[OT] Minimum CPU speed for playing DIVX avis?

2001-06-07 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, I got mplayer (http://mplayer.sourceforge.net) working very nicely, only that CPU utilization is constantly at 100% (~ 92% user, 8% system) and sound is very broken after 10 seconds playing. The video is fine though. I have a 333MHz Celeron with MMX, use X 3.3.6 from woody, and have a

Re: Low Memory Install?

2001-06-07 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux > for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The > last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM > was in 1996 or 1

MSN internet dial up connection problem

2001-06-07 Thread Abner Gershon
Does anyone have successful experience dialing in to MSN (micrsoft network) with wvdial. I keep getting bad password error. I have rechecked the configuration file and the correct password is entered. Is there a security string of characters before or after the password perhaps? I have emailed MSN

Re: PDAs

2001-06-07 Thread Shawn P . Garbett
On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:04, Darryl Röthering wrote: > I too need to buy a PDA this week. Could those offering advice on this > thread also consider any knowledge they have about cell-phone/modem > integration? I understand that the Palm 7 can come with a modem. But can > you get a cell phone i

Re: Audio CDs [solved]

2001-06-07 Thread David Nusinow
Hi Robert, On Thursday 07 June 2001 06:08 am, Robert Mosher wrote: > I'm now able to play audio CDs and would like to say thanks to every who > gave advice. I ended up solving the problem by giving "others" permission > to read cdrom. Though I do realize this may not be the best solution. I > thi

Re: PDAs

2001-06-07 Thread ricky
I'm using a Palm IIIxe and a Siemens S25 with the infrared port to login with SSH on my machine when I'm on the road, works good. The onlything is I've got to findout how to adjust my terminal settings because the fonts are very small. But overall I'm rather happy with it. Mark -- ---

Re: package libcommonc++-dev kept back

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
Alex Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libcommonc++-dev: Depends: libcommonc++-1.4 (= 1.4.2-1) but it is not >installable >E: Sorry, broken packages >-- > >What's wrong? Does anybody know this? It's quite annoying to see >that message e

Re: web based email client

2001-06-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya my collection of web-based emails http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Mail/webmail.txt c ya alvin http://www.Linux-Sec.net On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Cleto Pescia wrote: > Hello, > > > I would like to hear from you about the best web based email client > > that would run on a debian potato machi

Re: impement a virus scanner to postfix

2001-06-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi tim i dont have a specific one for postfix...but...here's the collection of linux-based anti-virus scanners http://www.linux-Sec.net/server.gwif.html#Mail have fun alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > "tim.tim.tim" wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > i

Re: fetchmail, procmail, and bad mbox formats

2001-06-07 Thread Glyn Millington
Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just recently got fetchmail and procmail working together with ssmtp > to bring my pop email to my machine and throw it into an mbox. The > problem I'm having, though, is that with MUAs like Mutt and Pine are > saying that the format of the mbox the procmail

XF86Setup problem

2001-06-07 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, I already asked this question in my local linux ng, but the answer were not that helpfull. So I hope somebody can give me an answer here. I would like to reconfigure X windows on my machine. Especially the grafical settings need some finetuning. I would like to change resolutions and add vi

equivs package usage

2001-06-07 Thread john gennard
At the beginning of May, Colin Watson kindly gave me the following advice to solve a problem I then had. I changed my whole approach to an email setup and did not use his advice. Now, having again 'changed direction', I need to change 'postfix' for 'nullmailer'. ( I had installed nullmail after c

Re: METAFONT

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Gerard
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 05:42:28PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Sunday, June 3, Robin Gerard did write: > > hello, > > I tried to use METAFONT and when I did > > mf dessinmf.mf I got this message : > > proofrulethickness .05u > > (1) mf: Window support for X was not compiled > >

3 problems: Printing with CUPS, Kernel boot parameters, and KDE login.

2001-06-07 Thread John
1. I Have a lexmark 3200 printer. Using Kups, i configured my printer. The cupsomatic driver doesnt work at all, and the gimp print will print, but with some problems. When i tried to print a test page, it got about a quarter way down the page, then stopped, the head moved all the way to the ri

Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!

