Re: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:04:43AM +0200, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:38:43PM -0700 or thereabouts, Karsten M. Self > wrote: > > on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:36:55AM +0200, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [...] > > > > Hi, Karsten: >

X Session Logoff - How?

2001-06-22 Thread timothyeyre Last Name
As we all know, in Window Maker one logs off by selecting "Exit" in a drop-down menu. Presumably this maps down to a command-line command. Does anyone know what this command is? - The xdm script can only be executed by root so it can't be that, at least, not directly. - The Window Maker men

Re: local time

2001-06-22 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 03:57:52AM +, John Patton uttered: > My systems clock is set for my local time zone (or used to > be), which always worked well before. Now it lists the time > in UTC (correctly, meaning that the time listed is about > 5 hours off of the actual time). This is causing pro

apt-move

2001-06-22 Thread Gael Pegliasco
Hello, I'm trying to make a local mirror of debian woody with apt-move. Things seems to works fine, but my local mirror does not exced 500 Mo. A lot of packages are missing. Do you know what's wrong ? Thanks for your reply, With kind regards, Gael Pegliasco.

Re: wget and images

2001-06-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Joerg Johannes wrote: > > > > Hi list > > > > How do I make wget download images? > > I used > > wget -r -l1 -k > > http://www.somesite.anywhere/the/directory/iwant/index.htm > > This copies all html files that are linked form this index file to my > > local computer. I'm

Re: How to create a local archive of debian ftp ?

2001-06-22 Thread Gael Pegliasco
Hello, First, thanks for your reply, and sorry for my last message about apt-move, I've didn't see you've answered me in this mailing list thread. > How's you're sources.list? My sources.list looks like something like that : deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb

Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-22 Thread nico de haer
Dear Debian Users, Up until writing this message i've recieved two replies to my erlier posting "e-mail. the next level". Erik and Martin think in the same line as i do. Carl also contributed some points of interrest. Getting mail is no problem using a tool like Fetchmail. Even multiple accounts b

Re: opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW

2001-06-22 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, > > One advantage of removable media is that if something happens to your > > box (e.g. it gets stolen, goes up in flames, etc.) you don't lose your > > backups. You are of course assuming that the house doesnt burn down when the computer goes up in flames, burning my collection of CDRWs ;-

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-22 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:12:48 -0500 will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:26:41PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:36:58PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > > > > > I'll provide a little background first: this weekend, the loopback > > >

changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread Adri
Hello all, I changed my /etc/hostname from debianAdriano to Adriano That's because I'd like to bring my debian under the Windows domain of the company. I should entry a new row in the domain master for the linux hostname. Since I'm yet there with the name Adriano, I could be in the domain i

Answer to Re: CardBus PC Card: 3c575-TX -- module creation ?

2001-06-22 Thread Lukas Ruf
Folks, I answer my question myself: 3c575-TX is supported by the general purpose driver of the Vortex Series 3c59x by Becker. Therefore, the changes required to /etc/pcmcia/config are: device "3c575_cb" - class "network" module "cb_enabler", "3c575_cb" + class "network" module "cb_enabler",

Re: lilo trouble

2001-06-22 Thread mdevin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:06:24AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > I have a machine with a large IDE-disk (hda) and a smaller, but also > faster SCSI-disk (sda). So the system resides on SCSI, bulk data on > IDE. So far, so good. But I can´t, for whatever reason, just boot > comple

Re: contents of woody iso images?

