PS/2 Mouse with Compaq Presario problem

2000-08-07 Thread Ronald Castillo
When I try to run GPM using my PS/2 mouse, it seems like the program disconnects my keyboard, because neither of them (keyboard and mouse) work. I have a Compaq Presario 5030. I used the following configurations: gpm -t ps2 (didn't do anything) gpm -m psaux (froze the computer) Using gpmconfig and

Unable to load atd.

2000-08-07 Thread Russ Pitman
Running woody with 2.2.15 kernel, system updated today. At bootup the kernel messages show that the at daemon as being loaded,no error. Entering an 'at' command results in, Can't open /var/run/atd.pid to signal atd. No atd running? 'ps' agrees. >From the command line using '/etc/

Re: Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone asked, so here's how I transmuted my version of CorelOS to > more or less "pure" debian. Though this worked for me, it might be a > good idea to read any comments made on this post before doing this, > since IANAG (i am not a guru) > > 1. Esta

Re: ensoniq soundcard install

2000-08-07 Thread Pat Mahoney
[snip] Ah, I just noticed your problem was already solved... whoops. -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste ([EMAIL PROTECTED] put this on Tshirts in '93)

Re: ensoniq soundcard install

2000-08-07 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:50:14PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm tring to install a creative ensoniq soundcard (pci) in kernel 2.2.16. I have es1371 card (pci). works here (even joystick finally!). Is this the same or do you have 1370? > It supports the card, I can connect to the volume meter

Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-07 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Someone asked, so here's how I transmuted my version of CorelOS to more or less "pure" debian. Though this worked for me, it might be a good idea to read any comments made on this post before doing this, since IANAG (i am not a guru) 1. Establish a net connection, if it's not already up. (i.e.,

Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

2000-08-07 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 07 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Can someone give me an example or two for how to change perferences > under /etc/alternatives using update-alternatives? Ok. To make a system work correctly, you'd do: apt-get update apt-get -y install emacs20 :-) updat

Re: Using verp with Debian's smartlist package

2000-08-07 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 07 2000, Shane Wegner wrote: > Has anyone successfully gotten this to work? Must you use sendmail? Would you be willing to use qmail? If so, then qmail supports VERPs outta the box with its fast mailing list manager, ezmlm (and its add-on, ezmlm-idx). I'd rec

Re: CD-RW

2000-08-07 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jun 25 2000, Willi Dyck wrote: > does somebody know if the Philips PCRW804 works under Linux? Is it an ATAPI CDRW? If yes, then almost probably it *will* work with Linux. I've been using my HP9200i (got it only a few weeks before the HP9300 came out -- g) and it work

Re: soundcard

2000-08-07 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 07 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > Any suggestions on what might be the easiest for a debian newbie to > install? I have tried a Trident 4DWave-DX for a few weeks with Linux successfully. It's a PCI card and seems to be very cheap. Lets me play my MP3s and such. The only

Re: ghostscript

2000-08-07 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
The package name is gs. I don't _think_ you need anything else but I could be forgetting something Tom On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:40:35PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > During my ftp install of debian 2.2 I don't believe I got a full set of > packages..? Anyhow, when I try to configure my print

Re: ghostscript Solved!!

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
Solved. I found it with ghostview.. On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:40:35PM -0700 10, Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During my ftp install of debian 2.2 I don't believe I got a full set of > packages..? Anyhow, when I try to configure my printer using printtool, > it tells me that ghostscr

ghostscript

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
During my ftp install of debian 2.2 I don't believe I got a full set of packages..? Anyhow, when I try to configure my printer using printtool, it tells me that ghostscript is not installed. What's the apt-get package name for ghostscript? Anything else I need with it? thanks dale

Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question (2)

2000-08-07 Thread Lindsay Allen
Well, now I know why ALL: ALL in hosts.deny stopped things. It turns out that hosts.allow does not allow "ALL: my.ip.address" but is happy with "ALL: 203.x.y.z" or even "ALL: 203.x.y." There is a note about this regarding the portmapper but I had not realised that the portmapper is involved. T

Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question (2)

2000-08-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:51:50AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > These are by no means irrelevant to sshd, even if it is not run from > inetd. Read the man page for sshd, in which you'll see that it can be > build with direct support for tcp_wrappers. I

Frame buffer devices on unconventional monitor

2000-08-07 Thread Renato Carmo
Hi there! I use an adapted HP A2094-B monitor (an old 19'' monitor intended for HP workstations) which I adapted to use in a PC running Linux (the only way I can afford a 19'' monitor ... ;). After getting the synch timings from HP and making the cabling, I got it to work fine with XFre

Re: Ensoniq Soundcard Problem SOLVED!

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
It works, thanks, this has been such a headache. I changed from a yamaha oplsax isapnp sound card and went through so many aggravating problems. Now I can relax.. On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:37:02PM -0700 23, "G. L. `Griz' Inabnit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: Ensoniq Soundcard Problem

2000-08-07 Thread Pollywog
Just edit /etc/group so that your username is in place of "pollywog" below. Your group number might differ from mine for the audio group but that is alright. audio:x:29:pollywog On 07-Aug-2000 Dale Morris wrote: > Nope, I'm just trying to figure out how to add myself to the audio group > >

Re: maildir & imap

2000-08-07 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:13:43PM -0700, Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to install courier-imap on my server, so I can get > some system in the way all the mails are stored. But I never > used a maildir type mailbox before. However, I cannot find any > sufficient docs. I

Re: Ensoniq Soundcard Problem

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
How do I add audio to my user group definitions? I can change the file permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer, but won't that make the system less secure? I'm looking at the permissions now. Seems I could also change ownership of the files for the same result, but again wouldn't that compromise sec

Re: Ensoniq Soundcard Problem

2000-08-07 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On further investigation, the sound card works fine in my root > desktop. How do I set the permissions for it to work properly in my > user directory. (It's getting close to working :-) Investigate the files /dev/dsp* and /dev/mixer*.

Compiling Galeon?

2000-08-07 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Has anyone here compiled galeon under Debian? My compilation fails with these messages (this is going to be slightly long since I wanted to paste from when the undefined references start, but you can skim through and get the point): main.o: In function `main': /usr/local/src/galeon-0.7.1/src/main.

Re: Ensoniq Soundcard Problem

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
Nope, I'm just trying to figure out how to add myself to the audio group On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:10:23PM -0700 14, "G. L. `Griz' Inabnit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Is the "user" in question part of theaudiogroup? > > On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Da

Re: Ensoniq Soundcard Problem

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
On further investigation, the sound card works fine in my root desktop. How do I set the permissions for it to work properly in my user directory. (It's getting close to working :-) On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 03:45:01PM -0700 12, Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have recompiled 2.2.16 ke

Ensoniq Soundcard Problem

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
I have recompiled 2.2.16 kernel to support my creative ensoniq soundcard. When I run esd from su it makes a 3 tone sound, but then hangs and I don't get back to the user prompt. If I try to connect to the ESD volume meter on the desktop while the esd command is hung, it seems to work. If I try to c

CD-RW

2000-08-07 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi List, does somebody know if the Philips PCRW804 works under Linux? thanx for info

Posts to one server work, to another not?

2000-08-07 Thread Carl Fink
I'm running inn 1.7.2-16 on my home (Debian "Potato") PC, with all news transfer handled by suck 4.2.2. I pull news from four sites: my cable ISP (Optimum Online), my shell ISP (Panix), and two private non-peering servers, news.sff.net and news.dm.net. Until yesterday everything was working fine.

color printing

2000-08-07 Thread john smith
Having some sort of printer problems... first, My printer is a HP deskjet 855C. I installed apsfilter but when trying to use the driver for deskjet 855c..it prints out garbage..so I defaulted to the driver for deskjet compatibles only. I wonder why the correct drivers doesn't work? anybody expe

