'setxkbmap dvorak' not working

2001-03-23 Thread Adrian Kubala
I run unstable; I've seen a few debian-related docs which imply that 'setxkbmap dvorak' and 'setxkbmap us' should work, but both give me an 'Error loading new keyboard description.' A search for dvorak keymaps for x turns up one in the gnome-applets package, and one in the kbd package, neither

Re: No XF86Config-4

2001-03-23 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
Have you tried running xf86config? Andrew Sione Taumoefolau [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.pipeline.com.au/tonga/ - Original Message - From: "Ben Pharr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: No XF86Config-4 > I have just done a fresh install of woody an

Re: 'setxkbmap dvorak' not working

2001-03-23 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Kubala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this an unstable-broken thing? (I didn't see any files that > looked useful in stable though). Anybody know how to set up dvorak > 'properly' in debian? FWIW, I use xmodmap. In fact, I'm the only one usi

RE: Windows Acting Funny After Install

2001-03-23 Thread Andrew Clark
I have also got this before. I could be wrong but I think it had something to do with either: - table=/dev/hd? missing from lilo.conf - forgot to set windows partition as a boot/active partition I could be wrong though, it's been a while since it happend. Quoting Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Why does apt-get want to remove all these packages?

2001-03-23 Thread Shaul Karl
Running apt-get update solved most of the problem. Now it only wants to remove console-apt, which is in stable and has a dummy package in unstable, but not in testing. Where as my system runs testing. Doesn't looks to me justified since I don't notice any dependency problems. --- Begin 

xine

2001-03-23 Thread Fernando Carvajal
Hola Alguien sabe los pasos para instalr el Xine y poder ver DVD. Lo he instalado primero la version 0.3.3 se podía añadir uno de los ficheros del DVD pero no la película de seguido. Luego instalé el parche/plugin CSS para descifrar. Tuve que cambiar la referencia al directorio de include por

RE: HP has released DeskJet printer driver!!!

2001-03-23 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 23-Mar-2001 hzi wrote: > Hello- > > HP has finally released the driver for the DeskJet family!! Who cares!! There is no need for special drivers to use a HP DJ (believe me, I own one!!)!! But if you must, apt-cache search cups - it comes with specific support for DJs!!! BTW, I'm just k

Re: Matlab R11 doesn't want to run after recent apt-get upgrade

2001-03-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have had some trouble with this too. You need might need some oldlibs. The name of the libs are the same, but the libs are not. I do not remember which oldlibs. Look in the directory oldlibs on the ftp server and install what seems logical (it were just a few packets). Greetz, Sebastiaan

IP tables setup

2001-03-23 Thread Rob Zietlow
Anyone know of the location of a man or a HOWTO on setting up IPtables for the 2.4.X kernel. I would like to have that setup before I replace IP chains and goto the new kernel

Re: Xfree 4.0.2 + mga + Dualhead config...

2001-03-23 Thread Max Lock
"Allan M. Wind" wrote: > > On 2001-03-22 17:03:34, Max Lock wrote: > > > Thanks to Martin W?rtele for a copy of a valid XF86Config-4 file I was > > missing the screen entry in the device sections. > > Could I have a copy of your XF86Config-4 please? Hi Allan, No problem, I've attached Marti

Re: IP tables setup

2001-03-23 Thread Brian May
> "Rob" == Rob Zietlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Anyone know of the location of a man or a HOWTO on setting up Rob> IPtables for the 2.4.X kernel. I would like to have that Rob> setup before I replace IP chains and goto the new kernel Look under /usr/doc/iptables/html afte

Debian packages for PLplot 5.0.2 available

2001-03-23 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Debian packages for the latest stable release of PLplot (5.0.2) are available. The packages work for the Debian "potato" distribution (2.2). They are available in both the Debian unstable repository and the apt-getable location in the PLplot web site. To upgrade your packages, just add the foll

Re: Pool administration

2001-03-23 Thread Kai Weber
+ M G Berberich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I had a look at cfengine but does not like it very much. Why? I used my own set of scripts for a long time and switch now over to cfengine because it's nearly the same as my hardly developed scripts but better. I set a link on every machine from /etc/cfengi

