On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:55:55PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
> i installed debian on several dell latitude notebooks, seemed the
> monitor setting didn't do anything, it could of be set to anything and
> it still worked. the chipset was neomagic. i figured that the driver
> automatically handled t
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:38:23AM +0100 or thereabouts, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting cls-colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > i need to reinstall potato (after losing my pcmcia
> > modem to a custom kernel).
> >
> > w/o having to "dselect" or "apt-get" over and over, is
> > there a way for t
well someday i may find this fascinating, but for the moment
i'd really like to just have it percolate in 'run silent, run
deep' mode.
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 01:26:50PM +, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> [-- PGP output follows (current time: Sun Sep 17 00:45:07 2000) --]
> gpg: Signature made Sat Sep 16
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:43:02PM -0700 or thereabouts, Nate Amsden wrote:
>
> i just installed debian 2.2r0 on an ibm thinkpad 600 today, debian
> didn't even detect pcmcia _at all_ on the thing. luckily i don't have
did you check your pcmcia setup in the bios? if i remember right mine is set
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:50:24PM +0200 or thereabouts, I. Tura wrote:
> It can happen that the guilty one is M$ Word. I've heard from a reliable
> person that even Word 97 can convert in a bad manner another Word document
> from another Word 97 program.
your hearing is fine. even a WinCE
Bob Edwards wrote:
>
> Good morning!
>
> I ordered a three CD set of debian cds and am preparing to install
> debian. I have some specific questions:
>
> (1) how do i configure debian for dsl ?
Never done it; don't have a clue.
> (2) What do I have to do to get debian to recognize all three of
Shel Johnson wrote:
>
> I have an IDE internal ZipDrive.. When I boot my machine, I know Linux
> sees it as hdd.. My question is: how do I add an icon on the desktop like
> the floppy and cdrom??.. Thanks!!
Depends on which window manager you're using. Some wm's don't have
"built-in" support for
Kent West wrote:
>
> Bob Edwards wrote:
> > (3) what do I have to do to be able to dual boot to either debian (yea)
> > or windows 98 (boo!!) ?
>
> Several different methods. The easiest for a beginner is to simply make
> a boot floppy during the install and don't make Debian bootable from the
>
Erik,
I have to agree with the others; 4.75 is working very good
and stable on my system.
T. Tilton
Erik van der Meulen wrote:
>
> Sorry Group, this must be very FAQ.
> I would like some advice to which Netscape to get for my 2.2 Helix-gnome
> laptop. If I check the stable files, I find numer
will trillich wrote:
> well someday i may find this fascinating, but for the moment
> i'd really like to just have it percolate in 'run silent, run
> deep' mode.
> now, i get more verbosity than ever (see above) but i'll have
> a look to see if i can give gpg a 'shaddap' option...
If you want to
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dselect is slow on my old machine. How can I put a package on hold
> without
> using Dselect?
> dpkg does not have such an action as far as I can see.
I use a script someone on this list sent to me - save it as 'dpkg-hold'
and make it executable. To put a p
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:33:03AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm playing with customizing PAM at the moment and want
> to restrict the use of 'su' to members of group 'root'
> by enabling the feature in /etc/pam.d/su.
>
> However, when I try to
>
> adduser myuser root
>
>
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 06:59:41PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Christian Pernegger wrote:
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I'm playing with customizing PAM at the moment and want
> > to restrict the use of 'su' to members of group 'root'
> > by enabling the feature in /etc/pam.d/su.
>
> you dont need to
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Mike wrote:
> Hi everyone,
Hi.
>
> I managed to get kde2 install but it wont start. I used apt-get to get it so
> it hould be fine, I'm using gdm so i added a menu to that which executed
> startkde but when it starts it sais that it failed interprocess
> networking and that
Hi!
I have just installed debian 2.2 and I have a few problems :o)
First, my mouse does not work. I can not start the X because it
reports that there is no mouse. In consol mode there is also no mouse.
