Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-18 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: > > What's funny is that VESA comes up right, it detects my card > > beautifully; but then it complains that there aren't any screens. > > Sounds like it can't find a matching resolution and refresh rate. The VESA > driver is limited in what resolutions an

Exim and several mail domains

2001-05-18 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I have a machine running exim that has to serve several mail domains. I understand I should set them up as local domains, but then (correct me if I'm wrong) if I have domainA and domainB all local users would have email addresses for both domains. The thing is I don't really understand what I shoul

Re: Documentacion sobre el entorno grafico

2001-05-18 Thread Sánchez
/usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/XFree86-FAQ.html http://www.xfree86.org (un mirror rápido es el de la Universidad de Paderborn). -- - Alberto Cabello Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Servicio de Informática Universidad de Extremadura 924 298 351 - 924 289 352 ---

X problems

2001-05-18 Thread harsha
hi, i was using a potato system. i did a dist-upgrade to woody. the upgrade went without a hitch but for X. some packages were of version 3.3.6-18. i tried removing 3.3.6-18 but said dependency problems. I have Riva TNT2 ULTRA card. downloaded the binary drivers from nvidia and installed th

keyboard settings

2001-05-18 Thread Mark Walter
After reinstalling all GNOME packages my keyboard doesn't print umlauts anymore. LANG=de ( out of /usr/share/locales ) is set and also some values in the /etc/X11/XF86Config: XkbModel"pc102" XkbLayout "de" XkbKeymap "xfree86(de)" I've just tried to execute my signature and th

Re: No loopback interface after upgrading to testing

2001-05-18 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Debians! After upgrading to testing I must setup lo manually after rebooting with ifup lo. I have this in my - not changed - interfaces-file: | iface lo inet loopback How can I fix it? TIA juh -- Wem gehört die Einheit? http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/20001003.html

Re: Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:27:11PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:11:12PM -0400, Ken Clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to find a Linux Distro that can still be obtained for > > floppy installation. Yes I know about just hooking up a CD-ROM driv

Re: Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-18 Thread John Griffiths
>Actually, it's not that bad now. If you have a decent net conection you >only need two floppies: rescue.bin and root.bin. Once you get to the >second floppy (root.bin) you're asked if you would like to install over >the network. The URL is set up already, as well. Couldn't ask for a >simpler s

Re: Backup schecduling

2001-05-18 Thread Miquel Mart?n L?pez
Well, I like HD mirroring because if the main system dies, I just stick the backup HD in and reboot, and the system is running again (either on single user doing some forensics, or 100% functional) I hadn't considered the option of one of my backup disks dying, still I don't favour the idea of havi

Re: No loopback interface after upgrading to testing

2001-05-18 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Do you have an "auto" entry in /etc/network/interfaces? Mine looks something like: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:01:16AM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hi Debians! > > > After upgrading to testing I must setup lo manually aft

user dialout problem.

2001-05-18 Thread V.Suresh
My problem is, only root is able to dialout and initiate pppd. I have added the user to dip and dialout groups, but when as user I dialout to ISP, after the connection is established, a lot of errors prop up saying pppd cannot be run. As root, I tried changing permissions for pppd allowing

Re: More Dpkg Broken errors

2001-05-18 Thread Andreas Hatz
You should just run the command "apt-get --fix-broken install" without any package names. Also make shure you have done apt-get update recently. It is almost never worth re-installing just because of a small problem :) Kieren Diment wrote: > > I tried Andreas' suggestion, and this is what happens

Re: samba - swat - problem

2001-05-18 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> > I just installed Samba 2.2.0 and Swat on my potato machine. When I try to > > access swat by typing "http://localhost:901";, the browser says "The > > connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:901". > > So, I don't know how to get around this problem. > > Take a look in your

Re: Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Rob VanFleet wrote: >>Actually, it's not that bad now. If you have a decent net conection you >>only need two floppies: rescue.bin and root.bin. Once you get to the >>second floppy (root.bin) you're asked if you would like to install over >>the network.

