Re: Netscape Plugins

2001-07-16 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:36:14PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I'm sync'd to Unstable as of a few days ago. But this is a > problem that's stayed there through many upgrades of Netscape. > > It won't recognize plugins. > > I have installed RealPlayer via the debian package and it kept > telli

Re: usb scanners & printers

2001-07-16 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:06:48AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > Hi. The local computer fair is in town today > and I'm in the market for a new printer and > scanner, preferably USB. Any suggestions for > either of these? The printer should be able > to print a decent picture. > I am using HP b

Re: X11 stopped working on my machine

2001-07-16 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:17:41PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > Some time after apt-get dist-upgrading my sid machine > yesterday, suddenly X11 stopped working, right in the middle of some > work. I haven't been able to get X11 since. > > The machine has a Matrox G450, single head. This

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-16 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:03:13AM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > duh. Thanks, it worked. First blush I thought the problem was the first > warning, not the second... > > Jeff There is a wierd problem with ZIP disks. The ones formatted for windows have their main partition at /dev/hdd4 while

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:31:08AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > Hello all. I recently ran into a strange (to me, at least) problem on my > debian computer at home. All of the virtual consoles are here. I can > still use ctrl-alt-[1-7], but there are no login prompts (although gpm > still work

Re: Building an SRPM on Debian?

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
2 things you can do: 1. Read the .spec file and applie the patches in the order they are mentioned there. 2. Run /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb --initdb ( or whereever debian puts it ) and try to rpm again :) On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:14:50AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > I have an SRPM that I need to bui

Re: xfce, can't open display

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
Try to run xfce_setup then startx. You are not supposed to run startxfce directly. On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:39:09PM +0200, Daniel Laska wrote: > Hi! > As a debian-beginner i managed to confuse my system! > I did this: As I wanted to use xfce, i typed: apt-get update with woody (i > once had po

Re: Problems with ATI Rage 128 RF video card (signal 11, symbols)

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
Hmmm... It doesn't look like it bails out on your video... How did you install X? On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:34:31AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:04:10AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for th

Re: xdm server

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:44:58PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > Hi all. > > I want to configure my xdm server to show login window in > linux network clients. What files should I edit in server > to do that, and in the clients to startx login again xdm server? > The general idea is:

Re: Frame buffer at boot

2001-07-08 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 09:15:33PM +0200, Fr?d?ric de Villamil wrote: > -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > hQIOA9mN6tpqz4aGEAf8C7cY4OqHHsi2XrJ2rmu5h78sJVvLTg2YHFEaE7YyBDPT > Tl+L6qmL28EXqOWT9DjxKryF1muqVcIOj239XLFNU46oL/

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > nvidia.com and I saw mention of those devices, so that was going to be > my next suggestion... looks like you beat me to it :) > I didn't, somebody else ( named Matti Airas, who wrote me in private ) suggested this. I could have gues

Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:43:43PM -0400, Jeld The Dark Elf wrote: > Supposedly I/O and memory handling is a bit better in 2.4 series than in > 2.2 in server environment. And you get stateful inspection firewall code :) > And the 2.4.6 is already out :) -- Consciousness: that anno

Re: Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:42:01PM -0400, Jeld The Dark Elf wrote: > > I love mutt. Well, I suppose it is not for everybody. Out of text clients I > would > suggest PINE, since it is very user friendly on one side and still text on > the other. > Out of X based things a f

Re: changing the keybord-installation

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:50:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I?m a new user of debian--linux and searching for a way to > change the installation of my keybord. Could someone help? > What exactly do you mean? -- Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:39:33PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > At 994279436s since epoch (07/04/01 16:43:56 -0400 UTC), Balbir Thomas wrote: > > After all what kind of a person or company would want to levy a financial > > burden on a man who has contributed his time and resources, for a community

Re: uudecode files with multiple encoded files

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:44:38PM -0700, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I have a few files that contain multiple uuencoded files inside of > them. As it stands uudecode will only decode the first one in the > file, so I load up the file in an editor and delete the first encoded > file, and uudecode the

Re: Can't init font path element

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:12:50PM -0400, Ken Januski wrote: > Okay, > > I've buried myself in X arcana for 2-3 days. and now have what looks > like legit fonts.dir, fonts.alias and fonts.dir files for truetype > fonts. But everytime I start X I get the above message: "Cam't init font > path eleme

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:45:56PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > On my machine, where you get the signal 11, mine initialises the GL > renderer, so it may be a problem with the GL libraries, or permissions > on them. Here are the permissions on mine: > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.so > lrwxrwxrwx1

Re: error trying to use XFree86 4.x.x with USB Microsoft Intellimouse....

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:42:16AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > Module Size Used by > usbmouse1648 0 (unused) > input 2752 0 [usbmouse] > usb-uhci 17984 0 (unused) > usbcore44560 1 [usbmouse usb-uhci] > 3c

Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:03:59PM +, Victor wrote: > I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and > working greatly and stable. > > The present kernel is 2.2.19 and I compiled to tailor it (usage of > memory, needless devices, etc.) to my needs. It's all OK! > > My simpl

Re: Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:55:24PM +, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > Hi All, > > In a fit of rage (they just shouldn't have said those things out loud) i > moved from win2k to linux for 'almost' everything i do on my computer. > Scanning (canon d660u) is still a problem because Canon refuses to sh

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-03 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:23:40PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > If Quake 3 runs fine as root though, it does suggest a permissions > problem. What error do you get when you try run it as a user? > Q3 1.29f linux-i386 Jun 19 2001 - FS_Startup - Current search path: /home/blah/.q3a/baseq3

Re: how to run X apps as root?

2001-07-03 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:43:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > I don't think that will work because xhost only takes _hosts_ as > arguments, not commands. 'xhost foo' is equivalent to 'xhost +foo'. > The 'xhost +' part of the command completely opens up your xserver to > everyone, everywhere. At least

Re: xserver won't listen

2001-07-03 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:50:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > You probably do want to disable tcp listening on 6000 and just use > ssh, for security's sake. > Right, and how your ssh is supposed to talk to your X server if you disable listening? -- Reality is for people who can't face science

Re: Network speed

2001-07-03 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:53:58PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > I?m a network engineer for a living, and trust me, the only way to be > sure there won?t be something wrong with autodetection is to avoid it. > > Setting speed and duplex on _both_ sides of an ethernet link is a Good > Thing. A

Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-03 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
I have recently switched from Slackware to Debian ( couldn't wait for the Slack 8.0 any longer :) I have a question. I have an Nvidia RIVA TNT M64 card. I have downloaded and compiled nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel. I understand that some GL based programs ( cthuga being one example ) use Mesa spe

Re: how to run X apps as root?

2001-07-03 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:50:33AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > > I did both... and it still complains: > > arne:/usr/home/arne# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > :((( > How about a simple ( and ugly ) xhost + command ( no loca

Re: Network speed

2001-07-03 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:11:11PM +0300, virtanen wrote: > > Hi, > > some of our computer engineers are telling me that my debian box > ('Potato') ethernet card should be fixed to a static speed (10,5). (Some > others are telling just the opposite...) > > How to do it? > Where is the configur

Re: OFFTOPIC: Macintosh, Outlook Express and vpopmail

2001-06-27 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:13:42AM +1000, john wrote: > We've just switched our mail server from Exchange (yuk) to Qmail and > vpopmail. We have 1800 users over 600 domains. Everything is working > nicely except for those who use OE on Macs - they can't pop their mail. > The error message in the lo