Re: recompile [was cdrecord]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:57:23 PDT, John writes: >On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:41:21PM -0700, jjheuring wrote: >> >> ok part of my problem is that I have 2.2.19pre17-compact kernel. 'cause >> that's the only image I could get to reconize my nic cards for a net >> install. Any way I was able to find t

Wrong Newsgroup ?

Hi there ! Some Days ago I had a question about the apt-mirror .exclude file. Since there wasn't the slightest reaction I wonder whether I am in the wrong Newsgroup ? Could you direct me to the right one in this case or give some hints to relieve (?) helping ? I attached the old mail... Thank

ppp problem

Hello, I am having some problems to connect to my ISP (verizon.net) and was hoping that someone could help me... I just did a BIG "apt-get upgrade" (apparently even the Linux version was upgraded to a testing one), and I was prompted many times about configuration files, and instead of keeping mi

eth0: MII is missing

I'm now using woody on PIII with kernel 2.4.9-686. A few days before I suddenly noticed that pcmcia module reports that "eth0: MII is missing". There is no such a warning when using kernel 2.2.18pre21 with pcmcia-modules. I'm using D-Link DFE-650TX, a NE2000 comptible. Even though networking

Re: mutt and vi

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:46:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:34:45AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:40:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hi all... is there a way to get mutt to load vi using a different rc > > > file? > > > >

logitech cordless keyboard lockups after upgrade to XFree 4.1

Hi! After the last dist-upgrade of woody to XFree 4.1.0 I discovered randomly keyboard lockups with my logitech cordless keyboard. No problems with the mouse, but the keyboard hangs. No input possible. When I eject the batteries and put them in again, it sometimes works again. I am not sure, wh

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

I have also sent this to debian-user, I think other users might be interested... Bob Underwood wrote: ... > i looked at all the files in the /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 directory and > all appear correct. No mention of .rpm at all > > the .netscape/plugin-list file is below. I tried editing it by ha

Re: Printing .pdf files

on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:55:45PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:02:52AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:17:25AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:37:45AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL

Re: recompile [was cdrecord]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:15:17AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:57:23 PDT, John writes: > >On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:41:21PM -0700, jjheuring wrote: > >> > >apt-get install kernel-package > > > >Then in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package there is a README.gz that'll tell >

Re: uptime

on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:26:44PM +1200, Richard Hector ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dman wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:03:39PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > | on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:29:21PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: <...> > > | > The next killer-feature would

Re: Do backup softwares that support debian exist?

on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:47:53PM +0900, Ken Abe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello > > Do backup softwares that support debian exist? > I'd like to take backup 20 Debian-based servers' data automatically. > > Please tell me if you know about that. tar and dump are old standbyes. Otherwise, lo

Books (was Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?)

on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:52:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:10:17PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I find most of the Norton's, SAMS, "Unleashed", "In 24 Hours", "In 10 > > Days", "Maximum...", "...for Dummies", and "Total Idiots Guide.

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

On Sunday 16 September 2001 11:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:10:17PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I find most of the Norton's, SAMS, "Unleashed", "In 24 Hours", "In 10 > > Days", "Maximum...", "...for Dummies", and "Total Idiots Guide..." books > > to be poor, th

Re: Printing .pdf files

On Monday 17 September 2001 03:10 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:55:45PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:02:52AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:17:25AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >

RE: Sony DSC-P30 Digital Camera

On 17-Sep-2001 Clay Berlo wrote: > Hello! > > I'm presently using a version of Progeny, but I've been updating via the > Debian APT unstable sources. I was wondering if anyone has been able to > connect to the Sony DSC-P30 properly using either gphoto or by mounting > the camera as a removabl

Re: traffic shaping advice sought

On Sunday 16 September 2001 07:52 am, Martin F Krafft wrote: > hi, > we operate a linux router on a 8kbps isdn connection - needless to > say, this bandwidth requires some form of shaping, because 8kbps is > quickly used up by one client only, rendering all other workstations > in the network virtu

removing xfs

Hi, trying to remove xfs font server but something's gone wrong... after removing xfs and restarting X, X seems to start fine then exits abruptly and complains that "fixed" font cannot be found even though xfstt runs fine... wonder why...