2001-06-22 Thread Iain Smith
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:35:02PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi... > > Just curious about the woody iso images.. > Are these actual .iso images? or are they > .raw CD images? > I don't have any burn software that will create .raw images > only .iso > > What is the url that you are d

gkrellm shows cpu-activity when there is no

2001-06-22 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I am using testing with gkrellm 1.0.8 Sometimes gkrellm shows 10-20% activity on the cpu, when gtop/top shows none. Does anybody encountered this? Ciao! juh -- Es lebe die 43 Stundenwoche! http://www.sudelbuch.de/1999/19991122.html

Re: [users] Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach nico de haer (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:10:54AM +0200): > Up until writing this message i've recieved two replies to my erlier posting > "e-mail. the next level". Erik and Martin think in the same line as i do. > Carl also contributed some points of interrest. Getting mail is no problem >

Re: [users] Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:40:36AM +0800): > 1. What if multiple users on my network have set up multiple POP3 accounts in > the past (before the server was up) and wish to go this way, leaving their > mail > OFF their POP3 accounts, but ON the home server? Can this stil

Cross compiling (mingw32)

2001-06-22 Thread Joel Mayes
G'day All, I'm trying to cross compile a the display-dhammpada program for a friend who runs a win95 box, I've installed the mingw32 package and the target using '-b i586-mingw32msvc'. I'm getting an error mesage which reads gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory

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Re: IPX over the Internet

2001-06-22 Thread nico de haer
Hi, Yup, a tunnel is the only way to get IPX data over the internet. I suggest that you investigate the following setting - UDP over IP -- SSL Tunnel ==

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread nico de haer
Adri, I'm in the habbit of reading loads of magazines / install guides / howto's and so on. They all warn for this situation. None of them give a way to 'solve' this. They 'just' pont out to 'think hard' at the domain and hostname part. I know that this does not help, so i hope this wil: Use cat

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Re: galeon 0.11.0-1.1 scrollbars missing?

2001-06-22 Thread christophe barbé
Copy the file /home/USER/.mozilla/USER/***/chrome/user-skins.rdf in .galeon/mozilla/galeon/chrome/ Christophe On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:22:38 Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I'm using galeon 0.11.0-1.1 from unstable, and it doesn't have > scrollbars, nor can I find a preference setting to enable them

Re: Tmpfs questions

2001-06-22 Thread Herbert Xu
Stefan Srdic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. Is it recomended to mount /tmp as a Tmpfs by using the following in > fstab: > tmpfs/tmptmpfsdefaults00 Replace defaults with size= where is some sane limit based on the amount of swap and RAM you have. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:28:59AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Thanks for the tip with shift-pageup. I do know about that but I keep > forgetting it. I don't know if it goes back far enough for my purposes, > but I'll give it a shot next time. For the record though, I wasn't talking > about th

RE: Samba: Can't Rename the Log File

2001-06-22 Thread Hubert Palme
> "dm" == HP-USA,ex1 writes: dm> Hi; dm> you may want to check the PATH to the log file as well; perhaps dm> there is not the appropriate execute permission to allow samba to dm> traverse /var or /var/log to GET to the smb file that has write permissions. If you mean the execute perm

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread Iain Smith
> Adri, > > I'm in the habbit of reading loads of magazines / install guides / howto's > and so on. > They all warn for this situation. None of them give a way to 'solve' this. > They 'just' pont out to 'think hard' at the domain and hostname part. > I know that this does not help, so i hope this

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:31:51AM +0200, Adri wrote: > I changed my /etc/hostname from debianAdriano to Adriano > > That's because I'd like to bring my debian under the Windows domain of the > company. If you have to deal with those types of circumstances, try to go the easy way: get a second p

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread Adri
Ian and Nico, thanks to the both of you but I think I'm goin to reinstall from scratch. The solutions you suggest are too difficult for me and I have nothing important in this installation, so I have nothing to loose. I don't want to take the risk to incurr in consequences of the changed hos

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:16:51PM +, Iain Smith wrote: > I'd suggest: > > find /etc/ -type f |xargs grep $HOSTNAME Well, that is a really big hammer in fact. And you will still miss stuff that is not under /etc, but has a symlink in /etc pointing to it. I used to do it like this (or much w

Attention: Steve Hunger

2001-06-22 Thread Wayne
Hi, I like to apologize to the rest of the group for this noise! I recentlly purchase your book "Debian DNU/Linux" Bible and had asummed that the publisher had a "talk to the author" section on thier web site. When I enter the web page, "www. hungryminds.com", I recieved the following web page, "D

Re: Answer to Re: CardBus PC Card: 3c575-TX -- module creation ?

