Re: do you know what may cause depmod: unresolved symbol?

> When I dpkg -i kernel-image242.deb > I got error about depmod : Unresolved symbol > > Do you know how to fix that? Hi Eric! This error means that depmod is not shure whether it can use this symbol (part of a module like parameters). It can have much causes. I think you should give a more de

apmd, toshutils, etc. on non-X laptop (Toshiba T1910)?

I've set up an old Toshiba T1910 laptop (8MB RAM, 125MB HD, 486SX/33) with Debian Potato, and am having great fun tweaking it to do what I want while still being fairly economical with respect to drive space consumed. I'm awaiting a used Xircom Realport combo 56K modem and 10/100 NIC (eBay is wonde

Home/End Keys with Putty (Woody)

Hi there! After i upgraded my debian box to woody i can't use the Home/End keys with Putty anymore ;( Anyone knows a solution for this problem? TIA, Heiko

Re: what do i need for truetype fonts and antialiased fonts?

on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:28:57AM -0800, Forrest English ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i'm pretty sure there's a way to make all of my fonts be true type fonts, > and i've heard rumors there's a way to make use of antialised fonts. > what packages do i need, apt-cache search ttf seemed fairly in

CDRW Mystery Error

Greetings, Okay, so I've finally gotten around to setting up my ancient ide CDRW under linux. First, I RTFM , and I make sure that I have scsi emulation at least in modular form for my (custom) kernel. I update my lilo.conf, run lilo, modify my /etc/modules, run update-modules, and reboo

LSR safety check

Ok, I have to admit my ignorance on this, so I turn to you all. I've got a dialup connection, no problem there, except that when I have been working in the computer for some time without being connected (like maybe 2-3 hours) and then try to connect, I can't. I looked at the syslog and it displays

Re: CDRW Mystery Error

I do not know your problem well, but ... In order to get answer, you need to post /etc/fstab and softlink linked to /dev/scd0. Any rate, Is scd0 mounted properly using /dev/scd0 but not with /dev/hdc? Just curious. On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 04:55:16PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > partial err

Re: should /var/spool/mail/ have a the sticky bit set? ...

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:23:18PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > Thanks for the useful info. I have added myself to the mail group and this > may or > may not have fixed the problem. In anycase I am able to read and delete the > mail. > Previously I could not delete mail. NOt clear whether being

Re: Midnight commander

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:13:32PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > Then don't delete gnome... Gnome and kde will co-exist just fine. > Try installing the mc (midnight commander) package. Hopefully this will make it a permanent resident on your system. > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:00:52PM -070

*EASY* mail question

Hey, I finally got a decent proxy server that supports POP and SMTP, so now I want to have mail (w/ out going on Yahoo!). Anyway, I have Mozilla set up so that it can send and receive messages through the proxy, but mozilla didn't seem to great, because it's slow, a little buggy, and it takes a w

Re: *EASY* mail question

*Matheson Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > exim doesn't even ask me what my POP and STMP servers > are. Please help. exim doesn't do pop. fetchmail does pop. Run eximconfig with option "(2) Internet site using smarthost" or "(3) Satellite system" to use a smarthost smtp-server, - Rolf

libgnome-dev uninstallable?

on debian testing: jojda:/home/erik# apt-get install libgnome-dev ... Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libgnome-dev: Depends: libgnome32 (= 1.0.56-3) but 1.2.8-3 is to be installed Depends: libgnorba-dev but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, brok

RE: Why does gnome pager no longer iconize open apps on the panel bar

I am also interested in this idea for slightly different reasons. I reinstalled potato on Friday night. Saturday got tired of WindowMaker and installed Enlightenment. Didn't like the funny "windows" - two on the left and one the right. Perhaps they were pagers. At any rate from that point on,

KDE

I was wondering how others are installing KDE with Debian. I select apt-get install kde, and it can't find it. Do I have to add a line to my /etc/apt/sources.list file? Or, do I have to go and download the KDE files myself and manuallly install them? -- Ted Gervais Coldbrook, Nova Scotia Ca

Re: should /var/spool/mail/ have a the sticky bit set? ...

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >the problem is you updated to the mailx package in >security.debian.org, the old one had a security hole that allowed >users to get gid=mail. since mailx's code is a pile of crap as far as >security is concerned debian (and

[yoush@cs.msu.su: A question about Debain xdm package]

- Forwarded message from "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Nikita V.Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: A question about Debain xdm package Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:19:51 +0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, Branden

Re: HOWTO: HTML cross reference of C code

Thanks for everybody, who gave me pointers, I think doxygen is the tool to go. Debian users are simply amazing! Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE

RE: Anyone using cdrdao with success ?

