Is there a way to unify gnome/kde menus.

2001-02-25 Thread Timothy Ball
I have both kde and gnome on my machine and I find that they work great... except for the menus. Moving apps like gimp and kword around on the different menus is kinda *annoying* then there's the debian menu. Argh. Has anyone tried to unify these ever? Could there be made a .deb that does this by s

Re: cannot apt-get libc6-dev

2001-02-25 Thread Jason N. Price
If the RAM were flaking out, why would it just fail on one package and the same package every time? I would think it would fail more frequently and randomly. I'm not saying that can't be it, just not the behavior I would expect in that situation. I'll try swapping out the RAM tomorrow just to

mouse works under gpm, but X screws it up

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i have an microsoft intellimouse 1.1a. it has 3 buttons, plus a wheel. it works great under gpm. device=/dev/psaux type=imps2 append="-R imps2" <-- this line was me fooling around the problem is, when i start X, the mouse is definitely not happy. random mo

Framebuffer server uses lots of CPU?

2001-02-25 Thread Rob Rati
I have X installed on a PII-233 but have had to use the XF86_FBDev xserver because the others won't work with the video card. I noticed the machine was a bit sluggish, but I figured that was the processor. Recently I was running top and noticed that the XF86_FBDev was taking up about 42% of the C

Re: mouse works under gpm, but X screws it up

2001-02-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # append="-R imps2" <-- this line was me fooling around Get rid of that, and instead add a this line: repeat_type=raw #Option "Protocol""imps/2" I don't know if it's case-sensitive, but IMPS/2 works for me... It might

Re: Framebuffer server uses lots of CPU?

2001-02-25 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:42:42AM -0600, Rob Rati wrote: > I have X installed on a PII-233 but have had to use the XF86_FBDev > xserver because the others won't work with the video card. I noticed > the machine was a bit sluggish, but I figured that was the processor. > Recently I was running to

make-kpkg

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, I'd love to RTFM on this - but I can't find the FM (the man page doesn't enlighten me on this issue). Is there a way to use make-kpkg to simply build a stand-alone module (in this case, openafs from the openafs-modules-source package) without invoking a full kernel build? The first thing t

help with voodoo 3

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'm having the hardest time getting my voodoo 3 to work correctly. i'm running woody with X 4.0. i can run gears, and resize the window without a noticeable change in framerate, so SOMETHING has to be going right. however, whenever i try to play quake3 or unreal tournament, i get a fr

Problem with --revision and make-kpkg

2001-02-25 Thread Lars Jensen
I can't make the --revision flag work with make-kpkg: First I issue: make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 kernel_image make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 modules_image (to make the pcmcia modules) When I next issue: dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.18pre21_Custom.1_i386.deb I get the error below: pcmcia-module

Problems mounting a NFS share

2001-02-25 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all I have problems mounting a NFS share. I would like to copy my whole system to another PC so i entred in my source PC's export file / (ro,no_root_squash) # IS THIS CORRECT? i want that EVERY file then is copied like it was on the old system (cp -a) I have done the above configurat

Re: X problems after upgrade

2001-02-25 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Nathan wrote: ->I recently upgraded to 4.0.2 from 3.3.6 using dselect so all dependencies ->should be OK and now X won't start at all. I ran xf86config and created the ->new XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 and every time I try to run X, it gives me ->this error msg: -> ->X: can

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX Probs W. 2.4.2

2001-02-25 Thread Willi Dyck
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:16:25PM -0800, David Frey wrote: > I just compiled a 2.4.2 kernel. The compile went fine. Ran lilo, > rebooted...everything looking good. > > The big problem is that my NIC (a D-Link DFE-530TX) doesn't work. I would > like to elaborate on "doesn't work", but I'm afr

Re: make-kpkg

2001-02-25 Thread Martin Würtele
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 03:58:25AM -0500, Peter Schuller wrote: > Hello, > > I'd love to RTFM on this - but I can't find the FM (the man page doesn't > enlighten me on this issue). > > Is there a way to use make-kpkg to simply build a stand-alone module (in > this case, openafs from the openafs-m

Re: ethernet card installation

2001-02-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"Chad C. Walstrom" wrote: > > Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > /etc/modules should not be edited by hand. > > Don't listen to Viktor about /etc/modules. It is meant to be edited > by hand or by modconf(1). Personally, I don't see why I should have > to enter an ncurses/dialog utility when I can open

Re: Problem with --revision and make-kpkg

2001-02-25 Thread ktb
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:26:08AM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: > I can't make the --revision flag work with make-kpkg: > > First I issue: > make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 kernel_image > make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 modules_image (to make the pcmcia modules) Try --revision=Custom.1 ^

courier-imap package broken?