Seems to me (a newbee) like the operating system does not even know
that there is a mouse around
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just did a dist-upgrade from woody, helixcode and kde2.
> >
> > login as root fails, but can 'su', 'su - root' from terminal.
>
> Check the startup procedure for startx. Look for a $HOME/.xsession file in
> the home directory, that gets run
I am trying to install qt and have run into problems due to not quite
enough knowledge.
The error message is :
can't load library 'libqt.so.2'
Install help says:
you probably need to put a reference to the qt library in a
configuration file and run /sbin/ldconfig as root on your system.And
don't
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 05:27:14PM +1100, Simeon Simes wrote:
> When I'm ripping a CD with cdparanoia my dialup ppp connection doesn't work.
> I don't seem to be able to transfer at all. The link stays up but no or very
> little
> data seems to be able to flow. But if I stop cdparanoia eve
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 12:44:50PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Thomas Halahan writes:
> > noauth solves the problem. however my debian distribution says not to
> > change this for some reason!
>
> Doing so can be a security risk in some circumstances (not yours).
> However, if kppp wasn't buggy
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:52:48PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote:
>
> When I login my .bashrc file is read but NOT my .bash_profile or .Xclients.
>
Frist, man bash.
Well, .bashrc is loaded for non-login shells, and .bash_profile is
loaded for login shells. Usually in .bash_profile
Hi all,
In another message I explained that my system crashed when playing
with apm/noflushd and then woody was broken. Well, I think the problem
is not about the disk filesystem because it now seems ok (no symlinks,
bad names, bad sizes, etc).
I've bought (at last! :) a new 20 GB drive, partitio
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:28:26AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> hello,
> i have just upgraded a laptop from really early potato to latest
> woody
> this laptop is used by several persons, and naturally there was no
> consens on which desktop-manager to use, so some users use kde, some
> oth
Oh, another thing I've added to remember how many jobs I have in the
background. This only apperes where there are jobs, but if not, it
doesn't apperes.
function jobcount {
JOBS=`jobs | wc -l | awk {'print $1'}`
[ $JOBS != 0 ] && echo -n "$JOBS:"
}
PS1='\[\e[22m\e[40m\e[32m\]\h:`jobcount`\
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:21:48PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> I'm trying to create a filesystem in RAM. I've got the rd.o module, but
> when I try to create the fs I get:
>
> 16:18:04# mkfs -t ext2 -v /dev/ram 2048
> mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> mkfs.ext2: error in
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:54:09PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote:
> debs,
>
> i need to reinstall potato (after losing my pcmcia
> modem to a custom kernel).
>
> w/o having to "dselect" or "apt-get" over and over, is
> there a way for the system, with one "apt-get"
> command, to get and install t
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:55:21PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote:
> Hi Debian users,
>
> Just installed Debian over RH system. Previously I had printing set up to
> print to a win95 machine using the RH printtool (via samba somehow). Does
> anyone know of the easiest way to achieve this in debian
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:51:01PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote:
>
> > About half the time that I experience power failures, I need to run fsck on
> > my
> > Debian system.
>
> So, have you had to reinstall packages? With RedHat/Mandrake, I
> would i
Hello.
I have a woody box here, and I just got a message this morning; it
seems that, when executing
test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
a file wasn't found:
/etc/cron.weekly/dhelp:
permission denied or non-existent:
/usr/share/doc/doc-rfc/fyi-index/rfc1941.html.
Nate Amsden wrote:
> Michael Soulier wrote:
> > My biggest complaint about RedHat/Mandrake while I was using them
> > was the fact that if I lost power, the disk caching would cause the
> > filesystem to be corrupted, often seriously so. I'd cringe when I booted
> > up again, because inevit
Julio Merino writes:
> So, gnome-ppp is also buggy?