2001-06-07 Thread Lorens Kulla
I had the same problem. I ran update-menu, apt-get remove/install but still could not get my menus back. I then useradd noone,(created a bogus user) and logged in with wmaker. Lo and behold noone had the original menu. So I copied the contents of home/noone/GNUstep/defaults to the other users direc

Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!

2001-06-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I get my menu's back? This has become a real pain not having any. > Check ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu. Try moving it out of the way completely and copying /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu to its place. noah -- __

Re: ascii formatting package

2001-06-07 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:39:22PM -0700, Robert L. Yelvington wrote: > can anyone suggest a good package to format ascii docs to be converted > to pdf? > what i am looking for is something that can outline blocks of text with > boxes, selectively shade lines or single words as wells bold, italici

Re: Re: ascii formatting package

2001-06-07 Thread MRZ
Let me throw my $0.02 cents in. Rather than using whitespace to delineate those elements, for the little extra effort involved in coding it might be worthwhile to use some non-standard (for ascii that it) characters. That way you could do some consistency/error/ *whatever* checking.. Then agai

Re: MSN internet dial up connection problem

2001-06-07 Thread Kevin Ross
> Does anyone have successful experience dialing in to > MSN (micrsoft network) with wvdial. I keep getting bad > password error. You can try two things: 1. I think MSN needs a "MSN/" prefixed to the username, i.e. MSN/username 2. Try adding "debug" to the /etc/ppp/peers/whatever file, then post

Re: HOME NETWORK

2001-06-07 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:05:55PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi Don... > > A good place to start might be here: > > www.linuxdoc.org almost everything is documented there. if yuo can find what you're looking for. :) > ipmasq is probably what you want definitely. apt-get ins

Re: /etc/apt/preferences

2001-06-07 Thread Mike Williams
>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joey> I've been using a simple pin-to-testing with unstable available on Joey> command Sounds cool. How do you do that? -- Mike

ascii formatting package

2001-06-07 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
can anyone suggest a good package to format ascii docs to be converted to pdf? what i am looking for is something that can outline blocks of text with boxes, selectively shade lines or single words as wells bold, italicize, underline text, etc. i have looked into enscript...but can't figure out h

RE: [OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-07 Thread Ian Perry
You've probably looked at this already...but... Have a look in Control Panel / System / Device Manager on the 95 machine and go Properties on the network card. See if it reports that the network card is operating correctly. Chech the settings for the card, I/O, IRQ etc. Windows occasionally gets

Re: How can i get my printer to work??

2001-06-07 Thread jean-michel le bot
Le Dimanche 3 Juin 2001 16:30, Wayne Topa a écrit : > Subject: Re: How can i get my printer to work?? > Date: Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:45:48PM -0500 > > I use lpr and magicfilter and a2ps and haven't found the need to try > any of the other printer packages yet. I use lpr and magicfilter onl

Re: How can i get my printer to work??

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:04:58PM +0200, jean-michel le bot wrote: | Le Dimanche 3 Juin 2001 16:30, Wayne Topa a écrit : | > Subject: Re: How can i get my printer to work?? | > Date: Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:45:48PM -0500 | > | > I use lpr and magicfilter and a2ps and haven't found the need to

Re: gnome and gpm

2001-06-07 Thread David Z Maze
Derya PALANCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DP> Anybody know how i can manage these: DP> DP> I don't want the gnome starts when i boot DP> DP> I don't want the gpm starts when i boot You can remove the packages you don't care about, with 'dpkg --remove gpm' or 'apt-get remove gdm'. If you have an

Alien question??

2001-06-07 Thread John Foster
I need to use Alien convert several .rpm files to .deb to run on my Debian system. I noticed this error. Warning unrecognized substution {shlibs:Depends} Am I missing something? I do not do this very often and mostly it seems to work with no messages. This is one I have not seen before. Thanks.

