Re: alsa driver

2001-03-28 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I don't know how to install alsa drivers on my potato machine with the > > 2.4.2 kernel. > > I downloaded from the potato server the following packages and I > > succesfully ins

Multidomain on email server

2001-03-28 Thread Thierry Fernier
Hi,   I've a server which accept three domains example a.com, b.com and c.com i've created mail account for the three domains (a name in a domain doesn't exist in the other domains.) when a user wrote a message with the c.com domain, the recever see that the mail adress of the sender is o

Error compiling kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-28 Thread mauro
I'm not able to compile de kernel, exactly when I do the "make bzImage" command I obtain this error: o bbootsect.s as -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s bbootsect.s: Assembler messages: bbootsect.s:253: Warning: indirect lcall without `*' ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o

Module permissions????

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Victor
Hi. I compiled a third-party module for my soundcard. B4 I switched to Debian, I set it up by: $ su Password: # cd /root/maestro # insmod ./maestro3.o # exit $ exit Now, for some reason, when I log in as normal user and do that, even if I log out and back in, it can't find a mixer. However, if I

USB

2001-03-28 Thread robert hoedicke
Hi Everyone! I am trying to connect an Epson Stylus Photo 1290 printer to stable potato with kenel 2.2.18pre21. I have compiled the kernel with usb and usb-printer support. The only documentation on usb I could find came with the kernel sources. There is some talk of /dev/usb and /dev/ttyUSB, but

Re: home network

2001-03-28 Thread pemhuygen
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do I need to [build a home ethernet network] (other than NICs and > cable, of course)? What is the difference between a hub and switch? You don't need a hub or switch if you implement an ethernet with coax cables. Otoh, a coax network is limited to a bandw

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:18:49AM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop > it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do > this? You don't want to chop the file, that would imply burning a single wav file sp

Re: XFree 4.0.2 and gpm probs

2001-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have noticed something that may be related (maybe not). Since I set up gpm to repeat, occasionally it will malfunction after a while. I can still highlight text, but pasting will not work. If I click the right mouse button, an area several lines above the cursor will be highlighted instead. R

Re: Mime Type of Debian package

2001-03-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Delavigne, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I download a Debian package I get a huge amount of weird text > on my Netscape Navigator window. I assume this is because I don't have NN > tuned to handle "deb" packages properly. I went into > PREFERENCES/NAVIGATOR/APPLICATIONS and tried t

Unavailable packages question

2001-03-28 Thread Neil Booth
This is the output of a couple of dpkg commands on my system:- monkey:/home/neil# dpkg -l "mutt*" Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/

Re: apt-get update

2001-03-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:12:38PM -0700, eric wrote: ... > thanks your hint, from some of mailing list stated, upgrade kernel seem > more complex process in debian than in rpm distributions. In that mail: > > Got my old config file from /boot > and put it in the source and did a make oldconfi

RE: Unavailable packages question

2001-03-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > > So, why is "mutt-i" still listed if it is not available? How can I > flush these "unavailable" packages so they don't clutter up the > packaging system? dpkg --forget-old-unavail appears to be what I > want, but it does nothing from what I can surmise. > # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e

Re: USB

2001-03-28 Thread cfelling
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:02:46PM +0200, robert hoedicke wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I am trying to connect an Epson Stylus Photo 1290 printer to > stable potato with kenel 2.2.18pre21. I have compiled the kernel > with usb and usb-printer support. The only documentation on usb > I could find came

Re: Error compiling kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-28 Thread Vinh Truong
you will need to replace all occurences of -oformat in the Makefile in /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/arch/i386/boot with --oformat HTH Vinh * mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010328 11:47]: > > I'm not able to compile de kernel, exactly when I do the "make bzImage" > command I obtain this error: > > o bboo

xf86Setup

2001-03-28 Thread Tim Boring
Hello! I've successfully installed Debian 2.2r2 but am now trying to configure the X server. When I run xf86Setup, it attempts to start the GUI configuration, but then just stops at a gray screen. If I cntrl>alt>backspace then I get the message: "Program is running on a different virtual termin

RE: Error compiling kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-28 Thread Jason P. Holland
have you upgraded all the necessary packages as listed in /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/Documentation/Changes?? it looks like binutils is not up to date. Jason > > you will need to replace all occurences of -oformat in the Makefile in > /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/arch/i386/boot with --oformat > > HTH > Vinh >

