Re: MPEG player suggestions?! anyone?

2001-03-20 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, You could try mplayer. http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Jimmy Richards On 20 Mar 2001 00:08:22 -0500, Mark Livingstone wrote: > Looking for a good MPEG player.. so far i've tried XINE and PLAYMPEG and > both can't rewing/forward the flick. any other suggestions? > > > --

Fwd: Re: [ISTA] confused on CIPE tunneling, please help

2001-03-20 Thread Nick
How do I set the follwing up for my network Office A outside ip: 62.xxx.xxx.2 isp gateway: 62.xxx.xxx.1 lan interface: 192.168.1.1 inside ip's: 192.168.1.0/24 Office B outside ip: 64.xxx.xxx.129 isp gateway 64.xxx.xxx.128 lan interface: 192.168.0.1 inside ip's: 192.168.0.0/24 This is an exa

DHCP problems

2001-03-20 Thread jens
A heads-up for anyone experiencing network connectivity problems. It seems that both the 'testing' and the 'unstable' debian trees are missing the 'dhcpcd' utility. I spent the better part of 5 hours (I am new to this ...) figuring out why I couldn't connect to my cable ISP. Turns out that dhcp wa

Re: [ISTA] confused on CIPE tunneling, please help

2001-03-20 Thread Nick
On Monday 19 March 2001 21:29, you wrote: > U. How is this Syty related? > Keith > > Nick wrote: > > How do I set the follwing up for my network > > > > Office A > > outside ip: 62.xxx.xxx.2 > > isp gateway: 62.xxx.xxx.1 > > lan interface: 192.168.1.1 > > inside ip's: 192.168.1.0/24 > > > >

Re: Troubles with Apache and PHP4 installs

2001-03-20 Thread ktb
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:16:46PM -0800, jenny w wrote: > Hi! I'm kind of new to Debian. After a bit of trouble, I got things > (including Apache) to work the way I expected. Then I decided to > install PHP4 and troubles began. The PHP4 package install offered to > run apacheconfig. I did this

Re: IDE burning

2001-03-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Burning is the best thing on Linux. Debian standard kernel has all you need as modules so no need to recompile kernel to get CDRW. 1. make link /dev/cdrom # cd /dev; rm -f cdrom ;ln -s scd0 cdrom 2. In /etc/lilo.conf, add apppend line such as: # Kernel command line options that apply to all in

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
Morgan Fletcher wrote: >> boot: rescue root=/dev/hda3 init=/bin/sh >> >> This will put you straight into a shell, with no other utilities running. > >Unfortunately, the same thing happens. It is as if the init=/bin/sh >argument is ignored. In that case you need to boot from an inst

cdrom won't mount

2001-03-20 Thread SoftHome
I am losing my mind over this. If I don't fix this by tomorrow I am starting over. I am running a pretty straight up 2.2.r2 install. I downloaded the 2.4.2 kernel to play around a little, but when back to 2.2.18pre21, because I just didn't have the time to figure out why lp no longer worked (so

virtual terminals

2001-03-20 Thread Alexander Poquet
hey folks. i was just wondering about virtual terms -- is there an easy way to change how many there are? debian seems to default at 6 running getty, and X opens up 7. presumably i can use as many as 12? how does this work? is it as simple as running getty from init, or is there a kernel defini

OT: Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-20 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > Ok, that clarifies thing for me, so pdf is just another end-format, like ps, > from which i know it is based. > Ther *are* plugins available for acrobat under windows and mac which let you do almost anything to a pdf document - but they are *VERY* expens

Re: virtual terminals

2001-03-20 Thread Jed Strauss
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:27:44PM -0800, Alexander Poquet wrote: > hey folks. > > i was just wondering about virtual terms -- is there an easy way to change > how many there are? debian seems to default at 6 running getty, and X > opens up 7. presumably i can use as many as 12? how does this w

Re: cdrom won't mount

2001-03-20 Thread kmself
Set your mailer to wrap at 72 characters. on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:17:52PM -0800, SoftHome ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I am running a pretty straight up 2.2.r2 install. I downloaded the > 2.4.2 kernel to play around a little, but when back to 2.2.18pre21, > because I just didn't have the ti

