Re: [SLUG] .procmailrc/.muttrc conflict ?

2003-07-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail > > DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/adam Problem 1 ^ > >set folder=~/Mail > >set mbox=~/Mail/IN.All > >set record=~/Mail/Sent > >set spoolfile=~/Mail/IN.All Problem 2 ^ > You'll notice that .procmail uses Maildir to define a mailbox No, that's just a variable called MAILDIR. Y

sqwebmail vs. squirrelmail

2003-07-26 Thread Johnny
I've been looking at sqwebmail and squirrelmail as possible candidates for setting up our webmail interface on top of qmail. Does anyone have a recommendation one way or the other? (preferably with some reasons why) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: books-manuals

2003-07-26 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:20:20 +0200, Tiago Cunha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hy debian users > > A question from a beginner. > > Any recomendations on a good Debian-linux guide, with administration tools > and basic setups?? > > Thanks > > Tiago Cunha > > What about "Debian Reference" by

Re: Where's xmmsarts?

2003-07-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Anyone know what happened to xmmsarts in unstable? It was removed because of some technical problems. IMHO is is not the best strategy to remove package when somewhat-hard-to-fix bug is found. But people do this :( > If it's been pulled for some reason, is there a work-around to get xmms > t

bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread David selby
Hello, Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla to show that HTML. I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first ... seemed simple if ! ps ax | grep "mozilla-bin" &>/dev/n

How to turn of touchpad on laptop?

2003-07-26 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I'd like to turn off the touchpad on my laptop wehn I have an USB mouse plugged in. In my XF86Config-4 I have configured two pointer devices: InputDevice"PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer" and InputDevice"USB Mouse" "CorePointer" Is there a way to turn the "PS/2 Mouse"

on-screen keyboard

2003-07-26 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, Thanks for the replies to my previous msg. I have changed the font size and color of xterm. Light sea green-on-black is much more easy on the eyes than the original white-on-black. I have opted to use fvwm instead of KDE or GNOME because it is less demanding on memory. Moreover its u

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Aaron wrote: > On -4969-Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:41:47PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > >>"Anthony" == Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>Anthony> On 18 Jul 2003, John Little wrote: >>>> >I'm using 3.0r0 (2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel) with ASRock K7VT2 >>

Re: Attach "Post-It" notes to .PDF files

2003-07-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:47:22PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to achieve the same functionality in Linux? I > have downloaded the free Linux Acrobat reader from Adobe, but it's not > in there (or at least I cant f

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:12:46PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > I am wondering what everyone here uses to view PDF files in Linux > these days? I do use text2pdf for instances where I only care about > the textual content, but copying the PDF to OS X or Windo

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:32:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > xpdf, gs and Adobe acroread. GPL purists won't like acroread, of > course, but it does a very good job... If you don't mind it being slow, ugly resource pig that doesn't know what a mouse

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-26 Thread cr
On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:56, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 07:10:02AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 00:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:20:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Since there's still only(?) GPL s/w in RH9, and they giv

ls in color

2003-07-26 Thread Johnny
As of what I saw in slackware, ls is capable of displaying itz results in color. But up till what I have seen in debian, the ls in debian seems to be black and white. Can anyone tell me how to turn the color option on? btw ls --color=auto does not work Thank you in advance Regards, Johnny -- T

Re: Where's xmmsarts?

2003-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:18:18PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Anyone know what happened to xmmsarts in unstable? > > It was removed because of some technical problems. Specifically: = [Date: T

Re: ls in color

2003-07-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:59:14PM +0800, Johnny wrote: > As of what I saw in slackware, ls is capable of displaying itz results in > color. But up till what I have seen in debian, the ls in debian seems to be > black and white. Can anyone tell me how

Re: crack traces in /var ?