Re: Multidomain on email server

2001-03-28 Thread Bill White
There is a way to do this using exim. I do it on my home machine, which hosts about 5 different phony-baloney lefty domains. I don't recall right away how to do it, but I recall that the manual is pretty clear if you drill down to the right place. I don't know how exim scales to very large sites

Re: apt-get update

2001-03-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:41:27PM -0500, Bill White wrote: ... > I never use dselect. I only use apt and dpkg. Or are dpkg and > dselect essentially the same thing? If so, do I need to use > dselect to update the available packages, or is there a dpkg > version. As far as I know, apt and dsele

corrupt /var/lib/dpkg/available

2001-03-28 Thread Tim Kelley
I'm having problems ... Whenever I try to use dpkg, it reports all sorts of errors in the "available" file. Is there any way to rebuild this file? There are too many errors to correct by hand, and there's all sorts of trash in the file (eg., md5sum info split across several lines, missing word

dpkg / apt history

2001-03-28 Thread Paindavoine, Matthieu \(MPAINDAV\)
I just installed a new package, using apt-get. Apt-get figured that some packages were in its way, and politely asked me to replace them. Woe unto me! Although the system boots normally, I can't 'startx', or 'ifup eth0'... Is there a way to backtrack the changes that have occured on my box? Thanks

[no subject]

2001-03-28 Thread Shannon Menkveld
I am really confused... I downloaded several .deb packages from ftp.debian.org on my machine at work, and burned them to a CD-RW to take home. I copied the files to a directory /home/Backups/debian, and added a line to /etc/apt/apt.sources: deb file://home/Backups/debian/ According to t

Re: xf86Setup

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
By different virtual terminal it means terminal 7 (Alt+F7). It has nothing to do with xterms. Sounds like X doesn't like your hardware or your config. On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:57:27AM -0800, Tim Boring scribbled... > Hello! I've successfully installed Debian 2.2r2 but > am now trying to configu

DLT8000 TAPE DRIVES and DEBIAN?

2001-03-28 Thread Dean Roman
Hello all, I am trying to use a quantum DLT8000 tape drive with my debian system. It seems to write 96K and then hangs. I see a bunch of input/output errrors . Has anybody had any luck with Quantum DLT8000 tape drives, or using Legato with Debian? The drive is scsi attached and using the

sis 5597

2001-03-28 Thread Davis, Kenneth
Sir I'm using the sis5597 vga driver. I am receiving and error when I try 2 watch DVD movies. Does this driver support DVD? Kenneth

speaker sound for my laptop

2001-03-28 Thread Jake R. Johnson
I currently get a beep or two out of my laptop speakers and want to play audio out of them. Is there some way that I can redirect /dev/dsp to the speakers. Autocompletion and pine will beep at me...so help because I need some tune!

Enlightenment and Gnome won't work

2001-03-28 Thread Micah Bogdan
hi there debian! sorry to bug you but when i installed linux, enlightenment and gnome don't install. I know i selected the right packages but they still won't install. I went in through dselect but it says my packages conflict with each other. Can you please tell me what to do so i can have and

Re: your mail

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:12:59AM -0800, Shannon Menkveld scribbled... > I am really confused... I downloaded several .deb packages from > ftp.debian.org on my machine at work, and burned them to a CD-RW to take > home. I copied the files to a directory /home/Backups/debian, and added a > line t

Re: speaker sound for my laptop

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
With mpg123 you can redirect output to the pc speaker (if you like ultra-low quality playback... :). mpg123 -o s ... Don't know about redirection on a system wide level. On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:12:54PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson scribbled... > I currently get a beep or two out of my laptop speakers

Re: speaker sound for my laptop

2001-03-28 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
have you configured your kernel for sound? On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > I currently get a beep or two out of my laptop speakers and want to play > audio out of them. Is there some way that I can redirect /dev/dsp to the > speakers. Autocompletion and pine will beep at me...so

Re: Unavailable packages question

2001-03-28 Thread Neil Booth
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:- > # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/deinstall$/purge/'|dpkg --set-selections > # apt-get dselect-upgrade > > what this does is find packages that were removed but not purged and purges > them. That doesn't appear to do what I want. The mutt-i package is not flagged "

Re: Enlightenment and Gnome won't work

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
Run (as root) apt-get install enlightenment task-gnome-apss task-gnome-desktop If it fails reply with a copy of your error messages, so we can get a better idea what's wrong. On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:13:40PM -0600, Micah Bogdan scribbled... > hi there debian! sorry to bug you but when i installe

