Re: Console Text Scrambled

2001-02-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Tyler Braun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This morning after shutting down X everything on my console was scrambled. I > can > still type commands and can somewhat distinguish that characters are appearing > on the screen, but nothing's readable. I can also start X back up without any > problems.

Re: Root Password problem

2001-02-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Ethan Benson (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:40:50PM -0900): > when you add password and put restricted in the image section lilo > WILL NOT ask for a password UNLESS some twit is at the console trying > to type linux init=/bin/sh. if you leave it alone it boots, no > password required. if yo

Re: A modules question

2001-02-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What does update-modules do with /etc/modules? Nothing. You are writing /etc/modules when you install modules during installation, and from then on you're responsible for it yourself. update-modules builds /etc/modules.conf from all the bits and pieces i

Re: cron and laptop

2001-02-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting christophe barbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I use potato on a laptop and my laptop is on only when i'm using it. > When I start, cron launches various task (too many at the same time) and take > a big part of the CPU. > > It's crazy : you turn your computer 2 minutes on (you do near nothing

Re: cron and laptop

2001-02-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Feb-2001 David Wright wrote: > Quoting christophe barbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> I use potato on a laptop and my laptop is on only when i'm using it. >> When I start, cron launches various task (too many at the same time) and >> take a big part of the CPU. >> >> It's crazy : you turn your

Re: Random reboots & freezes on SMP

2001-02-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 28 Feb 01, 8:34 AM, Andrew n marshall said: > > Originally, I didn't think this was a SMP problem because of the Windows > crashes and becuase Linux crashed many times before I added the SMP kernel > (but after I installed the secnd processor). When I did finally get > around to instal

HELP! VM?

2001-02-28 Thread Kristian Rink
Hello everyone... Right back from work, seeing that our file / print server running Debian 2.2r1 lately is, like, DOS'ing itself frequently each day while filling the local tty same as the log files with error messages like VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for For what I already know about Linux

[OT] tuning kernel memory usage

2001-02-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Hey folks. This question has been nagging at me for a while now, and it's about time I asked. I've got a Debian box (potato, upgraded to kernel 2.4.1, but that's irrelevant). I'm seeing swap usage that I don't understand. Here's the output of 'free': total used free

RE: ESS ES1898 Chipset Sound Card

2001-02-28 Thread Horburapa Mongkol-Q13382
It seems like nobody answers this. Anyone can help me for this? Thanks, -Original Message- From: Horburapa Mongkol-Q13382 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:58 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: ESS ES1898 Chipset Sound Card Hi, I have a No Brand na

RE: ESS ES1898 Chipset Sound Card

2001-02-28 Thread #KUNDAN KUMAR#
hi, what does it mean with no brand name? Did you buy it seperately (in that case you must be knowing what brand is it..) or you have a computer, you don't know what's inside and don't mean to fiddle with the hardware? If you are running windows also, what's the name of the device (My Computer, r

RE: ESS ES1898 Chipset Sound Card

2001-02-28 Thread Fernando Carvajal
I´m not sure but afraid not http://www.alsa-project.org/archive/alsa-user/msg05604.html

RE: ESS ES1898 Chipset Sound Card

2001-02-28 Thread Horburapa Mongkol-Q13382
This card actually is from company named Pine Technology. I don't think you have heard about it. The manual only said it is using ESS ES1898 Chipset. This PC is at home. I will check and see what it said when I run the windows. Thanks, Mongkol -Original Message- From: #KUNDAN KUMAR# [mai

Re: HELP! VM?

