Re: virus detection

2001-02-07 Thread Matthew Dalton
Zac Epkes wrote: > > I was unable to see who said there where no Viruses for UNIX based systems, i > jsut > wanted to tell anyone and everyone, im sure there are Virueses for ALL > systems of > anykind, even that old TANDY or whatever you can pull out of your closet/attic > (hehe im only 17 here

Re: mouse -> clicks heard on speaker

2001-02-07 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, This is interesting since I have a box on my lan that has the same exact thing. Very irritating I agree! I seen a suggestion that you move the card further from the cpu, I may just try that and see if it helps. BTW, this box (p166) is dualboot win98/debian testing and the noise is on

compiling with two processors

2001-02-07 Thread John L . Fjellstad
I'm trying to compile some of the new application using the 'Debian' method. If I had the source, I would just do a make -j3, but with debian, there is this rules thingie. Is there a way to make the system compile using both processors by passing a parameter or something or do I have to hack the r

Re: Software Mestizo Manifesto (fwd)

2001-02-07 Thread Roberto Diaz
Forget it and my apologies.. I only wanted to make a manifesto no another license.. just to advice.. just to give freedom to authors to say "please dont use my software to drop a nuclear weapon if possible".. I am not a lawyer.. only very stupid I see.. if somebody wants to kill millions using fr

Re: ssh-problems

2001-02-07 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:01:21PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > i think your /etc/hosts.deny (or allow/both) may be too strict. i would > reccomend installing an identd server on 192.168.0.50 and setup reverse > dns for that zone 192.168.0.50 for optimal results. the system is just > paranoid to l

unstable problems

2001-02-07 Thread Renai
Hi, I have just installed potato from cd-rom, and then dist-upgraded to unstable afterwards. However, during the configuration process for the new unstable packages, the process crashed, and would not install 8 packages, all of them with a 'netbase' dependency. When I try to install netbase with d

Re: forcing a module in

2001-02-07 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 February 2001 11:57, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. I'm trying to set up the latest tulip driver with kernel > 2.2.18pre21, and as usual, insmod complains that it can't find the kernel > version. I'm told that you can force th

How to make a boot/root floppy?

2001-02-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
I've been trying to roll my own boot/root floppy with syslinux. So far I've managed to put a kernel on one floppy, a root fs on another floppy, boot the kernel, mount the root fs. The snag I've run into is that the root floppy isn't big enough for libc, /bin/sh, and whatever stuff I'd like

Re: Password problems

2001-02-07 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try checking your PAM config. Did you change config files while upgrading? If so there is a good chance that md5 passwords were enabled but now are not. - --Warren On Saturday 03 February 2001 21:37, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2

Re: KDE Sound Problem

2001-02-07 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You must use alsa. Install alsa-source and follow the directions in /usr/doc/alsa-source/* - --Warren On Saturday 03 February 2001 17:34, Dale Morris wrote: > KDE doesn't initialize it's sound module when I start it up. I have sound > configured i

RE: virus detection

2001-02-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
In dutch we call this MUGGENZIFTEN wich translates as Sifting mosquito's. But it is nice to know though ;-) Point was that there was one guy asking can i be infected with a virus on my Linux/i386 box, while another one replied he couldn't because "for linux there is no such thing", probably works

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-07 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can also try rm '-gzip' the ' are single quotes - --Warren On Monday 05 February 2001 16:45, Erik Steffl wrote: > cls/cs wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > this is a completely stu

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-07 Thread Brian May
> "Warren" == Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Warren> You can also try rm '-gzip' the ' are single quotes Warren> --Warren It won't work. The shell will strip the quotes, and the command line to rm is exactly the same. eg: snoopy:~# rm '--help' Usage: rm [OPTION]... FILE..

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-07 Thread Alexis Roda
Brian May wrote: > > > "Warren" == Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Warren> You can also try rm '-gzip' the ' are single quotes > Warren> --Warren > > It won't work. The shell will strip the quotes, and the command line > to rm is exactly the same. > > eg: > > snoopy:~

Re: adding user to dip group doesn't work

2001-02-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > When you add a user to a group, they must log off of the system completely and > log back in before the changes take affect. You just need a fresh login - a new xterm won't do it, but su-ing to yourself will. > Run 'groups' as the user to ensure > they are actually i

mbr-package vs lilo in mbr?

