Re: Newbee Qs on Gnome

2000-10-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:23:55AM +0200, Tor Kjemo wrote: > Hello Debian-users. > > Somehow I got through the installation of debian, and I now got it > running on my pc. Now I would like to configure it to use Gnome and gdm > after booting. Is there anyone out there who can help me? Well, th

Re: wvdial / kppp

2000-10-08 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:57:36PM -0400, thus spake Christopher W. Aiken: > Has anybody been able to get connected to WorldShare > using wvdial? It can be done with kppp but I would > prefer to use wvdial. Have you tried? What happened? What error messages did you get? Jave you configured wvdi

Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2

2000-10-08 Thread Nate Amsden
Monte Milanuk wrote: > > Hello all, > > I've recently started using Debian 2.2, and I'm having a few weird mail > issues popping up. If anyone could provide some assistance, or nudge me > in the direction of some specific spot in the documentation, I'd > appreciate it greatly. > > 1) Added the

ppp-configuration

2000-10-08 Thread Tor Kjemo
I try to configure my debian-installation for ppp without any sucsess. In the installation-documentation it says: Be sure you have the following packages installed: ppp ppp-pam wvdial I can find ppp-pam anywhere. Is the docs wrong? Can`t find any info on the Debian-homepage either. Anyone go

Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2

2000-10-08 Thread Rino Mardo
> > 2) I have exim installed currently. I tried sendmail, as my previous > setup had been sendmail + install-sendmail (a perl setup script), which > had been pretty painless, and had gotten everything delivered w/ the > right addresses and whatnot, plus setup fetchmail easily. I tried doing > th

Re: ppp-configuration

2000-10-08 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 08:39:22AM +0200, thus spake Tor Kjemo: > I try to configure my debian-installation for ppp without any sucsess. > In the installation-documentation it says: > > Be sure you have the following packages installed: > ppp > ppp-pam > wvdial > > I can find ppp-pam anywhere

Re: ppp-configuration

2000-10-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 08:39:22AM +0200, Tor Kjemo wrote: > I try to configure my debian-installation for ppp without any sucsess. > In the installation-documentation it says: > > Be sure you have the following packages installed: > ppp > ppp-pam > wvdial > > I can find ppp-pam anywhere. Is

Highendian X-Terminal and lowendian xfstt

2000-10-08 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi debian! I had problems to see truetype fonts on my sparcLX, which I use as a X-Terminal. The fontserver is xfstt and runs on my Intel-PC. Someone gave me the hint that sun is bigendian and intel lowendian so that xfstt will never work. Will xfs-xtt do the job? Ciao! juh -- www.juergen-rüttge

Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2

2000-10-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:59:46AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > > 2) I have exim installed currently. I tried sendmail, as my previous > > setup had been sendmail + install-sendmail (a perl setup script), which > > had been pretty painless, and had gotten everything delivered w/ the > > right a

Re: frustration with debian installation

2000-10-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Oct 2000, Bob Edwards wrote: > Greetings from a very frustrated "newbie." After numerous attempts, I > finally got the base system and packages installed, but I now have what > seems like the overwhelming task of configuring everything so I can > actually use the new system I saved for months

Re: ppp-configuration

2000-10-08 Thread Tor Kjemo
Den Sun, 08 Oct 2000 skrev du: > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 08:39:22AM +0200, thus spake Tor Kjemo: > > I try to configure my debian-installation for ppp without any sucsess. > > In the installation-documentation it says: > > > > Be sure you have the following packages installed: > > ppp > > pp

Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet

2000-10-08 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Does anybody know the reason why Debian mirror @ mirror.aarnet.edu.au has been stop mirroring woody main since late last month? BTW, where is the nearest mirror, in Australia? Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan

Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2

2000-10-08 Thread Rino Mardo
> > hmm, fetchmail uses ETRN and not SMTP (port 25). debian 2.2 with exim works > > fine out of the box > > so why compound the problem? what is it your trying to accomplish? > > Huh? > > > fetchmail: forwarding to localhost > fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL > FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2891 > fetchmai

