RE: Please help with some harddisk error

2000-09-07 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
I have seen such error messages below before too.it was when I decided to enable dma support for the hd via hdparmcheck to see whether that that has been enabled (hdparm /dev/hda). Anyway, after that incident, my hardisk had bad cluster/sectors! Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance

Re: Error compiling kernel

2000-09-07 Thread ktb
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > apt-get install bin86 kernel-package > > # cd > # make [config | menuconfig | xconfig] > # make-kpkg clean > # make-kpkg --revision=[epoch:] kernel_image > # dpkg -i ../kernel-image*.deb > > See man make-kpkg (really is easier, and dpkg will know abo

RE: Error compiling kernel

2000-09-07 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Hi Gutierrez Family...(and List), Hey...I got the same error messsage too while attempting to compile the "patched" 2.2.17 kernelI downloaded the patches for 2.2.16 and 2.2.17 and applied those to my 2.2.15 source tree in /usr/src/linux (-> /usr/src/2.2.15). I did get some error message while

Sun xterm revisited.

2000-09-07 Thread Wesley Hosking
Brian Schramm writes: > OK. I asked for help once before on this. I now need this fixed so I am > back to it. > > I have Debian potato running at this time. I did use Debian slink working > fine. I saved the etc and other configuration data off the old slink > system on CD so I could use

RE: Error compiling kernel

2000-09-07 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
I am replying to the list...having read ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] 's postjust a question...is the as86 file located in the /, /bin, /sbin , /lib directories..if so then it explains a possible / corruption before I attempted to compile the 2.2.17 kernel Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assura

Re: Grainy Gnome

2000-09-07 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:51:01AM -0400 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > It sounds like you're not actually running at 32 bpp. If I remember correctly, > there is a file in /proc that lists the X-server specs. It should have the bpp > you're actually running (assuming X is runn

Re: Error compiling kernel

2000-09-07 Thread Glyn Millington
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:46:06PM -0700, thus spake Gutierrez Family: > Hi everyone, > > I tried to re-compile the kernel (to include generic SCSI support for my > scanner) and ran into problems. Here's what I did - as far as I can remember > (following the instructions in the README file foun

SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 driver

2000-09-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear .deb, I've installed potato, but I can't seem to find the right driver for a SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 card. Any idea? I've tried epic100 and the smc* drivers without parameters but all I get is a device or resource is busy ... :-( TIA, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation

max number of groups 32?

2000-09-07 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Hello! I try to add users to groups with adduser, and usermod complains about max number of groups, which is 32, so I can't add a user to more than 32 groups. Is there a limitation to 32 of maximum number of groups that a user can be a member? If it is, can be changed to 64? By, Karesz.

Re: dpkg binary dbase (was Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:28:15PM +1100, loki wrote: > I thought Solaris used binary databases for speed, with a text one > as backup and for readability. What if we had both a text and > binary database, and added the following options to dpkg: [snip] no need install dlocate: $ time dlocate

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:31:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > Still you have to admit if there was an inteligent way of moving from text > to binary format (like cron??) it would keep two camps happy for a while... [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ time dlocate -s dlocate Package: dlocate St

Re: best way to install debian in VMware VM

2000-09-07 Thread Nate Amsden
Mark Simos wrote: > > I did the floppies thing, and switching out floppies, even vmware point > and click floppy change, sucks. > > now my install disk is hosed (didn't shutdown often enough) and I am > more interested in the learning experience of installing debian in a > different way than to s

Re: Installing potato on a reiserfs

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Janssen
David wrote: >Does anyone know if the kernel on potato has been patched to support >reiserfs? but the real question is how do I make my own bootable debian >installs if they don't, and/or I have a new kernel driver I want to be >able to install? The default kernels (and also those on potato th

Re: Error compiling kernel

2000-09-07 Thread mcclosk
make[1]: Entering directory = `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot' as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make[1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory = `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [zImag

Re: SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 driver

2000-09-07 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:27:03PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Dear .deb, > > I've installed potato, but I can't seem to find the right driver for a > SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 card. Any idea? > > I've tried epic100 and the smc* drivers without parameters but all I > get is a device or

Drivers for DELL PERC 3/Si - RAID controller in PE2450.

