Fvwm2rc

2001-04-06 Thread Ales Jerman
Hello! How to tell Fvwm2 to run Netscape at startup? And how to tell it to restart Fvwm2, when Netscape is closed? Is there a way for xdm to login from a script. So I would give username and passwd in one file , so I will not have to type it in every time? Thanks! Bye, Ales

Re: Fvwm2rc

2001-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:05:37AM +0200, Ales Jerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > How to tell Fvwm2 to run Netscape at startup? ~/.xinitrc > And how to tell it to restart Fvwm2, when Netscape is closed? cat < .xinitrc fvwm2 & netscape EOF > Is there a way for xdm to

Re: slrn newsreader, How do I specify my from address?

2001-04-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 21:52, Brian Lavender wrote: > In slrn when I post to a newsgroup, it puts my from email address as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I would like it to put it as my real email address which is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is there a config file I need to modify? FWIW, these lin

[no subject]

2001-04-06 Thread ambience
Dear Sir,   I am Gouri Sankar here?  I have got Debian Linux from the Linux Magazine.   I have loaded in my computer.  The problem is after loading the Debian Linum, my system is booting directly from the hard disk.   Now I don't want this Operating System.  I have made Win FDISK and remove

Re: slrn newsreader, How do I specify my from address?

2001-04-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:52:25PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote: > In slrn when I post to a newsgroup, it puts my from email address as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I would like it to put it as my real email address which is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is there a config file I need to modify? Fro

compile probs with 2 diff progs

2001-04-06 Thread Nathan
I get the below problem when trying to compile 2 KDE apps, can anyone help?? checking for KDE... configure: error: in the prefix, you've chosen, are no kde headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix!

Netscape

2001-04-06 Thread Simmons-Davis
Dear Debian Group,   My question today is whether the complete Netscape Navigator and Communicator packages come on the official Debian 6 cd set or whether I have to download them from the non-free directory on the Debian ftp site.   Thank you, Ry

Re: Debian for infants.

2001-04-06 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Kieren Diment wrote: > I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 > month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or > sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. > > Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input

Re: getting rid of linux

2001-04-06 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, you probably need to boot with your windoze bootdisk and run fdisk /mbr LILO is installed on your Master Boot Record, a piece of the harddisk that tells BIOS how to boot. After this your computer should be run as it did before. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, ambience wrote: > Dea

Re: your mail

2001-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:07:45AM +0530, ambience ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am Gouri Sankar here? I have got Debian Linux from the Linux > Magazine. > > I have loaded in my computer. The problem is after loading the Debian > Linum, my system is booting directly from the hard

iptables help?

2001-04-06 Thread Brian May
Hello, I thought that these iptables rules: snoopy:~# iptables -v -L ppp0-out Chain ppp0-out (1 references) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 0 0 LOGall -- anyany 192.168.0.0/16 anywhere LOG level w

Re: your mail

2001-04-06 Thread Andre Berger
* ambience <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010406 08:56 +0200: > Dear Sir, > > I am Gouri Sankar here? I hope you have found out by now? (just kidding) > I have loaded in my computer. The problem is after loading the Debian Linum, > my system is booting directly from the hard d

Re: Has no one gotten LDAP authentication working?

2001-04-06 Thread FunguzSheep
* Mullins, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010405 17:09]: > Seriously, has no one setup the libpam-ldap in Debian? > > Just some working config files to enlighten me as to the little thing I > haven't gotten right would be splendid. You don't have to talk to me, you > don't have to be my friend...I won't

Re: Debian for infants.

2001-04-06 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
Sounds like a really cool idea... perhaps you could assign events to key presses and mouse movements in your window manager, though redirecting to stdin is a more elegant idea. Could you make the program available when you've finished it? Cheers Tiarnan

install package from source

2001-04-06 Thread Aleksandar B. Samardzic
I'd like to install Sendmail on my 2.2.r2 system from source from sendmail.org. However, I don't know how to uninstall exim, because Debian is complaining that MTA must exist on system. So my question is: what to do if I'm accustomed to install latest versions of programs from their original sou

Re: Debian for infants

2001-04-06 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
XGrabKeyboard, according to its description, "actively grabs control of the keyboard and generates FocusIn and FocusOut events. Further key events are reported only to the grabbing client..." Might be some help Tiarnan __ Do You Yahoo!? Get em

Re: iptables help?