Reboot using Jazz++ 4.1.5 Beta

2000-10-08 Thread Bernhard Josef Rieder
Hi all, Yesterday I downloaded Jazz++ 4.1.5 Beta from http://www.jazzware.com/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/jazzware/ After installing it to /usr/local/jazz (default) and running it, it took about 3 seconds and the system rebooted. This is reproducible. Every time I run jazz a rebot follows in 3 seconds. I hav

Login refused

2000-10-08 Thread Johann Spies
Fortunately I did not do a dist-upgrade with my 2.2 disks right away. I first did a new install on another partition. apt dist-upgrade resulted in my old system being unusable. I can use the data of the old installation from the new installation by mounting the old partition, but my old system wo

Re: Xcdroast, Xdm, Afterstep

2000-10-08 Thread Igor Mozetic
> Xcdroast: > There seems to be a problem in my setup that I can't figure out. My > Cdwriter is the second in the second controller, the reader is Atapi > 36-x (first in second controller). > I start it, but it seems unable to read the Cd to be copied sitting in. > Scsi support is present in the ke

Re: apt-cdrom add trouble

2000-10-08 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Well, I have found before that ide-scsi and scsi generic support are not enough. I tried that again in this installation and had to compile a kernel image with scsi alone, without ide-scsi mentioned (procedure which by the way is already mentioned in the recommendations found in the cdrecord pa

Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2

2000-10-08 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 01:29:38PM +0400, thus spake Rino Mardo: > > > hmm, fetchmail uses ETRN and not SMTP (port 25). debian 2.2 with exim > works > > > fine out of the box > > > so why compound the problem? what is it your trying to accomplish? > > yes by default SMTP uses port 25. um, what'

Re: ppp-configuration

2000-10-08 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:58:19AM +0200, thus spake Tor Kjemo: > > Thanks for your engagement Glyn. > > I think I did something wrong under the "config your network" part of > the installation. Saw another letter on the list ( I think you are the writer) > about wvdialkppp. It says something ab

three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)

2000-10-08 Thread John McBride
Hello, Love this distro, just rearranged my hard drive and rebuilt a buncha stuff. Ideas or comments on these appreciated. 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partiti

Re: Login refused

2000-10-08 Thread Rino Mardo
Original Message - From: "Johann Spies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 1:32 PM Subject: Login refused > Fortunately I did not do a dist-upgrade with my 2.2 disks right away. > I first did a new install on another partition. apt dist-upgrade > resulted in my old

Re: frustration with debian installation

2000-10-08 Thread Kent West
> On 07 Oct 2000, Bob Edwards wrote: > > Greetings from a very frustrated "newbie." After numerous attempts, I > > finally got the base system and packages installed, but I now have what > > seems like the overwhelming task of configuring everything so I can > > actually use the new system I saved

Re: frustration with debian installation

2000-10-08 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > > > On 07 Oct 2000, Bob Edwards wrote: > > > (3) how do I configure gnome? Eric Miller gave this answer just a few messages down, to Tor Kjemo: > Well, that's easy: $ apt-get install task-gnome-desktop gdm > > Just select GNOME from the GDM login window (will be default an

Re: three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)

2000-10-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 05:02:57AM -0700, John McBride wrote: > > 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition > to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the > former (and still) root partition, which passes, but the second time it > runs fsck (

Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet

2000-10-08 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Chanop Silpa-Anan, > Does anybody know the reason why Debian mirror @ mirror.aarnet.edu.au > has been stop mirroring woody main since late last month? I haven't been tracking woody, but I have been using that site for it's helix gnome mirror, which as of yesterday seemed up to date. > BTW

netscape crashes

2000-10-08 Thread FIOL BONNIN Antonio
Hello, I am using debian woody for a long time now, and lately (last month or so), I observed that netscape crashes more frequently than usual. The most fascinating thing is that now, most of the times it gets frozen, when I kill the window (I'm uning WindowMaker, and choose the Kill option on th

Re: Need advice on Postscript/PCL printer

2000-10-08 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Hello, thanks to you too for writing. I didn't reply earlier because I've taken the time to look in my bzipped archive and in the debian archives... I am sure that on debian-laptop a message had been posted with the good way to print to a LaserJet... (At the time I used/had to connect with Windoze

