Re: ncurses

2001-09-23 Thread Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.
Hi, There are many ncurses packages available. Please take a look at this command output: apt-cache search ncurses I guess you will need ncurses-bin, ncurses-term, ncurses-base, and libncurses5 (maybe). -- bpdp On Monday 24 September 2001 11:23 am, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hello > I'm try

Re: ncurses

2001-09-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:23:11AM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hello > I'm trying to compile a programm (iForth) that needs ncurses. > > apt-get install ncurses > Package ncurses has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a de

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:12:43 BST, Matthew Sackman writes: >Well, that's all gone through and worked - not quite as simple as I >thought, but I got there. Network performance seems a little faster >than before but still a little slow compared with what I thought >would have been possible with a 10

ncurses

2001-09-23 Thread Robert Epprecht
Hello I'm trying to compile a programm (iForth) that needs ncurses. apt-get install ncurses Package ncurses 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 available with the

Re: crash

2001-09-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:31:09AM +0200, Hans Gubitz wrote: > > > After a local crash I can't install/remove some (n=?) packages: > > Examine the script manually: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/isdnutils.postrem > > > I can't remove|install packages, that have a line like > . /usr/share/debconf/con

Re: Wrong cpu speed detection...

2001-09-23 Thread Mike Alborn
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:31:49AM +0100, Ricardo Diz wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Pentium II 266MHz in a laptop and everytime I start linux it thinks > the cpu is a Pentium II 182.0MHz?!! > > Does anyone know why? > > Regards, > Ricardo Diz What power mode is your machine in when it bo

Fax / Modem question.

2001-09-23 Thread Kieren Diment
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, to ask this, but here goes. I'm happily using mgetty to send faxs out, but I need to receive the occasional fax as well. I can't have the modem auto-answer, as this would disrupt the separate voicemail system, so I need to be able to type in a command or w

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-23 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:50:32AM +0200, oivvio polite wrote: | | I might soon have to set up some 20 - 30 boxes supporting some 200 students. | They'll want to do word processing, browse the web, read mail. Web and mail work great with Linux, but as the previous poster said word processing i

Re: Wrong cpu speed detection...

2001-09-23 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:31:49AM +0100, Ricardo Diz wrote: | Hi, | | I have a Pentium II 266MHz in a laptop and everytime I start linux | it thinks the cpu is a Pentium II 182.0MHz?!! | | Does anyone know why? Can you get to the mobo? Perhaps it is underclocked. What does the BIOS say about

Re: Configuring GCC search directory

2001-09-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:04:43PM -0400, Akintayo Holder wrote: | hi, | I am trying to install palm dev tools on woody. I would like to knwo how | you set the search path for the GCC compiler ? any information about | where i can find the env var of file containing the path would be nice.

Re: Print Server ?

2001-09-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:29:07PM +0100, George wrote: | Heya People, | | I was wondering if there's any way I can get my linux box/server/gateway to to act as a something similar to a print server. | | Basically, I've got my windows box, 2 linux boxen, and a freebsd box | all hooked up to the

Gnuplot -> mpeg movie

2001-09-23 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I'm using gnuplot so display a graph. My goal is to make a movie of a camera moving around this 3d graph that I can load into PowerPoint (Sorry). My idea was to create a set of ps file, then convert it to png (ps2png), then convert it to jpeg (I don't know yet how to do that), and finally mak

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-23 Thread Sunny Dubey
On Sunday 23 September 2001 08:50 pm, oivvio polite wrote: > I might soon have to set up some 20 - 30 boxes supporting some 200 > students. They'll want to do word processing, browse the web, read mail. be very very very very very careful of what you do here . First, please note that using Gn

Re: Wrong cpu speed detection...

2001-09-23 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 23 September 2001 08:31 pm, Ricardo Diz wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Pentium II 266MHz in a laptop and everytime I start linux it > thinks the cpu is a Pentium II 182.0MHz?!! > > Does anyone know why? Maybe it really is? ;) I don't know, really though. > Regards, > Ricardo Diz

Wrong cpu speed detection...