2001-04-06 Thread Brian May
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I am confused... Sorry about my noise. I found it was due to two reasons: 1. IN/OUT rules are used unless the packet is delivered to the local computer (ie not used if the packet is being forwarded). This seems to be a difference

cdrecord can't burn

2001-04-06 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, to say it short kernel support for graphics card + Xfree86 4.0.2 = cdrecord does not burn anymore I can write cds if I stop X and write cds at the console or if use the kernel driver for nvidia chips "nv" comming with X. Using the driver from nvidia or compiling support for graph

RE: (OT) Donating old hardware...

2001-04-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hmm, since linux runs on system beginning with 386 i'd suggest you donate those to a Museum :) -Original Message- From: Daniel Freedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 6 april 2001 2:23 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Daniel Freedman Subject: (OT) Donating old hardware... H

Re: install package from source

2001-04-06 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:04:50AM -0100, Aleksandar B. Samardzic wrote: > I'd like to install Sendmail on my 2.2.r2 system from source from > sendmail.org. However, I don't know how to uninstall exim, because Debian > is complaining that MTA must exist on system. So my question is: what to do >

Star Office + Unstable

2001-04-06 Thread Matthias Wieser
hi I am looking at a reproducable StarOffice failure to open anything but itself. (window comes, any further action leads to a "crash" (it closes itself because of misbehaviour) I am using SID up to date (15 minutes ago). Does anybody else has this problem? Thank you for the information :) Ciao,

Re: partition

2001-04-06 Thread dim
Hello Robin, Friday, April 06, 2001, 4:01:06 AM, you wrote: RG> Hello, RG> J have hard disk of 4Mb with two partitions: C (hdc1) of 2 Mb and RG> D (hdc5) of 2 Mb. On C there is windoz and D is free. RG> potato2.2r0 is on an other hard disk ( hda). RG> I want to install potato2.2r2 on the partitio

Voodoo2 && Linux

2001-04-06 Thread dim
Hello All! Is there any way to make my Voodoo2 works under Linux? I know that Xwindows && Linux kernel supports Voodoo3,Voodoo5,Voodoo Banshee... But I only have Voodoo2 G111 by 3Dfx Interactive. (It is software compatible to Voodoo Graphics && Voodoo Rush.) If there is no way to use my V

xfree86 4.x and unstable

2001-04-06 Thread JACKSON, DEAN
I have had to use unstable distribution as a couple of programs I need to run require lots of versions only available in unstable. now I have upgraded and all seems okay apart from my Xserver (took several apt-get update/upgrades to get all dependencies working correctly), but X doesn't work I run

Pascal

2001-04-06 Thread Ales Jerman
Does anybody know any good pascal compilers? Maybe also for X. Thanks! Bye, Ales

Netscape messenger and cyrus IMAP

2001-04-06 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
Hi, Does anybody have cyrus-imapd v 1.5.2 (potato Debian package) working with Netscape mailer or Mozilla? In my case I can get my mail if I configure the MUA to use POP protocol but not IMAP.  Does anyone have an idea oof why is that? TIA, -a --  Aaron Stromas    | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pant

Re: Pascal

2001-04-06 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, a seach with: apt-cache search pascal gave me the following interesting packets: gpc-doc - Documentation for the GNU Pascal compiler (gpc). gpc - The GNU Pascal compiler. fp-extra - Free Pascal Extra Packages fp-gtk - Free Pascal GTK Bindings fp-compiler - Free Pascal Compil

Re: (OT) Donating old hardware...

