Re: libphp4 and libpcre3 in unstable

2001-08-24 Thread Donald MacDougall
On Aug 14, 2001 Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: >> Yesterday I updated my unstable installation with >> Dselect. When I got through, everything worked except >> that apache wouldn't run. I now get the following set >> of error messages when I try to start it. >> > Syntax error on line 111 of

Re: AW: ipmasq support in potato kernel

2001-08-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:23:02AM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote: [ deletia ] > 0) kernel firewalling, write your own masq scripts w/ ipfoo. This won't work, cos you haven't compiled masq support into the kernel. > 1) kernel firewalling, use ipmasq's scripts. This won't work, cos you haven't comp

DISPLAY and multiple ssh connections

2001-08-24 Thread Jason Majors
When I have multiple ssh connections to a server, it increments the offset for the DISPLAY by one for each connection. When connecting through my firewall using: /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $IP_REAL 22 -R $MAGNETO 22 the second and following connections cannot connect to the display. An

Re: dual displays

2001-08-24 Thread Cyan Ogilvie
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:54:11PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On 23 Aug 2001 02:56:55 -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:17:30AM +0200, Cyan Ogilvie wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:13:44PM -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > > > > > > You need two Device sec

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-24 Thread Paul Scott
Craig Dickson wrote: will trillich wrote: # dpkg -S apt-setup base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup base-config: /usr/share/debconf/templates/apt-setup.templates base-config: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-setup.8.gz apt-setup has one of the least helpful man pages I've ever seen. Is this an interacti

libao0, libao2: conflict, cannot dist-upgrade

2001-08-24 Thread Erik Steffl
there is a problem with libao2 trying to overwrite a library that libao0 also provides and no matter what I do it doesn't want to finish upgrading (or install/remove any packages), here's the error message I get when I do upgrade: jojda:/home/erik# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ... s

Re: magic sysrq key

2001-08-24 Thread Cyan Ogilvie
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:53:26AM +0200, thomas wrote: > > Is there a way to enable the magic SysRq key without compiling a custom > > kernel? > > Why is it not built in the Debian kernel? If policy demands that it > > should be disabled by default then this could be done via proc during > > the b

Re: libao0, libao2: conflict, cannot dist-upgrade

2001-08-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Erik Steffl wrote: > there is a problem with libao2 trying to overwrite a library that > libao0 also provides and no matter what I do it doesn't want to finish > upgrading (or install/remove any packages), here's the error message I > get when I do upgrade: > > Unpacking libao2 (from .../libao2

1 IP Address on 2 Network Interfaces

2001-08-24 Thread Jochem Vaartjes
Hello, I'm running a debian unstable/testing (up-to-date) with kernel 2.4.7. And I was wondering if it is possible to assign 1 IP Address to 2 Network Interfaces, so I can combine 2x 100Mbit. I know its possible i've seen it before, but I can't figure out how to config such thing, any hints, help o

utmp/wtmp problem!

2001-08-24 Thread nestea
hi folks, my debian box was newly installed, upgraded to unstable a week ago. i compiled 2.4.9 kernel yesterday and it works just fine. this morning i login as root and fire the 'w' command, i got weird result ; 14:37:30 up 1 day, 20:30, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY

Re: libao0, libao2: conflict, cannot dist-upgrade

2001-08-24 Thread John Galt
dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libao2_0.8.0-1_i386.deb On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > there is a problem with libao2 trying to overwrite a library that >libao0 also provides and no matter what I do it doesn't want to finish >upgrading (or install/remove any packag

HELP: dpkg refuses to install my self compiled kernel??

2001-08-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello! still struggling with the 'no way to install a working bootloader' so i recompiled a 2.4 kernel with no initrd and fix compiled SCSI support inside which still panics claiming not to be able to find the root partition whilst it showed the disk a few lines before... anyway i com

2nd network interface acts weird:neighbour table overflow

2001-08-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i have put the 2nd network card into my comp... BTW how can i ensure that the 2nd card is really configured as the 2nd? at boot the 2nd card is set up as eth0 even if in the modules i specifyed it as eth1.. have to unload the odules once booted and load them in reverse order there surel

How do I UNHOLD a non-existent package?