2001-09-23 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi,   I have a Pentium II 266MHz in a laptop and everytime I start linux it thinks the cpu is a Pentium II 182.0MHz?!!   Does anyone know why?   Regards, Ricardo Diz

Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-23 Thread oivvio polite
I might soon have to set up some 20 - 30 boxes supporting some 200 students. They'll want to do word processing, browse the web, read mail. Of course any user should be able to log into his/her account from any box. What are my options here? Have all applications run from a powerful server and

Re: dselect

2001-09-23 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >There must be some undocumented functin in dselect. I have two >machines, and both of them have different access-methods. How can I >change the access method since I want to install by a remote CD, which >option is not shown. In the manpage this option is

Re: windoe manager

2001-09-23 Thread John
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:56:04PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > Enlightenment does not yield easily. > > To give .xinitrc a full chance, I used chmod +x on it, > rebooted, and still got enlightenment. make sure you have the #!/bin/sh at the beginning of your .xinitrc file. This was an old .xsess

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
I use Mozilla 0.9.4 and I have no problem pulling up my hotmail inbox (other than it being slow, which is not abnormal, and there's nothing but spam in it, also normal). Make sure you (the original poster) have the package mozilla-psm installed. -nicole At 09:11 on Sep 24, Andrew Sione Taumoefo

Re: CD Burner permissions

2001-09-23 Thread Dmitriy
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 03:45:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Are you sure that you want to send encrypted mail to this list and expect an answer :-) ? -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F1C 5BE3 DCFD Free D

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
> > 1. cannot access hotmail...i.e. when I click on "sign-in" "status bar > > just says "done" but nothing happened > > AFAIK hotmail uses https, a protocol mozilla are not yet supporting. Mozilla supports https; the problem with Hotmail is that it uses a self-signing certificate, which is someth

Re: Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 03:32:41PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > Problem solved! > > Sam Varghese gave me the clue that combined with > previous suggestions solved the problem of getting rid > of enlightenment.The "home" directory for root is not > "home" but root. When I edited .xsessions in the

Re: Font problem with some X progs

2001-09-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Ari Pollak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010923 15:05]: > > My suggestion is for you to try re-setting the default font in the > GNOME theme selector, so that it uses the full, correct font name > (with iso8859 at the end). For applications which don't use GTK+ but > are still exhibiting this problem, t

Linux kernel bug report?

2001-09-23 Thread neonatus
Hi! I have just discovered that APM in kernel 2.4.10 does not work (/proc/apm file does not get created and consequentially apm progs do not work). Can someone else confirm this? And where can a bug report about this kind of bug be sent? (this is not a Debian kernel but a vanilla one from ftp.kern

Re: Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread csj
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 02:50, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:46:58AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > > > I got myself in trouble by playing around with the window manager. I > > changed from icewm to enlightenment. Now, I find that enlightenment > > is not as good and I want to g

Configuring GCC search directory

2001-09-23 Thread Akintayo Holder
hi, I am trying to install palm dev tools on woody. I would like to knwo how you set the search path for the GCC compiler ? any information about where i can find the env var of file containing the path would be nice. Thanks Akintayo -- All who wonder, are not lost -- Lord of the Rings - J.R.

Re: GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
No problem. Please upload your public key so your signature can be verified. Perhaps... gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.com --send-keys gashuffer09 Mike On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:21:38PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Sorry about that mess - I've benn trying to get GnuPG working, and

Re: Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:39:17PM -0700, Sidney Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Here is a new twist. When I log in as root, I get > enlightenment, despite all the suggested changes. When > I log in as a user, I get icewm. Please keep your replies in-thread. You've now started about four thr

Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sidney Brooks
Problem solved! Sam Varghese gave me the clue that combined with previous suggestions solved the problem of getting rid of enlightenment.The "home" directory for root is not "home" but root. When I edited .xsessions in the root directory, I got the icewm back. Thanks to all who tried to help. __

Re: Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 03:56:52PM -0400, Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: While signing list posts serves a purpose, encrypting them does not. Please limit encryption to one-on-one (or small groups where encryption is against multiple keys) communications. Thank you. -- Karsten M. S

Re: GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Sorry about that mess - I've benn trying to get GnuPG working, and I (obviously) set a few things wrong. My bad. It seems to be better now. Steve -- ... most of us learned about love the hard way. Even warnings are probably useless, for somehow, despite the severest warnings of parents and frie

Re: Re. Windoe Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:56:04PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > Enlightenment does not yield easily. > > To give .xinitrc a full chance, I used chmod +x on it, > rebooted, and still got enlightenment. The .xinitrc file has to be in each user's home directory. If somebody's username is sydney, th

Re: Print Server ?

