free x server for windows

2000-12-27 Thread David Purton
anyone know of a good free x server for windows 95? I've tried M/IX but I'm not particularly happy with it - fails on eterm and gives error messages all the time - and I don't like it's window manager :) - not much I know... Today people i

Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(

2000-12-27 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:07:05AM +1000, Ian Tan wrote: > I have recently purchased an ASUS A7V motherboard (socket A) with built-in > "Promise ATA/100 IDE controller", and so I happily bought a new 30Gb Quantum > ATA/100 hard disk. :) Actually the 2.4 kernel series has support for

[menuconfig] Segmentation fault

2000-12-27 Thread irvine
Hello!!! I recently bought and installed Debian 2.2r0. I installed it and decided to compile a new kernel. PROBLEM: I used 'menuconfig' but after a while it exits suddenly. The message 'make: *** [menuconfig] Segmentation fault' is appears and the command prompt returns. I was trying to

Re: Iomega PC2F SCSI Adaptor

2000-12-27 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 08:20:37PM -0800, Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > No specific advice. What is this card for? In my experience, Iomega > > sucks, blows, and spews chunks, in technicolor. > > i used to agree. but there is an upside. provided they

Logitech QuickCam

2000-12-27 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
Hi, does anyone know if "Logitech QuickCam Web" runs under potato (Kernel 2.2.18) ? Patrick

Re: [menuconfig] Segmentation fault

2000-12-27 Thread Nate Amsden
irvine wrote: > > Hello!!! > > I recently bought and installed Debian 2.2r0. > I installed it and decided to compile a new > kernel. > > PROBLEM: > > I used 'menuconfig' but after a while > it exits suddenly. The message > > 'make: *** [menuconfig] Segmentation fault' > > is appears and the c

Re: Can't start rpc.nfsd

2000-12-27 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have no idea, but have you tried to install everything from start? Try to reinstall rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd. Is rpc.statd running? Succes, SEbastiaan On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I have a slight problem with my file-swapping. When I try to start rpc.nfsd, >

what's the portmap daemon do?

2000-12-27 Thread David Purton
Hi, just wondering whether I need the portmap daemon running or not. I confess that the man page didn't really help me. from what I can gather it has something to do with nfs, which I don't need. Today people in droves hurry up past He

slashdot (slashcode) as debian package?

2000-12-27 Thread will trillich
from http://slashcode.org/ i found: posted by Krow on Monday December 18, @02:10PM from the quick-install-program dept. Bernd Eckenfels writes "I would like to turn slash into a Debian Package. I just posted the ITP Request (#79858) to the Debian L

as86 Error compling kernel-source-2.2.18

2000-12-27 Thread Greg Strockbine
since this is my first time compiling the kernel this isn't strange that I don't have "as86" right? This is normal that I have to go out and find this via google.com? thanks - greg s. Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.18/arch/i386/boot' cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.

Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(

2000-12-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 19:09:10 -0800 Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was planning on buying this board soon, so I'm interested in the > possibly solutions. Let me see if I got this right... > > (1) Use the UDMA-66 controller. > > (2) Compile a kernel with the UDMA-100 support in it (eit

Unidentified subject!

2000-12-27 Thread kmself
>From karsten Tue Dec 26 21:44:41 2000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] ident=karsten) by navel with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1 (Debian)) id 14B9OC-0005zf-01 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 26 Dec 2000 21:44:40 -0800 Received: from popd.ix.netcom.com [199.174.33.9] by l

Re: as86 Error compling kernel-source-2.2.18

2000-12-27 Thread eechi von akusyumi
> since this is my first time compiling > the kernel this isn't strange that I > don't have "as86" right? This is normal > that I have to go out and find this via > google.com? please do a apt-get install bin86 and everything would be fine -evil -- Cagito, ego sum. - Original Message -

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > sorry - which file is this? i'm having big NIC problems as well. > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote: > > > You can put module-loading options in a file > > called, say, /etc/modutils/local and then run ^^^ Cheers,

Re: Kernel 2.4 on potato

2000-12-27 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:02:39PM +0100 or thereabouts, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:25:32PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > hi. not wanting to reinvent the wheel, is it possible to use the kernel > > 2.4 with potato? if yes then what files, if any, should i get and from

kernel: scsi conflict

2000-12-27 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I am trying to build a kernel which detects my scsi card correctly. I have a adapted 1505 wich works (almost) perfectly with the aha152x driver. The problem is the module. For my card, you have to give the io and irq explicitly, so I can not compile it static in the kernel. But when I try t

