Quake 3 ran, I upgraded. . . Well, It doesn't run any more

2000-11-19 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Okay.  I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of woody.  Good Idea?  Of course.  Everything works . . . except Quake 3 (deja vu!).  I've got this down to an art now.  I know that for some reason X isn't finding the libGLcore.so.1.0.5 (or what ever it is) file and therefore fails to

Quake 3 ran, I upgraded. . . Well, It doesn't run any more

2000-11-19 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Okay.  I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of woody.  Good Idea?  Of course.  Everything works . . . except Quake 3 (deja vu!).  I've got this down to an art now.  I know that for some reason X isn't finding the libGLcore.so.1.0.5 (or what ever it is) file and therefore fails to

Re: Quake 3 ran, I upgraded. . . Well, It doesn't run any more

2000-11-19 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Okay. I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of woody. Good Idea? Of course. Everything works . . . except Quake 3 (deja vu!). I've got this down to an art now. I know that for some reason X isn't finding the libGLcore.so.1.0.5 (or what ever it is) file and therefore fails to load whe

How does debian support kyrillic fonts ?

2000-11-19 Thread Olaf Foellinger
Hi, I've run into the following problem. Generally I use German or English on my woody system. Sometimes I get Russian mails with kyrillic fonts (Koi8). Netscape displays them well but when I try to print them the output ist not readable ? How can I solve this problem ? Greetings Olaf

Re: debconf errors

2000-11-19 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > quick search of debian.org didn't turn up anything, is this know, is > there a fix, should I submit a bug, or am I just missing something? You're missing perl 5.6 which debconf depends on. -- see shy jo

chroot'd named & dpkg-sources

2000-11-19 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi all i just found that there was a new exploit for bind. i just also finished reading Chroot-BIND HOWTO. this might be a good time to apply what i've learned. i've already created my 'named' system user acct with a /bin/false shell and /chroot/named home directory. i've copied the contents o

Re: chroot'd named & dpkg-sources

2000-11-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:46:32AM -0500, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > hi all > > i just found that there was a new exploit for bind. i just also > finished reading Chroot-BIND HOWTO. this might be a good time to > apply what i've learned. i've already created my 'named' system user > acct with a /

Re: OT: working with cisco gear (Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s))

2000-11-19 Thread Robert Davies
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:30:59PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:18:31 +0100, Dariush Pietrzak writes: > > >> which are useful unless you have to manage lots of those boxes, > > > > >I wouldn't know. > > >but isn't that what OpenView is for? and is unbeatable in that fie

Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-19 Thread Robert Davies
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:47:54 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > >On Friday 17 November 2000, at 9 h 25, the keyboard of Debian Ghost > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco > >> routers and/or other Cisco gear. > > > >Eve

Re: Gnome Web Links

2000-11-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I used to use RedHat and Helix Gnome before switching to > Debian. In my RH/Helix environment I could drag a web link from > mozilla or netscape onto the desktop to create a handy internet link > that would bring up netscape when I double-clicked

alsactl problem

2000-11-19 Thread Joey Hess
I'm just using alsa for the first time. It seems to be configured and working ok; xmms works, I have /dev/asound directory with lots of files in it, and so on. But alsactl does not work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>alsactl store alsactl: No soundcards found... Strace shows it is trying to open a lot of f

Re: url forward

2000-11-19 Thread Sebastiaan
Thanks! That's a start , because the page is not locally hosted. Greetings, Sebastiaan. On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Martin Würtele wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:55:20PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Ok, does anyone know an elegant (and fast) method to accomplish this, so > > that the original doma

Onboard soundcards

2000-11-19 Thread Bek Oberin
I've just got a new motherboard which seems to have an onboard sound card. I don't have the motherboard manual - is there any way of probing or checking what sort of sound card it is, in the way that SuperProbe checks for video cards? I'm stuck! bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl

nfs-kernel-server

2000-11-19 Thread Bek Oberin
I can't seem to start the nfsd stuff. Here's my /etc/exports: /home 196.168.1.20(rw) 192.168.1.21(rw) And here's what I get when I try to start the daemon: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/init.d# ./nfs-kernel-server start Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...192.168.1.21:/home: Function not im

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:40:05 +0100 Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about beonex? I installed it yesterday on a friends system and it > seems to work good. What is beonex? I just did a search on Google and Freshmeat and found nothing. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000

Re: Last woody upgrade = chaos?!

