Hi,
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:17:40PM -0600, Jeff Conder wrote:
> Hi - I have not been able to get past the rescue disk install.
Which version potato/woody stable/testing? I assume potato ;-)
> I've read and searched through the documents and haven't
> found anything that relates to what I per
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:45:44PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> Hrm, I'd think about sending questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh,
> wait that'd be routed to me ;-}
>
> This is the configuration I run at home (fetchmail/sendmail/procmail) -
> I'll be happy to help in anyway I can.
>
> Send me
> "Regnat" == Regnat Nikolaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Regnat> There are differences between the bootsector and it's backup.
Regnat> Differences: (offset:original/backup) 28:3d/3f, 29:65/00,
Regnat> 30:9c/00, 71:44/00, 72:41/4f, 73:54/20, 74:45/4e, 75:4e/41,
Regnat> 76:20/4d, 77:20/45, 78:2
Am 03. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Paul Mackinney so:
> Disclaimer: Post from blatant newbie.
>
> I tried der.hans' advice to add the two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list for
> woody (these exactly match the woody page on www.debian.org, BTW)
>
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib no
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> Maybe http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/ ?
Looks like it will do the trick.
Thanks!
--
G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250
Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/
`I want
Am 03. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Rick Macdonald so:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Hank Marquardt wrote:
>
> > Maybe this is self evident to some, but I'm stuck ... I'm running
> > unstable, I hadn't upgraded in about a week -- then last night I did
> > and there were 128 packages to upgrade including most of KDE
Mr. Barr,
My apologies for taking your time. I recently attempted
to install your module libnet-1.0703.tar and got very
close to comletion using CPAN and then spat out these
test failures. I'm not quite certian as yet where I
erred. Have I maybe configured it to look at a port that
isn't avail
Am 03. Jul, 2001 schwäzte D-Man so:
> I used 'dist-upgrade', not 'install apt', a couple weeks ago. I got
> the same sort of errors. I tried the '-f' (force) option (as suggested
Actually, -f is --fix-broken.
> by some program) and it worked. I then killed it so I could go back to
> regular u
It was written:
__
I´m a network engineer for a living, and trust me, the only way to be
sure there won´t be something wrong with autodetection is to avoid it.
Setting speed and duplex on _both_ sides of an ethernet link
Am 04. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Alan E. Davis so:
> Fairly often however I am harassed by messages from
> "install-info". I have developed a standard operating
Don't think I've ever run into that.
> I am reinstalling, but if I can figure this one out, I will save myself
> a month of work. This wa
Am 03. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Ed Falis so:
> For about a week now, whenever I try to get anything out of sid, I'm getting
> messages like:
>
> Failed to fetch
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xvt/xvt_2.1-13_i386.deb Unable to
> fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/x/xvt/xvt_2.1-13_
Thank you Françcois,
I was ignoring the -X option of slogin. It looks easy, secured.
That's why debian is so great, each day you learn something.
Christophe
Le mar, 03 jui 2001 17:33:22, Francois Gouget a écrit :
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, christophe barbé wrote:
>
> >
> > SUX seems pretty usefull.
Hi all,
I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNOME after a
brief stint with KDE. Anyway, I noticed that things were pretty slow
when it came to GNOME-ified apps. The control panel and gmc took their
sweet time in launching and moving from section to section under the
control pane
Has anyone installed potato on a system with a USB keyboard?
I have a rescue and root disk, but when I'm asked to insert
the root disk and press return, nothing happens. I put the
root disk in but can't get the install to continue. It doesn't
seem to recognize my keboard.
Thanks - Jeff
I am new to Linux (especially Debian),
please help me out.
1. Does anyone can tell me how to extract
*.deb files? And where can I find Debian's special commands?
2. I have just installed Debian 2.2 r0
(potato), but XF86 did not work (don't have SVGA driver - returned message at
first tim
Hi,
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Stephen Jiang wrote:
> I am new to Linux (especially Debian), please help me out.
0. enable line wrapping please!
