XF86_3DLabs and/or XF86_FBDev (3.3.6) on AXi w/PGX32

2000-11-15 Thread David Butts
Hello, all- I am not subscribed to debian-user, so please cc me on any responses you send to that list (I know I should be, but I've been less than entirely diligent about keeping up with debian-sparc, debian-alpha and the like). The broadest question I have is where documentation for XFree on Sp

Re: virtual ips

2000-11-15 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 10:55:02PM +0100, Grischa Schuering wrote: > Hi, > > I changed from SuSe Linux to debian. How and where do I enter virtual ip as > like eth0:1, eth0:1... mostly this stuff happens (for potato, debian 2.2) in /etc/network/interfaces as others have said; but as i recall the

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:13:51AM -0500, Casey Henderson wrote: > I don't know who it is but I've already caught the stupid virus. I'm > not using Outlook, but being the fool that I am, I accidently ran his > attachment, and it screwed up the file associations in Windows. > Basically it associat

Re: Quick Q: Kernel compiling gcc295/gcc272?

2000-11-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for getting back to me. I've gotten a coupple getting back to me saying I do it and I've had no problems. I was looking for someone who knows why Debian wrote that up and if the problem's been resolved so it's no longer the case... I don't want to have to recompile if I don't have to. D

ssh - methods (was Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list)

2000-11-15 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:30:18PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:20:54PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > > > I've started to get lazy and use an RSA authenticated ssh > > connection--saves me typing my password... > > actually RSA is a better way to go,

system test

2000-11-15 Thread Moses Wildermuth
Please ignore. Regards -- MosesPro Money Talks Enterprises http://www.angelfire.com/ia/mosespro, ICQ-13469530, AIM-Wolfy2264 A3000D, Warp040/40, Spectrum, ASDG Xserial, Nexus,2meg Chip, 64meg Fast, 8megs DMA(RAD:), 9+1.2gig SCSI2, Zip100 and Pinnacle 2X CDR/W;Running Hot with Kick3.1, OS3.5 and

RE: Genius 3-button mouse problem

2000-11-15 Thread Knotek Vlastimil
> > I have an old Genuis 3-button mouse and it doesn't work under debian linux. > > How can I configure my mouse under debian ? > > What kind of mouse is it? PS/2 or a serial? > Do you want it to run with X or just at the console? > For X: run XF86Setup and try the different settings for your mous

Re: system test 2

2000-11-15 Thread Moses Wildermuth
That didn't work trying something else. dang I wish I had a rexx script for this. :-} > Please ignore. > > Regards Regards -- MosesPro Money Talks Enterprises http://www.angelfire.com/ia/mosespro, ICQ-13469530, AIM-Wolfy2264 A3000D, Warp040/40, Spectrum, ASDG Xserial, Nexus,2meg Chip, 64meg

Re: Quick Q: Kernel compiling gcc295/gcc272?

2000-11-15 Thread Daniel Freedman
Jonathan, I think you should be fine with gcc 2.95.2 but maybe you'd be safer with 2.91.66 if you can get it as easily. You should know, though, that I'm not at all an expert in these areas. The only time I've recompiled my kernel was linux-2.2.17pre20 using gcc 2.95.2 on my only non-Debian box

test3

2000-11-15 Thread Moses Wildermuth
That did work, so this is final test. Sorry for the hassle, but you should see it from this end! Regards -- MosesPro Money Talks Enterprises http://www.angelfire.com/ia/mosespro, ICQ-13469530, AIM-Wolfy2264 A3000D, Warp040/40, Spectrum, ASDG Xserial, Nexus,2meg Chip, 64meg Fast, 8megs DMA(RAD:

Re: test3

2000-11-15 Thread Moses Wildermuth
Hello Moses, >From the desk of Moses Wildermuth. Money Talks Enterprises, http://moneytalks.giftworldnet.com/ On 15-Nov-00, Moses wrote the following in an email regarding test3--- > That did work, so this is final test. Sorry for the hassle, but you should > see it from this end! What a pai

