ISA SCSI card in Python

2000-11-23 Thread Terry Hancock
I have an Adaptec 1502 SCSI card which is of the pre-PnP ISA jumpered variety. Refreshingly, it is documented on the silkscreen, so I know it's set up for I/O=140h and IRQ=9. But, in installing Debian 2.2, I didn't see where you can give it this information. It seems like there should be a driver

Re: Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-23 Thread Jens Gecius
"Sean Norris,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello All, > > I have been trying to set up a small local network with a linux box as a > gateway and my wife's win98 > laptop. > > I am running potato with a fresh 2.2.17 kernel from kernel.org. Currently, a > D-link DE-530TX is working > well w

Re: exim & mutt

2000-11-23 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 11/24/00 00:36:47 -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote: > Hello, > > I have a dial-up machine and want to properly configure it to send mail > using exim (mutt uses it). I receive my POP messages normally with it > (and other mail clients), but I don't know how can I properly configure > exim, specially

how to access image file without floppy

2000-11-23 Thread a
My floppy drive does not work. Can I read files in image file such as resc1440.bin?

Re: Preserving config across updates

2000-11-23 Thread David Z Maze
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> There are a few things which seem to reset themselves to defaults when DS> upgraded without offering an option to keep the old config: DS> DS> - Eterm resets all of its 'system' (i.e., the ones in DS> /usr/share/Eterm/themes) themes back to the defaul

Re: Adding users

2000-11-23 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 23 November 2000 22:00, Jeff Daniels wrote: > I need to be able to add user accounts. Is there a simple way of > doing this from the command line. Apropos is your friend. apropos user | grep add -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html All thing

Re: Adding users

2000-11-23 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Jeff Daniels wrote: > I need to be able to add user accounts. Is there a simple way of doing this > from the command line. Try using the adduser command. Or the useradd command. Hint: guessing command names can often be useful. Not all unix commands have names as cryptic a

Adding users

2000-11-23 Thread Jeff Daniels
I need to be able to add user accounts. Is there a simple way of doing this from the command line. Thanks in Advance Jeff D

Re: gnome-name-service

2000-11-23 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:55:45PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > "Kevin" == Kevin C Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kevin> Issue: Every web browser I use will lock up X hard and > Kevin> requires hitting reset. They lock up not all the time, but > Kevin> enough to be annoying

Re: /etc/mailname ?

2000-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I see there's a file /etc/mailname in my woody box which doesn't seem >to belong to any package: It's supposed to be created by whatever package happens to need it first: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch5.html#s5.6 >But it is read by re

/etc/mailname ?

2000-11-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I see there's a file /etc/mailname in my woody box which doesn't seem to belong to any package: socrates:/home/jeronimo# dlocate mailname socrates:/home/jeronimo# But it is read by reportbug, for example, tto find my e-mail address. Indeed, I've filed a bug report recently and the addre

2.4.0-test11 and XFree4 problem

2000-11-23 Thread Maitland Bottoms
> "scott" == scott worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: scott> Does anyone have any ideas on further debug I can do? Hope this helps: I had trouble when moving to xserver-xfree86 4.0.1 and installing a new G400 card - I think because I had utah-glx installed. Now that I have removed utah-g

re: setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-23 Thread Sean Norris,,,
Still no luck, Leen Besselink wrote: a good idea could be is make a modules alias for each card (I think it goes in /etc/modutils/aliases): alias eth0 de4x5 alias eth1 3c59x or whatever you need. This could also help... (then just do: modprobe -v eth0 modprobe -v eth1 ) Hope this helps,

exim & mutt

2000-11-23 Thread Carlos Laviola
Hello, I have a dial-up machine and want to properly configure it to send mail using exim (mutt uses it). I receive my POP messages normally with it (and other mail clients), but I don't know how can I properly configure exim, specially to handle the fact that my machine's hostname is dynamic (it

Re: xserver-xfree86 4.0.1-6 upgrade

2000-11-23 Thread Raja R Harinath
Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Solution to the xserver-xfree86 install problem: > > In the install script /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.postinst line > 60 must be corrected from > > ln -sf /etc/X11/X "$this_server" (MISTAKE!) > > to > > ln -sf "$this_server" /etc/

Re: I want out!

