Re: [ot] netscape popup-windows
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 04:29 am, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hello List > > I'm using a web-based email provider (www.gmx.net). In the last few > weeks, I'm really getting annoyed by advertisment popup windows. I wrote > an email to them and told them I hate it, but there was only an answer > from the autoresponder... Now, Is it possible to disable such popup > windows generally? This would be really great Konqueror actually has this feature as a preference. That way you can have the rest of javascript running, but disallow new windows to pop up. Very convenient. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ???
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 03:09 pm, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Jenner Almanzar wrote: > > I really appreciate your help!!! > > > > is there any way to download the drivers and install the card without > > recompiling the kernel, cause i'm very new in the linux world and i'm not > > sure what you trying to say recompile, is it reinstalling? > > Read http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html and don't be scared > to try it out yourself. It is really easy and very straightforward. > As a suffix to this, I'd recommend going and combing through a bunch of the documentation at www.linuxdoc.org. It's a community maintained site, with tons and tons and tons of great info. A good chunk of the "how do I?" questions can be answered there. Of course, a list like this is a good one too, although for something as broad as "how do I install an ethernet card?" it's tough to do more than point you in the right direction. Still, learning by doing it yourself and reading the documentation is the Debian (and really the Linux) way of doing things. It'll make you much much more competent with your machine than you would have guessed. Good luck! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms problems?
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 09:12 pm, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > fwiw Andrei, > > I also had some problems with xmms. I was using the Kde arts pluggin. I > have since given it up and I don't see any more of the sudden wierdness I > was having prior to going back to the oss pluggin. That's interesting. I'd heard a lot of rumblings over on the KDE lists that arts was really really buggy in general still. Probably the only such thing in KDE. Anyhow, I'd avoid arts right now until they firm up on those bugs, which could be a while. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network configuration
Hi Bob, You can (should) stick your script in /etc/init.d. Then, check what runlevel you're in. It should be at the top of /etc/inittab. For that runlevel, go in to the appropriate /etc/rcX.d folder (X corresponding to your runlevel) and put a symlink to the script in /etc/init.d. Pay attention to the prefix on the alias name, the S is critical (won't load without it), and the number determines what order scripts are executed. If the script isn't too complex, you may be able to do what you need without it. Check the manpage for "interfaces", which is the config file for ifup and ifdown. It should be able to do the stuff you want without resorting to a custom script. interfaces is in /etc/network by the way. Good luck! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 23 August 2001 05:19 pm, bob parker wrote: > I'm still quite new to this excellent os (Potato r3) > and am building a web server. > I have made a script - rc.local to configure my > network adapter using ifconfig and route. > At the moment I'm invoking this by hand after bootup. > My question is where do I install this script so that > it's automatically run on boot up? > > I'm also running Apache by hand, having built it from > a tarball off a magazine CD. That's what the boss > wanted!. Should I start that from inside the rc.local > script? > > Thanks > Bob Parker
Re: DEB vs RPM
On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:34 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: > Debian (if it wants to be LSB compliant) provide a way to install the RPMs > from such a vendor. As a sidenote, Debian does, via the rpm and alien packages. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java apt sources link for woody & potato
Thanks Wayne, I've been looking for those for a while now. One more step on my road to re-establishing my debian box to its former glory! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 24 August 2001 11:44 am, Wayne Topa wrote: > Just found the apt sources link for the Blackdown Java packages. > > Thought this might be of interest as I have only seen tgz links on the > list. > > Woody > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian \ > woody non-free > > Potato > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian \ > potato non-free
Re: questions
On Saturday 25 August 2001 10:37 pm, James T Prejsnar wrote: > Question 1) I'm using DHCP in my home network, and I'm having problems > getting the network interface up and running. Can I add the networking > interface module for my 3Com card or do I have to rebuild the kernel? I'm > seeing error messages about my ethO when my system is booting. If you already compiled your own kernel, you should be able to just build it as a module. Once you install the module just modprobe (or insmod) it. You may have to configure it with ifconfig of course, but I don't think you'll have to build the kernel whole again. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.4.x
On Sunday 26 August 2001 01:51 pm, Oren Gozlan wrote: > any info about kernel 2.4.x ? > any one have tried it ? > Running 2.4.8 custom on sid right now. The stock kernel didn't work for me, but the custom does. Works fine so far. I've been using the 2.4 series for a while now and I haven't really had any problems with it. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Two video questions
