Re: Recommendations on newer motherboards working with Debian?

2000-08-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Only thing I know about the Abit is the poorer memory performance due to its having some TI buffer chip built into the system. I went with the Asus K7V and haven't looked back. I have Not explored optimizing the HD, though, so can't address that issue. The only thing I missed was having an ISA

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-01 Thread Sean Richardson
try zless or zmore...they are shell scripts which basically unzip the file and pipe it into more/less for you The will let you read the .gz readmes with no additional effort. zless /usr/doc/xmms/FAQ.gz > At Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:25:25 -0700, > S. Champ wrote: > > what is the command to read these

Re: filesystem-hierarchy

2000-08-01 Thread keke abe
S. Champ wrote: > if memory serves, i came across something of a debian filesystem-hierarchy > standard, somewhere at debian.org The debian-policy package (doc, standard) includes the Debian Policy Manual and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (in the form of txt, ps, dvi). I found this package

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-01 Thread Decklin Foster
[-devel snipped] S. Champ writes: > what is the command to read these README documents, without having > to first use a command to un-gzip the same? zless -- There is no TRUTH. There is no REALITY. There is no CONSISTENCY. There are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS. I'm very probably wrong. -- BSD fortu

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-01 Thread keke abe
S. Champ wrote: > what is the command to read these README documents, without having to > first use > a command to un-gzip the same? emacs is your friend. Open directory, choose a *.gz file and type 'Z'+'yes'. regards, abe

Re: filesystem-hierarchy

2000-08-01 Thread Sean Richardson
i think this might be what you want: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.1 > if memory serves, i came across something of a debian filesystem-hierarchy > standard, somewhere at debian.org -sean

Re: filesystem-hierarchy

2000-08-01 Thread Andrew McRobert
I don't know of one @ the Debian WWW site, but there's one in the O'Reilly "Learning GNU/Linux" book ... which may be at least partly on the Web ... Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Wes

RE: noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-01 Thread Andrew McRobert
I usually just hit mine :) - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-01 Thread Kenshi Muto
At Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:25:25 -0700, S. Champ wrote: > what is the command to read these README documents, without having to first > use > a command to un-gzip the same? Many pager software supports gzip-ed file. less, jless, lv, ... (But 'more' command doesn't support it) If you want to view bzi

gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-01 Thread S. Champ
hi. i'm seeing a lot of README.*.gz in /usr/doc/* i'm guessing it's been done that way for the sake of space-conservation. i'm admittedly frustrated at the fact that, from all i know about it right now, i'll have to un-gzip any of these packages before i'm actualy able to read them. there's mor

Re: changing distributions

2000-08-01 Thread kmself
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:07:14PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > Is there a way to change from unstable distribution to frozen > distribution? Can apt sources.list be modified so it will select the > potato distribution and reinstall itself.. or is that asking to much? > thanks You can force a downg

filesystem-hierarchy

2000-08-01 Thread S. Champ
hi. if memory serves, i came across something of a debian filesystem-hierarchy standard, somewhere at debian.org if anyone knows where this is , please ... can you send-along the URL? thank you. -- sean

Re: Debian-specific HOWTOs?

2000-08-01 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:50:28PM +0200, Jens Müller wrote: > Are there any HOWTOs which are specifically (re)written for the Debian > system of config files etc.? Not in a general sort of a way. Typically, HOWTOs are general, distribution-neutral sources of information. What are you looking fo

RE: Linux Client Through MS Proxy Server

2000-08-01 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Have tried and am still using the same userid/pw combination under win95 and debian...still no luckactually I am also trying to compile a program which will validate my debian box to the nt serverbut I seem to have several files *.h files missing..will try that when I get back home... Kno

Re: noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-01 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 07:07:18PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote > > I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has > been working fine with it's current setting for months. Now all of a > sudden I get a VERY high pitched noise from it when in X. It does not do > this on the consol

Re: Recommendations on newer motherboards working with Debian?

