Re: Wvdial & pppd

2000-11-08 Thread Marco Presi
Hello :) Just A question: I always used wvdial with no problem, but I noted that many people (not only in this ml) depreciate it. Why? Security? On 8 Nov 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Eric G . Miller writes: > > Try using pppconfig (as root) to configure ppp, adding your normal user > > to the allo

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-08 Thread John
Ok ill have a go, I think its something like this :) ? for each IP number bound to each NIC a route is set up in the routing table to tell the OS what to do with specific IP numbers ie if NIC1=192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 and NIC2=192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 then routes would be set up for each su

Re: file too large to delete

2000-11-08 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
would "cp mybigfile /dev/null" work also? On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:59:36AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:26:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > >

desktop power managment

2000-11-08 Thread David Yeh
I have a cheap MyFavoritePC celeron 400 with added ram and hard disk space. It works pretty well and fast with Linux. One thing I haven't been able to get it to do is shutdown the computer and power it off. I tried both kernel options for power down, both real mode, and real mode disabled. I've

Re: file too large to delete

2000-11-08 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:26:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have done something really stupid. > > I wanted to test the 'record avi' funtion of xawtv and when I realized > > that

Re: Wvdial & pppd

2000-11-08 Thread John Hasler
Eric G . Miller writes: > Try using pppconfig (as root) to configure ppp, adding your normal user > to the allowed users (i.e. `adduser dip` ). You can do that in pppconfig. Go to 'Advanced Options' and select 'Add-User'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

RE: C strstr function returns int or char *?

2000-11-08 Thread Kenrick, Chris
Title: RE: C strstr function returns int or char *? >>While compiling: >>char *a = strstr("hello", "ccache="); >> >>Warning: >> >>pam_krb5_auth.c:287: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast >> >>So, why is an integer expected?? On my machine here... [EMAIL

Re: file too large to delete

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have done something really stupid. > I wanted to test the 'record avi' funtion of xawtv and when I realized > that it was still recording, there was a 6GB file. > xawtv crashed and ls and rm are als

Getting > than 4 serial ports working

2000-11-08 Thread John Anderson
I've just added two more serial ports into my computer (for a total of six). I added support into the kernel for > than 4 serial ports. I added more ports with the MAKEDEV command, but I get the following message when I try to access the 5th or 6th port: kerr:~# statserial /dev/ttyS4 statserial:

Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread jake
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > I have encountered a program called 'linuxconfig' > > Surely ou mean "linuxconf"? > My advice: dump it. > I've used Unix systems since 1987, GNU/Linux since 1997, and Debian for > just over a year. My first experience with anything *ni

Re: still no X

2000-11-08 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:53:46PM -0500, Jacob I. Stowell wrote: > Hi again, > > Today I moved /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 and I apt-get --reinstall all of > the packages associated with X 4.0.1. However, I still received the > error cannot open fonts (the one I posted yesterday). I was so hopeful

Re: Wvdial & pppd

2000-11-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:42:36PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > Hi Folks; > Have read all the manual on this that I could find and > looked at the archives on Debian.org with no luck. > So here goes! Haves set up wvdial with all the info as > requested. Can get wvdial to contact my ISP and the

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-08 Thread Casey Henderson
Thanks to everyone who replied. I did a 'find / -name dexter' on my hard drive and it didn't find anything, which I thought was very strange. I thought the upgrade would have downloaded all the necessary packages for X, but apparently not. I'll try all the suggestions and let you know how it goe

Re: newbiedoc.intranets.com

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:50:53AM +, Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 09-Nov-2000 Chris Gray wrote: > > That's interesting, because I believe that junkbuster defaults to > > reporting that I'm using Mac Netscape as well. I'll try it without > > junkbuster and see if I get any diffe

file too large to delete

2000-11-08 Thread Florian Friesdorf
Hi, I have done something really stupid. I wanted to test the 'record avi' funtion of xawtv and when I realized that it was still recording, there was a 6GB file. xawtv crashed and ls and rm are also crashing and the file is still there. help appreciated regards florian -- Florian Friesd

Re: newbiedoc at intranets.com -- bad dog?