Re: Failed dependency: what to do? SOLVED

2000-08-07 Thread Hans
Okay, that worked, but still winsetup failed me. Found out that - don't laugh - hadn't had xterm installed. Works now. Thanks for the help. --Hans At 08:45 AM 8/7/00 -0600, Alberto Brealey wrote: >On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:32:35PM +0200, Hans wrote: > >> I'm trying to install Win4Lin, but the in

Re: lilo problem

2000-08-07 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 04:26:14PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm running libranet version of debian potato. It uses the 2.2.14 kernel. I > am having a problem with lilo. > My hard disk is a 15 gig with the following partitions > /=2500 megs > /usr=5000mgb > /home=2500mgb > /var=1250mgb > the res

ensoniq soundcard install

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
I'm tring to install a creative ensoniq soundcard (pci) in kernel 2.2.16. It supports the card, I can connect to the volume meter, but I can't connect to the mixer (this is in gnome panel). When I issue esd as super user, it makes sounds.. Anyone know what I'm missing here? I also have some yamaha

Re: common questions

2000-08-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:39:19PM +, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > 1.what is the equivalent of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file of RedHat in > Debian? > (because I need to load ip masq modules and to enable ip masq to run > automatically after each reboot) see /etc/rcS.d/README. >

Re: VMware and 2.4.0-test4 problem

2000-08-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel 2.3./2.4 changed a lot of things vmware has only experimental support for 2.4 in vmware 2.x, don't exepect official support for 2.4 for either 1.x or 2.x of vmware until linux 2.4.0 is declared final. nate On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote: sbello >For quite some time I happily run

Re: IP forwarding

2000-08-07 Thread Pedro Medeiros
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:29:40PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > It does the "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward", but it doesn't > do the ipchains bit, I think. Then put a script that calls ipchains in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d -- Pedro

VMware and 2.4.0-test4 problem

2000-08-07 Thread Stefan Bellon
For quite some time I happily run the 2.4.0-test4 kernel on my notebook with no problems. Just one thing: VMware (version 1.x) doesn't run anymore. I tried the usual "vmware-config.pl" like the other times when I've compiled a kernel, but this doesn't work anymore with the 2.4 kernels, it seems. H

Trix: wmaker reset with SIGUSR1

2000-08-07 Thread kmself
I just experienced one of the (very occasional) freezes of WindowMaker. My X session was fully locked up, but I could switch to a virtual console. Checking man pages didn't turn up any documented methods of signalling WindowMaker, but on a hunch I tried: kill -USR1 ...with an appropriate va

Re: Wacom Graphire?

2000-08-07 Thread Bruce Stephens
"Jonathan Markevich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone used the Wacom Graphire tablet successfully? It would be > a slick addition to Corel's PhotoPaint. I noticed there's a > serial/PS2 connection available as well as the more common USB > stuff. Does that make a difference (presuming,

Using verp with Debian's smartlist package

2000-08-07 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi all, A while ago, the Debian mailing lists at lists.debian.org went to using a different 'From ' line. The administrator said at the time that a VERP was being used. I am curious as to how a VERP can be implemented using smartlist with SendMail. It would have to use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] for

Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question

2000-08-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:05:19AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > You're denying everyone and allowing no one. There's a good reason you > can't connect ;). In /etc/hosts.allow, you could put: no he is not, true there is nothing in hosts.allow, but all he has in hosts.deny is ALL: PARANOID whic

Re: displaying binary files

2000-08-07 Thread cmosley
If you see this please ignore. If you don't see this please let me know immediately! Thanks

common questions

2000-08-07 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, I would like to know: 1.what is the equivalent of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file of RedHat in Debian? (because I need to load ip masq modules and to enable ip masq to run automatically after each reboot) 2.after creating the rc.firewall ruleset...where should I put this in de

Re: no xdm on startup

2000-08-07 Thread John Carline
suresh kumar wrote: > HI, > > How to configure a slink/potato so that xdm *DO NOT* > start on bootup. I want them to start only on startx. > > Any ideas? If I understand you correctly and you want to get rid of xdm, my favorite is: dpkg --purge xdm (or gdm etc.) (assuming that you're a stand-al

Re: IP forwarding

2000-08-07 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Stan Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I can make it work by doing the following by hand: > > > > # ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ > > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > > > But is there a neat way of making it happen automatically by putting > > something in /etc/network

Re: automatically turning off power and shutdown??