Sounds like it might be. I haven't tried it.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
> > When I'm ripping a CD with cdparanoia my dialup ppp connection doesn't
> > work. I don't seem to be able to transfer at all. The link stays up but
> > no or very little
> > data seems to be able to flow. But if I stop cdparanoia everthing is
> > fine.
> > This is on a debian woody syst
I am having problems installing 2.2
I run the install from CD and select the package groups I require. I
select a limited set, and install, this works fine. I reboot my machine
and have a working server with the packages I asked for, great. Once I
have done this I run dselect to install a few othe
Not sure this is what people are looking for in this thread, but I bought a
PCP&C Silencer power supply rated at 275 watts a few years ago. It was not
cheap, but it really has been quiet. Most of the time its barely audible. Plus,
it's ultra reliable. If something goes wrong with that computer,
Note: I don't read -user, just -devel, so I just saw this thread. I
apologize for duplication, if someone already said things I'm going to say
in my message.
Kurt Seifried wrote:
> >Basically, you are forking development. There is now a version to be
> >found in all the standard places where you
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 22:15:46 +1200, John Batistic wrote:
> I am trying to install qt and have run into problems due to not quite
> enough knowledge.
Is there any particular reason you're not using the Debian packages of Qt2?
Ray
--
Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te wor
Hi Rino
RIGHT. My coauthor and I have had pure hell because the latest
Mac MS Word doesn't translate Word from Office 97 .doc files with
tracked changes correctly.
With MS it is not just non-interoperabilty with other operating
systems, they don't even work well with themselves.
--David
On Sun
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:27:09AM -0400, David Teague wrote:
> Hi Rino
>
> RIGHT. My coauthor and I have had pure hell because the latest
> Mac MS Word doesn't translate Word from Office 97 .doc files with
> tracked changes correctly.
>
> With MS it is not just non-interoperabilty with other op
I will be upgrading soon to a faster box. This will leave me a
machine to use strictly in Debian-Linux. I will use the Debian
package because it seems to be the distribution least hidden (behind
make-easy apps) and closest to the OS. The box will be used as a
learning/development tool. Eventual
Hi there ...
It seems to me that modconf isn't compatible with the
2.4.0-testX modules. Is there a way to fix that?
--
with friendly regards
jens luedicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Support the Theory of Evolution;
400 Billion Amphibians can't be wrong!
Q: What is the difference betwe
On 17-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there ...
>
> It seems to me that modconf isn't compatible with the
> 2.4.0-testX modules. Is there a way to fix that?
How would I know I have a problem in this regard. I did have to upgrade
modutils to the Woody version. Other than that, I have not
"Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Looking for solutions to X locking hard.
>
>While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can
>only reset the computer.
Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't help? (I'm willing to believe it doesn't - just
checking.)
>I run Debian "Woody" however this
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:51:44PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
> "Kevin C. Smith" wrote:
> >
> > Looking for solutions to X locking hard.
> >
> > While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can only
> > reset
> > the computer. I occasionally happens when selecting a link. Mozil
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 17-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> It seems to me that modconf isn't compatible with the
>> 2.4.0-testX modules. Is there a way to fix that?
>
>How would I know I have a problem in this regard. I did have to upgrade
>modutils to the Woody version. Othe
> adduser can't distinguish group root from user root, its a bug.
Hmmm...
> i would recommend against using group root for this purpose, instead
> add a new group `wheel' and use that.
> for pam add this line to the top of your /etc/pam.d/su file:
>
> authrequisite pam_wheel.so gr
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:06:29PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> Yep, I have a current package on my disk but I don't have a printer to
> test with. So I am comparing the contents of the two packages a bit
> before uploading my package.
>
> I should get around to it in the next days.
Act
I now have 2.2 running on eveything but my desktop. I'm having some problems
with X. Are there any good clear instructions for getting X to run with Gnome
and E by default? Everything I have not found anything so far. Also by chance
does anyone have a example config file using a Viper 770 and a
Dear Sir,
This is the first time I am trying out Debian
and I am having alot of problem. I have tried all the other Linux distributions
except Debian and I am not very happy about them.