Re: free x server for windows

2000-12-27 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 05:41:08PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > anyone know of a good free x server for windows 95? > > I've tried M/IX but I'm not particularly happy with it - fails on eterm > and gives error messages all the time - and I don't like it's window > manager :

Re: Warning: bad experience with KBackup and 100M zip disks

2000-12-27 Thread Mark Phillips
> > So, I am still totally mystified about why it went so horribly wrong. > > It would seem the KBackup software is at least partly to blame, maybe > > entirely to blame? It uses gzip in conjunction with afio, which I > > thought were fairly reliable. Hardware could possibly be to blame, > > but

Permissions

2000-12-27 Thread Bill Lumsden
Hi all, I want to give members of my staff access to a program (radute)that only runs as root. Can this be done without giving full root access ?? If so can someone tell me how? computer:/usr/local/radius#ls -la -r-x--1 root staff9105 Mar 2 2000 hsysadm -r-x---r-x

Hello

2000-12-27 Thread Rudy Hardeman
I have a problem with my voodoo banshee and gilde   Want to install glide but wen i compile the Device driver then i get a error rediffind variablenum_cpu enz.   Can you help me with the install off glide i dont now how i must solve this problem   HELP ME

Re: Permissions

2000-12-27 Thread Angel
Bill Lumsden wrote: > > Hi all, > I want to give members of my staff access to a program (radute)that > only > runs as root. Can this be done without giving full root access ?? > > If so can someone tell me how? > > computer:/usr/local/radius#ls -la > -r-x--1 root staff

Re: shutdown problem

2000-12-27 Thread Dean
Hi Jack: I had the same problem. I found not to use a location in /etc/shutdown.allow but only the user's name. hth Dean Jack wrote: > > hi all: > > it used to work well. I followed someone's suggestion and changed > Ctrl-Alt-Del to shutdown the machine. Now I got this error: > > shutdown:

Re: Permissions

2000-12-27 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Bill Lumsden wrote: > Hi all, > I want to give members of my staff access to a program (radute)that only > runs as root. Can this be done without giving full root access ?? > > If so can someone tell me how? > > computer:/usr/local/radius#ls -la > -r-x--1 roo

Re: 'sendmail' option -commented- in Muttrc but working??

2000-12-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:41:48AM +0100, Ignasi Tura wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:44:24AM +0100, Ignasi Tura wrote: > > > Dear colleagues, > > > > > > I am able to send mail correctly with Mutt. > > > > > > I take a look to what happens when I send mail with mutt, and the manual > > >

how? - downloaded debs on one PC as preferred apt source on another?

2000-12-27 Thread Martin Waller
Hello, I have a small network masqueraded (which is so easy to do with debian - it's the best). On the Masquerading machine (one with modem...) I get my updates off the net (and haven't deleted downloaded debs!). I don't want to spend hours on the modem to update each PC - can I set the ot

Re: Changing screen size along with screen resolution?

2000-12-27 Thread Marco Herrn
- Original Message - From: "Lance Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nate Amsden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 3:42 AM Subject: Re: Changing screen size along with screen resolution? > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:42:36PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > > Lance Si

Re: how? - downloaded debs on one PC as preferred apt source on another?

2000-12-27 Thread Gregor Anders
Betreff: how? - downloaded debs on one PC as preferred apt source on another? Datum: Mit Dez 27, 2000 at 02:15:06 + Absender Martin Waller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hallo Martin Waller, > Hello, > > I have a small network masqueraded (which is so easy to do with debian

limit printing to selected users

2000-12-27 Thread David Purton
What's the best way to limit printing to a selected group of users? Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in order

Re: how? - downloaded debs on one PC as preferred apt source on another?

2000-12-27 Thread matthschulz
I did it already. I just nfs-mounted the /var/cache/apt/archive into the filesystem on the modemless machine. There is for sure a better possibility. Matth Am Mittwoch, 27. Dezember 2000 05:15 schrieb Martin Waller: > Hello, > > I have a small network masqueraded (which is so easy to do with deb

Re: how? - downloaded debs on one PC as preferred apt source on another?

