Dear Sir,
I have a PC with 20GB Hard disk, 810 Intel Chipset Motherboard and P-III 700
CPU. In my hard disk, there are two partition, First partition (i.e Pri. Dos
portion) contain Windows'98 OS. I have already installed Debian Linux in my
Second Partition, after installation I am facing various
Running Debian unstable.
Just did an upgrade and now startx does not work. Can start xdm, but
will now go further then the login screen.
This happen to anyone else, and what is causing it?
--
Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns
[EMAIL PROTECTED]by re
%% Known Human Nick Rusnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
khnr> As for running telnet, telnet is fine as long as you know your
khnr> network is private and secure (eg a private subnet lan of which
khnr> you are the only user) .. otherwise your passwords are exposed
khnr> in cleartext to anyon
You can use fetchmail to get mail from server (fetchmail-ssl for ssl pop3),
fetchmail copy mail in local mailbox.
and after you can read your mail with :
- sylpheed for exemple (GTK interface)
- mutt in text mode
You must configure the two mail client for use the same directory.
>
> Here's w
First tip: when posting regarding a problem, start a new thread, don't
reply to an existing one. In threaded mailreaders (I use mutt) your
posts shows up well into an existing but unrelated thread. Though at
least you're attached to a related SSH problem here
on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:37:3
Hello,
When trying to play gtcd I get "error playing cd"...but it's an audio cd (an
introduction to classical music)..what is wrong here?
Also, when I try to play login.wav (gnome's file) no sound is coming out...I
have unmuted the mixer via gamix, mixer and pcm oss drivers are loaded together
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:18:17AM -0500, Kevin C. Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Running Debian unstable.
> Just did an upgrade and now startx does not work. Can start xdm, but
> will now go further then the login screen.
> This happen to anyone else, and what is causing it?
More data requi
On 10 Apr 2001, Joseph Dane wrote:
>
> Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a
> nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple
> text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely.
*snip*
I'm slightly hesitant to suggest it, since it's not really
"Fre
Kevin C. Smith posts:
> now startx does not work. Can start xdm, but will now
> go further then the login screen. This happen to
> anyone else, and what is causing it?
It is an issue with the pam modules/library. Happened
after you specifically updated your 'libpam0g' package.
The drm module p
Hello!!
I need to make up a dominium, but with only a server. I will like to
use some DNS server not on my site, ¿can somebody help me? Of course I
have static IP. And if I have to put DNS server on my machine, what can
I use to make it?
Thank you for all!!!
Ang
HI all,
Have a problem with sound cards containing these chips.
Here's my PC setup:
DELL Optiplex GX1
Pentium III-500
192Mb RAM
15GB Hard Disk (Win98, 2 partitions)
4GB Hard Disk (Linux)
Sound Chip (Crystal-423x, as reported by Progeny Install), on motherboard
Hi.
Anyone managed to get ISDN dial-in and modem dial-in going on the same box ?
I've got the ISDN dial-in working fine (synchronous PPP using 'ipppd'), but
when I try and dial-in using a modem via 'mgetty' and 'pppd' I can't get a
link. The system logs shows that 'ipppd' is mistakenly reporting a
Guys,
I know that this list does not deal with Red Hat Linux issues, but then this
is the most helpful list that I can think of that has good support. The
discussion list on redhat.com sux. Typically I use Debian on my system.
Since this is my company's server...
Ok, here's the problem : I cann
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:10:15PM -0500, Geordie Birch wrote:
> not all packages missing from woody are extinct though - some are in
> stable and unstable, but don't meet the criteria for inclusion in testing.
>
> if you really needed such a (non-extinct) package and did not want to
> install deb
%% Kevin Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ks> I wanted to remotely login from a Windows machine to my linux
ks> machine. So I wanted to install telnetd. Everyone said, 'shame
ks> on you, telnet is simply awful. You should be chained to the wall
ks> and whipped for wanting to use telne
> Guys,
>
> I know that this list does not deal with Red Hat Linux issues, but then
this
> is the most helpful list that I can think of that has good support. The
> discussion list on redhat.com sux. Typically I use Debian on my system.
> Since this is my company's server...
>
> Ok, here's the pr
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:58:46PM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote:
>
> Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a
> nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple
> text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely.