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:52:14AM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Therefore, the changes required to /etc/pcmcia/config are: > > device "3c575_cb" > - class "network" module "cb_enabler", "3c575_cb" > + class "network" module "cb_enabler", "3c59x" > > Then all works perfectly running as 100Mbps as

Re: Attention: Steve Hunger

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:10:02AM -0400, Wayne wrote: > I recentlly purchase your book "Debian DNU/Linux" Bible > and had asummed that the publisher had a "talk to the author" > section on thier web site. When I enter the web page, "www. > hungryminds.com", I recieved the following web page, > "Di

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread Iain Smith
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:23:46PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:16:51PM +, Iain Smith wrote: > > I'd suggest: > > > > find /etc/ -type f |xargs grep $HOSTNAME > > Well, that is a really big hammer in fact. And you will still miss > stuff that is not under /etc, but

Re: "unresolved symbol" in XFree86 4.0.3 FIXED

2001-06-22 Thread Jim Van Zandt
> 1) startx fails, with these messages: > > Symbol VBEInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o is > unresolved! >... > 2) I was asked several configuration questions when I installed > xserver-xfree86. However, the configuration file > /etc/X11/XF86Config was

RE: Samba: Can't Rename the Log File

2001-06-22 Thread MCCALL,DON \(HP-USA,ex1\)
Hi palme, I don't know anything about the debian distribution, but just to make sure that this isn't some issue with debian standard log directory, and log rollover, or wierd permission issues, maybe you could try this; create a directory called /sambalog and open it wide up; chmod 777 /sambalog

Re: Attention: Steve Hunger

2001-06-22 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I know Steve - I forwarded the message to him (he doesn't often read the Debian User list anymore - too high traffic) Pat On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:10:02AM -0400, Wayne wrote: > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:10:02 -0400 > From: Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2

Re: TrueType Font Guide feedback

2001-06-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Paul D. Smith" wrote: > > It's a doc that describes how to get TrueType fonts set up correctly on > your Debian system. There is an older (and slightly outdated) version > for Debian 2.2/stable with XFree86 3.3.6, and the new version I just > posted for Debian testing/unstable with XFree86 4. >

Re: IPX over the Internet

2001-06-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Ian Perry wrote: > > H (Cogs are start to grind) > > Well that would take care of security via the firewall. > > Ian > > -Original Message- > From: Mike Egglestone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:28 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: IPX o

Help!! gdm installation problem

2001-06-22 Thread debian
Hi, I have a debian potato 2.2 on Pentium-II 333 Mhz, 192 MB RAM. I have Xfree86 3.3.6 installed using xdm. Today I attempted to install gdm (gdm_2.0-0.beta4.9.deb), and I got the following error dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gdm: gdm depends on locales; ho

Compiling same kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Ken Januski
Hi, 6 months ago I bought the binaries for debian linux 2.2.17. It works fine but I want to compile the kernel to add support for sound which doesn't seem to be there. The binaries didn't come with the source so I've downloaded that. My question now is: what is the safest method to compile the ke

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:15:12PM +, Iain Smith wrote: > > Until I found out about this wonderful "-r" option to gnu grep: > > > > grep -r myregex /etc > > > > wants to be your friend too. > > Hmmm I managed to miss that one completely. Time to re-rtfm! I knew of > rgrep but found i

Re: Compiling same kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Aquila
It is a little different, Debian has this package called "kernel-package" (apt-get install it) which contains a script called "make-kpkg" to create debian packages from kernel source. The usual procedure is this: - download the kernel source for 2.2.17 - unpack it into /usr/src/linux-2.2.17 - cre