Help configure XFree 4.0

2001-06-07 Thread Lars Jensen
Does anyone know how to configure a Diamond Speedstar Plus with an Tseng ET4000 chipset on woody with X 4.0? I have tried all the possible settings in xf86config that I can think of - with no luck. The error from the end of /var/log/XFree86.0.log is included at the end of this message. Here i

q ad junkbuster-config

2001-06-07 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m using junkbuster for quite some time now, and am impressed and quite happy with it. Now today I wanted to install it on some server of mine, to get its goods to some windoze-using friends of mine. I´ve configured it to listen on the external IP of the box, and connected there. But

Re: PDAs

2001-06-07 Thread Darryl Röthering
I too need to buy a PDA this week. Could those offering advice on this thread also consider any knowledge they have about cell-phone/modem integration? I understand that the Palm 7 can come with a modem. But can you get a cell phone in there too? I also looked at the literature for a cell phon

emacs

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew D Dixon
HI All, Does anyone know how to change the keybindings in emacs? Specifically I'd like to make my Backspace key delete the character before the cursor (seems like a natural thing to me) instead of what it's doing now (which is being wierd). Thanks, Andy

Re: SNMPD bug ?

2001-06-07 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Steve Kowalik writes: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:53:55AM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker uttered: > > > > doing this > > > > snmpwalk localhost public system > > > > get the snmpd agent down for a feew minutes > > > > other way to hit the bug is > > > > cfgmaker '[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Low Memory Install?

2001-06-07 Thread Geordie Birch
said Kenneth Pronovici (on 2001-06-07), > I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux > for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The > last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM > was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHa

Re: package libcommonc++-dev kept back

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >The quickest way to get woody fixed there is to have the newer package >fully installed, but it seems to have a release-critical bug filed >against it. Since the bug tracking system is down, I can't find out what >it is. If it's not something that would affe

problem about imp and horde

2001-06-07 Thread fg007
Hello patrick, Sunday, May 27, 2001, 2:13:22 PM, you wrote: pq> --- Arian Novruzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to configure my ppp in my new Debian 2.2 (well, I think >> these >> developers guys can make more easy the installation ;-) >> My modem is a lucent one and I use the a

PDAs

2001-06-07 Thread Carl Fink
I'm going to buy a PDA within the next week or so. After fairly extensive research it looks like I have to get a PalmOS device. EPOC is seemingly dead in the water, Compaq isn't selling their devices without Windows on them, and Agenda VRs (bizarrely) can't sync with Linxu systems, according to P

Text Processing Question

2001-06-07 Thread Adahma
I have about 400 little 2 line files to create, that I'm sure should be scriptable, but can't seem to figure out the right tools. The file format should be as follows: DBUSER=username/password export DBUSER I'd like to be able to run something like: scriptname username password and just have a

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
Alex Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I will use Partition Magic for this. It never failed me, and it is > very easy to use. You can just pop in the 2 floppys and you have a > fully-featured UI to shrink, move, convert, delete, create partitions. I've never used Partition Magic, but if it can

Re: CD Paranoia problem

2001-06-07 Thread Britton
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Vincent Foley wrote: > Hi, > > I have a ide-scsi CDROM on a GNU/Linux system. But I have a little problem > and > I was hoping that maybe you could help me with it. > > See, I cannot rip a CD if I'm not root. I could when my cdrom wasn't > ide-scsi. > Now, I get the follow

Re: Text Processing Question

2001-06-07 Thread Forrest English
you could do it with perl... -- 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 Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Adahma wrote: > I have about 400 little 2 line

Re: equivs package usage

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >At the beginning of May, Colin Watson kindly gave me the following >advice to solve a problem I then had. I changed my whole approach to >an email setup and did not use his advice. Now, having again 'changed >direction', I need to change 'postfix' for 'nullmailer'. ( I ha

Re: Text Processing Question

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
Adahma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have about 400 little 2 line files to create, that I'm sure should >be scriptable, but can't seem to figure out the right tools. > >The file format should be as follows: > >DBUSER=username/password >export DBUSER > >I'd like to be able to run something like: >sc

Java Mozilla problem

2001-06-07 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, well I installed java plugin when mozilla ask me to do, but it failled. then I download the j2sdk-1_3_1-linux-rpm.bin from Sun, Install it, etc...; now Java in Mozilla works (I test it with all the demo) but only in http://chat.yahoo.com/ this applet causes Mozilla crashed. dont know it is moz

How to change domain name???