2000-09-07 Thread kamil . sotak
I want install Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2450 with DELL PERC 3/Si - RAID controller. This controller is based on Adaptec technology but I dont know wich. Does exists Debian driver for this controller? Is this contoller in Debian "HCL" :-)? Kamil Sotak MORAVIAPRESS, a.s. U pony 3061 690 02 Brecla

Staring Gnome ???

2000-09-07 Thread Glyn Millington
Greetings! I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17. And I can't start Gnome! I'm starting X from the command line (startx) and have tried exec gnome-session in my .xinitrc and even in an .Xsession file, but all I get in reposne is an X stuck at the corss-hatched screen and when I Ctrl-Alt-BckS

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread Jason Quigley
Couldn't agree more! --On Wednesday, September 6, 2000 19:31 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David.Middleton writes: ...horse [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...crap... plonk<

testmail

2000-09-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
test for mailserver failure

Re: testmail

2000-09-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
ok -it works

Re: testmail

2000-09-07 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Me too. My mail doesn't seem to be getting through.

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-07 Thread Danny Pansters
Hi everyone, The kde.tdyc.com Woody tree for kde2 has been emptied, I'm sure of it because I used to apt kde2 from there. I happened to have been reinstalling my Woody box from scratch yesterday (the 6th), starting from a couple of potato disks. All went well, but when it came to installing kde2 b

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Crystal
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:17:40PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:22:44PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have some files that I would like to store encrypted. Of course I can > > just type them in, encrypt them using gpg and delete the original, b

SB Live & kernel sound

2000-09-07 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi I'm forwarding this message again because it didn't seem to get to the list; I will add a couple of questions. I recently installed Potato and now would like to set up sound. I have already read on the mailing list some stuff about installing sound support but would like to check a few things

Not able to mount /cdrom.

2000-09-07 Thread Vicente Ferrando Berenguer
Hello list, I'm not able to mount /cdrom any more. I get the error “Too many levels of symbolic links”. This is my entry on fstab for the cdrom “/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto”. Does someone know where the problem could be?

Re: X don't work

2000-09-07 Thread Adrian Nims
I've used XF86Config to configure X but despite that from the XF86COnfig point of view everything is fine and it made an X server runninig, I have no mouse working (not even in XF86Setup interface) and X freeze after showing me white and black dots and a black X (wich is not moving no matter how ma

RE: Error compiling kernel

2000-09-07 Thread Jason Holland
Hi, You need to install binutils, as you are missing the as86 assembler. Also, i would run make bzImage, instead of make zImage, compression on the kernel will be better. Jason -Original Message- From: Gutierrez Family [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 11:46

Re: Not able to mount /cdrom.

2000-09-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:58:38AM +, Vicente Ferrando Berenguer wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm not able to mount /cdrom any more. I get the error “Too many levels > of symbolic links”. This is my entry on fstab for the cdrom “/dev/scd0 >/cdrom iso9660 defaults,r

RE: Error compiling kernel

2000-09-07 Thread Jason Holland
oops, my bad. you need the bin86 package. sorry about that. jason > -Original Message- > From: Jason Holland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 6:18 AM > To: Gutierrez Family; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Error compiling kernel > > > Hi, > Yo

please help updating calendar

2000-09-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
A calendar.hindu file is needed for 2000/2001 and the yearly calendar.christian needs to be updated to the new syntax. Duplicated events needs to be removed from the yearly calendar.judaic files. I'll also be happy to add the events of your religion of choice. -- ciao, Marco

Re: staroffice .bin

2000-09-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > D ghost here. Just wanted to ask if anyone had had any success with > Staroffice. I was not sure what to do with the 97 meg *.bin file that I > d/l from Sun site. I have nothing to README :) Are you pretty sure? Have a look at www.sun.com's download page

Re: Not able to mount /cdrom.

