dhcp-client modifies resolv.conf

Hello: In my home machine (sid+dhcp-client 3.0final-1+kernel 2.4.x), /etc/resolv.conf does not get modified when I do a 'networking daemon restart'. At a location machine (potato+dhcp-client 2.0pl4-2+kernel 2.4.x), the same gets modified with entries of the service provider's DNS nu

Solved: xinetd refuse connect

I am cutting out the past writing in the interest space. The answer turned on the xinetd entry, hosts.allow, and hosts.deny. Thanks Mike, for suggesting xinetd configuration issues. I was thinking in terms of one machine providing the proper information to another. I had the wait line in the rs

Re: A libpng problem (i think)...

Eric G. Miller I don't think you understand just how much I love you right now :) after you made me think of ldd, i went looking and i found some older libraries in /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib. I removed those libraries, and i think things are working now :) so far so good :) and it was wit

Re: A libpng problem (i think)...

i don't really understand what you're trying to say...I too have version 1.9.11-3 of gdk-imlib1 (i'm assuming that's the package of which you were referring to). What were you saying about ldd, i don't quite understand. --

Re: A libpng problem (i think)...

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:36:28 -0500 (EST) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the past week or two I've been getting a bunch of errors (all of which > are the same, just a different file name) that makes it so I can't do much > of anything with E, Gnome, XPlanet, Gkrellm, and proba

Re: Eth0 detected in dmesg, but not by 'route add'

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 15:48, nate wrote: > tom schuetz said: > > > I am confused, and would appreciate some advice. > > include a full copy of dmesg output maybe i can help. plus ifconfig /etc/network/interfaces and route output please. --mike

Re: Quake 3 Framerate Issue

Deven, Do you have dri installed and working? Sounds like you are running software open-gl. Read this at debianplanet for howto info: http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=163&mode=thread&order=0 Best regards, --Nate Custer On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 17:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

Re: network card problem

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:59, Richard Weil wrote: > I tried this and still no progress ... I think the > problem must be from the cards using the same I/O > address. I noticed that on bootup, before the first of > two error messages related to eth1, it says: > > SIOCSIFADDR > > and then before the

Re: customized debian cd

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 12:55, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 12-Nov-2001 Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to made a customized debian cd. Can I dpkg --get-selections to > > get my installed package selection and put all of them into 1 or 2 CDs? > > Is it possible? How? > > > >

Where to find Debian kernel patches?

There's s README.Debian file in the kernel-source packages which lists a variety of patches that have been applied to the source. Where can I find those patches? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

Cam Ellison, 2001-Nov-12 16:37 -0800: > > > > Nov 12 10:51:47 white kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 > > > 24.8.30.89:13 > > > 7 24.8.30.255:137 L=96 S=0x00 I=148 F=0x T=64 (#7) > > > > Looks like you firewall is denying and logging packets it's > > recieving for the qotd protocol

Re: Q3 Horrific Lag on VooDoo 3 [ PLEASE HELP!! ]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, sorry for the extreme subject. Not sure if my last message got through. I > installed Quake 3's linux demo, mesag3-glide2, but when I run it, it runs at > 1fps! I have seen 2 other people online with this problem, but no one had a > solution. The best thing I heard

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

[Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:40:16PM -0800] Paul 'Baloo' Johnson : > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote: > > > one that I think is coming from my cablemodem itself (?). > > What's the source IP on the one you think is your cable modem? I > don't *think* any models generate traffic on their own

A libpng problem (i think)...

For the past week or two I've been getting a bunch of errors (all of which are the same, just a different file name) that makes it so I can't do much of anything with E, Gnome, XPlanet, Gkrellm, and probably a lot more that I don't know of. I've waited this long hopeing some upgrades and dist-upgra

Re: GNUPG and multiple keyservers?

Thus spake Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Basically what I would like to do is have GNUPG request a key from > keyring.debian.org and if it's not found then try > seattle.keyserver.net. An alternate, somewhat-similar suggestion would be to use seattle.keyserver.net as your keyserver but do th

galeon libgnomevfs-pthread.so not found?

