On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:11:38PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored?
> I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not
> there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't
> locate the glo
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:35:15PM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> In such a context, how much do a modern kernel and Xfree pair "impact"
> on overall performance? In other words, of 1000 CPU clock cycles, how
> many would be spent executing actual application code in the CPU, and
> how many for all
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:23:03PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote:
> > I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots
> > of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What
> > has been very impressive is that things just work. On previous major
> > upgrades (1
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:16:54PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote:
> > it's really frustrating because i often fat-finger ^S when reaching for
> > ^A or ^E (which i often use, resulting in far too frequently locked
> > sessions).
>
> You can probably
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:26:23PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
> To shift the gear again. Has anyone succeeded in outputting the DVD
> stream to a TV connected to the second head of a Matrox G400? I really
> wanna be able to watch DVD on the TV when I have guests over.
I have the same que
I've got two computers on a small home LAN. One is my Debian
"workstation" and the other is an OpenBSD firewall/NAT "server." I have
some NFS shares on the OpenBSD box which I would like to have mounted (on
the Debian system) at boot time.
So I have some entries in /etc/fstab like the following
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:00:44PM +0800, ramsubs wrote:
> If I wanted to write an app which runs on a pseudo windowing system in
> text mode, what tools do I use? By this, I mean something similar to
> Foxpro for DOS which has a windowing system running in DOS mode where
> you can drag windows ar
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:56:25PM -0500, Mike Grover wrote:
> I was just wonderinfg if there is .deb packages for the KDE desktop?
> If so, where can I find them?
I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://kde.debian.net potato main crypto optional
deb ftp://kde.debian.net/pub/
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:17:39PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> Where is the Gnome file manager? I just installed and started using
> Gnome and the panel is nice but I'd like to drop things on my desktop
> and that's not working right now. According to the Gnome user's guide:
I use gmc, which (I
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:03:50AM -0700, kiran hiriyanna wrote:
> i am running windows ME on my laptop. i have a lot of info on it.
> without having to back up, can i install llinux over w/ME and later
> erase w/ME?
It depends on the setup of your disk that contains the WinME installation.
If yo
This is slightly off-topic, but I thought I'd give it a go...
Does anyone out there have a home LAN setup using non-routable IP
addresses (e.g. 192.168.x.x)? And if so, do you have postfix running as
the MTA on more than one machine in the LAN?
Have you been able to get postfix to send mail to
The permissions on /dev/dri look like the following by default:
# ls -la /dev/dri
total 23
drwxrwx---2 root root 1024 Aug 10 19:08 ./
drwxr-xr-x6 root root21504 Oct 4 16:12 ../
crw-rw1 root root 226, 0 Aug 10 19:08 card0
What is the "correct" wa
I've got some samba shares on my OpenBSD machine that I'd like to use as
drives on my Linux box. The shares are setup such that I can connect to
them as guest (using no passowrd) with read/write access using smbclient.
However, when I try to mount them (using smbmount or mount -t smbfs), I
get th
I bought a Matrox Millenium g450 over the summer. I got it setup to do
hardware accelerated 3d with XFree 4.x.
The only real 3d apps I've used are the "glxgears" test program, and the
3d screensavers that can be built with the xscreensaver package.
Some of these 3D screensavers will unexpectedl
What packages do I need to have installed to compile GL and GLE programs?
Right now, I'm running Debian 2.2 (potato), but with the XFree 4.1.0 debs
from people.debian.org/~cpbotha. I have the packages xlibmesa3 and
xlibmesa-dev installed. This seems as though it should be sufficient for
compilin
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 06:54:09PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
> I replaced /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o with the file of the
> same name from Matrox's website. I also dropped in the file names
> mga_hal_drv.o from the Matrox site.
This was my problem... in my haste, I
Hello:
I'm trying to get DRI to work with my new Matrox Millenium g450. It's the
dual head, 32 MB ram version. I only have one monitor, so I really don't
need the second head :)
Anyway, here's my setup:
Debian v2.2 (potato), but with the XFree86 4.1.0 binaries installed from
people.debian.org
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:49:38AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:17:21PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
> > I have both "set followup_to" enabled (true) in my ~/.muttrc, as well as a
> > line that says "lists debian-user" (which mea
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:38:45AM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote:
> Your question is sort of unclear. First of all, I should clarify
> something- Qt is just a GUI toolkit- a library which programs can, if
> they chose, link against in order to provide the widgets which Qt
> provides. Since it's just
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:46:13PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> If you are runing exim have you checked your /etc/email-addresses?
> in .muttrc what is set reply_to= ? Mine is set reply_to=ask-yes
I'm running postfix, not exim. Here's my ~/.muttrc file:
# watch these groups for new mail
mailboxe
Hello:
Is there a GUI file manager with built-in samba support? I.e., I'd like
to be able to view samba shares as though they were folders on my
computer, similar to the "Network Neighborhood" in Windows.