I don't have any problems at all installing all
the other Linux distributions except Debia
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Kent West wrote:
> Bob Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Good morning!
> >
> > I ordered a three CD set of debian cds and am preparing to install
> > debian. I have some specific questions:
> >
> > (1) how do i configure debian for dsl ?
there's really not much to it.
1. make sure
> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 17-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> It seems to me that modconf isn't compatible with the
> >> 2.4.0-testX modules. Is there a way to fix that?
> >
> >How would I know I have a problem in this regard. I did have to upgrade
> >modutils to the Woody
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Looking for solutions to X locking hard.
> >
> >While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can
> >only reset the computer.
>
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't help? (I'm willing
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Looking for solutions to X locking hard.
> >
> >While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can
> >only reset the computer.
>
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't help? (I'm willing
hi
I use Debian for my first time, i was an redhat user.
and my question is how can I make that gnome
starts automaticly when I start with startx?
And what windowmanager musst i use?
thanks for help
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How about modconf?
I have the following modconf installed:
modconf0.2.27
My modutils is not as recent as yours:
modutils 2.3.14-3
I am running the 2.4.0-test8 kernel.
--
Andrew
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote:
> hi
> I use Debian for my first time, i was an redhat user.
> and my question is how can I make that gnome
> starts automaticly when I start with startx?
> And what windowmanager musst i use?
>
> thanks for help
>
> --
> Sent through
It's all good, turns out my mke2fs is broken. Works fine with
a minix fs.
Thanks,
chris
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:21:48PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to create a filesystem in RAM. I've got the rd.o module, but
> > when I try to cr
Which is the correct SECTIONS line for apt-move to mirror
'potato-proposed-updates'. I've strange behavior of apt-move to add
'potato-proposed-updates' to SECTIONS. If you have working apt-move.conf
to mirror also potato-proposed-updates send it me if it possible.
Currently I have:
SECTIONS="main
looks like bad cds to me, i'd get new ones from somewhere(not sure where
to reccomend) see the debian homepage for who has them, or if you have a
CD-R you can make your own. it seems since debian does not make their
own cds(non commercial) quality can be questionable from vendor to
vendor. ive had
I'd like to setup my internet router for my local network
to act as a dns-cache and dns-forwarder. I've managed to get
bind to work that way. But I'd feel much happier if I could run
something smaller, less complicated and for my task more secure.
I suppose I could firewall external connections,
+ Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I don't have the potato version of sawfish - the last one I saw was
> still sawmill. In sawmill the important file which made the menu to
> be read was /usr/share/sawmill/site-init.jl (or maybe it was in a
> subdirectory of that called something like lisp or
Konstantin Scheglov wrote:
>
> Hello will,
>
> As I saw under your letters in conferences, you
> well understand esc-sequences. Do you know, what mean
> sequences "\E[?0c" and "\E[?1c" in the terminal "linux"?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Konstantin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT
would be helpful if you specified what kind of MB you have with what
kind of controller, and what brand/type of HD, on the linux-kernel
mailing list the IDE guy has cursed Western Digital drives for not
behaving in a sane manner when doing DMA transfers. and for causing
major problems when WD drive
I'm putting together a firewall system based on the Linux Router
Project (using the EigerStein version of Materhorn, i.e., version 2.2
kernel and network tools), but replacing the ipchains rules with a
configuration based on that found in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. The system
has 3 NICs one to the ou
I just upgraded to Debian Linux from Mandrake Linux. I have been running
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from a subdirectory of my home directory while using Mandrake,
but while going through the list of available packages with dselect I saw
that there was a setiathome package, so I figured why not have [EMAIL
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:58:58AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
-|looks like bad cds to me, i'd get new ones from somewhere(not sure where
-|to reccomend) see the debian homepage for who has them, or if you have a
-|CD-R you can make your own. it seems since debian does not make their
-|own cds(non co
You should have a look a osh:
$ apt-cache show osh
Package: osh
Priority: extra
Section: shells
Installed-Size: 67
Maintainer: Preston Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1.7-6
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libncurses5, base-files (>= 2.1.6)
Suggests: nvi
Architecture: i386
Size: 45946
MD5sum: b537
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 20:33:56 +0200, Swoop wrote:
> > I'm using rsync to make a mirror of Debian - for a long time it had worked
> > very well, but suddenly this error appears:
> >
> > Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> > Does anyone have a clue why this is h
Hello people,
I know this is not Debian-related in any way, so please forgive me for
posting here. My question is: is there a way to change a e-mail address in
a gnupg key? My previous ISP (sol.com.br) is gone now, so I am using a new
one, with a new e-mail address, and would like to display that
Hi!