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Thanks to all contributors for your helpful, kind and informative responses and discussion. I will now unsubscribe temporarily and be back by the middle of next month, then at first reinstalling... Of course, should there be further postings I'll be happy to read them later. Take care, Andrea

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:24:13PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:56, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 07:10:02AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > RH employs many kernel, GNOME and PostgreSQL hackers. > > > > Not to mention even a few Debian developers. > > Besides, i

Re: ls in color

2003-07-26 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Johnny! At Saturday 26 July 2003 13:00 Johnny wrote: > As of what I saw in slackware, ls is capable of displaying itz > results in color. But up till what I have seen in debian, the ls in > debian seems to be black and white. Can anyone tell me how to turn > the color option on? btw ls --co

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Aaron wrote: [snip] I've been having this same problem, but apparently my VIA version doesn't match 82CXXX, so I'm completely dead in the water for DMA (I know, VIA is bad). [snip] And another thing... VIA seem to have made a big effort on Linux support recently - for instance, my mobo uses the

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:22:53AM +0100, David selby wrote: > Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code > written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla to > show that HTML. > > I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it fir

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-26 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Paul Johnson escribe el 25/07/03 05:11: I wonder if this transparent attempt to get free labour for a commercial venture will pay off. Selling Debian CD's, or selling support for Debian installations on corporate servers, are also "transparent attempts to get free labour for a commercial venture"?

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 26 July 2003 11:22, David selby wrote: > Hello, > > Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code > written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla to > show that HTML. > > I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first

sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Italian Superstar
Hi, I use a Sound Blaster PCI sound card but my X-Window cannot recognise it. It displays a message saying "/dev/dsp cannot be opened. Permission denied. Sound output is null". Can someone tell me how to configure my sound card on Debian. PS. Thanx to everyone who's helped me configure my wirel

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Italian Superstar wrote: > I use a Sound Blaster PCI sound card but my X-Window cannot recognise > it. It displays a message saying "/dev/dsp cannot be opened. Permission > denied. Sound output is null". Can someone tell me how to configure my > sound card on Debian. This has nothing to do

Re: abcde is failing me. SOLVED

2003-07-26 Thread Antonio Rodr
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:56:43 -0400 Antonio RodrX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I run it as root, it works good. If I run it as user, not so. I've > tweaked the $HOME/.abcde.conf and have been able to make the list of > errors get smaller, but still. Next I copy what I keep getting. It > seems as

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:30:06 +0200, David selby wrote: > I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first ... > seemed simple Yeah. That's why I use Galeon. I never understood Mozilla's remote control. :-) Of course, Galeon has other advantages, too... > Whatever I grep for,

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Italian Superstar wrote: Hi, I use a Sound Blaster PCI sound card but my X-Window cannot recognise it. It displays a message saying "/dev/dsp cannot be opened. Permission denied. Sound output is null". Can someone tell me how to configure my sound card on Debian. It's not X that uses the sound

set www-browser to galeon

2003-07-26 Thread Paul Worrall
Greetings! I have just installed the news aggregator 'Straw' and find that whenever I click on a hyperlink in it, a terminal window is opened entitled www-browser and the link is opened in Links. I would like to change this behaviour to make it open in a new tab in galeon. I have looked at updat

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:50:05 +0200, Seneca wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:22:53AM +0100, David selby wrote: >> Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code >> written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla >> to show that HTML. >> >> I need to

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread David selby
David selby wrote: Hello, Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla to show that HTML. I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first ... seemed simple if ! ps ax | grep "m

Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-26 Thread Darin Strait
I have a simple Gateway consumer-grade machine with an i810e motherboard, 866MHz/128MB/120MB ide. I am running 2.4.21-2-686. Using grub to boot my old 2.4.20 does not help. I had left the machine running for a few weeks, when I needed to shut it down. After rebooting, my USB mouse is frozen upo

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"David" == David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> PS what is this Galleon thing ? That's any easy question to answer ;-) $ dpkg -p galeon Package: galeon Priority: optional [...deleted.] Description: Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel Galeon is a fast Web Br

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> Aaron wrote: >> >> I've been having this same problem, but apparently my VIA >> version doesn't match 82CXXX, so I'm completely dead in the >> water for DMA (I know, VIA is bad). I want to buy a PCI IDE

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 26 07:35:08 2003 > > > > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:22:53AM +0100, David selby wrote: > > Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code=20 > > written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla to= > =20 > > show that

Cannot connect to http://localhost:631

2003-07-26 Thread J. Zidar
I have a HP Deskjet 656C printer that I would like to set up using CUPS, but when I try to connect to http://localhost:631 Mozilla complains about not being able to connect to that server.Running the command cupsdconf as root gives the error: Unable to retrieve configuration file from the CUPS ser

