dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi there! I'm a new Debian user after using RedHat, lfs and my own small (and thus very incomplete) distro. I'm especially happy with the great packaging system and the large number of packages which can easily be installed using dselect. At first, dselect was a bit disorienting, but it handles de

Re: creating a FAT file system

2003-03-13 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:59:21 + Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this must be a limitation of mkdosfs, I'm sure vfat is good > for > 8 GB. I believe msdosfs is 12-bit or 16-bit FAT; vfat is (or can be) 32-bit FAT. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Direct cable connection

2003-03-13 Thread Barry deFreese
arief_mulya wrote: Normal UTP: connect pin 1 - 1 2 - 2 3 - 3 6 - 6 Twisted / Cross UTP: connect pin 1 - 3 2 - 6 3 - 1 6 - 2 Good luck. Best Regards, arief_mulya After seeing this, I realized that arief is correct. I earlier said it uses pins 2,3,4 and 6 and he is correct, it is 1,2,3 an

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-13 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:59:05 -0800 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Careful with this if you try it yourself because it is not a 1 to 1 > crossover. Ethernet only uses ping 2,3,4, and 6 so you need to cross 2 to > 4, 3 to 6, 4 to 2, and 6 to 3. Not a problem. Your Honor, I'd like

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-13 Thread ronin2
On 12 Mar 2003 17:23:08 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there are any network techs in your local LUG, one could make a > patch cable for you for the cost of parts plus a 6-pack of good beer. A six-pack?! *Good* beer?! These British network techs must be pretty expensive! :)

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:59:36 +0100 (MET) David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So that is > in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok, no problem. > But even if I don't select anything dselect, it wants to upgrad

Re: RPC: program not registered

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2003.03.12 23:18 Alfredo J. Cole wrote: Check and make sure the RH server is in fact exporting the directory you are mounting. Regards. The RH server has the drive in its /etc/exports file, should it be anywhere else? RH server /etc/exports /dev/jaz 192.168.0 (rw) and in fstab on debian 192.

Re: drive errors!

2003-03-13 Thread Tinus Kotzé
Hi I had a similiar problem with a WD 30gb drive. Used WD diag utils and it seemed to solve the problem. I would agree on backup, but you may still get some live out of the drive. Regards Tinus On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 00:29, Tom Allison wrote: > I've been runnign this PC for about a year now. > I

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Mpiktas
Hi, I'm a new Debian user after using RedHat, lfs and my own small (and thus very incomplete) distro. I'm especially happy with the great packaging system and the large number of packages which can easily be installed using dselect. At first, dselect was a bit disorienting, but it handles dependen

Re: ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:08, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time dave selby said... > > > Every time i add *.ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, I xfstt > > force-reload, it counts the correct number including the new ones, > > HOWEVER xlsfonts | grep ttf, and gimp only see the old

Re: ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:25, you wrote: > * dave selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030312 21:32]: > > Im using gimp, decided I wanted true type support so did the following > > > > > > installed xfstt > > copy ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directory > > /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload >

Re: ttf more info ...

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:08, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time dave selby said... > > > Every time i add *.ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, I xfstt > > force-reload, it counts the correct number including the new ones, > > HOWEVER xlsfonts | grep ttf, and gimp only see the old

Re: Mouse/X

2003-03-13 Thread Olivier
Quoting "Paul M Foster" : > -- was [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mar 12, 2003 at 10:59:50 -- > I'll give you the solution someone gave me on my system. I'm using a > Trident Cyberblade i/1 video card, so YMMV. That's quite interesting because my video card is a Trident Cyberblade i/7 ... > Go to your

Re: drive errors!

2003-03-13 Thread Sébastien PICARD
I suggest you changing this drive before it's too late. I had the same problem and 5 days after the drive crashes. On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 00:29, Tom Allison wrote: I've been runnign this PC for about a year now. I recently upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20. And this is the thanks I get Any

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi, > > with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So that is > > in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok, no problem. > > But even if I don't select anything dselect, it wants to upgrade 244 > > packages, install 26 and remove 34 and leave 3 not upgraded. I

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi Mpiktas, > You can install mplayer for playing AVI files. Just add to sources.list > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main > > and do > > apt-cache get mplayer-{your_architecture} > > apt-cache search mplayer > > will show architectures available. > > > Or you can download mplayer sources

Re: drive errors!

