Hallo Adi , kennst du mich noch ?

2003-01-21 Thread Sexylady
Hallo Debianuser !   Hehe , ist ganz schöne lange her , aber solltest mich glaube ich noch kennen Ich hab endlich meine Homepage , kannst sie dir ja mal anschauen : http://usuarios.lyc

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Hal Vaughan [Tue, Jan 21 2003, 01:52:40AM]: > > Linux, being an OS by geeks for geeks, up until just recently, needs a > > geek to get it set up properly. Mandrake and others have made vast > > improvements, but it's not automatic. If you expect it to be, you'll be > > disappointed. Wa

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-21 Thread Qian Gong
Did you check the file device.map in your grub directory? If there is nothing, you should create one. Qian On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. > > a friend suggested

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Jack [Mon, Jan 20 2003, 11:48:16PM]: > Thanks for the hints. I have almost the same configure as yours. Would > you try this for me when you by chance reboot your machine? Unplug the > USB mouse, boot OS, startx, plugin the USB mouse. Does the USB mouse > work right away? In my

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-21 Thread Ayman Haidar
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:48 am, Jack wrote: > Thanks for the hints. I have almost the same configure as yours. Would > you try this for me when you by chance reboot your machine? Unplug the > USB mouse, boot OS, startx, plugin the USB mouse. Does the USB mouse > work right away? In my

Re: setup ofr the printer

2003-01-21 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may want to install mpage and will need samba if > it is a > windows-shared printer. > > ncpfs I believe is for netware-shared printers. > > That first lp printer is a dummy entry and can be > safely deleted. > > Use printtool to autodetect

fonts & sizes

2003-01-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, This is probably a bit silly but I really can't find how to change the size of menu texts etc. I think they are a bit too big but I don't find how I can change them ?? (I'm using the gdm) thanks Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus -

Mapping eth0 two ways

2003-01-21 Thread Phil Reynolds
If you read "man interfaces", an example set of stanzas is given which, subject to an external script to determine whether the machine is at home or at work, sets up eth0 to either have a static address or to dhcp for one. I would like to know how I can implement such a scheme, if I travel with my

Re: Mapping eth0 two ways

2003-01-21 Thread Ulf Katzenberger
Hi , there is a package called netenv, use this for yout latpop, here's the description: netenv Description: Configure your system for different network environments. Netenv creates a file containing variable assignments which reflect the current environment. It is especially useful for noteboo

Autofs

2003-01-21 Thread Joakim Hove
Hello, I can not get autofs to work. I have installed autofs with bash% apt-get install autofs And, then just tried to use the default /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc files which come with the package: /etc/auto.master: /---

printing problem with netatalk: multiple copies

2003-01-21 Thread Vera Friederichs
Hi, I have problems with the behaviour of lpr (woody). When I try to print something, the system sends (sometimes) an email, that the job could not be printed, but it is printed up to five times. I am using netatalk, but I do not know if it is part of the problem. I have found a problem descr

Lilo warning causing problems

2003-01-21 Thread Felipe Martínez Hermo
Hi all! I have just installed a new Debain box and configured a new kernel. I run Lilo and it says: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 (also for drive 0x81) It installs corre

Re: Autofs

2003-01-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya joakim > /etc/auto.master: > /- > | # $Id: auto.master,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:03 hpa Exp $ > | # Sample auto.master file > | # Format of this file: > | # mountpoint map options > | # For details of the format look at aut

firewire/hfs volumes

2003-01-21 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, I run woody on a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

firewire / hfs volumes (continued)

2003-01-21 Thread Matt Price
sorry about the last message I run debian woody at work, and macos 9 at home. I'd like to start backing up both systems on an external ieee1394 drive (not yet purchased). I have two questions: -does woody (running on x86) work stably with hfs volumes? I seem to remember there were some issues

Re: Lilo warning causing problems

2003-01-21 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:44:41PM +0100, Felipe Mart?nez Hermo wrote: > I have just installed a new Debain box and configured a new > kernel. I run Lilo and it says: > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different > head/sector geometries for BIOS drive

Re: Error updating unstable non-free Packages

2003-01-21 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:06:05PM +0800, Tim Wood wrote: > I get a parsing error in unstable non-free Packages, which results in > "Dynamic MMap ran out of room" error. > This occurs parsing package graphviz (NewVersion1). > > If this is a bug where do I report it as occuring? > If not, where m

