Re: xterm menus

2003-01-06 Thread Russell
will trillich wrote: On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:46:02PM +1100, Russell wrote: If you press Ctrl + mouse button (1,2,3 or whatever) over an xterm, you can change various settings and fonts and make the home and end keys work etc... when i do this (woody, using gnome with sawfish) control-click

Re: PCAnywhere and IPCHAINS

2003-01-06 Thread Simon Tneoh Chee-Boon
Hello nate, I suspect could it be my ipchains rule block the internal connections? >From internal network, when I try to PCAnywhere external PCAnywhere Host, I can something like the following in the syslog file: 1) internalIP (unprivportA) -> externalHostIP (5632) 2) fwexternalIP (unprivportB)

Re: ALSA and kernel 2.4.19

2003-01-06 Thread Donald Spoon
Magnus Therning wrote: I am a bit confused here. I got alsa sound to work perfectly with the 2.4.18 kernel, but then I upgraded the kernel package (and the alsa-modules package) to the 2.4.19 variant, and all of a sudden I have no sound any more. This is what '/etc/init.d/alsa start' spits out: W

EBDA too big

2003-01-06 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, First, Happy new Year for all Hope the year become the first of peacefull series. To terminate the Year 2002, I had an "EBDA too big" message while booting my 2.4.19 kernel. I work with this kernel since September. To activate an extern

multiple sounds at once with ALSA

2003-01-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi debianers, I have an Ensoniq ES1371 (a basic soundcard) and want to have several applications access it simultaneously. I tried esound but wasn't satisfied with its behavior, so I installed a home-made 2.4 kernel with ALSA, and the debian packages (alsa-base, alsa-utils, gnome-alsamixer, and so

Re: Real Text-Mode

2003-01-06 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:30:08AM +0100, Harald Wopenka wrote: > However: It uses 80x50 textmode. - My aim is the 80x25-textmode. I tried to > find a list of possible parameters for "video" in the internet, but didn't > find them. Do you know a source? Use vga= for that. You can try it out with v

animail

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Storey
Dear All, Just discovered Animail today. It is wonderful, and solves a number of problems I've been contemplating for awhile. It does, more or less, the same thing as Fetchmail, but comes with several major advantages. For one, it's easier to set up, but that's a minor issue. What's really great

Re: animail

2003-01-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:09:28PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Dear All, > > Just discovered Animail today. It is wonderful, and solves a number of > problems I've been contemplating for awhile. ... > Sorry if I'm foaming at the mouth. I'll go now. Heh, I can't tell you how close that sounded t

Re: forte for java ce

2003-01-06 Thread Gilberto Garcia Jr.
How can i create this script??? txs Iced Sun [Wrap your lines!!!] On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:15:54AM -0200, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: > Hey guys, > > I solved the locale problem with x and open office, but forte for java > ce, from sun, still get this error. there is a way to configure loc

Boot problems

2003-01-06 Thread Rijn
Dear Sir, Use loadlin multiboot via a small dospartition < 1024 to boot Debian 2.2 and Redhat 8.0 Pentium III with Asus CUSL-2 C. both works perfect But after installing Woody 3.0 with a 2.4x kernel and set the boot kernel in the dos partition as normal I can't boot anymore with loadlin, it's s

Re: sound when playing audio files, but not when playing cd

2003-01-06 Thread Wim De Smet
I thought this way of working was obsolete, isn't there a work-around available for that? I'm guessing the cable isn't installed, I'll look if I have one lying around somewhere anyway. thx, wim On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 23:00:02 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Waldemar Gorus) wrote: > Hello, > > if you wa

Print queue manager

2003-01-06 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hello! I'm looking for a GUI frontend to manage lpr-ppd queues. Printop seems a bit too primitive, and I can't get it working right. What I need is basically a tool which is able to cancel jobs as normal user. Only one printer is used. And it should be easy to use (unfortunately, I'm not the on

missing rm

2003-01-06 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I tried to do a dist-upgrade from stable to testing. rm, ls and all the fileutil goodies got scrapped and cannot be reinstalled with dpkg (.deb package is on the disk). Any suggestions short of a rebuild? None of the dpkg/apt utilities will function because they all error out with 'rm blah

Simple xawtv question ...