>
> Actually, it's my wife I'm primarily thinkin
Hello
I've got an "compaq 10/100 TX UTP Controller" fon a Compaq Proliant 800. I
want to install it and I don't know how ?
The "dmesg | grep eth0" doesnt't print nothing.
Thanks for your help
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:43:16PM +0100, Barbara and Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> Will lots of help from this list I have configured the lo and eth0
> interfaces to load at system startup by correctly setting these up in the
> etc/network/interfaces file.
>
> How do I set up the general loopback
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:33:04PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:46:34PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> | pooh. i tried setting LESSCHARSET=iso8859 (and latin1) via
> | bash 'export' so it'd be an environment variable, but even LESS
> | still displays high-bit (8-bit) characters a
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:47:36PM +0100, Chris Howells wrote:
> From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > there seems to be a bunch of nouns missing there. how do i figure
> > out (where be the fligging manual) what command to issue to get
> > into spreadsheet (kspread) or wordprocessing (kword)
> "Glen" == Glen Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Glen> Hi Brian, I have had a 4200c for over a year now, and it
Glen> took me quite awhile to get it working with Debian. Here's
Glen> what I had to do: Go to Sourceforge and download the SANE
Glen> drivers as tarballs. Downlo
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:52:54PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> now MacOS X, which is housetrained Unix, [...]
thats not what i would call it. i would call it a neutered Unix thats
been run over by a truck.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
pgpI4OsWuRLgS.pgp
Description: P
okay, paul, i'm officially recruiting you, hammer-and-tongs, as a
newbiedoc contributor. your prose is wonderful and echoes frmo
hill and dale with a sparkling clarity that... oh, hell, you can
write, man! delightful!
and kevin, when the light goes on, and all the fog clears,
imagine how much hair
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:39:55AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
>
> Be root:
>
> # groupadd kevin
> # useradd -g kevin -m kevin
> # passwd kevin
>
um you only have to do it that way if you use roothat. debian has a
very nice utility that does all 3 of those steps in one simple
command:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:52:22PM -0700, Brandon High wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:
>
> > here's a logcheck message i got recently, where ipchains is
> > logging certain unwelcome hits (based on what's primarily the
> > default ipmasq filtering rules)--
> >
> > - Forward
If i'm out of line someone please let me know, don't want to offend any
moderators.
I kept thinking about some post talking about a debian newbie mailinglist.
Why would we want that ? I think it's a rather fascist thing to do, i've
encountered this kind of nonsense on several other mailinglists an
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001, Govaere Jan wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've got an "compaq 10/100 TX UTP Controller" fon a Compaq Proliant 800. I
> want to install it and I don't know how ?
>
> The "dmesg | grep eth0" doesnt't print nothing.
>
> Thanks for your help
Hi,
Google is your friend...
It brings up f
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:03:04AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> what i was looking for -- SOLVED -- was
>
> apt-get install kword kspread krayon kpresenter killustrator kchart
well, i THOUGHT everything was solved. alas...
% kspread &
koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the na
/dev/zero just provides a source of data eg
cat -A < /dev/zero | head -c 20
I was using dd as a quick way of trying to create a large (>2GB) file.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:00:59AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> first of all, forgive me my ignorance, i wonder what you are doing with dd
> over
On 10 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a
> nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple
> text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely.
Mutt! Will run in an terminal under X and on the console equally we
Hear, hear,
Me too!
We were all newbies once. We are (probably) all pseudo newbies when
we start working in a new area.
Welcome newbies. Help newbies.
And thank you to everyone who has helped me directly, or via the
archives.
Debian people are nice people. :-)
Dave
-
hi,
bieng a newbie i would have to agree with you. there really is a lot of
problems that a newbie faces with debian right from installation.so i guess
the NB thing is fine.i will take care to c that all my mails are precceded
with this identifier.
thanx guyz,
-Original Message-
From
To be honest, i don't have the answer but i think this has allready been
discussed some time ago, so you'll be able to find info on this in the
mailingslistarchives
greets,
joris
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 10:25
To:
Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Hi all I need some help. I tried now everithing to get my IntelliMouse
> Morking under X 4.0.2. Not succsesfull until today.I have gpm disabled
> to do not confuse X. I tried every protocol X serves on the psaux
> port. But my mouses flips around and stays in the right u
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:42:25AM +0100, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> Hear, hear,
> Me too!
