Re: Mozilla + Java for potato

2001-07-11 Thread Ross Boylan
I don't see a package named libc6g-dev in debian (web search form, all distributions). Do you mean libc6-dev? There is xlib6g-dev. I'm running mozilla 0.9.1 built from unstable source, and have not been able to get java to work with it or prior builds. I tried downloading the plugin that the ne

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-11 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Brendan J Simon wrote: > Hi, > I have manually installed versions of mozilla on my PowerPC laptop. > Version 0.8.1 worked fine with my internet banking and other java web > sites. I was so pleased to see Mozilla-0.9.1 in the testing > distribution and promptly did an up

Re: can't ssh or telnet to Debian box

2001-07-11 Thread Owen G. Emry
Yes, it's just got the default .deny and .allow files. Can't see anything wrong there. And all other services besides ssh and telnet seem to work fine. Very frustrating! Thanks for the suggestion, though. -Owen At 03:34 2001-07-11 -0300, Linuxero wrote: > Some more information: > > Sinc

Move Installation to Larger Drive?

2001-07-11 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I know this is off-topic, but figured this would be the place to get an expert opinion. I just purchased a 30 Gig drive and want to know if it's possible to move my current installation over to it? If so, does anyone have any links to documentation detailing how? TIA! -- Mark Wagnon <[EM

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > Thanks Paul. I hadn't installed the PSM. I have now installed it but > unfortunately it still doesn't work. I just get a sreen saying please > wait while downloading your account information. > > Brendan Simon. I have similar problems (with

Re: Move Installation to Larger Drive?

2001-07-11 Thread Matthias Richter
Mark Wagnon wrote on Tue Jul 10, 2001 at 10:45:47PM: > I just purchased a 30 Gig drive and want to know if > it's possible to move my current installation over to it? If so, does > anyone have any links to documentation detailing how? Of course it is. See the »Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To« for de

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-11 Thread Brendan J Simon
Faheem Mitha wrote: Thanks Paul. I hadn't installed the PSM. I have now installed it but unfortunately it still doesn't work. I just get a sreen saying please wait while downloading your account information. I have similar problems (with Wachovia). What is your bank? Faheem. My bank i

Re: mp3 players

2001-07-11 Thread Craig Dickson
Craig Dickson wrote: > http://www.xiph.com/vorbis My sloppiness -- it's actually http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ Sorry about that. Craig

Re: Download managers?

2001-07-11 Thread nestordi
I heard very good things about snarf(??) in a magazine. Why don't you give it a try Yours Nestor Di El 11 Jul 2001 14:47:23 +1000, Aquila escribió: > lftp is actually really good, it supports http/https too! You can > download something, hit ^Z (it will background the download) and keep > browsing

Re: /dev/lp0: No such device

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:19:25PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > # Character devices > # > CONFIG_PRINTER=y That was it. Thanks. Am I the only one who considers it a bug that "Parallel printer support" (and, for that matter, "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers") is under "Character

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:42:42PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ds> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:29:40PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > dc> find . -print0 | xargs -0 chmod r-owx > ds> while the find version will leave .foo/bar alone and change >

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:56:45AM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > Any idea when Mozilla-0.9.2 or fixes to Mozilla-0.9.1 will be available > in testing or unstable ??? the way its looking not until Takuo threatens an NMU again... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpyI9fLlIU

Debian Potato : office applications

2001-07-11 Thread LAMIRAULT Nicolas
I finally decide to install kde2 and Ximian Gnome to have an "office" station on my potato I download kde2 with : deb http://kde.debian.net ... It works fine But for Ximian Gnome, I see in their homepage that i just write in /etc/apt/sources.list something like : deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/ .

Re: Installing KDE2 from cvs

2001-07-11 Thread tim
On Wednesday, 11. July 2001 00:36, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > tim wrote: > > Hello > > > > Konquereor crashes on me with most javascripts, since the last > > update in sid. Dissable is not really an option so I like to try > > installing > > > >>from cvs. > > > > I have never compiled Kde or any ot

Re: Postfix and Junkfilter - Anyone?