2003-03-13 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:29:05 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been runnign this PC for about a year now. I recently upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20. And this is the thanks I get Any suggestions? It seems to work. ---

font viewer ... recommendations ?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
I have a lot of fonts, and its growing. I need to quickly scan through my font collection. gtkfontsel is good but I have to click on every font to see what it looks like. Apparently there is an appliaction kfontshow, I have searched the dvd and the net but cant find any info ... I cant get on

Re: dpkg errors involving KDE3, libarts and kmail

2003-03-13 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Donnerstag, 13. März 2003 04:33, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > I use Debian 3.0 + KDE3 + X4.2 + OCaml 3.0.6 (see sources.list below) > > When I do `apt-get update`, I get the following error: http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/README > > > Unpacking replacem

SiS7012 and ALSA

2003-03-13 Thread Davor Balder
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any luck with getting SiS7012 to work with ALSA. This chip apparently has i8x0 chip that I wanted to try ALSA on. I have been trying but I kept getting message that /dev/dsp could not be opened: no such device. This was under kde. OSS driver (the one t

Re: font viewer ... recommendations ?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:46, dave selby wrote: > I have a lot of fonts, and its growing. I need to quickly scan through my > font collection. gtkfontsel is good but I have to click on every font to > see what it looks like. > > Apparently there is an appliaction kfontshow, I have searched the d

Fwd: unsuccessful unsubscribe request

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
come on! it's dumber than i thought! - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been requested that the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be deleted from the debian-mirrors mailing list. Sorry, but this address has NOT been found on the list. What I did find w

Re: drive errors!

2003-03-13 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 05:48:01 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:29:05 -0500 > > Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I've been runnign this PC for about a year now. > >>I recently upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20. > >>An

[Possibly OT] can't I turn off message delivery?

2003-03-13 Thread linux learner
Hi all, Tried mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject help but to no avail! How to turn off message delivery? thanks a learner __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

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2003-03-13 Thread panel-team
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temp reducing number of fonts, xfs in way?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
Im having a great time with fonts at present !! My aim is to reduce the number of default font directories so when using gimp I am not swamped with fonts. Can someone clarify a point with me ... when X boots it reads the font path from /etc/X11/XF86-config, in my case Section "Files"

cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'- exiting

2003-03-13 Thread iks_kzm
I had problem with cups: -- During the configuration (http://localhost:631/ as root) I configured the printer: e.g. 1200 dpi, ...). When I print something from root account it seems that the cups works OK and configuration of the printer is OK. But when I use the printer from NON-root accoun

Re: [Possibly OT] can't I turn off message delivery?

2003-03-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
If you mean you want to unsubscribe from the mailing-list, you should have read one single mail from the list to the end: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Should not be that hard... joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Apache not serving up .shtml properly

2003-03-13 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Stephen Cormier wrote: # # To use server-parsed HTML files # AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml The above is the only relevant bit from the Apache config I could find regarding server-parsed html files. Did you uncomment the line: LoadModule includes_mo

kinda OT: Web Hosting

2003-03-13 Thread Jeff Hahn
Didn't someone here mention a favorite web hosting company recently?? I think it was 750 MB storage and 20 GB traffic for a very reasonable price. Any favorites or companies to avoid??? Thanks, -Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: temp reducing number of fonts, xfs in way?

2003-03-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 01:54 PM 3/13/2003 +, dave selby wrote: Im having a great time with fonts at present !! My aim is to reduce the number of default font directories so when using gimp I am not swamped with fonts. Can someone clarify a point with me ... when X boots it reads the font path from /etc/X11/XF86-c

Re: Direct cable connection

2003-03-13 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 12 March 2003, 02:00 PM -0800): > > -Original Message- > > From: csj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 1:55 PM > > To: Debian User > > Subject: Direct cable connection > > > > > > In Windows I recall s

Re: ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?

