RE: X Oracle client

2001-09-23 Thread Sterin, Ilya
Ok, guys. I think this is getting OT as was the previos post. Maybe it's not on the debian users list, but it's definitelly here. Ilya > -Original Message- > From: Sam Varghese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sam Varghese > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 4:03 AM > To: debian-use

Way OT: getting values of list of variables

2001-09-23 Thread Jeremy
Hi, I'm sorry about this being so OT, but I've been searching around in documentation (man pages, books, scripting HOWTOs, etc) for a several hours now, and I can't find anything that will answer my question. I have a series of variables that I'm importing to a bash script from another file, and

gradually upgrading from glibc2.1 to glibc2.2 ?

2001-09-23 Thread Krzys Majewski
Hi folks I've got a (highly customized) debian/potato box. (If you're tempted to reply at this point with "why the hell aren't you running debian/unstable", don't.) One day the current unstable glibc2.2 debian will become stable (or maybe it has already?) and I will want to upgrade. I don't want

Nigeria/419 scam (was Re: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL)

2001-09-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:05:00AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > {URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL} > > Dear sir, > > > > In order to transfer out (USD 126 M) One hundred and twenty six > > million United States Dollars) from African Development Bank. I have

Re: Way OT: getting values of list of variables

2001-09-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:27:16AM -0500, Jeremy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm sorry about this being so OT, but I've been searching around in > documentation (man pages, books, scripting HOWTOs, etc) for a several hours > now, and I can't find anything that will answer my question.

Re: nv driver causes strange mouse cursor

2001-09-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Sep 2001, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 01:58]: > > If I use the nvidia driver my Riva 128 card works correctly. If I > > use the nv driver, however, the mouse cursor appears as a little > > coloured square. Has anyone seen this? Any cure? > > You could

Re: Way OT: getting values of list of variables

2001-09-23 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Jeremy on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:27:16AM -0500: > > Hi, Good Morning, > <...> > I have a series of variables that I'm importing to a bash script from another > file, and I need a way to run a loop to echo the contents of each one in > sequence. As an example, say this file has the f

GPM + X

2001-09-23 Thread Nate Custer
Hey all, Whenever I apt-get gpm I loose control of X. Anyone no how to get gpm + X to play nice? --Nate

Re: proftpd is burning me after upgrade

2001-09-23 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:18:24PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, >I am getting a message just starting proftpd daemon after upgrade the > package. > It's "No certificate files found!". Sure that it is from proftpd? Do you tried proftpd in standalone mit with -n -d5 ? > I think it's a

Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)

2001-09-23 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 02:25:31PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:22:18PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if there is Mozilla package somewhere that is newer than > > the Debian M18 that is in the standard mirror locations. I want to try > > multizilla

Re: nslookup and host always consult a dns server - never local /etc/hosts

2001-09-23 Thread der.hans
Am 22. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Martin F Krafft so: > second: host and nslookup are DNS utilities, so they don't give a > flying food about /etc/hosts. as you said, ping and telnet work fine, > so your systems are good. nslookup and host both always contact the > DNS server, never look into /etc/hosts.

Re: kernel problems -- boot and network

2001-09-23 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:16:16PM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote: > > I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and > network. First some background : > > I now have a laptop (Dell 7500) at work that I am allowed to install > Debian (woohoo!). The install went great. I u

Re: crash

2001-09-23 Thread Hans Gubitz
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:55:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:23:58PM +0200, Hans Gubitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > After a local crash I can't install/remove some (n=?) packages: .. > > > > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > > subprocess post-removal script

Re: GPM + X

2001-09-23 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
> Whenever I apt-get gpm I loose control of X. Anyone no how to get gpm + > X to play nice? Good sir dman once wrote: "That is caused by two apps (gpm and X) trying to access the hardware directly. When using gpm, gpm should access the hardware and X should access /dev/gpmdata, a named pipe from

HDD Kernel messages...