2000-11-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 01:25:45 +0100 Toens Bueker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was very helpful - I had one lib more than you (libnss-ldap). And > obviously that one was the problem. I purged and re-installed it - and now > it didn't reconfigure /etc/nsswitch.conf. Et voilá - we're back to bus

Re: Onboard soundcards

2000-11-19 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:47:47 +1100 Bek Oberin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just got a new motherboard which seems to have an onboard > sound card. I don't have the motherboard manual - is there any > way of probing or checking what sort of sound card it is, in the > way that SuperProbe check

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:40:05 +0100 > Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What about beonex? I installed it yesterday on a friends system and it > > seems to work good. > > What is beonex? I just did a search on Google and Freshmeat and found

update-menus

2000-11-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
How can I make update-menus coexist with my custom wm config files? For example, I rolled my own ~/.vtwmrc. Now, I apt-get install xinvaders. I would like a menu entry for xinvaders to appear automagically in my window manager, without losing my other customizations. The current behaviour is

Re: emai client

2000-11-19 Thread USM Bish
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:30:45PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > I am looking for a X e-mail client which could look to different mailboxes > in different ISPs. Any suggestion? > Thanks in advance! > > Marcelo > _ Not quite sure what you are looking for exactly. The o

Re: ISP accounting software

2000-11-19 Thread USM Bish
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:12:23PM +1000, markc wrote: > Did you manage to find any ISP accounting software to suit you ? > Not quite. Did an apt-get for ipac. The set-up is a bit complicated and the documentation rather short and terse. Trying some experimentation presently .. Not much success

Re: Netscape 6.0/konqueor

2000-11-19 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Thanks for the information, I have the same libssl installed. I think, the problem with the homebanking site I wanted to access is really that my proxy server doesn't listen https requests. Hmm, till I can fix it I'll access the site from the machine this proxy is running on (a windoze one

Re: anXious usage?

2000-11-19 Thread Frank Copeland
On 18 Nov 00 23:50:40 GMT, Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found this programs name as a comment in the begining of > /etc/X11/XF86config. Now when I run it, it just does nothng. The prompt > comes > right back :-( I've had the same problem. Try deleting or moving et

Re: emai client

2000-11-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:06:10 +051800 USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:30:45PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > > I am looking for a X e-mail client which could look to different mailboxes > > in different ISPs. Any suggestion? > > Thanks in advance! > > > >

Group `disk'

2000-11-19 Thread Tom Huckstep
I added myself to the `disk' group because I wanted to be able to play audio CDs. However, I noticed that this gives me write access to all my hard disk device files. Does this mean I will be able to format them with fdisk and write arbitary data to them by doing e.g. cat > /dev/hda? That would

The apt sources.list

2000-11-19 Thread Tom Huckstep
I have the full set of 6 potato r0 CDs and my /etc/apt/sources.list file looks like this: deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official Source-3 (2814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official Source-2 (281

Re: nfs-kernel-server

2000-11-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:04:11PM +1100, Bek Oberin wrote: > I can't seem to start the nfsd stuff. Here's my /etc/exports: > > /home 196.168.1.20(rw) 192.168.1.21(rw) > > And here's what I get when I try to start the daemon: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/init.d# ./nfs-kernel-server start > Export

Group `disk'

2000-11-19 Thread Tom Huckstep
--- Begin Message --- Ekkehard Kraemer writes: > Yup, you can write on /dev/hda, format it, whatever you like, if you're > in "disk". This seems a big security risk just so I can play audio CDs. Is there a better way to give a user the ability to play CDs without giving them permissions to wipe

Re: Group `disk'