2001-07-11 Thread tim
On Wednesday, 11. July 2001 04:21, Dana J . Laude wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:52:04 Dana J . Laude wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Just looking for some input on using Junkfilter with > > Postfix. I'm just about setup with my postfix/fetchmail/ > > procmail/mutt setup, and figured it would make

$25,000 for significant contribution to Linux

2001-07-11 Thread Peter Lewis
Just saw this - maybe the ozzies can do it again “The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), an independent, vendor-neutral, nonprofit organization dedicated to enabling Linux for enterprise and carrier-class functionality, has announced a call for entries for their 2001 OSDL Enterprise Achieveme

Re: Download managers?

2001-07-11 Thread Glyn Millington
Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running stable, and I was wondering if there are any (preferably non-X) > download managers that run well (and possibly come with) Debian. I need it > for downloading some ISOs from a dialup connection that I can only use at > night. ncftp Glyn --

Pb imprimante et accès disque

2001-07-11 Thread Vincent Morlot
Bonjour, J'ai un problème d'impression machine potato Impression correcte avec sketch, gimp, et lpr par contre avec staroffice le dessin s'imprime correctement mais l'introcution d'un texte dans une page génère le message error : /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack le nom de la police utili

Re: setting up cvs server: connection refused

2001-07-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:13:06PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > $ telnet 192.168.1.1 2401 > Trying 192.168.1.1... > Connected to 192.168.1.1. > Escape character is '^]'. > hello > cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start: hello > > Connection closed

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Chuck Stickelman wrote: > > Howdy, > > I've made two changes to my home system (I know... should have done > one at a time...) > I've changed my boot loader from LILO to GRUB and I've changed my root > file system > from ext2 to reiserfs. > > my partition table is setup as: > /dev/hda1ext2

Re: setting up cvs server: connection refused

2001-07-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
Okay, just looked up some more infos. Seems there's a cvspserver wrapper in Debian already (a Bourne script) in /usr/sbin/cvs-pserver. So, then regular /etc/inetd.conf has something like: cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cvs-pserver It looks at /etc/cvs-pserver.conf

[very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list My power supply takes warm air from inside the PC case to cool itself. As Athlon processors (especially >1000 MHz) tend to produce lots of heat, the temperature-sensitive power supply fans turn faster and faster, making lots of noise. (When I start the box, I don't hear it at all, but 10 m

Re: Installing KDE2 from cvs

2001-07-11 Thread tim
On Wednesday, 11. July 2001 00:36, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > tim wrote: > > Hello > > > > Konquereor crashes on me with most javascripts, since the last > > update in sid. Dissable is not really an option so I like to try > > installing > > > >>from cvs. > > > > I have never compiled Kde or any ot

Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > My power supply takes warm air from inside the PC case to cool itself. > As Athlon processors (especially >1000 MHz) tend to produce lots of > heat, the temperature-sensitive power supply fans turn faster and > faster, making lots of noise.

Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread smokez
> My advice: look for a silent fan or a silent power supply. http://www.quitepc.com never got round to using their stuff but heard couple of good things from a mate who has. adam

kernel 2.4.5 problems

2001-07-11 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi All, recently moved to debian woody and have to admit, really was impressed with the installation etc. Being keen on playing around with iptables and such, tried installing kernel-2.4.5 image using dselect, didn't work, it would come up with a message asking me to append "root=" in the boot o

Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-11 Thread Schoppitsch Dieter
Hi, I want to run X-Applications on my (old) laptop (486; Debian 2.0) while connected (via PLIP) to the Server (Pentium, Suse 7.1). On the laptop I installed the X-server - that means - I am able to move the mouse-cursor on the screen only (no menues, no window). On the server I installed the w

Re: pine and Maildir

2001-07-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
http://www.google.com/search?q=pine+maildir+patch should return you some useful information. I know there is a patch for pine, but it may be for an older version. Is downgrading also an immediate impossibility? As for the second question, I've not used IMP, but your guess sounds correct: if it in

(metapost) Replying to unrelated list email

2001-07-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
This may not be the first time it's been brought up, but it seems it deserves repeating: I've noticed that for some reason (laziness?) many people reply to list mail rather than telling their mailer to compose a new message to the list. Even if you change the subject, your mailer often includes a