>
> 1. Does anyone can tell me how to extract *.deb files? And where can I
find Debian's special commands?
You can install .deb files with: dpkg --install f
As far
as extracting Debian package files ("*.deb's") goes,
I've
found the easiest way is to use "alien" (apt-get install
alien)
and convert it to a tarball ("*.tar.gz").
-jg
--Jeremy L. Gaddis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-Original Message-From: Stephen Jiang
[mailto:[EMAIL PROT
I am new to Linux (especially Debian),
please help me out.
1. Does anyone can tell me how to extract
*.deb files? And where can I find Debian's special commands?
2. I have just installed Debian 2.2 r0
(potato), but XF86 did not work (don't have SVGA driver - returned message at
first ti
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> As far as extracting Debian package files ("*.deb's") goes,
> I've found the easiest way is to use "alien" (apt-get install
> alien) and convert it to a tarball ("*.tar.gz").
>
Why go that way?
$ mkdir /tmp/foo
$ dpkg -X foo.deb /tmp/foo
Greetz,
Seba
Hi folks,
I'm running testing and recently did a dist-upgrade, however it failed
on libpgsql2.1 with the following error, which looks like it might be
Debconf related.
[rei:~]% sudo apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting depe
Edit /etc/resolv.conf and add entry
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
This will solve your problem.
Rds,
Deb
--- Guenter Millahn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> G'day
>
> On my sid/i386 box I have a problem with the portmap
> daemon since
> the critical bug regarding the PAM modules.
>
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Debian GNU wrote:
> Edit /etc/resolv.conf and add entry
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
I think you mean /etc/hosts
Yours Tony.
/*
* "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the
* same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
* --Albert
also sprach Lambrecht Joris (on Wed, 04 Jul 2001 03:35:11AM +):
> In a fit of rage (they just shouldn't have said those things out
> loud) i moved from win2k to linux for 'almost' everything i do on my
> computer.
congratulations. it's really the way to go, and just you wait, in a
week or two,
dear all,
i put the following in sources.list since i'd like to update wine on a daily
basis from cvs:
# Wine
deb http://gluck.debian.org/~andreas/debian wine main
deb-src http://gluck.debian.org/~andreas/debian wine main
i'm a little confused, because i'm not seeing wine updated when i ru
also sprach Mark Wagnon (on Tue, 03 Jul 2001 09:08:55PM -0700):
> > Also, i want to import my OE mail and adress book into my Linux
> > system, any good hints on what software/procedure to use ?
>
> Doesn't OE have some kind of export feature for this stuff? I never
> warmed up to OE very much. On
--- "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Debian GNU wrote:
>
> > Edit /etc/resolv.conf and add entry
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>
> I think you mean /etc/hosts
Exactly. Sorry for the slip.
Deb
>
> Yours Tony.
>
> /*
> * "The signif
Ensure that use_from is set in mutt. It defaults to yes, and your
posted config file left it unchanged, but if unset it would give
behaviour like you describe. From within mutt just type :set use_from
You could see if setting edit_headers (in mutt) helps anything. It
should enable you to see and e
Hello,
is it possible to set up a virtual NIC and network? I would like to do
this:
eth0 <- iptable filter -> virtual <- more iptables -> rest of the system.
I want to filter out some traffic because I only want to monitor some of
the traffic.
Thanks in advance,
Sebastiaan
--
NT is the OS o
Hi Ed,
Are you doing your downloads immediately after apt-get update?
In case you wait several hours (days) until you decide to download a
package, it might be that there is already a newer package avilable,
which causes the older one to be removed from the server.
So what you should do is:
apt-ge
Hey guys.
I have a file that I'm accessing via NFS, and sometimes I get a "Text File
Busy" error when I try to execute it. Any idea what would cause that?