2001-04-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Daniel Freedman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyway, as to my present situation, it seems that the concensus of > respondents is to dump the stuff (I'm in cold central New York, not > local to Silicon Valley; but thanks to the person who kindly offered > to find a school for them if I were). I

virtual eth0

2001-04-06 Thread Markus Mohr
Hi!   I´m trying to configure eth0:0 and eth0:1 with /etc/network/interfaces.   iface eth0:0 inet static    address 192.168.1.50    netmask 255.255.255.0    network 192.168.1.0    broadcast 192.168.1.255    gateway 192.168.1.1   Should do it, but after 'ifup eth0' I g

Re: Star Office + Unstable

2001-04-06 Thread Rainer Merz
Hi, On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:32:44AM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote: > Does anybody else has this problem? yep, we are running three Sid Boxes here having exactly the same problems since a couple of days. Currently trying to determine what causes this behaviour :-( Regards, Rainer

okay here's a more specific question to get me started on the alsa path

2001-04-06 Thread Shawn Garbett
I'm really floundering getting alsa going. All the howto's, etc that I've read all recommend recompiling your kernel with soundsupport as the first step. I've got the 2.2.18pre21 kernel installed and working fine from Debian. Do I need to recompile, or can I just load soundcore as a module?

Re:

2001-04-06 Thread Bob Brown
Did you try running the windows fdisk 'fdisk /mbr'? ambience wrote: Dear Sir, I am Gouri Sankar here? I have got Debian Linux from the Linux Magazine. I have loaded in my computer. The problem is after loading the Debian Linum, my system is booting directly from the hard disk.

Gigabit Fiber card 3C985B-SX: tests ?

2001-04-06 Thread Manuel Segura
Hello, Has anyone tested this card, or seen comparative tests somewhere ? Thanks -- --- Manuel Segura -

Re: compile probs with 2 diff progs

2001-04-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, April 6, Nathan did write: > I get the below problem when trying to compile 2 KDE apps, can anyone > help?? > > checking for KDE... configure: error: > in the prefix, you've chosen, are no kde headers installed. This will > fail. > So, check this please and use another prefix! >

Re: Voodoo2 && Linux

2001-04-06 Thread John Patton
I have a Voodoo2 card, and although there are no accelerated xservers that will work for it AFAIK, the glide-v2 package (along with glide2-base, etc) will allow programs that use opengl to make use of your card (such as kde2, which requires it for some reason). On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:14:44PM +

Re: GMT problems.

2001-04-06 Thread John Kuhn
I currently use GMT 3.3.6 and 3.4-beta (both compiled from original source) on Debian systems. My guess is that the problem you are seeing is an NFS issue, not a GMT issue. You may want to repost with an NFS related subject. I'm not an NFS expert, so I can't be much help, but there should be many

Re: Pascal

2001-04-06 Thread Martin Marconcini
Ales> I use fp-compiledr and it's dependencies and it works ok! Best Regards, -- Martin Marconcini | Unix, MS-DOS, Windows. | Also known as The Good, The Bad | And the Ugly... --

screensaver strangeness....

2001-04-06 Thread Pad Bambury
Hi all, I'm running enlightenment on top of gnome. Yesterday evening my screensaver suddenly stopped working. It still appears when I give the command to lock the screen. Can't think what might have disabled it. Any ideas on what to do? Pad. __ D

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-06 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > > ammit is.IF you browse /etc/rcS.d you'll see S40networking .So if > you start pcmcia at 39(with S39 a symlink to /etc/init.d/pcmcia or > wahtever the script name is) in rcS.d you'll be just fine.I don't have > my laptop at home so can't tell > exactly

Re: connecting adsl on startup

2001-04-06 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I installed the pppoe 2.8 debian package and configured it with adsl-setup. > I can connect to my ISP with adsl-start. > Now I want to have the connection starting at boot time. There are two ways: > > 1. I put the following script in /etc/init.d > > #!/bin/sh > /usr

Re: Pascal

2001-04-06 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Ales Jerman wrote: > > Does anybody know any good pascal compilers? Maybe also for X. > Thanks! If you are looking for something extremely powerful, but not "classic" Pascal, you *do* know about Borland's Kylix project, right?