Re: Can't make Sound work :-(

2001-03-23 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 23 March 2001 04:06, Raymond L. Zarling wrote: > > alsa is installed, but /etc/init.d/alsa start says it can't locate module Did you know that the kernel module and alsa are different things? Either you use the kernel module that you built with your kernel or alsa, which has it's ow

gzipped dvi's

2001-03-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I wondered if there is an easier way to view .dvi.gz files than to unpack them first to /tmp. I looked through the optionlist of xdvi, tried pipes, but found nothing usefull. Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan

nfs with debian and solaris

2001-03-23 Thread dko
hello, i have an server nfs on solaris (10.11.11.1) and i'm trying to connect to it with my debian workstation when i mount i have that: mount 10.11.11.1:/home/dko /mnt/test mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 10.11.11.1:/home/dko, or too many mounted file systems

Re: gzipped dvi's

2001-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I wondered if there is an easier way to view .dvi.gz files than to unpack >them first to /tmp. It works in tetex-bin 1.0.7-1 and above; you can just use xdvi on compressed files directly. Unfortunately there were bugs in the xdvi that was about to make it int

language settings in command line and man pages

2001-03-23 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Hello I have to work on a linux box with french language set default. Two questions: (i have root permissions there) 1) how to switch back to english in the command line? 2) how to make man pages english? I understand that I must read man pages to find out the answers, but what if they all ar

Re: gzipped dvi's

2001-03-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:23:16AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > I wondered if there is an easier way to view .dvi.gz files than to unpack > them first to /tmp. > > I looked through the optionlist of xdvi, tried pipes, but found nothing > usefull. Newer versions of xdvi have automatic gzip

Re: language settings in command line and man pages

2001-03-23 Thread Andre Berger
* Peter O. Fedichev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010323 12:10 +0100: > Hello > > I have to work on a linux box with french language set default. Two > questions: > (i have root permissions there) Each user can do this on h{is,er} own. > 1) how to switch back to english in th

X11 header files - which package?

2001-03-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
Can someone kindly remind me which package is needed to supply X11 header files? I've come up against this one in the past but I can't remember the solution. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Gnu/Debian Linux (Windows-free zone) For electronic books, skeptical essays, and over 120 book rev

Routing problem ... (thanx)

2001-03-23 Thread Mateusz Mazur
Hello. I would like to thanx for all replay for my mesg. If I will be have some another problems I will be write to this list ;). Polish mailing list and newsgroup aren't so kind. Mateusz Mazur

xawtv and sound

2001-03-23 Thread Stan Brown
Well, I'm making progress here. I let dseletc update from the Progeny, and Debian sites lats night. Got a new version of Xaw3d, and now I can get xawtv to run! However, there are still a couple of problems. 1. I am not getting sound from the TV chanel while it's runing. Sound seems to work for

Unidentified subject!

2001-03-23 Thread D. Hoyem
I'm using 2.2r2 and kernel2.2.18pre21 on a PII 350. Works great now after many reinstalls. I have a Supra Express 56K modem and when I initially set it up using pppconfig I used the 115200 setting. With that setting I was getting time outs a lot with apt-get. I was advised to change it to 57600

Re: Wvdial - How do you surf without being root?

2001-03-23 Thread Barry Mathieu
Hmmm... I'm a Debian newbie using wvdial as an ordinary user, so I wonder about the legitimacy of my method. I've added my username to the 'dialout' group in '/etc/group'. After you edit that file, exacute, 'update-passwd'. Then try wvdial as an ordinary user. I do get some warning at connectio

nvidia tnt2 drivers and Xfree 24bit true color

2001-03-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using debian 2r2 with the standard distribution of xfree86 i have a graphics card based on tnt2. i downloaded the drivers from nvidias website, configured x11. when i execute i get an error message saying "invalid symbol" in libglx. i suppose that it does not load the module. and consequently X d

Re: nvidia tnt2 drivers and Xfree 24bit true color

2001-03-23 Thread Ilya Martynov
> "s" == [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> using debian 2r2 with the standard distribution s> of xfree86 s> i have a graphics card based on tnt2. s> i downloaded the drivers from nvidias website, s> configured x11. when i execute i get an error s> messag

Re: X11 header files - which package?

