Re: MOUSE won't function

2003-01-17 Thread Joris Huizer
OK for everybody - I was *still* not sure about the mouse so I asked my dad who has all the hardware info (he did the buying so he has the info :-S) The mouse is a Logitech MouseMan(r) Wheel, 3 buttons with wheel USB I hope this will make things clear! --- Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:46:34PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > But anyways, started out on Slackware in... Hmm. I remember 1.2.x kernels > more than the actual version. Something like version 3.0, which puts > it in 1996? I started getting interested in Linux when my buddy Tabor was going on a

CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount

2003-01-17 Thread Joris Huizer
Hi everybody, I've just found cdroms won't mount - and the "zip" drives don't work either. These are the drives, according to the kern.log : hda: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK Drive hdb: Maxtor 2F040J0, ATA DISK Drive hdc: CRD-8482B, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive

Re: MOUSE won't function

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Lidakis
Joris Huizer wrote: OK for everybody - I was *still* not sure about the mouse so I asked my dad who has all the hardware info (he did the buying so he has the info :-S) The mouse is a Logitech MouseMan(r) Wheel, 3 buttons with wheel USB I hope this will make things clear! --- Bob Proulx <[EMAI

Re: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount

2003-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Friday 17 January 2003 01:19 am, Joris Huizer wrote: > I've just found cdroms won't mount - and the "zip" > drives don't work either. What exactly happens when you try to mount them? > These are the drives, according to the kern.log : > > hda: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK Drive > hdb: Maxto

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Glyn Millington
"Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers Doubt it - I'm a Presbyterian minister! > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > all of this stuff. To some extent it goes with the OS. Maybe a liking

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2003-01-17 Thread L
Hi! I´m a new user of Linux. I don´t know program it. I´ve a LCDPC with SIS M650. How could I work with Debian? Could I work with my LCDPC? Is it possible to see Linux with SIS M650?   Thank you so much for your investigation.

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:50:09AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers > > Doubt it - I'm a Presbyterian minister! And I was a Dutch Reformed minister for 22 years using Linux on my de

Re: MOUSE won't function

2003-01-17 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > >OK for everybody - I was *still* not sure about the > >mouse so I asked my dad who has all the hardware > info > >(he did the buying so he has the info :-S) > > > >The mouse is a Logitech MouseMan(r) Wheel, 3 > buttons > >with

Re: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount

2003-01-17 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Joris Huizer wrote: I don't know how to get them mounted; I included the /etc/fstab file maybe something is wrong Your fstab file should contain: /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 for the cdrom drive. Make sure that: -You dont have ide-scsi active (in lilo.conf: append=" hdc=ide-scsi

Re: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount

2003-01-17 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 17 January 2003 01:19 am, Joris Huizer > wrote: > > I've just found cdroms won't mount - and the "zip" > > drives don't work either. > > What exactly happens when you try to mount them? > > > These are the drives, according to

qpopper timeout and automount expiration

2003-01-17 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I'm having a strange problem in one of my customers mail servers. the mail server (woody, qpopper) is part of a NIS and gives pop3 services. the home directories are mounted through automount from Network Appliance machine. at the moment it's being tested by a few users (client is outlook) and

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2003-01-17 Thread maillists
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Multiple dhcp client interfaces

2003-01-17 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Howdy! Has anyone tackled this problem: Two NICs on a computer get their addresses (and nameservers, routers and so on) by dhcp. This causes two problems: 1. The dhclient pid file only shows the pid of the last instance of dhclient. Consequently, doing ifdown -a always leaves one dhclient runn

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-17 Thread Stephen Birch
I am also having trouble with squirrelmail under Debian. As a new user, I am puzzled about what happens when stable contains a broken package. Since the package doesn't seem to work, will a bug fix be released into security.debian.org or do we have to wait until 3.0.0r2? Steve On Thursday 16

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:14, Tommaso Moroni wrote: > Hugh Saunders wrote: > > "a" is 192.168.1.2 which is on another subnet to "B" which appears to be > > on 192.168.100.1 ?? > > is B's IPaddr 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.100.1?? > > That's a difficult question, because actually I've never understood wh