2001-02-25 Thread b3
Not *quite* sure if this is a buglet or not...figured I'd run it by you guys first before I file a big report on it. Tracking unstable/woody (mostly unstable ;) ) I get the following when attempting to install courier-imap: --- # apt-get install courier-imap Reading Package Lists.

Re: X problems after upgrade

2001-02-25 Thread mike polniak
Nathan wrote: > I recently upgraded to 4.0.2 from 3.3.6 using dselect so all dependencies > should be OK and now X won't start at all. I ran xf86config and created the > new XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 and every time I try to run X, it gives me > this error msg: > > X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No

[OT] What is he talking about ? - debian and kernel headers

2001-02-25 Thread ktb
I just read an article at - http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2001-02/lw-02-penguin_4.html about apt-get. The article was all right for the most part but at the end of the article is a link - Discuss this article in the LinuxWorld.com forums Within the forum is a posting entitled - Debian

Samba slowdown on win98

2001-02-25 Thread admiral thrawn
Some of the computers in the office are running win98.   when I acessing a debian/samba share it takes for ever to shwo the share then looks up after triing to access the share. ( Onnly happens with the win98 units. )     I looked at the samba FAQ they said they fixed the problem after ver 1

Re: *.gz (thanks)

2001-02-25 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I would like to thanks to many people who taugh me how to read *.gz files using zless (and bless for bzip2). Following other suggestions I tried mc too, cool!. Thanks again! Marcelo

libapt-pkg2.7

2001-02-25 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello, I was wondering if anyone might know when libapt-pkg2.7 might come out? I am using 'unstable', and really miss the 'console-apt'(a.k.a. capt). Thanks, Jimmy Richards

Re: wine and woody

2001-02-25 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 02:40:15 +, debian-user@lists.debian.org said: > > On 25 Feb 2001 02:30:43 UTC, Pollywog said: > > > > > Try installing xlibosmesa3 > > That might help; it worked for me. > > xlibosmesa3 from "unstable" Now the problem seems to be that when I try to install

Re: Need /dev/usb

2001-02-25 Thread Gregory T. Norris
You'll need to create the directory /dev/usb manually, then us mknod to create the device file. The command would be something like: mknod /dev/usb/ c You'll need to know the device name (obviously), and the appropriate major and minor numbers. Most likely you can find this information u

help: libc6 install (was: Re: task-c-dev install)

2001-02-25 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:30:25PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > task-c-dev: Depends: libc-dev > > E: Sorry, broken packages > > > > > >What is libc-dev? It is not listed in the > >htt

help- errno's 111 and 3

2001-02-25 Thread brtp
just installed potato, 256ram, pent III, ati xpert2000pro 32 mb card, nokia 447za+ monitor, My nic card works and all things considered install went smooth untill, xf86config and XF86Setup, startx renders " X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_svga failed, no such file or directory" so

disque dur non reconnu

2001-02-25 Thread Yvan GERARD
Mots Clefs: Seagate, Barracuda, Yellow Dog, PowerMac G3 Resume: Disque dur sans probleme sous Mac OS mais non reconnu par BootX ou par l'installateur de Yellow Dog. Materiel: PowerMacG3, disque dur en question: modele Barracuda ST320430A, 20 Go, UDMA 66-7200t, seul sur Bus ATA interne 1.0 (caval

disque dur non reconnu

2001-02-25 Thread Yvan GERARD
Subject: disque dur non reconnu Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:03:31 +0100 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:10:37 +0100 From: Yvan GERARD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Xucaen
Hi all! In the few months that I have been reading the debian user list, I have seen many many posts about the conflicts GPM seems to have with X. I have never used GPM, but I thought it was only something to be used in a text-only environment. Is there really any significant advantage to using it