Trying to install galeon. It installs fine but when I try to run I get GNOME-VFS-ERROR **: Could not open libgnomevfs-pthread.so ... How can I fix this? Lance

Re: Unable to umount filesystem whe shutting down

[sorry, can't find the original post, so no quoting] Try going to single-user mode (init 1) and then use 'fuser' (I forget the options) to find open files. You should be able to figure out which process is using the open file(s) that may be the reason the partition is not unmounting. -- Justin

Re: Cron & At Permissions

Thank you very much, Andras. Andras BALI wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:04:52PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > > > When my system boots and when I try to create an `at` job, I see > > `at` permission errors. I am running the latest potato. > > > Here is what I have. Is this wrong? >

setting up mirror

i'm working to set up a local mirror so the machines on my intranet can apt-get from a local mirror. i've successfully set up the mirror at /misc/debian. ftp is disabled on this machine, but there is access through port 80. so, i've set up the following in each machine's /etc/apt/sources.list fi

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

Lo, on Monday, November 12, Cheryl Homiak did write: > Ok, fitst I checked and made sure I do have a dynamic isp. I do. > Secondly, I now have got it to recognize my fqdn as > maranatha.chartermi.net and my dnsdomainname as chartermi.net. > However, if I put localhost in between the "127.0.0.1 an

apt-get question

hi all i am trying to download packages from http://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US/, using apt-setup, it update the packages lists and after it don't work with apt-get , the error occured like apt-get -f install deity Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package deity

Re: network card problem

I tried this and still no progress ... I think the problem must be from the cards using the same I/O address. I noticed that on bootup, before the first of two error messages related to eth1, it says: SIOCSIFADDR and then before the 2nd error: SIOCSIFNETMASK COuld this give an indication to the

Q3 Horrific Lag on VooDoo 3 [ PLEASE HELP!! ]

Hi, sorry for the extreme subject. Not sure if my last message got through. I installed Quake 3's linux demo, mesag3-glide2, but when I run it, it runs at 1fps! I have seen 2 other people online with this problem, but no one had a solution. The best thing I heard was "it can't find libGL.so" so

Re: xinetd refuse connect

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 11:43, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 12:16, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am trying to run an rsync server from xinetd. I have a desktop > > > connected via eth0 to a DSL line and

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote: > I can think of 2 things that may be at issue: 1) your cable > modem could be losing it's registration on the cable loop, which > means the cable head-end no longer see's it on the loop and stops > forwarding traffic onto the loop for it until it recieves > regis

Re: Freeze on HD access during boot (installer kernel)

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Carl Fink wrote: > My system board died, and I've replaced it with a new Biostar board > and AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz. Now I'm trying to boot up. VIA686a/b chipset? If yes, you either need a very very new 2.4.x kernel, or the "Athlon bug stomper" patch, or to NOT optimize the kerne

Re: Reiser and Potato

\ > I can't be the first person to find themselves in this quandry. Any > suggested approaches? i run reiserfs on a few systems, 3 of them are on 220GB partitions(raid10 arrays). what i do is download the kernelsource and patches that i like, install them. compile the utils (they are included w

java2?

Hey people. I notice that jdk1.1 is in unstable, and I was wondering if Debian ever plans to include Java2. Is there a licensing issue I don't know about? Cheers, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to in

Debian Install fails to bring up X windows

Hello, I have created distribution cd's for 2.2_r4 - lists from UK, bits from ftp.us.debian.org and rsync via archive.progeny.com and appear to have a successful build. I am trying to install on an Omnibook 6100 (hp) and have also tried a vectra ( desktop 386) and am having errors on a number of

Re: Vim help file problem

Marc Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:00:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Error detected while processing function GZIP_read: > > line3: > > E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off > > E434: Can't find tag pattern > > I had to remove stuff

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

* Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Michael Patterson, 2001-Nov-12 11:14 -0700: > > > Does it take a long time to initially make the connection to a > > > web site and then after it finally connects the web page popps up > > > quickly? > > > > Nov 12 10:51:47 white kernel: Packet log: input DE

RE: apt-get problem

Ha! Excellent! I was very much concerned that any such mass-deletions on my part might cause an irreparable disagreement between the installed-version database and reality. Many thanks. I will try it tonight, and if there are any further problems I will post again. Many thanks, Aniartia-san. Cur

Re: apt-get problem

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 00:12, Howland, Curtis wrote: > > Hi. Last night I was doing a Woody install of some various Japanese > > and Chinese language input software, as well as the incremental > > updates. It was a 5 hour download, so I went to sleep to deal with it > > in the morning. > > > >

adding APT sources

The nice blue and white ncurses interface you get on an initial debian install where you get the choice of adding another package source or continuing the install - is it possible to run this on an up and running system, or must new sources be added manually? Thanks again, H.

