Re: can't find install - yeah right!

2001-09-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010913 15:37]: > david: > > install is part of the fileutils package. i don't know what the appropriate > debian package is. you can get it at the gnu web page: > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.tar.gz > > and compi

Re: mutt and vi

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:40:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all... is there a way to get mutt to load vi using a different rc file? Look in your muttrc file and find the 'editor=vim' line or whatever and make it 'editor=vim -u /patch/to/vimrc' I think that should do the

Re: snd module/sound setup

2001-09-13 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:00:36PM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > I'm running sid. I installed a bunch of alsa stuff, including > "alsaconf-0.4", which said that is the thing to run to configure your > sound hardware. So, I ran it, and things seemed to go well until it > actually tried to run "/et

debian installation from partial mirror - how?

2001-09-13 Thread Lindsay Allen
I'm trying to do a fresh sid install using my local partial mirror and I get stuck with a bebootstrap error "2". The problem is with dists/sid/Release. I have tried to create a valid version to match my mirror and it looks like this. Origin: Debian Label: Debian Suite: unstable Codename: s

mutt and vi

2001-09-13 Thread xucaen
hi all... is there a way to get mutt to load vi using a different rc file?

snd module/sound setup

2001-09-13 Thread Jeff Maxson
I'm running sid. I installed a bunch of alsa stuff, including "alsaconf-0.4", which said that is the thing to run to configure your sound hardware. So, I ran it, and things seemed to go well until it actually tried to run "/etc/init.d/alsa start". It gives me an error of Loading driver: Startin

Dowgrade Problems

2001-09-13 Thread Robert Mosher
I recently made the mistake of trying to upgrade to some packages in Woody, and because of that I can no longer get X to work. I'm now trying to get things back to the way they were, and was told to use dselect to do this. However when I mark Obsolete (Woody) packages for removal, some packages

Re: X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-13 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 07:39:38PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: | We have all seen where people have strange X-headers in their Things | like X-Operating_System: Debian GNU/Linux or X-Uptime: blah. I just want | to now how I can get that too. I see that you use mutt as your mailer. You c

Is there any ftpd support file large than 2GB ?

2001-09-13 Thread Tommy Wu
Hi! As title... I've tested proftpd, wu-ftpd, ftpd in woody. All of them can't handle file large than 2GB. My system running kernel 2.4.9-xfs, glibc 2.2.4. I can create a file large than 2G using dd command. But I found my ftpd can't handle such file so I can't transf

Re: X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:40:54PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:39:21PM -0500, Josh McKinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Well, I answered my own question as you may see. Thanks > > > > Cute. How'd you do the uptime trick? my_hdr X-Uptime: `upti

Re: X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:39:21PM -0500, Josh McKinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, I answered my own question as you may see. Thanks > Cute. How'd you do the uptime trick? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Praying for the victims. pgpyzSUspJDmD.pgp Descr

Re: X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 07:39:38PM -0500, Josh McKinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > We have all seen where people have strange X-headers in their Things > like X-Operating_System: Debian GNU/Linux or X-Uptime: blah. I just want > > to now how I can get that too. e.g.: my_hd

Re: X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
Well, I answered my own question as you may see. Thanks > On 14-Sep-2001 Josh McKinney wrote: > > We have all seen where people have strange X-headers in their Things > > like X-Operating_System: Debian GNU/Linux or X-Uptime: blah. I just want > > > > to now how I can get that too. >

Re: postfix and smarthost

2001-09-13 Thread Jason Boxman
On Thursday 13 September 2001 07:04 pm, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: Christian: > > If you do need a newer version than Potato offers (I don't know), apt-get > > source really works wonders! Just remember to download the necessary > > development libs first. > > What? =0 You don't mean I have t

Re: Change to cgi handling in apache?