2000-11-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:35:03AM +, Tom Huckstep wrote: > I added myself to the `disk' group because I wanted to be able to play don't do that. > audio CDs. However, I noticed that this gives me write access to all > my hard disk device files. Does this mean I will be able to format > the

SVGAlib/X Screen sync problems

2000-11-19 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Debianers, I have a problem with my ct65535 and the Sharp 640x480 LCD in my AT&T Globalyst 130 laptop. Description: I can't get the screen to sync. When I start X I get a scrumbled screen. It goes away, when I do a LCD/CRT/LCD switch. I already used the UseModeLine option and fiddled with th

Re: The apt sources.list

2000-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
Tom Huckstep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have the full set of 6 potato r0 CDs and my /etc/apt/sources.list >file looks like this: > >deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official Source-3 >(2814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main [...] >deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linu

Re: alsactl problem

2000-11-19 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:17:12AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm just using alsa for the first time. It seems to be configured and > working ok; xmms works, I have /dev/asound directory with lots of files > in it, and so on. But alsactl does not work: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>alsactl store > alsa

Re: SVGAlib/X Screen sync problems

2000-11-19 Thread Q89029292
Try on the linux laptops web site, they have lots of docs from people who've had success, I'm sorry I can't remember their address, I'll have a poke around on the net and see if I can dig it up for you. Regards, Peter Firmstone. On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Daniel Reuter wrote: > Hello Debianers, > >

Setting up SMTP and POP servers - QMail or what?

2000-11-19 Thread Robin Collins
Up till now I've shyed away from implmenting mail on my Linux boxes, it seems so complicated and my nice friendly (!) Windows POP3 clients seem generally far easier to use. However, I've now gone back to an ISP (Demon) which tries to deliver mail using SMTP, the only ISP I've ever had where this

DNS hosting, howto, reference?

2000-11-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I recently got my own top domain name, and have been considering become my own provider and host. But I have no idea about how-what to do. I figure having apache in the deb distribution is a great step forward, but beyond that have no clue. For example, one of the main blanks is: Say I have my PC s

Re: NCR53C9x (MCA) SCSI problem with scanner

2000-11-19 Thread Lee Elliott
Does your kernel have scsi CD-ROM and generic support? I also have an internal scsi CD-ROM and a scsi scanner: my CD-ROM is detected as sr0 and the scanner comes in as sg2 - do you see anything like these being detected later on in dmesg? Also, ensure that you have scsi termination set on the sc

Still need help with PS/2 mouse

2000-11-19 Thread Stan Brown
I still am having troubel getting my Potato system to recognize/use the PS/2 mouse proeprly. I checked in the BIOS and it's enabled and at IRQ12 One boot the kernel says: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. But once the system is up a cat of proc/interupts shows:

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-19 Thread Shel Johnson
--- Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:40:05 +0100 > > Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What about beonex? I installed it yesterday on a friends system and > it > > > seems to work good. > > > > What is

Re: url forward

2000-11-19 Thread Sebastiaan
Thanks, I will discuss this with my provider when really needed. Greetings, Sebastiaan > > You can't do this with DNS alone; your provider needs to run a virtual > host for you. Whenever any HTTP/1.1 client (or HTTP/1.0 client with > Netscape extensions, the two of which combined form the vast ma

Re: NEWBIE: qpopper (SOLVED)

2000-11-19 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, solved now. I downloaded the latest version from www.qpopper.org, compiled it and everything works fine. Maybe some irregualrity in the debian package? Greetings, Sebastiaan > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:39:20PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a problem with reading mail with q

Network printing issues...

2000-11-19 Thread Kristian Rink
Hello everybody... ...facing the fact that a friendly guy provided me with quite some nice laser printer (Brother HL-1240) to fit into my small LAN, I am now more or less for the first time dealing with the issues of network printing. How things are: 'Server': 486DX-40 box running potato and lpr

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:02:32AM -0800, Shel Johnson wrote: > > So y'all think the pure mozilla will have the same bugs as Netscape 6 or many of the same bugs yes, probably/definitly fewer though since netscape 6 is just an older snapshot of mozilla with extra bugs and crap slapped on by AOL.