2001-09-23 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 23 September 2001 04:29 pm, George wrote: > Heya People, > > I was wondering if there's any way I can get my linux box/server/gateway to > to act as a something similar to a print server. Sure. > Basically, I've got my windows box, 2 linux boxen, and a freebsd box all > hooked up to the

Re: Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:39:17PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > Here is a new twist. When I log in as root, I get > enlightenment, despite all the suggested changes. When > I log in as a user, I get icewm. I have an .xinitrc file in each user's home directory which I created manually. It looks li

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 23 September 2001 05:34 pm, Charles Franks wrote: > Generally in a network environment you want to 'strap' ports to > speed/duplex settings and avoid autonegotiate as this can cause problems... > when both ends are set to 'auto' it almost always causes problems such as > links re-negotiat

Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sidney Brooks
Here is a new twist. When I log in as root, I get enlightenment, despite all the suggested changes. When I log in as a user, I get icewm. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Charles Franks
Generally in a network environment you want to 'strap' ports to speed/duplex settings and avoid autonegotiate as this can cause problems... when both ends are set to 'auto' it almost always causes problems such as links re-negotiating out of the blue.. this kinda sounds like what you are experienci

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
Well, that's all gone through and worked - not quite as simple as I thought, but I got there. Network performance seems a little faster than before but still a little slow compared with what I thought would have been possible with a 100TX crossover network. Must be a limitation of the cheap cards.

intro and question about ddclient

2001-09-23 Thread Christy Schulte
Hi all, Quick intro and then a question :P. My name is Christy, and I have been using computers since about 1994 back when dos was popular :P. So I'm familiar with command line work. I've done a little fooling around with Linux, mostly redhat until recently, but this is the furthest I've ever gott

Re: GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread csj
You seem to have it working pretty well. -- Neo: I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a wor

Re. Windoe Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sidney Brooks
Enlightenment does not yield easily. To give .xinitrc a full chance, I used chmod +x on it, rebooted, and still got enlightenment. Then, I followed the guidance of Shawn Lamson. I created /home/.xsession with the text icewm and after saving it, I used chmod +x. When I rebooted, I still got enligh

Re: kernel problems -- boot and network

2001-09-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:54:38PM -0400, Rossy Roman Salgado wrote: | On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, dman wrote: | > I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and | > network. First some background : ... | Did you include into your custom kernel drivers for IDE disks and ext2 | filesyst

Re: magicfilter simple question

2001-09-23 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:16:44PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > > I installed magicfilter and setup 2 remote printers. > What would be the best way to add a 3rd printer? > also, how do you set the default printer? > > Before, I would just blow away /etc/printcap > and then add all 3 prin

Re: proftpd is burning me after upgrade

2001-09-23 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:18:06AM -0700, John wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:22:46AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:18:24PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I am getting a message just starting proftpd daemon after upgrade the > > > package. > > > It's "No

Re: More on the font problem

2001-09-23 Thread Akintayo Holder
Stephen Gran wrote: Thus spake Mark Fox: Greetings: Oops. Here's the picture that I should have attached. Mark A. Fox Hey - There's been a lot of discussion on this, as it seems to be a very common break in switching from X 4.0 to 4.1 - check the list archives for font problems.

Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread xio
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:37:00PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > A.R. (Tom) Peters([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Does Debian 2.2 r0 support the ReiserFS? How can i do it? I can't find > > > this option in fdisk, but kernel 2.4.

Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sidney Brooks
Following Ano Nim, I created /home/.xinitrc with the text icewm and,lo and behold, when I start Debian, I still get enlightenment. I am not sure what to do with the meassage from Stephen Gran. I downloaded the attachment and have a binary file that I don't know how to handle. The gnome instructio

Print Server ?

