Re: Frequent download time outs - Solved?

2001-02-08 Thread Jeff Kelm
I have figured out a way to solve my problem. Using tcpdump I was able to determine that the problem always occurred when the exchange was doing SACK (Selective Acknowledgement). This is a feature turned on by default in the 2.2.x kernels (actually since 2.1.??). It is intended to increase perfo

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
>> Section "Files" >> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" >> FontPath "unix/:7101" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" >> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled" >> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled" >> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fon

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

2001-02-08 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The virtual resolution is by default set to the maximum resolution > for the display (I think). In the display section add the line: > > Virtual 1024 768 > > You might not be able to switch to a larger display, however. See > man XF86Config. > > -Chris -

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers? -- SOLVED!!

2001-02-08 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
"Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > Dietmar Schultz wrote: > > > > 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): De

Re: C++ linking problem

2001-02-08 Thread Moritz Schulte
RAccess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently gcc was upgraded on debian testing/woody. Since then I have been > having trouble compiling (mainly linking) C++ code. Here is the kind of > error I get: > > g++ try.cpp > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status It se

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-08 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, mike polniak wrote: > You can run> modprobe -l |grep sr_mod When I run it (as root of course) I see nothing happening. > Check that your kernel config has CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m. This gives you sr_mod. > And CONFIG_SCSI=m gives you scsi-mod (scsi support). *How* shall I do

Re: C++ linking problem

2001-02-08 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:49:15PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > g++ try.cpp > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status There has been messages about this on the mailling list. There is a bug in the packaging of gcc. You need to create the links for libstdc++.so and libs

Re: dpkg's files list missing final newline

2001-02-08 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, If you don't mind getting your hands dirty... On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Eric Cheng wrote: > Perhaps after an abnormal shutdown the files list file of dpkg was > damaged. Now I cannot dpkg -i or apt-get install anything. It complained > about "dpkg: error processing : > files list file for pa

Re: network problem

2001-02-08 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:17:53PM -0500, Chris Parker wrote: > 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

Apache.deb vs apache-ssl.deb

2001-02-08 Thread Christopher Wolf
Is the Apache-ssl.deb a drop in replacement for Apache.deb?

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-08 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, virtanen wrote: > I've done many times installing and and installing ide-scsi and > sci-support. This should have been of course: 'installing and uninstalling' > Now it happens that if try to do this installing (by 'modconf') these > modules (ide-scsi and scsi-support) mo

debian 2.2 with 8 meg ?

2001-02-08 Thread thomas . krepkowski
Hi! I have an old, lonely 486 with 8 MB and want to use it for Linux. Is there any chance to use debian 2.2 on it. I read in the installation manual, that it needs 12 MB. Thanks Thomas -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: installation on an abit KT7-RAID motherboard

2001-02-08 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
Boot with your hardisk attached to the ide first then recompile the kernel to support the promise ultra ata100/raid architecturethen halt the box and switch you hardisk over to the promise ultra ata100/raid controller...HTHYMMV though Luquet Pierre-Sylvain wrote: > hello ,I'm trying t

Raid

2001-02-08 Thread Roso Giuseppe \(Beppe\)
GoodMorning. I have a request: What about configuring RAID disks under Debian/GNU Linux to read a vfat fs? I didn't see this system, one friend asked me. I asked him if he installed driver for RAID card, raid system from kernel, raidtools etc.. He did. The only problem is that he can't read files

Memory/cpu quoatas for users

2001-02-08 Thread Mike Moran
Hi. I am looking for a way to limit the amount of memory and cpu used by the apache daemon, since the web machine is very resource-limited. I know I can reduce the maximum number of servers, but that doesn't limit usage by each server. Perhaps a default "nice" level would also help. How do you set

exim keeps posting to the wrong place

2001-02-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
I run a crontab script every night to make glimpseindex and to back up my system. This posts records of its efforts. They used to go to me via local mail and appear in my mail box each morning. Now they still do this but the system insists on sending them to me via my ISP instead of internally. I

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-08 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> So I commented out the first two FontPath lines and KDE started just fine. I > can get the True Type fonts working after KDE is running, but now there are > no options for point size in Netscape. The fonts are there but I only get an > option of 0 for the size. use xfs-xtt instead of xfstt. mu

GPL versus LGPL ?

