XFree86 4.0.1 and Voodoo3 -- how do I test?

2000-11-05 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Okay, I have the latest 2.4.0 test kernel compiled with DRI and the 3dfx driver, I have XFree86 4.0.1 running fine Now how do I even find out if I have 3D hardware acceleration working? Is there any simple test? None of my games currently work, but I know Myth 2 and Quake 2 need the older gli

tkdvi ? problem

2000-11-05 Thread Tino Ionescu
Hi gentlemens ! My question is regarding the a dvi-viewer - tkdvi - what happends is after installation via dselect, happends ... nothing , that is no tkdvi appears. Can anybody advise please ? PS I checked xgdvi but it's at "unstable" and require to upgrade libc6 and I would like to stay away

Re: Q: Can E menu use console commands?

2000-11-05 Thread Greg Gilbert
I don't know if it can do precisly what you want, but you can send commands to enlightenment using eesh. If you want to make a menu item a command like import -root, then just add it to your ~/.enlightenment/user_apps.menu, or whichever menu you want to use. Greg * Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PR

sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Damien
hello fellow debian users; i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of months. it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy hdd & powersupply fan. after reading another posting by someone else on how to quieten down a computer, i finally g

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 06:11:36PM +1100, Damien wrote: > i remember reading somewhere that the sticky bit could be used to instruct > certain unixs to permanently cache a program. is this the case with linux? if > not, can anyone offer any alternative solutions? No, nor has it been supported in a

To print to hpdeskjet 840C

2000-11-05 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
I want to print to a hp deskjet color printer... You know which filter I must to use? TIA Rogelio

Re: OFFTOPIC weird URL's

2000-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Bernstein wrote: > croak> What exactly are these spammers doing? Did they convert a > croak> dotted-quad address into a decimal number? > > I can tell you an easier way to decipher them, but I too would like to > know how they are contructed, i.e what's the algorithm. a.b.c.d n = d

Re: Java 2 Runtime Environment

2000-11-05 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Shao Zhang, > Put this in your sources.list: > > deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian woody non-free > > You can replace the first part url with any mirros listed on > blackdown.org Minor correction: you *have* to replace the first part of the URL if you aren't in Australi

Re: SIS 900 NIC

2000-11-05 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
And what is exactly your problem? In the ifconfig step? Art Edwards wrote: I'm trying (very patiently) to do a network install using a system with an embedded SIS 900. I have tried to install the sis900.0 module without success. This is particularly frustrating because the card was recognized a

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-05 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Shao, Quoth Shao Zhang, > Could you let us know how you live on both emacs and vim? Do you have to > use the vi mode in emacs when using emacs? > > I tried out emacs before and cannot use it at all without the vi mode. > Eg. C-d in vim scrolls page down but deletes lines in emacs... Umm... B

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Damien wrote: > i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple > of months. it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 > with a very noisy hdd & powersupply fan. > > after reading another posting by someone else on how to quieten down > a co

SB Live! (Xgamer) with Debian Woody

2000-11-05 Thread Jamu Kakar
Hello, After managing to get my XFree86 4.0.1 running last night (which seemed an achievement) I set upon setting up an SB Live! (Xgamer)... I downloaded the drivers from opensource.creative.com and compiled them with few warnings. I then did a 'make install' and got the following messages: mkdi

Re: SIS 900 NIC

2000-11-05 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
The problem is during the install. After I install the Kernel and during the configuration of device drivers, when I try to install the sis9000 driver I get the usual error resonses insmod sis900 failed Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq. NM 87108 (505) 256-0834 On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Rog

Re: Q: Can E menu use console commands?

2000-11-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for getting back to me. I tried passing it through eesh, should have mentioned it... > I don't know if it can do precisly what you want, but you can send Well, instead of the standard: "XClock" NULL exec "xclock" I'd like: "Foo" NULL exec "-import -screen (or root) root /tmp/Scrensh

Re: To print to hpdeskjet 840C

2000-11-05 Thread Vee-Eye
Vi scribis: > I want to print to a hp deskjet color printer... > You know which filter I must to use? > ¿Que tal? Your choice depends on what you want to print: ( from http://www.linuxprinting.org ) mn magazine c't - Magazin fuer Computertechnik (21/2000) recommends for

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-05 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thinks that: > In all reviews that I've studied, the NVIDIA cards seem to be > the winners of performance, but the fact that they don't have > a receptive attitude towards the community means that they > don't want people like me

Re: ISP Configuration help, please.