2003-03-13 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- dave selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 13 March 2003, 01:55 AM +): > Im using gimp, decided I wanted true type support so did the following > > installed xfstt > copy ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directory > /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload > It counts the correct

waimea pkgs for Woody

2003-03-13 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Does anybody know whether and where there are packages of the waimea window manager for Debian Woody available? I was using http://www.apt-get.org/search.php but it didn't come up with any. I also used the "Find" function of my browser but again nothing showed up. Thanks in advance for a

KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread GBV
Hi all, I prefer KDE, Gnome seens obsolete, and using gtk lib i´m able to use Gnome appz on KDE with no problems at all, My objective with this message is to gather advantages and disvantages of this two great softwares.. Post your user and developer experience... thks... Guilherme Viebig --

Cannot load initrd with kernel 2.4.20

2003-03-13 Thread Kurt Huwig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Using Woody and a vanilla 2.4.20, I cannot boot with an initial ramdisk. The kernel was built by make-kpkg --initrd --config menuconfig --append-to-version -fwrs kernel_image I tried both lilo: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-fwrs label=linux

Re: Fluxbox with and without Debian menus

2003-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Now I know I installed the Debian menu packages (and KDE 2 is using the > Debian menu mixed into the KDE menu), and there isn't anything installed > on my laptop that is not on my desktop. Are you sure you have the debian menu package installed on your desktop? > Why

Re: testing migration

2003-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Hall Stevenson wrote: > I *believe* you can configure debconf to NOT overwrite existing config > files, automatically overwrite them, or prompt you before doing so. debconf is a system for asking questions. It has nothing to do with config files. It does not modify config files. Any package in

Re: SMTP Question

2003-03-13 Thread mtsouk
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, GBV wrote: > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 17:35:05 -0300 > From: GBV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: *debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: SMTP Question > Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:55:41 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Everytime I send mail, my out bandwidth is full

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
GBV wrote: Hi all, I prefer KDE, Gnome seens obsolete, and using gtk lib i´m able to use Gnome appz on KDE with no problems at all, My objective with this message is to gather advantages and disvantages of this two great softwares.. Post your user and developer experience... thks... Guilherme Vi

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Some thoughts... (gnome2, Kde3) I myself use gnome2 KDE: good -Better integration -Good looking -Konqueror inegration -Easy to use -Consistent naming KDE: bad -Arts -Bad support in Konqueror -DisKusting names Gnome:good -Easier to choose between apps (as in easier not to use Konq. for example) -Nau

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> My objective with this message is to gather advantages and disvantages of > this two great softwares.. > > Post your user and developer experience... Please do not feed the trolls. -- Alexey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Duplicating Woody Package?

2003-03-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
I finally got a second hard drive so I can put Linux on my wife's machine. She'd like her X setup Identicle to mine. I've installed a base Woody system, current kernel, etc. Now I need to get all the same KDE packages on her machine. Other than "dpkg -l | grep kde > file, copy the file to her

Problem with libc6

2003-03-13 Thread prueba1
I have a machine with debian woody. After upgrade with dselect or apt-get ( this was a few months ago and I don't remember now if it was with apt-get or dselect) libc6 is half-installed. In fact if I run dpkg -C, I get: The following packages are in a mess due to serious problems during install

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:26 AM 3/13/2003 -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: GTK is the one good thing to come from Gnome IMO. I'm certain that gnome came *after* GTK... Hall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > KDE: > Friendly interface. Multiple virtual desktops (which are easy to use and > configure). Correct only in parts. How do you configure Ctrl-Rightarrow for "Cycle through Workspaces clockwise" and Ctrl-Leftarrow for "counterclockwise"? All I got it to is "The one I pre

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Ross Burton
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:26, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Gnome: > Interface isn't so friendly. 4 virtual desktops which aren't as easy to > manage or configure. Task bar featues are lacking. Too many buttons > (both the task bar and another app bar on the desktop). Excuse me? I have 6 virtual des

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:26:35AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > GTK is the one good thing to come from Gnome IMO. Except that it doesn't. GTK stands for The Gimp Toolkit. Frank ObOntopic: both are evil. I use ion-devel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Chris Spencer
Why limit yourself to just KDE and Gnome? What about blackbox? enlightenment, fvwm, cde, window maker, icewm, sawfish, afterstep, etc Lots of little benefits here or there. Personally I like KDE. It has more of a flashy interface. It really doesn't matter. The others aren't obsolete. They j

Re: Duplicating Woody Package?

2003-03-13 Thread Shaun Crossley
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:35:08 Robert L. Harris wrote: I finally got a second hard drive so I can put Linux on my wife's machine. She'd like her X setup Identicle to mine. I've installed a base Woody system, current kernel, etc. Now I need to get all the same KDE packages on her machine. Other

Re: Duplicating Woody Package?