2000-08-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my personal opinion is abit blows but that is from my own bad experiences with the IT5H and BP6. if you want athlon i would wait for asus's new board A7V, many reviewers seem to agree that it has the best features. it should be out anytime.. nate On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: rbrito

Re: xmms shared library fault

2000-08-01 Thread Dale Morris
Here's the error message I get when I run xmms: [libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] Any idea what causes this?

Strange behavior of netdate and cron

2000-08-01 Thread Tam, Vincent
Hello, We put the netdate command in cron job to regular sync with NIST clock at time-a.nist.gov, however it only run once and never run again. What would be the cause of the problem? Our servers are running Debian 2.1 with latest updates fetched from apt-get. Please also reply by e-mail, tha

Re: noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-01 Thread Michael Soulier
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has > been working fine with it's current setting for months. Now all of a > sudden I get a VERY high pitched noise from it when in X. It does not do > this on the console! It has become more a

noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-01 Thread Ron Farrer
I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has been working fine with it's current setting for months. Now all of a sudden I get a VERY high pitched noise from it when in X. It does not do this on the console! It has become more and more frequent and is starting to drive me n

RE: Linux Client Through MS Proxy Server

2000-08-01 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Chris, Before I even proceed, I must thank you for your help. I tried your suggesting in telnetting into the proxy server "telnet pintprv1 8080", and the tlnet screen comes up then nothing...but when I pressed "Enter", I got the following message on screen:- <> Noticed the "Server: Microsoft-

Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now'

2000-08-01 Thread Simon Hales
Hi I think the line you are looking for will be in the startup file, /etc/inittab somewhere. Here are the apropriate lines from my own (Slink) system's /etc/inittab file, along with the (very useful) lines immediately below it in the file. # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctr

Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now'

2000-08-01 Thread alan
Thanks Joe et. al. > Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:16:46 -0400 > From: Joe Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now' > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:07:56AM +

RE: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Ok ok...I am the one who wrote about "us" joining the listI am just glad there are people like you guys out there who help each other on 'difficulties' encountered by some of us newbies. And for that ...a big thank you. Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network

Re: mixing potato with a bit of woody...

2000-08-01 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:49:23PM -0500, Sean Richardson wrote: > > I guess my question was is there a way to tell apt-get to use woody for > some packages and potato for others...without manually switching my > sources.list every time between potato and woody. > I use a little script called un

RE: Linux Client Through MS Proxy Server

2000-08-01 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Yes...only IE seem to work (i.e. with the proxy setting set to pintprv1..com.my and port set at 8080)..have tried Navigator and Opera but nothing happens! Also, only upon request was I allowed to access and download from ftp sites. Does MS Proxy Server use its own proprietary "protocol"? Patrick

Re: Unix/Linux group meet - QLD

2000-08-01 Thread Patrick Barr
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 01:35:18 Allen Lim wrote: > First of all. My apologies for writing to this list as it really only concerns a small percentage of people reading this message. > > I was reading through my e-mails when I came across a person who stated in their e-mail that they are part of a U

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-08-01 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> 1) My monitor turns off (energy saving) when I call XF86Setup. I believe > it's because the monitor (a LG StudioWorks 520) is Plug-and-Play, it sends > information to the CPU (and it is expecting some answer back) , etc. How > can I fix that? What this *might* be is something other than energy

Recommendations on newer motherboards working with Debian?

2000-08-01 Thread Rogerio Brito
Dear Friends, My ole, trustworthy computer seems to be having problems lately (its got some problems with the video card -- it's freezing while I'm in X and I'm starting to doubt that the memory chips are ok -- and its battery is dead). :-( So, I'

STR vs STD?

2000-08-01 Thread Krzys Majewski
Can anyone who has used both comment on how suspend-to-disk (STD) compares with suspend-to-RAM (STR), particularly in terms of noise (does STR allow your cpu and power supply fans to shut down?) and time (how long does it take to wake up after a suspend-to-disk vs. a suspend-to-RAM?) thanks chris

Support for STR/STD/hibernation?