Network starts before PCMCIA

2001-05-18 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi I just installed 2.2r3 on a Libretto and it works fine except that on boot it starts the networking before it starts PCMCIA so the ethernet card is not initialised. I can do a /etc/init.d/network resart and it all bursts into life. Is there a recommended way of fixing this issue ? Thanks Pat

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-18 Thread Thomas Deselaers
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:37:51AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hey and for all of you who want to be at the bleeding edge: download > openoffice from openoffice.org. Thats StarOffice v6! Is there an deb available? OpenOffice is under gpl, isn't it? thomasd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.desela

quiet dialup tip - away the modem roar

2001-05-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I've finally solved my ip-up script and now my scripts are running when I connect to my ISP. Wahoo. Next I hate hearing dialup on modems. It's obnoxious! Here is what I did to my /etc/chatscripts/provider file pppconfig made for me: Under the string: # modeminit

Re: debconf problem

2001-05-18 Thread Viljo Marrandi
> > I have following problem - some time ago i was upgragding some parts of > > 2.2 system > > To unstable or testing? How long ago, about 3 months, I take it? unstable i suppose. And yes, it was long time ago, maybe even 3 months > So you say you just upgraded? This appears like you upgraded to

cp binary cd to hd

2001-05-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I have 2 cdroms (one is a writer) and three 2.2.r3 binary disks I wanted to work into an nfs for a lap top I'm putzing with. I have several 5gb partitions on my second drive. Thought I'd just cp binary #3 disk to that partition. I watched as it filled the drive. Question, how does

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-18 Thread Kevin Ross
> I've got VESA to work now. I had to set it to use a bpp of 8, and > then it came up fine. My computer has been up for 15 hours now, and I've > been in X all this time; so I guess things are working alright (Although > none of my consoles work now. *sigh* Something about the refresh rate > bei

Re: lprng problem.

2001-05-18 Thread Joel Mayes
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2001 18:29:12 Joel Mayes wrote: > > G'day All, > > > > I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 and can not get my > printer > > ( a HP deskjet 690C ) to work, I have the parport, partport_pc, and > lp > > load

X-server Crashes

2001-05-18 Thread David Monarres
hello, I have been having X server crashes on a box that has never reall had problems (at least that I didn't create) It happens all of the time when I try and run wine, it seemed to be happening when I would run galeon + gedit. I am running a fairly stock sid with extra packages from kitam

Re: Mouse in X

2001-05-18 Thread Paul Mackinney
Arlequin: Here's what I'd do: 1. First, if you ever run in text mode (no X-windows) and plan to use gpm, the first thing is to get gpm working. Type gpm to see a list of the gpm utilities, one of them is the configuration tool. 2. The best tool I've found for X-configuration is XF86Setup. Don't

Error base-passwd

2001-05-18 Thread Vincent Morlot
Hello, when i try apt-get upgrade on a server (potato) i get 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/5207kB of archives. After unpacking 773kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Re: Problem installing from cd-rom.

2001-05-18 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Abner Gershon wrote: > > I can boot my Debian 2.2r3 cd-rom just fine but at the > point in the installation process when the > applications are to be installed I get a message that > my cd-rom drive was not auto detected and that I > should specify a device file for accessing the cd-rom. > I am cl

alsa-sources broken

2001-05-18 Thread christophe barbé
I've apt-get alsa-sources-0.5 I use a 2.2.19 compiled on my host. I go under /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver-0.5-0.5.10b-8.. And if I do ./debian/rules binary-modules I got errors, first because I need to set export KSRC=/usr/src/linux export KVERS=2.2.19 in debian/rules, and after th

Re: Mouse in X

2001-05-18 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Arlequín wrote: > > Joel: > My mouse is on the first serial port > > I assume that this is /dev/ttyS0, isn't it? > > It is not PS/2 > > What furher info do you need??? > > Thanks for answering, > > Arlequín > I guess you have gpm already running. There are sometimes problems with gpm and

locales not supported by xlib

2001-05-18 Thread Joerg Johannes
Helo List After my upgrade to sid, I had to re-generate my locales (de_DE-Iso8859-1) and set the LC_* environmet variables. That solved the "perl: locale unset" problem when using apt-get. Now, when I start any application under X from an xterm, I get an error message saying "Warning, locale not s

another one about locales

2001-05-18 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello again, I just forgot to mention this one: In X, I have the german keyboard layout, but on the console, I have us layout. How do I change the console one to german, too? thanks joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's no