2003-01-06 Thread Elijah
I'm about to configure xawtv and it showed some frequency tables from different countries, unfortunately for me it doesn't include the Philippines :( from what I know we use NTSC ... which do I choose, will this affect my tv viewing? (first time configuring my tv-tuner). Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: EBDA too big

2003-01-06 Thread Gary Turner
Francois Chenais wrote: >Hello, > > First, Happy new Year for all Hope the year become the first of >peacefull series. > > To terminate the Year 2002, I had an "EBDA too big" message while >booting my 2.4.19 kernel. I work with this kernel since September. > >

Re: missing rm

2003-01-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:31:16 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > OK, I tried to do a dist-upgrade from stable to testing. > > rm, ls and all the fileutil goodies got scrapped and cannot be reinstalled > with dpkg (.deb package is on the disk). That's weird - that upgrade path should work. (It should

Re: PCAnywhere and IPCHAINS

2003-01-06 Thread nate
Simon Tneoh Chee-Boon said: > Hello nate, > I suspect could it be my ipchains rule block the internal > connections? >>From internal network, when I try to PCAnywhere external PCAnywhere > Host, I > can something like the following in the syslog file: > 1) internalIP (unprivportA) -> externalHo

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-06 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:09:59PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: [...] > . Changing font size and resizing xterm on keypress > > In your .Xresources (or .Xdefaults), add this: > > --- cut here --- > #define XTERM_RESIZE_TALL "\033[8;64;80t" > #define XTERM_RESIZE_BIG"\033[8;41;80t

Re: sound when playing audio files, but not when playing cd

2003-01-06 Thread Andrew J Cosgriff
Wim De Smet wrote : > I thought this way of working was obsolete, isn't there a > work-around available for that? There's the "xmms-cdread" package, if you don't mind using xmms. [...] > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 23:00:02 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Waldemar Gorus) wrote: >> if you want to play sound

Re: Simple xawtv question ...

2003-01-06 Thread nate
Elijah said: > > I'm about to configure xawtv and it showed some frequency tables from > different countries, unfortunately for me it doesn't include the > Philippines :( from what I know we use NTSC ... which do I choose, will > this affect my tv viewing? (first time configuring my tv-tuner). jus

does slrn host a collection of all newsgroups only temporarly?

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Land
I'm new to slrn and did a apt-get install a few weeks ago. I'm not that sure anymore but I thought apt-get had prompted for a valid news server while being in installation mode. Addionaly I also thought slrn had pulled all newsgroups from the prompted newsserver (at least I have this warning about

apt_preferences setting

2003-01-06 Thread Tom Allison
I would like to have both Stable and Testing available for install. But I don't want to have packages removed because they are not in Testing. I originally started with preferences levels of Stable: 600 Testing: 601 but packages like junior-programming are slated for removal. I was running dist-

Re: Simple xawtv question ...

2003-01-06 Thread Paul Lewis
NTSC (Never the same colour twice :-o ) is the method of encoding the video signal. PAL, phase alternate line is (I think) a mainly UK standard, and SECAM is the French standard. Those countries which have been unfortunate to fall under the influence of one or other of the above countries woul

Re: does slrn host a collection of all newsgroups only temporarly?

2003-01-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 14:49:09 +0100, Robert Land wrote: > I'm new to slrn and did a apt-get install a few weeks ago. I'm not that > sure anymore but I thought apt-get had prompted for a valid news server > while being in installation mode. > Addionaly I also thought slrn had pulled all newsgrou

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-01-06 Thread alex
Duly noted in my notebook...Thank you Alex Bob Proulx wrote: alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-04 19:54:47 -0500]: For the benefit of someone who doesn't have much experience and occasionally has a problem understanding generalizations, could you elaborate a bit on these? Let me try. "A

Auto-start Driver

2003-01-06 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, My sound card uses the emu10k1 driver and it works well, is there a way to load the driver automatically at first boot? Right now I have to start it manually. Regards, Willem-Jan Meijer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

New Nvidia graphics card - /dev/mixer vanishes!

2003-01-06 Thread Glyn Millington
Woody system with XFree 4.2.1 Sound card Soundblaster 128 My Christmas present was an nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 card. After much fear and trembling I installed the relevant packages ie nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src followed the instructions and everything went fine except that /dev/mixer c

Mutt questio: Foward w/atachments?