Re: apt-get problem-solved

2000-10-08 Thread Dale Morris
I think I may have solved the problem.. at least everything is upgrading properly now. Apparently I had commented out some src files in my /etc/apt/sources.conf file and this wouldn't allow certain package dependencies to me be met. Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've screwed around wi

Re: netscape crashes

2000-10-08 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, FIOL BONNIN Antonio wrote: > The most fascinating thing is that now, most of the times it gets frozen, > when I kill the window (I'm uning WindowMaker, and choose the Kill option > on the window's menu), XF86_SVGA gets also killed. > > In fact, I have observed that XF86_SVGA o

Re: balsa mozilla ...

2000-10-08 Thread G.ROBIN
-- > De : Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A : G.ROBIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Objet : Re: balsa mozilla ... > Date : vendredi 6 octobre 2000 23:41 > > > Pour le /dev/dsp, c'est ta carte son qui n'est pas configurée. Je croyais que cela se faisait automatiquement lors de l'installati

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-08 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:47:46PM -0400, mike wrote: > There is another way to get Debian potato up and running > quickly with a nice GUI install. > Just d/l the free 'hail' distro from stormix.com or get their > cd and you'll be apt-get'ting in about a half-hour. You can then I was

getting printing working

2000-10-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, printing worked under RedHat, and I'm trying to configure it under Debian. I used magicfilter, but I don't think it's a filter problem yet since the daemon isn't responding. I can print a lob with lpr, and lpq shows the job in the queue, but that the printer isn't responding. lpd is ru

wvdial or ppp

2000-10-08 Thread Marc Maute
hi, I must ask again. OK step by step: 1.I installed Debian. 2.I configurate wvdial with my old redhat etc/wvdial.conf 3. I start wvdial 4. It connected, (on redhat erverything works well) On Debian nothing happend. It immediately told me Unknown Host. 5. So I asked you, what I have to do. 6. You

easy apt-get

2000-10-08 Thread Marc Maute
hi, A simple question: I have a deb file on my system how can I install it? Isnt it possible to install this pack. whitout to change etc/apt/aptlist ? And how must I do it? -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: ppp-configuration

2000-10-08 Thread Tor Kjemo
Den Sun, 08 Oct 2000 skrev Glyn Millington: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:58:19AM +0200, thus spake Tor Kjemo: > > > > Thanks for your engagement Glyn. > > > > I think I did something wrong under the "config your network" part of > > the installation. Saw another letter on the list ( I think you a

Re: easy apt-get

2000-10-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Marc Maute wrote: > hi, > A simple question: > I have a deb file on my system how > can I install it? > Isnt it possible to install this pack. > whitout to change etc/apt/aptlist ? > And how must I do it? Just use dpkg: dpkg -i your-file.deb ...RickM...

Re: Newbee Qs on Gnome

2000-10-08 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Eric G . Miller" writes: > > Somehow I got through the installation of debian, and I now got it > > running on my pc. Now I would like to configure it to use Gnome and gdm > > after booting. Is there anyone out there who can help me? > > Well, that's easy: $ apt-get install task-gnome-deskto

Re: easy apt-get

2000-10-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:41:47PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote: > I have a deb file on my system how > can I install it? > Isnt it possible to install this pack. > whitout to change etc/apt/aptlist ? > And how must I do it? "dpkg -i " No need to do anything with apt. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL

Re: three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)

2000-10-08 Thread C. Falconer
At 05:02 AM 10/8/00 -0700, you wrote: 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partition, which passes, but the second time it runs fsck (shortly thereafter) it tries to r

OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-08 Thread Walter Tautz
i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps pine can do this which is what I use now. -walter

New isapnptools doesn't like my old conf

2000-10-08 Thread Funn Dipp
Hi, Just did an apt-get upgrade and got version 1.23 of isapnptools. Now, if I do `isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf`, I get the following error: dip:~# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf Don't know what to do with A20)) on or around line 349 /etc/isapnp.conf:349 -- Fatal - Error occurred parsing config file --- no

Re: netscape crashes

2000-10-08 Thread kmself
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:11:46AM -0500, Damian Menscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, FIOL BONNIN Antonio wrote: > > > The most fascinating thing is that now, most of the times it gets frozen, > > when I kill the window (I'm uning WindowMaker, and choose the Kill option > > o

Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-08 Thread kmself
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 03:01:10PM -0400, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without > having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps > pine can do this which is what I use now. mutt -- Karsten M. Self htt

Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-08 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Walter Tautz wrote: > i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without > having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps > pine can do this which is what I use now. Yes, just have Pine sort the messages by Ordered Subject. Dwight -- Dwight

Speaking of isapnp...

