Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-09-01 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: > > > > $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* > That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. > > > postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/doc/html/app-vacuumdb.html >

scsi 2960 & 2960 Adaptec cards

2001-09-01 Thread mate
Hi, Does somebody know whether I can use the scsi 2960 & 2960 Adaptec cards in Debian Potato distribution?? Does the cernell 2.2.16 from debian-potato support these adaptec's products? From the official web page of Adaptec I can get know nothing. I need the TSID number to ask a question, but if

Re: Installing a single file

2001-09-01 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:46:44AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Background: > I just installed the vim text editor. When I try to access the help file > with ":help", it says the file, /usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt, is not found. > > Question: > How do I find and install this one single file from

To run a binary as a daemon

2001-09-01 Thread shyamk
If I wish to run a binary (say, AIRC) as a daemon , what should I do ? My thoughts are something like: maybe add into /etc/rc.d , a file with an entry like if [-x /path/AIRC] ./path/AIRC #Execute this Please offer your views on this . I know I have not thought enoug

Re: Debian 2.2R3 scanner problem...

2001-09-01 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
> > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > scanner help needed. > > > > > > > > I just installed a fresh Debian 2.2R3 and wanted to scan. > > > > So I installed sane. > > > > > > > > But when I run xscanimage it says it can't find any devices. > > > > > > > > That makes me wonder, because: > > > > > > > > Du

scsi 29160 & 29160N Adaptec cards

2001-09-01 Thread mate
Hi, Does somebody know whether I can use the scsi 29160 & 2960N Adaptec cards in Debian Potato distribution?? Does the kernel 2.2.16 from debian-potato support these adaptec's products? From the official web page of Adaptec I can get know nothing. I need the TSID number to ask a question, but i

helprxvt loads extremely slow

2001-09-01 Thread john smith
Hi, rxvt loading is still extremely slow like I have to wait for 20 seconds before I can see the terminaleven trying to use something like #--- # Shell prompt #--- function fastprompt() { unset PROMPT_COMMAND case $TERM in *term | rxvt )

Re: To run a binary as a daemon

2001-09-01 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:23:35AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I wish to run a binary (say, AIRC) as a daemon , what should I do ? > My thoughts are something like: >maybe add into /etc/rc.d , a file with an entry like > if [-x /path/AIRC] > ./path/AIRC #Ex

Installing vimtutor help file

2001-09-01 Thread Steve Dondley
Background: I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction in section 7), I'm told that the help file, /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt, cannot be found. Question: How do I install this sing

Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
General rule of Linux: Server, use older mature platform. Client, have fun with latest thing but expect some glitch. So you should install potato with Kernel 2.2. I have woody box (SMP/woody) but my server is 486/DX2 50MHz 20MB running Kernel 2.2 /Potato (here) Mail server (exim) + DNS ser

Re: Installing vimtutor help file

2001-09-01 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:14:54AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Background: > I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and > try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction > in section 7), I'm told that the help file, > /usr/share/vim/v

Re: mandb gets stuck!

2001-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:25:01AM -0500, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:37:05AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > My suggestion: > > > >- rename /usr/X11R6/man/man3 to /usr/X11/man/man3-bak > > > >- create a directory /usr/X11R6/man/man3 > > > >

Re: Installing vimtutor help file

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:14:54AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and > try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction > in section 7), I'm told that the help file, > /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.

Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-01 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:24:30PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > General rule of Linux: > > Server, use older mature platform. > Client, have fun with latest thing but expect some glitch. > > So you should install potato with Kernel 2.2. i've already got a server running potato with 2.2.17. I fig

Re: networking problem during install

2001-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:39:44PM -0700, Bob Galloway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, I finally got the box to network. As god as my witness, I have > no idea why this worked, but it worked: I swapped the NetGear card out > of the box, replaced it with the LinkSys card, and tried one more ti

Re: Just a question

2001-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:53:57AM -0400, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>BTW what does [ sed -e "s/^\([^,]*\).*$/\1/" ] accomplish? I'm just > >>grooving on one liners lately and am curious. It seems like - > >>awk -F : '{print $5}' /etc/passwd is all you need to spit out the full >

Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-09-01 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as > a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd > love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) > Hi, have a look on the http://mdbto

Re: Emacs/X problems...