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-21 Thread Alaa The Great
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:33:22 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't believe your a good candidate for using debian on the > desktop. Perhaps SuSE, Mandrake or Xandros, despite being more > propritary(sp), they are a step in the right direction(towards more > openness) compared to

[HELP] - kernel panic 2.4.18 on Dual-PIII

2003-01-21 Thread Rodrigo Otavio Weymar Fonseca
Hello all, I am using the standard kernel 2.4.18(stable) provided with Woody cd's on a Dual-PIII 733 Mhz. I have just installed that, after have using the 2.2.20-idepci version. But I am facing a kernel panic with the 2.4.18 (up) version. When I try to boot, it appears the following me

Re: Lilo warning causing problems

2003-01-21 Thread Felipe Martínez Hermo
El Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:19:46AM -0500, Seneca escribió: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:44:41PM +0100, Felipe Mart?nez Hermo wrote: > > I have just installed a new Debain box and configured a new > > kernel. I run Lilo and it says: > > > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x4

j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid

2003-01-21 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, Where can I find j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid ? I have downloaded one but it needs a wrong library. Can I installed this library ?? Thanks a lot François tanna:/usr/local/jre/bin# ./java --version /usr/local/jre1.3.1/bin/i386/native

Re: j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 12:56 pm, Francois Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > Where can I find j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid ? > I have downloaded one but it needs a wrong library. > Can I installed this library ?? You cant, the glibc upgrade means you need a jdk >= 1.4.1 Suns should work,

Re: HP 6200C scanner: Segfault

2003-01-21 Thread Craig Jackson
I answered my own question and post here for the benefit of all. # echo "option connect-device" >> /etc/sane.d/hp.conf # rmmod scanner # modprobe scanner vendor=0x03f0 product=0x0201 Voile! On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 11:19, Craig Jackson wrote: > I am unable to get scanimage to work: > > # sane-fin

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-21 Thread Dave W
On Monday 20 January 2003 10:54 pm, John & Peg Pickard wrote: > > In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And > then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a LinkSys > Print server, and possibly a US Robotics broadband router (if I can use the >

Re: Which kernel-image for a Via Ezra chip?

2003-01-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:55, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:50, Kent West wrote: > > > > > >>Got a Walmart Microtel $300 computer with a Via Ezra microprocessor. I > >>want to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel image from Unstable. Which image do I > >>need for thi

"apt-get install kdenetwork" -> Dependency problem...

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Verkuylen
When trying to install KDE3, i can get all packages running, except for 'kdenetwork' I get this message: kdenetwork: Depends: libmimelib1 (= 4:3.0.4-1) but 4:3.0.5a-0woody1 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Anybody? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: firewire / hfs volumes (continued)

2003-01-21 Thread Jason Healy
At 1043152597s since epoch (01/21/03 07:36:37 -0500 UTC), Matt Price wrote: > I run debian woody at work, and macos 9 at home. I'd like to start > backing up both systems on an external ieee1394 drive (not yet > purchased). I'm in a similar situation. I have an iBook with OSX on it, and I've bee

RE: firewire / hfs volumes (continued)

2003-01-21 Thread Narins, Josh
Keep me posted, I have a similar issue, in that I'd like to buy an external drive, but need to know something very compatible. iirc, and I wouldn't make any hardware purchases based on my memory, Linux had trouble with HFS+, but not HFS. And there is an hfsplus package, which may say more. But i

setlocale comma decimal question: GRACE and GMT

2003-01-21 Thread Glen Snyder
I am using Debian sarge, and have two applications which I use to create maps (GMT, Generic Mapping Tools) and plots (GRACE). The problem I have is that a journal that I am submitting to requires the use of a comma instead of a point for the decimal. The data I am inputting into the two programs is

Help

2003-01-21 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
My Post are not getting to the list. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Sound problem after upgrading to testing

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:12:13PM -0500, AR wrote: > After upgrading to testing from woody, I am unable to hear the sound > track in mpg movies in xine, What sound card do you have? Most can only support one stream at a time, so if you're using GNOME or KDE then esd or artsd will have stolen it

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:18:59AM -0500, Dave W wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 03:56, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > NVDriver is the linux kernel module. nvidia is the X display driver. > > > I might be wrong (sure wouldn't be the first time) but I believe that > starting with 4191, the module is ca