Printing

2001-03-28 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Printing is working fine for me, except for one annoying thing that I haven't figured out how to shut off. A job will print, then an extra page will print with something like the following: User: stephen Host: firestarter Class: firestarter Job: stdin This sure looks like a banner page to me.

duplicate packages found via sources.list

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Peterson
What happens if multiple URI's in sources.list can be used to find a particular package? Does the first one win? What if you find the same package twice, but different versions? Is there a way to say 'apt-get install most-recent'? In my case, I want to install the most recent kdebase. I have

Re: Enlightenment and Gnome won't work

2001-03-28 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
i had to install gnome (apt-get worked fine for this), then download and compile the source for enlightenment. -- steve On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Micah Bogdan wrote: > hi there debian! sorry to bug you but when i installed linux, enlightenment > and gnome don't install. I know i selected the right p

Linux 2.4.2 rescue disk

2001-03-28 Thread Marius Moisescu
Hello, I've been looking for a 2.4.2 kernel rescue disk and haven't found any ready-made one yet. What I really need is kernel 2.4.x and mkreiserfs version 3.6.x (which supports files larger than 4GB) on a floppy. Then I would install Debian Potato, and finally dist-upgrade to unstable. But I r

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
"Jake R. Johnson" wrote: > I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop > it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do > this? Maybe with "dd" or with "split", i have only used "split" long time ago on Solaris, and it was useful with text file,

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with > 2MB ram on it. Anyone know of a Linux distro that will run on it? Maybe > one of the embedded one's? > > Ironic that PDA's are more powerful nowadays. > Don't remember the right name, something

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread joeytsai
:: William Leese :: > Moz installs the plugins in the wrong dir.. remove the plugins subdirectory > in your moz dir. and link it to the directory where the plugins are > installed. Or cp/mv the plugins to that directory Could you be more specific? Moz installs to which wrong subdirectory? And

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread joeytsai
:: DvB :: > This is actually a known issue with 0.8 (should be in the release notes, > I think...). To fix it, make a symlink in $MOZDIR/plugins which points > to the actual library file (I for get where it is... something like > java1.2/plugin/i386/ns600). [corban][03:02pm][/usr/lib/mozilla/pl

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread William Leese
> > Moz installs the plugins in the wrong dir.. remove the plugins > > subdirectory in your moz dir. and link it to the directory where the > > plugins are installed. Or cp/mv the plugins to that directory > > Could you be more specific? Moz installs to which wrong subdirectory? And > which is th

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:32:16PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > "Jake R. Johnson" wrote: > > > I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop > > it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do > > this? > > Maybe with "dd" or with "split", i h

Re: why does it use swap?

2001-03-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > I guess that kind of makes sense. If the kernel ever needs to access > the swapped pages, it's got them cached so it can do it quickly. > But if it ever needs a whole lot of RAM for something else¸ it can merely > re-allocate th

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i remember seeing linux that works in 512k ram. forget what it was called, but i yahoo'd it under +linux +286 pete On Wed 28 Mar 01, 9:38 PM, Andrea Vettorello said: > Jonathan Gift wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with > > 2MB ram on

Re: cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?

2001-03-28 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > cdrecord doesn't use the kernel cdrom driver, it uses a raw scsi > interface (sg), so only specifying the cdrom device doesn't work :) Does cdrecord go straight to the hardware because the kernel CD-ROM drivers are read-only drivers? If so then it seems that someda

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:43:02AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:13:08PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > In console mode, check your fonts used under SVGATextMode. I > > have the following font entries in /etc/TextConfig (I think > > they're defaul

Re: Installing Debian

2001-03-28 Thread francisco m . neto
» Shawn Garbett disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > I have a CDROM installed on the second IDE connector as Master. I don't > find any kernel modules that fit this, so I assume it's part of the base > package. Then once it's all installed, I go to play a music CD and it > doesn't work. The error mes

cdrecord audio indexing???

2001-03-28 Thread Jake R. Johnson
i have really large techno audio tracks and I want to be able to make one song into several tracks without chopping up the song. How do I use the cdrecord index option?? THanks

problem with sshd version OpenSSH_2.5.2p2

2001-03-28 Thread Miguel S. Filipe
Hi to all, here is my problem: i can't login! --(m3thos#:~/data/mp3/tmp)-- ssh localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. -(taken from: /var/log/auth.log)- Mar 28 20:08:53 foton sshd[7963]: Failed password for m3thos from 127.0.0.1 port 1181 Mar 28 20:08:59 f

Sound

2001-03-28 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
I'm having a little problem with my sound. I've got it working fine on one laptop (Gateway Solo 2500 running RH6.2), but on the second laptop (same model running woody) it's flaked out. I think it has to do with my IO ports. I've compiled everything as modules, so at boot up: modprobe mpu401 m

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Golan
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:07:23PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:18:49AM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > > I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop > > it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do > > this? > > Y

Re: cdrecord audio indexing???