2000-08-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you must compile the kernel with APM support. i would reccomend against turning off a computer often, powering on a system gives quite a surge of power which can increase wear on the components, ive always kept my boxes on 24/7 since around 94. i also reccomend against disk spindowns but that is b

update-alternatives -- changing preferences

2000-08-07 Thread kmself
Can someone give me an example or two for how to change perferences under /etc/alternatives using update-alternatives? I've got several of the editor links (editor, vi, associated manpages) which point variously to nvi, ae, elvis, etc., on a box. I'd like them to point to vim as they should . Po

RE: Lock-ups

2000-08-07 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Please disreguard my earlier posting. A friend found this, I've implimented it, and it's working, WONDERFULLY! http://web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-kernel/1999-November/2155.html -- __

automatically turning off power and shutdown??

2000-08-07 Thread debuser
In Windows, when I shutdown the computer, it automatically turns off the power. I believe it's something in the BIOS that allows this as not all machines running Windows do this. Is there a way to make Linux do the same thing? I like listening to MP3's as I go to sleep and would like have it shut

Serial mouse

2000-08-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I got a basic potato running in a pentium 75, with a serial mouse. But it does not seem to work. I thought it would work right away, after enabling serial ports as module in the kernel, but it doesn't show to be alive. I have another potato running in a pentium II 400, with a ps-2 mouse, which work

Re: XF86Setup

2000-08-07 Thread Simon Law
Try apt-get install xf86setup Dale Morris wrote: > > I just did an ftp installation of 2.2.17 potato debian and I can't run the > XF86Setup program. It doesn't seem to be on my machine. I do have a working > XF86Config file that was generated by the installation script, but I would > sure like

Re: MS Intellepoint Optical (humour)

2000-08-07 Thread C. Falconer
At 08:34 AM 8/7/00 +0200, you wrote: On 7, aug, 2000 at 02:54:59 +1000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote: > Ethan Pierce wrote : > > > Has anyone had any luck getting this to work in debian? How bout > > all five buttons? > > Section "Pointer" > Protocol "IMPS/2" > Device"/dev/mouse" >

Re: Failed dependency: what to do?

2000-08-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:32:35PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I'm trying to install Win4Lin, but the install script comes back with... > > error: failed dependencies: >/bin/shis needed by Win4Lin-4.9.2k.eval-1 > > /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash, so why does this balk Win4Lin? I tried >

Re: route delete

2000-08-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi Peter! Hi Peter! :-) > > > Sure, just use apt-get. > > > > > > Detailed information can be found at > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/Release-Notes > > > > Hmmm. On the contrary, that file only mentions the old network script: > >

Re: ice window mgr & clock

2000-08-07 Thread Jens Luedicke
Hi there ... I'm using chronyd ... works well... On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:13:49 +0200 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ice window mgr & clock > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:01:55AM -0700

Re: vmware

2000-08-07 Thread Ashley Clark
* techlists in "vmware" dated 2000/08/07 11:47 wrote: > I downloaded the tar ball of Vmware, I'm running potato. I ran the > install script, and it ran fine until the config. It said that their > were no suitable modules, and it would have to compile them. I said > yes, but it couldn't find the

Re: route delete

2000-08-07 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Peter! On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Sure, just use apt-get. > > > > Detailed information can be found at > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/Release-Notes > > Hmmm. On the contrary, that file only mentions the old network script: > >

Re: route delete

2000-08-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Peter Palfrader wrote: > > BTW, is there a conversion tool to go from slink format to potato > > format? > > Sure, just use apt-get. > > Detailed information can be found at > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/Release-Notes Hmmm. On the contrary, that file only mentio

Re: How is leafnode's delaybody supposed to work?

