gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread Margarete Hans
What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and KDE? Basically, which one should I install?

Re: gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
On Saturday 09 June 2001 10:16 pm, Margarete Hans wrote: > What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and KDE? Basically, > which one should I install? Oh man... opening the doors to the furnace here... I'd recommend downloading and trying both and deciding which you like then. There are als

Re: do you know any free proxy server?

2001-06-10 Thread Michael Schmidt
Go to www.DeleGate.org I am sure there are better proxies if you want to install on Linux, but this supports both Linux and Windows. Personally I am using it on my wife's Windows computer which is connected to the Internet. It is providing access to my Linux laptop. - mike

Re: gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
Oh, as a postscript to what I just said, nothing prevents you from switching later. I was happily in one environment and switched to the other about a month ago. I still like to go and use blackbox every so often too. Flexibility is good :-) - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Winmodem translator?

2001-06-10 Thread Robert Voigt
On Sunday 10 June 2001 04:41, Nathan E Norman wrote: > There is a kernel driver for the Lucent winmodems ... it's a binary > only module and CPU really gets whacked when you're dialed in. Not any more. There is now a driver available as source for this particular Lucent chipset (if we talk about

Re: gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread Steve Kieu
I personally dont like kde :-) in my box kde app, the graphic is not good, it has a black or color strips on the window title bar and unstable. Kongquerer crashes with sig 11 ... --- Margarete Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and > KDE? Basically,

Logcheck and Postfix

2001-06-10 Thread Paul M Foster
In Debian 2.2, logcheck is configured out of the box to mail reports to root every hour. I'm using Postfix for my MTA. Here's what's happening: logcheck mails its report to root, which is translated into [EMAIL PROTECTED] On my local lan, the domain is mars.lan, but I get my email from my ISP at q

Re: do you know any free proxy server?

2001-06-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Roderick Cummings wrote: > > >From: ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: do you know any free proxy server? > >Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:44:07 -0500 > > > >On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:21:30AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >

Re: problem with remote stty and remote login

2001-06-10 Thread Guy Geens
> "James" == James D Freels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> stty: standard input: Invalid argument Could you look in the login scripts (/etc/profile, ~/.profile) for the command which causes this error and post it here? -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Wo

Re: Xemacs & Debian packaging systems

2001-06-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Giulio Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Xemacs has it's own packaging system for upgrading component packages. > > Does using it compromise the debian system and foul up any future > > apt-gettery I might wish to try? > > > > I feel sure ther

best kernel config for athlon(2.2)

2001-06-10 Thread Nate Amsden
hi. i just installed an amd thunderbird 1.33ghz along with an Asus A7A266. I also upgraded to a 450watt power supply so i hope its just as stable :) Currently I am running the same kernel(suprised it worked actually) that i was using on the previous P3-800 on an Asus P3V4X. Linux 2.2.18 + ide pa

Re: dhcp

2001-06-10 Thread Guy Geens
> "Matt" == Matt Gerginski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> Hi. I just did a fesh install of debian. On the documentation on Matt> the site, it said that in the "Configure the Network" portion of Matt> the installation, i would be asked whether to use dhcp or not. Matt> This never happened.

Re: Is there a .deb of a (recent) html validator? Answer: see validator.w3.org

2001-06-10 Thread hansen
see http://validator.w3.org/ http://validator.w3.org/source/ an html validator that works over the web . a perl script. handles several versions of html. from the makers of html/http itself, w3.org free, as usual -- *** Dr P's Book Knowledge, Hell's Bibliophiles, and * somewh

Am I an idiot? Gnumeric

2001-06-10 Thread Christopher Wright
I would like to use Gnumeric.  My computer runs Windows ME.  Is this possible, or would I have to have the Debian operating system?   Thanks   [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://go.to/chriswright

Re: Am I an idiot? Gnumeric

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:39 am, Christopher Wright wrote: > I would like to use Gnumeric. My computer runs Windows ME. Is this > possible, or would I have to have the Debian operating system? > Well... yes and no... You can't run it natively in WinME. No way no how. You could install a copy o

