Re: cdrw

2002-03-30 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 06:09, jeff wrote: > hey all > > i'm trying to get my cdrw working... > > here's the deal...at boot, the cdrw is recognized > as 'hdd'. now then, i DO actually have a scsi > (ISA) card installed...for a slightly older > scanner. > > ideas/suggestions to set up the cdrw as a

numlock in gdm

2002-03-30 Thread Robert_L
Surely this must be a faq but I've found nothing that works in a web search. I liberally sprinkled the numlockx command around startup scripts but noe do the job. What is the way ? Many thanks for helping me in my confusion. ]$ grep -irs numlockx /etc/ /etc/init.d/numlockx:/usr/local/bin/numloc

Re: Broken Debconf?

2002-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Keegans wrote: > No .db files under this directory, only .dat - is this what you need to > see? They are quite big files so I will send them to you off list. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/cache/debconf/ > total 1918 > -rw---1 root root 484186 Mar 27 22:07 config.dat >

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-30 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, March 30, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry did write: > > On 30-Mar-2002 John Lord wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > > > Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in > > conjunction with KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? > > > > I'm sorry but I can't see the reason why, but

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-30 Thread nate
> Hi folks, > > > Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction > with KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? > > I'm sorry but I can't see the reason why, but there probably is one. I > have sat reading the various files about setting it up, but have drawn a > blank.

Re: Permissions and scsi cdrom?

2002-03-30 Thread dave mallery
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I now have both a cdrom and a cdrw on my machine. They are both ide/atapi but > i > am using scsi emulation; the cdrw is scd0 and the cdrom is scd1. I have no > problem accessing the cdrom or the cdrw as far as mounting or listening to > audio > cds. H

Re: Broken Debconf?

2002-03-30 Thread Bill Keegans
Joey, > Try running /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl Will try this tonight when I get the chance > I'd also like a copy of your /var/cache/debconf/*.db first. No .db files under this directory, only .dat - is this what you need to see? They are quite big files so I will send them to you off list.

xset s off - how to make it the default

2002-03-30 Thread Shawn Lamson
hi - after installing "something" i have noticed that now my #xset q reveals that the Screen Saver is enabled after 600 secs; i don't want it at all, i just use the DPMS to blank out after 1200 secs... of course, i can issue #xset s off to remedy it, but would like to make this permanent, in the

RE: In UPDATE.TXT and TECHNOTE.TXT. (KMM4340993V45699L0KM)

2002-03-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: getting unstable non-us?

2002-03-30 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Saturday 30 March 2002 10:29 pm, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > What do I need to put in my /etc/apt/sources.list to get unstable non-us > packages? Is there such a thing? This is the line that I use -- works fine for me: (beware line wrap) deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/no

getting unstable non-us?

2002-03-30 Thread Michael D. Crawford
What do I need to put in my /etc/apt/sources.list to get unstable non-us packages? Is there such a thing? When I edit it via the Access item in dselect, and I add the server http://non-us.debian.org/ , it then gives me the options of adding "stable unstable frozen non-US". It seems to me I ha

Re: detecting devices

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:37:33PM -0800, sangeetha wrote: | hi, | is there anyway to detect whether devices(keyboard | and mouse) are connected to system or | not.using c or assembly code on linux platform | if so plz do let me know how we can do that.thanx in | advance. PS/2 keyboard

detecting devices

2002-03-30 Thread sangeetha
hi, is there anyway to detect whether devices(keyboard and mouse) are connected to system or not.using c or assembly code on linux platform if so plz do let me know how we can do that.thanx in advance. sangeetha __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo!

Permissions and scsi cdrom?