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

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:29:12PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > -- > regards, > sandip p deshmukh > --*** > To everything there is a season, a time for every pupose under heaven: > A time to be born, and a time to die; > A time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; > A ti

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > > > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( > > >

Re: init scripts management

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:11:30PM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any "standard method" under debian to add/remove shell @ >boot/shutdown time in /etc/rc.* directories ? > > Like chk-config under R.H. in fact. > > Thanks a lot. > > François man

Re: apt-get install libc6 but want non-latest version

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:31:35PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm, what is the procedure if one wants less than fresh versions then? > > Let me guess: apt-get --print-uris install libc6, then edit the uris > > to the version one wants. Download them an

slash: How to convince it to work...

2003-01-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Anybody have this one before? I'm not knowledgable enough with Perl to understand this, but it seems to be grinding a few things to a halt. Tue Jan 21 14:50:00 2003 message_delivery.pl begin Error in library:main:/var/www/slash/rainfurs.ursine.dyndns.org/tasks/message_delivery.pl:20:Can't locate

Re: Re-init X11

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:43:25AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Russell said: > > Hi, > > > > After i've modified /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, is there a way to make the > > X system re-read it without having to exit out of X? > > Nope. But. If you've only changed font

Re: Getting X to start

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:55:23AM +1100, Russell wrote: > Kris K wrote: > >Hi - > > > >Just installed Debian, and can't get X to start. I've included my > >XF86Config-4 file, plus the log output that results from it. What can I > >do to get it to work (ok...RTFM...that didn't work)? Thanks fo

Re: Compiler error: C compiler cannot create executables

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:02:31PM +0100, Achton N. Netherclift wrote: > Isildur:/home/public/incoming# dpkg -i libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.2_i386.deb > Selecting previously deselected package libc6-dev. > (Reading database ... 22250 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking libc6-dev (from li

Re: source files

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:00:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > I try to find the source code of the kernels, I need it do compile a driver > I don't know where to find it > Thanks for your help > Raymond If you're compiling a driver for an existing Debian kernel, you don't need (and

Re: URGENT: Building kernel.

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
[Top-posting is evil, mmmkay?] This email makes my eyes bleed: * Don't top post * Don't use ridiculous amounts of white space * Don't let Outlook put in that moronic quote header * Don't send from an address that attaches stupid legal notices to the end, ESPECIALLY to a public list * Don't put

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:32:23PM +0100, Joshua SS Miller wrote: > You have to much info for the apt-get cache to handle. Up the size of > Cache-Limit. I have my set very high. > > joshua@sunlap:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > APT::Cache-Limit 1000; > Apt::Get:

Re: How to analyze a server crash?

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:32:13AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:01:53AM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > > >>panic. I've had that happen when X crashed, too, and that wasn't really > >>even a driver bug (it was combination of wine and font serve

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:54:56PM -0500, Seth Williamson wrote: > I am a total noob and I hope this question is not something so obvious > that it's been hammered to death on this list. Heh. it does come up fairly often, but it's an important and difficult question, so it's worth discussing again

Re: broken FTPStats?

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:09:39PM -0500, D. Clarke wrote: > Hi, > > Anybody have any luck with the ftpstats program? > ( it comes with proftpd-common ) > > I'm using woody > > I've tried reinstalling the package > > I've tried piping to the app, and redirecting to the app and no matter what >

Re: The "c102" libraries want to kill KDE. How do I protect them?

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:15:11PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: > > In order to get a bug fixed, I'm doing an upgrade. Dependencies on > dependencies on dependencies have started to pull in a bunch of the *c102 > transition libraries... Use aptitude or apt or whatever to just install the 'fixed' p

Re: Emacs21 and menu bar

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:13:37PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > I have just installed emacs21 for being able to use the preview-latex > package. I really hate this menu bar with Icons (they make me think of > Word...). > Can I disable this Icon menu bar, and get back to my old text

Re: Cd difficult to burn

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:11:40PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I posted a message to the list a while ago, some time in the early afternoon > about a CD difficult to burn, but the message got somehow lost. In essence, > how do I burn a CD difficult to burn, using "readcd" or "dd", any one, I

Re: CD sound

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:15:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is one of those, "It used to work..." problems. > > I have OSS sound. > I have one CD-R and one CDE-RW (scsi emulation blah-blah-blah) > I have sound on things like XMMS, Xine. > > I have no sound in my cdplayer. > > I can

