server side includes - Apache - Debian Potato

2001-03-18 Thread Mike Millner
Hello, I'm clear that I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what that is. I'm trying to get server side includes to work.   In the srm.conf file I have uncommented out the lines: AddType text/html .shtmlAddHandler server-parsed .shtml   I made a file called .htacces in the root direc

Re: Debian Home LAN

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:43:37 -0600,"Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: >I want to set up a home network (just with PPP access to the Internet), >but am having some trouble getting the machines to talk to each other. >Both boxes have 100 MB Ethernet NICs. I want to set up one as a server >and the other

Re: can't resolve names, ipchains or dns problem

2001-03-18 Thread Mircea Luca
Nick wrote: > > Hi list, > > I have an internal network setup behind linux on a single static IP > I am having problem reolving names but can ping IP's numericaly. > > I set up dhcp to allocate 192.168.1.0/24 throught the internal network > Then I setup ipchains very basic, just to get it all go

Re: server side includes - Apache - Debian Potato

2001-03-18 Thread Nate Amsden
> Mike Millner wrote: > > Hello, > I'm clear that I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what that is. > I'm trying to get server side includes to work. > > In the srm.conf file I have uncommented out the lines: > AddType text/html .shtml > AddHandler server-parsed .shtml > > I made a file

Re: server side includes - Apache - Debian Potato

2001-03-18 Thread Mike Millner
Thank you very much, that was it! Thanks again, Mike - Original Message - From: "Nate Amsden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 12:19 AM Subject: Re: server side includes - Apache - Debian Potato > > Mike Millner wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I'm clear that I'm doing some

realplayer / stable (potato)

2001-03-18 Thread Brian Russo
try these: b49cb603fefdfc1f8dbdfe32a17934cd realplayer_8.0.1.potato.1.dsc cf3559351eef0184ab73360dc585f2dd realplayer_8.0.1.potato.1.tar.gz 714d8c2928e04de305073abca98de606 realplayer_8.0.1.potato.1_i386.changes c962ab543774db4bd92d155bbaf7d599 realplayer_8.0.1.potato.1_i386.deb http://people.

Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

2001-03-18 Thread Chris Howells
I'm having trouble using hdparm (versions 3.6 and 4.1) on a Debian Potato system. When I do: hdparm -d1 /dev/hda The message is: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted. Does anybody have any suggesstions why? The same hardware worked with DMA under Linux on Mandrake 7.0 (LX chipset + M

Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

2001-03-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'm having trouble using hdparm (versions 3.6 and 4.1) on a Debian > Potato system. > > When I do: > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > The message is: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted. >

Getting rid of Control-M in a file?

2001-03-18 Thread Lars Jensen
How do I get rid of Control-M at the end of each line in a dos text file imported to Debian? Thanks for your help, Lars. %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2001-03-18 Thread kmself
on Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few > things in the debian package management system. > 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is > part of, wh

Re: dselect

2001-03-18 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:09:04AM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to install gdk-imlib-dev package and I'm getting an error > resulting from dependancies between libungif3g and libungif3g-dev. How > can I just force the installation without worrying about the >

Re: dselect

2001-03-18 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:09:04AM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to install gdk-imlib-dev package and I'm getting an error > resulting from dependancies between libungif3g and libungif3g-dev. How > can I just force the installation without worrying about the >

Re: server side includes - Apache - Debian Potato

2001-03-18 Thread Nate Amsden
Mike Millner wrote: > > Thank you very much, that was it! > > Thanks again, > Mike sure, suprised it worked before. usually apache pukes when you try to set options for modules that are not loaded..maybe includes isn't as critical. odd. glad it works. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.a

plugger/xanim

2001-03-18 Thread jdls
Hello, I have installed xanim-modules and plugger 3.3 in order to play quicktime files but I still cannot even though about:plugins show that mimetype video/x-quicktime is enabled but mimetype video/quicktime is not. perhaps this is were my problems like but I am unsure how I can enable/fix th

Re: Getting rid of Control-M in a file?