2000-11-08 Thread Chris Gray
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 03:18:20PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > and here everything seemed to be perfect... until... > > fooey. intranets.com is windo~1-based and relies heavily > on cookies and javascript. if enough of you have trouble > getting in, we'll have to look for another venue; but > ri

Re: newbiedoc.intranets.com

2000-11-08 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Nov-2000 Chris Gray wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:50:53AM +, Pollywog wrote: >> >> On 09-Nov-2000 Chris Gray wrote: >> > That's interesting, because I believe that junkbuster defaults to >> > reporting that I'm using Mac Netscape as well. I'll try it without >> > junkbuster and s

RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-08 Thread Marc Wilson
Here's a question for you... which package owns /usr/bin/rcpinfo on your box? A Woody install of mine doesn't have it, despite having netkit-inetd installed. Now, inetd's init, installed from this package, depends on that executable, but there's no dependency to ensure that it gets installed. Yo

Re: C strstr function returns int or char *?

2000-11-08 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:54:40PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >From the info page: > > Function: char * strstr (const char *HAYSTACK, const char *NEEDLE) > > > >From /usr/include/string.h: > > extern char *strstr __P ((__const char *__haystack, __const char *__needle)); > > > While compiling:

Re: newbiedoc.intranets.com

2000-11-08 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:50:53AM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On 09-Nov-2000 Chris Gray wrote: > > That's interesting, because I believe that junkbuster defaults to > > reporting that I'm using Mac Netscape as well. I'll try it without > > junkbuster and see if I get any difference. Why can't pe

Re: C strstr function returns int or char *?

2000-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >While compiling: > >char *a = strstr("hello", "ccache="); > > >Warning: > >pam_krb5_auth.c:287: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer >without a cast > > >So, why is an integer expected?? You have said '#include ', haven't you? (Without a prot

Re: C strstr function returns int or char *?

2000-11-08 Thread Erik Steffl
you are probably missing the prototype, if there is no prototype for a function, it defaults to an integer returning function. you might be missing the #include line or for some reason the __P is defined not to put prototype in its place (it depends on compiler options). generally you'll g

Re: C strstr function returns int or char *?

2000-11-08 Thread Damien
> While compiling: > > char *a = strstr("hello", "ccache="); > > > Warning: > > pam_krb5_auth.c:287: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer > without a cast the compiler assumes an int unless you tell it otherwise. make sure you include in the top of the file. cheers -- Damie

Q: Compiled kernel ok-Rename it etiquette?

2000-11-08 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've just successfully compiled my kernel and if you actually read instructions and have the right tools it's a strong feeling of satisfaction. My question is what to do with the bzImage file or kernel. I moved it to boot as it is and ran a link to it and that listed in lilo. But what's the et

Q: Sound in/Alsaconf done: Linux 1 Human 0

2000-11-08 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Well, I've compiled in the sound module, OSS and SB16 for my SB16PnP card and ran update modules. Yet nothing is in /etc/modules except my vfat and I see on my boot sceen no sb being loaded. What's up? Also it is related to the fact that three cd players I have used don't 'see' my cdrom drive

Re: Package hold during upgrade

2000-11-08 Thread Gregory T. Norris
The all-in-one command line version: dpkg --get-selections PACKAGE-LIST | \ sed -e 's/install$/hold/' | dpkg --set-selections Alternately , you could tag each package individually under dselect, using the 'H' or '=' keys. The exact package name matches the debfile up to the first un

Wvdial & pppd

2000-11-08 Thread Clayton Stapleton
Hi Folks; Have read all the manual on this that I could find and looked at the archives on Debian.org with no luck. So here goes! Haves set up wvdial with all the info as requested. Can get wvdial to contact my ISP and then pppd dies and it tells me to look in /var/log for any error messages. Ther

Re: newbiedoc.intranets.com

2000-11-08 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Nov-2000 Chris Gray wrote: > That's interesting, because I believe that junkbuster defaults to > reporting that I'm using Mac Netscape as well. I'll try it without > junkbuster and see if I get any difference. Why can't people just write > good HTML like they used to? :) Anyway, I'll take

C strstr function returns int or char *?