2001-02-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello everyone... > Right back from work, seeing that our file / print server running Debian > 2.2r1 lately is, like, DOS'ing itself frequently each day while filling the > local tty same as

why? [Fwd: Delivery Notification: Delivery has timed out and failed]

2001-02-28 Thread Erik Steffl
some of my messages that I send to debian-user go through just fine but ome of them are delayed and fail (not sure if all delayed ones fail in the end). Any ideas why this is happening? I am sending messages to debian from few accounts and I haven't investigated (yet) whether it's just one acc

Re: Console Text Scrambled

2001-02-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
> do you by any chance upgrade to Xfree 4.x and are running > framebuffers compiled into the kernel ? I do, why ?? I ask because I *cannot* use any consoles if X is running. When I switch to it, it looks file, but as soon as I type something, my text changes to something that looks worse than the

Re: staroffice5.2 and missing libs

2001-02-28 Thread judd
> Stepan Hachinger > - Original Message - > From: "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:23 PM > Subject: ot: staroffice5.2 and missing libs > > >> Hi, >> >> I had installed staroffice a couple of months ago and everything worked >> fine. When I tri

apt-get/dpkg uninstall fail

2001-02-28 Thread Dan Hellebust
Aight, I was attempting to install kde2.1 and it failed due to the fact i didnt have libstdc++2.8 installed already. After it complained obviously I attempted to install the libstdc++2.8 with apt-get and got this response. fenris:~/temp # apt-get install libstdc++2.8 Reading Package Lists... Done

Console text scrambled (in a different way :)

2001-02-28 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hullo again.. sorry to bother you nice people, but this one has been bugging me since I started using Linux a couple of years ago.. it's not Debian specific, but I've had better, more educated responses from this list than any other. Now, enough of the brown-nosing ;) If I display a file which con

Re: why? [Fwd: Delivery Notification: Delivery has timed out and failed

2001-02-28 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I haven't had this problem in particular. However, the debian lists seem to be having some rather persistent problems. Personally, I haven't received a digest in a few weeks and all attempts to resubscribe go unanswered. I know others have had various problems recently, and nobody has offered up

Re: #! syntax

2001-02-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:50:54PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > | You could consider: > | > |#!/usr/bin/env perl > | > | as more installs will have env in the same place. > | > > This is the correct way to begin python scripts (I can't say how the >

Re: Console text scrambled (in a different way :)

2001-02-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 12:09, Gavin Hamill wrote: > If I display a file which contains binary data, often there will be a > sequence of characters which the console interprets to 'switch > character sets' and then any lower case characters become little > boxes, or patches of fuzz, yet numb

Re: Console text scrambled (in a different way :)

2001-02-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gavin Hamill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If I display a file which contains binary data, often there will be a > sequence of characters which the console interprets to 'switch character > sets' and then any lower case characters become little boxes, or patches > of fuzz, yet numbers and upper c

Quota failed ?

2001-02-28 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
Hi there, On my Linux server I quoted one partition. After that some time later I've got this message on the console VFS: No free dquotas ... I have to reboot (there were no enter to system). After a quarter there were the same situation. In debug.log I found kernel: get_empty_dquot: pruning d

Re: Console text scrambled (in a different way :)

2001-02-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
> If I display a file which contains binary data, often there will > be a sequence of characters which the console interprets > to 'switch character sets' and then any lower case characters > become little boxes, or patches of fuzz, yet numbers and > upper case characters are unaffected. > > I know

fetchmail w/ changing user names

2001-02-28 Thread hanasaki
I am running fetchmail to get mail from a remote host and pass it to exim on my local mailserver Q: how can fetchmail get mailfrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] and send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems that the standard: fetchmail -u user1 -p AUTO -k seems to only deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Console Text Scrambled

2001-02-28 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:54:28PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > do you by any chance upgrade to Xfree 4.x and are running > > framebuffers compiled into the kernel ? > > I do, why ?? I ask because I *cannot* use any consoles if X is running. > When I switch to it, it looks file, but as soon a

ATI Rage Mobility - M

2001-02-28 Thread Paul Clark
I have installed Debian (Potato) on my new Thinkpad i Series and have hit a wall with X. The graphic card is not listed. There are very similar ones but not - M type. Do I need to upgrade to a new version of X (4.0?) for a driver? TIA Paul Clark

Re: Multi-Nics

2001-02-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
I assume you are referring to bug #63623. Unfortunately the ipmasq patches were gzipped attachments to the bug report and appear as garbage text on the web page. Is there some way to recover the actual patches? Bob On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:36:19PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > /etc/network/in

RE: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Ray Percival
I have noticed that with .7 that when you closed one Mozilla window (be it a browser or mail client window) that it would close all of the other Mozilla windows open. I think this is what you are talking about. This seems to have been fixed in .8 which I have been using for about a week now. -

Re: why? [Fwd: Delivery Notification: Delivery has timed out and failed]

2001-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some of my messages that I send to debian-user go through just fine >but ome of them are delayed and fail (not sure if all delayed ones fail >in the end). Any ideas why this is happening? Ignore them. If they don't come from your ISP or from *.debian.org,

RE: 2nd try, what is my problem with apt-get?