2001-02-07 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi I'm interested in comments on the pros and cons of three alternative configurations: 1) Keeping the dos mbr and having lilo in a partition boot sector. Changing the bootable flags will initiate lilo etc. This seems infeasible if the partition where lilo resides starts beyond 1024 cylinde

Re: 2.4 kernel

2001-02-07 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Harald Thingelstad, > > With the proper modutils ( >= 2.4.1), I was able to build it (with > > kernel-package) with no problems. You'll need some extras if you want to > > run devfs (devfsd) or reiserfs (reiserfsprogs), but if you don't want to > > do anything too exciting, it should just w

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-07 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Joris Lambrecht, > you could of course pay for it ... This is linux - we don't pay for anything... Ask Corel :) cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | A

RE: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
except for cable, dsl, isdn, satellite, cd's, phones ... cheers, joris -Original Message- From: Damon Muller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:27 AM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux Quoth Joris Lambrecht, > you

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-07 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth John Foster, > I recently upgraded to a full woody/testing installation. After a few > hours of reading & experimenting with "xf86configure" I got the new > XFree86 4.0 server to work well. I still have 1 problem. The > resolutions that are accepted on my monitor are "640x480" "800x600" >

debconf under unstable

2001-02-07 Thread Renai
This afternoon I've been trying to get an unstable installation to work - and debconf keeps baulking. Understandably, 13 or so packages won't install without debconf being installed. It's giving compilation errors in perl files or something like that - pretty complicated. Could someone have a look

Re: Network device (eth0)

2001-02-07 Thread Lukas
"Danilo C. M. Marques" wrote: > ? I loaded the correct module to my eth0 device (ne.o because I have a > NE2000 ISA PnP network card), with the correct options (IO=0x300 IRQ=3). > Are you sure of that IRQ ? I'm afraid this belongs to one of the serial ports (COM2 probably). Maybe there is a confl

Urgent : Linux Certification

2001-02-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I'm looking for a linux certification course wich someone has to start teaching rather soon (buisiness as usual) What organistation should i look to for such courses ? I'm currently looking at www.lpi.org but seem to remember there's a lot of criticism about this ?   Anyone ?   Thank You,

Networking, /etc/network/interfaces, mapping, iface, and multiple configurations

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
Question regarding use of /etc/network/interfaces to allow autmajick detection and configuration of eth0 on a laptop that wanders widely. What I'd like is for the beast to configure itself to: - Standalone operation - Static assignment (home) - Other arbitrary static assignment (TBD) - DH

Re: Networking, /etc/network/interfaces, mapping, iface, and multiple configurations

2001-02-07 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 07 February 2001 05:43, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Question regarding use of /etc/network/interfaces to allow autmajick > detection and configuration of eth0 on a laptop that wanders widely. If your laptop has a pcmcia network card, have you looked at /etc/pcmcia/network.opts? Th

Potato and kernel 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
I was wondering if anyone could provide me with a link explaining the steps one needs to take to install a 2.4 kernel on a potato system. I suppose that several packages (e.g. pppd) need to be updated to get a functioning system.. Thanks -- "All truths are half-truths." (Alfred North Whitehe

Re: XMMS, esd, and 2.4 kernel?

2001-02-07 Thread Richard Black
I haven't been able to get a sound out of anything that uses esd (e.g. with xmms) since I upgraded to 2.4.0. I can play sound from xmms directly to alsa (at least, I think that is what I'm doing :-)) when I am root, but that is it. Please let me know if you have more success! Cheers Richard R

Re: Gnome 1.2 and potato

2001-02-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
Rob Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there Gnome 1.2 packages available for potato anywhere? Yes, Ximian (http://www.ximian.com/) is packaging GNOME for several GNU/Linux distributions, including Debian Potato. If you want to give it a try, add the following line to you /etc/apt/sources.lis

Oracle 8i ProC and Debian Potato

2001-02-07 Thread Stan Brown
I have jsut set up a Debian Potato system and installed Oracle 81 on it. All of this went well. Now I went back inot the Oracle installer and added Proc, shich I need in order to compile the Perl Oracle BDB. I decided to test the install ny compiling a sample program. bad news, _Lot's_ of erors.