2000-11-08 Thread Brian May
>From the info page: Function: char * strstr (const char *HAYSTACK, const char *NEEDLE) >From /usr/include/string.h: extern char *strstr __P ((__const char *__haystack, __const char *__needle)); While compiling: char *a = strstr("hello", "ccache="); Warning: pam_krb5_auth.c:287: warning:

Re: newbiedoc.intranets.com

2000-11-08 Thread Chris Gray
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:43:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:28:12PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > There seems to be something very wrong with the way the registration > > page renders in my netscape. I'll scroll down and the remnants don't > > become erased. It look

Re: X11 Clock for different time zones?

2000-11-08 Thread Erik Steffl
worldclock? erik "Michael A. Miller" wrote: > > Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the > time and and a user specified time zone? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

sound

2000-11-08 Thread Joseph Holland King
since i have installed debian i have been without sound. my cdrom can read cd's when loaded so i know that is working. and i can use tcd to play a cd, however i get no sound. when i was using redhat i had at least cd output without having my soundcard supported. what can i do to get sound, even if

Re: RE: question about my 2.4 test10 kernel

2000-11-08 Thread oacl
thanx for ur help.i installed all the new version tools that new kernel needs, my modules run good now,but i still met a problem with ppp,while i dialded to my isp,the line broke.output a error string seems like i have no the tty-x modules, but my old kernel's ppp network runs well,is it sti

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-08 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 03:49:29PM +, sena wrote: > Hi... > > Just to ask you a question: is there a way to specify which users may start > the X window system? The Xserver file in /etc/X11 allows you to limit the > access to X only to users on the Console, but is there a way of doing this > o

Re: Fetchmail, Procmail and multiple Email accounts

2000-11-08 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:06:13PM -0500, Jim Lisi wrote: > Note: Please CC me, I am having problems with the email addrs subsribed > to the list > > I am trying to setup fetchmail and procmail so that I can get mail from > two email accounts > and diliver that to my debian box into to subfolders

Re: apt download security?

2000-11-08 Thread csj
But doesn't Package.gz contain the md5sum of all the .debs under the directory it's in? I see a line in Package.gz (after decompressing) that reads something like: MD5sum: 7513d28d6ddde80706727944e9732c2c Doesn't apt-get check this line before installing stuff? On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, Bruce Richard

keyboard lock at boot

2000-11-08 Thread JDK
I've just installed Debian 2.2. I than added another boot selection to go to windows. I ran lilo to write the new info to MBR. Now whenever I reboot and get to the LILO prompt, the keyboard won't respond to any input from the keyboard. It boots on into linux just fine and the keyboard acts norm

Re: netscape problem

2000-11-08 Thread Mike
Gnanasekaran Thoppae wrote: > hi list, > > i installed potato on my new machine and apt-get installed > netscape 4.75 but the toolbars and icons are greyed out. > i could not see the colored icons. But the browser works fine. > I could see sites in full color. I have ATI Rage Pro card with > 32M

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-08 Thread Erik Steffl
go to www.debian.org, click on Packages and use the search on the very bottom of the page. it searches for files in whole debian distro, shows you were the files are. I've seen the other responses already gave you specific package name but this might help you anyway (in future) erik

Re: Fetchmail, Procmail and multiple Email accounts

2000-11-08 Thread Glyn Millington
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:06:13PM -0500, thus spake Jim Lisi: > Note: Please CC me, I am having problems with the email addrs subsribed > to the list > > I am trying to setup fetchmail and procmail so that I can get mail from > two email accounts > and diliver that to my debian box into to subfol

RE: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-08 Thread Kenrick, Chris
Title: RE: Question and goodbye... >Just another thing... I'm unsubscribing debian-user.. The traffic is too >much for me to be able to read any of it... I'm thinking of subscribing the >digest version of the list.. Is it any good??? I think it depends on how you use the list.  I personally

Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread Mike
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Other than that, is linuxconfig a 'good thing', or does it have security > problems associated with it that one ought to know about? Are you referring to linuxconf? If so, I've nothing good to say about it. I once made the mistake of trying linuxconf. I then neede

Re: FIREWALL

2000-11-08 Thread Moritz Schulte
dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but i wasn wondering who to set up gnu/linux debian to be a firewlal > and IP router like the Cybermax suite is. I don't know Cybermax, but there are many good howtos on this subject. If you don't have the howtos already installed, search a bit at http://www.lin

Re: keyboard configuration

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:39:21PM -0500, urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:25:09AM -0500, urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > btw, here are the exact error messages from the x shutdown: > > > > > > /u

RE: eGroups.com/group/newbieDoc <- we moved!

2000-11-08 Thread Brett Singer
just checked out the doc again - VERY helpful :-). one thing, though - on my machine, apt-setup doesn't work. nor does apt-get setup. any thoughts? -Original Message- From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 6:10 PM To: Kent West; [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: eGroups.com/group/newbieDoc <- we moved!

2000-11-08 Thread Brett Singer
okay, last email off of this message (sorry) - from the egroups site: You cannot post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] what's up? -Original Message- From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 6:10 PM To: Kent West; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: inserting one postscript file into another

2000-11-08 Thread Brian May
> "Rogerio" == Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rogerio> On Nov 09 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: >> Could someone give me some hints? I looked the man page for >> psselect and psmerge and still cannot figure it out. Rogerio>Theoretically, it would be possible if psmerge

OT: change location of kernel modules

2000-11-08 Thread Hubert Chan
Is there some way to change the location of the kernel modules? I tried moving them to another directory, and then creating a symlink, but that didn't seem to work. i.e. I copied /lib/modules to /boot/modules, and then symlinked /boot/modules to /lib/modules. But on reboot, it complained about no

netscape problem

2000-11-08 Thread Gnanasekaran Thoppae
hi list, i installed potato on my new machine and apt-get installed netscape 4.75 but the toolbars and icons are greyed out. i could not see the colored icons. But the browser works fine. I could see sites in full color. I have ATI Rage Pro card with 32MB. What could be the problem? Is it somet

FIREWALL

2000-11-08 Thread dude
We are currently using cybermax firewall suite to provide us witha way to hook up multiple cmptuer to share a cable modem, but i wasn wondering who to set up gnu/linux debian to be a firewlal and IP router like the Cybermax suite is. thanks

Re: Installing kernel sources on alternative partition problem

2000-11-08 Thread Hubert Chan
Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there, > > I have a slightly obscure problem recompiling my potato > kernel-source-2.2.17 on a P100 laptop. > > I have a disk space problem and therefore tried to unpack the kernel > sources on my other partition, which is a now redundant vfat part

RE: eGroups.com/group/newbieDoc <- we moved!

2000-11-08 Thread Brett Singer
hi all, one question about eGroups - do they let you post "documents" the way intranets.com does? it would great to (eventually) have a list of ready-made docs that one (such as myself) could troll through. -Original Message- From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

eGroups.com/group/newbieDoc <- we moved!

2000-11-08 Thread will trillich
Kent West wrote: > > will trillich originally wrote something like this: > > [ EGROUPS.COM/group/newbiedoc was founded way back at 5pm, > > as a gathering point for VOLUNTEERS who want to pass on > > what they've learned to next week's newbies. probably > > some duplication of effort, but effort i

Re: keyboard configuration

2000-11-08 Thread urbanyon
thanks for the help - one more question - what lines should be in sources.list? not finding gmc or enlightenment, so i imagine i need more than the one line that's in there: deb file:/cdrom stable main contrib On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:25:09A

Re: Supported hardware for debian

2000-11-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Jostein Ågedal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yea, this is probably the right way to go :) I'm totally new to > Linux at the moment, spent several hours to choose debian as a > distro. So many choices... > > Actionally I have found some pages with Hardware compatibility for > the newest red hat, m

Re: Corrupt fonts in X4

2000-11-08 Thread Hubert Chan
"Collin Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian upgraded X without my desire to do so but after a few struggles I have > it all working.  Only problem so far is that it seems some fonts are > corrupt/missing and I have no idea how to find out which ones.  This > screenshot ( http://www3.telus