Re: gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread Roderick Cummings
From: "Margarete Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: gnome/KDE Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:16:40 -0400 What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and KDE? Basically, which one should I install? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:52:41 +0200 (CEST), Leen Besselink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I set up a router with my old 486 computer. I have there potato witch kernel >> 2.4 installed. >> >try running 2.2 or 2.0 instead, that might help also. In a router, having 2.4 has a _very_ strong point calle

Re: best kernel config for athlon(2.2)

2001-06-10 Thread Robert Voigt
On Monday 11 June 2001 00:12, Nate Amsden wrote: > hi. > > i just installed an amd thunderbird 1.33ghz along with an Asus A7A266. > I also upgraded to a 450watt power supply so i hope its just > as stable :) > > Currently I am running the same kernel(suprised it worked actually) > that i was using

Re: best kernel config for athlon(2.2)

2001-06-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Robert Voigt wrote: > What chipset does the promise controller have and how did you install on the > RAID? I have a Promise RAID controller onboard and I couldn't install Debain > probably because the installation kernel does not have a driver for this > controller. generic ata100, not the raid e

GNU emacs has the wrong key settings in X

2001-06-10 Thread Alan Chandler
I have been puzzling for some time why backspace and delete worked fine everywhere except when using emacs under X. In this instance, both keys deleted backwards (ie did what the backspace key should). The weird thing that I could not initally figure out is that whenever emacs runs in characte

Re: gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:16:40 -0400 "Margarete Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and KDE? Basically, > which one should I install? Depends. We all have our favourite window manager (although KDE and Gnome are more than window managers, they are more

Very occassional lockups of X

2001-06-10 Thread Alan Chandler
I am running what is essentially a debian woody system (with KDE from CVS on top). This means XFree 4.0.3 Every so often (maybe once every two weeks) the user interface locks solid. The cursor disappears and no screen updates occur. I can still ssh into the machine from elsewhere, and can see

Re: best kernel config for athlon(2.2)

2001-06-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Nate Amsden wrote: > probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. > probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. > probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. > probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. looks like i

Re: Very occassional lockups of X

2001-06-10 Thread Bryan Andersen
Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am running what is essentially a debian woody system (with KDE from CVS on > top). This means XFree 4.0.3 > > Every so often (maybe once every two weeks) the user interface locks solid. > The cursor disappears and no screen updates occur. > > I can still ssh into the

the .xinitrc and .xsession puzzle

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hello friends, I wanted to ask you guys what ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession are all about. I run Debian woody, GNOME and sawfish as my windowmanager (sawfish-gnome package). Somehow GNOME just can't remember its settings, and I think I screwed up those files anyway. Which one gets read when I start X

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:39:45PM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > For me, the performance of StarOffice, apart from the startup time, > isn't that bad, using a 750 mhz Duron, 256 Mb ram and a rather slow > harddrive. Yes, as soon as it's up and running its ok. But its still abit sluggish. Bu

login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread Peter Whittam
Ok, I am new at this so be cool about it. when I start debian it immediately uses the graphical login, can I change this option to console login?   regards newbee  

Re: gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread Robert Voigt
On Sunday 10 June 2001 10:22, Phillip Deackes wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:16:40 -0400 > > "Margarete Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and KDE? Basically, > > which one should I install? > Obviously, these are personal observations and you will

Re: best kernel config for athlon(2.2)

2001-06-10 Thread Robert Voigt
On Sunday 10 June 2001 10:26, Nate Amsden wrote: > thanks, sofar so good for me too. except..i just upgraded to > 2.2.19+ide and i am getting these messages: > > probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. > probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. > prob

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread vester
one possibility would be to edit your /etc/init.d/windowmanager-script (that is, xdm gdm kdm or whatever you are using)...just put in "exit" into the first line then they won't start and you'll stay in console... you could simply delete the scripts but you shouldn't do that (because i did and now

SendMail died on SIGSEGV signal.

