>
> What keeps me from introducing Linux to my mom, and will for a while, is
> the inevitable "But Tom, can I use this greeting card program?", "Tom,
> how do I run this .exe file my friend sent me?", "Tom, this 'gimp' thing
> is hard and doesn't run my Photoshop plugins, I want Photoshop back.",
>
Are you using Linux or Windows to download the image? The trouble
you are having sounds like the trouble I had with Windows98, until I
learned a few secrets of the process.
RLH
At 05:28 PM 6/29/01 -0500, Clint Rhea wrote:
Okay, I've tried using the pseudo-image-kit twice now, with n
> "Andrew" == Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrew> I was wondering if anyone out there has an oppinion on devfs.
Andrew> I'm considering it for a system that I'm building and some
Andrew> real life experiences with it would be helpful.
Devfs is quite stable. I use it on two differ
Hi,
I have some binary files, and I need to mail it
separately. For each file I want to attach it in a
mail.
Can somebody help me make a script, so that they can
be mailed automatically.
I hope I can use pine for the script, or mail is OK.
Thank you in advance.
Benny
__
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:06:44PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:14:26PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
[snip]
>
> [gtoaster problems]
>
> If there is an issue with the quality of the package, file a bug and
> ask the maintainer to do something about it. Upstreams does somet
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 06:33:13PM -0500, Leonard Leblanc wrote:
> Has anyone else out there had a problem with running apt-get with dsl?
>
> I recently switched my home system over to linux and used "Enternet" scripts
> to start and stop pppoe. Everything works great except apt-get seems really
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:57:14PM -0700, ben djaya wrote:
> Hi,
> I have some binary files, and I need to mail it
> separately. For each file I want to attach it in a
> mail.
> Can somebody help me make a script, so that they can
> be mailed automatically.
> I hope I can use pine for the script,
I've ordered a new notebook, and I was thinking that maybe I should try
installing Debian. But I need kernel 2.4 and I want to use ReiserFS. Does
that mean that I have to install from sid? And will that mean that the
system will be very unstable? In that case I'll probably just go with
Mandrake ins
i had originally planned to delay testing of linux
2.4 until late this year. but i recently had an
urge to try to do some video capture, and discovered
if i want to capture at 640x480 i need linux 2.4
and V4L2. So since this is a fresh install i
decided to try out 2.4..
what a horrible experie
Hey
I'd install a standard Potato build, using the ReiserFS floppies from here:
http://debianboot.digitaltux.com/
Then simply upgrade the kernel. There's no need to use testing if you want a
tried and tested system.
HTH
Andy
Mikael Gustaf Claesson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I've ordered a
I think what you need to do is figure out what your needs are first. What
you are suggestiong is that you want an unknown (anonymous) box to connect
to your mail server via port 25 (sendmail) and somehow login
first? Without some way to secure the connection you would be sending a
user name and pas
Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, in my experience, I've never seen a ps-to-pdf converter that works.
Do you use Potato, Woody or Sid? The problem seems to be, that
Ghostscript with versions < 6.5 seems to be broken with respect to PDF
generation (ps-to-pdf converters are usually scr
>
> Desktop area 1024 by 768 at 72 Hertz
> s3 compatible display adapter
> Chip Type S3 Vision964
> DAC Type: Brooktree Bt485
> Memory size: 2MB
> Adapter String: Diamond Stealth
> Bios Information:
>
Funily enough, last week I tried to set up X with exact the same card. I
have tried everything
Hi all,
Thought it might be usefull for some to know about this page. I'd recommend
you visit it and post some feedback to this page if you know of any existing
plug-ins. This would only help 'the cause'.
http://browserwatch.internet.com/plug-in/plug-in-linux.html
> Regards,
>
> Joris Lambre
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 16:45:37 +1000 (EST)
Mikael Gustaf Claesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've ordered a new notebook, and I was thinking that maybe I should try
> installing Debian. But I need kernel 2.4 and I want to use ReiserFS.
