Re: G400 vs. DRM

2001-11-17 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Eugene Tyurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm having trouble with this strange error message from bzflag (.deb > 1.7e2-1) and GL in general: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bzflag > libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted > libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect r

make: no such command

2001-11-17 Thread Peter Plantagenet
Hi -- I've just installed Potato from floppy images and a local drive. I downloaded 2.2.26-2001-06-14 to my Win98 harddrive E, made the disk images using rawrite2, and the installation process found the base installation files in E. So far so good. However, my PCI Netgear FA312 network card

Re: fetchmail error?

2001-11-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Recently, fetchmail seems to stop working in Yahoo... it has the > following error > > client/server protocol error while fetching from pop.mail.yahoo.ca > 5.9.5 querying pop.mail.yahoo.ca (protocol POP3) at Sat 17 > Query status=4 (PROTOCOL) Oddly enough, I had

Re: sourceforge and postgresql

2001-11-17 Thread Matt Fair
After looking into this more I can see that it is my ldap configuration. I am using slapd. When I do a dpk-reconfigure libpam-ldap and I set the root login = cn=admin, dc=< ?? > What do I put for dc? If I am using debian.org as my ldap server location would I have cn=admin, dc=debian, dc=com? I

re: newbie question

2001-11-17 Thread mobtek mobtekl
hey all, had probs with amd not working (but it had been) on debian unstable, here's the output from apt-get after trying to reinstall- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root] apt-get install amd Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, amd is already the newest version. 0 p

fetchmail error?

2001-11-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Recently, fetchmail seems to stop working in Yahoo... it has the following error client/server protocol error while fetching from pop.mail.yahoo.ca 5.9.5 querying pop.mail.yahoo.ca (protocol POP3) at Sat 17 Query status=4 (PROTOCOL) -- Edwin ERTW Lau __

Re: HP DeskJet 632C - can't print

2001-11-17 Thread John R. Daily
Never mind, finally got it to work with lpdomatic. Is foomatic really not packaged for Debian? -John Daily [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla not sending email

2001-11-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
David P James wrote: Hi all I just started using mozilla today after getting a little tired of Netscape's quirks (scroll wheel problems in particular). The amount of configuration in Mozilla is a vast improvement. Anyway, I can't seem to be able to send any email with mozilla's email client.

Re: Will the Progeny graphical install process inspire our developers ?

2001-11-17 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Friday 16 November 2001 15:03, Patrik Modesto wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:16:37AM +1000, Jason Currey wrote: > > A GUI installer might not make install easier, but it gives > > first time linux users a much better feeling about > > installing the product. > > Yes! But it makes it a bit e

Re: C++: no hash_map while it is there?

2001-11-17 Thread Martin v. Loewis
> > It does compile cleanly when replacing with or with > > . > > It may be that that is the proper way to do it; I'm not familiar enough with > STL to know. Perhaps someone on debian-gcc can comment on this? Including is certainly the wrong approach; it gives you an rb tree, not a hash table.

vm related

2001-11-17 Thread Jeffrin
Is it possible to search "Subject" related part of a mailbox using vm ? -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
Just realized I copied down the error message: Failed to open SSL key at /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl line 153. This is when running: /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf Jen - Original Message - From: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
Just realized I copied down the error message: Failed to open SSL key at /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl line 153. This is when running: /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf Jen - Original Message - From: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
Actually, weirdly enough, the ones from woody didn't work. When I first did the dist upgrade, I commented out the braincells lines. After the upgrade, I used apt-get to install webmin-ssl (which was .89, not .90). It didn't work. Since there were no meaningful errors, I tried running miniserv.p

Re: sourceforge and postgresql

2001-11-17 Thread Matt Fair
Hi, The problem with it connecting and installing the database works good now, but it cannot connect to the ldap server? What is going on, would it be due to a config problem, or is it the package? Thanks, Matt Setting up sourceforge (2.5-14) ... You'll see some debugging info during this install

Re: GLX and "ssystem"- how?