RE: Pascal

2001-04-06 Thread Martin Marconcini
Kylyx is not Free... that is the problem. anyway... www.borland.com Regards, Martin. > -Original Message- > From: Keith G. Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:15 AM > To: Debian List > Subject: Re: Pascal > > > Ales Jerman wrote: > > > > Does anybody k

Lunar lander game?

2001-04-06 Thread Stan Brown
Can anyone sugest a good lunar lander game for use on a Debian system? I found Lunar Lander 200, and it looks just perfect, but I can't seem to get it to compile on my Debian stable machine. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- W

Re: Netscape messenger and cyrus IMAP

2001-04-06 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anybody have cyrus-imapd v 1.5.2 (potato Debian package) working > with Netscape mailer or Mozilla? > In my case I can get my mail if I configure the MUA to use POP > protocol but not IMAP. Does anyone have an idea oof why is that? TIA, > AFAIK, 1.5.19

lilo + booting from raid1

2001-04-06 Thread Werner Reisberger
I read in the software raid howto that lilo doesn't work if the boot partition resides on a raid1 device, but there is is a redhat patch for lilo. Does anybody know if there is a debian pkg for lilo which does the job? TIA, Werner

fast graphics in testing. please to help?

2001-04-06 Thread mudbuddha Last Name
please to help: I would like fastest possible graphics, and I can use woody/testing but prefer not of the unstable. And I wish a system using no drivers but free/GNU ones in X4 from debian download. Who is the fastest card that would have driver in debian ftp for very fast opengl? --

Have I found a bug in slrnpull?

2001-04-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
I find I have to put a link in my home directory to /etc/news/slrnpull.conf, otherwise slrnpull doesn't find it. Is this because there is something misconfigured in my setup or is it a bug? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Gnu/Debian Linux (Windows-free zone) For electronic books (Homeomyt

Apache module

2001-04-06 Thread Francois Leib
Do u know where I can find the ldap module for apache?   I'm looking for something like mod_ldap.so or something like that.   Thank you for your help   Francois

How to install debian on a Mac G3

2001-04-06 Thread Christian A. Hehn
Hi Debianians: well I might get there that I could provide the Debianians with some Donations, but at the moment, well you all know. Well I am encoutering serveral problems when seeking to install Debian gnu/linux2.2 "potato" on my G3 233Mhz. I cannot see where the problem resides, but I run

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

2001-04-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > > > csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of > > > > a mouse? I'm thinking of a text file "file.txt" which contains > > > > command sequences which I would like to touch up before runni

Re: Saving some real radio file

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:28:42PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > > > I want to listen to Art Bell and had no luck with getting RA v8 to work > > on stable. It has bunches of dependencies that don't belong on stable. > > The v7 installed fine but RA doesn't allow the old

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-04-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > To me a track is (in the context of burning cd's) the entity that is > burned on a cd in TrackAtOnce (TAO) mode. The CD-standard prescribes > two second pauses in between those tracks. There are some writers > that can produce gaps of different leng

Re: How to install debian on a Mac G3

2001-04-06 Thread C. E.
At 15:49 06.04.01 +0100, Christian A. Hehn wrote: Well I am encoutering serveral problems when seeking to install Debian gnu/linux2.2 "potato" on my G3 233Mhz. you might take a look at the debian-powerpc list archive and http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ _before_ starting. I cannot see whe

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > > > > ammit is.IF you browse /etc/rcS.d you'll see S40networking .So if > > you start pcmcia at 39(with S39 a symlink to /etc/init.d/pcmcia or > > wahtever the script name is) in rcS.d you'll be just fine.I don't have >

svgatextmode: should i file a bug report?

2001-04-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, it looks like svgatext mode needs to have its dependency shifted from console-tools to console-common. should i file a bug report? pete # apt-get install svgatextmode Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: svgatextmode: Depends: console-tools but it is not ins

mp3 Lyra player

2001-04-06 Thread tbort
Hi everyone, I'm trying to use Linux as an everyday tool and one of my real problem is with my Mp3 player. I've got this Ltra player for thomson but it doesn't have the drives and program for it. Is there a program for my compactflash writer Is there a program to take care of Lyra player. For t

Re: screensaver strangeness....