Re: disque dur non reconnu

2001-02-25 Thread Willi Dyck
Je ne sais pas ?!? ;-) did I miss something? Willi On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 06:15:56PM +0100, Yvan GERARD wrote: > Subject: > disque dur non reconnu > Resent-Date: > Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:03:31 +0100 > Resent-From: > debian-user@lists.debian.org >

Re: Read-only Servers We Can Snoop Around on for Tips?

2001-02-25 Thread Gary Jones
On 23 Feb 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > i find myself > usually using configurations that are very specific to my sites. You're right, I think. There are so many possible permutations (just thing, for example, about the different ways to connect to the 'net - modem ppp, isdn, cable, *DSL (did I miss

fvwm pager display

2001-02-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- This is perhaps a silly question, but here goes. I use fvwm(2) under potato, and many of the windows I have open at any time are ssh sessions to somewhere else. I typically open these with entries in my fvwm menu that run something like this: + "statapps" Exec rxvt -name 'StatApps' -t

dependency problem with dpk

2001-02-25 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hey I don't know how to fix this: I installed the new libc6 version (2.2.1-1) on my potato box. So far everything went fine, but when I tried to add other packages using dpkg I get this: Reading Packae Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree ... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to c

finding out email address

2001-02-25 Thread AR
I remember some posted a while ago some command to request all email address (with partial match), but I can't find it in my archives. Say, for example, I need to determine x's exact email, and I only know that the pattern is [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do I type? Thanks, AR

Re: fvwm pager display

2001-02-25 Thread mike polniak
Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings- > > This is perhaps a silly question, but here goes. I use fvwm(2) under > potato, and many of the windows I have open at any time are ssh sessions > to somewhere else. I typically open these with entries in my fvwm menu > that run something like this: > > + "st

SOCKS_NS proxy error

2001-02-25 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. I'm having trouble configuring Netscape 4.7 to see my SOCKS server. I have set the SOCKS_NS variable to 192.168.1.1 and likewise in preferences. However, Netscape still can't see it. I'm guessing that as a user I don't have permission by default to access port 1080, that I need to turn that on

LILO and big HD's

2001-02-25 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I have win and lin insalled on my computer unfortunally windows must be on the first partition wich is 20 GB's big. the next 20 GB's are for debian. Is there any chance to get LILO working under this circumstances (perhaps a new version or something like that)? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele

A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread Stan Brown
I'm tryng to build a machien this weekend to see if I can use testing. I need largefile support, and that appaears to be the best way to get, but I also need a machine thats reliable enough for production work. In any case, I installed "stable" on this machine and all went well. It has an Intel E

Re: LILO and big HD's

2001-02-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hi # # I have win and lin insalled on my computer # unfortunally windows must be on the first partition wich is 20 GB's big. the # next 20 GB's are for debian. Is there any chance to get LILO working under # this circumstances (perhaps a new vers

First of all

2001-02-25 Thread Herbert de Castro Georg
Hi you all, I'm a quite new user of Debian linux and I need very much help here... but first of all: I'm using netscape 4.73 and I tryied to configure de newsgroup reader to contact and subscribe to . But Netscape can't contact the server although the server is online. Does someone read these ne

Netscape setup

2001-02-25 Thread Jason N. Price
How exactly do I get netscape working? I did an apt-get of netscape, but don't really know what to do after that. I tried running netscape from an xterm, but it complained that the Display was incorrect. I tried exporting the Display variable, but that didn't seem to do it. The Netscape menu

Re: LILO and big HD's

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
don't have this problem, just for my own knowledge... doesn't this require a quasi-new bios? since lilo can only bootstrap using whatever services the bios allows. pete On Sun 25 Feb 01, 1:02 PM, David B . Harris said: > To quote Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Hi > # > # I have

Re: fvwm pager display

2001-02-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks, but that doesn't address what I'm after. I can set the title bar fine; it's the mnemonic in the fvwm pager that doesn't get it. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Car