2001-09-23 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I got the following kernel messages mainly after boot up. kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } My kernel is 2.4.9 and is configured to use multi mode (CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y). My harddisk is a

Re: [LIH] uid < 99 + How can I have more than one Super user on Linux !!!!

2001-09-23 Thread shyamk
OK , but is there any way that I can have/make more than one super-users ? To this end , can I play off a uid and make a person a super-user (my experiment already did not work - the guy I rewarded with a uid of 40 , was absolutely a normal user in every sense of the term , with not a modicum of

Installing potato from remote CDs

2001-09-23 Thread Wolfgang Hlawatsch
After days of trying, reading manuals, surfing the internet I ask now my questions on this place: I am going to install Linux on two computers, call them BIG and SMALL computer. Only the BIG one has a CD-ROM. Installing Linux on the BIG one - there is no question. For the SMALL one I made the

Re: horrible harddrive performance

2001-09-23 Thread Timeboy
On Sunday Sep 23 04:00 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > ** > ** Hey people. > ** > ** My wife has become a Linux convert (woohoo!), but unfortunately I'm > having > ** a problem getting decent performance out of her computer. She has a P-III > 800, > ** which is faster than my 450, but the

Re: shout out to Debian

2001-09-23 Thread Timeboy
On Sunday Sep 23 01:48 Martin F Krafft wrote: > ** not that i ever ever doubted this, just up'ed my ISDN router to woody, > ** it routing my home network to the internet, but i didn't lose internet > ** connectivity for a second! this is my most productive (private) > ** system, and i was sweatin

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > couple of mozilla-related question (0.9.4) > > 1. cannot access hotmail...i.e. when I click on "sign-in" "status bar > just says "done" but nothing happened AFAIK hotmail uses https, a protocol mozilla are not yet supporting. Regards, Stig -- braut

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Martin Würtele
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:28:19PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > * Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > couple of mozilla-related question (0.9.4) > > > > 1. cannot access hotmail...i.e. when I click on "sign-in" "status bar > > just says "done" but nothing happened > > AFAIK hotmail us

Problems with crosscompilation of 2.0.38 on potato with 2.4.9 kernel

2001-09-23 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, Recently I had to recompile my old 2.0.38 kernel for an embedded system. Unfortunately the source, which compiled smoothly on potato with 2.2.18, now fails during the "make dep". (I have a potato upgraded to 2.4.9 according to http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html) I receive the follo

Re: SSL packages (LDAP PAM NSS) +

2001-09-23 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hia, I usually build my own .debs :) For a very fine guide to all things ssl, ekrberos and ldap, have a look here: http://www.bayour.com. Mr. Turbo has done a great job making it easyer to rock with debian. I was just looking for a simple way to let my debs be the domain of apt-get :). If I am

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Martin W?rtele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:28:19PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > * Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > couple of mozilla-related question (0.9.4) > > > > > > 1. cannot access hotmail...i.e. when I click on "sign-in" "status bar > >

More details: Problems with crosscompilation of 2.0.38 on potato with 2.4.9 kernel

2001-09-23 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I just want to add a few more details to my previous post: > I receive the following errors: > make[2]: *** [fastdep] Error 135 > make[2]: Leaving directory /tmp/linux/drivers/char' > make[1]: *** [fastdep] Error 2 > What is the cause of that error, and how to cure it? The source of problem is th

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > * Martin W?rtele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:28:19PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > > * Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > > couple of mozilla-related question (0.9.4) > > > > > > > > 1. cannot acc

Re: xvidtune & XFree

2001-09-23 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hello again, On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:08:14PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Harvey Kelly([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm trying to configure X - but the problem is that I can get everything > > fine, except the screen is way off to the left. I use xvi

Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)

2001-09-23 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 02:25:31PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:22:18PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if there is Mozilla package somewhere that is newer than > > the Debian M18 that is in the standard mirror locations. I want to try > > multizilla

