Re: Potato and files > 2G

2001-02-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:41:24PM +0800, Tommy Wu wrote: > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > > > Catch is, I need to be able to back up partitons that will be over 2G, > > > even > > > after compression. > > try to use 'afio' to backup files. it could splite file as you want. Please fix you

Re: debian: where can I find ieeefp.h header file.

2001-02-05 Thread Brendan J Simon
Pollywog wrote: libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/i386/ieeefp.h OK I found this by doing the search, but I have a powerpc based machine. It doesn't seem to be available for powerpc !!! Anyone know if I can install this from a non-debian source ??? libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlib

helix gnome sound support not working

2001-02-05 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have not been able to get sound support working under Helix Gnome for several weeks now. esdplay works fine, but no Gnome programs work (xmms and Gnome Control Centre for instance). (xmms works if I kill esd first). Any ideas? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Cyrus IMAP/POP +NIS ?

2001-02-05 Thread Igor Mozetic
Brian, > Igor> Not according to my experience. I had problems with NIS RPC > Igor> calls. Specifically, NIS clients can update NIS passwords > Igor> on master, but cannot update local passwords (eg, > Igor> root). Further, updating on master causes long delays and > Igor>

is there no traffic on this list

2001-02-05 Thread Christian Eckert
is there no traffic on this list

Re: is there no traffic on this list

2001-02-05 Thread Leonard Leblanc
I got about 80 messages today (sunday).  During the week it's usually more   Leonard Leblanc - Original Message - From: Christian Eckert To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 10:44 PM Subject: is there no traffic on this list

Re: PHP4 in 'testing'?

2001-02-05 Thread Remco Rijnders
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John S. J. Anderson wrote: >There's a pretty obvious error in two of the post-install scripts. I'm >sure the maintainer is getting it worked out; in the meantime, adding >a line consisting of ';;' (no quotes) to the line above the line with >'*)' to both /var/lib/dpk

xkb question: map alt->meta

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Baker
This seems like it should be a FAQ, but I can't find any information out there. Please point the way! I've just upgraded to XFree86-4, and now my alt keys no longer map to meta. I've had this problem in the past, so I just disabled xkb. That doesn't appear to be an option any more. The xkb docu

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:52:36PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > Is there a way to convert an existing partition to reiserfs? Or does > one have to create a new reiserfs partition and copy stuff over? Is > there documentation outlining the procedure? > > Dan You have to have a spare partition

need help

2001-02-05 Thread Erwin San Martín Lassalle
i'm a new chilean user of debian, and when i get into the ftp server to download cd images(.iso) i found 4 archieves   binary-i386-1.iso binary-i386-2.iso binary-i386-3.iso binary-i386-1_NONUS.iso   my question is ¿do i have to download binary-i386-1_NONUS.iso? if i don't download this file,

RE: Problems burning a CD

2001-02-05 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I think there's an article in an howto on CDRW concerning ide devices showing up as scsi devices. did you burn at the speed suited for your cd's ? i wrote 12x on an 8x approved CD and had some rather funny problems with it until i started burning at 8x (this was on win2k) burning on Debian with 2.

Re: need help

2001-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Erwin_San_Mart=EDn_Lassalle?= wrote: >i'm a new chilean user of debian, and when i get into the ftp server to = >download cd images(.iso) i found 4 archieves > >binary-i386-1.iso >binary-i386-2.iso >binary-i386-3.iso >binary-i386-1_NONUS.iso > >my question is >=BF

searching for gtkhtml

2001-02-05 Thread Ralf Müller
Hello, I want to compile gnucash and the configure-script returnes checking for gtk_html_new in -lgtkhtml... no configure: error: Cannot find gtkhtml. See the README for more info. In README stands 'get it from helixcode'. Now How is the package called containing 'gtkhtml'? Thank you very much

Passwords, Shadow Password and Samba Passwords

2001-02-05 Thread Paul Clark
I am trying to set up Samba to share a printer on my network. I am using Potato 2.2r2. I can see the Linux computer from Win98 but cannot enter the required password. I notice from /var/log/samba that there is a problem with no /etc/samba/smbpasswd entry for user 'default'. There is no /etc/sa