2001-11-17 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > GLX. How do I get it to work with "ssystem"? > > I have installed utah-glx and loading gtx.so in XF86Config, which > gets to the splash screen, but ssystem quits with the error: > > X Error of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest > Major opcode of failed r

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

2001-11-17 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: > I ended up upgrading to Woody. Now I can apt-get install webmin-ssl from > braincells, and everything works! > ...until something goes wrong again. :-) The package there are for potato and you don't need them because woody already has webmin with correct depe

HP DeskJet 632C - can't print

2001-11-17 Thread John R. Daily
Ever since I've been a system administrator, I've hated printing under UNIX. Some things will probably never change. I have a new 632C, and I can't get anything to work. I have investigated the hpijs driver; it seems to be integrated into gs (probably violating HP's non-free license, but that's a

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
I ended up upgrading to Woody. Now I can apt-get install webmin-ssl from braincells, and everything works! I'm amazed at how smooth it was. I guess I need not have worried! Jen

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
I ended up upgrading to Woody. Now I can apt-get install webmin-ssl from braincells, and everything works! I'm amazed at how smooth it was. I guess I need not have worried! Jen

undefined symbol in SVGAlib ?

2001-11-17 Thread BT
Hi, I am on debian unstable and after a recent dist-upgrade, all my console utilities that use svgalib dont work. For instance zgv gives the following error zgv: relocation error: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1: undefined symbol: _xstat I would be grateful if you could tell me how to fix th

GLX and "ssystem"- how?

2001-11-17 Thread jim
GLX. How do I get it to work with "ssystem"? I have installed utah-glx and loading gtx.so in XF86Config, which gets to the splash screen, but ssystem quits with the error: X Error of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest Major opcode of failed request: 148 (GLX) Minor opcode of fail

kmail link to konqueror

2001-11-17 Thread ben
i hate having to use konqueror as the default browser for web links in kmail messages. anyone know how to change this on debian?

Re: Still can't find TDFX in Kernel Config

2001-11-17 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying to compile my 2.4.5 kernel. I've enabled 3Dfx for the > VooDoo3/Banshee, and DRI support. However, I can't find TDFX. I looked in > character devices, at the end, near the 3Dfx support and such, but it's not > there. I suspect this is probably the reason

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:01:29PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > Why is SPI so against frequent, less-dramatically-different releases, > anyway? Please help us if you care. http://qa.debian.org/ is a good place to start. > Note: I'm posting this to Debian-Policy as well as Debian-User, and > suggest

Re: How to upgrade to woody?

2001-11-17 Thread Paul Smith
I wouldn't worry at all about needing to reinstall from scratch. I have some Debian _2.0_ CDs, and I installed them, upgraded to Potato over the net, and from there to Woody. No real problems at all. Just a couple of weeks or so ago, I installed Potato from CD on a VMWare virtual machine, then u

The OpenGL/3Dfx Problem Continues

2001-11-17 Thread JakeCatfox
I installed the Glide drivers, Mesa-4.0, and compiled in my sound card, 3Dfx VooDoo 3 and DRI support into the Kernel, but I still can't use OpenGL or 3Dfx. Quake 3 will only run in dog-slow Software Rendering Mode (1fps), and in Quake 2 sound is replaced by a repeating, odd beeping/static noise

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:15:01PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Note: I'm posting this to Debian-Policy as well as Debian-User, and suggest > > further discussion take place there. > > No, the Policy list isn't correct, either. Any special reason you're being mysterious, rather than just

Re: woody and sid

2001-11-17 Thread Paul Smith
I tend to just follow this list, and if I see problems being reported I wait a while. Obviously there's still the chance you could pick up a package just released that has problems that haven't been noticed by others, but I've certainly avoided any real Woody problems that way. The ones I have ru

Re: woody and sid

2001-11-17 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 00:06, Michel Loos wrote: > On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 21:30, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > > I run Woody on my desktop machine and have almost no trouble with it - > > there's been the occasional broken package which I've had to roll back > > after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, but not