Debian CD Image

2000-11-15 Thread linux
Hello,Where can I retrieve the offical Debian CD images? "ftp.debian.org" is too slow. With the pseudo-image program it is too difficult to match versions between the file list, ftp download and image file.Thank you. Doug http://www.dougdine.com

Re: Debian CD Image

2000-11-15 Thread John Bagdanof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello,Where can I retrieve the offical Debian CD images? > "ftp.debian.org" is too slow. With the pseudo-image program it is too > difficult to match versions between the file list, ftp download and image > file.Thank you. > > At: http://www.linuxiso.org/de

Re: tape is ejected from drive after 10 mins => no unattended backups

2000-11-15 Thread Eduardo Fernandez
Karsten, Thanks a lot for your reply. This is the output of mt -f /dev/st0 status just after inserting the tape: > drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape > drive status = 318767616 > sense key error = 0 > residue count = 0 > file number = 0 > block number = 0 > Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0

Re: Debian CD Image

2000-11-15 Thread doug
Too slow means 10K/sec.Thanks for the link.> At: > http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html > > Not sure what you mean by "too slow" though, I'm d/ling the first > disk right now at 20-25K/sec and looks to be a 6-7 hour session. > John Doug

Re: TNT2 - VIRUS WARNING

2000-11-15 Thread John
Frankly i think the bl**dy antivirus messages spewed out by the antivirus program is almost a bigger nuisance talk about getting spammed :) Anyway i allready saved a copy off this one after cleaning up a customer last week. She decided to run the friggin thing cheers John Griffiths wrote:

Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-15 Thread Chris Howells
I have just obtained the full three CD-ROM Debian CD-ROM set. I wish to try it out on my old computer first, which does not have a CD-ROM drive capable of booting. Therefore I must make a boot floppy. I used rawrite to create a floppy from the image install/rescue.bin, which boots the machine up

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread H.C.Hsiang
Everyone in this list : Sorry for bringing so much trouble to you. It started from a mail came from one of my friends. I didn't aware the file attached to the mail was a virus untill I found my e-mail software began to send mails automatically. I tried to stop sending those mails and terminated

Re: email

2000-11-15 Thread debian
Thanks for that but i am still a little confused. What is the findutils package and which file in root/bin do I past in the line you gave. > do the findutils package > will get you the updatedb function, it is updated 'nightly' > by the anacron scripts. I use the following in my root/bin directory

NEWBIE: unable to read mail

2000-11-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered that I am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 messages). Even when I stop Postfix. I guess there has been some change to the path wh

locale (gdk?)

2000-11-15 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hello, yesterday I installed freeamp, which resulted in some other packages to be (re)installed. Now my (gdk) locale support seems to be broken. If I lauch a gtk-vim with LC_CTYPE=de_DE, I get Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library This worked formerly. What can I do ? -- Jo

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread vijay
Well it is ok now. But it does teach people not to open attachments that they do not know about espcially when using M$ softwares. Atleast they should switch to some other MUAs as has been discussed in the list for the past few days or move over to better OS's(like gnu/linux). BTW how many of y

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Peter Good
Debian for php, sql, staroffice, mail, and a few other misc things. Windows 98 for Macromedia Flash 5, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. As much as I try, i can't get around not being able to use flash 5 and fireworks (customers like their pretty tricks :) otherwise i'd convert to linux completely. [EMA

final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian

2000-11-15 Thread Jaume Teixi
After doing some improvements, finally I get this errors so its a libmm11-dev issue.. as I explained before, I'm on potato, I've compiled libmm11-dev from source. thanks a lot, jaume. -- /usr/src/php4-4.0.3pl1/ext/session/mod_mm.c:94: undefined reference to `mm_malloc' /usr/src/php4-4.0

no "/usr/sbin/install-info"

2000-11-15 Thread eric k . wolven
Dear Debians: Thanks for your help so far. A problem I am having is in installation of packages. I still have a number of "broken pkgs" and unconfigured. I am getting "/usr/sbin/install-info: no such file or directory" messages. I've tried to re-install dpkg_1.7.1 which has the file and it se

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
At 02:58 15-11-00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it is ok now. But it does teach people not to open attachments that they do not know about espcially when using M$ softwares. And it teaches people to use a good virus scanner with very recent definition files. The virus scanner I use (Nor

Sudden instability: can a faulty mouse cause this?

