My network card

2002-04-06 Thread Ariel Folonier
Dear Friends:   I've bought Potato 2.2 about 6 months ago, and now I have the chance of using the software.   I managed to install the software but it did not recognized my network card.   I've got a Compac 5363 machine, K6 processor, with an Accton SMC1211TX (PCI) card, and an ADSL interent

Re: Chart drawing soft ?

2002-04-06 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, James D Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 20:01, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > Hi all ! > > > > I would like to know what are the tools available out there to make > > some fancy network drawings. > > I like dia. It is great with UML and I have used it with netw

Re: Should I use a proxy? DNS cache?

2002-04-06 Thread Brian Nelson
"Karsten M. Self" writes: [snip] > Junkbuster similarly greatly increases browsing speed (and pleasure) > both by halting unnecessary banner downloads (unlike much web graphical > content, this is largely _unique_ data, and doesn't cache well), and the > related DNS lookups required to fetch this

Chrooted Debian install from base image (was Re: Instalation question: Toshiba TECRA 8000)

2002-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
This is a draft of a HOWTO I'm working on for doing a chrooted Debian install. It's a method I've found useful over the years. I'm requesting feedback on this essay, there are a few points that need additional information (search 'FIXME'). If someone wants to try following these procedures and

xscreensaver weirdness with gnome on unstable

2002-04-06 Thread Timothy Burt
Howdy, I'm running unstable, and after upgrading (yesterday I think) I've noticed some problems with xscreensaver and gnome. Here's what I saw: 1) The first time I started up my gnome session after the upgrade, it took much longer (initially) to get going. 2) I could no longer access the scr

Re: Linksys Wireless WDT11 w/ Woody

2002-04-06 Thread adcarlson
Although I don't own these products I had them under serious consideration to buy and may still buy them. Any research that I've done on their use on Linux indicates that their support is fair to excellent, and probably even so under a 2.2 kernel. I would recommend doing a bit of research on Linu

Re: debian reinstallation

2002-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 06, 2002, Vivek G. Bharathan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So I installed Debian in February and I've just discovered that my /usr > partition is much too small. I'd like to somehow set apt and dselect to > reload the packages I already have - is there any way to do this without > plu

SOLVED:: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:40, Kent West wrote: So, for some reason, it seems that my Sid box that I'm ssh'ing into isn't setting my DISPLAY. Why not? On the box you are SSHing to, check /etc/ssh/sshd_config for lines like: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 And

Re: cd-rom Help!!!

2002-04-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 02:11:08PM -0600, fti International wrote: > Dear All, > > I am tring to install Debian on an old pc (486). > > The BIOS on the old pc does not allow me to boot from cd-rom and > does not recognize the existence of the > cd-rom drive. It does not allow me to specifiy the

Re: Per user info directory

2002-04-06 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 7 Apr 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > What is the general technique to allow users to have their own info > directory or at least an `dir' file that concatenates per user info > files into a place that allows `info whatever_software' to work. Have you looked at the texinfo manual? There is a sec

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya assuming a bash shell... westek[westk]:/home/westk> export DISPLAY=0.0 westek[westk]:/home/westk> gqview & # # should work locally on the machine called westek # if you are sitting on a machine called foo and ssh into westek foo:/home/westk> xhost +westek west

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what Kent West said on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:16:29PM -0600: > > westek[westk]:/home/westk> > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: westek:10.0 > > [1]+ Exit 1 gqview > > > So, progress has been made. My DISPLAY env. var. is now being set. But > it still doesn'

Re: Trouble getting my screen resolution correct.

