Re: Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > That doesn't work for me. I've found in the past that Google uses > distributed servers, on which content may vary. Could you resubmit the > URL above resolving a numeric IP for your local Google server? Try: http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:dc3d113b15c77caf:www

Re: for i in *

2001-05-21 Thread Martin Fluch
Hejsan! > Okay, so what you're saying is that you prefer efficient parsing of a > script, while I prefer the aestheticy (sp?) provided by spaces. > Obviously, there's a trade-off between the two, and we emphasize > different aspects. So there are some points to the arguement that > Spaces In Fil

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 1.2 and perl scripts problems.

2001-05-21 Thread Iain
Ok I fixed the problem myself. I realised that I was using the Ximian debian packages for gimp. I replaced gimp1.2 gimp1.2-perl and libgtk-perl with the original debian ones and it now works. Beware of ximian. Iain. -- public key available at http://www.minihub.org/~iain/iain.asc

Re: how to recover damaged tar files?

2001-05-21 Thread Lars Knudsen
Erik Alvarez wrote: > > Hi, when trying to decompress a tar file I get this error. Can someone tell > if there is a way to fix it or is the file lost? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -ixvf backup.tar Why the -i option ? Normally extracting a tar file can be done without it. I dont see why it shou

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-21 Thread Andre Berger
* Joel Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-21 09:12 +0200: > Has any one here used LyX, I got on to it a couple of months ago and > It is the best word procesor I have every used, and not to difficult > to learn, as it's a "what you see is what is mean" procesor it > would let the students concentr

Re: HELP!!! Installing Debian

2001-05-21 Thread Tony Crawford
Jan Enning wrote (on 20 May 2001, at 21:17): > > I am new to Debian Linux. After downloading files from BASE-i386 and > > DISK-i386 directory, i've tried to install debian. I typed INSTALL and > > the install.bat file run. After loading some modules, I am stuck to the > > the following message:

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-21 Thread V.Suresh
Word Perfect works find in my machine. While I was in Redhat, had d/l it as .tar format. And it just installs perfectly in Debian too. And I have found a bug or something too. When I type the word "miniscule" followed by a space, wp8 immediately crashes and disappers from screen. I don't

Re: modprobe / modutils problems...

2001-05-21 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:34:24AM +0200, vester wrote: [...] > > # depmod -av > > (Have you ever done? On Debian it should be automatic but you may have a > > broken system) > > output is a long list with all my modules in the respective > /lib/modules/2.4.4/... directories. > > apart from th

SMP machine hangs ofter

2001-05-21 Thread Lapo Luchini
I've got a SMP machine (dual P2-266) and happily installed Debian over it ('testing' release, but with 'stable' I had the same problem): it hangs very often when using X windows. It 'hangs' the hard way: stopped mouse, keyboard not responding. It's a known issue or it's just me? Someone can give

Re: SMP machine hangs ofter

2001-05-21 Thread David Nusinow
On Monday 21 May 2001 01:37 am, Lapo Luchini wrote: > I've got a SMP machine (dual P2-266) and happily installed Debian over > it ('testing' release, but with 'stable' I had the same problem): it > hangs very often when using X windows. > It 'hangs' the hard way: stopped mouse, keyboard not respond

d-link dsb-r100 fm radio

2001-05-21 Thread Anthony GARZIANO
Hi ! I bought a d-link radio fm dsb-r100 usb because it work on linux. But, I can't really control it with fmtools. How can i do. Thanks.

Re: SMP machine hangs ofter

2001-05-21 Thread Ilya Martynov
LL> I've got a SMP machine (dual P2-266) and happily installed Debian over LL> it ('testing' release, but with 'stable' I had the same problem): it LL> hangs very often when using X windows. LL> It 'hangs' the hard way: stopped mouse, keyboard not responding. LL> It's a known issue or it's just m

Re: Suitability of USRobotics Message Modem ?