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Golan
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:48:32PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > i have really large techno audio tracks and I want to be able to make one > song into several tracks without chopping up the song. How do I use the > cdrecord index option?? Take a look at cdrdao and its toc files. -- Ron Golan

can't lock /etc/mail/aliases

2001-03-28 Thread aphro
im getting this on a buncha systems when i run 'newaliases' mail:/etc/mail# newaliases warning: cannot lock /etc/mail/aliases: Error 0 /etc/mail/aliases: 332 aliases, longest 63 bytes, 12743 bytes total but according to lsof nothing is using it: mail:/etc/mail# lsof | grep /etc/mail/aliases mai

INN Access w/ Shadow Passwords

2001-03-28 Thread Brian White
I'm having trouble getting INN to run such that it requires userid/password to get access to it. I suspect this is because it doesn't have permission to read the /etc/shadow file, but I don't know why. I've tried adding news to the shadow group. I've tried setting the passwd file to specify news

RE: Linux 2.4.2 rescue disk

2001-03-28 Thread Marius Moisescu
Thanks Ray, I've found what I've been looking for. So, if anyone would like to install potato using a 2.4.2 kernel/mkreiserfs 3.6.25, there are two sites that deal with this: http://yokkunlinux.hypermart.net/, and http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~geiger/debian-reiserfs/ Again, thanks again for hel

Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Barry Mathieu
Hello, Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web transactions? Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive a message something like "connection refused". Being a newbie, I would like

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:41:55PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:43:02AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > after `locate` and `dpkg -S` and `apt-cache search` and > > `http://packages.debian.org` i remain quite in the dark as to > > where to get suc

Re: cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?

2001-03-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:42:17PM -0600, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > cdrecord doesn't use the kernel cdrom driver, it uses a raw scsi > > interface (sg), so only specifying the cdrom device doesn't work :) > > > Does cdrecord go straight to the hardware because the

Re: Printing

2001-03-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
I know next to nothing of printing, so stupid ideas ahead, but... On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:32:06PM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: ... > Class: firestarter Class looks like your using cups? I thought cups didn't use /etc/printcap, but its own config files? > lp|hp2100|HP LaserJet 2100TN:\

Anyone successful w/Genpower & Tripp lite UPS?

2001-03-28 Thread John Kerr Anderson
I have a Tripp Lite Office Professional 500 and I have tried setting it up with a variety of programs, the software that comes with it does not work on Debian. Everything seems to point to using Genpower, but I'm not sure how to configure it right. Any suggestions? --

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread John Ericson
On Mar 28 17:06, Barry Mathieu wrote: > Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package > that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web > transactions? > > Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive > a message something like "connectio

Re: Anyone successful w/Genpower & Tripp lite UPS?

2001-03-28 Thread mark
I'm using powstatd with a Tripp Lite Internet Office 500 and it works fine. May be the same as yours, maybe not. -- Mark On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:13:50PM -0500, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > I have a Tripp Lite Office Professional 500 and I have tried setting it up > with a variety of programs, t

Re: XFree 4.0.2 and gpm probs

2001-03-28 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:15:21AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: |I have noticed something that may be related (maybe not). Since I set |up gpm to repeat, occasionally it will malfunction after a while. I |can still highlight text, but pasting will not work. If I click the |right mouse button, an ar

Re: lpd init script

2001-03-28 Thread John Ericson
On Mar 29 11:15, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > Through some absolute idiocy on my part, I managed to trash my > /etc/init.d/lpd script this morning. To further prove that I'm incapable, > I don't have a back up of it. > > Does anyone know where I can download this script, or could someone > possib

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread William Leese
> > Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package > > that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web > > transactions? > > > > Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive > > a message something like "connection refused". > > I have the s

Re: Promise Raid Card

2001-03-28 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
The Debian package named 'kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-ide' sounds like what you need. Or else 'kernel-image-2.2.17-ide' if you want the slightly older kernel. Both packages say they were 'compiled with the UDMA66 patch from Andre Hedrick'. They also say 'If you have an IDE controller which require