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-19 Thread urbanyon
nope - where can i get the driver? On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:49:14PM -0500, Brett Singer wrote: > > > nothing that starts with a '3c' seems to work - i think i have the tulip > > driver (3c90x), but it's on a windows machine, and when i try to mo

Re: 75dpi font default-haw?

2000-11-19 Thread paolo massei
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:24:42AM +, sena wrote: > On 18/11/2000 at 01:23 -0800, Tino Ionescu wrote: > > Please advise haw can the 75dpi font be set default, > > as opposed to 100dpi font. > > > Start X with "startx -- -dpi 75"... > > Regards, sena.. > ...or you can put on the top of your

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-19 Thread urbanyon
hi again, thanks for all of your help so far- i've gotten to the point where i need to 'install' the driver. the 3com instructions read: 3. Run the installer by issuing the following command (note the root shell prompt of #): # ./install3c90x

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:08:28AM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > # insmod 3c90x > > and got this message: > > ./3c90x.0: kernel-module version mismatch > ./3c90x.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.12-20 > while this kernel is version 2.2.12 Right. It needs to be recompiled against

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:08:28AM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > hi again, > > thanks for all of your help so far- > > i've gotten to the point where i need to 'install' the driver. the 3com > instructions read: [snip] > # insmod 3c90x > > and got this message: > > ./3c90x.0: kernel-module version

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-19 Thread matthschulz
I use efax since about a year and I'm happy with that. Matth On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Thomas Halahan wrote: > dear deb-users, > > I have a stand allone debian box with a fax modem. I want to send > faxes from my box (but I don't really have to recieve them). > > Q> What software, from the debi

How do I enable Gnome environment?

2000-11-19 Thread Stan Brown
OK, I seem to have manged to get X configured thanks to peoples help on this list explaining the use of anXious. Nice tool BTW. Now, how do I get Gnome to start up when I log in to the xdm session? Or do I need to replace xdm with gdm? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL P

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-19 Thread Pollywog
I have tried a commercial fax program and it works even on my modem. http://www.kellergroup.com/

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-19 Thread Pollywog
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:17:38 -0600, matthschulz said: > I use efax since about a year and I'm happy with that. > Does efax also require the use of a fax server (such as Hylafax server) or can it send faxes directly? -- Andrew

Device name for serial mouse?

2000-11-19 Thread Stan Brown
OK, I give up on the PS/2 mouse :-( I need to have this machine working by Monday, and it has become aparent that I am notging to get the PS/2 mouse working by then. So, I have the serial mouse (actually one of those combo serial/PS-2 things0 that I used

Re: Still need help with PS/2 mouse

2000-11-19 Thread Chris Gray
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 08:42:33AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I still am having troubel getting my Potato system to recognize/use > the PS/2 mouse proeprly. > > I checked in the BIOS and it's enabled and at IRQ12 One boot the > kernel says: > > Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. > > As you can see, there

Re: Setting up SMTP and POP servers - QMail or what?

2000-11-19 Thread Timmy Douglas
Robin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Up till now I've shyed away from implmenting mail on my Linux boxes, > it seems so complicated and my nice friendly (!) Windows POP3 clients > seem generally far easier to use. However, I've now gone back to an ISP > (Demon) which tries to deliver > ma

Re: Setting up SMTP and POP servers - QMail or what?

2000-11-19 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sunday 19 November 2000 09:27, Robin Collins wrote: > Up till now I've shyed away from implmenting mail on my Linux boxes, > it seems so complicated and my nice friendly (!) Windows POP3 clients > seem generally far easier to use. However, I've now gone back to an ISP > (Demon) which tries to d

Local IMAP server

2000-11-19 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello, since Netscape Messenger isn't able to do proper locking on its own mbox files and I want to use both Netscape and mutt for mail reading, I'm thinking about installing a local IMAP server on my woody machine, which will only "serve" my own mails. The current situation is this: leafnode is

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-19 Thread urbanyon
> i am puzzeled as to why you need this module, why not use the one in > the kernel sources, i have not ever had problems with it on 905 > cards. (its the vortex driver in the 3com section) not sure that it is a 905 card - the model # is 3CSOHO100-TX On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:

SSL in mozilla M18 and Netscape 6

2000-11-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
-- Using intelligent power: RISC OS, Be OS, Debian Linux Enjoying computing.