Re: ppp problem

On Monday 17 September 2001 01:27 am, Luis R Finotti wrote: > Hello, > > I am having some problems to connect to my ISP (verizon.net) and was > hoping that someone could help me... > > I just did a BIG "apt-get upgrade" (apparently even the Linux version was > upgraded to a testing one), and I was

dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

Hi ! using apt-get install ... (or dhelp_parse by myself) gives me the error: dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles since my last dist-upgrade on friday. Strace says: open("/var/lib/dhelp/titles", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) open("/var/lib/dhelp/titles", O_RDWR

Re: Voodoo3 on potato with X 3.3.6

On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 14:14, Richard Hector wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 18:18, Richard Hector wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've searched the archives, and elsewhere, but all the useful info seems > > > to be about installing with X 4 (which isn't in potato(?

Re: removing xfs

On Sunday 16 September 2001 09:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > trying to remove xfs font server but something's gone wrong... after > removing xfs and restarting X, X seems to start fine then exits abruptly > and complains that "fixed" font cannot be found even though xfstt runs > fine... w

Re: ssh braindamage (protocols, RSA auth)

> Still interested in comments if anybody's got any. :) uh, maybe you already did that, but... i've always been able to solve my ssh problems using sshd -d and ssh -v hope it helps pietro.

kernel compile problem

hi! I tried to compile the kernel of my potato distro (kernel is quite old: 2.2.17) and I got the following error message: as86: command not found; or something like that. The main problem the as86 is seems to be missing from my machine. Does anyone some guess what the hell is this? Or which

Re: kernel compile problem

> hi! > > I tried to compile the kernel of my potato distro (kernel is quite old: > 2.2.17) and I got the following error message: > as86: command not found; > or something like that. The main problem the as86 is seems to be missing from > my machine. > Does anyone some guess what the hell is th

Re: apt-move .exclude file question

Markus Grunwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried for example > ... > **/kdetoys/eyesapplet* > **/kdebase-crypto/kdm-krb* > **/kdeutils/kab* > **/kdegames/kabalone* > **/kdesdk/kapptemplate* > ... The version of apt-move in testing still uses the old archive layout. That means you need to use

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

Am 16. Sep, 2001 schwätzte dman so: > o adjust the initrd so that the USB modules are loaded during >boot (this is the advantage of having an initrd, unfortunately >I don't know how to do this) > > o while booted with your old kernel add > usb > keybdev >

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

Am 17. Sep, 2001 schwätzte csj so: > I do know that. But what are the advantages of having an initrd? From the > number of posts bitching about it I was under the impression it's quite > important There was a thread last week ( maybe the week before ) that covered pros and cons of using an initrd

Re: Maintaining woody/sid mixtures

Vineet Kumar wrote: > > If you don't need to custom-compile one (which it sounds like is the > case) simply select kernel-image-2.4.9 for installation from dselect, > and follow its guidelines to ensure that you have the proper modutils, > etc. Does it not include them in its dependencies? And I

gcombust does not show size

hi I've got a problem with gcombust - it doesn't show the filesize of my added directories or files (see screenshot-attachment). -tzvetan <>

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

On Monday 17 September 2001 03:00, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have also sent this to debian-user, I think other users might be > interested... > > my apologies for replying off list. this kmail defaults to the originator and i didn't verify the right addy. bob

Re: Do backup softwares that support debian exist?

hi ya ken one ach PC... install a backup script... make 2 or so backup dservers on a private lan.. run the scripts to backup regularly...daily, weekly, monthly - worry about backup security as you need to worry abut things as things get bigger and worst of a problem... c ya alvin http://www

when is woody stable release?

hi. i can't check the debian site right now because of some proxy problems but can someone tell me when is Debian woody going to be in release stable? thank you. -- "In is out and out is in. But out is out and in is in." -- Pumbaa pgpNPXNYQlsHa.pgp Description: PGP signature

how to change the default mta?

i have debian2.2r0 and using exim. how can i change the default mta to postfix? i will be installing postfix from sources and doing "dpkg -r exim" won't allow me to remove exim. -- "In is out and out is in. But out is out and in is in." -- Pumbaa pgpkyI1gqpLnN.pgp Description: PGP si