I'm running (a self-compiled) gnome window manager. Can the graphical
midnight commander
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 08:28:26PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Matthew Garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010724 23:14]:
> >
> > The /etc/Muttrc file does have a "set followup-to" line, but it's
> > commented out.
>
> The default value of this boolean is on.
Hello:
I just got a Matrox g450 AGP video card. The new card is a replacement
for my old Matrox Millenium I (4MB RAM) PCI card. I'm running Debian
potato with XFree 3.3.6.
Now the new card is installed, and the old card is out of my system. X no
longer works. I tried to use XF86Setup to setu
Hello:
I have a two computer home LAN set up. I cannot get the machines to see
each other (i.e., neither can ping the other).
When I try to ping the other computer, it looks as though information is
leaving, but not coming back, since the activity lights on my switch flash
when I run ping.
Acc
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:46:01PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Cc: Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Your Cc: address is incorrect.
> -
> ...
>
> Remove it or fix it.
Well, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What MySQL front ends have you had good luck with? At work, where I'm
using Windows, I use mysql-front, which I really like. I was wondering if
anyone has found anything similar to that for Unix (Linux in particular)?
Thus far I've tried "xmysqladmin" and "MySQLGUI" and haven't liked either
of t
Is there a package that will give me some "high resolution" fonts, or at
least allow my existing fonts to scale better?
For example, I would like to design a simple logo for my website using the
gimp. If I use my text tool to create *large* text, then the text comes
out looking very pixelized (i
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:50:20PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote:
> Try chilisoft
>
> Wayne
>
> On Thursday 19 July 2001 15:48, Matt Fair wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have some asp software that is written in visual basic. All I have is
> > linux machines for servers and I do not want to get a windows ma
I'm running a self-compiled gnome/sawfish setup. I also have a
self-compiled xmms installed on my system. Anyway, the other day, I
logged into gnome after a reboot, and I couldn't get xmms to display. I
have a quick launch icon for xmms on my toolbar. When I pressed it, no
windows appeared tha
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:24:45PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 July 2001 16:33, Matthew Garman wrote:
> > I've been particularly mad about all this recently, having just read an
> > article about our Redmond boys' new licensing plan. If I read the
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:50:18PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote:
> talk on the phone with the sysadmin of the College of Liberal Arts and
> Sciences and explain two things: 1) they want to know why I need linux
> instead of using their unix system and having MS Windows on the desktop;
> and 2) they wa
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:43:24PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> When is it necessary to pass the "mem" parameter to the kernel? I was
> under the impression that it should no longer be necessary; that newer
> kernels would always find whatever memory was available. However, I
> recently doubled
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:16:39PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have a few files that contain multiple uuencoded files inside of
> > them.
>
> uudeview will handle those.
Yup, another vote for uudeview. For a uu/mime decoder, it's pretty fancy,
wi
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:43:30PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote:
> Dana J . Laude wrote:
> > I'm about ready to setup all of the above on a Potato 2.2r3
> > system, and was wondering if there is any particular "order"
> > that the packages should be installed?
>
> I think yyou'll find you'll have to
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:59:09PM -0400, Ed Falis wrote:
> I have a Soundblaster live value and a speaker system capable of accepting
> digital input. Anyone know whether it's possible and how to enable the
> Soundblaster digital output under Debian?
Furthermore, on a similar note, how well is
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 09:51:59PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> flushing procedure is in error somehow. to test that try
>
> /sbin/iptables -L -n -v ; /sbin/iptables -L -t nat -n -v ;
> /sbin/iptables -L -t mangle -n -v
>
> I think you will find you still have some rules there.
Yup. I did some m
Hello:
I posted not too long ago about PPP not working with my new kernel. The
culprit turned out to be the iptables modules. When the following modules
are loaded, PPP won't work:
Module Size Used by
ipt_REJECT 3168 2 (autoclean)
ipt_state864
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:19:27AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach garman (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 08:18:25PM -0500):
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
> > Iface
> > 207.144.202.10 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0
> >
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote:
> I am trying to generate some .pdf files from either .dvi or .ps ones.
Well, in my experience, I've never seen a ps-to-pdf converter that works.
I've never used (or seen) a dvi-to-pdf converter, however.
Do you have the
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:47:44AM -0500, Chris Parker wrote:
> Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What
> do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is
> athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should check into?
Install a free Unix-lik
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:36:42PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> Try using ALT-F1 or maybe CTRL-ALT-F1. That should switch you to the
> console you were using before you started X. Alternatively, you could
> use F2 instead of F1 to get to a different console and log in there.
> You can then reboo
I would like to upgrade my kernel from 2.2 to 2.4. The main thing that
concerns me is building a new iptables-based firewall (as opposed to
ipchains).
I was using the TrinityOS firewall for ipchains. I read through it,
somewhat, but basically accepted its security on blind faith.
I figure that
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