2003-01-06 Thread stan
How can I confgiure mutt so that when I foward an email, the atachments are fowarded as well? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Auto-start Driver

2003-01-06 Thread nate
Willem-Jan Meijer said: > Hello, > > My sound card uses the emu10k1 driver and it works well, is there a way to > load the driver automatically at first boot? Right now I have to start it > manually. > put the modules you wish to load on boot in /etc/modules nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Process KILLED

2003-01-06 Thread Bill Moseley
I've got a client on an ISP that's running Debian Woody. They drive me crazy because they have hacked up things as pretend security -- ps and top only show your own processes for one thing. Anyway, ulimit shows "unlimited" yet any CPU intensive processes I run get killed. $time perl -le 'do {}

Re: New Nvidia graphics card - /dev/mixer vanishes!

2003-01-06 Thread nate
Glyn Millington said: > > Woody system with XFree 4.2.1 > Sound card Soundblaster 128 look at the kernel log(usually 'dmesg' will do), does the kernel detect the soundcard? on my 2.2.19 system I get: es1370: version v0.35 time 21:16:21 Aug 16 2002 es1370: found adapter at io 0xe400 irq 15 es1370:

Re: Mutt questio: Foward w/atachments?

2003-01-06 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
On Mon Jan 06, 2003 at 10:19:56AM -0500, the boisterous stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > How can I confgiure mutt so that when I foward an email, the atachments are > fowarded as well? Maybe this can help you: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html#forwarding_mail so long Thomas --

Re: sound when playing audio files, but not when playing cd

2003-01-06 Thread Waldemar Gorus
The most programs are just sending commands like (play track nr. xth) to your cdrom. There is no read for reading out the data and sending it the soundcard. The cable is like a bypass. It works, unless you do not need to grap something, or you have no cable connected. There shouldnt occur more p

Re: Process KILLED

2003-01-06 Thread nate
Bill Moseley said: > Anyway, ulimit shows "unlimited" yet any CPU intensive processes I run get > killed. they could be using pam_limit with PAM ..you can check thier /etc/pam.d/* and /etc/pam.conf as well as /etc/secuiryt/limits.conf never played with this myself but it's possible.. nate -

Re: EBDA too big

2003-01-06 Thread Francois Chenais
Don't know, this is the new upgrade of SID/Sylpheed-claws :-) I'll have a look !:-) François On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 06:58:18 -0600, Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Francois Chenais wrote: | | >Hello, | > | > First, Happy new Year for all Hope the year

Re: ALSA and kernel 2.4.19

2003-01-06 Thread Jack O'Quin
Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a bit confused here. I got alsa sound to work perfectly with the > 2.4.18 kernel, but then I upgraded the kernel package (and the > alsa-modules package) to the 2.4.19 variant, and all of a sudden I have > no sound any more. I think most, perhap

Re: Network trouble

2003-01-06 Thread chris1622
On 5 Jan 2003, at 14:37, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:56:57 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Im using a winmodem and wvdial for internetconnections. i don't > > think it should matter but I'm using wvdial from debian-potato, since > > the woody release didn't work. > >

any experience with IBM Thinkpad A31, model 2652M5U ?

2003-01-06 Thread Walter Tautz
Specifically, Thinpad A31 Model # 2652M5U    $3689.99 P4 1.8Ghz/256MBDDR/40GB/CDRW/DVD/15"/56KV.92/10/100ENET/WiFi/Windows XP Professional 256MB PC2100 CL2.5 NP DDR SDRAM SODIMM    $164.00 Model #10K0030 IBM does not seem to allow an option to buy laptops with linux as an option... Walter -

Re: Auto-start Driver

2003-01-06 Thread ernst
if you use the driver as a module, add 'emu10k1' to your /etc/modules /ernst On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello, > > My sound card uses the emu10k1 driver and it works well, is there a way to > load the driver automatically at first boot? Right now I have to start it > manuall

Re: Process KILLED

2003-01-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, nate wrote: > Bill Moseley said: > > > Anyway, ulimit shows "unlimited" yet any CPU intensive processes I run get > > killed. > > they could be using pam_limit with PAM ..you can check thier /etc/pam.d/* > and /etc/pam.conf as well as /etc/secuiryt/limits.conf Hum, well limi

Re: Auto-start Driver

2003-01-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: Hello, My sound card uses the emu10k1 driver and it works well, is there a way to load the driver automatically at first boot? Right now I have to start it manually. Regards, Willem-Jan Meijer A more elegant way is to put the line "alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1" in /e

Re: any experience with IBM Thinkpad A31, model 2652M5U ?