2000-10-08 Thread Nick Cook
I'm trying to use isapnp in a last ditch effort to get Potato to recognize my SCSI card (PnP ISA). isapnpdump sees it, and writes the config file. However, the rather sketchy docs recommend putting the isapnp command early in the boot-up process. Call me chicken, but I don't wanna just mess aroun

Encrypt a file

2000-10-08 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files with a password ? Thanks Francois

Re: wvdial or ppp

2000-10-08 Thread Francois Fayard
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote: > hi, > I must ask again. > OK step by step: > 1.I installed Debian. > 2.I configurate wvdial > with my old redhat etc/wvdial.conf > 3. I start wvdial > 4. It connected, (on redhat erverything works well) > On Debian nothing happend. It i

Re: apt-get problem

2000-10-08 Thread Shaul Karl
> > What is the content of /var/lib/dpkg? What is the output of dpkg -L eterm? > > Perhaps you should purge it and then install it again? > /var/lib/dpkg has the following: > (this doesn't format well when it's pasted) > alternatives diversions-old status > status.yesterday.3.gz > available

Re: Encrypt a file

2000-10-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:29:40PM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files with a password ? gpg or pgp. -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

Re: wvdial or ppp

2000-10-08 Thread John Hasler
Francois Fayard writes: > Don't forget to subscribe the user for dialout and dip groups. The user need not be in the dialout group and pppconfig can put him in the dip group. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet

2000-10-08 Thread Brian May
> "Damon" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Damon> When it's working mirror.aarnet.edu.au is hard to go past, Damon> but if it aint doing it for you, ftp.monash.edu.au Damon> (accessable by http) also mirrors debian. I presume it has Damon> woody, it certainly has pot

Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
Hi, My mouse has recently developed an extreme reluctance to move the mouse pointer along the up/down axis; I'm assuming some sensor inside is dirty or something, but the cleaning I can do doesn't seem to make any difference. At some point I'll probably just get a new mouse, but in the meantime:

Re: Encrypt a file

2000-10-08 Thread Brian May
> "Francois" == Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francois> Hi, Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files Francois> with a password ? You seem to be asking specifically for symmetric encryption here (you use the same key to encrypt and decrypt), as opposed to asymmetr

Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet

2000-10-08 Thread Andrew J Cosgriff
Brian May wrote : > > "Damon" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Damon> When it's working mirror.aarnet.edu.au is hard to go > Damon> past, but if it aint doing it for you, ftp.monash.edu.au > Damon> (accessable by http) also mirrors debian. I presume it > Damon>

Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet

2000-10-08 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Andrew J Cosgriff say > Of course, the advantage of mirror.aarnet being broken all last week > means we missed the whole woody/glibc saga :) > It's only debian (debian-US) that has been stop-working. debian-nonUS has been fine the last two weeks. I got openssl and heimda

Graphical FTP client

2000-10-08 Thread Chris Mason
I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The A

Off Topic: Mesa, opengl, glide, argh what is this jibberish!