2001-04-06 Thread Stan Brown
On Fri Apr 6 09:47:14 2001 Pad Bambury wrote... > >Hi all, >I'm running enlightenment on top of gnome. Yesterday >evening my screensaver suddenly stopped working. It >still appears when I give the command to lock the >screen. Can't think what might have disabled it. Any >ideas on what to do? >

XFree 4.0.2 and mouse on ibm X20

2001-04-06 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
I am running testing and encountered a stange thing with the mouse. It just skips around the screen whenever I touch the trackpoint on my Ibm X20 laptop. Even though I don't touch the mouse buttons, menus pop up as if I had. I've tried lots of different settings, but it still won't work. In

Debian GNU/Linux on DEC Alpha ...

2001-04-06 Thread DI Josef Synka
Dear Debian-Team, Recently I learned about the availability of Debian GNU/Linux and its excellent performance on various systems. Further I was told that it is supposed to be more stable than Suse of RedHat Linux - is that true? Having read through some of the information pages provided on your h

Re: XFree 4.0.2 and mouse on ibm X20

2001-04-06 Thread Bill Wohler
Ole, I'm using 4.0.2 on a Thinkpad T20 with a 2.4.2 kernel and both mice (the trackpoint and the USB mouse) work fine. Here are the InputDevice entries I use: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer"

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on DEC Alpha ...

2001-04-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Having read through some of the information pages provided > on your homepage www.debian.org, however, I am now not > sure whether Debian can be used on DEC Alpha workstations. > Could you please help me on that matter? Take a look here: http://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/ Regards Hall

Re: your mail

2001-04-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
You probably installed Debian Linux with LILO in the master boot record. To fix(?) this, boot from a Windows rescue disk and run fdisk /mbr On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:07:45AM +0530, ambience wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am Gouri Sankar here? I have got Debian Linux from the Linux Magazine. > > I

windows password

2001-04-06 Thread Elfert
hello all,   Our windows 98 OS2 machine sees our Progeny/Debian machine nicely but insists on a password to browse and refuses any offered.  We have pored over the smb.conf  line by line for hours and cannot figure out what's wrong.  Any suggestions please?   We greatly appreciate this help

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-06 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:09:49AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: | | I thought I understood runlevels but now I'm not so sure. Any help for | Debian runlevel explanation would be appreciated. In inittab I shows run | level two as default so does it go S,1,2 and why is S35networking in | rc0? On a

Re: Lunar lander game?

2001-04-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 April 2001 10:18, Stan Brown wrote: > Can anyone sugest a good lunar lander game for use on a Debian > system? > > I found Lunar Lander 200, and it looks just perfect, but I can't seem > to get it to compile on my Debian stable machine. W

Re: cdrecord can't burn

2001-04-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:21:52AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > to say it short > > kernel support for graphics card + Xfree86 4.0.2 = cdrecord > does not burn anymore > > I can write cds if I stop X and write cds at the console or if use > the kernel driver for nvidia chips

Running the Netscape installer.

2001-04-06 Thread Simmons-Davis
Dear Debian Group, I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the installer on my system configured correctly with the archive file from the Netscape ftp site (it extracted correctly from the /tmp location). The Netscape icons came up as part of the menu and main start bar but whenever I cli

Re: svgatextmode: should i file a bug report?

2001-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ># apt-get install svgatextmode > >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > svgatextmode: Depends: console-tools but it is not installable >E: Sorry, broken packages > > ># apt-get install console-tools >Package console-tools has no

Re: windows password

2001-04-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Our windows 98 OS2 machine sees our Progeny/Debian > machine nicely but insists on a password to browse and > refuses any offered. We have pored over the smb.conf > line by line for hours and cannot figure out what's wrong. Make sure "encrypted passwords" is enabled in your smb.conf file becaus

Re: Running the Netscape installer.