2000-11-15 Thread Johann Spies
It all started last night while I was working with jpilot and my computer just stalled while I was using the mouse. I tried a normal shutdown by switching off the power and hoping that the UPS software will force a shutdown after the configured 12 minutes. But that did not happen. Since then I

emails newbie

2000-11-15 Thread John-Mark
Can anyone help me to configure my box to send and receive email i don't know where to start. messed around with exim but seem to have messed it up. I really am starting from scratch. I can connect to the internet using pon but that's all thanks jm

Re: Sudden instability: can a faulty mouse cause this?

2000-11-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > I have a ps/2 mouse which I have used without problems for about a > year now. Can a hardware problem on the mouse or the ps/2 port cause > this? How can I determine the cause? Yes, a short-circuit in the mouse (or in any other peripherical, Keyboards a

mass install-selecting packages

2000-11-15 Thread Sidirourgos Lefteris
Hello everybody, I want to install debian 2.2 in 40 intel machines and I have some questions. I am not new in Linux but I am in debian (I used redhat). Sorry for my english but is been a long time since i used them :) The method I use goes like this: I have made the rescue and root disks with f

Error loading ramdisk

2000-11-15 Thread Örn
Greetings to all of you GNUser's! I have this disturbing problem with a computer I have at work; it's a dual-boot Win98/Caldera eDesktop 2.4 box but I'd like to put Debian 2.2, SuSE 7.0 or even Mandrake 7.2 there instead of Caldera and here's the problem: After having tryed almost all of the most

kernel 2.4 and isapnp

2000-11-15 Thread Veit Waltemath
Hey, did anybody know if there is a different handling in 2.4 with isa-pnp cards. I don't get my NIC and my ISDN-Card to work.PNP and ISA-PNP are compiled as modules. Thanx for tips. -- cu Veit Veit Waltemath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> infront of his Potato

ppp, must dial 0 before number, how?

2000-11-15 Thread A.E. Roy
I need to dial 0 to phone out of the building, how to I set up ppp to wait for a new dialingtone after the 0? Thanks __ Denne eposten er sendt ved hjelp av http://www.Organizer.net - Norges ledende webbaserte kommunikasjonsløsning.

Re: ppp, must dial 0 before number, how?

2000-11-15 Thread Remco van de Meent
A.E. Roy wrote: > I need to dial 0 to phone out of the building, how to I set up ppp to > wait for a new dialingtone after the 0? Put "0," (without quotes) in front of the number you're trying to dial. The comma makes your modem wait for two seconds after the initial 0. Cheers, Remco.

Why Lexmark Z11 doesn't work?

2000-11-15 Thread Jerry
Hi All, My printer is Lexmark Z11. I downloaded it's Linux driver from Lexmark's homepage, and installed it without any error, at least I didn't perceive any error occured. :p But Z11 didn't work at once, even I tried many times with 2 computer respectively. Maybe there's something may cause th

Re: ppp, must dial 0 before number, how?

