Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > Isn't this all rather academic, since Miroslav has a _386_ with > > only SIXTEEN MB RAM? Running X would be folly!! Not only is the > > CPU old and slow, but so is the RAM, HDD, video card, etc. And > > the HDD will tiny!!! > > >

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 18:04, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > Isn't this all rather academic, since Miroslav has a _386_ with only > > SIXTEEN MB RAM? Running X would be folly!! > > I used to run X on a 386/33 with 8MB. Slow, but usable. The 2.0 kernel, libc5, XFree 3.1 (or some oth

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Debian packages MD5 sums

2002-05-12 Thread Sandeep Gopal Nijsure
Hi all, I am looking for MD5 sums of the latest versions of clean Debian packages for "testing" distribution. I wanted them so that I could compare them with the sums of packages installed on a machine to see if a machine has been compromised. Please let me know the URL where they are made public

Re: affichage déporté (fwd)

2002-05-12 Thread Robert Walker
-- french --- Bonjour, Il suffit de lancer xterm avec la commande xterm -display serveur:0.0 Pour dire l'ecran 0 du poste 0 nomme serveur. Il est probablement plus efficace de changer la variable d'environement DISPLAY $ DISPLAY=serveur:0.0 $ export DISPLAY ( dans un shell bourn

Re: xfree redux

2002-05-12 Thread Tom Cook
This is purely how *I* would do it, there is sure to be a Better Way (TM). On 0, Jeff Maxson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Awhile back I purchased a video card that was only supported by version > 4.1 of Xfree86. At the time, woody didn't have it in it's repertoire, so > I install

Re: Hard drive performance, new kernel?

2002-05-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-13T02:16:41Z, Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tried multiple things to speed up my hard drive access, and the > best I can seem to squeeze out of a 7200RPM 40GB HDD is 23 MB/s. That just > doesn't sound right... I have another box with another linux distro with

Re: driver

2002-05-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 13 May 2002 10:33:44 +0900 (JST) "salasa nawang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happen to the Linux support of the Promise TEchnology, INC. > In their site www.promise.com, it was shown items on lists that there > are Linux supports for various products like controllers, etc... > But wh

Re: debconf config

2002-05-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:30:58PM -0400, Dave L. wrote: > while installing debconf_1.1.2_all.deb on Potato 2.2r6 (in order to install ^---^ debconf_ 1.1.2? woody and sid only have 1.0.32. For X4.1 on potato look at http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/

Hard drive performance, new kernel?

2002-05-12 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I have tried multiple things to speed up my hard drive access, and the best I can seem to squeeze out of a 7200RPM 40GB HDD is 23 MB/s. That just doesn't sound right... I have another box with another linux distro with an ATA66 5400RPM drive that gets 40 MB/s without even tweaking anything. The on

xfree redux

2002-05-12 Thread Jeff Maxson
Hi all, Awhile back I purchased a video card that was only supported by version 4.1 of Xfree86. At the time, woody didn't have it in it's repertoire, so I installed it manually from the tar.gz files found at the homepage of xfree. Of course, now woody has the 4.1 version in it. I have installe

driver

2002-05-12 Thread salasa nawang
What happen to the Linux support of the Promise TEchnology, INC. In their site www.promise.com, it was shown items on lists that there are Linux supports for various products like controllers, etc... But when you brouse it, it says No corresponding data Any idea? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

debconf config

2002-05-12 Thread Dave L.
while installing debconf_1.1.2_all.deb on Potato 2.2r6 (in order to install xfree 4.1.0), during configure stage... 'no type given for question at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 15.' i even tried to comment out the check ('die') to no avail :) help :] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Don't install lvm2!