Thanks,
Mike
--
Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
I am trying to install potato on my home computer. Since my graphical
hardware (Matrox millenium G450) is not supported in XFree3 I have to
install/upgrade to Xfree4. Unfortunately I have no internet acess yet, so I
have made a copy of the reprository at
http://people.debian.org/~branden/woody/i386
Hello,
I am no expert on atp lines. I have (for local files):
deb file:/debian stable main
Then run apt-get update. If the tree in /debian is the same as on the ftp
sites, apt-get update should give no errors. Then you are ready to
upgrade.
An alternative way is to unpack the packages one by on
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to set up a virtual NIC and network? I would like to do
> this:
> eth0 <- iptable filter -> virtual <- more iptables -> rest of the system.
>
> I want to filter out some traffic because I only want to monitor some of
> the traffic.
see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/net
- Forwarded message from Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 11:09:08 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RPM in Debian?!? AND: Qt2 troubles
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
From: Debian User <[EMAIL
Nikolai Hlubek wrote:
Hi there fellow Debian'a'holics,
does anybody know of a linux programm which can
compete with Origin.
(Origin is similar to Excel but with more advanced
features, which are important for me.)
Read you,
Nikolai.
That's exactly what I am looking for, because the a
hi,
a friend of mine is running potato's WindowMaker ontop a 3.3.6 X
installation, using xdm rather than startx.
Every now and then when she logs in through xdm, WindowMaker sits for
a minute or so before it crashes (and returns her to the xdm screen).
Subsequent attempts do not crash.
Has anyone
> I tried to install the RPM package. To do this, I first installed rpm and
> alien, but rpm ends with the following error message:
> "failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: No such file or directory
>
> error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm"
>
> Waht can I do? Is it enough to simply cr
hi!
> I tried to install the RPM package. To do this, I first installed rpm and
> alien, but rpm ends with the following error message:
> "failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: No such file or directory
>
> error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm"
>
> Waht can I do? Is it enough to sim
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > is it possible to set up a virtual NIC and network? I would like to do
> > this:
> > eth0 <- iptable filter -> virtual <- more iptables -> rest of the system.
> >
> > I want to filter out some traffic because I only want to monitor so
I am running woody and calling the "help" function ends in a complaint
that lynx could not find /usr/share/gnome/help/gnumeric/C/index.html.
I have search for this file in Contents.gz, but could not find it.
Is this a bug?
Johann
--
Johann Spies
Informasietegnologie
Universiteit van Stellenbosc
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:05:47PM +, Johann Spies wrote:
> I am running woody and calling the "help" function ends in a complaint
> that lynx could not find /usr/share/gnome/help/gnumeric/C/index.html.
>
> I have search for this file in Contents.gz, but could not find it.
>
> Is this a bug?
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:35:25PM +1000, Stephen Jiang wrote:
> I am new to Linux (especially Debian), please help me out.
>
> 1. Does anyone can tell me how to extract *.deb files? And where can I find
> Debian's special commands?
These will tell you a little about .deb:
man dpkg
man deb
Hi all,
I'm considering buing a tapestreamer of some kind. As i also have to move
large quantities of data now and then (3 to 4 Gb) i'm looking for a way to
be able to write my tape under Linux and go to my friends and read it on
ther Windows box (Yes, they are my friends, they are just not enligh
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> You may have 4 identical runlevels and I may have 4 identical
Dave> runlevels, but debian's policy leaves it up to the admin to
Dave> decide what each runlevel means. If LSB makes proclamations on
Dave> the meaning of various runlev
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Debian GNU wrote:
> --- "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Debian GNU wrote:
> >
> > > Edit /etc/resolv.conf and add entry
> > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> >
> > I think you mean /etc/hosts
>
> Exactly. Sorry fo
Hallo Danie,
>
> No, it's not a bug. Install gnome-help-data. From the description:
Already installed:
$ dpkg -L gnome-help-data | grep
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnumeric/C/index.html
produced nothing and so dpkg -L gnome-help-data | grep gnumeric
Groete
Johann
--
Johann Spies
Informasietegnolog
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Debian User wrote:
> - Forwarded message from Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
>
> Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 11:09:08 +0200
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RPM in Debian?!? AND: Qt2 troubles
* Jeld The Dark Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-03 23:40):
> > If Quake 3 runs fine as root though, it does suggest a permissions
> > problem. What error do you get when you try run it as a user?