2002-03-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I now have both a cdrom and a cdrw on my machine. They are both ide/atapi but i am using scsi emulation; the cdrw is scd0 and the cdrom is scd1. I have no problem accessing the cdrom or the cdrw as far as mounting or listening to audio cds. However, when I try to run abcde and/or cdparanoia I get e

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Mar-2002 John Lord wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction with > KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? > > I'm sorry but I can't see the reason why, but there probably is one. I have > sat reading the various files about settin

Re: Yamaha CDR not working

2002-03-30 Thread John Kerr Anderson
I realised that I only had SCSI emulation and SCSI ide support but not SCSI cd rom support. I only have one drive so I disabled ATAPI cd support and voila the CD drive works just fine. Thanks for the help... On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > Did you compile ide-scsi support ? If not

Re: cdrw

2002-03-30 Thread Steffen Evers
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 17:09, jeff wrote: > i'm trying to get my cdrw working... > > here's the deal...at boot, the cdrw is recognized > as 'hdd'. now then, i DO actually have a scsi > (ISA) card installed...for a slightly older > scanner. > > ideas/suggestions to set up the cdrw as a 'scsi' > d

Driver for Addonics SV550 sound card

2002-03-30 Thread Tony Anand
Hi All, Does anyone know where I can find linux drivers for an Addonics SV550 sound card, which uses the Yamaha YMF724E-V chipset? Thanks much, Tony.  Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: mail retrieval-delivery-sorting

2002-03-30 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-03-30 18:36:07, David H. Askew wrote: > 1) configure fetchmail to retreive the emails > -I'm assuming I will have to tell fetchmail via .fetchmailrc > which accounts to forward the mail to? .. or in other words.. > my .fetmailrc for my personal user acount will tell fetchm

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, March 30, dman did write: > If root doesn't put the plugin in the global plugin folder, and you > use the local plugin folder instead, then you don't need root > permissions. Only a marginal improvement, I know. Where is the local plugin folder? I've tried installing into ~/.mo

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-30 Thread Chris Jenks
At 06:59 PM 3/30/02, dman wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:40:41PM +, John Lord wrote: | Hi folks, | | Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction with | KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? Use exim. It is easier to configure right, and has had fewer securit

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-30 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, March 30, Simon Hepburn did write: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > No, the three slashes are in fact correct. > > Hrmm.. just to add to the confusion. I just checked my sources.list > and saw I was using single slash. I did man sources.list to see if I > was going out of my mind. I

Re: mail retrieval-delivery-sorting

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:36:07PM +, David H. Askew wrote: | I'm currently using evolution as my email client to work with both a | pop3 and an imap account. I subscribe to several high trafic mailing | lists and use a variety of methods from within evolution to sort my | email etc... | | I'm

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:40:41PM +, John Lord wrote: | Hi folks, | | Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction with | KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? Use exim. It is easier to configure right, and has had fewer security exploits found in it. | I'm so

2e Try:) Alt-Control doesn't work

2002-03-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
I've posted this some days ago, noone reacted so either it went unnoticed or noone knows. Hoping for the first I retitled it. Tired of stretching my little finger to reach for the control key I thought of using my thumb instead, so I defined the right alt key to function as an extra control key.

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 05:32:36PM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: | On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:43:33PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: | > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (18:40) : | > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:07:38PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: | > > | But realplayer doesn't work wi

why use sendmail?

2002-03-30 Thread John Lord
Hi folks, Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction with KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? I'm sorry but I can't see the reason why, but there probably is one. I have sat reading the various files about setting it up, but have drawn a blank. Having a bit of

Is it still stuck?

2002-03-30 Thread John Lord
Hi, Wonder why that other mail wasn't sent? -- Cheers John Amiga A1200 PPC running Linux/Apus Debian and KDE2.* Web site http://www.lordofchaos.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 05:24:01PM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: | On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:37:10AM -0600, dman wrote: | > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:03:47AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: | > | On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: | > | > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

mail retrieval-delivery-sorting

2002-03-30 Thread David H. Askew
I'm currently using evolution as my email client to work with both a pop3 and an imap account. I subscribe to several high trafic mailing lists and use a variety of methods from within evolution to sort my email etc... I'm growing tired of using Evolution and I'm wanting to use a text based client

Re: Mouse Button (re) mappings

2002-03-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
ahem, borrowing from mandrake's helpful support site (-: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xmouse.html "Putting Side Buttons To Work" section specifically. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel support for RealTek NIC's