2000-12-27 Thread ktb
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:15:06PM +, Martin Waller wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small network masqueraded (which is so easy to do with debian - > it's the best). On the Masquerading machine (one with modem...) I get my > updates off the net (and haven't deleted downloaded debs!). > > I d

lates woody upgrade

2000-12-27 Thread Gregor Anders
Hi everyone, sice the latest upgrade (woody), this morning, apt gives me the following error-message: snip -- Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libc6 0 packag

man page about thread in libc6

2000-12-27 Thread free_taliban
hello everybody i m just a newbie in linux and i really need your help. I started developping under linux and i often use the man pages for the usual system calls but i didnt manage to find those concerning the thread functions like pthread_create and so. Can anyone help me please ? ___

terminal emulator + key mapping

2000-12-27 Thread Sergio Matos
Dear colegues: I'm looking for a aplication that allows to access, from a console mode PC, to a UNIX server, emulating a VT100 terminal. The problem is that I need to map the keys from the VT100 (PF1-PF4, DO, FIND, REMOVE, SELECT, etc.) to the PC keys. Thanks in advance, Sérgio Matos

Re: man page about thread in libc6

2000-12-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 05:16:12PM +0100, free_taliban wrote: > hello everybody > i m just a newbie in linux and i really need your help. > I started developping under linux and i often use the man pages for the > usual system calls but i didnt manage to find those concerning the > thread functions

Re: what's the portmap daemon do?

2000-12-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 06:39:56PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > just wondering whether I need the portmap daemon running or not. > > from what I can gather it has something to do with nfs, which I don't > need. You got it. The portmapper is used by things like NFS and NIS. If you don't use thos

Re: Hello

2000-12-27 Thread Jon Pennington
> Rudy Hardeman wrote: > > I have a problem with my voodoo banshee and gilde > > Want to install glide but wen i compile the Device driver then i get a > error rediffind variablenum_cpu enz. > > Can you help me with the install off glide i dont now how i must solve > this problem > > HELP ME Y

Re: as86 Error compling kernel-source-2.2.18

2000-12-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Greg" == Greg Strockbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Greg> since this is my first time compiling the kernel this isn't Greg> strange that I don't have "as86" right? This is normal that I Greg> have to go out and find this via google.com? The very latest (unstable) kernel-package no

Re: shutdown problem

2000-12-27 Thread Jack
Many thanks to people who replied. Yes, removing /etc/shutdown.allow helps. I put a username in that file, the user I log in for everyday's working. dont know why it caused the problem. I also found a symptom as well: `who` did not return anything. I think I am going to use sudo to shutdow

Re: help me

2000-12-27 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >Third: Read this guide on how to report bugs effectively, by Jeff >Covey, at Freshmeat: > >http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/02/26/951627540.html Actually, the article was by Simon Tatham. But it is, indeed, a must-read (if only because Simon has an engaging writing

Sid dselect Woes

2000-12-27 Thread Thomas Delany
Oops!  I guess I'm really running Sid.  I didn't realize that unstable had been changed to Sid.  Duh!  What rock have I been hiding under?   Anyways, my problem still stands.  Could some kind soul please shed a little light on it for me?  Please?   Tom   - Original Message - From: Th

Re: setting up apt-get "server"

2000-12-27 Thread Jesse Goerz
will trillich wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 02:11:12PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: > > > I setup an rsync mirror of the kde2 site for my home network. I was > > > wondering how to set it up so I can apt-get from workstations in my > > > network the packages off my rsync mirror. Has anyone do

Re: Kernel 2.4 on potato

2000-12-27 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:28:33PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > > I'm using kernel 2.4 on my potato box without any problems. I've installed > > modutils from woody to recognize new directories organization under > > /lib/modules/ and ppp package from woody to make ppp work as a module with > >

Re: Debian 2.2 and ISDN

2000-12-27 Thread Felix Natter
Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:58:57PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote: > > > > > > I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his > > > mail a few months ago (configure modules, create co

Setting terminal defaults & shutdown (patato 2.2r0)

2000-12-27 Thread paulm
I'm trying to set the default Xterm size (columns and rows) and font. I was told that they should be specified in .Xdefaults, but I have yet to find any documentation which covers the format required. I also saw some mention that Debian uses .Xresources rather than .Xdefaults, but have no more idea

putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-27 Thread R. M. Lampert
Hi, folks! Due to some very unpleasant experience in the company I'm working at (rootshell attack due to a buffer overflow intrusion in httpd...) there's a great need with us to inform thoroughly about changing to a safer environment, that is LAMP or even better NAMP (NetBSD, Apache ... there a

Re: Setting terminal defaults & shutdown (patato 2.2r0)

2000-12-27 Thread Jon Pennington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm trying to set the default Xterm size (columns and rows) and font. I > was told that they should be specified in .Xdefaults, but I have yet to > find any documentation which covers the format required. I also saw some > mention that Debian uses .Xresources rather th