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:39:22PM +0100, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > Would some people give me an opinion on the US Robotics external > 56k Message Modem ? Is it suitable for use with Linux. I used one for a couple of years with windows and linux, absolutely no problems in either. Not the fastest i

Re: nautilus 1.0.3-2 won't start

2001-05-21 Thread Simeon Walker
Hi, i've been trying to compile nautilus from cvs (no luck yet) but did get it to configure. This is what happens when I try to 'make' it. Making all in intl make[2]: Entering directory `/home/sim/Sources/nautilus/intl' make[2]: *** No rule to make target [EMAIL PROTECTED]@', needed by `all-no'

Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
Hi, I wanted to install gnumeric but the dep list is huge here (see below) is there a way to shrink it.. is there any scope for this building from source? Any (mebbe console based) alternatives? Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following extra packages will be installed:

searching module Apache-LDAP

2001-05-21 Thread Francois Leib
Could you please help me, I was unable to find on my hard drive the file apxs in order to compile my module as explained in this page: http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.html I would like to know how I can install apxs or if somebody has already compile this module,

Re: Suitability of USRobotics Message Modem ?

2001-05-21 Thread Andre Berger
* Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-21 03:08 +0200: > Would some people give me an opinion on the US Robotics external > 56k Message Modem ? Is it suitable for use with Linux. > > I've read a few Linux modem resource pages, but a lot of the stuff > is way above my head. > > I haven't

Re: X, Matrox G450 and Matrox-Driver

2001-05-21 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > now I'm trying to get a Matrox Millenium G450 up and running under X > (4.0.3). So far I have a more or less working solution with the > framebuffer device, but it's far from being satisfactory. > > When trying the mga driver, X complains: > (WW) Warning, couldn't open

Installing lilo on second hard disk

2001-05-21 Thread mdevin
Basically I am trying to copy everything over to my second hard disk and then set up to make this the boot device. I know how to change the boot device in my bios. The problem seems to be getting lilo on the second hardisk. What I tried was this: Edited the /hd2/etc/lilo.conf and changed the fol

Re: Installing lilo on second hard disk

2001-05-21 Thread punt45ACP
Make a tiny partition (<= 15MB) on /dev/hda1 with mountpoint /boot. Have LiLo run from there... I guess you want to move it, because you want to run M$-Vaporware. If that's the case, use BootMagic from PowerQuest. That'll nest in the 1st primary partition and you can have it point to a LiLo on a

autoloading modules

2001-05-21 Thread Jan Torben Heuer
Some of my modules won't load automatically. They are tuner,sg,ice-scsi. Must I add some aliases? thanks, Jan Torben -- /\ | http://www.jtheuer.de (Elektronik, Perl, Linux)| | mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Video camera ( not digital ) to VCD

2001-05-21 Thread robin . c . smith
I need to be able to backup my large collection of home movies to VCD so that I can play them on my DVD player. Has anyone setup a video capture card and scripted it to write to CD? I would like to know how good quality thye results were etc. Regards Robin

RE: Suitability of USRobotics Message Modem ?

2001-05-21 Thread Jose Fernando Carvajal Vion
I have a 56 K Fax-modem 3com-USR, a lesser level modem than the message one and works perfectly. > -Mensaje original- > De: Andre Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: lunes 21 de mayo de 2001 12:41 > Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Asunto: Re: Suitability of USRobotics Me

Re: Installing lilo on second hard disk

2001-05-21 Thread Corey Popelier
This won't be a good answer, but I had a friends machine with an IDE drive on /dev/hda, and a SCSI drive on /dev/sda, and wanted to boot off the SCSI. I also got that LILO warning, and got around it by unplugging the IDE drive, booting, running lilo, then plugging it back in again and booting again

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I wanted to install gnumeric but the dep list is huge here (see below) > is there a way to shrink it.. is there any scope for this building > from source? Do you not run many gnome packages ?? Many of those are pretty "standard" packages that you would need installed anyway for other gnome progr

A philosophical one

2001-05-21 Thread Victor
What's the relation(ship) between the list debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? I mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or not? How about the fact that in this list you are compelled to subscribe while in the newsgroup no?

Re: A philosophical one

2001-05-21 Thread Joel Mayes
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:23PM +, Victor wrote: > What's the relation(ship) between the list debian-user@lists.debian.org and > the newsgroup linux.debian.user? > I mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or not? > How about the fact that in this list you are compel

Re: Installing lilo on second hard disk

2001-05-21 Thread mdevin
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:15:29AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Make a tiny partition (<= 15MB) on /dev/hda1 with mountpoint /boot. > Have LiLo run from there... > > I guess you want to move it, because you want to run M$-Vaporware. If that's > the case, use BootMagic from PowerQuest. That'l