> >
> Q3 1.29f linux-i386 Jun 19 2001
> - FS_Startup -
> Current search path:
> /home/blah/.
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:53:57PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> so this runlevel business is soley about X. fine, i can think of NO
> daemon that relies on xdm being running off hand. certianly not
> enough for you to dictate to me how i setup my runlevels.
I don't know about xdm, but there ce
> "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> Maybe http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/ ?
Guy> Looks like it will do the trick.
(Followup to my own post.)
I installed the patch, and rebooted. The kernel rcognizes the c
> "infernal" == infernal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
infernal> I coudn't find the Unzip utility in my "potato".. but the
infernal> zip. where in debian.org can I find it ? I can't
Unzip and zip are packaged separately for historical reasons.
You can find them in the non-US section of th
You may also try vmware, run it in window mode and screenshot that window
also there's plex86, but I haven't tried it yet and is not (the last time I
saw it) as easy as vmware, but hell it's free software.
At 01:36 p.m. 03/07/01 -0400, D-Man wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:48:18AM +0800, Lam
Please CC copies of replies to me as I'm not a subscriber of this list
Hi all,
I have some problem with exim.
When it contacts foreign hosts to send my mail, it starts with:
HELO milho (milho is my hostname)
But some servers reject the messages because they check the HELO comm
Matti Airas writes:
> I don't know about xdm, but there certainly are many daemons both
> existing and imaginable, that would benefit from running only when X is.
Then have them find out if X is running. Checking the runlevel is not a
reliable way to do that.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jo
hi!
> This message appears in the cramfs code, and it's printed when the
> code finds an invalid magic number in the superblock. (Rather
> obvious.) This is very strange, since the previous message indicates
> the magic number is there.
>
> I mounted the initrd image on a loop device: OK.
> I copi
Ok, Followed the instructions at www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/
but X gives error:
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
No such device.
(EE) USB Mice: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "USB Mice"
The device does exist! ls -
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 04:24, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> Are you doing your downloads immediately after apt-get update?
>
Thanks, Joerg. As it turns out, I am doing the upgrade immediately after
update. This is happening on two machines, by the way.
- Ed
I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and
working greatly and stable.
The present kernel is 2.2.19 and I compiled to tailor it (usage of
memory, needless devices, etc.) to my needs. It's all OK!
My simple question is:
Is there any advantage to upgrade my box to kernel 2.4
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 02:34, der.hans wrote:
> ftp to ftp.debian.org, cd to /debian/pool/main/x/xvt/ and see if
> xvt_2.1-13_i386.deb is in there.
>
Right. The directory exists, but is empty. So, I guess I can conclude that
the list of files available via update is out of synch with the ac
On Wed 04 Jul 2001 05:30:37 MET
"Lambrecht Joris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Leaves me very little choice. The only two i haven't tested yet are Evolution
> (http://www.ximian.com/evolution) and Postoffice (www.tarball.net) wich looks
> pretty cool but didn't work right away. Again, any and al
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:40:18AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
>
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
>
> > As far as extracting Debian package files ("*.deb's") goes,
> > I've found the easiest way is to use "alien" (apt-get install
> > alien) and convert it to a tarball ("*.tar.gz").
> >
>
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:21:19PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote:
> > "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joost> Maybe http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/ ?
>
> Guy> Looks like it will do the trick.
>
> (Followup to my
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 06:19:41AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Mr. Barr,
> My apologies for taking your time. I recently attempted
> to install your module libnet-1.0703.tar and got very
> close to comletion using CPAN and then spat out these
> test failures. I'm not quite certian as yet w
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:59:40PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNOME after a
Did you use dselect?
> brief stint with KDE. Anyway, I noticed that things were pretty slow
> when it came to GNOME-ified apps
Hello.