Voodo3 3000

2000-12-27 Thread presi
Hallo guys!! I'm going to buy a 3dfx Vodoo3 3000 video card. Do you know if there are known problems with this card (with glides, xfree,)? Thanks in Advance -- Ciao Ciao -o) Marco Presi0349/4010919 /\\ Via Dei Mandriali, 2

Re: Voodo3 3000

2000-12-27 Thread Jon Pennington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hallo guys!! > > I'm going to buy a 3dfx Vodoo3 3000 video card. > Do you know if there are known problems with this card (with glides, > xfree,)? > > Thanks in Advance Works great if you can handle the fact that 16-bit 3D is your only option. :) Best when used

Re: putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-27 Thread JoshNarins
Here are a couple links which should help you get on your way. (Thanks to Stas Bekman, just another mod_perl hacker) http://www.securityfocus.com/focus/sun/articles/apache-inst.html http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/stimlorthen

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001226 15:45]: > > > Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, > > > section "Files", the following line should work for the default setup: > > > > > > FontPath "unix/:7101" > > > > > > See also /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz, esp q

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
* John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001226 19:42]: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > all seperately (with two of the three commented out each try). Using > > > the "inetc/127.0.0.1..." line *does* cause TT fonts to work, but various > > > windows take *too* long to open up. Mutt, for example, open

G4 Precompiled Kernels Wanted

2000-12-27 Thread Jake R. Johnson
I am just starting on a G4 and they seem fairly fast but I hate that you can't boot to a floppy for kernels and such. Is there anyone that has a recompiled 2.4 kernel with usb mouse support? Thanks, Jake

lilo.conf -modifying

2000-12-27 Thread Enrique Gutiérrez
Hi! I'm trying to modify the lilo.conf file (configuring a IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM burner), by adding append="hdc=ide-scsi", however, there is already a line with append="non-scroll" I can't just add the entire line for ide-scsi, neither "hdc=ise-scsi" portion, because an error is displayed when r

Apache Error: srm.conf

2000-12-27 Thread Rob VanFleet
Apache has been running fine for some time now, and for some reason (I suppose it was from something being upgraded, but I don't remember seeing anything apache related) I'm now getting this error whenever attempting to start apache: Syntax error on line 133 of /etc/apache/srm.conf: Invalid comma

Re: lilo.conf -modifying

2000-12-27 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:17:08 -0600 (CST) Enrique Gutiérrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to modify the lilo.conf file (configuring a > IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM burner), by adding > > append="hdc=ide-scsi", > > however, there is already a line with > > append="non-scroll"

Weird message header?

2000-12-27 Thread Peczoli Zoltan
Hi, Some of my system users periodically receive an Win95.Hybris.Gen.dr infected EXE file. I tried to trace down the sender, but unfortunately i'm pretty lame interpreting the mail header. It goes like this: Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [212.108.236.133] (helo=d4t2e9) by

Re: lilo.conf -modifying

2000-12-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
> --- > ^X^C > q > quit > :q > ^C > end > x > exit > ZZ > ^D > ? > help > shit > . ed is a fine editor, isn't it? yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted messages preferred. http://www.palfrader.org/

Re: Weird message header?

2000-12-27 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:09:23PM +0100, Peczoli Zoltan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Some of my system users periodically receive an Win95.Hybris.Gen.dr > infected EXE file. I tried to trace down the sender, but unfortunately i'm > pretty lame interpreting the mail header. It goes like

Re: Voodo3 3000

2000-12-27 Thread presi
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hallo guys!! > > > > I'm going to buy a 3dfx Vodoo3 3000 video card. > > Do you know if there are known problems with this card (with glides, > > xfree,)? > > > > Thanks in Advance > > Works great if you can handle t

OFFTOPIC: can't start Quake2

2000-12-27 Thread Pollywog
I installed Quake2 according to the instructions at http://www.linuxgames.com/quake/Quake-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2 but when I try to start it I get this: lilypad:/usr/local/games/quake2->./quake2 +set vid_ref softx Added packfile ./baseq2/pak0.pak (1106 files) Added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (2 files

Re: Weird message header?