2000-09-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:53:44AM +, Vicente Ferrando Berenguer wrote: > Hi Ethan, > > Thanks for your help. The problem is that /dev/scd0 is a link to > /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr0 is a link to /dev/scd0. Do you know what the cause > could be? rm /dev/scd0 mknod -m 660 /dev/scd0 b

Re: SB Live & kernel sound

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Soulier
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > Some people say to install from unstable the debs for ALSA and then > run alsaconf. A couple of questions - I could change my sources to > point at unstable but I don't want to upgrade to woody so how do I get > just the debs for ALSA without upgra

Re: Wine 20000801

2000-09-07 Thread Richard Black
Jonathan Markevich wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:05:48PM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > > > I have just upgrade to wine (my first upgrade of wine for some time). > > I've run into a couple of problems. The first one was: > > > > shared libraries: libwine_unicode.so: cannot open shared object

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:06:58PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > You only need a shell to edit a text file. You also only need to read > > and understand pseudo-english. > > Not to mention the fact that text editors are a tad more common

Re: your mail

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Try getting the slackware or mandrake installation kernel and use it to boot the installation. Maybe it could be better to use loadlin here to boot the setup process. Bye. On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:53:32PM -0400, brandont wrote: > i have quite a predicament in installing linux flavor debian 2.2

Re: cron ppp and script

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:29:17PM -0700, Jeff Partin wrote: > This is what I need to do.. > With a cron script once every 15min dialup > and connect.. Then send a command that starts > a download and sends it to my home dir. or ftps it > to a location on another server. > Anyone ever set somethin

Re: why can gcc find -lcrypt but not -lcfont (both in /lib)?

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:57:21PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > From: Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:42:51PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > Simply because the -l option links static libraries, those which end > > in .a and not dynam

Re: Please help with some harddisk error

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:21:35PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I am getting some harddisk errors on one of our production > servers. We also have the same hardware for two other > servers(web/proxy) running 2.0.36/hamm with no problems. > > Hardware: > 4 x 9GB Fujisu

"Cloning" a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, is there any way to install on a Debian system the same packages that are found on another Debian system? The machines are not strictly equal. Tia, Etienne

kde2 window manager

2000-09-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I've installed kde2 packages for potato (before Qt went GPL). Almost everything is working fine, except I'm not being able to start kwm either from kdm or from console (using startkde). Also, looking at /etc/X11 I found I don't have a window-manager file anymore (just a window

what are these?

2000-09-07 Thread balayo
hey list I'd love to identify some mystery files in my home directory. there are 14 of them. they are big, and apparently binary. they are: xaa thru xam, and the last one is xxml.el. Just noticed them yesterday. I have been updating and installing new stuff (including an emacs package). I look

Re: Please help with some harddisk error

2000-09-07 Thread Gary L. Dolan
Quoting Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:21:35PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am getting some harddisk errors on one of our production > > servers. We also have the same hardware for two other > > servers(web/proxy) running 2.0.36/h

what are these things?

2000-09-07 Thread balayo
hey list I'd love to identify some mystery files in my home directory. there are 14 of them. they are big, and apparently binary. they are: xaa thru xam, and the last one is xxml.el. Just noticed them yesterday. I have been updating and installing new stuff (including an emacs package). I look

Motherboard [search]

2000-09-07 Thread Shel Johnson
Does anyone know of a website where I could enter a motherboard serial number and find out who made the motherboard.. I used to have an URL, but I lost it.. thanks!! = Shel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ- 23454126 AIM- CacheMonet Trying to master Storm Linux 2000 http://www.stormix.com/ _

Re: what are these things?

2000-09-07 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:12:59AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hey list > > I'd love to identify some mystery files in my home > directory. there are 14 of them. they are big, and > apparently binary. they are: xaa thru xam, and the last > one is xxml.el. Just noticed them yesterday. The x

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Ondrej Sury
Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > Hi, > > I have some files that I would like to store encrypted. Of course I can > just type them in, encrypt them using gpg and delete the original, but > that seems to be a bit of a kludge. It would mean the file is at some > time readable unencrypted (after saving i

Re: Grainy Gnome

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:25:00AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > yes i'm running at 32 bpp. to double check i stopped gdm and did a "startx -- > -bpp 32" from console and i still get the grainy res. the defaulcolordepth > i'm > not sure but i'll check later. But maybe you don't have you graphics

Re: Help needed: how to set DefaultColorDepth to 32]

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:48:10AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > i am naively using gdm. where do i go to edit the color depth setting. > /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf look at the end of the file; there is a line like this: 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 replace with: 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -bpp 32 And shoul

Re: Help needed: how to set DefaultColorDepth to 32

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:56:13PM -0500, Jianbo Zhang wrote: > Dear group: > I use gdm to start X. Can I go back to startx to start X easily? I know how to > get 32 bpp with startx. Simply uninstall gdm or use update-rc.d to remove it from your default runlevel. I've done this and I've set up tw

Re: Staring Gnome ???