> Does
> that mean that I have to install from sid? And will t
Am 30. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Andy Mott so:
> I'd install a standard Potato build, using the ReiserFS floppies from
> here:
>
> http://debianboot.digitaltux.com/
>
> Then simply upgrade the kernel. There's no need to use testing if you want
> a tried and tested system.
Here's the page on running 2.4.
I think the Visor Option should help you.
you need that package: usbutils i think.
Read your Kernel Doc. How to set up the /dev/ttyUSB* devices..
greetings matthias
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 06:46:14PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if it's possible to access a Palm M500 us
On 30 Jun 2001 16:45:37 +1000, Mikael Gustaf Claesson wrote:
> I've ordered a new notebook, and I was thinking that maybe I should try
> installing Debian. But I need kernel 2.4 and I want to use ReiserFS. Does
> that mean that I have to install from sid? And will that mean that the
> system will b
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:18:40PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> is there a file that i can drop IP numbers in to keep exim from accepting
> email from those sites?
>
> kind of like using rbl, except i'd have my own custom reject file.
>
> i can simulate such a file usign ipchains, but i'd li
Found the install disks that I used:
http://debianboot.digitaltux.com/
I searched for ages to find these and it took me a while to find them
again. I knew the guy's name started with "Z" :-)
I used the ones with HPT366 support compiled in (that was a dream come
true finding reiserfs and HPT366 D
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:07:04PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Just for the record, I don't think there's a problem with the original
> or the packaging. During the upgrade the program makes some
> non-backward compatible changes. It asks and warns you before doing
> so. I just happened to want
hi everyone --
i fear i did something stupid.
i wanted to try and see how good linux games actually work, so i
downloaded the unreal tournament installer from loki, copied the cds to my
windows hard disk (because i didn't have support for joliet extension in
linux) and well...installed, which se
Are you using an AZERTY or QWERZU keyboard by any chance ? Also, does your
pasword contain any characters that might be affected by such possible problems.
vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hi everyone --
>
>i fear i did something stup
Hi all,
I'm not sure where to start looking for a solution, or if I should just
wait to see if this fixes itself ... and I'm hoping for some pointers :).
I'm using Progeny Debian (on a laptop) and have recently done an upgrade
using the gnome-apt tool which comes with the distro. Since my latest
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:18:29AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> >
> > * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> > > Hello list
> > >
> > > My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So
> > > what we did was
> > > - mount an nfs directo
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:05:20PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote:
> For copying large abounts of data over the network I suggest
> using a netcat tunnel. This works faster than scp and doesn't
> need any network file systems.
>
> 1. On the destination system start netcat listening on an
> arbitrar
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:58:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> what a horrible experience.
>
> firstly, i compiled my 2.4.5 kernel with "Athlon/Duron'
> support, and was promptly greeted with "Illegal Instruction"
> on e2fsck when i tried to boot the system. Kind of
> odd considering i have
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:32:55AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:03:49PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote:
> > I attempted to "apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade", from potato to
> > woody,
> > but a few of the larger packages timed out. Almost all of them however
> > made
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Matthew Garman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote:
> > I am trying to generate some .pdf files from either .dvi or .ps ones.
>
> Well, in my experience, I've never seen a ps-to-pdf converter that works.
I'm very surprised to hea
This could possibly be the libpam* problem which has nothing to do with
your UT installation or manual fscking... did you apt-get upgrade prior
to last reboot? Try boot into single user mode and apt-get
update/upgrade again.
On 30 Jun 2001 12:39:24 +0200, vester wrote:
>
> hi everyone --
>
> i f
actually i did apt-get update one day ago. that is, i already rebooted
three or four times without no problems at all.
how can i boot into single user mode?
thanks!
On 30 Jun 2001, Aquila wrote:
> This could possibly be the libpam* problem which has nothing to do with
> your UT installation or
i am using a QWERTZ keyboard...i think you are right in that it changed to
QWERTY, however my passwords should not be affected by the change. is it
possible that it changed to something other than QWERTY perhaps?