2001-02-08 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Could someone breafly explain me what are the main differences between a GPL and a LGPL licence? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 __

Re: i810 in testing

2001-02-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya glenn.. what kind of i180 testing are you doing/planning todo ??? if get X11 up and running...for i810 or i815 chip sets... w/ XFree-3.3.x you do need that agpgart and XFCom_i810 driver w/ XFree-4.x i think it works out of the box 5 minutes work or so to get X11 up and abou

Re: exim keeps posting to the wrong place - SOLVED

2001-02-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Feb 2001, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I run a crontab script every night to make glimpseindex and to back up > my system. This posts records of its efforts. They used to go to me via > local mail and appear in my mail box each morning. Now they still do > this but the system insists on sending

Re: Newbie questions

2001-02-08 Thread Tor Slettnes
> "Mark" == Mark L Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> Yeah, but I don't want an ftp user possibly finding a Mark> security hole and playing around with my mouse. Don't run 'wu-ftpd'. :-) Seriously, if there is a security hole in your FTP server, chances are that they allow remot

Re: GPL versus LGPL ?

2001-02-08 Thread Roso Giuseppe \(Beppe\)
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Could someone breafly explain me what are the main differences between a GPL > and a LGPL licence? > -- LGPL is a bit restricted version of GPL: often LGPL is applied to opensource software (like software under GPL or similar licenses) but this

Re: Memory/cpu quoatas for users

2001-02-08 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:35:21AM +, Mike Moran wrote: > > Hi. I am looking for a way to limit the amount of memory and cpu used by > the apache > daemon, since the web machine is very resource-limited. I know I can > reduce the > maximum number of servers, but that doesn't limit usage by eac

Re: Potato and kernel 2.4

2001-02-08 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth 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.. Since no-one else has provided a

Re: XMMS, esd, and 2.4 kernel?

2001-02-08 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth 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. While my esd is still working, sound

Re: wmmon in potato?

2001-02-08 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com, > ...I'm jus' lookin' for a good wmmon > > Anyone know what the status of wmmon under potato is? It currently > depends on a couple of libs (xpm4g and another) which conflict with > xlibs. Rats. I can build from source, probably will. I have to admit that I can

Re: debian 2.2 with 8 meg ?

2001-02-08 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED], > I have an old, lonely 486 with 8 MB and want to use it for Linux. > Is there any chance to use debian 2.2 on it. > I read in the installation manual, that it needs 12 MB. I've installed, and happily run, potato on a 486 with 8M of RAM (an old notebook, for which a ram u

Re: Oracle 8i ProC and Debian Potato

2001-02-08 Thread Stan Brown
I'm sure you are trying to be helpful, bit it's getting to be pretty anoying. This is the 4th mesage I have recived from yu, with only my orignal post quoted, and no added content atl all! Please get a mailer that works! On Thu Feb 8 04:51:10 2001 unix,inc. wrote... > > >- Original Message

kernel 2.4 & iptables Q

2001-02-08 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I have just compiled 2.4.1 kernel on my potato box and set up iptables firewall, but I am having some problems. I used to have a few ipchains rules, that contained the -t (tos) flags. Iptables also supports --tos, but I cannot make it work. A rule with -tos 0x10 returns: Bad argument `0x10' D

Re: kernel 2.4 & iptables Q

2001-02-08 Thread Sebastian Moerchen
Bostjan Muller wrote: > > Hi! > > I have just compiled 2.4.1 kernel on my potato box and set up iptables > firewall, but I am having some problems. I used to have a few ipchains rules, > that contained the -t (tos) flags. Iptables also supports --tos, but I cannot > make it work. > A rule with

Re: How to change the IP of a Debian box

2001-02-08 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:37:19 + (WET) , Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do I change the IP/name of the machine? Like the other guys said, but it is worth remembering that you are really changing the IP address of the interface (eth0, eth1, whatever), not the machine

Re: kernel 2.4 & iptables Q

2001-02-08 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 08-02-01 at 13:00 Sebastian Moerchen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > Might it be that you did not compile the right module into your kernel? > Look at the corresponding section in "make menuconfig". > > so far, > > > -- > -

Sig 11 in X4.02 using Matrox G450

2001-02-08 Thread Damon Muller
Hi gang, After having bought a spanking-new Matrox G540 video card, I'm not able to get it to use drm/dri for accelerated 3d. This is mildly annoying, as I went and bought myself an expensive video-card so I could see the cool OpenGL XScreensaver hacks! I'm using X4.02 from testing (as of tonight

Re: wmmon in potato?