2003-01-06 Thread ernst
hi, a quick search on google gave several site's with 'Howto setup Debian GNU/Linux a Thinkpad A31' good luck /ernst On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Walter Tautz wrote: > > Specifically, > > Thinpad A31 Model # 2652M5U    $3689.99 > P4 1.8Ghz/256MBDDR/40GB/CDRW/DVD/15"/56KV.92/10/100ENET/WiFi/Windows XP >

Donkeys running EDonkey

2003-01-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
I'm getting bashed (not the shell) to the point of an extra load of 1.0 over normal handling hits on port 4662 (used by EDonkey file trading software) due to the previous holder of my current IP having run it. 22 hours of moving to the new IP, these hits seems to be a constant chewing at my bandwid

Nur alleine lesen ;-)

2003-01-06 Thread Miriam
Hi, wo warste denn hin? Wolltest doch noch den link haben. Hier also der Link: http://members.lycos.de/moe1/ Viel spaß Dann bis demnächst meld dich cu Schatzi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Auto-start Driver

2003-01-06 Thread Walter Tautz
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, ernst wrote: > > if you use the driver as a module, add 'emu10k1' to your /etc/modules > > /ernst or install the discover package and perhaps it will be auto detected automatically without adding it too /etc/modules. Of course adding it the the file guarantees it will be l

Re: ALSA and kernel 2.4.19

2003-01-06 Thread David Z Maze
Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Warning: ignoring snd_major=116, no such parameter in this module > Warning: ignoring snd_cards_limit=1, no such parameter in this module > Warning: ignoring snd_device_mode=0660, no such parameter in this module > Warning: ignoring snd_device_gid=29, n

Re: spamassassin setup / exim

2003-01-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:55:12PM -0600, will trillich wrote: | okay, i've browsed dman's spamassassin setup at | | and i've got it, well, doing something... | | it seems to add a whole new slew of headers, a blank line and | then repeats the original headers and message: | From [EMAIL PR

htdig snafu after woody upgrade

2003-01-06 Thread will trillich
here's what i get from cron.daily these days-- /etc/cron.daily/htdig: DB2 problem...: /var/spool/htdig/db.docdb.work: No such file or directory htdig: Unable to open/create document database '/var/spool/htdig/db.docdb.work' htmerge: Unable to create

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode, during installation

2003-01-06 Thread Paul van den berg
I tried to install Debian on my laptop (a compaq 800CT). After inserting the MFS root floppy and reboot I can skip the kernel configuration or start kernel configuration. But whatever I do, after that the following message occurs: "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode" Fault code is sup

Re: any experience with IBM Thinkpad A31, model 2652M5U ?

2003-01-06 Thread Walter Tautz
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, ernst wrote: > > hi, > a quick search on google gave several site's with 'Howto setup Debian > GNU/Linux a Thinkpad A31' > > good luck > > /ernst thanks, yet another ineptly chosen search string...sigh. Clearly being as straightforward it the best option. > > On Mo

Re: htdig snafu after woody upgrade

2003-01-06 Thread nate
will trillich said: > /usr/bin/rundig: cd: /var/spool/htdig: No such file or directory > DB2 problem...: /var/spool/htdig/db.docdb: No such file or > directory > > (at one point i thought i was beginning to get the hang of > figuring these things out. alas...) > > what salve is t

Re: Fwd: Beware FAKE e-mails being sent as though from list

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Land
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:00:43PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I just received an e-mail that looked as though it at come from this list, > (from "nate" ) but in closer inspection it had done nothing of the sort > having been forwarded through a mail server at free.fr from a dial up account > at

dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
I'm trying to setup my computer to play DVDs, and I'm trying out a number of different programs to see which works best. Just for informational purposes, the machine I'm using is a 1.7GHz (PIV) with 256MB RAM, DVD player but no hardware DVD decoder, and an onboard GeForce video card (not sure which

Re: Donkeys running EDonkey

2003-01-06 Thread nate
Mark L. Kahnt said: > > mega-library had been on it, but still, 9 1/2 MiB of extra messages in > syslog over 18 hours is a *bit* much (I'm not tight for disk space on whats going in the log? how about making a firewall rule that drops the packets for that port and tell it NOT to log for that rule

URGENT...URGENT...!!!!!

