RE: the verdict

Ian said on 3 November 2002 9:32 PM >micro$oft to go opensource...hehe. >http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=478 further proof of a corrupt and evil US government. Just remember that microsoft pays a lot of US taxes and brings a lot of money into the US econo

RE: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

website previously posted on Sunday 03/11/2002 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html Very interesting read. I don't know about America, but Australia has things called referendums. They're hard to force, but if public opinion is strong enough the Australia government generally will

the verdict

micro$oft to go opensource...hehe. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=478 ian "X --> Xtensive P --> Punishment" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

galeon --server

Hi, I am trying to get the command "galeon --server" to load each time I start X, but I am not having much luck. I have tried putting "galeon --server" and "galeon --server %" into both ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession without success What would be the correct way to do this? Keith -- ___

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

Larry Alkoff wrote: > > Top posting so this can be clearly read. > > I'm interested in what TCPA is but the web site mentioned is very poorly written. > There is no clear explanation of what TCPA is and why it should be opposed > on the main page. > > Examination of the web site gave me no infor

Re: mkfile(8) in Debian?

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/file/to/create bs= count= Though a holed file cannot be made by this method, this is a good idea. Thank you Michael. ///Hiroki Horiuchi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Moving mboxen

Now that I finally have my router up and running with Debian I have a formerly underpowered W2K-running 350 MHz box acting as a very OVER-powered Debian box. :) I need more work for it to do, and one of the jobs that I'm thinking of is moving the mail (SMTP/IMAP) server to it, so that I won't have

Re: How to repair Mozilla settings?

Michael D. Crawford wrote: I had mozilla open while I was running a kernel compile in my home directory, and my /home filesystem filled up. This seems to have screwed up my mozilla settings files. When I start mozilla, it's lost all my preferences and when I create a new message, I'm prompted

Re: Need help with NIS

Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-02 22:23:46 -0500]: > > I just recently converted over to using nis to deliver my /etc/passwd > and /etc/group data on my home lan. All has been working fine with that Uh, you already asked this question once already: http://lists.debian.org/debian-use

Re: html as background

On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 23:13, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > > Hello Lance, > > > > On Nov 2, Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > | Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page > > | as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? > > > > Hmmm. Load it in a web browser,

Re: cannot rm file

Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-02 22:14:10 -0500]: > rm: cannot lstat `/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH.conf': Permission denied > When I try to ls the directory as root, I get this: > ls: /usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH.conf: Permission denied > I have no idea what to do or what might be causing thi

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:27:03AM -0500, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > "Larry Alkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In the meantime, can anyone please tell me what this TCPA is all about? > > Have a look at Ross Anderson's excellent TCPA / Palladium FAQ at >

Re: mutt trouble

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 09:26:25AM -0500, Jon-o Addleman spanked upon the buttocks of Barbie in Morse Code: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 05:21:04PM +0530, sandip spake thusly: hello! this is what i did: mutt :source ~/.alias m #to compose new mail tried to use alias, doesnt work still! any further s

Re: Making a java 1.4.1 deb

> mdevin sez: > } Is there some way that I can use the Sun Linux install binary and > } convert it to a deb so that when Blackdown releases theirs, my system > } will automatically upgrade to their version? Actually, Blackdown has a > } binary install version for 1.4.1 beta but no deb package. Is i

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

"Larry Alkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the meantime, can anyone please tell me what this TCPA is all about? Have a look at Ross Anderson's excellent TCPA / Palladium FAQ at . john. -- Internet FAQs, #666: > A: No. > Q: Should I include quo

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

Top posting so this can be clearly read. I'm interested in what TCPA is but the web site mentioned is very poorly written. There is no clear explanation of what TCPA is and why it should be opposed on the main page. Examination of the web site gave me no information about TCPA at all. It's a good

How to repair Mozilla settings?

I had mozilla open while I was running a kernel compile in my home directory, and my /home filesystem filled up. This seems to have screwed up my mozilla settings files. When I start mozilla, it's lost all my preferences and when I create a new message, I'm prompted to create an account. I c

Re: Installing new software

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:05:08PM +0100, David Jones wrote: > Hi, > I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a full woody set of CD's but am >unable to get XFree86 4 to work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use > any of the other software on the woody cds because the system always wants to

Re: bash scripting question

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:51:00PM -0500, Neal Lippman wrote: > shell variable to the alphabet string (export alpha="A,B,C,...,Z"), but > then the command: > for x in {$alpha} ; > do > echo $x; > done > winds up printing the string "{A,B,C,...,Z}" rather than each l

Re: mkfile(8) in Debian?