Re: audio in

2000-11-08 Thread csj
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, Debian Ghost wrote: > Hey Guys, > Is there a program that will capture audio in? I want to record some sound > bytes. > > Thanks, > > D. Ghost! No bloat no nonsense software: wavrec. See the output below. You might have to compile the program yourself tho. Not hard. The firs

Fetchmail, Procmail and multiple Email accounts

2000-11-08 Thread Jim Lisi
Note: Please CC me, I am having problems with the email addrs subsribed to the list I am trying to setup fetchmail and procmail so that I can get mail from two email accounts and diliver that to my debian box into to subfolders under ~/Mail. exp. fetchmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing kernel sources on alternative partition problem

2000-11-08 Thread Kieren Diment
Hi there, I have a slightly obscure problem recompiling my potato kernel-source-2.2.17 on a P100 laptop. I have a disk space problem and therefore tried to unpack the kernel sources on my other partition, which is a now redundant vfat partition that had win 95 on it. When I extract the tarbal

X11 Clock for different time zones?

2000-11-08 Thread Michael A. Miller
Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the time and and a user specified time zone?

Re: Supported hardware for debian

2000-11-08 Thread Jostein Ågedal
Yea, this is probably the right way to go :) I'm totally new to Linux at the moment, spent several hours to choose debian as a distro. So many choices... Actionally I have found some pages with Hardware compatibility for the newest red hat, mandrake++ Will it be at least 99% sure that if the ha

still no X

2000-11-08 Thread Jacob I. Stowell
Hi again, Today I moved /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 and I apt-get --reinstall all of the packages associated with X 4.0.1. However, I still received the error cannot open fonts (the one I posted yesterday). I was so hopeful when I updated this afternoon and all of the packages had been updated. eve

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-08 Thread Damien
> Just another thing... I'm unsubscribing debian-user.. The traffic is too > much for me to be able to read any of it... I'm thinking of subscribing the > digest version of the list.. Is it any good??? it's the same traffic, just all lumped into one big mail. the traffic isn't that hard to deal wi

Re: Q: Default bpp resolution 32 in Linux?

2000-11-08 Thread wulfie
AFAIK 24bpp is also referred to as "packed pixel" - 32 & 24bpp give the same amount of colours (16.7 million)but with 24bpp the colour info is compressed. Some hardware can't handle the 24bpp and must use 32bpp. == Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Spire

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-08 Thread wulfie
have you defined a global http proxy (squid or wwwoffle, for instance) - I have had some funnies with this. Check the result of "export". == Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group www.spirelug.org.uk ==

Re: mysql-perl modules

2000-11-08 Thread Damien
> apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl or better yet, teach them how to find it themselves. apt-cache search mysql | grep perl should do the trick cheers -- Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'together alone' pgpGoI8nZ3Z0M.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: FW: Priv: Annual meeting of women drivers

2000-11-08 Thread Damien
> another one for the killfile! *grin* taking the time to actually tell them they're being ignored i liken to someone sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling 'i'm not listening!' why waste your time? cheer -- Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'together alone'

Re: Supported hardware for debian

2000-11-08 Thread Jostein Ågedal
Thank you, its a good start, but unfortunately this document is over 1 year old. I was hoping for something more up-to-date. Guess I just keep on looking. :-) Jos - Original Message - From: "Leen Besselink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jostein Ågedal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednes

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-08 Thread Hubert Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) writes: > Hi all, > I just upgraded to XFree version 4.0.1. I am trying to configure X > to work with my hardware and I'm not having much luck. I have read > lots of posts about using the dexter program, but I don't have this > program on my computer. I sea

Re: Supported hardware for debian

2000-11-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Jostein Ågedal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am preparing to buy a new machine to run debian linux 2.2. As Im > buying it solely for linux, I would like any good advices on what > sort of hardware would be recommended for debian Linux. Maybe any > of you have some good links or personal experie

why no DRI for G400 in X4 (was: Re: why no DRI for G200 in X4)