2000-11-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: I want out! Date: Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:56:46AM -0500 In reply to:Andrew Dwight Dixon Quoting Andrew Dwight Dixon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ktb wrote: > > > > > > > I've been on and off this list for a couple years. I just started using > > Debian again after about a

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'm working on it. Just recompiled my kernel the other day to support > firewalling but haven't had time to work on the iptables and other > configuration issues. I find it easier to confi

Re: gnome-name-service

2000-11-23 Thread Chris Gray
> "Kevin" == Kevin C Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> Issue: Every web browser I use will lock up X hard and Kevin> requires hitting reset. They lock up not all the time, but Kevin> enough to be annoying. I may have stumbled into the Kevin> problem, but not certain. So

Re: simple network card setup (netgear 10/100 tulip)

2000-11-23 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
HI Jeff, I've got the same card and for me it worked right out of the box. I guess that doesn't help, but: If you think the CD you have is bad look at the checksums (md5sum I think). Try a clean install and don't do anything to the modules when prompted (I left them alone and it worked). There

2.4.0-test11 and XFree4 problem

2000-11-23 Thread scott worley
Hi, I've got the latest XFree4 woody packages installed and it works great with the default 2.2.17 kernel. I decided to try out the 2.4.0-test11 kernel and built it with agpgart and matrox support. Using G400 32MB. When I execute startx, the monitor mode is switched but the screen stays blac

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #639

2000-11-23 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:52:38 +0100 > From: Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User-Mailinglist > Subject: configure the date > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > > I have to set the time but I didn't get it,

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
"Robert A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Timmy Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [231100 17:08]: > > > > > I'm using *basically* the same configuration (MTA: exim, MDA: procmail, > > > MUA: > > > mutt POP3-GET-MY-MAIL-WHEN-I-NEED-IT-APP-:] : fetchmail). Maybe I can > > > help? > > > > i w

Re: XFree

2000-11-23 Thread Carlos E. Pruitt, Jr.
Dude, I am not sure which driver for the Viper 770. Take a look at the below thread(s) and see if it is of any help. http://lists.surfsouth.com/archive/linux-nvidia/msg00732.html carlos >>dude wrote: > > So I have a DIamond Viper 770 > > what driver li

X4 DRI works on my G400!??

2000-11-23 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, After help from various people DRI is now working on my Debian Woody 440BX/ZX Celeron SMP box with MGA G400 DH 32MB no max, SB live using alsa and kernel-2.4.0-test11. Thank you all, especially for the hints about processor type entry in the kernel configuration and the need for interrupt

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Timmy Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [231100 17:08]: > > > I'm using *basically* the same configuration (MTA: exim, MDA: procmail, MUA: > > mutt POP3-GET-MY-MAIL-WHEN-I-NEED-IT-APP-:] : fetchmail). Maybe I can help? > > i would use iptables to block port 25 from all but localhost, > @home almost

Re: help news

2000-11-23 Thread Russ Cook
Ok. Running rnews leaves me with a large batch file in /var/spool/news/in.coming, but nothing in the various /var/spool/news/ directories. How do I get the batch file processed by localhost and posted to the appropriate subdirectories? Thanks a lot for the help so far. Regards, Russ On

Woody and Reiserfs

2000-11-23 Thread Max Reiss
Has anybody ever installed woody on a reiserfs? How, is somebody working on some 2.4-test kernel + reiserfs bootdisk (installdisk?) Max

Re: Broken gmc

2000-11-23 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Yes, this same thing happens to me with any new users I create. It doesn't happen to me in my profile ever though so there must be something in the default config files created for new users. This is not a problem of mixed packages with Helix because I've never installed anything from Helix. I

Working!!

2000-11-23 Thread Håkan
Thanks!!! Working. /Håkan Robert Waldner wrote: > unzip is in non-free. to use non-free packages you have to have a > non-free source in your /etc/apt/sources.list like >deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main \ >contrib non-free > > then run ´apt-get update; apt-g

Re: Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-23 Thread Sean Norris,,,
Thanks for the really quick replies. Bud Rogers wrote: > > > You probably need to add "static" to that line. And you will need to > add at least address and netmask entries for that interface. Man > interfaces for details. > > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.1.1 > netmask 255.255.255.

Re: Tried apt-get install unzip without sucess!

2000-11-23 Thread Robert Waldner
unzip is in non-free. to use non-free packages you have to have a non-free source in your /etc/apt/sources.list like deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main \ contrib non-free then run ´apt-get update; apt-get install unzip" hth, &rw On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 00:06:45 +01

Re: XFree

2000-11-23 Thread dude
So I have a DIamond Viper 770 what driver line do you think i should use? On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Carlos E. Pruitt, Jr. wrote: > >dude wrote: > > > > Since the recent upgrade to woody > > i have not had a working X window > > > > I finally got most things install

Re: XFree

2000-11-23 Thread dude
oh boy and i just deselected eveything so now i have a plain old terminal connection; of course now im getting more work done g thanks ill give this a shot. On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Carlos E. Pruitt, Jr. wrote: > >dude wrote: > > > > Since the recent upgrade to

Re: Where to find unzip?