2001-03-18 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:12:44AM -0800, Lars Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I get rid of Control-M at the end of each line in a dos > text file imported to Debian? 1. select ASCII mode for your FTP transfers. 2. dos2unix myfile -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #71

2001-03-18 Thread Albrecht Frank
"Raymond L. Zarling" wrote: > > > As you can see, it is the same as everything else; the pre-removal script > (or post-installation script, as the case may be) keeps failing. > > I have also managed to manually download the xserver-xfree86...deb file, and > got it to unpack using apt-get unpack,

Printing through Samba

2001-03-18 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I have set a Samba server but I cant get windows clients to print through it. After a failed print job, if I try to print localy I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# lp -d Epson tmp.print lp: unable to print file: The requested resource is currently unavailable on this server. Though there s

Re: can't resolve names, ipchains or dns problem

2001-03-18 Thread Albrecht Frank
Nick wrote: > > Hi list, > > I have an internal network setup behind linux on a single static IP > I am having problem reolving names but can ping IP's numericaly. > > I set up dhcp to allocate 192.168.1.0/24 throught the internal network > Then I setup ipchains very basic, just to get it all go

Re: can't resolve names, ipchains or dns problem

2001-03-18 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:59:26AM +0100, Albrecht Frank dijo: -| Nick wrote: -| > -| > Hi list, -| > -| > I have an internal network setup behind linux on a single static IP -| > I am having problem reolving names but can ping IP's numericaly. -| > -| > I set up dhcp to allocate 192.168.1.0/24

Re: Getting rid of Control-M in a file?

2001-03-18 Thread Albrecht Frank
Lars Jensen wrote: > > How do I get rid of Control-M at the end of each line in a dos > text file imported to Debian? > > Thanks for your help, > Lars. > Hi Lars, man recode Greetings Albrecht

Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

2001-03-18 Thread Forrest English
is your kernel compiled with dma support? because if it's not, thats not gonna work. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Sun, 18

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-18 Thread Rick Rezinas
okay, I do have the nvidias working on my 2.4 kernel, in testing version, as well. Check out the very useful site (hopefully still) at http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html for setting up the whole shebang... As testing now comes with the new X stuff you shouldn't need to do the whol

Re: GDM background image

2001-03-18 Thread Robert Martinovic
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:54:17PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it > > is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to > > an image not a color. As far

Re: avifile-player DivX

2001-03-18 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You'll need some Win32 .DLL's, which are available at aviplay's page: > http://divx.euro.ru. My impression is that libavifile includes this. I scanned thru manpages and /usr/share/libavifile/doc directory, there seems no README.Debian there to indicat

Re: ximian gnome on unstable

2001-03-18 Thread Greg Gilbert
You can try to manually install the gnome-games package(apt-get install gnome-games), I've found it helps out sometimes. Greg -- Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. -- Mark Twain

Re: v4 x screen size and flicker

2001-03-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 12:10:51PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > I just upgraded to X v4 (woody) and selected the mga driver for my > Matrox Millenium G200. I have an NEC MultiSync 6FG (21") monitor. I > now have two problems: > > 1. Large margins around the screen. > 2. Incredible f

Problemas de instalacion

2001-03-18 Thread El señor de los anillos
Estimado Sr:         Hola, resulta que me he decidido a instalar Debian en un segundo dico duro que tengo como esclavo, la instalacion se produce con total normalidad, pero al cabo de un rato, el teclado me deja de funcionar, y no es,  que el ordenador se quede colgado, simplemente el tecla

Re: pppd problem ?

2001-03-18 Thread Christoph Groth
Philipp Bliedung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It complains about the module: tty-ldisc-3. I have absolutely no > clue where I can get it from, I've never heared about anything lilke > that. What do I have to do to get my modem working? Have a look at the file /etc/modutils/aliases (The files lo

Re: Getting rid of Control-M in a file?

2001-03-18 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 18 March 2001 03:03, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:12:44AM -0800, Lars Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > How do I get rid of Control-M at the end of each line in a dos > > text file imported to Debian? > > 1. select ASCII mode for your FTP transfers. > 2.

Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-18 Thread William Leese
Having a cable modem I'm concerned with the fact that when I use email my password is sent in clear text over the network. I've heard that there were other services that could be used instead of POP but i'm not sure if that can be used here if my provider doesnt support it. For my email I use m

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:38:36PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > Having a cable modem I'm concerned with the fact that when I use email my > password is sent in clear text over the network. I've heard that there were as you should be, cable modems generally are equivilent to large unswitched lan

Re: fstab

2001-03-18 Thread Robin Gerard
- Original Message - From: Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 12:14 AM Subject: Re: fstab > On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Robin Gerard wrote: > > hello, > > I have added a wrong line in my fstab file and when linux starts I have > # mou

need help on setting up a ppp connection

2001-03-18 Thread Bill Shui
Hi there, I have previously set up a network at home, one acts as a gateway and it is connected to my isp via ppp, and the other one accesses internet through the gateway. I have since rearranged my room and decided to rebuild one of my slower computers a

Re: more with wget..

2001-03-18 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Hi Roberto, The problem is simply that not all ftp servers give back the correct size... some return the number of bytes *left* (check it). Or any other weird number (the ftp std doesn't specify any size return... at least I didn't find anything to that effect in RFC0959 just now). So... no corr

Re: more with wget..

2001-03-18 Thread Roberto Diaz
> The problem is simply that not all ftp servers give back the correct > size... some return the number of bytes *left* (check it). Or any > other weird number (the ftp std doesn't specify any size return... at > least I didn't find anything to that effect in RFC0959 just now). OK.. I did read th

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-18 Thread William Leese
> > other services that could be used instead of POP but i'm not sure if that > > can be used here if my provider doesnt support it. > > imap over ssl maybe.. knowing basically nothing about imap and ssl where would i look first to see if this is suitable and how it can be used? > > For my email

Re: Getting rid of Control-M in a file?

2001-03-18 Thread Christoph Groth
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What package are dos2unix and unix2dos in? sysutils > I couldn't find them on my system, There is a package search machine at the http://www.debian.org. Or you just download the Contents-i386.gz (Or one of the others for non-intel systems) file from the

gnupg & gnus

2001-03-18 Thread Christoph Groth
Hi, I'm using Gnus for reading mail & news and I like it very much. Is there anyone successfully using gnus with gnupg out there? I just wanted to ask if it's worth the effort trying it. If yes, are there any pitfalls in doing so? Do I need any non-potato packages? regards, Christoph

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Having a cable modem I'm concerned with the fact that when I use email my > password is sent in clear text over the network. I've heard that there were > other services that could be used in

Re: Getting rid of Control-M in a file?

2001-03-18 Thread R. Wood
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:12:44AM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: > How do I get rid of Control-M at the end of each line in a dos > text file imported to Debian? If you are editing such a file with vi or vim, the following incantation will eliminate ^M characters from the whole file: :%s/ //g (wher

Help! dpkg --prge-package hangs forever

2001-03-18 Thread Stan Brown
I installled console-log, because it looked useful. However once I did that, I could not get the machine in question to shutdown cleanly, it always hung at shutting down console-log. So, I tried to remove it with dselect. dslect hung while suting it down alos. At this point in time, I have rboo

networking problem

2001-03-18 Thread Thomas Braun
hello group, i have two nic's in one debian computer, and i want to reach both networks over a router and from the subnet. the first nic has the 192.168.4.194 and the second 192.168.2.194. my router has in the first network 192.168.2.1 and in the second 192.168.4.1. my config is iface eth0

Xfree86 4, and video timings.

