Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

Dear Stephen, You didn't say what kind of broadband you want to connect to. There would be a difference between adsl and cable, as well as pppoe and adsl with a fixed address. I'm not an expert, but I just yesterday connect to adsl (using pppoe). If that describes your situation, try running "p

Re: How do I get sound?

Mark Healey wrote: Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it? - Please leave this. It is a filter term. ferulebezel What does "lspci" report about your sound card? Also, it might be good to know what kernel version you have ("uname -a"). -- Kent -

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

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Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

What the? How did that end up getting sent to this group? Anyways, please disregard that message, as It is obviously just a screw up on my part during my attempts to get outbound email working properly. On 12 Dec 2003 at 22:35, Scarletdown FeatherTail wrote: > d > q > > > -- > To UNSUBS

Re: installmanual

on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:39:36PM +0100, Joseph MICHEL ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to install debian. But when I read the installation > manual http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual, I feel > lost because it addresses expert people. > > Please, is there an

Re: How do I get sound?

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:06:18PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it? I've always been a fan of sndconfig > - > Please leave this. It is a filter term. > ferulebezel > - > Mark

Re: your mail

on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:51:44PM -0600, CLARK DAVIDSON ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Do you know how I can get a file called apt_0.5.4_i386.deb that is > not corrupt? > > The install CD is corrupt http://packages.debian.org/ You're looking for 'apt'. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL

Now To See If I Got It Right (sendmail stuff)

Okay, unlike that last one, this is intended to go to the list just to see if I finally got sendmail (exim) configured properly. I added a line to .muttrc that aliases scarletdown (the user I created on this system) to my charter email address. So here we go... :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:46:11PM +, John Peter wrote: > I use the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run installer from NVidea and > just had to execute their instructions, by the letter and everything > runs OK. That is the crap driver I'm talking

Re: Applications are too big

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 04:04 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > Whenever I open an application it is too big for my desktop (Gnome). > There are a couple of problems with this. If I resize it many of the > controls are obscured. Then there are the non resizable apps. > > I think that this has something

Re: How do I get sound?

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 06:06, Mark Healey wrote: > Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it? > - > Please leave this. It is a filter term. > ferulebezel > - try apt-get install sndconfig, you will like it, it's red

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

[posted and mailed] On 12 Dec 2003, Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in linux.debian.user: > Oh gosh! Can you sense that I'm more than a bit nervous about > getting rid of Sendmail and installing Exim? Is it going to be a > giant job? Well, I went for postfix over Exim but it went like th

mach_apicdef.h: No such file or directory

Hello all I am trying to compile samhain on a woody/testing machine. The machine is a woody machine with testing lines in sources.list. The kernel installed is Linux agni 2.4.18-k6 #1 Sun Apr 14 12:43:22 EST 2002 i586 GNU/Linux dpkg -l | grep kernel ii kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-k7

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:48:25PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have exim set in my sid machine, with mutt as MUA. Some isps are > > rejecting my emails. I have looked at the reason provided, it seems that > > some have blocked the ips in my bloc

Re: installmanual

Joseph MICHEL wrote: Please, is there an automated installation program like that of Red Hat ? Please take a look at Knoppix, It has automatic hardware detection, debian based, has latest and greatest applications and you can also install it into hard disk with minimal fuss. I am using it in my

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:11:34PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:15:17AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Monique Y. Herman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > I understand that you're trying to better the list, and I appreciate > > > that,

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:00:51AM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri 12 Dec 2003 19:14:25 +(+0200), Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > computer I use? Is the following scenario possible somehow: First, I > > connect to Internet in order to get automaticaly the first messag

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:14:25PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to > follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to > Internet (low quality phone line or mobile phone). I tried t

Re: Info Problem

Bijan Soleymani schrieb: On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:54:56PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: . . . I forgot to erase you. Bijan Did you want to write 'erase you' or was it erase 'you' ? Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

i just tried out the workbone CD player that is installable via apt-get. It's a decent console- based player, except for one problem. It has no volume control. Anyway, I did a bit of snooping around and came across this: http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/derouler/info/workbone/index.html.en That

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 09:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:46:11PM +, John Peter wrote: > > I use the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run installer from NVidea and > > just had to execute their instructions, by the letter an

Re: Script for subscribing/unsubscribing Debian-user?

on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:57:05PM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just wondering - is it possible to write a script for mailing a few > initial subscribe or unsubscribe messages for one's favorite lists to > the server managing the listmembers or does this process depe