2001-02-28 Thread Lewis, James M.
> On Wed Feb 28 09:08:22 2001 Lewis, James M. wrote... > > > > > >> > >> I have a machine that I have upgraded from stable to testign, > >> and installed the > >> 2.4.3 kernel with kernel package on. > >> > >> > >> Now apt-get is failing. See the error messages? > >> > >> > >> Script started

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:18:38AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > unless you have lots of users wanting to use mozilla, then you end up > with X number of copies of this monster in /home. where X == the > number of users on the system. > > file permissions and the FHS exist for a reason, mozilla

Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
I am currently running a Debian 2.2 box as my DNS/www/ftp/ssh/etc etc etc... Anyway the DNS lookup is working fine except for when the internal machines try to look up 'www.emergeknowledge.com' which is essentially local. When I am working from home (yes i get to telecommute 4 days a week :)) I c

Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Terry Hancock
Hi, I have only one computer (working anyway), which I use for fairly important information. So, I use the stable Debian distribution on it. However, I also do development on this machine, so I often need later versions of libraries and so on that I'm using in my projects. If I could just install

Does ppp modify IP packets ?

2001-02-28 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
Hi there, How is it possible ? I have a mail server based on potato r2. Everything works well. When I boot system with 2.4.0 kernel works well *nearly* everything. Ipop daemon workin well if a user is connecting by LAN. When the same user connects by modem to his internet provider and then to my

Re: Multi dos booting

2001-02-28 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to use lilo to boot 2 partitions in hda that > are both using msdos. One win 95 and one win 3.1. > Can someone point me to a fm so I can rtfm or a > something? TIADean > Try the "Partition table manipulation" section in /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz I ha

Debian Logo Flawed?

2001-02-28 Thread Debian Gonzalez
Hello! Is there a reason that the logo is totally flat on the left side? Has anyone else noticed this? It looks like it was cut off or something. It ruins the beautiful brushstroke nature of the spiral, and stands out every time I see it. -Christian

Re: fetchmail w/ changing user names

2001-02-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:35:00PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > I am running fetchmail to get mail from a remote host and pass it to > exim on my local mailserver > > Q: how can fetchmail get mailfrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] and send it to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It seems that the standard: > fet

RE: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Martin Marconcini
For sure it's going to be neccesary. post /etc/named.boot and /var/named/* Regards. Martin. ps: actually.. it IS a reverse problem.. -Original Message- From: Leonard Leblanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 4:34 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
leonard, it's hard to say since i have next to no info, but it sounds like you may want to look at tracerroute, ping and tcpdump. these three utilities, when taken together, can diagnost just about any network problem. (you may need to see output of tcpdump on the DNS server). pete On Wed 28 Fe

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread elysium
When you type 'nslookup www.emergeknowledge.com' on your DNS server, what is the full results? How about 'nslookup ' (to see if the reverse is the same)? This is a slow lookup from your DNS server as well as from other boxes using it as their DNS server over the network, right? What does your /et

Re: ftp-install-testing

2001-02-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:14:02AM -0500, Dale Kosan wrote: > Thanks to all who replied about the apt question. I was just wondering, is > there a way to do a testing install over ftp? I would like to set-up another > box and go this route.Would I just go to the testing directory and download >

Re: "ldconfig not found in PATH"

2001-02-28 Thread Kai Weber
+ John Kerr Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and > /sbin. Are you running dselect with sudo? Kai. -- mail | [EMAIL PROTECTED] · pgp: [EMAIL PRO

Switching between two file systems.