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2001-02-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:54:41PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > But that is all I have been able to print. When I try using either of > the two frontend, qtcups or xpp, to print a file, I can see the Data LED > on the printer blink but nothing gets printed. The log file shows the > following:

need help

2001-02-05 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:04:11PM -0300, Erwin San Martín Lassalle wrote: > i'm a new chilean user of debian, and when i get into the ftp server to > download cd images(.iso) i found 4 archieves > > binary-i386-1.iso > binary-i386-2.iso > binary-i386-3.iso > binary-i386-1_NONUS.iso > > my quest

Installation permissions

2001-02-05 Thread N Cohen
I have successfully installed debian v 2.2 on my powerpc 8600 in the past and found that XF86Config worked fine when I used it to configure the mouse. Now when I install XF86Config comes up with permission denied when I attempt to use it. What has changed I do not know. If I use chmod 0755

Re: Passwords, Shadow Password and Samba Passwords

2001-02-05 Thread Josep Llauradó Selvas
A few month ago I had the same problem, and a lot of people here solved all my doubts... there are the abstract of the 'Samba Passwords Amazing History': Situation: 1. Samba allows the use of PAM (aka shadow passwords if you configure it) and authentification through smbpasswd.

Re: Installation permissions

2001-02-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:30:13AM +, N Cohen wrote: > I have successfully installed debian v 2.2 on my powerpc 8600 in > the past and found that XF86Config worked fine when I used it to > configure the mouse. Now when I install XF86Config comes up with > permission denied when I attem

Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Thursday, Feb. 1st Free Browser Coming for Linux and Mac Posted by amrdog @ 2:02 Post Comment (0) The Netscape-Microsoft Browser Wars are no longer at their peak, but that doesn't mean that the browser market is at a stand-still. There are many other browser alternatives out there for users of al

Libc6 upgrade & Potato

2001-02-05 Thread jerome Moliere
Hi all debian gurus, I'd like to install a Java 2 platform on my linux box running Debian 2.2 Potato, this is a production box!!! It seems that the jdk 1.2 or 1.3 requires an upgrade of glic: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-15) but 2.2.1-1 is to be installed I'd like to know if this upgrade is a dangerou

Question about php3+GD

2001-02-05 Thread wen
Hi, I am a novice of php. When I call the function of imagecreatefromgif or imagecreatefrompng, I get "Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function imagecreatefromgif()(or imagecreatefrompng()). Maybe function imagecreatefromgif was removed due to a patent problem for GIF in version 3.0.

RE: need help

2001-02-05 Thread Kim De Smaele
Hi Erwin,   No, you won't have any problems. Just download the   binary-i386-1.iso binary-i386-2.iso binary-i386-3.iso   and install them. The difference has somthing to do with a US law about the export of US and NON US software. Correct me if I'm wrong guy's.   cheers, Kim   -Oo

Tape error control

2001-02-05 Thread beysa romerotero
I am developing an application (C++ on Linux) that produces a big amount of data (over 200 Mbytes per hour). The PC will be installed in a boat, so there will be some violent movements during the writing .Data's reliability is very very important and I want to store it directly on a Tape Drive. >

Re: searching for gtkhtml

2001-02-05 Thread Jonathan David Wheelhouse
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:44:41AM +0100, Ralf M?ller wrote: > I want to compile gnucash and the configure-script returnes > checking for gtk_html_new in -lgtkhtml... no > configure: error: Cannot find gtkhtml. See the README for more info. I had missing libraries too when compiling gnucash. Se

Tape error control

2001-02-05 Thread beysa romerotero
I am developing an application (C++ on Linux) that produces a big amount of data (over 200 Mbytes per hour). The PC will be installed in a boat, so there will be some violent movements during the writing .Data's reliability is very very important and I want to store it directly on a Tape Drive.