2002-05-12 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 12 May 2002, Andres Salomon wrote: > As for the really-bad-shape part; they work for me (tm); I don't have a > system w/ /usr on a separate partition. I apologize for the bug, but > they happen. Read -policy and/or the packaging manual. Things in /{{s,}bin,lib} can not use thinks in /u

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Isn't this all rather academic, since Miroslav has a _386_ with > only SIXTEEN MB RAM? Running X would be folly!! Not only is the > CPU old and slow, but so is the RAM, HDD, video card, etc. And > the HDD will tiny!!! > sufficient X to have multiple term windows open at once. He won't b

masqmail problem

2002-05-12 Thread Brian Schramm
OK. I have changed the mailer from sendmail to masqmail. I had a problem with sendmail not working right on my machine. I tried exim and that did not work either. My needs are simple. I have one phone line dedicated as a modem line for my computer's internet access. I have had this type of a

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 01:07, andrej hocevar wrote: > Based on my experience one can configure and adjust some programs > more easily than others -- so you use those you can figure out, > right? Has been known to happen, yes > So which are the main reasons for > choosing CUPS? > Since you were a

Re: Don't install lvm2!

2002-05-12 Thread Andres Salomon
Welcome to beta packages. :) A fix for this is up at http://chunk.mp3revolution.net/lvm2 (apt-gettable); They'll be uploaded tonight. Feel free to try 'em out and provide feedback before they're uploaded. As for the really-bad-shape part; they work for me (tm); I don't have a system w/ /usr on

Re: dselect doesn't list Woody packages

2002-05-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 03:21:20PM -0700, Rob Mosher wrote: > Hi, > I recently made the update from Potato to Woody, yet for some > reason in dselect it does not list all of the packages availible > for Woody. I've run apt-get update (invoked from dselect and > otherwise) but this hasn't helped. If

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-12 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Isn't this all rather academic, since Miroslav has a _386_ with only > SIXTEEN MB RAM? Running X would be folly!! I used to run X on a 386/33 with 8MB. Slow, but usable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Symbios 53c1010 chip quetion.

2002-05-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 13 May 2002 01:54:38 +0300 (EET DST) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have onboard dual Ultra 160 LVD SCSI with LSI Symbios 53c1010 chip > and also dual Socet 370 Intel Pentium III processors. I want to install > (from CD with Woody) Debian on my machine. How do include t

Symbios 53c1010 chip quetion.

2002-05-12 Thread petrov
Hi All! I have onboard dual Ultra 160 LVD SCSI with LSI Symbios 53c1010 chip and also dual Socet 370 Intel Pentium III processors. I want to install (from CD with Woody) Debian on my machine. How do include the support of SCSI disk? Do standard kernels with pool (2.4.18+SMP or 2.2.20+SMP) support

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 18:07, andrej hocevar wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:15:16PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > You could try to use CUPS > > Could someone tell me why use CUPS instead of lpr/lprng? The web-based administration is very simple. > Based on my experience one can configure

tool to extract SZDD files?

2002-05-12 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i am confronted with a windows program compressend in a M$ special fashion. there are lots of .tx_ etc files i want to extract, anything to do this? -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- UPDATE your address books please!!!

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 20:08, craigw wrote: > On Sat May 11, 2002 at 11:57:19PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 23:37, Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > > > > > > I need som recomendation for some realy small footprint window manager > > > (it > > > should run on 386/16MB). What's b

Re: Evolution has no help or email properties

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
> Under KDE Control Center/File Browsing/File Associations I don't find > any mention of ghelp. It does list HTML files, which are associated > with my browser. I've looked through the list and compared it to my > laptop, which is also running Debian testing, and I find no difference. > Am I l

Re: Colors in term?