2000-12-27 Thread Peczoli Zoltan
Hi, > > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Received: from [212.108.236.133] (helo=d4t2e9) > > by mydomain.com with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) > > id 149C7D-vQ-00 > > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:15:04 +0100 > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Type: multi

Re: lilo.conf -modifying

2000-12-27 Thread Enrique Gutiérrez
thanks for responding. Cristoph: It's working. But lilo.conf is still restored to original form "non-scroll" after reboot. Any idea what's happening? Peter: I'm using kwrite. ¿does it's matter? --- Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > --- > > ^X^C > > q > > quit > > :q > > ^C > >

Re: as86 Error compling kernel-source-2.2.18

2000-12-27 Thread John Galt
binutils is what you're looking for On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Greg Strockbine wrote: > since this is my first time compiling > the kernel this isn't strange that I > don't have "as86" right? This is normal > that I have to go out and find this via > google.com? > > thanks - greg s. > > Enteri

Re: lilo.conf -modifying

2000-12-27 Thread Jeremy
>thanks for responding. > >Cristoph: > >It's working. But lilo.conf is still restored to >original form "non-scroll" after reboot. > >Any idea what's happening? > >Peter: >I'm using kwrite. ¿does it's matter? > I hope I'm doing this right this time. I screwed it up the last time I tried to reply

Re: OFFTOPIC: can't start Quake2

2000-12-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Pollywog wrote: > > I installed Quake2 according to the instructions at > http://www.linuxgames.com/quake/Quake-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2 > > but when I try to start it I get this: > > lilypad:/usr/local/games/quake2->./quake2 +set vid_ref softx > Added packfile ./baseq2/pak0.pak (1106 files) > Added p

Re: Voodo3 3000

2000-12-27 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hallo guys!! > > I'm going to buy a 3dfx Vodoo3 3000 video card. > Do you know if there are known problems with this card (with glides, > xfree,)? yes for my gamin i wouldnt use anything but a voodoo3 under Xfree3. the nvidia drivers have some massive memory leak

Re: putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-27 Thread Nate Amsden
"R. M. Lampert" wrote: > > Hi, folks! > > Due to some very unpleasant experience in the company > I'm working at (rootshell attack due to a buffer overflow > intrusion in httpd...) there's a great need with us > to inform thoroughly about changing to a safer environment, > that is LAMP or even

Re: as86 Error compling kernel-source-2.2.18

2000-12-27 Thread John Galt
binutils gives you as. Basically, binutils provides a little more flexibility since it's not just for x86 architecture... On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "John" == John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> binutils is what you're looking for > John> > > as8

Gnumeric 0.61 does not work with Woody

2000-12-27 Thread Preben Randhol
When I try to start gnumeric I it stops and says that it cannot find the fonts. Programs like gnome-terminal have no problem, but I don't have a fontmap file in /usr/shar/fonts as gnumeric seems to expect. Does anybody know of a workaround? It is kind of urgent so any hints would be much appreciate

Navigating the new ftp.debian.org

2000-12-27 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, A quick question about navigation of ftp.debian.org with package pools. I am curious as to the easiest way to get the source of a package from say woody when I am using potato. For example, when I wanted the source to php4, I was able to go into /debian/dists/woody/main/source/web;get php4_*

Gimp1.1 and xsane*

2000-12-27 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
When upgrading to Gimp1.1 1.1.32-1 (Woody), apt-get removes xsane-gimp1.1. However, xsane is also removed. Is there any way to get them to coexist? Right now I am alternatively installing whichever program I am using. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-6

Re: Voodo3 3000

2000-12-27 Thread Robert Gill
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:55:15PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > yes for my gamin i wouldnt use anything but a voodoo3 under Xfree3. > the nvidia drivers have some massive memory leaks and other odd > issues. X4 under voodoo3 is known to be much slower then glide under > X3(under X4 you must use Open

Re: as86 Error compling kernel-source-2.2.18

2000-12-27 Thread Colin Watson
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: >> > "John" == John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> John> binutils is what you're looking for >> >> as86 is part of the bin86 package on my machine: >> >> @viper:[/home/ssahmed] dpkg -S `which as86`

Re: 'sendmail' option -commented- in Muttrc... (SOLVED)

2000-12-27 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:10:56PM -0500, D-Man et al wrote: >[...] commented out [...] default value [...] Oh, thank you. I thought that all missing parameters like this commented out one, would result in mutt complaining when sending mail. > PS. I would guess that english isn't your native l

ppp/chap client problems

2000-12-27 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm trying to configure pppd for dial-out to work, which requires CHAP authentication. Unfortunately, I can't seem to make the @#$%! machines happy. I've gone through the HOWTO and everything *seems* to be configured properly, but obviously something's not right. Anyone care to point out what I'