2002-03-30 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:02:56AM +, john gennard wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:34:20PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > > I've been trying to set up a small home LAN (just two > > > boxes) with the addition of a SmoothWall firewall. I > > > think I've enough gen to make a fair go at it,

Re: Printing to a postscript file

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 04:42:11PM -0600, McNeill Kirkpatrick wrote: | I am trying to create a .ps file and I can't seem to find documentation | on it anywhere. I am wondering if there is a way to configure things so | that when I print something it is output to a postscript file rather | than bein

Re: Installing XFree 4.2 into non standard location - help

2002-03-30 Thread Bill Triplett
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 08:32, Andreas Leitner wrote: > Hi, > > I own a AIW Radeon. The card works quite nicely with XFree 4.1, but some > features (TV Out, TV In, ...) will only work with X 4.2 + some special > drivers from the Gatos project. For those to try I need to hand compile > my own X (at l

Mouse Button (re) mappings

2002-03-30 Thread Troy Telford
I have a Logitech Mouseman, and I would like to change the button setup from what I currently am using. It's currently set up with the 'standard' left, mid, right, buttons, and scroll up/down. However, what I would like to do is to configure the thumb button to be the 'middle' mouse butto

Printing to a postscript file

2002-03-30 Thread McNeill Kirkpatrick
I am trying to create a .ps file and I can't seem to find documentation on it anywhere. I am wondering if there is a way to configure things so that when I print something it is output to a postscript file rather than being sent to a printer( I don't own a printer so this would be a permanent setup

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread christophe barbé
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:43:33PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (18:40) : > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:07:38PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > | But realplayer doesn't work with esd > > > > It does. I use it all the time to listen to the radio vi

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread christophe barbé
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:37:10AM -0600, dman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:03:47AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: > | On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > | > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (09:29) : > | > > > | > > I can think of another: use a br

cdrw

2002-03-30 Thread jeff
hey all i'm trying to get my cdrw working... here's the deal...at boot, the cdrw is recognized as 'hdd'. now then, i DO actually have a scsi (ISA) card installed...for a slightly older scanner. ideas/suggestions to set up the cdrw as a 'scsi' device? p.s. using kernel 2.4.18 thanks much...the

Re: Logging transactions

2002-03-30 Thread dave mallery
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Tony Anand wrote: > Hi All, > I'm using Debian 2.2r5.  Is there some place that the input and output that > you see on the > screen gets logged? > I'm trying to install some software from a cd-rom, and I get through about > 75% percent of > the installation (15 screens full

Re: Upgraded to kernel 2.4.18, and pcmcia cards no longer work.

2002-03-30 Thread Herbert Xu
Rich Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # /etc/init.d/pcmcia start > Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already > exists > /lib/modules/2.4.18-586tsc/pcmcia/i82365.o: unresolved symbol > isapnp_find_dev_R9991be23 > /lib/modules/2.4.18-586tsc/pcmcia/ds.o: init_mo

Re: Logging transactions

2002-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 19:43, Tony Anand wrote: Hi All, I'm using Debian 2.2r5. Is there some place that the input and output that you see on the screen gets logged? I'm trying to install some software from a cd-rom, and I get through about 75% percent of the installation (15 screens full of inform

[SOLVED] configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-30 Thread Barry Mathieu
AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME! Adding the indicated line to the exim.conf file appears to have fixed my problem! See bottom of message. Here is a story about perfection: Each time I have posted to this list there has been a response leading to a solution. As a Linux/Debian Newbie such help is indispe

Re: how to get Mesa/OpenGL to use direct rendering?

2002-03-30 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Dan, you can look in a hardware database, e. g. http://cdb.suse.de HTH, Joachim On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:22:31AM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: > I was afraid that might be the case. However, I thought it might not, > because I found 1 reference on the web to an oem that had 3d hardware > acce

Re: Upgraded to woody and printing from KDE stopped

2002-03-30 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:54:04 -0700, Gruetzner wrote: > I did a search to see if others have had this problem, but didn't find >any. My apologies if I didn't use the right keywords. I've tried to use >the printing HOWTO, but seem to be going in circles when reading it. > > I recently upgra

Re: Command line access to X cut buffer?

