Window Managers

2003-01-24 Thread James Buchanan
Hi, When I run `startx' I would like afterstep to run, and I would like a menu giving me a list of all the window managers/desktop environments that I can run. How do I tell startx to run afterstep by default? I have done `man startx' but it's all incomprehensible gibberish to me! :-( I did l

tmpfs / shm on 2.4.x

2003-01-24 Thread nate
the current thread on memory usage in debian got me thinkin. I remember back when I first played with 2.4.x(.7?), and before that reading about the shm filesystem for shared memory. Running 'free' today on my laptop which runs 2.4.20 didn't show shared memory (as expected under 2.4.x) but I realiz

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Jason McCarty
Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:53:19PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > > So, I understand the output of "free" and all that, but can anyone > > explain the behavior shown below? This after my computer has been up for > > a couple hours, doing very little. It usually shows this behav

Re: Turning off error messages

2003-01-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:21:22AM -0600, Ian Melnick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, all > > I was wondering if there was a way to turn off kernel messages from > getting spit out on the active tty. I keep getting this error message; > I have no idea what it means; I don't see any problem (I

cdrom read errors.

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Pepas
hi all, investigating cdrom read errors. - error only occurs at the very end of the disc - error occurs wether using dd or cat - error occurs wether using hdparm or not - error occurs wether media is mounted or not - resulting iso seems just fine. - error seems to occur randomly among discs, but

Re: Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Travis Crump
Lloyd Zusman wrote: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] but the point is that pinning is not very good because you either bring a number of important packages from unstable (libc6, perl etc) or you simply cannot use it. reading of the manual page and checking the apt-listch

make-kpkg install question

2003-01-24 Thread Ramsay D. Seielstad
Hello all, between following the list and reading the various man pages and documentation I'm about ready to try my hand at rolling my own kernel. I'm planning on using 'make-kpkg' to do this and the one item I have not seen (or found an answer for) is an option for installation into the direc

CPU usage on debian (was: Re: Memory usage on debian)

2003-01-24 Thread Pigeon
On a sort of related point... writing a CD (at 28x), top shows 80-85% system CPU usage. That's with an Athlon 1800XP (1.53GHz). Feeling the heatsink, however, it's running as cool as it usually does. I reckon this must be because it's spending lots of time waiting on the IDE bus. Pigeon -- To U

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Isaac To
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > quaternion:~$ free >total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:256104 251680 4424 0 67536 66640 > -/+ buffers/cache: 117504 138600 > Swap:

Re: DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?

2003-01-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:02:40PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > For "Device File System", Debian "devfsd" package, > how might I test that "devfsd" properly creates files in /dev? > > As a particular example, I work with the Debian "camserv" package, > so I added to devfsd's configuration file,

Re: Apt-get problem with libc

2003-01-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:57:12PM -0700, Curtis Call wrote: > Disclaimer, I'm a novice so bear with me. I've run into some problems with > apt-get. Currently, when trying to use 'apt-get -f install' to clean things > up I continue to get this error: > > ogd2jpr6908:/home/curtis# apt-get -f inst

Re: Initrd diskless boot

2003-01-24 Thread Jameson C. Burt
I re-emphasize the www.ltsp.org approach. In the mid-1990's, I worked with diskless Suns and also tried making several Debian Linux computers diskless. After several weeks identifying files I wanted to keep, sometimes different for each computer, I abandoned that too-time-consuming approach to dis

Re: Apt-get problem with libc

2003-01-24 Thread David P James
Curtis Call was roused into action on 2003-01-24 15:57 and wrote: Disclaimer, I'm a novice so bear with me. I've run into some problems with apt-get. Currently, when trying to use 'apt-get -f install' to clean things up I continue to get this error: ogd2jpr6908:/home/curtis# apt-get -f install

Re: umount hdb?