2001-08-24 Thread Adam Warner
Hi all, I used echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections To put a package on hold but it turned out I used the wrong name. And it is sitting in the package database as held: dpkg --get-selections Shows that the non-existent package is currently being held. Plus an apt-get install shows that the pa

Re: modems and linux

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:41:13AM -0700, David Frischknecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to know how I could get my Zoom 56k PCI modem > to work in Linux. Thanks a bunch. If that's a 2920, you may be in luck. Try Google with your specific device, model number, and/or chips

Re: BTC-1831 Sound Card (Opti 1688)

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:24:58 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ** I have a BTC-1831 Sound Card (Opti 1688). Is this card supported in Linux? > Do > ** I need a driver? I see OSS has it, but when I try to install it, it says > it > ** doesn't support my kernel. it's 2.2.19pre17, but OSS says it

Re: ADSL problem with large packets

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > I just got ADSL running on my home network with a Debian gateway (two ethernet > cards). > > I think I've got an MTU problem. Large transfers just don't work, but I can > make > an SSH connection out (for example) and pinging and the likes w

Re: How do I UNHOLD a non-existent package?

2001-08-24 Thread John Galt
On 24 Aug 2001, Adam Warner wrote: >Hi all, > >I used > >echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections echo " purge" | dpkg --set-selections >To put a package on hold but it turned out I used the wrong name. And it >is sitting in the package database as held: > >dpkg --get-selections > >Shows that the n

Re: How do I UNHOLD a non-existent package?

2001-08-24 Thread Adam Warner
On 24 Aug 2001 01:44:00 -0600, John Galt wrote: > On 24 Aug 2001, Adam Warner wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I used > > > >echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections > > echo " purge" | dpkg --set-selections Nice guess Atlas Shrugged but it doesn't work. The non-existent package still exists in the databa

Re: HELP: bootloader problems....

2001-08-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:07:08PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello! > > now after several successful reboots with grub, and having changed > nothing at the booloader, now the thing stops at stage 2 with a error no > 21 BTW i switched to grub, because there was no way to get lilo to > work

xawtv probs....

2001-08-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello! after an euphoric phase where xawtv worked really nice (even if i can't get the picture in full screen, all i get making the frame bigger and bigger are bigger black borders around the quite small image) now it doesn't work anymore. :( starting xawtv yields me a: This is xawtv-3.60,

Re: 2nd network interface acts weird:neighbour table overflow

2001-08-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:26:22AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: here too i mailed too fast... sorry forgot that i removed the auto eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces since that interface is configured through dhcp, remmebered this as i noticed that making a modprobe eth1 with no eth0 installed t

Re: Multiple X servers?

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:51:50PM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, all. > > I'm running a stock Potato r3, and I'm having some difficulty getting X to > cooperate. My computer uses the Intel i810 chipset on its video hardware, > and I've downloaded the necessary modu

Re: How to set default home for all users of Mozilla?

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:50:01PM -0500, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to set the default home page for all > users of Mozilla on both Debian GNU/Linux and on Windows? I'd look in the general direction of a transparent proxy, probably requiring authentication. --

Re: using different mailfolders in mutt

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:49:42PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 06:31:06AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:52:46PM +0200, stephan kulka wrote: > > > Hello all > > > > > > I would like to filter my incoming mail in different folders in

Re: DISPLAY and multiple ssh connections

2001-08-24 Thread Dmitriy
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:31:01PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > When I have multiple ssh connections to a server, it increments the > offset for the DISPLAY by one for each connection. When connecting through > my firewall using: > /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $IP_REAL 22 -R $MAGNETO 22

dual boot from two hdd

2001-08-24 Thread V.Surya Narayanan
Hello   How can I boot my system with dual boot like having windows in one harddisk and linux on another harddisk. How to configure my lilo. please help me to solve this problem.   Thankz   V.SuryanarayanGet your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: xawtv probs....