2000-08-01 Thread Krzys Majewski
Is there any kernel/patch/driver combination which supports suspend-to-RAM or suspend-to-disk (hibernation) ? -chris

Re: Java compiler and vm.

2000-08-01 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1, aug, 2000 at 03:22:44 +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > > > Does anybody know where I can find a good Java compiler and Java Virtual > > Machine for > > Debian/Linux? > > Look at http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html for your > closest m

how to use ae to mark blocks and copy/paste/cut?

2000-08-01 Thread Li Wei

Re: Is newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke ...

2000-08-01 Thread Christopher Mosley
O.K. The newsgroup doesn't/shouldn't exist, I have a vague recollection of deja news allowing reading in a group format with posting privileges -maybe not. But from the response I've got no one is pushing the posts around on usenet now. Deja must be doing it for itself alone. Its no accident a

RE: What are user quotas?

2000-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Aug-2000 Hammurabi Mendes wrote: > what are user quotas? > > can anyone help me? i couldn't find much information on the manual pages > user quotas are limits placed on normal users. Examples are size of home directory, number of processes running at once, amount of memory used, etc.

What are user quotas?

2000-08-01 Thread Hammurabi Mendes
what are user quotas? can anyone help me? i couldn't find much information on the manual pages thanks

Unidentified subject!

2000-08-01 Thread romeu
Hi, debian users. I'm a newbie (mostly). Can someone help me? I'm installing Debian (2.2, which I downloaded from the net) on my computer, and I have the following problems: 1) My monitor turns off (energy saving) when I call XF86Setup. I believe it's because the monitor (a LG StudioWorks 520) is

Re: Is newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke ...

2000-08-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article >[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Mosley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is the newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke everywhere or just here? The linux.* hierarchy has been shut down a couple of years ago. But ofcourse once those groups exist it's hard to remove them on all news servers. "Ol

Fw: Free Linux Journal T-Shirt!

2000-08-01 Thread Larry Shields
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:30 PM Subject: Free Linux Journal T-Shirt! I suggest that all Debian users go to the URL below, and fill out the Linux Journal's survey, seeing that they did not list anything for Debi

Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now'

2000-08-01 Thread Bob McGowan
Joe Bouchard wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:07:56AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Group, > > > > Currently when I 3-finger-salute my laptop It seems to run > .. > ... can anyone jog my memory... > > See your /etc/inittab file: > ... > ... Since inittab is read on

Re: mixing potato with a bit of woody...

2000-08-01 Thread Sean Richardson
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:03:48AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > At this point, potato and woody are very similar, so it might not be as big > of a download as you fear. You could try pointing your sources.list at before I wrote my message I did try a dist-upgrade...and it was going to be around

Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now'

2000-08-01 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:07:56AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Group, > > Currently when I 3-finger-salute my laptop It seems to run > 'shutdown -r now' I remember a previous post which mentioned > changing this to 'shutdown -h now' - but I can't seem to dig it out > ... can anyone j

Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now'

2000-08-01 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:07:56AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Group, > > Currently when I 3-finger-salute my laptop It seems to run > 'shutdown -r now' I remember a previous post which mentioned > changing this to 'shutdown -h now' - but I can't seem to dig it out > ... can anyone j

[ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now'

2000-08-01 Thread alan
Hi Group, Currently when I 3-finger-salute my laptop It seems to run 'shutdown -r now' I remember a previous post which mentioned changing this to 'shutdown -h now' - but I can't seem to dig it out ... can anyone jog my memory... Cheers, Alan Alan McNatty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Catalyst IT Limi

Re: OT: enlightenment question

2000-08-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
Bingo. Gracias. Thus spake michael d. ivey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:32:14PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > I'm trying to get Gnome/E to switch with alt-f1, alt-f2, etc > > but can't find the configuration for taht also. > > # apt-get install e16keyedit > $ e16key

Re: OT: enlightenment question

2000-08-01 Thread michael d. ivey
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:32:14PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I'm trying to get Gnome/E to switch with alt-f1, alt-f2, etc > but can't find the configuration for taht also. # apt-get install e16keyedit $ e16keyedit -- michael d. ivey[McQ] : "What's that blue thing doing here?" <

Re: Is newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke ...