2001-02-28 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I have a problem. I have RedHat on /dev/hd1, and Debian on /dev/hd5 (that I just transferred from another HD). The problem is, when I boot into Debian, the system.map of RedHat is still being used, and I got a lot of warning messages. Is there a way that I get around this problem? Thank

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 13:33, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > I am currently running a Debian 2.2 box as my DNS/www/ftp/ssh/etc etc > etc... Anyway the DNS lookup is working fine except for when the > internal machines try to look up 'www.emergeknowledge.com' which is > essentially local. When I a

PowerPC Debian

2001-02-28 Thread Ken Sandell
How do I get Debian on a PowerPC?   Where can I get boot disks and I want to do a net install

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
When i type nslookup www.emergeknowledge.com i get the following: server: localhost address: 127.0.0.1 name: ns.emergeknowledge.com address: 64.59.157.18 aliases: www.emergeknowledge.com and nslookup 64.59.157.18 gives me server: localhost address: 127.0.0.1 name: 64-59-157-18.ivideon.com addr

Re: ltx2rtf compiles on RedHat 6.2 but not on debian 2.2

2001-02-28 Thread Nabil Hathout
Hello, In fact, ltx2rtf gives better results with latex2e files. it properly translates italic, bold face... Latex2rtf only recongnizes latex2.09 commands. --Nabil Shaul Karl writes: > You might want to consider: > > [14:10:28 /tmp]$ grep-available latex2rtf > Package: latex2rtf > Pr

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Sorry about the size of thisbut here's my config files: named.conf: options { directory "/var/cache/bind"; // If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want // to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source // directive below. Previous

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig -x 64.59.157.18 > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > 18.157.59.64.in-addr.arpa. 1H IN PTR 64-59-157-18.ivideon.com. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig soa 18.157.59.64.in-addr.arpa > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > 157.59.64.in-addr.arpa. 1H IN SOA ns1.ivideon.com. isp.videon.ca. ( > >

Re: NAT/MASQ in single NIC

2001-02-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Well .. I danno... Never done it. Just a thoght which may work. Seriously, PCI NIC costs only $20 these days. I have 2 NICs and MASQ them to access Cable and LAN. It will act as good firewall too. Osamu PS: One of your e-mail address bounced mail, I think. On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:23:25PM +

Re: PowerPC Debian

2001-02-28 Thread Claus Enneper
At 21:34 28.02.01, Ken Sandell wrote: How do I get Debian on a PowerPC? www.debian.org debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org note that you have to check the list archive about procedure, because most oldworld Macs do have a broken OF and it's easier to install with BenH's bootx, which is not deb

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 14:40, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig -x 64.59.157.18 > > > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > > 18.157.59.64.in-addr.arpa. 1H IN PTR 64-59-157-18.ivideon.com. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig soa 18.157.59.64.in-addr.arpa > > > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > > 1

Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Dave Carrigan
Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In many cases these seem to be frivolous assumptions. > It seems very implausible to me (for example) > that compiling libsdl1.1 _really_ requires > libc6 >= 2.1.97. I'm pretty sure that, installing > from source, libc6 version 2.1.3 (in Debian 2.2) > w

RE: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Martin Marconcini
I have removed all but what I think you should change... db.emerge file: $ORIGIN emergeknowledge.com. /// THIS @ IN SOA ns.emergeknowledge.com. admin.emergeknowledge.com. ( 1 ; serial 8H ; refresh 2H ; retry 1W ; expire 1D) ; minimum, TTL NS ns.emergeknowledge.com. MX 1

fetchmail bad

2001-02-28 Thread Rick Rezinas
hello, I am using testing with fetchmail talking to sendmail. The problem that I am having is that if the host from which mail is sent does not exist, sendmail rejects it, which causes fetchmail to segfault. Is there a configuration for sendmail to not reject hosts that aren't resolvable (I wou

[OT] mutt colors vs. TERM types

2001-02-28 Thread will trillich
when using mutt under termtype 'linux' (i.e. `setenv TERM linux`) mutt's headers and 'active selection' bars flash, driving me nuts. when i change to `setenv TERM vt220-color` it's a nice, calm green and blue, with no flash. but then less complains that my terminal type 'is not fully functional' (

potato and disk space

2001-02-28 Thread Antonio Lobato
Hello! I`m installing the potato on the machine that has just 544Mb of HD. More, on 350 Mb is the Win installed. So, I have just 194 Mb to install my potato. I can enlarge the linux partition until 344 Mb, decresing the Win partition. I want to install the X system on it.

what is needed to compile latex2rtf on a potato ?