2002-05-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:36:44PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > > What's the value of the TERM environment variable? > > env|grep TERM should tell you, at least under bash. > > TERM=vt220 > > BitchX gives me color tho. but MC, ls and stuff does not. ~>infocmp vt220 | grep color ~>infocmp |

Re: Video Editing

2002-05-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > ** I'm off list so please CC: me! > > Does anyone know of some video editing software that can chop some > frames from a DivX avi? The only ones I have seen do camcorder stuff. There is no good software for linux avaible atm. I use

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread dman
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:12:52PM +0200, Björn Lindström wrote: | Has anyone got the printer HP DeskJet 610C working in Debian? Yep, it works quite well with CUPS and the cupsomatic-ppd package. The only problem is a little clipping on the left margin. I haven't tried to work it out yet (and pro

gFTP

2002-05-12 Thread Patrick Lane
Is it just me, or does anyone else have stability problems with gFTP? It crashes on me often. I'm using testing, kernel 2.4.18, nvidia X driver, everything up-to-date. --Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Evolution has no help or email properties

2002-05-12 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:36, Dale Hair wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 07:17, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > Running Evolution 1.0.3 on Debian testing. Whenever I click on any of > > the "Help" topics, nothing is happens. I can go to > > /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/C/index.html and > > the file is

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:12:52PM +0200, Björn Lindström wrote: > Has anyone got the printer HP DeskJet 610C working in Debian? > > It is not listed by magicfilterconfig, so I have tried some > other DeskJet filters, but none of them work. > > What do I do now? Hi Björn, I got it with apsfilte

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:12:52PM +0200, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote: > Has anyone got the printer HP DeskJet 610C working in Debian? > > It is not listed by magicfilterconfig, so I have tried some > other DeskJet filters, but none of them work. > > What do I do now? > If you wish to use magicfilter

Problems installing with A7A266 mobo

2002-05-12 Thread Astardok
I am having some problems getting Debian to install on my system.  Actually, it is one specific problem that keeps on popping up again and again.  I don't know if anyone can help me out, but I figure it's worth asking.   The problem is, when I try to install Debian on my system, either from

Don't install lvm2!

2002-05-12 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Hi! I just want to put out a warning since I messed up my system today just by installing lvm2. I already filed a bug (#146754) and there is a related one (#146257). The problem is that /sbin/lvm, which is symlinked to by the varous LVM utils is linked against a library in /usr (libdevmapper), wh

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:15:16PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > You could try to use CUPS Could someone tell me why use CUPS instead of lpr/lprng? Based on my experience one can configure and adjust some programs more easily than others -- so you use those you can figure out, right? Unless of c

Re: linksys pc card FIXED

2002-05-12 Thread Seneca
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 11:42:34AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 11/05/02 Michael P. Soulier did speaketh: > > > Hey people, > > > > Is anyone using the Linksys EtherFast 10/100 PC card, model PCMPC100, in > > their laptop under Debian? I can't get this one working, using the vers

Re: Galeon quit working

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:14, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 20:05, Dale Hair wrote: > > > /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: > > undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString > > Did you upgrade mozilla? I relied on apt-get dist-upgrade to ha

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:12:52PM +0200, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote: > Has anyone got the printer HP DeskJet 610C working in Debian? > > It is not listed by magicfilterconfig, so I have tried some > other DeskJet filters, but none of them work. Yes, I have one, works well with the dj690c filter. Howe

examples for hotplug manager?

2002-05-12 Thread Martin Maciaszek
I'm trying to set up the hotplug manager to start pppd on ttyUSB1 whenever my Palm shows up on the bus. I finde the documentation a bit terse. Can someone provide me with some examples? Cheers Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

NIC logging?

2002-05-12 Thread Alex Hunsley
I want to debug my NIC, so I've changed the appropriate line in /etc/modules to: 3c59x debug=6 which turns debugging onto a maximum. I've restarted the machine, now the question is: where are the debug messages going? I can't find much in /var/logs apart from standard messages about the module be

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread Ted
Björn Lindström wrote: Has anyone got the printer HP DeskJet 610C working in Debian? It is not listed by magicfilterconfig, so I have tried some other DeskJet filters, but none of them work. What do I do now? Hi.. I have my hp610c working using printtool..It is better in linux than xp pro