>
> We were all newbies once. We are (probably) all pseudo newbies when
> we start working in a new area.
>
> Welcome newbies. Help newbies.
Certainly! And hopefully, if some questions seem "too silly to
answ
Hi. I'm curious why my Debian systems always answers getdomainname()
with "(none)". Actually, one of the FreeBSD machines I use responds
with "", but I'm still curious why it doesn't work.
It looks like the dnsdomainname only uses getdomainname() if you ask
about NIS. Both glibc and the hostnam
Dear list, this should be easy, but I have not managed yet...
I run Gnome desktop as a 'regular' user. If I need to do systemsmanagment, I
do 'su -' in a terminal to get root access. Only if I need to start an X app
(just installed red-carper), I get an error:
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display
On 9/4/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm confused about what I should be writing in the interfaces file.
..
> > iface eth0 inet static address 194.159.148.141 netmask 255.255.255.0
> need to break that into separate lines--
>
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.1.1
> net
Hello,
Right now I use a combination of WindowMaker and the gnome
'panel' application as my environment. When I want to log
out, it takes 4 clicks. (rightclick, WindowManagers, Exit,
OK). Is there a command for closing WindowMaker, so I can
put a button on the panel to log off? (like 'click-enter'
I had a similar problem a bit ago. I seem to recall that I fixed it
by making root's ~/.Xauthority file a symbolic link to "my" version
of the same file.
Sounds horrid, but it works - as long as you are always su-ing from
the same login name.
Dave
On 11-Apr-2001 Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> De
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:49:18AM +0100, Dave Whiteley ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I had a similar problem a bit ago. I seem to recall that I fixed it
> by making root's ~/.Xauthority file a symbolic link to "my" version
> of the same file.
Don't do that.
Instead, as root:
$ xauth -merge
Hello,
I've just installed postgresql 7.0 from unstable. Everything is ok,
except for the do.maintenance script. Right now it's running for 392
minutes eating up 70% CPU constantly, though I have only 1
postgres database and no data in it.
This doesn't seem to be the healthy behaviour to me. I
Thanks, I thought it sounded horrid.
I presume that this is a one off fix. You need to do it each time you
su?
Dave
On 11-Apr-2001 Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:49:18AM +0100, Dave Whiteley
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> I had a similar problem a bit ago. I seem to reca
Arnout Engelen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Right now I use a combination of WindowMaker and the gnome
>'panel' application as my environment. When I want to log
>out, it takes 4 clicks. (rightclick, WindowManagers, Exit,
>OK). Is there a command for closing WindowMaker, so I can
>put a button o
Hi - I'm looking for a tale of success, suggestion of something to check,
or a link to a more detailed recipe for > 2GB files on i386 using debian
really.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:44:49AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> To be honest, i don't have the answer but i think this has allready been
>
When you log in as a regular user, and you 'su -' to root, you have to
define you 'export DISPLAY=:0.0' again. The minus sign after the su command
means that you want to assume root's environment. So if there is not an
explicit export DISPLAY statement in /root/.bash_profile or /root/.bashrc,
the
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:22:42AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> On my local network I have installed and run telnet-ssl and telnetd-ssl.
> This is "normal" telnet authentication, but your password, etc. is sent
> encrypted instead of in the clear. That's enough paranoia for me, since
> I have a v
Hi all,
Is it possible to change default settings of Exim.
E.g. i type an Email address wrong then i have faulty email laying around for
20 days and i have to delete it manually. Can i get Exim to send me an
mail-failure after the mail can't be send for 1 hour or 1 day?
cheers,
Raffaele
--
Ra
Since you're asking for non-unix platforms try this search on google
returned good results
http://www.google.com/search?hl=nl&safe=off&q=ssl+windows+telnet+freeware&lr
=
I would advise TeraTerm if you're living in an English native country. There
are some issues with international keyboards wich co
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:25:46AM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> Dear list, this should be easy, but I have not managed yet...