Re: IPX over the Internet

2001-06-22 Thread Patrick Colbeck
As previous posters have indicated you definately cannot pass IPX over the Internet without some kind of tunnel. Internet routers only understand IP so when they see an IPX frame they would just drop it. What you have to do is encapsulate IPX in IP packets and the the IP packets can traverse the

kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
i love debian. seriously, apt is a work of genius and the entire system is exactly how i want it - unlike SuSE or RedHat. since i do a fair bit of developing and since i always want to have at least one machine that's cutting edge, i do a whole lot of kernel compiles. in the past, i have always us

dselect (Re: Help!! gdm installation problem)

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:50:39PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now when I tried to configure locales(version 2.1.3-13), using >"dpkg --configure locales" > I got the following error message > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales: > locales depends on libc6

Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread ray p
IMHO it is easier I think this is a good thing. Also if you have amny similar machines having your kernel image as a .deb makes it *very* easy to install it on many machines. Also it never forgets to run lilo :). The main part I like about it is it remembers all the messy little steps so I can f

Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:45:34PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > i love debian. seriously, apt is a work of genius and the entire > system is exactly how i want it - unlike SuSE or RedHat. since i do a > fair bit of developing and since i always want to have at least one > machine that's cutting edge, i

Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Sean Morgan
zless /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:45:34PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > i love debian. seriously, apt is a work of genius and the entire > system is exactly how i want it - unlike SuSE or RedHat. since i do a > fair bit of developing and since i always want to hav

docbook & xml in Italian

2001-06-22 Thread Vittorio
Hi, I've installed docbook and experimented it with XML to build a tiny book. I'm enthusiastic about the way it builds well structured and nice-looking documents. Less enthusiastic instead about the dispersed and confusing documentation! Unfortunately the various 'Chapter', 'Paragraph', 'Index',

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:01:13AM -0500): > Well, for one thing, you can compile kernels on your 1GHz Athlon > instead of your old 486 :) Since kernel-package creates a package, it > can be installed anywhere. but i usually choose the appropriate kernel architecture duri

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread Iain Smith
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:10:56PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > Also must do is to read a book on unix systems. I suggest the 4.4 bsd > book, because it is a lot more readable than some of the more well-known > pamphlets by various illustruous academics[1]. Also, Kirk McKusick has > a video with

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Sean Morgan (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:05:19PM -0400): > zless /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale exaclty what i wanted. thanks! martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- your fly might be open

A mouse Q..

2001-06-22 Thread Wayne
Hi, To install Debian , for the first time, I used the CD from the book "Debian GNU/Linux Bible" When I assign my mouse protocol PS/2 and selected the /dev/psaux with Emulate3Button my systems hangs. I have to reboot. If I use Microsoft and /dev/ttyS01 it works. When I boot my system, I see that m

Re: Compiling same kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 01:31:26AM +1000, Aquila wrote: > It is a little different, Debian has this package called > "kernel-package" (apt-get install it) which contains a script called > "make-kpkg" to create debian packages from kernel source. Yes, I fully agree. Kernel-package is great. Plea

Re: Compiling same kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks Aquila, That's the information I needed. I've already downloaded kernel-package. I just wasn't absolutely sure that's what I should use. Now I know that it is. Ken Aquila wrote: > > It is a little different, Debian has this package called > "kernel-package" (apt-get install it) which c

Re: wget and images

2001-06-22 Thread csj
On Thursday 21 June 2001 19:36, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > How do I make wget download images? > I used > wget -r -l1 -k > http://www.somesite.anywhere/the/directory/iwant/index.htm > This copies all html files that are linked form this index file to > my local computer. I'm only missing t

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:29:01PM +, Iain Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:10:56PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > You really don't want to mess with /dev/kmem and /proc/kcore. Install and > > setup a user-mode-linux system if you like to toy with that stuff without > > exposing real d

kernel 2.4.5 + ncpfs = 8.3 file names ?