Re: autoloading modules

2001-05-21 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:23:56PM +0200, Jan Torben Heuer wrote: > Some of my modules won't load automatically. > > They are tuner,sg,ice-scsi. > > Must I add some aliases? List them in - /etc/modules kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The P

Re: Installing lilo on second hard disk

2001-05-21 Thread mdevin
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:04:08PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > This won't be a good answer, but I had a friends machine with an IDE drive > on /dev/hda, and a SCSI drive on /dev/sda, and wanted to boot off the > SCSI. I also got that LILO warning, and got around it by unplugging the > IDE drive,

Re: autoloading modules

2001-05-21 Thread mdevin
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:23:56PM +0200, Jan Torben Heuer wrote: > Some of my modules won't load automatically. > > They are tuner,sg,ice-scsi. > > Must I add some aliases? > You can put them in the file /etc/modules and they will be loaded at boot time. HTH --- Mark.

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:33:38AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Do you not run many gnome packages ?? Many of those are pretty > "standard" packages that you would need installed anyway for other > gnome programs. Don't act so incredulous. Many people think Gnome is entirely the wrong dir

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:15:13AM +0100, Gordon Hart wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to install gnumeric but the dep list is huge here (see below) > is there a way to shrink it.. is there any scope for this building > from source? > > Any (mebbe console based) alternatives? No, the gnome apps of

Re: Language

2001-05-21 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (20/05/01 14:53), Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:17:11PM +0600, V.Suresh > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Once upon a time, Stefano Canepa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a >> keyboard. And typed: >> everybody is :-). The moral is, when there is something in the >> line of spam,

Re: A philosophical one

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
Joel Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:23PM +, Victor wrote: >> What's the relation(ship) between the list >> debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? >> I mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or not? >> How about

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Do you not run many gnome packages ?? Many of those are > > pretty "standard" packages that you would need installed > > anyway for other gnome programs. > > Don't act so incredulous. Many people think Gnome is entirely > the wrong direction for Unix to go in, or it's just too damn big. My poi

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-21 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Leen Besselink wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives? > > In bootfloppies maybe ??? Dunno > All I can find are the executables in: "/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/prep/images-1.44" on:

Re: autoloading modules

2001-05-21 Thread christophe barbé
Add your alias in a file in /etc/modutils/ and use the command update-modules to update your /etc/modules.conf. Christophe On Mon, 21 May 2001 13:23:56 Jan Torben Heuer wrote: > Some of my modules won't load automatically. > > They are tuner,sg,ice-scsi. > > Must I add some aliases? > > thanks

usb printer problem

2001-05-21 Thread Thomas H. George
I successfully built a 2.2.19 kernel with usb support. cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers shows drivers loaded, cat /proc/bus/usb/devices shows only pci. I have none/proc/bus/usbusbdevfsdefaults00 in fstab. After booting up dmesg reports parport_probe: failed parport0: no IE

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:50:01AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Leen Besselink wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives? > > > > In bootfloppies maybe ??? Dunno > > > > All I can find are

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Paul Huygen
"Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you not run many gnome packages ?? Many of those are > > > pretty "standard" packages that you would need installed > > > anyway for other gnome programs. > [..] > , if you want to run *one* gnome app, you have to accept the dependencies > that

Re: modprobe / modutils problems...

2001-05-21 Thread vester
ookay...following your suggestion i started modprobe with the module name, omitting the .o extension -- now modprobe apm doesn't give me any error message (in fact there is no output at all but i guess that is the way it should be) so it happens there is nothing wrong with modprobe after all i ju

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I have another experience. After I have installed Debian, my package > management program becomes a mess, and I install new packages with > dpkg after downloading from the Debian site. Although > I do not run gnome, I installed gnumeric this way (in Potato), and had > to install only a few extra

Re: SMP machine hangs ofter

2001-05-21 Thread S.
These are the same symptoms that I am having. It has been driving me crazy! I am running Debian 2.2r3 with Ximian installed. I am running ASUS P2B-DS with dual Pentium III 500 and 512 Meg RAM. I find the following: * Performance actually improves with hard use. (That is, if I am running a lo

Re: user name and password

2001-05-21 Thread Bob Underwood
IIRC, CorelLinux doesn't ask for a password on install. Just leave the field blank. Log in first as root, then the Corel Control Center will ask for one. Bob On Sat, 19 May 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:52:08PM -0700, Jim Mohr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I h

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You might want to read the debian list in a news group like >muc.lists.debian.user. I switched from reading debian-user as a mailing >list to a newsgroup . > >Reading from a news group is only a few hours behind the mailing list, but >you can still repl

monitor display is getting blurry...what could be the problem?