2001-08-24 Thread Matthias Richter
Bruno Boettcher wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 at 10:26:59AM: > after an euphoric phase where xawtv worked really nice (even if i can't > get the picture in full screen, all i get making the frame bigger and > bigger are bigger black borders around the quite small image) now it > doesn't work anymor

HP and Linux

2001-08-24 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Does anyone have any experience of Linux under HP machines, in particular vectra vl400 and/or pavilion series ? thanks Cliff

Re: apt-get galeon q

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:14:00PM -0400, Jeff Maxson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > ok, the hoopla about galeon has got me wanting to try it. I'm running > woody, so I commented out my woody lines in my sources.list and put in > > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-fre

Re: HP and Linux

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:04:03AM +0200, Cliff Sarginson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone have any experience of Linux under HP machines, in > particular vectra vl400 and/or pavilion series ? Some. I think one of both, though I'm fuzzy on the specific models. I remember a distinct lack

Re: dual boot from two hdd

2001-08-24 Thread greg
"V.Surya Narayanan" wrote: > > Hello > > How can I boot my system with dual boot like having > windows in one harddisk and linux on another harddisk. > How to configure my lilo. please help me to solve this problem. > > Thankz > > V.Suryanarayan > >

Re: apt-get

2001-08-24 Thread greg
greg wrote: > > Would anyone tell me how I can verify my downloaded debs ? > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] It does it as you download...don't ask me how...

Re: HELP: bootloader problems....

2001-08-24 Thread greg
Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:07:08PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > > > now after several successful reboots with grub, and having changed > > nothing at the booloader, now the thing stops at stage 2 with a error no > > 21 BTW i switched to grub, because t

Re: magic sysrq key

2001-08-24 Thread greg
Cyan Ogilvie wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:53:26AM +0200, thomas wrote: > > > Is there a way to enable the magic SysRq key without compiling a custom > > > kernel? > > > Why is it not built in the Debian kernel? If policy demands that it > > > should be disabled by default then this could

Re: apt-get

2001-08-24 Thread greg
John Galt wrote: > > debsums > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, greg wrote: > > >Would anyone tell me how I can verify my downloaded debs ? > > > > > > > > -- > The early worm gets the bird. > > Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who! ...thanx ... i'll try it ! ...g.b...

Re: How do I UNHOLD a non-existent package?

2001-08-24 Thread Adam Warner
On 24 Aug 2001 01:44:00 -0600, John Galt wrote: > On 24 Aug 2001, Adam Warner wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I used > > > >echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections > > echo " purge" | dpkg --set-selections Thanks for trying to help John. There I was trying to search out the db internals documentation to

Some CD burning questions

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
Hi! My first try to burn a CD-R with a Debian system was a great success. But there are some questions : 1. By writing a CD-R with GnomeToaster and cdrdao i had this client output: Warning: No root permissions for real time sheduling. What is real time shaduling and what i have to do,

Re: Can't use CD writer! Please help....

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
On 23 Aug 2001 17:50:57 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > ** On 23 Aug 2001 23:05:46 +, Timeboy wrote: > ** > > ** > Dear debian users, > ** > > ** > i tried to write a CD with GnomeToaster1.0Beta2. Cause i want to write > audiofiles > ** > in DAO mode, cdrdao1.1.3 is the recording tool.

ipchains -j REDIRECT

2001-08-24 Thread c . kigundu
Hello, Has anyone seen this before? #ipchains -A input -j REDIRECT 80 -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 1.2.3.4/0 80 ipchains: No target by that name (Maybe this kernel doesn't support transparent proxying?) I am using stock potato Cheers Carl

Re: dual boot from two hdd

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
lba32 boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map prompt timeout=100 vga=0x133 default=Linux image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 append="" label=Linux read-only other=/dev/hdb1 table=/dev/hdb label=win map-drive=0x80 to=0x81

X11: double-click word delimiters

2001-08-24 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, where and how can I configure the delimiters of what gets selected under X11v4 (fvwm) when I double-click on words? An example: http://www.nodeos.org -- double click on nodeos selects just nodeos but I would like that all enclosed by whitespace is selected. Thanks for any help! Lukas