2002-04-06 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what Steve Juranich said on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 12:44:42PM -0800: > Okay, tried this. Still getting screen resolution of 1024x768, and nothing > in /var/log/XFree86.0.log Nothing? Are you saying that /var/log/XFree86.0.log doesn't exist, or that it exists and is a zero-byte file

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:40, Kent West wrote: So, for some reason, it seems that my Sid box that I'm ssh'ing into isn't setting my DISPLAY. Why not? On the box you are SSHing to, check /etc/ssh/sshd_config for lines like: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 And

Re: Kde Package

2002-04-06 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what Theo Bierman said on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:30:47PM +0200: > > Why when I search here do i find nothing on kde but find most other window > managers : http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages ? Because you're searching "stable", which doesn't include KDE. Try "testing". pg

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:40, Kent West wrote: > > So, for some reason, it seems that my Sid box that I'm ssh'ing into > isn't setting my DISPLAY. Why not? On the box you are SSHing to, check /etc/ssh/sshd_config for lines like: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 And on the machine you are S

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Dimitri Maziuk wrote: See if you have $DISPLAY set on EnJaeLove first, and on westek after you ssh to it. Also check $XAUTHORITY on westek. Dima EnJaeLove[westk]:/home/westk> echo $DISPLAY :1.0 Sat Apr 6 18:42:35 --- EnJaeLove[westk]:/home/westk> ssh -X westek.

Re: Trouble getting my screen resolution correct.

2002-04-06 Thread ajlewis2
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:47:54AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: >> I'm having trouble getting my screen resolution set correctly. The relevant >> part of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file says: >> >> >> DefaultDepth 24 >> SubSection "Display" >> Depth 24 >>

Re: printing off the internet

2002-04-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya to get any app to print to the printer... - if the printer is connected to the debian box... it is a local printer to that box - otherwise, its a network printer... # # printcap on other machines NOT connected to the hp940c printer # hp940c|DeskJet

Re: Should I use a proxy? DNS cache?

2002-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 06, 2002, Michael D. Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a small home lan that is routed to the internet through a > machine that provides IP masquerading with kernel 2.4.18 iptables. > The gateway machine connects to the net with a 56k modem. There are > three client machine

Re: printing off the internet

2002-04-06 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:12:24PM -0500: > Can you help me, it's been months sence I have been able to print off the > Internet. > I can only print from word. Sure. Just send us the contents of your /etc/printcap, and we'll go from there. I'm curiou

Re: Question concerning MTAs and Databases.

2002-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 05, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anybody know of an MTA, plugin, or package that uses a database > (Preferbly Mysql) for storage? STFW: http://www.google.com/search?q=database+sendmail+OR+exim+OR+qmail+OR+postfix ...what exactly are you trying to do? I'd

Re: Trouble getting my screen resolution correct.

2002-04-06 Thread Paul Winkler
Does your X86Config-4 file contain a modeline for 1280x1024? The xserver contains some internal modelines for "normal resolutions" but requires you add a modeline for others. I had the same problem trying to get 1152x864. You might try xvidtune to generate a modeline, I am sure there are othe

Re: condemn a Debian distributor!!!

2002-04-06 Thread Craig Sampson
--Original Message Text--- From: fti International Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:47:35 -0600 ... and the Tuxcds.com won't send me a new cd (you cannot believe this, esp. considering the FREE principle of Debain)... I don't know about anywhere else, but in Australia this is -illegal- !! If its the

Re: wipe off hard disk?

2002-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 05, 2002, fti International ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > As follow-up to my previous posted question. > I have two moer questions for everyone. > > 1. Do the existing non-linux partition on hard disk affect the linux > partition during the installation? Not during installation.

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: See if you have $DISPLAY set on EnJaeLove first, and on westek after you ssh to it. Also check $XAUTHORITY on westek. Dima EnJaeLove[westk]:/home/westk> echo $DISPLAY :1.0 Sat Apr 6 18:42:35 --- EnJaeLove[westk]:/home/westk> ssh -X westek.acu.edu [EMAIL PROT

Re: Trouble getting my screen resolution correct.

2002-04-06 Thread Craig Sampson
On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 12:44:42 -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: >Okay, tried this. Still getting screen resolution of >1024x768, and nothing >in /var/log/XFree86.0.log You sure there is -nothing- in Xfree86.0.log? AFAIK this file is always written when XFree V4.x starts up - are you running X 3.3.