2001-09-23 Thread George
Heya People,   I was wondering if there's any way I can get my linux box/server/gateway to to act as a something similar to a print server.   Basically, I've got my windows box, 2 linux boxen, and a freebsd box all hooked up to the server and the server is connected via parallel to the prin

icewm

2001-09-23 Thread Shawn Lamson
hi sydney - if you log in as sbrooks for example, and your home directory is /home/sbrooks then you need to execute a shell window- either go to a virtual terminal via pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 - or in one of your application menus in Enlightenment find "xterm" "gnome-xterm" or similar. this gives yo

Re: GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:09:55PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Is there any particular reason you are sending encrypted email to a public mailing list? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "Pretty soon, massive bloat is the industry standard and everyon

dselect

2001-09-23 Thread Wolfgang Hlawatsch
There must be some undocumented functin in dselect. I have two machines, and both of them have different access-methods. How can I change the access method since I want to install by a remote CD, which option is not shown. In the manpage this option is mentioned, but this function is not availab

[kellyh@clara.co.uk: Re: xvidtune & XFree]

2001-09-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Hello again, > Harvey Kelly([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm trying to configure X - but the problem is that I can get everything > > fine, except the screen is way off to the left. I use xvidtune to alter it > > so it's perfect, but how do I save my

Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread Wayne Topa
A.R. (Tom) Peters([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does Debian 2.2 r0 support the ReiserFS? How can i do it? I can't find > > this option in fdisk, but kernel 2.4.9 support it. > > Reiser warns to avoid 2.4.9, put recent .10-pre p

GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
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Re: HDD Kernel messages...

2001-09-23 Thread Eamon Roque
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:51:54AM +0200, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following kernel messages mainly after boot up. > > kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > My kernel is 2.4.9 and is

Re: Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
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Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sidney Brooks
I still have troubles. Following noahm, I used "update-alternatives --config x-window-manager" to reset the window manager to icewm. Despite this change, when I shut down and restarted, it still went into enlightenment. When I used locate .xsession, the only thing that I found was .xsession-errors

CD Burner permissions

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
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Re: Font problem with some X progs

2001-09-23 Thread Ari Pollak
>From the latest Debian X FAQ: A long-standing bug in many X clients and the widget libraries they use was recently brought to light by the addition of fonts encoded in ISO 10646-1 ("Unicode" in common parlance) to the X Window System. The details are highly technical. The short answer: It's a b

Re: Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:46:58AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I got myself in trouble by playing around with the window manager. I > changed from icewm to enlightenment. Now, I find that enlightenment > is not as good and I want to go back to icewm. In older versions of > Debian, all you had t

Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sidney Brooks
I got myself in trouble by playing around with the window manager. I changed from icewm to enlightenment. Now, I find that enlightenment is not as good and I want to go back to icewm. In older versions of Debian, all you had to do was edit /etc/X11/window-managers. With potato, I do not have this f

Re: Cable on Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 13:34, Reza wrote: > hi... > Actually I got static IP from rogers, but the weird > thing is instead of having clientd-id as my hostname, > I got my computer name in the host.. so, can you > please help me in details? So you actually call if-up with static in the /etc/interfa

Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-23 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 23 September 2001 02:28 pm, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anyone run a matrox g450? > I've got one working with kernel 2.4.8 and X 4.1.0, but it did > hang my box once. Maybe I should be using the drivers from the > Matrox site instead? The Matrox drivers need the code for X > 4.0.2/

matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-23 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone run a matrox g450? I've got one working with kernel 2.4.8 and X 4.1.0, but it did hang my box once. Maybe I should be using the drivers from the Matrox site instead? The Matrox drivers need the code for X 4.0.2/4.0.3 to compile. I know, I know, I should just try it and see, but

Re: GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
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GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
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Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:43:49PM +0200 or thereabouts, A.R. (Tom) Peters > wrote: > > Reiser warns to avoid 2.4.9, put recent .10-pre patches work fine. I am > > using .10-pre9 that seems to work well thusfar. I did not need to use > > additional pa

Re: Cable on Linux

2001-09-23 Thread pemhuygen
Reza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > I just subscribed a cable, but I don't know how to get > connected now.. can anyone please help me? As far as I know, it is very simple to connect to a cable internet connection. The provider supplies you with a "cable modem", i.e. a converter from the relay cabl

Re: HDD Kernel messages...