On Sunday 26 August 2001 09:21 am, Ron Steinke wrote: > 1. Where is the native XFree86 libGL? > > I'm trying to get 3d acceleration working. I've installed > XFree86-4.1 from unstable, as 4.0 only supports the G200 and > G400, not the G450. I've compiled the dri extensions into the > kernel, using the version of the 2.4 kernel in testing > with the most recent version of the DRI code from the > DRI site. All this works fine, but I appear to still be > using the version of libGL in mesag-dev. Which package > has the native XFree86 version of libGL? Hi Ron, Try the xlibmesa3 package. It was the missing piece in my DRI config, and it's not included or referenced at all in the xlibs or xlib6g packages, so it's possible you missed it. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Re: Sid Newbie - some questions
On Monday 27 August 2001 02:48 pm, Ross Burton wrote: > You Debian guys are a lot more friendly than the RedHat/Mandrake > posse... :-) > Man... if we're more friendly then I'd really be scared of the RedHat/Mandrake people... have you checked out debian-devel? Scary! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 12:16 am, William Leese wrote: > Not that I use it though... because when i turn on anitaliasing in KDE only > the ugliest fonts seem to be available to all X applications. I'd rather > have everything in a good font (lucida, helvetica) than have to look at an > ugly one that is antialiased. I agree with this completely. I could not find good antialiased fonts that simply worked well with KDE. Nothing would scale to look right in Konqueror and overall the font selection wasn't good enough. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Re: Sid Newbie - some questions
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 04:30 am, Timeboy wrote: > And i agree with you. This is the friendliest newsgroup that i know. > Try the KDE newsgroups. I haven't found anything friendlier. The Debian ones are pretty good too, but especially among the developers over there, there just aren't the massive flamewars nearly as often. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with the installaion of debian locking up
Hi, It depends on which distro you want. You probably want potato if you're going to make a production server. If it's just for personal use, you want either testing (woody) or unstable (sid). Your choice. Testing has less bugs, but you have to wait a little while to get your software. Unstable is bleeding edge, you get your stuff right there, bugs and all. Both are very usable, you get to make the choice. That said, if you're going to be using testing or unstable, you should get XFree 4.x, which will have the Rage 128 support built in (I'm using it now). You can get testing or unstable by changing the sources for download during installation. Simply change "stable" to either "testing" or "unstable" (depending on which distro you want) and get the later packages. If you're going to stick with potato, you can get the Rage working, but it's more of a pain. As for free vs. non-free, check out www.gnu.org/philosophy for tons of explanation. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:59 pm, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > Blank > > Karsten M. Self wrote (I just noticed this): > >The book and CD are very poor. They can be used for > > installation, > > >however many people report serious problems. > > Hmm...Question #1: What would be the recommended way of > installing Debian? I have cable Internet access, and I have the > "Potato" version of Debian on seven CD's (don't really know > what's on all the extra ones, hoped to find out soon!) > > There is a page for a package release (I was checking on the SuSE > site to see how they got the ATI Rage 128 card to work) and it is > based on the XFREE86 release 3.3.6. > > The Debian package release is for a non-free X server: > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xserver-rage128.html > > Question #2: Since you CAN download this package set from this > page; what makes it "non-free"? Simply that it is not > "open-source"? > > Thanks in advance, > > --mVIIs
Re: Sound not working
Hi Eric, My guess is that your soundcard isn't configured as a module, but is instead compiled right in to the kernel, hence the lack of anything with lsmod. I don't know exactly why your sound will play when you cat it, but not in gnome, but the most common cause of audio problems is that you're not part of the "audio" group. If you never added yourself to that group, go ahead and do it, then logout and log back in as that user and see if your apps can play sounds. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 30 August 2001 01:31 pm, Eric Whitestone wrote: > Ok, i've gone throught the sound HOWTO. When my system boots up, it detects > the card, and says it's at IRQ 11. But, when I do an lsmod, nothing is > listed at all. But, when I do a "cat endoftheworld > /dev/dsp", that song > plays (if i turn the speakers up loud). My question is, how can I get this > to work in gnome and other applications? Thanks in advance! > > --eric
Re: Sound not working
Oh, and the volume is so low because your mixer settings are set that way. Get a mixer program (Gnome has one of its own in the multimedia package I think) and up the volume. On Thursday 30 August 2001 07:09 pm, David Nusinow wrote: > Hi Eric, > My guess is that your soundcard isn't configured as a module, but is > instead compiled right in to the kernel, hence the lack of anything with > lsmod. I don't know exactly why your sound will play when you cat it, but > not in gnome, but the most common cause of audio problems is that you're > not part of the "audio" group. If you never added yourself to that group, > go ahead and do it, then logout and log back in as that user and see if > your apps can play sounds. > > - David Nusinow > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thursday 30 August 2001 01:31 pm, Eric Whitestone wrote: > > Ok, i've gone throught the sound HOWTO. When my system boots up, it > > detects the card, and says it's at IRQ 11. But, when I do an lsmod, > > nothing is listed at all. But, when I do a "cat endoftheworld > > > /dev/dsp", that song plays (if i turn the speakers up loud). My question > > is, how can I get this to work in gnome and other applications? Thanks in > > advance! > > > > --eric