2000-11-08 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
> i'm not entirely sure if this is a g200 local problem - but DRI works fine on > my g400. the error message says drmOpen failed. Is there anything else that can cause DRI to fail? I don't see any error messages in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. drm/DRI seem to install fine, but then inside the X sessi

Re: Supported hardware for debian

2000-11-08 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-1] Jostein ?gedal wrote: > I am preparing to buy a new machine to run debian linux 2.2. As Im > buying it solely for linux, I would like any good advices on what sort > of hardware would be recommended for debian Linux. > Maybe any of you have some good links or perso

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-08 Thread eric k . wolven
Casey: It's in xutils (I believe). Make sure you down-loaded task-x-window-core. I found I had to remove xf86setup and my previous xserver for 4.01 to work correctly. Eric Wolven On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:06:35 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) wrote: > Hi all, > I just upgraded to X

Dexter?

2000-11-08 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi all, I just upgraded to XFree version 4.0.1. I am trying to configure X to work with my hardware and I'm not having much luck. I have read lots of posts about using the dexter program, but I don't have this program on my computer. I searched the entire hard drive and it's not there. Does a

Supported hardware for debian

2000-11-08 Thread Jostein Ågedal
Greetings, I am preparing to buy a new machine to run debian linux 2.2. As Im buying it solely for linux, I would like any good advices on what sort of hardware would be recommended for debian Linux. Maybe any of you have some good links or personal experience on this? Thanks in advance Jos

Re: mutt

2000-11-08 Thread Jim Foltz
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:21:08AM -, John-Mark wrote: > I have just installed mutt on my system but cant see how to configure it any > help much appreciated > jm If you can stomach it, you can press F1 and get help. Mutt uses ~/.muttrc for configuraion. -- j f o l t z 1 @ n e o . r r .

Re: inserting one postscript file into another

2000-11-08 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 09 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Could someone give me some hints? I looked the man page for psselect > and psmerge and still cannot figure it out. Theoretically, it would be possible if psmerge worked correctly (I unfortunately haven't got it to work as I'd like).

Re: Petition for help: console pdf viewing

2000-11-08 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > There are some pdfto... utilities which can be used to extract text from > PDFs, if that suites your needs. In some cases, text locking This wasn't really what I'm looking for, since the pdf's in question have images. I really would want to see t

Re: already-posted mini HOWTO/FAQ/INTRO's

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:24:25PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > through the past coupla weeks, we've seen some mini-howto's > and quick-intro's fly by on this list... > > would the respective FAQ authors be likely to object if we > made them available at http://newbiedoc.intr

Re: Strange message on ps -a

2000-11-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Strange message on ps -a Date: Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:50:27PM +0100 In reply to:Johannes Jörg Quoting Johannes Jörg([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I /*did/* reboot, and this thing did not happen the first few time. Any > other ideas > > joerg > > > You've compiled a new ke

(Kein Betreff)

2000-11-08 Thread deben
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newbiedoc at intranets.com -- bad dog?

2000-11-08 Thread will trillich
and here everything seemed to be perfect... until... fooey. intranets.com is windo~1-based and relies heavily on cookies and javascript. if enough of you have trouble getting in, we'll have to look for another venue; but right now, we've got ten volunteers so far (excluding me). so the success rat

XFree 4.0 .deb from woody on a potato system???

2000-11-08 Thread David Teague
Joey Hess wrote in the Debian Weekly News for November 07th, 2000: > XFree86 4.0.1 has [1]entered unstable. [snip] > The result is a surprisingly polished upgrade (by unstable's > standards anyway -- [2] many problems are still being encountered). In short, my question is Can I use the XFree

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: >"make bzImage" helped to create arch/i386/boot/bzImage as you stated. >I used before make zImage which in fact had put the file in >arch/i386/boot/compressed/. So the size of about 0.6MB is valid. I was >just wondering because the 2.0.38 kernel I rec

inserting one postscript file into another

2000-11-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have 2 postscript files. One has pages 1-100 and the other one has pages 1-20.

Re: D-Link Again!