Copy all desktop settings for a new user

Hello, lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts. By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues, MUA-settings, browser-settings, printer ... The users will most likely either use KDE or

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

Hi, Am Do, den 11.12.2003 schrieb Adam um 23:26: > On Thursday 11 December 2003 21:10, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > Am Do, den 11.12.2003 schrieb Antonio Rodr um 21:32: > >> I have exim set in my sid machine, with mutt as MUA. Some isps are > >> rejecting my emails. I have looked at the reason

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

Hi, Am Do, den 11.12.2003 schrieb Thanasis Kinias um 21:51: > AOL was the first that I encountered to do this; over the > summer, they started blocking all e-mail originating from Cox IP > addresses. Not long thereafter, Cox blocked all outbound SMTP except to > their own mailserver, so I had to

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0800, Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i just tried out the workbone CD player that is installable via > apt-get. It's a decent console-

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Re: Applications are too big

on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:04:50PM -0800, Mark Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Whenever I open an application it is too big for my desktop (Gnome). > There are a couple of problems with this. If I resize it many of the > controls are obscured. Then there are the non resizable apps. > > I thi

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:59, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:46:03AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > OFF-TOPIC > > > > Perhaps I have no business posting this here . . . . > > > > I've done business with TigerDirect in the past, but recently > > they've added a pro-MS banner to their

dosemu: access denied

Hi, I installed dosemu 1.0.2.1 into my Sarge system. Commands like dir work, but whenever I need disk access, for example C:\> md myprogs,I get: C:\> md: access denied I retried as root, + I tried commenting out of /etc/dosemu/users "all nosuidroot c_all# disallow suid access

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:29:05 -0800 Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * TR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031212 04:02]: > > Somebody whose attribution has been removed wrote: > > > Well, really you'll just need one such router, with the bad > > > domains listed on that "domains = " line. Me, I'd us

spurious interrupt

For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: "spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7" I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it means? regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: How do I get sound?

> Mark Healey wrote: > > >Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it? > >- Something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> apt-get install sndconfig [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> sndconfig [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> adduser mark audio mark must log out and log back in f

Re: Updating sysvinit

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dijous 11 Desembre 2003 22:52, en Miquel van Smoorenburg va escriure: > Try: dpkg -i sysvinit_2.85-7_i386.deb initscripts_2.85-7_all.deb > sysv-rc_2.85-7_all.deb > > Yes, you need all three packages, and you need to do that in one > single dpkg run,

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:57:37AM -0600, Wayne Sitton wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:59, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:46:03AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > OFF-TOPIC > > > > > > Perhaps I have no business posting this here . . . . > And, I don't have a problem if tigerdire

Re: Mail questions

on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:25:42PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 01:11 GMT, Reaz Baksh penned: > > > > I now have a few questions: > > 1) when I issue the fetchmail command as above, is fetchmail passing > > the mail to exim4 to deliver it to the mail

Re: Setting Up Email

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:51:04 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > I've been trying to set up POP3 email access (in text mode instead of from the > desktop), and > am really stumped now. I just did a little experiment and installed fetchmail, then > from the > command prompt gave the fetchmail command a

Solved: Updating sysvinit

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dissabte 13 Desembre 2003 12:45, en Joan Tur va escriure: > Es Dijous 11 Desembre 2003 22:52, en Miquel van Smoorenburg va escriure: > > Try: dpkg -i sysvinit_2.85-7_i386.deb initscripts_2.85-7_all.deb > > sysv-rc_2.85-7_all.deb > > > > Yes, you nee

Re:Nagios not quite working

Hello all: I have set up nagios-text on testing. Currently there are no nagios-plugins available with apt-get due to upstream issues. The maintainer for nagios-plugins told me (thanks!) that netsaint plugins would work. I apt-got them and everything is nearly but not quite working. I've done a

Re: Nagios not quite working

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:53:54PM +, James Roberts wrote: > Hello all: > > I have set up nagios-text on testing. Currently there are no > nagios-plugins available with apt-get due to upstream issues. The > maintainer for nagios-plugins told me (thanks!) that netsaint plugins > would work.