Re: DRI
I would try and make sure that the Voodoo portion is compiled as a module rather than right in to the kernel. I'm running an r128, but it didn't work unless it was a module. I would also make sure I have the right libraries installed for DRI, although I don't know what those are in potato. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 31 August 2001 06:07 am, Eric Whitestone wrote: > This is what glxinfo returned. It does say no next to direct rendering. Im > not sure what to edit in xfree86config, and what module i need to load. I > am using kernel 2.4.8 (is compiled for 3dfx vid card), and Xfree86 version > 4.1.0. > > name of display: :0.0 > display: :0 screen: 0 > direct rendering: No > server glx vendor string: SGI > server glx version string: 1.2 > server glx extensions: > GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context > client glx vendor string: SGI > client glx version string: 1.2 > client glx extensions: > GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context > GLX extensions: > GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context > OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc. > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect > OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2 > OpenGL extensions: > GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color, > GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract > glu version: 1.3 > glu extensions: > GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess > >visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav > id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat > -- > 0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None > 0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None > 0x25 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None > 0x26 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
Re: From RH to Debian: two pending problems.
On Thursday 06 September 2001 09:19 pm, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > Hello: > > I have switched from RH to Debian recently (for my desktop). Welcome! > Unfortunately, I still have two pending problems which > I had taken for granted while I was using RH: > - turning on the sound sndconfig, the program RH generally uses to configure the soundcard, is packaged, but it's only in unstable(sid) while you're using stable(potato). Have you had any luck getting sound out as root? If so, it just means you've got a permission problem with your normal users, and you just need to add any users you want to get sound working to the "audio" group. If you don't have any sound out at all, another problem may just be that it's too quiet, so I'd try pumping up the volume with a mixer program. If it really is a problem with the kernel, you'll have to figure out which module it uses. I'd use the Linux Hardware Database, at http://lhd.zdnet.com to find which chipset it uses, and then use that as your guide to find which module to use. Someone more familiar with linux sound architecture (stuff like ALSA) could probably help you more with this. > - turning on the printer printer (my beloved ole' BJC-210SP) There's a bunch of printing options, but the one you're probably familiar with is printtool, the program RH uses to configure printers. This should be packaged for potato, I recommend downloading it. If you can't get that working, try CUPS. I'm guessing your printer is a Cannon (I always associate Bubble Jets with Cannon) so it may not work without extra filters, but those might be packaged already. If it's an HP, it's likely that it'll work. Try http://www.cups.org for more info on that. If that fails, try the magicfilter package. It's served me faithfully for years! > > I am currently using KDE on a potato 2.2r3. OK, I admit > that I have not done anything besides trying to understand > what the #@&^*&^* related HOWTO says. > > Is there any hitchhiker's guide floating around? URL? I highly recommend browsing/searching the debian mailing list archives. You'll find an enormous wealth of info there, far more than in any HOWTO. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!
On Thursday 06 September 2001 04:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" > and "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from > source and most of the time I get stuck with "ld" related problems and I > have to bother a lot of people on how to resolve it instead of resolving it > myself... The classics "man ld" and "info ld" are probably your best bets. I don't know about how to fix problems with it though. > > 2. to the next question, this is the latest thing I am trying to compile > from src (gaim) and of course, the problem is again something to do with > ld... > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[3]: *** [gaim] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory /home/jdls/gaim-0.11.0pre15/src' > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > You probably need the package libperl-dev. This isn't an ld problem at all, but a problem with you lacking the correct libs. Quick question though. Why are you compiling gaim from source? There's a perfectly good packaged version available for it that is designed to prevent exactly this, and other problems. If it's a question of it being outdated, get unstable. If you can't find the package, it's in the aptly named "gaim". - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!