Re: Scroll mouse?

2002-04-06 Thread Jeremy Petzold
Florentin Ionescu wrote: what mouse ? On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, jeremy wrote : | Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:00:32 -0500 | From: jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Subject: Scroll mouse? | Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 16:06:51 -0800 | Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.

Re: Scroll mouse?

2002-04-06 Thread Florentin Ionescu
what mouse ? On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, jeremy wrote : | Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:00:32 -0500 | From: jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Subject: Scroll mouse? | Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 16:06:51 -0800 | Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org | | I have the ZAxisMapp

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
See if you have $DISPLAY set on EnJaeLove first, and on westek after you ssh to it. Also check $XAUTHORITY on westek. Dima -- Tlaloc: What was Elrond's second name? Gruber: Hubbard -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Scroll mouse?

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
jeremy wrote: I have the ZAxisMapping set correctly in my XFree86-4.conf file but I do not seem to be able to get scrolling to work...any Idea what is wrong?\ Thanks post the contents of /etc/gpm.conf and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Per user info directory

2002-04-06 Thread Harry Putnam
What is the general technique to allow users to have their own info directory or at least an `dir' file that concatenates per user info files into a place that allows `info whatever_software' to work. An example might be, if I were to install the emacs related package `tramp' in ~/emacs/tramp It

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
gob wrote: Yes it is coming quite clear now. The update is my only path. This minutes Google search gives me hope for getting the dialup going. I had a plan to sidestep this winmodem issue as well, if necessary-I have a PC card modem. Strangely enough, when I was installing Debian for th

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Looks like an ADSL connection. Since I don't use ADSL, please apply salt as necessary below... On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:30:25PM -0800, Brian W. Carver wrote: > I boot up and first thing I type: ifconfig > I get: > > [ output of ifconfig snipped. No mention of eth0 ] > > So eth0 is not UP. Then

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
Greg Norris wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:21:34PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I've got a Sid box at home, and one in the office.At home, I'm on Cox Cable, going through a Netgear router/switch/firewall, then through a SurfBoard cable modem.At the office, I'm on a LAN connected via T1s

Scroll mouse?

2002-04-06 Thread jeremy
I have the ZAxisMapping set correctly in my XFree86-4.conf file but I do not seem to be able to get scrolling to work...any Idea what is wrong?\ Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xserver- xFree86 setup problem - sid

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
Michael Sullivan wrote: I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade today and the upgrade stops when it tries to set up Xserver- xFree86. all the text in the terminal seems to hiccup and then re-scroll to the bottom, and if the cursor is outside of the terminal window, a screen menu appears un

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Jason Chambers
Brian W. Carver wrote: Your assumptions below are correct. I am using potato 2.2 r5, but this problem started when a dselect session went bad and I believe that I may now have some sid and some woody packages. I know I have a new xdm interface because it looks totally different when I boot

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Greg Norris
Try running ssh in verbose mode (add "-v" to the command-line). The output should help to pinpoint what's failing. On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:21:34PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I've got a Sid box at home, and one in the office. > > At home, I'm on Cox Cable, going through a Netgear > router/swit

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread gob
Yes it is coming quite clear now. The update is my only path. This minutes Google search gives me hope for getting the dialup going. I had a plan to sidestep this winmodem issue as well, if necessary-I have a PC card modem. Strangely enough, when I was installing Debian for the first time,

Xserver- xFree86 setup problem - sid

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade today and the upgrade stops when it tries to set up Xserver- xFree86. all the text in the terminal seems to hiccup and then re-scroll to the bottom, and if the cursor is outside of the terminal window, a screen menu appears unbidden... Any ideas???