80 80 80 80 80 80 ... after new install reboot with SCSI

2003-01-17 Thread Emil Hägerlund
Hi, can someone please guide me?! I have a new install with SCSI. "Fist stage" install goes fine. Linux finds my two SCSI devices and I make my partitions. Store LILO at /dev/sda. I make the root partition bootable. Install tells me to reboot to the continue the install. I do that ("Second stage

Re: MOUSE won't function

2003-01-17 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joris Huizer wrote: > > > > >OK for everybody - I was *still* not sure about > the > > >mouse so I asked my dad who has all the hardware > > info > > >(he did the buying so he has the info :-S) > > > > >

Re: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount

2003-01-17 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Johan Ehnberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > I don't know how to get them mounted; I included > the > > /etc/fstab file maybe something is wrong > > Your fstab file should contain: > > /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > > for the cdrom drive. M

x keeps throwing getmodeline

2003-01-17 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i typically keep x running but work mostly in console. every now and then x keeps throwing lines saying getmodeline something something on pressing control l these messages disappear. is there a way to suppress it? lastly, when i start screen, i cant start x. how to enable it? tia

Re: 80 80 80 80 80 80 ... after new install reboot with SCSI

2003-01-17 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Emil Hägerlund wrote: Hi, can someone please guide me?! I have a new install with SCSI. "Fist stage" install goes fine. Linux finds my two SCSI devices and I make my partitions. Store LILO at /dev/sda. I make the root partition bootable. Install tells me to reboot to the continue the install. I

package's version

2003-01-17 Thread Kevin Rowanet
Hello, when launching "apt-get remove -s ipchains", I get the list of packages it proposes to remove, and then detailed information about them. For example, I get the line: Remv gpppon (0.2-3 Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) As in my /etc/apt/sources.list there is _no_ reference to testing

AW: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount

2003-01-17 Thread Hurschler
I'm a newbie and seem to be hooked on Linux I had exactly the same question come up last night on my newly installed system. My question is: how come is this all so complicated? When I shove a Knoppix CD into my system it mounts almost everything (except the zip drive) automatically. I don'

probing memorex-telex display -- LOCKUP!

2003-01-17 Thread will trillich
i'm still hoping to find a way to boost my display -- and `get-edid` really BORKS my system, down to its toes. ouch! i'm still trying to get enough pixels displayed on my monitor so that if i decide to start up mozilla, i can see the entire window. :) 800x600 (that's all i've got) doesn't seem to

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > long that you have

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Kevin . Bewley
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Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 04:14, Johann Spies wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:50:09AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > > "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers > > > > Doubt it - I'm a Presbyterian minister! > > And

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/01/03 Lloyd Zusman did speaketh: > So to me, the differences between Windows and Linux fall into three > categories: > > 1. Quality -- Unix and its descendants such as Linux are robust, > 2. Religion -- Many people in the Linux world (me included) are > 3. Fun -- For a programmer,

Can Linux run on LCPDC with SIS M650?

2003-01-17 Thread L
  Hi! I´m a new user of Linux. I don´t know program it. I´ve a LCDPC with SIS M650. How could I work with Debian? Could I work with my LCDPC? Is it possible to see Linux with SIS M650?   Thank you so much.

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread tony
Reading the posted messages to this list, all these replies, you come closer to an understanding of the beauty of life. This mailing list is a poem. I am a Cuban-Russian-Ukrainian-Canadian-American Mathematics College professor. I have had technical education, I suppose, since this is what I do for

VIA bug?

2003-01-17 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, After a fresh install on a newish PC, I get an error like this: probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration This machine also had problems such as the mouse freezing, and sound playback (and recording) was

a basic aptitude question - how to install a virtual package

2003-01-17 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i am really sorry to ask such a basic question. but i could not locate the help resources. how do i install a 'virtual' package in aptitude? for instance, i can see latex as a package in aptitude. when i hit +, it does not get marked. thanks in advance for help -- regards, sandip p d

Adding ethernet driver to install??