2002-03-30 Thread dsr
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:00:21AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > I have a bunch of tools (FvwmButton setup, etc.) that want to grab the > contents of the X cut buffer and use it to invoke programs, etc. > > For example, if I select a hostname and click mouse-2 on a button in my > FvwmButtons, I want

Re: Printer Setup (hp 1100)

2002-03-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On 30 Mar 2002 15:14:42 -0500 Brian Stults wrote: > I have an HP1200 that I set up to work with CUPS. I have a very > unofficial CUPS howto here: > > http://stults.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/ I actually found that (through google, IIRC) and was helpful. Thanks. I can print the test page w

Re: Printer Setup (hp 1100)

2002-03-30 Thread Steffen Evers
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:14, Bill Moseley wrote: > Before spending too much time reading dated docs, is their a current > Debian-specific howto/doc on setting up printing? > > I installed magicfilter, and now looking at CUPS, but not sure if they can be > used together - or if they conflict. I

Re: Woody Apache and logrotate

2002-03-30 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:41:43PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: | I have since upgraded from potato to woody and am having some problems with | the logrotate utility. I have several apache virtual hosts and want to | rotate them all automatically in the /etc/logrotate.d/apache script. | | C

Re: Upgraded to woody and printing from KDE stopped

2002-03-30 Thread Steffen Evers
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:51, Gruetzner wrote: >That is likely part of the problem. I need to research *how* to file a > bug report--and with whom? Apsfilter? Debian-kde? Someone else? Install package bug or better reportbug. Then you just type 'reportbug PACKAGENAME'. Make sure that you

Re: Removing line breaks

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:41:31AM +0800, csj wrote: | What's the fastest way to reformat a mutt-friendly text file into | something a WYSIWYG word processor would love? | | Let's take this email as an example. When I use the linewrap command in | Sylpheed, the text of my email is broken into shor

Re: mutt and html viewers to specify w3m under x

2002-03-30 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:55:02AM -0600, dman wrote: | On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:46:29AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | | hello, | | | | i run mutt in Eterm. with $DISPLAY set, it launches galeon to view html, | | but not only does galeon not find mutt.html (?), but i don't want to | | spawn an

Re: Printer Setup (hp 1100)

2002-03-30 Thread Brian Stults
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 14:14, Bill Moseley wrote: > Before spending too much time reading dated docs, is their a current > Debian-specific howto/doc on setting up printing? > > I installed magicfilter, and now looking at CUPS, but not sure if they can be > used together - or if they conflict. >

Re: Mutt + GPG

2002-03-30 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Sorry everyone! Forgot the subject! -- Rohan Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Rohan Deshpande ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, > > I was just wondering: when using Mutt and GnuPG, with all the public > keys downloaded, what do you users do to keep the list of keys at a > reasonable size? O

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-30 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi there, I was just wondering: when using Mutt and GnuPG, with all the public keys downloaded, what do you users do to keep the list of keys at a reasonable size? Or do you disable auto fetching of keys? Also, when I receive keys from people (i.e. on the debian-user list), gpg says it can't ver

ADV -- The Right Parts For Your Equipment Needs

2002-03-30 Thread Mail Dept.
Title: Dozer II, Inc. PARTS NEW SURPLUS, REBUILT, USED, and REPLACEMENT EUCLID Engines, Transmissions, Cylinders, Pins, Valves, Pumps, Undercarriage, Radiators, Cabs, Seal Kits,

Re: Broken Debconf?