2000-11-23 Thread Håkan
I did apt-get install unzip. Gets following response: Package unzip has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not avilable with the contents of sources.list E: Package unzip

Re: configure the date

2000-11-23 Thread mcclosk
|> I have to set the time but I didn't get it, I read the mans and docus, |> but it won't work. Can anyon tell me what to do to just change the |> time? I have always found it simplest to do this by way of the net. The rdate command contacts a time-date server and sets your system-clock according

Tried apt-get install unzip without sucess!

2000-11-23 Thread Håkan
I did apt-get install unzip. Gets following response: Package unzip has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not avilable with the contents of sources.list E: Package unz

Re: XFree

2000-11-23 Thread Carlos E. Pruitt, Jr.
>dude wrote: > > Since the recent upgrade to woody > i have not had a working X window > > I finally got most things installed but > when i hit startX > i get this erroe > > I think it the main section of error is > > Data incomplete in file > > but i dont know

Re: module for usb support

2000-11-23 Thread Chris Kenrick
module for usb support>I have a scanner HP5200c connected to a usb port, invisible from debian, >which makes me suspect that there is some module for usb that I have not >installed. does any one know which? USB is not properly supported in Linux until the 2.4 kernel (the one that still hasn't been

Re: Where to find unzip?

2000-11-23 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:32:31PM +0100, H?kan wrote: > I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got > right dist. > However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed > the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip? there's a package named unzip

Re: Where to find unzip?

2000-11-23 Thread Jeff Green
apt-get install unzip Håkan wrote: > > I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got > right dist. > However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed > the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip? > > /Håkan > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Using putty for an X session

2000-11-23 Thread Andrej Marjan
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:40:15PM -0600, Steven Kurylo wrote: > Unless I am reading the putty "wishlist" wrong, putty doesn't support X in > its current form > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist.html Tera term's ttssh plugin works, though: http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/t

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-23 Thread Andrej Marjan
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 04:21:13PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:02:38 -0600 (CST), Damian Menscher said: > > > > > Portmapper maps the RPC services to ports. The list of services it > > deals with are listed in /etc/rpc. Most of them deal with clustered > > computing,

Where to find unzip?

2000-11-23 Thread Håkan
I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got right dist. However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip? /Håkan

Re: I want out!

2000-11-23 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
ktb wrote: > > > I've been on and off this list for a couple years. I just started using > Debian again after about a 6 month layoff. I'm glad to see this string is > still going:) Maybe it is perverse of me but I would hate to see the > instructions change. It is a tradition:) I agree. Not

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Glyn Millington
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -, thus spake John-Mark: > Hello all > I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like > eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I > can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when try

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Glyn Millington
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -, thus spake John-Mark: > Hello all > I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like > eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I > can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when try

Re: Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-23 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Sean Norris,,, wrote: > Hello All, > > I have been trying to set up a small local network with a linux box as a > gateway and my wife's win98 laptop. > > I am running potato with a fresh 2.2.17 kernel from kernel.org. > Currently, a D-link DE-530TX is working well with a

Broken gmc

2000-11-23 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, since last update of serveral packages (woody) gmc stopped working on my Gnome dsektop running sawfish as window manager. I do not know, wehre to file the bug -- yes, the problem of mixed packages from helix/debian/unofficial ressources. I just want to know: anyone with the same problem? I ju

CSC4236 sound card full duplex ?

2000-11-23 Thread erasmo perez
hello dear freinds (again) just a question: has somebody get working in full duplex mode the following sound card ? PINE Crystal Codec CSC4236 i am using it with the modules in the kernel (CS4236) but until this moment i can not make it work under full duplex, just half duplex i havent tried wi

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
> I'm using *basically* the same configuration (MTA: exim, MDA: procmail, MUA: > mutt POP3-GET-MY-MAIL-WHEN-I-NEED-IT-APP-:] : fetchmail). Maybe I can help? i would use iptables to block port 25 from all but localhost, @home almost killed me for that. they don't allow any ``servers'' i think in

Re: expand software raid

2000-11-23 Thread Matthew B Fair
I have 3 HD and I would like set RAID 5 on them using software raid under debian. I currently have nothing on any HD, they all have no partions. I would like to know what would be the best steps for me to take? I creating a small partition at the end of one of the drives to set up the kernel etc

Re: full duplex sound card ?