Re: Mozilla + Java for potato

2001-07-11 Thread Christoph Simon
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:32:37 -0700 Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see a package named libc6g-dev in debian (web search form, all > distributions). Do you mean libc6-dev? There is xlib6g-dev. That was on potato only (guessing...) > I'm running mozilla 0.9.1 built from unstable

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-11 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2001 12:27 schrieb Schoppitsch Dieter: > Hi, > > I want to run X-Applications on my (old) laptop (486; Debian 2.0) while > connected (via PLIP) to the Server (Pentium, Suse 7.1). > > On the laptop I installed the X-server - that means - I am able to move the > mouse-cursor on th

Woody install from the net

2001-07-11 Thread Danie Roux
What would be the easiest way to install Woody (or unstable for that matter) from the web? Download the potato boot stiffies, then apt-get dist-upgrade (after changing the sources.list of course)? -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

Re: pine and Maildir

2001-07-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've a box with exim, qpopper and imapd for email services. > Users can read email through pine, IMP/Horde, or pop3. > I would like the change over to Maildir format, using lower >footprint serv

Re: Woody install from the net

2001-07-11 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What would be the easiest way to install Woody (or unstable for that > matter) from the web? Download the potato boot stiffies, then apt-get > dist-upgrade (after changing the sources.list of course)? That worked great for me at least. I tried to install

Re: Apache.pm failed to load

2001-07-11 Thread Tommy Wu
scheme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using woody on PIII. I found since June 26 or so when I dist-upgrade > the system, my apache server reported "Apache.pm failed to load" and > refused to work. > Does anybody know how to solve the problem? I found that mod_perl use perl 5.6.0. but in woo

Re: Woody install from the net

2001-07-11 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
> What would be the easiest way to install Woody (or unstable for > that > matter) from the web? Download the potato boot stiffies, then > apt-get > dist-upgrade (after changing the sources.list of course)? > i downloaded the installation disks from woody/disks-i386 part, made my floppies and i

Re: ext2 filesystem

2001-07-11 Thread Ilya Martynov
D> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:06:27PM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: D> | Hi All, D> | I'm looking for a filesystem to put on a some-what embedded system. I D> | was considering ext2 but IIRC there is a minimum 4K file size. Does D> I think that is a hardcoded block size that can be changed, if you

Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread John Hasler
joerg writes: > So my idea is: I open the power supply, flip the fan so that it blows > cool air from outside into the case, voila, much less noise. Is this a > good idea or rather stupid? Do that and you will be "cooling" your cpu and memory with hot air from the power supply rather than cool air

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Any idea when Mozilla-0.9.2 or fixes to Mozilla-0.9.1 will > > be available in testing or unstable ??? > > the way its looking not until Takuo threatens an NMU again... If you're brave enough, try "apt-get install mozilla-cvs". I believe it's on a non-us server. I got it yesterday, the 10th, a

Mozilla not loading while sound playing

2001-07-11 Thread Damon Muller
Hi all, I've recently installed a new sound card, a Vibra128 PCI, which uses the es1371 driver. Previously I had an ISA vibra16 using the OSS/Free sb driver. Since I've got the new card working (a bit of messing around with IRQs), I've run into a problem where Mozilla wont load while xmms is play

apt cache/archive

2001-07-11 Thread GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI
Hi all. I'd upgraded some pakages in potato. Those .deb files are stored in my /var/apt/cache/archive directory. Can I use them to upgrade another potato without having to download the files again? How should I do it? thanks ~edu

Problem with postgres database

2001-07-11 Thread Brian Schramm
I just upgraded from potato to Progeny Debian. The upgrade went fairly smooth (thanks Progeny) and the system seems to be working well. My problem is that the postgres database says that my username does not exist in the pg_shadow file any more. I thought that this was a problem that the users d

Re: apt cache/archive

2001-07-11 Thread Danie Roux
Just put the files in the other machines directory. Works like a charm (did 3 PC'S like this). On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:27:07AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd upgraded some pakages in potato. Those .deb files are stored > in my /var/apt/cache/archive directory. Can I u

Re: Again problems with Kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-11 Thread Victor
Victor [debian-user] <10/07/01 17:35 +>: > The standard kernel 2.4.5 from kernel-image is working great, whilst > after compiling my tailored kernel 2.4.5 (which I obtained using the > config file for my previous kernel 2.2.19 with minor changes) the > following error pops up stopping the boot:

PS/2 mouse problems, Solved!