2001-06-22 Thread Michael A. Miller
I recently moved a machine to testing and compiled a 2.4.5 kernel. Now when I ncpmount from our novell file server, file names appear in 8.3 format, rather than the full file name. This is new behavior - falling back to a 2.2.14 kernel got me back to the full file names. Can anyone suggest how I

libc 2.1.94

2001-06-22 Thread tony mollica
Hello. I'm using 2.2r3 with a 2.4.5 kernal and XFree4.0.3 and I need to upgrade libc to at least 2.1.94 to run some later version programs. Where would I find this, if available, or at least the source? thanks, tony mollica

Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread David L. Craig
Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > zless /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale I haven't figured out if kernel-package includes the patches Herbert puts into the kernel-source .debs. I tried to patch in 2.4.5-ac17 yesterday over kernel-source-2.4.5 and ran afoul of some conflicts. Would s

attaining IO port info for an ISA networkcard

2001-06-22 Thread Brendon
short question, the subject says it all really. how do you find out which io port your ISA networkcard is using? Brendon

Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:45:34PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > i love debian. seriously, apt is a work of genius and the entire > system is exactly how i want it - unlike SuSE or RedHat. since i do a > fair bit of developing and since i always want to have at least one > machine that's cutting edge, i

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:01:13AM -0500): > > Well, for one thing, you can compile kernels on your 1GHz Athlon > > instead of your old 486 :) Since kernel-package creates a package, it > > can be installed anywhe

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:01:13AM -0500): > > Well, for one thing, you can compile kernels on your 1GHz Athlon > > instead of your old 486 :) Since kernel-package creates a package, it > > can be installed anywhe

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread David L. Craig
Joost wrote: > > In my experience, the best one is the bash(1) manpage. It is is really > vital. You don't properly realise how much until you've read all of it > (well maybe read a little faster over the readline bits). > > Next come grep(1), sed(1) and awk(1). No, next comes knowing your edi

Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:19:49PM -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > zless /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale > > I haven't figured out if kernel-package includes the > patches Herbert puts into the kernel-source .debs. > I tried to patch in 2.4.5-ac

Re: Netscape makes X server crash!!!

2001-06-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:44:27PM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using communicator-smotif-477. > On some pages it crashes bringing X down with it. > I experienced many Netscape crashes over the years, > but this is new. It bring Xserver down!!! > Example: ht

licq

2001-06-22 Thread Reza
Hi.. I have a bit problem with my ICQ, it used to be fine, and just all of a sudden, it gave me message like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ licq 13:49:36: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (qt-gui): /usr/lib/libqt.so.2: undefined symbol: setTextW_6QLabelRC7QString. Can someone tell what I'm supposed to do?

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:01:13AM -0500): > > Well, for one thing, you can compile kernels on your 1GHz Athlon > > instead of your old 486 :) Since kernel-package creates a package, it > > can be installed anywhe

shared modem

2001-06-22 Thread Wasim Ahmed
Hello, I have searched just about everywhere, but can't find an answer about this, so probably someone out there knows. Here goes. . . Probably the only useful thing that currently cannot be replicated on a Linux server on Windows NT Small Business Server appears to be shared modems. Of course

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:42:37PM -0500): > I fail to see why you think compiling a kernel on an Athlon, but > optimising for a 486 cos you're installing on a 486 is a problem. that's what i am doing btw. and sorry, i wasn't possibly thinking about multiple .debs, just th

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Bob Nielsen (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:42:23AM -0700): > True, but you can/should configure and compile separately for each > destination architecture, optimizing appropriately. so yes, the argument that my athlon (thunderbird actually) will outperform the others still holds. but i'd need

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:17:14 +0200, MaD dUCK writes: >also sprach Bob Nielsen (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:42:23AM -0700): >> True, but you can/should configure and compile separately for each >> destination architecture, optimizing appropriately. > >so yes, the argument that my athlon (thunderbird act

