Re:

2000-09-12 Thread ktb
Stephen Hupman wrote: > > Hi I am attempting to configure X. I can make the blank screen appear and that > is about it. Help. The information required to configure this software is very > specific. I don't know how to find some of the information, ie video card, > clockchip, RAMDAC, can you help?

Re: laptop

2000-09-12 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:38:25PM +0100 or thereabouts, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:01:30AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > > debian is the most laptop-friendly distro i've encountered. > > I'd have to question that, even in my recent-Debian-convert fervour. > Slackware c

Re: keyboard setting? (debian hates me part II)

2000-09-12 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > Hi all. > > I can not set the keyboard map in my debian 2.2 > (potato). > > Symbols do not corespond with keyboard!. > > I try to 'loadkeys es' it responds 'Loading es.kmap' > but it seems to do nothing (yes I have a spanish > keyboard!:). > > And the 'Ctrl-C' sequence does not

gnome/wm strangness

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have two systems. One woody, xfree 4.0.1, woody windowmaker and gnome. The other is potato, acceleratedX, potato windowmaker and gnome. Both have identical windowmaker setups, for the most part. Now, until recently I had been simply envoking windowmaker with "exec windowmaker" in .xinitrc. A

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-12 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:05:28PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > I apologize, it was an immature thing to do, but I've never seen a poll that > lets you vote many times. In my defense, I had the choice of either > inflating a poll or memorizing the names of unpronounceable Hindu (should > that be Hi

Re: Deleted /dev/hda (MBR)

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:37:29PM +0200, Moritz Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:39:24PM +0100, Dominik Bittl wrote: > > > I deleted /dev/hda as root and now i cant boot anymore (without > > disc) !! <...> > > What can i do ?? > > if i am right, and you really h

gnome/wm strangeness

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have two systems. One woody, xfree 4.0.1, woody windowmaker and gnome. The other is potato, acceleratedX, potato windowmaker and gnome. Both have identical windowmaker setups, for the most part. Now, until recently I had been simply envoking windowmaker with "exec windowmaker" in .xinitrc. A

Re: hostname/netname

2000-09-12 Thread Will Trillich
thanks for your info! now i've got some fine-tune questions-- On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:21:40PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > If you want people to be able to surf www.dontuthink.com, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED], telnet to server.dontuthink.com, etc then you need > DNS. Your ISP could do it, but its g

Re: hdparm

2000-09-12 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:18:31PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How do I know if I need any of these options for my hard > drive? Are the kernel/ide driver defaults reasonable? Do these flags improve > performance? (Right now I'm just using hdparm -y to spin down the > disk) -chris i've trie

Network Configuration

2000-09-12 Thread Saran
Hi Guys, I just subscribed to this list to get more information regarding the Debian Linux, which kind of lacks a lot of information resources. Most sites are about RedHat Linux and as much as Debian is giving me problems, I still like to stick to this distribution instead of moving to RedHat. I

Re: cvs over ssh

2000-09-12 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Try out the following: setenv CVS_RSH or export CVS_RSH= Then set your CVSROOT variable accordingly: setenv CVSROOT :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot or export CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot The ":ext:" determines the access method, which is "external" in this case. The most common

Re: Own boot scripts

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:21:53PM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to know where should I put my own boot up scripts. For > example, I write one to restore my mixer setup on boot up and save it > in shutdown. I saved it in /etc/init.d and then I made the

Re: your mail

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:58:05PM -0400, Stephen Hupman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi I am attempting to configure X. I can make the blank screen appear > and that is about it. Help. The information required to configure this > software is very specific. I don't know how to find some of the > i

Re: your mail

2000-09-12 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:15:41PM -0700 or thereabouts, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:58:05PM -0400, Stephen Hupman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi I am attempting to configure X. I can make the blank screen appear > > and that is about it. Help. The information re

RE: Network Configuration

2000-09-12 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
See below Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my > -Original Message- > From: Saran [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:05 PM > To: debian-user@list

[no subject]

2000-09-12 Thread ben . konrath
hey i have been trying to get 2.2 (i386) working with rogers @home cable modem service. the problem that i keep encountering is that i can only get on-line when i am using a NIC that has been used with the cable modem in windows. if the card is used elsewhere or the cable modem is used with a

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
How does noflushd compare with the noatime,sync mount options? I looked at the package description but it doesn't say much, and I'm a little scared to install the deb lest it do something intense. -chris On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Thomas Hood wrote: > I suggest that you check out the "noflushd" daemon