2001-03-18 Thread Stan Brown
I need to adjust the video timings to better match my monitor. I am runing Xfree86 4, and I can't seem to find the mode line defs anythwere in /etc/X11. Where are these stored, please? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows

ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

2001-03-18 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to get my machine to have the harware clock set to UTC, and honor the TZ environment variable for displaying the correct local time. I will use ntpdate to keep the time in synch. Curently I have the correct timezone in /etc/timezone, and the correct offset from the hardware clock is

Re: gnupg & gnus

2001-03-18 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anyone successfully using gnus with gnupg out there? I just > wanted to ask if it's worth the effort trying it. Yep, and it wasn't too hard to set up. Key fetching and message decryption aren't

Re: networking problem

2001-03-18 Thread Jason Nord
Try changing your netmasks to 255.255.0.0 -Jason *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 18/03/00 at 4:54 PM Thomas Braun wrote: >hello group, > > >i have two nic's in one debian computer, >and i want to reach both networks over a router and from the subnet. > >the first nic has the 192.16

xlibs CRC error?

2001-03-18 Thread Attila Csosz
Hi, I tried to update my linux box today but I've got the following error messages - dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.2-7_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package xscreensaver dpkg-deb: subprocess paste

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

2001-03-18 Thread Eric Richardson
Stan Brown wrote: > > I am trying to get my machine to have the harware clock set to UTC, and honor > the > TZ environment variable for displaying the correct local time. I will use > ntpdate > to keep the time in synch. > > Curently I have the correct timezone in /etc/timezone, and the correct

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

2001-03-18 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 10:57:37 -0500 (EST) "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get my machine to have the harware clock set to UTC, and honor > the > TZ environment variable for displaying the correct local time. I will use > ntpdate > to keep the time in synch. > > Curently

Re: gnupg & gnus

2001-03-18 Thread MH
> "Christoph" == Christoph Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christoph> Hi, I'm using Gnus for reading mail & news and I like Christoph> it very much. Christoph> Is there anyone successfully using gnus with gnupg out Christoph> there? I just wanted to ask if it's worth the ef

Re: kde.tdyc.com gone for good?

2001-03-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Ivan just built new packages over the weekend to update kde and kill a few more bugs that were found. The box was moved from his friends job location since his friend took a new job else where. The site now responds to pings, http and ftp. More detials at 6 On Saturday 17 March 2001 19:57,

Re: kde.tdyc.com gone for good?

2001-03-18 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
I can't access the site since 4 days. Instead I use that miror that's no as fast as the original but is still up (11-20kb/s) deb http://ftp.fsn.hu/ftp/pub/klpp/debian potato main crypto optional qt1apps On Sunday 18 March 2001 18:10, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Ivan just built new packages over

Re: Getting rid of Control-M in a file?

2001-03-18 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 18 March 2001 09:15, Christoph Groth wrote: > Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What package are dos2unix and unix2dos in? > > sysutils Thanks, I have them now. > There is a package search machine at the http://www.debian.org. Or > you just download the Contents-i386.gz (Or o

Nvidia and source packages

2001-03-18 Thread Stephen Boulet
I've just started with debian and have a question about how to start with source packages, in particular: nvidia-glx-src 0.9.767-1 nvidia-kernel-src 0.9.767-1 With rpm, I'd do rpm --rebuild somepackage.src.rpm and install the resulting rpm: rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RPM/i686/somepackage.rp

Re: pppd problem ?

2001-03-18 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Thanks for your help - that did the trick !! Philipp Christoph Groth wrote: > Philipp Bliedung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It complains about the module: tty-ldisc-3. I have absolutely no > > clue where I can get it from, I've never heared about anything lilke > > that. What do I have to d

Kernel 2.4.2 and modules

2001-03-18 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hi all I've tried to install kernel 2.4.2 unpacking modutils, no problem then installing them as written in the doc, no problem too (maybe a dir to specify???) then unpacking and compiling kernel sources no problem But when I mauch modconf or modprobe, my computer is unable to find the modules. H

Re: GDM background image

2001-03-18 Thread David B . Harris
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Martinovic), # Speaking of Gdm, has anyone else found that although in # /etc/gdm/gdm.conf i put my .gtkrc in for Gdm to load with my gtk # theme, it still loads with the default theme (which is really ugly)? Make sure the gtkrc file is readable by GDM. I think i