2001-06-10 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Our SendMail server has been stopping with a SIGSEGV signal (SMTP-MAIL died on a signal 11). This is something that has never happened before. We upgraded about 2 months ago to potato and the server is running 8.9.3-23 SendMail with kernel 2.2.18pre21. Anyone have an idea on what is causing this

Re: BOOT

2001-06-10 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:04:10PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > hey, im having trouble finding the right boot disk. i have an older version > of debian (2.2) and i can only find the boot disk for the newest version. > could you send me the .bin or .img or send me a link to download it. tha

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread Glyn Millington
vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > one possibility would be to edit your /etc/init.d/windowmanager-script > (that is, xdm gdm kdm or whatever you are using)...just put in "exit" into > the first line then they won't start and you'll stay in console... > > you could simply delete the scripts but

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread vester
On 10 Jun 2001, Glyn Millington wrote: > > you could simply delete the scripts but you shouldn't do that (because i > > did and now, on a reinstall of gdm i get an error that /etc/init.d/gdm > > doesn't exist...and if i create it again installation goes ok, but it > > doesn't reinstall the scri

NFS

2001-06-10 Thread Jerry Sternesky
Where can I get information on setting up an NFS share for Potato? The nfs how-to isn't helping me and in The Debian GNU/Linux Network adminstrator's manual, the nfs section is blank. I installed nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server. rpcinfo -p only showed portmapper running so I executed rpc.mou

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:20:46PM +0930, Peter Whittam wrote: > Ok, I am new at this so be cool about it. > when I start debian it immediately uses the graphical login, > can I change this option to console login? If you're not going to use xdm you can just remove the package. # apt-get remove xd

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:53:24PM +0200, vester wrote: > > > On 10 Jun 2001, Glyn Millington wrote: > > > > you could simply delete the scripts but you shouldn't do that (because i > > > did and now, on a reinstall of gdm i get an error that /etc/init.d/gdm > > > doesn't exist...and if i creat

Re: NFS

2001-06-10 Thread Roderick Cummings
From: Jerry Sternesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: NFS Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 08:58:58 -0400 Where can I get information on setting up an NFS share for Potato? The nfs how-to isn't helping me and in The Debian GNU/Linux Network adminstrator's manual, the nfs

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:53:24PM +0200, vester uttered: > [...] > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/gdm: file does not exist > dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > [...] > > it works fine if i first touch /etc/init.d/gdm only that

Re: Is there a .deb of a (recent) html validator? Answer: see validator.w3.org

2001-06-10 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:25:34AM -0700, hansen wrote: > see > http://validator.w3.org/ > http://validator.w3.org/source/ > > an html validator that works over the web . a perl script. > handles several versions of html. > from the makers of html/http itself, w3.org > free, as usual Both sites

Re: List new packages after an apt-get update

2001-06-10 Thread Joey Hess
USM Bish wrote: > console-apt (capt) does just that. It has three packet > dividers: > > a) Updated packages > b) Installed packages (newer version available) > c) Non-installed packages This is news to me. Are they in the order you list them? If so, I probably just didn't notice the divider betw

Abiword and truetype fonts solution.

2001-06-10 Thread Hans
I posted a question about this earlier and I have a working solution. How to get truetype fonts working under Abiword? - Copy the truetype fonts you want to use to the directory /usr/share/abisuite/fonts - Make backups of the files fonts.dir and fonts.scale - Run ttmkfdir (get a deb for woody from

Re: Configuring gnus

2001-06-10 Thread John S. J. Anderson
> On Sat, 09 Jun 2001 13:04:48 -0700, Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: DU> With the conservative route (install gnus in order to keep using DU> RMAIL for a while), will gnus give normal MIME ability? Or would DU> I need to install semi-gnus to be able to use the MIME DU> functionality th

Re: Abiword and truetype fonts solution.