2001-09-23 Thread Rossy Roman Salgado
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following kernel messages mainly after boot up. > > kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > My kernel is 2.4.9 and is configured to use m

Re: Cable on Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 12:41, Reza wrote: > hi.. I need a problem here.. Ok ... lesse here ... wait, you want us to GIVE you a problem? ;> > I just subscribed a cable, but I don't know how to get > connected now.. can anyone please help me? just for > additional, I got cable from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HDD Kernel messages...

2001-09-23 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 23 September 2001 05:51 am, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following kernel messages mainly after boot up. > > kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Oh no. :( Last time I had a SeekCo

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
Yes, it's a 2.4.9 kernel on both machines with the included natsemi driver. dmesg reports much the same for both machines: eth0: link is back. Enabling watchdog. eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. eth0: Link changed: Autonegotiation advertising 05e1 partner . eth0

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:34:30PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: | On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:26:06PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | > > Sure, stable is always well tested, but by the time it becomes available | > > the software included in it is so old that nobody wants to run it | > > anymore. | >

Re: m86k Xwindow

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:44:00PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Let's see - I'm not sure how you're trying to open /proc/bus/pci/devices It doesn't matter at all how he's trying to open the file. He's running on a 68040 Mac. It doesn't *have* a PCI bus, so there won't be a /proc/bus/pci/devic

Re: kernel problems -- boot and network

2001-09-23 Thread Rossy Roman Salgado
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, dman wrote: > > I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and > network. First some background : > > I now have a laptop (Dell 7500) at work that I am allowed to install > Debian (woohoo!). The install went great. I used a potato cd (2.2r2) > then swi

Re: DSL connection has stopped working in Debian.

2001-09-23 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 23 September 2001 05:50 am, Jack Andrews wrote: My only question is have you run apt-get lately? Maybe a package was updated and something changed. I would've suggested checking the cable, but if you can ping then it's probably fine, so I'm at a loss. That's pretty weird. I think i

Re: m86k Xwindow

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake mmissett: > Stephen, > Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, trying that fix did not appear to make > any difference. Specifically, the "startx" command produces 'command not > found", as it always has. One further clue, though: Since anXious says it > cannot open /proc/bus/pci/devi

Cable on Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Reza
hi.. I need a problem here.. I just subscribed a cable, but I don't know how to get connected now.. can anyone please help me? just for additional, I got cable from [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, I hope you want to help me, Thanks Reza __ Do You Yahoo!? Get

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > I've just set up a 100TX network with 2 computer both running debian. > Netgear FA311 cards and a single cross-over cable. What version of the kernel are you running? If it's 2.4, are you running the natsemi driver included with t

Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay Guys, I've just set up a 100TX network with 2 computer both running debian. Netgear FA311 cards and a single cross-over cable. Generally it runs well, but occasionally I get weird freezed - using dselect via an ssh session suffers from freezing of the session for a minute or two every now and

Re: [tpeters@xs4all.nl: XF86 on Debian documentation]

2001-09-23 Thread Steve Kowalik
> On debian-user someone suggested that this is configured in > /etc/X11/Xserver, but I believe that that file is obsoleted: it is not in > my new install, `dpkg -S` doesn't know about it (apparently on my old > installation it is a relict of a previous Debian version), and I cannot > find it docum

Re: proftpd is burning me after upgrade

2001-09-23 Thread John
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:22:46AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:18:24PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > >I am getting a message just starting proftpd daemon after upgrade the > > package. > > It's "No certificate files found!". > Sure that it is from p

Re: etherconf reconf

2001-09-23 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > c) How do I update my keyboard and language setting from us to > norwegian? > > I think: dpkg-reconfigure console-data should do it Thanks, Hereward pgpxYeutHhdqW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:43:49PM +0200 or thereabouts, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does Debian 2.2 r0 support the ReiserFS? How can i do it? I can't find > > this option in fdisk, but kernel 2.4.9 support it. > any filesystem support is done vi

Re: horrible harddrive performance

2001-09-23 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:44:10PM +0200 or thereabouts, Timeboy wrote: > > > ** ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 > > Which kernel is running on this system? Sorry if my idea has nothing to do > with your trouble. But i had a similar problem with my new Abit mainboard. > And i used a