2003-03-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello Robert I finally got a second hard drive so I can put Linux on my wife's machine. She'd like her X setup Identicle to mine. I've installed a base Woody system, current kernel, etc. Now I need to get all the same KDE packages on her machine. Other than "dpkg -l | grep kde > file, copy the

Re: SiS7012 and ALSA

2003-03-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:19:30AM +1100, Davor Balder wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone had any luck with getting SiS7012 to work > with > ALSA. This chip apparently has i8x0 chip that I wanted to try ALSA on. > > I have been trying but I kept getting message that /dev/dsp coul

Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken

2003-03-13 Thread Lonnie Sutton
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emacs fonts/locale error

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, when I run emacs from within X, I suddenly now get the following message: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs .muttrc No fonts match `-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15' --- this seems especially wierd since my locale is set to en_US, which uses iso8859-1. Thi

Lightweight xlock alternatives?

2003-03-13 Thread Remo Inverardi
Is there a lightweight xlock alternative? Actually, I just want to lock my X session, so I don't have to logoff when I leave my office to get coffee. Xlock with the "-lock blank" parameter is about what I'm looking for, but it's *way* to big. Thanks, Remo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Duplicating Woody Package?

2003-03-13 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:35:08AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I finally got a second hard drive so I can put Linux on my wife's > machine. She'd like her X setup Identicle to mine. I've installed a > base Woody system, current kernel, etc. Now I need to get all the same > KDE packages on h

Re: testing migration

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:51:34 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any package in debian that, during installation or upgrade, loses > changes you have locally made to a config file is broken. A bug report > of severity serious should be filed on it for its violation of debian > policy, sec

Re: Cannot load initrd with kernel 2.4.20

2003-03-13 Thread Kurt Huwig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Huwig wrote: | Hi! | | Using Woody and a vanilla 2.4.20, I cannot boot with an initial ramdisk. | The kernel was built by | | make-kpkg --initrd --config menuconfig --append-to-version -fwrs | kernel_image | | I tried both lilo: | | image=/boot/vml

ALSA conf

2003-03-13 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Howdy! Does someone know what's wrong with my alsa? I installed the module sources and all other important alsa packages. I compile my own kernel and use emu10k1 for sound. Now I just moved the module away. Do I have to disable it in the kernel and recompile? Now I compiled ALSA "on top" of my cu

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-13 Thread debian_newbie
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:28:32 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sat at his keyboard and wrote: > also sprach debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.11.2252 > +0100]:> OK, where do I get it? > > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/deb/ > OK, I got it and installed it. Now Ogle play

Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-13 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
I'm missing something. What is the name of the source for the 2.2.20 kernel? That's what comes as the default in woody and I want to tweak it. I can find headers, patches (what good are patches w/out source to patch?), ReiserFS and PCMCIA modules, but no source. What gives? Jeffrey -- To UN

Re: new mozilla version in stable ?

2003-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ole-Christian S. Hagenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030312 06:23 PST]: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 02:07:23PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I heard of a friend there is a way to get a newer > > version than 1.0.0 in the stable Debian - but I can't > > find it. > > Can anybody

Print postscript to cups.

2003-03-13 Thread Rus Foster
I'm sure this is an easy one. I've got a .ps file and want to print it to cups. Is there a nice command to do that? something like lpq ? -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Lifetime FreeBSD + Linux Hosting and S

Re: Lightweight xlock alternatives?

2003-03-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
Remo Inverardi sez: } Is there a lightweight xlock alternative? Actually, I just want to lock } my X session, so I don't have to logoff when I leave my office to get } coffee. Xlock with the "-lock blank" parameter is about what I'm looking } for, but it's *way* to big. A google search for mini

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:54 am, GBV wrote: > Hi all, > > I prefer KDE, Gnome seens obsolete, and using gtk lib i´m able to use Gnome > appz on KDE with no problems at all, > > My objective with this message is to gather advantages and disvantages of > this two great softwares.. > > Post your us

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 09:54, GBV wrote: > Hi all, > > I prefer KDE, Gnome seens obsolete, and using gtk lib i´m able to use Gnome > appz on KDE with no problems at all, > > My objective with this message is to gather advantages and disvantages of > this two great softwares.. > > Post your user a

Re: Print postscript to cups.