2001-02-28 Thread Nabil Hathout
Hello, I am still trying to compile ltx2rtf on a potato. Shaul Karl reminded me tha ltx2rtf is almost the same as latex2rtf which is a debian package. So, I have tried to compile the source distribution of the latter. I have libc5 installed on my machine. However, the compiltaion failed exactly

[OT] IMAP/Maildir with Gnus

2001-02-28 Thread Andre Berger
I use IMAP/Maildir with Mutt, can I also access the server with Xemacs/Gnus 5.8.3? I started with an empty .emacs file, tried to browse foreign groups using 'B nnimaplocalhost', saw the INBOX.* groups Mutt uses, and could subscribe to them. But there are only the message headers, the msg size is al

Mirrored Disk Controller Hardware

2001-02-28 Thread Paul Rinear
We are using the i386 release of Debian 2.2 . Need to install a PCI controller card that will mirror two IDE ATA100 hard disks. Controller should allow hot-swap of drives, but this is not a must. Is there a list of controller cards supported under Debian. Am also interested in a list of tape ba

Re: fetchmail bad

2001-02-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rick Rezinas wrote: > I am using testing with fetchmail talking to sendmail. The problem > that I am having is that if the host from which mail is sent does > not exist, sendmail rejects it, which causes fetchmail to segfault. Which version of fetchmail? Segfaults are *alwa

Re: Outlook conversion

2001-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
I looked into this pretty recently, and gave up. MS does not provide many choices for export, and they tend to lose data. I tried to import into Eudora 5, which claims to be able to handle this. It couldn't. I can't recall if I tried NS, but if I did, it didn't work. This was with Outlook

Re: Outlook conversion

2001-02-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Ross Boylan (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:09:40PM -0800): > The outlook .pst format is incredibly slow to work with--I found it took > hours to import and export messages using it. that's why i proposed the imap approach. fire it up friday, it may be done by next week. it took 5 days for me

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
I made all of those changes, when i tried to ping (from the dns box) and of the domains (www, ftp, etc) I just kept getting ping: unknown host ftp.emergeknowledge.com ping: unknown host www.emergeknowledge.com etc etc etc Leonard

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
> Since they are listed as SOA for the reverse domain, you can't fix it. > You have to convince them to add the relevant entries. > since getting them to change it is probably out of the question do you know of any documents that you can point me towards that will describe what kind of issues this

Re: This list is quite bugged

2001-02-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:31:42AM +0100, Jefsey Morfin wrote: > For several weeks I try to be unsusbcribed from this list. > Without any success. > I sent a mail to the list master without any result. > Is this list run under Debian? > Is someone able to fix the bug? This has happened before. Th

Re: fetchmail bad

2001-02-28 Thread Rick Rezinas
Hello, well, got the sendmail to not strip out nonexistant hosts, but teh fetchmail is still weird. here is the ersult of fetchmail -V: This is fetchmail release 5.5.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS Linux fry 2.4.1 #1 Sun Feb 4 22:27:22 PST 2001 i686 unknown Taking options from command line and /home/rmr/.fetchm

Re: [OT] mutt colors vs. TERM types

2001-02-28 Thread mojo
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > when using mutt under termtype 'linux' (i.e. `setenv TERM linux`) > mutt's headers and 'active selection' bars flash, driving me > nuts. when i change to `setenv TERM vt220-color` it's a nice, > calm green and blue, with no flash. Not sure, but if you have t

Re: freeze when mounting cd image using loop

2001-02-28 Thread csj
I don't think so. Loop works fine on my 2.4.1. I made a hasty downgrade from 2.4.2 after reading your original post and seeing the problem for myself (need loop for my daily cdr burnings). Interestingly I used my kernel config for 2.4.2 to recompile my 2.4.1. On Wednesday 28 February 2001 09:06