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:02:50PM +, gob wrote: > Ah sorry I do believe I have potato. Maybe thats the origin of this > quandry. That's quite a different story. There are a LOT of GRAVE dependency problems involved with installing that X-4.1.deb on potato. You must instead upgrade the whole

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Brian W. Carver
Your assumptions below are correct. I am using potato 2.2 r5, but this problem started when a dselect session went bad and I believe that I may now have some sid and some woody packages. I know I have a new xdm interface because it looks totally different when I boot up now. I had the internet

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread gob
Ah sorry I do believe I have potato. Maybe thats the origin of this quandry. Thank you Hans, many constructive comments. I had envisaged working through all these installation glitches, then reinstalling the whole system once I was sure what files I needed. As time passes its becoming obviou

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread gob
Thanks for your help Kent. The Xfree86-server, xbase-clients etc were installed a few weeks ago as part of the main installation. X was nearly going on this computer-I could see the Debian motif but resolution was wrong, hence updating of these drivers, not the whole system. I was expecting

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:07:33PM +, gob wrote: > I am an absolute beginner (hadn't touched Linux two weeks ago). My brother > has installed Debian (kernel 2.2.19) on a partition of my laptop. I assume you have Debian 3.0 aka 'woody' by the version number on the xfree86 below. 'Woody' can b

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

2002-04-06 Thread john
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:26:07PM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Its odd because the Mandrake 2.4.18 works with this reader. My next > >> step is to compile pristine kernel.org 2.4.18 source to see I can > >> make that work. I'm curious to find where

Re: Is Mozilla mail brian dead?

2002-04-06 Thread Jason Chambers
Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, I tried Mozilla today. Perhaps I missed something very obvious but there's nowhere to enter your password when you set up a mail account. When you fire it it up it sits there giving silly "Connection refused" messages. Obviously it _must_ work and no doubt that un

Re: Is Mozilla mail brian dead?

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, I tried Mozilla today. Perhaps I missed something very obvious but there's nowhere to enter your password when you set up a mail account. When you fire it it up it sits there giving silly "Connection refused" messages. Obviously it _must_ work and no doubt that u

Re: getting AC97 sound to work under debian 3.0

2002-04-06 Thread jeremy
this is the lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]: Unknown device 1647 (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5247 00:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5451 PCI South Bridge Audio (rev 02) 00:04.0 IDE interface: Acer La

Re: more alt key questions

2002-04-06 Thread Bob Thibodeau
64 and 113 On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:16:35PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Saturday, April 6, Bob Thibodeau did write: > > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:32:59PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:09:00AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > > I just went back throu

Re: Mutt and From: line

2002-04-06 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Exim (testing version). On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:28:47PM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:54:36PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > I have been messing with mutt and trying to make it display my name > > currectly for FAR too long, and I have gotten no where. > > > >

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
gob wrote: I am an absolute beginner (hadn't touched Linux two weeks ago). My brother has installed Debian (kernel 2.2.19) on a partition of my laptop. I am trying to get X going, and through some research found that I need XFree86 4.1 for it to work with my LCD screen. He gave me a CD wit

Re: Mutt and From: line

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:54:36PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have been messing with mutt and trying to make it display my name > currectly for FAR too long, and I have gotten no where. > > I have tried every combination of set realname, set from, my_hdr From: > with every combination o

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:30:25PM -0800, Brian W. Carver wrote: > I boot up and first thing I type: ifconfig > I get: > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:56:2E:E9 > inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX

Re: SV: Tekram 315U PCI

2002-04-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! Yes, it's hard only one time. But the time will quite surely come where you _really_ need to recompile it, so it won't be a bad idea to do it now. Do you have someone (relative, friend, etc.) who can advise you or should I write you some tips about how to do it? (if you'd like this, please giv

Re: more alt key questions

2002-04-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, April 6, Bob Thibodeau did write: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:32:59PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:09:00AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > I just went back through the archives to questions I thought > > > would help. They did, but for a differen

Is Mozilla mail brian dead?