2001-06-07 Thread maillst
How do you change the domain name on a already running box? When I originally setup my lan, I did not have a true domain and I called my network foo.bar (instead of yahoo.com for example). Now I have a real domain name and want to start changing machines over to it. TIA, maillst

Re: Next up....Sound..was Re: Next up...printing

2001-06-07 Thread Lorens Kulla
Thanks all for the help. CUPS got me fixed right up. Now I'll be trying to configure sound. I have a soundblaster AWE32 sound card. I configured the sound into my kernel during installation. dmesg output: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.13 de

Low Memory Install?

2001-06-07 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHat 4.2. RedHat's installer wouldn't even run prop

Re: Text Processing Question

2001-06-07 Thread Leonard Leblanc
This could be done quite easily with Perl as previously mentioned, but from a security standpoint do you think it's a good idea to store a database username/password in an environment variable (at least this is what I'm assuming your doing) ... As far as I'm concerned that's a hacker's paradise...

Re: Low Memory Install?

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: | I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux | for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The | last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM | was in 1996 or 1

Re: SNMPD bug ?

2001-06-07 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:53:55AM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker uttered: > > doing this > > snmpwalk localhost public system > > get the snmpd agent down for a feew minutes > > other way to hit the bug is > > cfgmaker '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' from mrtg package. > > I've tried woody packages, s

Re: Loadlin question

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:31:57AM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: | Hey, | | I just finished dual-booting my computer here at work, and I want to be able | to use Linux. I was wondering, though, how do I get a kernel image onto the | dos partition? Do I just copy the /vmlinuz file to a vfat part

RE: Kernel upgrade.

2001-06-07 Thread Chapman, Matt
To all that replied, thanks... I am working on it now.. Debian rocks in comparison to other unixes and linuxes for that matter that I have grown attached to over the many years... thanks -- Matt Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.duhnet.net http://www.mattchapman.net -Origin

$VIMRUNTIME

2001-06-07 Thread joey tsai
Hi, everytime I install vim I get this problem... I have a work-around, but I'm pretty sure it's The Wrong Way to do it. Anyway, opening a file in vim which has some syntax will cause vim to say like - Error detected while processing Syntax Auto commands for "conf": Can't open file /usr/sh

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-07 Thread csj
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 02:18, Sidney Brooks wrote: > Eamon Roque asked: > > Nonetheless: what does your authentification process look like? Do > you require the host to authenticate itself, do you agree on a > protocol ( usually in /etc/ppp/options )? > > The following is a list of uncommented t

Re: www.emdebian.org -- dead ?

2001-06-07 Thread Lukas Ruf
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, ktb wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:47:59PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > does anyone of you know what happened to www.emdebian.org. > > > > When I try to fetch data from there or to access the web-space, it's > > simply dead -- at least trying on my comp

Total Confusion End

2001-06-07 Thread Sidney Brooks
I have tried every suggestion posted on this web site, including the latest by csj and Robert Ruzback. It seems that I have two choices: give up on linux or buy a new computer. Since my computer is less than two years old, I do not plan to buy a new computer soon. Redhat and Debian on two se

All packages ... again.

2001-06-07 Thread dario.bahena
Hi ... Thanks to all the guys who answered my last question, in resume ... you say that it's not a good idea, (installing everything) since there are more than one program for some tasks and then, they can conflict each other. Besides, there are a lot of packages. Ok ... so, I was used to the fac

Re: hdd time-out??!!

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:01:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | hai List, | | Since a couple off hours I have this output on screen just after the | system freezes. Is this an software or hardware problem and what should | I do? | | hdd: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy } | hdd: drive not

Re: SiS6326

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:58:04PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: | At 07:20 p.m. 06/06/01 +0100, Peter Paul Millard wrote: | >Hello All | > | >I have the above card which fails to get started. | >Storm does not have it on the web site as supported | >progeny debian also said that they have had proble

Re: anyone succeeded in compiling kernel 2.4-xfs

2001-06-07 Thread Kevin Ross
> i've got the xfs sources from the sgi cvs tree but if i try to compile the > kernel image i get the following error msgs: > > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory > cpp: output pipe has been closed > gcc: file path prefix `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/egcs-2.91.