XF86v4: mouse and fonts

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
I've upgraded my laptop from stable to testing. In the process, I seem to have versioned up to XFree86v4. Currently: - X display managers don't allow a session to start (see attached error output). This is annoying, but not a biggie. startx works fine. But I have been beating my hea

Re: compiling with two processors

2001-02-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
"John L . Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I had the source, I would just do a make -j3, but with debian, > there is this rules thingie. debian/rules contains the rules for building the package. There's a target 'build', which builds the application. See, which targets are called by 'b

Re: Networking, /etc/network/interfaces, mapping, iface, and multiple configurations

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 06:03:46AM -0600, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2001 05:43, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Question regarding use of /etc/network/interfaces to allow autmajick > > detection and configuration of eth0 on a laptop that wanders widely. > > I

Re: Potato and kernel 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
Morten Bo Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if anyone could provide me with a link > explaining the steps one needs to take to install a 2.4 > kernel on a potato system. I suppose that several packages > (e.g. pppd) need to be updated to get a functioning system.. linux/Docum

Re: Urgent : Linux Certification

2001-02-07 Thread Shawn Kelley
I HIGHLY recommend the Sair/Gnu Linux LCA certification. It's not distribution specific, thereby allowing you a broader base of knowledge. Shawn Kelley LCP From: Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'debian-user@lists.debian.org'" Subject: Urgent : Linux Certification Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2

Re: Potato and kernel 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
Oh, btw: From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Packages for using kernel 2.4.x with potato To: cc: Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:49:26 +0100 (CET) Since it seems noone has already done this: I'll set up an apt-able archive with _all_ the packages someone might need when upgrading the ker

Re: compiling with two processors

2001-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"John L . Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If I had the source, I would just do a make -j3, but with debian, >> there is this rules thingie. > >debian/rules contains the rules for building the package. There's a >target 'build', which builds the a

Antwort: Potato and kernel 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread "Martin_Tanzer"
Get the sources 2.4.1 from a Mirror of www.kernel.org and follow the kernel-howto from LDP, which is very good. If you don't know about all featuers, then its likely you will compile more than once ;-) Just run make xconfig; make dep, make clean, make bzdisk (!) - you can try your new kerlnel fr

A Linux ISP who even supports Linux Clients....Serious!

2001-02-07 Thread techlists
Check this out, An all Linux ISP who will even Phone Support Linux Clients!! http://www.mylinuxisp.com It's about time! Wayne

Mouse

2001-02-07 Thread Ales Jerman
Hello! I have one question. How to set mouse as serial device and not as PS/2 device? Because on the startup it shows that mouse is connected to PS/2, but it is not. So, where to change it? Bye, Ales Jerman from Slovenia

Re: Mouse

2001-02-07 Thread Hanno Böttcher
What distribution do you use? There are several tools for doing this or you can look at /etc/gpm.conf (i think that's the config file if you use gpm what's the standard) Hanno - Original Message - From: Ales Jerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2

Re: Mouse

2001-02-07 Thread Ales Jerman
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] Hanno Böttcher wrote: > What distribution do you use? Debian, of course! > There are several tools for doing this or you can look at /etc/gpm.conf There is no file with this name. Bye, Ales Jerman from Slovenia

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-07 Thread John Foster
Damon Muller wrote: > While I don't know anything much about X4 modelines, and for myself > using the monitor's onscreen display was enough to fix it up, for your > problem of starting in the wrong resolution there is an easy fix. > > Under section `screen', go to the line that represents the colo

HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread virtanen
1) Has anyone succesfully used HP cd-writer 9100i (IDE) xcdroast Debian 2.2. (potato) combined to burn cds? My brand new machine has got the above combination and I cannot setup xcdroast. xcdroast setup doesn't seem to see the cdwriter as a writer at all. On the kernel there are installed id