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:50:45PM +0900, Hiroki Horiuchi wrote: > I want to create a zero filled (even holed) file of a given size. > In SunOS, I can do that with mkfile(8). But there seems to be no such > GNU command. If I understand what you're trying to do, you can do it with: dd if=/dev/zero

mkfile(8) in Debian?

Hello. I want to create a zero filled (even holed) file of a given size. In SunOS, I can do that with mkfile(8). But there seems to be no such GNU command. How can I do such a task in Debian? Thanks in advance. ///Hiroki Horiuchi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

bash scripting question

I am trying to solve a bash scripting problem, but I cannot figure it out. I frequently need to execute a command of the form: for x in {A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z); do ; done This works fine if I actually type out the entire alpha

Re: VMWare on Debian and VPN on Windows

nate, 2002-Nov-02 13:29 -0800: > Andy Saxena said: > > Does anybody have any experience running VMWare on Debian hosting > > Windows (preferably Win2K) and using Windows VPN software? I run woody and vmware 3.2 with Windows 2000 as the virtual machine. I have both host and bridge mode running so I

Need help with NIS

I just recently converted over to using nis to deliver my /etc/passwd and /etc/group data on my home lan. All has been working fine with that for a few weeks, so I decided last night to convert over to having my workstation obtain /etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/ethers, and /etc/rpc data from

Re: cannot rm file

Brian Stults said: > I have no idea what to do or what might be causing this. Any > suggestions? I would remount the filesystem readonly and do a fsck, or boot with a boot disk/cd and run a fsck on the fileystem. the exact command will depend on the filesystem your using nate -- To UNSUBS

cannot rm file

I cannot upgrade libasound2 because it is trying to overwrite a file called /usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH.conf. When I try to remove the file as root, I get this: rm: cannot lstat `/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH.conf': Permission denied When I try to ls the directory as root, I get this: ls: /usr/shar

Re: woody

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:55:34PM -0600, nate wrote: > I was wondering if Woody has KDE 3? I do not think so. Back port is http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0.4/Debian/woody/ (I have no idea about quality) nate, you are debian-user regular and this question should have been there :) This is [EMA

Re: xclock with 12-hour time?

Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-02 15:47:58 -0500]: > is there a way to make xclock display 12-hour time instead of > 24-hour? a friend of mine can't read her clock :) I assume you have considered -analog? Bob msg10686/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

Hi Hauke: Even I did not know about this I am not surprised, day after day governments and big companys try to control us more and more. Reading about it i found in every paragraph violation of our privacy rights. They are planning to gain a lot of space by this move, but is in our hands to fig

Re: Making a java 1.4.1 deb

mdevin sez: } Is there some way that I can use the Sun Linux install binary and } convert it to a deb so that when Blackdown releases theirs, my system } will automatically upgrade to their version? Actually, Blackdown has a } binary install version for 1.4.1 beta but no deb package. Is it } poss

Re: Making a java 1.4.1 deb

- Original Message - From: "mdevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 2:46 AM Subject: Making a java 1.4.1 deb You might find usefull information here on how one can build a deb package: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide

SOLVED: shorewall blocks apt-get

> > 1) run an internal DNS behind the firewall, and direct all queries at > > that system, punch a hole through the firewall to allow that system > > through. I do this on my network, I have a bridged freebsd box > > which has a default ipfw policy of deny, then I told BIND to only > > use UDP port

Making a java 1.4.1 deb

Is there some way that I can use the Sun Linux install binary and convert it to a deb so that when Blackdown releases theirs, my system will automatically upgrade to their version? Actually, Blackdown has a binary install version for 1.4.1 beta but no deb package. Is it possible to use this and s

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Hi, after upgrading to xlibs 4.2.1-3 (sarge) I noticed it refused to setxkbmap -layout to cz/cz_qwerty/sk/sk_qwerty/czsk other layouts were ok solved be coping cz/sk layouts from xlibs_4.1.0-16(woody). Mirek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: shorewall blocks apt-get

> Workarounds: > > 1) run an internal DNS behind the firewall, and direct all queries at > that system, punch a hole through the firewall to allow that system > through. I do this on my network, I have a bridged freebsd box > which has a default ipfw policy of deny, then I told BIND to only > use