NIC hw. address mishap

2001-02-05 Thread David Purton
Hi, I'm trying to get a Realtek pci card to work. Apparently this card uses the ne2k-pci driver. but when I try to modprobe this module I get an error along these lines: Hw. address read/write mishap 3 and it doesn't work... I haven't as yet been able to find much info anywhere about

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/02/2001 (12:17) : > Thursday, Feb. 1st > > Free Browser Coming for Linux and Mac Posted by amrdog @ 2:02 Post Comment > (0) > The Netscape-Microsoft Browser Wars are no longer at their peak, but that > doesn't mean that the browser market is at a st

Re: Poor Performance with X 4.00

2001-02-05 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 February 2001 07:27, Till Sawala wrote: > I'm using X 4.00 and Kde2.0 as the Windowmanager with my Geforce256 > grafics card. I used the nv-driver from S.u.S.E 7.0 for X 4.0 at 1280*960 > > Everything works fine until I try Gl-Applicati

Re: Potato and files > 2G

2001-02-05 Thread Stan Brown
On Mon Feb 5 00:41:24 2001 Tommy Wu wrote... > >"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > >> >Catch is, I need to be able to back up partitons that will be over 2G, >> > even >> >after compression. > > try to use 'afio' to backup files. it could splite file as you want. > Sorry, this is not

Re: NIC hw. address mishap

2001-02-05 Thread wen
Please try rtl8139 for ReaTek 8129/8139. dcpurton> Hi, I'm trying to get a Realtek pci card to work. dcpurton> dcpurton> Apparently this card uses the ne2k-pci driver. dcpurton> dcpurton> but when I try to modprobe this module I get an error along these lines: dcpurton> dcpurton> Hw. add

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Free Browser Coming for Linux and Mac Posted by amrdog @ 2:02 Post Comment >(0) >The Netscape-Microsoft Browser Wars are no longer at their peak, but that >doesn't mean that the browser market is at a stand-still. There are many >other browser alternativ

maple 6.01 on debian 2.2

2001-02-05 Thread A.E. Roy
I`ve noticed that maple 6.01 conatins an install script for suse and redhat, does anyone know how it is like installing maple 6.01 on debian 2.2? A. Roy

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread John Travis
On Monday 05 February 2001 12:41, Preben Randhol wrote: > Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/02/2001 (12:17) : > > Thursday, Feb. 1st > > > > Free Browser Coming for Linux and Mac Posted by amrdog @ 2:02 Post > > Comment (0) > > The Netscape-Microsoft Browser Wars are no longer at thei

Re: NIC hw. address mishap

2001-02-05 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please try rtl8139 for ReaTek 8129/8139. I'll try (box is at work not home), but it's a realtek 8029 card, which I think uses a the ne2000 chipset. > > > Hi, I'm trying to get a Realtek pci card to work. > > > > Apparently this card uses the ne2k-p

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > (Where was the link?) > > IIRC, Opera is now free-as-in-beer, but it's still not free in the DFSG > sense, which is a great shame; it would be great if it could go into > Debian. > > Perhaps it could be distributed by Debian in non-free, though. I

RE: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Joris Lambrecht
dunno, check it out at www.opera.com (i guess not) -Original Message- From: Kerstin Hoef-Emden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:12 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux Hi, On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > (W

[2]Question about php3+GD

2001-02-05 Thread wen
Hi, I posted this question and hope to add new information. I have just found the configure command for php3 have the option '--without-gd' by phpinfo. Does this mean that I have to recompile php3 if I want to invoke GD? * Hi, I am a novice of php. When I call the function

Color monitor

2001-02-05 Thread Vittorio De Martino
well, I finished the first part of Debian 2.2r2 potato installation with success and, before going ahead with the installation of the basic system, I'd like to fix the appearance of the screen. Having an SVGA color monitor I want it to appears in colors as it actually is when you start the ins

I am lost as a newbie

2001-02-05 Thread Jean-Sylvestre Gakwaya
Hello, I have some problem of understanding about rescue.img and boot.img If a distribution is already installed, and I use rescue.img , is the filesystem stored in RAMDISK ? can it be copied over existing filesystem? Moreover , I use fdisk to partition the HD. okay Afterwards, I use mkfs to bu