2001-06-10 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:21:58PM +0200, Hans uttered: > from http://hell.hell.pl/baran/tek/linux/debian/ttmkfdir/ as it is not in > unstable), this will create a new fonts.dir file with the truetype fonts ttmkfdir not in unstable? You must have missed something. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache se

Re: startx

2001-06-10 Thread W.T. Boman
> > I'm trying to get X on a new potato installation.#startx results in > > "no such file or directory". > > #/usr/X11R6/bin/X results in > >Config Error: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > > Identifier "14"non-interlacedcolor > >Monitor section keyword expected >

Help; apt-get kills system, ifup broken..

2001-06-10 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Help. I am running Debian 2.2, with upgrade to Woody from debian.org via FTP. I have been running well for over 5 months without reboot(!) or maintenance. I went to fetch a new package, and my system decided it wanted to get 108 MB of updates. It failed on a bunch of them, I tried again, and again

Re: Xfree86 a.out installation question

2001-06-10 Thread David Z Maze
Margarete Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MH> I want to install Xfree86 4.1.0 on my laptop. What version of Debian are you running? Did you do a complete install, or do you just have the (extremely minimal) "base system"? MH> I tried running the Xinstall.sh with the -check option to find out MH

lilo 'Block move error 0xAE'

2001-06-10 Thread Norman Walsh
Can anyone help me get past this error? Google search didn't turn up anything useful. Lilo can boot my Win98 partition and I can boot the relevant kernel off a floppy, but attempting to boot Linux from the hard disk produces 'Block move error 0xAE'. Help? B

Re: the .xinitrc and .xsession puzzle

2001-06-10 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:42:47PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > Hello friends, > > I wanted to ask you guys what ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession are all about. > I run Debian woody, GNOME and sawfish as my windowmanager (sawfish-gnome > package). > Somehow GNOME just can't remember its settings, and I t

Re: lilo 'Block move error 0xAE'

2001-06-10 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > Can anyone help me get past this error? Google search didn't turn > up anything useful. Lilo can boot my Win98 partition and I can boot > the relevant kernel off a floppy, but attempting to boot Linux from > the hard disk produces 'Blo

Re: Abiword and truetype fonts solution.

2001-06-10 Thread ha shao
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:21:58PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How to get truetype fonts working under Abiword? > - Copy the truetype fonts > ... > It works for me, even though there will be certain issues, like duplication > of ttfonts on the system. Comments appreciated, especially if t

Re: XFree 4, potato and Ximian-gnome

2001-06-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:28:54PM -0700, MRZ wrote: > Hello again.. > After two weeks of trying to upgrade from X 3.3 to X 4.x I've finally reached > my patience limit. Despite a fair bit of help and advice from a number of > list members (thanks everyone!) I've been unable to successfully achie

Re: Winmodem translator?

2001-06-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:34:24AM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > On Sunday 10 June 2001 04:41, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > There is a kernel driver for the Lucent winmodems ... it's a binary > > only module and CPU really gets whacked when you're dialed in. > > Not any more. There is now a driver av

Re: dhcp

2001-06-10 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 06/10/01 09:17:07 +0200, Guy Geens wrote: [..] > Use the standard kernel, and install a DHCP client. (Normally, pump > should already be installed.) Edit the file /etc/network/interfaces > and add the line: > iface eth0 inet dhcp [..] I have a quick question. Where do you specify your hostn

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:15:02PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > one possibility would be to edit your /etc/init.d/windowmanager-script > > (that is, xdm gdm kdm or whatever you are using)...just put in "exit" into > > the first line then they won't start

Re: the .xinitrc and .xsession puzzle

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:14:33AM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:42:47PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > back-grounded with "&". Usually back-grounding everything but you're > window manager is the way to go. > hth, > kent Thanks kent. I'm now using .xinitrc exclusively. xsetroot -

Re: XFree 4, potato and Ximian-gnome

2001-06-10 Thread Kent Pirkle
I'm currently running potato with the unofficial Xfree 4.03 debs available from cpbotha. I'm running Ximian GNOME 1.4. It's the most stable and usable setup I've had so far. On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:28:54PM -0700, MRZ wrote: > Hello again.. > After two weeks of trying to upgrade from X 3.3 to

Slow and ugly X startup with NVidia drivers

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hello friends, This is already bothering me for a while, but I never really cared. But now I just want it fixed. The problem: I use X 4.0.3 as in testing, and the Nvidia kernel and GLX drivers, I'm _not_ using the newest ones, because I heard that there are problems with them. When I start X with

Re: the .xinitrc and .xsession puzzle

2001-06-10 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Alex Suzuki wrote: > Hello friends, > > I wanted to ask you guys what ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession are all about. > I run Debian woody, GNOME and sawfish as my windowmanager (sawfish-gnome > package). > Somehow GNOME just can't remember its settings, and I think I screwed up > those files anyway. Wh

Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!