Re: Help

2003-01-21 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Dominic Iadicicco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 21 January 2003, 07:12 AM -0800): > My Post are not getting to the list. I've seen two in the past couple days. ;-) -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: X problems, likely vertical refresh

2003-01-21 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 20 January 2003, 04:18 PM -0500): > I just installed an ATI All-in-Wonder PCI VGA card in my machine, and > I'm having a few problems with X. > > I'm using a Slimline flat-panel LCD monitor > I'm getting some wierd behaviour, thoug

Re: Lilo warning causing problems

2003-01-21 Thread Donald Spoon
Felipe Martínez Hermo wrote: Hi all! I have just installed a new Debain box and configured a new kernel. I run Lilo and it says: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 (also for drive 0x81) This is usually caused by your

Large file support for smbmount

2003-01-21 Thread Florian Sukup
Hi, I installed woody. LFS is available. I can mount a directory to a share on a win2k machine. The win2k machine allows files >2GB. 'ls -l' shows wrong (huge) file sizes. Copying from win2k machine to the Debian doesn't stop. The file on the Debian machine gets bigger and bigger. ftp from

RE: can´t install debian on power mac G4

2003-01-21 Thread Narins, Josh
These instructions should work... Install & Partition http://people.debian.org/~branden G4 install notes: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ I kept Mac OS X. I used Drive Setup to make two partitions, installed Mac OS X on the second one (40 Gig linux, 20 Gig Mac) That's all you have to

Re: j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid

2003-01-21 Thread Francois Chenais
Thanks a lot But I have an error :-| Setting up j2re1.4 (1.4.0.99beta-1) ... update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/lib/mozilla-cvs/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji-mozilla-cvs.so: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing j2re1.4 (--conf

Can't get sound to work (CMIxxxx)

2003-01-21 Thread Jay
Hello everyone! I know that this topic may have been typed to the death already, but I need help getting my soundchips (CMI8xxx, the ones that are already built in to the motherboard). I read the old SuSe Linux manual, it had some instructions for sound which I tried to follow and so far I tried

Burning a CD without ide-scsi

2003-01-21 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've always burnt CD's using ide-scsi and xcdroast. However I'm wondering is there a way I can burn CD's onto my IDE burner without using SCSI emulation? Cheers Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lifetime UNIX logins - Web Hosting - Free Shell Accounts Offsite Backups

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:54:32PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > There's the pinning method that everyone else has suggested, of course, > but there is another way. apt-get, since the release of woody, has a > 'source' function, which can download source packages from the Debian > archive and build deb

486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread machoamerica
i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for all flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use either kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have to muck around with a kernel-source-2.4.x package? thanks, macho -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 02:46 am, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > > * Hal Vaughan [Tue, Jan 21 2003, 01:52:40AM]: > > > Linux, being an OS by geeks for geeks, up until just recently, needs a > > > geek to get it set up properly. Mandrake and others have made vast > > > improvements, but it's n

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 10:12, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote:

Re: Burning a CD without ide-scsi

2003-01-21 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:26:13PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > I've always burnt CD's using ide-scsi and xcdroast. However I'm wondering > is there a way I can burn CD's onto my IDE burner without using SCSI > emulation? Not that I know of in Linux. Are you having problems with it or just

autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

2003-01-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm looking at my automount situation and wondering. Is one going away? Which is the "way to go" for automounting, amd or autofs? Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris | PGP Key ID: FC96D405

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Johan Ehnberg
machoamerica wrote: i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for all flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use either kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have to muck around with a kernel-source-2.4.x package? thanks, macho You can't

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, machoamerica wrote: > > i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for all > flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use either > kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have to muck > around with a kernel-source-2.4.x pack

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Chris Lale
machoamerica wrote: > i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for > all flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use either > kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have to muck > around with a kernel-source-2.4.x package? AFAIK you want k

Re: Mouse not aligned in X

2003-01-21 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except Kent> that the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered Kent> to the left of where the actual click is made by about the width Kent> of a close button (the

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Ayman Haidar wrote: > you need to setup both mice in your XF86Config, mine looks like this: > -- > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver

Re: Lilo and vga=791

2003-01-21 Thread T. Beauregard
Is this the memory error that GrUB 0.91 gives? This is resolved in 0.93. Tim Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Given a chance, I would like to use grub, but I _cannot_ with my present > motherboard :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On a slightly different note, is there much point in going to the higher > resolutions even if they are available? My monitor will go up to > 1600x1440 but in practice I don't find any use in going above 1024x768. > I know the argu

Slightly OT: KDE3.1 vs. Gnome2 Seeking Info!