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Lambrecht Joris wrote:
> Are you using an AZERTY or QWERZU k
Hello List
I am trying to build a kernel for athlon on my pentium machine. It must
be 2.4.3 (as I am using at the moment) because I have xfs running on /,
/home, and /var. I want to install both kernels for being able to switch
all my hardware back to the pentium machine if something doesn't work.
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 03:07:26PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Hello List
>
> I am trying to build a kernel for athlon on my pentium machine. It must
> be 2.4.3 (as I am using at the moment) because I have xfs running on /,
> /home, and /var. I want to install both kernels for being able to swi
Hi
I've just installed ximian gnome from their site (apt-get install
task-ximian-gnome). the installation was ok, but after that, every time I want
to launch netscape I get this error:
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load
/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking
error=
Hi
I've just installed ximian gnome from their site (apt-get install
task-ximian-gnome). the installation was ok, but after that, every time I want
to launch netscape I get this error:
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load
/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking
error=
Hi
I started playing with gnome-terminal's font settings; chose something
awful and now I can't seem to get back the default (I actually don't
remember it; just assumed that there was a default setting I could
click on).
Could somebody please tell me what their font setting is please?
Jonathan
I have ESS Maestro 2E sound hardward on my laptop. When I built my kernel
(2.2.19) I made
sure to enable it and have verified in /var/log/dmesg that the module(s) gets
loaded.
However, when I try to run a sample sound application (in this case, a JMF
applet using
Java 1.3) the code throws except
> > The question is about where can I found some IMAP
> > server that accept secure connections.
the way i have it is an imap/pop3 server running, the daemons binding
to 127.0.0.1 only, and then stunnel on top, which provides
ssl-encrypted access only to the mail ports. it's the best setup i
foun
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:08:53AM -0400, Paul Wright wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:32:55 +0200, Joost wrote:
> >
> > But really, upgrading your dist should be done with dselect.
> >
>
> Why?
Because you should verify what changed in terms of split or renamed
packages and changed dependencies.
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 07:16:13AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>
> What and where is 'nc'?
>
> Neither 'man -k' nor 'apt-cache search' finds anything
> for either 'nc' or 'netcat'.
>
Hmm, I'm not quite sure if it's only available in woody and sid.
Apt-cache found netcat on my sid box.
netcat - T
Hai,
Well thanx for giving me the pleasure to learn.
I've got meself a working bootflop & All is recognized.
Next challenge: Install Operating system Kernel and Modules!!
I gently lay in the CD-rom.Now it can't install the rescue flop
...
Place Debian Cd-rom; enter
/instmnt;
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 09:25:26PM +0930, Disembodied Head wrote:
>
> Jeez mate, if you love dselect so much why don't you marry it? =)
Why do so many people act like it's their mother in law, that is the
interesting question.
Dselect seems to catch a lot of flak from certain people. Usually,
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:03:38PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> Nonsense. *apt* will only install what it has to in order to upgrade you,
> while dselect can and does gift you with a whole new set of software you may
> not want, since it obeys things like 'Recommends:' that apt has no reason to
> p
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 03:07:26PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> I am trying to build a kernel for athlon on my pentium machine. It must
> be 2.4.3 (as I am using at the moment) because I have xfs running on /,
> /home, and /var. I want to install both kernels for being able to switch
> all my har
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:22:02AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> >From zless /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz -
> make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
Nope, this does not make any differences to the filenames that are
installed by the package, which is what the original poster was after.
The --revi
Hi,
Can you enter your system by going to single-user mode? If this fails, i
fear that a bootdisk is the only thing left for you. On the other hand, you
need not fear, bootdisks are sufficient in most cases to fix your system.
(read: get it running so you can backup data). be a friend to yourself
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:45:33PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:22:02AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> > >From zless /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz -
> > make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
>
> Nope, this does not make any differences to the filenames that are
> installe
Hi all,
Most times i need updates for potato i get redirected to
people.debian.org/~someone. The stuff you can find there can be woth gold in
some cases. Up to now i have found no way to find out who all the
'~someone's are nor what they did for us. I can't find a way to browse this
part of the de
Adam Warner wrote:
> Grab the latest Debian reiserfs boot disks and use them to do the
> install. Then you'll have reiserfs as your boot partition the _easy_
> way.