2002-04-06 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I tried Mozilla today. Perhaps I missed something very obvious but there's nowhere to enter your password when you set up a mail account. When you fire it it up it sits there giving silly "Connection refused" messages. Obviously it _must_ work and no doubt that under some obscure menu

Re: Linksys Wireless WDT11 w/ Woody

2002-04-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Apr-2002 Mike Madden wrote: > I already have a Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless 4-Port > Cable/DSL Router and a Linksys WDT11. What would > you recommend as a good wireless NIC? > I have had poor luck with all of the prism based cards which are unfortunately all the local stores carry. Maybe y

Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread gob
I am an absolute beginner (hadn't touched Linux two weeks ago). My brother has installed Debian (kernel 2.2.19) on a partition of my laptop. I am trying to get X going, and through some research found that I need XFree86 4.1 for it to work with my LCD screen. He gave me a CD with xfree86-com

Mutt and From: line

2002-04-06 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I have been messing with mutt and trying to make it display my name currectly for FAR too long, and I have gotten no where. I have tried every combination of set realname, set from, my_hdr From: with every combination of strings I can think of, and I cannot get mutt to display my full name in the

Re: Linksys Wireless WDT11 w/ Woody

2002-04-06 Thread Mike Madden
I already have a Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless 4-Port Cable/DSL Router and a Linksys WDT11. What would you recommend as a good wireless NIC? Thanks, Mike Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 06-Apr-2002 Mike Madden wrote: > > Does anyone know if the Linksys WDT11 is supported > > under Woody? I am r

Re: Linksys Wireless WDT11 w/ Woody

2002-04-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Apr-2002 Mike Madden wrote: > Does anyone know if the Linksys WDT11 is supported > under Woody? I am running the latest snapshot from > ftp.fsn.hu with kernel 2.2.20. If it is supported > or anyone has gotten it to work, please let me know. > Also, if it requires a kernel update to the 2.

Re: getting AC97 sound to work under debian 3.0Z

2002-04-06 Thread Florentin Ionescu
For sound blaster live, this is how I made it work : - install module (i.e emu10k1 for me) -> check does dmesg shows that sound module is load - add profile to audio group - in /etc/modules put module (i.e emu10k1) before sound . Hope that helps, Floretin. On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, jerem

Re: Trouble getting my screen resolution correct.

2002-04-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 11:47:54 -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: >I'm having trouble getting my screen resolution set correctly. The relevant >part of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file says: > > > DefaultDepth 24 >SubSection "Display" >Depth 24 >Modes

No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Brian W. Carver
I boot up and first thing I type: ifconfig I get: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:56:2E:E9 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:

Re: Trouble getting my screen resolution correct.

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:47:54AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > I'm having trouble getting my screen resolution set correctly. The relevant > part of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file says: > > > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 >

X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
I've got a Sid box at home, and one in the office. At home, I'm on Cox Cable, going through a Netgear router/switch/firewall, then through a SurfBoard cable modem. At the office, I'm on a LAN connected via T1s to the world. I can do "ssh -X canaan.acu.edu" from home, and log onto this Solaris

Re: debian reinstallation

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Apr 06 at 09:29, Vivek G. Bharathan spoke: > > > So I installed Debian in February and I've just discovered that my /usr > > partition is much too small. I'd like to somehow set apt and dselect to > > If you have appropriate

Linksys Wireless WDT11 w/ Woody

2002-04-06 Thread Mike Madden
Does anyone know if the Linksys WDT11 is supported under Woody? I am running the latest snapshot from ftp.fsn.hu with kernel 2.2.20. If it is supported or anyone has gotten it to work, please let me know. Also, if it requires a kernel update to the 2.4.x series, please let me know. Thanks in ad

Re: more alt key questions

2002-04-06 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:32:59PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:09:00AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > I just went back through the archives to questions I thought > > would help. They did, but for a different problem ( which > > I wasn't having). > > > > I used to h

Re: Auto-X problem

2002-04-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:18:55PM +0200, DSC Publishing, LLC wrote: > Good day; > > I just installed Stable-Potato, and then installed packages including > XFree86, and the C++ -written minimalist Window manager (sorry, I forgot > the name. It advertises a *nonwindoze* look and feel, and has a

Re: Trouble getting my screen resolution correct.