2001-05-21 Thread Walter Tautz
is the video card that is sending faulty signals? or is it the monitor. The monitor is a Mag MXP17F about 6 years old. Any thoughts? Is there someway I can definitely confirm that the monitor is faulty or the videocard. Can I focus the monitor? -walter ps. No it is not by eyes. The monitors I us

Re: for i in *

2001-05-21 Thread D-Man
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | D-Man wrote: | | > | On Sun, 20 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | > | > And-I-have-yet-to-see-somebody-who-replaces-all-spaces-with-dashes-or-dots. | > | > Check the archives for python-list@python.org (aka comp.lang.python).

Re: Netscape and Flash

2001-05-21 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What can i do to use Netscape with a flash module? Is there any package > in potato? Need this to read a for me important webpage. > > I hafe also konqueror of kde installed. If Netscape can't support flash, > do i need an other tool for konqueror? > > Or what else i

Re: monitor display is getting blurry...what could be the problem?

2001-05-21 Thread D-Man
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:50:01AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: | is the video card that is sending faulty signals? or | is it the monitor. The monitor is a Mag MXP17F about 6 years old. | Any thoughts? Is there someway I can definitely confirm that the | monitor is faulty or the videocard. Can I foc

apt-get question

2001-05-21 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an 'apt-get install postgresql install the version from testing), but I think if I just edit sources.list

Problem w/Netscape and repartitioning for Woody

2001-05-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
Let me explain what I have done, so far. Then I will explain my problems. I want to set up separate partitions on my box for tracking Woody (Testing). So far, I have created a new partition for / (/dev/hda11) and cp'd everything from my current / partition to it. At the moment, I am still using

Re: searching module Apache-LDAP

2001-05-21 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Any particular reason you can't use the libapache-auth-ldap package already part of the distribution? As for the APXS files you need to have the apache-dev package or have built your own Apache server from source and used the APXS method of configuration. Respectfully, Jere

Re: apt-get question

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using >something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the >other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an >'apt-get install postgresql install the version from testi

Re: My favorite German post

2001-05-21 Thread DvB
On 20 May 2001 13:12:53 +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > puff = schnauben, aufgebläht (and some other meanings) > brothel = Puff ("Puff Daddy" - oops?) "brothel daddy"... I like that :-)

Re: apt-get question

2001-05-21 Thread Joel Mayes
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:00:22AM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: > Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using > something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the > other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an > 'apt-get install postgresql inst

Re: searching module Apache-LDAP

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Carrigan
"Francois Leib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you please help me, I was unable to find on my hard drive the file > apxs in order to compile my module as explained in this page: > http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.html > > I would like to know how I can instal

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:33:38AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I wanted to install gnumeric but the dep list is huge here (see > below) > > is there a way to shrink it.. is there any scope for this building > > from source? > > Do you not run many gnome packages ?? Many of those are pretty >

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > application, I was concerned that I'd need to install various qt > libs and possibly even some KDE, depending on how things were > packaged. Luckily, it only req'd (not including what I already had > installed) libqt2. Mmm I use

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Compiling from source may not be any better. For example, > > in addition to needing "esound-common" installed, you may > > also need > > hmm why do I need sound at all.. its a spreadsheet.. that was > one of the strangest deps I was hoping could be disabled in > the source. I never have deskto

Installing Debian over LAN

2001-05-21 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, I'd like to install Debian on another Computer in my LAN. It will be only the Base and few additional packages. I have hreared from an APT "PROXY" envairement variable with it i can install over my net with a transparent Proxy? Is that true? If yes, what is the correct variable? Is there a

Re: Installing Debian over LAN

2001-05-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:01:08PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to install Debian on another Computer in my LAN. It will be only the > Base and few additional packages. I have hreared from an APT "PROXY" > envairement variable with it i can install over my net with a transp

Do I need lwresd

2001-05-21 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Debians! After upgrading to testing there is lwresd running. What is it good for? Do I need it? I have two machines running debian and a DSL-connection to the internet. Ciao! juh -- Die Galerie der Texte http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,53437,00.html

Thermal throttling?