2001-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know that this must be a common problem, but the archives for the mailing > list are unavalable. I ran wmakerconf as a normal user to change some of > the look and feel of windowmaker. However, when wmakerconf started up, told

Re: ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 03:08:05PM +0800, Ben Harvey wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:48:35AM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > > > > in short, it sounds like normalization is exactly what you want. > > > OK fair enough. so that means I can filter a .WAV through normalize before > compression - wit

Re: NFS

2001-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 08:58:58AM -0400, Jerry Sternesky wrote: > I installed nfs-common and > nfs-kernel-server. ^ > rpcinfo -p only showed portmapper running so I executed rpc.mountd and that > seemed ok, but when I run rpc.nfsd I get nfssvc: Function not implemented. Did

libc6>=2.1.97

2001-06-10 Thread john gennard
I'm trying to install a .deb package which depends on libc6>=2.1.97 and have been unable to locate it. I run Potato and only have v.2.1.3-13 of libc6. Anyone know where it can be found and also if it will cause problems with 2.2.r2? Thanks, John.

ifup -a broken?

2001-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm trying to convert a system that's been running since pre-ifup days to use /etc/network/interfaces and it's behaving oddly. ifupdown is version 0.6.4-3 from testing. As the log below shows, all three of the interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces behave properly when addressed by name, but using

Re: Xemacs & Debian packaging systems

2001-06-10 Thread Bruce Sass
On 10 Jun 2001, Glyn Millington wrote: <...> > Well I ran Xemacs as root and did some upgrading with it's packaging > system and it doesn't appear to have done any harm ;-) Maybe we should > just have assumed that apt-get is just too damned good to be thrown by > Xemacs' antics! The only time you

Re: boot floppy

2001-06-10 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:22:48AM -0300, xgnu wrote: :Hi all. :2: The kernel version is 2.2.17. I want to compile 2.4.5, but :I have a tar.gz file, not the deb pkg and I had not installed :development tools. Which packages I need to compile the new :kernel? the package "kernel-package" contains

Re: /etc/network/interfaces not strictly correct?

2001-06-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is no need to manually add a route [after adding a gateway keyword]. > I still can't ping past my gateway I'll bet your gateway's firewall is blocking ICMP. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD

Re: gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Phillip Deackes wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:16:40 -0400 > "Margarete Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and KDE? Basically, > > which one should I install? > > Depends. We all have our favourite window manager (although KDE

Re: libc6>=2.1.97

2001-06-10 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:26:43PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I'm trying to install a .deb package which depends on libc6>=2.1.97 > and have been unable to locate it. I run Potato and only have > v.2.1.3-13 of libc6. From the sound of it, you're trying to install a package from woody or sid on y

Raid; mkraid /dev/md0

2001-06-10 Thread Frans Schreuder
Hai all I've been wanting to play with raid. Reading the software-raid-howto; I stranded on mkraid /dev/md0 That darn thing did not want to. -apt-got raidtools2 & dpkg-i kernelpatch...2.2.10.. -edited the raidtab file ( I noticed there beeing a raid directory so I copied it from it's or

star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-10 Thread joe golden
When I last checked Star Office was not a package in the stable distribution. For our small school, which I am about to switch from NT to Linux, Star Office appears to be the answer to our need for a bundle of stable office programs. We mainly need a smooth switchover from MS Word, Excel and

kernel 2.4.5 - ov511.c problem

2001-06-10 Thread tjm
Hello. I'm trying to compile a new 2.4.5 kernel but having trouble with multiple errors that appear to be generated from the usb/ov511.c file. Before I get into the details, is this a known problem and is there a remedy for this situation that I have overlooked? I know this is vague, but maybe

Re: star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-10 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
--- joe golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I last checked Star Office was not a package in > the stable > distribution. > > For our small school, which I am about to switch > from NT to Linux, Star > Office appears to be the answer to our need for a > bundle of stable office > programs.