2000-08-07 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:26:22PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > I'd like to proxy news in a LAN with a potato server and 2 Windows clients. > Both low and high traffic text groups will be read and some binary groups > scavenged :) > > The obvious choice for me was leafnode, BUT the standard

Lock-ups

2000-08-07 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey, Hello People, here's the situation: Digital Hinote CS450 DX2-50 laptop (specs from /proc below) running Woody. Boots well, runs very well, UNTIL I begin using the mouse. Then, suddenly, it locks all local input (e.g. mouse, keyboard, etc).

Re: lilo problem

2000-08-07 Thread staf
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm running libranet version of debian potato. It uses the 2.2.14 > kernel. I am having a problem with lilo. My hard disk is a 15 gig with > the following partitions > /=2500 megs > /usr=5000mgb > /home=2500mgb > /var=1250mgb > the rest of the disk is jus

Re: XF86Setup

2000-08-07 Thread staf
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > I just did an ftp installation of 2.2.17 potato debian and I can't run > the XF86Setup program. It doesn't seem to be on my machine. I do have a > working XF86Config file that was generated by the installation script, > but I would sure like to be able to

Re: gnus in GNU Emacs 20 in Potato does not start

2000-08-07 Thread Chris Baker
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo Debs! > > Because xemacs is a little bit big, I want to use GNU Emacs instead. > > Two days ago I dist-upgraded to potato with no problems, so I now run > emacs 20.7.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit) and gnus v5.8.3 > > Starting guns I g

Re: ice window mgr & clock

2000-08-07 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:01:55AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I have 2 questions, after the ftp install of potato, my taskbar clock > is 7 hours off, I must have selected something wrong in the initial > configuration setup. How do I change it and get it back? You can set your timezone with tzcon

Re: Failed dependency: what to do?

2000-08-07 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:32:35PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I'm trying to install Win4Lin, but the install script comes back with... > > error: failed dependencies: >/bin/shis needed by Win4Lin-4.9.2k.eval-1 > > /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash, so why does this balk Win4Lin? I tried > m

Re: soundcard

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
FWIW: My guy at the local computer store says the Vibra was an isapnp type and to 'stay away' from it > > Is there an easy way to tell if I have one of those? > > J. > > -- > Jeronimo Pellegrini > Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil > http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo > mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: soundcard

2000-08-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:11:54 + (UTC), Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > If you get a Soundblaster 16, I suggest making sure it is not the VibraX > variety. Apparently, this card will only work on Linux if you use the > commercial OSS drivers, and only half-duplex. If you see a SB16 at

Re: soundcard

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
So, would the soundblaster PCI 64 be the same as the Ensoniq card that retails for about $35 here in the US? On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:40:44PM +0100 83, David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > > > After banging my head on the keyboard for hours trying to i

Re: route delete

2000-08-07 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Peter! On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > BTW, is there a conversion tool to go from slink format to potato > format? Sure, just use apt-get. Detailed information can be found at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/Release-Notes HTH

Re: XF86Setup

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
Thanks for the reply, I used apt-get to install the vga-16 server and ran the setup program, it works pretty good now. On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:19:44AM -0700 81, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you need the package 'xf86setup' > > potato also seems to have a new X tool called

Re: Cable modem problems (hardware or software?)

2000-08-07 Thread jbardin
i would just use apt-get install dhcp-client also check out the dhcp client setup at http://home.cfl.rr.com/aawtrey/ he has laid out a nice howto.begin:vcard n:Bardin;Jon x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:www.gamesig.com -uniting the linux gaming com

RE: soundcard

2000-08-07 Thread Pollywog
On 07-Aug-2000 Dale Morris wrote: > After banging my head on the keyboard for hours trying to install my > yamaha oplsax isapnp sound card, I'm ready to give up and buy a pci > card. Any suggestions on what might be the easiest for a debian newbie > to install? I'm not interested in extremely high

Re: XF86Setup

2000-08-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you need the package 'xf86setup' potato also seems to have a new X tool called anXious, part of the xviddetect package, works pretty good provided it can detect your video card if it can't it exits. nate On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: dlm >I just did an ftp installation of 2.2.17 potato

Re: Linux client through MS Proxy Server 2.0

2000-08-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Doing NTLM authentication should be possible. I posit this since the samba team was able to figure out how to do it for their project. I once spent a little time looking at it but didn't get that far. If you're really determined you should probably drop some questions on one of the samba lists.