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Debian install docs do say something about disabling all "memory holes" in the bios. -chris On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: > > > Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure > > if > > tha

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:26:07AM -0500, Will Trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > btw -- for a first-time install, which debian variant > is simplest to get up & running? corel? storm? libranet? LinuxCare Bootable Business Card ;-) -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Ev

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-12 Thread Joey Hess
Krzys Majewski wrote: > How does noflushd compare with the noatime,sync mount options? Noflushd is a daemon that spins down disks that have not been read from after a certain amount of time, and then prevents disk writes from spinning them back up. -- see shy jo

RE: Network Configuration

2000-09-12 Thread Saran
Hi, I thought linuxconf is only available on RedHat ? Yes, the RH box is acting as the gateway for the network also. Dunno about the kernel version, but I'll try it later. As for the collisions, I'm not sure, but there has been no problems. Could this be the issue ? Both the RH server and my

Re: hdparm

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
I can get my drive to spin down now with hdparm -y. It then spins up right away again unless I mount my filesystems with the noatime option. I throw in the sync option for good measure. -chris On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Will Trillich wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:18:31PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wr

Re: your mail

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Uh ok this is a braindead reply but did you try turning off the modem for a few minutes. I had a hard time getting my new machine to work with cable, it suddenly worked on the third network card (a 3c905b). -chris On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hey > > i have been trying to get 2

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Uh yeah that's what the package webpage says, but I'm a bit perplexed about the last part. Surely they have to spin up the hd again *eventually*. Maybe I can just install it, kill the daemon, and read the manpage.. -chris On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Krzys Majewski wrote: > > How does

Re: X won't start

2000-09-12 Thread Adrian Nims
Thaks to all who helped me to solve this problem. I succesfully working out. Thank you, Adrian Nims

RE: Network Configuration

2000-09-12 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
1. Linuxconf is a Linux administration/configuration tool...as such any Linux distribution can run it (see http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/). 2. Whoa...2 (I repeat 2) gateways...and 2 routersso which box acts as gateway for which network..confusing isn't it andit may be the c

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-12 Thread Joey Hess
Krzys Majewski wrote: > Uh yeah that's what the package webpage says, but I'm a bit > perplexed about the last part. Surely they have to spin up > the hd again *eventually*. Maybe I can just install it, kill > the daemon, and read the manpage.. Writes don't spin it up; reads continue to do so. (As

anybody got everybuddy running?

2000-09-12 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, normally i use gnome-ICQ but since at least one of my friends uses AIM... i needed a client for that now i installed everybuddy onto my woody and all that happens after the windows pops up are tons of messages like this one: LIBICQ> ICQ_SetDebug(3)Server told us to go away. LIBICQ>

OT: good DNS server

2000-09-12 Thread Rino Mardo
Just want to get a feedback on granitecanyon.com as we seem to be having problems with them all the time. I heard others say it's because of granitecanyon's own reliability to maintain DNS. Is that true? -- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825

Re: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is just a guess on my part, but you may actually need to have > "other=" pointing somewhere else. If you have support in your kernel > for NTFS and/or FAT/VFAT, you could try mounting the Windows/DOS > filesystems you have and look for the one which

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Christian Pernegger: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > There is a README in /etc/init.d for a reason, you know .. > > I fully understand that you as the Grand Master of the Debian init system > might be annoyed by such a question, but why

RE: Network Configuration

2000-09-12 Thread Saran
Well, the way my company network is configured is that the RH box acts as router and gateway and firewall both for internal and external network; internal here being the 100.100.100.x network and external being 255.255.255.248. I suppose that the same goes for my colleague's PC as it is configured

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Oh well. According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:49:41 +0800 > X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear Sir/Madam > > Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box > storage

ssh, gethostbyname, and hosts.deny, oh my!