Re: spurious interrupt

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:47:01PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote: > For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: > > "spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7" > > I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it > means? I did a little searching for

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

On Saturday 13 December 2003 03:57 am, Wayne Sitton wrote: > I mean holly fril, If Gateway had a sticker that guaranteed that every > piece of hardware on a specific Box was Linux compatible, no matter what > os was shipped, they'd probably become better than they are currently. > But, why do they

Re: Installing Printer - CUPS **SOLVED**

Thanks! that was the problem. I hadn't manually configured the pnm2ppa package. I have to say that this is a problem with debian. I had to install a slew of packages to get cups to work, basically by trial and error. Some packages simply work upon installation, some don't (pnm2ppa). There

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:26:39PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Problems persist and have gotten nowhere! ... > 1. Connecting ADSL -- edited everything including ppp_on_boot, dsl_provider, ... > 2. Running Java stuff--Open office works. I installed netbeans (a Java ... > 3. The Adobe Acrobat reader

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:56:54 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 23:40 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > [snip] >> >> In the real world: >> >> Do the simplest thing that is consistent with the specification. >> Someone, whose skill level you can't predict, is going to have to >> ma

Re: When will packages.debian.org be available again?

That's something i would like to know too ?! Paul On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Neodym123 wrote: > Hi! > > Does anyone know, when the packages list and search on www.debian.org > will be available again? > > > Thanks, > U.Lukas > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: spurious interrupt

Dear Andy, Thanks for the reply. I'm embarassed that I didn't do a proper job of searching for the answer myself. One possible source of the problem may be that I have a routing conflict between irq 7 and irq 9 caused by my sound card clashing with the sound device built into the motherboard (

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

Terry writes: > Now, if you are just doing this "in good faith" or making a "best > effort", you're asking for a lawsuit the first time somebody buys your > stuff and can't get the "backalley joe" Linux distro version 0.0.2 to > work with it. Either that, or you're just going to be giving people >

Re: dosemu: access denied

Dear Boudewijn, It's been awhile since I used dosemu, but as I recall... The "C: drive" is an image file that you specify, or you could specify a partition. You make this setting in file /etc/dosemu.conf, for example: in file /etc/dosemu.conf: $_hdimage = "/dev/hda1" In the above example, I've

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:57:12 -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > >> "John" == John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> #include > John> int main > John> ( > John>int nNumberofArguments, > > Your variable names are too long, which decreases readability. Having > such a long name do

only root able to play music cds? (2nd try)

I have things set up so that members of the audio group can use the sound cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only root can play music off the cd. Not even members of the disk and audio groups can do that. How do I fix this so members of audio can use cd player apps (playing cds from al

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:07:00 -0600, tripolar wrote: > I am familiar with compiling kernel > #make menuconfig > #make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make > modules_install > > does this process work for debian? I usually download kernel from > kernel.org but I will use apt-ge

***MESSAGE***

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Re: Script for subscribung/unsubscribing Debian-user?

On Fri 12 Dec 2003 23:57:05 +(+0100), Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > Just wondering - is it possible to write a script for mailing a few > initial subscribe or unsubscribe messages for one's favorite lists to > the server managing the listmembers or does this process depend on the > web page

Re: spurious interrupt

Robert Storey wrote: For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: "spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7" I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it means? regards, Robert If you have an nForce2 mobo, this is actually normal, and harmless

dial-up timeouts

Hi, I have got a strange behaviour with ppp. When I got connected, all programs using network (kmail,mozilla) suddenly becomes very slow. They hangs for minutes without response. When I shut down pppd, everything becomes normal. I have a suspicion that it wait for some servise that is not avalilabl

***MESSAGE***

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Re: Easing the load.

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:50:15 +0800, David Palmer wrote: > I have seen what I believe is a need for an additional mailing list, not > so much for the benefit of the developers' list, but most definitely for > the sake of sanity on debian-user. I have posted to curiosain > recognition of their patie

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > i just tried out the workbone CD player that is installable via > apt-get. It's a decent console- based player, except for one problem. > It has no volume control. I agree with your assessment of workbone as a decent console-based cd

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:06:01 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > When I donated this year I tried to make an estimate of how much I might > have paid on proprietary software to do what I've been doing with free > software over the last few years, and to contribute at least that much. > > To be hone

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:58:25 -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > If you need to understand it to use it, you've got the source. What > more could you need? That's not good enough? Don't use it. You > think it would be better with good documentation? Great. Go write > some. Oh, you want me to writ

Re: locales and coding systems

Vineet, Well perhaps some progress, perhaps not. > * Haines Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031212 14:02]: > > Logged and back in and went to save my test file. The test > > failed. That is, I'm still being prompted for the coding system, and > > utf-16-le is offered as the default. > >=20 > > The com