Re: network card problem

Hi, Richard I don't know if it could help you but I got the same problem to put my second nic recognized by the kernel 2.2.19. By default, the kernel would only use one nic (eth0) . I said by "default" this means the feature . That was I learned from few month

Re: vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

Stephen Gran wrote: Thus spake Eric Richardson: The problem I had is that XMMS 1.2.5 is needed to use the ogg plugin and this won't compile as it needs: gnomexmms.c:24: applet-widget.h: No such file or directory That comes from libpanel-applet-dev. :-) Wouldn't you know someone would l

re: apt-get problem

Sumimasen, please address any replies directly and to the list, I cannot subscribe to the list directly at work. Sorry for any inconvenience. Curt- --- Curt Howland +81-3-5772-5832 KVH Telecom Japan, Ltd.IDC Division

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

Michael Patterson, 2001-Nov-12 11:14 -0700: > > Does it take a long time to initially make the connection to a > > web site and then after it finally connects the web page popps up > > quickly? > > The web page takes a noticable, but not prohibitively long time to connect. > it appears that the si

apt-get problem

> Hi. Last night I was doing a Woody install of some various Japanese > and Chinese language input software, as well as the incremental > updates. It was a 5 hour download, so I went to sleep to deal with it > in the morning. > > However, the dial-up session died during the night, and more than ha

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

Thus spake Mark Seven Smith: > I ordered install CD's for Debian (prob. a year ago), and > found that my video card wasn't supported...it WAS > supported in Red Hat, and SuSE, so I used SuSE for awhile > (I had used RH5.2 and 6.1 before that), and now I am > running RH7.1. > > What I WANT to d

Quake 3 Framerate Issue

Hi, a bit off topic I know, but here goes. I've got a Duron 880mhz with 196mb RAM, VooDoo 3, and kernel 2.4.5. When I run the Quake 3 demo, I get a framerate of about 1-2 fps. I checked the readme and it says to change the X server's color setting to 16 bpp. I did this, but it still does it! Doe

Re: DC Modem

No, sorry, Sega isn't about to support Linux on the DC, let alone modem Linux drivers. They won't even make the machine anymore. You may be able to do it with the Broadband Adapter though. -- Deven Gallo In a message dated 11/12/01 6:23:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

Thus spake Eric Richardson: > Stan Brown wrote: > > >I'm trying to get abcde working on a potato + progeny + 2.4.3 kernel > >machine.. I actually have it working using lame, but In the spirit of > >Debian, I'd like to get rid of the questionable mp3 format. > > > >I grab vorbis from sourceforg, bu

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Timothy Webster wrote: > This brings to mind a much bigger question. > Package configuration tool that using debian dependences to construct > config files. It would be nice to have general package configuration > tool that could read rules from the deb pac

Announcement: Automatic ATLAS support under Debian GNU/Linux

[ If this is considered off-topic please let me know in private mail. ] With the current version of the glibc library in Debian's "testing" and "unstable" distributions, ldconfig now loads the ATLAS optimised BLAS without any user intervention beyond installation of the Atlas and R or Octave pack

Re: artsc.h ?

Thus spake Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > > On 12-Nov-2001 Stan Brown wrote: > > I'm trying to build vorbis for my potato + Progeny + 2.4 kernel machine. > > > > All goes OK, except that the build of libao fails because it cannot locate > > something called artsc.h Anyone know what package has this inclu

Re: svg authoring

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:23:52 +0100 Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a debian package for a scalable vector graphics authoring > tool? sodipodi? It's a GNOME program. Never tried it myself, but it reportedly uses SVG as it's native file format. -- Eric G. Miller

Re: [debian-user] licq wont send messages

On Friday 09 November 2001 06:41, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > > Q: I'm trying to use a direct TCP connection. > > A: The newest Windows ICQ has set, and will set upon upgrade, the option >"ignore connections from older clients". > > S: Educate your windows users to switch it off. I spend most o