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
I've got a little problem here involving ssh, gethostbyname, and /etc/hosts.deny, which by curious coincidence strongly resembles the subject line of this post. The setup: I'm connecting via ssh to a server on our DMZ, proxied through a masquerading firewall. Like this: Internet

"no PPP support"

2000-09-12 Thread john gennard
I'm not sure if this is a KDE or a Debian issue. Have recently installed Debian 2.2 (already run 2.1), and use KDE 1.1.2. When I launch Kppp the following message appears:- "This kernel has no PPP support neither compiled in nor via the kernel module loader. To solve t

Re: OT: good DNS server

2000-09-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya,... yeahgranitecanyon is creating headaches for me as my customers think its my stuff when i am not their primary/secondary dns. yet they park the server here... - maybe time to institute"ya gotta have primary dns on the machine you park here" - if y

Re: Freezing during boot-up for installation

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:53:37PM -0700, Rosa Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I need help getting Debian installed. I bought a book, "learning > Debian/GNU Linux" by McCarty (O'Reilly Pub.) which included a > CD with debian. In the instructions it told me to create a boot > disk. I fol

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Hm, not convinced, man page doesn't help, runs nice though, think I'll keep it. Is there anything like this for spinning down the cpu fan? (Like an "apm --standby" that runs whenever the system is idle, or does that make sense? I tried the "doze" feature in my bios but this seems to try to put the

"at" command?

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Where do I find the "at" command, or equivalent, which is like a command-line crontab that says: execute such-and-such command and such-and-such date and time. A search for "at", as you can imagine, is not very helpful. -chris

Freezing during boot-up

2000-09-12 Thread Heil
Booting the system stops after starting statd lockd I got the message: wait_on_irq CPU 0 irq: 1 [0 1] bh: 0 [0 0] <[c0109bc5]> <[c0128c7e]> <[c0128e12]> If I disable statd and lockd, I got a problem with snort snortstuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU #0) and again wait_on_irq CPU 0 T

Re: "at" command?

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:55:37AM -0700, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Where do I find the "at" command, or equivalent, which is like > a command-line crontab that says: execute such-and-such > command and such-and-such date and time. A search for "at", as > you can imagine, is not

Re: freeware windoze client that will do ssh?

2000-09-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My bad, I meant to say freeware windoze client that will do FTP with ssh > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:41:22PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 14:35:58 -0500, William Jensen wrote: > > > Any ideas? > >=20 > > Putty. http:

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Jason Quigley
Lucky I didn't shut my server down then ;-) --On Monday, September 11, 2000 22:19 +0200 Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure if that's the exact opti

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:44:41PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Debian install docs do say something about disabling all > "memory holes" in the bios. -chris I have these options disabled... but why are they useful? Thanks > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2

Re: Own boot scripts

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:13:57PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:21:53PM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to know where should I put my own boot up scripts. For > > example, I write one to restore my mixer setup o

Re: anybody got everybuddy running?

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
I've setup everybuddy with an ICQ, AIM and Yahoo Messenger accounts, each of these working right. But I noticed that the Yahoo one was going really bad. In everybuddy, where it expects you to put the screen name for ICQ, you should put the UIN, and that should be enought. And about AIM, I guess i

Re: your mail

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:58:05PM -0400, Stephen Hupman wrote: > Hi I am attempting to configure X. I can make the blank screen appear and that > is about it. Help. The information required to configure this software is very > specific. I don't know how to find some of the information, ie video c

How do I adust the Gamma(brightness) level?

2000-09-12 Thread Wong TM \(Huang Deming\)
Please help me. How do I adust the Gamma(brightness) level for X? I using xfree 4.0.0, kde and I have a Creative TNT. What/Where are the settings I should change? Any help is appreciated. __ ..|__|.---.-..-. | __|| || _ || _ | |||__||___._||_|

Re: anybody got everybuddy running?

2000-09-12 Thread Robert Lazzurs
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > normally i use gnome-ICQ but since at least one of my friends uses > AIM... i needed a client for that > now i installed everybuddy onto my woody and all that happens after > the windows pops up are tons of messages like this one: >

Xfree86 keyboard extensions and Emacs META Key

2000-09-12 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, just tried to finetune my XF86Config file. I found the following effects: 1. When I use the keyboard extensions: LeftAlt Meta RightAltModeShift #RightCtlCompose #ScrollLock ModeLock XkbDisable then the "Alt" Key works as META in Gnu/Emacs (fine!). But the Backsp

Re: Own boot scripts

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:56:30AM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:13:57PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:21:53PM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I would like to know wh

CD-writing on USB-connected CD writers

2000-09-12 Thread Robert Varga
Does anyone have any experience with writing CDs on a USB connected CD writer in Linux? Is there a way to do it? Regards, Robert Varga