2003-01-17 Thread Adam Kao
I am installing Linux to a machine with a new and obscure ethernet card. I could not find it in the Install Kernel and Driver Modules section. However I went to the manufacturer website and downloaded a linux driver (it is a .tar.gz file). How do I put this on the driver diskettes or get it int

Re: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount

2003-01-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Joris" == Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joris> When I say mount /zip I get the the message mount: mount Joris> point /zip does not exist Does 'ls /zip' say zip does not exist too? In that case, just create it. 'mkdir /zip' and go. Joris> Maybe it's important to know I

Re: AW: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount

2003-01-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Christof" == hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christof> My question is: how come is this all so complicated? Christof> When I shove a Knoppix CD into my system it mounts Christof> almost everything (except the zip drive) automatically. Christof> I don't think it would be

Re: 80 80 80 80 80 80 ... after new install reboot with SCSI

2003-01-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Emil" == Emil Hägerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Emil> I do that ("Second stage"). What I then get is "LILO" promt Emil> cut off to "LI" or "L" and then it starts printing "80" in Emil> an endless cycle. Hi Emil, I can't tell you how to fix it, but you can find the error des

Re: ISO Images

2003-01-17 Thread Craig Jackson
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 13:18, Kevin Smith wrote: > I'm slightly confused > > The ISO images provided for Woody, once you have them burned on a CD hwo on > earth do you us it to install Woody? > > I have a beige G3, so need to but from floppy disk drivers. Can I still > install from the CD? >

Fonts and Initial Install

2003-01-17 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi All,   Why is it when Debian is first installed the fonts look marvellous and in proportion.  Yet, when I reboot after the install, the fonts look bloody awful and the Konsole font is large and spaced unevenly and so characters overlap each other.   Also the menu fonts look crap, what happ

X11

2003-01-17 Thread Vanilla
I still can't start X with and Ati 9000 (on a desktop). I'd try: ati, atimisc, radeon, vesa and vga. If I use the vga driver, I can start X, but ... I dont need 3D, only 2D 24 color bits. Tanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Russell
Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: All, I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new... I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar career

Re: exim and pipe aliases?

2003-01-17 Thread Robert L. Harris
If I execute the script manually it works great. If I execute it via pipe with exim I get this: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0/LWP/Protocol.pm line 87, <> line 20 (#1)

Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread Robert Land
This is a example one can find on one of the links discribed in the deb HOWTO package: =Section Multipliers(text just pasted): " An example from the phone list: 1248 Kate 634 1548 Kerry 534 To match a line that starts with a 1, has some digits, at least one space and a name

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Scott --sidewalking-- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030117 02:00]: > All, > > I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning > horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on Good choice, the packaging system is amazing. > this list is a little out of my compr

Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation

2003-01-17 Thread Qian Gong
Hi, This perhaps is a general font problem. I am using gaim for msn. But when I use it to send Chinese characters warning messages appears as below: Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: GB2312.1980-0 My locale is set to zh_CN. $

Re: 80 80 80 80 80 80 ... after new install reboot with SCSI

2003-01-17 Thread Mailing List
On 1/17/03 6:58 AM, "Shyamal Prasad" wrote: > "Emil" == Emil Hägerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Emil> I do that ("Second stage"). What I then get is "LILO" promt > Emil> cut off to "LI" or "L" and then it starts printing "80" in > Emil> an endless cycle. We had the same thing hap

Re: a basic aptitude question - how to install a virtual package

2003-01-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> hello all i am really sorry to ask such a basic Sandip> question. but i could not locate the help resources. Sandip> how do i install a 'virtual' package in aptitude? for Sandip> instance, i can see latex as a package in aptitude

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.17.1055 +0100]: > As a new user, I am puzzled about what happens when stable contains a broken > package. Since the package doesn't seem to work, will a bug fix be released > into security.debian.org or do we have to wait until 3.0.0r2? Wha

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Re: X11

2003-01-17 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 14:20, Vanilla wrote: > I still can't start X with and Ati 9000 (on a desktop). > I'd try: ati, atimisc, radeon, vesa and vga. > If I use the vga driver, I can start X, but ... > I dont need 3D, only 2D 24 color bits. Here's

Re: which 2.4 kernel and patch(es) to avoid IDE disk corruption when DMA on?