Re: Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-07 Thread Morten Liebach
On 7, aug, 2000 at 06:29:49 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > What about the compatibility between them *BSDs? I mean in terms of > packaging systems. Not so much AFAIK, binary packages is not compatible, the portstrees might be to some extent, but I have no experience in that area, and I don't th

soundcard

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
After banging my head on the keyboard for hours trying to install my yamaha oplsax isapnp sound card, I'm ready to give up and buy a pci card. Any suggestions on what might be the easiest for a debian newbie to install? I'm not interested in extremely high quality, would like to keep the price arou

Re: IP forwarding

2000-08-07 Thread Stan Kaufman
Nate Duehr wrote: > > Aw, bloody hell. Somehow I never noticed this and had been running my > own little script on the box that has an mgetty dial-in modem set up on > it so things would be happy. > > Now I have "yes" in there, and don't have to call that script at > boot... which of course, isn

vmware

2000-08-07 Thread techlists
I downloaded the tar ball of Vmware, I'm running potato. I ran the install script, and it ran fine until the config. It said that their were no suitable modules, and it would have to compile them. I said yes, but it couldn't find the correct directory for the C header files. What is the corre

Re: Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 18:29:49 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Where does Yggdrasil come from? Still around? No activity on their webpages since February 1998 (www.yggdrasil.com). > Such a weird name. The Tree of Life in Norse mythology, IIRC. Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world ma

Re: route delete

2000-08-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi elouafi! > > On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, elouafi bessem wrote: > > > I have a problem, I have a default route whene I delete it,the > > operation succeeded and the route disappears, but every time that > > I reboot the Pc it appears againe. how I can resolve this problem. >

Re: Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-07 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 06:15:42PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's > > (particularly) good about it? -> What particular things made you > > choose Slack? > > It was around and (IMO) better than Yggdrasil when I used it. :) Where

Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.

2000-08-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Richard Kaszeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gary Hennigan writes ("Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning."): > >There shouldn't be anything inherently wrong with a 70G > >partition. Linux limit for a partition size is somewhere in the TB > >range. I bet it'll make for some LONG fsck times t

Selective bouncing of e-mail, using Exim?

2000-08-07 Thread Adam Scriven
Ok, I've decided to stick with Exim for now (I know everyone was waiting to hear that). I've skimmed through the (vast) documentation, but I'm not sure if what I want to do is possible. I have my own domain, so all mail goes to my POP mail box (not the best setup, but it works, and since my c

Re: displaying binary files

2000-08-07 Thread cmosley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: test from newsgroup linux.debian.user U.K. NNTPSERVER 1

maildir & imap

2000-08-07 Thread Michael Meskes
I would like to install courier-imap on my server, so I can get some system in the way all the mails are stored. But I never used a maildir type mailbox before. However, I cannot find any sufficient docs. I know I have to configure procmail accordingly which was rather easy. Then I ran maildirmake.

Re: wordvie

2000-08-07 Thread Josep Llauradó Selvas
You can get the source code of any package configuring the apt-get sources.list file. Add a line like: deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib And then get it typing: # apt-get source msword Good Luck! Bipul Pal wrote: > I saw debian has an utility called wordview

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-07 Thread Cam Ellison
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 18:04:01 -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: >On Aug 06 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: >> One gripe: my particular instance of CorelOS was missing a lot of packages >> hackers are used to, both on the harddrive and the distro CD. E.g., I was >> HORRIFIED to learn that no flavor of emacs wa

Re: Failed dependency: what to do?