2001-02-08 Thread kmself
on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:09:03PM +1100, Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com, > > ...I'm jus' lookin' for a good wmmon > > > > Anyone know what the status of wmmon under potato is? It currently > > depends on a couple of libs (xpm4g and another) which confl

Re: KDE2

2001-02-08 Thread wujf
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:44:25AM +1100, Renai wrote: > > > and secondly, Red Hat has a boot utility named 'SysVinit' for managing > the bootup services. Does Debian have anything similar? man update-rc.d Good Luck!

Re: GPL versus LGPL ?

2001-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
"Roso Giuseppe (Beppe)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: >> Could someone breafly explain me what are the main differences between >> a GPL and a LGPL licence? > >LGPL is a bit restricted version of GPL: often LGPL is >applied to opensource software (like s

Re: kernel 2.4 & iptables Q

2001-02-08 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:23:50PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I have just compiled 2.4.1 kernel on my potato box and set up iptables > firewall, but I am having some problems. I used to have a few ipchains > rules, that contained the -t (tos) flags. Iptables also supports --tos, > but

kerneld and 'Kernel module loader'

2001-02-08 Thread Pascal THIVENT
Hello, I build a new kernel v2.2.17. I choosed to enabeld the 'Kernel module loader' in the 'Loadable module support' section while make config. I took a look at Documentation/kmod.txt and found that enabling this feature doesn't need the kerneld anymore. Then, I boot my new kernel and saw a mess

E-commerce

2001-02-08 Thread Aleš Jerman
Does anybody know a good E-commerce solution for Debian? I need something for about 30 products, something that is simple for use, that is sicure and that would run well on CPU 200Mhz, RAM 32MB. Thank you! Bye,   Aleš Jerman

Re: keeping a process running?

2001-02-08 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Tibor" == Tibor D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe "run" is what you're looking for? I haven't been able to find that in the packages - what package is that a part of?

Re: keeping a process running?

2001-02-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:09:04AM -0500, Michael A. Miller ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a way to monitor a process and restart it if > > it stops? I seem to remember some discussion about this on > > debian-user, but I

Re: kernel 2.4 & iptables Q

2001-02-08 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 08-02-01 at 13:50 Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > Typo check: '--tos' != '-tos'.. which one did you try? > > And you did try something like this, right? That '-m tos' is easy to > forget. > > iptables -A INPUT -m tos --tos 0x10 ? > > >

(no subject)

2001-02-08 Thread Viktor Sergeichik
help

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-08 Thread mike polniak
virtanen wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, virtanen wrote: > > > > I've done many times installing and and installing ide-scsi and > > sci-support. > > This should have been of course: 'installing and uninstalling' > > > > Now it happens that if try to do this installing (by 'modconf') these > >

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-08 Thread Rick Loga
You don't say which version of XFree you are using. Version 4 needs the xfs v. 4 font server. None of the other font servers work. If you're version 3, any of the font servers work. --- Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> So I commented out the first two FontPath lines and KDE star

dselect does not offer CD as an install choice, why?

2001-02-08 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to set up a new Debian potato machine for use at work, where I live behind a _very_ restricitve firewall. I did the inital install at home using ftp, and took it to work, only to find out I had failed to install some needed packages. So I ordered the Offical Debina 2.2 CD set from Chea

Re: exim keeps posting to the wrong place - SOLVED

2001-02-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:20:20AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I think I've just found the answer; in /etc/exim.conf I've put: > > qualify_domain = localhost > > I hope this is right. Close, but not quite. You want qualify_domain set to you ISP's domain amd qualify_recipient set to localho

Re: GPL versus LGPL ?

2001-02-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:09:05AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Could someone breafly explain me what are the main differences between a GPL > and a LGPL licence? GPL: If your program links to GPL code, you must provide source to the whole thing so that other people can edit any part and

Re: C++ linking problem

2001-02-08 Thread RAccess
On 8 Feb 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > RAccess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Recently gcc was upgraded on debian testing/woody. Since then I have been > > having trouble compiling (mainly linking) C++ code. Here is the kind of > > error I get: > > > > g++ try.cpp > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -

Re: C++ linking problem

2001-02-08 Thread RAccess
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, John L . Fjellstad wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:49:15PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > g++ try.cpp > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > There has been messages about this on the mailling list. There is > a bug in the packaging of

Unidentified subject!

2001-02-08 Thread David Nowak
Hello, I have installed the package inn. And I have started innd with its initial configuration. But it does not open a connection on the port nntp (119) as I thought. I guess I have a line to add in /etc/inetd.conf. What is this line? I also tried the package inn2. I have the same problem a

Re: dselect does not offer CD as an install choice, why?