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread Andreas Eichner
Am Sonntag, 12. Mai 2002 13:12 schrieb Björn Lindström: > Has anyone got the printer HP DeskJet 610C working in Debian? I have an HP Deskjet 615C. Works fine with CUPS and it's filters for the Deskjet 670. May also work with your 610C. Test it. Have fun! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:12, Björn Lindström wrote: > Has anyone got the printer HP DeskJet 610C working in Debian? > > It is not listed by magicfilterconfig, so I have tried some > other DeskJet filters, but none of them work. > > What do I do now? You could try to use CUPS -- I did not vote

Re: Galeon quit working

2002-05-12 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 20:05, Dale Hair wrote: > /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: > undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString Did you upgrade mozilla? -- I did not vote for the Austrian government -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

How to get working xpdf in Alpha Netscape 4.7

2002-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
Originally posted on debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Hi: This is probably the wrong list, but in Netscape 4.7, how does one get working Netscape applications? Are they not supported on Alpha version of this product? It seems that other platforms (VMS, Win, &c) all one does is update the Netscape ap

Galeon quit working

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
After last dist-upgrade on two machines Galeon quit working. One is running testing with galeon from unstable, the other is testing only. When I try to run it from xterm I get /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString

HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread Björn Lindström
Has anyone got the printer HP DeskJet 610C working in Debian? It is not listed by magicfilterconfig, so I have tried some other DeskJet filters, but none of them work. What do I do now? -- Björn Lindström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hem.fyristorg.com/bkhl/ Ramsta Svista Phone

Video Editing

2002-05-12 Thread Hereward Cooper
** I'm off list so please CC: me! Does anyone know of some video editing software that can chop some frames from a DivX avi? The only ones I have seen do camcorder stuff. -- Thanks, -0) Hereward Cooper "Being Alone Draws Attentio

Re: Evolution has no help or email properties

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 07:17, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Running Evolution 1.0.3 on Debian testing. Whenever I click on any of > the "Help" topics, nothing is happens. I can go to > /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/C/index.html and > the file is present. I can double click it in a file manager or en

Re: Getting a stable LVM for woody

2002-05-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 03:07:34AM -0700, Alexander Konovalenko wrote: > I would like to install a more-or-less production quality > version of LVM with woody on i386. I was thinking in the same line :) > Sistina.com says that the latest stable release of LVM is > 1.0.4, while both 1.1-rc2 an

Re: Apt-get upgrade holding back

2002-05-12 Thread steve downes
Many thanks Daniel, Clearly correct & I have installed all the held packages & they all had additional packages to install. Regards Steve On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:42:47AM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 05:48, steve downes wrote: > > Apt-get upgrade is holding back a numbe

Re: X just locks up

2002-05-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 11/05/02 Michael P. Soulier did speaketh: > Mine didn't get that far. The screen just blanks. No desktop, nothing. Hmm. A friend on a local LUG mailing list just told me that S3 chipsets under X4 have problems, and that there was a recent fix. I guess I'll go look for that. Mike

Re: linksys pc card FIXED

2002-05-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 11/05/02 Michael P. Soulier did speaketh: > Hey people, > > Is anyone using the Linksys EtherFast 10/100 PC card, model PCMPC100, in > their laptop under Debian? I can't get this one working, using the version > 0.93 tulip driver. I borrowed a 3Com card that works beautifully, autodete

OpenOffice installation problem with XFree4

2002-05-12 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
It seems that with XFree4, OpenOffice will work in one of two circumstances: a) "load freetype" is set in XF86Config-4 b) "load xtt" is set AND an font server is active. If "load xtt" is set and a font server is NOT active, OpenOffice goes (on my system) into a "weird" state. What I want is: -

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-12 Thread ktb
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 11:37:37PM +0200, Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > > I need som recomendation for some realy small footprint window manager (it > should run on 386/16MB). What's best choice? > Take a look at PWM. Has great customizable keyboard support. It also allows you to stick windows to