"import" cyrus-imap mails

2001-08-24 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Hi, i need to import a backup copy of my old cyrus imapd (from woody/testing) mail dir on a new server. Can this be done just by copying the mail files (numbered 1. to xxx.) and subdir into new created user mail dir? -- MfG Gehard Kroder

Re: Kernel for AMD Thunderbird

2001-08-24 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:59:01PM +0300, George Karaolides wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > I read that, but I haven't gone over to 2.4 yet. I'll cross that bridge > when I get to it... I'm running two machines on 2.4.[59] with Athlon kernel no problems. One is a Duron 600 the

Sound Card [continued]

2001-08-24 Thread JakeCatfox
Is there a way I can use my sound card (the BTC one) without using OSS? OSS won't seem to work with my kernel, and I can't find a driver anywhere else. Is there a module I can just load? -- Deven G.

Quake3 hangs after GL Initialisation

2001-08-24 Thread Herbert Pirke
Hi, I have a woody/sid running on XFree 4.1 and a 2.4.7 SMP Kernel. My soundcard is a SB64 PCI (es1371) and the grafic board is a Voodoo3 3000. I had DRI properly configured and everything was working fine. Q3 ran at decent framerates and with sound. But when I started playing around with the vi

Re: konqueror vs. session cookies

2001-08-24 Thread Hamma Scott
Sounds like someone already asked for that and it was demoted to wishlist status http://bugs.kde.org/db/16/16757.html --- will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this may be a bit off topic -- > > aren't "session" cookies (i.e. those without an > expiration date) > supposed to go away when the

Re: ipchains -j REDIRECT

2001-08-24 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
Hi. I saw this before. > Has anyone seen this before? > > #ipchains -A input -j REDIRECT 80 -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 1.2.3.4/0 80 > ipchains: No target by that name (Maybe this kernel doesn't support > transparent proxying?) Maybe your kernel doesn't support transparent proxying? :) -- Alexey

Re: apt-get galeon q

2001-08-24 Thread christophe barbé
Yes if you want uptodate (sometimes called bleeding-edge) softwares, it's better to upgrade to sid. I would be easier for you and in the same time you contribute to the early testing effort. IMHO testing (woody) is for woody testing. If you polute too much your woody with sid package, you are not r

Re: Anti-Debian Discruimination (was: DEB vs RPM)

2001-08-24 Thread Hamma Scott
I read the article. It doesn't sound like bashing. I have been bashed for using Linux and to paraphrase my favorite debate line "that, senator is not bashing". The upshot of the article is: - We decided that RPM's are the defacto standard - DEB's are more reliable, easier to update and conform to

Re: X11: double-click word delimiters

2001-08-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:44:55PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > where and how can I configure the delimiters of what gets selected under > X11v4 (fvwm) when I double-click on words? > > An example: > http://www.nodeos.org -- double click on nodeos selects just nodeos but I > would like

Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I know this has come up before, but my searching skills aren't up to the task of finding it in the archives apparently... I have about 20 workstations on the way for incoming students and They all have GForce2 cards (AFAIK this requires XFree86 4.x), what's the best way tho keep these machine

Re: Debian dream machine?

2001-08-24 Thread Hamma Scott
I got a Dell machine, but I was just getting into Linux and went Red-Hat for a while. The Red-Hat hardware support page only gave 4 Dells and 1 IBM. I would consider http://www.penguincomputing.com they specialize in Linux-compatible machines. If you are inclined to hear my tale of woe with Dell,

play audio cd with normal user

2001-08-24 Thread qmichiel
I've got sound working for normal users and I can mount one of two cdrom drives with normal users by using a link (/dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc) to it. It's than mounted to /cdrom. When I'm root I can play a audio cd in /dev/hdc just by clicking on /cdrom (why this is I don't know) but when I'm a normal

File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread usucapiao
Hi i would like to know any url of a good file manager for wmaker...i use gmc, but dont like it...if somebody can help me thanks!!! João Laureano Leme Cuiabá - Brazil

Re: Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:11:22AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I know this has come up before, but my searching skills aren't up to > the task of finding it in the archives apparently... > > I have about 20 workstations on the way for incoming students and They > all have GForce2 c

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread thinker5555
Quoting usucapiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi i would like to know any url of a good file manager for wmaker...i > use gmc, but dont like it...if somebody can help me thanks!!! > João Laureano Leme > Cuiabá - Brazil Personally, I like TKDesk. I don't know the URL, but it's available via apt-get.