2000-08-01 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Frodo Baggins wrote: > > > Christopher Mosley scripsit: > > > > > >Is the newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke everywhere or just here? > > >The newserver here never has any posts but deja news picks up the posts? > > >I'd

Re: OT: enlightenment question

2000-08-01 Thread Ethan Pierce
I find the pager works well, and the setting up the environments to slide back and forth with mouse activity by the edge of the screen also. Please let me know if you discover the hot-keys. I get a lot of info on irc.ais.net #e -Ethan >>> "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/01/00 04:35P

Re: JDK1.2 debianised?

2000-08-01 Thread Robert Waldner
hmm, reading the license I see the point, clearly. but an installer-package comes to mind, and I see nothing in the license which would prevent that, but, otoh, I´m no lawyer... &rw On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 22:30:43 +0200, "J.T. Wenting" writes: >not likely. It would require special licensing by Su

Re: OT: enlightenment question

2000-08-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to get Gnome/E to switch with alt-f1, alt-f2, etc but can't find the configuration for taht also. Robert Thus spake Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi! > > Running an up-to-date potato-box I simply cannot find out how to get > E to switch between virtual desktops like fvmw

OT: enlightenment question

2000-08-01 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Running an up-to-date potato-box I simply cannot find out how to get E to switch between virtual desktops like fvmw95 did - by pressing -. Any hints? TIA, &rw

RE: JDK1.2 debianised?

2000-08-01 Thread J.T. Wenting
not likely. It would require special licensing by Sun. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:05 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: JDK1.2 debianised? > > > Hi! > > Does anybody know when/if JDK1.2 will

Re: Compose key in X 4.0.1? [SOLVFED!]

2000-08-01 Thread Richard Black
Cool--I was wondering how to do this. Could any one tell me how to bind it (ie the compose key) to the "Windows Key" rather than an Alt key? thanks Richard Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On 01 Aug 2000 10:49:11 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > :: On Mon, 31 Jul 200

Re: Debian 2.1 to Debian 2.2 upgrade.

2000-08-01 Thread Jens Müller
- Original Message - From: "Howard Jow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:45 PM Subject: Debian 2.1 to Debian 2.2 upgrade. > Hi, I am a systems administrator at the University of New Mexico. I am > trying to upgrade approximately 80 Debian Linux boxxen from 2.1

Re: Sound configuration

2000-08-01 Thread Morten Liebach
On 1, aug, 2000 at 12:58:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the proper way to setup Sound in Debian? > > I have an es1371 card. I have used modconf to select the es1371 module and > run update-modules. Is there anything else that is required? > > It seems that esound (using helixcode

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-08-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > "Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) " wrote: > > > you might take a look at > > win4lin (www.trelos.com). I have been using the eval version for > > about a week and I like it alot - it required a modified kernel, but > > once you get that do

Re: Is newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke ...

2000-08-01 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Frodo Baggins wrote: > Christopher Mosley scripsit: > > > >Is the newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke everywhere or just here? > >The newserver here never has any posts but deja news picks up the posts? > >I'd much prefer a newsgroup than a mailing list. > > AFAIK, there is

Re: mixing potato with a bit of woody...

2000-08-01 Thread Lee Elliott
Sean Richardson wrote: > > Hello, > > This may be an absurd/silly question...but I have been unable to find an > answer elsewhere...so bare with me... Hey - Debian's going nudist? ;) LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk ...or something

JDK1.2 debianised?