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
> 1) > Has anyone succesfully used > > HP cd-writer 9100i (IDE) I have the 9150i model... probably close enough. > xcdroast > Debian 2.2. (potato) > > combined to burn cds? > > My brand new machine has got the above combination > and I cannot setup xcdroast. xcdroast setup doesn't > seem to see

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-07 Thread David Wright
I think I misunderstood your previous posting where you said "In the past I have been able to correct this" so I assumed you were trying to do something that was possible in V3. In fact, you didn't correct it, you just lived with it. > Thanks. I already did that. I'm a perfectionist and prefer to

Re: debian & poster

2001-02-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:34:19PM -0600, Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote: > In Allan Andersen's email, 07-02-2001: > > Hi, > > > > Right now I have a poster with Corel Linux (better than nothing > > I think) hanging on my door. But I don't use the Corel Linux > > disto - so I thought if the

Re: Mouse

2001-02-07 Thread Hanno Böttcher
Under Debian the command is named "gpmconfig". Hanno - Original Message - From: Ales Jerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 2:34 PM Subject: Mouse > Hello! > I have one question. > How to set mouse as serial device and not as PS/2 device? > Be

Dual boot stable & testing on 1 hard disk?

2001-02-07 Thread Ross Smith
I'd like to set up the following on hda: (potato) /boot (hda1, 5M) / (hda6, 4G) (woody) /boot (hda5, 5M) / (hda7, 4G) (shared) /home (hda8, 20G) (swap)(hda9, 256M) and dual-boot between them. Is this possible? If so, how? Is this the smartest way to accomplish the objective of

ISDN Documentation

2001-02-07 Thread Hanno Böttcher
Hi   I'm preparing for helping a friend with his ISDN Router. I'm looking for a Web Documentation for ISDN Drivers under Kernel 2.4.1 and a howto for installing ISDN Dial Up under Debian, does anyone know an URL where I can find that?   Normaly I would look in the ISDN Documentation of my Po

2.4.1 kernel and Debian

2001-02-07 Thread waynes
Tonite I'm going to install a fresh Debian on my Computer and then Upgrade to the 2.4.1 kernel. First of all, wish me luck. Next, can anyone give me a status on some of the problems that I will be facing. I've also heard that 2.4.1 compiles better on unstable rather that stable. Is this true

Re: 2.4.1 kernel and Debian

2001-02-07 Thread San Segkhoonthod
One problem I found is that ReiserFS option does not appear in my woody. I'm not sure whether it will appear in unstable or it may be because of wrong version of modutils and others. san --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tonite I'm going to install a fresh Debian on my > Computer and then Upgrade to

Antwort: 2.4.1 kernel and Debian

2001-02-07 Thread "Martin_Tanzer"
Use testing. Testing provides xfree 4.0.2 and the modutils you need for 2.4.1. KDE installes fine and runs without problems. The only problem I have: kwintv refuses to show a tv-picture with xfree 4.0.2. For sound try the modules from 2.4.1. I have a similar system like you - the installation we

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread virtanen
Didn't find any clue yet, what to do. Still nothing happens. For most of the time 'xcdroast' command is answering: 'No Generic SCSI-Support has been detected.' (Anyway there are the modules sg and ide-sci emulation installed.) >From dmesg: ___ hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100

Fw: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
- Original Message - From: "virtanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian User List" Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer? > Didn't find any clue yet, what to do. > Still nothing happens. > For most of th

AT&T Korn shell for Debina (potato) ?