Re: Nvidia and source packages

2001-03-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
Stephen Boulet wrote: >I've just started with debian and have a question about how to start with >source packages, in particular: > > nvidia-glx-src 0.9.767-1 > nvidia-kernel-src 0.9.767-1 > >With rpm, I'd do rpm --rebuild somepackage.src.rpm and install the resulting > >r

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

2001-03-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:57:37AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I am trying to get my machine to have the harware clock set to UTC, and honor > the > TZ environment variable for displaying the correct local time. I will use > ntpdate > to keep the time in synch. > > Curently I have the correct tim

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2001-03-18 Thread Chris
After loading the basic setup and configuring the various components during the installation process, and after entering the login and password, I attempt to enter the X window environment with “startx”. I ALWAYS get the error message “You must provide a ‘Screen’ section in XF86Config for at lea

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 04:59:23AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:38:36PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > > Having a cable modem I'm concerned with the fact that when I use email my > > password is sent in clear text over the network. I've heard that there were > > as you

In a downward spiral

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Chandler
Help I have a problem with emacs when being accessed through ssh in that the backspace key is generating a C-h so I keep getting help when I am trying to edit. Funny thing is, if I go to the machine directly and access it in console mode then emacs works as it is supposed to. One anomoly I have

Re: fstab

2001-03-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:10:28PM +0100, Robin Gerard wrote: ... > Hello, > I have added a new hard disk on my machine and I must change my fstab file. > Can you advise me what how to proced before that all be destroyed yet. What do you mean with "all be destroyed"? Surely mounting in itself is

backing-up a system?

2001-03-18 Thread Angel Parra
Hello! I meed to make a back-up of a system, I can use removeble HD's and a CD-RECORD, ... but how to make it correctly, oncly a tar from important directories ??? Thanks for all Angel

Printer Problem

2001-03-18 Thread Stephan Kulka
When I try to print out a file , I get the following message: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - cannot open connection Connection refused >Make sure LPD server is running on the system. I am quite confused, because the lpd daemon is started at startup (I even rebooted to be sure). What is this LPD?? My networ

Nvidia .97 drivers

2001-03-18 Thread ray p
Has anybody played with these yet and if so how do they work and did you have any problems. Also is the new AA stuff worth the risk of a update? Thanks for any info.

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-18 Thread David Steinberg
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > if you have a static ip and your connection is actually stable you > could just run your own mailserver and have mail delivered directly to > it. that way you don't need pop3 or imap. no passwords sent anywhere > that way. OTOH, then you have another se

Re: Help! dpkg --prge-package hangs forever

2001-03-18 Thread Mircea Luca
Stan Brown wrote: > > I installled console-log, because it looked useful. > > However once I did that, I could not get the machine in question to shutdown > cleanly, it always hung at shutting down console-log. > > So, I tried to remove it with dselect. dslect hung while suting it down alos. >

zsh questions

2001-03-18 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I was trying to migrate to zsh from bash... I stumbeled upon a few problems: - if I do: "jobs |wc -l" wc gets no input (in bash it does) - how do I make escape sequences work so I could use the [w,a,x,E]term's titlebar? - my home, delete and backspace do not work... how can I make them work?

Re: Nvidia .97 drivers

2001-03-18 Thread Andras Barany
On 18 Mar 2001 12:17:46 -0700, ray p wrote: > Has anybody played with these yet and if so how do they work and did you > have any problems. Also is the new AA stuff worth the risk of a update? > Thanks for any info. They work for me, and AA is VERY nice in Opera and Licq. My kde apps crash, but

start up script operation

2001-03-18 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Hello, I have entered a start up script named in the /etc/init.d directory. I issued the command which seemed to work OK. When I restarted the computer the changes (starting hdparm & changing the text mode screen colours with setterm) failed to change the settings. Is there something I'm doin

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 00:13:46 -0500, you wrote: >I have Xfree86 v4 already; I am running (almost) the latest unstable. Therefore >I do not use a separate TrueType font server. I guess then I am wondering what >the best Debian way is to install a new font. There are, if I remember >correctly, some T

Re: xlibs CRC error?