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
> Well, had you done the full RTFM routine (it means read ALL of them until > you find what you want...) Point taken. > see /usr/share/doc/sysvinit. Thanks very much, that's all I wanted to know. > So don't get too surprised that someone was a bit harsh in his reply. Oh, I wasn't. I knew I was

eps to pdf

2000-09-12 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I have a postscript figure made with gnuplot. Actually, this is a .eps file since I have chosen the option "set terminal postscript eps enhanced" in gnuplot to create the figure. I want to convert this figure to a pdf figure. 1) However, when I do this with ps2pdf (or convert ...), I ge

starting isdnutils by script

2000-09-12 Thread rene_schrader-boelsche
Hi there, after reading and understanding the doc-files about "ISDNUTILS" I can now enter the WWW. But a little problem is left. In the "Lehmann"-Distribution of Debian 2.2 I found the hint to use a script (chapter 7 of dahb.txt) to start and stop the services. But I can only start as root the

Old packages between upgrades

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, I have a question about upgrading the system. When I upgraded some time ago from slink to potato and then woody, I had a package, ncurses3.4 installed on the system... This package is old, but it's not replaced with libncurses4 or libncurses5. So, I simply erased it without any dependenc

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:44:41PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Debian install docs do say something about disabling all > > "memory holes" in the bios. -chris > > I have these options disabled... but why are they useful? > > Thanks > > No i

How do I adust the Gamma(brightness) level?

2000-09-12 Thread Wong TM \(Huang Deming\)
Please help me. How do I adust the Gamma(brightness) level for X? I using xfree 4.0.0, kde and I have a Creative TNT. What/Where are the settings I should change? Any help is appreciated. __ ..|__|.---.-..-. | __|| || _ || _ | |||__||___._||_|

Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel"

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Shit shit shit I've broken my machine again. Won't halt, won't boot. When booting it claims it's going into runlevel 3 but none of the rc3.d scripts are run, and it won't let me login (except as root), saying "system bootup in progress". If I try to change runlevel it sends TERM, sends KILL, and t

Stupid... Stupid...

2000-09-12 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I'm so ashamed... I stress to my wife and kids backup, backup, backup. And what do I do?? I screwed my lilo.conf file up royally w/o making a backup :( Now I CAN boot Debian 2.1 but can NOT boot W98 with my wife's stuff. I have W98 on hda1 and Debian on hda5 Would someone be kind enough to email

Re: Stupid... Stupid...

2000-09-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:16:28AM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I'm so ashamed... I stress to my wife and kids > backup, backup, backup. And what do I do?? I screwed > my lilo.conf file up royally w/o making a backup :( > Now I CAN boot Debian 2.1 but can NOT boot W98 with > my wife's stuf

Re: Stupid... Stupid...

2000-09-12 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Chris, there is a script at /usr/doc/lilo/examples that mounts a lilo.conf. Give it a try. Quoting Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm so ashamed... I stress to my wife and kids > backup, backup, backup. And what do I do?? I screwed > my lilo.conf fi

Re: Stupid... Stupid...

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:16:28AM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I'm so ashamed... I stress to my wife and kids > backup, backup, backup. And what do I do?? I screwed > my lilo.conf file up royally w/o making a backup :( > Now I CAN boot Debian 2.1 but can NOT boot W98 with > my wife's stu

RE: Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel"

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:10 PM > To: Debian user list (undigested) > Subject: Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel" > > > Shit shit shit I've broken my machine again. > Won't halt, won't boot. When b

How can I enable network scanning?

2000-09-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
Can anyone help with this problem, please? Versions: libsane1.0.2-1 sane 1.0.2-1 I am trying to access a scanner through the network. The scanner is an HP ScanJet on 'sarah' (192.168.1.3). It works on that machine: sarah $ scanimage --help ... List of available devices

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-12 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I have a postscript figure made with gnuplot. Actually, this is a .eps file since I have chosen the option "set terminal postscript eps enhanced" in gnuplot to create the figure. I want to convert this figure to a pdf figure. 1) However, when I do this with ps2pdf (or convert ...), I get

Re: Scsh (Was: Re: My orphaned packages.)

2000-09-12 Thread Daniel Kobras
On 11 Sep 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > "Daniel" == Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> On 10 Sep 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > >> `scsh' ought to be taken over by someone who actually uses it. I've > >> not even looked at it in over a year. > > Danie

starting isdnutils by script

2000-09-12 Thread rene_schrader-boelsche
Hi there, after reading and understanding the doc-files about "ISDNUTILS" I can now enter the WWW. But a little problem is left. In the "Lehmann"-Distribution of Debian 2.2 I found the hint to use a script (chapter 7 of dahb.txt) to start and stop the services. But I can only start as root t

eps to pdf

2000-09-12 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I have a postscript figure made with gnuplot. Actually, this is a .eps file since I have chosen the option "set terminal postscript eps enhanced" in gnuplot to create the figure. I want to convert this figure to a pdf figure. 1) However, when I do this with ps2pdf (or convert ...), I ge

No hardwarelist for Debian?