2000-11-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello Erasmo, Yes, the sb 128 pnp is a duplex card. I was never able to get my speakfreely to work well either, I am working on other sound latenency problems here and I hope to cure them soon, again, thanks to this list! Good luck, best regards On Thursday 23 November 2000 10:12, erasmo

Re: Sound card seems to be recognized but nothing else.

2000-11-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Anthony, Did you actually remember to check the box: <*> Sound card support before checking this box: <*> Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371) I use a sb32 (pnp pci) sound card, it works great. Also, make sure your speakers are plugged in and use a program to adjust your levels (I like

Re: Oracle 8I on debian?

2000-11-23 Thread Remco van 't Veer
You can find some info on installing it on redhat at: http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/index.html This should be enough to get you on the road. Oracle has included a jdk to avoid problems, IIRC. Have fun ;) On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 16:47, Stan Brown wrote: > I am fixing to try to install

Re: Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-23 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 23 November 2000 12:23, Sean Norris,,, wrote: > In my /etc/network/interfaces file there is no entry for eth1. >eth0 is : iface eth0 inet dhcp > so I tried adding : "iface eth1 inet" > > Now with #ifup eth1, I get the error >/etc/network/interfaces: too few parameters for if

Re: full duplex sound card ?

2000-11-23 Thread Damon McGraw
++ 23/11/00 19:12 +0100 - erasmo perez: > hello dear friends > > does anyone knows if the following sound card works as full duplex > under linux, i mean, if its driver works in full duplex mode ? > > CREATIVE SB 128 P&P (Stereo) PCI > > if this is not the case, which sound cards had been report

Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-23 Thread Sean Norris,,,
Hello All, I have been trying to set up a small local network with a linux box as a gateway and my wife's win98 laptop. I am running potato with a fresh 2.2.17 kernel from kernel.org. Currently, a D-link DE-530TX is working well with a tulip driver loaded as a module to connect to my cable

configure the date

2000-11-23 Thread Allan F. Caetano
> "Manuel" == Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manuel> I have to set the time but I didn't get it, I read the mans and docus, Manuel> but it won't work. Can anyon tell me what to do to just change the Manuel> time? The long of it: if you have info(1) installed, I str

full duplex sound card ?

2000-11-23 Thread erasmo perez
hello dear friends does anyone knows if the following sound card works as full duplex under linux, i mean, if its driver works in full duplex mode ? CREATIVE SB 128 P&P (Stereo) PCI if this is not the case, which sound cards had been reported as working with full duplex mode under linux ? (and t

Re: configure the date

2000-11-23 Thread Jaume Teixi
Manuel Hendel wrote: > I have to set the time but I didn't get it, I read the mans and docus, > but it won't work. Can anyon tell me what to do to just change the > time? configure your timezone: tzconfig configure your date and time: date 123123592000 12-month 31-day of month 23-hour 59-minute

Re: help news

2000-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 at 11:32:16 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I have set up the get-news.conf file with > server, username, and password. What options must I use to get the news > downloaded and sent to Cnews? On my machine it's just '/usr/sbin/get-news' in a cron job (we

Re: help news

2000-11-23 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 23 November 2000 11:32, Russ Cook wrote: > Colin, > Thanks for the reply. I have set up the get-news.conf file with > server, username, and password. What options must I use to get the > news downloaded and sent to Cnews? Russ, Before you go to all that work, if you only have

configure the date

2000-11-23 Thread Manuel Hendel
I have to set the time but I didn't get it, I read the mans and docus, but it won't work. Can anyon tell me what to do to just change the time? Thanks, Manuel

Re: Sis620 video support.

2000-11-23 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:02:48 -0600 "Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nobody knows about Sis620 support on potato. It's a chipset onboard a > motherboard. > I download a xsis.tgz file fron sis.com.tw site, but following the > instructions when I run startx it saids Can not exe

gnome-name-service

2000-11-23 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Issue: Every web browser I use will lock up X hard and requires hitting reset. They lock up not all the time, but enough to be annoying. I may have stumbled into the problem, but not certain. So, heres the question: What is gnome-name-server? What does it do? There is not a man page. The net se

Re: Debian + isdn = ? (a waste of time, so far!)