2002-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Keegans wrote: > I am running Woody, and debconf 1.0.31 - looking in the archives I have > /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_1.0.31_all.deb Try running /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl I'd also like a copy of your /var/cache/debconf/*.db first. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Logging transactions

2002-03-30 Thread Tony Anand
Hi All, I'm using Debian 2.2r5.  Is there some place that the input and output that you see on the screen gets logged? I'm trying to install some software from a cd-rom, and I get through about 75% percent of the installation (15 screens full of information that scrolls by pretty quickly), before I

Woody Apache and logrotate

2002-03-30 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I have since upgraded from potato to woody and am having some problems with the logrotate utility. I have several apache virtual hosts and want to rotate them all automatically in the /etc/logrotate.d/apache script. Can anyone include an example of their log rotation script so I can take a pee

Re: Broken Debconf?

2002-03-30 Thread Bill Keegans
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:09:10 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Keegans wrote: > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <> line 13. > > Preconfiguring packages ... Use of uninitialized value in exists at > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 49, line 1. Use o

Re: success story

2002-03-30 Thread dave mallery
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, faisal gillani wrote: > i am a windows network administrator & about a month > ago on one of my network i placed a debian linux > server + apache webserver on the other hand i had a > windows 2000 server running Ms ISA server > the place on which these servers are running hav

Logging input and output

2002-03-30 Thread Tony Anand
Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kcalc math bug?

2002-03-30 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Vincent Lefevre quotation: > > > In fact, you don't need parentheses for sumple expressions like the > > above one: > > > > 1+2*3= gives 7 > > 1+2=*3= gives 9 > > Fair enough. So perhaps the distinction is whether or not the calculator >

Removing line breaks

2002-03-30 Thread csj
What's the fastest way to reformat a mutt-friendly text file into something a WYSIWYG word processor would love? Let's take this email as an example. When I use the linewrap command in Sylpheed, the text of my email is broken into shorter lines. But when I cut and paste these selfsame lines into A

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-30 Thread Simon Hepburn
Richard Cobbe wrote: > No, the three slashes are in fact correct. Hrmm.. just to add to the confusion. I just checked my sources.list and saw I was using single slash. I did man sources.list to see if I was going out of my mind. I'm not. > Turns out you have to write the Release files by hand

Re: can't start gdm or login as user

2002-03-30 Thread Kent West
Dale Hair wrote: My wife's laptop crashed last night and after restarting gdm will not start. I get a message Server Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to /var/lib/gdm but this does not exist. Please correct gdm configuration /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and restart gdm. and a blinkin

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Craig Dickson
begin dman quotation: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:03:47AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: > | On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > | > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (09:29) : > | > > > | > > I can think of another: use a browser that doesn't support fl

success story

2002-03-30 Thread faisal gillani
i am a windows network administrator & about a month ago on one of my network i placed a debian linux server + apache webserver on the other hand i had a windows 2000 server running Ms ISA server the place on which these servers are running have some power outage problems that are beyond my contro

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Preben Randhol
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (18:40) : > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:07:38PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > | But realplayer doesn't work with esd > > It does. I use it all the time to listen to the radio via the xmms > plugin. Huh? what do you mean xmms plugin for realplayer? Pl

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Preben Randhol
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (18:38) : > > ESD supports ALSA (AFAIK the core of alsa goes in the kernel, thus no > userland app needs to know about it). You can use alsa and have esd > be "just another" process that gives it data via /dev/dsp. I also > don't think that the userla

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:07:38PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: | christophe barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (18:05) : | > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: | > > We really really need a good sound deamon that every app speaks to in | > > stead of directl

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:08:52PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (18:05) : | > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:03:47AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: | > | | > | But mozilla uses esd if available. So you can use xmms (with the esd | > | output plugin) and p

Re[2]: SMC 1211TX

2002-03-30 Thread Alan Poulton
Saturday, March 30, 2002, 2:43:19 AM, Phillip Deackes wrote: >> I have an SMC 1211TX, PCI 10/100 NIC that I'm trying to get working >> with my Linux computer, but I'm running into problems. > I also have this card and use the '8139too' kernel option. Works fine. I > have compiled it into the kern