Oh, and I forgot to mention *why* you need the libperl-dev package. In the spirit of the question you asked (teach me so I can do for myself) Debian takes the very interesting (and IMHO very smart) approach to packaging libraries by dividing them in to user and developer packages. If all you need is to use the library in a program, all you need is the user package. If you need to develop something with the program, or compile another program from source that requires the lib, then you need the -dev version of the package as well. This saves disk space and reduces the amount of useless crap on your system. There you go. You're fed :-) - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2
Hi Ross, Sorry I missed your thread initially. If isapnp doesn't work (I never knew to try it) try this. I use insmod and it works fine where modprobe totally fails for some reason. modprobe 8390 insmod io=0x260 irq=5 I added this line to /etc/modutils/actions (modified for you) post-install 8390 insmod ne That line fixed everything for me. Hope this helps if nothing else does! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 06 September 2001 01:49 pm, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > Okay, until I get kernel 2.4.x working to my satisfaction I've got to > live with kernel 2.2.x with it's poor non-autodetecting ne driver. > > Maybe I've got slack with Mandrake 8 and it's wizzy kudzu (why > doesn't Debian use that?), but I'm used to "modprobe ne". > > $ modprobe ne > device not found > > $ modprobe ne io=0x260 > no card found > > It's there! Mandrake told me so! > > $ modprobe ne io=0x260 irq=5 > no card found > > Argh! :( > > Does anyone have any tips to getting a no-name ISA NE?000 clone > working with Sid? I does work fine as I rebooted to Mandrake and > used it... > > Thanks for any help, > Ross Burton
Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2
Sorry, that should have been modprobe 8390 insmod io=0x260 irq=5 ne -David Nusinow krmt1984
Re: When to stop tracking sid to make transition to stable woody?
On Friday 14 September 2001 09:34 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > That isn't phrased right. Sid *is* unstable. Woody will transition > towards "stable", first going to freeze, then hitting release. > Speaking of which, how far are we from freeze? What's still to be done? - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: uptime
On Friday 14 September 2001 10:45 pm, will trillich wrote: > $ uptime > 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, > 0.01 > > break out the root beer! > > :) Since I don't have root on your machine, I'll just break out the beer ;-) - David "legal to drink as of two days ago" Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMP machine hangs ofter
On Monday 21 May 2001 01:37 am, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> I've got a SMP machine (dual P2-266) and happily installed Debian over
> it ('testing' release, but with 'stable' I had the same problem): it
> hangs very often when using X windows.
> It 'hangs' the hard way: stopped mouse, keyboard not responding.
>
> It's a known issue or it's just me?
>
> Someone can give me some good advice? Or some mean to test the machine
> just in case it is a phisical fault randomly exploited only by X?
What's your video card and windowmanager? Does it hang at any particular
times? I had this problem with my r128 card and it took a kernel upgrade to
fix it, but it was only going down with GL. Windowmaker also took down my
system inexplicably where no other managers I tested did.
--
- David Nusinow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unkillable process
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 11:29 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > No. Your memory's going to be released. But your files might be > scrambled. I would *not* 'kill -9' my mysqld server. I second this one from personal experience! Very bad... lucky I did it before I actually started working with the thing, because it led to a reinstall. Twice! -- - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody release date
On Sunday 27 May 2001 12:05 pm, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, > beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time > range for woody to become stable? As far as I can tell, the main thing that's holding up woody from being stable is the boot floppies. There's been a pretty big cry for help on them over at debian-devel, so if you've got the skills maybe go help out. -- - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE Font Problems
Hi all, I'm having a strang problem with my fonts in KDE. I can only select fonts in the "Type1" folder for KDE apps, but not for Gtk apps. I can also select all my fonts in other accounts that use KDE. Does anyone know where KDE stores its font list, and where it may have been overrided in my directory? This happened randomly as far as I can tell. Thanks! -- - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape? how to kill?
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 06:57 pm, Steve Kieu wrote: > mtest=`ps -A | grep "navigator-smoti"` > if [ "$mtest" ] ; then > killall -9 navigator-smoti #It says no process killed > here > fi Hi Steve, I haven't run Netscape in quite a while, so I can't test the process tree myself, but you probably have a parent process somewhere that you can kill that's not named 'navigator-smoti'. Do a 'ps -A' and look for another navigator process with a lower pID. Also, the 'pstree' command, if installed, will show you the processes in tree form and you can track down the parents much more easily. As a sidenote, don't start off 'kill -9' ing it. I forget the golden order of kills, but you should try HUP (1), INT (2), and I think TERM (15) before KILL (9). There's a whole thread as to why from about a week or two ago on the subject here in debian-user if you want to look in the archives for it.