2001-09-13 Thread Jason Boxman
On Thursday 13 September 2001 03:57 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've got two machines here, one running stable (apache-perl 1.3.9) > and the other on testing with an unstable apache (apache 1.3.20 with > libapache-mod-perl 1.25 - these were on the testing versions and I > upgraded them to try to fi

RE: X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-2001 Josh McKinney wrote: > We have all seen where people have strange X-headers in their Things > like X-Operating_System: Debian GNU/Linux or X-Uptime: blah. I just want > to now how I can get that too. > Let's see: some mail clients do it some smtp daemons can do it som

X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
We have all seen where people have strange X-headers in their Things like X-Operating_System: Debian GNU/Linux or X-Uptime: blah. I just want to now how I can get that too. Thanks Josh -- Linux, the choice | Carswell's Corollary: Whenever man comes of a GNU generation

Re: Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

2001-09-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:28:04PM +, Preben Randhol wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/09/2001 (23:05) : > > See the following: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user20010109/msg00426.html > ^^ >

Re: Newbie error

2001-09-13 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Sebastian Pad? said: > Hi, > > by mistake (I am tired?), I just did something very stupid: > > > rm /dev/hda3 > > It worked. > Now I cannot access that partition any more. > How can I bring it back? > Ooops - thats not good! try 'mknod /dev/hda3 b 3 3; chown

Newbie error

2001-09-13 Thread Sebastian Padó
Hi, by mistake (I am tired?), I just did something very stupid: > rm /dev/hda3 It worked. Now I cannot access that partition any more. How can I bring it back? Thanks for any ideas, Sebastian

Re: APCUPSD doesn't shutdown machine

2001-09-13 Thread idalton
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:46:49PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > "Greg Wiley" wrote: > > > I don't use apcupsd but in order to get the machine to respond > > to poweroff, I must append "apm=on" to the kernel params on > > startup. The kernel turns off power management by default even > > t

Printing .pdf files

2001-09-13 Thread mdevin
I am getting totally frustrated with trying to print .pdf files. Here is my setup: Printer: HP1220 - Laser with post-script level 2 emulation Print driver: CUPS (the potato version - cupsys_1.0.4-9_i386.deb) What happens is, I have heaps of trouble trying to stop the edges of pages being chopped

Re: postfix and smarthost

2001-09-13 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
From: Jason Boxman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: The Vortex To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: postfix and smarthost Date sent: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:57:10 -0400 Forwar

Re: midi on es1371 cards?

2001-09-13 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:38:32PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > Is there any way to get midi to work with es1371 sound cards (e.g. the > Soundblaster PCI 128, which is what I have), without having to use a > software synth like timidity? The es1371 doesn't have a hardware-based midi intrepreter

Re: "su -" doesn't work

2001-09-13 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
dima thank you! that was the ticket! i did a chmod 4755 /bin/su (i was off chasing pam modules!) thanx again! On Thursday 13 September 2001 15:33, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > hello: > > > > i am having a problem usi

issues uninstalling courier-imap from woody

2001-09-13 Thread Fox, Michael
Hi, I upgraded from 2.2r2 cd install, to the woody via apt-get dist-upgrade some weeks back. Just lastnight I realised my imap server is not working, and when I investigated why, it turns out /etc/courier is gone. Including config files. So I figured I would uninstall and reinstall. But I am cur

Re: modprobe syslog message ???

2001-09-13 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Martin F Krafft wrote: > > also sprach Michael D. Schleif (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:42:18PM -0500): > > modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > > /lib/modules/2.2.19/modules.dep > > > > What corrective actions are warranted? > > update-modules > > or > > depmod -a > > it means y

midi on es1371 cards?

2001-09-13 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Is there any way to get midi to work with es1371 sound cards (e.g. the Soundblaster PCI 128, which is what I have), without having to use a software synth like timidity? Specifically, I'm trying to use music notation editing programs like NoteEdit and Rosegarden, which have options for playing the

problems with config-2.2.19pre17

2001-09-13 Thread Jonathan Mark
hi ... I'm trying to build an e100 network driver for Devian v2.2_r3, but having problems getting a set of headers that match the vanilla i386 kernel. Problem #1: there seems to be no kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 package for the i386 vanilla kernel (referring to the file "ls-lR" on the ftp site). Th

Re: can't find install - yeah right!

2001-09-13 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
david: install is part of the fileutils package. i don't know what the appropriate debian package is. you can get it at the gnu web page: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.tar.gz and compile your own! On Thursday 13 September 2001 14:56, David wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying to compile

Re: "su -" doesn't work

2001-09-13 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > hello: > > i am having a problem using "su -". for inexplicable reasons, i cannot use su > to switch user unless i am root. any idea what is going on Not really. I usually chgrp su to group wheel and remove execut

Re: Accented characters

2001-09-13 Thread gerard robin
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:27:32PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > How do I go about enabling accented characters in a terminal window? I'm a > member of an > Irish speaking mailing list and all emails come in with accented characters. > However, > when I read them via Mutt I only see ? where a

can't find install - yeah right!