2000-08-01 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Does anybody know when/if JDK1.2 will be packaged debian-wise? tia, &rw

Re:

2000-08-01 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! These are the Debian JDK packages (don't know which package the compiler is in). Hope this helps. BTW, isn't a JVM included in Netscape? unstable 100% http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/jdk1.1-native-dev.html jdk1.1-native-dev 1.1.8v1-3 (2247.9k) JDK 1.1.x - n

Re: Backup + Recovey on CDR

2000-08-01 Thread jbardin
Vagn Scott wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > is there anyway i can make a bottable cdrom weekly with the > > system archived on it... > > Funny you should mention that. I've been thinking along those lines, > too. > I think it would be great if there was a standard way to do it. Then, > if

Debian-specific HOWTOs?

2000-08-01 Thread Jens Müller
Are there any HOWTOs which are specifically (re)written for the Debian system of config files etc.? Jens

Re: Backup + Recovey on CDR

2000-08-01 Thread Vagn Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is there anyway i can make a bottable cdrom weekly with the > system archived on it... Funny you should mention that. I've been thinking along those lines, too. I think it would be great if there was a standard way to do it. Then, if I was on vacation, my lovely syste

Re: Is newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke ...

2000-08-01 Thread Frodo Baggins
Christopher Mosley scripsit: > >Is the newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke everywhere or just here? >The newserver here never has any posts but deja news picks up the posts? >I'd much prefer a newsgroup than a mailing list. AFAIK, there is not such newsgroup... linux.debian.user does not even look

Re: Disk performance when installing packages

2000-08-01 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:47:23AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:19:29 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > Above > > all that, IDE performance tends to suck a whole lot more CPU juice than > > SCSI does (I run SCSI on two of three disks). > > Oh, well... But SCSI

[Fwd: current Redhat user evaluates Debian]

2000-08-01 Thread pplaw
. debs, ..so, when this happens, what can be done? (i think i tried some sort of *probe and that was last time i "saw" my printing (lpr) and dialout (pon) capabilities.) regretting a possible reinstall on a potato box that was perfect, bentley taylor. // John Hasler wrote: Some drivers "pro

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread Jason Quigley
Interesting! How does the mailing list get onto USENET? Is there a cross-posting utility running? I would much prefer to use a news group than downloading all these messages. Cheers, Jason. --On Tuesday, August 1, 2000 11:57 -0500 "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, "w

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread Will Trillich
or at www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Debian-Linux/199/0 (very up-to-date). On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:57:15AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Actually, "we" could have picked it up on www.deja.com/usenet. > > Jason Quigley wrote: > > > > Then of course, the fact that we're reading this means we're a

tcsh savedirs... saves only one

2000-08-01 Thread Will Trillich
i lose my directory stack on every logout. % set savedirs % cd /var/www % pushd /etc % pushd ~/public_html % ^D (logout) now when i log back in, i'm correctly put into the directory that i'd most recently been in but there are none others on the stack:

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-08-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) " wrote: > IMHO, vmware is a rather large solution to just running windows - > if you're looking for something commercial, you might take a look at > win4lin (www.trelos.com). I have been using the eval version for > about a week and I like it alot - it requir

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-01 Thread Stefan Nobis
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Smart people *can* get IPs that haven't been assigned to them, and > it's a PITA to root them out. PPPoE, while a hack, addresses this > concern for providers. I wish we used it. Tell me more about this. What about configuring the routers only to ro

Sound configuration

2000-08-01 Thread tj . herring
What is the proper way to setup Sound in Debian? I have an es1371 card. I have used modconf to select the es1371 module and run update-modules. Is there anything else that is required? It seems that esound (using helixcode gnome) doesnt like my config... because it reports that I don't have a s

Re: Dedication of the Debian 2.2 release

2000-08-01 Thread Kevin Cheung
Joel's death was the result of a life long battle with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Information for donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association can be found here and will be greatly appreciated (please make donations in Joel's name, if you so desire): http://mdausa.org/donate/index.