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-18 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hey and for all of you who want to be at the bleeding edge: download > openoffice from openoffice.org. Thats StarOffice v6! > > cheers, > Raffaele > But it's not very stable yet and quite buggy as well. I have it at home and fiddle around with it but I would not recomm

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-18 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Thomas Deselaers wrote: > Is there an deb available? OpenOffice is under gpl, isn't it? > > thomasd No htere isn't. You can download the source or a binary with installer similar to the SO5.2 version. But the installer works great i never had any problems. Frank

~/.Xdefaults

2001-05-18 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I have not until recently had cause to use this file, but I put some Netscape modifications in it. I assumed that with a name like .Xdefaults, it would load the default values when the X-Server started, but apparently not. It seems that to get this file read into the system I have to go to a

Re: samba - swat - problem

2001-05-18 Thread Willi Dyck
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:43:20AM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > uh, maybe you mean *uncomment* out ? Yes, of course, sorry for my bad english :-) Regards, Willi -- ...is a registered (#210445) user of:Debian 2.2r3 GNU/Linux icq# 49564994###AIM: wdyck###GnuPG-Key: 1024D/8BFCA69B Fi

Re: No loopback interface after upgrading to testing

2001-05-18 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
"Gregory T. Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you have an "auto" entry in /etc/network/interfaces? Mine looks > something like: > > auto lo eth0 > iface lo inet loopback > iface eth0 inet That's it. Strange, in potato I did not need this auto entry. Ciao! juh -- Jungbr

Re: ~/.Xdefaults

2001-05-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:50:47AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I have not until recently had cause to use this file, but I put some > Netscape modifications in it. I assumed that with a name like > .Xdefaults, it would load the default values when the X-Server started, > but > apparen

Re: user dialout problem.

2001-05-18 Thread John Hasler
V.Suresh writes: > any help? Not without much more information. _Exactly_ what have you tried and _exactly_ what happened? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

ifupdown

2001-05-18 Thread Kevin
I'm running testing/woody. This morning I rebooted and when ifup tried to run it seems that its using a borked path. I got ifconfig: command not found, and route: command not found. So where does ifupdown get its path from? -- Kevin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Best way to install tuxracer on testing

2001-05-18 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, what is the best way to install tuxracer on testing? I have Kernel 2.4.3, XFree 4.0 and the new nvidia driver. tuxracer-data is in testing, tuxracer in unstable What lines shall I insert in sources.list. Or shall I better install it from the source. TIA juh -- Roland Koch, Marc Dutroux

lm-sensors problems

2001-05-18 Thread Philipp Lehman
In order to access the hardware sensors on my motherboard, I installed the lm-sensors-source package and the corresponding userland utilities. I need the i2c-viapro kernel module for my MB (VIA KT133A/82c686b chipset). Now, when I try to patch the kernel (stricly following the instructions in the

Re: quiet dialup tip - away the modem roar

2001-05-18 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: JIk> Now add: OK-AT-OK ATM0 Just before you see Your local dialing number: you could also just change the dialing command to ATM0DT - everything between AT and the next new line char the modem considers a command sequence, you would be probab

Re: cp binary cd to hd

2001-05-18 Thread francisco m . neto
» Jaye Inabnit ke6sls disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > I have 2 cdroms (one is a writer) and three 2.2.r3 binary disks I wanted to > work into an nfs for a lap top I'm putzing with. I have several 5gb > partitions on my second drive. Thought I'd just cp binary #3 disk to that > partition. I watch

HP PC LAN NC/16 TP

2001-05-18 Thread DvB
I've got one of these in a pc with debian on it and it's not working. Running pnpdump tells me there's nothing so I have no clue how to get it working. >From what I've found searching, I believe this card is an hp J2405A. I also believe (from the hardware compat howto) that this should use the lanc

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread D-Man
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:48:30AM +, Brian Schramm wrote: | I have a new machine here with a netgear fa311 network card in it. I want to | install Debian on it but the only drivers I can find are for Redhat. Has | anyone gotten this card to work with Debian? I have two netgear cards, and I