2001-02-08 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi Stan, > Problem is now when I go inot dselect and take choice 1, I am not > offered the choice of installing from the CD's. Which choices *are* you offered. I get cdrom as the first option. Another candidate would be apt, if it's there. Try putting the CDs in (no need to mount them) and issuin

RE: Infinite sevens: MBR problems

2001-02-08 Thread Peter Howell
Thanks for the advice. I put "linear" in and rebooted with no change. Then of course I remembered to run lilo. (Haven't had my coffee yet.) When I run LILO, I get the following errors. debian:~# lilo hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_c

pppd problem with 2.4.1

2001-02-08 Thread Tom George
I compiled 2.4.1 and tried to sign on the internet. pppd sent a string that caused the connection to fail. I reloaced 2.2.12 and signed on with no difficulty in order to send this message. Any ideas?

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-08 Thread mike polniak
Rick Loga wrote: > You don't say which version of XFree you are using. Version 4 needs the xfs > v. 4 font server. None of the other font servers work. If you're version 3, > any of the font servers work. > > --- Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> So I commented out the first

Re: pppd problem with 2.4.1

2001-02-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I compiled 2.4.1 and tried to sign on the internet. pppd > sent a string that caused the connection to fail. I > reloaced 2.2.12 and signed on with no difficulty in order > to send this message. Any ideas? You need a specific, updated version of pppd to work with kernels 2.4.x. All the update

Re: mozilla, ssl, java, and other fun stuff

2001-02-08 Thread christophe barbe
And mozilla 0.8 should be available really soon... On mer, 07 fév 2001 22:02:18 christophe barbe wrote: > I like debian. But there's is a big lack today in potato : no free www > browser (I mean open-source and not buggy : ie not netscape) with java and > ssl support. > But it's a pity because moz

Sound card ESS Maestro

2001-02-08 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I'va got a potato installed on a DELL Latitude laptop computer. This computer has a ESS Maestro (Sound Blaster emulation) sound card. Could you tell me how I configure it ? Thanks Francois

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > >helpful page: http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf > > I use XFree86-4 with the xfs-xtt font server. I have tried other > ways and xfs-xtt gives the best results of any in netscape. I followed the directions on the page above and got the results shown here with Netscape: http://www.mindsp

Bibtex and perl

2001-02-08 Thread David Nowak
Hi, I wish to access my bibtex data from perl. Is there a library that provides such thing in the Debian distribution? Many thanks, -- David

Re: Bibtex and perl

2001-02-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
I don't know about within the debian distribution, but take a look at: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Text/Text-BibTeX-0.33.tar.gz which is a perl interface to bibtool. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, D

RE: E-commerce

2001-02-08 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings,     I really depends on what you want.  I am starting a low budget site soon using eztrade (http://trade.ez.no)  It's a little sluggish with only 32MB of RAM, but you can modify it to speed it up.   Brooks -Original Message-From: Aleš Jerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Se

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-08 Thread virtanen
Thanks a lot for your message and for the others as well. Your advice is quite the same as which was pointed by others to be found on 'cd-writing-HOWTO', but there wasn't all this info. On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, mike polniak wrote: > > > Now it happens that if try to do this installing (by 'modco

Re: (no subject)

2001-02-08 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Viktor Sergeichik wrote: > help Which kind of? Are you trying to install Debian? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: Dual Monitors]

2001-02-08 Thread Ian Stuart
What does /var/log/XFree86.0.log say? (alternatively, kill of {x/g}dm and use startx 2>&1 > /tmp/xfree.startup (or whatever) and see what you get then. Are you passing the --xinerama to startx? Original Message Subject: Dual Monitors Resent-Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 21:24:27 GMT R

inn (was: Unidentified subject!)

2001-02-08 Thread Moritz Schulte
David Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed the package inn. And I have started innd with its > initial configuration. Don't expect such a complex program like inn to do what you want, without proper configuration. > But it does not open a connection on the port nntp (119) as I >

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers? -- SOLVED!!