2003-03-13 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > I'm sure this is an easy one. I've got a .ps file and want to print it to > cups. Is there a nice command to do that? something like lpq ? > -- % lpr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Ross Burton wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:26, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Gnome: Interface isn't so friendly. 4 virtual desktops which aren't as easy to manage or configure. Task bar featues are lacking. Too many buttons (both the task bar and another app bar on the desktop). Excuse me? I have

Re: Print postscript to cups.

2003-03-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:58:39PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > I'm sure this is an easy one. I've got a .ps file and want to print it to > cups. Is there a nice command to do that? something like lpq ? Close... lpq tells you what's in the printer's queue, it doesn't actually print anything. The c

Re: new mozilla version in stable ?

2003-03-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've never used any unofficial debs, but a few weeks ago the Debian Weekly News announced unofficial backports of newer versions of mozilla, OpenOffice and a couple other packages. This seemed somewhat official and somewhat part of, or somewhat condoned by, Debian. Any comments on this particular

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread GBV
I talking about the high-level leading production desktops... I love blackbox and icewm, but I think they are for advanced users and developers, or even a specific management display. KDE and Gnome, are developed and modified much faster than others. I just want to focus on desktops for non-adva

Solved Re: SMTP Question

2003-03-13 Thread GBV
The problem was not a problem, is the ADSL tech. To solve it, just using QoS management... I?m switching to dedicated optic fiber thks bye - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GBV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "*debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:

Re: testing migration

2003-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Kimber wrote: > Actually, this is ambiguous, because "local changes must be preserved" can > both mean "backed up" (which is what happened in my xinetd case) and > "remain active", which is what I think should happen. The rest of the section clarifies it pretty well I think. -- see shy j

Re: ALSA conf

2003-03-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:46:06PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Howdy! > Does someone know what's wrong with my alsa? I installed the module > sources and all other important alsa packages. > I compile my own kernel and use emu10k1 for sound. Now I just moved the > module away. Do I have to disa

RE: [Possibly OT] can't I turn off message delivery?

2003-03-13 Thread linux learner
> Like it says at the bottom of every message: > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Okay *MY BAD*, it was ambiguous perhaps. How do i turn off message delivery without losing my posting privilages? i tried mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Mouse/X

2003-03-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:06:16AM +, Olivier wrote: > Quoting "Paul M Foster" : > > -- was [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mar 12, 2003 at 10:59:50 -- > > > I'll give you the solution someone gave me on my system. I'm using a > > Trident Cyberblade i/1 video card, so YMMV. > > That's quite interestin

Debian Boot Process

2003-03-13 Thread Kris
Ok I am trying to do some fancy stuff and need to know how the debian 2.4.18 boot process works. Ok ouch I will compare. If for example I wanted to know the step by step process of an msdos system I would say something like It loads the kernel in msdos.sys and io.sys then it loads the command.co

Re: failing to unsubscribe

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
an update: i am subscribed with addresses that involve the extension character plus (+) like, e.g. so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when i sent messages to the unsubscription system with that address, not even a confirmation would come back. not until i sent a subject line like this: Subject: unsubscr

RE: [Possibly OT] can't I turn off message delivery?

2003-03-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:54 AM 3/13/2003 -0800, linux learner wrote: > Like it says at the bottom of every message: > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Okay *MY BAD*, it was ambiguous perhaps. How do i turn off message delivery without losing my posting privila

Re: Switching to unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 00:08, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: > > I am thinking to switch from stable to unstable these days. Is this > > advisable at the moment, or is the unstable branch suffering from mayor > > problems right now (libc broken etc.) > >

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Re: Switching to unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 18:28, Bill Wohler wrote: > Matthias Szupryczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am thinking to switch from stable to unstable these days. Is this > > advisable at the moment, or is the unstable branch suffering from mayor > > problems right now (libc broken etc.) > > I

RE: [Possibly OT] can't I turn off message delivery?

2003-03-13 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 17:54, linux learner wrote: > How do i turn off message delivery without losing my > posting privilages? AFAIK you dont need to be subscribed to post. Although, not everyone might do reply all so you might have to check up the archives for replies. Shri -- ---

Re: ALSA conf

2003-03-13 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Yes. That solved it! Many thanks to you. I'm now listening to music through xmms :-) . The functionality of ALSA seems great, I just hope they will make it more user friendly. That's basically what the community needs to concentrate on to bring linux to the desktop. On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:4

Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-13 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:51:14AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > I'm missing something. What is the name of the source for the 2.2.20 > kernel? That's what comes as the default in woody and I want to tweak > it. I can find headers, patches (what good are patches w/out source > to patch?), Re

Re: [Possibly OT] can't I turn off message delivery?