Re: virtual terminals

2001-03-20 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:07:06AM -0700, Jed Strauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:27:44PM -0800, Alexander Poquet wrote: > > hey folks. > > > > i was just wondering about virtual terms -- is there an easy way to change > > how many there are? debian seems to default at

Re: virtual terminals

2001-03-20 Thread ktb
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:27:44PM -0800, Alexander Poquet wrote: > hey folks. > > i was just wondering about virtual terms -- is there an easy way to change > how many there are? debian seems to default at 6 running getty, and X > opens up 7. presumably i can use as many as 12? how does this w

compiling kernel modules [fixed]

2001-03-20 Thread Seth Arnold
Ok, I managed to compile the kernel module successfully. /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.headers file was the starting point to understanding. The file contains a hint about using -I to compile against the exact kernel headers required. I also had to use the -nostdinc flag to gcc, and add oth

Re: question about using groff to format ASCII text

2001-03-20 Thread kmself
on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:55:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I need to convert an ASCII text document to dvi, and I need to make the > finished document double spaced with 12-point font. I need to do so > without embedding any formatting directives in the ASCII docum

Re: Apt, Debconf, and Perl.

2001-03-20 Thread csj
On Monday 19 March 2001 23:35, Ray Percival wrote: > Does anyone know how to fix this. I have tried a reinstall of > deboconf and it did not work. Once again thanks. > > Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 > /usr/

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-20 Thread csj
On Tuesday 20 March 2001 12:13, Jim Richardson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:30:30AM +0800, csj wrote: > > Now that you two mentioned them, I find it curious that both the > > YOPY and the Agenda VR3 (for virtual reality??) claim to be the > > first Linux-based PDAs. Both seem to be in short

Re: Debian and Trident 9385 VGA Card

2001-03-20 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 Mar 01 22:07:23 GMT, Greene, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to install Debian on my laptop. My card is listed at >http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html >as supported. Is a generic driver the only thing that is offered? The best >resolution I can get is >640x480. I configure it

Re: Debian on IBM Thinkpad T20

2001-03-20 Thread sc
Martin Würtele wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:19:52AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: >>I got an IBM Thinkpad T20 and would like to do my small part to >>improve the world by replacing the Windows on it with Debian. >>Would love to hear any stories from other travelers who have >>embarked upon thi

apache not running cgi-scripts

2001-03-20 Thread nick
I am running unstable with apache and I'm trying to run php scripts. I've tried using both php3 and php4. When I run connect to the server it sends the contents of the script instead of what the script should be printing out. I uncommented the load_module php line in httpd.conf and enabled everyth

quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-20 Thread john smith
Hi, Some quick questions; 1. How can I find out the total number of files (also hidden) in the current directory? 2. How can I find out the total number of executable files (also hidden) in the current directory? 3. how to find the total number of files of a given an extension? (ex."*.tar

Windowmanager for gnome/sid

2001-03-20 Thread Ruben van Royen
Hi, I recently upgraded my workstation to sid. But now for some reason the windowmanager has changed to the x-window-manager (wmaker in my case). I tried changeing /etc/gnome/default.wm to gnome-wm, setting WINDOW_MANAGER to /usr/bin/sawfish in my .zshenv, changeing .gnome/default.wm to /usr/bi

how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?

2001-03-20 Thread christophe barbe
(under poatto with ximian gnome 1.4beta) I try to remove a package (mozilla-xmlterm) but dpkg refuse to do it because the post script return 1. So I can't remove it. I imagine that is because I've previously removed mozilla. Is there a way to force dpkg to remove mozilla-xmlterm from the packages

Re: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?

2001-03-20 Thread Bernhard Wesely
try dpkg --purge --force-depends but be aware, that it might corrupt your dependencies. good luck, Bernie - Original Message - From: "christophe barbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:26 AM Subject: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ? > (under poatto with ximian gnom

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Re: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?