2001-02-07 Thread Stan Brown
Where can I find this? Preferably a .deb I't OpenSource now, isn't it? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for

Re: ISDN Documentation

2001-02-07 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:41:34 - , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hanno_B=F6ttcher?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm looking for = >a Web Documentation for ISDN Drivers under Kernel 2.4.1 and a howto for = >installing ISDN Dial Up under Debian, does anyone know an URL where I = >can find that? http://www.isdn

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-07 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:50:50AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: [...] > (--) NVIDIA(0): Chipset: "RIVA TNT" > (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 > (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor [...] > (--) NVIDIA(0): Virtual size is 1600x1200 (pitch 1

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Didn't find any clue yet, what to do. > Still nothing happens. > For most of the time 'xcdroast' command is > answering: > > 'No Generic SCSI-Support has been detected.' That's your problem ^^^ > (Anyway there are the modules sg and ide-sci emulation installed.) You're telling them to be load

X4 problems

2001-02-07 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
Hello all, I am having problems with XFree86 4, downloaded as part of a dist-upgrade from potato to woody. When I try to start the X server with 'startx' the server spits that it cannot stat /etc/X11/X and aborts with signal 2. Neither xf86cfg nor XFree86 -configure work: they both give me a wavy

Re: 2.4.1 kernel and Debian

2001-02-07 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'm running unstable/testing (don't really know howmuch of which, I've some how gotten really confused with branch naming lately..) 2.4.1 is working well for me for the past 2 weeks or so. One bug I've run into is with my cs4232 sound card. The module won't load on it's own, using isapnp (w

Re: XF86v4: mouse and fonts

2001-02-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:28:44AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I've upgraded my laptop from stable to testing. In the process, I seem > to have versioned up to XFree86v4. Currently: > > - X display managers don't allow a session to start (see attached > error output). This is ann

Re: AT&T Korn shell for Debina (potato) ?

2001-02-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
There's a public domain version of the Korn shell packaged as 'pdksh'. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199

Re: Infinite sevens: MBR problems

2001-02-07 Thread Peter Howell
At 03:09 PM 2/6/01 -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Peter Howell wrote: > MBR > > L 07 07 07 07 07 . >From lilo's manual: Disk error codes - - - - - - - - If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the respective error code is displayed. The following BIOS error cod

Re: AT&T Korn shell for Debina (potato) ?

2001-02-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 06:15:42PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > There's a public domain version of the Korn shell packaged as 'pdksh'. I suspect that, like me, the person who originally asked about the AT&T ksh has just read the slashdot interview with David Korn. In it, Dr. Korn repeatedly poi

Lilo problems after a debian installation...

2001-02-07 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro,,,
Hi, I've two disks Primary master (hda) with Debian, just installed las weekend Secondary master (hdc) with Win98 already installed and working...(sic) Well I install Debian on my primary disk and tell lilo to install at the MBR (unsafe I know) Now when I select to boot win98 it appears: Loading

Re: Infinite sevens: MBR problems

2001-02-07 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:18:59PM -0500, Peter Howell wrote: > On a side note, I went into the bios and altered the boot > order. Now when I boot, it just prints: > > LI > > and then stops. From what I've been able to find, this has to do > with problems in the mapping of t

Network Printer

2001-02-07 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I want to configure my potato with some network printers. My computer is hooked on the network through dhcp Do you know if there is a tool under Potato to configure the printers (Something in ncources or even in plain text) ? Thanks Francois

Re: mouse -> clicks heard on speaker

2001-02-07 Thread Rob VanFleet
Another thing to try is muting your cd sound channel. I've noticed that most sound interference is usually caused byt the oftentimes poorly shielded cable that runs from the sound card to the cdrom. -Rob On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:05:28PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > Th

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Didn't find any clue yet, what to do. > > Still nothing happens. > > For most of the time 'xcdroast' command is > > answering: > > > > 'No Generic SCSI-Support has been detected.' > > That's your problem ^^^ > > > (Anyway there are the modules sg an

RE: Infinite sevens: MBR problems

2001-02-07 Thread Holp, John Mr.
My documentation indicates that if you see LI at the prompt and then the process hangs, the second stage boot loader was loaded properly but can't be executed. Try adding the word "linear" to the global portion of the /etc/lilo.conf file. Re-run LILO --> /sbin/lilo Then reboot This is int

Re: postgresql 7.0.3 -- but NO plperl ?