2002-04-06 Thread Steve Juranich
> Well, I suppose you could try just putting only a SubSection with > Depth 24 and only 1280x1024, then check /var/log/XFree86*.log > > Andrew. Okay, tried this. Still getting screen resolution of 1024x768, and nothing in /var/log/XFree86.0.log --

Re: Am I running an open relay?

2002-04-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 08:38:04 -0600, dman wrote: >On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:58:00PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: >| >| DSBL LISTME: smtp >| 6839cgD6QvH1tqiQODyEuQGHn9TFZAdi >| MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >| RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >| DSBL END > >Where did this come from!? Last I saw there w

RE:Trouble getting my screen resolution correct.

2002-04-06 Thread Andrew Agno
Steve Juranich writes: > > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" > EndSubSection > > by hitting I cycle through 1024x768, 800x600, and 600x400 Well, I suppose yo

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

2002-04-06 Thread Jens Gecius
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Its odd because the Mandrake 2.4.18 works with this reader. My next >> step is to compile pristine kernel.org 2.4.18 source to see I can >> make that work. I'm curious to find where the fault is. > > I should have specified that I use kernel.org tarball

RE: this list or another

2002-04-06 Thread adam
The problem is that I've gained alot from debian/linux and I've aquired a reasonable level of knowledge during this time. I'd like to be able to give something back (and would feel ill at ease to receive help without giving back (and I NEED that help)). So a digest version where it's all over and f

using unstable package on testing?

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, Weird, Licq is available as a package in unstable and in stable, but not in testing. My question what's the best thing to do to install this on a Debian testing system? Is it possible to select some package from unstable and install them on a testing machine? Related question, the same thi

Re: LILO dualbooting Sid and XP

2002-04-06 Thread Steve Juranich
It's really not that hard. Here's what my lilo.conf says (after skipping all of the irrelevant stuff): image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only # restricted # alias=1 image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD read-only optional # restricted #

Trouble getting my screen resolution correct.

2002-04-06 Thread Steve Juranich
I'm having trouble getting my screen resolution set correctly. The relevant part of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file says: DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection

Re: debian reinstallation

2002-04-06 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Apr 06 at 09:29, Vivek G. Bharathan spoke: > So I installed Debian in February and I've just discovered that my /usr > partition is much too small. I'd like to somehow set apt and dselect to If you have appropriate spare space you may try parted. -Hanspeter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: debian reinstallation

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
Vivek G. Bharathan wrote: So I installed Debian in February and I've just discovered that my /usr partition is much too small. I'd like to somehow set apt and dselect to reload the packages I already have - is there any way to do this without plugging through all the millions of Debian package

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2002-04-06 Thread Asbree1
Hi. I am trying to print a letter I have translated from German. When I print, each page is only about 1/4th of the letter, the rest of the page is solid color. This is too much waste of ink. What can I do? Thank you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: XFree86 cursor problem Woody

2002-04-06 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Craig Nunemaker wrote: > My cursor got screwed up and I can't change it. Instead of a cursor > it is partially filled inch box. Try adding 'Option "HWCursor" "no"' to the "Device" section for you video card in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. -- ilmari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: more alt key questions

2002-04-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:09:00AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > I just went back through the archives to questions I thought > would help. They did, but for a different problem ( which > I wasn't having). > > I used to have a 'meta' key in Emacs. I also used to do > Ctrl-A, Alt-d in xterms to era

Woody soon

2002-04-06 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Apr 06 at 18:38, Rob Weir spoke: > Anyhow, woody will be released Real Soon Now(tm), and then the > security policy will be the same as it was for potato. Hm, realy? But Potato r6 was announced on Apr 3. -Hanspeter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: LILO dualbooting Sid and XP

2002-04-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 06:30, D. wrote: > Alex, > I think that this is what your looking for. > http://www.computing.net/howto/advanced/linuxnt/ > hth > Don I actually ran across this article last night while I was doing a google search before I actually sent this message. Unfortunately, what it