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:52:31AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Greetings! I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17. And I can't > start Gnome! I'm starting X from the command line (startx) and > have tried > exec gnome-session > in my .xinitrc and even in an .Xsession file, but all I get

Re: "Cloning" a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:50:30PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > > > Hello, > > is there any way to install on a Debian system the same packages > that are found on another Debian system? The machines are not strictly > equal. Yes, you can. Do in the "primary" machine: dpkg --get-sele

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-07 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote: > A calendar.hindu file is needed for 2000/2001 I'll do it. Give me a day or two. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Danny Pansters wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The kde.tdyc.com Woody tree for kde2 has been emptied, I'm sure > of it because I used to apt kde2 from there. I don't know why the packages have been cleared out. Ask Ivan E. Moore II. > Anyway, I hope that the kde2 debs will be added to the normal de

Re: SB Live & kernel sound

2000-09-07 Thread Danny Pansters
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > > > Some people say to install from unstable the debs for ALSA and then > > run alsaconf. A couple of questions - I could change my sources to > > point at unstable but I don't want to upgrade to woody

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Wouter Hanegraaff | Is something like this available? $apt-cache show crypt++el Package: crypt++el Version: 2.87-2 Priority: extra Section: editors Maintainer: Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: emacsen Recommends: mailcrypt Architecture: all FileName: dists/potato/main/binary-all/e

Re: nVidia geForce + X == error?

2000-09-07 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:38:55AM +0200, J.T. Wenting wrote: > Is there an X server for geForce cards (specifically Asus V.6600)? > Probing during Debian install did not detect a compatible card, it said... xfree86 3.3.6 - xserver-svga works fine with my geforce 256 I tried the experimental xfr

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Thanks all for the overwhelming response! I'll probably try cfs in the near future, as it seems a nice and elegant solution and it was recommended by a lot of people. But for a quick start, I'll use the vim auto commands, because I'm already used to vim and because it was so easy to setup (similar

RE: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Nathan E Norman > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 2:56 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat > > You only need a shell to edit a text file. You also only need to read >

vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread William Jensen
Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt the spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim totally different. I also tried printing from within vim with :%w !lpr but it had the same affect.

Re: Current correct woody URL's for apt-get?

2000-09-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
John Griffiths said: > But won't you need to do a dist-upgrade when the as-yet-unamed next unstable > comes out? so isn't it better to keep going on the dist name? and keep track > of developments? Nope. On the day that potato froze, 'unstable' and 'frozen' were identical (as far as I noticed,

How do I adust the Gamma level?

2000-09-07 Thread Wong TM \(Huang Deming\)
How do I adust the Gamma level for X? I using xfree 4.0.0, kde and I have a Creative TNT. What are the settings I should change? Any help is appreciated. __ ..|__|.---.-..-. | __|| || _ || _ | |||__||___._||_|

Re: How do I adust the Gamma level?

2000-09-07 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:57:32PM +0800, Wong TM (Huang Deming) wrote: > > How do I adust the Gamma level for X? I using xfree 4.0.0, kde and I have a > Creative TNT. I don't know about 4.0.0, I use 3.x.x and my starting script is: startx -- -bpp 32 -dpi 120 -gamma 0.7 -bestRefresh &>~/.xsessio

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-07 Thread John Reinke
I used the boot floppies, and it worked with my cable modem. I guess I didn't know it was using pump, it just worked by magic. I went ahead and installed dhcpcd when I was done. BTW, make sure you get root.bin, resc.bin, plus all three driver floppies BEFORE you start the installation and blow awa

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread kmself
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? > > I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt the > spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim > total

ftp.debian.org down?