Gnome-Terminal 2.1.0

Well, I'm not sure that was such a good move on my system - just installed it from Unstable, and while I can finally change the font, which I couldn't do with 2.0.1, I can't keep it running - it is tremendously slow to launch, to launch a new shell window or tab, and within five minutes of starting

Re: Docsis Cable Modem

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:52:52PM -0500, Richard Beri wrote: ... > is when I go to a shell (control-alt-f1) I am getting a constant > stream of messages something starting with "IN eth0 O"T=MAC ff:ff In order to quiet on-screen error messages, the first place to check is /etc/init.d/klogd

Re: Debian New User Questions

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 09:38:54AM +, Martin Hooper wrote: > I have installed Woody and got up a minimal GUI interface using wmaker. > > I installed with the bf24 kernel. > > I need answers to a couple of questions: > > 1. How do I create /dev/usb/lp1 for use with Cups? http://qref.sourc

Re: X Windows and Gnome Problem - HELP!!

Try /dev/ttyS0. That's what I had to use. (Actually I use /dev/mouse but made that a link to /dev/ttyS0.) Tim wrote: > Thanks for your help. I still have the problem of my mouse being disabled. I > have tried using a serial mouse and a PS/2 mouse but neither of them work. > When i use xf86config,

Docsis Cable Modem

I just got my Cable modem upgraded from the cable company. It is a Terayon TJ615 Docsis modem. My configuration hasn't changed from my older Terayon cable modem. The problem is this, the modem seems to be constantly receiving something, showing up as about a ~2k download in my network monito

Re: X Windows and Gnome Problem - HELP!!

Thanks for your help. I still have the problem of my mouse being disabled. I have tried using a serial mouse and a PS/2 mouse but neither of them work. When i use xf86config, i have tried using various device names for the mouse such as /dev/mouse, /dev/tty00, /dev/tty01, and /dev/psaux but none of

Re: Just some pointers Please (Mouse wheel issues)

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:42:04PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: > I am using: > Linux dragon.ursine.dyndns.org 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 >unknown unknown GNU/Linux > > I have a Logitech Wireless/Optical Mouse. (cordless MouseMan Optical, by > Logitech <-- Lable on mouse)

RE: video on laptop - Compaq Armada 1750

Olivier Esser said on 2 November 2002 10:59 PM Subject: Re: video on laptop - Compaq Armada 1750 >video="vga16:off" disable the framebuffer (a mean to use the console in >graphic mode; which allow to see the linux pinguin). > >To disable it permanently put > >append="video=vga16:off" > >just aft

Re: restart command in wmaker

On Saturday 02 November 2002 15:00, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > There is a menu item under exit/restart > in wmaker that I use a lot. Does > anyone know what the actual command this > is using? > > Lance it creates a menu item which window maker calls internally. There is no direct access to this.

Re: Problem with libesd-alsa

> "Theodore" == Theodore Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Theodore> On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 15:39:52 -0500 Theodore> Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> but the maintainer has not yet fixed it. You can either try building >> From source with libasound2 support, or using the OSS emulation >

Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

Hi, Microsoft plans to kill all OpenSource software on hardware level. This technology is called TCPA. What's TCPA in general you can read at the anti-tcpa site: http://antitcpa.alsherok.net/ All OpenSource developers should think the same way: If TCPA becomes reality GPL is dead. Now we have t

restart command in wmaker

There is a menu item under exit/restart in wmaker that I use a lot. Does anyone know what the actual command this is using? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X upgrade broke DRI

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 November 2002 23:31, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > Up until today, I had DRI support with my ATI Rage 128 card, using > the ati driver and X 4.1. Today's upgrade (running sarge) noticeably > dropped my frame rate, so I did some loo

X upgrade broke DRI

Hello all, Up until today, I had DRI support with my ATI Rage 128 card, using the ati driver and X 4.1. Today's upgrade (running sarge) noticeably dropped my frame rate, so I did some looking around. steve@gashuffer:~$ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No

Re: dsp problem

On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:56:21 -0500 "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sndconfig finds my sound card and I hear the message although the > volume is very low. However, play pop.wav aborts with a message that > /dev/dsp not found. There is a file /dev/dsp so it must not be > config

Re: Problem with libesd-alsa

On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 15:39:52 -0500 Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but the maintainer has not yet fixed it. You can either try building > From source with libasound2 support, or using the OSS emulation layer. I can use the OSS emulation layer, but only when something else isn't using AL

Re: netscape opens mozilla window if mozilla is running: why? (not how)

Andrea Borgia said: > Hello. > Since I'm quite new to Debian, what is the rationale behind > netscape-remote? I believe it is so when/if a user tries to load netscape twice (and many non technical users do when they want to open a new window), it opens a new window instead of tries to load a new

Re: CUPS, what's wrong?