2000-09-12 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Hi! - is there a Debian hardware compatibility list on web to check on which the Debian distribution has been tested? Having no experience with Debian (not yet owning one either) and after failing to find such a list at debian.org I get the impression that Debian installers have to look at variou

Re: No hardwarelist for Debian?

2000-09-12 Thread Andrei Ivanov
There is no Debian hardware list. Such as there is no RedHat hardware list. Nor Suse hardware list. If they exist, they are derived straight from Linux hardware list, aka list of hware supported by the kernel itself. So if you are wondering about your sound card, check out linux hardware-compatabil

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-12 Thread USM Bish
Actually, both of you are right in your own ways. The rpm is a gzipped cpio file with a few headers ... and therefore, plain and simple cpio cannot work. Alien is a perl script and is dependent upon external progs to do the actual work (where required). An RPM package file is divided in 4 logic

Re: your mail AKA @home, NICs and windows

2000-09-12 Thread ben . konrath
Quoting Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Uh ok this is a braindead reply but did you try turning off > the modem for a few minutes. I had a hard time getting my new > machine to work with cable, it suddenly worked on the third > network card (a 3c905b). -chris > yep ... thats what i meant

cdr image format to jpg, eps : GIMP?

2000-09-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Can the GIMP be used to transform an image in cdr (I suppose it is Corel) into eps, or jpg format? If not, do you guys know of any program that will do it? Please hit reply to all, I am in the office now. Thanks, Antonio.

RE: No hardwarelist for Debian?

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
> - is there a Debian hardware compatibility list on web to > check on which the Debian distribution has been tested? No, because Debian does not impose hardware restrictions beyond those of the linux kernel itself. Check out the Hardware-HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.htm

gnome/wm issues

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have two systems. One woody, xfree 4.0.1, woody windowmaker and gnome. The other is potato, acceleratedX, potato windowmaker and gnome. Both have identical windowmaker setups, for the most part. Now, until recently I had been simply envoking windowmaker with "exec windowmaker" in .xinitrc.

Compressed mail folders in pine

2000-09-12 Thread Robert Lazzurs
I was wondering if anyone on the list new a way to have pine use gzipped compressed mbox files instead of them being uncompressed, which on my system is taking up a lot of space these days!!! Thanks in advance - Rab -

RE: Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel"

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Aha. That is exactly what I did. In fact, I got the idea from this list last night.. maybe from you! Thanks -chris On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:10 PM > > T

Re: Kernel COmpile Problems

2000-09-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ronald" == Ronald Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ronald> Thanks for your help.. I'll do that. I also think Ronald> kernel-source should recommend that. Otherwise, how would Ronald> newbies like me do without help from this mailing list? Firstly, this is not required for the

RE: Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel"

2000-09-12 Thread Pollywog
Had you updated any packages before this happened? On 12-Sep-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: > Aha. That is exactly what I did. In fact, I got the idea from > this list last night.. maybe from you! > Thanks > -chris

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
It looks to me like you didn't do anything wrong. Given an infinite amount of time, everyone on this list could solve all his Linux problems without any third-party help. All you have to do is read every single man page, every README, every info file, and the source code to all the programs on yo

RE: Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel"

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yes but it turned out to be, as the note below was meant to explain, the uncommenting of the "debug" line in /etc/init.d/rc which caused the problem. -chris On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > Had you updated any packages before this happened? > > > On 12-Sep-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: > > A

Re: cdr image format to jpg, eps : GIMP?

2000-09-12 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I've got a 1.0.2 ver of gimp and it can open: bmp,cel,fits,fli,faxg3,gbr,gif,gicon,hrz,jpeg,mpeg,pat,pcx,pix,png,pnm,psd,p ostscript,sgi,sunras,snp,tga,tiff,url,xcf,xwd,xpm(bz2,gz) If the format of your file is one of those, you can convert it into jpg (don't know if you can also convert i

gnapster replacement?

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
So we are now agreed that gnapster bit it, yes? Can someone who has just been through this post a brief summary of the procedure for replacing gnapster (notably, what to replace it with). I tried knapster a while back but I never managed to install the right libs for it (I'm not running kde fwiw) t

RE: ssh, gethostbyname, and hosts.deny, oh my!