2001-03-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:26:21AM +0100, christophe barbe wrote: > (under poatto with ximian gnome 1.4beta) > I try to remove a package (mozilla-xmlterm) but dpkg refuse to do it because > the post script return 1. > So I can't remove it. I imagine that is because I've previously removed > mozil

Re: Windowmanager for gnome/sid

2001-03-20 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Ruben, I'm not sure, but I think it might be /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager KDE keeps starting up for me until i move that symlink out of the way. Hope that helps, Jimmy Richards On 20 Mar 2001 10:20:41 +0100, Ruben van Royen wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-20 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi John, I think i know some of these 1) ls -a > filecount && wc -l filecount 2) find / -perm 0755 -print > exec_count && wc -l exec_count (i think this'll work.. I didn't try it. man find for more info) 3) ls *.tar.gz > tar.gz_count && wc -l tar.gz_co

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:21:22AM -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hi John, > > > I think i know some of these > > > 1) ls -a > filecount && wc -l filecount or ls -a | wc -l > 2) find / -perm 0755 -print > exec_count && wc -l > exec_count (i think this'll work.. I

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-20 Thread Colin Watson
Jimmy Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >4)ls *.c | sort 'ls' originally stood for "List and Sort", as I remember - at any rate, it already sorts. Its default output format isn't one on which 'sort' would be particularly useful anyway. -- Colin Watson

Re: sawfish (0.37.3-3) broken

2001-03-20 Thread Adam J. Henry
Still don't have this working. Tried pulling out everything related to helix and trying to install sawfish/rep again. librep9 does not appear to be available anymore--anyone know the cause for this? On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:14:13PM -0500, Adam J. Henry wrote: > Hello. > > After the recent up

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-20 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Ethan, Ahh-ha. Thank You for the info. Jim Richards On 20 Mar 2001 01:38:56 -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:21:22AM -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > > > I think i know some of these > > > > > > 1) ls -a > filecount && wc -

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-20 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Colin, Ok, Thanks for the info. I think I have been piping stuff through grep helping people on IRC so much lately I forgot that yeah, 'ls' output is already sorted! Jim Richards On 20 Mar 2001 11:06:22 +, Colin Watson wrote: > Jimmy Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: sawfish (0.37.3-3) broken

2001-03-20 Thread Adam J. Henry
I was on the right track. I couldn't find the package at debian.org, but apt-get found it. My problem is solved. On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 06:15:55AM -0500, Adam J. Henry wrote: > Still don't have this working. Tried pulling out everything related > to helix and trying to install sawfish/rep agai

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # 1. How can I find out the total number of files (also hidden) in the current # directory? # # 2. How can I find out the total number of executable files (also hidden) in # the current directory? # # 3. how to find the total number of files of a given

nfs mounted cdrom dosen't umount

2001-03-20 Thread Christopher Clark
I use nfs for various drives/directories but if I nfs mount a cdrom, when the client has finished I can't umount it. It says device is busy even when the client computer has been switched off. I have to reboot the server. What am I doing wrong? -- Regards from Chris

SCSI CDRW hangs kernel

2001-03-20 Thread Christopher Clark
I have a SCSI CDRW (Yamaha CDW4416S) on my Advansys board. It worked fine on Slink but hangs the kernel on boot-up every time with Potato. I left it disconnected but now it irritates. My SCSI cdrom is fine. Why should this be? -- Regards from Chris

Rewriting "From" address

2001-03-20 Thread Stan Brown
I am setting up a "stab;e" machine using the default postfix mail transport agent. This machine lives on my home network, and I am able to send messages to outsidde sitese from it, but I need to set it up to rewrite the "From" header to reflect my adress at my ISP, so that mail will be delivered

RE: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-20 Thread Kuhar, Mike
If you're just interested in the current directory for #1, 3 and 4, they are just variations of: ls -la | wc -l or ls -la *.c If you want to look down a subdirectory tree use: find . -name \*.c -print | wc -l -mk > -Original Message- > From: David B. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kde virus-like menu masher

2001-03-20 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
-| where did you get it from? if it's from a 3rd party source (i.e. kde.tdyc.com -| or something) im not suprised bad things happen. I don't understand why you think so. Ivan is mantaining the packages for both de Debian archives and kde.tdyc.com Potato packages so quality and integration should

Re: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?