Re: Device name for serial mouse?

2000-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I have the serial mouse (actually one of those combo > serial/PS-2 things0 that I used on my last Debian box (which did > not have a PS/3 port). > Unfortuantely i can't rember the device name I used for this > thing. it wil

SSL in mozilla M18 and Netscape 6

2000-11-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all. Firstly apologies for posting an empty email... agh! - wrong key strokes! Without wishing to spark off another bitching match about netscape 6 vs mozilla M18, I would like some help regarding https. So far I've been using Netscape 4, and mainly without fault. I use squid on my box, a

Debian booth in Belgrad? (15th to 17th December)

2000-11-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, we have received some mail from the organizers of LinuxFEST '00 in Belgrad. Are here users or developer from Yugoslavia who want to help out? If so, please get in touch with me. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc

Re: How do I enable Gnome environment?

2000-11-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:56:19AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > OK, I seem to have manged to get X configured thanks to peoples help on > this > list explaining the use of anXious. Nice tool BTW. > > Now, how do I get Gnome to start up when I log in to the xdm session? > Or do I

Re: Simple network card problem

2000-11-19 Thread Tilton
Cameron, Your problem is covered in the Ethernet HOWTO. See section 3.7 -->"Linux and ISA Plug and Play Ethernet Cards". You should also look at section 5.0 as well. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html You can get a program, 3C5X9cfg.exe from the 3COM web site that does the conf

Re: Device name for serial mouse?

2000-11-19 Thread Tilton
For gpmconfig; Device -> /dev/psaux mouse type -> ps2 Regards, T. Tilton Stan Brown wrote: > > OK, I give up on the PS/2 mouse :-( > > I need to have this machine working by Monday, and it has become > aparent that I > am notging to get the PS/2 mouse working by the

problem with (large) fonts

2000-11-19 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello! something i really hate about X is it's font "support". they are either too big or too small or plain ugly. i hope things will improve in the future.. but at the moment i only have two problems, maybe somebody can help me: some large fonts look crippled. i see this mainly in webbrowsers (

apt-get problem

2000-11-19 Thread Maury Merkin
Hi, I'm relatively new to Debian but have been using Linux as my home/office os for nearly six years. I use "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" a few times a week but last week my cron script failed (while I was sleeping) and I have not been able to use "apt-get upgrade" since. Here's the mes

Re: Device name for serial mouse?

2000-11-19 Thread Tilton
Ooops! I didn't answer the question you asked. Sorry! COM1: = /dev/ttyS0 COM2: = /dev/ttyS1 ^ ^---> Note capital 'S' used here as for the device type for gpm I don't know which mouse you are using, "(actually one of those combo serial/PS-2 things0 " so I can

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-19 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:08:28AM -0500, urbanyon wrote: :3. Run the installer by issuing the following command (note the :root shell prompt of #): : :# ./install3c90x Have you tried this on the linux box? it is possible (not to say likely) that it will recompile the mod

Re: Network printing issues...

2000-11-19 Thread Tilton
Hello Kristian, It looks like you haven't specified how to find the remote printers on the other three machines. In /etc/printcap you should have an entry such as this; rljet|Remote Laser Printer:\ :lp=:\ :rm=printbox:\ :rp=ljet:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet:\

changing debian menu

2000-11-19 Thread ktb
I'm trying to use the debian menu program adding a menu item to the "Main Menu." I can successful add menu items to any sub directory under "Main Menu" but accessing the item in this way is one more click I don't need. For example in /etc/menu/netscape I add the following - ?package(netscape):\

Re: How do I enable Gnome environment?

