Re: your mail

2003-06-11 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sat Jun 07, 2003 at 05:37:00PM +0100, Fred Bowker wrote: > I used XFree86 -Configure and this gave me a new config file to test > however this gave me the same problems Your XF86Config-4 Module section loads following modules: Section "Module" Load"GLcore" Load"bit

openoffice in testing

2003-06-11 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, I just installed openoffice 1.03 in testing and get the following error: openoffice.org: Damnit! I can't find OpenOffice's user files. Did you break the /etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf file manually ? This file should contain DESTINATIONPATH Inspecting /etc/openoffice/ I find that it is c

3c59x and 2.4.18-1-686 kernel

2003-06-11 Thread Tim
I am trying to install kernel 2.4.18-1-686 on Woody installation and for some reason it doesn't boot correctly. Mainly, many modules aren't detected, including the 3Com 3c59x card. This is an older Dell Optiplex GX1 (Pentium Pro). This machine works fine with the 2.2.20-idepci kernel. I install

Re: Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread Geordie Birch
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:20:48PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:19:01 -0700 > Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, I believe this is not established by the kernel but by the > > boot loader. I quickly looked over documentation for both lilo > > and grub and c

Re: how do I do this is shell script?

2003-06-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
On June 11, 2003 11:14 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:15:32PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am writing some shell script (bash) to read from > > Addresses.pdb and convert it to mutt address using lbdbq. I > > encounter

Re: Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Yesterday, i compiled my own kernel and specified vesa frame buffer support. Then i set vga= in the lilo.conf where is a decimal mode specified in the kernel source directory docs. Read the docs Documentation\fb\framebuffer.txt and Documentation\svga.txt. That must be the

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please avoid top posting as it pollutes archives and makes messages harder to read. http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/email-style.html On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:06:35PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Thank you, I did as you say but my floppy is still not

openwebmail: Concerns about modifying perl

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, for some reason I got a little creeped out by this instruction from the current version of openwebmail (2.01-3)...during installation, it spat this out: Please modify /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/DB_File.pm by adding $arg[3] = 0666 unless defined

Re: how do I do this is shell script?

2003-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:15:32PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am writing some shell script (bash) to read from Addresses.pdb > and convert it to mutt address using lbdbq. I encounter a problem where > some ppl have two or even 3 emails which I

Re: web server behind a nat box not coming out

2003-06-11 Thread Sebastien G
I found my problem... It was the default gateway on the debian machines... it was not set to use the freebsd box doing port forwarding! Doh! Sebastien Sebastien G wrote: Hi, I have one gateway/nat (freebsd 4.8R) which I setup to be the gateway for the LAN and to do port forwarding on port 8

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Nick Hastings
* David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030612 08:55]: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy > flick through them. > > I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, konqueror etc but I need an app > t

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-11 Thread Kent West
Jeff Ali wrote: I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I must find a way to keep the emails organized. Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a folder. I was going to set up the

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Alfredo Valles
Thank you, I did as you say but my floppy is still not working. The message is mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems When I can shut down my machine I will boot up with knoppix to see if it is a hardware problem. Alfredo On Wednesday 11

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-11 Thread Travis Crump
Jeff Ali wrote: I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I must find a way to keep the emails organized. Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a folder. I was going to set up the f

professional manufacturer specializing in mobile phone accessories

2003-06-11 Thread Hattie Yuan
Dear Sir or Madam, Good day! HY Technology Company Limited, registered in Hongkong and located in Shenzhen, is a professional manufacturer specializing in mobile phone accessories, mainly including Portable hands free, Battery, chargers, case and data cable. Our deliv

Re: Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:19:01 -0700 Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I believe this is not established by the kernel but by the > boot loader. I quickly looked over documentation for both lilo > and grub and couldn't find info regarding this for either (this is > made particularly dif

Re: [OT] Bogus undelivered message

2003-06-11 Thread Mike M
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 16:39, Karsten M. Self wrote: > If you want your messages authenticated, sign them. I just started with GPG and I'm still learning. I need some clarification on the advice above. Are you saying that by signing all emails, then I can positively distinguish real undeli

Re: Sort by Thread in Evolution?