ET4000 with X 4.0 won't run (woody)

2001-06-07 Thread Lars Jensen
Does anyone know how to configure a Diamond Speedstar Plus with an Tseng ET4000 chipset on woody with X 4.0? I have tried all the possible settings in xf86config that I can think of - with no luck. The error from the end of /var/log/XFree86.0.log is included at the end of this message. Here is

Re: cryptographic file systems for use with 2.4 kernel?

2001-06-07 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Forrest, Quoth Forrest English, > i was looking into TCFS but it looks like it is only supposed to work on a > 2.2 kernel, and my laptop is using a 2.4 kernel (if it's stolen, i don't > want some of the data on here being read...) > > so basicaly i'm wondering if there are any options out t

Re: information request

2001-06-07 Thread Margarete Hans
Here is another file, describing the isntallation process very well: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install I don't understand why this document is not displayed in a clearer manner and at a more accessible place than it is currently. It took me 2 or 3 days of combing over debian.org to fi

Re: Galeon and Mozilla builds

2001-06-07 Thread christophe barbé
You can use my packages by adding the following lines in your sources.list : deb ftp://ufies.org/pub/galeon/people/christophe ./ #deb ftp://ufies.org/pub/galeon/people/christophe/cvs-build ./ Comment the second line if you want to use the last galeon release. You need to remove the kitame entry i

Re: laptop instillation via a PCMICA cd rom

2001-06-07 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi I just had a similar problem with a Libretto. I solved it by creating a small DOS partition and using packet drivers and packet driver type ftp software to ftp the basic files needed for an install (see the Debian install documents on www.debian.org). Basically you need the kernel and a couple

Re: Using tar saving Disk-space [was: apt-get offline]

2001-06-07 Thread Joerg Johannes
Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for. Except the line > tar -u $foo -f packages.tar has to be changed into tar uf packages.tar The script I was referring to is the one created by apt-get -qq -print-uris etc. I would have to add the above line to every downloaded package. I think yo

Re: Strange problem with Plextor IDE-Drive W121032A

2001-06-07 Thread stimpy
On (26/05/01 20:31), Alex Suzuki wrote: > I have 2 IDE-Drives, one of them is a Plextor CD-Writer. .. > I cannot mount it as a user nor as root. I'm shortly going to be buying one of these drives myself and I found a possible solution to your problem at a Linux hardware site:- http://lhd.data

Re: filtering email via perl?

2001-06-07 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't > > see eye-to-eye any more. > > I don't know what MTA you use, but if you're on speaking terms with exim,

Re: $VIMRUNTIME

2001-06-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... I don't know if this is much help. but have you tried this? dpkg --purge vim dpkg --purge vim-rt apt-get install vim apt-get install vim-rt Mike - Original Message - From: "joey tsai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:14 AM Subject: $VIMRUNTIME > H

filtering email via EXIM -- question

2001-06-07 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't > > see eye-to-eye any more. > > I don't know what MTA you use, but if you're on speaking terms with exim,

Babel and LaTeX

2001-06-07 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
I tried to reach lists.debian.org to search the archives, but I haven't been able to reach it for some days now. In the beginning of my LaTeX document I use the following: -- \documentclass[norsk,a4paper,openright]{book} \usepackage{babel} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
Daniel Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >since yesterday i've a strange problem with dselect. i tried to look >for new packages at the mirror ( i use sid ), and did a update in >dselect, everything seemed to work, but at the end of operation the >following errormessage came. > >|Reading Package Li

Re: HOME NETWORK

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:25:51AM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: | D-Man | Sorry for grabing you email address from the Debian | users list, but I have been on the mailing list from Not really a problem, but sending your questions to the list provides a wider audience and you are likely to get a lot of

Re: HOME NETWORK

2001-06-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi Don... A good place to start might be here: www.linuxdoc.org ipmasq is probably what you want check out the how to's and stuff... If you run into trouble the list will be happy to help :) Mike - Original Message - From: "D-Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: How to setup rsync system to keep copy of packages locally????