Re: paralel cable

2002-05-12 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Thanx, I setup it, but something goes wrong ... I'm able to ping between machines few times but soon or later it ends with plip0: transmit timeout (1,87) (this message I see on laptop) I think the cable is OK, coz I'm trasnfering files on him between windows without problems sure, my no

Re: affichage déporté

2002-05-12 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Sunday 12 May 2002 11:39, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Bonjour, > > J'ai un petit pbm pour déporté mon affichage X. > Sur le poste ou mon serveur X tourne, j'ai fait "xhost +". > Sur le client, je lance l'applicarion "xterm -display serveur:0" > Et il me dit "Can't open display: serveur:0. > Quelqu

sparc headers??

2002-05-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, I just tried to install kernel-headers-2.2.18pre21, and it installed kernel-headers-2.2.18pre21-sparc. I'm on a Celeron! What the hell?? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-li

Re: usb permissions + export display

2002-05-12 Thread Jan Exss
On Sun, 12 May 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 02:39:43PM +0200, Jan Exss wrote: > > > > I seriously recommend to use ssh instead of unencrypted X11 connections. > > Seconded. > > > Please use ssh instead. Try > > > > $ ssh -x client > > Minor correction: that should be 'ssh -X

Re: problems with cyrus (sid) on woody

2002-05-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 06:39:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed the cyrus-Server from sid on a debian woody installation: How did you manage? Whatever I try, I can't get authorisation to work:( ... > For whatever reason, I seem to have problems with some permission: ... > u

Re: usb permissions + export display

2002-05-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 02:39:43PM +0200, Jan Exss wrote: > On 12 May 2002, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > 2. I want to export my display on anothre computer. On the server > > running X, I issued the following command: "xhost +", and on the client, > > when I launch an application, like "xterm -displ

Re: usb permissions + export display

2002-05-12 Thread Jan Exss
On 12 May 2002, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > 1. When I plug my didgital usb camera, I can only access it under root, > not as a regular user. I know this is because /proc/bus/usb/000/... > entries are accessible only by root, and I can't change it since as soon > as I re-plug my camera, the permissio

Evolution has no help or email properties

2002-05-12 Thread Daniel D Jones
Running Evolution 1.0.3 on Debian testing. Whenever I click on any of the "Help" topics, nothing is happens. I can go to /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/C/index.html and the file is present. I can double click it in a file manager or enter it manually in the browser's path and it opens fine. B

Re: File size limit exceeded

2002-05-12 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.12 02:16 Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN wrote: Everything went well, until I wanted to format a hard drive. By then mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, mkfs.reiserfs, and even mkfs.vfat and mkfs.msdos gave me the error message: File size limit exceeded As this error has never occured prior to my recent lib

Re: Problems with display on VIA chipset motherboard

2002-05-12 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Thus spake shyamk last Sun, May 12, 2002 at 02:36:31PM +0530: > I use a AMD-Duron processor on a VIA chipset motherboard , > I installed the S3Virge stuff that came with > the CD supplied by my vendor ,and now am having some problems > with the display. > > o In XWindows , my ps/2 mouse pointer

Re: Apt-get upgrade holding back

2002-05-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:48:04AM +0100, steve downes wrote: > Apt-get upgrade is holding back a number of packages without giving a > reason. The upgrade method is designed to hold back packages if dependencies change. Try dist-upgrade instead. You can find out exactly what's going on using '-o

Getting a stable LVM for woody

2002-05-12 Thread Alexander Konovalenko
I would like to install a more-or-less production quality version of LVM with woody on i386. Sistina.com says that the latest stable release of LVM is 1.0.4, while both 1.1-rc2 and LVM2 are beta versions. But the current situation with LVM packages is as follows: * potato contains lvm 0.8i-1