2000-10-08 Thread William Jensen
I'll confess right from the start I'm ignorant about this topic. Some of the words I read about are: OpenGL Direct3d Mesa Glide Direct3d I pretty much get...it's MS's 3d implementation. Can someone compare and contrast what OpenGL, Mesa and Glide mean? This is in specific regards to Linux and

Re: Graphical FTP client

2000-10-08 Thread William Jensen
Chris, Try gftp. The homepage is: http://gftp.seul.org/ The deb package is: gftp Regards, Bill On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:19:21PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program > is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. > > Chris

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:43:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Hi, > > My mouse has recently developed an extreme reluctance to move the mouse > pointer along the up/down axis; I'm assuming some sensor inside is dirty > or something, but the cleaning I can do doesn't seem to make any > difference

Re: Graphical FTP client

2000-10-08 Thread John Griffiths
At 06:19 PM 10/8/2000 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: >I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program >is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. Assuming you have GTK installed i don't think you can go past gftp its simple, full featured and works. Regs John

Re: Graphical FTP client

2000-10-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
gFTP works well. I also like to have wget and ncftp around (which are not windowish). -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

OT: Apache www & no www

2000-10-08 Thread William Jensen
I have a forwarder setup with my domain to go from www.mydomain to mydomain so anyone using http://www.mydomain.com will just get routed to mydomain.com. I tried it out at work today to find it isn't working, but going straight to mydomain.com does. When I tail -f /var/log/apache/access.log I see

[jensenb@charter.net: OT: Apache www & no www]

2000-10-08 Thread William Jensen
As a followup, it's not that going to www.mydomain.com doesn't work, it just shows up completly blank. If it matters I'm running potato and version 1.3.9. Bill - Forwarded message from William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:54:29 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debia

Re: Encrypt a file

2000-10-08 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PGP could encrypt with both methods (not sure if this is still the > case), however as far as I can tell, GnuPG can only encrypt with > asymmetric keys (I might be mistaken). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --help | grep symm -c, --symmetric encry

Re: Encrypt a file

2000-10-08 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Brian May wrote: > > "Francois" == Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Francois> Hi, Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files > Francois> with a password ? > > You seem to be asking specifically for symmetric encryption here (you > use the same

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > My mouse has recently developed an extreme reluctance to move the mouse > pointer along the up/down axis; I'm assuming some sensor inside is dirty > or something, but the cleaning I can do doesn't seem to make any > difference. At some point I'll probably j

Re: Encrypt a file

2000-10-08 Thread Brian May
> "Samuli" == Samuli Suonpaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Samuli> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> PGP could encrypt with both methods (not sure if this is still >> the case), however as far as I can tell, GnuPG can only encrypt >> with asymmetric keys (I might be mistak

Samuli Suonpaa

2000-10-08 Thread Brian May
FYI: Your E-Mail setup is broken: [609] [snoopy:bam] ~/xml-cocoon >mx kapria.com kapria.com MX 10 mail.megabaud.fi kapria.com MX 40 smtp3.kolumbus.fi kapria.com MX 0 hotel.megabaud.fi but mail.megabaud.fi wont relay messages. Here is the error

strange looking fonts.

2000-10-08 Thread Russell Davies
Hi, I'm a long time unix user -- I've just recently installed debian on my home system, basically my problem boils down to fonts not looking "right" in X, where right is defined as to what I usually expect with my combination of software. I use twm and X eve

Serial console install trouble

2000-10-08 Thread ikamps
I want to do a serial console installation on a i386 computer that doesn't have a monitor or a keyboard. But because of some reason it doesn't work instead of functioning like noted in the installation instructions: "If you are booting with a serial console, generally the kernel will autodetect thi

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: >On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:43:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> Does anybody know if I can install a "mouse" driver that really takes >> its input from hotkeys on the keyboard? That is, a keyboard-driven >> mouse. I've checked my window manager documentation, just in cas

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote: >> My mouse has recently developed an extreme reluctance to move the mouse >> pointer along the up/down axis; I'm assuming some sensor inside is dirty >> or something, but the cleaning I can do doesn't seem to make

Re: strange looking fonts.