Re: how to change the default mta?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:29:29PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > i have debian2.2r0 and using exim. how can i change the default mta > to postfix? i will be installing postfix from sources and doing "dpkg > -r exim" won't allow me to remove exim. just do dpkg -i postfix*, exim will be removed automa

O.T. citibank again

This month I was no longer able to view records or make credit card payments from citibank's website (due to the ever encroaching javascript). When I spoke to the citibank experts on these matters, they were not even aware that this had occurred. I only have a shell account with a serial connectio

Re: recompile [was cdrecord]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:15:17AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > > > >Then in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package there is a README.gz that'll tell > >you what to do. > > And/or search the list-archive for "make-kpgk", this particular README > gave[0] me headaches every time I just wanted to quickl

How to disable X temporarily?

What would you regard as the most elegant way to keep all users of a system from starting a X session. It should be a) temporarily and b) nothing like apt-get remove ... ;-) TIA Stony

Re: ppp problem

Jason Boxman writes: > If you'd rather connect manually all the time with pon/poff, you'll want > to turn diald off "/etc/init.d/diald stop" or completely remove it "dpkg > --remove diald" which will remove the program, but keep your config > files. He also could remove diald and use pppconfig to

sound problems

Hi! I'm having problems with running the multimedia packages in potato, particularly the audio programs (I have XMMS and RealPlayer 8 to name a few). I'm using the CMI8330 sound card. I followed the readme file for CMI8330, compiling sound and sb as modules, then loading them via modprobe sb.

Re: How to disable X temporarily?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:43:48PM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: > What would you regard as the most elegant way to keep all users of a > system from starting a X session. > > It should be > > a) temporarily and > > b) nothing like apt-get remove ... ;-) Don't know how elegant but how about

Re: major problems (was:Re: fetchmail)

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > The XF86Config serving Root must then be in /root > Copy it to /etc/X11/XF86Config for use by other users. > > MarvS It is (and has always been there) and there is a symlink from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config to this file. Frank

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

Please, could someone explain step by step how I can get rid of initrd stuff when compiling the 2.4.9. As I wrote in this thread I was able to build my own 2.4.9 kernel using initrd and the related stuff. When using make menuconfig what else should I disable beside initrd support under RAM di

Re: ssh braindamage (protocols, RSA auth)

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:32:36AM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > ... > > i've always been able to solve my ssh problems using sshd -d and ssh -v doh. yeah, I probably tried that. but now I've poked at it some more. sshd -d -d -d, all protocols enabled: not very interesting. just so you know w

Perl problem in Debian Linux?

Hi: I appear to have a problem getting glob or the operator <*> to work in Debian Linux. The examples from Learning Perl by Schwartz and Christiansen (2nd edn) do not work as given. I do the same program from the command line with perl -e ' ' they work. Also perl -c

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

On Monday 17 September 2001 03:00, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have also sent this to debian-user, I think other users might be > interested... > > Bob Underwood wrote: > ... > > > i looked at all the files in the /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 directory and > > all appear correct. No mention of .rpm at all >

Re: [LIH] Re: Unidentified subject!

Jakob B. Jensen saw fit to inform me that: >On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:52:20AM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: >> Cc: >> Bcc: >> Subject: Re: CPU Overclocking & Kernel compile >> Reply-To: >> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Organization: Rajesh Consultancy > >(

Re: How to disable X temporarily?

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:43:48PM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: > > What would you regard as the most elegant way to keep all users of a > > system from starting a X session. > > Don't know how elegant but how about - > # chmod /usr/X11R6/bin/X Nice trick, Kent. Thanx! Stony

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

>foreach (<*>){ > print "$_\n"; > } > or <*> replaced by glob('*') > > do not work. what happens exactly? any error messages? any output? the glob function is implemented with csh, so this could be a csh problem. pietro.

