Next release schedule (was: Re: gnome 1.4 or gnome 2 ??)

2003-01-23 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 18:34, nate wrote: > Joris Huizer said: [***Snip!!!***] > gnome2 should be available in the next debian stable release(NOT > the next POINT release, i.e. 'revision') which if my past experience > holds will be in approx another year and a half. That is assuming there > isn't

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:56:10AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:56:14AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > 3) Even if the bug has been filed 8192 times and fixed for the last > > month, everyone running stable is still going to run into this > > problem. Everyone. > > No

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:17:42AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Grab the MIB and roll your own tool using, for example, perl + > > Net:SNMP > > > > I have the MIB somewhere (or know someone who does :-) if you need it. > > Now that's even harder t

Re: Can't figure out CVS

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:01:30PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 23/01/03 Pigeon did speaketh: > > > How do I use cvs to download the entire source tree of a project from > > a cvs repository? (rhide, from sourceforge) > > > > I'm wasting too much time online via dialup trying to figure o

Re: Cannot open SCSI driver

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:07:41PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > In spite of a couple of suggestions, I am still trying to put my > cdwriter to work :( > First of all, make sure that the scsi support is loaded. The output for > the dmesg command is: > > nostromo:/home/chiappa# dm

Re: umount hdb?

2003-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:11:25PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:04:53AM -0500, Mike Dresser insinuated: > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > > orange:~# df -h > > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > /dev/hda5 93M

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:02:55PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have some more info, and it's pretty weird. APC says, and my > experience seems to confirm it, that you need a different serial cable > for Unixy systems than Windows. And if you want to dual boot, well, > that's just too bad. > >

Re: Oh no, what a really heavy bummer

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:22:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:17, Pigeon wrote: > > Hi, > > > [snip] > > > > Having put appropriate deb-src lines in sources.list, pointing to CD > > images or websites as appropriate, have I got this sequence right? > > > > apt-get sourc

Re: pgp on Woody

2003-01-23 Thread Russell
Mike M wrote: I need to install pgp on a Woody system. I went to dselect and did a search on "pgp" and did not find a package. I assume pgp is not installed because "man pgp" has no entry, and $ find / -iname "*pgp*" did not turn up anything interesting. I did find a Debian package descriptio

Re: vsound issue - a return

2003-01-23 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Travis Crump on Thursday, 2003-01-23 at 16:11:40 -0500: > Vaughan, Curtis wrote: > >Whereas vsound would not record RealAudio on a PowerBook, I am now trying > >it > >on an i686-based computer. > > > >After issuing the command: > >vsound -f test.wav realplay > >http://128.208.34.102:8080/ra

Kernel Compile Issue

2003-01-23 Thread Michael Kahle
I am afraid that I will be kicked off of this list because of this silly question. But, I'm stumped, this could be because it's 12:31am and I'm tired. Here goes: I am creating a custom kernel for Debian Woody. For some reason I cannot get my ethernet card to load as a module. I have done the f

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:09:34AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > I do not care for gnome-terminal in Gnome 2. Before I switched to KDE > 3.1, I was using rxvt for all my X-terminal needs. (Now I'm using > Konsole, which is less annoying than gnome-terminal, but kind of slow > compared to rxvt -- a

Re: phoenix and java?

2003-01-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:27:55PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Hey everyone: > > Is there a way to add java support to Phoenix by using debian packages? I > did a quick google and came up with these: > > Installing from source: > >http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:Wk-BJCSYLc8C:www.fiddles

*install* the kernel was Re: GeForce4 MX

2003-01-23 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:48:35PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Yes. There are a lot of things that don't make sense about debian on my > laptop. Including why usb, parallel printing and cdburning won't work. D'uh. I'd recompiled the kernel but not pointed lilo to the right bzImage. Tonight I

Newbie question: compiling specific 3com NIC drivers

2003-01-23 Thread Edwin
My apologies if this has been asked gazillion times, but i'm trying to compile more specific drivers for my Debian Woody, 2.2.20 kernal router. I've got a 3c900B-TPO as eth0 ( connected to ADSL modem) and a 3c905B as eth1 ( connected to 10/ 100 Mbit switched LAN). I'm getting an unusual amount o

X crashes if I'm idle

2003-01-23 Thread Ivan Uemlianin
Dear All I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 on an IBM Thinkpad A31p. X is in VESA mode, as the Thinkpad has unsupported Radeon video. If I'm in X (Gnome) and I'm idle for a while (10 mins?) X crashes. The error messages seem to be to do with trying to run a screensaver. Now, I have xscreensave

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