2000-11-05 Thread Kent West
John Hasler wrote: soluzar75 writes: My ISP is LineONE http://www.lineone.net, and I have a generic CompUSA-type external modem. I just need to know how to write proper connection scripts (I think...). Run pppconfig as root and fill in the blanks. Start your connection with pon, monitor it

Re: tkdvi ? problem

2000-11-05 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi gentlemens ! > > My question is regarding the a dvi-viewer - tkdvi - what happends is > after installation via dselect, happends ... nothing , that is no tkdvi > appears. Can anybody advise please ? > What do you mean? Are you trying to issue tkdvi & at an xterm prompt and nothi

Re: Making the computer less noisy

2000-11-05 Thread Andre Berger
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jean-Michel Kelbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i am wondering if there is a way to make the computer less noisy at some > > moment (the NIGHT). What I mean is that the CPU fan does a lot of noise, > > and the Hd too. Is there a porgram to make the

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > have you tried konqueror? it's really a good browser, not only a file > manager. I use it and I enjoy it: it rarely crashes, is faster to load > than > netscape and mozilla (I uninstalled them both!) and is quite smart. > I have had a look at it when I tried

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
Kristian Rink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > H, my $0.02 is that I am running (Debian) GNU/Linux for 99.95% > because of the licensing and distribution policies and ethics, so > Opera as another closed-source commercial application is not an option > to me... I can understand that, however I

New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Hi, I just upgraded all the X packages to 4+ versions in unstable, and now my X server won't run. It dies with the error message *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** Fatal server error: no screens found It was working yesterday and the only thing I changed was installing the n

Re: SB Live! (Xgamer) with Debian Woody

2000-11-05 Thread m_g_m
Sorry, but isn't the SB-Live already included into the 2.2.17-kernel? why not compiling a new one then? greetings, Michael >Hello, > > After managing to get my XFree86 4.0.1 running last night (which > seemed an achievement) I set upon setting up an SB Live! (Xgamer)... I > downloaded the driver

aside: perl's unpack()

2000-11-05 Thread Damien
> > I can tell you an easier way to decipher them, but I too would like to > > know how they are contructed, i.e what's the algorithm. > > a.b.c.d > > n = d + c * 256 + b * 256 ^ 2 + a * 256 ^ 3 after reading the previous mail, this is what i was thinking. i went to test it in perl afterwards, b

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Damien
> > Under DOS there was the possibility of treating some of your RAM like a > disk (hence the name ramdisk). Not sure if Linux can do this, but if > so, then just copy the binary to a ramdisk and run it from there. > thanks for the tip. that looks like the best plan of action. cheers. -- Da

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
Michael Abraham Shulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded all the X packages to 4+ versions in unstable, and now > my X server won't run. It dies with the error message > > *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > I

Re: installing without a cd-rom

2000-11-05 Thread wulfie
If the other pcs are networked simply mount the cd on one and use an ftp or nfs link. == Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group www.spirelug.org.uk == On Sat, 4 Nov

Re: SIS 900 NIC

2000-11-05 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:15:14PM -0700, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > The problem is during the install. After I install the Kernel and during > the configuration of device drivers, when I try to install the sis9000 > driver I get the usual error resonses > > insmod sis900 failed No more error mess

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 09:32:03AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > have you tried konqueror? it's really a good browser, not only a file > > manager. I use it and I enjoy it: it rarely crashes, is faster to load > > than > > netscape and mozilla (I uninst

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:18:55PM +0100, Kristian Rink wrote: > Obviously Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thinks that: Hi, > > Netscape is well known as being one of the worst Linux apps. > > True, sadly... As already mentioned, try to get Yourself Mozilla and use one > of those lighter

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"Phillip" == Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MAS> I just upgraded all the X packages to 4+ versions in unstable, and now MAS> my X server won't run. Phillip> When I did 'apt-get -u dist-upgrade' I noticed that Phillip> task-x-window-system-core was maked as held back. After the Philli

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thinks that: > I can understand that, however I have no problem with commercial apps. I > like the fact that I have a *choice*. My system runs a range of apps > from GNU to commercial. I use Linux because I like it and it is good. If > it cost me mone

Hi I am having a problem with X.