Re: Mime Type of Debian package

2001-03-28 Thread John Ericson
On Mar 28 09:31, Delavigne, Ken wrote: > Please tell me what MIME TYPE Deb packages are, and if I am taking > the correct action to correct how Netscape handles downloads of packages. /etc/mime.types says "application/x-debian-package" but my netscape says "application/x-deb". Try anyone of

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Claus
>: >: > If my existing conclusion is correct, then it appears I must use >: > something like Netscape, with the appropriate .deb install pkg, for >: > connecting to a secure server. >: >: Yes. Netscape 4.x. Package: konqueror Version: 4:2.0.1-0.potato6 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maint

Re: duplicate packages found via sources.list

2001-03-28 Thread John Ericson
On Mar 28 14:40, Ron Peterson wrote: > What happens if multiple URI's in sources.list can be used to find a > particular package? Does the first one win? What if you find the same > package twice, but different versions? Is there a way to say 'apt-get > install most-recent'? > > In my case, I

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Kent West
Barry Mathieu wrote: Hello, Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web transactions? Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive a message something like "connection refused". Bein

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:56:59PM -0600, Kent West scribbled... > Barry Mathieu wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package > > that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web > > transactions? > > > > Each time I attempt to

Re: why does it use swap?

2001-03-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:14:51PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > But you already answered the question... If a page looks unlikely > to be used in the near future and there's spare CPU and I/O bandwidth > available, there's no reason not to swap it to cache. If it's needed, > the cost of restori

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-28 Thread Andre Berger
* will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010329 00:29 +0100: [...] > which *.deb contains "locale-gen"? [...] Does any in potato? Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:06:38PM -0500, Barry Mathieu wrote: > Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package > that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web > transactions? Yes, but why on earth would you want to use that version of mozilla? Perfomance

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Bob Wilkinson
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:18:49AM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > > I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop > > it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do > > this? > use gramofile http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/ Bob

Unidentified subject!

2001-03-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> I am really confused... I downloaded several .deb packages from > ftp.debian.org on my machine at work, and burned them to a CD-RW to take > home. I copied the files to a directory /home/Backups/debian, and added a > line to /etc/apt/apt.sources: > > deb file://home/Backups/debian/ > >

Re: dpkg / apt history

2001-03-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> I just installed a new package, using apt-get. Apt-get figured that some > packages were in its way, and politely asked me to replace them. Woe unto > me! Although the system boots normally, I can't 'startx', or 'ifup eth0'... > Is there a way to backtrack the changes that have occured on my box?

Re: GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

2001-03-28 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure Nvidia's drivers work at 24bpp, so you might want to try > running at 16bpp. Also, you did remember to change the driver in your > XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if that file exists on your system) file to be > "nvidia" rather than "nv", rig

Re: lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-28 Thread Jens Gecius
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There are no /dev/i2c files around. How can I create them. Is there a > > > skript? > > > > Sorry, I forgot: if you want to use the i2c-interface, you also need > > the i2c-source package. These are some additional modules to make > > available

Repost (Apologies for HTML): Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I've been gently adviced to post messages in text only mode, I apologize for any inconvenience. I'm posting in text only in other Linux oriented lists already, but I'm new to this list and I forgot to select text only as default. Thanks for the responses I already got to m

Re: alsa driver

2001-03-28 Thread Sean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The potato alsa packages are very out of date. I would recommend downloading the source tarballs and using ALSA that way. Sean On Wednesday 28 March 2001 11:33, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi > > I don't know how to install alsa drivers on my potato

Re: NVIDIA GeForce2MX problem

2001-03-28 Thread Rick Rezinas
getting in on this thread a bit late, but if you upgrade to 2.4 you need to restart before you can do the kernel patches, otherwise you'll patch the 2.2 modules. On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Zac Epkes wrote: > Hmm, im not sure you have to be using 2.4 but it wouldnt help... make sure > you have to corre

Linux Version

2001-03-28 Thread bob bobbleson
I'm new to Linux, I've installed Mandrake and Storm, but that's it. I have a 486 with 8 megs of RAM that I want to put Linux on. What version should I use? Will I need a RAM upgrade? And where will I be able to download it. Thank you. __

lilo, /boot, symlinks

2001-03-28 Thread Bud Rogers
Ack. I've just spent a frustrating couple of hours trying to get a new potato install to boot from the hard drive. It has a small /boot partition at hda1, / at hda2. The install process set up lilo.conf to boot /vmlinuz, which is a symlink to the real kernel in /boot. I thought maybe the cr