Re: [OT] What is he talking about ? - debian and kernel headers

2001-02-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:38:50AM -0600, ktb wrote: > Here is a - > The fundamental problem with Debian is the way they ship their kernel > headers. The /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm never point > to the running kernel's source headers but to the headers > Debian compiled the entire

Re: LILO and big HD's

2001-02-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 17:22, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I have win and lin insalled on my computer > unfortunally windows must be on the first partition wich is 20 GB's big. the > next 20 GB's are for debian. Is there any chance to get LILO working under > this circumstances (perhaps a new ver

Re: [OT] What is he talking about ? - debian and kernel headers

2001-02-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just read an article at - >http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2001-02/lw-02-penguin_4.html >about apt-get. The article was all right for the most part but at the end >of the article is a link - >Discuss this article in the LinuxWo

Re: cannot apt-get libc6-dev

2001-02-25 Thread Jason N. Price
Well, I swapped out the RAM for some other RAM that I know is good. Ended up with the same problem, but different packages. Now, it's some gmc and gnome packages. This is driving me nuts. One of the reasons I went with Debian was for it's package system, and it's failing me... :( Any ot

help,please...

2001-02-25 Thread Dale Kosan
Trying to install Debian over network,what is the correct url for testing? I have went to the website and verified the following url : http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/ This does not work,not does changing the url from current to testing.Can someone please help me

Puhh, another prob with copying...

2001-02-25 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all Perhapps you saw that i have flooded the list with my quests. I got it to get the network work and have nfs working... Then i copied all with the "cp -a" command. No i have the prob that i can't login to my new machiene because threr are still files wich it hasn't copyied eg. the shadow

Fw: Netscape setup

2001-02-25 Thread hammack
- Original Message - From: "hammack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason N. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 11:01 AM Subject: Re: Netscape setup > Jason, I'll be watching this because I am at about the same situation. > Knowing that, take what I say cautiously. I g

Re: LILO and big HD's

2001-02-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # don't have this problem, just for my own knowledge... # # doesn't this require a quasi-new bios? since lilo can only bootstrap using # whatever services the bios allows. True enough, it does require a BIOS with EDD support. The LILO sources have

How do I get larg file support?

2001-02-25 Thread Stan Brown
Let;s just cut to the chase on this. I need to be able to create, and work with larg files (> 2G) under Debian Linux. Secondly I need the moststable system for doing this, as it will be a production machine. I have no particular bias as to what filesystem type I use for this. How do I go about s

Re: LILO and big HD's

2001-02-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 17:22, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: # # > I have win and lin insalled on my computer # > unfortunally windows must be on the first partition wich is 20 GB's big. the # > next 20 GB's are for debian. Is there any chance to get LILO w

Re: LILO and big HD's

2001-02-25 Thread mike polniak
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > don't have this problem, just for my own knowledge... > > doesn't this require a quasi-new bios? since lilo can only bootstrap using > whatever services the bios allows. According to /usr/share/doc/lilo, support for booting from cylinders > 1024 started

Re: help,please...

2001-02-25 Thread Olivier Billet
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:00:28PM -0500, Dale Kosan wrote: > Trying to install Debian over network,what is the correct url for testing? I > have went to the website and verified the following url : > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/ > > This does not work,not does

Re: [OT] What is he talking about ? - debian and kernel headers

2001-02-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone knowledgable about such things explain this to me? > Makes me curious. Maybe I should be compiling my kernels without > kpkg? Debian was the first to get this right, and a lot of people outside of Debian complained about it, but now even Lin

Looking for Potato drivers for 3Com - 3CCEFE574BT

2001-02-25 Thread hanasaki
Does anyone know where / if these might be found. Thank you

Re: How do I get larg file support?