Possibly dumb question, but I have an existing ext2fs system. Is there
an easy (or even a not so easy) way of changing it to ReiserF
Subject: Re: tar on nfs freezes
Date: Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:06:38PM +0200
In reply to:Martin Maciaszek
Quoting Martin Maciaszek([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 07:16:13AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >
> > What and where is 'nc'?
> >
> > Neither 'man -k' nor 'ap
Hello
I'm trying to start an X server so that it gets its login screen
from a remote machine running gdm. But I haven't yet managed to
make it work.
The following machines are used:
asterix (192.168.1.1), Debian GNU/Linux unstable, gdm
obelix (192.168.1.2), Debian GNU/Linux potato, X server
On
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:32:59PM +0200, nico de haer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Most times i need updates for potato i get redirected to
> people.debian.org/~someone. The stuff you can find there can be woth gold in
> some cases. Up to now i have found no way to find out who all the
> '~someone's are
In the past week, the picture on my monitor has gotten progressively
lighter and lighter. I haven't touched the contrast or brightness
wheels. I checked all the connections to and from the tower and
monitor. Even opened up the tower and re-seated the video card. No
luck. The only thing that ha
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Grab the latest Debian reiserfs boot disks and use them to do the
> > install. Then you'll have reiserfs as your boot partition the _easy_
> > way.
>
> Possibly dumb question, but I have an existing ext2fs system. Is there
> an easy (or even a not so
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:57:47PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
| And ignore the abacus and the slide rule? For shame! we must remember to
| study our roots!
Of course!
| Remember "heck week" from one of the later Revenge of the Nerds movies?
No, I never saw any of those.
-D
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:32:03PM +1000, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wrote:
>
> Could somebody please tell me what their font setting is please?
>
Well, i think the default is clean, but i use:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
it's small, but i can fit 6 terminals usably on
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:05:59PM -0400, David L. Craig wrote:
| The help for the processor config:
| So the K7 should specify Athlon, for which Herbert does not provide
| a kernel-image package.
Too bad.
| Like I said, I'd build my own.
Thanks for the info! I had the same question, but had
Subject: woody/linux 2.4/raid/athlon/almost a horror story
Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:58:45PM -0700
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> i had originally planned to delay testing of linux
> 2.4 until late this year. but i recently had a
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:59:30PM +0200, Daniel Lutz wrote:
| Hello
|
| I'm trying to start an X server so that it gets its login screen
| from a remote machine running gdm. But I haven't yet managed to
| make it work.
|
| The following machines are used:
| asterix (192.168.1.1), Debian GNU/Linu
when I removed mozilla that came with ximian gnome the problem was fixed, but
that's not a solution...
Bye
--
Haim
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:30:31PM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've just installed ximian gnome from their site (apt-get install
> task-ximian-gnome). the installation w
I need the man page for regexp but can't seem to locate it.
Anyone know where I can obtain it? I searched the Packages page but could not
find it there.
--
Andrew
My suggestion is that you should either consider buying the book
mastering regular expressions
or
find the POSIX definition.
--
k h a o s * lamer
new name, new look, new ftp:
linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter)
upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned.
- Original
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:00:49PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> I need the man page for regexp but can't seem to locate it.
> Anyone know where I can obtain it? I searched the Packages page but could
> not find it there.
You need regex(7), not regex(5) (section 5 is for config files et al).
Regex(7)
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:00:49PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> I need the man page for regexp but can't seem to locate it.
> Anyone know where I can obtain it? I searched the Packages page but could
> not find it there.
$ man -k regex
$ man -k regexp
hth,
kent
--
From seeing and seeing the seein
古いパソコンにlinuxをインストールしようとしている者です。
私の古いパソコンにはCD-ROMドライブが無く、フロッピーディスクドライブしか無いのです。
debianはフロッピーのみでインストールできるという話を耳にしたのですが、
それは本当なのでしょうか。
その古いパソコンというのは DynaBook GT475 031CS です。
よろしくお願いします。
* Martin Maciaszek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:18:29AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
... The freeze appeared after about 1 GB has been
> > copied.