The Debian installer

Hi all, first post here! I have been using Libranet and love it. However, having first learned GNU/LInux by way of Debian, I will from time to time install a Debian box just to stay rusty. Now I want to install Debian and get all the functionality I have with Libranet. This is an intellectual

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:08:45 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:30:35AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 at 05:01 GMT, Scarletdown penned: >> > That's pretty cool. I also recommend this site as well... >> > >> > http://scotgold.com/acatalog/ScotGold_Cat

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

Hi Robert, Thanks for your advice. The Debian box is connected to broadband via a ADSL modem with dynamic IP. I ran 'pppoeconfig' to setup the connection. Up to this point it seemed without problem, ISP connected and confirmed with 'ifconfig'. But connection to Internet was blocked. I search

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

Debian User wrote: if you really have to do it in a low-level language, do it in assembly native to that processor. you can even write them inline within your C code. asm(" mnemonic_instruction operand, operand"); Debian User wrote: > if you really have to do it in a low-level language, do it

Why is konqueror my x-www-browser when it doesn't provide it?

On my machine: # update-alternatives --display x-www-browser x-www-browser - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/konqueror /usr/bin/konqueror - priority 100 Current `best' version is /usr/bin/konqueror. But: $ grep-available -FProvides x-www-browser Why is konqeror my x-www-brows

remote GNOME session over ssh fails

I start a local X session and run a GNOME session on another machine: X & xterm -display :0 -e ssh -X -f remotehost gnome-session For awhile this worked - now it's mysteriously not working. I just get the blank X root window, and nothing else happens. However, if I drop the -f parameter for

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:02:16 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Stephen, I told pppoeconf that I didn't want to start the network at boot. To start it anytime: Open an xterm, su to root. Then try this: pon dsl-provider You can use the "plog" command to see what effect this had,

minicom vs pon

I have a serial modem connected via a usb serial converter. I noticed that if I turn the modem off then on, I can no longer connect via pon (ppp) *unless* I reset the modem or serial link by other means, like disconnecting and reconnecting the usb serial converter or invoking "/etc/init.d/hotplug

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

- Original Message - From: "Wayne Sitton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 9:57 AM Subject: Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect >Only problem was, and have experienced this, Dell > would not honor their warranty if it was shipped with

Re: only root able to play music cds? (2nd try)

Hello michelle (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have things set up so that members of the audio group can use the > sound cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only root can play > music off the cd. Not even members of the disk and audio groups can do > that. > > How do I fix this so membe

Re: The Debian installer

Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Failed to fetch > http://non-us.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz > > 404 Not Found It should not be trying to use non-us. What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? > So: where can I find the Installer, or how can I fix th

Re: The Debian installer

Joey Hess wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found It should not be trying to use non-us. What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? # See sources.list(5) for more informati

Re: The Debian installer

Joey Hess wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found It should not be trying to use non-us. What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? So: where can I find the Installer, or

Bug in testing abiword package?

Under testing and gnome 2.2 I'm trying to install abiword issuing the command "apt-get install abiword". The installation fails immediatedly because (unfortunately I'm translating from Italian into English!) "Abiword depends on libperl5.6 (>= 5.6.1-8.3) while you're using version 5.6.1-8.2". Aft

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

John Hasler wrote: Terry writes: Now, if you are just doing this "in good faith" or making a "best effort", you're asking for a lawsuit the first time somebody buys your stuff and can't get the "backalley joe" Linux distro version 0.0.2 to work with it. Either that, or you're just going to be

Re: only root able to play music cds? (2nd try)

> "michelle" == michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: michelle> I have things set up so that members of the audio group can michelle> use the sound cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only michelle> root can play music off the cd. Not even members of the disk michelle> and audio groups

Re: dosemu: access denied

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:44:04AM +0100, Boudewijn wrote: > Hi, > > I installed dosemu 1.0.2.1 into my Sarge system. > > Commands like dir work, but whenever I need disk access, for example > C:\> md myprogs,I get: > C:\> md: access denied > > I do not understand where the C: dr

Re: Installing all packages

Hello all, I am new to the list and new to Debian. I've been using Linux since 1996, and my distribution of choice has always been Red Hat. That is, until Red Hat as a company started persuing goals that I had no desire to be involved with. So, that left me with some choices to make. I n