Re: Best way to install tuxracer on testing

2001-05-18 Thread ray p
The best way to do it is to either add unstable to your sources do a apt-get update and then an apt-get install tuxracer and then change your sources back and do an apt-get update again. You could also just go to www.debian.org and do a search on the packages download the right debs and install

Module agpgart not loading

2001-05-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, I have a Matrox G400 video card and have configured X (4.0.3) with the mga driver and DRI. Upon boot I get an error message, that the drm module (part of DRI, as I understand) failed to load because of the agpgart module wasn't loaded before (well, it says: "[drm] The mga drm module requir

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Has cpbk any advantages over mirrordir or rsync? Greetings, joachim

Re: cp binary cd to hd

2001-05-18 Thread evan . day
> Question, how does a disk that can only hold 750mb of data fill a 5gb > partition? :| I'm completely at a loss. It just *seemed* so simple. Two things: 1) Lots of the files on the CD are in fact symbolic links, and when you run CP it will not copy the symlinks, but the files themselves. Chec

12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread joe golden
Our school has a Dell Dimension XPS T450 with pentium III x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 450 MHz processor 128 MB Ram one 5GB hard drive and one 3GB hard drive ethernet card Sony RW drive Can I use this as a *server* for a 12 machine linux network. Main wo

Re: Best way to install tuxracer on testing

2001-05-18 Thread Jeffrin
Hello I installed tuxracer using "sid". Line for sid is deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main I used apt-get to install.Any way compiling the source to your machine specific architecture if available may be the best method. Please ask if you want help

Re: Best way to install tuxracer on testing

2001-05-18 Thread Brian Nelson
ray p wrote: > > The best way to do it is to either add unstable to your sources do a apt-get > update and then an apt-get install tuxracer and then change your sources back > and do an apt-get update again. You could also just go to www.debian.org and > do a search on the packages download the

Re: debconf problem

2001-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Viljo Marrandi wrote: > > If you are not trying to run unstable or testing, you need to change all > > occurrances of Debconf::Question to DebConf::Question (note case change) in > > /var/lib/debconf/*.db. > > I am running stable (as stable as it is now, though). I changed all to > DebConf::Questi

Re: ~/.Xdefaults

2001-05-18 Thread Keith O'Connell
Brian, > > It seems that to get this file read into the system I have to go to a > > terminal and type; > > "xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults" > Debian uses the file ~/.Xresources for your personal modifications. Solved the problem - Thank you, but you say "Debian uses..." as if Debian does

Re: Best way to install tuxracer on testing

2001-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: > modify my sources.list to get the latest package from unstable, but > typically I want my updates to come from woody. How come there isn't a > mechanism in apt that allows you to keep stable/testing/unstable > references in sources.list, specificy one as a default, and then a

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:04:13PM +, John Griffiths wrote: > > I've always just loaded the tulip module on install with those cards and sat > back to enjoy the ride > Err, no, the netgear FA-311 and 312 are not tulip cards. The 310 is. The 311 and 312 are based on the national semiconduct

Re: Multi-platform software development

2001-05-18 Thread Andrzej Swedrzynski
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Preben Randhol wrote: > > I think that well written C code is portable. Many projects deve­ > > loped under GPL proove it. > > No it is not. Count the #ifdefs #ifdefs are not used only to make sources portable, but also to make it possible to not compile functionality which

Re: Snort config

2001-05-18 Thread Iwan Mouwen
* John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010516 15:24]: > >DEBIAN_SNORT_STATS_RCPT="root" > ^ > Change this just on principle: using root to check system email is just > another thing you can do as a user and not have to be logged in as root so > much... > Why? # vi /etc/al

Re: [users] Network starts before PCMCIA

2001-05-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Patrick Colbeck (on Fri, 18 May 2001 09:48:43AM +0100): > I just installed 2.2r3 on a Libretto and it works fine except that on > boot it starts the networking before it starts PCMCIA so the ethernet > card is not initialised. I can do a /etc/init.d/network resart and it > all bursts in

ximian mozilla breaks netscape4.77

2001-05-18 Thread Todd Weaver
In a message long ago... http://webhotel.mit-inter.net/debian-user/00/10/4204.html Bob Bernstein wrote about an error he received... "INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load /usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking error=undefined symbol: PR_GetCurrentThread" In an unrelate