Re: X window system

2002-03-30 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: try "startx -- :1" to start X on the second display (Ctrl-Alt-F8 instead of Ctrl-Alt-F7 to switch to it if you switch away from it with Alt-Fx). Oops. "[Ctrl-]Alt-F8 instead of [Ctrl-]-Alt-F7 to switch to it if you switch away from it with Ctrl-Alt-Fx)." Kent -- To UN

Re: X window system

2002-03-30 Thread Kent West
john gennard wrote: I have installed Potato 2.2r4 on a third box and am having difficulty in getting X to work.The mobo and cpu were running Potato on an upgraded box, and the harddisk held Slink for a long time.Kernel is 2.2.19, and xfree-common etc packages are v.3.3.6-11. Normally, Debian ge

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-30 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, March 30, Simon Hepburn did write: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > I've added the local mirror to sources.list, but neither apt-get nor > > dselect appears to see these files. What step have I missed? > > It's a simple typo. Change deb file:///home... to deb file://home... No, th

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Preben Randhol
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (18:05) : > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:03:47AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: > | > | But mozilla uses esd if available. So you can use xmms (with the esd > | output plugin) and play soung in mozilla in the same time. > > Yes. > > The other alternativ

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Preben Randhol
christophe barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (18:05) : > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > We really really need a good sound deamon that every app speaks to in > > stead of directly to /dev/dsp. :-( > > But mozilla uses esd if available. So you can us

Re: Broken Debconf?

2002-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Keegans wrote: > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <> line 13. > Preconfiguring packages ... Use of uninitialized value in exists at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 49, line 1. Use of > uninitialized value in exists at You've got a broken debconf cache. What ver

X window system

2002-03-30 Thread john gennard
I have installed Potato 2.2r4 on a third box and am having difficulty in getting X to work.The mobo and cpu were running Potato on an upgraded box, and the harddisk held Slink for a long time.Kernel is 2.2.19, and xfree-common etc packages are v.3.3.6-11. Normally, Debian gets X to go OK after I r

Re: kernel support for RealTek NIC's

2002-03-30 Thread john gennard
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:34:20PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > I've been trying to set up a small home LAN (just two > > boxes) with the addition of a SmoothWall firewall. I > > think I've enough gen to make a fair go at it, but I > > just can't get 2.2.19 kernels to enable support for > > Real

Re: Upgraded to woody and printing from KDE stopped

2002-03-30 Thread Gruetzner
On Friday 29 March 2002 23:36, Steffen Evers wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 22:30, Gruetzner wrote: > > I then manually editted /etc/printcap, changing the semi-colon ( > > ; ) after hl1250 to a colon ( : ). That fixed one error message. > > The error message now reads: > > No, this was n

Re: mutt and html viewers to specify w3m under x

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:46:29AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | hello, | | i run mutt in Eterm. with $DISPLAY set, it launches galeon to view html, | but not only does galeon not find mutt.html (?), but i don't want to | spawn another window (galeon). so, i unset $DISPLAY in that term, and | mu

gdkxft

2002-03-30 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
Can anyone describe, or suggest where I could get instructions, on getting gdkxft's anti-aliased gtk fonts working under sid? I've tried a couple of times, but it's always resulted in silly things, like different applications using different fonts, usually the wrong ones, often fixed-width no no

Re: Advice on wysiwyg editor

2002-03-30 Thread Casper Gielen
> KLyX is dead, IIRC. Dead and gone, for now anyway. I seem to > remember that the originator of the LyX project and the KDE project > are one and the same. Once KDE hit the big time, he (and maybe they are > > The other problem is that KLyX was only ported to KDE1, so even if you > could g

Re: Fwd: Re: where are the woody iso files?

2002-03-30 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 16:15, Jerry T wrote: > > I tried installing Debian 2.2-r5 but my nvidia driver wasn't supported. I > was hoping that woody would include the driver. I've been through the > installation process (2.2-r5) a few times but it always hangs up towards the > end when trying to a

Re: how to get Mesa/OpenGL to use direct rendering?