2000-09-12 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 12-Sep-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [...] > Sometimes ssh works. Sometimes it doesn't: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:karsten]$ ssh lists > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > ...maybe 1 of 4 attempts succeeds. > > On the host, in /var/auth.log, I see: > >

debian user group in Washington DC?

2000-09-12 Thread dan
Hi Are any Debian user groups in Washington DC? Dan Pomohaci

Remove and add lilo

2000-09-12 Thread Michael Goodman
Is there any way to remove lilo from MBR and add it to /dev/hda2?  Thanks

Exim rewrite question

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
How can I prevent exim from rewriting addresses that do not go out over a smarthost? Specifically: If I send a mail from one LAN machine to another (using my debian/exim host as relay) the mail is delivered locally but the "from" field is rewritten to the external address of the user. So if I hi

Re: ISDN newbie

2000-09-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
If it has RS232 then you don't need ISDN4Linux as that package is for cards which don't look like a modem. If it's RS232 then it probably acts like a modem (accepts AT commands, etc.) and can be configured much like a modem. You need more info about the modem itself. Looking at its command refer

irc question from newbie

2000-09-12 Thread QBA
Hi, I totally green to irc client for console (I use BitchX) and need a little piece of advice. The problem is that I can't see list of all channels I can join. When I type in BitchX "/list" I get list of all channels but it is running through my screen so quickly that I'm not able to see anything

How to start firewall in DHCP environment

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
At the moment I run my firewall script from /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks, just before the interface is brought up. So at bootup it will indirectly be activated by the networking script. The problem is that this means I can't use domain names in the fw script - the local bind is run later. Has anyone

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-12 Thread USM Bish
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:44:47PM -0700, John Gilger wrote: > I feel like a total mental case. I have potato up and running fine, but > even though I've read a pile of f'ing manuals I can't get my epson sc800 > printer to listen when debian talks! > > I have installed apsfilter, lprng, and aladdi

tar.gz and dpkg/apt

2000-09-12 Thread Deim Agoston
Hello ! How can I tell the apt and/or dpkg that I have an MTA installed (postfix2531) but not from deb package (it was tar.gz). Now everytime I install or remove something it tells me that the services which depends on an MTA won't work. And another question. Where can I find docs about buildi

Re: sendmail: Domain must resolve

2000-09-12 Thread staf wagemakers
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:10:20AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > e-mail account. After changing the hostname, I'm getting "Domain must > resolve" errors from sendmail (formatted strangely here to fit 70 cols): > relay=smtp.cs.ubc.ca. [142.103.6.52], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 451 > <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Burn in an ethernet device

2000-09-12 Thread Jim Lisi
Danny Pansters wrote: > You shouldn't use append unless you need to get a second eth card working > (and even so, I'm pretty sure it's only needed for pre-2.2.x kernels). The > eth0 should than become the card with the lowest hardware address, the other > would become eth1. Unless you have an ISA

IPX Scanning Tool

2000-09-12 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Hello Debian User's, I am looking for a sniffer tool to determine valnerablity for Novell IPX/SPX protocol? I have looked on freshmet.net and found GnuSniff, The Wisp, and tipxd(for tunnelling). These look like they are in Alpha stage. Does anyone know of other applications??? Much appreciated

digest version broken?

2000-09-12 Thread Seth Cohn
I was getting both user and devel as digests, and both went quiet. I subscribed to both as digest again, in case I'd been knocked off the list, and still nothing, so I subscribed as non-digest and I'm getting email, enough that it should have kicked out a digest, but still no digest. Looks lik

RE: Xfree86 keyboard extensions and Emacs META Key

2000-09-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
In the default Debian installation, the key with the Windows logo is actually META and alt is alt.

RE: starting isdnutils by script

2000-09-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> script (chapter 7 of dahb.txt) to start and stop the services. > But I can only start as root the script. Otherwise I get the message > "/dev/isdinfo permission denied". chmod 755 /dev/isdninfo don't work. What > can I > do?? mail the maintainer and ask him for suggestions. He knows quite a bit

RE: tar.gz and dpkg/apt

2000-09-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Sep-2000 Deim Agoston wrote: > Hello ! > > How can I tell the apt and/or dpkg that I have an MTA installed > (postfix2531) but not from deb package (it was tar.gz). Now everytime > I install or remove something it tells me that the services which depends > on an MTA won't work. And anot

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