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread Christian Jaeger
I use dfm. It's very Mac-like (or OS/2 like but I don't know OS/2) and I like it (more than konqueror). But NOTE: dfm still has a dangerous bug (I've once reported it to the author but maybe he hasn't got the report): If you have a file/folder in your *home* directory whose name begins with a

Re: "import" cyrus-imap mails

2001-08-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Gerhard Kroder wrote: > i need to import a backup copy of my old cyrus imapd (from > woody/testing) mail dir on a new server. Can this be done just by Cyrus does not use the maildir format ;) and it has other databases too. The safest way to do this is to use an imap/pop3 cl

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
> Hi i would like to know any url of a good file manager for > wmaker...i > use gmc, but dont like it...if somebody can help me thanks!!! i use filerunner for file managment, it does everything i need. Hereward

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Re: "import" cyrus-imap mails

2001-08-24 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Gerhard Kroder wrote: > > i need to import a backup copy of my old cyrus imapd (from > > woody/testing) mail dir on a new server. Can this be done just by > > Cyrus does not use the maildir format ;) yeah, i was refering to it's dirs wi

Re: play audio cd with normal user

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:20:26 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ** I've got sound working for normal users and I can mount one of two cdrom > ** drives with normal users by using a link (/dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc) to it. > ** It's than mounted to /cdrom. > ** When I'm root I can play a audio c

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-24 Thread D. Hoyem
I found that this url was a very informative source for apt-get information http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/docs/sgml/apt-howto-en/online/index.html Don --- Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Craig Dickson wrote: > > > will trillich wrote: > > > > > >># dpkg -S apt-setup > >>base-co

audio works, but only as root

2001-08-24 Thread Rich
Howdy all, I've got my soundblaster card working, with appropriate entries in /etc/modutils, but it will not autoload, and I have to do: su -c "modprobe sb" to get it to work. My /etc/group entry has: audio:x:29:rich so why can't I start sound as my (non-root) self? Thanks in advance

Re: caps lock...num lock...whatever...

2001-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: caps lock...num lock...whatever... Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:06:25PM -0400 In reply to:Jeff Maxson Quoting Jeff Maxson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do you turn on > num lock by default? > Heve you checked the bios

Re: Some CD burning questions

2001-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Some CD burning questions Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:08:05PM +0200 In reply to:Timeboy Quoting Timeboy([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi! > > My first try to burn a CD-R with a Debian system was a great success. But > there are > some questions : > > 1. By writing a CD-R

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they? Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:54:50PM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:05:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > In reply to:will trillich > > > > Quot

Re: Sound Card [continued]

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 07:31:39 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > **Is there a way I can use my sound card (the BTC one) without using OSS? OSS > ** won't seem to work with my kernel, and I can't find a driver anywhere > else. > ** Is there a module I can just load? Eh? OSS is a part of kernel. If

Re: audio works, but only as root

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:04:15 -0500, Rich wrote: > **Howdy all, > ** > ** I've got my soundblaster card working, with appropriate entries in > ** /etc/modutils, but it will not autoload, and I have to do: > ** > ** su -c "modprobe sb" > ** > ** to get it to work. My /etc/group entry has: > **

Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've posted some tips on how I've got CD writing working on my debian machine, in the hopes they may be vaguely useful to others. My specific desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as I could tell required that I NOT be using ide-scsi) and cd-rw burning (which requi

Re: Anti-Debian Discruimination (was: DEB vs RPM)

2001-08-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Hamma Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The upshot of the article is: > > - We decided that RPM's are the defacto standard Fact: A limited set subset of RPM v3 is the LSB packaging standard. No distribution is intended to use these as native packages, only for LSB packages. > - DEB's are more

Re: Multiple X servers?