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread Nate Amsden
joe golden wrote: > > Our school has a Dell Dimension XPS T450 with > pentium III x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 450 MHz processor > 128 MB Ram > one 5GB hard drive and one 3GB hard drive > ethernet card > Sony RW drive > Can I use this as a *server* for a

Re: mount/umount hangs after I messed with /etc/mtab

2001-05-18 Thread Chris Majewski
Turns out the loop device is broken in kernel 2.4.*, and when I tried to mount it, the mount hung, causing a lock that prevented other mounts/umounts from happening. -chris Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am unable to mount/umount anything after messing with my /etc/mtab

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread D-Man
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:08:55PM +, joe golden wrote: | Can I use this as a *server* for a 12 machine linux network. | | Main workstation uses will be internet research and word processing. I'm | sure this machine could function fine as a NFS file server and proxy server | for web pages.

Re: user dialout problem.

2001-05-18 Thread V.Suresh
Once upon a time, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >V.Suresh writes: >> any help? > >Not without much more information. _Exactly_ what have you tried and >_exactly_ what happened? >-- >John Hasler >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Dancing Horse Hill >Elmwood, Wisconsin > > >-- >To

/tmp trouble

2001-05-18 Thread V.Suresh
I just wanted to experiment with partitions. So, created a 30 MB partition, and modified /etc/fstab as /dev/hda7 /tmp ext2defaults 0 0 And rebooted. Now, mutt, lynx et al couldn't create tmp files, and won't budge. What's wrong? I had to revert back, to put /tmp under / partitio

/var/log/messages permissions woes

2001-05-18 Thread au516
Hello all, This is a real mystery for me, and I need an answer to this problem: As a regular user (not root) I want to be able to do a 'tail -f /var/log/messages' whenever I dialup my ISP. This is all set up fine but there is a recurring permissions problem: every time I reboot, *something* chan

Re: Printing problems with pdq & Kernel 2.4.4

2001-05-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Volker Schlecht wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:19:49PM +0200, Volker Schlecht wrote: > > Kernel Versions: 2.4.2 & 2.4.4 > > pdq: 2.2.1-4 > > on Woody > > When I tell pdq to print a given (Postscript) document, it tells me that > > it doesn't know how to print this filetype and cancels. > > Ac

Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI

2001-05-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Ian Eure wrote: > has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 > 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? > > it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software > rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. > > i was told that install

Configuring Networking - Newbie

2001-05-18 Thread mgk
I've seen this discussed previously, can't find the solution though. The external connection works fine, I can't access the local network from my gateway box though. The routing table looks like this: DestinationGatewayGenmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface xx.xx.xxx.x 0.0.0.0

Re: Linux compatible IDE CDRW

2001-05-18 Thread Scott_Patterson
>On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:36:02AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Which would be the best for me to get? >> >> Plextor CD-RW PX-W1210TA 12/10/32 IDE 2m Buffer Burn-Proof >> Sony CD-RW CRX160EBK 12/8/32 Internal IDE Retail Kit 4mb PC/MAC >> Yamaha CD-RW Internal 16Wx10RWx40R IDE Retail Kit C

Re: /tmp trouble

2001-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
"V.Suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to experiment with partitions. So, created a 30 MB > partition, and modified /etc/fstab as > /dev/hda7 /tmp ext2defaults 0 0 > > And rebooted. Now, mutt, lynx et al couldn't create tmp files, and won't > budge. What's wrong? I had

Stil struggling with sound

2001-05-18 Thread Johann Spies
I am still stuck with my soundcard. I have done a $pnpdump --config > /etc/isapnp.conf and $isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf Board 1 has Identity a9 ff ff ff ff 36 42 63 0e: CSC4236 Serial No -1 [checksum a9] CSC4236/-1[0]{WSS/SB }: Ports 0x538 0x388 0x220; IRQ5 DMA1 --- Enabled OK CSC42

smc-ultra problem (loading problem)

2001-05-18 Thread Jan Krupa
I have tried to install (via html or ftp) the latest debian2.2 on my pentium machine (32MB RAM, 75MHz), smc-ultra card. I prepared three disc floppies: rescue.bin, root.bin, driver-1.bin. When I tried to install(load) the smc-ultra module I got the following message: /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17-com

Re: Wave Splicer

2001-05-18 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 18 May 2001 01:41, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Does anyone know of a good wave file splicing uitility? I have a > book-on-cd and all the tracks are a minute long, and I'd like to find a way > to easily combine all the wave files into one. By the way, using cat to > put them together doe

opengl (mesa) compiling problem.