2001-07-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
My problem has been solved. Turns out my mouse wasn't working becuase I was trying to connect a serial mouse to a PS/2 port (using an adaptor). But once I tried connecting a real PS/2 mouse, it worked. As for interrupt 12, turns out that my BIOS was in Auto mode for PS/2 auxillary device support,

Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Here's my take on fans and dust and noise. Having fans inside a computer case (such as those mounted on the CPU's heat sink) lower the air pressure inside the case - Bernoulli's principle. Having a fan blowing out further decreases the internal pressure. Nature hates this pressure difference and th

Re: non packaged software (newbie question)

2001-07-11 Thread Miguel Griffa
These tools are packed for debian, I used them and they work just great check these packages prc-tools pilrc pose These give you all you need to compile and run a palm program, check also pilot-template which creates a skeleton for a pilot app, You can also check http://d

Re: Again problems with Kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-11 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
had similar problem. before comiling, open th makefile in vi or your fav editor and uncomment the export INSTALL_PATH=/boot line. good luck --- Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Victor [debian-user] <10/07/01 17:35 +>: > > The standard kernel 2.4.5 from kernel-image is working great, > w

Re: startx -- :1

2001-07-11 Thread harsha
hi, appending vt and the number did the trick. thanks for the help kent and robert. BTW i am using the drivers for the nvidia site. regards harsha > startx -- :1 vt8 > > I hope it's just a bug and not a new method; I know it's been filed as a > bug, but I haven't checked on the

Re: apt cache/archive

2001-07-11 Thread mark
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:27:07AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd upgraded some pakages in potato. Those .deb files are stored > in my /var/apt/cache/archive directory. Can I use them to upgrade > another potato without having to download the files again? How > should I d

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

2001-07-11 Thread San Segkhoonthod
GRUB do *support* ReiserFS. My debian boxes have ReiserFS root file system and I boot them with GRUB. san --- Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chuck Stickelman wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > I've made two changes to my home system (I know... > should have done > > one at a time...) >

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-11 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 12:27 p.m. 11/07/01 +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: Hi, I want to run X-Applications on my (old) laptop (486; Debian 2.0) while connected (via PLIP) to the Server (Pentium, Suse 7.1). On the laptop I installed the X-server - that means - I am able to move the mouse-cursor on the screen o

Re: Installation problem

2001-07-11 Thread Jimmy Lu
Mr. Kooij, Thank you for your suggestion but I still can not complete the installation. Can someone out there tell me what does the Warning message mean? And tell me why my computer keep booting itself? Thanks, Jimmy - Original Message - From: "Joost Kooij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jimmy

Network Startup

2001-07-11 Thread Jeff Conder
Greetings, Thanks to everyone's help I am pretty much up and running :) And I finally bought a book "Running Linux", it's been a lot of help too. I created a file etc/init.d/network that configures my ethernet network. It seem to work well, I haven't found any problems with connections yet. But,

kernel misbehavior

2001-07-11 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hia all, i'm getting this: {module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_list} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.19 does not match kernel data. message after some commands, but the kernel image is exactly the same as in other machine that don't do that. And that behavoir happend after a couple of month

Network Startup

2001-07-11 Thread Jeff Conder
Greetings, Thanks to everyone's help I am pretty much up and running :) And I finally bought a book "Running Linux", it's been a lot of help too. I created a file etc/init.d/network that configures my ethernet network. It seem to work well, I haven't found any problems with connections yet. But,

ftpmirror-configuration

2001-07-11 Thread Johann Spies
I am a newbie ftp-administrator and want to try out ftpmirror. After trying to understand the documentation I failed to create a configuration file that is acceptable to the program. I have subscribed tot the ftpmirror mailing list, but in the welcome message the server sent me information about