2001-09-13 Thread David
Hi all, Trying to compile openal from source and am faced with a puzzler. I've done... dpkg-source -x openal-0.2001061600-2.dsc cd openal-foo debian/rules build and all seems fine - then after debain/rules build things come off the rails with make[1] : /usr/bin/install: Command not found wh

Re: lilo.conf

2001-09-13 Thread Eamon Roque
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:10:04AM -0700, James T Prejsnar wrote: > Hello: > > A while ago, I had a duel-booting system working (i.e. using lilo I could > boot either red-hat, or Windows 98). I've updated my Red-Hat 6.0 to the > latest Debian Linux, and I'm pleased with Debian, we use Debian at 3

Re: Problems compiling modules

2001-09-13 Thread Julio Merino
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:25:34PM +0200, Marc Becher wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:26:06PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > following your recommendations, I've apt-get the following modules from > > woody: > > i2c-source lm-sensors-source lirc-modules-source > > > > My

windows 2000 DHCP servers

2001-09-13 Thread David L. Nicol
we have windows 2000 DHCP servers, and the potato installation disks will not obtain configuration information from them. The redhat install disks do, though. -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 .sig file closed by executive order

Re: Problems compiling modules

2001-09-13 Thread Marc Becher
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:26:06PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > following your recommendations, I've apt-get the following modules from woody: > i2c-source lm-sensors-source lirc-modules-source > > My kernel is 2.4.9 that I got trought a tar.gz and unpacked in > /usr/src/linux-2

Re: Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

2001-09-13 Thread Preben Randhol
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/09/2001 (23:05) : > See the following: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user20010109/msg00426.html ^^ Not existing. The

Re: does and irc-fserver exist under unix/linux??

2001-09-13 Thread Andras BALI
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:39:03AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > i am trying to find an fserver to run on an irc channel, and i don't > want to install winblows on my machines just to run that... but the only > fservers i found are winblows progs You may want to install iroffer [1]. $ apt-

"su -" doesn't work

2001-09-13 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i am having a problem using "su -". for inexplicable reasons, i cannot use su to switch user unless i am root. any idea what is going on -- regards, allen wayne best contractor, diagnostics and support tools "your friendly neighborhood rambler owner" "my rambler will go from 0 to 105

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? It can also be a slackware package, which is still basically a tar.gz file. -- Linux, the choice | No, his mind is not for rent To any god or of a GNU generatio

as & ld equivalents of gcc

2001-09-13 Thread Darryl Röthering
Can someone save me some time by giving me the proper options for using gcc -S to generate an absolutely minimal assembler output & listing; then as & ld that will result in a proper compile for a simple "hello world" program? I am getting problems with this in cygwin. A simple gcc of the hello

Re: Debian inside VM can't find NIC

2001-09-13 Thread Tim Moss
Rupert Heesom wrote: I've installed Debian within a VMware VM with host-only networking. However I didn't pick any NIC adapter software modules when I chose the hardware to support, and now need to know how to get Debian to see the NIC that VMware should be showing it. I've found the ne2k-pci.o

Re: aptitude broken in unstable?

2001-09-13 Thread Andras BALI
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:09:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > has anyone else had trouble with aptitude in debian untable? it's > been broken for me for probably nearly a week now. It's known to be broken, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200109/msg00782.html h

Re: Debian inside VM can't find NIC

2001-09-13 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On 13 Sep 2001 20:45:30 -0400, Rupert Heesom wrote: >Inside my NT VM I can see VMware's "AMD PCNET PCI" NIC. > >What should I do to get Debian to see it's NIC? Load "pcnet32.o". -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe

Re: Ethernet Card D-Link DFE-530TX

2001-09-13 Thread John Patton
I have this card, and I use the 8139too.o driver. In menuconfig I selected 'Realtek rtl-8139' as well as 'support for older RTL-8129/8130...'. I don't know if that last one is necissary, but my card does work fine. -- John Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To be or not to be. That's

Re: Installing alsa?

2001-09-13 Thread Alan Shutko
Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But alsa is more featureful, isn't it? It allows to play sound from > several apps at the same time, without sound servers, right? Depends on the sound card. Last I checked, if the card hardware allows playing two samples at once without mixing, it will

aptitude broken in unstable?