> I run Gnome desktop as a 'regular' user. If I need to do systemsmanagment, I
> do 'su -' in a terminal to get root access. Only if I need to start an X app
> (just
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On 11-Apr-2001 Karsten M. Self wrote:
>> on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:49:18AM +0100, Dave Whiteley
>> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>> I had a similar problem a bit ago. I seem to recall that I fixed it
>>> by making root's ~/.Xauthority file a symbolic link to "my" version
>>
Hi,
Maybe you've received better suggestion, but any way I'll offer
my $0.02.
When you recompiled libc, where the compiler looks for the
kernel's header?
I mean: it might be the case that gcc is using
/usr/include/linux (2.2.18) for the kernel's header instead of your
/usr/
Hi,
How do I get exim to add a Delivered-to: header for each email?
Thanks,
Eugene van Zyl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've just installed postgresql 7.0 from unstable. Everything is ok,
>except for the do.maintenance script. Right now it's running for 392
>minutes eating up 70% CPU constantly, though I have only 1
>postgres database and no data in it.
>
>This
Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If i'm out of line someone please let me know, don't want to offend any
>moderators.
Moderators?
>Maybe it would be a good idea for newbies to prefix there mails with NB : or
>Newbie : just like there exists a habit of using OT : for off-topic
>messages
If I purge all of the ximian and helix files, that's practically every
application I use99 packages not to mention the others that will
probably be removed because of dependency problems. Debian Woody sets up
gnome 1.0.56 Ximian "Woody" has installed 1.2.11 for some time
now. I think an i
>PS - People take all their accumulated windows knowledge for
granted. Years and years and years of it, and then expect that
they can learn a new OS over night. Simply rediculous.<
The truth is that I have *never* purchased or read a book on using the
Windows operating system. I've never had
I'm get the following Packet log each time I'm connected to my ISP,
every 4 seconds
Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=88 152.83.4.1:65535 224.0.0.10:65535
L=60 S=0xC0 I=0 F=0x T=2 (#9)
Any help explaining what this is? (I've read through the IPCHAINS
HOWTO and have searched quite a bit.
Hi
> How do I get exim to add a Delivered-to: header for each email?
Have you had a look at the option envelope_to_add which you can use in
your
Transports section?
Cheers
Sean
~~~
Sean Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GNU/Linux, the OS of choice
Hi,
I have installed Debian 2.2.r2 ok. I have a Geforce II Card so had to
install X4 and the Nvidia Kernel modules. X4 was installed using the
Xinstall script, on top of my existing 3.3 installation.
Created a XF86config file ok, this works fine. When I boot up, I get a
graphical login box (plain
I looked at the strace-output and found many errors like this (but I
can't interpret them):
fstat64(0x1c,0xbfff7534)
shmat(28,0x2,0x2,ptrace: umoven: Input/output error)
Only a hint;-(
or is this normal?
--
\ __
Dieter Faulbaum
>However, please don't abuse the community
by going into hysterics because Linux isn't dead easy.<
There was no abusing of the community in the posting I made.I tried to
make it clear that I am anti-windows, and I am sort-of pro-Linux.
>As to your assertion that "Linux is chasing away the v
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> I presume that this is a one off fix. You need to do it each time you
> su?
>
> On 11-Apr-2001 Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > Instead, as root:
> >
> > $ xauth -merge ~$user/.xauthority
> >
> > ...for appropriate values of $user.
To really start a fire here ...
I personally think that this has to do with Debian more then with Linux
itself. Other linuxdistro's like RedHat, Mandrake, Corel are focusing on the
usability. Debian is more like a sysadmin tool. Maybe it simply lacks an
introduction wich is easy to find. Most of t
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 07:01 am, Colin Watson wrote:
> Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Why isn't kernel-source-2.4.3 in unstable yet?
>
> kernel-source-2.4.3 |2.4.3-1 | unstable | all, source
>
> It seems to be in the archive (it was installed yesterday). Maybe your
> mirr
>GNU/Linux is a grown-up's operating system. You're expected to know
your way around, or be able to figure it out.<
I'm sorry, but the 'You're dumb or lazy or both' argument will not fly.