2001-03-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 17:14:40 +0100, Attila Csosz wrote: > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.2-7_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in > package xscreensaver I suspect you're using the "testing" or "unstable" d

Re: Help! dpkg --prge-package hangs forever

2001-03-18 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Mar 18 14:16:20 2001 Mircea Luca wrote... > >Stan Brown wrote: >> >> >> This of course renders dselect useless! >> >> Help, please, how do I fix this? >> > > >kill -9 logpager > >before dpkg --purge > >should do it. > >Or you can remove /etc/init.d/console-log ,reboot then safely remove

Re: XFree864 PS/2 mouse & gpm

2001-03-18 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Brown) writes: > I'm seting up a new machine using Debian & Prgeney (nice stuff). At the > moment I am > having problems with the mouse in the X sessiosn. I am runing gpm, and the X > config > file points to /dev/psaux. I think I would be better off using /dev/gpmdata, >

view changelogs of new packages before installing them

2001-03-18 Thread Andre Berger
Hi all, can I view a package's changelog without having to download it first? This would be esp. useful for intended large downloads such as kernel-source-*; even kernel-doc-* is more than one meg to download each time. Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt source for KDE

2001-03-18 Thread Pollywog
I want to apt-get KDE debs from the following URL: ftp://max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/pub/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/ This is as far as I can get with the sources.list entry for it: deb ftp://max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/pub/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/d

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

2001-03-18 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Mar 18 12:40:10 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote... > >On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:57:37AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> I am trying to get my machine to have the harware clock set to UTC, and >> honor the >> TZ environment variable for displaying the correct local time. I will use >> ntpdate >> to

Help with themes

2001-03-18 Thread Alex Espinoza
I just switched from Slackware to Debian, and in the installation everything wento ok. I have Gnome running correctly, except for the themes. They don't seem to be working ok, since the themes for the scrollbars don't work and tittlebars have bigger fonts thatn they are supposed to. I already tal

Re: Debian Home LAN

2001-03-18 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:08:50AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:43:37PM -0600, Ronald L. Chichester wrote: > ... > > What I'm more interested in is transferring data from one box to > > another. (No, the files I want to transfer are major backups of 400+ MB > > each,

Can't configure soundcard module

2001-03-18 Thread Tristan
I use Sid with kernel2.2.19 and configured my soundcard as a module. When i use modconf to install it, it gave me a default value to enter: io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330, but my soundcard is using irq 7, so i changed it and then installed it, but i recieved the following error: SB 3.01 dete

Quality free VCD/DVD player?

2001-03-18 Thread Eray Ozkural
Hi, Which VCD or/and DVD player would you recommend? I'm currently working on packaging mpegorion, but there might be better alternatives. I looked at a few other proggies: like xine, but I'm not very impressed. My problem is that the usual "mtv" is very non-free, limited and crappy. I'd like to

Re: sound and other devices on X terminal

2001-03-18 Thread John Ericson
On Mar 16 09:40, Sebastiaan wrote: > I have a X terminal running on an old computer and I just installed a > sound card in it. I have the card working, so I can play sounds when I am > logged in on the client directly. But when X is running, I see no way to > get to the /dev/dsp on the client, and

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

2001-03-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:07:55PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > On Sun Mar 18 12:40:10 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote... > >Not sure, but are you applying that offset yourself? If so, are you > >aware that "hwclock --show" always shows the *local* time? Anyhow, > >what's the content of /etc/adjtime? On

Re: Kernel 2.4.2 and modules

2001-03-18 Thread Jim Richardson
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:28:01PM +0100, Frédéric de Villamil wrote: > Hi all > I've tried to install kernel 2.4.2 > unpacking modutils, no problem > then installing them as written in the doc, no problem too (maybe a dir to > specify???) > then unpacking and compiling kernel sources > no problem

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-18 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Thanks for the answer. Is ttmkfdir better than mkttfdir, which I found on my system? Since my last message, I have gone ahead and installed the fonts, using mkttfdir, but maybe there's some reason to remake the fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir. I did notice that the Microsoft Web fonts were indicated

Re: Quality free VCD/DVD player?