2000-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:56:19AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> OK, I seem to have manged to get X configured thanks to peoples >> help on this list explaining the use of anXious. Nice tool BTW. >> >> Now, how do I get Gnome to start u

Re: Problems with the 3Com 3c905B NIC

2000-11-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Alson van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Before that I tried two different NICs to no avail, which leads me to > > believe NICs may be inherently flaky. So maybe try another one (I > > convinced my local h/w vendor to lend me this one, slightly used, and > > I ended up buying it)

Re: How do I enable Gnome environment?

2000-11-19 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Nov 19 12:44:36 2000 Michael P. Soulier wrote... > > >--QBJnsLb0QyYEYRYK >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:56:19AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> OK, I seem to have manged to g

Re: System.map

2000-11-19 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [181100 19:25]: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:48:29AM -0600, Jason Holland wrote: > > > You can recreate your System.map by running make install in /usr/src/linux, > > or wherever your kernel source is that you recently recompiled. > > Sure he can recreate it

Re: How do I enable Gnome environment?

2000-11-19 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Nov 19 13:56:32 2000 Colin Watson wrote... > >"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:56:19AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >>> OK, I seem to have manged to get X configured thanks to peoples >>> help on this list explaining the use of anXious. Nice to

Gome and window managers.

2000-11-19 Thread Stan Brown
Could someone pleas explain the relationship between Gnome and windo managers? Is there a "Gnome Prefered" window manager? How do I set up to sue it if there is? If not couldsomeone give me a recomenadtion as to which one to use with Gnome? -- Stan Brown [E

XF86Config wierdness

2000-11-19 Thread Stan Brown
Can anyone explain to me whay changing: Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "512x384" EndSubsection With: Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "640x480" "512x384"

Re: Gome and window managers.

2000-11-19 Thread Sam TH
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:17:30PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Could someone pleas explain the relationship between Gnome and windo > managers? > > Is there a "Gnome Prefered" window manager? How do I set up to sue it > if there > is? If not couldsomeone give me a recomenadtion

Re: Device name for serial mouse?

2000-11-19 Thread Tilton
Stan Brown wrote: > > On Sun Nov 19 13:26:29 2000 Tilton wrote... > > > >Ooops! > > > >I didn't answer the question you asked. Sorry! > > > >COM1: = /dev/ttyS0 > >COM2: = /dev/ttyS1 > >^ > >^---> Note capital 'S' used here > > > > > >as for the device type for

Re: How do I enable Gnome environment?

2000-11-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:56:32PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:56:19AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > >>OK, I seem to have manged to get X configured thanks to peoples > >>help on this list explaining the use of anXi

Re: How do I enable Gnome environment?

2000-11-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:56:33PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Thanks, wil that get me the "correct" window manager also? Your window manager is configured via gnome's control panel. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a

Re: Problems with the 3Com 3c905B NIC

2000-11-19 Thread Tilton
"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > > I got this OEM 3Com 3c905B card and added it to my system (ABIT-BH6, > Celeron 300A) which already has a generic 10/100 PCI NIC that has thus > far been working perfectly with [EMAIL PROTECTED] service. > > BTW, the other NIC that works fine is detected by kernel as: >

The Microsoft tax

2000-11-19 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I'm thinking of buying a new computer and I was looking for information on getting a refund for Windows. Any links, help, tips, success stories, or general M$ bashing would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Andy __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Cal

Re: Q: RSA Authentication vs. Password Authentication in SSH

2000-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:16:10PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I am afraid you have lost me here. Are you asking how you can securely > transfer the public keys of your clients (not an easy task), OK, now you's lost me... I thought the big advantage of public keys was exactly that - they're public.