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:30:21PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Calber Chainy said: > > Hello list: > > > > I wanted to have a print server and heard of cups. > > > > I want to have remote control of the server and heard i could do it easily using > > cups and a navig

dsp problem

sndconfig finds my sound card and I hear the message although the volume is very low. However, play pop.wav aborts with a message that /dev/dsp not found. There is a file /dev/dsp so it must not be configured properly. My references state that dsp is a D/A converter but give no clue as to ho

Re: VMWare on Debian and VPN on Windows

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:31:21AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 05:33, Andy Saxena wrote: > > Does anybody have any experience running VMWare on Debian hosting > > Windows (preferably Win2K) and using Windows VPN software? > > > > I run vmware all the time (with Windows

Address rewriting and FQDN

For the moment, /etc/mailname is set to "ay" on my machine. But the message-id generated by the "bug" utility doesn't have a FQDN. I tried to set it to "ay.vinc17.org", but address rewriting doesn't work any longer (vinc17.org is a domain I own, but ay.vinc17.org doesn't correspond to any machine r

xscreensaver locks twice

Hi, I use xscreensaver to lock my notebook's screen after it resumes. For this, I start xscreensaver in ~/.xinitrc and call xscreensaver-command from apmd_proxy: xscreensaver-command -lock However, everytime the notebook wakes up and the lock is activated, I get the following error: xscreensa

Re: Kernel Panic | boot | Unable to mount root fs | Reiser FS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 November 2002 7:14 pm, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi, > > no need to further look at the problem. I am now using the ide drive > as my primary drive and that seems to work. Its just amazing that it did > work before with SuSE also using LIL

gnome-terminal depends on docbookxml, sgml-date, etc.

Package gnome-terminal seems to depend (transitively) on a lot things. Is it really supposed to require installing packages such as docbookxml, libxslt, and sgml-data? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: shorewall blocks apt-get

Benedict Verheyen said: > Hi, > > i configured shorewall on my server to share the internet connection. My > apt.conf file contains a line to configure the use of the proxy of my > isp: > Acquire::http:Proxy "http://proxy.isp.be:8080";; most firewalls with a default deny block outbound DNS request

Re: Kernel Panic | boot | Unable to mount root fs | Reiser FS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 November 2002 8:35 am, Mariano Kamp wrote: > I was unsure what to do with the type of partition when fdisking my > hd. I left the type as "eightysomething - linux" as I haven't found > ReiserFS as a vaild type. I don't know off the to

Re: removing lines from a file

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:19:38PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I know this has come up before but what is the best > way to remove lines 5-10 and lines 16-20 from > a file using the console and a batch file? In place? Put the following in a batch script: #!/bin/bash ed $1

Re: VMWare on Debian and VPN on Windows

Andy Saxena said: > Does anybody have any experience running VMWare on Debian hosting > Windows (preferably Win2K) and using Windows VPN software? it should work without any issues if your in bridged mode(which is the equivilent of running it on native hardware). Note the default win2k VPN softwar

Re: fetchmail restart or awaken?

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:56:04AM +0100, Christian Mascher wrote: > Hi, > > still got the same problem with the way fetchmail is set up in debian > (woody): > > after dialing with "pon provider" "/etc/init.d/fetchmail awaken" is called by > fetchmail-script in ip-up.d. But fetchmail doesn't fet

Re: gnome2 applets : Has not vanished

This package has not vanished. I initially uploaded it to unstable but one of the library was only in experimental. So I ask for the removal of it in unstable and uploaded it to experimental. I will soon upload it in unstable again now that gnome2 is where it belongs. Christophe On Sat, Nov 02, 2

shorewall blocks apt-get

Hi, i configured shorewall on my server to share the internet connection. My apt.conf file contains a line to configure the use of the proxy of my isp: Acquire::http:Proxy "http://proxy.isp.be:8080";; However when i do an apt-get it gets stopped by the firewall. apt-get install menu result:

modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20021102.log Read-only file system

I'm getting the following error during the boot sequence, repeated many times. It doesn't seem to cause any actual problems, but it's worrisome. modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20021102.log Read-only file system(or the current date in place of 22021102