There is an easily-correctable problem with Linux, and I hope the good
people who devote so much time to Li
> Many thanks I have the sound as root but I have had put the permissions
> of the
> devices /dev/dsp and /dev/hdd to 666. I don't know if it is suitable
> but
> I have the sound !
Nice to hear that it works. But changing permissions is usually not nice. The
right way to go is to add all user
%% "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
nlm> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:22:42AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
>> On my local network I have installed and run telnet-ssl and
>> telnetd-ssl. This is "normal" telnet authentication, but your
>> password, etc. is sent encrypted inste
As far as I know, xdm uses .xsession and startx uses .xinitrc
Try creating an .xsession file along these lines:
xterm &
exec wmaker
Hope this helps
Tiarnan
__
Do You Yahoo!?
Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
http://personal.mail.ya
Looking at my logs, I see that there are MANY messages that
look like the following:
Apr 11 07:03:43 debian inetd[19041]: execv /usr/sbin/tcpd: Permission denied
The permissions for tcpd are:
-rwxr-x---1 root root 4.1k Feb 11 2000 /usr/sbin/tcpd
Are the above errors normal,
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:25:16AM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote:
>
> There is nothing I have seen in Linux which is any more difficult than
> other operating systems I have used. The difference is that most of the
> doc is oriented towards the person who already knows everything. It is
> just s
:: If the point of Linux is to develop a little club of elite members who
:: have this great software, then the Linux development community is doing
:: great. If the point of Linux is to become the dominant OS in the world,
:: and show everybody how free software is superior, then they have some
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:50:56AM -0500, John Patton wrote:
> Looking at my logs, I see that there are MANY messages that
> look like the following:
>
> Apr 11 07:03:43 debian inetd[19041]: execv /usr/sbin/tcpd: Permission denied
>
> The permissions for tcpd are:
>
> -rwxr-x---1 root
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:04:14AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> Are there any decent SSL telnet clients for non Unix platforms?
None that I'm aware of, but telnet-ssl and telnetd-ssl fall back to plaintext
if the other end doesn't support encryption. If you've gotta have your
telnet, this ma
Thanks for your suggestions everybody. I had looked at a
couple of child-safe search engines like yahooligans which
search off of a list of approved sites, but google's content
filter works much, much better. Also, dansguardian, when
combined with squid-guard, looks excellent. Thanks!
refences:
> The server needs the following daemons running:
> portmap, nfs-common, nfs-server
> The client needs portmap and nfs-common
>
> My question is, can you mount the nfs share remotely
> when the entry in /etc/hosts.deny is removed, and in /etc/hosts.allow you
> put "ALL: ALL"?
I can mount if both
It is the only application, commercial or otherwise, that I have found that
does not work for me under Debian/Woody. I suspect it needs an older library
that got overridden. Does anyone have, or know where to get, a dependency
listing for StarOffice 5.2. I also tried installing a recent snaps
Does anyone know of a non X GUI interface wich has a number of applications
ported to it ? I keep wondering if X is the answer to Gui's for linux, it is
after all a hefty piece of software to run ... This question comes from
reading up on AtheOS wich uses a proprietary interface wich is reportedly
I have posted a google search result wich DOES return ssl telnet clients for
non-unix platforms. Don't have that link at hand anymore, search the
archives.
-Original Message-
From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 16:05
To: Debian User List
Subject: Re:
ks> http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/LG/issue61/dellomodarme.html
>In short, this HOWTO does not really apply well to
Debian, or even most other Linux distros. <
Yeah, I got it from a website call 'Linuxdoc', so I thought it was
supposed to apply to me. I did a search for 'ssh login remote',
>and kevin, when the light goes on, and all the fog clears,
imagine how much hair-pulling you'll save the next poor soul if
you document what you learned... hmm?<
Ahh, but I'm not a Linux or Free-Software devotee.I would guess that the
Linux community doesn't just write software and doc for th
Hi!
I found out that HP is sponsoring an open-source printing project called
GNULpr (or GLPR for short). However, I found out that only RPMS are
offered (for Mandrake, Turbo Linux, and RedHat).
Has anybody nevertheless tried to install this system on Debian?
