Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:52:17PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official > > > kernel source? > > > > > > > Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the > > nature of

i810 problems

2001-03-24 Thread Victor
I've installed potato 2.2r2 on my desktop, a Celeron Compaq Presario, endowed unfortunately of an Intel 82810 graphic card which I would use with X and kde. I've read all the extremely poor and distressing pieces of "Documentation" about i810 both under the various /usr/doc and www.debian.org/br

Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

2001-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
I have a new machine that I am setting up. It has a Creative Labs Sound Balster PCI 16 sound card in it. I installed a minimal "stable" system, and then pointed my apt-get source to the Progeny RC1. Then I installed thier RC1. Almost everythign worked flawlesy, including sound. Now I have been

Research for Customer Profiles Assingment

2001-03-24 Thread Steve Huber
I am doing reasurch for my Customer Profile project for my Customer Behavior course at Eastern Illinois University. The product I am doing reasurch for is GPS maps out side of the US for the private sector. Any demographic, psyhographic, and geographic information you could sent me about yo

Re: i810 problems

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Victor wrote: > Where is that glx module, I couldn't find it!! > Is there anybody out there able to explain in a straightforward way (step by > step) how I can set the i810 graphic card? if your just looking to get 2D working then thats not too hard, to get 3D working i don't have personal ex

Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a new machine that I am setting up. It has a Creative Labs Sound > Balster PCI > 16 sound card in it. > > I installed a minimal "stable" system, and then pointed my apt-get source to > the > Progeny RC1. Then I installed thier

easy question - getting changed files read

2001-03-24 Thread Mike Millner
When I make changes to files, for example hosts.deny or hosts.access how do I get the OS to see them without rebooting? I know with my DNS files I can do a "rndc reload" and the changes are read but with these types of files I don't know hot get the read.   Thanks, Mike

Re: openssh incompatibility with ssh.com's ssh

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:37:34AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > woody uses openssh 2.2.0 which is incompatible with ssh.com's ssh [1]. > > i NEED the most current version of openssh, which i think is 2.2.3. the current version in sid/unstable is 2.4.1p2 or 2.4.2p1 (maybe p2) j

Re: sshd error message

2001-03-24 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 24 March 2001 17:28, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > After the latest sid update, I noticed that sshd prints the following > messages in /var/log/auth.log: > > Mar 24 18:24:25 viper sshd[7084]: fatal: Cannot bind any address. > > > even though I am able to ssh into that system from other machin

Re: Nautilus

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:23:41PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: > Hi, > > I have problems installing nautilus on my debian potato. Here is my > sources.list : > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/1.4beta1/distributions/debian unst

Re: i810 problems

2001-03-24 Thread Alvin Oga
yi victor.. try the following... - install the agpgart stuff root# rpm -ivh I810Gtt-0.1-6.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ compile agpgart stuff - install intels silly X11 driver root# rpm -ivh XFCom-i810-glibc2.1-1.0.0-rh60.i386.rpm - check that it works root# XFCom_i810 -

Re: easy question - getting changed files read

2001-03-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:18:09PM -0700, Mike Millner wrote: > When I make changes to files, for example hosts.deny or hosts.access > how do I get the OS to see them without rebooting? I know with my DNS > files I can do a "rndc reload" and the changes are read but with these > types of files I do

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:29:38PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote: > > I have set a hard limit on memoryuse to 1 (10M). limits (or > ulimit -a) shows the limit but, it doesn't seem to be working. > For example, with the limit set the following bit of code > > ==

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:53:41AM +, Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I need to be able to read, and compose MS compatible documents. I have > pretty much decided that the path of least resistance for me will be > Star Office. > > I cannot find it in the 2.2r2 distributi

Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

2001-03-24 Thread jens
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:47:36 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >I have a new machine that I am setting up. It has a Creative Labs Sound >Balster PCI >16 sound card in it. > >I installed a minimal "stable" system, and then pointed my apt-get source to >the >Progeny RC1. Then I installed thier RC1. > >Almos

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:33:54PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > StarOffice, that bloated stuck pig of an office suite, isn't packaged. > It probably offers the best compatibility with MS file formats, however. any other suggestions? abiword is unusably buggy in potato (and helix/ximian) kwo

Re: resizing partitions

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 24 Mar 01, 1:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier said: > > Hey people. I've recently found out that my /tmp partition might > > be too small for a particular application. I know that fips is > > supposed t

Re: sshd error message

2001-03-24 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 24 March 2001 18:10, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "Bud" == Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bud> Is it possible that you have an entry for sshd in > Bud> /etc/inetd.conf? I think you would get that error if Inetd > is Bud> already bound to port 22. > Bud> > > I

Re: libxaw7 - undefined symbol?