Re: bastille deb

I've used it and it worked fine. The package installed without any problem and I was able to run through the configuration script without a hitch. I'm using woody with a dash of sid. --kurt On Monday 12 November 2001 12:23 pm, Charles Baker wrote: > Has anyone used the Bastille deb package? If

installation problem

I am a newbie and I am performing my first Debian installation on a Athlon 900. At the end (I have already rebooted the system and installed all the packages) PC asked me to configure Xwindow and graphical mode. Now I was in a jam 'cause: _X11Trans SocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X1

Re: XFree86 4

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 05:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, does anyone know where I can get XF86 version 4 servers for > Debian? Thanks. apt-get install xserver-xfree86 -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

svg authoring

Is there a debian package for a scalable vector graphics authoring tool? -- Eric Smith

Re: Cron & At Permissions

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:04:52PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > When my system boots and when I try to create an `at` job, I see > `at` permission errors. I am running the latest potato. > Here is what I have. Is this wrong? Yes. The /var/spool/cron directory should be 0755. $ ls -l /var

Re: 404 Not Found when upgrading to unstable

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:43:34PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: > Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main binutils 2.11.92.0.10-3 > 404 Not Found The reason is: $ ncftpls ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ | head -1 Archive-Update-in-Progress-open.hands.com $ The archive is just being updated, th

Reiser and Potato

I've searched the mailing list and see that this has come up before, but I haven't quite found the answer I'm looking for. I'm new to debian, so still getting to grips with apt and dselect. What I'd like to do is build a stable machine so potato is fine. However, the only non-stable thing I nee

Re: LILO splash screen

Hi, Walter Hofmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does > anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps? I have created a Debian-Splash-Screen for lilo, you can find it at http://freakzone.net/gordon/ together with a short explanation how

404 Not Found when upgrading to unstable

I am upgrading as follows: deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main non-free contrib I tried to install firstly debconf and apt-options and got this: Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main binutils

Re: Eth0 detected in dmesg, but not by 'route add'

tom schuetz said: > I am confused, and would appreciate some advice. include a full copy of dmesg output maybe i can help. nate

Re: network card problem

I installed the 3c5x9utils package as suggested and I think it's indicating the problem, but I'm not sure how to interpret the results (or what to do about it). I run the diagnostic and it finds both cards. The output is approx.: Generating the activation sequence on port 0x100 for card 1 Activati

Problems with NFS client-woody server-potato

The following error is showing up in syslog. I Nov 12 15:11:46 fred rpc.statd[196]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from fred for 192.168.1.1 SErver lsmod - potato nfsd 160536 0 (unused) nfs43820 0 (unused) lockd 41720 0 [nfsd

XFree86 4

Hi, does anyone know where I can get XF86 version 4 servers for Debian? Thanks. -- Deven Gallo

lilo conflict command line opt./conf.file

Hello! In some occasions I want to boot Linux with less memory than is physically available. But as I have more than 64MB of RAM I have constantly added the command append="mem=256M" to my lilo.conf. If now I would additionally add the command line option mem=32M how much memory would my syste

I can only print half a page, USB *or* parallel

I am using a 'testing' workstation at home, and I've been trying to get CUPS (cupsys v1.1.10-4) working. The problem is that I can print about half of a test page before the printer hangs indefinitely. The *really* frustrating part is that I've tried several kernel versions (2.2.19, 2.4.9, 2.4.12

Quake 2 Video Failure

Whenever I try to initialize Quake 2, it says it can't find ref_softx.so. It's right there in the directory with the binary. I copied all the libraries to /lib and /usr/lib and even usr/local/lib, but it won't work. I copied quake2.conf to etc/ and made a symlink to pak0.pak from my DOS partitio

XF86 4

Hi, does anyone know where I can get XF86 version 4 servers for Debian? Thanks. -- Deven Gallo

Eth0 detected in dmesg, but not by 'route add'

I'm trying to hook up via crossover cable to an NT box. Got a realtek8019, properly configured, etc. It's reported in dmesg, no problem. I can ping the local host (*.*.*.1) and the network (*.*.*.0) successfully. I cannot ping the NT host (*.*.*.2) When I do 'ROUTE ADD -NET [...anything]' I g