2003-01-24 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:11:49PM -0500, Stephen Gran insinuated: > Let's see - I missed the start of this thread, but it looks like a > couple of things are awry. Try mount (with no arguments) to see > what mtab says is mounted. it doesn't say anything about hdb7. neither does catting /proc/moun

Re: Fwd: Re: fun with tulip not autoloading

2003-01-24 Thread Kent West
Kieren Diment wrote: From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: fun with tulip not autoloading Kieren Diment wrote: From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: fun with tulip not autoloading i'm using 00:10.0 Ethernet controller:

Re: Reconfigure of localepurge has no effect

2003-01-24 Thread Lloyd Zusman
OOPS. I'm sorry I sent my previous message in this thread to the mailing list. I intended to send it to Paul Selig, and forgot to change the address before typing ^C^C in gnus. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Fwd: Re: fun with tulip not autoloading

2003-01-24 Thread Kent West
Kieren Diment wrote: From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: fun with tulip not autoloading Kieren Diment wrote: From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: fun with tulip not autoloading i'm using 00:10.0 Ethernet controller:

Re: Reconfigure of localepurge has no effect

2003-01-24 Thread Lloyd Zusman
> [ ... ] > > Would you please run "script /tmp/localepurge.typescript" (the command > /usr/bin/script is part of the bsdutils package) and within this very > script session run first "localepurge -d", then "dpkg-reconfigure > localepurge", and then again "localepurge -d". After that, exit the > se

DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?

2003-01-24 Thread Jameson C. Burt
For "Device File System", Debian "devfsd" package, how might I test that "devfsd" properly creates files in /dev? As a particular example, I work with the Debian "camserv" package, so I added to devfsd's configuration file, /etc/devfs/devfsd.conf the line, REGISTER ^v4l/video0$ CFUNCTION G

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:53:19PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > So, I understand the output of "free" and all that, but can anyone > explain the behavior shown below? This after my computer has been up for > a couple hours, doing very little. It usually shows this behavior, > especially if I've ru

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ ... ] > >but the point is that pinning is not very good because you either >bring a number of important packages from unstable (libc6, perl etc) >or you simply cannot use it. reading of the manual page and checking >the apt-listchanges do

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Russell
Erik Steffl wrote: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Fre, 2003-01-24 at 14:59, Adrian Bunk wrote: Since some people seem to thing apt pinning can solve all problems with outdated packages in stable I want to explain why this is wrong: apt pinning is good if you are running testi

RE: xwindows

2003-01-24 Thread Bob Wheate
i got it working late last nite,im new to debian and the install was different from other flavors,how ever once i got it working i enjoy "woody" a lot,i'm led to believe that the kernel is 2.2.x,is that correct ?,any way thanks for the reply,my internet access is limited. bob w. -Original Mes

Re: Error instaling xserver-xfree86 !!

2003-01-24 Thread Russell
Paladin wrote: Hi, With the objective of changing a fs from ext3 to reiserfs, I've managed to loose all the /usr files (tar seems to have failed the backup! :/). So, after a great amount of work I have the system almost working, but I have this problem with xserver-xfree86 package: ... Unpacki

Re: Mapping eth0 two ways

2003-01-24 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 08:22:32PM +, Soren A wrote: > One thing I need to achive, that is failing apparently, is assigning a > different MAC address to my NIC than the one 'hard-coded' in or > automatic to, that card. The reason being of course that my cable > provider tracks MACs and won't al

openssl Illegal instruction with sid version

2003-01-24 Thread Mark Devin
I am not sure if this is a bug or I just don't have things installed correctly. I have just installed the sid version of openssl and its required dependencies with: apt-get -t unstable install openssl But the perl script CA.pl that came with openssl didn't seem to work on my system. When I did:

Nullmailer problems.

2003-01-24 Thread donw
I've been using nullmailer for quite some time with nary a hitch, but it looks like it's just sort-of stopped relaying messages; apparently this happened a few weeks ago, and I never noticed it as I usually end up using my work email address for everything. Whenever I try to flush the queue by han

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-24 Thread Benedict Verheyen
A lot of good suggestions from a lot of people. Time to improve my java program building time! -- Benedict Verheyen Linux 2.4.20 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: locales fr_CA

2003-01-24 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:07:04AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Typing: > $ locate LC_CTYPE > on my system yields: > /usr/lib/locale/fr_CA/LC_CTYPE Which is great, but when I type LC_CTYPE I find nothing. I'm sorry that wasn't clear in my first email. :/ Which libc and libc-dev packages are you u

Re: Reconfigure of localepurge has no effect

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lloyd Zusman) writes: > And I've run the localepurge reconfiguration repeatedly, each time this > message comes up, but it never seems to have any effect. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance. > > Here's the message that I get: > > localepurge: checking for new locale file

Fwd: Re: fun with tulip not autoloading

2003-01-24 Thread Kieren Diment
From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: fun with tulip not autoloading Kieren Diment wrote: >>From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Newsgroups: linux.debian.user >>Subject: fun with tulip not autoloading >> >>i'm using >>00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Commun

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Karsten M. Self [Thu, Jan 23 2003, 03:05:20AM]: > > over the last year or so the lack of home windows use has atrophied > > those skills somewhat, epecially with XP stuff. > > Heh. > > I'm still embarassed by my ability to troubleshoot legacy MS Windows > issues based on my GNU/Linux

Re: bash, but no .bashrc??