2001-02-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:53:04AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > > > The funny thing is that "hardware" acceleration is about 2-3 times > > slower than "software". Thanks any way, as I seem to remember something > > in my previous machine (PII350, RH 6.2) about recommending using 16-bit > > mo

Re: i810 in testing

2001-02-08 Thread Glenn Becker
Alvin, Thx for the info. In short I'm wanting to remove SuSE 6.4 from my work box and slap Debian on it, since SuSE has come to look ... pretty pale compared to my Debian setup at home. I originally moved to SuSE from Slack bec. I was totally inexperienced and the support for i810 on SuSE was r

Include file problems

2001-02-08 Thread Stan Brown
I have installed a new potato system, and choosen the "developer" install. I have looked in dselect, and confirmed that libc6-dev is marked as installed. Yet when I try to compile things, I am having include file problems. For example I am trying to compile the Oracle ProC samples, and they inclu

Re: Oracle 8i ProC and Debian Potato

2001-02-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 06:20:07AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm sure you are trying to be helpful, bit it's getting to be pretty anoying. > > This is the 4th mesage I have recived from yu, with only my orignal post > quoted, > and no added content atl all! > > Please get a mailer that works!

Re: inn (was: Unidentified subject!)

2001-02-08 Thread David Nowak
Thanks for your help Moritz. > > But it does not open a connection on the port nntp (119) as I > > thought. > Hmm, why should it? It's a news server, so it should listen on the > nntp port for incoming connections. A client should open a connection > to the nntp port to speak with the server. Ok,

Compiling the util-linux package for potato

2001-02-08 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Hi, I have fetched the deb-src package of util-linux 2.10q to comply with the demands of a kernel 2.4.1. Compiling and installing it seems more daunting than usual -- the MCONFIG file in the source archive lists a lot of options that should be answered correctly so as not to wind up with a system

Re: Memory/cpu quoatas for users

2001-02-08 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:35:21AM +, Mike Moran wrote: | | Hi. I am looking for a way to limit the amount of memory and cpu used by | the apache I know it is possible, but I don't know how to set it. I know it is possible because when running Gnumeric I ran out of memory (trying to save too

XFree 4.0 debs?

2001-02-08 Thread francisco m . neto
Hello there! I'm looking for deb packages of XFree 4.0.2, and it doesn't seem to be under the testing tree, neither under the unstable one. Does anyone know if there is a package for it, and where I could get it? -- []'s, francisco m. neto

Re: pppd problem with 2.4.1

2001-02-08 Thread Tom George
Hall Stevenson wrote: I compiled 2.4.1 and tried to sign on the internet. pppd sent a string that caused the connection to fail. I reloaced 2.2.12 and signed on with no difficulty in order to send this message. Any ideas? You need a specific, updated version of pppd to work with kernels 2.

why does eth0 require modprobe?

2001-02-08 Thread Krzys Majewski
For those of you who have been following with baited breath the ongoing saga of my boot floppies: I am now loading a kernel from floppy #1 and a compressed root image from floppy #2, at which point I get a shell enabling me to mount floppy #3 and copy additional goodies from it. Ha

capslock as control in console

2001-02-08 Thread Dan Christensen
I use the following to make capslock act as control in the console window. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to do this without installing console-tools, which depends on console-data and console-tools-libs, which altogether require almost 5M of disk space on my machine. Any thoughts? Dan

Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation...

2001-02-08 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hall, thanks lot for your help. finally I can boot from Lilo to my two OSs. I'd must to change the hard disks, win on the primary IDE and Linux on the secondary IDE, then I modify my references to hds on fstab and lilo, rerun lilo and ready! Now I can play with both systems... Hall Stevenson wr

Cat-ting binary files to the console

2001-02-08 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console to use WEIRD characters, just plain gibberish. Is there any way to get rid of this without rebooting? Thanks! Ben Pharr

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

2001-02-08 Thread judd
On 8 Feb, John Foster wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> The virtual resolution is by default set to the maximum resolution >> for the display (I think). In the display section add the line: >> >> Virtual 1024 768 >> >> You might not be able to switch to a larger display, howeve

Re: XFree 4.0 debs?

2001-02-08 Thread Moritz Schulte
"francisco m . neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for deb packages of XFree 4.0.2, and it doesn't > seem to be under the testing tree, neither under the unstable one. I just checked, it _is_ packaged (also in testing). moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http

Re: XFree 4.0 debs?

