Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Amardeep Singh
is not asking for my http proxy's id n password, w/o > which it can't connect to the net. > > -Gaurav i dont think it supports authenticated http proxy -- Amardeep Singh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Amardeep Singh
t and is faster than windows media player. You should give it it a try. -- Amardeep Singh

Re: gpm & xdm question

2002-01-19 Thread Amardeep Singh
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Klaus Neumann wrote: if you run woody or unstable, you can also apt-install rcconf (equivalent to ntsysv in redhat) > (Debian newbie): > How can I prevent gpm and xdm from starting up automatically at boot time? > Thanks! > > Cheers, > Klaus > > > -- Amardeep Singh

Re: GTK Errors using GNOME in Testing

2001-07-04 Thread Amardeep Singh
/bin/sh: esd: command not found > > Does anyone know what might be the culprit for the first? And just > what is esd? I searched the package directories on the Debian site and > came up empty handed. It is that sound server thing? > > TIA! > -- ----

Re: Windows-like crashes!

2001-06-17 Thread Amardeep Singh
hi maybe it is due to nvidia drivers. they are notoriously buggy. there are a lot of complains regarding it causing x-lockups, and they never worked for me. for example, while running X, if i switch to console, and then back to X, it causes a lockup. you may try switching back to nv driver (provid

Re: XFree86 cannot initialize NVdriver

2001-06-07 Thread Amardeep Singh
i had this same problem because i was running devfsd, and nvidia device files (/dev/nvidiactl char major 195 minor 255) would vanish on reboot. the script makedevices.sh in nvidia kernel distribution used to make this device. anyway, nvidia kernel always caused lockups for me, so i couldn't use the

duplicating a partition

2001-05-30 Thread Amardeep Singh
i have ext2 but now i want to switch to reiserfs i have an empty partition, which is not being used now, i would like to copy the contents of /dev/hda5 (existing ext2 partition) to /dev/hda8 (new empty reiserfs partition). but i donot know what is the best way to do it. any hints? thanx, amardeep

Re: problem running xf86cfg

2001-05-28 Thread Amardeep Singh
better try XFree86 -configure On Mon, 28 May 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > why do I get this? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ xfree86 --configure > bash: xfree86: command not found > > why is that? > Is there a package that doesn't automatically gets updated when I run apt-get > install xfree86-common

debs for python 2.1

2001-05-25 Thread Amardeep Singh
are any official or unofficial debs available for python 2.1