2002-03-30 Thread Dan Griswold
"Adam Majer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:45:55PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: > > I'd like to have X use the hardware acceleration of my video > > card. Actually, it's not an extra card at all, but a Trident > > CyberBlade/i1 built onto the mainboard. I do have the follo

Re: Can't download pppoeconf - was ( Woody installation problem)

2002-03-30 Thread Matt Wehland
After filing a bug on this problem #140540 I've received some helpful info from Eduard Bloch and the bug has been closed (there wasn't a bug with the boot floppies package, it seems it was with the CD's) The problem seems to be the basedebs file on the CD is incorrect. Supposedly you can down

Fwd: Re: where are the woody iso files?

2002-03-30 Thread Jerry T
I tried installing Debian 2.2-r5 but my nvidia driver wasn't supported. I was hoping that woody would include the driver. I've been through the installation process (2.2-r5) a few times but it always hangs up towards the end when trying to access the video card . I have downloaded the nvidia

Re: G'day - Intro (longish) - and need some help down here ...

2002-03-30 Thread Kent West
D Haben wrote: G'day I'm new to DEBIAN and need some help/pointer on how to get some sort of X session going. xstart doesn't work. I can log in at a character session (as root) but startx fails to start as there is no config file. I had problems during the install with any X type modules

Re: How much Linux on 1 GB hard drive?

2002-03-30 Thread Kent West
Davor Balder wrote: G'day to all, I am planning to install Linux on my friends computer... I am thinking of Debian Potato just for start... I think he has 4 GB hard drive... His sister may be using Windoze, but he would like to start off with Linux. So, my question is, what can I fit onto

Re: Galeon/Mozilla Java Plugin Problems (woody)

2002-03-30 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 15:32, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > I've installed the blackdown java packages. Add this line to > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ > woody non-free > > And then: > > apt-get update > apt-get install j2sdk1

Broken Debconf?

2002-03-30 Thread Bill Keegans
Hi All, I am a newbie to Debian, but so far I am impressed with the stability and the tools available for upgrade / maintenance (apt, dpkg, dselect etc). While doing a weekly upgrade a couple of days ago I got error messages while using "apt-get upgrade" There are 13 packages waiting for upgrade,

Re: Lilo and smart array 5i

2002-03-30 Thread Crispin Wellington
Just finnished a woody install on a machine *exactly* matching yours. No end of headaches, but finaly got it going. I used woody with 2.4.17 but should be the same. Basically what I did was Used the compaq smart start to set the bios system to support linux. setup raid arrays etc. Made a set of

mutt and html viewers to specify w3m under x

2002-03-30 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i run mutt in Eterm. with $DISPLAY set, it launches galeon to view html, but not only does galeon not find mutt.html (?), but i don't want to spawn another window (galeon). so, i unset $DISPLAY in that term, and mutt uses w3m to view html. this is nice, i like it better. i just found w3m-im

Re: Help with window manager now window sizing

2002-03-30 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:07:25PM +1200, Alan Shrimpton wrote: > I still come up with large window sizes. An example is: > Control Center open and click on the Screensaver option and the window goes > beyond the boundaries of my monitor. I have to drag it around to get to the > ok and cancel but

Re: Galeon/Mozilla Java Plugin Problems (woody)

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:08:19PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: | Has anyone managed to install a working java plugin into the woody | packages? If so, how? Add a blackdown mirror to sources.list and 'apt-get install j2sdk1.3'. -D -- Microsoft: "Windows NT 4.0 now has the same user-inter

Re: Galeon/Mozilla Java Plugin Problems (woody)

2002-03-30 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I've installed the blackdown java packages. Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ woody non-free And then: apt-get update apt-get install j2sdk1.3 j2sdk1.3-doc-installer I'm actually using unstable now, but java

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:03:47AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: | On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: | > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (09:29) : | > > | > > I can think of another: use a browser that doesn't support flash. | > | > Even better would be

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread christophe barbé
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (09:29) : > > > > I can think of another: use a browser that doesn't support flash. > > Even better would be if one could turn it on and off in galeon/mozilla > with a button. Then there

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