2001-03-24 Thread Toens Bueker
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone else with these problems? Am I missing something? > > something goes currently wrong with linking when the paths to the libc5 > libraries are before the paths to the libc6-X11 libraries in > /etc/ld.so.conf. As a workaround move the lines > /usr

Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

2001-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Mar 24 18:07:15 2001 ktb wrote... > >On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> broken my sound? >> > >I have the same card and it uses - >es1371 >ac97_codec >kent > Sorry that's over my head. How can I make certain that I have the corect modules instal

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:52:44PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Saturday 24 March 2001 15:41, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > unstable and testing. No menu problems. Then again I've defined my > > own WMaker menus, crotchety old fart that I am. > > Hey, let's hear it for crotchety old farts. I'm

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:53:51PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > abiword is unusably buggy in potato (and helix/ximian) kword in > the unofficial potato repository is also quite buggy (it makes most of > the text invisible randomly when your typing). ted might be ok, i > haven't done much testing

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-24 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:21:45 -0800 Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that we are outnumbered by all them young > whippersnappers. Or maybe it just that they make so much more noise... -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .

apt-get install gmc failed

2001-03-24 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, after my system failed, gmc does not work fine I have the message "segmentation fault". I desinstall gmc (apt-get remove gmc) and when I reinstall gmc I have the message of error which follow in attached document. How can I reinstall gmc correctly ? Thanhs for your help. -- Gerard de

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Martin Weinberg
Ethan Benson wrote on Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:32:44 -0900 >> I have set a hard limit on memoryuse to 1 (10M). limits (or >> ulimit -a) shows the limit but, it doesn't seem to be working. >> For example, with the limit set the following bit of code > >[sniped code] > >> compiled as follows: >>

Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:19:13PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > On Sat Mar 24 18:07:15 2001 ktb wrote... > > > >On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > >> broken my sound? > >> > > > >I have the same card and it uses - > >es1371 > >ac97_codec > >kent > > > > Sorry that's

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:35:47PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote: > Thanks very much for the info! Good to know. I've been assuming that > this has been working for years. I do have a vague recollection that > "memoryuse" has worked in the past under Linux, no? i don't know > Do you, by any cha

Making /etc/hosts.allow | hosts.deny changes effective (was Re: easy question - getting changed files read)

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:18:09PM -0700, Mike Millner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I make changes to files, for example hosts.deny or hosts.access > how do I get the OS to see them without rebooting? I know with my DNS > files I can do a "rndc reload" and the changes are read but with these

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:09:09PM -0500, Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:53:51PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > abiword is unusably buggy in potato (and helix/ximian) kword in > > the unofficial potato repository is also quite buggy (it makes most of > >

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:41:22PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:35:47PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote: > > Thanks very much for the info! Good to know. I've been assuming that > > this has been working for years. I do have a vague recollection that

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:18:24 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > Um. I feel stupid asking this, but what resource limits *do* work, and > how can user resource limits be imposed at the system level? I've been > looking at the bash man pages -- there's no more specific resource > utilization interf

How do I make a debian boot cd

2001-03-24 Thread Denzil Kelly
How do I go about burning a cd that will serve the same function of a boot floppy. I guess the question I really want answered is what files need to be added to a cd to to allow me to use it as a boot cd. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domai

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-24 Thread John Galt
Just remember: old age and treachery will beat out youth and skill any day... On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: >On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:21:45 -0800 >Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The problem is that we are outnumbered by all them young >> whippersnappers. > >Or maybe it j

Re: How do I make a debian boot cd

2001-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
See section 4.11 of the CD-Writing-HOWTO. If you burn the official Debian CD .iso images, using the pseudo-image kit, the first CD is bootable. See http://cdimage.debian.org for more information. Bob On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:56PM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: > How do I go about burning a c

Re: Resource limit question

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:18:24PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Um. I feel stupid asking this, but what resource limits *do* work, and per user process limits work (though pam_limits and/or ssh is broken in that you must set it higher then the number of root owned processes for logins to wo

Mounting Linux 2.4 NFS share on an OpenBSD 2.8 machine

2001-03-24 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, I have an OpenBSD 2.8 machine that I've been building up, and is sitting on my LAN. I want to back it up, so I was intending to mount a directory from my Debain GNU/Linux (Testing with 2.4.1-ac2) onto the BSD box. I added "/tmp" to the exports file: # /etc/exports: the access control l

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:13:47PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under > unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's > mostly what I pull out to do something that involves short text and > hardcopy -- a letter, sa

Re: Mounting Linux 2.4 NFS share on an OpenBSD 2.8 machine

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:19:35PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported > # to NFS clients. See exports(5). > /null localhost i have read that exporting nfs filesystems to localhost is a huge security hole,