2001-02-25 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Let;s just cut to the chase on this. > > I need to be able to create, and work with larg files (> 2G) under > Debian Linux. Secondly I need the moststable system for doing this, > as it will be a production machine. You need many thin

Installing with OLD CD-ROM problems

2001-02-25 Thread hanasaki
I have downloaded and burned the Potato ISO's onto cd's but it will not boot in the old CD-ROM drive of my laptop. Someone told me older drives cannot read newer format ISO burns. Is there a way to address this? Thank you

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Xucean, I do a lot of my stuff in console mode (without x running). I like having mouse to cut/paste stuff here just like I do when I am using an editor under x. I set up my systems x server to use gpmdata and have never had mouse problems in either x or console. just my 2 Cents worth. O

Re: LILO and big HD's

2001-02-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 14:08, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Reaches everywhere on my 30G disk partitioned like so: > # > # That is, all 4 partitions are bootable via lilo. > > Hmm... Try putting a kernel on the last partition, and then get LILO to > boot

Slow printing after Plip

2001-02-25 Thread Felix E. Klee
Hi, printing a document after closing a Plip connection with "ifdown -s plip plip0" is very slow; it takes about 15 minutes per page and I have to reboot Linux in order to get back to normal speed. What should I do in order to correct this problem? TIA, Felix

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread mike polniak
> > In any case, I installed "stable" on this machine and all went well. It has an > Intel Etherxpress Pro 100 NIC in it, which requires the eepro module to be > loaded. > > I do this during install, and it is installed "permanently" such that when I > reboot > the machine it's reloaded. > > B

Re: Netscape setup

2001-02-25 Thread Anthony Fox
"Jason N. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How exactly do I get netscape working? I did an apt-get of > netscape, but don't really know what to do after that. I tried > running netscape from an xterm, but it complained that the Display > was incorrect. I tried exporting the Display variable

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:10:48AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all! > In the few months that I have been reading the > debian user list, I have seen many many posts > about the conflicts GPM seems to have with X. > I have never used GPM, but I thought it was only > something to be used in a text-only

Re: Looking for Potato drivers for 3Com - 3CCEFE574BT

2001-02-25 Thread Timothy Klein
I believe this is the same card as the 3c574 card, which is found under network devices/pcmcia network device supprort. I am actually using the 10baseT version of this card (yours would be the 10/100BaseT), and mine also has a very funny name like that -- 3CXE598ET, but is really just a 3c589 card

X on a Fujitsu Lifebook 420D

2001-02-25 Thread Rafael Hinojosa
Hello everybody, So, here is the story, A friend gave me his old Lifebook 420D and I decided to go with a Debian install on it. I read up on the difficulties some have had getting XFree86 to work on it, and I've used their information to the best of my knowledge in getting X to work. Its a s

Re: Installing with OLD CD-ROM problems

2001-02-25 Thread ktb
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:34:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have downloaded and burned the Potato ISO's onto cd's but it will not > boot in the old CD-ROM drive of my laptop. Someone told me older drives > cannot read newer format ISO burns. Is there a way to address this? > Is your

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
carel, On Sun 25 Feb 01, 9:20 PM, Carel Fellinger said: > > > And that's why so many have problems with it, they refuse to RTFM! > There is no need whatsoever to have any problems with GPM and X, > just follow the examples and try to read the manpage for a change. > <\rant> i think we all k

Re: Installing with OLD CD-ROM problems

2001-02-25 Thread hanasaki
Sure is... commerice CD's are booting fine: MS / RH 6.2 the problem is with the CD made from Debian Potato ISO's FYI: the same CD boots fine on my new Athlon On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:34:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have downloaded and burned the

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
> The ps2 port on PC's (or actually the treatment under Linux) doesn't > allow two programs to read from that port at the same time. So if > you have gpm running to use the mouse on the console *and* you want > X to use that same mouse on such a ps/2 port: troubles, troubles. >

Re: How do I get larg file support?