2000-08-07 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:32:35PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I'm trying to install Win4Lin, but the install script comes back with... > > error: failed dependencies: >/bin/shis needed by Win4Lin-4.9.2k.eval-1 i haven't tried Win4Lin, but i just read a message on the list about it: the fai

Re: D Beckers ethernet drivers

2000-08-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:53:50AM -0700, suresh kumar wrote: > For many new ethernet cards, the vendors are now > providing Beckers c code for drivers. But > unfortunately they wont just compile in a debian > distro but compiles well with the redhat distro. what errors do you get? moritz -

Re: no xdm on startup

2000-08-07 Thread Frodo Baggins
Noah L. Meyerhans scripsit: >On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, suresh kumar wrote: > >> How to configure a slink/potato so that xdm *DO NOT* >> start on bootup. I want them to start only on startx. > >'update-rc.d -f xdm remove' > This sould be on the FAQs :))) -- Leo TheHobbit ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK

Re: no xdm on startup

2000-08-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, suresh kumar wrote: > How to configure a slink/potato so that xdm *DO NOT* > start on bootup. I want them to start only on startx. 'update-rc.d -f xdm remove' HTH, noah ___ | Web: http:/

no xdm on startup

2000-08-07 Thread suresh kumar
HI, How to configure a slink/potato so that xdm *DO NOT* start on bootup. I want them to start only on startx. Any ideas? Suresh = Suresh Kumar.R Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering Trivandrum, INDIA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question (2)

2000-08-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- These are by no means irrelevant to sshd, even if it is not run from inetd. Read the man page for sshd, in which you'll see that it can be build with direct support for tcp_wrappers. If it is (I don't know what the configure options in the Debian build are, but

Re: delay in booting potato

2000-08-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:47:45AM -0700, suresh kumar wrote: > In one machine, while booting, it spends lot of time > while booting after printing the line > > ip spoofing protection this messages is printed by /etc/init.d/networking. try to find out, at which point it hangs. moritz

Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question (2)

2000-08-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:48:13PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > Hello world, > > I have a hosts_access problem. > > hosts.deny has the line > ALL:ALL > > This stops me logging in with ssh. The problem is that if I put a line in > hosts.allow like > sshd: my.ip.address > the rule does not

D Beckers ethernet drivers

2000-08-07 Thread suresh kumar
Hi, For many new ethernet cards, the vendors are now providing Beckers c code for drivers. But unfortunately they wont just compile in a debian distro but compiles well with the redhat distro. Has anyone compiled them on debian. Currently what I am doing is to compile it in redhat, get the .o int

hosts.allow/hosts.deny question (2)

2000-08-07 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hello world, I have a hosts_access problem. hosts.deny has the line ALL:ALL This stops me logging in with ssh. The problem is that if I put a line in hosts.allow like sshd: my.ip.address the rule does not match because sshd does not feature in inetd.conf. What have I missed? Lindsay --

Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread David Teague
Hi Simon, Charles, and all: I wish you had included the original poster's address so I could CC: him. We have used Debian since the 0.93 days for our servers in the department of computer science. We have a fairly large server (cs.wcu.edu) for mail, web service, and file service to both Lo

delay in booting potato

2000-08-07 Thread suresh kumar
Hi, I upgraded my slink to potato based on a earlier unstable version pulled out from net. In one machine, while booting, it spends lot of time while booting after printing the line ip spoofing protection and then it boots completely. I issued dmesg and I couldnot find anything wrong

Re: uninstalling staroffice

2000-08-07 Thread Johann Spies
> > How can I uninstall staroffice? it's taking too much space. > > Run "setup" in Staroffice's bin directory. It has an option for deinstallation. Johann. -- J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29, Posbus 80, Franschhoek, 7690, South Africa Tel/Faks 021-876-2337 Sel/Cell 082 898 1528(Johann) 082 255 23

Re: Can't get online

2000-08-07 Thread Allan Peak
It's still not working. When I tried pinging 216.32.74.50 it said something like 13 packets transmitted 0 packets received. --- Jeff Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should not set your nameserver to 192.168.1.1 > unless 192.168.1.2 > happens to be a nameserver on your network. Since > you

Re: wordvie

2000-08-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:05:48PM +0400, Bipul Pal wrote: > I saw debian has an utility called wordview which can open msword > document. I would like to know where can I get the source code for that > wordview. isn't there a source-deb? if not, search at http://www.freshmeat.net moritz

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