2000-09-07 Thread Rino Mardo
I'm trying to access ftp.debian.org but I getting a connection refused (as opposed to connection full). Is everyone getting the same? -- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825

Re: Not able to mount /cdrom.

2000-09-07 Thread Vicente Ferrando Berenguer
Thank you very, very much Ethan, I've my cdrom working again. The bogus setup appeared after an upgrade with apt-get. I upgraded from an old Potato version to the new stable version. Best regards. >> Mensaje original << El 9/7/0

Re: IT NEWS WEEKLY

2000-09-07 Thread Preben Randhol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/09/2000 (19:57) : > > IT.NEWS WEEKLY > > September 5, 2000, NO. 14 > > Welcome again to IT.NEWS - BlueCom's weekly newsletter for all players in the > international IT Channel - vendors, distributors, resellers, dealers and > brokers. Read about the latest trend

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Vee-Eye
> Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? No, because normally I typeset my documents with latex ... > I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt the > spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim what's about expanding the tabs? :

Re: Motherboard [search]

2000-09-07 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:18:20AM -0700, Shel Johnson wrote: > Does anyone know of a website where I could enter a motherboard serial > number and find out who made the motherboard.. I used to have an URL, but > I lost it.. thanks!! I think you are looking for http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ HTH

Debian and KDE

2000-09-07 Thread Ben Woodhead
Hello everybody First I would like to give my appologies, I was not aware of the incomming directory and I have been told that kde will be included. I would also like to say that I personally do not use kde nor am a developer for them, my consern was with the conflicts between linux. Competition i

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Arthur Korn
Hello. I've played a bit with autocommands in vim (the first time ever I looked at them), and came up with this (shamelessly stolen from the default vimrc, there it handles *.bz2): augroup encrypted au! autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre*.gpg set bin autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPr

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Arthur Korn
Wouter Hanegraaff schrieb: > Is something like this available? Yes vi. ;) Type what you want, then enter this in command mode: :%! gpg -ea The whole buffer is piped through gpg and encryptet to self (assuming you encrypt to self per default) and does ascii armoring (you don't need to do this).

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Vee-Eye
> Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? No, because normally I typeset my documents with latex ... > I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt the > spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim what's about expanding the tabs? :

Problem with ATAPI CD-Recorder

2000-09-07 Thread Christian Hilk
Hello! I've got a problem with my Philips CDD4201 cd-recorder. It's a ATAPI device, I installed it with the SCSI driver, like described in README.ATAPI from cdrecord. I've got no problem with burning CDs. But if I mount the device for read (mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom), everything looks good (I can rea

"standard" entries for apt sources.list?

2000-09-07 Thread John Ackermann
Is there a source somewhere that lists all the (non-local) entries one would want to have in /etc/apt/sources.list to manage and update packages and catch security updates? I've looked at www.debian.org and couldn't find that info. I'm maintaining slink and potato boxes, and would like to keep

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread USM Bish
I use elvis (not vim). There is no such problem. Incidentally, have you changed your tab setting to anything other than the default 8 ? USM Bish On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? > > I spend a few hours editing

gnome panel (catch me if you can)

2000-09-07 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, Have a question about gnome panel and enlightenment. I am currently using the enlightenment pager and have two pagers with 4 workspaces each. Most of the time my gnome panel will only be on one set of the pagers. I'd like to have the panel running in all 8 windows at all times. The stran

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote: > Could somebody more familiar with vim than me please tell me > (us) wheter this writes anything unencrypted onto disk? If not, > shall I file a wishlist bug against vim-rt to include this? Is your swap file (not VIM's, the OS') in an encripted partition? O

Another Poll

2000-09-07 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian is sitting at 7%! Vote early and Vote often! Brooks

indmod -> modules.conf translator

2000-09-07 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I've tried several different variations on getting my sound card driver to correctly initialize thru /etc/modules.conf. I still have not figured out a good way to do so. However, I can manually install the sound driver using the following: modprobe sound insmod ad1848 insmod uart

Firewall woes...