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello aloow line . .bashrc on Ur's .bashr-profile or .rpofile file ! David Dumoerize -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-24 Thread W Klink
I use the powstatd package with my APC BackUPS 500. The real advantage that it offers is that you can run "powstatd -t" and see what signals the UPS sends. It's also a good idea when testing the UPS to *not* plug the computer into the UPS. Instead, just plug in a lamp into the UPS. Another adva

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Fre, 2003-01-24 at 14:59, Adrian Bunk wrote: Since some people seem to thing apt pinning can solve all problems with outdated packages in stable I want to explain why this is wrong: apt pinning is good if you are running testing but need a package

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Jason McCarty
So, I understand the output of "free" and all that, but can anyone explain the behavior shown below? This after my computer has been up for a couple hours, doing very little. It usually shows this behavior, especially if I've run a lot of programs first. It seems like memory is being reclaimed from

Re: vsound issue - a return

2003-01-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I removed the -d and it worked. Thanks to those who replied. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sed

2003-01-24 Thread Rob Benton
How about sed 's/^[^+]*\+-//g' SOMEFILE.TXT I think your + needs to be escaped via \ On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 06:04, behapy wrote: > Hi? > > kdjwiskjkdf+-www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html > kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi > kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi > > => > > www.kde.org+-333.kjkd

Re: bash, but no .bashrc??

2003-01-24 Thread Johannes Zarl
> If I explicitely invoke bash (typing 'bash' at the shell), .bashrc is > executed properly, but if I simply log in (locally or remotely), it > doesn't happen. Can anyone explain what is going on here? When bash is invoked as login-shell, it executes the commandos in.bash_profile, if that exis

Re: Debian Proxy

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Helo > Does anyone know if it is possible to configure Windows Explorer(Latest > Ver.) using the proxy settings rather than setting debian as the default > gateway and pointing to my ISP's DNS server? I am new to using this OS. I am > trying to get away from using my Win2k workstation as a proxy s

Re: USB Printer Problem - Partial Fix

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:53:56AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > You'll want to use the gimp-print drivers for cups - they work very > nicely with Epson printers. Yes and No. Installed gimp and gimpprint-doc. Followed instructions and printer worked perfectly printing a picture. Installed cupsys

squid: idnsCheckQueue: ID 5: giving up after 1 tries and 4295.4 seconds

2003-01-24 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi! >From time to time, in unregular intervals, squid seems to be unable to access remote http servers. I can try to reload a page, but at best the page is loaded partly, but mott not at all. When this happens, there's a message in syslog: squid[26681]: idnsCheckQueue: ID 5: giving up after 1 t

Re: diskspace error in /tmp

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello > files in other places. Any hints? One !!! Try anothere OS ... and die !! ;-)) > more info (cat of fstab, du of /tmp): > /dev/hda1 / ext3errors=remount-ro 0 1 df is more usuable ! > du of /tmp: > matt@anarres://$ sudo du /tmp > 4 /tmp/.X11-un

Re: bash, but no .bashrc??

2003-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:52:53PM -0500, Andy Estes wrote: > I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is > bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However, > the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. Uncomment the three li

Error instaling xserver-xfree86 !!

2003-01-24 Thread Paladin
Hi, With the objective of changing a fs from ext3 to reiserfs, I've managed to loose all the /usr files (tar seems to have failed the backup! :/). So, after a great amount of work I have the system almost working, but I have this problem with xserver-xfree86 package: Reading Package Lists... Don

Re: Installing on a FACELESS pc?

2003-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:40:05PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:33:19PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > To be serious again, what's really lacking to get headless machines > > to fully work is lack of support in most (all?) BIOS'ses to use a > > serial line instead of dir

Re: Upgrade 3.0beta->3.0r0->3.0r1 with buggy behaviour ?

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello try apt-get install apt and try anothere time apt-get dist-upgrade !!! Solution for my system ! David Dumortier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian woody beside suse

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello get W$ and try !!! David Dumortier "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: bash, but no .bashrc??

