Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread csj
On Thursday 12 April 2001 07:44, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:05:21PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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, do

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:26:20PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > On 12 Apr 2001 10:05:40 +1000 > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > xcdroast from unstable might fix this(?), but I can't even get it to > > run. (it warns that certain executables aren't setgid, even when run > > as root,

HELP - CS423x sound config and Debian Potato...

2001-04-11 Thread carl . tan
HI all, Have a problem with sound cards containing these chips. Problem Description 2.2.18pre15 kernel already had a cs4232.o to load but failed with "device or resource busy" error. 1. tried "modprobe cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma=0" 2. response "Device o

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. -Rob On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:55:10PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: > i tried it. here's a message i sent to my lug. > > "alright, i gave it a shot. i repeal my defense of progeny. > > wanna know how to break a progeny in

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: ... > Which brings me to my favorite lite-wm peeve. Why do most of them > lack a persistent menu/taskbar? Take Blackbox (a favorite from the > posts I have read). To open a new app you have to click at the > desktop (or is there some abstruse keyboard shortcut?) to bring up > the app-rop

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone ever teach you how to trim quotes? -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too mu

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Brian May
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> thats because any X program that requires root privileges Ethan> is broken by design. the GUI part should run unprivileged Ethan> and use a small non-GUI backend to perform the privileged Ethan> stuff. getting the r

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > To open a new app you have to click at the desktop (or is there some > abstruse keyboard shortcut?) Yes. Type the name of the app into a terminal. Suffix a '&' if you don't want it to take over the terminal. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Brian May
> "Christoph" == Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christoph> xcdroast on unstable seems to be severly broken these Christoph> days. It requires setgid bits to be set, but gtk libs Christoph> seem to refuse working for security reasons. Also all Christoph> external he

Re: HELP - CS423x sound config and Debian Potato...

2001-04-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:35:42AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Any help here to get it started (either ALSA or sndconfig or modprobe I'm > not fussy :-) would be greatly appreciated. > > I tried google and read many suggestions (all of them reflected by my attempts > above), but to n

Debian install on RAID hardware

2001-04-11 Thread Rafael Hinojosa
Hello everyone, I'm not exactly sure if this question should be posted to this list, or to another more specific list. If so, do let me know. The organization I belong to just received a new Dell PowerEdge 1400 with the PercRAID 2/DC dual channel RAID card. Current plans are to use this mach

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:52:44PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. > > Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone ever teach you how to trim quotes? Oh no, another flamewar in the making :

Re: NIC problem

2001-04-11 Thread Craig Jones
I have installed the base system (10 or 11 disks, can't remember). It boots up fine, and I do the Alt-F2, login as root and do a modprobe: modprobe wd modprobe wd io=0x280 irq=11 mem=0xcc000 mem_end=0xc Both give: wd.c: No wd80x3 card found (i/o = 0x280) /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21-compact/ne

Lexmark 5700 printer help please

2001-04-11 Thread Len Dozois
Has anyone gotten this printer to work in debian? Am I fighting a losing battle? I have been trying to get this printer to work for a month. I downloaded the driver and it shows on the list of printers in printool but when I select it and configure it, it never works. When I try to print it says"

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Christoph Simon
On 12 Apr 2001 10:57:17 +1000 Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Christoph" == Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christoph> xcdroast on unstable seems to be severly broken these > Christoph> days. It requires setgid bits to be set, but gtk libs > Christoph> se

Re: xfree 4.0.3-pre1v2 broken

2001-04-11 Thread Mike
Kai Weber wrote: > + Thomas Deselaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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

Re: videoconferencing

2001-04-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi dan... try looking at my little collection... otherwise google has a good list of urls to go thru... http://www.Linux-Video.net - go to the video conference section have fun alvn On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Dan Berdine wrote: > Hi, > I'v been searching through the debian-user archives for

gdm login is broken in unstable(?)

2001-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
As of today I can't login via gdm anymore; it accepts my userid and password, restarts X, and then just restarts X again and shows the gdm login dialog. /var/log/auth.log shows something like: Apr 12 10:44:28 mcspd15 PAM_unix[8872]: (gdm) session opened for user miles by (uid=0) Apr 12 10:44

Re: iptables logging?

2001-04-11 Thread Gregory T. Norris
If you're tracking unstable, make sure you have the klogd package installed. It was recently split out from sysklogd, and since apt-get doesn't handle Recommends... On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:22:57AM +0100, Adam James wrote: > Hi all, > > This is just something that's getting slightly annoying -

Re: outgoing mail header address qyestion

2001-04-11 Thread ktb
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:51:41PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > Currently, I am using mutt to access my schools imap server. it's been > working great now I have another email account (pop3) and I use fetchmail to > retrive it. My problem is that whenever I reply my outg

XFree4 startup error: PEXExtensionInit

2001-04-11 Thread Jeremiah Hunter Savage
I've been running Sid for ~1 month without any trouble, but today when I bootup my computer and tried to 'startx', I got a bizarre message which results in X not starting up. >From my log, I get: [snip] (==) MGA(0): Backing store disabled (==) MGA(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) MGA(0): DPM

Re: Installation Problem (Debian Linux)

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:13:05AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Sir, Not so formal here, Sujit. > 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) c

Re: Debian/Woody broke StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:16:10AM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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

Re: DNS question

2001-04-11 Thread Nathan
Angel wrote: > 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 a

Re: HELP - CS423x sound config and Debian Potato...