Re: gnumeric
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 11:13 pm, Renai LeMay wrote: > can someone give me pointers as to why gnumeric is not apt-gettable in > unstable? or a way to apt-get it? I assume you mean the libgal6 problem. It's bug #99041 if you're curious. The gnumeric package has a dependency on the libgal6 package, but that's been removed from sources (I think) and replaced with a new libgal7 package. This broke the gnumeric package, and some other packages like gabber. I don't know of a way to apt-get it, and there's no follow up yet in the bug report. I don't know if gnumeric will build with the new libgal, but that's what the maintainer will have to do. There is a bug (#98450) filed against libgal7 for breaking libgal6, but the maintainer doesn't see this as a policy violation. You'll probably just have to wait for the gnumeric maintainer, Vincent Renardias, to repackage it if you don't want to compile from source. If you're really curious, drop him a polite email about the subject.
Re: I need info please
On Thursday 31 May 2001 03:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. I am very excited about beign able to use a linux OS. I looked on > the debian site, but all the places where I could get information and > downloads were either too technical to understand, or blended too well with > my screen. I don't evcen know exactly what kind of computer I have. All I > know is that I have a Compaq Presario 4546 desktop. Could you tell me in > plain english how to download it, and if my windows programs are > compatible? I need all the facts about the debian Linux. If you would do > that for me, that would be great. Thanks. I really think you should check out a few sites first to get a feel for some of the basics: http://www.linuxnewbie.org http://www.linuxdoc.org http://www.linux.com These have a lot of really good documentation and will help you get started on figuring out how to go about things. As Kent said, you need to be able to read the documentation (in fact, one of the first things the documentation tells you is how to read the documentation via the 'man' command). These sites will help you get started though.
Re: Audio CDs [solved]
Hi Robert, On Thursday 07 June 2001 06:08 am, Robert Mosher wrote: > I'm now able to play audio CDs and would like to say thanks to every who > gave advice. I ended up solving the problem by giving "others" permission > to read cdrom. Though I do realize this may not be the best solution. I > think I'll try playing around with groups like David suggested. Though I > didn't realize you could be in multiple groups. > You can indeed :-) > Also a lot of you mentioned mixers. Right now I don't have any mixers > installed, and I'm not entirely sure if I have mixer support compiled > into the kernel (though if having /dev/mixer means I do, then I do). I > would assume that if I do have mixer support all that I have to do is > apt-get one. Anyone have some good suggestions for a mixer? I noticed > there was a lot of them listed. > It depends on which environment you're using. KDE: kmix Gnome: gmix Anything else: xmix I don't know of any console based ones, although I know they're out there. > And also will a mixer help my crappy sound? Right now everything is > pretty low quality compared to playing it in windoze. Though I'm sure I'll > figure most of this stuff out once I get back to my machine and have a > chance to play around with it. > Not sure about that, but if you play with the levels it may work. If I turn up my volume too high on the computer, my sound gets scratchy, so I have to compensate by turning up the speakers themselves. > Thanks, > Rob Mosher Good luck! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MSN internet dial up connection problem
On Thursday 07 June 2001 12:37 pm, Abner Gershon wrote: > Does anyone have successful experience dialing in to > MSN (micrsoft network) with wvdial. I keep getting bad > password error. I have rechecked the configuration > file and the correct password is entered. Is there a > security string of characters before or after the > password perhaps? I have emailed MSN support for help > but have not yet received a response. Thanks. > Maybe it's just me, but I doubt you'll get any response from MS if you ask them "Hey, I can't get my Linux machine to connect to your network, can you help?" :-) - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audio CDs
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 09:39 pm, you wrote: > another way to do this.. > > chmod /dev/cdrom (and it's link) and /dev/dsp to 777 > > put the cd in, press play on your favorite cd player. audio cds don't > need to be mounted to play. > > -- > Forrest English > http://truffula.net > Yeah, but the problem with that is that it's a bad thing to teach a newbie :-) Granted, if he's the only one using his machine, or he doesn't care who can get at his soundcard and cd drive it really doesn't matter, but I think it's a better idea to espouse good habits like being security minded than it is to teach a way out that is really no easier. You can achieve the same effect with the same number of commands (su; adduser username cdrom; adduser username audio) but still keep that small bit of security intact. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audio CDs
On Monday 04 June 2001 06:12 am, Robert Mosher wrote: > Hi > > Not too long ago I installed Debian2.2r2 on my computer. Since then I have > slowly been getting things the way I want them. One thing I have yet to > do, and would appreciate any help on, is playing (mounting) Audio CDs. > > I don't know if this will make a difference, but I have run 'apt-get > upgrade' since release 3. > > I've read about cdfs for mounting audio CDs, but that requires kernel > 2.4.x. Will I need to upgrade my kernel, and if so, how? > > Also, I noticed when browsing through the available packages that there > are several CD players. I'm assuming this means I can play CDs somehow, > without too much trouble (relatively speaking), since it would be > pointless to include these packages if you can't. > > Thanks, > Rob Mosher What you probably need to do is add yourself to the appropriate groups. There's an audio group and a cdrom group and if your user is a member of both (I'm not totally sure about the cdrom one, but definitely the audio) then you should be able to play CD's. If you can't hear a sound, then it's probably a mixer issue and you can download a mixer program to mess with your sound levels. Once you've added yourself to the group just fire up a CD player and it should work. CD audio is one of the easiest things to get setup generally. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FTP which is the best?