Re: More on the font problem

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Mark Fox: > Greetings: > > Oops. Here's the picture that I should have attached. > Mark A. Fox Hey - There's been a lot of discussion on this, as it seems to be a very common break in switching from X 4.0 to 4.1 - check the list archives for font problems. The general consensu

Re: Way OT: getting values of list of variables

2001-09-23 Thread Jeremy
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:27:16AM -0500, Jeremy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm sorry about this being so OT, but I've been searching around in > > documentation (man pages, books, scripting HOWTOs, etc) for a several hours > > now, and I can't fi

More on the font problem

2001-09-23 Thread Mark Fox
Greetings: Oops. Here's the picture that I should have attached. Mark A. Fox font_problem.png Description: PNG image

Font problem with some X progs

2001-09-23 Thread Mark Fox
Greetings: About a month ago I started to see font problems in some X programs. Instead of characters I see squares. I've attached a PNG picture, of XEphem, which displays the problem. I've also seen this problem in 'gnapster', although some fonts display just fine. The problem

Re: etherconf reconf

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Tarjei Huse: > Hi, > > this may sound like a stupid questions, but I'm a bit new to debian. > > I've installed debian via the progeny debian distro. Thereafter I changed my > sources.list to debian unstable and did a lot of dist-upgrades etc. > > The problems I am wondering about are

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:26:06PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Sure, stable is always well tested, but by the time it becomes available > > the software included in it is so old that nobody wants to run it > > anymore. > > Well, almost. I run Potato on machines that I don't generally want to l

Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)

2001-09-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 21 Sep 2001, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if there is Mozilla package somewhere that is newer than > the Debian M18 that is in the standard mirror locations. I want to try > multizilla which would like 0.92 or 0.94. I compiled mozilla 0.92 and 0.93 from deb sources (I'm cur

Re: apache .htpasswd problems

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
How about the /etc/apache/access.conf? Check the Options and AllowOverride sections. I think the AllowOverride is set to "None" by default. I had to change and restart apache. At 05:11 PM 9/23/01 +0200, you wrote: hi dudes, trying to get apache to authorize users through .htaccess. this isn

Re: m86k Xwindow

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake mmissett: > I am new to this and have been trying to get some sort of GUI installed and > running. I think I have succeeded in getting at least some bits installed, > but I have yet to get anything to work, and would appreciate a bit of > guidance. First off, the computer in questio

Re: apache .htpasswd problems

2001-09-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:11:44 +0200, Martin F Krafft writes: >trying to get apache to authorize users through .htaccess. this isn't >my first time, but it's not working and i am clueless. > >i can either configure the following settings via .htaccess (having >set AllowOverride AuthConfig for Direct

[tpeters@xs4all.nl: XF86 on Debian documentation]

2001-09-23 Thread Branden Robinson
Would someone please help this gentleman out? -- G. Branden Robinson|Damnit, we're all going to die; Debian GNU/Linux |let's die doing something *useful*! [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Hal Clement, on comments that http://people.debian.org/~br

Re: xfonts packages broken?

2001-09-23 Thread Charles Baker
I had similar problems with fonts. It turned out that since I didn't initially do an dist-upgrade to woody, and probably since I was running X and apt-get from a virtual tty, that some parts of Xfree86 3.x were installed along with the 4.x fonts. The 3.x Xserver was in some instances confused by th

Re: text in menu bars has turned to hash marked boxes

2001-09-23 Thread Charles Baker
I saw that too. I had similar problems with fonts. It turned out that since I didn't initial do an dist-upgrade to woody, and probably since I was running X and apt-get from a virtual tty, that some parts of Xfree86 3.x were installed along with the 4.x fonts. The 3.x Xserver was in some instances

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-23 Thread Sunny Dubey
On Saturday 22 September 2001 01:59 pm, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". so it should be like windows where it just grows all the time right?? > If > you wan

Re: apache .htpasswd problems

2001-09-23 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Jens Gecius (on Sun, 23 Sep 2001 11:19:04AM -0400): > Do you have a 'loadmodule sys_auth_module ...' in your http.conf? > > If yes, comment it out. That was what my box didn't like back when I > had the problem to get the user-auth to work at all. i do have that in my httpd.conf, but

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