Re: good mp3 organizer - any suggestions?

2003-01-09 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:27:29AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 07:38, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > hello all > > > > - if possible, also play files/ playlists and may be act as a > > front for some other music playing app > A while ago I've used freeamp which I think

Re: Making a DSL server

2003-01-09 Thread Michael D. Crawford
That would be great if I could just do DHCP ethernet. But I have visited people who had DSL connections in their homes, that required them to run some windows program to authenticate. My concern is that I won't have any control over the authentication required by the ISP. I expect that many di

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Lars Jensen
larswm is probably the smallest of all. On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and > fast window manager for some occasional work there. > > aesthetics, bells and whistles do not matter much. speed and overhe

Re: Making a DSL server

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Does Linux handle DSL authentication? Can linux configure a DSL modem to > handle authentication, without any use of Windows? Is there a way I can test > this authentication with my office LAN? apt-get install pppoe Worked like a charm when I

(OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi computer

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Kahle
Dear all, Thank you for the advise on adding the ide drive to my computer. I could not get the ide drive to even recognize. After some monkey-ing around, I decided to pull all the drives out of my computer and add 5 brand new 36GB 10,000 RPM 80pin SCSI drives to my computer. I printed out the S

Unidentified subject!

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Re: SCSI scanner and devfs

2003-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:27:07AM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Have a look at /etc/devfs/perms OK, that got permissions set right, now how do I get xsane to realise it's existance? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have

Re: Making a DSL server

2003-01-09 Thread nate
Michael D. Crawford said: > That would be great if I could just do DHCP ethernet. > > But I have visited people who had DSL connections in their homes, that > required them to run some windows program to authenticate. if thats the case then I reccomend not using such providers. As you will proba

Re: Kernel - compile error

2003-01-09 Thread Rob Weir
[I'm on-list, obviously, so please don't CC me. Also, please let your editor do some sort of sensible wrapping (say at 72 columns), since your messages just look horrific.] On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:39:38PM -0300, Rodrigo F. Baroni wrote: > --- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Sun, >

Re: SCSI scanner and devfs

2003-01-09 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 January 2003 08:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > How would I go about making a scanner attached to > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/generic world-readable and > world-writable so any user can access it, and preserve permissions > between boo

Language settings on sid

2003-01-09 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, I am Swiss, so I speak Swiss German. I would like to have the char-set codings accordingly. However, I do not want to have German Status Messages of Programs like vim or gpg. So far, I always have to adjust /etc/environment by outcommenting LANG=de_CH I hate doing so. What is t

Making music

2003-01-09 Thread Frank Copeland
I've got sheet music for some 19th century military bugle calls and I'd like to hear what they sound like and maybe create .wavs to put on a web site. I'm looking for some combination of software that will allow me to enter the score for each call and then say 'play this on a bugle'. Any suggestion

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

2003-01-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 11:02, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 01/01/03 Alex Malinovich did speaketh: > > > Nope, this doesn't work either. After spending the last 24+ hours > > messing around with this, I've learned at least one important thing. It > > seems that all ports over 1024 aren't being for

Re: Making music

2003-01-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 04:31, Frank Copeland wrote: > I've got sheet music for some 19th century military bugle calls and I'd > like to hear what they sound like and maybe create .wavs to put on a > web site. I'm looking for some combination of software that will allow > me to enter the score for ea

Re: Language settings on sid

2003-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:50:31AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > What is the best way of solving the problem that I would like to have > the region settings etc. for Switzerland while having all messages in > English? Several environment variables are available. 'man locale' lists them. I'd guess that

Re: Making music

2003-01-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:31:01AM +, Frank Copeland wrote: > I've got sheet music for some 19th century military bugle calls and I'd > like to hear what they sound like and maybe create .wavs to put on a > web site. I'm looking for some combination of software that will allow > me to enter the

Re: Adding a ide drive to an all scsi computer

2003-01-09 Thread HdV
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: > I am currently running Debian Sid on my computer. I have 3 SCSI drives in > it and I would like to add a fourth IDE drive to it. I have a 80 GB drive > that would be a great chunk-o-diskTM for me to store all kinds of goodies > on. I originally built t

Re: crontab on UTC?