Re: how do you use a module more than once

2001-02-28 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Richard Green wrote: > >I'm building a router to play with out of an old PC an a few Intel >EthereExpress 16 cards. > >How do I insmod or modprobe to for each of the cards? modprobe eexpress io=io1,io2,io3 io1,2,&3 should be in the form 0x300 (where sosfset usually puts them

Re: fetchmail bad

2001-02-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rick Rezinas wrote: > This is fetchmail release 5.5.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS That version has way too many segfaults. I suggest you try one of the versions in unstable (but wait until tomorrow if any of your servers is M$ Exchange, the current one will timeout and not get your mail).

swap

2001-02-28 Thread Dehui Peng
Hi all, I try to install Debian 2.2r2 potato, but get a problem when I try to create/initialize swap partition. Before installation, my hard drive looks like: /dev/hda1winnt, NTFS (~2GB) /dev/hda2freebsd (~5GB) /dev/hda3linux native (~5GB) /dev/hda4win95 exten

Re: how do you use a module more than once

2001-02-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach John Galt (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 03:33:41PM -0700): > modprobe eexpress io=io1,io2,io3 now say i had to specify irq and io in the insmod line, howto? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "a mathematician is a device for tu

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 16:19, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > > Since they are listed as SOA for the reverse domain, you can't fix > > it. You have to convince them to add the relevant entries. > > since getting them to change it is probably out of the question do > you know of any documents that y

Re: "ldconfig not found in PATH"

2001-02-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:26:15PM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: > + John Kerr Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > > NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and > > /sbin. > > Are you runn

Re: how do you use a module more than once

2001-02-28 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: >also sprach John Galt (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 03:33:41PM -0700): >> modprobe eexpress io=io1,io2,io3 > >now say i had to specify irq and io in the insmod line, howto? never dealt with irqs--they're usually autodetected by the module, but I'd assume that it was n

Off Topic - NN6 & Mozilla cutting off text.

2001-02-28 Thread William Jensen
Greetings, When I use NN6 or Mozilla and view a page that has a list of hrefs I see what appears to be the lower line cutting off 1/2 of the line above it. Obviously this makes it impossible to read the page. If I use netscape 4.76 this does not happen. I'm running a stable potato with kernel 2

Re: Multi-Nics

2001-02-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:04:01PM +0100, Joerg Huber wrote: > Hi, > > What is the full name of the Debian BTS web page, mentioned in the previous > message? I was curious too, so I had a look: BTS looks like Buck Tracking System, http://www.debian.org/Bugs. Use the 'packet search' field on th

Re: pavuk support for reading from Mozilla cache directory

2001-02-28 Thread csj
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 21:07, Colin Watson wrote: > Stefan Ondrejicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Cc'ing on the assumption that if you don't use Debian you won't be > reading debian-user; I'd make sure the person you were replying to > got it instead, but I'm not sure who that is or if t

Re: Outlook conversion

2001-02-28 Thread Robert Waldner
>>> I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook >>> file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can >>> read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing >>> because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages fro

Xircom issue

2001-02-28 Thread Eric N. Valor
I've got a strange issue with Debian on a Micron Transport Trek II laptop using a Xircom RealPort Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 (Model RBE-100). Static IP addresses work great, no problems. However, when I restart ethernet in DHCP mode, I get an address and route just fine (as demonstrated by ifc

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Greg Gilbert
In my experience, the mozilla installer is too unstable. Each time I've tried it it crashed. Greg * Rob VanFleet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:18:38AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > unless you have lots of users wanting to use mozilla, then you end up > > with X nu

Re: [OT] tuning kernel memory usage

2001-02-28 Thread Harald Thingelstad
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey folks. This question has been nagging at me for a while now, and > it's about time I asked. I've got a Debian box (potato, upgraded to > kernel 2.4.1, but that's irrelevant). I'm seeing swap usage that I > don't understand. Here's the outpu

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
> Do you have reverse dns entries in your named configuration? If your > internal hosts are doing reverse queries to your server and they're > timing out, that could cause the delays you see. > yes, i do have reverse dns entries in my named configuration should i take them out? leonard