Re: How do I make a debian boot cd

2001-03-24 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:47:56 -0800 (PST) Denzil Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I go about burning a cd that will serve the > same function of a boot floppy. I guess the question I > really want answered is what files need to be added to > a cd to to allow me to use it as a boot cd. If

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
"Michael Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > standards. If you want WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean), use LyX. LyX rocks, too bad its latex conversion is not invertible: foo.lyx -> foo.tex -> bar.lyx != foo.lyx In fact, the example I tried (some random thing I was typing) broke hope

problem compiling pcmcia with kernel 2.2.18

2001-03-24 Thread Pollywog
I am unable to make pcmcia kernel modules for kernel 2.2.18. I am running woody and I used 'make-kpkg' to build modules. Anyone know what the problem might be? from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:4, from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:101,

Authoring tools (was Re: Star Office)

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:22:06PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:13:47PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under > > unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's > > m

problems compiling the kernel 2.4.2 with: debian testing/unstable

2001-03-24 Thread Miguel F. M. Sousa Filipe
Hello, I'm not being capable to compile the 2.4.2 kernel in my linux debian... and i can't understand the cause of the error, the problem aparently happens right at the end.. after compiling: /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bbootsect.S here is the error message that apears on the console: make[1]: E

where is kde2.1 download for debian?

2001-03-24 Thread eric
do anyone know where is kde2.1 download? sincere eric --- Begin Message --- hello --- End Message ---

Re: problems compiling the kernel 2.4.2 with: debian testing/unstable

2001-03-24 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi! On Sun, Mar 25, 2001, Miguel F. M. Sousa Filipe wrote: > I've instaled debian 2.2r0.. and then.. updgraded to the unstable version > with dselect, i can't see what package could be missing to cause this.. or > any other reason... totaly lost out here! Without thinking too hard about your sp

RE: problems compiling the kernel 2.4.2 with: debian testing/unstable

2001-03-24 Thread Peter Good
In /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile, you need to replace all instances of -oformat with --oformat. This threw me a bit too on kernels until I went and checked the upgrade messages, which tell you this. Peter -Original Message- From: Miguel F. M. Sousa Filipe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mouse problems on X (intellieye)

2001-03-24 Thread jennyw
Thanks! It turned out to be a combination of my gpm settings (I'm still not sure what gpm really is) and the XF86Config settings. Currently, I'm using -m /dev/psaux -t pnp -r ms3 for gpm and using the ps/2 protocol in XF86Config. Don't know why it works, but it does ... Thanks! Jen --- Jaso

Re: Authoring tools (was Re: Star Office)

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:39:18PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Probably. I've always found if I'm using nedit I keep asking myself why > I'm not using vim ;-) Though I'll sometimes pull up nedit for > cut'n'paste out of Netscape edit dialogs. yup for me i use emacs, but for this individual s

printer woes

2001-03-24 Thread Eric R Cheney
Hi all. I'm making progress but still stuck setting up a printer with debian... Right now I have magicfilter on the system and BSD style lpr I've run through the /usr/sbin/magicfilterconig routine and set up an appropriate filter for my printer The printer is connected to the parallel

Re: printer woes

2001-03-24 Thread Roberto Diaz
> #lpr: connect: No such file or directory > #jobs queued, but cannot start daemon > Anybody know what I should do? This is something has been happening to me several times.. every time the daemon went up after some retrials.. since this system is always up I didn't research the problem farther. (

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Alan Shutko
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under > unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's > mostly what I pull out to do something that involves short text and > hardcopy -- a letter, say. Actually, I love LaTeX for letters.

Re: Authoring tools (was Re: Star Office)

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > lyx requires non-free software, thats a showstopper. It does? Which? -chris

Soundblaster Live! Driver is not running?

2001-03-24 Thread timohart
Hi! I had compiled debians kernel-2.2.18-21 with soundsupport and EMU10K1 (not as modules) to get sound for my Soundblaster Live! Player 5.1. Then i installed the package alsa-base cause it is needed for some kde-packages and i thought this is all i have to do. But now i have seen: at boottime i g

.bashrc

2001-03-24 Thread stephen
I've been running Debian for about 3 days now (been running RedHat for 5 years+). I've read through several docs, but haven't found (if I did find it, I must've read right past it) answers to a couple of problems. 1) When I log in, my .bashrc isn't executed. Here's my ls -al: -rwx-- 1 steph

anyone playing DVDs?

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
OK I'm about to re-open the dvd can of worms. The video place down the street rents them out, and since I don't have a tv or a vcr, this might be an elegant solution to the movie problem (yes, I know about the MPAA, sigh). Is anyone playing DVDs succesfully in linux? I don't have any micro

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