2000-11-15 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
> I have been asking the same question before and make up the following resume: (you can also read mgetty+sendfax info you'd find that dial-command ATX0DP0 would do the job (it says don't wait for the dial tone, go to pulse mode, dial 0)) so put Dial Command = ATX0DP0 in your wvdial.conf

I cannot run latex2rtf

2000-11-15 Thread Nabil Hathout
Hello, Have anyone used latex2rtf (1.8aa) on a potato machine. I have not been able to make it work. I get the following message, whatever the file I try to convert. stdin:2: Error! Failed fgetpos; main.c (Convert): errno 29 Thank you for your help, --Nabil Hathout

RE: Genius 3-button mouse problem

2000-11-15 Thread Mark Carroll
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Knotek Vlastimil wrote: (snip) > It's a standart serial mouse. I've tried run both gmpconfig and XF86Setup, > and I've tried to > switch between all options, but my mouse still doesn't work. :o( > Any ideas ? Thanks. I wasted hours with gpmconfig at one time - because it start

Re: Problem with cups and xpp or qtcups

2000-11-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Giuseppe Fierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > both xpp and qtcups give me same message "unable to connect to CUPS > server, check options" but I don't know the options that I have to see. > I tried all options in the cupsd.conf file but nothing does. Did you set 'Browsing' to 'on' in the /etc/cup

update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Florian Kessler
Hi all, i would like to update to kernel 2.4 within potato. To meet the requirements listed in in the file changes (kernel documentation), i have to download some packages. How can i do this without confusing apt? Thanks, Florian

Re: update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:20:49 Florian Kessler wrote: > Hi all, > > i would like to update to kernel 2.4 within potato. To meet the > requirements > listed in in the file changes (kernel documentation), i have to download > some packages. How can i do this without confusing apt? The only problem I

apacheconfig

2000-11-15 Thread Christopher Clark
How do i run apacheconfig to load modules? the --force-modules dosen't seem to work and it always comments out the php4 module. I uncommented it and restarted apache but it will only run php code if the file extension is .php I didn't get the option to load specific modules at install time, I gu

X4.0.1 and ET6K

2000-11-15 Thread Corey Popelier
Anyone had any luck with X4.0.1 and an ET6000/6100 4MB card? I can get X to actually load, along with WindowMaker, but the fonts are still rather screwed. Got everything I need in there I'm sure, plus xfs running, but the fonts are cactus. Not to mention everytime I make a minor change, if for so

Windowmaker and sound

2000-11-15 Thread David A. Rogers
Does the current version of WindowMaker do sound events? I know earlier versions did with wmsound. But that was many versions ago and wmsound seems to be dead. If it does sound now, how do you set it up? Thanks, dar

fetchnews running automatically?

2000-11-15 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello, does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it fetch news automatically? I have created a crontab entry which runs fetchnews every 4 hours, but it seems to me like it is run more often that every 4 hours... Ekkehard

Re: locale (gdk?)

2000-11-15 Thread Shao Zhang
Try edit the file /etc/locale.gen, uncomment the locales you want, and then run localegen as root. Shao. Johannes Zellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > yesterday I installed freeamp, which resulted in some > other packages to be (re)installed. Now my (gdk) locale > support seems to be br

Re: locale (gdk?)

2000-11-15 Thread Johannes Zellner
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:23:11AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Try edit the file /etc/locale.gen, > uncomment the locales you want, and then run localegen as root. thanks. works like a charm. (although it turned to be out to be `locale-gen'). -- Johannes

Re: I cannot run latex2rtf

2000-11-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:21:40PM +0100, Nabil Hathout wrote: > Hello, > > Have anyone used latex2rtf (1.8aa) on a potato machine. I have not > been able to make it work. I get the following message, whatever the > file I try to convert. > > stdin:2: Error! Failed fgetpos; main.c (Convert): err

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread David Teague
> From: Vijay Prabakaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list > Yes. Good point. What are people using M$ apps on > Windoze doing on this list anyway. Vijay, Occasionally my Linux box will be down when my Windoze box i

Re: final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian

2000-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:39:23PM +0100, Jaume Teixi wrote: > After doing some improvements, finally I get this errors so its a > libmm11-dev issue.. > as I explained before, I'm on potato, I've compiled libmm11-dev from > source. Could you explain exactly what it is you are doing and w