Re: SiS 5597/5598 Video Card

2001-02-05 Thread Keith & Cecile Schooley
You got me on the right track. Xserver-svga was the right driver, but since anXious (in the setup program) didn't recognize my card, it didn't load Xserver-svga. I used apt-get to get it, and now it's fine. Thanks. One more problem, though: since the setup program didn't have a video driver to

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:41:45PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Here it is free in the sense that you will have a banner with ads in the > browser I believe. Can you block those with junkbuster? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to i

RE: Libc6 upgrade & Potato

2001-02-05 Thread Fernando Carvajal
Recently I did the same upgrade, unnoticely because i don´t manage dselect and dpkg properly yet. After that, every thing went wrong and at the end i had to reinstall the system completely. My recover efforts where in vain.(thought perhaps it was due to my lack of skill :-() Regards -Mensaje

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread John Travis
On Monday 05 February 2001 13:12, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > (Where was the link?) > > > > IIRC, Opera is now free-as-in-beer, but it's still not free in the > > DFSG sense, which is a great shame; it would be great if it could > > go into Debian

Re: NIC hw. address mishap

2001-02-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Please try rtl8139 for ReaTek 8129/8139. > > I'll try (box is at work not home), but it's a realtek > 8029 card, which I think uses a the ne2000 chipset. You are correct. If it uses a Realtek 8029 chipset, it uses the ne2k-pci driver. I have one myself... Regards Hall

Re: Managing many Debian machines

2001-02-05 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Daniel Whelan, > Greetings - I am currently looking for a solution to managing and maintaining > a large number of Debian machines. this is my situation & solution (not perfect but it works :-) CLIENTs: 15 PC (AMD/INTEL) Debian 2.2 + NIS [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home$ df -h FilesystemType

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread William Leese
On Monday 05 February 2001 13:46, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:41:45PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Here it is free in the sense that you will have a banner with ads in the > > browser I believe. > > Can you block those with junkbuster? > ..very unlikely, though i

Re: helix gnome sound support not working

2001-02-05 Thread Moritz Schulte
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have not been able to get sound support working under Helix Gnome > for several weeks now. > > esdplay works fine, but no Gnome programs work (xmms and Gnome Control > Centre for instance). Do you have xmms configured to use the esd output plugin? (I've

INSTALLATION TROUBLE

2001-02-05 Thread Gerardo
Hi, my friends. I´m a new user to Debian. I have been traing to install several times your "vanilla" flavor of debian in to my cumputer.   I  partitioned my harddisk with MS-DOS "fdisk" command, and no I got one primary partition of about 1.5GB and another partition of about 1.5GB too, it se

Re: debian: where can I find ieeefp.h header file.

2001-02-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:15:45PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/i386/ieeefp.h > >>> > >> OK I found this by doing the search, but I have a powerpc based > >> machine. It doesn't seem to be available for powerpc !!! > >> Anyo

KDE2

2001-02-05 Thread Renai
Hi, just a couple of questions - could someone tell me the apt-get command for installing kde2 on my woody machine? I've just installed woody but can't find the package name that indicates kde2. I had thought that it was part of the unstable tree somewhere. and secondly, Red Hat has a boot util

Backspace key not working in xterm

2001-02-05 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear debian users, When I run konsole or xterm, from the KDE kwm window manger I find that the backspace key does not work. This is in spite of the fact that it works fine on my Mandrake Linux system. Would anyone be able to say in which configuration file the behaviour of the backspace k

a quick one...

2001-02-05 Thread Leonard Leblanc
I was just thinking... What would be the best owner/group for perl scripts that are running on a web server? Does it really matter? Leonard Leblanc

Re: Managing many Debian machines

2001-02-05 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Daniel Whelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings - I am currently looking for a solution to managing and > maintaining a large number of Debian machines. While I absolutely > love apt-get, manually apt-getting a hundred machines to upgrade one > piece of software is suboptimal. Is there any w

Unidentified subject!