2001-02-07 Thread will trillich
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:09:48PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > > > well that makes a difference... i'm sure :( > > sorry, brain fart. > > > % locate plperl > > /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/src/pl/plperl > > /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/src/pl/plperl/README > >

Re: Urgent : Linux Certification

2001-02-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Joris Lambrecht (on Wed, 07 Feb 2001 12:39:57PM +0100): > What organistation should i look to for such courses ? I'm currently looking > at > www.lpi.org but seem to remember there's a lot of criticism about this ? mh. well, i am affiliated with lpi so i can't argue for them, but i do

network problem

2001-02-07 Thread Chris Parker
Stats: running 2.2.12 on p133 w/48ram Kingston pci model kne100tx using tulip module on cablemodem surfboard4100   I can ping self but when i ping anywhere else it says that the network is unreachable.  Get siocaddr invalid.  How to fix so I can get online?  It also says when running lynx host

XFree 4.0 and MS Natural Keyboard--problem

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Beaird
Just upgraded from potato to woody, with X upgrade to 4.0 included, and now my MS Natural keyboard not working correctly. I've set "XkbModel" as "microsoft" in XF86Config-4, but /var/log/XFree86 tells me "Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap" Thanks for your help! -- Jeff Beai

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-07 Thread judd
On 7 Feb, John Foster wrote: > Damon Muller wrote: >> While I don't know anything much about X4 modelines, and for myself >> using the monitor's onscreen display was enough to fix it up, for your >> problem of starting in the wrong resolution there is an easy fix. >> >> Under section `screen', go

Antwort: Re: Urgent : Linux Certification

2001-02-07 Thread "Martin_Tanzer"
I passed the available LPI tests. Without practice the tests are *very* tricky and difficoult - if you have practice and are experianced read the objectives and the related howtos and you will pass. martin MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07.02.2001 19:05:44 An: Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL P

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread mike polniak
virtanen wrote: > Didn't find any clue yet, what to do. > Still nothing happens. > For most of the time 'xcdroast' command is > answering: > > 'No Generic SCSI-Support has been detected.' > (Anyway there are the modules sg and ide-sci emulation installed.) > > >From dmesg: > ___ > >

Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation...

2001-02-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Primary master (hda) with Debian, just installed las weekend > Secondary master (hdc) with Win98 already installed and working...(sic) > Well I install Debian on my primary disk and tell lilo to install at the > MBR (unsafe I know) > Now when I select to boot win98 it appears: > Loading win > L?

Memory Problems on Compaq Prosignia w/Potato

2001-02-07 Thread Ian Smith
Hi, I've just recently installed Potato on a Compaq Prosignia 300 Server with 64M of RAM. Checking free, however, shows only 13M. The Bios reports the correct amount on startup, and the previous OS (NT) also had no problems with the memory. I tried adding an append="mem=64M" line to Lilo.co

Perl OracleDBD for Debian?

2001-02-07 Thread Stan Brown
Does anyone know where I can get a .deb of Perl's OracleDBD for a Potato machine? I have installed the *1 DB, and it works finr. I have installed teh ProC package, and have yet to even get the sample files to compile (seem to be mising some standard headers?) So I figure the odds of getting Oracle

/dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem... I have now switched back to using ttyS1, but on laptops with only one serial port this is not an option, so I'm still wondering what it is that does this. I also

Searching for a library...

2001-02-07 Thread jerome Moliere
Hi all Debian gurus, I'm searching for a library required for running the java program, it searches the libstdc++.so , so I tried to find this file in the debian packages web page... no success... Is there a way using apt-get to search the deb package containg a given file name ? I think so but

majordomo+exim

2001-02-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a debian slink system with smail and majordomo. Now I installed a new potato system with exim and majordomo and followed some instructions of both working. But majordomo is still not working. See the log: 2001-02-07 16:17:49 14QZA4-0002sw-00 == |/usr/lib/majo

Packages on ftp disappearing?