2001-03-23 Thread Marcus Geiger
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:22:38AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Can someone kindly remind me which package is needed to supply X11 > header files? I've come up against this one in the past but I can't > remember the solution. > For XFree 4.02 it is: xlibs-dev -- Marcus > Anthony > > > >

Potato-Compact doesn't install on Compaq Smart-2SL Array

2001-03-23 Thread Andreas.Trawoger
Hi! I'm having problems to install Debian 2.2 on a Compaq ProLiant 3000 with Smart-2SL Array. Debian detects the Smart Controller, but seams to be unable to access the Array (I'm getting a 'No hard disk could be found' error when I'm trying add a Partition to the drive). Suse 6.4 was running fine

Re: HP has released DeskJet printer driver!!!

2001-03-23 Thread Alejandro Garin
This is a good news for linux, but why Hp doesn't support the 720C !!! I can't believe it! They work in a drivers and my printer is not supported yet... I WILL DROP THIS PRINTER FOR THE WINDOW NOW! --- hzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello- > > HP has finally released the driver for the

Re: X11 header files - which package?

2001-03-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Mar 2001, Marcus Geiger wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:22:38AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Can someone kindly remind me which package is needed to supply X11 > > header files? I've come up against this one in the past but I can't > > remember the solution. > > > > For XFree 4.02

Re: HP has released DeskJet printer driver!!!

2001-03-23 Thread Mike Dresser
Isn't the HP720C one of those winprinters? On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Alejandro Garin wrote: > This is a good news for linux, > but why Hp doesn't support the 720C !!! > I can't believe it! They work in a drivers and my > printer is not supported yet... I WILL DROP THIS > PRINTER FOR THE WINDOW NOW!

Re: nvidia tnt2 drivers and Xfree 24bit true color

2001-03-23 Thread Rossen Naydenov
The debian driver by default is nv not nvidia ulles you 've downloaded and installed from nvidia.com I think that this driver does not support 24 bpp I think you should put 16 bpp in your XF86config file Ross

OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 grief

2001-03-23 Thread Luigi Fabio
Hello everybody, I am having some issues with openssh. I have two identical machines with 2.2r2 installed. Both have openssl 0.9.6 installed in shared lib mode. The problem is as follows: I installed on both openssh 2.5.2p2 (via tarball, bear with me, I can't stand packages). On one, it runs wi

Re: Viewing html-attachments with mutt

2001-03-23 Thread Bastian Bowe
Hello again, On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:06:53PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote: > what does your ~/.mailcap say about text/html mimetypes? > If there is no file called that in your homedir, what about the system > wide one (in debian is it in /etc? ) A grep on /etc/mailcap shows: text/html; navigato

Re: IP tables setup

2001-03-23 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Rob Zietlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know of the location of a man or a HOWTO on setting up > IPtables for the 2.4.X kernel. I would like to have that setup > before I replace IP chains and goto the new kernel http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ hth, moritz -- Morit

Re: X11 header files - which package?

2001-03-23 Thread Moritz Schulte
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks - got it now. Unfortunately, this only partially solves my > problem, which is trying to compile the latest version of vim (6.0y) > with GUI support. Configure now finds the X11 headers but still says > there is no gui support. I don't understa

Potato and satellite internet connection

2001-03-23 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I wonder if setting internet connection through a satellite is doable from a potato/woody machine. Any body out there that has it? Does any one have a recommendation for satellite internet provider that would work fine (USA)? Thanks, AR

RE: OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 grief

2001-03-23 Thread George Wright
Are you *sure* you ran the config scripts w/the same options? I had a similar situation and the problem was configuring one using md5 passwords and not doing this on the other (assume md5's on all machines). There should be a config.cache or some other report around documenting your config c

Re: No XF86Config-4

2001-03-23 Thread Jason Majors
Try running xf86config by hand. If you don't have it it might be in the xf86setup package (not sure though). On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:12:22PM -0600, Ben Pharr scribbled... > I have just done a fresh install of woody and there is no XF86Config-4. > I have install-ed, --reinstall-ed, and dpkg-reco

Re: nfs with debian and solaris

2001-03-23 Thread Jason Majors
Do you specify the mount type correctly? Here's an nfs mount from my /etc/fstab: magneto:/usr/local/mp3s /usr/local/mp3s nfs ro,user 0 0 And I assume that the solaris box has its nfs set up correctly. Have you checked it from other machines? On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:44:12AM +

Re: Windows Acting Funny After Install

2001-03-23 Thread Kent West
Benjamin Pharr wrote: At 11:12 PM 3/22/01 , you wrote: Everyone please jump on me if I'm incorrect, but I think once you've seen the "Starting Windows 95" text anything that happens is beyond the control of lilo? I realize it's beyond the control of LILO, but it obviously has something

How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

2001-03-23 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? When X starts it's locking up my keyboard and mouse so I need to disable it on boot up. I don't have a boot disk (of course) so I'm looking for a solution other than the obvious. Thanks, Andy

RE: auto responder w/sendmail.