2000-09-07 Thread Kelly Corbin
I am setting up a packet-filter firewall and everything seems to be going fine except for one thing: ftp uploads are ridiculously slow (1 or 2 packets every 10 sec.). If I turn logging on (-l), the upload speed picks up to close to normal speed. If I turn it off, it slows back down again. This

DSL, pump, dhcp, and more questions

2000-09-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
So I just hooked up my ADSL connection this past weekend and it's up and running with no problems. I am, however, having some trouble understanding HOW it's working?! I'm running a fresh install of potato on my firewall/masq machine which is connected to my internal network, via a hub, and to the

Re: any luck with ES1869 sound card?

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in RedHat)? How should I set dma irq etc? thanks in advance

sndconfig?

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in RedHat)? How should I set dma irq etc? thanks in advance

sndconfig?

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in RedHat)? How should I set dma irq etc? thanks in advance

Re: Another Poll

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Smith
Here's a better url: http://www.justlinux.com/bin/poll/allpolls.pl And to think I thought nobody ever used slackware. Oh, well. "Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > Greetings, > There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian > is > sitting at 7%! Vote early and Vote o

Re: best way to install debian in VMware VM (found it :)

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Simos
> Mark> Then i mounted the /dev/sda4 as /zip manually ... > > I can't say I understand what you did, but I'll keep your message as > reference -- I might want to try that someday. Thanks. > vmware allows for you to directly mount an existing partition, which I did. Under SCSI in configuration

Re: what are these?

2000-09-07 Thread Bob McGowan
For the files xaa to xam, something you downloaded was split into pieces for more reliable downloading. Common practice when the original is really big and the download is over a modem, so you can download pieces at different times, or re-download a broken part rather than the whole. They can be

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:11:28PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: > It seems to work for me, and the .swp file is _encrypted_, no > need to disable them. The .swp file is definitely not encrypted. Worse, it's not possible to disable using a swapfile when a vim session is already started: :set uc=0 as

How to use libhtml-embperl-perl as cgi

2000-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[also sent to prior Debian maintainer in case he can answer in 30 seconds!] I have installed the libhtml-embperl-perl package, and I'm trying to get some perl commands within [+ brackets +] in html files to be processed (first as cgi, then perhaps using mod-perl). After simply installing the pa

ES1869 soundcard problem? (lengthy description)

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, since yesterday I am trying to configure the sound card on my laptop. I would be very grateful to anyone who could hint me a solution. The hardware has been till yesterday working fine under Windows (though I don't have W to check it again but I don't expect anything happened). I will be t

Re: "standard" entries for apt sources.list?

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Not sure if this is what you want, but here's mine. -chris # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only u

Re: "Cloning" a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yes, there is. I don't remember the incantation but if you search through the archives on www.debian.org you'll be sure to find some posts about it. Something like apt-get selections... -chris On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > > > Hello, > > is there any way to install on a

Re: Required Hardware?

2000-09-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeffrey H. Young wrote: > I have an Intel 386, with 3.5"-1.44MB & 5.25"-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack > CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A > 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says > the system should

help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having troubles to use kwm. I've installed kde2 packages from tdyc (Ivan's packages). All dependencies are resolved but I'm not able to start kwm either from kdm (it's not listed) or from .xinitrc, using startkde. The individual programs, like kword, kpresenter, killustrat

Re: help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Epting
make sure you have installed the -dev packages of the major kde2 files. Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having troubles to use kwm. I've installed kde2 packages > from tdyc (Ivan's packages). All dependencies are resolved but I'm not > able to start kwm either from kdm (it's

OT: can Navigator 4.74 use an external mail client?

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone know how to set up Netscape Navigator (4.74) to invoke an external mail client (say, pine) when I click on a mailto: link? (Navigator is the stand-alone web browser, right now it does nothing when I click on such a link) -chris

Re: help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Epting wrote: > make sure you have installed the -dev packages of the major kde2 files. aren't the -dev packages for development? I'm just trying to 'use' kwm, not to compile anything? anyway I'll give it a try. Thansk! []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are

Re: "Cloning" a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, > Something like apt-get selections... -chris thanks for the hint. I would have started by the mail archives, but I didn't find out how to search them... Cheers, Etienne

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