2003-01-24 Thread Steve Juranich
On 24 January 2003 at 15:52, "Andy Estes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is > bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However, > the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. If I explici

Re: Newbie question: compiling specific 3com NIC drivers

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello > > /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4: warning: #warning linux/malloc.h is > > deprecated, use linux/slab.h instead. [warning] only truly data !!! Are U one a multii-proc ? no ; every things are tru !!! yes : can't say it ! perharps no problems (run a 3com like yours, send lspci results and .c

Re: dhclient-script, debug-enter, debug-exit

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello Be blurzd and we don't understand David Dumortier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash, but no .bashrc??

2003-01-24 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:52:53PM -0500, Andy Estes wrote: > I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is > bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However, > the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. If I explicitely > inv

RE: Kernel Compile Issue SOLVED

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Kahle
See below for information. This is now solved. The problem was that I didn't have CONFIG_FILTER compiled into my kernel. I don't get why this is nessessary. Thanks. Michael > -Original Message- > From: Michael Kahle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:16 AM

Re: regexp help

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello don't forget Morgan's laws(rexep xould obey them) not (X and Y) = not X or not Y. Have fun with Linux and logic's laws ! David Dumortier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with own 2.4.18

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
hello > I have 4 dlink cards with this chip. The two newest cards will NOT work > with the 2.4.18 drivers and the drivers from dlink will not compile on a > 2.4.x kernel. Don't know if later kernels have a revised driver that will > work or not. Did not have time to figure out what was going on

Re: bash, but no .bashrc??

2003-01-24 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:52:53PM -0500, Andy Estes wrote: > I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is > bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However, > the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. If I explicitely > inv

Re: bash, but no .bashrc??

2003-01-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Andy Estes wrote: > I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is > bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However, > the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. If I explicitely > invoke bash (typing 'bash' at the shell), .b

Re: attempt to access beyond end of device

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello Make save of your HDD !!! Physics problems !!! It's my own diagnostic !!! David Dumortier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash, but no .bashrc??

2003-01-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:52:53PM -0500, Andy Estes wrote: > I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is > bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However, > the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. If I explicitely > inv

Re: umount hdb?

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello > orange:~# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 93M 93M 0 100% / READ !!! or make better things of your time :-))) /dev/hda5 is full !!! Linux says everything just needs good read ! David Dumortier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Logrotate LOTS of Apache Logfiles

2003-01-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:48:33PM +0100, Daniel Fabian wrote: | Hi, | | I'm trying to find an easy way to logrotate apache logfiles. The logfiles | are created by cronolog, one in a day. | | CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog | /wwwhome/customer1/logs/www.customer1.tt-%Y-%m-%d.log" combined | ErrorL

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:21:18PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.24.1630 +0100]: | > though 2.0 was built with sasl 1.5. Apparently the _sarge_ 1.11 was | > built with sasl2, but the version you installed from woody was sasl | > 1.5

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:23:26AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > The testing distribution has *exactly* the same problem, as the > > unstable libc is different from the testing libc. > > That's true currently, but it should be temporary, right? (Of course, > it's been temporary for some time now

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello > 586 (Pentium classic) won't work. The 486 (and all pentiums and > clones) is backwards compatible with the 386 ISA. That means that any > valid 386 program can be handled by the 486 (and pentium, etc.) > processor. Install the 386 package. Or build your own (which I > recommend if you

Re: diskspace error in /tmp

2003-01-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:46:42PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: | hey everyone. I'm getting a "no space left on device" error whenever | mutt tries to save to /tmp. The same error sometimes (but not always) | comes up when I try to save a file there myself. But /tmp is (maybe | stupidly) on the

Re: Aladdin Software's Stuffit for Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:16:36AM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: | Has any installed Stuffit on Linux? | | According to their instructions, all you have to do is untar their | archive, place the files in /usr/local/bin and voila! | | Well, I did that but I get the error: cannot execute binary fil

Re: Mapping eth0 two ways

2003-01-24 Thread Soren A
[I set follow-ups to only gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop] Phil Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 21 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Note that you either have to specify a kernel parameter or enter the >> chosen environment by hand during boot time. The boot proc

Re: Memory usage after upgrade

2003-01-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:24:37PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Looks like it only sees 1GB RAM. What you have to do is recompile > the kernel to enable these options: > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G > CONFIG_HIGHMEM > > This is because, by default, the kernel only sees 1GB. I think it > has to do with the x