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread David Teague
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:27:46PM -0800, Vijay Prabakaran wrote: > > Well I guess some people just have to use windoze. So > > but they DON'T have to use Outlook, if its a corporate mandate you > probably shouldn't even be using corporate mail services

Re: emails newbie

2000-11-15 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
At 12:04 15-11-00 +, you wrote: Can anyone help me to configure my box to send and receive email i don't know where to start. messed around with exim but seem to have messed it up. I really am starting from scratch. I can connect to the internet using pon but that's all thanks jm You needs exi

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread David A. Rogers
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze > mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS' > at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or > Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Netscape in > my case).

ramdisk size

2000-11-15 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, if i create a filesystem on a ramdisk for example with mke2fs /dev/ram0 the ramdisk is as big as defined in the kernel. Is there a way to change this size and create a ramdisk /dev/ram0 with 16 MB and at the same time /dev/ram1 with 8MB. Ciao, Timo<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread Kent West
David Teague wrote: However, the suggestion that we use Eudora is probably the correct thing for any of us that are required use Lose 9x to do. Is that still free? I remember a freeware 16 bit version I used with MS Lose 3.1. Is it still available? The old free version was a "lite" version. Q

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread Myles Green
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 09:19, David Teague wrote: > However, the suggestion that we use Eudora is probably the correct > thing for any of us that are required use Lose 9x to do. Is that > still free? I remember a freeware 16 bit version I used with MS Lose > 3.1. Is it still available? The

Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
I'm using this command: dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde and getting this output: ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care abou

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 10:24, David Teague wrote: > MIS managers have a LOT of power. They frequently prohibit > installation of any software by users. AND they are NOT always > prohibited from use of the company systems to mail this list. > > Let's not be quite so tough on them. > There ar

Re: e100.o missing modversions.h

2000-11-15 Thread JoshNarins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> This is a 2.2.17 and beyond issue. >> >> In the archives I see where people trying to build arla just >> commented out the -DMOD_VERSIONS compiler flag but >> that doesn't work when trying to build e100-1.3.20, the >> driver for several Int

Re: fetchnews running automatically?

2000-11-15 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Ekkehard Kraemer spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:33:27PM +: > Hello, > > does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it > fetch news automatically? I have created a crontab entry which runs > fetchnews every 4 hours, but it seems to me like

xfree 4: "unknown reason for exeption"; clock problems

2000-11-15 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.0.1-3 Hi there, after upgrading from 3.3.6 to 4.* my X(Free86) is out of order, i don't get it running any more on my own. I took a look on debian-x mailing list and found one similar problem (Michiel Mieeuwissens's), which ended up (AFAIK) with no solutuon.

Re: update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Florian Kessler
Am 15.11.2000 15:28 Uhr schrieb Gianluca Montecchi unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:20:49 Florian Kessler wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> i would like to update to kernel 2.4 within potato. To meet the >> requirements >> listed in in the file changes (kernel documentation), i have to

postfix problem with "myorigin"

2000-11-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
I seem to be having a problem with postfix. It changes the myorigin variable in the main.cf file. It doesn't matter what I set it to. When I start postfix, it gets changed to "localhost". It even got added to the end of the main.cf file once. Anyone seen this before? How do I make it stop do

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:58:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW how many of you on this list use multiple oses on your desktop > and which ones do you use and for what purposes. That should be an > interesting one...:) Home: I occasionally boot Win95 to play games (the only one recently

emacs without backup option

2000-11-15 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other file? I did read the man page, but unfortunatly was not able to find the appropiate parameter. Robert

DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems

2000-11-15 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Would someone kindly clarify the aspects of the DMODVERSIONS flag in the kernel makefile? After not getting the aureal sound driver to install, I'm so unsure about enabling or disabling this feature the next time I have to build a new kernel. Most astonishing is the first output of make: make ins

ssh authentication

2000-11-15 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
logged as a normal user I would like to open up X-apps requiring root permissions. I was told on this list to use ssh by "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and creating ~/.ssh/config with the contents: Host localhost User root Compression no I did so and ssh asked for a password. The usual root password wa

RE: postfix problem with "myorigin"

2000-11-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
> I seem to be having a problem with postfix. It changes the > myorigin variable in the main.cf file. It doesn't matter > what I set it to. When I start postfix, it gets changed > to "localhost". It even got added to the end of the main.cf > file once. Anyone seen this before? How do I mak

Re: fetchnews running automatically?