2000-11-05 Thread Gurpreet Singh
Hi, If any one who can help me, I am a new user of debian, I am working on Intel 810 chipset but debian refuse to make X work on the in built AGP so, I am currently using the shell & is deprived of use of X, So any body out there have any idea about the problem Thanks, Gurpreet -- Quote

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
I wrote: MAS> Okay, it appears to be working now. Well, more or less. Everything runs fine with `startx', but I'm having some peculiar difficulties with xdm. Specifically, 1. xdm now takes over a minute from when the daemon is started, either by init or manually, to when the login widget ap

Re: Q: What loaded /usr/i486-linuclibC1?

2000-11-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Back again... Got things working. I'm forwarding my log in case I did anything wrong. What loaded /usr/i486-linuclibC1? Now had a new /usr/i486-linuxlibC1. Noticed with dpkg -S that it made the directories. Checked status and xlib6 installed as optional priority. Further checking showed that

Q: Log kept what install and when

2000-11-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Is there a log kept by dpkg/apt-get/dselect of what installed and by date? Check status file reveals whether something is installed only. Thanks, Jonathan

Re: ISP Configuration help, please.

2000-11-05 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: > Another option is wvdial, which (in Woody at least), has enough > intelligence to search for your modem... Pppconfig can do this. > It'll also redail automatically if the connection gets dropped,... And this. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:58:01PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various > parameters of a CRT monitor? On http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ there is a tool called "ctscreen" which should work pretty good. It is written in Java. The zipp

Re: sed question (bibtex problem)

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Brian, Check this: sed '/%$/{ N s/%\n// }' yourfile.bib It should work from command line using bash's multiline input capability (with the '). It checks for % at the end of lines (hence the $), then reads the next line into the buffer and then removes the %\n sequence (I don't quite unders

Re: SB Live! (XGamer)...

2000-11-05 Thread Matthias Czapla
13sQQS-05t-00 > After managing to get my XFree86 4.0.1 running last night (which > seemed an achievement) I set upon setting up an SB Live! (Xgamer)... I > downloaded the drivers from opensource.creative.com and compiled them > with few warnings. I then did a 'make install' and got the following >

lost my backspace key

2000-11-05 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, Hopefully this will be an easy one. I just installed the lbreakout game from unstable. It updated a couple of X packages enroute. They didn't look like they were anything critical so I let it go ahead and do it. But now I've discovered a problem, my backspace key no longer work

Re: email alias postfix procmail

2000-11-05 Thread dirk
Problem solved. I hate it when things are sooo easy once you have figured it out. Just to save a few hours for someone else: Use fetchmail. There seem to be some issues about multidrop stuff, read the man page. using fetchmail, your fetchmailrc looks like this: set postmaster "dirk" poll pop.x

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-05 Thread Sean
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 04:34:28PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: <---snip---> > > This is what made me choose a Matrox G400 for my new system > (together with the recommendation of a close friend that said > the G400 was running quite fast in his system). > <---snip---> I also op

My GNOME desktop doesn't appear

2000-11-05 Thread Karl Philipp
Hi, I updated several packages regarding to X-Windows, enlightenment and GNOME. Now, if I do a login via the X-Windows login, the X-Windows login will re-appear. In the file ~/.xsession-errors you can read Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect t

Re: SIS 900 NIC

2000-11-05 Thread Rafael A . Schmitt
* Art Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying (very patiently) to do a network install using a system with > an embedded SIS 900. I have tried to install the sis900.0 module without > success. This is particularly frustrating because the card was > recognized and used on the same box with t

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Yves POCCHIOLA
Thanks for the advices, I can print now ASCII and Postscript with apsfilter and LPRng packages. Apsfilter configuration setting was proposed during the installation by the Debian tool: dselect. I tried first to use the magicfilter package but I missed the first time to activate properly the c

MC and .profile

2000-11-05 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, I've set up an alias beep='echo -en "\a"' in my .profile file. Now if I log into my account and execute beep my speaker beeps as expected. But if try to execute it out of the Midnight Commander it doesn't work. What need I to do? Another Thing related to that problem is that if I execute fetc

Re: X4 and a Trident Card? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts)

2000-11-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > > Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's > > noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen > > redraws, even with the old

Re: Hi I am having a problem with X.