2003-01-06 Thread almurtda almuntder
dear sir/madam, greetings, i am iraqi nationalty ,i had submeted to refugee status in UNHCR here (in jordan kingdom)since more than 4 years ,and i had got a rejections some times .then i appealed my claim more than 3 times with so much indicaters and evedences but i had got finally rejections ,

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2003-01-06 Thread Antonio Andrade
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Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 12:57, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see > some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. > E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* > Nothing. > Try switching off the turbo button if yo

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 20:13, nate wrote: > Dan Jacobson said: > > > Isn't there something that I can turn on to capture all these, or are we > > too early in the startup? > > turn on serial console in lilo.conf, and check to be sure your kernel > has serial console support. for 2.2.x kernels the

Re: any experience with IBM Thinkpad A31, model 2652M5U ?

2003-01-06 Thread ernst
good:) I have done a lot of googleing for stuff to ibm laptops, we use a lot of them at work, both x, a, and t series and they all are wery easy to set up with debian :) good luck /ernst On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, ernst wrote: > > > > > hi, > > a quick

Re: does slrn host a collection of all newsgroups only temporarly?

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Land
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:40:55PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 14:49:09 +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > I'm new to slrn and did a apt-get install a few weeks ago. I'm not that > > sure anymore but I thought apt-get had prompted for a valid news server > > while being i

Re: Fwd: Beware FAKE e-mails being sent as though from list

2003-01-06 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 Jan 2003 1:53 pm, Robert Land wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:00:43PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I just received an e-mail that looked as though it at come from this > > list, (from "nate" ) but in closer inspection it had done no

Re: ALSA and kernel 2.4.19

2003-01-06 Thread Magnus Therning
Thanks, it worked wonderfully! /M On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:09:27AM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am a bit confused here. I got alsa sound to work perfectly with the > > 2.4.18 kernel, but then I upgraded the kernel package (and the > > alsa-mod

Re: sound when playing audio files, but not when playing cd

2003-01-06 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 23:05:19 +1100 Andrew J Cosgriff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wim De Smet wrote : > > > I thought this way of working was obsolete, isn't there a > > work-around available for that? > > There's the "xmms-cdread" package, if you don't mind using xmms. > > [...] > > > On Sun,

Re: apt_preferences setting

2003-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:45:43AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I would like to have both Stable and Testing available for install. > > But I don't want to have packages removed because they are not in Testing. Packages aren't removed just because they're no longer in the distribution. They're rem

Happy New Year!! 2003 Advertising

2003-01-06 Thread Joshua Harris
Happy New Year! Hope all is well. We never put anything together in '02, but I still have your contact info on file. Let's work towards something in '03 with ultra targeted banner and search engine clicks, lead generation, co-regs, stand-alone emails or other online marketing platforms that we

Re: New Nvidia graphics card - /dev/mixer vanishes!

2003-01-06 Thread Glyn Millington
"nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glyn Millington said: >> >> Woody system with XFree 4.2.1 >> Sound card Soundblaster 128 > > look at the kernel log(usually 'dmesg' will do), does the kernel detect > the soundcard? on my 2.2.19 system I get: > > es1370: version v0.35 time 21:16:21 Aug 16 2002

terminal descriptions: how to get the terminfo source packages and/or add in sound support

2003-01-06 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, I'd like to get the terminfo source packages so I can recompile one to support the bell sound (which doesn't seem to work) Could anybody help me out with the right apt-get cmd or whatever? thx, wim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

SiS 5598 Video Chip / Mouse won't work...help!

2003-01-06 Thread Jay
Hello Listies! Has anyone ever messed with setting up either Gnome or KDE or X with a SiS 5598 video chipset? I'm having problems getting a readable output, can someone help me? Could it be that I'm using the wrong xserver? BTW I have an olde Shamrock 14" monitor. I tried installing Debian Woody

Re: Donkeys running EDonkey

2003-01-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 12:45, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > > > mega-library had been on it, but still, 9 1/2 MiB of extra messages in > > syslog over 18 hours is a *bit* much (I'm not tight for disk space on > > whats going in the log? how about making a firewall rule that drops the > pack

Re: Strange Number Lock Behavior

2003-01-06 Thread Erinn
> This is only for the console. For X you need numlockx, from the > package of the same name. > Thanks Bob, that fixed it! Erinn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcpcd

2003-01-06 Thread Jeff
Reaz Baksh, 2003-Jan-05 20:28 -0500: > I looked for the /etc/init.d/dhcp file but it's not there. I assume > I'll have to manually create it. I installed using apt-get. I'm still > learning and understanding the startup files in the rc folders, until I > complete that task I guess I'll have to m