2001-05-21 Thread V.Suresh
What does the Thermal throttling option mean, in the BIOS setup? It has values like 25%,50%, 87% etc. What's its significance? -V.Suresh. Sureshvuserssourceforgenet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered by Debian Potato

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-21 Thread Leen Besselink
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Leen Besselink wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives? > > > > In bootfloppies maybe ??? Dunno > > > > All I can find are the executables in:

Getting Telnet to work

2001-05-21 Thread seg
Hi,    I have small LAN: 3 win2k workstations and 1 Debian linux gateway/firewall. I want to telnet into my gateway/firewall from one of my win2k stations. Tired of always going downstairs to change the firewall rules or whatnot J  So how do I set this up? I set up the proper firewall rul

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm running WP 8.1, which came bundled with Corel Linux 1.0 (not free, but $25 on a closeout at Costco, with a "Tux" toy and a $10 rebate--I bought it just for WP and the manual). This version came as a .deb and works very nicely. I don't see that problem. Bob On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:15:08AM

Re: GERMAN INVASION!!!

2001-05-21 Thread Rich Puhek
cat | tr :German: :English: > Isn't working for me... is my tr broken? Just a little Monday humor! --Rich MaD dUCK wrote: > > what's going on??? > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > de

Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread S.
I am trying to get an installation of the "testing" branch (Woody) installed on one of my machines. I have performed the following steps: * Clean install of 2.2r2 (from CDROM) * apt-get update * apt-get upgrade Then I changed /etc/atp/sources.list to point to "testing" instead of "

Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread Thomas H. George
Started to build a 2.2.19 kernel for my second computer. Make bzImage exited with error 2 because it couldn't find as86. My first computer has as86 from somewhere and I bulit the 2.2.19 kernel with no problem. I tried apt-get install as86 and got a message that it couldn't find an as86 packa

en_GB locale problem

2001-05-21 Thread Cliff Rowley
Greetings. And sorry that this is the second time I've posted this, but I have received absolutely no response at all. --- I'm usually more keen to solve a problem myself before asking for help, but I feel I am a little out of my depth. I've not been using Linux very long, being used to using F

Re: Thermal throttling?

2001-05-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:35:35PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > What does the Thermal throttling option mean, in the BIOS setup? > It has values like 25%,50%, 87% etc. What's its significance? It means that you have a Pentium 4 that has the cabability to slow itself down when it gets too hot. Hopef

Re: Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread The Doc
Package: bin86 Use packages.debian.org to search packages for filenames. Doc _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread Mike
Thomas H. George wrote: > Any one know where as86 comes from? Install the bin86 package. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV

Re: Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Started to build a 2.2.19 kernel for my second computer. Make bzImage >exited with error 2 because it couldn't find as86. Try the bin86 package. >I tried apt-get install as86 and got a message that it couldn't find an >as86 package in the stable d

Re: Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread Willi Dyck
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am trying to get an installation of the "testing" branch > (Woody) installed on one of my machines. I have performed the > following steps: > > * Clean install of 2.2r2 (from CDROM) > > * apt-get update > > * apt

Re: Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread Eric Richardson
"Thomas H. George" wrote: > > Started to build a 2.2.19 kernel for my second computer. Make bzImage > exited with error 2 because it couldn't find as86. My first computer > has as86 from somewhere and I bulit the 2.2.19 kernel with no problem. > > I tried apt-get install as86 and got a message

Best (Most stable/supported) Video Card

2001-05-21 Thread Adahma
I'm about to upgrade a Potato box to testing, and plan on doing some hardware upgrades at the same time. One of the things I'm replacing will be the video card. I'm currently running a very old ATI card that I've been fairly happy with, but I've seen that alot of the newer ATI Rage based cards ha

Unidentified subject!

2001-05-21 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have a PC running Progeny Debian Linux, and another machine running Windows. The Debian box connects to the Internet using a Surfboard 4100 cable modem. I want to connect my Windows machine to the same cable modem. I already have a hub so ideally I would like the cable modem and the two comput

Re: Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread S.
Willi, I did these steps again (with "update") and I get the same error. Any other thoughts? Randy On 21 May 2001 19:12:13 +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > I am trying to get an installation of the "testing" branch > > (Woody) i

Re: Getting Telnet to work

2001-05-21 Thread John Willey
Title: Re: Getting Telnet to work Hi,    I have small LAN: 3 win2k workstations and 1 Debian linux gateway/firewall. I want to telnet into my gateway/firewall from one of my win2k stations. Tired of always going downstairs to change the firewall rules or whatnot J  So how do I set this up? I se

Warnquota - Segmentation fault

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Bacon
Hello, Can anyone help me? Every time I run "warnquota" the system returns the following error: Segmentation fault No recipient addresses found in header Any information that could be used to correct this problem would be truly appreciated. Thank you -- __

Re: Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?