2003-01-21 Thread John Foster
I recently installed Both Gnome2 from SID and a few other places and KDE3.1 Much ot this was installed using apt-build from sources outside the US. I have had VERY decent results with both when using the display manager GDM but when I switch over to KDM only the KDE3 apps and some old X apps

Adjusting Subjects when breaking threads (Was: Re: URGENT:Building kernel.)

2003-01-21 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:36, Rob Weir wrote: > [Top-posting is evil, mmmkay?] > > This email makes my eyes bleed: > * Don't top post > * Don't use ridiculous amounts of white space > * Don't let Outlook put in that moronic quote header > * Don't send from an address that attaches stupid legal not

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > nate wrote: > >Ross Boylan said: > > > >>I am looking for a way to get hardware accelerated 3d performance out of > >>my video card. For reasons detailed below, this seems to come down to the > >>need to start X in a lower resolution

A way to check ssh X forwarding?

2003-01-21 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, using OpenSSH in its latest release on several machines, I experience no problems but on one station. Copying the identical configuration to the boxes didn't help me such that I can get X forwarding. in sshd_config: StrictModes yes X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 in ssh_config: H

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > anything else). Second, you can change your font on the fly or via X > resources or application default settings. Indeed, I run a 20" Viewsonic 20G at the office here at 1600x1200. My xterms are set to use a 10x20 font, and I use icewm with the blueHear

Re: Autofs

2003-01-21 Thread Joakim Hove
Hi Alvin, thanks for answering my post. > > /etc/auto.misc: > > /- > > | # $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:04 hpa Exp $ > > | # This is an automounter map and it has the following format > > | # key [ -mount-options-sepa

Re: A way to check ssh X forwarding?

2003-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:03:25PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > using OpenSSH in its latest release on several machines, I experience > no problems but on one station. Copying the identical configuration to > the boxes didn't help me such that I can get X forwarding. ssh -v should give

mkinitrd trouble

2003-01-21 Thread James Miller
Hello all I am pulling my hair trying to get Debian Woody to boot with an initrd image. I have compiled the kernel 2.4.18 with Loopback device support, RAM disk support , 8192KB, and initrd (all compiled into the kernel). I am able to run mkinird just fine 'mkinird 2.4.18-12 -o /initrd-2.4.18-12

RE: Error updating unstable non-free Packages

2003-01-21 Thread Narins, Josh
>On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:06:05PM +0800, Tim Wood wrote: >> I get a parsing error in unstable non-free Packages, which results in >> "Dynamic MMap ran out of room" error. >> This occurs parsing package graphviz (NewVersion1). >> >> If this is a bug where do I report it as occuring? >> If not,

Re: Cd difficult to burn

2003-01-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What I meant was: Wanting to burn a CD, first had to copy the original CD to an iso file to my hard disk. This copying process was the difficult one, as I said. I guess is my fault for not explaining well - Original Message - From: "Rob Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian Users" <[EMAIL

RE: firewire / hfs volumes (continued)

2003-01-21 Thread Narins, Josh
Jason Healy wrote: > You might also try a filesystem type usable by both machines; FAT32 > is read/writeable by both linux and mac. The only drawbacks are > lack of permissions metadata, possible filename truncation to 8.3, > and a file size limit of 4GB (e.g., you can't backup DVD images or >

Re: fonts & sizes

2003-01-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Where can I change the -dpi parameter of X ? --- Gee Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > applications -> preferences -> fonts allows you > change the font size of > gnome2 apps. > > you could also look into the -dpi parameter of X. > xdpyinfo will show > the current setting. increase it to get s

Re: restart / shutdown by normal user

2003-01-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:05:36PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > In the current (default) settings restarting & > shutting down is only allowed for the root user; > How can I change that so normal users can shut down > (restart) ? If you use KDM, try logging out and hitting the shutdown button. Oth

Re: fonts & sizes

2003-01-21 Thread Gee Law
as root: debian:/home/gee# vi /etc/gdm/gdm.conf page to the end and you will see a section definig the x server. this is mine: # Definition of the standard X server. [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 flexible=true gee. On 2003.01.21 19:01 Joris Huizer w

Re: A way to check ssh X forwarding?