Re: XFree 4.0.2 and gpm probs

2001-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:16:01AM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:15:21AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > |I have noticed something that may be related (maybe not). Since I set > |up gpm to repeat, occasionally it will malfunction after a while. I > |can still highlight

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-28 Thread Christian Eyre
>Hi Christian: > Since the problem is with pert-*-suid can you >rm that first? HTH Dean Hi Dean, the post-removal script fails with the command dpkg --purge perl-5.004-suid, andunmet dependencies lead apt-get remove perl-5.004-suid to fail: apt-get remove perl-5.004-suid You might want to

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-28 Thread eric
Nate Amsden wrote: Mark Devin wrote: How safe would it be to always run with "unstable" - continually updating?. Am I likely to get a broken system which cannot be fixed without expert skills? its amazing how many people want to run unstable.. you are likely to get a broken system at one p

Re: cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?

2001-03-28 Thread eric
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:46:31PM -0600, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > > I have a CD writer located at '/dev/burner'. > > > > It's an IDE drive, but I use ide-scsi to make it look like a SCSI device > > with bus ID '1,1,0'. > > > > It works fine. I've just always wondere

Segmentation fault

2001-03-28 Thread wen
Hi, When I try to install gphoto by apt-get from unstable, I got the following error message and finally the installation failed. Could someone help me? Regards, --Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED] # apt-get install gphoto Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-28 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:22:14 Darryl Rvthering writes: DR> Can someone explain the advantage many see in Debian upgrades vrs. RedHat? DR> To take a concrete example, lets say I planned to start upgrading my home DR> throwaway box (where I put up slink a few years back). FYI, Vin

xfree86 and woody

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Peterson
What's the story with xfree86 and woody? I don't see any debs for xfree86 in that tree. There are various .deb's in pool, but the most recent ones don't seem to be associated with any dist, including unstable. I've tried searching the list archives on this, but the search page keeps stalling on

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Devin
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > Packages from security.debian.org won't be installed into testing by > apt-get, because even though they might be "newer", they still are an > older version of the package, merely patched to fix the security > problem. O. I am beginning to see a possible problem

upgrade to 2.4.2 meet kernel panic

2001-03-28 Thread eric
Dear Debian linux experts: With /boot directory having 2.4.2 initrc and vmlinuz , I adding some lines in my grub(copy original 4 lines replace old kernel initrc .gz and vmlinuz ) reboot I did see new line in grub exhibit my 2.4.2 line but after I choose it it stop as kernel panic , need exper

debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-28 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? Is it automagically updated ??? Diskspace required for each of these Debian dis

Installing shadow/md5 passwords after the fact?

2001-03-28 Thread Ross Smith
I recently installed 2.2r0 and said no to the shadow/MD5 questions during installation 'cause I was gonna install NIS. Now I'd like to turn on shadow & MD5 passwords. It seems that turning on MD5 passwords is as simple as # /etc/pam.d/login: password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure mi

use of suck

2001-03-28 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have installed suck for getting and reading news offline. I have edited the file .get.news.inn with -U and -P options for username and password in addition to folders and made user added to news group. Still when I try tp connect I get the following error messages. Any solutions? [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installing shadow/md5 passwords after the fact?

2001-03-28 Thread Joey Hess
Ross Smith wrote: > But I can't find any mention of turning on shadow passwords. shadowconfig on Note that you can also use dpkg-reconfigure base-config to re-see some of the questions it asked at install time. -- see shy jo

gnome-apt and free-amp in woody

2001-03-28 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi all. gnome-apt and freeamp seem to have dropped out of testing for the time being. Has anyone who is running woody tried using dpkg to install either of these from sid or are there dependency problems? I guess I could live without themjust wondering though. Thanks, Glen

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Peterson
Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how > much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the > following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? > Is it automagically updated ??? I mirror debian, deb

Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Devin
Does anyone know anything further on this new W32.Winux virus. Check out this link: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5329436.html?tag=st.cn.1.lthd Surely this virus cannot overwrite executables that require root permission? Or can it? Cheers. Mark.

Re: xfree86 and woody

2001-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
The woody packages for xfree86 are in pool. The packages file gives the location of the various packages and may be different for woody and sid, even though both versions exist in the same directory under pool. The woody xfree86 packages are currently version 4.02-7, while sid packages are later.

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