Re: diskspace error in /tmp

2003-01-24 Thread nate
Matt Price said: > hey everyone. I'm getting a "no space left on device" error whenever howbout outpts of df / df -i / nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello WARNING : don't follow thread, perhaps out of subject. briefly, I've got same chipset, excepted a "spurious" message at boot, have no problems, 48Mo/s with DMA on ata5 'if remember fine) on HD and good rate on (RW-)CD's. Running 2.4.20 but 2.4.18 fine (customs kernel) Hop'it'elp David Du

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rohan Nicholls wrote: > >I have to say that I took over my windows partition, and now run > >win2k in an emulator for the times I need to for work, and it runs as > >fast, with a few trivial exceptions, in the emulator

Apt-get problem with libc

2003-01-24 Thread Curtis Call
Disclaimer, I'm a novice so bear with me. I've run into some problems with apt-get. Currently, when trying to use 'apt-get -f install' to clean things up I continue to get this error: ogd2jpr6908:/home/curtis# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Corr

bash, but no .bashrc??

2003-01-24 Thread Andy Estes
I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However, the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. If I explicitely invoke bash (typing 'bash' at the shell), .bashrc is executed properly,

Re: Aladdin Software's Stuffit for Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Kent West
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Has any installed Stuffit on Linux? According to their instructions, all you have to do is untar their archive, place the files in /usr/local/bin and voila! Well, I did that but I get the error: cannot execute binary file So, it would seem I have to do something differen

Re: Support Sun Sparcstation 5

2003-01-24 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:22:32AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Falco Chung said: Hi, > > Does Debian support Sun Sparcstation 5 workstation? > > > > If yes, what version I should & when I can download? I suggest to start with woody aka Debian 3.0, that's a stable w

Re: Debian Proxy

2003-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 11:43, Chuck Royan wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to configure Windows Explorer(Latest > Ver.) using the proxy settings rather than setting debian as the default > gateway and pointing to my ISP's DNS server? I am new to using this OS. I am > trying to get away fr

diskspace error in /tmp

2003-01-24 Thread Matt Price
hey everyone. I'm getting a "no space left on device" error whenever mutt tries to save to /tmp. The same error sometimes (but not always) comes up when I try to save a file there myself. But /tmp is (maybe stupidly) on the same device as / , and I don't have any trouble saving files in oth

Re: AudioCD

2003-01-24 Thread bio
you don't state wether you use a GUI therefore pop in a cd & try these Use cdplay to play an audio CD To play an audio CD, type: cdplay To play from track 3 type: cdplay 3 To end with a track, type: cdplay 1 4 To play only track 3 type: cdplay 3 3 Pausing an Audio CD type cdpause Use cdplay to r

Re: Memory usage after upgrade

2003-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 11:45, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Thanks to everyone for their help on my hard drive issue (HDA kept > showing busy and then reset). I replaced the drive as well as the > cable and I seem to be back in business. > > While I had the server down and the case open, I decided t

Kernel Recompile for Debian

2003-01-24 Thread THOMAS CUNY
See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html chapter 7. _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Problem with fonts in Abiword 1.1.3

2003-01-24 Thread Riandi Wiguna
Hi, I downloaded and compiled the development version of Abiword (1.1.3), but I keep getting the somewhat famous "AbiWord could not load the following font or fontset from the X Window System display server, [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*]" message twice and then Abiword dies.

Re: Kernel Recompile

2003-01-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-24T18:17:29Z, "Irish, Jon D MEVATEC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me if there is a HOW-TO, or paper available that covers > recompiling the kernel for Debian? I found the Kernel HOWTO, but it > appears to be slanted more toward RedHat, and I am a 'newbie' so I want to >

Re: Mouse Problem (solved - partial)

2003-01-24 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped me here. In the end after trying all the suggestions, it seem the only way I can get it to work is by un-installing gpm.I did that and it works fine now. I did try having the two running together with same protocl etc, but that didnt work e

Problems with Gnome 2.2: missing Gnome menu.