2001-03-20 Thread christophe barbe
Sorry, I realize that I can look in the script (I don'tb know why but I was thinking that they were hidden). Perhaps you know where these scripts are saved ? Christophe On mar, 20 mar 2001 10:53:56 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:26:21AM +0100, christophe barbe wrote: > > (under

Re: Problem with yesterday's woody update

2001-03-20 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Pollywog wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:30:50 -0800 > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not being conversant in perl, can someone tell me what to do about the > > following error I received after the latest woody updates: > > > > Setting up libpaperg (1.0.5) ...

Re: Rewriting "From" address

2001-03-20 Thread Gary Coady
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:15:42AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I am setting up a "stab;e" machine using the default postfix mail > transport agent. This machine lives on my home network, and I am able to > send messages to outsidde sitese from it, but I need to set it up to > rewrite the "From" head

Re: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?

2001-03-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:34:09PM +0100, christophe barbe wrote: > Sorry, I realize that I can look in the script (I don'tb know why but I was > thinking that they were hidden). > Perhaps you know where these scripts are saved ? /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.{post,pre}{inst,rm} -- Ethan Benso

Re: Rewriting "From" address

2001-03-20 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> I am setting up a "stab;e" machine using the default postfix mail transport > agent. > This machine lives on my home network, and I am able to send messages to > outsidde > sitese from it, but I need to set it up to rewrite the "From" header to > reflect my > adress at my ISP, so that mail wil

Re: Debian on IBM Thinkpad T20

2001-03-20 Thread Richard Black
sc wrote: > Martin Würtele wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:19:52AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > > >>I got an IBM Thinkpad T20 and would like to do my small part to > >>improve the world by replacing the Windows on it with Debian. > > >>Would love to hear any stories from other travelers wh

Building Official Debian 2.2r2 CDs

2001-03-20 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents When: Wednesday 21 March 2001, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: LeRoy Cressy, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Harware RAID sugestion?

2001-03-20 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I am looking to buy a RAID controller for a server but I don't feel quite sure about support. I have been looking at ADAPTEC's SCSI RAID 2100S. On there website they say it is supported by RH Linux. I have been taking a look at my 2.2.17 sources and find no reference to it. Could someone suggest m

X in potato

2001-03-20 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have RH 6.2 and potato on the same machine. In potato X, menu letters are big say for example netscape and in RH it is reasonable. How to reduce menu letter size? Only some window managers are given in gdm for choosing. How to get others to find a place there? If debian is chosen, it always defau

xfree86 in potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-20 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have installed potato with kernel 2.2.18pre2 machine with i810 graphics on board. I couldn't get x running. I compiled kernel 2.4.1 with agpgart. I made device agpgart in /dev using MAKEDEV. I saw in /etc/modules.conf agpgart is invoked. I have RH6.2 on the same machine. I copied i810 x server XF

3com 3c905c question

2001-03-20 Thread KurtChen
dear all:    i had some problem in installtion debian 2.2   it cannot defind my 3c905c lan card,but it can work perfect in redhat 6.2 and 7.0   so have another solution or better way to clean up this problem?   thanks   a new men in linux..Kurt

PLIP and debian

2001-03-20 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, Has anyone set up PLIP connection between two linux boxes? It would be neat to have this, especially useful for transferring data from your laptop to a desktop? Any personal experience, or pointers are appreciated... TIA-- Viktor Viktor Lakics Through the Internet: [EMAIL

PPPoE broken with kernel 2.4

2001-03-20 Thread Albrecht Frank
Hello debian users, I realize, that pppoe doesn't work with kernel 2.4. It works fine with kernel 2.2.18pre21 without any changes in the software. Are there any changes necessary in the configs? (other than /etc/ipmasq/rules) My firewall box depends on pppoe and I wanted to upgrade to kernel 2.4 b

Ximian packages

2001-03-20 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello, Someone knows which are the lines to include in my source.lists to install the Ximian on my linuxbox? (And the evolution included) Thanks -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

Re: PPPoE broken with kernel 2.4

2001-03-20 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi You can try the kernel-based solution which is to compiled kernel 2.4 with pppoe support and used the patch pppd (website should be in the kernel-help). But I guess other ppl have got the pppoe package + kernel 2.4 working fine. for me I used the kernel-based solution + iptable + masquerading w

can't launch X

2001-03-20 Thread dko
i have a stable debian and i decided to upgrade it to unstable release. now i can't start KDE anymore. when i launch startx i have the following error message X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (no such file or direcotry), aborting. giving up. xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X