2003-06-11 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 18:19, Kent West wrote: > Playing with Evolution; hopefully this goes out as plain text. > > > Anyone know how to sort messages by thread in Evolution? I've really > gotten spoiled to that feature in Mozilla Mail. > > Thanks! > > -- > Kent Select View then choose threade

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:50:15PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Hi debianeers. > > All my device files for high density floppies are gone, > I mean no /dev/fd0h1440 or any other /dev/fd0hxxx. > > But /dev/fd0 exist and it's not a link to any other dev. > (Shouldn't /dev/fd0 be a link to /d

xman warning

2003-06-11 Thread jqdkf
Hi, There is a problem when I use xman. When I first start a new man page, it always pops up 3 identical windows saying: Xman Warning: Something went wrong in retrieving the uncompressed mannual page try cleaning up /tmp. but after the first page, if I start a new one without closing the preceed

Re: console cursor

2003-06-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brian Potkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030611 16:25]: > echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c' > > which I tested and there is now a nice magenta block cursor on one of my > virtual consoles. If in your reading you come across how I could get > back to my original underline cursor - please let me know! type 'res

Re: Security update for 2.4.18 - solved

2003-06-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/06/03 01:04), Clive Menzies wrote: > Following the recent security alert I've installed new kernels on 4 > machines including two HP LPro servers, one of which is dual processor. > > I installed the corresponding 686 smp kernel and /root is showing: > vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-1-686-sm

Ethernet = 1250000 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Hello, Im a little bit confused on how do you properly count in bits per second. Ex: this Ethernet = 125 Its measured as a Ethernet is this 100Mbps? How about 10Mbps Only? I was hoping someone could teach me more info regarding this things. Thanks, Louie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Security update for 2.4.18

2003-06-11 Thread Clive Menzies
Following the recent security alert I've installed new kernels on 4 machines including two HP LPro servers, one of which is dual processor. I installed the corresponding 686 smp kernel and /root is showing: vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-1-686-smp However, uname -ra gives: Linux Hydra 2.4.18-1-6

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:50:15PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Now how do I get back these devices files? $ su -m # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV generic # exit - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `

OT filter help solved

2003-06-11 Thread Jeff Ali
I didn't think this would work but i just used message contains. Still would be interested in using a filter based on the reply to message info but it doesn't show directly. jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

tomcat problems

2003-06-11 Thread Harshu
Hi, I was trying to compile ayttm and at configure stage found out that jasper was need and search on packages.debian.org showed that tomcat had it. Now the the problem is when I try to install it and at the end of the installation it fails. Now I have already got j2re1.4.1 unpacked from a bin f

OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-11 Thread Jeff Ali
I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I must find a way to keep the emails organized. Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a folder. I was going to set up the filter based on f

Sort by Thread in Evolution?

2003-06-11 Thread Kent West
Playing with Evolution; hopefully this goes out as plain text. Anyone know how to sort messages by thread in Evolution? I've really gotten spoiled to that feature in Mozilla Mail. Thanks! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op wo 11-06-2003, om 22:41 schreef Joel Konkle-Parker: > How do I get a nice little penguin logo during kernel boot? Is that a > kernel option that must be set at compile time? I noticed > kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 has it, while kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 doesn't. Yesterday, i compiled my own ker

floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Alfredo Valles
Hi debianeers. All my device files for high density floppies are gone, I mean no /dev/fd0h1440 or any other /dev/fd0hxxx. But /dev/fd0 exist and it's not a link to any other dev. (Shouldn't /dev/fd0 be a link to /dev/fd0h1440?) I installed vmware4.0, played with it and uninstaled it, then I

compiling debian way

2003-06-11 Thread Alfredo Valles
Is there a debian way to compile things like libc? I ask because I complile my mplayer with a simple "fakeroot debian/rules binary" and generate a deb package Are this kind of scripts are available for compiling and optimaizing other packages? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: cannot start snort ???

2003-06-11 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Jeffrey L. Taylor (Wed 11 Jun 02003 at 11:18:10AM -0500): > Quoting Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > > However, I *cannot* start snort! It is not running and I do not know > > how to debug this one. > > > > What do you think? > > > > First check the syslogs for any

Re: console cursor

2003-06-11 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:44:57PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > this should be a really easy question, but i can't find the answer > anywhere. > > how do i turn on the (big block) cursor in console mode? right now > there's nothing, making it really hard to see where i am when i'm > typing :)

Re: kdm locale problem

2003-06-11 Thread Robert Storey
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:35:17 +0200 LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > echo $LANG > I get "hu_HU". > > That is why I can not understand this problem. It seems, > that I am using hu_HU locales, but the kde programs, and other (for > example Xchat, or Licq) programs doesn't recognise the hu_HU local

Re: vulnwatch.org ???