Re: installing multiple versions of a given package

2000-11-19 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:07:53PM -0500, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am curious to know whether it would be possible to have > two or more version of a given package exist compatibly and > have the alternatives tool be able to pick one. > > REASON. Sometimes the features of one

Re: capt segfaults

2000-11-19 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:32:36PM +0100, Johannes Zellner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:46:28PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > > > Sig11's are often diagnostic of memory errors. Look at > > http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ It could be a real problem > > in capt, but if

Re: emai client

2000-11-19 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:30:45PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi!! > > I am looking for a X e-mail client which could look to different mailboxes > in different ISPs. Any suggestion? > Thanks in advance! No you're not Look at fetchmail. Or IMAP. -- Karsten M. Se

Re: Installation problems

2000-11-19 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:04:59PM -0600, James Copland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm having problems installing Debian on my system. I have the Promise > UDMA66 card, a SiS 6326 video card and an Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830 sound card. > None of these install, nor does my /dev/lp0 even though I kno

Re: Group `disk'

2000-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:49:08AM +, Tom Huckstep wrote: > Ekkehard Kraemer writes: > > Yup, you can write on /dev/hda, format it, whatever you like, if you're > > in "disk". > > This seems a big security risk just so I can play audio CDs. Is there > a better way to give a user the ability

Re: exim trouble

2000-11-19 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:36:58PM -0600, Russ Cook ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am no longer able to receive mail from my ISP. This is a sudden > occurence, and due to no intentional action on my part. I'm attaching > the mainlog file in the hope that someone can give me some advice > regardi

Re: The Microsoft tax

2000-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:04:02PM -0800, Andrew Dixon wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a new computer and I was > looking for information on getting a refund for > Windows. > > Any links, help, tips, success stories, or general M$ > bashing would be greatly appreciated. Do a web search for "Win

new installation

2000-11-19 Thread john gennard
I've put together another box with items left over from upgrades plus a new 10.2G IDE hard drive. So far I've only installed Debian on boxes already having a running system (originally W95 and later just DOS 6.22 which I find easy to start with). This time I thought I would try installing Debian

Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-19 Thread Virginie-ML
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:35:53PM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: > What kind of mouse is it? Is it by chance an Intellimouse? No, a cordless logitech, but I don't think that configuration parameters are really differents (PS/2 - 3 buttons) gpm and mouse don't seem to work very fine together... -

Mozilla 18

2000-11-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Is Mozilla able to print? I have Mozilla M18 with recent woody update. Printing works in all other instances, including Netscape. The command "lpr" is given, but no results. lpq indicates no jobs were even sent. Kevin

Re: The Microsoft tax

2000-11-19 Thread Timmy Douglas
Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > I'm thinking of buying a new computer and I was > looking for information on getting a refund for > Windows. > > Any links, help, tips, success stories, or general M$ > bashing would be greatly appreciated. buy one without windows. i got min

Re: System.map

2000-11-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
"Robert A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just kinda curious...how important is it to place the new System.map file > (created when you compiled a new kernel) in the /boot directory? I have > compiled a number of kernels and, after looking at this discussion, I checked > my /boot directo

Re: The Microsoft tax

2000-11-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > I'm thinking of buying a new computer and I was > looking for information on getting a refund for > Windows. Hrm. A few months ago I bought a "custom" computer from the shop down the street ("Hi, I'd like to buy a computer" "What kind?"

Re: new installation

2000-11-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've put together another box with items left over from upgrades plus > a new 10.2G IDE hard drive. So far I've only installed Debian on > boxes already having a running system (originally W95 and later just > DOS 6.22 which I find easy to start with). Th

Can't get ISDN MPPP working [sigh]

2000-11-19 Thread Robin Collins
After much struggle I've got myself a nicely working 64k connection, but like very many before me MPPP has me beat! I found the ISDNUTILS scripts and docs impenetrable, and came up with scripts based on a couple of HOWTOs I came across. This is my script to configure the connection: MYUSER=robi

Re: HELP!!!

2000-11-19 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:06:12PM -0500, urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Ah. What a crappy book. It was my first Debian book, and install, > > too. > > :-) Can you suggest a better book? it's nice to have a reference. Though I generally dismiss the Sams imprint on sight, the

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