2000-11-23 Thread garyjones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Can you let me know if your upgrade works, >> please? If so I'll just put it down to 'one of those things' and d/l >> a new version. >Gary, I was told to use the latest isdn4linux because my distribution >came with the 2

Re: Sound card seems to be recognized but nothing else.

2000-11-23 Thread Leonardo Dias
> I tried compiling in Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371), which > someone said should work. On bootup I get the following: > > es1371: version v0.22 time 15:47:48 Nov 23 2000 > es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02 > es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xe800 irq 10

Re: help news

2000-11-23 Thread Russ Cook
Colin, Thanks for the reply. I have set up the get-news.conf file with server, username, and password. What options must I use to get the news downloaded and sent to Cnews? Thanks, And Happy Thanksgiving! Regards, Russ On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Colin Watson wr

Sound card seems to be recognized but nothing else.

2000-11-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
I tried compiling in Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371), which someone said should work. On bootup I get the following: es1371: version v0.22 time 15:47:48 Nov 23 2000 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02 es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xe800 irq 10 es1371: fe

Re: Sis620 video support.

2000-11-23 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Nobody knows about Sis620 support on potato. It's a chipset onboard a > motherboard. > I download a xsis.tgz file fron sis.com.tw site, but following the > instructions when I run startx it saids Can not execute a binary file. > An I follow th

Re: help news

2000-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am trying to use Suck and Cnews to download articles from my ISP and >deliver to a local news server for offline reading with Netscape >Communicator. I (think) I have Suck and Cnews properly configured - at >least, I can manually initiate a news dump with the command >"

Sis620 video support.

2000-11-23 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Nobody knows about Sis620 support on potato. It's a chipset onboard a motherboard. I download a xsis.tgz file fron sis.com.tw site, but following the instructions when I run startx it saids Can not execute a binary file. An I follow the instructions! -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Re: Using putty for an X session

2000-11-23 Thread Steven Kurylo
At 01:56 AM 23/11/00, you wrote: It doesn't have to support X, just port forwarding. The user will have to supply appropriate xhost and xauth authorization values. Well Putty doesn't support that either :-) "SSH port forwarding and X forwarding." Better solution IMO would be VNC. Where is

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:40:46AM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: > Actually I want to use the class g-breif, but I need the functions for > the footer from the letter class or is there any package which I can > add to my .tex file together with g-brief to get the footers? Have you tried \usepackage{

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* John-Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [231100 09:38]: > Hello all > I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like > eons! I'm using *basically* the same configuration (MTA: exim, MDA: procmail, MUA: mutt POP3-GET-MY-MAIL-WHEN-I-NEED-IT-APP-:] : fetchmail). Maybe I can help

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-23 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:02:38 -0600 (CST), Damian Menscher said: > > Portmapper maps the RPC services to ports. The list of services it > deals with are listed in /etc/rpc. Most of them deal with clustered > computing, so you'll need to run portmap if you're using nfs, yp, or (I > think) t

expand software raid

2000-11-23 Thread Michael Bürkle
anyoone knows if it's possible to expand a software raid 5 under debian from 3 HD to 4 HD without deleting the 3 existing disks? thx Michael

Re: 2.4 kernel on potato, what userland needs updating

2000-11-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > hi, > > I am needing to put a 2.4-test kernel on a potato box, is anyone else > doing this as well? I've got a variety of 2.4.0-test{10|11pre6|11} kernels on largely stock potato systems.

Re: Sound Card

2000-11-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Nov 2000 09:19:54 -0600, Timmy Douglas said: > > > > And how do I configure my soundcard? > > > > you need to compile a kernel with sound support and with the card you > > have. or you could get alsa modules, but that might be too much > > work.

as root rsh my-debian-machine works but "rsh mydebian-machine" not?

2000-11-23 Thread Walter Tautz
specifically (as ROOT) works as non root user i run rsh mydebianhost and it prompt me for a password. I type the correct password and it still doesn't let me in. However, rsh mydebianhost works this is from a solaris host to debian as root. Is there someplace I have to allow root access

Re: simple network card setup (netgear 10/100 tulip)

2000-11-23 Thread Cliff Rice
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 09:10:09AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > Yowza! Watch out for those model numbers, and don't assume two cards with > similar names are really related. Apparently the FA311 does not use the > tulip driver. Try a google search on FA311 and linux. It looks like some > pe

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-23 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: > * Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [231100 09:16]: > > bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? > > > > i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! > > it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-23 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [231100 09:16]: > bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? > > i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! > it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? This is more of a question to the