2001-04-11 Thread carl . tan
Hello Dima, Before this receipt of this post, I did the following: 1. download alsa-drivers, utils, etc. (ver. 0.5.10) from www.alsa-project.org 2. unpacked in my /root/alsa directory 3. ran a ./configure 4. got an error at "cannot find 'version.h' in /usr/src/linux/include/linux" So I downlo

DNS: how to set up 192.168.*.* of public IP addys?

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
Pann McCuaig replied: > will trillich wrote: > > what kind of naming setup do you use for the intRAnet? something > > totally different from the public access point ("timmy.my.lan" > > for example) or do you branch off the original public name > > ("timmy.private.mydomain.org" for example)? > > $

Re: folder highlightning in Pine ?

2001-04-11 Thread Curtis Hogg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What you do, is in your folders page, you hit the ; key... then select [P]roperties (P key), then hit [N]ew (N key). this will check all of your folders for new messages, and put an X next to each one that contains new messages. - -- Curtis Hogg [EMA

WindowMaker Rocks!! ;-) (Was: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces)

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:13:22AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2001 07:44, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > WindowMaker, my preference. Gratuitous screenshots at > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Images/Desktop/ It's running very > > happily on my PPro 180MHz/256MB sys

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:46:05PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: > I have followed this discussion with great interest. It's been really > lively! :-) > > I hardly consider myself to have achieved 'power user' status. I started > with Slackware Linux in late 1998. At this time I never touch Windows a

Re: Debian install on RAID hardware

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001, Rafael Hinojosa wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm not exactly sure if this question should be posted to this list, or to > another more specific list. If so, do let me know. > > The organization I belong to just received a new Dell PowerEdge 1400 with > the PercRAID 2/D

install disk boot problem

2001-04-11 Thread Jack Moffitt
I'm trying to install Debian potato on my laptop. I've got the generic i386 disks (rescue.bin and root.bin + the drivers1-4, etc). My laptop (a sony vaio picturebook) has a USB floppy drive and no cdrom. So I generally do net installs of RedHat on it. The floppy works great to boot the first dis

NFS mount at startup

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
How do I prevent NFS filesystems from mounting when I start up my computer. As the system is booting, it attempts to mount them, and I only want them mounted when I want them. Here's one example from my fstab: papa:/music/music nfs rsize=1024,wsize=1024 0 0 -- steve * Linux : htt

Re: NFS mount at startup

2001-04-11 Thread Rich Puhek
The Automounter will help you. The documentation wasn't real clear to me at first, but I managed to get it up and running. See the Automounter mini-HOWTO at: http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Automount.html or your favorite LDP mirror for more details. --Rich "Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: >

Re: install disk boot problem

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
Please keep list mail on list. Reply redirected to list. on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:33:56PM -0700, Jack Moffitt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Bad floppies are legion in Debian installs. Try another. And another. > > And another. If you can't get it right in six to ten, consider another > > r

Re: startx not working

2001-04-11 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I have the same problem (although I'm using gdm). What's going on? I need to do homework. Oh well, I guess that's what I get for using unstable :) Cameron Matheson __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://per

Re: gdm login is broken in unstable(?)

2001-04-11 Thread David Monarres
I had the same problem and it isn't gdm, rather it has to do with a broken ssh-agent. I just commented out the lines in /etc/gdm/sessions/Gnome that start ssh-agent and it seemd to work after that. I have attached the session file on my system. (I don't really know if this was the most correct way

[OT] kapm-idled takes up 77% of CPU?

2001-04-11 Thread Krzys Majewski
Dig this: 3 root 20 0 00 0 SW 0 74.0 0.0 672:35 kapm-idled 10858 root 10 0 35540 8332 1628 S 0 0.5 6.5 0:03 X 4208 root 9 0 968 964 744 S 0 0.3 0.7 0:14 dozed 31364 krzys 10 0 1492 1492 692 R 0 0.3 1.1 0:00 t

Re: gdm login is broken in unstable(?)

2001-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
David Monarres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had the same problem and it isn't gdm, rather it has to do with a broken > ssh-agent. I just commented out the lines in /etc/gdm/sessions/Gnome that > start ssh-agent and it seemd to work after that. Hey thanks, that fixes things perfectly! [Did'ya f

Re: WindowMaker Rocks!! ;-) (Was: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces)

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:51:38PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:13:22AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You missed my favorite icewm (in 3 flavors - -gnome -lite). The most > > Windows-like wm (not counting KDE's). > > Legacy MS Windows is not necessarially

Re: NFS mount at startup

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:15:45PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > How do I prevent NFS filesystems from mounting when I start up my > computer. As the system is booting, it attempts to mount them, and I only > want them mounted when I want them. Here's one example from my fstab: > > papa:/m

download problem

2001-04-11 Thread Rahul Agarwal
I am trying to download the Debian intallation files (first time installation) from the website using the ftp ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/  the ftp program has already downloaded data more than 2.4 gigs and is still going on. I was wondering what is the size of the installation files and a

Unable to locate libpixmap.so

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
As a normal user, when I execute xmms, I get the following warnings: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so" And then xmms fires up and proceeds to work quite happily. However, I don't get this message if/when I execute xmms as root. dpkg -S libpixmap doe

Re: download problem

2001-04-11 Thread ktb
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:40:42AM -0400, Rahul Agarwal wrote: > I am trying to download the Debian intallation files (first time > installation) from the website using the ftp ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ > the ftp program has already downloaded data more than 2.4 gigs and is still > going

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:11:41PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:52:44PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. > > > > Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone

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