2001-05-18 Thread Jan Krupa
I would like to use the mesa (opengl) library in C or C++. I installed (debian2.2 potato) mesa-glide2 3.1-17 mesa-widget 3.1-17 mesademos or tried (instead) mesa-dev mesag3 I tried to compile some example of using opengl (mesa) library with the following heather: #include and using the foll

Re: X problems

2001-05-18 Thread Jeffrin
Hello You can try this ... 1. Add " deb http.us.debian.org/debian sid main " to your /etc/sources.list 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get install xserver-xfree86 4. Download nvidia's driver sources ( NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769.tar.gz and NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769.tar.gz

ntpdate woes - no suitable server

2001-05-18 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Could someone please help me out with this? I have heard that the high stratum number is bad and could be the cause of the error. What does stratum mean? Why would i get this problem even locally? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[12]~ ntpdate -q localhost server 127.0.0.1, stratum 16, offset -0.93, del

Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - add'l info

2001-05-18 Thread Bob Underwood
this is my first time writing to the list, so i left out info in my newbieness this is a new install, barebones 2.2r2 from cd (cheapbytes) with dist-upgrade to the current stable dist, and security updates. ip masquerading is enabled in the kernel and ipmasq is installed with the default scripts

Disable bootps/netbios

2001-05-18 Thread Jan Enning
Hi! I discovered something weird :) When doing a 'nmap -v localhost' I see; PortState Protocol Service 21 opentcpftp 22 opentcpssh 25 opentcpsmtp 80 opentcphttp 110 opentcppop-3 And

stopped working in X

2001-05-18 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! After I yesterday updated some packages to be able to install KDE base from unstable, my key seems to have stopped working properly. It used to work in most places, but now it does some really weird things in several programs (most notably ncurses program and the bash shell). In my Xmodmap (

making woody...

2001-05-18 Thread Dutch
I going to try and make debian cds of Woody. I have a pretty "average" pc, no scsi, typical hard drive, zip drive, floppy, CD...Its a gateway and had debian on there before... Just wanted to know what I should put on my CDs and -where- as I know it will look for them and expect to find them in cer

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Brian Schramm
OK, I am ccing the list on this. I do have the source installed. I installed the deb package for 2.2.19 and compiled the kernel for the machine that it is running on. I want to use that kernel also since that is the one that I am using for the new system too. So, I do not believe that the sys

Re: ntpdate woes - no suitable server

2001-05-18 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Hanasaki JiJi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Could someone please help me out with this? I have heard that the high > stratum number is bad and could be the cause of the error. What does stratum > mean? Why would i get this problem even locally? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[12]~ ntpdate -q l

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread D-Man
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:24:17PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: | OK, I am ccing the list on this. I do have the source installed. I | installed the deb package for 2.2.19 and compiled the kernel for the | machine that it is running on. I want to use that kernel also since that | is the one that

Re: [users] Re: perl locale

2001-05-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Ilya Martynov (on Wed, 16 May 2001 11:57:57AM +0400): > >> Why are you setting LANG=en instead of LANG=en_US? > Md> i am not setting anything anywhere. in fact, i am lost! > check /etc/environment cool. i didn't know this file existed. how does it tie in? when is it sourced? martin;

Re: Disable bootps/netbios

2001-05-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi! > I discovered something weird :) > When doing a 'nmap -v localhost' I see; > > PortState Protocol Service > 21 opentcpftp > 22 opentcp

[OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
From the front page at http://www.linuxcentral.com : "Red Hat Linux 7.1 contains the basics for setting up a Linux workstation or server. Ideal for the ex..." Now, I know Redhat's Linux distribution sucks, but is it bad enough that it should be considered "ideal for the ex"??? ;^) noah -- ___

Re: making woody...