Pilot sync software that can install to VFS

2003-07-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
I use Kpilot to sync my m130 over USB, and it works great. However, I *really* need the ability to install files directly to VFS, instead of installing them to RAM and manually copying them over. For example, certain doc viewers are perfectly capable of reading 20MB files, but it's simply not pos

Adding ipchains to kernel

2003-07-26 Thread Steven
I'm recompiling my kernel - I forgot to add ipchains support last time. The problem is that ipchains isn't listed in the menuconfig stuff. Where do I build it in? I also searched .config for ipchains, but it wasn't found. Thanks for any help. Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-26 Thread Greg Norris
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 07:36:47AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > This might help in the future, Seneca: > > ps a | grep slrn | grep -v grep > 863 pts/3S 0:00 slrn You can cut out an unnecessary process (not that it's likely to be a big deal these days) with: ps a | grep "[s]lrn" -

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Andrew" == Andrew McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andrew> Aaron wrote: > >> > >> I've been having this same problem, but apparently my VIA > >> version doesn't match 82CXXX, so I'm completely dead in the > >> water for DMA (I know, VIA is

Re: Cannot connect to http://localhost:631

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J. Zidar wrote: > I have a HP Deskjet 656C printer that I would like to set up using CUPS, > but when I try to connect to http://localhost:631 Mozilla complains > about not being able to connect to that server.Running the command > cupsdconf as root gives the error: > Unable to retrieve con

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:30:14 +0200, Darin Strait wrote: > I have a simple Gateway consumer-grade machine with an i810e motherboard, > 866MHz/128MB/120MB ide. I am running 2.4.21-2-686. Using grub to boot my old > 2.4.20 does not help. > > I had left the machine running for a few weeks, when I ne

Re: Adding ipchains to kernel

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Steven wrote: > I'm recompiling my kernel - I forgot to add ipchains support last time. > The problem is that ipchains isn't listed in the menuconfig stuff. > Where do I build it in? I also searched .config for ipchains, but it > wasn't found. Thanks for any help. > Steven What kernel

Toolchain to run 2.6 kernel?

2003-07-26 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, I build a 2.6.0-test1 kernel recently and, sure enough, it booted right the first time. One thing that's not working though is module support. Eg `lsmod` gives me some obscure error "QT_Module not supported" or something like that. Since the module code has changed (once again) in 2.6, I gue

Re: Toolchain to run 2.6 kernel?

2003-07-26 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Viktor Rosenfeld: > Since the module code has changed (once again) in 2.6, I guess I need > new utils to accompany the new kernel. Is that in unstable already? module-init-tools -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Buying on trust is the way to pay double. - Anonymous pgp0.p

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Rus Hughes wrote: Sorry for not replying sooner but I've only just now had time to try it out. I did exactly as you said, although they updated the driver on the site to: Driver Version X4.2.0-2.9.13 on July 22 (I also downgraded to the 2.4.21 kernel) and the fglrx module compiled and installed pe

Re: Adding ipchains to kernel

2003-07-26 Thread Steven
On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Steven wrote: I'm recompiling my kernel - I forgot to add ipchains support last time. The problem is that ipchains isn't listed in the menuconfig stuff. Where do I build it in? I also searched .config for ipchains, but it

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: Check out the release notes for the driver. They provide specific instructions on how to get the RPM install with Debian. I got it going ina few minutes using alien

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Gonzales
> There are several packages available to view PDF documents, among them > xpdf, gs, kghostview and Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The last one is not > available as an official package, but there is a package available from > marillat.free.fr. Add > > deb http://marillat.free.fr stable main > What's

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Gonzales
> What's the package's name? > > Thanks. > Duh, sorry... acroread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brian Gonzales wrote: >> There are several packages available to view PDF documents, among them >> xpdf, gs, kghostview and Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The last one is not >> available as an official package, but there is a package available from >> marillat.free.fr. Add >> >> deb http://maril

Re: Adding ipchains to kernel

2003-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Steven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030726 09:44]: > > On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > >Hello > > > >Steven wrote: > > > >>I'm recompiling my kernel - I forgot to add ipchains support last > >>time. > >> The problem is that ipchains isn't listed in the menuconfig