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:44:16PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote: > Can someone help me and/or point me to a doc that describes how to setup a > local debian package mirror using rsync? I have looked at the man page for > rsync, but am still clueless as to how to do it. apt-get install apt-move Not

Re: .vimrc

2001-06-07 Thread will trillich
whoops. this is technically correct, but misleading. vim-rt isn't required in order to have mutt colorization. On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:57:08PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > just to be sure, try > > $ apt-get install vim-rt > > then you can have your own ~/.muttrc color-designator specs

Re: middle mouse button

2001-06-07 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > > Curtis Hogg wrote: > > > > > > > > What do you have your repeater type set to for your gpm configuration? You > > > may have a problem there. > > > > > > > Here are the relevant lines in my gpm.conf: > > > > device=/dev/ttyS0 > > responsi

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-07 Thread Paul Huygen
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I set up a router with my old 486 computer [potato, kernel 2.4] > > Normally i have have rates of 7.8 kb/s (ISDN) throughput. But if i try it > over my new router the rate is not more than 2 kb/s. Is it possible that the > Masquerading process takes too much recources

Re: AVI Player

2001-06-07 Thread Bernhard Josef Rieder
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:11:06PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > > Mplayer works great. (http://mplayer.sourceforge.net) > > > > I'll second that. > > I've just compiled a recent version, and it seems pretty self-contained > (no need to play find-the-library). Also has a nice On Screen Display

anyone succeeded in compiling kernel 2.4-xfs

2001-06-07 Thread Martin Würtele
hi, i've got the xfs sources from the sgi cvs tree but if i try to compile the kernel image i get the following error msgs: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory cpp: output pipe has been closed gcc: file path prefix `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/egcs-2.91.66/' ne

Re: Babel and LaTeX

2001-06-07 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OK, so it doesn't find Norwegian language support for hyphenation. > > How do I get this? I cannot understand which package I should > > install. (I have inorwegian, ispell, tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-doc > > and tetex-extra packages installed.) >

Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

2001-06-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 04 Jun 2001 09:15:01 -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > My suggestion, purge your system of the > Ximian stuff and use the Gnome packages from the Debian distro. Yeah, I know, standard answer :) -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: logcheck gaps in time

2001-06-07 Thread deb-user
Am 05. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Dave Sherohman so: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:58:50AM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > > > I have added the following else statement to the script so there is > > always a report. I would appreciate it if the utility's owner would > > consider adding this to his/her next revis

Re: pump sometimes must be restarted (cable modem)?

2001-06-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > periodically (perhaps every other week) my Internet connection via > Optimum Online (Cablevision) freezes, and I have to kill and restart > pump in order to get everything freed up. Yes, kill, pump -R does > not work. Hmmm... it shouldn't happen every week

Audio CDs

2001-06-07 Thread Robert Mosher
Hi Not too long ago I installed Debian2.2r2 on my computer. Since then I have slowly been getting things the way I want them. One thing I have yet to do, and would appreciate any help on, is playing (mounting) Audio CDs. I don't know if this will make a difference, but I have run 'apt-get upgr

Re: How to configure Terratec souncard. (Potato)

2001-06-07 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, Joan og Jesper wrote: > I have a Terratec ISA PnP sound card based on a AD1816 chip. (AD MPU401 > PnP says the Manual). > > I have read out following settings from WinNT: I/O: 0130-013F, > 0330-0331, 0388-038B > > IRQ: 5, 7 > > DMA: 1, 3 > > I can't figure out how to add those settings in

Re: MSN internet dial up connection problem

2001-06-07 Thread David Nusinow
On Thursday 07 June 2001 12:37 pm, Abner Gershon wrote: > Does anyone have successful experience dialing in to > MSN (micrsoft network) with wvdial. I keep getting bad > password error. I have rechecked the configuration > file and the correct password is entered. Is there a > security string of ch

LyX & libxpm4?