2001-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:12:05PM -0400, Dutch wrote: > My plan is: > got to ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/ > and grab everything from Admin to X11 and stick it in a folder called ??? Unfortunately that won't all fit on a CD. http://cdimage.debian.org has some scrip

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:24:17PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > > Any other ideas? > The kernel needs to be configured (i.e. make config || make menuconfig || make xconfig must have been run). The modversions.h file you mentioned (in a long list of other garbage, all of which I chopped out) is

packaging hell

2001-05-18 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey people. So, could someone explain this? g++ won't install because: g++: Depends: libstdc++2.10-dev (>= 1:2.95.2-10) but it is not going to be installed It would be _really_ nice if it explained _why_ it's not going to be installed, BTW. So, I try to install it. libstd

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Now I know what to do! (But it wasn't obvious!) > > Agreed. The cups postinstall should point you to localhost:631 to find docs. Time to file a wishlist severity bug report. > > So I configured i

dbootstrap

2001-05-18 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives. I wanted to take a look at it and find out what it actually does but I haven't been able to find it. thanks, Andy

Postgresql 7.1 + unixODBC 2.0.5 + StarOffice 5.2

2001-05-18 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I have installed all the above (see subject) software and whenever I try to see the tables in a database with DataManager (a program supplied alongside unixODBC), th program just won't show any tables. The same problem happens with StarOffice. I know the driver manager and database driver

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread Michael Mueller
Here's a newbie question about the instructions below: If I load Potato from scratch, will there be a kernel source directory that has a modversions.h file in it? Mike --- "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:24:17PM -0400, Brian > Schramm wrote: > > > >

Re: woody upgrade

2001-05-18 Thread Steve Gran
On Fri, 18 May 2001, "Chris Parker" wrote: > > Please HELP. Upgraded potato to woody. That went fine. Trying to go to > kernel 2.4.4. Used dselect for kenel and other packs like xfree86. Some > have installed but others will not! > ERROR MESSAGE: > [Scanning packages]Template parse error nea

Make Menuconfig Problem

2001-05-18 Thread Thomas H. George
I sent this message two days ago but missed any answers as I had not subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am recovering from a disk crash and installed linux2.2.17 from an official binary-i386, version 2.2_r0 CD set. I rushed and missed the option which would have included parport in the install

Re: lm-sensors problems

2001-05-18 Thread mikepolniak
Philipp Lehman wrote: > In order to access the hardware sensors on my motherboard, I installed > the lm-sensors-source package and the corresponding userland > utilities. I need the i2c-viapro kernel module for my MB (VIA > KT133A/82c686b chipset). > > Now, when I try to patch the kernel (stricly

Re: lprng problem.

2001-05-18 Thread Dana J . Laude
> G'day Dana, > Thanks for the reply I've followed your advise but still no > luck, ( no change at all actualy ) just a black page or a > "No way to print this type of file, ASCII Text' message, > printed on the printer :( > > I'll agree with you about Debian though, it is the best Dist > I've c

Re: X problems

2001-05-18 Thread Steve Gran
On Fri, 18 May 2001, harsha wrote: > > hi, >i was using a potato system. i did a dist-upgrade to woody. the upgrade > went without a hitch but for X. some packages were of version 3.3.6-18. i > tried removing 3.3.6-18 but said dependency problems. > > I have Riva TNT2 ULTRA card. download

Re: lprng problem.

2001-05-18 Thread Steve Gran
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Joel Mayes wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: > > On Thu, 17 May 2001 18:29:12 Joel Mayes wrote: > > > G'day All, > > > > > > I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 and can not get my > > printer > > > ( a HP deskjet 690C ) to w

Running X apps in Windows

2001-05-18 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Does anyone know of a FREE package allowing one to run an X app on a linux box in such a way that it can be used across a network on a windows box, in the same way that X apps can be run over networks? -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / Student Technology Support The University

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:08:55PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Our school has a Dell Dimension XPS T450 with > pentium III x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 450 MHz processor > 128 MB Ram > one 5GB hard drive and one 3GB hard drive > ethernet card > So

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