Re: MAN doesn't work

2001-11-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi > > I have a bug i never seen before. > > I watched at the cdrecord manpage. I was then logt in to 4 ttys. I > stoped man on the same console i watched the manpage of cdrecord and > executed there "modprobe ide-scsi" and "cdrecord dev="0,1,0" > speed=4 -data image.iso". cdrecord exited becau

Re: Apache+PHP4+Postgresql

2001-11-17 Thread Michael Ward Cole
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:06:39PM -0500, Michael Ward Cole wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:07:31PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > Michael Ward Cole wrote: > > > > >I am trying to load PHP4 4.0.3 pl 1-0 on debian/linux 2.2.19 with > > >Apache 1.3.9-13.2. I keep having trouble with the libpgsq

Re: apt-get: 404s on update/install

2001-11-17 Thread hmike
On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 22:31, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:05:41AM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > > I'm getting problems with 404 codes on apt-get dist-upgrade or in

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:01:29PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > Why is SPI so against frequent, less-dramatically-different releases, > anyway? SPI has absolutely nothing to do with Debian's release management practices. > Note: I'm posting this to Debian-Policy as well as Debian-User, and suggest

Re: Lyx broken in Woody

2001-11-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
David Teague wrote: Hi My system has recently installed Woody pre-beta on a 10 G IDE disk, 392 MB RAM, 350 K6-2 and a Windows 98 2nd on the other partition. I'm runing K6=2 optimized Woody from a CD snapshot. My desktop is Gnome 1.4 and the window manager is Enlightenment 0.16.5 2000/07/28 (A

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:10:30PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Which implies a kernel issue ... if that's the case, you can install > Adrian Bunk's 2.4 kernel packages for potato (URL in another recent > thread). Good deduction, but wrong. I did use Adrian Bunk's much-appreciated packages to

Re: "Linux window" in Windows

2001-11-17 Thread Jeff
tabanna, 2001-Nov-17 05:27 +: > > ~ believe, that, Linux file systems are safer . . . do it therefore, the > other way around, and run windows on Linux ~ > > VMWare is said to do an excellent job. > > best wishes This is how I do it. I have Debian installed and run VMware with both a Win9

Re: font problem in woody (gimp and gnucash)

2001-11-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Richard Seymour wrote: A few weeks ago some upgrade to my woody system broke my gnucash. Whatever font is used to display the register began showing only rectanlges and squares. Later I installed the gimp and all its menus show up as rectangles and squares. Both packages are currently unusable

Re: Blindly Installing...

2001-11-17 Thread D.
Rafe B. I use the Matrox MGA-G200 video card and was able to use Xfree-3.3.6 that comes with Potato. I used the xserver-svga in the 1024x768 mode without any problems.. In fact this Matrox card was identified in the date base when I ran xf86config. What kind of problems are you having with the

Re: Wordperfect 8 now is broken for current Debian/Sid

2001-11-17 Thread adcarlson
I experienced the same problem, and to make WP8 work again I, apt-get delete xlib6 and then... dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xlib6_3.3.6-38_i386.deb NOTE: The defective version of the above file seems to be "version 39". Basically I had to roll back to the previous version. Now WP8 is back

Re: Newbie with apt-get problem

2001-11-17 Thread Michel Loos
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. I'm a Debian newbie, although I've used it briefly in the past, and > have used Linux for about seven years (mainly RedHat). > > I'm using a box that's running Woody and it looks like it's got a problem. > I went to install a package a

Re: Opinions on Laptops to Install With Debian

2001-11-17 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 02:21, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Mark Seven Smith, 2001-Nov-16 15:52 -0800: > > > Someone recently pointed me towards eBay regarding my video card > > > delimma; but when I considered the matter, what

Re: woody and sid

2001-11-17 Thread Michel Loos
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 21:30, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 13:52, ben wrote: > > > > > I've run both Sid and Woody systems, and find that the latter is > > > actually slightly more problematic. OTOH, we haven't had a "wipe your > > > data" class of error for quite some time, and y