2001-02-05 Thread Sébastien Gingras
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Configuring aptget to use HTTP proxy

2001-02-05 Thread Stan Brown
I just installed Debian (Potato) on a machine at home. Now I have the machine on the network at work. When I initialy setup the machine, I was prompted to set up an HTTP proxy for apt-get. I did not need to do this at home. Now at work, I need to do this. How can I change this configuration? A s

Re: Configuring aptget to use HTTP proxy

2001-02-05 Thread James Sinnamon
Stan, Stan Brown wrote: > I just installed Debian (Potato) on a machine at home. Now I have the > machine on the network at work. > > When I initialy setup the machine, I was prompted to set up an HTTP proxy > for apt-get. I did not need to do this at home. > > Now at work, I need to do this. Ho

need workaround for perl-5.6 bug to install unstable.

2001-02-05 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Debian users, I am stumped trying to install 'unstable/sid'.. When I run, for example, 'apt-get install debconf', I get error messages similar to the folllowing: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, task-x-window-system-core is already the newest version 0 packages

Anoying flash in vi

2001-02-05 Thread Stan Brown
How can I get rid of the anoying flash (visual bell) in vi, on a system wide bassis? (potato) -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and

fetchmail: segfaulting on spam message

2001-02-05 Thread kmself
This is more in the line of a heads-up than a bug report. My fetmail process was getting hung up on an apparently malformed spam message over the past few hours. Unfortunately, I don't have the message itself as I had to delete it from my pop3 server in order to unblock the queue. Anyone findin

[no subject]

2001-02-05 Thread Paindavoine, Matthieu \(MPAINDAV\)
Hello, seem to have a lot of problem for a single Monday morning... I booted my system this morning, and it gave a 'kernel panic: attempted to kill init' msg. I used a rescue floppy to 'e2fsck' all the partitions, and now it's clean. But, it still gives me the same 'attempted to kill init' msg.

Re: need workaround for perl-5.6 bug to install unstable.

2001-02-05 Thread William Leese
On Monday 05 February 2001 16:15, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I am stumped trying to install 'unstable/sid'.. When I run, for > example, 'apt-get install debconf', I get error > messages similar to the folllowing: > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > Sor

attempted to kill init.

2001-02-05 Thread Paindavoine, Matthieu \(MPAINDAV\)
(sorry for 1st post without subject!) Hello, seem to have a lot of problem for a single Monday morning... I booted my system this morning, and it gave a 'kernel panic: attempted to kill init' msg. I used a rescue floppy to 'e2fsck' all the partitions, and now it's clean. But, it still gives me

harware accelerated opengl

2001-02-05 Thread Michael Sauer
Ho I'm running woody with xfree 4.0.2 and can't figure out, how to enable hardware accelerated OpenGL ... I've installed the following packages: xlibmesa3 4.0.2-1 xlibosmesa34.0.2-1 glide2-base2.60-6 libglide2-v3 2.60-6 And this from my XF86Config-4:

Re: vim window resizing

2001-02-05 Thread David A. Rogers
MaD dUCK, You probably have a lines= and possibly a columns= setting in your .vimrc. Did you use someone else's rc file? If not, check your system vim file. dar On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey, > > my vim, when started from my regular 80x24 xterm, will blatantly > proceed to resize

Re: KDE2

2001-02-05 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 February 2001 07:44, Renai wrote: > could someone tell me the apt-get command for installing kde2 on my > woody machine? I've just installed woody but can't find the package name > that indicates kde2. apt-get install task-kde > and seco

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Free Browser Coming for Linux and Mac Posted by amrdog @ 2:02 Post Comment > >(0) > >The Netscape-Microsoft Browser Wars are no longer at their peak, but that > >doesn't mean that the browser market is at a stand-s

Re: a quick one...