2000-11-15 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Stefan Janecek spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:55:11PM +0100: > In a galaxy not too far away, Ekkehard Kraemer spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at > 04:33:27PM +: > > Hello, > > > > does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it ^^^

RE: emacs without backup option

2000-11-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from > imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other file? > > > I did read the man page, but unfortunatly was not able to find the > appropiate parameter. > I haven't tried it but there is a variable called backup-i

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Moritz Schulte
Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using this command: > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde It seems that 'dpkg -l' (without the pattern) lists all installed packages, so you don't need to filter the installed packages out. But, this isn't important... > and getting this output:

Re: Sudden instability: can a faulty mouse cause this?

2000-11-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:19:11AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > > I have a ps/2 mouse which I have used without problems for about a > > year now. Can a hardware problem on the mouse or the ps/2 port cause > > this? How can I determine the cause?

RE: emacs without backup option

2000-11-15 Thread Jay Ford
> > Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from > > imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other file? Put the following in ~/.emacs: (setq make-backup-files nil) ; Never create backup files It works for me.

Re: fullscreen apps (in X) - windowmanager support?

2000-11-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 10:22:23AM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:35:12PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > > The best way (as far as I know the only way) to get an app to full > > screen in X, is to drop the resolution

Re: fullscreen apps (in X) - windowmanager support?

2000-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't think that's quite what Hugo was looking for. I've run in to > his problem myself, particularly with the game Maelstrom. Maelstrom > runs at 640x480. Maximizing the window doesn't change that, you merely > get a full-screen black window w

X 4.0.1 fixed font problem

2000-11-15 Thread debuser
I just did a new woody install and tried installing X 4.0.1 on it. When I run startx, X starts up but then crashes with the message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I've installed xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts-pex, and xfonts-scalable. Any clues what I'm

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm using this command: > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > > What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care > > about that and the package name. > > You can do

Re: tape is ejected from drive after 10 mins => no unattended backups

2000-11-15 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:27:36AM +0100, Eduardo Fernandez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten, > > Thanks a lot for your reply. This is the output of mt -f /dev/st0 status > just after inserting the tape: > > > drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape > > drive status = 318767616 > > sense key error

Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Would someone kindly clarify the aspects of the DMODVERSIONS flag in >the kernel makefile? It inserts versioning symbols into modules so that you can (possibly) run them in kernels other than that which they were compiled against. However, I don't think this is really you

Re: update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Hubert Chan
Florian Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but i have both, the isdn and pcmcia packages. However, this question is a > more generally one. > How can i update to a newer version than the one in potato, i.e. lilo (i > need it for booting root-raid) without changing my sources.list and > confusi

ghostview fonts problem

2000-11-15 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
After upgrading Xfree to version 4 as per current woody archives, I have tried to clean up the fonts on my system, but I must have trashed something related to ghostscript. I now get this error when trying to print the output of cdlabelgen (quite a simple stuff): GNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable e

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm using this command: >dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > >and getting this output: > >ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE >ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE > > >What I'm trying to ge

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Robert Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm using this command: > > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > > > > What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only

is_a_bug? Re:final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian

2000-11-15 Thread Jaume Teixi
When I compile php4 with: --enable-track-vars \ --with-oci8=/home/oracle/ohome \ --with-openssl=shared \ --enable-versioning And have done follow links: ln -s /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0 /usr/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0 ln -s /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libwtc8.so /usr/lib/libwtc8.so I guet t