2001-09-13 Thread glynis
has anyone else had trouble with aptitude in debian untable? it's been broken for me for probably nearly a week now. upon trying to update or go (actions that download anything) i get a couple different errors, the root of all seem to be: Method http has died unexpectedly! is it something i'm do

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:02:13PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > shyamk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > shyamk> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > shyamk> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > > Typically, foo.tgz is a shorthand filename for foo.tar.gz, so 'gunzip > f

Re: Kyro II

2001-09-13 Thread David McBride
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14 Sep 2001, csj wrote: >Has anyone in the list managed to get their XFree86 setup running on a >card powered by this chip? I saw the chip name in a local computer >store's product list, stuck among the GeForces and occasional Savages, >and initial

Change to cgi handling in apache?

2001-09-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got two machines here, one running stable (apache-perl 1.3.9) and the other on testing with an unstable apache (apache 1.3.20 with libapache-mod-perl 1.25 - these were on the testing versions and I upgraded them to try to fix my CGI problem). I also have a minimal CGI script: --- #!/usr/bin/

Accented characters

2001-09-13 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
How do I go about enabling accented characters in a terminal window? I'm a member of an Irish speaking mailing list and all emails come in with accented characters. However, when I read them via Mutt I only see ? where an accented character is in the messages. I though 8859-1 could handle extend

Re: Kernel Oops

2001-09-13 Thread Jason Boxman
On Thursday 13 September 2001 01:40 pm, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hi everybody Hey! > I have noticed in /var/log/kern.log > the following message: ( system slink kernel 2.0.38) > > Sep 9 12:03:39 zoroport kernel: Serial driver version 4.13p1 with no > serial opt > ions enabled > Sep 9 12:03:40 zo

Re: postfix and smarthost

2001-09-13 Thread Jason Boxman
On Thursday 13 September 2001 02:51 pm, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Hi! > > What do I have to do to deliver all outgoing mails to a smarthost > via smtp-auth? > > Someone told me i have to use a rather *new* version of postfix > compiled with SASL-Authentification support. Is this the case > wit

Re: Upgrade report

2001-09-13 Thread Jason Boxman
On Thursday 13 September 2001 12:49 pm, Greg Wiley wrote: > Hi all- > > Just some notes on a recent upgrade from stable to > testing on a box with the Ivan Moore II KDE packages. > Since the packages are not a part of the official Potato > version, I was unsure of how the upgrade would > proceed.

Re: APCUPSD doesn't shutdown machine

2001-09-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Greg Wiley" wrote: > I don't use apcupsd but in order to get the machine to respond > to poweroff, I must append "apm=on" to the kernel params on > startup. The kernel turns off power management by default even > though it is compiled in. He said the machine doesn't shut down, not that it does

Debian inside VM can't find NIC

2001-09-13 Thread Rupert Heesom
I've installed Debian within a VMware VM with host-only networking. However I didn't pick any NIC adapter software modules when I chose the hardware to support, and now need to know how to get Debian to see the NIC that VMware should be showing it. I've found the ne2k-pci.o module in /lib/modules

Re: apt-get problem

2001-09-13 Thread der.hans
Am 14. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Rajesh Fowkar so: > If I add in /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > > and than do apt-get update, I can install any package from the woody tree. > However /etc/apt/sources.list also contains entries for the 3 De

Re: apt-get problem

2001-09-13 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry saw fit to inform me that: >> >> Is there any way to avoid this ? >> > >not really. The problem here is you are using potato cd's and woody from the >net. So apt thinks it needs to upgrade you all the time. A major problem for a person like me who can not go on upgrading e

Fwd: piper 2001/09/13 20:02 system check

2001-09-13 Thread Martin F Krafft
what is this, a faulty PAM module? pam_condev.so? this is woody btw. seems like a bug to me. any thoughts? end of april there was already a thread about this, but it was solved *iff* you had wdm installed. i use xdm, just like Mark Hurley of the thread, and it's not resolved. i know i could proba

Re: modprobe syslog message ???

2001-09-13 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Michael D. Schleif (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:42:18PM -0500): > modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.2.19/modules.dep > > What corrective actions are warranted? update-modules or depmod -a it means you edited /etc/modules.conf, now the dependencies

Re: modem noise

2001-09-13 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Date sent: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:58:09 +0100 To: "Debian Mailing-List (E-Mail)" Subject:Re: modem noise Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread David Z Maze
shyamk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: shyamk> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? shyamk> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf Typically, foo.tgz is a shorthand filename for foo.tar.gz, so 'gunzip foo.tgz; tar xf foo.tar' should work. As a shorthand using GNU tar (the ta

Re: Installing alsa?