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 11:31 pm, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi all.. > > I was wondering your opinions on FTP packages. > proftpd or wu-ftpd or other...? > > Which one is more secure? > Which one is more useful? etc etc... > > thanks > Mike Hi Mike, I use proftpd at work, and it's really nice. Easy to configure and runs like a dream. I've also heard that wu is really really insecure, although I don't know if that's been resolved since then. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting an Audio CD
On Friday 08 June 2001 04:40 am, Michael Powell wrote: > Is there a special command to mount an audio CD? I am having trouble > getting any of the CD-Players to find the CD-ROM drive (they say it is not > mounted), and have not been able to find the proper file system type to > mount it with. > > I am thinking I may possibly need a symbolic link to '/cdrom' or > '/dev/cdrom' to simply fix the problem, but wanted to verify that there was > nothing else that I needed to do. My CD-ROM is usually mounted as > '/cdimage' as that is what my Libranet/Debian distro looks for in some of > its scripts. Also, it is device '/dev/hdd'. These are the reasons that I > was thinking a symbolic link might fix it. > > Thanks! > Michael > We literally just answered this about a day or two ago. Check the archives. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome/KDE
On Saturday 09 June 2001 10:16 pm, Margarete Hans wrote: > What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and KDE? Basically, > which one should I install? Oh man... opening the doors to the furnace here... I'd recommend downloading and trying both and deciding which you like then. There are also other good alternatives like blackbox and Windowmaker. And remember that you can use KDE programs in Gnome and vice versa (as I'm sure most people do). Gnome and KDE themselves are very very similar (they regularly borrow ideas from each other and it all depends on where you feel most at home. Remember, it's all at no cost (except download time and bandwidth) so why not? - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome/KDE
Oh, as a postscript to what I just said, nothing prevents you from switching later. I was happily in one environment and switched to the other about a month ago. I still like to go and use blackbox every so often too. Flexibility is good :-) - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Am I an idiot? Gnumeric
On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:39 am, Christopher Wright wrote: > I would like to use Gnumeric. My computer runs Windows ME. Is this > possible, or would I have to have the Debian operating system? > Well... yes and no... You can't run it natively in WinME. No way no how. You could install a copy of linux on your hard drive though, and dual boot to it. Alternatively, you can install one of those weird linux versions that runs within windows (look at the "distributions" section of www.linux.org to find one) but I can't vouch for any of these personally, never having run one. If you do need a free spreadsheet program, staroffice does have a native windows version, and it's got a lot of features. However, I highly recommend linux and Debian, if you're willing to learn them. You'll find a lot more cool stuff besides gnumeric! - David Nusinow
Re: Very occassional lockups of X
On Sunday 10 June 2001 01:39 am, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am running what is essentially a debian woody system (with KDE from CVS > on top). This means XFree 4.0.3 > > Every so often (maybe once every two weeks) the user interface locks solid. > The cursor disappears and no screen updates occur. > > I can still ssh into the machine from elsewhere, and can see that most of > it is running perfectly. The only way to clear this is to kill -9 the > xserver from this ssh connection, at which point the screen springs into > life. > > I don't know how to go about checking what might be the cause, there seems > to be no obvious action on my part that causes this to happen. > > Anyone else have similar problems? What's your video card and window manager? I was having trouble with windowmaker (and I think a few others were too), but those went away when I switched to any other window manager (I tried a few). Also, OpenGL apps are still not totally solid with my rage128 card (said after having just played tux racer for a half hour straight :-) so those have been factors for me having similar lockups. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: login -graphical user interface
On Wednesday 05 July 2000 04:50 am, Peter Whittam wrote: > Ok, I am new at this so be cool about it. > when I start debian it immediately uses the graphical login, > can I change this option to console login? > > regards newbee Two things. One, go to /etc and find the inittab file, and edit the line that contains "initdefault" from 5 to 2 (if it is five). The next thing is to go in to rc2.d, and instead of deleting the symlinks, just move them. The way the init scripts run is that the symlinks have to be prefixed with a certain letter. There's a few (I think two) and I don't know what they are, but one should be S##xdm or S##kdm or whatever. Just rename it (I usually just change the S to a Z) so that it doesn't confuse the package manager. That way you can keep the login for later if you want it. The script won't run if it's prefixed with the wrong letter. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need Printer Help..............HELP!