Re: fetchmail

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Make sure you have an MTA (exim, sendmail, etc) running. A > fetchmail log file would help you out also, but you don't have > one defined in your .fetchmailrc file. Check the manual on the > proper syntax for it. It's probably something simple like >

Re: O.T. citibank again

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:33:35AM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > This month I was no longer able to view records or make credit card payments > from citibank's website (due to the ever encroaching javascript). > When I spoke to the citibank experts on these matters, they were not even > awa

startx immediately after console login

I am trying to figure out the best method to automatically startx after a user logs in from the console. I know I could accomplish easily by using a graphical display manager, but I would prefer to avoid that if at all possible. I have tried a couple of methods thus far, with less than satisfacto

Re: uptime

* Martin F Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > > oh, so you mean it was optimized for network access? hah! well, i have > one of those servers standing right here, running *only* checkpoint > firewall-1 on a *fresh* install, with *flawless* hardware, and guess > what - crashes every fi

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

Bob Underwood wrote: > > On Monday 17 September 2001 03:00, Erik Steffl wrote: > > I have also sent this to debian-user, I think other users might be > > interested... > > > > Bob Underwood wrote: > > ... > > > > > i looked at all the files in the /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 directory and > > > all app

Re: uptime

* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > > The difference bewteen server and workstation is a couple registry > keys and the price tag. :-) I used to think that, too, until a (shudder) VB/MSSQL app I wrote refused to run on NT swerver (developed on WS). And yes, I made sure all relevant DL

Re: rdate can't connect socket

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:54:55AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I have the following command in a cron.daily script: > rdate time.mist.god > > This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past > week or two it returns: > rdate: Could not connect socket: Connec

Re: rm & download

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:15:41PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to downloads the following files : > > rtsp://rxn-rbn-sea07.rbn.com/usat/usat/g2demand/010913_worldtrade_planes.rm > > pnm://rxn-rbn-sea07.rbn.com/usat/usat/g2demand/010913_worldtrade_planes.rm > > One is us

Re: Xawtv and XFree86 4.0

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 05:31:20PM +0100, Pedro Ant?nio Neves wrote: > > Hi > > I'm trying to run xawtv on my woody box, and although the program runs > I have no sound and the display's only black and white. > On the xterm window from where I run xawtv I get the following error > message: > Xli

Re: X forwarding problem with SSH.

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 01:59:05PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Adam McDaniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010905 13:38]: > > This may seem like an obvious question, have you a look in the > > messages/syslog file on the xserver itself? Perhaps its coming across > > permissional errors. > > > > With t

Lookup during intensive IO

I am lost, I don't know what to do find the cause of the problem. When I put the machine under IO stress the it lookup. It hapens during backup of the machine by the network to an amanda server. Doing tar of the filesystems can lookup the machine. What I have done to try to isolate the problem:

Unidentified subject!

Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: Compiling a kernel on another processor Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Rajesh Consultancy Thanks to all who replied. Will get back to the list with my results. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Harry Henry Gebel saw fit t

Re: rm & download

> One way you can try is with a tool called 'wget'... except replace rtsp and > pnm with http. Realistically though I think that > you're not going to get the actual rm file itself... but it might work Nah, wget doesn't recognize the protocol. The realplayer system is designed so that you can't

can't mount smbfs

I attempt to mount my win98 box known as thinkpad-wired on my linux box: bear:~# mount -t smbfs //thinkpad-wired/E /mnt/thinkpad-winblows session request to THINKPAD-WIRED failed session request to *SMBSERVER failed SMB connection failed bear:~# thinkpad-wireless is in /etc/hosts and the /mnt/t

Re: how to change the default mta?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:29:29PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > i have debian2.2r0 and using exim. how can i change the default mta > to postfix? i will be installing postfix from sources and doing "dpkg > -r exim" won't allow me to remove exim. If you're OK with building postfix from the Debianiz

Re: rm & download

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:50:14PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > One way you can try is with a tool called 'wget'... except replace rtsp and > > pnm with http. Realistically though I think that > > you're not going to get the actual rm file itself... but it might work > Nah, wget doesn't recog

Re: [SOLVED] startx immediately after console login

As Lukas Ruf so kindly pointed out to me, I was missing the obvious that my terms were still parsing /etc/profile each time they were ran, so I added a condition to check whether $DISPLAY contains a value or not, and run 'startx && exit' if $DISPLAY is empty. -Rob

How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

Can anybody tell me exactly when and how a particular desktop (Gnome or KDE) is started on a Debian system? After a `startx` all kinds of scripts and programs get run using all kind of config files and I loose track where Gnome comes in. The situation is, that now both KDE and Gnome start. To my

Re: Xawtv and XFree86 4.0

#include Pedro António Neves wrote on Sun Sep 16, 2001 um 05:31:20PM: > I'm trying to run xawtv on my woody box, and although the program runs Look in your XF86Config-4 file and search a line containing "v4l". Remove or comment this line out. Background: if xawtv finds v4l module loaded, it use