2001-06-07 Thread Robb Kidd
Running Woody, I recently installed LyX 1.1.5fix2-1. I receive the following error "In CreateXPM [pixmap.c 332] error converting: (Can't get color)" several times when I run lyx. Several of the toolbar buttons show only a "p" and opening a new document gives me a black-on-black workspace.

Re: FYI : LINUX Users Tutorial and Exposition

2001-06-07 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 15:34, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:17:59AM +0200, Lambrecht, Joris wrote: > > To those who are looking for some tutorial-reference-resource on the > > Linux Operating System, have a look at ... > > > > http://rute.sourceforge.net > > <> > > okay, wh

XFree86 cannot initialize NVdriver

2001-06-07 Thread Steven Isaacson
I am having problems setting up XFree86 with the nvidia drivers. I can get all of the packages to install correctly but when I try and run X. I get the following error. From XFree86.0.log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) Unlo

Re: SiS6326

2001-06-07 Thread John
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 13:58, Miguel Griffa wrote: > At 07:20 p.m. 06/06/01 +0100, Peter Paul Millard wrote: > >Hello All > > > >I have the above card which fails to get started. > >Storm does not have it on the web site as supported > >progeny debian also said that they have had problems with a

Re: filtering email via perl?

2001-06-07 Thread will trillich
exim filter is pretty nice. nearly spot-on what i was looking for. and yet... On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:23:07PM +0200, Mark Weinem wrote: > Filtering e-mail with perl: > > * mailagent > http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=dist&query=mailagent okay, i've got mailagent, and i can

Re: SVGATextmode and Banshee

2001-06-07 Thread Jorge Santos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hai List, > > I would like to setup SVGATextmode on my Debian box with an 3d Blaster > Banshee card, but I can't find no modes in the configfile. Can I use > something from my XF86Config or should I look further? Or can I use the > settings from any other card who is l

Problems with glibc and name service switch in potato?

2001-06-07 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello folks, I am struggling with getting nisplus to work on Debian. I installed the (unofficial) nisplus packages from http://www.realbodo.de/ and set everything up correctly. I've already set up nisplus successfully on RedHat, so at least I know what I'm doing and that I can get it right. Her

Sniffer for ISDN

2001-06-07 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, does anybody know a good packet sniffer for ISDN lines? I'm running a HDLC connection (ie isdn0) to my workplace and need to find out, what's going over the wire. I tried ehtereal on the isdn0 interface, but it only shows my "Ethernet II" frames with an unknown type (0xd10a) and some additio

[OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hello, Sorry for the non-linux question, but I haven't found an answer elsewhere. I have a functioning network of two Debian boxes, bravo (10.0.0.2) and peon (10.0.0.1). bravo is capable of IP routing, forwarding, and masquerading. peon has a fully-functioning TCP/IP connection with bravo, an

Re: tabs / was [OT] Coding w/ vim

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:17:46PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > >one tab, indent one level. done. (why clutter up your source >code with all those spaces?) and if you really go overboard >overindendinting a really deep algorithm, you can always >redefine tabs to b

Re: /etc/mailname ?

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After a recent dist-upgrade I started getting >empty email messages every day from root, with >a domain name the same as in /etc/mailname . > >I don't remember when /etc/mailname was generated, >or by which config program, so I don't recall >what purpose the file se

Re: Next up....printing

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
Lorens Kulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have spent the last 2 days trying to set up an Epson Stylus Color 800 >on my machine. From root I can cat 'textfile' > /dev/lp0. But that is >all. I have magicfilter installed with stcolor filter specified. From >what I've read, only root can access the pr

Re: filtering email via perl?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't > see eye-to-eye any more. I don't know what MTA you use, but if you're on speaking terms with exim, it's got a pretty good set of filtering capabilities that you can just put

Re: installing unstable version

2001-06-07 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:13:27AM +0200, Tobias S. Hofer wrote: :hello people : :i'm interrested in installing an unstable version of debian. :what's the best way to do this. i prefere to download the :packages from ftp servers. :it seems to me that an unstable package tree does not contain :all t

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