2001-09-13 Thread Julio Merino
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:30:39PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > On Thursday Sep 13 17:52 Julio Merino wrote: > > You don't need to install ALSA. You can do it if you don't like to use > OSS. But if you have a great running SB16 with OSS, why switching to > ALSA? I have a Soundblaster Life Player run

postfix and smarthost

2001-09-13 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Hi! What do I have to do to deliver all outgoing mails to a smarthost via smtp-auth? Someone told me i have to use a rather *new* version of postfix compiled with SASL-Authentification support. Is this the case with Potato r3 or do I have to get a newer version of this package and/or recompile it

RE: apt-get problem

2001-09-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Is there any way to avoid this ? > not really. The problem here is you are using potato cd's and woody from the net. So apt thinks it needs to upgrade you all the time.

abiword unstable in testing??

2001-09-13 Thread joe golden
On 12 Sep 2001 16:47:33 +, joe golden wrote: Has anyone seen abiword half eating letters? I see documents in .abw and .rtf with letters half disappeared on the screen and in the printed version. What is going on??? kernel version 2.2.19pre17 #1 abiword version 0.7.13-0.3 David Chart repl

When to stop tracking sid to make transition to stable woody?

2001-09-13 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, Recently I've moved my laptop to sid, mainly to try unstable (I've been running woody on both my machines for several months now) and to get a working gnome. This is the first time I experience a debian release cycle (I started with potato when it was already stable). I intend to run woody fo

Re: Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

2001-09-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > ... and I've lost the fonts that appear... > > See the following: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user20010109/m sg00426.html Is that link any good ?? It's at least the 2nd time it's been posted and both times I get a 'Page not found' error. Hall

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf It's a file who's contents have first been 'tar'd up into one file. Then, that one file is compressed. It's probably more often called a *.tar.gz file, in case you've seen those before. You c

Re: Installing alsa?

2001-09-13 Thread Timeboy
On Thursday Sep 13 17:52 Julio Merino wrote: > ** Hi all, > ** > ** I'm wondering about switching to ALSA. I'm currently using > ** OSS with a SB16 isapnp. > ** > ** So, which will be the "debian" way to go with it? I see > ** dozens of packages about alsa... alsa-base, alsa-sources... > ** Whi

apt-get problem

2001-09-13 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, If I add in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free and than do apt-get update, I can install any package from the woody tree. However /etc/apt/sources.list also contains entries for the 3 Debian 2.2 R3 CD's. deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3

Kyro II

2001-09-13 Thread csj
Has anyone in the list managed to get their XFree86 setup running on a card powered by this chip? I saw the chip name in a local computer store's product list, stuck among the GeForces and occasional Savages, and initially thought it was just an nVidia variant.

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Jan Michael Alonzo
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? read the manuals.. and use the manpages 'man tar' > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > > Please help > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Shyam > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRI

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf The .tgz ending is (to my knowledge at least) just a shorthand writing for .tar.gz, so you can use `tar zxfv file.tgz'. Regards, Stig -

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf The .tgz extension means tar compressed with gzip. It is the same as .tar.gz. You can also decompress and untar in one op

Attn: xfonts package maintainer (was Re: Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade)

2001-09-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I've just done an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade for the > first time in a week or two (usig woody), and I've lost the > fonts ... They're all replaced by strange little symbols, which > I assume means the characters is unavailable. Can the package maintainer comment on this ?? It's becoming f

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > > Please help > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Shyam It's a tar gzipped file. Tar does not compress files, it only concatenates

RE: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > tgz -> a gzip'ed tar. Use tar xvf filename.tgz. It is basically a shorthand for .tar.gz. It is from the days when people has to deal with MS D

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? short for tar.gz. just gunzip it and it will become tar -=greg

Re: Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

2001-09-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I've just done an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade for the > first time in a week or two (usig woody), and I've lost the > fonts that appear ... They're all replaced by strange little > symbols... > The 100 dpi fonts all appear to be present and correct (the > package is okay). You're one of

Re: Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

2001-09-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:39:11AM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > I've just done an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade for the first time > in a week or two (usig woody), and I've lost the fonts that appear on > buttons in Netscape, and all the fonts in Mozilla. They're all > replaced by strange lit

RE: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > there is a unix command called 'file' it tells you what the contents of a file are believed to be.