Re: rm & download

> wget http://server/real.rm actually worked and grabbed the proper rm file. > ofcourse conveniently enough, i just tried it now on the first site i found > and it failed :P > The protocal is the problem, the http server is not the same as the realserver (neither is ftp, ssh, telnet, etc...), an

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

Thanks Pietro for you reply. Here are some details. The program foreach (<*>){ print "$_\n"; } gives (1) no error with perl -c (2) runs ok from the command line with perl -e (3) gives: syntax error near unexpected token '(<*' The same happens when I replace the <

Re: gnumeric needs libgdk_imlib.la

Thanks to Ray Dassen's suggestions, I got the Gnumeric deb to build. Maybe there are general lessons here that others can use. I would say an important thing for a newcomer is to learn to use nice the facilities that are available: Trouble installing a package? Check Debian bug report lo

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

It works fine for me under bash. How are you running it? I just pasted it into a file, called it test.pl, and did perl test.pl. Worked fine with both 5.6.1 and 5.005_03. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:22:40 -0400 Sebastian Canagaratna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (3) gives: syntax error near unexpected token '(<*' I haven't read the whole thread, but of course if you don't put a #!/usr/bin/perl line at the top of your script the shell tries to execute it itself and

Re: can't mount smbfs

On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 12:01, Bob Koss wrote: > > I attempt to mount my win98 box known as thinkpad-wired on my linux box: > > bear:~# mount -t smbfs //thinkpad-wired/E /mnt/thinkpad-winblows > session request to THINKPAD-WIRED failed > session request to *SMBSERVER failed > SMB connection failed

Re: rm & download

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 06:34:21PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > The protocal is the problem, the http server is not the same as the > realserver (neither is ftp, ssh, telnet, etc...), and so can't be got in the > same way. If the file is avaliable through http, then it can be downloaded > so,

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

Hi Tom, My best guess is that gnome is being loaded from your ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession files. Perhaps setting up X to load a different config file depending on the disk you currently have booted. Accoring to the xinit manpage, the environment variable $XINITRC tells xinit where to look fo

Re: issues uninstalling courier-imap from woody

On Friday Sep 14 01:04 "Fox, Michael" wrote: > ** Hi, > ** > ** I upgraded from 2.2r2 cd install, to the woody via apt-get dist-upgrade > some > ** weeks back. > ** > ** Just lastnight I realised my imap server is not working, and when I > ** investigated why, it turns out /etc/courier is gone.

lost /usr partition

Recently I lost the /usr partition on my IDE drive. I was unable to fsck or boot or reinstall (RH7.1). So I installed debian base (potato) without any /usr and am able to get to /home and can see all my files. I want to move /home to a new second drive I have installed but am unsure how to d

Re: Installation Obstacle with X

I gave up and simply re-formatted my hard drive, and reinstalled a very minimal debian package with no x window system. I'm going to print out your post and keep it by my side when i do go ahead and try to install a window manager and other x environments. Thank you very much for taking the tim

Re: abiword unstable in testing??

Is anyone else seeing abiword unstable (version 0.9.0-0.1) cutting off letters? Jeez folks, I'm a debian supporter, but if debian hopes to make inroads on the desktop it needs a *solid* word processor. Doesn't have to be real fancy, but it can't half eat letters. Thanks for all advice from

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

On Monday Sep 17 19:26 A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > ** Can anybody tell me exactly when and how a particular desktop (Gnome or > ** KDE) is started on a Debian system? After a `startx` all kinds of scripts > ** and programs get run using all kind of config files and I loose track > ** where Gnome

Re: sound problems

On Monday Sep 17 14:28 Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > ** 1.) How do I make them work using the normal account? I believe it's in > the file permissions, but what exactly do I need to modify? do i need to suid > root any of those programs? Do as root: # addgroup audio This will put the user

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

Thanks to all for writing. Indeed I had forgotten to use the !usr/bin/perl at the top. I thought I had. I guess it was trying to execute as a shell script. Problem solved. Thanks. Sebastian On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:13:33PM +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:22:40 -0400 Se