Don't know if this has got anything to do with your problems, but on my
machine, everything runs fine. I've got a potato distro; kde 1.93 and qt
2.2.0beta2 are compiled from source, I've compiled qt with the
./configure-switches mentioned in the kdelibs package, file "compiling". The
only prob
Hello!
seems to me like he has KDE??! but I have never created any drive icon on my
desktop
Kind Regards,
Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message -
From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Shel Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Debian"
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 8:36 AM
Subject: R
2 most likely causes from person experience. Either you have run out of
processes. (ulimit -a will show you how many you have available) or you
have run out of rlogin connections on the remote machine edit the
relevant line in the inetd.conf to read nowait.100 rather than nowait
Other biggest chanc
Hi Ray,
I've got an optical intellimouse and still haven't figured out how to
get the middle button or wheel going. However, the package imwheel was
recommended just haven't work through that yet. Also, the line
ZAxisMapping 4 5
to the Pointer section. And don't select Emulate3Button.
I've
After building the 2.2.17 kernel several times using xconfig, I have
come to the conclusion that it is incomplete or I'm either half-blind
or losing it.
I cannot find any reference to setting up ppp.
It is certainly there in menuconfig.
Am I missing something, or is there really a bug in it?
Ca
Hello!
Looks like your linux system reconfigures the ethernet card and so WIN
cannot find it at the original resources, I think.
An easy solution: You could switch the 3c509 to non-pnp mode using the 3com
utilities, assigning free resources to it and then do a hardware recogition
(don't konw exac
i did a fresh format/partition/install of potato from iso/cd install;
after poking around a bit* i found that mysql needed zlib1g-dev
(zlib.h i think) and even though
apt-get check
reported all was lovely, i had to manually
apt-get install zlib1g-dev
anyhow.
is it a bug? is it me?*
Jeff Green wrote:
>
> 2 most likely causes from person experience. Either you have run out of
> processes. (ulimit -a will show you how many you have available) or you
> have run out of rlogin connections on the remote machine edit the
> relevant line in the inetd.conf to read nowait.100 rather th
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:18:46AM -0400, Mike Werner wrote:
> If you want to have gpg/mutt to *not* verify messages, you can shut it off
> by putting the line:
>
> set pgp_verify_sig = no
holy cow, sahib, that was The Answer i sought.
come next year -- or next week -- when i look back on m
Can someone please tell me how to use the Debian packaging tools to
scan a system for changed files based on the md5sums contained in the
.debs?
I'm not on the list; please CC: me privately.
Thanks,
--
Michael S. Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, AKA Otterley
Lead Hacketeer, Dynamine Consu
Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home
as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and
Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was
using I tried
apt-get install licq
> Package licq is at the latest version
I've disabled wakeup-on-LAN in my BIOS, but my machine wakes up on
incoming connections, unless I shut down networking
(/etc/init.d/networking stop). Is this normal?
* If not, what can I do about it? I don't think the apm driver is
ignoring all my BIOS settings, for example
Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home
as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and
Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was
using I tried
apt-get install licq
> Package licq is at the latest version
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, C. Falconer wrote:
> Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home
> as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and
> Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was
> using I tried
>
> apt-get i
> Hello people,
Hi Carlos,
The question sounds quiet familiar to me; I think you asked that one a couple
of days before and got some answers already, but anyway ...