2001-02-25 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Feb 25 14:33:51 2001 brian moore wrote... > >On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> Let;s just cut to the chase on this. >> >> I need to be able to create, and work with larg files (> 2G) under >> Debian Linux. Secondly I need the moststable system for doing this, >

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:35:57PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Sun 25 Feb 01, 9:20 PM, Carel Fellinger said: > > > > > > And that's why so many have problems with it, they refuse to RTFM! > > There is no need whatsoever to have any problems with GPM and X, > > just follow the examples

2nd try - Faxgetty, MGetty and data calls

2001-02-25 Thread Barry Samuels
I've spent hours and hours trying to set up Hylafax/Faxgetty to auto detect fax/data calls and respond appropriately for data calls. I have had partial success in that I can now get it to distinguish between fax and data calls and accept the fax or start mgetty for a data call. Fax calls, receivi

Re: How do I get larg file support?

2001-02-25 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:01:01PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > On Sun Feb 25 14:33:51 2001 brian moore wrote... > > > >On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > >> Let;s just cut to the chase on this. > >> > >> I need to be able to create, and work with larg files (> 2G) under >

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:47:36PM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: ... > I have several computers at home and at work with ps/2 mouse and > never, never have had any problem at all with both gpm and X reading > directly from the /dev/psaux port. The only time when it didn't work, > was when someon

sound on potato stopped working....

2001-02-25 Thread Walter Tautz
it would appear this just happened without any real updates gqmpeg claims mpg123 is playing the file I have the volume up on both my headset and the player and yet no sound?? Anyone see this phenomena before? and yet I am pretty sure there was no update the only thing I was doing was rsyncing

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 25 Feb 01, 10:13 PM, Carel Fellinger said: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:35:57PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > On Sun 25 Feb 01, 9:20 PM, Carel Fellinger said: > > > if you can configure your consol mouse during installation, it seems to me > > that this would guarentee no problems

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 25 Feb 01, 10:18 PM, Carel Fellinger said: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:47:36PM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > ... > > I have several computers at home and at work with ps/2 mouse and > > never, never have had any problem at all with both gpm and X reading > > directly from the /dev/psa

poweroff just doing "shutdown"

2001-02-25 Thread hanasaki
after all processes are ended.. the machine just hangs with "poweroff" on the screen. "^alt del" reboots fine. FYI the exact same machine, with potato, poweroffed fine on a previous installation. Thank you

Re: xfree 4.0

2001-02-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:34:54AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > XFree 4.0 has a new way to handle scalable fonts. Probably you did > something that got it working. I am having the same problem with > fonts also--still working on the solution. Apparently the new font > server does scalable/true-ty

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi mike, i read your email and found it very useful. a few questions remain: > If you run> lsmod it will show you all loaded modules(e.g. eepro) > and > modprobe -l will show all your available modules. > When the kernel needs a feature that is not resident in the kernel, it > sends

pppd wanted

2001-02-25 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I am trying to set up a network connection between two computers which are connected with a serial cable (null modem). One computer is an i386 with 2.4.0, the other is an Macintosh Quadra 610 with 2.2.10, both running stable. I found an old conversion cable so I can connect apples with rs232 po

Re: X on a Fujitsu Lifebook 420D

2001-02-25 Thread David Reviejo
* Rafael Hinojosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010225 22:07]: > Its a simple problem, but one I should know better to take care of. When > I initiate X (startx or xinit) the laptop begins to spew a whole bunch of > information and attempts to start X. It craps out shortly and returns the > following erro

X on a Fujitsu Lifebook 420D (fwd)

2001-02-25 Thread Rafael Hinojosa
Okay, I found elsewhere and ran apt-get install x-core something... It worked, I've got X running (crappy colors, but whatever) now I'm experiencing the 1" offset everyone talks about. I tried to set the vga=770 in lilo.conf but nothing happens, and I get an error: You passed an undefined m

Re: X on a Fujitsu Lifebook 420D

2001-02-25 Thread Rafael Hinojosa
> > > > Fatal server error: > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > Some things to try: > > % dpkg -s xfonts-base > be sure this package is installed > > % grep misc /etc/X11/XF86Config > you need a font path like > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > > % ls -l /usr/lib/X11/fon

aolserver/openacs package dependency problem

2001-02-25 Thread Aaron Brashears
Hi there. I'm having a problem installing openacs on my sid system. The problem arises because of bug #84041 with aolserver 3.2-4 which fails during install. To circumvent this problem, I installed aolserver 3.0rc2-4 available in potato. I then attempted to install openacs, which correctly installs

kernel compile warning

2001-02-25 Thread jdls
Hi, I have upgraded to sid and is now trying to compile kernel 2.2.4 the old fashioned way. However, I get this warning when using make menuconfig...should I worry?make : warning clock skew detected your buil d may be incomplete. I am using k-6 II 450 if that helps... How do I get to fix this