2003-01-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * nate [Thu, Jan 16 2003, 10:53:16AM]: > the problem is probably easier resolved by using another IDE controller, > I highly reccomend the Promise ATA/100 and ATA/66 series(have not tried > the ATA/133). DMA problems are most often caused by buggy IDE controllers SO GO AND TRY before yo

WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Scott --sidewalking--
Steve Juranich said: > I eventually converted to Mandrake, since it was easier to maintain > (they had that rudimentary up2date-like system a couple of years > before RH). I then met another friend who basically called me a > little girl for running Mandrake, and he introduced me to the > bea

Drive errors

2003-01-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I have been running the same woody box for more then 2 years, and I just got the following message: hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } hda: DMA disabled ide0: reset:

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Robert Land wrote: > An example from the phone list: > > 1248 Kate 634 > > 1548 Kerry 534 > > > To match a line that starts with a 1, > has some digits, at least one space > and a name that starts with a K we can write: > > grep '^1[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}K' phonelist.txt > or use * an

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-17 Thread Tommaso Moroni
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:14, Tommaso Moroni wrote: Hugh Saunders wrote: "a" is 192.168.1.2 which is on another subnet to "B" which appears to be on 192.168.100.1 ?? is B's IPaddr 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.100.1?? That's a difficult question, because actually I've never unders

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > long that you have

Re: How to make a DSL Internet Connectioo? Thanks

2003-01-17 Thread Thomas H. George
Thanks to all. My problem was that pump was not installed and I didn't know I needed it. I had installed Woody from a CD set some months ago. Once I knew I needed it, I was able to install pump from the CD set and then route set the gateway. Bingo, I was online! Apt-get dist-upgrade ran in 15 mi

RE: mac-fdisk

2003-01-17 Thread Narins, Josh
Might I recommend, http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook c 2p -Original Message- From: Kevin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mac-fdisk I'm having a really bad day, I managed to do this the first time but cannot

Re: How to make a DSL Internet Connectioo? THANKS

2003-01-17 Thread Thomas H. George
The problem was that pump was not installed and I didn't know I needed it. Woody was installed from a CD set several months ago. Once I understood it was needed, I was able to install pump from the CD set and then route set the gateway. Bingo, I was on line. Apt-get dist-upgrade ran in 15 minut

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Robert Land wrote: > An example from the phone list: > > 1248 Kate 634 > > 1548 Kerry 534 > > > To match a line that starts with a 1, > has some digits, at least one space > and a name that starts with a K we can write: > > grep '^1[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}K' phonelist.txt > or use *

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:03:33PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > " > An example from the phone list: > > 1248 Kate 634 > > 1548 Kerry 534 > > > To match a line that starts with a 1, > has some digits, at least one space > and a name that starts with a K we can write: > > grep '^

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Re: KDE questions

2003-01-17 Thread Brian McGroarty
> 2) What's with konqueror not hanging on to cookies between sessions on >some sites (namely, slashdot)? Are you sure you're accessing the same way? SlashDot's cookie configuration is a little strange. www.slashdot.org and slashdot.org have different cookie sets for some things, and if you ac

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:03:33PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > grep '^1[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}K' phonelist.txt > or use * and repeat [0-9] and space: > grep '^1[0-9][0-9]* *K' phonelist.txt > > =Why, in the first example, has the author > prefaced the char 'K' with the one or more > times multiplier?

Rate limit exim

2003-01-17 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I've setup a free shell account server and so far so good. One thought that has come to me though it that I want to try to limit the chance of someone spamming from the service. As a first step I want to try to rate limit exim (then I will look at iptables). Looking over the config I can't see

Re: MOUSE won't function

2003-01-17 Thread Joris Huizer
Hi everybody, First of all, sory about the number of mails I allready have sent about this subject - I just want to get debian working as soon as possible and it seems the *only* problem right now is the lame mouse... I had a look at the page. However, it says I have to run: gpm -m /dev/input/mi