2003-01-21 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-21 20:14]: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:03:25PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > using OpenSSH in its latest release on several machines, I experience > > no problems but on one station. Copying the identical configuration to > > the boxes didn't help me such

Re: Smart relay setting for Exim...

2003-01-21 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2003.01.18 19:36 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Everything's almost working now. All I need to do is figure out the SMTP host here at work and I'm fine. From home it works like a charm. Thanks, mate. :) -- Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit the Infobahn Offramp -

Re: j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 4:10 pm, Francois Chenais wrote: > Thanks a lot But I have an error :-| > > > Setting up j2re1.4 (1.4.0.99beta-1) ... > update-alternatives: unable to make > /usr/lib/mozilla-cvs/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to > /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji-mozilla-cvs.so

ppp

2003-01-21 Thread Matt
I'm lost with ppp, while trying to startisdnutils i get: "Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support.", i've next to own compiled the woody 2418bf24 and ppp is compiled as module. lsmod shows hisax and isdn running but i cant ad ippp0 in any way. any hint which could point me to the track ? Matt

Re: mkinitrd trouble

2003-01-21 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 21 Jan 2003, 12:49:13, James Miller wrote: > Here is a snippet of lilo.conf > default=Linux > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux-initrd > initrd=/inird-2.4.18-12.img don't you mean initrd-2.4.18-12.img . . . > a

RE: mkinitrd trouble

2003-01-21 Thread Narins, Josh
_I_AM_NO_EXPERT_ Did you compile the kernel with cramfs, also? You didn't mention it. -Original Message- From: James Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mkinitrd trouble Hello all I am pulling my hair trying to get

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > CGA: 640 X 200 (8*8 font, 80chars * 25 lines) > > > DCGA: 640 X 400 (8*16 font, 80chars * 25 lines) > > > VGA: 640 x 480 > > > SVGA: 800 x 720 > > > XGA: 1024 x 768 > > > SXGA 1280 x1024 > > > UXGA: 1600 x1440 > > >

exim4 sources

2003-01-21 Thread David H. Clymer
Hi folks. In an attempt to get the sources for exim4, I just added the following urls to my sources.list, and apt-get update-ed. when I do an apt-cache search, however I'm only bringing up references to exim 3.35. Is exim4 included in testing or unstable packages? I thought I had heard mention of

Installing Debian on an iPAQ

2003-01-21 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
Anybody have experience doing this? Can anybody point me to some information on doing so? -- Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit the Infobahn Offramp - "What do you care what other people think, Mr. Feynman?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Error updating unstable non-free Packages

2003-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:51:48PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:06:05PM +0800, Tim Wood wrote: > >> I get a parsing error in unstable non-free Packages, which results in > >> "Dynamic MMap ran out of room" error. > >> This occurs parsing package graphviz (NewVersion1).

Re: Autofs

2003-01-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya joakim > > > /etc/auto.misc: > > > /- > > > | # $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:04 hpa Exp $ > > > | # This is an automounter map and it has the following format > > > | # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] lo

Hp 840c

2003-01-21 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello again, I'm using Debian / KDE 2.2.2 at my desktop for 3 weeks now, and I like it very much, except that I can't print. What stuff / wich packages do I have to install to get my HP 840c printer at the parallel port working? It runs well in Caldera OpenLinux but I don't know how to get it w

Re: ppp

2003-01-21 Thread Gee Law
if i understand, i think what you want is # modprobe ppp gee. On 2003.01.21 20:15 Matt wrote: I'm lost with ppp, while trying to startisdnutils i get: "Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support.", i've next to own compiled the woody 2418bf24 and ppp is compiled as module. lsmod shows hisax a

Re: Burning a CD without ide-scsi

2003-01-21 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 20:39, Phil Reynolds wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:26:13PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've always burnt CD's using ide-scsi and xcdroast. However I'm wondering > > is there a way I can burn CD's onto my IDE burner without using SCSI > > emulation? > >

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:29 am, machoamerica wrote: > i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for > all flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use either > kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have to muck > around with a kernel-sour

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