Re: Adding ipchains to kernel

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Steven wrote: > On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> Steven wrote: >>> I'm recompiling my kernel - I forgot to add ipchains support last >>> time. >>> The problem is that ipchains isn't listed in the menuconfig stuff. >>> Where do I build it in? I also se

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 01:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:20:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Since there's still only(?) GPL s/w in RH9, and they give it away > > for free from FTP, why complain? > > Mostly because their d

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:57, Andrew McGuinness wrote: [...] > # adduser fred audio I was hoping this was my problem too, but no. Mine is not a soundblaster, it is woody on a thinkpad570, which I believe has a Cirrus Logic CS 4614 Chip (but I don't know as it's second user kit with no docume

Re: on-screen keyboard

2003-07-26 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Jianan Huang wrote: > I need a on-screen keyboard. I have used a very good one called > Click-and-Type, a free software but only runs on MS-Window. I have not been > able to find one in Debian Packages. Does any know of a good one for Linux? Looking through apt-cache, I fin

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Richard Lyons wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:57, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > [...] >> # adduser fred audio > > I was hoping this was my problem too, but no. Mine is not a > soundblaster, it is woody on a thinkpad570, which I believe has a > Cirrus Logic CS 4614 Chip (but I don't know

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Paul Dersey
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:23:56PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:57, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > [...] > > # adduser fred audio > > I was hoping this was my problem too, but no. Mine is not a > soundblaster, it is woody on a thinkpad570, which I believe has a > Cirrus

emacs segmentation faults

2003-07-26 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi, I just installed emacs on a woody system. When I do a little bit of editing it crashes with: Fatal error (11).Segmentation fault How can I get more information to see what the problem is? Rudy -- Rudy Gevaert[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pagehttp://www.webworm

GNOME broken in Sarge?

2003-07-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
I just upgraded from Woody to Sarge. I boot to a command line and use startx to run X. I have been running Gnome, but, since the upgrade, startx is now loading KDE. If I try to run gnome-session to run Gnome I get the following error: (gnome-session:535): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

Re: Wanted to build: bare minimum Debian system

2003-07-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 15:55, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-25T03:16:19Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hope you've got 192MB swap (16x RAM). > > Actually, I have 512MB swap (the drive was migrated from a Webplayer that > I'd hacked). > > > Imagine how fast that, say, "apt-get

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 the mental interface of Paul Johnson told: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:12:46PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > > I am wondering what everyone here uses to view PDF files in Linux > > these days? I do use text2pdf for instances where I only care about > > the textual content, but copyin

Re: Wanted to build: bare minimum Debian system

2003-07-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-26T19:03:09Z, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 15:55, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> *Thin* client. As in, *no* clients running locally. > mozilla takes about 24M with nothing loaded and evolution somewhere around > 22M. For clarity's sake, *no* clients will

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Nathan Poznick
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:12:46PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > > > I am wondering what everyone here uses to view PDF files in Linux > > > these days? I do use text2pdf for instances where I only care about > > > the textual content, but copying the PDF to OS X or Windows to view it > > > in Reader i

Re: sqwebmail vs. squirrelmail

2003-07-26 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 03:18, Johnny wrote: > I've been looking at sqwebmail and squirrelmail as possible candidates for > setting up our webmail interface on top of qmail. Does anyone have a > recommendation one way or the other? (preferably with some reasons why) sqwebmail. performance. sqwebma

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew J. Montalenti
> I know Libranet sells a debian-based distro and has paid support. I dont > know anything about them. Does anyone else have a opinion of them? > -Kev Kevin, I run Libranet 2.8. I am happy with my purchase. Their distro is fully compatible with official Debian repositories, and is based on test

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:23 am, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:57, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > [...] > > > # adduser fred audio > > I was hoping this was my problem too, but no. Mine is not a > soundblaster, it is woody on a thin

Request for Hardware Compatability Resources.