Re: iptables and masquerading

2001-03-20 Thread John Davidson
You probably should as this question on the netfilter (iptables) mailing list http://us4.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/netfilter The main iptables page is at http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org amd the command you are actually looking for is 'cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack' but you should be aware that

Re: 3com 3c905c question

2001-03-20 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:25:43PM +0800, KurtChen wrote: > dear all: >i had some problem in installtion debian 2.2 > it cannot defind my 3c905c lan card,but it can work perfect in > redhat 6.2 and 7.0 > so have another solution or better way to clean up this probl

security line for source.lists

2001-03-20 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Do you know about a good site to security for my source.lists file? security.debian.org isn't working for me. TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

Re: Kernel-image-2.4.2-k6 install error

2001-03-20 Thread ktb
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:19:45PM -0800, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone tried to install the new 2.4.2 kernel images in unstable? I > have and keep getting the error: > > Setting up kernel-image-2.4.2-k6 (2.4.2-1) ... > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.2-k6/

Re: MPEG player suggestions?! anyone?

2001-03-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi mark have a look at the mpeg player list http://www.linux-video.net what is your definition of "good mpeg player" ?? - plaympeg is pretty "good"... - little/no jitter and sound is in sync with the movie have fun linuxing alvin http://www.linux-1u.net ... 1U Raid5 .. 500Gb each ...

Re: 3com 3c905c question

2001-03-20 Thread antoine . maitre
hi Kent, I have the same problem with my NIC 3C905C and debian. > dmesg ?less dosn't say anything about it but >less /proc/pci  detects it here it is: Bus 0, device 12, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com Unknown device (rev 108) Vendor id=10b7. Device id=9200 Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Mast

Re: cdrom won't mount

2001-03-20 Thread SoftHome
It's not a problem with my fstab: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 as I have not problem mounting if I reboot with 2.4.2. And changing iso9660 to auto, doesn't work either. And /proc/filesystems shows: ext2 msdos vfat nodev p

Re: security line for source.lists

2001-03-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Do you know about a good site to security for my > source.lists file? security.debian.org isn't working for me. This came up last week when there were problems accessing the site. They are supposed to be fixed now... are you still unable to access it ?? Regardless, it was also mentioned that th

Re: Ximian packages

2001-03-20 Thread John Foster
"Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" wrote: > > Hello, > > Someone knows which are the lines to include in my source.lists > > to install the Ximian on my linuxbox? (And the evolution included) - They have an automatic install system that works with most of the

Re: 3com 3c905c question

2001-03-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I have the same problem with my NIC 3C905C and > debian. > > dmesg ?less dosn't say anything about it > > but > >less /proc/pci detects it It will only show up in "dmesg" if the kernel detects it. The kernel will only detect it if it knows to look for it. Without having support compiled in or as

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-20 Thread David Wright
basic problem of an endlessly-cycling error message on boot, right > when init is launched it looks like: > > modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20010320.log Read-only > file system > > Over and over. > > The disk is fine, as I can mount its partitions

Re: 3com 3c905c question

2001-03-20 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:23:00PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > hi Kent, > > I have the same problem with my NIC 3C905C and debian. > > > dmesg ?less dosn't say anything about it > > but > > >less /proc/pci  detects it > > here it is: > > Bus 0, device 12, function 0: > Ethernet

Re: MPEG player suggestions?! anyone?

2001-03-20 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 March 2001 00:08, Mark Livingstone wrote: > Looking for a good MPEG player.. so far i've tried XINE and PLAYMPEG > and both can't rewing/forward the flick. any other suggestions? I like smpeg-xmms. The picture- and sound quality of playm

Re: Ximian packages

2001-03-20 Thread Ray Percival
Go to www.debianplanet.org look at the unofficial apt sources list and search on ximian. It will give you all the lines. -- Original Message -- From: "Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:04:09 -0600 >Hello, > >Someone kn