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > What dvd playing software are other debian users using? anybody > encounter any of these problems/deficiences? If so, were you able to > correct them? how? I tend to use Ogle, but Xine is nice too. I get a bit of a chop w

Using an X app

2003-01-06 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
Hello all. My question is: Do you have to run an windows manager in order to use an application? Heres what I am doing. I am running x 4.1.0 and I am using an .xinitrc file for the user. I have the .xinitrc file just starting mozilla and it starts fine. I have access to the mouse but the keyboa

Can't boot server with a LSI Logic 1030 SCSI controller card

2003-01-06 Thread Jorge Martinez
Hi: I am attempting to install Woody (got the CD's from Tuxcd's), but it doesn't find my controller card (I got 2 36 GB HD's). I believe that I have to pass some arguments when booting, but can't figure what they are...anybody knows what should I pass it to boot up successfully?. I know Linux c

Re: audio recording is fast

2003-01-06 Thread Steve Juranich
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:30:56 -0500 Kenneth Dombrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, this is the first thing I thought of, but everything is set for > 44.1. I tried: > > - recording & immediate playback in audacity without saving the file > (though some .auf files are written to ~/.aud

Netowrk base install 07.01.2003

2003-01-06 Thread Harald Sørbu
Hello! One of the last .deb files in the network base install is corrupt. I have tried it from 4 different places. ftp.no.debian.org, ..se.., ..fi.., ..dk.. The .deb file is called something like textutil.. HS __ Få den nye Yahoo! Messenger p

Unhappy, Bouncing, CDs

2003-01-06 Thread Narins, Josh
This has only started happening since I got devfs working. If I insert an ISO CD into the drive, everything is honky-dory. If I insert a music CD into the drive, after about 30 seconds it comes back out. hmm, not sure what info would be useful. debian sarge, 2.4.20-benh (Ben Herrenschmidt's Pow

Re: xterm menus

2003-01-06 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:53:08PM +1100, Russell wrote: > will trillich wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:46:02PM +1100, Russell wrote: > >>If you press Ctrl + mouse button (1,2,3 or whatever) over an xterm, you > >>can > >>change various settings and fonts and make the home and end keys work

Re: SiS 5598 Video Chip / Mouse won't work...help!

2003-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:44, Jay wrote: > Hello Listies! > > Has anyone ever messed with setting up either Gnome or KDE or X with a SiS > 5598 video chipset? > > I'm having problems getting a readable output, can someone help me? Could it > be that I'm using the wrong xserver? BTW I have an olde

RE: hard drive partitioning questions

2003-01-06 Thread Narins, Josh
> You don't *need* any partitions other than /. > Creating separate partitions for /, /usr, /home, /tmp, > /var, /usr/local, /boot, /var/spool, /var/www, etc., > is a _convenience_ for better managing your system. And a real time saver, too! Every other boot one of my partitions is fsck'ed for

Re: apt_preferences setting

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Crump
Tom Allison wrote: I would like to have both Stable and Testing available for install. But I don't want to have packages removed because they are not in Testing. I originally started with preferences levels of Stable: 600 Testing: 601 but packages like junior-programming are slated for removal.

Problme with woody installation

2003-01-06 Thread Gilberto Hernandez Cardenas
hi I tried install woody in a PowerPC Dual (newworld with 2 HD), start yaboot, but not recognize any HD. So I can´t install the system. How can fixed this problem?. I tried boot yaboot from HD, but doesnt work. Thanks for any advice Gilberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 06 January 2003, 01:57 PM -0600): > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > What dvd playing software are other debian users using? anybody > > encounter any of these problems/deficiences? If so, were

IPod is ARM, after all

2003-01-06 Thread Narins, Josh
I haven't heard any actual notes on any attempts to actually install linux on an ipod (rather than mount the ipod as a drive). Burning an ARM woody CD shouldn't be that hard, especially since it will be mounted on a separate platform (no worries about iso <-> ARM incompatibilities). I know I hav

RE: Problme with woody installation

2003-01-06 Thread Narins, Josh
You do not boot from yaboot before installation, only after. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install.es.html -Original Message- From: Gilberto Hernandez Cardenas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problme with

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Crump
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: I discovered that Xine worked with the Xshm video mode, but it, too, was choppy. I had trouble getting ogle to work in gui mode, so I compiled and installed by hand, and that worked. The video is still choppy, but less so than when I used the debian package (wierd).