> > We worked around it: cp -a does the same job and does not freeze. )
> >
> For copying large abounts of data over
One sojourner's story...
With my ATI Xpert98 card and "no-name" monitor (it had "ICON" on the front
bezel, but that's all I could find out) I had to constantly play XF86Setup.
But I did get things to work.
Finally, after about the third clean install I took careful notes along the
way too since w
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In the past week, the picture on my monitor has gotten progressively
> lighter and lighter. I haven't touched the contrast or brightness
> wheels. I checked all the connections to and from the tower and
> monitor. Even opened u
gHello,
Maybe I did not make myself clear that well.
I compiled a kernel witch was patched with mingo's patch;
raid-2.2.18.A0 (i think).
I then made menuconfig; make dep; make bzImage. Then copied the bzImage to
the rescue-flop renaming it to linux.
Everything went well up untill the poin
I suggest that he should get a replacement soon. by
the way, my Philips Brilliance 107P works great with linux
with (1600x1200x70Hz | 1280x1024x85Hz)...
--
k h a o s * lamer
new name, new look, new ftp:
linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter)
upload something before downloading, or your class C
Lamer writes:
> I suggest that he should get a replacement soon.
Or get the one he has cleaned. It's possible that dust is absorbing
moisture and loading down the high voltage.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
I personally would NOT try to risk a bomb.
--
k h a o s * lamer
new name, new look, new ftp:
linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter)
upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned.
- Original Message -
From: "John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 20
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/gLSB/gLSB/swinstall.html
--k h a o s * lamernew name, new look, new
ftp:linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter)upload something before
downloading, or your class C IP banned.
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:04:32AM +0800, Lamer wrote:
> My suggestion is that you should either consider buying the book
> mastering regular expressions
>
> or
>
> find the POSIX definition.
Thanks, I will consider buying the book. I did find what I needed in the
manpage for "grep".
--
Andre
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:58:45PM -0700,
> 1309 is odd as well, and a typo probably, too. :-)
well thats what cat /proc/cpuinfo shows :)
> If you can clock your system busses down, stretch memory timings
> and reduce the cpu speed, you might want to try that and see if you
> can boot with "
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:50:29PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Lamer writes:
> > I suggest that he should get a replacement soon.
>
> Or get the one he has cleaned. It's possible that dust is absorbing
> moisture and loading down the high voltage.
warning:
* * * * * * * * * * * *
I am running Debian Potato on a box that I want to use as a mail server for
my home network. I have a dsl connection and do not have a perm ip of domain
name. I just want the server to handle all the incoming and outgoing mail
for my network. anyway I am using sendmail but am having a hell of a ti
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 02:16:12PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote:
[sendmail hassles]
Stick with exim, which is debian's default. Much easier to configure,
larger debian userbase, so more likely that you get an answer on
debian-user.
BTW, for smtp to work, your dns must make sense too. Figure that ou
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:27:30PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes:
>
> > Other people will say that I'm violently wrong
>
> Actually, I'd say you were on crack. What's a soldering iron going to
> teach you that a breadboard couldn't?
Well, that's funny? T
Frankly, I disagree with the subject. LSB allows the distribution to
use a different (i.e. dpkg) packaging format than rpm. More
importantly, rpm is the packaging format used by every other
significant Linux distribution. While I agree that a million flies may
be wrong, as far as I have understood,
I have just installed 2.2r3-- my first deb install. The only thing I can't
seem to figure out is why fonts look so horrible in X. I have done all the
config stuff I am accustomed to doing with other distros: dpi, bpp, monitor
setup, etc.
The problem seems to be just the size of the fonts. It s
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:00:49PM +, Pollywog wrote:
>> I need the man page for regexp but can't seem to locate it.
>> Anyone know where I can obtain it? I searched the Packages page but
>> could not find it there.