2003-06-11 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Sam Varghese (Thu 12 Jun 02003 at 07:29:00AM +1000): > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:10:49PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif waxed eloquent and said: > > Anybody know what happened to vulnwatch.org? > > > > I cannot find any dns records, much less a website . . . > > I understand that they hav

Re: get cdrom information

2003-06-11 Thread Robert Storey
> > Is there any way to get some information about the cd inserted in the > > cd-rom drive? > > I want to know the creation date, and the volume label etc... If you have XCDRoast installed, you can view this information when you click on the "Read CD" tab, it will also show you the session inf

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Lutz Kotoll said on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:45:39PM +0200: > That may be a workaround in this case, but generally: > > How do I get > /usr/include/tcl.h > and > /usr/lib/libtcl.{a,so*} > via a "Debian-official" method? > > Am I supposed to do an "alternative" or "diversion" (or whatev

Re: Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread SYNeR
You might want to try this: http://www.azundris.com/hacks/patches/kernel/ boot_logo.ppm.bz2 7743 2001-12-27 19:21:34 A sample boot logo -- mine -- for those in a hurry -- and for the terminally curious... - Original Message - From: "Joel Konkle-Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I believe this is not established by the kernel but by the boot loader. I quickly looked over documentation for both lilo and grub and couldn't find info regarding this for either (this is made particularly difficult by the fact that each hit for a word search on "image" always referred to a k

Re: 3 Question:Kernel 2.5.69, sensors and mplayer

2003-06-11 Thread Eamon Ansel Roque
Hi! Am Mit, 2003-06-11 um 22.04 schrieb Tinus Kotzé: > Hi > > 1) I am running debian unstable and tried kernel 2.5.69. when I install > it however, it comes passed the point saying "Loading kernel", then > the bios check. Then after the Uncompressing kernel it freezes. I > disable the boot lo

Re: Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread dcabaton
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: How do I get a nice little penguin logo during kernel boot? Is that a kernel option that must be set at compile time? I noticed kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 has it, while kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 doesn't. You must have the framebuffer to show the penguin logo durint ker

Re: sound: loading of sound driver fails after reboot from Windows

2003-06-11 Thread Ben Kal
On 11 Jun 2003 "Brian P.D. Smyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:34:00PM +0100, Ben Kal wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:28:45AM +0100, Ben Kal wrote: Do some of you know more about the following inconvenience I have with sound on my Linux machine:

Re: sound: loading of sound driver fails after reboot from Windows

2003-06-11 Thread Ben Kal
On 10 Jun 2003 "D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> --- Ben Kal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, >> >> >> >> Do some of you know more about the following inconvenience I have with >> >> sound on my Linux machine: >> >> sound works fine if I boot directly into Linux after power-on, >> >>

boot floppy problems

2003-06-11 Thread Rikard Borg
Hi list Trying to install debian woody on my old 7200/75. Downloaded files in binary format. Created the floppy many time with mac/windows XP/linux but it is allways the same thing: - When booting with the boot-floppy-hfs.img I see a small picture with the pinguine (sp?) in front of a monitor

Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:45:22PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:00:45PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins insinuated: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > > My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even > > > gotten X up yet)

Re: 3 Question:Kernel 2.5.69, sensors and mplayer

2003-06-11 Thread Rob Sims
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:04 pm, Tinus Kotzé wrote: > 1) I am running debian unstable and tried kernel 2.5.69. when I install > it however, it comes passed the point saying "Loading kernel", then > the bios check. Then after the Uncompressing kernel it freezes. I > disable the boot logos and

cannot clean filesystem

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I've run into a completely unusual situation. I have a system on which I started getting complaints during nightly backups regarding the / partition. There is also a /usr partition and I've now noticed that both report "not clean" for "filesystem state:" with a 'tune2fs -l '. Also using 'tun

Re: 3 Question:Kernel 2.5.69, sensors and mplayer

2003-06-11 Thread aradorlinux
On 11 Jun 2003 22:04:46 +0200 Tinus Kotzé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > 1) I am running debian unstable and tried kernel 2.5.69. when I install > it however, it comes passed the point saying "Loading kernel", then > the bios check. Then after the Uncompressing kernel it freezes. I > dis

web server behind a nat box not coming out

2003-06-11 Thread Sebastien G
Hi, I have one gateway/nat (freebsd 4.8R) which I setup to be the gateway for the LAN and to do port forwarding on port 80 to a Debian web server. From the outside, when I want to surf to the web server behind the gateway/freebsd box the connection seems to hang... I've this bizarre problem w

Re: vulnwatch.org ???