2003-01-24 Thread Riccardo Gusso
Hello, with last update of my debian I have installed Gnome 2.2. However when it started up for the first time I received this error message: -- There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or backgr

Re: Kernel Compile Issue

2003-01-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 the mental interface of Michael Kahle told: [...] > Sorry I wasn't very clear here. I wanted to load the ethernet card as a > module. I thought that is what I had done when I built the first kernel. > But because I could not see any modules with lsmod and mod probe, I went

Aladdin Software's Stuffit for Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Has any installed Stuffit on Linux? According to their instructions, all you have to do is untar their archive, place the files in /usr/local/bin and voila! Well, I did that but I get the error: cannot execute binary file So, it would seem I have to do something different. Any ideas? -- Curti

Re: Can't figure out CVS

2003-01-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:53:51PM +, Pigeon wrote: | On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:35:36PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:45:40PM +, Pigeon wrote: [...] | > | I'm wasting too much time online via dialup trying to figure out where | > | the "modules" are, or

Re: sed

2003-01-24 Thread David Z Maze
(Please send a new mail to debian-user if you're talking about something new, rather than replying to a message you're not actually replying to...) "behapy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > kdjwiskjkdf+-www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html > kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi > kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bi

Re: vsound issue - a return

2003-01-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Actually, I also tried the command with the following variables: vsound -v -d -t -f and got the same results. Curtis Travis Crump wrote: Vaughan, Curtis wrote: Whereas vsound would not record RealAudio on a PowerBook, I am now trying it on an i686-based computer. After issuing the command:

Re: Kernel Recompile

2003-01-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 18:17, Irish, Jon D MEVATEC wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there is a HOW-TO, or paper available that covers > recompiling the kernel for Debian? I found the Kernel HOWTO, but it appears > to be slanted more toward RedHat, and I am a 'newbie' so I want to make sure > that I am

Speculation: Debian GNU/Watch

2003-01-24 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
Overcoming your typical limitations of watches, the Debian GNU/Watch is a new, open source solution to portable timekeeping. A multi-user solution, multiple people can elect to wear the same watch, and for one person, it could be analog, for another digital, for a third a sundial, for a fourth, a s

Powerpc floppy net install

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas Thatcher
When in the woody installer from floppy on a powermac 7500/G3/500/64ram/cd and doing a network install from the lan, I am consistently getting the following error: wget: www.debian.org: Host name lookup failure Attempting to access the console results in a kernel panic or total freeze which I

Re: Mouse Problem

2003-01-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Pigion, On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:04:58PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:27:09PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:16:57PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > | This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > |

Reconfigure of localepurge has no effect

2003-01-24 Thread Lloyd Zusman
After installing a series of packages, I received the following message during the configuration process (see below). I followed the instructions in this message and ran this: dpkg-reconfigure localepurge I performed this reconfiguration and changed the status of the new locale file mentioned

Debian Proxy

2003-01-24 Thread Chuck Royan
Does anyone know if it is possible to configure Windows Explorer(Latest Ver.) using the proxy settings rather than setting debian as the default gateway and pointing to my ISP's DNS server? I am new to using this OS. I am trying to get away from using my Win2k workstation as a proxy server(I am cur

Kernel Recompile

2003-01-24 Thread Irish, Jon D MEVATEC
Can anyone tell me if there is a HOW-TO, or paper available that covers recompiling the kernel for Debian? I found the Kernel HOWTO, but it appears to be slanted more toward RedHat, and I am a 'newbie' so I want to make sure that I am doing it right. Sincerely, Jon D. Irish (Mevatec Contractor) Lo

Re: Mouse Problem (solved - partial)

2003-01-24 Thread richard
Thanks to everyone who helped me here. In the end after trying all the suggestions, it seem the only way I can get it to work is by un-installing gpm.I did that and it works fine now. I did try having the two running together with same protocl etc, but that didnt work either. thanks a

Re: active programs overview

2003-01-24 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 24 January 2003 16:52, Joris Huizer wrote: > What is the program to use when I want to know which > programs are running ? There's "ps" for a quick glimpse (has a load of options, so read the manpage) or "top" for continuous monitoring. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: active programs overview

2003-01-24 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:52:36AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > What is the program to use when I want to know which > programs are running ? ps aux top si grep Name /proc/[0-9]*/status | awk '{ print $2 }' There are more ways, but I think that this is enough. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

SOLVED - Re: Activate SoundBlaster IDE interface

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Castillo
On Friday 24 January 2003 17:14, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Friday 24 January 2003 15:26, Ronald Castillo wrote: > > I thought there was some kind of support in more modern kernels... I > > remember seeing some option in xconfig while configuring my kernel which > > did something like search for ISA

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