2003-01-09 Thread Urs Thuermann
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > however, every night at 8 PM, the job executes, and not at 2 AM. i'm 6 > hours behind UTC -- could my crontab be on UTC somehow? both 'date' and > 'hwclock' produce the local time output, and i've never seen this > before. Is /etc/localtime a symlink

Re: Motorola SM56 on Debian Linux

2003-01-09 Thread Andrea Tavazzani
S Yuval wrote:     Own a Motorola SM56 winmodem and run Red Hat Linux 7.1. Frustrated with the poor maintenance capabilities of Red Hat I am considering moving to Debian. However, that decision depends on whether I can be assured that my modem works. Currently I am usin

Re: Debie Newbie

2003-01-09 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 08:07, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:23, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:36:08AM -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > > > Will the Redhat binaries work under Debian? > > > > Hard to say. Executables will work fine (or can be made to work fine by

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Alaa The Great
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:10:58 +0530 Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but i'm currently using pekwm and i can say that it's very > > lightweight "specially the CVS version ;)" > > oops - i could not find a deb package for it in my aptitude. :( no its not on debian yet, but you can g

Re: Making music

2003-01-09 Thread Alaa The Great
On 09 Jan 2003 05:02:19 -0600 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup, it's called MIDI. :) If you know enough about music to read the > scores, you essentially know enough to write out a MIDI file by > hand. midi by hand??!! no need to, you can use Rosegarden, Noteedit or Denemo, the

dual-boot redhat/debian

2003-01-09 Thread Gregory Seidman
Ignoring, for the moment, why I would do such a thing, I want to set up a machine (laptop) to dual-boot both Redhat 8.0 and Debian (testing/unstable mix). I'd also like to share as much as possible between them. I can obviously share the entire /home directory. I think I can share /etc/passwd and /

RE: Internet Troubles

2003-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:51, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > This doesn't work, but the connection from the server to internet is okay. > The connection from the day-to-day computers is also okay. It's an error on > the server, because when I ping from a day-to-day computer I can't ping, > only the serv

Re: Making a DSL server

2003-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 02:27, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > That would be great if I could just do DHCP ethernet. > > But I have visited people who had DSL connections in their homes, that required > them to run some windows program to authenticate. The end-user hardware that providers give to hom

Re: Making music

2003-01-09 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Frank" == Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frank> I'm looking for some combination of software that will Frank> allow me to enter the score for each call and then say Frank> 'play this on a bugle'. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Frank> I'm basically musically

test, please ignore

2003-01-09 Thread stan
procmail testing -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: autofs w/ floppy

2003-01-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david On 8 Jan 2003, David N. Welton wrote: > > Any ideas why autofs wouldn't work as the directions indicate? I > installed the default, uncommented everything but the floppy line, > and... it doesn't work. No reaction from the floppy. try something like # # /etc/aut

Terratec 128 sound card - installation

2003-01-09 Thread Joe Bosak
I have installed a Terratec 128 PCI sound card. How can I get it to work under Debian? Do I need a driver - where do I get one - what do I do with it? Could there be a driver already within the distribution I have (and how could I tell)? Many thanks - Joe

Re: dual-boot redhat/debian

2003-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:42:15AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Ignoring, for the moment, why I would do such a thing, I want to set up a > machine (laptop) to dual-boot both Redhat 8.0 and Debian (testing/unstable > mix). I'd also like to share as much as possible between them. I can > obviousl

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op do 09-01-2003, om 06:42 schreef Sandip P Deshmukh: > hello all > > i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and > fast window manager for some occasional work there. > > aesthetics, bells and whistles do not matter much. speed and overheads > matter a lot. > > i have

Bootpasr

2003-01-09 Thread schneid
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[SOLVED]Re: Kernel - compile error

2003-01-09 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
I was trying to compile a 2.4.18 kernel source that comes with the cds of DEBIAN .. so, I wasn't get to compile it without SMP support (since this can't be enabled to insert some modules, like ptserial.o to makes my HSPPCtel modem works..). So, last night I got the 2.4.18 kernel source from

mutt compile????

2003-01-09 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, I'm banging my head on this one. I'm trying to compile the latest version of mutt. When I start to send an email I put in the To: name which is an alias in ~/.aliases, put in my subject and hit enter. It hangs at this point. I have to kill -9 it from another terminal. I'm compiling i

Gaim problems

2003-01-09 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Hi, Is anyone else using Woody's version of Gaim for Yahoo instant messaging? It worked fine here until about a week ago when I could no longer connect to Yahoo. The only error message shown is "Unable to read". ? Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Making music

2003-01-09 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:46:35AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "Frank" == Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Frank> I'm looking for some combination of software that will > Frank> allow me to enter the score for each call and then say > Frank> 'play this on a bugle'.

AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working

2003-01-09 Thread Elijah
Hello there, I want to configure my AC97 card since I just removed my c-media to make room for my tv-tuner. I added the ac97_codec in my modules to make it work, but it doesn't. So I found this alsa thing, downloaded it, installed the libraries and tools I left the driver alone since after compi

Re: Gaim problems

2003-01-09 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone else using Woody's version of Gaim for Yahoo instant messaging? It >worked fine here until about a week ago when I could no longer connect to Yahoo. The >only error message shown is "Unable to read". ? > > Larry > > > -- > To

syslog

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
I don't want syslogd listening on the LAN. According to the man pages, it should only do this if invoked with the -r option. However, this does not seem to be the case. The -r option is not set in /etc/init.d/sysklogd and does not show up in the command line in ps, but syslogd is still listening

Re: Gaim problems

2003-01-09 Thread Joris
> Is anyone else using Woody's version of Gaim for Yahoo instant > messaging? It worked fine here until about a week ago when I could no > longer connect to Yahoo. The only error message shown is "Unable to > read". ? yahoo changed it's protocol recently. the issue is fixed in gaim v0.

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > Happy new year.. and > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. > On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5GB ??? > Tryed several settings in the bios as auto,user,mode, etc.. > without success. > MB Pentium (1) 233Mhz. >

pppoe and dsl on debian

2003-01-09 Thread Brenda J. Butler
help! I'm running debian stable (woody, 3.0R0) (from cd) and I have rp-pppoe 3.3 (from a debian package). I want to use the debian package, rather than installing software outside the apt-get system. However, debian has modified the rp-pppoe setup to suit itself. rp-pppoe comes with scripts s

Re: Making a DSL server?

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 06:52:14PM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I am making plans for developing a turnkey system that will be installed in > retail stores, that will have a DSL connection. > > Unfortunately, I live out in the Maine woods, far from available DSL > service. I connect to t

Re: Help with Sparc

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:46:57PM -0800, Curt Howland wrote: > Good evening. Please reply directly, as I cannot keep up with the > traffic on debian-user. So subscribe to debian-sparc :-) > I'm trying to install Debian Woody on a Sparc. I have successfully > gotten the cdrom to boot, but the bo

tar file extract specific

2003-01-09 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I have a normal backup tar file of my /home directory. Is it possible to extract certain or specific files out of this tar file without having to untar the entire file first? Thanks, Mike - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

Re: tar file extract specific

2003-01-09 Thread Robert L. Harris
tar xvf home.tar file1_to_recover.ext file2.ext Thus spake Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > I have a normal backup tar file of my /home directory. > Is it possible to extract certain or specific files out of this > tar file without having to untar the entire file first? > > Tha

Re: pppoe and dsl on debian

2003-01-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Brenda J. Butler [Thu, Jan 09 2003, 11:25:03AM]: > However, debian has modified the rp-pppoe setup to suit > itself. rp-pppoe comes with scripts such as adsl-start, adsl-start is Redhat-specific. We have "pppoeconf" which should already be on your system. > Jan 9 10:39:56 seal pppoe

Re: tar file extract specific

2003-01-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > > I have a normal backup tar file of my /home directory. > Is it possible to extract certain or specific files out of this > tar file without having to untar the entire file first? # # go to some work area where yu know you will not acci

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:58:45AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: [snip] > Finally getting the computer assembled I plugged it in... A smile on > my face... A 1 INCH SPARK ARCED FROM ONE OF THE CONVERTERS... Then... My > main board started to smoke. I unplugged my computer... Put it on a cart > and

Re: Gaim problems

2003-01-09 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 11:11, Joris wrote: > > Is anyone else using Woody's version of Gaim for Yahoo instant > > messaging? It worked fine here until about a week ago when I could no > > longer connect to Yahoo. The only error message shown is "Unable to > > read". ? > > yahoo changed