Re: lilo.conf -modifying

2000-12-27 Thread Enrique Gutiérrez
Yes I did. I ran /sbin/lilo before reboot. After reboot, I can use my CD-RW, but lilo.conf is restored to original form, so after the next reboot I can't use my CD-RW. --- Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >thanks for responding. > > > >Cristoph: > > > >It's working. But lilo.conf is still

New course for Debian University

2000-12-27 Thread David A. Rogers
Kernel 150 - Compiling the kernel - is open for enrollment (The Debian University document has been updated to include information on compiling the kernel in the Debian way). Debian University can be found at: http://home.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt make-kpkg is very nice and makes

Re: OFFTOPIC: can't start Quake2

2000-12-27 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:52:07 -0800, Nate Amsden said: > is anything else using the sound device? for me when i load unreal > tournament and something is using /dev/dsp then it pukes hard i must > ssh in from another machine and kill it. > > if you have no sound do you know if the game works

Re: Weird message header?

2000-12-27 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:57:54PM +0100, Peczoli Zoltan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > > > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Received: from [212.108.236.133] (helo=d4t2e9) > > > by mydomain.com with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) > > > id 149C7D-vQ-00 > > > for

Re: maildir vs mailspool

2000-12-27 Thread Henry House
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:53:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > what is the difference between a local mailspool and a local maildir? Briefly, two different methods of getting the mail from the mail transport agent (MTA, probably exim) to the mail user agent (the prog. you use to rea

Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(

2000-12-27 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 27 2000, Ian Tan wrote: > I have recently purchased an ASUS A7V motherboard (socket A) with > built-in "Promise ATA/100 IDE controller", and so I happily bought a > new 30Gb Quantum ATA/100 hard disk. :) I have this very same board and it works perfectly. Unfortunately, I do

Re: cut-and-paste

2000-12-27 Thread Henry House
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:55:02PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > gpm is for console mouse support. running it without having it > properly configured can cause a communications conflict as > either X or gpm can have control of the mouse, but not both. > if gpm is configured right(i don't know how, i

Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(

2000-12-27 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 26 2000, Rob Hudson wrote: > But if you have an empty system, how do you install debian? Use the UDMA/66 controller instead and only then compile the kernel with the appropriate drivers. BTW, I have this board and it works wonderfully. I'm really happy with it. So ha

Re: OFFTOPIC: can't start Quake2

2000-12-27 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:52:07 -0800, Nate Amsden said: > > > > is anything else using the sound device? for me when i load unreal > tournament and something is using /dev/dsp then it pukes hard i must > ssh in from another machine and kill it. > > if you have no sound do you know if the

creating and installing additional dhelp docs?

2000-12-27 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I would like to create and install additional documents such as the current issues of linux gazett into the dhelp system. Could you please advise me as to what documents I must read to be able to do this. There were so many I got lost, being quite a newbie. Also could you please direct me to

Re: Weird message header?

2000-12-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:09:23PM +0100, Peczoli Zoltan wrote: > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: from [212.108.236.133] (helo=d4t2e9) > by mydomain.com with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) > id 149C7D-vQ-00 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:15:04 +

Re: Weird message header?

2000-12-27 Thread matthschulz
Take a look at http://www.spamcop.net Matth Am Mittwoch, 27. Dezember 2000 16:09 schrieb Peczoli Zoltan: > Hi, > > Some of my system users periodically receive an Win95.Hybris.Gen.dr > infected EXE file. I tried to trace down the sender, but unfortunately i'm > pretty lame interpreting the ma

Re: G4 Precompiled Kernels Wanted

2000-12-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:13:06PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > I am just starting on a G4 and they seem fairly fast but I hate that you > can't boot to a floppy for kernels and such. Is there anyone that has a > recompiled 2.4 kernel with usb mouse support? > debian-powerpc is a much better

Maximum file size

2000-12-27 Thread terrence d'souza
Hi all, What is the maximum file size and volume size for kernel 2.2.17 and 2.40.xx. Is it filesystem dependent. rgds [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

Re: cdr recomendations

2000-12-27 Thread Christopher Clark
Does Debian work with SCSI CDR's? I have a Yamaha 4/4/16 and it hangs the 2.2.x kernel on bootup. Slink was fine. A mate told me there was something in lastmin.html about it but I never found it myself. regards Chris

Re: Maximum file size

2000-12-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 09:17:26PM -0800, terrence d'souza wrote: > > Hi all, > > What is the maximum file size and volume size for > kernel 2.2.17 and 2.40.xx. Is it filesystem > dependent. ext2 supports large files, (> 2GB) as well as filesystems much larger then that too, i think the upper li