Can't boot server with an LSI Logic 1030 SCSI controller card

2003-01-06 Thread Jorge Martinez
(note: I am resending it because I am not sure if my first attempt succeeded; the mail was setup for html, not text, I changed that now). Hi: I am attempting to install Woody (got the CD's from Tuxcd's) on a server with an LSI Logic 1030 SCSI controller card, but it doesn't find it (I got 2

Re: terminal descriptions: how to get the terminfo source packages and/or add in sound support

2003-01-06 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:48:19PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > I'd like to get the terminfo source packages so I can recompile one to support the >bell sound > (which doesn't seem to work) > > Could anybody help me out with the right apt-get cmd or whatever? After installing libncurses5-dev (apt

Re: Using an X app

2003-01-06 Thread nate
Dominic Iadicicco said: > Hello all. > > My question is: Do you have to run an windows manager > in order to use an application? Heres what I am > doing. I am running x 4.1.0 and I am using an .xinitrc > file for the user. I have the .xinitrc file just > starting mozilla and it starts fine. I ha

Re: gnome session trouble

2003-01-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:11:00AM -0700, eric lin wrote: | Dear gnome programmers: Hmm, that's not us. We're debian users. | in my .gnome-errors file, | -- | ** (gnome-session:555): WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules | were found. Pango will not work correctly. T

RE: SiS 5598 Video Chip / Mouse won't work...help!

2003-01-06 Thread Jay
Thanks Ron, I'll try tweaking the xfree server. - Jay, ~-Original Message- ~From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ~Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:19 PM ~To: Debian-User ~Subject: Re: SiS 5598 Video Chip / Mouse won't work...help! ~ ~ ~On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:44, Jay wrote: ~> H

Re: Using an X app

2003-01-06 Thread David Z Maze
Dominic Iadicicco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My question is: Do you have to run an windows manager in order to > use an application? You shouldn't, but... > I have the .xinitrc file just starting mozilla and it starts fine. > I have access to the mouse but the keyboard does not let me type > a

Re: sound when playing audio files, but not when playing cd

2003-01-06 Thread Carl Johnson
Andrew J Cosgriff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wim De Smet wrote : > > > I thought this way of working was obsolete, isn't there a > > work-around available for that? > > There's the "xmms-cdread" package, if you don't mind using xmms. I tried that a few days ago, and found the audio was disto

OT: RE madness

2003-01-06 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. I've been playing around with these two REs in Perl with no success. Can anyone tell me what's wrong? This works: !~ /^(?:red|blue)$/ and will match everything except any of the two fixed strings "red" or "blue" or any combination thereof. "black" matches, as does "blu", because it's neith

Re: Can't boot server with a LSI Logic 1030 SCSI controller card

2003-01-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Jorge Martinez [Mon, Jan 06 2003, 03:08:38PM]: > I know Linux can be installed 'cause I could install RH 8.0, so I think > Woody should also be able to boot with the right arguments. Look for the modules-preload-Floppy on the Woody-Errata site. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- "They are ma

problem with tv card

2003-01-06 Thread Superoland
Hi,   I have a problem with my TV card because I have only one channel.  Moreover the chanel which display it is that which I put under Windows.  to change channel it is necessary that I reboot under Windows (It is not very practical).  So if somebody had a idee to resolve this problem.   (i

Online/ Phone

2003-01-06 Thread Accept
Title: CP_Mass

perl 'read only' situation -- bizarre!

2003-01-06 Thread will trillich
i noticed my HTML::Mason code, after upgrading from potato to woody, started balking at a simple line of code: my @c = map {s/(.)/$1$1/g; $_} qw(fc0 066 ffc 600 cff 090 ccc 666 fc9 633 cff 096 c9c 090); now, under potato, there was no problem. with woody, i've got "Modification

make CD of only newest 3 months of sid

2003-01-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
Dear Debian Sirs, a few months ago I want to town and my friend made me 10 cd's: _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary (20021010)] Now if I go to town again can I say, have him use the "jigdo" mechanism to make just a few cd's that hold only the changes to sid since 20021010, avoiding the embarras

Installing Netscape 7.0 (Solution)

2003-01-06 Thread Simon Read
Folks, The current version of Mozilla crashes for me on a number of web-site (tv.yahoo.com, www.mywashingtonpost.com, &c), so I wanted to try the Netscape 7.0 version. I hit a couple of roadblocks and want to post so bemused people like me can manage to do this. The installer complains

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