2003-06-11 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:10:49PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif waxed eloquent and said: > Anybody know what happened to vulnwatch.org? > > I cannot find any dns records, much less a website . . . I understand that they have shifted providers and are ha

unsubscribe.

2003-06-11 Thread Mauro
Delete me from the list please. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Question about command-line aptitude 0.2.11.1

2003-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, This is on a mixed sarge/sid system. ~# aptitude install base-config Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: bluefish gaim gedit gnome-spell libgtkspell0 logjam pan [snip] The fo

Re: 3 Question:Kernel 2.5.69, sensors and mplayer

2003-06-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 22:04, Tinus Kotzé wrote: > 3) Can somebody tell me what is needed for mplayer to autodetect my alsa > drivers? XMMS is workings perfectly with alsa plugin, and so is Xine. > I'm still brushing up on my scripting skills... With mplayer configure > it just states the foll

Re: System freeze after random program crashes associated with kernel oops

2003-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:43:55AM +0200, Kristoffer Erlandsson wrote: [...] | Western Digital IDE ATA-100 60GB 7200RPM 2MB cache (WD600BB) (Running | one ntfs partition and one ext2 with the operating system in question | on) Are you, by any chance, trying to read from the NTFS partit

how do I do this is shell script?

2003-06-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am writing some shell script (bash) to read from Addresses.pdb and convert it to mutt address using lbdbq. I encounter a problem where some ppl have two or even 3 emails which I have to come out with a unique alias in mutt. How do I put a number in the alias name automatic

Re: [OT] Bogus undelivered message

2003-06-11 Thread
Yes I write an email script and look at any viri mail I can find. I've seen the bogus undeliverable mails being used for this starting about 6-8 months ago, in my observations. OT: Also do not rule out a friend of yours uses winbloze and has a email worm infection and may be sending out worm mail

Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft #2)

2003-06-11 Thread Martin Wuertele
Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those who are interested I've got my second draft of an ACPI HOWTO > online. > > http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/acpi.phtml > > Please feel free to let me know if you there are any parts which are > unclear or flat-out wrong. :) I took the ker

Re: [OT] Printer Languages

2003-06-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-06-11T19:12:08Z, Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get the little square boxes, implying that it doesn't have the font. I > don't know where one *gets* those fonts; but, like you, I haven't had any > reason to move this up the list of things to look into. Gotcha. It's in my

Re: secure kernel

2003-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:46:22AM +0200, Shamot wrote: | On Wednesday 11 of June 2003 03:24, Hubert Chan wrote: | > > "Derrick" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > [...] | > | > Derrick> It isn't the kernel you want. You want | > Derrick> 'kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386'

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl

2003-06-11 Thread Lutz Kotoll
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:16:58 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:23:24PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Hi, all: > > > > I'm trying to compile a program - not mine, I'm not a C programmer - which > > wants tcl. At first, it couldn't find tcl.h, but I supplied the full pat

Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:00:45PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins insinuated: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even > > gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and > > then redraws itself on

Re: [OT] Printer Languages

2003-06-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-06-11T20:06:31Z, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you noticed any performance improvement? Yes, particularly when either rendering large, complex documents, or printing multiple copies of long documents. It's not a huge difference, but (to me) enough to justify the price.

console cursor

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
this should be a really easy question, but i can't find the answer anywhere. how do i turn on the (big block) cursor in console mode? right now there's nothing, making it really hard to see where i am when i'm typing :) thanks, -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.s

Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
How do I get a nice little penguin logo during kernel boot? Is that a kernel option that must be set at compile time? I noticed kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 has it, while kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 doesn't. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROT

Combine Magicfilter with pstops

2003-06-11 Thread Jaque Moreau
How can I combine Magicfilter with pstops on one printer entry in my printcap file? I'm using LPD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: new GPG key

2003-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've decided it's time to start signing mail again... Note that this is a general purpose, eternal key (my old key expired April of this year). I extended it by one day from today to sign my current key (inconsistent handling of expiry date modifications of keys makes this impractical in a genera

Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000. It's being a | little less cooperative than the desktop systems I'm used to! I have an inspiron 7500 here that works just fine | My main problem right now is that on the cons

Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:31:44PM +0200, Mark Janssen insinuated: > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 19:41, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > [video problems while booting, from lilo onward] > > Mmm... I'm no LILO user myself, but maybe lilo is setting your > video-mode in some unsupported setting. Try finding out what >

Debian-user, NRInNQaLkzFgiEnFvWXCJZVFxgNEjylZqWmgNnTaNyhXdvDyqA

2003-06-11 Thread wmono
jhlLPBUqgKkgvQnIUABItazWhLYuyRVIZhwPTqhNcrUxjiheJT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Bogus undelivered message

2003-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:44:15PM -0400, Mike M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Has anyone heard of bogus email undeliverable messages being used to > propogate virus? I just got such a message from a system I did not > recognize. I was tempted to investigate the attachments when I recalled that

Re: Forcing gcc to 2.95

2003-06-11 Thread paul
Jeffrey L. Taylor declaimed: > I have a laptop with a small hard drive (540MB) running mostly testing > (Postfix and emacs21-nox from unstable). The only thing I compile on > it is the kernel. I would like to have just gcc-2.95 installed. No > gcc-3.2. No gcc-3.3. The disk is a 94% capacity.

Re: lib6c

2003-06-11 Thread Arthur E. Groen
> On Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:18 pm, Arthur E. Groen wrote: >> Hi, I tryed to upgrade my lib6c so I could use i586-mingw32msvc/3.2.1 >> but things got mixed up. >> >> apw # apt-get upgrade >> Reading Package Lists... Done >> Building Dependency Tree... Done >> You might want to run `apt-get -f inst

Re: Mozilla 1.3 and Java

2003-06-11 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: | Hello all, | I have installed the unstable version of mozilla (vers. 1.3) and j2sdk 1.4 | from blackdown, I think that the links are right: | - In '/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/': | javaplugin_oji.so -> /etc/alternat

vulnwatch.org ???

2003-06-11 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Anybody know what happened to vulnwatch.org? I cannot find any dns records, much less a website . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I

Re: [OT] Printer Languages

2003-06-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > >> is it worthwhile to upgrade the RAM for light printing duties? > > > No. > > I disagree. I was able to buy a 3rd-party 64MB module for about $25. At > that price, why not? > -- Have you noticed any performance improvement? ---

3 Question:Kernel 2.5.69, sensors and mplayer

2003-06-11 Thread Tinus Kotzé
Hi 1) I am running debian unstable and tried kernel 2.5.69. when I install it however, it comes passed the point saying "Loading kernel", then the bios check. Then after the Uncompressing kernel it freezes. I disable the boot logos and also double checked my memory and processor settings, but

Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even > gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then > redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at the 1-quarter, half, and > 3-quarter marks. The r

[OT] Bogus undelivered message

2003-06-11 Thread Mike M
Has anyone heard of bogus email undeliverable messages being used to propogate virus? I just got such a message from a system I did not recognize. I was tempted to investigate the attachments when I recalled that real undelivered messages contain a lot of information about where it came from

Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Janssen
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 19:41, Nori Heikkinen wrote: [video problems while booting, from lilo onward] Mmm... I'm no LILO user myself, but maybe lilo is setting your video-mode in some unsupported setting. Try finding out what boot-options LILO is passing to your kernel, and optionally specify (anoth

Re: [OT] Printer Languages

2003-06-11 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:29:28 -0500 Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 2003-06-11T04:07:01Z, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > >>> 45 TrueType, 35 PostScript®, 4 international > >> No - a postscript document will send its own as needed. > > Out of curiosity, why can'

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:39:23PM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: >> Other than the venerable emacs? Quanta, Bluefish, Mozilla Composer. > > If it doesn't pass the W3C's validator at http://validator.w3.org/, > it's not HTML. None of the ones you named

$LANG and su seems strange

2003-06-11 Thread solo turn
logging in gives as any user: # echo $LANG en_US.ISO-8859-15 but if you do "su - myuser", the user does not have this language set. where does this come from? # apt-show-versions | grep locale localepurge/unstable uptodate 0.0.48 locales/unstable uptodate 2.3.1-17 _

Re: Running GTK Apps in Enlightenment

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 04:11, SYNeR wrote: [...] > How abouts do i go using GTK themes so GTK apps look fine in > Enlightenment? > Is it possible without > having to install and apply themes in GNOME? (This is how i solved the > problem in redhat.. just quickly switched to Gnome, apply a good > them

Re: How does Linux shutdown?'