Re: network card problem

On Monday 12 November 2001 10:51 am, Richard Weil wrote: > I just installed a second network card in a machine in > which the first card runs fine. Both cards are old > 3Com 3c509b cards. I added the second card to > /etc/network/interfaces with an address and netmask, > but I can't get the machine

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

> how can I install Debian on my second drive, without > having > to go through the install procedure (which is unless you hace the full working debian system, you can transfer it onto the second drive and edit using cp -a or some other method that jas been discussed in this mailing list last mon

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

Mark Seven Smith said: [..] > > how can I install Debian on my second drive, without having > to go through the install procedure (which is incompatible > in *text mode* with my video card)? [..] > cable modem, ATI Rage 128 video card i can't imagine an ati rage 128 not working with the debian in

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

Mark Seven Smith wrote: ... > What I WANT to do, is to install the latest Debian version > onto a second hard drive that I have; then I will put that > hard drive as drive hda, and use the second drive (the one > that now has Red Hat) as my /home directory. > > That being said--what I want to know

Re: fake a netscape 4 browser with galeon?

I found the following line in ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/prefs.js: user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/0.12.4 (Linux i686) Gecko/20011019"); Looks like you might be able to change this by hand. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Confusing problem installing XFree86 4.1.0

I downloaded the XFree86 4.1.0 installation packages provided at: http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/i386/ and burned them to CD.(My Winmodem doesn't work in Linux; I have a new modem arriving soon) I ran apt-cdrom and added that CD to the sources, then ran apt-get dist-upgrade x-windo

Converting From Red Hat to Debian

I ordered install CD's for Debian (prob. a year ago), and found that my video card wasn't supported...it WAS supported in Red Hat, and SuSE, so I used SuSE for awhile (I had used RH5.2 and 6.1 before that), and now I am running RH7.1. What I WANT to do, is to install the latest Debian version

bastille deb

Has anyone used the Bastille deb package? If so, what were the results? I have used Bastille on Redhat and Mandrake systems, but haven't seen anything about using it on Debian systems. = - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html _

Re: Stable IM client in debian

Apologies for the quoting style, I'm stuck in Outlook at the moment... jabber.com run a status page on support.jabber.com. AIM: AOL have explicity blocked all clients except their own most recent. This way the get to advertise in your client. ICQ: There appears to be issues when connecting to th

Re: How Do I Reinstall A Package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 November 2001 10:03 am, David Harrigan wrote: > Hello, > > How do I reinstall a package? I've tried something along the lines of: > > apt-get install kdelibs3 (for example) > but did you try apt-get --reinstall install kdelibs3

Re: galeon crashing consistently on unstable?

Nevermind, it's already been filed as a bug against libgnomeui32. Read this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=116004&repeatmerged=yes -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: LILO splash screen

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Benjamin Drieu wrote: > > Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does > > anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps? > > Perhaps you will be happy with > http://www.73lab.com/index.php?menu_item=4&curr_lang=1&page= The logos there seem to be for man

Re: galeon crashing consistently on unstable?

Timothy Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Folks > > I decided to try galeon again about a month ago, and it has done very > well except for one thing: any time I try to access Preferences > (under Settings) it crashes, printing to the shell the lines > > GnomeUI-ERROR **: file gnome-icon-i

Re: GDM error

interesting that you mention that. I updated some gtk-engines files as well this morning, and it broke on the reboot afterwards shaya - Original Message - From: "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 1:05 PM Subject: Re: GDM error | Shaya Potter wrot

network card problem

I just installed a second network card in a machine in which the first card runs fine. Both cards are old 3Com 3c509b cards. I added the second card to /etc/network/interfaces with an address and netmask, but I can't get the machine to recongize it. On bootup, the messages seem to indicate that it

Re: Vim help file problem

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:00:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Error detected while processing function GZIP_read: > line3: > E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off > E434: Can't find tag pattern I had to remove stuff I had in ~/.vimrc dealing with reading/writing gzipped files in order

Freeze on HD access during boot (installer kernel)