Re: X in potato

2001-03-20 Thread Andre Berger
* L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010320 16:35 +0100: > I have RH 6.2 and potato on the same machine. In potato X, menu letters > are big say for example netscape and in RH it is reasonable. How to > reduce menu letter size? Check your XF86Config, make sure the 75dpi font entrie

Re: Problem with yesterday's woody update

2001-03-20 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:07:16PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 05:24:17PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Not being conversant in perl, can someone tell me what to do about the > > >following error I

[semi-OT] Creating new fonts

2001-03-20 Thread Colin Cashman
Can anybody give me a quick rundown on the process, or point me to docs that offer a more complete description, of how to go about creating a new font? I'm interesting in developing a couple of custom fonts for a theme I'm creating, but have absolutely no idea how! Thanks! Colin

redcarpet link

2001-03-20 Thread Pollywog
the correct link for RedCarpet is: deb ftp://spidermonkey.ximian.com/pub/red-carpet/binary/debian-22-i386/ ./

Re: nfs mounted cdrom dosen't umount

2001-03-20 Thread Nate Amsden
Christopher Clark wrote: > > I use nfs for various drives/directories but if I nfs mount a cdrom, when the > client has finished I can't umount it. It says device is busy even when the > client computer has been switched off. I have to reboot the server. > What am I doing wrong? it is "in use"

Re: Harware RAID sugestion?

2001-03-20 Thread Nate Amsden
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > I am looking to buy a RAID controller for a server but I don't feel > quite sure about support. > I have been looking at ADAPTEC's SCSI RAID 2100S. On there website they > say it is supported by RH Linux. I have been taking a look at my 2.2.17 > sources and find no r

Re: Problems with talkd

2001-03-20 Thread Preben Randhol
"Eric G. Miller" wrote on 19/03/2001 (17:10) : > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:44:44PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > I cannot get talk to work _to_ my machine. When people try to talk it > > says I refuse to talk to them. If I talk to them, then it works. Does > > anybody have a solution for this?

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-20 Thread Morgan Fletcher
"Oliver Elphick" writes: > Once you have got that far, switch to /dev/tty2 (Alt + F2) and do this > > # cd /target(or maybe /mnt -- i can't check that at the moment) > > # ls should show you the contents of your root partition on the hard disk > > # sbin/lilo -r /target Oliver, I

RE: 3com 3c905c question

2001-03-20 Thread Joris Lambrecht
You should use the boomerang or vortex driver, i think it says 3c59x adapter but it works with a 3c905c as well. Otherwise visit the 3com website, for some cards there are linux modules available, could be wrong about this but worth a try   greets,   joris -Original Message-From:

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 5)

2001-03-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.2 on a Debian 2.2r2 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. The problems some people had with the kernel images should be fixed with the new initrd-tools package. Changes since the last release: + updated: ini

Ogg Vorbis-Potato

2001-03-20 Thread Lang Hurst
Good day all. I'm running a pretty straight 2.2.r2 release. I would like to install all the Ogg Vorbis stuff and start encoding my CD's, but I don't want to upgrade to Woody yet, as the two times I have tried my system became, as the deb states, unstable. Is there a way to install Ogg Vorbis on

Re: Problems runing xawtv

2001-03-20 Thread Stan Brown
On Mon Mar 19 21:50:09 2001 Nate Amsden wrote... > >Stan Brown wrote: >> >> I have build a nice new machine with a WinTV card. Now I want to plat :-) >> >> Loaded the xawtv package, and when I try to run it I get: >> >> Script started on Mon Mar 19 20:47:29 2001 >> yogi:/etc# xawtv >> xawtv: err

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
Morgan Fletcher wrote: ># sbin/lilo -r /target >sbin/lilo: /sbin/lilo.real: not found ># sbin/lilo.real -r /target >sbin/lilo.real: error in loading shared libraries: sbin/lilo.real: symbol fs >tatfs, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time re >ference

Re: Problem with yesterday's woody update

2001-03-20 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:07:16PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >> on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 05:24:17PM +, Colin Watson >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >Not being conversant in perl, can someone tell

Re: Problem with yesterday's woody update

2001-03-20 Thread Colin Watson
David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Pollywog wrote: >> I got similar errors, but I am using a different PERL version, so >> the problem may not be with PERL but with debconf. s/PERL/Perl/ or s/PERL/perl/ *shudder* >I'm not sure - I managed to get around this error by mod

startx not passing options to server?