On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Don't know if I'm writing to the right place here or not. If you could > help me, I would very much appreciate it. I have a fairly new printer, > DeskJet 648C, and it has always worked great. It is only a few months old. > I updated my computer to 6.0, and since then, it will not copy anything > from websights. Just sends out a plain sheet of paper. I reloaded, the > printer disk, but to no avail. It will print other stuff, but nothing off > of the web. If you have any suggestions, or any suggestions where I can > write to, I would so very much be appreciative. Great day to you, Ruby What software are you talking about when you say "I updated my computer to 6.0"? - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best WM for slow machine?
On Sunday 10 June 2001 04:45 pm, Daniel Hoffman wrote: > I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian > on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and > unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully > functional!) window manager? FVWM? Enlightenment? Windowmaker? Windowmaker's pretty light, but with 16 megs I'd throw on blackbox. It's superlight and still a really nice WM. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best WM for slow machine?
On Sunday 10 June 2001 07:45 pm, Nuhn Yobiznez wrote:
> Another I migfht have input on (after a while) is
> amiwm(I've dabbled w/ enlightenment, fvwm, and am now
> going to try amiwm {due to MY lockup problems and the
> recommendation of David Nusinow that lockups in X were
> attributed to WindowMaker.too badmy favorite]).
>
Yeah, it was my favorite too. The WM developers said it was a problem with X,
not WM, so I'm still waiting on that one.
- David Nusinow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE on a slow machine (was: Best WM for slow machine?)
On Sunday 10 June 2001 08:23 pm, Margarete Hans wrote: > Mmh. My laptop has 20 MB of RAM. I don't think that I'll be using it > very extensively - it is rather a test to decide if I'm going to > install debian on my "main" computer, which by now is also starting to > get old (166 with 32 MB of RAM and 3 GB HD - still running windows > ( ). Does gnome use as much memory as KDE? > Besides, what does KDE give you more than these smaller WMs? > KDE is a whole desktop environment. It's got it's own file manager, web browser, terminal emulator, game collection, etc. etc. etc. It's got pretty much everything you need. Same goes for Gnome. They're very ambitious projects to provide the whole desktop widget. The other WM's we've listed are just that. Window managers. They draw the windows. They let you drag them around. They pop up a couple of menus. They manage virtual desktops (a major advantage over windows, IMHO). They let you minimize windows and pop them up again. And that's pretty much it. Some have dockapps that will do things like show you CPU usage, but those are extraneous. They're toolkit independant, and are basically very minimalist. KDE is by no means light. I've got 128MB on my desktop here, and KDE regularly sucks up all of it. Gnome's a little lighter until you fire up a browser. Nothing will make you hate your Debian experience more than constantly hitting the swap, and if you've only got 20MB, I seriously recommend using something very lightweight. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord problem in testing
On Monday 11 June 2001 11:06 am, Stephen Rueger wrote: > > Use it as "root" or make it SUID, that's all. > One thing I've never understood about SUID, how does it know which UID to set? Does it just automatically set to root's ID, or do you have to specify it somewhere? All you do to make something SUID is chmod +s file, right? Thanks for filling in a few blanks! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freeamp MP3 player problem
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 08:35 pm, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > I have used apt to installed the Freeamp, the sound is good > but have following problems: > (1) only can play at root, other users can't (can open the > freeamp but can't play), how to fix it? Add whatever users to the 'audio' group. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evolution and Balsa in unstable
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 12:05 am, christophe barbé wrote: > You should fill a bug for the broken dependencies. > These packages neeed only to build rebuild against the last libgal. > Evolution already has a bug against it for this (it's also been reported a lot, as it is a collection of merged bugs). Balsa didn't seem to have one though. There were a few others, like gabber that also had this problem. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net