Re: rpm .spec to ../debian

2001-02-25 Thread csj
On Sunday 25 February 2001 08:14, Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a quick and dirty way, say a script or utiltiy, to > > convert an rpm .spec file into the ../debian (sub)directory > > needed by build-package and friends? > > Don't know how relevant it is but I would start by l

Re: kernel compile warning

2001-02-25 Thread Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have upgraded to sid and is now trying to compile kernel 2.2.4 the old > fashioned way. However, I get this warning when using make > menuconfig...should I worry?make : warning clock skew detected your buil d > may be incomplete. > > I am using k-6 II 450 if t

Re: From: in mutt

2001-02-25 Thread Scott Vaverchak
I would also suggest to change your reply-to. For me my user name is adeo but email is suadeo, so i would suggest changing your reply (if you need to). my_hdr Reply-To [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hi! > > > > anyone could help me on how to set the From: when using, or maybe in exim, > > I used pi

Re: From: in mutt

2001-02-25 Thread Scott Vaverchak
Opps. I messed up. I forgot to put the : in there... here is what it should look like... my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There, now I feel better ;p -- Scott Vaverchak { [EMAIL PROTECTED] { suadeo : [+ dat] to speak in favor of; suadeo : to recommend, advise (a person); } }

Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread James K. Wiggs
Folks, I'm finding it impossible to get networking functional on the box I've just installed 2.2r2 on. This is not an exotic setup, and I've successfully installed several other distros on it at one time or another, but the Debian install has been a complete wash. Why does my NetGear FA-

Upgraded to Windows 2000 - now all files saved are corrupt

2001-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
I installed Win2k on two workstations now all the files I open and save back to my Debian 2.2  file server are corrupt, filled with nonesense (probably nulls). I downloaded and upgraded samba to 2.0.7 but the problem still persists. Can anyone help me with this problem?   Chris MasonBox 340

Re: poweroff just doing "shutdown"

2001-02-25 Thread Tibor D.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all processes are ended.. the machine just hangs with "poweroff" on the screen. "^alt del" reboots fine. FYI the exact same machine, with potato, poweroffed fine on a previous installation. Thank you Maybe your apm isn't activated (or even isn't compiled into

Re: poweroff just doing "shutdown"

2001-02-25 Thread Romain Lerallut
could you have changed kernel in the meantime ? or try to see if you have a module called apm.o I had the same stuff until I recompiled my kernel with apm support.(I haven't tried as a module). Bye Romain On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > after all processes are ended.. the machin

KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread John Mautz
I have a woody system running xfree 4.0.2 and want to give KDE a try but can't find the KDE package. I checked the archives and tried 'apt-get install task-kde' but I get the following message: "Package task-kde has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the p

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread John Griffiths
> >I figure I need to add the a location to sources.list but don't know >which site to add. (Currently apt-get is >looking in: > >ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib > for gods sake get ftp://security.debian.org

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:50:31 -0800, John Mautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a woody system running xfree 4.0.2 and want to give KDE a try but >can't find the KDE package. > >I checked the archives and tried 'apt-get install task-kde' but I get >the following message: > >"Package task-kde has

Re: X on a Fujitsu Lifebook 420D (fwd)

2001-02-25 Thread Rafael Hinojosa
Alright, As I mentioned earlier, I've managed to solve the initial font problem I had, and get X up and running. Now, I'm faced with the 1" offset I read about all over the web. I tried using vga=770 (or vga=7) but get no luck. I've read on some places about a CONGIF_VIDEO_GFX_HACK, which w

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread hogan
> ftp://security.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib I thought security only had stable? Took a peek... Seems it does have more.. HOWEVER.. There is no ftp://security.debian.org/debian There is ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato|sid|slink|stable There is http://security.

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