Re: Gaim problems

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Joris: > yahoo changed it's protocol recently. the issue is fixed in gaim v0.59.8, > but at this time that version hasn't made it into unstable yet > I hope it does quickly, otherwise you could try building a package of your > own (downing the source from http://gaim.sf.net/ and running

grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread Hugh Saunders
A boot loader that reads filesystems? i gotta be havin me summa that! 1. apt-get install grub 2. read some documentation [man grub, /usr/share/doc/grub] 3. made sure the necessary was in /boot/grub/ [stage1 ,stage1.5 stage2s] 4. wrote /boot/grub/menu.1st 5. grub-install /dev/ide/bus0/disc Thi

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Things dont get much smaller than Window Maker. Its larger than other Window Managers but still maintains some nice features. -- Arthur H. Johnson II Senior Systems Engineer The Linux Box 206 S. Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 pgr. 734-882-0323

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time Sandip P Deshmukh wrote @ Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:10:58 +0530 > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:13:23AM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Once upon a time Sandip P Deshmukh wrote @ Thu,

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread David P James
Hugh Saunders was roused into action on 2003-01-09 12:12 and wrote: A boot loader that reads filesystems? i gotta be havin me summa that! 1. apt-get install grub 2. read some documentation [man grub, /usr/share/doc/grub] 3. made sure the necessary was in /boot/grub/ [stage1 ,stage1.5 stage2s] 4.

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread eb
* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > > Happy new year.. and > > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. > > On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5GB ??? > > Tryed several settings in the bios as auto,user,mod

Re: AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working

2003-01-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 09 January 2003 07:09 am, Elijah wrote: > Hello there, > > > I want to configure my AC97 card since I just removed my c-media to make > room for my tv-tuner. I added the ac97_codec in my modules to make it > work, but it doesn't. So I found this alsa thing, downloaded it, > installed th

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Hugh" == Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Hugh> 4. wrote /boot/grub/menu.1st ... Grub expects that to be menu.lst, not menu.1st (ell, not one). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread Robert James Kaes
On Thu, 09 Jan 2003, Hugh Saunders wrote: > This all works but the menu does appear by default, each time i boot > have to do > grub> root (hd0,3) > grub> configfile /boot/grub/menu.1st The file name should be menu.lst (notice that it's a small-L rather than a number one.) -- R

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:12:33PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > grub> configfile /boot/grub/menu.1st menu.lst, not "first"!!! :) andrej -- echo ${girl_name} > /etc/dumpdates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Making a DSL server

2003-01-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:18:32AM -0800, nate wrote: > Michael D. Crawford said: > > That would be great if I could just do DHCP ethernet. > > > > But I have visited people who had DSL connections in their homes, that > > required them to run some windows program to authenticate. > > > if thats

Re: dual-boot redhat/debian

2003-01-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-09 07:42:15 -0500]: > Ignoring, for the moment, why I would do such a thing, I want to set up a > machine (laptop) to dual-boot both Redhat 8.0 and Debian (testing/unstable > mix). You might consider setting up a chroot area for the non-booting distribu

KDE2 & /etc/profile?

2003-01-09 Thread Egor Tur
Hi. Why does kde2 not read /etc/profile? At list for me. Who (what :)) and how read this file when system sturt up? Thanx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread csj
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:16:22 -0500 (EST), Arthur H. Johnson II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Things dont get much smaller than Window Maker. Its larger > than other Window Managers but still maintains some nice > features. ~ $ apt-cache show wmaker | grep Installed-Size Installed-Size: 5420 Inst

Re: AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working

2003-01-09 Thread David Z Maze
Elijah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to configure my AC97 card since I just removed my c-media to make > room for my tv-tuner. My understanding is that "AC97" isn't actually a particular type of soundcard, but a sort of meta-standard... > I added the ac97_codec in my modules to make it > w

KDE Menu config file

2003-01-09 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: I am looking for the rc (readable config) file, which stores KDE's Menu (K Menu). I loocked at /etc/skel/.kde/kickerrc but it doesn't seems to be the right one. Any ideas? Cheers -- /*Tell the world that we're going to be the grim * reaper of innocent orphaned children. * We don't wa

Re: syslog

2003-01-09 Thread nate
Jeffrey L. Taylor said: > I don't want syslogd listening on the LAN. According to the man > pages, it should only do this if invoked with the -r option. However, > this does not seem to be the case. The -r option is not set in > /etc/init.d/sysklogd and does not show up in the command line in ps

Order of identifying filesystems for "auto"

2003-01-09 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
I haven't touched this the past couple of kernels, so it may have changed, but another thread reminded me of this problem. I deal with diskettees at times from a variety of operating systems, including MacOS, OS/2, and vfat. As such, I'd thought the sensible move would be to specify "auto" as the f

Startup Messages

2003-01-09 Thread Daniel L. Miller
How can I log all the messages generated during boot? The stuff that talks about the peripherals detected, driver loading, etc. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Abiword ... am I being dense ???

