don't need all those fancy pdf features? Shao. Thomas Halahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Joerg, > > I use 2 ways > > 1) The ps route is good if you have lots of ps figures. > > > pslatex filename.tex > > dvips filename -o > > ps2pdf filename.ps > > the ps

Re: Devices for SCSI Tape Drives

2000-12-19 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Victor R. Cain wrote: > Could some one tell me where to find descriptions of what > the different device designations mean, especially the > /dev/nst* and /dev/st* devices? > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt The /dev/nst* devices are th

Re: Oracle

2000-12-19 Thread Eric Richardson
> Eric Langager wrote: > > Greetings, > > We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for > teaching the Oracle database system here at the University of > Advancing Computer Technology. I feel that it would be a good idea to > teach Oracle administration on some sort of UNIX pl

RE: Oracle

2000-12-19 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Greetings, > > We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for teaching > the Oracle database system here at the University of Advancing Computer > Technology. I feel that it would be a good idea to teach Oracle > administration on some sort of UNIX platform, and I am very in

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Scott Patterson
> May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I > have a friend who want to install a diskless > workstation but we can't seem to find any > information. > thanks! There is also a project called LTSP, Linux Terminal Server Project, at http://www.ltsp.org. The developers use Red Hat, but I kn

Re: No cut/paste?

2000-12-19 Thread Robert L. Harris
There's not much more detail. I can highlight text in one xterm or in netscape. Usually I can click in another xterm, the netscape location bar, etc and click both left and right buttons to paste text. Now when I do the paste click nothing happens. No paste or anything. The cut window doesn'

dselect produces error ?

2000-12-19 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, A lot of the of the optional packages that have been marked for installation don't install when using dselect. Instead it produces the following error : Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ -Official i386 Binary-3 (2814)' in the drive '/cdrom/' an

How to install libqt-dev, kdebase-dev with apt on unstable ?

2000-12-19 Thread Michael Meding
Hi all, specifying the package names does not work, neither does apt-get install kdebase-dev. So how to get the packages, despite downloading all and dpkg -i'ing 'em ? Thanks. Michael

Re: nvidia geforce2 mx overclocking in linunx?

2000-12-19 Thread Jon Pennington
Bostjan Muller wrote: > > Hi! > > I have found articles all over internet how to overclock nvidia's geforce2 mx > in windooze... since nvidias card's are around 10% slower in linux I thought I > would overclock it in linux, but I couldn't since there is no programe to do > it, at least none that

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-19 Thread Bill Jonas
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:48:01PM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: > 1) copy /boot/config-x.y.zz (2.2.17 if potato) to .config in the base dir of > your kernel source. If you don't you won't start with the default options > used to build the stock kernel. ...and run "make oldconfig" after you do th

OT: ext2resize

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
just downloaded ext2resize, and am shocked to see how little documentation there is. the HOWTO gives an artificial example using a file containing a filesystem. the man page basically says nothing other than: SYNOPSIS ext2resize i'd like to use use this progr

depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i *just* downloaded and compiled 2.4.0-12 for the very first time. after my very first reboot with this kernel, i'm getting: # depmod -a depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o i'm curious - i compiled this kernel by the book. what is causing thi

Re: Devices for SCSI Tape Drives

2000-12-19 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:14:45AM -0500, Andy Bastien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Pending further investigation, we now allege that Victor R. Cain wrote: > > Could some one tell me where to find descriptions of what > > the different device designations mean, especially the > > /dev/nst* and /

Debates about the 'deb' in debian?

2000-12-19 Thread mikpolniak
On a recent linux radio show a guest pronounced the 'deb' with an 'a' sound as in 'day'. And a bio article in the Nov/Dec issue of 'Maximum Linux' quotes Debra (Ian's wife) as '...remembering debates on how to pronounce the name'. So are there still debates about saying 'deb

apt-get source problem with Licq

2000-12-19 Thread Pollywog
I am having problems getting the latest sources for Licq. I can download the dsc diff, and tarball for version 1.0 manually from ftp.debian.org but when I try to get them with 'apt-get source licq', I get an older version even though my sources.list is set up for Woody. If I download the files ma

RE: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Jason Holland
Peter, what modultils version are you using?? the 2.4 series requires at least version 2.3.18 or above. check your /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/Changes file for other relevant software updates you might need to make. If that is not the problem, imm.o is the driver for an Iomega parallel po

Re: Sylpheed

2000-12-19 Thread Cam Ellison
Christoph Simon wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:46:01 -0800 > It's now installed here :-) > > I apt-get it from helix. > Thanks, Christoph. Based on your suggestion, I went looking, and found it. Didn't occur to me to include "unstable" in my search. <:-/ Cam