> > I was wondering if there is anybody out there who does disk-at-once > > recording using "cdrdao" or any other recording software. My main > > purpose is the recording of audio CDs, and so far I have > succeeded only a few times in recording CDs without a glitch. > > > > Could you please spec

newbie Qs about Debian 'Potato'

Hello, I'm currently using slackware 7.1 and want to try out 'Potato'. What kernel comes on the offical debian Potato release? I know it doesn't matter that much, bit I would like to know. :-) I heard the installation CD is not bootable? Any reason for this? Thanks for the info :-) -- Mark Hill (

Re: #!/bin/bash

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:20:13PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: > > echo -ne "Restarting apache web server: " > > echo "done" > > And get this output: > > Restarting apache web server: done > > instead of this > > Restarting apache web server: > done yes but a much more portable way to do this

Re: Ok...found modversions.h...two questions

Dave Linsalata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off, thanks for the help on modversions.h. I tried make > oldconfig...that didn't work...so I installed the headers and that > worked. But question: should I combine the headers/include directory > into the source directory? Or just leave it se

Re: newbie Qs about Debian 'Potato'

Mark A Hill wrote: > > Hello, > I'm currently using slackware 7.1 and want to try out 'Potato'. > > What kernel comes on the offical debian Potato release? I know it doesn't > matter that much, bit I would like to know. :-) a couple of em i think. the default last i saw was something like 2.2.18

Re: KDE

Ted Gervais wrote: > I was wondering how others are installing KDE with Debian. I select apt-get > install kde, and it can't find it. This must be a FAQ... If you check out you'll find apt lines for potato. Just add the line to /etc/apt/sources.list, run dselect an

Re: should /var/spool/mail/ have a the sticky bit set? ...

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:36:47PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >the problem is you updated to the mailx package in > >security.debian.org, the old one had a security hole that allowed > >users to get gid=mail.

Re: KDE

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:33:57PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: > > I was wondering how others are installing KDE with Debian. I select apt-get > install kde, and it can't find it. Do I have to add a line to my > /etc/apt/sources.list file? Or, do I have to go and download the KDE files > mysel

Re: Kernel Compile Fails

Just add: initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-k7 <--whichever initrd image is present in /boot to lilo.conf and re-run lilo. The error is normal. There seems to be a problem with the comx.o module. -Scott On Sunday 01 April 2001 01:15, Shih Lin wrote: > Dear Scott or any experienced debian

Re: LaTeX to text (was Re: "firing up" DocBook)

"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > My understanding is that there is a LaTeX to text conversion which > preserves page numbering, keeps ToC and indices valid, etc. I think you refer to dvi2tty. The aim of this program was to enable previewing TeX documents on text-based console terminals. As its name te

RHPPPdialer

RHPPP dialer application and applet gives indication of connected time and speed of data received. Is there any application in debian with same facilities? If not, what are all the packages that should be converted from RH to debian with alien for getting it to work in debian? -- L.V.Gandhi MECON,

Re: pyton & perl

Michael P. Soulier wrote: >Oh, I didn't say this one tied your hands, except for the fact >that I find it more difficult to make my code readable, because I >can't just split lines wherever it's logical to do so. Can't just split lines in Python? Splitting lines where it's logical to do so i

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:42:27PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: > > Is there a public 'sources.list' that can be downloaded. Something more than > what I have. I just installed Debian and I have just the default list. Maybe > this is not important but yet the debian system seems to thrive on that l

Re: Cable for home network?

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 09:28:04PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > Abner Gershon wrote: > > > > I am planning a home ethernet with one Windows and one > > Linux Potatoe computer with a hub. My installed > > ethernet cards are 10/100 and I would like to use the > > higher 100 speed system. My cable opt

[no subject]

Dear Friends,   I would like to know if I can run MS terminal server on Debian 2.2.   Thanks and best regards/David Liu

Re: replying to this list

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:09:26PM -0600, DvB wrote: > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivery-date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 05:44:48 -0500 > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 15:09:26 -0600 > From: DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: debian-user@l

Re: RHPPPdialer

L.V.Gandhi writes: > RHPPP dialer application and applet gives indication of connected time > and speed of data received. Is there any application in debian with same > facilities? Take a look at pppstats, wmppp and gpppkill. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: replying to this list

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 08:16:50PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > and the debian list-manager added a reply-to address: debian-user they most certainly did not. debian does not munge reply-to headers. this persons client must have done this.

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:36:08AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Yea, 8 seems a bit wide for programs. Here's what I often put in > my source files for vim. > > /* vim: set softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab: */ > > Basically, you end up with a file that has spaces instead of tabs due to > th

Re: pyton & perl

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 05:57:50PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > > Can't just split lines in Python? Splitting lines where it's logical > to do so is possible. Here's a sample, created with CPython mode in > Emacs. The entire script is at: > http://www.lafn.org/~cymbala/photospy.html > > 131

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

will trillich wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:36:08AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Yea, 8 seems a bit wide for programs. Here's what I often put in > > my source files for vim. > > > > /* vim: set softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab: */ > > > > Basically, you end up with a file that ha

package removal

need command for removing a package apt-get remove {package} is this the syntax for removal??