2000-11-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
> Hi, >If any one who can help me, I am a new user of debian, I am > working on Intel 810 chipset but debian refuse to make X work on the in > built AGP so, I am currently using the shell & is deprived of use of X, > So any body out there have any idea about the problem > > Thanks, > Gurpr

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
> I tried first to use the magicfilter package but I missed the first time to > activate > properly the configuration and I was not given a second chance to run the > configuration even after removing and installing again the package. I'm glad I could help. Probably you want to know that dpkg l

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Yves POCCHIOLA wrote: > Thanks for the advices, I can print now ASCII and Postscript with > apsfilter and LPRng packages. > > Apsfilter configuration setting was proposed during the installation > by the Debian tool: dselect. > > I tried first to use the

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 06:37:33PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > Umm... Basically I just made a point to learn enough about both of them. Yeah, me too. > Vim is very cool, and fast, and has great syntax highlighting, and is > perfect for just about everything. But when it came to my thesi

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread wulfie
http://www.mindspring.com/~john_mcl/adding_fonts.html This is not XF4-specific but does give a good guide to getting ttfs running in X in general, plus all the required tools can be downloaded in a single tarball. It would make sense if ttmkfdir was included with freetype, but it appears not to be.

Re: G400, DRI, X4, and 4 million dollars

2000-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Mike Cathcart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Well, ok, I lied, but who was going to read another boring email about the > G400 and DRI? Well, enough for sensationalistic email... [ snip ] > glxinfo output: > [ snip ] > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect > OpenGL version string:

Re: Q: Can E menu use console commands?

2000-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > In MWM I could pass shell commands as a menu, and I think Window Maker > allowed it. Can I do it in Enlightenment? I want to use the > "import -root..." to take a screenshot. Other uses come to mind. Why not edit ~/.enlightenment/file.menu (and the other m

apache sending request to old hostname

2000-11-05 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello All, I have a strange thing going on with apache and I'm not sure why this is happening. When I put a request in from my localhost to go to http://localhost/. It will work. But when I try to go to localhost/anything, it tries to send me to my hold hostname. I've looked in apache.conf and se

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and Voodoo3 -- how do I test?

2000-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Thomas J. Hamman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Okay, I have the latest 2.4.0 test kernel compiled with DRI and the 3dfx > driver, I have XFree86 4.0.1 running fine > > Now how do I even find out if I have 3D hardware acceleration working? Check out dri.sourceforge.net .adam -- [

"non-US/main" section

2000-11-05 Thread milenium moon
I come from Indonesia. I want ask you about licensing/limitation of use from "non-US/main" section that include in Debian 2.2 Official CDs. If in my CDs contain "non-US/main" section (application/software) is legal or ilegal if I instal to my computer (on one computer) and how if I want install to

KDE2 problems

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello! i installed the kde2 debs and everthing worked fine. then i made an update and now i can't start it at all. the output in .xsession-error is: *snip* ksplash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: getButtonShift__14QPlatinumStyleRiT1 kdeinit: error i

apt-get through a proxy ?

2000-11-05 Thread Gyulai Mihaly
I can't go through our intranet proxy, although I configure my apt.conf file to use it... Is there a HOWTO about 'apt-get' ? (and other 'apt' programs?) Please show me an URL, where I can see a usable 'apt.conf' file using a proxy... Thanks. -- GYULAI Mihály http://gyulai.freeyellow.com Rej

Re: lost my backspace key - solved, new question

2000-11-05 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, OK, I checked out the manpage for xmodmap and figured out how to get my backspace key to work properly. I then inserted the following line into my ~/.bashrc file: xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace" This does work. My question is, is this the best place to put such a command? Is

Re: "non-US/main" section

2000-11-05 Thread David Z Maze
milenium moon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mm> I come from Indonesia. I want ask you about mm> licensing/limitation of use from "non-US/main" section mm> that include in Debian 2.2 Official CDs. If in my CDs mm> contain "non-US/main" section (application/software) mm> is legal or ilegal if I instal

Woody clobbers Blackdown!

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Bernstein
I finally put a bullet in my teeth and dist-upgraded a potato system to woody. In potato I had been running communicator-smotif with the Blackdown Java plugin. Here's what I have now, post-upgrade: communicator-base 4.73-19Communicator base support communicator-nethelp-473 4.73-19

RE: apt-get through a proxy ?