2003-06-11 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Chun Kit Edwin Lau: > Hi everyone, > > I am curious about how Linux does the shutdown. The kernel send > the TERM signal to all processes when the shutdown is initiated. But > does the kernel wait for the every process to finish before the kernel > halt? If not, will there be d

howto extract data from...

2003-06-11 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi, Anyone have an idea how to extract clear text from inbox file (actual file is from m$ entuage on mac called Messages) it got corrupded and mail client does not read it. its quite big 500 Mb so I have to do it at least semi automaticly. main problem are the attachments(I dont need them)- they qu

kdm locale problem

2003-06-11 Thread LeVA
Hi! I have a rather complicated problem with kdm, and I am from Hungary, but I will try to be as clear as I can :) Hope that someone could help me. So, let's start. Some background information: I am using Debian with woody (stable) packages. This comes with xfree 4.1.0. I have added an apt sourc

Re: How does Linux shutdown?

2003-06-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi everyone, > > I am curious about how Linux does the shutdown. The kernel send > the TERM signal to all processes when the shutdown is initiated. But > does the kernel wait for the every process to finish before the kernel > halt? If not

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those > "--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---" than by going > into the dreaded dselect? I think that if you get into dependencies proble

fstab mystery solved

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Annandale
Many thanks to the numerous replies to my fstab problem. It appears that the tab/space between ntfs and the next item is necessary. Many thanks to the list for the quick response. Regards Mark A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: lufs kernel module

2003-06-11 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:00:24 +0200, Michael Montagne wrote: > Really excited about this lufs program! But apparently I need to load > the proper kernel modules befire use. This happens: I'm running lufs on my laptop, and by far the easiest way to get it working is to get the right kernel sources

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 11, 2003 08:43 am, Corey Donohoe wrote: > feh, http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/ > > * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from > > australia. I would like to view them full screen scaled to the > > screen size and idealy flick throu

Re: get cdrom information

2003-06-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:12:14PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any way to get some information about the cd inserted in the > cd-rom drive? > I want to know the creation date, and the volume label etc... # apt-get install mkisofs $ isoinfo -i /dev/cdrom -d will print info from the v

Re: Lightweight Word Processor

2003-06-11 Thread Stephen Patterson
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 17:34, Nick Wilson wrote: >> I'm looking for a lightweight but full featured word processor for a >> very low spec machine. How low spec? The unofficial open office packages for woody/sarge run fairly well on my antique P1 166MHz laptop. Or, if you're not afraid to RTFM, La

Re: How does Linux shutdown?

2003-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:03:50PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > I am curious about how Linux does the shutdown. The kernel send > the TERM signal to all processes when the shutdown is initiated. But > does the kernel wait for the every process to finish before the kernel > halt? If n

[OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
Hi all, I know this is OT, and I've posted to the debian-laptop list too, but i know you guys to be a fountain of knowledge, and I though maybe someone here might have an insight, too. I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000. It's being a little less cooperative than the desktop sys

Xwindows on Dell Precision M50

2003-06-11 Thread dhobner
I am stuck. Has anyone successfully installed Xwindows on a Dell Precision M50 laptop? Running xdm or kdm causes the display to flash on/off three times but never brings up windows. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Mozilla 1.3 and Java

2003-06-11 Thread Joris
>> I have installed the unstable version of mozilla (vers. 1.3) and j2sdk 1.4 >> from blackdown, I think that the links are right: > > Did you specifically get the version of the j2sdk that was compiled with > gcc 3.2? I don't believe that the debs available of it are compiled > with gcc 3.

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Janssen
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:44, David selby wrote: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy qiv -f -m -d 3 -s -r -f full screen -m scale -d 3 delay for slideshow -s slideshow -r random order -

kdm locale problem

2003-06-11 Thread LeVA
Hi! I have a rather complicated problem with kdm, and I am from Hungary, but I will try to be as clear as I can :) Hope that someone could help me. So, let's start. Some background information: I am using Debian with woody (stable) packages. This comes with xfree 4.1.0. I have added an apt source

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