Re: Mozilla Anti-Aliasing

> > I'm trying to get anti-aliasing to work in Mozilla, but for some reason > > my anti-aliased fonts just won't show up. I selected to use freetype in > > the mozilla-browser dpkg configure, but still nothing. Any tips would > > be highly appreciated! see here: http://fontconfig.org/mozilla/

Re: removing lines from a file

On Saturday 02 November 2002 02:29 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Saturday 02 November 2002 02:19 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I know this has come up before but what is the best > > way to remove lines 5-10 and lines 16-20 from > > a file using the console and a batch file? > > > > Lance > > you co

Re: Mozilla Anti-Aliasing

> "Rohan" == Rohan Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rohan> Scratch that, I meant mozilla-browser-snapshot, not Rohan> mozilla-browser. You must select a font that begins with a capital letter, e.g. "Agfa Monotype-arial-iso8859-1" rather than "monotype-arial-iso8859-1". The capital lette

xclock with 12-hour time?

hey all, is there a way to make xclock display 12-hour time instead of 24-hour? a friend of mine can't read her clock :) there appears to be no option in the man page -- it looks like it just prints `date` to its window ... so do i have to make date display 12-hour time? would setting LC_TIME t

Re: Problem with libesd-alsa

> "Theodore" == Theodore Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Theodore> But, trying to get everything working with ALSA, I installed Theodore> libesd-alsa0. Now, ESD doesn't work at all. When I try to run Theodore> the daemon, I get this: libesd-alsa0 is compiled against libasound1, which

Re: html as background

On 02-11-02 09:13 -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > On Nov 2, Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page > > | as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? > > > > Hmmm. Load it in a web browser, print to file, convert the ps to a j

Re: removing lines from a file

On Saturday 02 November 2002 02:19 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I know this has come up before but what is the best > way to remove lines 5-10 and lines 16-20 from > a file using the console and a batch file? > > Lance you could use wc to get the total number of lines, and then use head and tail

removing lines from a file

I know this has come up before but what is the best way to remove lines 5-10 and lines 16-20 from a file using the console and a batch file? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

netscape opens mozilla window if mozilla is running: why? (not how)

Hello. According to alternatives, this is the situation: netscape -> /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape -> /etc/alternatives/netscape ->/usr/lib/netscape/477/communicator/communicator-smotif -> /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper In this last script, the variable "use_ns_remote" set to yes causes another mozi

Re: SOLVED - Converting router from W2K to Debian

On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 05:39, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi I've finally gotten NAT working. Thanks for everyone's help. I had seriously misconfigured the server the first time around due to not fully understanding how DNS would be functioning and that ended up leading to having a non-working ipmasq and i

Re: CUPS, what's wrong?

This one time, at band camp, Calber Chainy said: > Hello list: > > I wanted to have a print server and heard of cups. > > I want to have remote control of the server and heard i could do it easily using > cups and a navigator. > > So i did a little of apt-getting and edited the cupsd.conf file i

Re: Kernel Panic | boot | Unable to mount root fs | Reiser FS

Hi, no need to further look at the problem. I am now using the ide drive as my primary drive and that seems to work. Its just amazing that it did work before with SuSE also using LILO Anyway ... thx very much for your help. Mariano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

CUPS, what's wrong?

Hello list: I wanted to have a print server and heard of cups. I want to have remote control of the server and heard i could do it easily using cups and a navigator. So i did a little of apt-getting and edited the cupsd.conf file in /etc/cupsys. Theese are the detailes I changed: ServerName re

Re: Mozilla Anti-Aliasing

Scratch that, I meant mozilla-browser-snapshot, not mozilla-browser. Also, would anyone know how to get flash to work in mozilla-browser-snapshot too? i can only get it to work in mozilla-browser! thanks! -rohan * Rohan Deshpande ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get anti-alias

Re: *Solved* Gvim & ColorSchemes

I know this is late, but a much simpler fix would have been to create a .gvimrc and put this line in it. colorscheme elflord On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 07:40:50PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: > Accidentally found the fix. > > I was looking through the files and tried some things. > > mkdir ~/.vim

Re: ALSA not saving mixer settings

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:46:02PM +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Yes, same here with rc3 and rc5. Switching back to rc1 solved this > problem. Since rc3 the osslayer modules don't load correctly either. > Only one of the three is loaded. > I can get the OSS layer loaded and functioning just fine.