RE: simple language for pop-up messages in X?

2000-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Aug-2000 Brian Stults wrote: > Hi, > > Not entirely debian related, but... Can someone recommend a simple > language that I could use to write a pop-up message program for X? I > would like to be notified when I have new mail in a samba-mounted > spool. I haven't found any applets that

RE: crontab think `root' is a command?

2000-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Aug-2000 Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I'm getting these cron mails under potato: > > Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 06:42:01 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) > To: root > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily > > /bin/sh: root: command not

diamond homefree wireless cards

2000-08-01 Thread Chris Nestrud
Hello all. I've done some checking, and I think this is basically a lost cause, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Has anyone had any success in getting a Diamond Wireless card to work with linux? I've found a kernel module that's supposed to let it act like a TTY, and a program called scarab that was d

Is newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke ...

2000-08-01 Thread Christopher Mosley
Is the newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke everywhere or just here? The newserver here never has any posts but deja news picks up the posts? I'd much prefer a newsgroup than a mailing list. cmosley

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Actually, "we" could have picked it up on www.deja.com/usenet. Jason Quigley wrote: > > Then of course, the fact that we're reading this means we're already on the > list :) > > --On Monday, July 31, 2000 9:40 +0800 "CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hear ye..hear y

Re: simple language for pop-up messages in X?

2000-08-01 Thread Tom Marshall
Try using xmessage, eg. if [ $new_mail_received ]; then xmessage "New Mail" fi On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Brian Stults wrote: > Hi, > > Not entirely debian related, but... Can someone recommend a simple > language that I could use to write a pop-up message program for X? I > would like to be noti

Re: Compose key in X 4.0.1? [SOLVFED!]

2000-08-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On 01 Aug 2000 10:49:11 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: :: On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:29:51 -0700, "Eric G . Miller" said: >> Look at /etc/X11/Xmodmap or ~/.Xmodmap. I don't know if these are >> sourced the same way in 4.0 as 3.3, but I in ~/.Xmodmap I put: >> keycode 78 = Mu

Re: libsasl LOGIN

2000-08-01 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:36:33PM +0200, Jaume Teixi wrote: > does anybody know how to enable libsasl-dev with LOGIN support before > compile it ? yes. the -easy- (okay, the long term easy way): apt-get source libsasl7 cd sasl-1.5.17 vi debian/rules look in the 'build-stamp' rule, at the e

Re: xmms shared library fault

2000-08-01 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 08:56:27PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm running woody and have downloaded the xmms package. There is a > problem with it, everything works fine but the shared library file > isn't working properly. When I try use the playlist editor to select > files in a directory it doe

Re: Network Printing, from an Apple, to Debian.

2000-08-01 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 08:42:12AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 08:21:46AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: > > Hey all. > > > > I'm picking up a new computer tomorrow, that will be a fileserver on my > > home network. One of the things I need it to do is share files/printer

Re: pseudo-image-kit (for Windows) problem

2000-08-01 Thread Lawrence H. Robins
At 10:00 PM 7/29/00 -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, you could download the floppy disk images and then just use apt to complete the install over the Internet. That's how I installed on this very machine I'm typing on. CDs do make it easier, though. -- Carl Fink

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-08-01 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 06:14:24PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > not at all, i meant that the non-standard redhat-ism of moving > /etc/init.d to /etc/rc.d/init.d along with the /etc/rc[0-6].d > directories to /etc/rc.d is lame. Looks like you got your wish. Seems like the next version of RedHat (

Re: simple language for pop-up messages in X?

2000-08-01 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:43:31AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > Not entirely debian related, but... Can someone recommend a simple > language that I could use to write a pop-up message program for X? I > would like to be notified when I have new mail in a samba-mounted > spool. I haven't found

Re: [Q] ports 757 and 1024

2000-08-01 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:35:50PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Would anyone happen to know what the ports 757 and 1024 are used for > of the top of their heads? Well, I'm not a Debian, but... Anything above 1024, inclusive, is free for any program to use. Note that on *NIX systems, X Windo

Re: Easy potato installation alternative?