2001-02-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:07:29AM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > What would be the best owner/group for perl scripts that are running on a > web server? Someone trusted. > Does it really matter? Of course - anyone who can write to the scripts (which always ultimately includes the owner, since

Anoying error message (potato)

2001-02-05 Thread Stan Brown
I'm just coming back to Debian after a failry long hietus. Just set up a machine with Potato, and all is going pretty well, but I keep getting the following anoying error message on the console: end_reques: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 What have I got misconfigured? -- Stan Brown

RealPlayer lockup

2001-02-05 Thread Bill Barnes
Hello List: A search of the archives provided no discussion of RealPlayer. Downloaded and installed RealPlayer8 using the .deb package. Everything looks proper until the Player reaches the end of its intro file, then the system locks up (including mouse) and the last note of the intro keeps repea

Re: Smallest ext2 file system?

2001-02-05 Thread Vince Mulhollon
The question belongs in debian-user. Anyway, the answer is between 57856 and 58368 bytes is the minimum size on my "potato" system. I could probably determine a more exact answer, but I don't care. Just make it at least 114 blocks and you should be OK. I haven't verified if the 114 block filesy

another quick question

2001-02-05 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Does anyone know how to disable the computer speaker? (just the little internal one) Leonard Leblanc

Re: another quick question

2001-02-05 Thread I.M.J. Kamps
Monday, February 05, 2001, 7:07:05 PM, you wrote: LL> Does anyone know how to disable the computer speaker? (just the little LL> internal one) LL> Leonard Leblanc Simple answer, remove the cable to the speaker from you're computers motherboard. But I don't know if it can be done with software

Re: another quick question

2001-02-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:07:05AM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Does anyone know how to disable the computer speaker? (just the little > internal one) Obvious solutions include wielding a pair of diagonal cutters, or pulling the plug from the system board, but I guess you're looking for a softw

Re: another quick question

2001-02-05 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Simple answer, remove the cable to the speaker from you're computers > motherboard. That's one way of doing it, but there may be "other issues" that would cause problems (Debian on a comput

LinuxWorld Expo in NY last week - Was Debian there?

2001-02-05 Thread DTi4565459
I enjoyed show very much. Commercial distros were there with BIG exhibits, but I couldn't find my favorite: debian. Walked around small booths around periphery, but maybe I missed it. Wasn't there a call for volunteers on this newsgroup last week?

Re: KDE2

2001-02-05 Thread Tibor D.
Renai wrote: Hi, just a couple of questions - could someone tell me the apt-get command for installing kde2 on my woody machine? I've just installed woody but can't find the package name that indicates kde2. I had thought that it was part of the unstable tree somewhere. Yes, kde2 is part of

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-05 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Bartosz Bobrek wrote: > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster > > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from > > tarball. I followed the instructions in NVIDIA_Linux.html, including > > renaming /usr/X

PS/2 & Debian 2.2 install problems

2001-02-05 Thread robhr
Has anyone gotten Debian 2.2 to install on a PS/2? I was able to get 2.0 to install and work fine, but a recent HD crash has made me rebuild the system. I can't seem to find the 2.0 install disks anywhere, so I thought I'd try 2.2 (which really is the version I want on there if possible). I have

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-05 Thread Romain Lerallut
You need to remove the libGL* files installed by mesa and to re-install the nvidia drivers that provide accelerated libGL* For more (any and all) info check the http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Nvidia-OpenGL-Configuration/index.html it says basically: install XFree 4 install Mesa (apt-get) rem

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Vinod" == Vinod Kurup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vinod> Like others have mentioned, procmail is the way to go. Here's Vinod> a nice intro to that tool. >> http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/> And when you are ready to migrate from procmail to something way more powerf

emacs: crypt++ && gpg

2001-02-05 Thread Thomas Guettler
I encrypted some files with gpg. If I want to edit them with emacs I get: "Searching for program: no such file or directory, crypt" after I typed in the password. I can decrypt them with "gpg --decrypt foo.gpg" without problems. I am using Version 2.87-2 of crypt++el (woody) in a potato system.