2000-11-05 Thread Jason Holland
I set my shell env settings http_proxy and ftp_proxy and it works perfect. Jason > > I can't go through our intranet proxy, although I configure my > apt.conf file to use it... > > Is there a HOWTO about 'apt-get' ? (and other 'apt' programs?) > > Please show me an URL, where I can see a usable '

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread USM Bish
When I first commenced this thread three days ago, my intentions were two-fold. Firstly, the need to scout for a suitable replacement for my out of date Netscape 4.51. Secondly, because of a lot of hype in our local WIA / WAP hardware circuits (and else- where in Asia I suppose) on the pros

problems with XSERVER after UPGRADE

2000-11-05 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
I am running woody on a laptop since one year. After the last upgrade (i.e. last night) the xserver does not work. It complains that none of the configured devices can be detected. I tried to reconfigure using XF86Setup, and found that my card (NeoMagic NM256 et cetera) is not in the list any more

X4 lacking color definitions

2000-11-05 Thread Brian
A fresh X install this morning made X4 an interesting surprise. One problem which I don't know which package to report the bug to. Help? Programs like Netscape, fetchmailconf, etc consistently report that they don't know colors anymore: Warning: Color name "black" is not defined Warning: Color n

RE: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Marc Wilson
It's not all that hard... I went through this last night. Ok, I have my ttf fonts in /usr/share/lib/fonts/truetype. I created a symlink /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype to match the other font paths, and added that to my fontpath list in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I then went there and used ttmkfdir to c

Re: Can't login using WDM!

2000-11-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:05:01PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > > Last night I upgraded all X packages to XFree4.0.1, and now I can't > login to X using WDM. Every time I enter my userid and password in the > WDM login panel, the login panel disappears, I see a plain grey > background, and the

Re: aside: perl's unpack()

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Damien wrote: > > > I can tell you an easier way to decipher them, but I too would like to > > > know how they are contructed, i.e what's the algorithm. > > > > a.b.c.d > > > > n = d + c * 256 + b * 256 ^ 2 + a * 256 ^ 3 > > after reading the previ

gnome-ppp

2000-11-05 Thread Clayton Stapleton
Hi Folks; Have Debian 2.2 running on a Pentium 166MMX, 2 hard drives, only one containing Debian. After configuring Gnome-ppp and attempt to dial out get the following error "The pppd died unexpectedly". So tried the Help menu item on the Gnome-ppp window to have a look at any help they had availa

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > I wrote: > > MAS> Okay, it appears to be working now. > > Well, more or less. Everything runs fine with `startx', but I'm > having some peculiar difficulties with xdm. Specifically, > > 1. xdm now takes over a min

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:58:01PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various > > parameters of a CRT monitor? > > On http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ there is a tool called "ctscreen" which

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:03:55AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > It really is just that simple. I had zero luck getting xfstt to cooperate > with XF4, and had all sorts of weird font-isms until I disabled it. Aterm > would display hash instead of line-drawing characters, rxvt wouldn't even > START,

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:02:18AM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I wrote: > > MAS> Okay, it appears to be working now. > > Well, more or less. Everything runs fine with `startx', but I'm > having some peculiar difficulties with xdm. Specifically, > > 1. xdm now t

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Under DOS there was the possibility of treating some of your RAM like a > > disk (hence the name ramdisk). Not sure if Linux can do this, but if > > so, then just copy the binary to a ramdisk and run it from there. Yes it can be done. You will need to enab

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
wulfie wrote: > It would make sense if ttmkfdir was included with freetype, but it appears > not to be. fttools has mkttfdir, which works -- see shy jo

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of months. > it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy > hdd & powersupply fan. I can't help wondering if you could do away with the hdd altogether, e.g. bo

Name server

2000-11-05 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello all, Im running bind and apache on the same box. I use to host my web but have moved it over to another hosting co. I have removed the entry in named.conf but when I try to open the url I stll am getting it from my apache server and not the new host co. I have also changed the name servers ov

Re: Stradling the fence

2000-11-05 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:26:17PM -0800, Peak Allan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm currently using mostly potato, but I've pulled a > few packages from woody. If I change the sources.list > back to potato will it mess up anything? Chances are that if you've done "apt-get update && apt-get upgr

Q: Can E menu use console commands?- Answered w/Thanks

2000-11-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for getting back to me. I've completely comfortable with E's menus, I just couldn't seem to pass it a direct shell command. Anyway, I thought I had the right command, someone on the list kindly echoed it, and when I retyped it another time it worked... E menus did that to me before. A s

Re: Woody

2000-11-05 Thread Sean Furey
Hi John! > I have used Slink and now use Potato. As I seem to be getting > problems installing KDE on Potato and many people say they > are running Woody successfully, I wonder if I shall go to Woody. I've been using woody here for about a month now. So far I've been lucky, spotted warnings here

Re: Woody clobbers Blackdown!