2001-02-08 Thread Glenn Becker
yes - i recently upgraded to testing and got xfree 4.0.2 in the process. g _ | // G l e n n B e c k e r

Re: Cat-ting binary files to the console

2001-02-08 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or > just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console to use > WEIRD characters, just plain gibberish. Is there any way to get rid of > this without rebooting? T

Re: Cat-ting binary files to the console

2001-02-08 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:18:34AM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or > just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console to use > WEIRD characters, just plain gibberish. Is there any way to get rid of > this

Re: Cat-ting binary files to the console

2001-02-08 Thread vdongen
running reset one or two times fixes this for me. Greetz, Ivo van Dongen Today, young men on accid realise that all matter is merly energy condenced to a slow vibration, that we are all one consienceness and sharing ourse

Re: Cat-ting binary files to the console

2001-02-08 Thread Mike McGuire
> Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or > just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console to use > WEIRD characters, just plain gibberish. Is there any way to get rid of > this without rebooting? Thanks! > > Ben Pharr > Try: # setterm -

Re: XFree 4.0 debs?

2001-02-08 Thread Christian Terboven
Moritz Schulte wrote: "francisco m . neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm looking for deb packages of XFree 4.0.2, and it doesn't seem to be under the testing tree, neither under the unstable one. I just checked, it _is_ packaged (also in testing). moritz If you use

Re: Sig 11 in X4.02 using Matrox G450

2001-02-08 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Damon Muller wrote: > > BTW, this is using the mga_drv.o module from the Matrox site (the > standard X4 one does not work with the G450). > http://forum.matrox.com/cgi-bin/mgaforum/forumdisplay.cgi? action=topics&forum=Linux&number=2&DaysPrune=30&LastLogin= This is a link t

Re: Compiling the util-linux package for potato

2001-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
Morten Bo Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have fetched the deb-src package of util-linux 2.10q to comply with >the demands of a kernel 2.4.1. Compiling and installing it seems more >daunting than usual -- the MCONFIG file in the source archive lists a >lot of options that should be answered

Re: Include file problems

2001-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have installed a new potato system, and choosen the "developer" install. >I have looked in dselect, and confirmed that libc6-dev is marked as >installed. > >Yet when I try to compile things, I am having include file problems. > >For example I am trying to

Re: debian 2.2 with 8 meg ?

2001-02-08 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an old, lonely 486 with 8 MB and want to use it for Linux. > Is there any chance to use debian 2.2 on it. > I read in the installation manual, that it needs 12 MB. As someone else already pointed out, that you can install potato on a machine with 8MB RAM, bu

Re: Memory/cpu quoatas for users

2001-02-08 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
D-Man wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:35:21AM +, Mike Moran wrote: > | > | Hi. I am looking for a way to limit the amount of memory and cpu used by > | the apache > > I know it is possible, but I don't know how to set it. I know it is > possible because when running Gnumeric I ran out

Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation...

2001-02-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
I thought it was odd that you had Windows on the secondary controller. I didn't think it would work that way, but assumed it was already. I thought you made some changes to lilo and then it stopped working... Oh well, it's working now so that's all that matters ! Hall > thanks lot for your help

Re: pppd problem with 2.4.1

2001-02-08 Thread Tom George
Tom George wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: I compiled 2.4.1 and tried to sign on the internet. pppd sent a string that caused the connection to fail. I reloaced 2.2.12 and signed on with no difficulty in order to send this message. Any ideas? You need a specific, updated version of pppd to

Re: pppd problem with 2.4.1

2001-02-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Before compiling the 2.4.1 kernel I used apt-get dist-upgrade to > install all the available upgrades in the stable distribution,. I then > checked against the list in changes and found that I still had only > modutils 2.3.11-13.1. I used apt-get install modutils to get version > 2.4.1-2. St

Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?

2001-02-08 Thread mike polniak
> > > Perhaps the idecd is installed into the kernel and is not a module. > > You can check your kernel configuration in /boot/version/config. > > That will tell what is configured as a module(=m) and what is > > compiled directly into the kernel(=y).So check for the following: > > > >

Re: XFree 4.0 debs?

2001-02-08 Thread francisco m . neto
» Christian Terboven disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > Moritz Schulte wrote: > > > "francisco m . neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>I'm looking for deb packages of XFree 4.0.2, and it doesn't > >> seem to be under the testing tree, neither under the unstable one. > > > > > > I just ch

emacs 21

2001-02-08 Thread Julio Merino
Anybody knows if there is any emacs21 beta debian package anywhere? Thanks in advance.

cvs modules

2001-02-08 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I know this is quite dumb, but how can I see the modules inside a repository. cvs checkout needs a module to check out but I can't git it one if I can't see which modules are in the repository -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail:

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-08 Thread mike polniak
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > >helpful page: http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf > > > > I use XFree86-4 with the xfs-xtt font server. I have tried other > > ways and xfs-xtt gives the best results of any in netscape. > > I followed the directions on the page above and got the results shown > h

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