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Cam Ellison
* Lloyd Zusman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [ ... ] > > > > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > > all of this stuff. Or is it just a h

sensor chipset

2003-01-17 Thread mess-mate
Hi all, I've a brand new P4T533-R board. And want to setup the sensors package. Is there anyone use this board and can tell me what sensor chip it have ? Thanks for your help. mess-mate -- Computers are like air conditioners, they are useless when you open Windows. msg24650/pgp0.pgp Descri

xdm error

2003-01-17 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
Hello all, I have inittab start run level 5 by default. When Linux boots up I keep getting this error. "xdm error(pid 276): process-id file /var/run/xdm-pid cannot be opened." "xdm drror(pid 276): Can't create/lock pid file /var/run/xdm-pid" All I want to do is have x start up by default. Does

Konqueror - help please

2003-01-17 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
Hi all, for some reason konqueror keeps starting as a plain window, without any menus. There is no problem with open location from bookmarks, no problem with browsing the web, but I cannot use any item from menu, because of its disappearance. I use unstable/testing Debian with KDE 3.1 from Ralf's d

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:00:56AM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: > Mandrake 9.0 has GNOME 2 on it, which is cool, and it still has > development tools that I can learn on. Aside from the bad taste > that RPMS leave in peoples' mouths, is Mandrake really THAT bad? Each distro has it's nic

Terrifying compile

2003-01-17 Thread csj
This probably should go to Debian Curiosa. But since this involves an important Debian package, here goes: I did an "apt-get source python2.3" this evening and merrily typed "debuild -b -uc -us" within the build tree. Midway thru what should be an uneventful compile (after I had hacked thru a num

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Fri 17 Jan 2003 15:03:33 +(+0100), Robert Land wrote: > > To match a line that starts with a 1, > has some digits, at least one space > and a name that starts with a K we can write: > > grep '^1[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}K' phonelist.txt > or use * and repeat [0-9] and space: > grep '^1[0-9][0-9]

RE: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is | why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking | all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so | long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these | levels that all of yo

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Steve Juranich
> My sound card os one of those generic VIA AC97 onboard cards, on a > Shuttle AK32 board w/Athlon 1.1. I searched the archives of this > list and there were many issues and posts with that card, and worse > yet, it seems to be a fairly generic description. Yes, this little beast has been the su

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Re: sensor chipset

2003-01-17 Thread Robert L. Harris
There's a script "sensors-detect" that comes with the lm-sensors software, it'll probe through all the modules you have and tell you what and what modules you need. I seriously recomend installing from source and not the deb packages unless you always use debian packaged kernels. Thus spake me

Re: X11

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Winkler
I had a similiar problem with an ATI AIW 8500dv. I ended up upgrading to xfree86 4.2 from 4.1, (which necessitated an upgrade from "Woody" to "Testing") this fixed the problem, I specified the radeon driver. Here is a link to the ATI website where they provide instructions on how to install a

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Donald Spoon
Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: Steve Juranich said: I eventually converted to Mandrake, since it was easier to maintain (they had that rudimentary up2date-like system a couple of years before RH). I then met another friend who basically called me a little girl for running Mandrake, and he in

installation date

2003-01-17 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Is there a way to find out which packages were installed / re-installed recently, to find out which packages were updated after a certain date, or to get a list of installed packages sorted by installation date/time? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Lloyd Zusman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > Linux is a version of Unix that first came out in the mid-1990's. > So by now, it's part of the nearly 30-year evolution of the original > Unix. I think it's worth pointing out that the "original" unix was very seriously based on (concepts of) the

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > long that you

Re: Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation

2003-01-17 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
This problem is caused in Debian by a mismatch between the defoma setup and the Xfree86 setup. In XF86Config-4 there is a line Load "freetype". defoma must now also know that we are working with freetype (not xtt). This is set by running dpkg-reconfigure x-ttcidfonts-conf (as root) and setting the

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Scott --sidewalking--
Steve Juranich said: All you'll > need to do is install an alsa package that matches your kernel. > Actually, the 2.4.19 and above kernels are supposed to support > this card out of the box, but I haven't tried it yet. After > installing an alsa package, you'll want to run the alsa > configu

error running apt-get update

2003-01-17 Thread David Roundy
Hello. Yesterday I got the following error when running apt-get update: ... Fetched 77.4kB in 33s (2284B/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing libscrollkeeper0 (NewFileVer1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The packag