I'm new to debian (not to linux). I have installed potato version 2.2r2
First off all I inserted in sources.list a ftp to download new packages,
then I maked an update of packages lists, so
I did a #apt-get dist-upgrade successfuly but I noted that the kernel has
not been upgraded...
this is
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:58:53AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> dear all,
>
> i put the following in sources.list since i'd like to update wine on a daily
> basis from cvs:
>
> # Wine
> deb http://gluck.debian.org/~andreas/debian wine main
> deb-src http://gluck.debian.org/~andreas/deb
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:29:42AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hey guys.
>
> I have a file that I'm accessing via NFS, and sometimes I get a "Text File
> Busy" error when I try to execute it. Any idea what would cause that?
>
I don't know the answer myself as I have never experie
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:57:42AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
>
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:20:59AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> hi,
> a friend of mine is running potato's WindowMaker ontop a 3.3.6 X
> installation, using xdm rather than startx.
>
> Every now and then when she logs in through xdm, WindowMaker sits for
> a minute or so before it crashes (and
This has probably been much discussed before but I am new here. How the heck
do you configure the sound card under potato?
Thanks,
Larry
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> I'll let you into my secret magic passage to knowledge: Try
Joost> typing "cramfs initrd patch" in google's search box. That's how
Joost> I found that link. ISTR that the topic has been brought up
Joost> several times on the linux-ker
I usually recompile the kernel for it...
But this isn't the answer you want. Anyways...
apt-get install kernel-source
this should print available version to apt-get.
Scott J. Vaverchak
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:35:25PM +1000, Stephen Jiang wrote:
> I am new to Linux (especially Debian), please help me out.
>
> 1. Does anyone can tell me how to extract *.deb files? And where can I find
> Debian's special commands?
>
> 2. I have just installed Debian 2.2 r0 (potato), but XF86
See "The Linux Kernel HOWTO",
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
-jg
--
Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-Original Message-
From: Linuxero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 9:46 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: upgrade question
He
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:45:33PM -0300, Linuxero wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm new to debian (not to linux). I have installed potato version 2.2r2
> First off all I inserted in sources.list a ftp to download new packages,
> then I maked an update of packages lists, so
> I did a #apt-get dist-upgrade succ
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:32:14AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 06:19:41AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Mr. Barr,
> > My apologies for taking your time. I recently attempted
> > to install your module libnet-1.0703.tar and got very
> > close to comletion using CPAN and then
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:26:56AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:35:25PM +1000, Stephen Jiang wrote:
> > I am new to Linux (especially Debian), please help me out.
> >
> > 1. Does anyone can tell me how to extract *.deb files? And where can I find
> > Debian's special commands?
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:31:40AM +, Lambrecht Joris wrote:
| Hi All,
|
| In a fit of rage (they just shouldn't have said those things out
| loud) i moved from win2k to linux for 'almost' everything i do on my
Woohoo! You're lucky :-). (I have to use win2k at work, but with
cygwin and my s
Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote (on 4 Jul 2001, at 9:45):
> How can I tell exim to send my full domain in the HELO
> instead of my hostname?
>From the exim info, under Main Configuration:
primary_hostname *option*
-
Option: primary_hostname
Type: string
Default: "see below"
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:20:13AM -0600, Jeff Conder wrote:
> Has anyone installed potato on a system with a USB keyboard?
> I have a rescue and root disk, but when I'm asked to insert
> the root disk and press return, nothing happens. I put the
> root disk in but can't get the install to continue
I found the cause of my problem. By having http://debian.org/debian in my
sources.list, I was being redirected to a mirror that didn't
have all the files to be downloaded yet.
Thanks for the help,
- Ed
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:59:40PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNOME after a
| brief stint with KDE. Anyway, I noticed that things were pretty slow
| when it came to GNOME-ified apps. The control panel and gmc took their
| sweet ti
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:19:18AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote:
| This has probably been much discussed before but I am new here.
| How the heck do you configure the sound card under potato?