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm using this command: >> dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > >It seems that 'dpkg -l' (without the pattern) lists all installed >packages, so you don't need to filter the installed packages out. That's n

Re: update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
Florian Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i would like to update to kernel 2.4 within potato. To meet the requirements >listed in in the file changes (kernel documentation), i have to download >some packages. How can i do this without confusing apt? Just download them and install them with 'dpkg

Debian and stormix

2000-11-15 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello, May I use the same sources.lists lines from my debian box to my stormix Linux box? Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Re: ssh authentication

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >logged as a normal user I would like to open up X-apps requiring root >permissions. As root in root's home directory, make .Xauthority a symbolic link to your normal user's .Xauthority file (or set the XAUTHORITY environment variable to the location of that file). Then yo

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Mié 15 Nov 2000 11:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use windows since part of my work is on Lotus Notes development though I boot it inside vmware. I also have an unsupported parallel port scanner :-( Everything else under Linux. > Well it is ok now. But it does teach people not to open

Re: no "/usr/sbin/install-info"

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
eric k. wolven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A problem I am having is in installation of packages. I still have a >number of "broken pkgs" and unconfigured. > >I am getting "/usr/sbin/install-info: no such file or directory" messages. > >I've tried to re-install dpkg_1.7.1 which has the file and it

mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread kbrede
I looked in the archives and couldn't find the answer to my question. It is probably there but I just can't get the search string right. Anyway I've just installed Potato. The mouse works with gpm. The mouse doesn't work using fvwm. If I move the mouse it flits around the perimiter of the scree

Re: Debian and stormix

2000-11-15 Thread Phillip Deackes
"Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > May I use the same sources.lists lines from my debian box to my > stormix > Linux box? Yes. It would be advantageous to also use the stormix lines too. I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Obviously if you are using s

Version Naming Convention

2000-11-15 Thread Jonathan Jefferies
I am currently running slink, 2.1? I've noted that there is a 2.2 version out. What is its designation? Are there any notes/faqs regarding the differences and whether is worth upgrading. Thanks Jonathan Jefferies --

Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread Jay Ford
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I looked in the archives and couldn't find the answer to my question. It > is probably there but I just can't get the search string right. Anyway > I've just installed Potato. The mouse works with gpm. The mouse doesn't > work using fvwm. If I move

X 4.0.1 & i810

2000-11-15 Thread Jim Frey
Hello, I have installed XFree86 4.0.1 on a system with Matsonic MS7012D board with Intel i810 on board. Pentium III 550 Mhz, 128 Mb Sdram. XFree86 4.0.1 was installed with apt-get from the debs in Woody. Dexter produces XF86Config-4 (attached), and XFree86 loads after commenting out the fontpath

Re: emacs without backup option

2000-11-15 Thread Daniel Freedman
Robert, I think you might be looking for something like: '(setq make-backup-files nil)' This is from memory, but it should provide a starting point. HTH, Daniel > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:57:51 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) > To: debian-user > Subject: emacs withou

Re: email

2000-11-15 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:13:07AM -, debian wrote: > Thanks for that but i am still a little confused. What is the findutils > package and which file in root/bin do I past in the line you gave. > > do the findutils package > > will get you the updatedb function, it is updated 'nightly' > > by

Re: Version Naming Convention

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Jefferies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am currently running slink, 2.1? I've noted that there is a 2.2 >version out. What is its designation? potato. The current unstable version is codenamed woody. >Are there any notes/faqs regarding the differences http://www.debian.org/releases/st

Re: Who is this virus sender????

2000-11-15 Thread Ray Percival
He is stupid but most likely not out to get anyone. This is a melissa variant basically reads a MicroShaft address book and mails itself out over and over again. -- Original Message -- From: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:1

Re: emails newbie

2000-11-15 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:26:15PM +0100, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > At 12:04 15-11-00 +, you wrote: > >Can anyone help me to configure my box to send and receive email i don't > >know where to start. messed around with exim but seem to have messed it > >up. I really am starting from sc

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