2003-07-26 Thread Dan Hunt
I have been looking for resources to evaluate two motherboards, for my main system, where stable is the main feature / requirement, and quality audio output next, performance / cutting edge features are a distant third. ASUS A7S333-WA with a 1800+ V.S. ASUS A7V8X-X something faster. These mother

Re: dpkg/apt-get Broken

2003-07-26 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Steven Schlansker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble configuring packages. When they are installed, it > skips the configuration. When I run dpkg-reconfigure, it returns > immediately. What should I do about this? Thanks. > Steven Schlansker

Re: ls in color

2003-07-26 Thread Robin Gerard
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:59:14PM +0800, Johnny wrote: > As of what I saw in slackware, ls is capable of displaying itz results in > color. But up till what I have seen in debian, the ls in debian seems to be > black and white. Can anyone tell me how to turn the color option on? btw > ls --color=

reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread hashi
I just installed the woody version of reiserfsprogs onto my woody system. Afterward, mkreiserfs /devhdc1 seemed to have created the file system OK (but suspiciously quickly for a 120G partition), but when I tried to mount it I was informed that mount: fs type reiser not supported

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Richard Lyons
Thanks guys. Andreas, Greg, and Paul: all your advice was good. Added the module and all is sunshine! -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Neal Lippman
Here's my problem, maybe someone can help. I have a usb media reader than handles smartmedia, compact flash, etc. It works fine in the sense of being able to put media into it and mount the media, using the usb-storage module, and copy files off the media. The devices look like scsi disk drives, as

Re: OT: Four leads = 10Mbit? (was: Network speed)

2003-07-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 24 July 2003 16:00, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:48AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > >If it's running at 10Mbit, it will never be full duplex. If you're > > >running at 100, then it could be full or half. If your network > > >cables only have four l

Re: reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:29:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mount: fs type reiser not supported by kernel > > Now I presume that this means that I have failed to install reiser support > for the kernel -- but mkreiserfs did not seem to have any relevand > dependencies. Just what *d

Re: reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [making reiserfs partition] > mount: fs type reiser not supported by kernel > > Now I presume that this means that I have failed to install reiser > support for the kernel -- but mkreiserfs did not seem to have any > relevand > dependencies. Just what *do* I have

Re: Toolchain to run 2.6 kernel?

2003-07-26 Thread eamon-roque
Hi! You could just pick up the newest version of module-init-tools from ftp.kernel.org, the address is listed in the "Changes" text that comes with the kernel source... HTH Eamon Roque. Thus spake Viktor Rosenfeld: > Since the module code has changed (once again) in 2.6, I guess I need > new uti

Re: automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here's my problem, maybe someone can help. I have a usb media reader >than handles smartmedia, compact flash, etc. It works fine in the sense >of being able to put media into it and mount the media, using the >usb-storage mod

Re: reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread eamon-roque
Hi, [aggregious snip] > Just what *do* I have to install to get the > necessarykernel support? 'mkreiserfs' doesn't require kernel support for the file system type, you're not 'working' with it, just creating it. You need to load the module for reiserfs to mount the file system. With 'modconf' y

'Non-empty' directory deletion.

2003-07-26 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I'm trying to delete /home/adam/.enlightenment/themes/FossilsOfTheMachines but I can't get 'rmdir' to work on a full directory. Neither rmdir -r [filename] rmdir s [filename] /or/ rmdir --ignore-non-empty-directory [filename] ... work. What am I missing here ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 18:06, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT > Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's i > use this type or entry in fstab > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win98 vfatdefault

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> If you look at the pci_ids.h for 2.4.18, you can see that Andrew> there is an id for the VT8233, which it seems you have Andrew> with the KT266, but not for the VT8235, which Aaron has Andrew> with is KT266A and

WindowMaker 'applications' menu SNAFU ...

2003-07-26 Thread Adam Bogacki
Sorry for the WWII jargon but I've installed some themes into ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes but the 'applications' menu does not show any. In fact it has not been working at all in this WM installation, but has not troubled me until now. Any ideas out there ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: SUCCESS compiling iscan

2003-07-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Epson Kowa released a 1.5.2 version of their iscan scanner software compiled with gcc 3.2 recently (it has some binaries that aren't free, and source that is). I had some trouble getting it to work, but just solved the last problem. Note also that libgtk1.2-dev is required. Here's a copy of my m

Re: 'Non-empty' directory deletion.

2003-07-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 27 July 2003 01:01, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to delete > > /home/adam/.enlightenment/themes/FossilsOfTheMachines > > but I can't get 'rmdir' to work on a full directory. Neither > > rmdir -r [filename] > rmdir s [filename] /or/ > rmdir --ignore-non-empty-directory [filename] >

Re: reiser kernel support?