Question about ipchains logging with syslog

2001-07-11 Thread M . PITZL
Hello all, I am using ipchains on my pc and i'm logging all denied packets via syslog with kern.* in the syslog.conf. My problem now is that i get a lot of other messages too. I want to log only the denied packets in a separate logfile. Has anyone an idea how i could do this? Thanks a lot! Greeti

Re: ext2 filesystem

2001-07-11 Thread Andrew Dixon
Thomas Zimmerman wrote: > > On 10-Jul 05:06, Andrew Dixon wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm looking for a filesystem to put on a some-what embedded system. I > > was considering ext2 but IIRC there is a minimum 4K file size. Does > > anyone know if that really is the limit (I also remember that you can

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-11 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Any idea when Mozilla-0.9.2 or fixes to Mozilla-0.9.1 will > > > be available in testing or unstable ??? > > > > the way its looking not until Takuo threatens an NMU > again... > > If you're brave enough, try "apt-get install mozilla-cvs". I > beli

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Chuck Stickelman
>From what I've read and seen GRUB can read Reiserfs: at least that's what I thought the reiserfs_stage1_5 file was to provide... Am I far off here? I've read MANY docs and I've seen several references to GRUB supporting Reiserfs. I REALLY want to use GRUB, and I wanted to play with reiserfs as

RE: Network Startup

2001-07-11 Thread Phan, Robert
-Original Message- From: Jeff Conder To: Debian User List Sent: 7/11/01 9:27 AM Subject: Network Startup Greetings, Thanks to everyone's help I am pretty much up and running :) And I finally bought a book "Running Linux", it's been a lot of help too. I created a file etc/init.d/networ

Re: Problem with fetchmail (was: I can't start with mutt) solved !

2001-07-11 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:41:54PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > "Krzysztof Mazurczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There is a task. Boil water for tee having: a cattle, faucet with > > water, matches and gas cooker. The answer: turn on faucet, fill the > > cattle with water, turn the gas o

C routine that compares debian package versions

2001-07-11 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hello debian users, I'm currently writing a small program in C that is supposed to show me which packages I have from woody and which ones from sid (my system is actually a mix of both of them). Now, a problem I am likely to encounter soon are the version numbers. Do the follow some kind of scheme

Re: applying a patch to nullmailer

2001-07-11 Thread john gennard
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: [snip] > > You need to apply the patch before building the deb, obviously. > Don't use the '-b' option to apt-get. > > cd /foodir > apt-get source > cd -* > > >> apply patch << > > fakeroot debian/rules binary > su - > dpkg -i /fo

Trouble with lists?

2001-07-11 Thread Brian Schramm
I subscribe to the digest version of this list and I have not goten any in a few days. Is anyone else having trouble? Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian www.linuxexpert.org

exim and the trailing")"

2001-07-11 Thread Bruce McIntyre
Here is a mysterious problem (for me at least). All mail that goes out of my box (via exim) has a horrible trailing ")" attached, as you should see below. When i send mail to another user directly, that is @localhost, this does not happen. I know my grammar is bad--but this makes it seem far wors

Re: C routine that compares debian package versions

2001-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Suzuki wrote: > If I had the version string saved somewhere, and an other > one like 1:1.2.3-9.4, how can I compare them, is there a > function that can do this? See the dpkg source code. -- see shy jo

Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread John Hasler
Chuck Stickelman writes: > Having fans inside a computer case (such as those mounted on the CPU's > heat sink) lower the air pressure inside the case - Bernoulli's > principle. No. Those fans just stir the air around inside the case, transferring heat from the cpu etc to that air. > Turn the fan

Re: C routine that compares debian package versions

2001-07-11 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 04:14 p.m. 11/07/01 +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: Hello debian users, I'm currently writing a small program in C that is supposed to show me which packages I have from woody and which ones from sid (my system is actually a mix of both of them). Now, a problem I am likely to encounter soon are the

Re: Debian Potato : office applications

2001-07-11 Thread Linuxero
- Original Message - Subject: Debian Potato : office applications > I finally decide to install kde2 and Ximian Gnome to > have an "office" station on my potato > I download kde2 with : deb http://kde.debian.net ... good, i will try kde2 too, what is the complete line ? deb http://kde.de