Re: Debian shoot 'em up games review

2002-04-06 Thread Oohara Yuuma
[Please Cc: to me because I am not subscribed to the list.] On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 04:36:58 +0900 (JST), Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Asteroids clones Debian has more Asteroids clones than you think. ** maelstrom - An arcade-style game resembling Asteroids. This is a non-free one with

Auto-X problem

2002-04-06 Thread DSC Publishing, LLC
Good day; I just installed Stable-Potato, and then installed packages including XFree86, and the C++ -written minimalist Window manager (sorry, I forgot the name. It advertises a *nonwindoze* look and feel, and has a bar across the bottom. Somehow, XDM also got installed. Which lends two pr

Re: LILO dualbooting Sid and XP

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:05:32AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've been using the NT bootloader for as long as I've been using Debian > to handle switching between my M$ OS's and Linux. However, since I've > switched to using Debian 364 days a year, this is no longer working for > me. My XP bo

getting AC97 sound to work under debian 3.0

2002-04-06 Thread jeremy
I can not get sound to work on my system. I have added my user profile to the audio group, but I get an error that tells me I have no device installed. I did the net install and I know I set up AC97 sound drivers and OSS in kernel. is there somthing else I need to do to get this to work? I tri

XftConfig -- advanced examples?

2002-04-06 Thread Troy Telford
Does anybody know of a place I can find more in-depth discussion/examples than is covered in Danny Tholen & linuxdoc.org's? While helpful, they seem to be just enough to get people going; I would like to have more control over what happens than is documented in the above locations. Thanks,

XFree86 cursor problem Woody

2002-04-06 Thread Craig Nunemaker
My cursor got screwed up and I can't change it. Instead of a cursor it is partially filled inch box. I am using Gnome and X on Woody system. I have feeling that the link to some default has chamged somewhere. I thought maybe it was Gnome so I removed Gnome Display So it would start up with

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

2002-04-06 Thread Craig Dickson
begin john quotation: > Its odd because the Mandrake 2.4.18 works with this reader. My next > step is to compile pristine kernel.org 2.4.18 source to see I can > make that work. I'm curious to find where the fault is. I should have specified that I use kernel.org tarballs, not Debian's kernel-s

Re: Video card support

2002-04-06 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:34:50AM -0500, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:41 am, Neal Lippman wrote: > > My present monitor is a 19" CRT, but I am strongly considering a move to > > one, maybe two LCD panels - so a card that supports dual monitors would be > > great, but at the le

X/woody/xf86PciInfo.h

2002-04-06 Thread Matthias Ospelkaus
Hi, today I switched from suse to woody via netinst and everything worked fine. But I cannot even start the X configuration program(xf86cfg/X -configure). The error message is: XFree86 has found a valid card configuration. Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to xf86PciInfo.h. My

Re: Prepping for Woody -> Stable

2002-04-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I think this is what I want. > today: > woody = testing > after Debian 3.0 > Woody = stable > --and all my apt-get updates will be essentially only on the woody > package. > I generally use the dist name (Woody, Slink, whatever) instead of the symbolic 'stable' or 'testing'. This way my m

Prepping for Woody -> Stable

2002-04-06 Thread Tom Allison
I want to be ready for this migration to Debian 3.0. Should I change all of my sources.lists from 'stable' 'testing' to 'stable' 'woody' ??? I think this is what I want. today: woody = testing after Debian 3.0 Woody = stable --and all my apt-get updates will be essentially only on the woody

Re: re-post: gnome terminal woe

2002-04-06 Thread dave mallery
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > prompt>gnome-terminal > > gnome-terminal: relocation error: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: > > zvt_term_set_meta_use_high_bit > > > > Here's your problem ... ximian links against libraries in stable. > woody is testing, not stable. ximian ha

Re: dpkg database repair

2002-04-06 Thread Joey Hess
Terry Hancock wrote: > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2 No such file or > directory) > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. Yeah, you really need a /var/lib/dpkg/status for dpkg to work. You should check for a /va

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