2001-04-06 Thread D. Hoyem
Why not use apt-get install communicator ? That will install Netscape 4.76 all required files. --- Simmons-Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian Group, > > I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the > installer on my system > configured correctly with the archive file from the

RE: windows password

2001-04-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
You're probably asked for an IPC$ password of some sort ? This means that you're machine was not added correctly to the domain. Check this first if that's the case. regards, joris -]-Original Message- -]From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -]Sent: vrijdag 6 april 2001 19:41 -]T

Re: Running the Netscape installer.

2001-04-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the installer > on my system configured correctly with the archive file from > the Netscape ftp site (it extracted correctly from the /tmp > location). Assuming you've download and extracted a tar.gz file from Netscape, you need to change to the d

Re: Fvwm2rc

2001-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
Please respond to list mail on-list. List reinstated. Reply-to set to list. on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:33:00PM +0200, Ales Jerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:05:37AM +0200, Ales Jerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Hello! > > >

XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse

2001-04-06 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m sure it´s in the documentation, but I can´t find it...I could only dig up "look it up in the documentation of the InputDevice-Module. Ok, this is mouse_drv.o, but I can´t find documentation for it, so I have to ask: What´s the magic to emulate Emulate3Buttons from XF/3 in XF/4? TIA,

Re: Debian for infants

2001-04-06 Thread Scott_Patterson
>I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 >month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or >sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. > >Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be >re-directed into the

MTA security

2001-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
>From a security standpoint, how does exim compare to sendmail? What about postfix? It appears that exim is Debian's default MTA, which is why I've run it before and it's what I'm most familiar with. Now I've inherited a network with several sendmail installations. I wouldn't consider arbitrari

Re: windows password

2001-04-06 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Elfert wrote: > hello all, > > Our windows 98 OS2 machine sees our Progeny/Debian machine nicely but insists > on a password to browse and refuses any offered. We have pored over the > smb.conf line by line for hours and cannot figure out what's wrong. > Any suggestions ple

Installing communicator.

2001-04-06 Thread Simmons-Davis
Hello, My question now is: how do I get Communicator on my sytem in order to run "apt-get install communicator"? Currently when I try to run it it sends back the response: "Package communicator has no available version, but exits in the database. This typically means the package was mentioned in

Re: MTA security

2001-04-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:32:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >From a security standpoint, how does exim compare to sendmail? What about > postfix? > > It appears that exim is Debian's default MTA, which is why I've run it > before and it's what I'm most familiar with. Now I've inherited a n

Routing problems

2001-04-06 Thread Derrick \(Thrawn01\)
I have a debian machine on a network, and has a modem.   Both of theses links could be up at anytime. when the ppp link is down i wan't to use a gatway on the network to access. but when the ppp is up I wan't it to access the ppp first before it trys the network.   I thought about seting up

Re: windows password

2001-04-06 Thread William Cooper
Title: Re: windows password Hi, the problem is the Debian machine's shares security is setup as USER. The machine trying to browse the Linux machine must have a user with a password that is the same as a user and password on the Linux machine. Check the smb.conf man file. You could also load t

Re: Installing communicator.

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Simmons-Davis wrote: > > Hello, > > My question now is: how do I get Communicator on my sytem in order to run > "apt-get install communicator"? Currently when I try to run it it sends back > the response: > > "Package communicator has no available version, but exits in the database. > This typic

Re: XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse

2001-04-06 Thread Robert Voigt
> What´s the magic to emulate Emulate3Buttons from XF/3 in XF/4? Add a line to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in section "InputDevice" (the one for the mouse, not the keyboard): Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" It's documented in info XF86Config

command for system beep?

2001-04-06 Thread Robert Voigt
I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or longer than that, or two short sounds. What's the command for that? Btw,

Diverting browser output

2001-04-06 Thread csj
Basically I want to capture (log?) what my browser sends out when I click a link (stuff like what the POST request actually posts). I can probably figure some of this out by saving and digging thru the source (say, replacing the POST with a GET) but I want something more thorough and paranoid.