Apt-get upgrade holding back

2002-05-12 Thread steve downes
Apt-get upgrade is holding back a number of packages without giving a reason. It seems to have them on hold & a few days later it still has them on hold. Had a look in logs etc & cant find any reason. Anybody know why & ideally what I can do about it. Packages are abiword afterstep gettext gimp

usb permissions + export display

2002-05-12 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hello everybody ! I'm new to Debian but not (quite!) to Linux. I used to run RedHat, and today I'm under Woody. I have to little problems that I never had to deal with under RH: 1. When I plug my didgital usb camera, I can only access it under root, not as a regular user. I know this is because /

Re: IP aliasing and PCMCIA network cards

2002-05-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:02:43AM +0100, Niall Mansfield wrote: > What is the "official" way to set up extra IP addresses on a single > PCMICA card? I use this in /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.124.34 network 192.168.124.0 netmask 255.255.

Re: CPU load testing

2002-05-12 Thread Alex Hunsley
dman wrote: > > On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 09:08:55PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > | > | At 2002-05-11T23:43:31Z, Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 16:37, Sven Hoexter wrote: > | > | >> I prefer cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null > | > | > Dont hose your system entro

affichage déporté

2002-05-12 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Bonjour, J'ai un petit pbm pour déporté mon affichage X. Sur le poste ou mon serveur X tourne, j'ai fait "xhost +". Sur le client, je lance l'applicarion "xterm -display serveur:0" Et il me dit "Can't open display: serveur:0. Quelqu'un aurait-il une idée pour remédier à ce problème, car à part un

Re: text converted into bar codes - tough reading !!

2002-05-12 Thread shamad
Ian, to let you know, I got an another advice which was to add in the section Device of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file the following: Option "NoAccel" and this worked!! It seems to be related to the xserver not properly managing the accelerated fonts for my old video card.. Thanks very much for your

Problems with display on VIA chipset motherboard

2002-05-12 Thread shyamk
I use a AMD-Duron processor on a VIA chipset motherboard , I installed the S3Virge stuff that came with the CD supplied by my vendor ,and now am having some problems with the display. o In XWindows , my ps/2 mouse pointer hangs after lurking in the corners ofthe screen. o zgv , text-console - b

A strange error

2002-05-12 Thread shyamk
Since today morning my Debian Potato r3 box has been behaving strangely : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mnt7/Penguin_logo$ sudo /sbin/ask Password:hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE ide0: reset: success [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ I

Re: rsync over ssh without password

2002-05-12 Thread Francois Chenais
Try the --password-file option as described in man rsyncd.conf. Doesn't work yet for me but it's in the man and somebody on rsync maillinglist said me that's work ! ;-) François On Sat, 11 May 2002 02:48:09 +0100 Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to automate a

IP aliasing and PCMCIA network cards

2002-05-12 Thread Niall Mansfield
What is the "official" way to set up extra IP addresses on a single PCMICA card? I can obviously add a line like: ifconfig eth0:1 10.2.3.4 netmask 255.0.0.0 up to /etc/pcmcia/network.opts but: (a) it would be invoked even in the case of a "network stop" (b) doesn't remove the interface whe

Re: rsync over ssh without password

2002-05-12 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 20:48, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > rather just the user's id key. I've had a look at the sshd man page and > tried setting up this system to no avail. when you attempt to connect, does it prompt you for password for the key, or just user password? Did you create the correct

File size limit exceeded

2002-05-12 Thread Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN
Dear All, I am running Debian Potato 2.2 r5 on an AMD Athlon single processor machine with a variety of IDE and SCSI hard drives atteched to it. No problems so far. A few day ago, I ran dselect for a system update, and it seems that Debian automagically installed a few libraries (not quite sure whi

Re: copy of dual boot lilo.conf

2002-05-12 Thread craigw
On Sat May 11, 2002 at 07:03:31PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Greetings: > > Would anyone care to drop me a copy of their lilo.conf for booting Debian and > another *nix on the same hard drive? I am out of practice, and could us