2001-09-01 Thread Joel Mayes
> "Aaron" == Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aaron> When I start emacs, using my trusty old .emacs file I've Aaron> been keeping and maintaining for years, The colors I've Aaron> selected aren't quite working right. Basically, I set the Aaron> background color to black,

xterm or rxvt -why the keys difference?

2001-09-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have various alt- keys mapped in vim to save, delete lines etc. These work in the console and they work in rxvt but they don't work in xterm. In xterm, alt-s and s, for example, give the same symbol. Using the GUI version of vim, however, works without problems in xterm. I've read all the docsc

Re: To run a binary as a daemon

2001-09-01 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:23:35AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > If I wish to run a binary (say, AIRC) as a daemon , what should I do ? > My thoughts are something like: >maybe add into /etc/rc.d , a file with an entry like > if [-x /path/AIRC] > ./path/AIRC #

apt/dpkg dependencies prob

2001-09-01 Thread der.hans
moin, moin, originally I was dist-upgrading a woody box to today's woody. I'm running into dependency probs between libqt2 and kde-designer, even though kde-designer isn't installed. fs:/home/lufthans# apt-get install dpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packa

./configure dies with --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass

2001-09-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi Guys, Using Debian Woody here, 2.4.9 kernel etc, trying to compile samba 2.2.1a but the ./configure script dies when I include the --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass switches with the following: checking configure summary configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config If I leave out the pam s

VMware problem -- need help!!!

2001-09-01 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
I still can't make VMware 2.0.4 work in debian potato with the 2.4.8-ac6 kernel. What should i do? i tried re-running the install script but it would just output that the setup program cannot build the vmware module. i checked the website and followed the instructions to recompile the kernel wit

Re: Mozilla & JAVA

2001-09-01 Thread Georges Goncalves
Le -08.31.2001 22:18:13-, « Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « Re: Mozilla & JAVA » KW> > Arrhhh I think I tested all the KW> > possibilities and I still don't know what I'm doing wrong :(( KW> KW> I've about decided there's a

Re: mandb gets stuck!

2001-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:36:08PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:25:01AM -0500, Colin Watson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm afraid none of that will work - it turns out it's the database > > (/var/cache/man/X11R6/index.bt) that's broken, not the man pages. > > Ho

Re: Microsoft compatibility (aarrggh!)

2001-09-01 Thread Kieren Diment
So long as your computer has enough grunt to run Star-Office ( > 32MB ram, > P133 ) then you should be fine. On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:09:00AM +0100, charles verbeken wrote: > Hello, > > This is regarding a few questions regarding the installationa and the > compatibility of debian OS. Will I

openGL problems: how is it sup0posed to work?

2001-09-01 Thread Erik Steffl
I have DRI and openGL (mesa) working, but I have few strange problems. xscreensaver: openGL demo hacsk are running in software mode when run by xscreensaver but run accelerated when run from xterm. xscreensaver openGL demo hacks run in window mode (when run from xterm, accelerated), how do

Re: Mozilla & JAVA

2001-09-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello All, Something seems fishy here. Reading this made me wonder if I was disillusioned as to weather my java was reallly working in mozilla or not. So I tested it out by searching similar to the gentleman below for 'online java games Arkanoid' at google. With a couple that I tr

Re: ./configure dies with --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass

2001-09-01 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 10:38:17 +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: >Using Debian Woody here, 2.4.9 kernel etc, trying to compile samba 2.2.1a >but the ./configure script dies when I include the --with-pam >--with-pam_smbpass switches with the following: > >checking configure summary >configure: error: summ

Re: VMware problem -- need help!!!

2001-09-01 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 06:02:08PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > I still can't make VMware 2.0.4 work in debian potato with the 2.4.8-ac6 > kernel. What should i do? i tried re-running the install script but it would > just output that the setup program cannot build the vmware module. i ch

Re: Mozilla & JAVA

2001-09-01 Thread Stefan Frank
Hi Georges! On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Georges Goncalves wrote: > Hi, > > I really wonder if the SID version of Mozilla is compiled with Java Support > enabled... > > Why do I ask? Because I can't get it to work. I've tryed both a full manual > Java JRE install and an automatic install (http://www

kmod problum?