2003-01-09 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Tom Allison wrote: > Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:34:16 -0500 > From: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Abiword ... am I being dense ??? > Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:45:33 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMA

USB Mouse

2003-01-09 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Is there a known problem with using a USB mouse? My particular configuration is a FIC motherboard for an AMD 750 Athlon (older VIA chipset), connected to a ViewSonic monitor's (P815) USB hub, with a Microsoft Optical Trackball. After a variable period of time, the mouse will cease functioning and

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread eb
* csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:16:22 -0500 (EST), > Arthur H. Johnson II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Things dont get much smaller than Window Maker. Its larger > > than other Window Managers but still maintains some nice > > features. > > ~ $ apt-cache show wmake

eth0: unable to signal thread: -3

2003-01-09 Thread john gennard
I have a separate box running Smoothwall and my two Woody boxes access the internet through it. I always shutdown Smoothwall before Woody (in fact, I do so when I know I have no further need for access). When I shutdown Woody the error message in the subject appears. It does not seem to affect a

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-09T08:58:45Z, Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In a moment of "ah-ha" I carefully removed two of the pressed on > connectors to the ribbon cables, and then just as carefully pressed them > back on with the help of a vice and a micrometer. Just for the record, may we know wh

Re: 3c90x drive

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Ron Johnson said: > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:51, user list wrote: > > We have recently had similar behavior. However, we found that even > > though the we received installation failed messages, it actually worked. > > During the device driver configuration step, are you

Nagio for Debian?

2003-01-09 Thread stan
Saw an interesting tool on Slashdot today. It's called nagio. So I fired up dselect to grab it to check it out. But it did not seem to be in my choices. Did I miss somethign? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: Startup Messages

2003-01-09 Thread Robert L. Harris
Once your system is up log in as root and execute "dmesg" Also see if your system has a /var/log/dmesg, this file is written at boot time but future messages are not appended. Thus spake Daniel L. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I log all the messages generated during boot? The stuff th

Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Moseley
Any suggestions? 3D support, too? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Jay
The window manager that I really dislike: TWM, I just can't get anything done with a blank screen and no menus. IceWM is my favorite. May the Force of the Dragon's Spirit be with you...In Accordance With The Prophecy. Happy Hacking, Bright Blessings and Gentle Breezes! -*/ -= )O( Jay "CoolDra

Re: 3c90x drive

2003-01-09 Thread nate
Stephen Gran said: > It's a kernel module. Definitely in the later 2.2 series, don't rememebr > if it's also in 2.4 I think it's only included with donald becker's drivers(not with the official kernel). I think he uses it to improve code portability between 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. donald's dri

Re: USB Mouse

2003-01-09 Thread nate
Daniel L. Miller said: > Is there a known problem with using a USB mouse? My particular > configuration is a FIC motherboard for an AMD 750 Athlon (older VIA > chipset), connected to a ViewSonic monitor's (P815) USB hub, with a > Microsoft Optical Trackball. > > After a variable period of time, th

Variuos NICs

2003-01-09 Thread Matthias Krauss
Hi ! i'd like to gt rid of my suse box and migrade to debian, i've a 3com a realtec and a winbound which doesnt wanna load on debian (woddy 2418) except the 3com. lspci reports on suse+debain: 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 74) 00:0b.0 Ethernet control

Re: tar file extract specific

2003-01-09 Thread Johannes Berth
* Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a normal backup tar file of my /home directory. > Is it possible to extract certain or specific files out of this > tar file without having to untar the entire file first? Yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Nagio for Debian?

2003-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:50:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > Saw an interesting tool on Slashdot today. It's called nagio. So I fired up > dselect to grab it to check it out. > > But it did not seem to be in my choices. > > Did I miss somethign? That's nagios, not nagio; I believe it was formerly cal

Re: syslog

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Okay. That is what's going on. Guess I will have to depend on the firewall protecting syslog or move to a more secure variant. Thanks, Jeffrey Quoting nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeffrey L. Taylor said: > > I don't want syslogd listening on the LAN. According to the man > > pages, it should

Re: Nagio for Debian?