Re: star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-10 Thread Frans Schreuder
oppurtunity could you mention wich commands to follow installing staroffice for debian? That is that I wasnot able to find a "convention" for installing non-debian software. Reading dutch manual bij Bezemer. www.dddi.nl (there is a part in english). Thanks in advance Frans Schreuder - Origin

kernel-headers-2.4.5-k7

2001-06-10 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! Where is the package kernel-headers-2.4.5-k7? I cannot find it on testing. Do I need it to build a kernel on an Athlon-System? Or can I use kernel-headers-2.4.5? TIA juh -- Literaturnobelpreis für Kohl http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/20001121.html

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-10 Thread Otto Wyss
> > Does anyone know if the fs in Grub allows the kernel to load his > > necessary fs as modules? I.e. if Grub contains a an ext2 fs, can the [...] > Both the kernel and grub don't care about each other, in fact, both > don't no a thing about the other end [1]. So, yes, you still need > compiled-

Re: star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-10 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 06/10/01 21:18:58 +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote: > oppurtunity > could you mention wich commands to follow installing staroffice for debian? > That is that I wasnot able to find a "convention" for installing non-debian > software. Reading dutch manual bij Bezemer. www.dddi.nl (there is a part in

Need Printer Help..............HELP!

2001-06-10 Thread DangrousRedhead
Don't know if I'm writing to the right place here or not.  If you could help me, I would very much appreciate it.  I have a fairly new printer, DeskJet 648C, and it has always worked great.  It is only a few months old.  I updated my computer to 6.0, and since then, it will not copy anything fro

Re: lilo 'Block move error 0xAE'

2001-06-10 Thread Norman Walsh
/ ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: | > Can anyone help me get past this error? Google search didn't turn | > up anything useful. Lilo can boot my Win98 partition and I can boot | > the relevant kernel off a floppy, but attempt

Re: star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-10 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
--- Frans Schreuder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > oppurtunity > could you mention wich commands to follow installing > staroffice for debian? > That is that I wasnot able to find a "convention" > for installing non-debian > software. Reading dutch manual bij Bezemer. > www.dddi.nl (there is a part

Re: star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-10 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 06/10/01 21:47:41 +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote: [..] > But your install 'sequence' doesn't ring a bell ;-) > ?espesially? (memory?) the 'net'-option. > > I have the executable. That I my knowledge ends. [..] I'm downloading it right now. It looks to be a little different from what I rememb

Re: dhcp

2001-06-10 Thread Tudor Oprea
--- On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Use the standard kernel, and install a DHCP client. (Normally, pump > > should already be installed.) Edit the file /etc/network/interfaces > > and add the line: > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > I have a quick question. Where do you speci

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread vester
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:53:24PM +0200, vester uttered: > > [...] > > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/gdm: file does not exist > > dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > [...] > >

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-10 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
>Just a few random checks that come to mind: > * what is the chip controlling the serial port to the ISDN modem? Is it > an 8250 or a 16650? I seem to remember that the 8250 were not very good > but I don't remember when they stopped using them. > * check the serial port configuration. What

Re: star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-10 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 06/10/01 13:16:15 -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 06/10/01 21:47:41 +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote: > > [..] > > > But your install 'sequence' doesn't ring a bell ;-) > > ?espesially? (memory?) the 'net'-option. > > > > I have the executable. That I my knowledge ends. > > [..] Okay, just ins

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:35:01PM +0200, vester wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Steve Kowalik wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:53:24PM +0200, vester uttered: > > > [...] > > > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/gdm: file does not exist > > > dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure): > > > subpr