Not that I'm against some duplication, but isn't this basically what www.linuxnewbie.org is doing? They were absolutely critical in my early days of linux, and I still head back there every so often to search the archives to see if anyone else has had my problem. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 13 June 2001 10:59 am, will trillich wrote: > Folks keep raving about what we're trying to do > over at > > http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ > > We were newbies not too long ago -- and we're writing down our > experiences to provide newbie-friendly introductions > to Debian/Linux so that today's newbies might have life just a > bit better than we did. > > We've been mentioned on debian-weekly-news > > http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/14/ > > (We're getting to be famous!) Wouldn't you like to help? > > http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ > > If you've overcome a hurdle or found your way through a setup > process or figured out how to configure something tricky, jot > down your experience -- and save the world, one newbie at a > time. > > http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ > > We need contributing authors (intros and how-to's) -- and > seasoned docbook/dsssl people -- and creative web types -- and > folks who've figured out emacs macros, exim configs, port > forwarding, diskless servers, apache tricks, setting up > sound, using the mouse on consoles AND within X, mutt setup > ideas, vim tricks and tips... Whatever you've learned, you can > help us, and also help countless newbies from Around the Globe. > > http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ > > And did I mention we have fun doing it?
Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:22 am, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: > * David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [130601 11:03]: > > Not that I'm against some duplication, but isn't this basically what > > www.linuxnewbie.org is doing? They were absolutely critical in my early > > days of linux, and I still head back there every so often to search the > > archives to see if anyone else has had my problem. > > Hmmm...you might want to head over there and check it out again then. > "Sensei" no longer works for Internet.com (he went to work for Trolltech, I > think). Sooo...the fate of linuxnewbie is currently up in the air. > > For what its worth, I did enjoy linuxnewbie (heck, got my ISA PNP USR 56K > Modem configured and running using the information at that site) but I do > think that it tended towards the "magical incantation" side of the linux > experience. > Yeah, I heard about that, but he did say that it'll continue running, he just doesn't know the details about it. As for hosting this project on sourceforge... well, that's not too solid a proposition these days either. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need automount floppy and cdrom
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 02:58 pm, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi! > How can I automount floppy and cdrom on Debian...so I can confgiure an Icon > on kde, wmaker or gnome to access to those devices. > I don't know about automount, but you can add icons for KDE and Gnome pretty easily. For KDE, go to where you want the icon (including the desktop), right click, and select the "create new" menu. In it are floppy and cdrom drive icons that you can set to point to your directories where the drives mount. I don't really remember how to do it in Gnome (if you can do it with the right click) but I'm pretty sure you can just make an alias to the directory where it mounts much the same way. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need automount floppy and cdrom
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 04:27 pm, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > thanks David, > Yeap, I can include the icon for the directory /floppy and /cdrom on KDE, > but if I click on it, It doesn't mount, I must to do it since a terminal as > root, then if I click again on that icon, I can see my files...but I want > that with a click it automount like in other distribution out of the > box...Mandrake, Red Hat... In order to be able to mount it without being root, add "user" to the options in fstab. It'll let any user mount or unmount the drive, and then you can mount it by right-clicking the icon and selecting "mount." You could try the "auto" option in fstab for automounting too, but I don't know if it'll work. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Streamed Audio application - great opportunity
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 06:15 pm, MRZ wrote: > Well this sounds like an opportunity knocking, how about that "new" > ogg-vorbiss format? This would be a great chance to avoid those mp3 > royalties and I doubt it would take much to write a plug-in for something > like winamp or whatever. Maybe even make the plugin available at the > broadcaster's site... Winamp has a plugin already (http://www.winamp.com/plugins/detail.jhtml?componentId=60647) and from what I can tell on my xmms plugin, it already supports the streaming stuff just fine. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] (currently encoding a CD in to ogg format)