2001-09-01 Thread Gabriel Pickard
During 2.2r3 install, in the first bootup from floppy, after the base-system has been installed, the problematica situation of this problem descends on me: " kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt -, errno=8 " fills my screen infinetely. What shall i do? Thank You, Gabriel.

Re: VMware problem -- need help!!!

2001-09-01 Thread Andrew Savory
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > I still can't make VMware 2.0.4 work in debian potato with the > 2.4.8-ac6 kernel. What should i do? To use vmware on 2.4.* kernels, you need a custom patch. Check out the vmware newsgroups for more information. Andrew. -- All views are my own

External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, How can I get my machine to automatically update a file with my current dynamic IP address? Is there a enviroment varriable which i can read it from, write it to a file, then upload it to a hidden section of a public web site, so that selected people (who know where the file is) can use it to S

Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: | > | > $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* | That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. Actually, the quoting is necessary so that the *shell* doesn't expand t

Strange kernel start problem after compileing

2001-09-01 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, I built a 2.4.9 kernel. When i start it i get that message right after the kernel is loaded: failed to exec: modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8 And the system hangs. If i start it with my old kernel it works perfect! Nerver saw something like that - what does it mean? cheers, Raffaele --

Re: Installing vimtutor help file

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:40:44PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: | On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:14:54AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | > I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and | > try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction | > in secti

Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:40:00PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: | Hi, | How can I get my machine to automatically update a file with my | current dynamic IP address? Is there a enviroment varriable | which i can read it from, write it to a file, then upload it to | a hidden section of a public web

Re: Basic kernel 2.4.9 panic???

2001-09-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Vittorio wrote: 2) make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg --revision=test.01 kernel_image Have you tried: make-kpkg --revision=test.01 --initrd kernel_image 3) under /usr/src: dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.9-test.01-i386.deb 4) I've modified lilo accordingly # stock kernel (I've renamed the original

Re: Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
> /sbin/ifconfig > will display the IP address of all interfaces > > It would be really hard for those people to ssh in and read > that file > unless they first knew the IP, in which case they wouldn't > need the > file ... I know that, what i wanted was a system that would read the IP addres

Re: Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
> I'll attach a perl snippet that I used when on modem, > might give you some ideas. Stuff between ¤¤'s need to > be adapted - mainly account specific stuff. To make it > autoexecute on connection - just place it (with a > non-ignorable name) in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > looks like just what i was wa

promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, I went through the kernel options but could not find support for promise ultra ata100 controller. (Promise Technologies). Is the above card supported under Linux ? Thanks in advance. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread CaT
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:34:23PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi, > > I went through the kernel options but could not find support for promise > ultra ata100 controller. (Promise Technologies). > > Is the above card supported under Linux ? Natively under 2.4.x, with patch under 2.2.x I believ

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, It is in the latest kernel, 2.4.9. Or you can get patches at http://www.linux-ide.org/ You should be able to find it in 2.4.9 under ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> [*] PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67|68} support HTH, Jimmy

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again, I just wanted to say that after I sent off my reply on where to find it I saw that it looks like you're running the same kernel as me from reading your sig, kernel-2.4.9 w/ext3. You should be able to find it in there. Jim

Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.

2001-09-01 Thread Preben Randhol
The kernel that comes with Debian testing, turns off (the power) my machine when I run: shutdown -h now. But I wanted to recompile the kernel and choose 2.2.18 (as I had some problems with 2.2.19). I enabled APM in the kernel and lilo says append="apm=on", but the problem is that now the kernel sto

Console Fonts

2001-09-01 Thread Rob Waggoner
Which package do I need to investigate to do to a linux console what mode con:lines=50 did for a dos console? Thanks! Rob Waggoner Master Applications Craftsman WAGGS Web based Advanced Graphics and Graphing Solutions http://www.waggs.net "Applying Old world craftsmanship to New world technol

Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
This is something I have not seen mentioned before, and fro which I have run out of (limited) ideas. I have four machines of varying ages and specs (all intel/amd) and I am moving them all away from windows on on to Debian. They are getting there and the problems that do exist are ones that I will

Re: Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:50:13PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: | > /sbin/ifconfig | > will display the IP address of all interfaces | > | > It would be really hard for those people to ssh in and read | > that file | > unless they first knew the IP, in which case they wouldn't | > need the |

Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:50:55PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > just a question of been there, done that, with potato. thought > i could get a shot at configuring iptables, that's why i > thought of 2.4. Now you are clear why you are asking this. I agree woody seems satble enough if one migraded a

Re: Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Hereward Cooper wrote: > I know that, what i wanted was a system that would read the IP > address, write it to a file, upload the file to a webserver > somewhere, people then read the file, get my ip address and > login. Long-winded, but the only way i though of. Uh, why don't you just set up an

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: | This is something I have not seen mentioned before, and fro which I have | run out of (limited) ideas. | | I have four machines of varying ages and specs (all intel/amd) and I am | moving them all away from windows on on to Debian.

Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:27:54PM +, Preben Randhol wrote: > The kernel that comes with Debian testing, turns off (the power) my > machine when I run: shutdown -h now. But I wanted to recompile the > kernel and choose 2.2.18 (as I had some problems with 2.2.19). I enabled > APM in the kernel a

(OT sorta ) Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-09-01 Thread Cliff Rice
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:04:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > 'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer "HTH"? I > notice lots o' people usin' it. :) HTH :== hope that helps > > I went onto the #debian channel on openprojects.net IRC and asked around > abo

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
> When GNOME locks up, can you press Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] to get to a virtual > console? Yes - no problem. I ran top as per you instructions and the process consuming the highest CPU value was "top" itself with a value of 0.3%. There were no entries listed under top fox XFree86, or any Gnome app. I

Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.

2001-09-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The kernel that comes with Debian testing, turns off (the power) my > machine when I run: shutdown -h now. But I wanted to recompile the > kernel and choose 2.2.18 (as I had some problems with 2.2.19). I enabled > APM in the kernel and lilo says append=

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 01 Sep 2001 16:19:08 +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > ...when I load the Gnome desktop into play the machine will freeze at > the first gnome action I try (selecting an icon of the desktop or > similar). Locks up tight. This will sound weird... Do you have a sound card installed and the

Re: Console Fonts

2001-09-01 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:15:52AM -0600, Rob Waggoner wrote: > Which package do I need to investigate to do to a linux console what mode > con:lines=50 did for a dos console? If you want it to be set this way when you reboot and not change later, the easiest thing to do is put ``vga=ext'' in you

fyi: howto set up bind chroot()ed on debian

2001-09-01 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! This is what I had to do to get bind chroot()ed on my debian (mostly) stable box, maybe it´ll be useful for others. This is "as is", your setup might differ, expect troubles, yadda, yadda. mkdir /var/local/bind mkdir /var/local/bind/etc mkdir /var/local/bind/etc/bind (cd /etc/bind; tar cv

coda???

2001-09-01 Thread Martin F Krafft
coda's server and client packages exist in /debian/pool/main/c/coda/ and presumable have been there for a *while*, but my woody installation still reports fishbowl:~# apt-get install coda-client Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package coda-cl

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
Jon, > This will sound weird... > Do you have a sound card installed and the "sound server" options > selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that something is > indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound device to play audio - > certainly I've had this with nautilus on var

Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)

2001-09-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote: > ...when I load the Gnome desktop into play the machine will freeze at > the first gnome action I try (selecting an icon of the desktop or > similar). Locks up tight. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace to get out. If I > try to log back in a xdm it won't p

iptables, masquerading and ip-aliasing

2001-09-01 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi Is it possible, with iptables, to do masquerading or NAT from an ethernet-aliased ip-address? Or will the returning traffic originate from the physical address of the nic? As I understand this was not possible with ipchains and earlier tools. I'm asking because I have two real ip-addresses :)

Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-09-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:05:04AM -0400, dman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: > | > > | > $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* > | That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. > > Actua