Re: kernel-headers-2.4.5-k7

2001-06-10 Thread David Z Maze
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JUH> Where is the package kernel-headers-2.4.5-k7? I cannot find it on JUH> testing. Do I need it to build a kernel on an Athlon-System? Or can I JUH> use kernel-headers-2.4.5? You shouldn't need any kernel-headers package to build your own kernel, on

Re: Xemacs & Debian packaging systems

2001-06-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10 Jun 2001, Glyn Millington wrote: > <...> > > Well I ran Xemacs as root and did some upgrading with it's packaging > > system and it doesn't appear to have done any harm ;-) Maybe we should > > just have assumed that apt-get is just too damned good to

GNOME

2001-06-10 Thread HawkY
Hi! I have some questions about GNOME. I have Debian (Wow!) 2.2 r0 and the GNOME witch came with the distrib. When I (user) start gnome (startx), it starts normally and I receive a message about panels. "There is a panel already running. Do you want to start a new panel.." or something like t

Re: star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-10 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:50:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: :This started the installation program I put it in :/usr/local/bin/soffice52. After the installation finished, I then :logged in as an unpriviledged user, and ran: : :$ /usr/local/bin/soffice52/program/setup AFAIR, if you run "soffi

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread Abner Gershon
--- Peter Whittam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I am new at this so be cool about it. > when I start debian it immediately uses the > graphical login, > can I change this option to console login? > > regards newbee > I am relatively new to this too. I know that during installation you can se

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:39:37PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > > --- Peter Whittam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I am new at this so be cool about it. > > when I start debian it immediately uses the > > graphical login, > > can I change this option to console login? > > > > regards newbee

Re: Very occassional lockups of X

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
On Sunday 10 June 2001 01:39 am, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am running what is essentially a debian woody system (with KDE from CVS > on top). This means XFree 4.0.3 > > Every so often (maybe once every two weeks) the user interface locks solid. > The cursor disappears and no screen updates occur. >

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:27:40PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > Does anyone know if the fs in Grub allows the kernel to load his > > > necessary fs as modules? I.e. if Grub contains a an ext2 fs, can the > [...] > > Both the kernel and grub don't care about each other, in fact, both > > don't no

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
On Wednesday 05 July 2000 04:50 am, Peter Whittam wrote: > Ok, I am new at this so be cool about it. > when I start debian it immediately uses the graphical login, > can I change this option to console login? > > regards newbee Two things. One, go to /etc and find the inittab file, and edit the li

Re: Need Printer Help..............HELP!

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Don't know if I'm writing to the right place here or not. If you could > help me, I would very much appreciate it. I have a fairly new printer, > DeskJet 648C, and it has always worked great. It is only a few months old. > I updated my

Boot order, PCMCIA and external SCSI drive

2001-06-10 Thread Ed Falis
I have a jaz drive attached to my machine via a SCSI card plugged into a PCMCIA slot (kernel 2.4.3). Is there a way to get it to automount during boot by getting the PCMCIA services started before processing fstab? Or some other option? Thanks, - Ed

weird problem with init after compiling new kernel

2001-06-10 Thread Mythiq
hello everyone,   I have compiled a new kernel for an 486 which was going to be a filtering firewall. Not for a while I'm afraid, because it won't boot up anymore. (btw: I started with a clean freshly installed system with debian 2.2.18pre21) Lilo works fine; it boots the kernel; after the ke

Re: the .xinitrc and .xsession puzzle

2001-06-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi alex .xinitrc is used when you run xinitrc or startx to bring up X11 .xsession is used when you log into the X11 screen ( xdm ) if you want your gui and x11/windows to look the same no matter how you login... make the two files the same ( symlink one to the other ) c ya alvin On Sun, 10

Re: no signs of life from printer

2001-06-10 Thread Robin Gerard
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:04:38PM -0700, Norbert Froese wrote: >. > It seems to me that my problem is more low level than a spooling or > filter problem as there is no activity, even with directly accessing the > printer. > > I am unsure how to proceed to logically diagnose my problem I

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