2001-03-23 Thread Mullins, Ron
>From: Nate Amsden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >i know sendmail has the vacation program, but i would like to do some >kind of auto responder at our mail 'hub', which has no accounts just >a bunch of aliases that point to leaf servers. since the vacation >program seemingly relies on a $HOME to store

Re: X11 header files - which package?

2001-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 23 Mar 2001, Marcus Geiger wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:22:38AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> > Can someone kindly remind me which package is needed to supply X11 >> > header files? I've come up against this one in the past but I can't >>

starting programs on kdm/startx startup

2001-03-23 Thread Bastian Bowe
Hello, I've setup a $HOME/.xsession to run programs on kdm and startx startup. The problem is that programs started in the back (with &) will stay alive after closing X. Here is my .xsession: #! /bin/bash # set bellvolume,-pitch,-duration xset b 100 300 30 #xplanetbg runs every 1200 secs xplanet

potato+kernel 2.4.1+X 3.3.6+i810 chipset

2001-03-23 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I had potato with k 2.2.18. I compiled k2.4.1. I compiled modutils 2.4.1 also. Then I did make install modules. Even then I get some modprobe errors. I have lines kernel symbols match and loaded in the first few lines of /var/log/messages. What can be the reason? I have I810 chipset machine. Even

RE: OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 grief

2001-03-23 Thread Luigi Fabio
On 23 Mar 2001, at 8:51, George Wright wrote: > Are you *sure* you ran the config scripts w/the same > options? I had a similar situation and the problem was > configuring one using md5 passwords and not doing this > on the other (assume md5's on all machines). There > should be a config.cach

Re: How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

2001-03-23 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Andrew D Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? > When X starts it's locking up my keyboard and mouse so I need to > disable it on boot up. I don't have a boot disk (of course) so I'm > looking for a solution other than the obvious.

Re: Need Help getting rid of really anoying messages from Pam_unix(cron).

2001-03-23 Thread John Foster
John Galt wrote: > > That would be klogd: syslogd won't easily install via apt over sysklogd. - Thanks guys. That was the problem. I had installed klogd and sysklogd. I removed sysklogd and installed syslogd-ng and the problems went a

Gnome panels disappeared after installing versions from testing/unstable. How do I manage this?

2001-03-23 Thread John Foster
I installed the latest upgrades fron both testing & unstable (not a production system) and there are 2 bits of wierdness that I have not seen before. When I start up my system the sequence is to use gdm to load enlightenment and gnome. When the desktop starts up it now has no panels. Before the las

Re: IP tables setup

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Devin
Moritz Schulte wrote: > "Rob Zietlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyone know of the location of a man or a HOWTO on setting up > > IPtables for the 2.4.X kernel. I would like to have that setup > > before I replace IP chains and goto the new kernel > > http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ > >

Re: language settings in command line and man pages

2001-03-23 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:05:15 +0100 Peter cum veritate scripsit : The other question has been already answered, but for > 2) how to make man pages english? This can be done by doing man -L=C manpagename "-L=C" chooses the C locale. > I understand that I must read man pages to find out the

Can't stat /etc/X11/X

2001-03-23 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I ran xf86config to make a XF86Config-4 (which I knew to do, but I thought setup was supposed to do that for me), but now I'm still getting the "Can't stat /etc/X11/X" message. I was getting it before, but I thought it was just because X was looking at the wrong configuration file. I know /et

Re: Can't stat /etc/X11/X

2001-03-23 Thread Jason Majors
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:34:40AM -0600, Benjamin Pharr scribbled... > I ran xf86config to make a XF86Config-4 (which I knew to do, but I > thought > setup was supposed to do that for me), but now I'm still getting the > "Can't > stat /etc/X11/X" message. I was getting it before, but I thought it

Re: starting programs on kdm/startx startup

2001-03-23 Thread Emil Pedersen
Since you're running wmaker, try putting the programs in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart It might work. Regards, Emil Bastian Bowe wrote: > > Hello, > > I've setup a $HOME/.xsession to run programs on kdm and startx startup. > The problem is that programs started in