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > > Please help > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Shyam To uncompress: tar zxf file.tgz To view: tar tzvf file.tgz -- Nath

Re: DNS problems

2001-09-13 Thread Thomas Apel
Am Donnerstag, 13. September 2001 17:36 schrieb Ralf G. R. Bergs: > > I could imagine that this has something to do with the auth/ident daemon > looping. > > The original poster should have a look at their syslog file, if they see > something like "identd disabled due to looping." There is nothing

Re: Installing alsa?

2001-09-13 Thread Jan Michael Alonzo
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:52:04PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering about switching to ALSA. I'm currently using > OSS with a SB16 isapnp. > > So, which will be the "debian" way to go with it? I see > dozens of packages about alsa... alsa-base, alsa-sources... > Which ones s

Kernel Oops

2001-09-13 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi everybody I have noticed in /var/log/kern.log the following message: ( system slink kernel 2.0.38) Sep 9 12:03:39 zoroport kernel: Serial driver version 4.13p1 with no serial opt ions enabled Sep 9 12:03:40 zoroport kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 Sep 9 12:03:40 zoroport ker

decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread shyamk
What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf Please help ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam

modprobe syslog message ???

2001-09-13 Thread Michael D. Schleif
What is meant by these incessant syslog messages: modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.19/modules.dep What corrective actions are warranted? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understa

Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

2001-09-13 Thread Gordon Paynter
I've just done an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade for the first time in a week or two (usig woody), and I've lost the fonts that appear on buttons in Netscape, and all the fonts in Mozilla. They're all replaced by strange little symbols, which I assume means the characters is unavailable. All ot

Re: little script for log watching

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Wiley
On Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would like to write a script that would > > output to the screen the latest contents of a log, > > and continue to do so until I abort the script. > No need to write it yourself --

RE: little script for log watching

2001-09-13 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> Hi, > > I would like to write a script that would > output to the screen the latest contents of a log, > and continue to do so until I abort the script. > > For example, > I have squid running, and would like to see the latest additions > to the /var/log/squid/access.log as it takes place. > > So

Gnome error in woody

2001-09-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
Just built out a woody box (from the 6 floppies) for my boss. Looks good now. Did an install of xsession-xfree86, sawfish-gnome and xsession. That installed 95% of what we needed. This became a problem because it didn't explain you need the fixed fonts and I ended up digging through one of my

Re: APCUPSD doesn't shutdown machine

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Wiley
I don't use apcupsd but in order to get the machine to respond to poweroff, I must append "apm=on" to the kernel params on startup. The kernel turns off power management by default even though it is compiled in. -=greg - Original Message - From: "Dean A. Roman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Upgrade report

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Wiley
Hi all- Just some notes on a recent upgrade from stable to testing on a box with the Ivan Moore II KDE packages. Since the packages are not a part of the official Potato version, I was unsure of how the upgrade would proceed. --- The machine is

Re: little script for log watching

2001-09-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to write a script that would > output to the screen the latest contents of a log, > and continue to do so until I abort the script. No need to write it yourself -- $ apt-cache show console-log Package: console-log Priority: optional Secti

Re: X4.0 -> X4.1 -> bother

2001-09-13 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:38:05PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Adam McDaniel wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:08:39AM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > > Hurrah - woody upgraded to X4.1 and now it's broken :( > > very easy way to fix this problem. > wrong unfortunately :( so

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-13 Thread James Ramsey
--- Peter Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Ramsey wrote: > > I am so new to linux that I really don't know how to > start > troubleshooting this problem. > When I installed > netscape it created the > following directory in /tmp: > > communicator-v475.x86-unknown-linux2.2 > > It

Re: Using AWE64 on kernel 2.4.9

2001-09-13 Thread Iain Smith
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:19:21AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > Can someone give me a hint or hand on building the 2.4.9 kernel to support > the > AWE64 sound system? I use one myself... The sound section of the kernel is set up like so: CONFIG_SOUND=y # CONFIG_SOUND_BT878 is not set # CON

jakarta/struts debian package

2001-09-13 Thread DvB
As the subject implies, I'm looking for debs for the jakarta struts framework. Anyone know where I can find some? I know there's a binary tarball at jakarta.apache.org but I'd prefer to install from debs if they're available. TIA

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