Cannot compile PCMCIA modules

I'm trying to install a new kernel w/ PCMCIA on a Dell laptop. I've installed the 2.4.9 kernel source from testing, along with the pcmcia-source (3.1.28-2) from unstable. I compile the kernel w/o problems. When I try to run make-kpkg modules_image, the install fails when compiling the file /usr/s

Re: Wrong Newsgroup ?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:17:43AM +0200, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hi there ! > > Some Days ago I had a question about the apt-mirror .exclude file. Since > there wasn't the slightest reaction I wonder whether I am in the wrong > Newsgroup ? > > Could you direct me to the right one in this case

Re: [Cdrdao-devel] can't record cd-text with cdrdao

Tzvetan Ivanov wrote: cdrdao-1.1.5 is working perfectly with 0x0 record flag - but i've got a problem with the cd-text-record flag (0x10) - if anyone had this problem solved please email me ... thanx in advance cdrdao simulate --remote 9 -v0 --device 0,6,0 --driver generic-mmc:0x10 --buffers

Re: abiword unstable in testing??

"joe golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeez folks, I'm a debian supporter, but if debian hopes to make > inroads on the desktop it needs a *solid* word processor. Doesn't > have to be real fancy, but it can't half eat letters. Shouldn't you be addressing this to abiword developers? FWIW, I

default window managers

where do set the system wide default windows manager? i recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade of the unstable tree and it changed the default windows manager from windows maker to fvwm, and now when i set up a user to run gnome-session in his .xsession file, gnome 1.4 starts up in fvwm and ever

video players

what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around with Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work sometimes it starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound. what player are there that can play .mpg .avi and divx? __

Re: video players

> what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around with > Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work sometimes it > starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound. what player are there > that can play .mpg .avi and divx? > mplayer is good (mpl

Re: default window managers

On Monday Sep 17 21:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ** where do set the system wide default windows manager? How i mean in /etc/X11/Xsession. Timo -- Nothing is impossible! You only need to know the way. :-)

Re: default window managers

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:45:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > where do set the system wide default windows manager? i recently did > an apt-get dist-upgrade of the unstable tree and it changed the > default windows manager from windows maker to fvwm, and now when i set > up a user to run gn

Re: video players

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around > with Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work > sometimes it starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound. > what player are there that can play .mpg .avi and divx?

Re: Lyx and ispell problems.

> I have recently installed the Lyx 1.1.6fix3 package from Debian/Unstable and > I am having some problems using the spellchecker feature. Whenever I try to > use the spellchecker from the "edit" menu I get an error message saying the > ispell-process has died and that I probably do not hav

sendmail or perl: which is the bad one..

Hi! Just wanted to do a minor tweak to my sendmail-config at home, whilst stumbling into: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/mail# sendmailconfig Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] Updating sendmail environment ... Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions

Re: ownership of target of /dev/cdroms/cdroms0 in devfs

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 01:53, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Also any permissions related configuration directives in > > /etc/devfs/conf.d/* will over-ride /etc/devfs/perms (so there's no > > real need to comment anything out of /etc/devfs/perms unless you are > > making permissions more restrictive and wa

fbset [was Re: uptime]

* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 18:21]: > Ooh, cool. I'll have to check it out. Maybe that way I could switch > framebuffer resolutions without rebooting :-). umm ... I take it you've never heard of fbset? -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized us

Re: video players

hi biarro... you can download and compile many different video players... http://www.Linux-Video.net/Video.Players/ ( sorry... its not *.deb packages ( if oyu know where the *.deb packages is... i'll add it to the ( correspondng (readme) *.txt files xtheater work

Null DISPLAY

Hi all, I have an interesting (?) problem. I have an automated test that I run nightly. One of the things that is in this test is a graphics routine. But, when I run this test from a cron job the test fails because there's no DISPLAY to open for the graphics test. Is there a NULL DISPLAY device

Re: kernel compile problem

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:50:57AM +0200, pink panther wrote: > hi! > > I tried to compile the kernel of my potato distro (kernel is quite old: > 2.2.17) and I got the following error message: > as86: command not found; > or something like that. The main problem the as86 is seems to be missing

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

- Original Message - From: "Peter Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian user" Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:54 AM Subject: Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it? > Dman wrote: > > -This means that when netscape was compiled it was linked against a > -different version

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