Re: C routine that compares debian package versions

2001-07-11 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I'm currently writing a small program in C that is supposed to > show me which packages I have from woody and which ones from > sid (my system is actually a mix of both of them). > Now, a problem I am likely to encounter soon are the version > numbers. Do the follow some kind of scheme? > > For

Re: Mozilla + Java for potato

2001-07-11 Thread Kent West
Christoph Simon wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:32:37 -0700 Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't see a package named libc6g-dev in debian (web search form, all distributions). Do you mean libc6-dev? There is xlib6g-dev. That was on potato only (guessing...) I'm running mozilla

Re: kettle and cattle (was: Problem with fetchmail (was: I can't start with mutt) solved !)

2001-07-11 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
Hi there It should be kettle of cause. There were more fun, I hope :). Regards, Chris - Original Message - From: "Glyn Millington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Krzysztof Mazurczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Problem with fetchmail (was: I can't

Re: exim and the trailing")"

2001-07-11 Thread Bruce McIntyre
ok.. this is interesting. There is no trailing ")" at the end of my previous message sent to this list. The trailing ")" only seems to appear when messages are sent from my machine to the smtp host and then straight back. Why is this? I can kinda live with it but it is not elegant...

Re: mp3 players

2001-07-11 Thread Nathan Weston
I'm a fan of noatun, the kde media player. It has a nice tray interface, and a plugin for global key shortcuts. It is also very convenient if you are running kde, because it works through the normal kde sound server (which xmms can do too, iirc, but it requires a plugin). I also personally like

Re: Problem with fetchmail (was: I can't start with mutt) solved !

2001-07-11 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Michael Epting wrote: http://www.angielski.edu.pl/angielski/content.php3?name=tnv_1 The English language can be so gibberish :-) Frank

problems with IBM Thinkpad

2001-07-11 Thread Rainer Hahnekamp
Hello everybody, I want to install the Debian distribution on my IBM ThinkPad 486/75 MHz. At first I wanted to create a dual boot system with MS-DOS & Linux, but got some problems during the installation. Now I deleted all my partitions and booted from the Rescue disc, because I can only use fl

Re: Again problems with Kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-11 Thread Victor
Shriram Shrikumar [debian-user] <11/07/01 06:06 -0700>: > had similar problem. before comiling, open th makefile in vi or your > fav editor and uncomment the > > export INSTALL_PATH=/boot > > line. > > good luck > No, Shriram! I'd a go at it but it still doesn't work :-( Ciao Vittorio

Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hi list > > My power supply takes warm air from inside the PC case to cool itself. > As Athlon processors (especially >1000 MHz) tend to produce lots of > heat, the temperature-sensitive power supply fans turn faster and > faster, making lots of noise. (When I start the

Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread Chuck Stickelman
John Hasler wrote: > Chuck Stickelman writes: > > Having fans inside a computer case (such as those mounted on the CPU's > > heat sink) lower the air pressure inside the case - Bernoulli's > > principle. > > No. Those fans just stir the air around inside the case, transferring heat > from the cpu

Re: problems with IBM Thinkpad

2001-07-11 Thread Lukas Ruf
When you boot from the floppy disk, why do you wanna pass the option floppy=thinkpad ? Press simply enter -- what happens then? On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Rainer Hahnekamp wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I want to install the Debian distribution on my IBM ThinkPad 486/75 MHz. At > first I wanted to cr

Re: Routing

2001-07-11 Thread Steve Witt
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Debian GNU wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a network with the following configuration. > > - > 192.168.1.0/24 | | > 192.168.1.1192.168.1.2 >Linux Gateway R

Re: problems with IBM Thinkpad

2001-07-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Rainer Hahnekamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody, > > I want to install the Debian distribution on my IBM ThinkPad 486/75 MHz. At > first I wanted to create a dual boot system with MS-DOS & Linux, but got > some problems during the installation. Now I deleted all my partitions a

Re: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-11 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Brendon Simon wrote: > Hi, > I have manually installed versions of mozilla on my PowerPC laptop. > Version 0.8.1 worked fine with my internet banking and other java web > sites. I was so pleased to see Mozilla-0.9.1 in the testing > distribution and promptly did an upgrade. I now can not acce

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux--Thanks!