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there a way to change the default 8-col tab to 4-col? > system-wide? (this is linux, after all...) Yes, this is Linux. This means that the standard for hard tabs is 8 characters wide. If you ever want to exchange files with anyone else, and you

Re: pyton & perl

"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 05:57:50PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > > > > Can't just split lines in Python? Splitting lines where it's logical > > to do so is possible. Here's a sample, created with CPython mode in > > Emacs. The entire script is at: > > http://www

Re: package removal

paul taylor wrote: > > need command for removing a package > > apt-get remove {package} is this the syntax for removal?? yes, how did you guess? it removes package but not its config files (I guess rationale is that if you'd reinstall packages you have your original config, in other words:

Re: package removal

paul taylor writes: > apt-get remove {package} is this the syntax for removal? That's what the man page says, alright. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

libapache-mod-perl / woody

Recently I switched from potato to woody (modified sources.list and did a dist-upgrade). I'd been using the combination of the apache and libapache-mod-perl packages successfully under potato. I am by no means an expert, but it looks to me as though libapache-mod-perl hasn't been updated to woody

Re: /dev/dsp revisited

Hi John, I am running Linux 2.4.2 + (devfsd 1.3.11), alsa-modules 0.5.10b-6 which might be somewhat different than what you have. On 2001-04-01 06:35:00, john smith wrote: > but I still get /dev/dsp no such file or directory Are you starting the oss compatability layer? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

x option vga=771

I am having this option working in my RH6.2 box. For debian potato, I gave the option in command line. It didn't work in the same machine. i have fb support in kernel while installing. Any ideas how to make it work. -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL

Did I tell you about UniqueSurf.com? Get Paid to surf FREE!

If I haven't already told you, I recently joined UniqueSurf.com, a cool new Internet company that pays its members to be online. You never pay anything. All you need to do to get paid is stay online and open a small banner. UniqueSurf.com will be paying out its members hundreds of thousands o

Re: package removal

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:19:55PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > yes, how did you guess? > > it removes package but not its config files (I guess rationale is that > if you'd reinstall packages you have your original config, in other > words: package removal is easily reversible while config

Re: your mail

Quoth David Liu, > Dear Friends, > > I would like to know if I can run MS terminal server > on Debian 2.2. > > Thanks and best regards/David Liu I'm not sure it's exactly what you're asking, but you can run the Citrix ICA client for Linux quite successfully on Debian. If you are running the Uni

FYI: webmin is back in Debian

webmin 0.85 was just installed into unstable yesterday. Another upload was made this evening, it should show up in the archive tomorrow. Of course my mail server took that moment to crash which is why I'm sending this note now. To use it you will need to install the following packages: 1. Eith

Re: pyton & perl

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:16:18PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > my @files = sort > > map { $dir . "/$_" } > > grep { !/^\./ } > > readdir DIR; > > > > I find this far more readable, but that's me. > > consider having all the indends the

Re: pyton & perl

Anyway it's a moot issue now. See this story: http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm I'm writing a cross-platform ActiveX control with it as we speak! -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:12:03PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > is there a way to change the default 8-col tab to 4-col? > > system-wide? (this is linux, after all...) > > Yes, this is Linux. This means that the standard for hard tabs is 8 > charact

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:36:07PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > so let's say i'm gonna live in a vacuum for the next forty years. > how can i change my tabs, system-wide? or is this like windo~1 > where you can't change something if The Forces That Be don't want > you to? I don't think the

Re: pyton & perl

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:30:52PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Anyway it's a moot issue now. See this story: > > http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm > > I'm writing a cross-platform ActiveX control with it as we speak! Yeah, that's a very nice April fools day joke... :)

Re: replying to this list

Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org and the debian list-manager added a reply-to address: debian-user Actually, I added that myself to save other people the problem I was complaining about :-) not being familiar with mozilla email features (can you see which client emai

stupid exim problems (NEWBIE-ish)

Hey, This cursed exim has proved quite painful to set up. I'm trying to get it to work through my proxy server, so I ran eximconfig. I chose option 2 (receive mail w/ fetchmail, send with smarthost). I told it my visible mail name = cmatheson (my user name for the account on my proxy),

whereis code for telnet?

Where do I find the code for telnet? I've downloaded the kernel source, and I have not been able to find the source code for telnet. I ask because my networks class has been given the task of looking at several linux distributions and examining the telnet code to see if the infamous rlogin bug stil

LaTeX to text (was Re: "firing up" DocBook)

on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:38:17PM -0500, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > What LaTeX buys is the ability to create rightly formatted ASCII > > output including pagination, ToC, index, etc. > > Sorry to come in so late on the conversation, b

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