Newbie with apt-get problem

2001-11-17 Thread rich
Hello. I'm a Debian newbie, although I've used it briefly in the past, and have used Linux for about seven years (mainly RedHat). I'm using a box that's running Woody and it looks like it's got a problem. I went to install a package and I'm getting some errors. When I run apt-get check, here's the

Re: xine fails

2001-11-17 Thread Jim McCloskey
Xingguo Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I installed xine-ui v0.9.2. However, it pops up the video windows and |> then shuts itself down, reporting: This is the version in testing? According to the principal Xine developer, there is an incompatibility between the library and ui packages of xin

Re: PPP Disconnects as soon as Connected

2001-11-17 Thread nate
said: > Hi, I'm using pon, configured with pppconfig, to set up my PPP > dialup connection. However, whenever I connect, after about 5 > seconds, the connection dies with no messages. Does anyone have > any suggestions? do you have network access during this time? what does /var/log/messages sa

Re: woody and sid

2001-11-17 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 13:52, ben wrote: > > > I've run both Sid and Woody systems, and find that the latter is > > actually slightly more problematic. OTOH, we haven't had a "wipe your > > data" class of error for quite some time, and your chances of exposure > > to this on Sid are far higher tha

Re: Opinions on Laptops to Install With Debian

2001-11-17 Thread Simon Wong
On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 03:33, dman wrote: > part). The only problem I have is if I close the cover I lose the > NIC. I have to re-insert it and cycle the interface. Have you got apmd installed with "apm=on apm=power-off" appended to your kernel on boot? Also, check out vergil.chemistry.gatech.ed

Re: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Randy Orrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm a relative newbie to Linux and Debian (though in a former life I was a > Unix sysadmin). I've installed potato r3, upgraded to 2.2r4, and had my > pppd working fine, dialling out on demand at reasonable and predictable > times. Now I've upgr

Re: Small-Text console Tweaks?

2001-11-17 Thread Simon Law
On 17 Nov 2001, Sean wrote: > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt > > Also, you have to have framebuffer support compiled into your kernel. > > If you happen to have a matrox card, then you'll wanto look at: > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt instead. > > > Sean > > On Sat

Re: Man pages to PDF or RTF?

2001-11-17 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Rafe B. wrote: > > Hi. Nother newbie windoze-user question. > > I know this has been asked before, apologies > and thanks in advance. > > Is there a windoze util that will convert > Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript? > > Specifically, what is the format of man

Re: How to upgrade to woody?

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
Hmm. Maybe I'll try it and see what happens ... this system isn't really mission critical right now, although it would be kind of a pain to rebuild it ... Jen - Original Message - From: ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:11 AM Sub

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
Actually, I don't have woody in sources.list. I've never had it there ... I did install one woody package by downloading it off the Web site and using dpkg -i. I believe that was webmin-postfix. Everything else that's not in potato has come from: deb-src http://www.braincells.com/debian potato/ de

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutit is

2001-11-17 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: > Jaldhar, > > I didn't download webmin ... I got it using apt-get install a few days ago > ... was there an older version of webmin-ssl on your site? I tried apt-get > remove webmin-ssl and it removed everything okay. Then I tried to get it > again and it said

Re: How to upgrade to woody?

2001-11-17 Thread ben
apparently, any entry referring to stable or potato should be changed to testing or woody. i'm about to embark on the same process. be sure to backup your original sources.list. On Saturday 17 November 2001 22:02, jennyw wrote: > > I'm thinking of upgrading my potato (which has a couple packa

How to upgrade to woody?