Re: Mozilla & JAVA

2001-09-01 Thread DvB
Georges Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le -08.31.2001 22:18:13-, « Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » > a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « Re: Mozilla & JAVA » > > KW> > Arrhhh I think I tested all the > KW> > possibilities and I still don't know what

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Jon, > > > This will sound weird... > > > Do you have a sound card installed and the "sound server" options > > selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that something is > > indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound device to p

RE: Manually bring up NICs not found at install and/or rebuilding Kernel

2001-09-01 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, John Purser wrote: > Some success! > Great! > The command I used was modprobe eepro100 and both NIC's came up. I'm > running a Red Hat 7.1 box also but I'm hesitant to set the Debian box up > exactly the same way because of formatting differences. > > So where shoul

Re: FYI

2001-09-01 Thread Jordi S . Bunster
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:59:39PM -0400, Jeff Reed wrote: > i'm enjoying it immenseley. We all do ... every single day. :) -- Jordi

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Jimmy Richards saw fit to inform me that: > Hi, > > It is in the latest kernel, 2.4.9. Or you can get patches at >http://www.linux-ide.org/ You should be able to find it in 2.4.9 under > >ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> >IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> >[*] PROMISE PDC202{46|6

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 01 Sep 2001 22:32:29 +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: Jimmy> >ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> and then... > I went to Network Device Support -> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) and could not > find the above card hence posted to the list. :-) Hmmm... > Your reasoning is excellent -- it's only your basic a

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Ross Burton saw fit to inform me that: >Hi, > >At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connection (56k). At >work, however, I run RedHat 6.2 but have a leased line. I followed the >instructions in the offline document (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html) >to get a package list from apt wh

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Osamu Aoki saw fit to inform me that: >I would do quick job as follows using dpkg: > >$ cd download/directory/; su ># dpkg -i *.deb > >If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. What about dependecies ? For that apt-get is the correct tool. If u are going to install de

Re: Installing vimtutor help file

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
dman saw fit to inform me that: >On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:40:44PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: >| On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:14:54AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: >| > I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial >and >| > try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :hel

Re: dual boot problem

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, August 31, 2001 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > > I don't know if the windows 2000 boot loader is different than windows 9x, > > > but when I used to use windows 98, I had in /etc/lilo.conf: > > > other=/dev/hda1 > > >label=win > > > > Works just fine for w2k. > > > I am no

Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post to the debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the same problem ? I am subscribed to the list in digest-mode. However my postings are going though to the list. But why I am receiving the below message ? List admin ?

Re: Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
> Hi, > > Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post > to the > debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the > same problem ? I get it too, but the posts still come through. Hereward

Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010901 15:47]: > Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post to > the debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the same > problem ? I am subscribed to the list in digest-mode. > > However my postings are going though to the list.

Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:13:32AM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi, > > Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post to the > debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the same problem ? > I am subscribed to the list in digest-mode. > > However my postings are going

Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:24:08AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: | Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked about sound. That makes a bit | of sense in my case, because sound doesn't work too well on the laptop | (choppy) and I probably had sound turned on for close window events. I | guess I'll look

Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:01:44PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:05:04AM -0400, dman wrote: | > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | > | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: | > | > | > | > $ dpkg -S \*mdb

Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:53:43PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: | * Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010901 15:47]: | | > Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post to | > the debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the same | > problem ? I am subscribed to the

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:38:31AM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Osamu Aoki saw fit to inform me that: > >I would do quick job as follows using dpkg: > > > >$ cd download/directory/; su > ># dpkg -i *.deb > > > >If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. > > What about

Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Rino Mardo
instead of doing it that way, which i should say is a novel approach, why not get a domain name registered for your box. check www.dyndns.org there you can register a domain like my-computer.dyndns.org even if you have a dynamic ip address. in short, your users don't have to find out what your cu

Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-09-01 Thread Rino Mardo
i see. looks like procmail is not the mda of debian. with my ~/.fetchmailrc i also have ~/.forward which have "|/usr/bin/procmail" (without the quotes as exim doesn't like it). so how can we tell what mda is being defaulted or used by a linux distro? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL

Re: mandb gets stuck!