If so, how did you do it and what were
Hi all,
I did an apt-get source -b postgresql
woody to compile in a potato box and the following error occurs:
make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/local/src/deb-src/postgresql-7.0.3/src/bin/pg_encoding'
make -C ../../interfaces/libpq libpq.a
make[3]: Entering directory
`/usr/local
I am atempting to isntall the nifty looking gmmusic package on my "stable'
Debina machine.
This package needs a number of perl modules. It provides a script that uses
the cpan module to get the required modules. My Debian box lives behind a
firewall which requires that I use passive mode for ftp.
/var/log/syslog/ keeps mentioning it can't find the module net-pf-10:
maui:/home/frederik# tail -f /var/log/syslog
Apr 11 16:19:31 maui last message repeated 2 times
Apr 11 16:19:32 maui modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10
Apr 11 16:21:22 maui last message repeated 2 times
Apr 11 16:2
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:16:39 -0500
Dave Bacon writes:
DB> I must be very close, but may be missing a small piece of the puzzle.
DB> Can anyone help?
Can you get information from `/var/log/daemon.log' and
something?
Susumu Takuwa
--
Robert Bronsing--- Begin Message ---
> Since X is, after all those years, not the most userfriendly piece of
> software i'm looking for something else, if available.
>
Hi Joris,
may I ask you what is the problem with X? I thought X only provided the
means to have a GUI (without actually b
I was looking around in dselct, and I did not see much in the way of perl
modules (no cpan.pm for instance).
Since I would really like to use "the Debina wya" to insatll as much as
possible, I thought that I would ask about thsi, before just rushing off
and grabing the ones I need, and installlin
hmmm, i don't think you're missing anything, X does indeed provide a
graphicall shell to run a gui on, i'll have to rephrase my question to, does
anyone know a GOOD desktop that doesn't weigh a TON on an older system. Or
more precisely, an environment where you don't have to manually configure
you
Hello,
after updating to this I get gdm loginscreen but I am not able to
login or start a x server as a user. Anybody else having that problem
and perhaps knowing what to do.
I am using debian sid and updated just 2 hours ago.
thomasd
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:41:09AM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote:
> I don't think it is. How many copies of Redhat, Suse and the others were
> sold in the last two years? How many copies of Debian were downloaded by
> newbies in the last two years? Total those up and call it N.
>
> Of those N
Elfert wrote:
By the way we were able to get VMware running on a stock Debian kernel once
we figured out where the kernel header files really were. The only problem
now is that it only runs under root because it says user doesn't have write
permission or the path is wrong even though all th
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, I wrote:
> /var/log/syslog/ keeps mentioning it can't find the module net-pf-10:
What I should have done before posting a question: check the archives
through google:
net-pf-10 is the IPv6 network module. If you're not planning on using
IPv6, add this line to your /etc/modu
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:13:11AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> Maybe you've received better suggestion, but any way I'll offer
> my $0.02.
Appreciated!
> When you recompiled libc, where the compiler looks for the
> kernel's header?
Well the debian glibc packaging is quite c
Hi folks,
I am very new to Linux (my Debian box is one week old) and I'm having trouble
getting X to work with my i810 graphics card. I haved surfed the web, which
offers a lot of advice on getting the card running under XF86 3.3.5 (with the
install of the agpgart.o kernel module) to form the
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote:
> >and kevin, when the light goes on, and all the fog clears,
> imagine how much hair-pulling you'll save the next poor soul if
> you document what you learned... hmm?<
>
> Ahh, but I'm not a Linux or Free-Software devotee.
This is where you lose the sympa
PM> I am very new to Linux (my Debian box is one week old) and I'm
PM> having trouble getting X to work with my i810 graphics card. I
PM> haved surfed the web, which offers a lot of advice on getting the
PM> card running under XF86 3.3.5 (with the install of the agpgart.o
PM> kernel module) to fo
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I did an apt-get source -b postgresql
>woody to compile in a potato box and the following error occurs:
>Makefile:20: Makefile.tcldefs: No such file or directory
>/bin/sh ./mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh
>./mkMakefile.tcldefs.s
* Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-11 11:56 +0200:
> Dear list, this should be easy, but I have not managed yet...
> I run Gnome desktop as a 'regular' user. If I need to do systemsmanagment, I
> do 'su -' in a terminal to get root access. Only if I need to start an X app
> (just in
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