Re: attaining IO port info for an ISA networkcard

2001-06-22 Thread Duane Powers
Brendon wrote: short question, the subject says it all really. how do you find out which io port your ISA networkcard is using? Brendon cat /proc/ioports ~duane

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Robert Waldner (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:20:41PM +0200): > you don´t need to maintain seperate trees of the whole source. just > `make (menu|x|)config`, then backup the .config-file. that´s where the > information you entered/chose is kept. i understand... but when i change the .conf

Re: attaining IO port info for an ISA networkcard

2001-06-22 Thread Brendon
On Friday 22 June 2001 20:21, Duane Powers wrote: > Brendon wrote: > > short question, the subject says it all really. how do you find out which > > io port your ISA networkcard is using? > > cat /proc/ioports which gives: 000-001f dma1 0020-003f pic1 0040-005f timer 0060-006f keyboard 0070-007f

RE:shared modem

2001-06-22 Thread Andrew Agno
Wasim Ahmed writes: > Probably the only useful thing that currently cannot be replicated on > a Linux server on Windows NT Small Business Server appears to be > shared modems. Well, no. You can use IP masquerade--it works just fine with modems. You can also set things up so that it dials on de

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:28:04 +0200, MaD dUCK writes: >also sprach Robert Waldner (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:20:41PM +0200): >> you don´t need to maintain seperate trees of the whole source. just >> `make (menu|x|)config`, then backup the .config-file. that´s where the >> information you entered/c

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:46:18PM -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > Joost wrote: > > > > In my experience, the best one is the bash(1) manpage. It is is really > > vital. You don't properly realise how much until you've read all of it > > (well maybe read a little faster over the readline bits). >

Re: attaining IO port info for an ISA networkcard

2001-06-22 Thread Robert Waldner
>On Friday 22 June 2001 20:21, Duane Powers wrote: >> Brendon wrote: >> > short question, the subject says it all really. how do you find out which >> > io port your ISA networkcard is using? >> >> cat /proc/ioports which will give you only the ports for initialized cards, not that useful if yo

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Robert Waldner (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:44:51PM +0200): > now do a `make clean` (just to get rid of the modules, mostly) and > re-do steps 1-3 for the second machine and the third and... > > when you want to re-do for the first machine, just move the appropriate > .config back, and

Re: A mouse Q..

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:05:40PM -0400, Wayne wrote: > Hi, > To install Debian , for the first time, I used > the CD from the book "Debian GNU/Linux Bible" > When I assign my mouse protocol PS/2 and selected > the /dev/psaux with Emulate3Button my systems > hangs. I have to reboot. If I use Micr

Re: shared modem

2001-06-22 Thread Wasim Ahmed
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:43:18AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > Wasim Ahmed writes: > > Probably the only useful thing that currently cannot be replicated on > > a Linux server on Windows NT Small Business Server appears to be > > shared modems. > > Well, no. You can use IP masquerade--it works

Re: attaining IO port info for an ISA networkcard

2001-06-22 Thread Duane Powers
Robert Waldner wrote: On Friday 22 June 2001 20:21, Duane Powers wrote: Brendon wrote: short question, the subject says it all really. how do you find out which io port your ISA networkcard is using? cat /proc/ioports which will give you only the ports for initialized cards, not that

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:17:14PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Bob Nielsen (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:42:23AM -0700): > > True, but you can/should configure and compile separately for each > > destination architecture, optimizing appropriately. > > so yes, the argument that my athlon (thunde

Re: Tmpfs questions

2001-06-22 Thread Stefan Srdic
Herbert Xu wrote: > Stefan Srdic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2. Is it recomended to mount /tmp as a Tmpfs by using the following in > > fstab: > > > tmpfs/tmptmpfsdefaults00 > > Replace defaults with size= where is some sane limit based > on the amount of swap and RAM you