Re: starting programs on kdm/startx startup

2001-03-23 Thread Bastian Bowe
Thanks for you help, but it doesn't work.. On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:47:54PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Since you're running wmaker, try putting the programs in > ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart > > Bastian Bowe wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've setup a $HOME/.xsession to

Re: Log rotation in Debian /var/log

2001-03-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: eb> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:08:00PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: >> This seems needlessly complex: how many different log rotating tools do >> we need to have on a system in order to do the job? Debian should pick >> one and try to move all t

Re: How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

2001-03-23 Thread Corwin Grey
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:20:40AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? When X > starts it's locking up my keyboard and mouse so I need to disable it on boot > up. I don't have a boot disk (of course) so I'm looking for a soluti

Re: HP has released DeskJet printer driver!!!

2001-03-23 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mike Dresser wrote: > Isn't the HP720C one of those winprinters? > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Alejandro Garin wrote: > >> This is a good news for linux, >> but why Hp doesn't support the 720C !!! >> I can't believe it! They work in a drivers and my >> printer is not supported y

[Semi-OT] Mixer for OPL3-SA2 sound card?

2001-03-23 Thread Laurynas Biveinis
Hello, recently I've upgraded to 2.4.2 kernel and I no longer can set master volume, bass, treble channels for my OPL3-SA2 sound card. I did RTFM and found out that the new driver implements two mixer devices instead of old one, and most mixer applications support only one mixer. So is there an

Re: How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

2001-03-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:20:40AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? Hi Andy, Boot into single-user mode (linux single at the lilo prompt) and disable gdm from there. Rob -- Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor: People are alway

Re: Log rotation in Debian /var/log

2001-03-23 Thread Ilya Martynov
> "PDS" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PDS> Unfortunately after playing with logrotate, it has some PDS> significant drawbacks that would need to be addressed before PDS> it could be considered sufficiently generic to be used by PDS> "everyone". Just curious: What

Re: nvidia tnt2 drivers and Xfree 24bit true color

2001-03-23 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Rossen Naydenov wrote: > The debian driver by default is nv not nvidia ulles you 've downloaded > and installed from nvidia.com Or installed the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx packages in unstable. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Gnome panels disappeared after installing versions from testing/unstable. How do I manage this?

2001-03-23 Thread Dave Carrigan
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed the latest upgrades fron both testing & unstable (not a > production system) and there are 2 bits of wierdness that I have not > seen before. When I start up my system the sequence is to use gdm to > load enlightenment and gnome. When the deskt

Re: How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

2001-03-23 Thread onderste
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:20:40AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: hi there, > Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? When X > starts it's locking up my keyboard and mouse so I need to disable it on boot > up. I don't have a boot disk (of course) so I'm looking for a solu

OpenSSH grief part 2

2001-03-23 Thread Luigi Fabio
Well, I finally got something different. I upgraded to 2.5.2p2 and rebuilt everything. Very good, ./sshd -ddd - p 9xxx gets me this on the working machine: debug1: Seeding random number generator debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_2.5.2p2 debug1: load_private_key_autodetect: type 0 RSA1 debug3: Bad RSA1

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-23 Thread Robert Cymbala
--- Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated > by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at the top of the page > (no margin) and leaves a two inch margin at the bottom of the page > (should be one). > > I have

Re: starting programs on kdm/startx startup

2001-03-23 Thread Emil Pedersen
Bastian Bowe wrote: > > Thanks for you help, but it doesn't work.. > Sad to hear. Then I don't know of any way but (this is real ugly) put it as a dock (maybe clip?) icon, and set it to start when windowmaker is started. I belive wmaker then should be able to kill it, since it's not running i

Re: HP has released DeskJet printer driver!!!