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
I'm thinking of upgrading my potato (which has a couple packages from unstable) installation to Woody.  I'm a bit scared, since this seems like a major overhaul and since I've never tried this before. So I was hoping someone could give me an idea of what to expect (like how likely it is I'm

UW IMAP 2000 shows dates as 12/31/1969

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
I'm running on potato, but I installed imapd-ssl from braincells. It works great, except for one thing ... Messages for the inbox are delivered to a Maildir format inbox, but the other folders are in mbox (or mbx; I suspect mbox since I'm using procmail to write to them). Messages that go int

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutit is

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
Jaldhar, I didn't download webmin ... I got it using apt-get install a few days ago ... was there an older version of webmin-ssl on your site? I tried apt-get remove webmin-ssl and it removed everything okay. Then I tried to get it again and it said that it couldn't install because of unmet depe

Re: upgrade of nvidia-glx

2001-11-17 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Grant'd this is a problem with the package's install but I don't believe you need both 1251 and 1541 so it should merely replace it... One possible way to get around this is to uninstall 1251 and then re-install 1541... I've been runnin 1541 without problems for sometime now on my machine a

Re: woody and sid

2001-11-17 Thread ben
> I've run both Sid and Woody systems, and find that the latter is > actually slightly more problematic. OTOH, we haven't had a "wipe your > data" class of error for quite some time, and your chances of exposure > to this on Sid are far higher than Woody. what's the most drastic level of disfunc

Re: Reading .. And editing qxd files

2001-11-17 Thread hanasaki
Yuk! Is there any type of plug-in for the win/mac version of quark that will do a save as something decent? html/rtf/xml? Some program that converts formats? Pagemaker is the Quark Express replacement? Thanks again. Cam Ellison wrote: * Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, No

Re: install comments + question

2001-11-17 Thread hmike
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 02:32, Michael Kaminsky wrote: > I finally got my new machine and armed with the advice of many people > on this list, I aimed to install stable and upgrade to testing. The > follow is my feedback: > > * I installed the base from a Windows 2000 partition which worked >f

Re: woody and sid

2001-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:05:50AM -0800, David Roundy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:24:56AM +, ben wrote: > > how does one go about upgrading to woody or sid and what are the pros and > > cons of either? > > You just need to change 'stable' or 'potato' to either wo

Re: File attribute 's' ??

2001-11-17 Thread ben
On Saturday 17 November 2001 20:56, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote: > > A certain text file has become un-editable > > and "invisible" to 'cat.' > > > > Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it > > has attribute 's' in the permissions string, > >

Re: corrupted partion table

2001-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:02:40PM +0100, Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:34:02PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ... > > fdisk *only* modifies the partition table. It's not touching the data > > on it, so you can try combinations without fear. I think (an

Re: Reading .. And editing qxd files

2001-11-17 Thread Cam Ellison
* Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:02:59PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what kind of file this is and how to read /edit it > > under debian? I think it is some type of page layout file. > > .qxd is a Quark Xpress file. As to what can read it,

Re: Reading .. And editing qxd files

2001-11-17 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:02:59PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > Can anyone tell me what kind of file this is and how to read /edit it > under debian? I think it is some type of page layout file. .qxd is a Quark Xpress file. As to what can read it, I couldn't help you. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://

Re: best chart authoring tools

2001-11-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
What exactly about xfig doesn't work? You could also check out gle (http://www.uark.edu/misc/vlabella/gle/gle.html). -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of Nort

Re: Mozilla not sending email

2001-11-17 Thread Akintayo Holder
David P James wrote: > Hi all > > I just started using mozilla today after getting a little tired of Netscape's > quirks (scroll wheel problems in particular). The amount of configuration in > Mozilla is a vast improvement. Anyway, I can't seem to be able to send any > email with mozilla's em

Re: File attribute 's' ??