2001-09-01 Thread Rino Mardo
getting a little OT here but can all the man databases be converted to info files? what can a "python" newbie do or have to follow in order to do this? it's just a little project of mine to exercise my mind. - Original Message - From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturda

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:02:34PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: | | > When GNOME locks up, can you press Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] to get to a virtual | > console? | | Yes - no problem. I ran top as per you instructions and the process | consuming the highest CPU value was "top" itself with a value of

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
Jon, > Do you have a sound card installed and the "sound server" options > selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that > something is indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound > device to play audio - certainly I've had this with nautilus on > various GNOME desktops so I'm

overkill...

2001-09-01 Thread Jeff Maxson
ok, I installed overkill and the data file. How do I run it? it seems to need a server and a port. any ideas? -- Jeff Maxson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Colin Watson saw fit to inform me that: >On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:47:53PM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote: >> hi ho... I will be installing Debian 2.2r3 (Potato) for the first time >> soon, but as I understand, it comes with XFree86 3.3.6. The problem is >> that I really need XFree86 4.1.0 (due to my

Re: Gnome Freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 01 Sep 2001 16:37:54 -0400, dman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:02:34PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > | I guess that is not the answer you were expecting? > > No, but it seems someone else has correctly guessed the problem. > Anyways, that is good information for the future :-). Hehe,

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 02 Sep 2001 02:32:12 +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Any ideas what am I missing ? Do you have agpgart and other modules correctly inserted? sometimes dependencies seem to miss-generated and fail to get the correct modules installed prior to the X server attempting to use them. What do the rele

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Jon Masters saw fit to inform me that: >On 02 Sep 2001 02:32:12 +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > >> Any ideas what am I missing ? > >Do you have agpgart and other modules correctly inserted? sometimes >dependencies seem to miss-generated and fail to get the correct modules >installed prior to the X s

[Fwd: Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri]

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
--- Begin Message --- Hi, I reckon you may be missing the agpgart module though - have you done a modprobe agpgart? --jcm --- End Message ---

cdr trouble

2001-09-01 Thread DvB
I'm having some trouble using my cdr. It appears to be recognized and, according to /proc/ide/hdd/driver, is using the ide-scsi version 0.9 module (which, AFAIK, is correct) but I can't get it to eject... I've tried hitting the eject button (of course) with no luck and I've tried 'eject /dev/hdd' w

conflicting network-cards?

2001-09-01 Thread Joerg Huber
Hi, After the configuration of a second ethernet network card I got the following error messages in /var/log/messages: > eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20 > eth0: mismatched read page pointers 4c vs 51 But eth0, the first network card, seems to work properly. These messages are wri

exim woes

2001-09-01 Thread Steve Gran
Hello all, I'm having a strange problem with exim - it refuses to send to some servers. My connection is a cable modem throuh comcast (supposed to be dhcp, but never could get it to work - something with their proprietary software is a guess, so now conigured for static without a problem for the l

Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-01 Thread Stefan Deibel
Hi, I took first mozilla 0.9.1 and later mozilla-0.9.3 from unstable, compiled and installed it in woody. First everything worked all right, except that home banking with the downloaded JRE was everything else but performant. However, after upgrading in memory from 128 MB to 512 MB and installin

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-01 Thread Tupshin Harper
I recently has this problem, and I found that esd(the enlightement sound daemon) was blocking it's execution. As soon as I killed esd, Mozilla popped right up. If you have that running, try killing it. If not that, you might try killing other processes to see if anything else is causing this pro

x app without login

2001-09-01 Thread Martin F Krafft
hi, i need to configure a computer such that when it boots, it starts the X server and then, as a regular user, starts an X application. i don't want any xdm login screen or anything. how can this be done in the best way? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo ma

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-01 Thread Jon Masters
On 02 Sep 2001 00:08:12 +0200, Stefan Deibel wrote: > However, after upgrading in memory from 128 MB to 512 MB and installing a > game from a Linux User CD, Mozilla starts 4 never ending mozilla-bin processes > but is completely unusable. There is not even a mozila window any more. > What the hel

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