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-23 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Manegold wrote: > Manuel Hendel wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 09:44:40AM +0100, Manegold wrote: > > > Manuel Hendel wrote: > > > > > > > > is it possible to use more than one .sty file in a tex document? For > > > > example, let's say I use g-brief as documentclass, but al

Re: Sound Card

2000-11-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23 Nov 2000 09:19:54 -0600, Timmy Douglas said: > > And how do I configure my soundcard? > > you need to compile a kernel with sound support and with the card you > have. or you could get alsa modules, but that might be too much > work... Too much work, that is why I bought the commerc

XFree

2000-11-23 Thread dude
Since the recent upgrade to woody i have not had a working X window I finally got most things installed but when i hit startX i get this erroe I think it the main section of error is Data incomplete in file but i dont know this means thanks for the help This is a pre-release version of XFr

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Manegold
Timmy Douglas wrote: > > "John-Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello all > > I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like > > eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I > > can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. How

Re: SSL in mozilla M18 and Netscape 6

2000-11-23 Thread Jan- Hendrik Palic
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 08:06:51PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Hi Mike, hi to * |In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, |Jan- Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>When Mozilla or galeon provide good ssl- connections, then, I hope, I'm able |>to throw the F** Netscape 4* away... :) | |

Re: Sound Card

2000-11-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
Tóth Gábor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > I'm a new one, so where can I find an archive of this list? www.debian.org.. click on support, mailing llist, and archives i think. > And how do I configure my soundcard? you need to compile a kernel with sound support and with the card you have.

Re: 2.4 kernel on potato, what userland needs updating

2000-11-23 Thread Jim Frey
I installed 2.4 on a potato (updated Storm) release, in order to use XFree4.0.1 and a usb mouse on a motherboard with an Intel i810 chip. I started with test 8, and had a few problems with it freezing up occasionaly. I am now at test 10, and have no problems with the OS. Getting X 4.0.1 running w

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Timmy Douglas
"John-Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all > I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like > eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I > can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying to > connect receiv

module for usb support

2000-11-23 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have a scanner HP5200c connected to a usb port, invisible from debian, which makes me suspect that there is some module for usb that I have not installed. does any one know which? Thanks, Antonio.

Re: simple network card setup (netgear 10/100 tulip)

2000-11-23 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Jeff Davis wrote: > "J. Bruce Fields" wrote: > > I'm using the newest "tulip" driver with a netgear (a FA310TX--the model > > number matters a lot, which is yours?), and it works fine. See > > http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html, and note that you actually have > > to down

Re: getting XFree (3) to work with geforce MX

2000-11-23 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:38:12PM +0100, Manuel Reiter wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > > > well, thanks.. the problem is how to get X running with potato? > > i don't want to tell my father to install woody. > > i guess he will compile xfree 4 on his own if there is no othe

fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread John-Mark
Hello all I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying to connect receive mail from my remote server fetchmail does not see

Re: Looking support for scaner

2000-11-23 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:28:12AM -0600, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone knows if there is scaner support from Linux? Debian potato > specific? Checkout sane, not potato specific, just generic linux scanner support. first check if your scanner is supported (look in /usr/share/doc

help news

2000-11-23 Thread Russ Cook
I am trying to use Suck and Cnews to download articles from my ISP and deliver to a local news server for offline reading with Netscape Communicator. I (think) I have Suck and Cnews properly configured - at least, I can manually initiate a news dump with the command "suck news.flash.net -U myusern

Re: getting XFree (3) to work with geforce MX

2000-11-23 Thread Manuel Reiter
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > well, thanks.. the problem is how to get X running with potato? > i don't want to tell my father to install woody. > i guess he will compile xfree 4 on his own if there is no other solution. > maybe this will break a lot of things (dependencies) so i d

Unidentified subject!

2000-11-23 Thread c-s-c c-s-c
Problem with JAVA.. I have implementet in .profile as: but i keep getting this> /java/jdk1.2.2/bin/java: /bin/realpath/: No such file or directory java not found in /bin/i386/green_threads/java CAN ANY ONE PLEASE HLLLPP RASMUS

isdn4k-utils - "make config" problems

2000-11-23 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
I'm experiencing a quite ridiculous problem in running make config for preparing to install the isdn4k-utils: When you run "make config" you get a ascii menu. The second sub menu is displayed as "General Configurations" which is again splitted up to several other sub menus. The first one out of

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