2001-03-18 Thread csj
On Monday 19 March 2001 04:35, Eray Ozkural wrote: > Hi, > > Which VCD or/and DVD player would you recommend? I'm currently > working on packaging mpegorion, but there might be better > alternatives. I looked at a few other proggies: like xine, but I'm > not very impressed. > > My problem is that t

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:32:50 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks for the answer. > >Is ttmkfdir better than mkttfdir, which I found on my system? Since my last >message, I have gone ahead and installed the fonts, using mkttfdir, but maybe Never heard of the other one - and its not in any debian package I h

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-18 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
As the transcript below makes clear, it's in the fttools package. I've also included package info for fttools. Apparently an old release of the Debian package is in contrib, but I have the version in main installed, again as the transcript shows. This is unstable, of course, not stable. (But I thin

Program to convert webshots wallpaper

2001-03-18 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I was wondering if their was a program for Linux that could convert Webshots .wbz files to .jpg, etc. Thanks, Cameron Matheson __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

keyboard won't work with netscape

2001-03-18 Thread Denzil Kelly
>From time to time, I lose the ability to use my keyboard with netscape 4.76. It appears to happen after entering infomation in a from, and on occasion clicking enter or submit on a form will correct the problem. Does anyone else have this problem? _

Re: apt source for KDE

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:07:37 +, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to apt-get KDE debs from the following URL: > >ftp://max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/pub/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/ > >This is as far as I can get with the sources.list entry for it:

Re: ximian gnome on unstable

2001-03-18 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello There Jdls, To get ximian-gnome on my system, I went to the ximian website. It then told me to enter a command that started with lynx -source . That insterted a line in my apt/sources.list file. And then it ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, I believe. You can add

NFS question

2001-03-18 Thread Christoph Simon
Hi! I'm trying to move a /var tree to a (kernel-) NFS mounted volume on a debian/potato box with a 2.4.2 kernel. Before doing so everything worked fine, but now I seem to have problems getting some permissions right; the NFS (server side) kernel complains with: fh_verify: lprng/lpd.printe

Re: Quality free VCD/DVD player?

2001-03-18 Thread Eray 'exa' Ozkural
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, csj wrote: > You didn't say why you weren't impressed. But I know of only one > Loki's smpeg-plaympeg and it only plays VCDs. > I wasn't because none of them were able to playback a simple commercial VCD. It's a copy of Lain, a popular anime. The only program that didn't c

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

2001-03-18 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Mar 18 16:11:55 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote... > >On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:07:55PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> On Sun Mar 18 12:40:10 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote... >> >Not sure, but are you applying that offset yourself? If so, are you >> >aware that "hwclock --show" always shows the *loca

can potato handle USB and cable modem?

2001-03-18 Thread KingM Lee
Hello, I am thinking of installing potato, and wonder if I'll have problems with USB and a cable modem. 1. Will I be able to use USB? How much trouble will it be? Do I have to recompile a kernel or just fix some comfiguration files? I plan to use a USB mouse and a USB printer (Lexmark 312). 2.

Re: Nvidia and source packages

2001-03-18 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Stephen, The NVidia driver packages aren't really 'src' packages they way you are thinking of. Yeah, the name is kind of a misnomer. But if they were 'src' packages I think the command you're looking for might be 'dpkg-deb --build'. Not certain because I haven't been using D

KDE and Gnome

2001-03-18 Thread Zac Epkes
I installed KDevelop to the lone welcoming of KDE 2.1 being installed... I would liek to keep KDE and Gnome but how do i make it so i can choose

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

2001-03-18 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:38:07 -0500 (EST) "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I'm totaly confused. There are 3 things involved here, as I see it. > The > hardware clock, which should be set to UTC. The kernels view of time, > which > should be the same as the hardware

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