2003-07-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"hashi" == hashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: hashi> I was informed that hashi> mount: fs type reiser not supported by kernel hashi> Now I presume that this means that I have failed to install hashi> reiser support for the kernel -- but mkreiserfs did not hashi> seem

DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-26 Thread Debian User
i am unable to boot from /dev/hda. i have a boot disk and that worked. i am trying to figure out why i cannot boot from the hard drive. i have compaired this to a machine that boots but i cannot figure out what is wrong. help!! my root filesystem looks like: server:/# ls backuphda1 bin de

Patch to add resolution information to iscan

2003-07-26 Thread Ross Boylan
I have attached a patch so that iscan, scanning software for Epson scanners from Epson Kowa, will record the scanning resolution when saving .png files. Without this, some programs (e.g., hylafax) have to assume a resolution, and can be terribly wrong. (I was inspired to do this because only the

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-26 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hiyall & Nick & Paul, who typed Nick Lidakis wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: Check out the release notes for the driver. They provide specific instructions on how to get the RPM install

Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 17:51, Debian User wrote: > i am unable to boot from /dev/hda. What error? Lilo error? > i have a boot disk and that worked. I saw from below -- which kernel does it boot? Lilo, grub? have you tried re-lilo-ing? > i am trying to figure out why i cannot boot from the hard dri

Re: automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT > Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [AutoFS problem] > I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's i > use this type or entry in fstab > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win98 vfatdefaults,gid=6,umas

Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-26 Thread Debian User
after bios, i think lilo is not ever run. the bios displays the system configuration then the error message: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER my boot sequence is A,C. the boot floopy i am using is 2.2.20. the machine was booting 2.4. 18 ... for months before this problem o

Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-26 Thread Debian User
i have with no success. fdisk /dev/hdc1 does not see the device. i think there may be two problems ... the boot on /dev/hda and not seeing the second drive /dev/hdc >> when i try to mount to the /dev/hdc drive, >have you tried to mount them by hand? > >The list needs info! Specific error me

Re: Request for Hardware Compatability Resources.

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Hunt wrote: | I have been looking for resources to evaluate two motherboards, | for my main system, where stable is the main feature / requirement, | and quality audio output next, performance / cutting edge features | are a distant third. | | ASUS

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-26 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Shyamal Prasad wrote: "Andrew" == Andrew McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> If you look at the pci_ids.h for 2.4.18, you can see that Andrew> there is an id for the VT8233, which it seems you have Andrew> with the KT266, but not for the VT8235, which Aaron has Andre

Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:13, Debian User wrote: > after bios, i think lilo is not ever run. the bios displays the system > configuration then the error message: > > DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER > > my boot sequence is A,C. IIRC the machine is not seeing the drives proper

evolution hack tip on reply-to-list

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi evo-deb-ML reader, dont know if you were looking for this but I thought it might be a useful tip. I was looking for it and found it very useful. the tip came from http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01995.html to add a keyboard shortup (control-l) to 'reply to list'. /usr/share/evol

Re: GNOME broken in Sarge?

2003-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:33:15PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I just upgraded from Woody to Sarge. > > I boot to a command line and use startx to run X. I have been running > Gnome, but, since the upgrade, startx is now loading KDE. If I try to > run gnome-session to run Gnome I get the foll

Re Request for Hardware Compatability Resources!

2003-07-26 Thread Rthoreau
> ASUS A7S333-WA with a 1800+ V.S. ASUS A7V8X-X something faster. > These motherboards alone are priced around $100.00 Canadian, > my spending limit. > How would you compare these two for use with Debian. I have searched > the > archives using google, with the keywords debian and "model-#". > The

Re: 2.6.0-test1 PCMCIA requires two insertions

2003-07-26 Thread Christopher Swingley
Marino, * Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-25 14:32 AKDT]: > > In short, to make PCMCIA devices work, it appears I need to insert > > them twice. The second time it recognizes them and works it's > > magic. > > > Why you don't do lsmod when it does not work and then lsmod when it

Defective Gnumeric cursor

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, Just started up Gnumeric (version from unstable: 1.1.19-1) for the first time in a while. The Gnumeric cursor, the one that looks like a cross, appears to be deformed. This isn't a problem with the app itself, because upon installing the gnumeric1.0 package instead (which is based on GTK+

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