2003-03-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:54:05AM -0800, linux learner wrote: > > Like it says at the bottom of every message: > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". > > Okay *MY BAD*, it was ambiguous perhaps. > > How do i turn off message deliv

Re: temp reducing number of fonts, xfs in way?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 14:32, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 01:54 PM 3/13/2003 +, dave selby wrote: > >Im having a great time with fonts at present !! My aim is to reduce the > >number of default font directories so when using gimp I am not swamped > > with fonts. > > > >Can someone clarify a p

Re: Debian Boot Process

2003-03-13 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:01:02AM -0800, Kris wrote: > Ok I am trying to do some fancy stuff and need to know how the debian 2.4.18 > boot process works. Ok ouch I will compare. If for example I wanted to > know the step by step process of an msdos system I would say something like okay, so -

Re: kinda OT: Web Hosting

2003-03-13 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I'm a big fan of Seagull Networks, http://www.seagull.net/ - I've been hosting with them for six years. They have SSH shell logins, run Slackware, and have all the development tools online. You can install CGIs that you run yourself. They can do MySQL hosting. But the main reason I host with

Re: Debian Boot Process

2003-03-13 Thread nate
Kris said: > Well I need this in a debian format. So first lilo directs to which > kernel then what where and how is it loaded next. Does it load the > modueles before init or after. Where does init load from. as far as I know the kernel mounts the root filesystem readonly(this is specified in

[OT] [Test] Ok without being subscribed to list

2003-03-13 Thread linux learner
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Re: Debian Boot Process

2003-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Kris wrote: > Ok I am trying to do some fancy stuff and need to know how the debian 2.4.18 > boot process works. Ok ouch I will compare. If for example I wanted to > know the step by step process of an msdos system I would say something like > > It loads the kernel in msdos.sys and io.sys > then

Re: Cannot load initrd with kernel 2.4.20

2003-03-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Kurt Huwig wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > Using Woody and a vanilla 2.4.20, I cannot boot with an initial ramdisk. > The kernel was built by > > make-kpkg --initrd --config menuconfig --append-to-version -fwrs > kernel_image > Did you

Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
isn't apt a good alternative to find that out? web:~# apt-cache search kernel-source freeswan - IPSEC utilities for FreeSWan kernel-patch-2.2-lids - LIDS Kernel Patch kernel-patch-2.4-lids - LIDS Kernel Patch kernel-source-2.2.20 - Linux kernel source for version 2.2.20 ^^

recommendation on which identd daemon is best/most configurable/secure?

2003-03-13 Thread Walter Tautz
just curious what people recommend some of the choice available are: mdidentd - ident daemon that permits fake identd midentd - identd replacement with masquerading support. nullidentd - small, fast identd daemon pidentd - TCP/IP IDENT protocol server. pidentd-des - TCP/IP IDENT protocol serve

alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
i have a tree of all the documents i ever touched in the last 14 years, and i would like to reorganise it. there are 120,000 files and thus i am reverting to a GUI approach; on the shell, my fingers would fall off, mc is nice but a little archaic to use i find, so i want a mouse-driven proggie. th

Video Screen shift to the right

2003-03-13 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi y'all, I have a question that hopefully someone on the list here has the solution. I just installed Woody (stable) on an older PC with a 3Dfx Voodoo3 video card (16Mb RAM on the vid card) after some trial and error I finally got X-4.1 to work but now it shifts the video screen to right far eno

Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > I'm missing something. What is the name of the source for the 2.2.20 > kernel? That's what comes as the default in woody and I want to tweak > it. I can find headers, patches (what good are patches w/out source > to patch?), ReiserFS and PCMCIA mo

Re: update-menus problem: "Aborted", following acct install

2003-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:35:39PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > System is testing, hppa. I've just committed the glibc update in the > past few days. > > After installing acct, postinst failed on update-menus. > > Running update-menus manually returns: > > # update-menus > Aborted m

100dpi, 75dpi, unscaled ?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
Debian has a lot of fonts what is the difference between /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, I cant find any .. can someone enlighten me ? Do I need both ? Also if I have the 100dpi versions, is there any advantage to having the 75dpi versions, are these just le

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