2001-03-23 Thread Alan Shutko
hzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question remains: is there anyone who volunteers (and is capable) > for making the debian package? Should it be a separate package? I think it would be better to integrate the drivers into the existing gs and cups packages. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PR

Re: xawtv and sound

2001-03-23 Thread Nate Amsden
Stan Brown wrote: > > Well, I'm making progress here. I let dseletc update from the Progeny, and > Debian > sites lats night. Got a new version of Xaw3d, and now I can get xawtv to run! doh. i dont remember you saying you used progeny. 3rd party apt sources screw up a lot. > > However, there a

Re: nfs with debian and solaris

2001-03-23 Thread Nate Amsden
dko wrote: > > hello, > i have an server nfs on solaris (10.11.11.1) and i'm trying to connect to it > with my debian workstation > when i mount i have that: > mount 10.11.11.1:/home/dko /mnt/test > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 10.11.11.1:/home/dko, >or too many

Re: auto responder w/sendmail.

2001-03-23 Thread Nate Amsden
"Mullins, Ron" wrote: > Have a look at Procmail and Procmail-lib. Procmail-lib has 'recipes' > specifically for autoresponding the you can modify to suit your needs. ok i'll check it out! thanks! nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nfs with debian and solaris

2001-03-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:44:12AM +0100, dko wrote: > hello, > i have an server nfs on solaris (10.11.11.1) and i'm trying to connect to it > with my debian workstation > when i mount i have that: > mount 10.11.11.1:/home/dko /mnt/test > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 10.11.1

Re: IP masq, forward ?

2001-03-23 Thread Steve Witt
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Szfelix wrote: > I change the WIN2000 server. > The local terminals can ping the output eth card but I can't go out on the > internet. > >From gateway I can go out. > So simply what and where I must write to resolve this problem. > > and, where i can find a documentation, ste

Re: Need Help getting rid of really anoying messages from Pam_unix(cron).

2001-03-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:57:49AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > John Galt wrote: > > > > That would be klogd: syslogd won't easily install via apt over sysklogd. > - > Thanks guys. That was the problem. I had installed klogd and sysklo

Re: X11 header files - which package? -SOLVED

2001-03-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Mar 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 23 Mar 2001, Marcus Geiger wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:22:38AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> > Can someone kindly remind me which package is needed to supply X11 > >> > header files? I've come u

bind worm

2001-03-23 Thread John Cuson
forwarded sans alert ... john cuson ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Alice, in "Alice In

Re: [Semi-OT] Mixer for OPL3-SA2 sound card?

2001-03-23 Thread Angelo Cano
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:19:57PM +0200, Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > > Hello, > > recently I've upgraded to 2.4.2 kernel and I no longer > can set master volume, bass, treble channels for my OPL3-SA2 > sound card. I did RTFM and found out that the new driver > implements two mixer devices instead

Re: Log rotation in Debian /var/log

2001-03-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: im> Just curious: What drawbacks? I found two, but only one is really critical: 1) You can use globbing to have a single stanza match multiple log files, BUT the entire stanza is run each time for each log file, _including_ the postrotate s

Re: Potato and satellite internet connection

2001-03-23 Thread Mike Wills
I know that with Star Band's equipment, there is a way hack the equipment so that you have a ethernet connection, but you void the warranty. Other than that, I myself have found nothing, even tried posting here once before, never got a response. If you find an answer let me know... -- Mike W

deleting specific files

2001-03-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi debianers! I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form *.doc, scattered into several subdirectories inside a given directory. What should I do? (a couple of month ago I posted a similar email, but unfortunatly I deleted the very clever answer by accident. I surfed the archives,

RE: deleting specific files

2001-03-23 Thread Jason P. Holland
find /dir -name "*.doc" -exec rm -rf {} \; Jason > > Hi debianers! > I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form > *.doc, scattered > into several subdirectories inside a given directory. What > should I do? > (a couple of month ago I posted a similar email, but > unfortunatly

RE: deleting specific files

2001-03-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Mar-2001 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi debianers! > I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form *.doc, scattered > into several subdirectories inside a given directory. What should I do? > (a couple of month ago I posted a similar email, but unfortunatly I deleted > the ve

Re: gzipped dvi's

2001-03-23 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:23:16AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > I wondered if there is an easier way to view .dvi.gz files than to unpack > them first to /tmp. > > I looked through the optionlist of xdvi, tried pipes, but found nothing > usefull. > [...] Hi, Sebastiaan, You may want to tr

Re: starting programs on kdm/startx startup

2001-03-23 Thread Bastian Bowe
Someone posted this to me: >Have you tried using a ~/.xinitrc file instead of ~/.xsession? I use the former >and have never had a problem with background apps staying up when X closes. >But then all the apps I background are X based. What are you running background >that's staying up? That xplanetb

Re: How do I enable framebuffer?