Step 1 : figure out what your sound card is (I'll use an ESS1869
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:42:16AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
> Ok, Followed the instructions at www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/
Hiya There Walter,
I'll try and help you out here. I use /dev/usbmouse, but
/dev/input/mice applies to the device file in the same way.
I'll get to it in
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:03:59PM +, Victor wrote:
> I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and
> working greatly and stable.
>
> The present kernel is 2.2.19 and I compiled to tailor it (usage of
> memory, needless devices, etc.) to my needs. It's all OK!
>
> My simpl
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mark Wagnon wrote:
i think it is a known problem (check gnome mailing lists archives or
google). it occurs when esd is not present or improperly configured.
installing esd should make the problem go away.
> Hi all,
>
> I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNO
On 07/04/01 16:34:08 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNOME after a
>
> Did you use dselect?
well, not dselect exactly, apt-get.
> Well, it's designed to compete with microsoft windows. Try to follow
> the same hardw
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach Faheem Mitha (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 04:15:13PM -0400):
> > I live in North Carolina, US. I am thinking of having it custom-built and
> > it would be nice to get Debian preloaded. I looked at resellerratings.com.
> > There seem to be some go
On 07/04/01 12:02:24 -0400, D-Man wrote:
> | I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNOME after a
> | brief stint with KDE. Anyway, I noticed that things were pretty slow
> | when it came to GNOME-ified apps. The control panel and gmc took their
> | sweet time in launching and movi
On 07/04/01 19:45:39 +0300, Amardeep Singh wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mark Wagnon wrote:
>
> i think it is a known problem (check gnome mailing lists archives or
> google). it occurs when esd is not present or improperly configured.
> installing esd should make the problem go away.
>
Ah, okay.
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Jeff Reed wrote:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut/chapter/ch25.html
>
> check it out
There's also the November 2000 issue of Linux Journal (focus on hardware),
part of which is available online. But I like to hear about hardware
issues from Real People. For one th
On 07/04/01 10:00:37 +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> are you kidding me? OE can *import* everything, but export only to
> Outlook. Now why would micro$oft provide a feature that would
> facilitate switching away from their product???
Yeah, I forgot about the black hole located at Redmond, WA, USA
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:57:57PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| The point of getting a preinstalled machine is to check that Debian works
| Ok with the hardware. It is strictly a hardware issue. As I indicated
Yeah, it is nice to know that it does work, before you spend the
money.
| > seriously,
Greets Calvin,
My suggestion would be for you to explore your local campus. Here we have a
community college with a pretty nice computer lab. The lab also has an
overhead projection Monitor.. Took a little while to make x happy, but then
we had it set up and could then take snap shots all
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:50:54AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
| On 07/04/01 16:34:08 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
|
| > Well, it's designed to compete with microsoft windows. Try to follow
| > the same hardware specifications. Or install fvwm. :-)
|
| ;-)
|
| It shouldn't have too many problems r
Hi Tony,
That solved the problem.
Thanks
Pedro
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:54:50PM +0200, Tony Crawford wrote:
> Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote (on 4 Jul 2001, at 9:45):
>
> > How can I tell exim to send my full domain in the HELO
> > instead of my hostname?
>
>
> primary_hostname *option*
Hi!
I have just found out that kernel 2.4.6 won't boot on my pentium 200 MMX
machine. The same has allready happened with kernel 2.4.6-pre8, but I thought
it will be fixed later when stable release comes out. The same kernel boots
just ok on my toshiba p75 laptop. Has anyone had any experience lik
"Donald R. Spoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I had this same problem a couple of nights ago while doing a "apt-get
> dist-upgrade" from Potato to Testing. I had seen this same problem
> before a few months ago, and it was the fonts that time, so I went
> directly to "dselect" and inspected the
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Hi. Just starting out with Linux and loving it... Want to synchronize between
either StarOffice or the KDE office utilities like KOrganizer and my Palm
Pilot. Can anyone point me in the direction of the right documentation or
tell me how to do this
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