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Bernstein
UPDATE! --==++==-- When we last visited Bob, he was struggling with starting communicator-smotif... Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- begin nfg snip --- > > INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load > /usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: l

Re: Name server

2000-11-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:39:06AM -0800, Jay Kelly wrote: > Im running bind and apache on the same box. I use to host my web but have > moved it over to another hosting co. I have removed the entry in named.conf > but when I try to open the url I stll am getting it from my apache server > and not

audio in

2000-11-05 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, Is there a program that will capture audio in? I want to record some sound bytes. Thanks, D. Ghost!

Linux on Mac

2000-11-05 Thread Carl A. Fahsltrom
I would like to use debian on a Mac. But I do not want to distroy the Mac Install. Does anyone know of an alturnative to FIPS for Mac Thanks, Carl A. Fahlstrom _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://ww

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Marc Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not all that hard... I went through this last night. Well, yah, it shouldn't have been. 8^/= I was doing the right thing, and for some reason, it wasn't working. Then, it started working. I'm not sure

Re: "non-US/main" section

2000-11-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
milenium moon wrote: >I come from Indonesia. I want ask you about >licensing/limitation of use from "non-US/main" section >that include in Debian 2.2 Official CDs. If in my CDs >contain "non-US/main" section (application/software) >is legal or ilegal if I instal to my computer (on one >

Re: X4 lacking color definitions

2000-11-05 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:37:54AM -0800, Brian wrote: > A fresh X install this morning made X4 an interesting surprise. > > One problem which I don't know which package to report the bug > to. Help? > > Programs like Netscape, fetchmailconf, etc consistently report > that they don't know colors

Re: Linux on Mac

2000-11-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 12:57:06PM -0800, Carl A. Fahsltrom wrote: > I would like to use debian on a Mac. But I do not want to distroy the Mac > Install. Does anyone know of an alturnative to FIPS for Mac There is a howto floating around somewhere. When I installed Debian/PPC on my G4 as a dual

Re: problems with XSERVER after UPGRADE

2000-11-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Alessandro Ghigi wrote: >I am running woody on a laptop since one year. After the last upgrade >(i.e. last night) the xserver does not work. It complains that none of the >configured devices can be detected. I tried to reconfigure using >XF86Setup, and found that my card (NeoMagic NM256 et

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"John S. J. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wulfie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in > > XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it > > seems) & you're there. > > What's the exact path to ttmkfdir

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and gdm

2000-11-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1, and I can't log in using gdm any more (I'm > using the Helix version). From what I can tell, the X packages have a new > /etc/X11/Xsession file which gdm doesn't like very much. Has anyone noticed > this problem too? An

NT4 in VMWare VM can't see Samba over network - Yes, PlainTextPassword set :)

2000-11-05 Thread Robin Collins
Not really a Debian issue but maybe someone can help me out here. There are two computers here, for the sake of discussion called A and B. B runs Samba 2.0.7a on Potato. A is multi-boot. When booted to native NT4 SP6a with PlainTextPassword set A can see B and access B's shares perfectly. When

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Krzys Majewski wrote: > Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of > > months. > > it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy > > hdd & powersupply

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"Andy" == Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MAS> 1. xdm now takes over a minute from when the daemon is started, either MAS> by init or manually, to when the login widget appears. Is this MAS> normal now, or is there anything I can do to speed it up? Andy> I don't know. Maybe it's trying

GDM XDMCP Problem

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel Whelan
Hey...I recently aquired a nice little 15" monochrome X-terminal (NCD 15r) and have been having some trouble in getting everything working fine in conjunction with a Debian-woody box. I got the thing to boot with no problem using TFTP and BootP, but the problem occurs when logging into the remote m

Re: Stradling the fence

2000-11-05 Thread Peak Allan
I haven't done an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" since I installed the woody packages. However I'm concerned that I may be missing out on security upgrades. I'm thinking about going all the way to woody, but I'm worried about stability. I have a single-user home desktop and don't need rock

Re: X4 lacking color definitions

2000-11-05 Thread Brian
--- brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:37:54AM -0800, Brian wrote: > > A fresh X install this morning made X4 an interesting > surprise. > > > > One problem which I don't know which package to report the > bug > > to. Help? > > > > Programs like Netscape, fetchmai

Samba uprade 2.0.5a -> 2.0.7 fails

2000-11-05 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Because I wanted to hook up a Win2000 machine to my network, someone suggested me to upgrade my Samba server to 2.0.7 Things used to be working, 2.0.7 is in stable, so I just did apt-get install samba. No luck. Now my smb log shows ugly things like: > [2000/11/05 22:15:20, 1] smbd/server.c:main(

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