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:18:11PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote: > Hello, > > * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as > > obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous > > version. What's up? > >

incorrect kernel version

2000-12-19 Thread Robert Newton
I've installed a patch on my 2.2.17 kernel (win4lin). The new kernel compiles and boots however it now thinks that it is a 2.2.12 kernel (Identifies itself this way at the start of the boot). Needless to say, it has a little difficultly loading modules. The kernel that was compiled before installi

Re: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 19 Dec 00, 1:08 PM, Jason Holland said... > Peter, > what modultils version are you using?? the 2.4 series requires at least > version 2.3.18 or above. check your > /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/Changes file for other relevant software > updates you might need to make. If that is no

RE: incorrect kernel version

2000-12-19 Thread Jason Holland
Try looking at the top of your /usr/src/linux/Makefile VERSION=2 PATCHLEVEL=2 SUBLEVEL=16 or whatever... Jason > -Original Message- > From: Robert Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:27 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: incorrect kernel

question regarding samba usage

2000-12-19 Thread Walter Tautz
I am trying to get access to a home account on another unix host(solaris) to my linux machine. It works pretty well using the smbmount command however i would like to have this occur automagically when I login or perhaps have the system automount this without my having to type in an extra passwd

Re: Horde/IMP problems

2000-12-19 Thread mario
Hi Amal, Thanks for your answer! Indeed, I just found the problem: I copied a /etc/passwd from one computer to another and the mysql uid changed; then the data dir weren't writable/readable by mysqld and it could not get authentication information from mysql (e.g., in Folders.php

kde2

2000-12-19 Thread Dale Kosan
Hello,have been trying to install kde2 but apt keeps telling me I have an error in line 28.I put the line in that I seen posted here but no go.Can someone post the line or point me to the site where I can find out how to continue.Thanks in advance

Re: Previous versions of woody .debs

2000-12-19 Thread Andy Griffiths
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:18:36 Colin Watson wrote: > > As far as I know, I'm afraid, previous versions haven't been kept until > very recently. With the advent of package pools, previous versions of > packages are now kept around for a while in debian/pool on Debian > mirrors, although I assume that

RE: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Jason Holland
> > i originally compiled imm support as a module because you never > know when a > friend will come over with one of these things... > > well, i recompiled the kernel and modules without imm support, > and there are > no complaints from depmod. > > but this kind of sucks! it's precisely the reaso

Helping switching on rest sound modules...

2000-12-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I have a SB16 nicely configure with everything working fine. I just noticed in earlier posts that peole with a similiar card had other sysnthesizer options turned on. The modules they are loading which I haven't compiled are: mpu_io op13 What would I turn and and where to get these? I assume

Weird audio cd behavior

2000-12-19 Thread David A. Rogers
I'm running potato with 2.2.17, ALSA with cs4236b chip. Run xplaycd. Press start. First track plays. After first track plays, it doesn't go on to the second track, it stops like I'd pressed the stop button (no I didn't). No matter what track I start playing, it stops when the track is finished.

RE: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Jason Holland
pete, ok, i've been digging up some info on this. It seems that zip drives on the parallel port require the lp module to be loaded. # modprobe lp # modprobe imm Possibly you need parallel port printer support compiled in your kernel??? Maybe its puking on that, just a long shot. Jason >

Re: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread David A. Rogers
imm.o is actually dependent on another module, but noone told depmod. Try to find what imm is dependent on. dar On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i *just* downloaded and compiled 2.4.0-12 for the very first time. after > my very first reboot with this kernel, i'm getting: > > #

RE: Oracle

2000-12-19 Thread Braxton Robbason
I know this is sacrilege, but I found it fairly easy to install oracle on an intel box running solaris. you can get the cd-rom set for solaris 8 from sun for $80 and install it in as many places as you want. You'll have to check to ensure that your hardware is supported before trying to install so

dpkg "was interrupted" error - you must run dpkg --configure -a

2000-12-19 Thread DTi4565459
dpkg "was interrupted". You must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' Well, I tried: "failed to write status record about gnome-pim to var/log/dpkg/status; no space left on device" I guess I have run out of space. Had about 930 megs in ext2 partition and I am only trying to install from Debi

Re: package pools

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:06:00AM +0100, John Beining wrote: > Is the package file dd. 12/18/00 > /dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz complete? Where are the > links with the files in the pools? I got surprised by that also. Only those packages which are common to potato seem to be shown i

Postfix delivers more than once

2000-12-19 Thread Andre Berger
I have a strange problem with Postfix, my messages are sent more than once. Does this sound familiar to anyone? -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing pine

2000-12-19 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, ktb wrote: > > > > > You might want to try mutt. I like it a lot better. It > > > took some configuring but it isn't as clunky as pine. > > > > I have recently been trying mutt a

Permissions - Newbie Style Question

2000-12-19 Thread Bob
I have three debian based boxes running (two Corel and one potato.) On all three machines, the default install is to allow everyone on the system to view every directory, including each other's home directories. This is true when using telnet or ftp as well. I really have no need to read my son'

Re: kernel panic

2000-12-19 Thread q
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:40:35PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > egads, man. don't reinstall an operating system! > > don't you have any spare kernels laying around? i always leave myself at > least 1 other old kernel. > > as for vim, try: > > echo "set textwidth=76" >> $HOME/.vimrc

Re: Scanner support??