2001-08-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: > --kunpHVz1op/+13PW > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Why doesn't the debian-user-digest list handle this right? > on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:51:50PM -05

Re: magic sysrq key

2001-08-24 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Wouldn't you build a custom kernel soon after installation anyway? > That's generally recommended. Is it? I used to do this, but now I try to avoid upgrading the kernel because right now everything is working fine and I don't want to mess with the pack

Adsl at start...

2001-08-24 Thread usucapiao
Hi everbody. I would like to know how can i bring my adsl connection at start. PS:I use the rp-pppoe script (adsl-start, adsl-stop, etc..)

Re: Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread David Z Maze
Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDP> I know this has come up before, but my searching skills aren't up to JDP> the task of finding it in the archives apparently... JDP> JDP> I have about 20 workstations on the way for incoming students and They JDP> all have GForce2 cards (AFAIK this

Re: caps lock...num lock...whatever...

2001-08-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:24:04AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Quoting Jeff Maxson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do you turn on > > num lock by default? > > > Heve you checked the bios? ISTR a bios setting for setting the num > lock state. Just c

RE: caps lock...num lock...whatever...

2001-08-24 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
>From the Config-HOWTO at http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Config-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.3 Other special keys will be dealt with in the following sections. To enable NumLock on by default, add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do setleds -D +num < $tty don

Re: Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:16:33AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: :When I did this, I went to ftp.xfree86.org and found a tarball :containing just the server binary and things you absolutely needed to :run the X server, and installed this under /usr/local. Worked like a :charm. (Though at this point,

Re: Some CD burning questions

2001-08-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
> 2. In GnomeToaster there is a method to write a > CD: fixate. For what is this needet and what will > happen if i use this method? That's called 'closing' the CD by other cd-burning software programs. You *must* do it if you want to be able to use the disc on a home cd-player, for example. > An

Re: Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:27:58PM +0200, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: :see here: : :http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ : :or, if you're feeling adventurous: : :http://cpbotha.net/building_xfree86_4.1.0_debs_on_potato.HOWTO Excellent, Thanks. -Jon

Re: libao0, libao2: conflict, cannot dist-upgrade

2001-08-24 Thread Craig Dickson
John Galt wrote: > dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libao2_0.8.0-1_i386.deb That, however, broke every program that uses libao, in my experience, because you're just forcibly overwriting the libao0 libraries with the ones from libao2, and apparently they aren't backward-compatibl

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread smokez
The verion on testing/unstable appears to be a couple of revisions behind, prehaps the new verion has fixed this not sure if this is the offical site http://www.kaisersite.de/dfm/ adam Christian Jaeger wrote: I use dfm. It's very Mac-like (or OS/2 like but I don't know OS/2) and I like it (

Re: HELP: dpkg refuses to install my self compiled kernel??

2001-08-24 Thread David Z Maze
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BB> anyway i compiled that kernel also with make-kpg and wanted to install BB> it but: BB> dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.9_Custom.1.00_i386.deb BB> (--install): BB> failed in buffer_write(fd) (8, ret=-1 backend dpkg-deb during BB> `./lib/modul

Re: caps lock...num lock...whatever...

2001-08-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
> ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do you turn on > num lock by default? There's a program called 'numlockx', I believe. I'm using it and it works fine. Find it at freshmeat.net. There's no DEB version that I found easily... Hall

USB DVD Drive

2001-08-24 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Hi, I'm planning to buy a USB DVD drive. Is this supported under Linux? Also can a bootable CD be used to boot a system from a DVD drive? I have access to none so can't test. If someone is using such things, I'd like to know which ones are compatible. TIA, Indraneel -- http://www.indialine.org/i

Re: libao0, libao2: conflict, cannot dist-upgrade

2001-08-24 Thread David Z Maze
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ES> there is a problem with libao2 trying to overwrite a library that ES> libao0 also provides (Report a bug through the Debian bug-tracking system! See http://bugs.debian.org/ for some details. It'll be far more likely to reach the maintainer and actually

Re: play audio cd with normal user

2001-08-24 Thread David Z Maze
Qmichiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: q> I've got sound working for normal users and I can mount one of two q> cdrom drives with normal users by using a link (/dev/cdrom -> q> /dev/hdc) to it. It's than mounted to /cdrom. When I'm root I can q> play a audio cd in /dev/hdc just by clicking on /cdr

Re: play audio cd with normal user

2001-08-24 Thread glynis
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:57:03PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > You don't need to mount your CD-Rom drive for playing audio CD's. The kernel > can't read audio CD's and there is no filsystem that you could use with mount. > Your software CD player will read your audio CD's without mount. > > But you

Re: caps lock...num lock...whatever...