2000-10-08 Thread Seth Arnold
Russell, the debian-x mail list (in recent times anyway) is more intended for developers and ginuea pigs of XF86 4.0. debian-users is more appropriate. What I would imagine to fix your problem is to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. I bet the 100dpi fonts are listed before the 75 dpi fonts. If s

pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
1) How do I set up "pon" to issue a "ATM0" to shutoff my modem speakers. 2) Can "pon" be set up to display a "connect" message for my wife and kids to see? The enter a "pon" command and expect to "surf" or read email before the connection is made. -- ---

Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-08 Thread Mike
Walter Tautz wrote: > i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without > having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps > pine can do this which is what I use now. I don't know if pine can do this - I used to use pine, and often wished for just that feature. I

Re: mounting cd-rw

2000-10-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
If you are using ide-scsi emulation, do not access cd-rom drive with ordinaery ide-cdrom driver. cdrecord is accessing ide-cdrom drive. add lilo.conf (if cd-rw is hdc) append="hdc=ide-scsi" softlink /dev/scd0 -> /dev/cdrom edit fstab (No more /dev/cdrw) /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 d

Re: Graphical FTP client

2000-10-08 Thread John Foster
Chris Mason wrote: > > I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program > is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. I think the most similar is WXftp. There are several types to choose from. I prefer the Motif statical

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Francois Fayard
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:06:02PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > 1) How do I set up "pon" to issue a "ATM0" to shutoff >my modem speakers. > Edit /etc/chatscript/provider and replace ATZ by ATM0 Francois

Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-08 Thread David Teague
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Mike wrote: > Walter Tautz wrote: > > i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without > > having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps > > pine can do this which is what I use now. > I don't know if pine can do this - I used to use pine

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Francois Fayard
> 2) Can "pon" be set up to display a "connect" message >for my wife and kids to see? The enter a "pon" command >and expect to "surf" or read email before the connection >is made. I just want to ask for something close to what is asked here. I would be pleased to have a script like po

Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Mike wrote: > I'm currently using mutt, which does do threading. I'd say mutt is > at least worth taking a look at. Mutt is imho the king of threading right now, especially since it will toggle _very_ rapidly between subject threading and several other sorts, eg. From:, D

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread John Hasler
Christopher W. Aiken writes: > How do I set up "pon" to issue a "ATM0" to shutoff > my modem speakers. Run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', go to 'Modeminit', and change the initialization string to whatever you want. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:28:48AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:06:02PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > 1) How do I set up "pon" to issue a "ATM0" to shutoff > >my modem speakers. > > > > Edit /etc/chatscript/provider and replace ATZ by ATM0 I have: '' AT

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Francois Fayard
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:35:21AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > > 2) Can "pon" be set up to display a "connect" message > >for my wife and kids to see? The enter a "pon" command > >and expect to "surf" or read email before the connection > >is made. > > I just want to ask for somet

buying new monitor

2000-10-08 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
I was going to buy a KDS vs-190 monitor, and was wondering if anyone had used this monitor with X before, might have any thoughts suggestions? I am running Debian 2.1 any input would be appreciated. Thanks Ken

Re: pon questions

2000-10-08 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:35:21AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > > 2) Can "pon" be set up to display a "connect" message > >for my wife and kids to see? The enter a "pon" command > >and expect to "surf" or read email before the connection > >is made. > > I just want to ask for somet

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:25:28AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > In the longer term I'd like to keep my need to move from the keyboard to > the mouse as low as possible, to slow the onset of things like RSI. I > was wondering if any disabled Linux users had come up with anything > (remembering that

Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2

2000-10-08 Thread Monte Milanuk
Glyn Millington wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 01:29:38PM +0400, thus spake Rino Mardo: > > > > hmm, fetchmail uses ETRN and not SMTP (port 25). debian 2.2 with exim > > works > > > > fine out of the box > > > > so why compound the problem? what is it your trying to accomplish? > > > > yes by

Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: wt> i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without wt> having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps wt> pine can do this which is what I use now. Use Emacs Gnus, and read this list exactly as if it were a U

Installation - Driver Floppy Error

2000-10-08 Thread Ken M. Mevand
hi list, i tried installing Debian from a disk i got in a book "Installing Debian GNU/Linux". when i got the "Installing Kernel and System Base", it complaints failed installing the driver floppy. is this because the disk is bad, or something else? can i skip this step? my system is a Cyr

is there a more recent sendmail than 8.9.3 ?

2000-10-08 Thread John Covici
I notice that the sendmail archive is 8.9.3 -- is there a more recent oneor do I need to do the manual thing? If there were a 11.0, that would be nice. Thanks much. -- John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]