2000-12-19 Thread Lee Elliott
Angel Parra wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a Tawain scanner, it's a pararel port scanner, Tawain, > 9600P. > > Which program, driver,.. I need to use it. It's this scanner > suported by SANE? > > Thank you for all. > > Angel > If it's a TWAIN scanner then you can probabl

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello, * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It's because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing'' > > distributions. It is a distributions sitting between the stable > > (potato) and the new unstable (sid). New package goes into > > unstable, and 14 days later, if no b

Re: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i *just* downloaded and compiled 2.4.0-12 for the very first time. after >my very first reboot with this kernel, i'm getting: > ># depmod -a >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o 2.4.0-test12 is known

Re: apt-get source problem with Licq

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am having problems getting the latest sources for Licq. >I can download the dsc diff, and tarball for version 1.0 manually >from ftp.debian.org but when I try to get them with 'apt-get source >licq', I get an older version even though my sources.list is set up

Re: Debates about the 'deb' in debian?

2000-12-19 Thread Scott Patterson
>On a recent linux radio show a guest pronounced the 'deb' >with an 'a' sound as in 'day'.And a bio article in the Nov/Dec >issue of 'Maximum Linux' quotes Debra (Ian's wife) as >'...remembering debates on how to pronounce the name'. >So are there still debates about saying 'deb

Re: 2.4 module madness

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Horton
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:28:15AM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > This has the air of a FAQ, but, here I ask anyway. > > I've compiled 2.4.0-test 12 on my potato system... and it won't load any > modules. This APPEARS to be the new structure of the /lib/modules > directory.. nothing's immedia

Re: 2.4 module madness

2000-12-19 Thread Hans
>From what I remember binutils also had to be upgraded. I didn't, but simply made the same directory tree as the 2.2.x kernels under 2.4.0-test10, moved the modules to the right sub-directory, ran depmod -a and loaded the modules. YMMV. --Hans At 08:28 AM 12/18/00 -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote:

Re: apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Horton
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:50:22PM +0100, Manegold wrote: > > Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere on a > system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have > Packages.gz files (how are those created anyhow?). > Have a look at 'apt-move'. P.

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Brian May
> "Knud" == Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Knud> Hi I am about to start installing some diskless Knud> workstations. Knud> I have found this documentation Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO Knud> Diskless-HOWTO NFS-Root mini-HOWTO Knud> NFS-Root-Client-mini-HOWTO Knud

Problems with commercial program.

2000-12-19 Thread Stewart James -Stootles-
I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I have having. I am new to Debian but have been using redhat/mandrake for a few years. I recently switched to Debian. (great distro by the way) At work we use iplanet(netscape) messaging server and their directory server. This means using ne

Re: apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

2000-12-19 Thread Manegold
On 19-Dec-2000 David Z. Maze wrote: > Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > M> Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere > on a > M> system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have > M> Packages.gz files > > Nope. > > M> (how are those created anyhow?)

exim configuration problem

2000-12-19 Thread Frodo Baggins
Hi debianers, I have a small problem in configurating exim. I actualy have to ISP, using the one or the other depending on the time of the day. Each one of them has a smtp host to relay mail for. Obviously, each one of these smarthosts is smart enough not to relay mail iussed by a machine having

Re: make-kpkg question.

2000-12-19 Thread Adam Shand
> you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any other > kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you would have to > make sure that the files that the patch changes are unchanged between > 2.2.18 and whatever you will use). yah, i know that :) > I don't know whethe

3c509 is being annoying

2000-12-19 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I try to get a 3c509 network card working, which has worked before on my system. After some research I found out that the card worked correctly under windoze, but I can not figure out why the card does not work under Linux. I have disabled pnp and the card insmods well. I can also give it an

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Sebastiaan
High, take a look at www.ltsp.org if you only want to run xwindows (or their output). Greetz, Sebastiaan > > Hi! > > May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I > > have a friend who want to install a diskless > > workstation but we can't seem to find any > > information. > > thanks! > >

Re: Permissions - Newbie Style Question

2000-12-19 Thread sc
On 12/19/00 5:25 PM, Bob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I have two questions (for now): What is the permissions setting for the home >directories. I suspect it should be something like rwx-- or >rwxrwx--- if >the group is unique to the specific username. Is this correct? They'll work if yo

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