RE: open ports with iptables

2001-06-22 Thread Sebastiaan
> > > doing a search for -dport or -sport for source and destination ports > > > > > thank you for your reply, but I am not getting much wiser with this > > document. I learn by examples. I was thinking about this: > > iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -d 212.127.10.10 -dport 135 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A

problem

2001-06-22 Thread Comserver
Dear Sir: I installed debial 2.1 and i forgot the root password. Can you tell me please how i can change the root password ? Thank you, Ray Gonzalez

Re: problem

2001-06-22 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, > Dear Sir: > > I installed debial 2.1 and i forgot the root password. > Can you tell me please how i can change the root password ? > There are several ways. The simplest is to make a rescue floppy (or boot with the installation disk), mount y

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-22 Thread der.hans
Am 22. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Adri so: > Well, I saw the exim.conf file and there were some referrings to the old > host name (debianAdriano) so I run eximconfig again. > > But now I wonder what other files still refer to the old name? What > consequences I'm gonna run into? I changed my hostname

Re: open ports with iptables

2001-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
Under the netfilter model, this is known as DNAT (Destination NAT, because it is the destination field of incoming packets that is being rewritten). you'll want something like the following: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $extip -p tcp --dport 135 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.1 (also se

Re: problem

2001-06-22 Thread David L. Craig
> I installed debial 2.1 and i forgot the root password. > Can you tell me please how i can change the root password ? Boot from your rescue floppy, mount your / partition as /mnt, and change root's password to * (no password).

Gnome - How to install?

2001-06-22 Thread Wayne
Hi again, When I installed Debian from the CD I got with the book I purchase, I selected to install all the GNOME stuff on the CD. When I "startx" I get WMAKER. I would like to have GNOME start. The book doesn't explain how to change this. Could some kind soul point me to some documentation? Wayn

Re: installing KDE

2001-06-22 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Thank you to all who started and responded to this chain. Thanks to you folks, I now have the long-lost kde 1.1.2 on my system. I love this desktop manager, and kde.org is really bad about shunning their older versions and showcasing their new ones. Now I have the source line to get the old k

Re: problem

2001-06-22 Thread David L. Craig
> Boot from your rescue floppy, mount your / partition as > /mnt, and change root's password to * (no password). That is, vi /mnt/etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow if it exists) and modify the root line's password field. Then umount /mnt and reboot. root can login w/o a password prompt. Then use passw

Re: Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro not working with unstable

2001-06-22 Thread Bart Szyszka
runs great on my potato box with xfree 4.0.2 using the "r128" driver Do you have the video out cable plugged in? If it's plugged in, I can't start X, but if I unplug it then X works perfectly. Pretty sure I'm using 4.0.3 with r128 driver. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBe

Re: Shutdown -h now

2001-06-22 Thread Andrew Overholt
On 21 Jun 2001, W. Paul Mills wrote: > > What Steve Cooper mentioned works. Compile APM support into > > you're kernel. The apm=on in lilo.conf isn't needed... or > > at least not here. I compiled the proper ATM support into > > my kernel and now when I do a shutdown -h now, it works. I have A

Re: Gnome - How to install?

2001-06-22 Thread Nick Jennings
edit your .xinitrc (in your home directory) there should be one line containing wmaker or something like that, replace it with: gnome-session then try running X again On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 04:16:57PM -0400, Wayne wrote: > Hi again, > When I installed Debian from the CD I got with > the book I

Re: How to enable remote X-logins ?

2001-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
I'm no expert on such things, but as I understand it, enabling xdmcp on your machine tells gdm to allow remote hosts to log into your machine through xdmcp, not the other way around. I don't know if gdm will show a menu option to log into remote hosts without some manual menu tweaking, but you can

Re: hard lock!

2001-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010621 11:24]: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > I have the same setup and have, in the past, experienced similar > > display lockups. (Note: Are you sure the keyboard and mouse stop > > working? Maybe just the display is locking up so

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