Re: XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse

2001-04-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 06 Apr 2001 20:12:13 +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > I´m sure it´s in the documentation, but I can´t find it... I think it is not, I've searched an hour or so yesterday. I don't have my laptop with me right now, but IIRC something like: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Gene

matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Sergio E . Schvezov
hi i'm posting here to see if u can recommend me any good math program like mathlab i've tried scilab (binary) and if i execute scilab it does nothing and if i execute scilex it says i need libtermcap 2 wich i tried to apt get but it said it was in a way, not there anymore thank u all in adva

Re: Diverting browser output

2001-04-06 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, csj wrote: > Basically I want to capture (log?) what my browser sends out > when I click a link (stuff like what the POST request actually > posts). I can probably figure some of this out by saving and digging > thru the source (say, replacing the POST with a GET) but I want

installing debian and bootloaders

2001-04-06 Thread Jasper
I'm about to start installing Debian 2.2r2. How does debian deal with bootloaders? Will it allow me to install lilo or other on a floppy so that I don't have to deal with bootloaders on my harddrive or entries in my mbr. I run windows as my primary and linux as the secondary. Mandrake let me do

How to get gnome 1.4 out of woody "pool"

2001-04-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
I see the new gnome 1.4 debs in the Pool directoroes, but this line in sources.list still only gets me the old debs. What do I need to do? deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main non-free contrib ...RickM...

Re: command for system beep?

2001-04-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Robert Voigt wrote: > > I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the > output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do printf "ring a bell\a\n" it should work with both c printf function and printf program. > something wrong. But it wou

Re: okay here's a more specific question to get me started on the alsa path

2001-04-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:30:41AM -0400, Shawn Garbett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm really floundering getting alsa going. All the howto's, etc that > I've read all recommend recompiling your kernel with soundsupport as the > first step. Building your own kernel is recommended. While defa

Re: command for system beep?

2001-04-06 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Robert Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the >output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do >something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or >longer t

Re: command for system beep?

2001-04-06 Thread ktb
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:07:59PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the > output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do > something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or > lon

Moving to a new hd

2001-04-06 Thread Philipp Lehman
A while ago a bought a new IDE hd for one of my Debian boxes, hooked it up as hdb, moved /home, /usr, and /var there, but left the root file system on hda1 (on the old drive). Now I want to get rid of the old hd altogether (it's slow and noisy). So, after performing some extensive surgery on a liv

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, depends on your needs. Matlab works fine for matrix operations and simulations. If you need more analitical math I recommend Maple. It gives you the ability to calculate with complex formulas without loosing precision (exact). For statistical math you can try SPLUS. Most standard and not stand

ftpd security fixes?

2001-04-06 Thread aphro
anyone hear about any security fixes for ftpds that were found a few weeks ago ? haven't seen any news on security.debian.org. seems the ftp bugs are much more serious then the ntp bugs :) (e.g. 100x more people running ftpds then ntpds ..) last time i tried to exploit it on my desktop system

char-major-10-135

2001-04-06 Thread Philipp Lehman
I'm getting modprobe complaints about char-major-10-135 not being found. modules.conf defines an alias pointing to "rtc", is that for "real time clock"? Do I need kernel support for that? Or can I safely change the alias to "off"? I don't seem to miss anything in the current situation. TIA -- Phi

Freefonts -> LaTeX

2001-04-06 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, Does anybody knows whether there is a package (or any help) to use the fonts in the ``freefont'' package with LaTeX. It seems technically possible (they are Type 1 fonts and the .afm's can be found on the Web) but bit tedious to do -- especially considering somebody else probably got the same

Missing header files

2001-04-06 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
What do I need to download and install in order to get the following: gtk.h gdk.h gdkkeysyms.h Xlib.h time.h types.h stat.h un.h uninstd.h errno.h xmmsctrl.h configfile.h and the list goes on and on. I'm apparently missing a few development packages? -- steve

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