2000-08-01 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:11:24AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello, > > a friend just asked me where to find a Debian installation CD. She > probably won't care if potato hasn't the label "stable" yet (and we > were told to upgrade from slink to potato anyway)... So I'd like to

Re: mixing potato with a bit of woody...

2000-08-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
Sean Richardson said: > In the past I have typically just built these packages (again for many > reasons)...but seeing as they are already available under woody I would > like to try the packages. I am not quite ready to switch over to > woody as I am stuck behind a modem for another month and wait

Re: 3c90x woes

2000-08-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Christian Pernegger" wrote: > I'm running a box with a 3Com 3C905C-TXM, at the moment with > potato-testcycle-3 and kernel version 2.2.15. Same here, more or less. I got the 3Com 3C905C-TXM last week in a new Dell computer. > The 3c59x module that comes with the standard kernel did not do >

video driver

2000-08-01 Thread MurawskiT
I was sent to http://www.dialtech.com for help on my video driver. The problem is that I'm Supposed to switch the colors to 8-bit 256 colors, but I don't know how.

Re: Help: Dselect ran out of disk space

2000-08-01 Thread Tim
Heather wrote: > > > Tim wrote: > > > > > > Bolan Meek wrote: > > > > What's your partitioning look like? What's the output of `df`? > > > > If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`, > > > > i.e. not have mounted? > > > > > > I have 104MB as root and 16MB swap there is 1%

Re: rc.local ?

2000-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
Tony Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TL> Please forgive this rather elementary question. TL> I am now trying out potato with the 2.2.17 kernel. TL> I can't figure out which file has taken the place TL> of rc.local. RTFFAQ at http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/, question 10.6. TL> Also, /etc/conf

simple language for pop-up messages in X?

2000-08-01 Thread Brian Stults
Hi, Not entirely debian related, but... Can someone recommend a simple language that I could use to write a pop-up message program for X? I would like to be notified when I have new mail in a samba-mounted spool. I haven't found any applets that suit me because when I don't have mail, I don't

Backup + Recovey on CDR

2000-08-01 Thread jbardin
i am looking for a failsafe solution to save and restore my system. The sysem basically consists of a web server a samba server mail server and a database server. I am going to mount my htdocs dir on its own partition and all the web developers have local copies of everything so i can cut that out

Re: 3c90x woes

2000-08-01 Thread Morten Liebach
On 1, aug, 2000 at 07:39:07 -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > [1 ] > > Gary Hennigan wrote: > [snip] > > > Also, you should seriously consider looking at the kernel-package > > > package, in particular look at the make-kpkg utility. It makes using > > > custom-compile

Re: Compose key in X 4.0.1?

2000-08-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:29:51 -0700, "Eric G . Miller" said: > Look at /etc/X11/Xmodmap or ~/.Xmodmap. I don't know if these are > sourced the same way in 4.0 as 3.3, but I in ~/.Xmodmap I put: > keycode 78 = Multi_key > which binds the "Scroll Lock" key to "Compose" (on PC101). You can use

Re: Disk performance when installing packages

2000-08-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:19:29 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: >> I was wondering if anyone else notices this when installing or >> removing packages: the disk is heavily used (like when the cron >> scripts are triggered in the morning) for some time (depending on >> the number and size of the

Re: Next Debian release

2000-08-01 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:51:09PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When will Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 be releases? http://www.debian.org/News/2000/2726 moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is wel

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:56:35AM -0500, Sean Richardson wrote: > ... Apparently some of their initial customers > were setting up home networks and not masking the machines behind a > router(of whatever sort) and so their machines were each grabbing an IP > address. This was quickly eating up the

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