2001-03-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I recently downgraded from XFree 4 to 3.3.6 (the one in Potato). I also made sure to downgrade xbase-clients and xserver-svga (the server I'm using). Then, I recreated my XF86Config file. I have my XF86Config file set up so that there is only one resolution choice for each color depth. That way

Re: Problems with talkd

2001-03-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:35:12PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > [No connection yet] > [Your party is refusing messages] > > If I use the talkd and talk from the stable distribution it claims I'm > not logged on. When you run 'w' or 'who', what do you get? I suspect you're logged in a bunch of

Re: Problems runing xawtv

2001-03-20 Thread Jason Majors
Have you made sure that /usr/X11/lib is either in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or in /etc/ld.so.conf? On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:44:54AM -0500, Stan Brown scribbled... > On Mon Mar 19 21:50:09 2001 Nate Amsden wrote... > > > >Stan Brown wrote: > >> > >> I have build a nice new machine with a WinTV card. Now

Re: xset problem -- dpms keeps shutting off

2001-03-20 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:00:50AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Debian/Sid, x86. > > After a system update yesterday, I noticed: > > - xset dpms keeps getting shut off. > > My monitor doesn't automatically blank, stand-by, and shut off. If I > force dpms back on and a monitor shut

Netscape often hangs

2001-03-20 Thread Felix E. Klee
Hi, I use Netscape 4.76 together with Debian 2.2r2. Very often when I start Nescape and click its menu bar the cursor changes and all of X freezes (btw, I'm running Gnome). I then have to switch to the console and kill Netscape in order to continue working with X. What might be causing this proble

Customizing a source package (how to patch a deb-src?)

2001-03-20 Thread Arcady Genkin
Suppose that I want to (1) specify my own flags to ./configure, and (2) apply a patch of my own to an app's source tree before the deb source package builds. Is this achievable with debian source packages? If yes, any pointers would be highly appreciated. Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Nostalgia

dpkg question

2001-03-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
what does this mean: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg --yet-to-unpack glide-v5 (no description available) lesstif-bin (no description available) abiword (no description available) libparted1 (no description available) gimp (no description avai

Re: Problems runing xawtv

2001-03-20 Thread Stan Brown
On Tue Mar 20 12:04:38 2001 Jason Majors wrote... > >Have you made sure that /usr/X11/lib is either in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or in=20 >/etc/ld.so.conf? > > You mean /usr/lib/X11R6, right? Script started on Tue Mar 20 12:36:53 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/ld*f /usr/lib/libc5-compat/Xaw3d

Re: Nvidia and source packages

2001-03-20 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:21:36AM -0600, 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

Re: Netscape often hangs

2001-03-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 20 Mar 01, 6:30 PM, Felix E. Klee said: > Hi, > > I use Netscape 4.76 together with Debian 2.2r2. Very often when I start > Nescape and click its menu bar the cursor changes and all of X freezes > (btw, I'm running Gnome). I then have to switch to the console and kill > Netscape in order

sound compiled into kernel as opposed to a module

2001-03-20 Thread Charles Lewis
I have a es1371 card and I've compiled support into the kernel (not as a module). How does the install process differ? Before all I had to do was go into modconf and select it. Now I'm not sure what to do. It is detecting the card on bootup. I see it in /proc/devices and /proc/interrupts but if I

Re: xset problem -- dpms keeps shutting off

2001-03-20 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:00:50AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Debian/Sid, x86. > > After a system update yesterday, I noticed: > > - A new splash screen for xscreensaver. > - xset dpms keeps getting shut off. > > My monitor doesn't automatically blank, stand-by, and shut off.

Working with Rich Text Format in Linux.

2001-03-20 Thread Simmons-Davis
Dear Debian Group, I would like to know what program you can use to work with Rich Text Format in Linux. Thank you, Ry

Re: Gnome font size settings?

2001-03-20 Thread kmself
on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:40:00AM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon Mar 19 21:24:10 2001 wrote... > > > > > >--m51xatjYGsM+13rf > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Content-Disposition: inline > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > >on Mon, Mar 19, 200

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