2001-11-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote: > A certain text file has become un-editable > and "invisible" to 'cat.' > > Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it > has attribute 's' in the permissions string, > eg: > > srwxr-xr-x according to the fine find manual that's for a

Re: Doubts

2001-11-17 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 20:49, JJ wrote: > it's occuring a mistake when i try to use the graphic mode. > When i type startx or X, show some errors about display, like "can't > open display", how you could help me?? It sounds like X isn't configured correctly - can you post the error messages? You'

best chart authoring tools

2001-11-17 Thread Eric Smith
For flow charts and commercial diagrams - what is the most convenient with auto-alignment, snap to etc. xfig dont work (for me) as advertised for one thing. suggestions? -- Eric Smith

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 21)

2001-11-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.14 on a Debian 2.2r4 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + there are now alpha packages compiled by Fabrice Haberer-Proust + added: kernel-image-2.4.14-

Re: File attribute 's' ??

2001-11-17 Thread ben
it's a link. do 'ls -al filename' and it should point to the original. On Saturday 17 November 2001 20:49, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > From `man chmod` (text may be different, I'm on my OS X laptop atm): > > --- > The perm symbols represent the portions of the mode bits as follows: > [...] > s

RE: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread Randy Orrison
| From: Debian User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 17 November 2001 20:32 | | On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Randy Orrison wrote: | > times. Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every | > 5-10 minutes, then hanging up after the idle timeout. I've | > looked at all the /var/log/... | | Maybe

RE: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread Randy Orrison
| -Original Message- | From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 17 November 2001 19:54 | | Randy Orrison said: | > I'm a relative newbie to Linux and Debian (though in a former life | > I was a Unix sysadmin). I've installed potato r3, upgraded to | > 2.2r4, and had my pppd working fin

Re: File attribute 's' ??

2001-11-17 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
>From `man chmod` (text may be different, I'm on my OS X laptop atm): --- The perm symbols represent the portions of the mode bits as follows: [...] s The set-user-ID-on-execution and set-group-ID-on-execution bits. --- What you have found is a set UID executable file (possibly a script or

Doubts

2001-11-17 Thread JJ
it's occuring a mistake when i try to use the graphic mode. When i type startx or X, show some errors about display, like "can't open display", how you could help me?? Regards,    JJ Andrade.

Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?

2001-11-17 Thread ben
> I think that switching the drive location may have, originally, been the > problem. Unfortunately, having tried several different ways to get it > bootable I think that I have trashed the partition boot sector. Is > there any way to restore this, short of reinstalling with a boot floppy > that

PPP Disconnects as soon as Connected

2001-11-17 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I'm using pon, configured with pppconfig, to set up my PPP dialup connection. However, whenever I connect, after about 5 seconds, the connection dies with no messages. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thx, Deven Gallo

Re: Lyx broken in Woody

2001-11-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:10:01PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > > Marc > > Removing ~/.lyx Worked like a charm! LyX appears to work and offer > import and export that it did not before. I think you don't really needed to delete that directory. There is a menu option to reconfigure your TeX-se

File attribute 's' ??

2001-11-17 Thread Rafe B.
A certain text file has become un-editable and "invisible" to 'cat.' Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it has attribute 's' in the permissions string, eg: srwxr-xr-x The 's' is in the position that you'd normally find a 'd' or a hyphen. None of my manuals talk about this particular

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-17 Thread Andreas Leitner
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 10:45, Osamu Aoki wrote: > In woody: > > $ man 5 apt_preferences Ahhh, thanks! Andreas

Re: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Randy Orrison wrote: > times. Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every 5-10 minutes, > then hanging up after the idle timeout. I've looked at all the /var/log/... Maybe you have exim/sendmail/$YOUR_MTA set to send a queue every 10 minutes?

gnome-session problems

2001-11-17 Thread Jacob I. Stowell
Hi All, I am having trouble with gnome-session and was hoping someone might be able to help me out. The problem is that I cannot get gnome-session to start. When I have gnome-session in my .xinitrc, X crashes. X will run when gnome-session is removed from .xinitrc, but when I try to start gnome-s

upgrade of nvidia-glx

2001-11-17 Thread Karsten Bolding
I just tried to upgrade from nvidia-glx 1251 to 1541 but get the following: Reading database ... 69919 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking nvidia-glx (from nvidia-glx_1.0.1541-3_i386.deb) ... dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions/libG

Re: Help for the UDMAmentally challenged ...