1) Why don't you generate a new key ("gpg --gen-key")?
2) You could add an
uid to your key ("gpg --edit-key " and then with "add
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 08:51:39 +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> Sorry Group, this must be very FAQ.
> I would like some advice to which Netscape to get for my 2.2 Helix-gnome
> laptop. If I check the stable files, I find numerous installers with
> different numbers. I am a bit lost. Any sugge
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Don't know if this has got anything to do with your problems, but on my
> machine, everything runs fine. I've got a potato distro; kde 1.93 and qt
> 2.2.0beta2 are compiled from source, I've compiled qt with the
> ./configure-switches mentio
Cam Ellison wrote:
>
> After building the 2.2.17 kernel several times using xconfig, I have
> come to the conclusion that it is incomplete or I'm either half-blind
> or losing it.
last i heard xconfig was considered broken and should be avoided(read it
on the kernel mailing list a long time ago)
"C. Falconer" wrote:
>
> Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home
> as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and
> Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was
> using I tried
>
> apt-get install licq
> > Pac
I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it anywhere?
What is so good about it and where can I get it?
thanks
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Andrew
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it anywhere?
> What is so good about it and where can I get it?
http://www.helixcode.com/
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:26:53PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it
> anywhere?
> What is so good about it and where can I get it?
see http://www.helixcode.com.
Helix Code packages GNOME for many distributions (also for Debian
Potato/Woody).
"Cam Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After building the 2.2.17 kernel several times using xconfig, I have
> come to the conclusion that it is incomplete or I'm either half-blind
> or losing it.
>
> I cannot find any reference to setting up ppp.
It's in Network Device Support.
Barry Samuel
The kernel that comes with Debian potato is configured
with APM=y. Because i want my desktop computer to
power down automatically with the halt command, it was just
a matter of adding: append="apm=on" to my lilo.conf
Then if your m.b. supports APM it powers down. Just a
convenient
Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would also think it would be cool to have
> the kernel source package ship with the 'debian official config' saved
> off in an external configuration file so that I could rebuild
> *everything* that ships in the kernel ima
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, I install the gnome-help package, which in turn installs the
> gnome-help-data package, both from helixcode. However, when I try to do
> anything with the help browser, it tells me that I'm missing things like the
> gnome-users-manual.
>
> I removed *portmap from /etc/rc2.d and I am still having sunrpc start up
> on boot. I want to remove sunrpc from my system, but am having
> trouble. Can anyone explain how sunrpc starts and how to stop it from
> starting?
Do you have compiled NFS into your kernel , maybe as a module? 'grep
N
I'd like to be able to press the F2 key when in X-windows xterm instead of
entering
" | more " (par exemple). What is the easiest way of achieving this? I've
tried various
things like editing /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm to no avail.
Any help much appreciated. Ivan
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| Eppur
Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
>
> This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and
> accounting. It's
> built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people out this
> should be
<>
ah, thought of that too. The problem with this is, I would have to
create ppp over e
How can I disable the mouse interrupt for APM so that moving the mouse
does not resume the machine? (The mouse is on my desk, there are other
things on my desk, some of these things move occasionally, etc.)
I tried disabling IRQ4 in the apm section of the bios setup, which I
*think* is my mouse
I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I
installed all sorts of things I did not want or need, like games and gdm.
gdm is bad. I saw it and disabled the startup script for it. I believe that
if I uninstall task-helix-gnome, that will render my system useless, so I
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:39:42PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I
> installed all sorts of things I did not want or need, like games and gdm.
> gdm is bad. I saw it and disabled the startup script for it. I believe that
> if I uni
This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the games
and stuff I don't use. I will have to suggest this to the developers.
--
Andrew
On 17-Sep-2000 Pollywog wrote:
> I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I
> installed all sorts of things I
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