>
>You need regex(7), not regex(5) (se
"nico de haer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Most times i need updates for potato i get redirected to
>people.debian.org/~someone. The stuff you can find there can be woth gold in
>some cases. Up to now i have found no way to find out who all the
>'~someone's are nor what they did for us. I can't fin
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:09:42PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> The problem seems to be just the size of the fonts. It seems that X is using
> a really big, unscaled bitmap. I've tried changing around the font paths in
> XF86Config... no help. I tried setting up xfs, but X doesn't want to
> I suggest that he should get a replacement soon.
After weighing the options I had (repair, replace, wait till it dies) I
went with the 2nd option and bought a KDS AV-7TF which seems
very nice. Super flat Trinitron tube, .24 dotpitch, and refresh rates
high enough so I'll never have to worry abo
"Darryl L. Pierce" wrote:
>
> I have ESS Maestro 2E sound hardward on my laptop. When I built my kernel
> (2.2.19) I made
> sure to enable it and have verified in /var/log/dmesg that the module(s) gets
> loaded.
> However, when I try to run a sample sound application (in this case, a JMF
> appl
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:01:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> yeah i could try that, e2fsck was the only program i ran
> during that test boot, but im betting most everything
> else will cause the same error. do you have an athlon?
> do you run it with the athlon optimizations? maybe
> its a
Any recommendation as to which List Server software best handles MIME encoded
messages?
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 30 Jun 2001 09:35:09PM +0200):
> Stick with exim, which is debian's default. Much easier to configure,
> larger debian userbase, so more likely that you get an answer on
> debian-user.
and i propose postfix. then again, i would happily like to hear why
exim is bet
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:59:30 +0200, Daniel Lutz wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I'm trying to start an X server so that it gets its login screen
> from a remote machine running gdm. But I haven't yet managed to
> make it work.
>
> The following machines are used:
> asterix (192.168.1.1), Debian GNU/Linux u
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:33:01PM +0300, Matti Airas wrote:
>
> 2) Assuming that I am not misinformed about the functional
> compatibility of dpkg and rpm, a LONG TERM goal for transforming
> Debian to rpm base is issued. This would include adding rpm support
> for all Debian package management t
also sprach Matti Airas (on Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:33:01PM +0300):
> While I agree that a million flies may be wrong, as far as I have
> understood, there are no significant functional differences between
> dpkg and rpm. Package dependencies may be declared explicitly in rpm
> as well, as well as func
also sprach Tom Kocourek (on Sat, 30 Jun 2001 02:10:43PM -0400):
> Any recommendation as to which List Server software best handles MIME encoded
> messages?
AFAIK, MIME is handled by most of them, since any list server really
only speaks SMTP and treats the message as text.
i would personally su
On Saturday 30 June 2001 16:28, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:09:42PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> > The problem seems to be just the size of the fonts. It seems that X is
> > using a really big, unscaled bitmap. I've tried changing around the font
> > paths in XF86Config.
>
> What I would like to see, in the light of LSB, would be that
>
> 1) A transparent way to install LSB-compliant rpms in Debian is
> implemented. Preferably one should be able to install rpms with 'dpkg'
> command line tool, although an automatic format transform with 'alien'
> could be perform
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:08:04AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
>
> sure, that would be a possiblity, but rather than merging and going
> with redhat (come on, they are walking micro$oft footsteps), DEB is
> very powerful and can easily exist by itself. a little
> cross-compatibility is needed,
> "will" == will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
will> look -- an objection! it's about time...
will> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:21:13PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:03:15PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
>> ...
>> > --
>> > DEBIAN NEWB
I have a simple question. In the boot up of the debian system, how and
whenthe /etc/init.d/networking script in debian get called? I expect to find
aS10networking in rc2.d directory but there wasn't. Would you mind clue me
in?Also, I want to install a static routes when boot up. Is there a
s
> IMNSHO the LSB seriously erred on this, the .deb format makes far more
> sense as a baseline package format standard then rpm for the simple
> reason that the .deb format isn't really a format, its just an ar
> archive with gzipped tarballs! those formats are nearly the oldest
> *real* standards
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