2001-02-07 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, last weekend, I was able to download pptp source from woody. Today I discovered that it does not longer exists there (dists/woody/main/source/net). The only place where I could find it was in the 'pool' directory on ftp.debian.org. Why does this happen? Is this package upgrading or something

Re: Memory Problems on Compaq Prosignia w/Potato

2001-02-07 Thread ktb
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:33:17PM -0500, Ian Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I've just recently installed Potato on a Compaq Prosignia 300 > Server with 64M of RAM. Checking free, however, shows only > 13M. The Bios reports the correct amount on startup, and the > previous OS (NT) also had no problem

RE: Packages on ftp disappearing?

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > last weekend, I was able to download pptp source from woody. Today I > discovered that it does not longer exists there > (dists/woody/main/source/net). > > The only place where I could find it was in the 'pool' directory on > ftp.debian.org. > > Why do

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, mike polniak wrote: > > For most of the time 'xcdroast' command is > > answering: > > > > 'No Generic SCSI-Support has been detected.' > > (Anyway there are the modules sg and ide-sci emulation installed.) > > > > >From dmesg: > > ___ > > > > hdc: Hewlett-Packard

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Hugo van der Merwe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's > permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem... I > have now switched back to using ttyS1, but on laptops with only one > serial port this is not an option, so I'm s

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-07 Thread virtanen
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, mike polniak wrote: > > Make sure you also have module sr_mod (for scsi cdrom) and that scsi > > support is set with CONGIG_SCSI. > > Where is that module? > > If I'll run 'modconf' I cannot see that module. > > > Then to make sure the scsi modules are loaded in t

Re: postgresql 7.0.3 -- but NO plperl ?

2001-02-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
will trillich wrote: >> ||/ Name Version Description >> +++-==--== >> ii postgresql 7.0.3-4 Object-relational SQL database > >aha. you're on 7.0.3-4. > >i'm using potato, so i had to go to samfundet.no/~tfhee

Re: Memory Problems on Compaq Prosignia w/Potato

2001-02-07 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:33:17PM -0500, Ian Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I've just recently installed Potato on a Compaq Prosignia 300 > Server with 64M of RAM. Checking free, however, shows only > 13M. The Bios reports the correct amount on startup, and the > previous OS (NT) also had no problem

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-07 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thank you; next question, where do you find it? Is there a .deb file > available? http://www.opera.com/download/linux.html, and yes, there are .deb's.

win98 -> Potato -> Internet

2001-02-07 Thread Paul Clark
I have a network of 2 potato boxen and 1 Win 98. Can somebody please tell me the name of the service or package I need on Potato to enable Win98 computers and perhaps other potato's to connect to the internet via one modem on a potato box? Thanks Paul Clark

Re: Gnome 1.2 and potato

2001-02-07 Thread robhr
> Rob Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Are there Gnome 1.2 packages available for potato anywhere? > > Yes, Ximian (http://www.ximian.com/) is packaging GNOME for several > GNU/Linux distributions, including Debian Potato. If you want to give > it a try, add the following line to you /etc/apt

alsaplayer

2001-02-07 Thread Christopher Mosley
There seems to be no documentation for alsaplayer. I understand there are less analog <-> digital conversions to play a CD. However, whatever the gain in fidelity, it is lost as soon as you interact with the program. After opening a window with a mouse click the sound becomes and remains horrible

RE: Urgent : Linux Certification

2001-02-07 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Joris, I am currently studying for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) 102 "final" exam. The exams are TOUGH but I like their idea/concept. LPI is actually distribution independent for most areas. They accomplish this by retreating to the least common denominator - as an example to a

RE: debian & poster

2001-02-07 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
I've asked before, and I'll ask again... What font is used for the word 'debian'? Anyone? Anyone? > -Original Message- > From: Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 7:34 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: debian &

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's > permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem ppp changes the permissions to 640 on the device it is using, and restores them when it exits. If it exits abnorma

Re: 2.4.1 kernel and Debian

2001-02-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:45:59AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tonite I'm going to install a fresh Debian on my Computer and then Upgrade to > the 2.4.1 kernel. First of all, wish me luck. Next, can anyone give me a > status on some of the problems that I will be facing. I've also heard

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar > archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD. > > Unfortunately I used the following line: > > tar -cvvf

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