Re: problem with tv card

2003-01-17 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:44:27AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On 8 Jan 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > You have a PC dedicated to displaying TV > > Actually, a lot of people do. > > They're called TiVo's and ReplayTv's and Dishplayers and stuff like that > > :) That's nothing. I have a 60

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 15:03, Robert Land wrote: > grep '^1[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}K' phonelist.txt > or use * and repeat [0-9] and space: > grep '^1[0-9][0-9]* *K' phonelist.txt > " > > > =Why, in the first example, has the author > prefaced the char 'K

Re: Drive errors

2003-01-17 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 16:06, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have been running the same woody box for more then 2 years, and I > just got the following message: > > hda: timeout waiting for DMA > hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComple

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

2003-01-17 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:58:45AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: > > 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. Coo, precision engineering! I do this w

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-17 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:36:54PM -0800, nate wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > > > any suggestions? for both console based as well as gui based browsers are > > welcome. > > > I'm sure you'll hear a lot about phoenix. I use it, it works well, loads > pretty fast. Opera still blows it away in

Re: Question for PPP Users

2003-01-17 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:58:22PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Pppconfig creates a resolv.conf file in /etc/ppp/resolv for each provider. > The /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up script moves /etc/resolv.conf out of the way > and the appropriate file from /etc/ppp/resolv in when a ppp connection > comes up.

Re: exim and pipe aliases?

2003-01-17 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:01:28PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Users don't need to exist. In case exim understands the command line to pipe the mail to as usernames, the mail cannot be delivered to those users if they do not exist. > There's a setting in /etc/exim/exim.conf that tells it

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Erinn
> Mandrake 9.0 has GNOME 2 on it, which is cool, and it still has > development tools that I can learn on. Aside from the bad taste > that RPMS leave in peoples' mouths, is Mandrake really THAT bad? I > need more of the basics to understand this stuff. Need to spend > more time in the CLI, and

Re: Rate limit exim

2003-01-17 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Rus Foster said: > Hi, > I've setup a free shell account server and so far so good. One thought > that has come to me though it that I want to try to limit the chance of > someone spamming from the service. As a first step I want to try to rate > limit exim (then I will

mother board

2003-01-17 Thread raymond
Dear all, I would like to buy the ASUS A7N8X mother board with an AMD2100, I would like to know if some of you have experience with this board Thanks for your inputs Raymond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

carte mere

2003-01-17 Thread raymond
Bonjour a tous, je voudrai acheter une carte mere ASUS A7N8X avec un CPU AMD2100 quelqu'un a-t-il une experience de cette carte avec une distribution Debian Woody Merci d'avance Raymond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Brian Nelson
"Brooks R. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > | why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > | all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > | long that you have advanced your

Re: X11

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Lidakis
Paul Winkler wrote: I had a similiar problem with an ATI AIW 8500dv. I ended up upgrading to xfree86 4.2 from 4.1, (which necessitated an upgrade from "Woody" to "Testing") this fixed the problem, I specified the radeon driver. Here is a link to the ATI website where they provide instructions

How to Mount Second CDROM Drive?

2003-01-17 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
Is it possible to mount and play music from the second drive? The first is /dev/cdrom and there doesn't seem to be a /dev/cdrom2. Actually, the second drive is a CD-RW drive which I can use with cdrecord by including append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. conf. It would be convenient to play back fro

Re: Bullmastiff Breed Information

2003-01-17 Thread list-request
Hi, debian-user. Below is the information you requested about Bullmastiff Breed Information: The official information package and Breeder referral list from the American Bullmastiff Assoication, INC. is currently under revision. Please check at this address in the future for the revised package

Re: Question for PPP Users

2003-01-17 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > I have /etc/ppp/resolv/ukonline (empty) (DDNS) and > /etc/ppp/resolv/waitrose with the waitrose static DNS server addresses in > it. Automatically set up by pppconfig. Yes. I am interested in hearing from people who have edited such files to customize them by adding 'search' line

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