My system board died, and I've replaced it with a new Biostar board and AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz. Now I'm trying to boot up. Booting from my old LILO/boot partition on the EIDE hard drive freezes the system, along with flashing geometric color designs on the monitor. Booting from floppy works fine unt

Re: rsync with ssh problem

Quoting Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Brian, I usually get that message when rsync isn't installed on my "remote" computer. Perhaps double check rsync is installed on both machines. Using ssh with rsync is cool. I usually setup a seperate key to go along with ssh and rsync. The key created

Re: Stable IM client in debian

Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 17:44, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > My real question should be, if I use gabber for my icq stuff, will my > > message be delivered reliably. If not, any other alternative? thanx. > > your help was/is appreciated =) > > Sadely no.

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

Mariusz: Thanks, this corrected the problem. Now it seems that a bug-report should be filed. But which package is at fault? xfonts-base was not a package that got upgraded. So, an update from one of yesterday's changes caused the fonts directories to get wiped. an update-fonts-alias (as s

Re: LILO splash screen

> Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does > anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps? Perhaps you will be happy with http://www.73lab.com/index.php?menu_item=4&curr_lang=1&page= -- o Benjamin Drieu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

XFree86-4: Could not init font path element unix/:7100

Hello This time I write becaus I can't open gnome. It seem that at last I've got the right configuration for the mouse and the video, but when I start X I get a blue Screen with 4 small buttons in the top left corner: Client List - Session Log - Checkpoint - Shutdown. In /etc/X11/Xsession I've

LILO splash screen

Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps? Walter

Re: XFree86 problem on Woody

Rachel Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I still have an unresolved problem with XFree86. > > If I try to startx using XF86Config-4 it gets to the point of adding > mouse drivers and then crashes with a Signal 11 error. There are no > other errors apart from something to do with APM an

Re: How do one install gnome?

Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/11/2001 (18:29) : If this does not work apt-get install a_package_that_requires_gnome yes, but this won't install all packages necessarily. This should install gnome. Frank --

Vim help file problem

Debian 2.3 (woody) vim 6.0.011-3 vim-rt none available for vim 6.0 When in vim ':help' gives the following errors: Error detected while processing function GZIP_read: line3: E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off E434: Can't find tag pattern I have commented out the first 10 line

Re: customized debian cd

On 12-Nov-2001 Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to made a customized debian cd. Can I dpkg --get-selections to > get my installed package selection and put all of them into 1 or 2 CDs? > Is it possible? How? > I forget the name of it, but there is even a package that will do it. Sear

Re: vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

Stan Brown wrote: I'm trying to get abcde working on a potato + progeny + 2.4.3 kernel machine.. I actually have it working using lame, but In the spirit of Debian, I'd like to get rid of the questionable mp3 format. I grab vorbis from sourceforg, but I had a problem getting one of the librarie

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

You have a copy choices. Edit XF86Config-4 and commnet out the font line or better still get the required font. This brings to mind a much bigger question. Package configuration tool that using debian dependences to construct config files. It would be nice to have general package configuration to

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

On Monday 12 Nov 2001 6:35 pm, fea wrote: > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > Any help appreciated. Try update-fonts-alias as root in the misc fonts directory (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc). That worked for me (or I think that was what fixed it -- I was thrashing a

Re: Stable IM client in debian

» Ross Burton disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 17:44, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > My real question should be, if I use gabber for my icq stuff, will my > > message be delivered reliably. If not, any other alternative? thanx. > > your help was/is appreciated =) > > Sadely no

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:35, fea wrote: > I currently use Debian/Sid/Unstable primarily in order to use > KDE 2.2.x (yes I know I deserve this, but it is so hard to resist). > Most of the time things are stable. However, an upgrade today > broke X for me. I have seen a couple of other folks with

RE: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

> What distro is this? I remember dhcp-client from potato didn't work so > well for me, but the one from Woody has been great - same provider, so > we're all in the same boat with the (maybe) impending bankruptcy. I > would look in other places if the static setup is also failing - it > sounds li

X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

I currently use Debian/Sid/Unstable primarily in order to use KDE 2.2.x (yes I know I deserve this, but it is so hard to resist). Most of the time things are stable. However, an upgrade today broke X for me. I have seen a couple of other folks with a similar problem, but no solutions posted; henc

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