2001-08-24 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Friday 24 August 2001 16:16, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:24:04AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Quoting Jeff Maxson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do you turn on > > > num lock by default? > > > > Heve you checked the bios?

Re: audio works, but only as root

2001-08-24 Thread greg
Timeboy wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:04:15 -0500, Rich wrote: > > > **Howdy all, > > ** > > ** I've got my soundblaster card working, with appropriate entries in > > ** /etc/modutils, but it will not autoload, and I have to do: > > ** > > ** su -c "modprobe sb" > > ** > > ** to get it to wor

Re: caps lock...num lock...whatever...

2001-08-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:01:12PM +0200, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Mmm..I don't mean to be rude, but is it not simpler to just push > the key down ? Maybe, but it's a simple, repetitive task. My computer is a lot better at simple, repetitive tasks than I am, so I prefer to let it handle them. --

Galeon problem ...

2001-08-24 Thread Steven Yap
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: > > > Solve these two problems by ditching the proprietary crap. On a 300MHz+ > > CPU, Galeon kicks Netscape's ass off the planet. On older hardware, > > life's a bit more diffic

RE: Debian dream machine?

2001-08-24 Thread Steve Charlton
Title: RE: Debian dream machine? I've got the KT7A and an Athlon 1.1GHz and have built an optimized 2.4.6 kernel for it and it works GREAT!  I wouldn't trade it for anything (except perhaps a 1.4GHz). STeve -Original Message- From: Noah Meyerhans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Th

Re: DISPLAY and multiple ssh connections

2001-08-24 Thread Jason Majors
> > This wouldn't bother me too much, but the app that complains is vim. > > Not the gui version, the console version. I have version 5.8.007-4 instal > led > > of vim-rt and vim-gtk. I can't install just vim, because it conflicts with > > vim-gtk, which for the most part provides the console versi

Re: Anti-Debian Discruimination (was: DEB vs RPM)

2001-08-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* David McNab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > > Also, how much success have people had with the 'alien' utility for > converting .rpm to .deb? I've heard people saying that 'alien' is pretty > evil and can seriously screw up a debian installation. Anything can seriously screw up any insta

Unwanted, huge messages

2001-08-24 Thread Vittorio
I use mutt with fetchmail to get loads of messages from the many lists I'm subscribed to. Now sometimes it happens that very long (say, exceeding 1,000,000 octets), unwanted messages slow down the download of 'wanted' messages. My question is: When using fetchmail how can I delete messages great

Re: 1 IP Address on 2 Network Interfaces

2001-08-24 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Jochem Vaartjes wrote: > before, but I can't figure out how to config such thing, any hints, help or > suggestion?? I think the term for this is channel bonding. Maybe a search in the archives will help. Walter

Re: Unwanted, huge messages

2001-08-24 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Vittorio wrote: V> I use mutt with fetchmail to get loads of messages from the many lists V> I'm subscribed to. V> V> Now sometimes it happens that very long (say, exceeding 1,000,000 V> octets), unwanted messages slow down the download of 'wanted' messages. V> V> My questio

Tomcat / Woody

2001-08-24 Thread Mark Walter
I've installed these woody packages: Tomcat 3.2.2-1 apache 1.3.19-1 jdk1.1 1.1.8v1-3 libapache-mod-jk 3.2.2-1 My Webserver is not but I've tried it. I'am not able to offer a document with tomcat as mentioned at /usr/share/doc/tomcat/README.Debian Tomcat is running: server:/home/devel# /etc/init

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