2001-03-23 Thread Bastian Bowe
Do you have a file /dev/fb0. If not generate on using MAKEDEV. On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:53:18PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Since no one seems to able to help me figure out why the Debian xawtv package > fails > to find the xaw3d liraries (which are present). I decided to try the frame > buffer

Re: deleting specific files

2001-03-23 Thread Alan Shutko
"Jason P. Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > find /dir -name "*.doc" -exec rm -rf {} \; Nits: * -r is probably not desired for this problem. If you run across a directory named "something.doc", it's clearly not a file and you may not want to delete it. * -f is possibly not desired fo

Re: WinTV card

2001-03-23 Thread Bastian Bowe
What is the output if you run xawtv from xterm? On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:16:04PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I am in the process of setting up a new machine. I have a WinTV card in it. I > loaded a minimal stable fileset, and then pointed my apt-get source to the > Progeny > RC1 loaction. The I

beginner -- installing ssh

2001-03-23 Thread Jake R. Johnson
I am trying to install ssh and am having some problems #apt-get install openssh then it asks for deps #apt-get install openssl why can't I do this?

Re: Need Help getting rid of really anoying messages from Pam_unix(cron).

2001-03-23 Thread John Foster
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:57:49AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Could you post the versions of sysklogd, klogd & syslog-ng you installed? > I installed klogd form unstable but not sysklogd -- I've syslog-ng, and > I'm still getting all those messages. > > Dima > -- > Yes

Re: kppp and pon (provider)

2001-03-23 Thread John Davidson
I also had difficulties and after having read all ppp posts from the archives for the last 7 months I decided to only use pon and to start fresh. First I uninstalled ppp and pppconfig. Next I installed fresh copies of ppp and pppconfig. Then after install was complete I ran pppconfig. pppconfig is

Re: beginner -- installing ssh

2001-03-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I am trying to install ssh and am having some problems > > #apt-get install openssh > > then it asks for deps When it says that more files (deps) are needed, say "Yes" to download and install them. > #apt-get install openssl > > why can't I do this? One of the packages requirements is "libssl

Re: X11 header files - which package? -SOLVED

2001-03-23 Thread Marcus Geiger
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:41:29PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thanks to you and Moritz Schulte for replies. I got vim-6.0y to compile > in the end; I deleted the whole directory and unpacked the tar.gz files > again, and this time it worked. I suppose there were some broken files > left over

Re: beginner -- installing ssh

2001-03-23 Thread Jason Majors
I have it installed as the ssh package apt-get install ssh And it setup all of the dependencies for me. And it works too (I'm running mutt thru it right now). On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 01:56:20PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson scribbled... > I am trying to install ssh and am having some problems > > #apt-

RTF converter

2001-03-23 Thread Jim McCloskey
Does anyone know of a program which will do conversion from DVI files, PS-files or PDF-files into RTF format? The best I've managed so far is to use pstotext to extract an ASCII file from the PS-file and then enscript to turn that into an RTF file. That works OK, but it's not great. It would be

Re: beginner -- installing ssh

2001-03-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 01:56:20PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > I am trying to install ssh and am having some problems > > #apt-get install openssh There is no 'openssh' package. The 'ssh' package is really openssh. The 'ssh-nonfree' package is ssh. I personally think that was a terrible dec

known libc6 2.2.2-2 install failure

2001-03-23 Thread Ben Collins
Ok, it is now a known issue (since I've gotten 5 bug reports over the past 2 hours). Please refrain from sending more bug reports, and remove libc6-i586 or libc6-i686 to fix the problem, or don't upgrade until 2.2.2-3 is available sometime tomorrow. Thanks to all those that did send bug reports.

modem's and mtr/mru :was unidentified subject

2001-03-23 Thread D. Hoyem
I'm using 2.2r2 and kernel2.2.18pre21 on a PII 350. Works great now after many reinstalls. I have a Supra Express 56K modem and when I initially set it up using pppconfig I used the 115200 setting. With that setting I was getting time outs a lot with apt-get. I was advised to change it to 57600

Re: beginner -- installing ssh

2001-03-23 Thread Jason Majors
Do you have a non-us site in your /etc/apt/sources.list? Something like deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US/main Most of the security related packages are at non-US, because Congressmen don't read the Constitution. On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:30:05PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson scrib

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