2001-05-21 Thread S.
David, Thank you for your feedback. I have run into a problem while trying to move from 2.2r2 -> Woody. Here are the steps that I took: * Install 2.2r2 (from CDROM) * apt-get update * apt-get upgrade * Edit /etc/sources.list to point to testing (not stable) * apt-get upd

Re: Running X apps in Windows

2001-05-21 Thread Peter Hicks
On Friday 18 May 2001 15:33, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > 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? I think you can use vnc for such pu

Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?

2001-05-21 Thread Abner Gershon
I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the tar file, right? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices

Re: Installing Debian over LAN

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to install Debian on another Computer in my LAN. It will be only the >Base and few additional packages. I have hreared from an APT "PROXY" >envairement variable with it i can install over my net with a transparent >Proxy? Is that true? If ye

Re: Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?

2001-05-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA > GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, > and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the > tar file, right? Either that or get the Debian nvidia-glx-src and nvi

Re: Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:19:10PM +1000, Matthew Dalton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > That doesn't work for me. I've found in the past that Google uses > > distributed servers, on which content may vary. Could you resubmit the > > URL above resolving a numeric I

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:55:46AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Yeah, I picked a good example, didn't I ?? In fact, gnumeric may not > have any sound capabilities at all. Maybe it does... Where esound > comes in is that *another* package that gnumeric requires requires > esound itself. Aren't de

Dummy Soundcard

2001-05-21 Thread Jan Enning
Well still hardworking on a 'text to speech synthesis' project. Amazing how much tools there are to do the trick! :) So I dedicated my debian server to test with "Festval" The server does not have a Soundcard. When trying Festival I got the Error "ESD: error writing - Bad file descriptor", searchi

Re: Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA > GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, > and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the > tar file, right? thats what I've been using.. unpack, type make as

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > This leads to another question: If a "--disable-something" > > option is given to the ./configure script, is the Makefile > > dynamic in that it won't check for the file(s) that would > > normally take care of what's been disabled ?? Does that > > make sense ?? ;-) > > Aah not sure what you mea

Re: Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > 99% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, check 3. > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) > E: Failure running script /us

Re: Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread Willi Dyck
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:37:47AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I did these steps again (with "update") > and I get the same error. > > Any other thoughts? > > > 99% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > > > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, check 3. > > > E

list v. Usenet (was Re: A philosophical one)

2001-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:23PM +, Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What's the relation(ship) between the list > debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? I > mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or > not? How about the fact that in thi

what are these? discard-daytime-time-nntp

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
This is the output I get from nmap about things I am not sure what to do about: 9 opentcpdiscard 13 opentcpdaytime 37 opentcptime 113 opentcpauth 119 opentcpnntp Can someone explain me what the

Re: Thermal throttling?

2001-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:35:35PM +0600, V.Suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What does the Thermal throttling option mean, in the BIOS setup? > It has values like 25%,50%, 87% etc. What's its significance? http://www.theinquirer.net/site120501.htm -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.ho

Re: nautilus 1.0.3-2 won't start

2001-05-21 Thread Philipp Bliedung
thanks! libgdk-pixbuf-dev was the package I needed. It's not yet working but I'm on the right track- there are a lot more packages I need ... but I'll get there ... Philipp Simeon Walker wrote: > Hi, > i've been trying to compile nautilus from cvs (no luck yet) but > did get it to configure.

Why everything in German?

2001-05-21 Thread Roberto Magana
Good Day, has the language of the list being changed to German? If so, please announce it so I can switch to a list in english. -- % <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roberto Magana. Escuela de Fisica UCR. (The Phy

Re: for i in *

2001-05-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, May 20, Viktor Rosenfeld did write: > Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > Of course, some people argue, that spaces in filenames is a Bad > > > Thing(tm), but I fail to see why. > > > > Could exactly this be the reason, why spaces in filenames are considered > > as a bad thing, since they

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