Re: another quick question

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > >> Simple answer, remove the cable to the speaker from you're >> computers motherboard. > > That's one way of doing it, but there may be "other issues" that > would cause problems (Debian on a

Re: Anoying flash in vi

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > How can I get rid of the anoying flash (visual bell) in vi, on a > system wide bassis? (potato) If you are using vim, you can put set vb t_vb= in /etc/vimrc to get rid of any bells and flashes. Cheers, Chris -- Got jag? http://www.tribsoft.com

nic and dhcpcd trouble

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Parker
I'm running 2.2.12 with a kingston pci card using the tulip module.  It states that the eth0 is in promiscuous mode?  What does that mean?  Also i just installed dhcpcd from a tarbel but the files don't seem to be where all the how-to's say they should?  The card is connected to a surfboard4

Re: Potato and files > 2G

2001-02-05 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:54:32AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > On Mon Feb 5 00:41:24 2001 Tommy Wu wrote... > > > >"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > > >> > Catch is, I need to be able to back up partitons that will be over 2G, > >> > even > >> > after compression. > > > > try to use 'afio' to back

how to install iptables-1.2?

2001-02-05 Thread seg
Hi,    I am having trouble installing iptables. I fisrt compiled the 2.4.1 and "installed".  Once I booted  with 2.4.1, I unzipped the iptables-1.2.tar.bz2 file and followed the instructions in the INSTALL file. In the first step (make), the "installation" gets stuck in loop and I have to ct

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 04 Feb 2001 20:01:20 -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from > tarball. I followed the instructions in NVIDIA_Linux.html, including > renaming /usr/X11R6/lib/

Problems compiling SOCKS5 on potato

2001-02-05 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian potato machine thta lives on a netwrok at work behing a SOCKS firewall. I tried to compile SOCKS 5 version 1 on it, and the compile failed while building the telnet client with a linker error about not finding tgetent. If memory serves me corectly the is a curses function. I selec

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: >> I've been using Konqueror at work for a week or so now after Netscape >> somehow started crashing my machine hard. I must say that it's a very >> nice browser, and much faster than Mozilla. You don't need to be runn

Re: maple 6.01 on debian 2.2

2001-02-05 Thread Jameson Burt
I installed Maple version V successfully 2 years ago. I have had Maple version VI for 2 months. My initial installation attempt failed, so I paid for Maple VI but have not gotten it working. Maple has a licensing managerie which I successfully maneuvered. After a lapse of two months, I'll be a lit

mc with mouse under console?

2001-02-05 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, according to the documentation of mc it should be possible to use the mouse in mc if gpm is running. Under Mandrake I was indeed able to do this also on the console, but now (debian potato) I can only do it in terminal windows under X. (gpm seems to be OK.) Any idea how I could the mouse use

permission-denied

2001-02-05 Thread T. Green
HELP -- NOVICE I am tring to install software from my cdrom and i keep getting the following responce. bash: /Setup.sh: permission denied My question is why, i am in root. help

Creating a new group

2001-02-05 Thread Tom Schuetz
How do I create a new group?

Re: Creating a new group

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Tom Schuetz (on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:29:26AM -0800): > How do I create a new group? man newgrp /usr/bin/newgrp martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "i always had a repulsive need to be something more than human."

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > >> I've been using Konqueror at work for a week or so now after Netscape > >> somehow started crashing my machine hard. I must say that it's a very > >> nice browser, and much

Re: permission-denied

2001-02-05 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
check permissions on the script, the script is not set to be executable...as root do: chmod 777 /Setup.sh then try again... robt "T. Green" wrote: > > HELP -- NOVICE > I am tring to install software from my cdrom and i keep getting the > following responce. > bash: /Setup.sh: permission d

Re: vim window resizing

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach David A. Rogers (on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:35:42AM -0600): > > my vim, when started from my regular 80x24 xterm, will blatantly > > proceed to resize the xterm to 80x50. i don't remember enabling such > > an option, and it's absolutely not what i want. how can i disable > > this? > You pro

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread USM Bish
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:42:59 + Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've been using Konqueror at work for a week or so now after Netscape > > somehow started crashing my machine hard. I must say

Re: Anoying flash in vi

2001-02-05 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
"set noflash" in $HOME/.exrc or /etc/vi.exrc if you're using nvi (the default vi on Debian). brian Stan Brown wrote: > How can I get rid of the anoying flash (visual bell) in vi, on a system > wide bassis? (potato)

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