Re: freeze when mounting cd image using loop

2001-02-28 Thread Andreas Schmidt
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 07:50:17PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas> Hi Edwin, > Andreas> > Andreas> today I had exactly the same problem on my potato box with > Andreas> kernel version 2.4.2. So I tried to re

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX Probs W. 2.4.2

2001-02-28 Thread mike polniak
W. Paul Mills wrote: > > The DFE-530TX uses the via-rhine driver, and the DFE-530TX+ > uses the rtl8139 driver. The last I knew, this was not > documented on the DLink web site or on Donald Becker's > web site. Only place you will find out about the rtl8139 > driver is on the disk that comes wit

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 19:22, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > > Do you have reverse dns entries in your named configuration? If > > your internal hosts are doing reverse queries to your server and > > they're timing out, that could cause the delays you see. > > yes, i do have reverse dns entries i

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya leonard... what does the snippetts of your dns files look like ??? -- are you supporting more than one domain name on your lan ??? soa records a records ns records ptr records $TTL $ORIGIN contents of named.boot/named.conf c ya alvin On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > I am

Re: Console Text Scrambled

2001-02-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Alberto Brealey G. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010228 18:56]: > > I'm using a Matrox G400 and using framebuffers specifically for it. I've > > also tried different variations of the console fonts that are available. > > are you by any chance running the driver from matrox? (mga.o, downloaded > from the

using FTP with proxy

2001-02-28 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I finally got my DSL connection going to all my computers by making my family's Windows box into a proxy server (that has the internal DSL modem in it). Unfortunately, I can't seem to use FTP. I have mozilla set up with the right port number, etc., but no FTP sites work, which is a serious

using xf86config: errors: (XFree4.0.2 on testing) /var/log/XFree86.0.log

2001-02-28 Thread Walter Tautz
I have a fairly old PCI ATI Mach64 based video card that works just perfectly on XFree 3.3 but the new stuff just does grok it .. see below XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000 If the server i

Restricted Shell?

2001-02-28 Thread Ken Sandell
I want to setup a restricted shell in Debian and only want a user to be able to use certan programs.   Also, I dont want the user to be allowed to FTP in.   And, It'd be sooo nice to have a menuinterface on this shell.

Re: 2nd try, what is my problem with apt-get?

2001-02-28 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Feb 28 14:22:14 2001 Lewis, James M. wrote... > > >> On Wed Feb 28 09:08:22 2001 Lewis, James M. wrote... >> > >> > >> >> >> >> I have a machine that I have upgraded from stable to testign, >> >> and installed the >> >> 2.4.3 kernel with kernel package on. >> >> >> >> >> >> Now apt-get i

Re: Can't Locate binfmt... something to worry about?

2001-02-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:17:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 at 09:10:27 +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > > (Please, please don't cc me on list mail. I have over 2000 items in my > inbox, and people filling it up even more with four e-mails in a row > about the same post on the

Re: [OT] mutt colors vs. TERM types

2001-02-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:25:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: i did? hmm! i sent it to debian-user, and maybe it's got some cool filters to propagate it around to various pertinent newsgroups...? > > when using mutt under termtype 'linux' (i.e. `setenv

Am I ready for the big Woody?

2001-02-28 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I was wondering how "stable" woody is now. I kind of want it very badly, and I know that they're preparing for freeze, so would I be ok if I switched to woody? I've been using Debian since 2.1, so I am somewhat experienced. Cameron Matheson

Re: Can't Locate binfmt... something to worry about?

2001-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:17:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> (Please, please don't cc me on list mail. I have over 2000 items in my >> inbox, and people filling it up even more with four e-mails in a row >> about the same post on the same problem just ma

Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:06:08PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: > The reason is that the unstable packages seem to > have the assumption built into them that they > will never be used on a stable distr system -- > that is they have dependencies on later versions > of basic packages. This has irri

Re: Restricted Shell?

2001-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Ken Sandell wrote: > I want to setup a restricted shell in Debian and only want a user to be able > to use certan programs. > > Also, I dont want the user to be allowed to FTP in. > > And, It'd be sooo nice to have a menuinterface on this shell. You could try pdmenu then. -- see shy jo

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