2001-07-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, will trillich wrote: > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #23 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Wondering what you should BACK UP -- and what you shouldn't? Here's > a "how I do it" written by a debian-user regular, Karsten Self: > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/ba

[OT]IDE patch help

2001-07-11 Thread Cam
I'm attempting to use the IDE patch that I got from kernel.org. However I'm running into a problem. Everytime I try to patch it...i get this error: bash-2.05# zcat ide.2.4.7-p3.all.07092001.patch.gz | patch -p0 can't find file to patch at input line 4 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip opti

nvidia-glx package

2001-07-11 Thread Nikolaus Regnat
I downloaded and compiled nvidia-glx-src (1.0.1251-2) and nvidia-kernel-src (1.0.1251-2). When I installed the nvidia-glx_1.0.1251-2_i386.deb I got the following message: ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.dpkg-devert.tmp is too small, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.dpkg-dever

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-11 Thread Paul Martin
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:22:35AM +0300, Matti Airas wrote: > I never read a single word anywhere stating that Debian would be > anti-commercial. On the other hand, there's nothing stating that Debian has to bend to commercial pressure, if that would compromise the technical quality of the dist

Re: C routine that compares debian package versions

2001-07-11 Thread Colin Watson
Miguel Griffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 04:14 p.m. 11/07/01 +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: >>I'm currently writing a small program in C that is supposed to >>show me which packages I have from woody and which ones from >>sid (my system is actually a mix of both of them). >>Now, a problem I am likel

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Chuck Stickelman
San Segkhoonthod wrote: > GRUB do *support* ReiserFS. My debian boxes have > ReiserFS root file system and I boot them with GRUB. > > san Then I've done something wrong! I'll try providing more specifics. kernel 2.4.5 hda1~120MBext2/boot hda2~128MBswap hda3~27GBrei

AW: problems with IBM Thinkpad

2001-07-11 Thread Rainer Hahnekamp
Because this stands in the help file of the rescue disc. When I press enter, the computer boots normally and orders then the disc with the root image. Then he crashes with the error message: "Can't boot kernel at 02:00". -Rainer Hahnekamp -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Lukas Ruf [mailto

reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Peter Kok
Hi all I am new in debian. What is reiserfs Tks much Regards Peter

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
Disclaimer : I have no experience with ReiserFS, but I do use grub. On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:54:49AM -0400, Chuck Stickelman wrote: | San Segkhoonthod wrote: | | > GRUB do *support* ReiserFS. My debian boxes have | > ReiserFS root file system and I boot them with GRUB. | | Then I've done some

Re: problems with IBM Thinkpad

2001-07-11 Thread Lukas Ruf
So, try to submit only floppy -- without thinkpad Maybe others know better than I do -- but starting the discussion often helps others to get onto it. Lukas On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Rainer Hahnekamp wrote: > Because this stands in the help file of the rescue disc. When I press enter, > the comput

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Howdy Peter! Linux supports several different file system types. Each type handles organizing data on the physical drives slightly differently. The reiserfs is one of those FS types - it's a "journaling" file system that handles updates in a way different than most others. I can't begin to cover

Re: Scroll Wheel

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:03:16PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: | Jesper Holmberg wrote: | > | > What is the recommended way of adding support for the scroll wheel | > (Logitech mouse) under X4.0.3 and Woody? | | here's what I have, it's for the mouseman wheel (with the sidebutton): I tried this

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:14:48PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: > Hi all > > I am new in debian. What is reiserfs > > It is a high performance file system, still somewhat in the experimental stage. However, it has already (as I understand) proven useful to some advanced users with very particular r

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread smokez
--snip-- > Peter Kok wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I am new in debian. What is reiserfs --snip-- http://www.google.com/linux is quite a good place to search for information on linux adam

Re: C routine that compares debian package versions

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:51:09AM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > mmm... wouldn't just strcmp work? Even ignoring epochs and debian revisions, upstream version 1.10 is newer than version 1.9, but strcmp will get even that simple case wrong. ASCII comparison doesn't work very well on numbers unless

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