2001-11-17 Thread Hank Marquardt
All that's there ... about the only wrinkle I have that perhaps I should have done differently at the very start is I left both disks on 'cable select' rather than explicitly choosing a master/slave. Anyway while I'd love for it to 'just work' I've added a udma100_setup.sh script to my init.d that

Reading .. And editing qxd files

2001-11-17 Thread hanasaki
Can anyone tell me what kind of file this is and how to read /edit it under debian? I think it is some type of page layout file. Thanks,

Quake 2 can't "fall back to software refresh"

2001-11-17 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I'm trying to run Quake 2 in Debian 2.4.5. I installed it and a new version of libc5 to satisfy its need for libm.so.5 and such other libs. I moved quake2.conf to /etc. I put the files in /usr/local/games/quake2 and I put a copy of all the libs in /lib, /usr/lib, and /usr/local/lib, but it

Re: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread nate
Randy Orrison said: > I'm a relative newbie to Linux and Debian (though in a former life > I was a Unix sysadmin). I've installed potato r3, upgraded to > 2.2r4, and had my pppd working fine, dialling out on demand at try running a network sniffer like iptraf, keep it up and watch the packets..th

Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?

2001-11-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Eric, Thanks for the tip to avoid having to switch the drives, unfortunately, I already tried to switch the drives and it did not work. Yes, the partition was marked as bootable. I think that switching the drive location may have, originally, been the problem. Unfortunately, having tried severa

Re: masquerading for internet access

2001-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:36:31AM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: > According to Michel Loos on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:54:53PM -0200: > > > I thought this would just work out of the box :( > that did not work for me - but this entry in modules.conf did: > > ### update-modules: start processing /etc/mod

Re: Mozilla not sending email

2001-11-17 Thread DvB
David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 17 November 2001 12:37, DvB wrote: > > > Are you sure this is a problem with the debian mozilla package? I > > suggest downloading 0.9.5 from ftp.mozilla.org and making sure it > > doesn't have the problem before assuming it's a debian bug.

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:33:02PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:40:42AM -0500, Sean wrote: > > > I don't see how blindly attempting to install unstable packages into a > > stable distribution is a Debian install issue. > > No, it's a Debian *policy* issue. The problem is

Re: corrupted partion table

2001-11-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:32:52AM +, ben wrote: > > > > > > > The question is, if I run fdisk to redefine the partion table (from a > > > bootable potato cd), will fdisk only touch the sectors where the > > > partion table is installed, or will it wipe out the data on the > > > partions as we

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installedbutit is

2001-11-17 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: > The only one that I tried that didn't work was webmin-sshd: > > Failed to fetch > http://www.braincells.com/debian/potato/webmin/webmin-sshd_0.90-1_all.deb > Size mismatch > Once again, it worked for me. Perhaps your downloads are getting corrupted for some

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installedbutit is

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
The only one that I tried that didn't work was webmin-sshd: Failed to fetch http://www.braincells.com/debian/potato/webmin/webmin-sshd_0.90-1_all.deb Size mismatch Other than that, everything is working great! By the way, when I go to the Webmin page, it says Version 0.88, even though everythi

What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread Randy Orrison
I'm a relative newbie to Linux and Debian (though in a former life I was a Unix sysadmin). I've installed potato r3, upgraded to 2.2r4, and had my pppd working fine, dialling out on demand at reasonable and predictable times. Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every 5-10 minutes, th

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installedbut it is

2001-11-17 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: > Jaldhar, > > I tried it again and it works now. Weird! But it everything is good so far. > Do you happen to know if any other Webmin modules would work with Potato? > All the ones on my site should. In a couple of cases there may be dependencies on sid stuff

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installedbut it is

2001-11-17 Thread jennyw
Jaldhar, I tried it again and it works now. Weird! But it everything is good so far. Do you happen to know if any other Webmin modules would work with Potato? Thanks! Jen - Original Message - From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User List

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