Re: ide DMA on Intel 865PE

Dobai-Pataky Balint wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 22:27, Rune Maagensen wrote: > >> using_dma= 0 (off) > > > try hdparm -i device, to see what modes are suported by hdd > /dev/hda: Model=Maxtor 6Y080P0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y2Q5NXLE Config={ Fixed } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0

Re: locales and coding systems

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:31:17PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > The default coding system in emacs is determined by how I've set up > locales in debian. I went back to my installation notes, and according > to them, I had set the locale to utf-8. I don't know exactly how emacs decides what coding

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under testing and gnome 2.2 I'm trying to install abiword issuing the command "apt-get install abiword". The installation fails immediatedly because (unfortunately I'm translating from Italian into English!) "Abiword depends on libperl5.6 (>= 5.6.1-8.3) while you're using

Re: Why is konqueror my x-www-browser when it doesn't provide it?

Nunya wrote: On my machine: # update-alternatives --display x-www-browser x-www-browser - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/konqueror /usr/bin/konqueror - priority 100 Current `best' version is /usr/bin/konqueror. But: $ grep-available -FProvides x-www-browser Why is konqeror my

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:34:30AM +0100, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: > > with apt...the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages are it. > Can someone tell me where I can find nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496 package for > installing nvidia-glx? - From building

hostname bogosity

I'm perplexed by a network configuration problem on my system. hostname returns the correct name; yet on startup, KDE says "Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured," and my DHCP server doesn't recognize the hostname for the system either. Where could the problem be? -- Micha

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:29:33AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Kindly advise how to fix the problem. Wow! Thank you! That's a good start, thanks for giving lots of detail. What happens if you try pinging 66.218.71.86 (w7.scd.yahoo.com, one of the s

Re: Why is konqueror my x-www-browser when it doesn't provide it?

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:27:54PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Nunya wrote: > >Why is konqeror my x-www-browser when it doesn't "Provide" it? > > See > So it's a bug? I was looking for someone to say "no, this is cor

I can't update SPARC unstable

The maddening thing is, the update worked for the Sparc a couple of weeks ago, but hasn't worked at all in the last few days. Meanwhile, the Intel boxes update without any problems. I have not changed my sources.list, which is rather simple: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main n

Re: Setting Up Email

On 13 Dec 2003 at 11:50, Anita Lewis wrote: > I'm not sure on this, but I think your mail is going to be in > /var/mail/gsutton9503. It didn't go into scarletdown, because you didn't > tell it to. You should make a .fetchmailrc file for your home directory and > include > I have it working

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

On 13 Dec 2003 at 2:09, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly > recommend 72 as a good default. > > Thank you. Done. I thought I had done that a while back; then remembered that I had switched my subscription over from my Yahoo account

Re: locales and coding systems

> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:31:17PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > The default coding system in emacs is determined by how I've set up > > locales in debian. I went back to my installation notes, and according > > to them, I had set the locale to utf-8. > > I don't know exactly how emacs decides

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on and set them to about 72 columns and consider http://learn.to/quote/ On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:41:55PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote: > You didn't say what kind of broadband you want to connect to. There > would be a diffe

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:33:31AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager" popup. I am > only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. That's a Good Thing. Log in as a normal user and run what you n

Re: How to login as ROOT at start

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://learn.to/quote please. On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:10:57PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > While working as USER, I usually use following command on Konsole window > to login as ROOT to do administration work, starting applications > > ssh -X [EMAI

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:14:25PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to > follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to > Internet (low quality phone line or mobile

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote: > I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any > pointers. Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc. Thats what I did when moving disks -- "Assumption is the mother of all scre

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

Hi If you really want to do this (it was discussed a few times here why not to do it), and you want to to login with gdm edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and change AllowRoot= (or even AllowRemoteRoot=) to true and you should be fine. I don't know about gdm though. If it is a machine with only one user at a

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:00, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Hi, > > Am Do, den 11.12.2003 schrieb Thanasis Kinias um 21:51: >> AOL was the first that I encountered to do this; over the >> summer, they started blocking all e-mail originating from Cox IP >> addresses. Not long thereafter, Cox

Re: Installing all packages

Hello all, I am new to the list and new to Debian. I've been using Linux since 1996, and my distribution of choice has always been Red Hat. That is, until Red Hat as a company started persuing goals that I had no desire to be involved with. So, that left me with some choices to make. I n

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