Re: ALSA not saving mixer settings

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:46:07AM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Check your /etc/modutils/alsa, it needs something like: > > # Restore mixer settings: > post-install snd-ice1712 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore > pre-remove snd-ice1712 /usr/sbin/alsactl store > > In place of snd-ice1712 list

Re: deleting directory

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 07:49:31AM -0700, dave mallery wrote: > gnome terminal is gone and not available via apt-get multi-gnome-terminal is available in testing. gnome-terminal is available in stable and unstable. Looks like GNOME2 transition :-) user@goofy:~$ apt-cache search gnome-te

Re: 2 questions: ethernet card s82595fx ; bunch of background sounds

This one time, at band camp, Antonio Rodriguez said: > ethernet card s82595fx: What is the module for this? bunch of > background sounds: I had to disable gnome audio events to avoid a > bunch of repeating sounds that didn't seem to stop. Even that didn't > help. What could be wrong? Thanks. Usi

Mozilla Anti-Aliasing

Hi, I'm trying to get anti-aliasing to work in Mozilla, but for some reason my anti-aliased fonts just won't show up. I selected to use freetype in the mozilla-browser dpkg configure, but still nothing. Any tips would be highly appreciated! Using Debian Unstable, Rohan -- Rohan Deshpande [EMAI

<0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interupt handler!

Last night all was well, this morning -> no boot. ds: 0018 es: 0018ss: 0018 Process insmod (pid: 220, stackpage=c05b1000) Stack: c05ff3eo c01154e6 c032eca0 c0399d89 18c9 c05b1d4c 3 more lines of address',... Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] 7 more lines of []

<0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interupt handler!

Last night all was well, this morning -> no boot. ds: 0018 es: 0018ss: 0018 Process insmod (pid: 220, stackpage=c05b1000) Stack: c05ff3eo c01154e6 c032eca0 c0399d89 18c9 c05b1d4c 3 more lines of address',... Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] 7 more lines of []

Re: fetchmail restart or awaken?

This one time, at band camp, Christian Mascher said: > Hi, > > still got the same problem with the way fetchmail is set up in debian > (woody): > > after dialing with "pon provider" "/etc/init.d/fetchmail awaken" is called by > fetchmail-script in ip-up.d. But fetchmail doesn't fetch mail, > dec

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:50:07 -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > C-x C-m f, or check the Recognize Coding node of the Emacs manual. OK, thanks to all of you. I've updated my .emacs to be able to easily switch between latin-1 and utf-8. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

Re: ALSA not saving mixer settings

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:34:34 -0500 Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am experiencing ALSA problems in my system. The modules are loading > correctly, and setting the volume works, but shutting down and > restarting alsa with "/etc/init.d/alsa stop" followed by > "/etc/in

Re: Installing new software

"Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shyamal> Here, I even fired up the old laptop to make sure I'm not Shyamal> lying to myself about this: > $dpkg -l 'xfree*common' 'xserver*common' > ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-16 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure

Re: ALSA not saving mixer settings

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Edward Guldemond wrote: > Hi all, > > I am experiencing ALSA problems in my system. The modules are loading > correctly, and setting the volume works, but shutting down and > restarting alsa with "/etc/init.d/alsa stop" followed by > "/etc/init.d/alsa start" does not restore

Re: ALSA not saving mixer settings

Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am experiencing ALSA problems in my system. The modules are loading > correctly, and setting the volume works, but shutting down and > restarting alsa with "/etc/init.d/alsa stop" followed by > "/etc/init.d/alsa start" does not restore my mixer set

Re: html as background

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > > Hello Lance, > > > > On Nov 2, Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > | Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page > > | as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? > > > > Hmmm. Load it in a web browser, print to

Re: ALSA not saving mixer settings

Hi! On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:34:34PM -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: > I am experiencing ALSA problems in my system. The modules are loading > correctly, and setting the volume works, but shutting down and > restarting alsa with "/etc/init.d/alsa stop" followed by > "/etc/init.d/alsa start" does

Re: Problem with libesd-alsa

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:50:08 -0500 Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I gave up on this problem because I don't use ESD all that often, and > replaced the ESD support in most of my apps with either ALSA or OSS > support. And I stopped running GNOME and ESD and am now using KDE and > ART

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

On November 3, 2002 at 2:29AM +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For more information, see the Emacs manual. (`C-x info RET d m > Emacs RET s coding RET SPC SPC SPC ...) `M-x info RET ...'. -- Tatsuya Kinoshita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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