2000-11-08 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi i did compile the module you hav sent me. but it didn't work, anyway. then i did something not logical. in /etc/modules.conf is a line like: options via-rhine irq=9 and in /etc/modutils/via-rhine: options via-rhine irq=9 i commented out both and then the card worked!! i was very surprised about

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128

2000-11-08 Thread Marco Herrn
Johannes Jörg wrote: >add your username > to the group "audio" ([EMAIL PROTECTED] addgroup your_username audio) > Hope this helps Phil Brutsche wrote: >Everything seems to be in order - is sound still not working? After adding my account to the audio group, everything works. Many thanks for that

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
>> The last days I've read some messages that I should use the es1370 or >> es1371 >> driver for that card. lsmod identified my card as es1371 so I've loaded lsmod shows you what drivers you have got loaded - it doesn't identify hardware. I have succesfully used es1371 with an SB PCI 128. >> this

Re: Archive/kernel problems

2000-11-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:13:43AM +1100, Kaleb Daark wrote: > After downloading kernel-source-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1.deb (for the third I just tried it, downloading seems okee, but diffing it to an older download gives an error in char 313705, line 1282. So it seems it has been replaced lately with

Can't login via xdm

2000-11-08 Thread Karl Philipp
Hi, I updated several packages regarding to X Windows, enlightenment and GNOME. Now, I can't login via xdm. You can read in the file ~/.xsession-errors Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xrdb: Can't open display ':0' ... Xlib: conne

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-08 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote: > make clean > make oldconfig dep bzImage > > and bzImage is in arch/i386/boot/bzImage. > > How exactly did you try to build your kernel? Did you get any error > message? > > The kernel build process has nothing to do with Debian or any other > distribution. It j

already-posted mini HOWTO/FAQ/INTRO's

2000-11-08 Thread will trillich
through the past coupla weeks, we've seen some mini-howto's and quick-intro's fly by on this list... would the respective FAQ authors be likely to object if we made them available at http://newbiedoc.intranets.com/ ? must better if you post them there yourselves. we've got 25megs to play with...

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-08 Thread Erik Steffl
sena wrote: > > I heard that Dan Hutchinson wrote this on 08/11/00: > > > You can add your user that need access to startx to a group, GUI for > > example. Then chgrp of startx to that group and chmod of the everyone > > to null. This is a quick and dirt way, others on this list may give > > yo

Re: Petition for help: console pdf viewing

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:34:33PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > As I stated to this list before, I'm experiencing some problems viewing > .pdf files in console mode. I'm trying to do this with fbi (in it's man > page is stated this is possible through the hel

Re: New to debian, q about pkgs "on hold"

2000-11-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
Most likely the packages in questions have dependencies which did not previously exist. 'apt-get upgrade' will not install them, but if you instead use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' you will get the held packages plus any required dependencies (assuming that the dependencies are available). On Wed, Nov

Re: Strange message on ps -a

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:50:27PM +0100, Johannes Jörg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At 09:09 AM 11/8/00 +0100, you wrote: > > >The following message appears each time I make "ps" or "ps -a": > > > > > >{floppy_open} {scsi_init_free} > > >Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel d

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:49:22AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:14:41AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:21:12PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > --+ Anyhow. I would like some user help.

Digest (was Re: Question and goodbye...)

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 03:49:29PM +, sena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi... > > Just another thing... I'm unsubscribing debian-user.. The traffic is too > much for me to be able to read any of it... I'm thinking of subscribing the > digest version of the list.. Is it any good??? It's the sa

Petition for help: console pdf viewing

2000-11-08 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, As I stated to this list before, I'm experiencing some problems viewing .pdf files in console mode. I'm trying to do this with fbi (in it's man page is stated this is possible through the help of convert). Unfortunately, this doesn't work. So my question is: could someone try to view a pdf fi

Problem using gprof

2000-11-08 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hello, I am trying to profile an app I am writing using gprof. The app uses the Gnome/GTK+ libs as well as the pthreads lib. I have attached a section of the output - it doesn't seem correct. A simple initialisation function is reported to take 50% of the time whereas a complex function that is

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