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
It is in Woody under its previous name, netsaint. HTH, Jeffrey Quoting stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Saw an interesting tool on Slashdot today. It's called nagio. So I fired up > dselect to grab it to check it out. > > But it did not seem to be in my choices. > > Did I miss somethign? > > -

Re: 3c90x drive

2003-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:50, nate wrote: > Stephen Gran said: > > > It's a kernel module. Definitely in the later 2.2 series, don't rememebr > > if it's also in 2.4 > > I think it's only included with donald becker's drivers(not with the official > kernel). I think he uses it to improve code port

Re: 3c90x drive

2003-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:51, user list wrote: > We have recently had similar behavior. However, we found that even > though the we received installation failed messages, it actually worked. > During the device driver configuration step, are you also installoing > pci-scan? When I did this on a rece

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:46:57PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Hugh" == Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Hugh> 4. wrote /boot/grub/menu.1st > ... > > Grub expects that to be menu.lst, not menu.1st (ell, not one). thanks! i renamed the file, rebooted, loaded the conf

Re: XF86Config-4 and msttcorefonts

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bill Moseley said: > Can someone that likes their font setup, and has msttcorefonts and XFree86 > 4.2.1 post their "Files" section of XF86Config-4? > > I finally took some time tonight to look at my fonts. One of my problems > was that many applications were using the

Re: Startup Messages

2003-01-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/01/03 Daniel L. Miller did speaketh: > How can I log all the messages generated during boot? The stuff that > talks about the peripherals detected, driver loading, etc. man dmesg Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Kirk Strauser said: > > At 2003-01-09T08:58:45Z, Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In a moment of "ah-ha" I carefully removed two of the pressed on > > connectors to the ribbon cables, and then just as carefully pressed them > > back on with the help of

Re: Order of identifying filesystems for "auto"

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > I haven't touched this the past couple of kernels, so it may have > changed, but another thread reminded me of this problem. I deal with > diskettees at times from a variety of operating systems, including > MacOS, OS/2, and vfat. As such, I'd thou

XEmacs and Gnome Terminal copy/paste

2003-01-09 Thread Jorge Santos
It seems like I can't paste with the middle button to the Gnome Terminal (2.x) text selected inside XEmacs, however pasting to other programs work as does pasting the other way around. Anyone can confirm this and/or suggest a solution? BTW, I'm using Gnome Terminal 2.1.0 and XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6

Re: Order of identifying filesystems for "auto"

2003-01-09 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:12:20PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Is there a way, other than rewriting the code for mount, to have it look > that little bit more to see if the freshly found FAT volume is aactually > vfat, or have I been fortunate and that is already done and I should > just try it a

RE: Startup Messages

2003-01-09 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Thank you all for the dmesg tip. Following is a copy of my startup. Can anyone give me a tip on any potential problems or inefficiencies noted here - in particular the messages regarding my USB setup. Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4 (root@zombie) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 S

Re: XEmacs and Gnome Terminal copy/paste

2003-01-09 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jorge Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems like I can't paste with the middle button to the Gnome > Terminal (2.x) text selected inside XEmacs, however pasting to other > programs work as does pasting the other way around. Anyone can > confirm this and/or suggest a solution? > > BTW, I

Re: Need help for Toshiba Libretto 70 CT

2003-01-09 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Kumar, > I have Toshiba Libretto 70 CT. I have booting problem. How do i go into > Setup mode ? I have a Satellite Pro 470CDT, which goes into setup mode when powering up with the Esc key pressed. I don't know about any Libretto stuff, but who knows? Good luck... Nico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: 3c90x drive

2003-01-09 Thread nate
Ron Johnson said: > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:50, nate wrote: >> Stephen Gran said: >> >> > It's a kernel module. Definitely in the later 2.2 series, don't >> rememebr if it's also in 2.4 >> >> I think it's only included with donald becker's drivers(not with the >> official kernel). I think he uses

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> i have heard about ratpoison and [black | flux]box. any Sandip> feedback from actual users is welcome. i am currently Sandip> using windowmaker. Give xfce a try, it is one that no one has mentioned yet. It is not particularly small no

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