Major stuffup

2001-09-23 Thread Alistair Faulknor
Hi people, I loaded Debian 2.2 Potato on my HP 6615 and It wont work!! It fails to open Xfree86 and won't open LILO. I think it's because it can't find the graphics card. Any help would be appreacited. Thanks Alistair Faulknor [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange delays - new to this Please Help! Thanks

2001-09-23 Thread todd mansill
I found an option to make cnet run while being more verbose about what's going on and the line of code that seems to be causing the problem (hanging for 1-2mins) is this: reading "/usr/local/cnetlib/cnet.tcl" Does anyone know why this would be? Thanks heaps From: Timeboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

DSL connection has stopped working in Debian.

2001-09-23 Thread Jack Andrews
The setup. -Debian Woody with DSL connection (eth0) acting as router for NAT'd LAN (eth1) -Using dhc-client for DHCP on the DSL line Everything was working fine until a reboot yesterday. Now the DSL connection is busted. During bootup, when eth0 is brought up, this is the first thing that appea

ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread delphine
Hello, All. Does Debian 2.2 r0 support the ReiserFS? How can i do it? I can't find this option in fdisk, but kernel 2.4.9 support it. -- With best regards, Delphine. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Major stuffup

2001-09-23 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:46:43AM +1200, Alistair Faulknor wrote: > Hi people, I loaded Debian 2.2 Potato on my HP 6615 and It wont work!! It > fails to open Xfree86 and won't open LILO. I think it's because it can't > find the graphics card. Any help would be appreacited. Are all the xfree packag

Re: kernel problems -- boot and network

2001-09-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:22:39PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: | On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:16:16PM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote: | > | > I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and | > network. First some background : | > | > I now have a laptop (Dell 7500) at work that I

Re: lilo trouble

2001-09-23 Thread Robert Waldner
(following up on myself and on an ancient posting, too. Just for the sake of completeness and the search-egines in case someone else experiences such a problem) On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:06:24 +0200, Robert Waldner writes: >I have a machine with a large IDE-disk (hda) and a smaller, but also > f

Re: xine-ui and css

2001-09-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jean-Michel Kelbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi recently upgrade to xine-ui, but this package remove xine-dvd-css > which enable me to read protected dvd like matrix. Now I am unable to > read such dvd. Does anyone have the same problem ? You should upgrade to the xine-lib-d4d Debian packag

Re: video players

2001-09-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pardon my asking, but how, exactly, does xmms work? (i type, "xmms" > in a console, get the xmms "skin," click the ">" ("play") button, > and select my *.mpg. the "skin" and console just "stare" (and must be > laughing at me, secretly). Maybe you forgot to 'apt

Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does Debian 2.2 r0 support the ReiserFS? How can i do it? I can't find > this option in fdisk, but kernel 2.4.9 support it. Reiser warns to avoid 2.4.9, put recent .10-pre patches work fine. I am using .10-pre9 that seems to work well thusfar. I

etherconf reconf

2001-09-23 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi, this may sound like a stupid questions, but I'm a bit new to debian. I've installed debian via the progeny debian distro. Thereafter I changed my sources.list to debian unstable and did a lot of dist-upgrades etc. The problems I am wondering about are: a) Where is the equivalent of redhats

Re: Installing potato from remote CDs

2001-09-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Wolfgang Hlawatsch wrote: > I want to telnet the SMALL. It does not allow access. In hosts.allow I placed > "ALL". in hosts the IP of the BIG is also mentioned. I tried everything, but > SMALL wants to remain as a single. If you are using xinetd, you will have to disable th

apache .htpasswd problems

2001-09-23 Thread Martin F Krafft
hi dudes, trying to get apache to authorize users through .htaccess. this isn't my first time, but it's not working and i am clueless. i can either configure the following settings via .htaccess (having set AllowOverride AuthConfig for Directory /, or i can put the lines into the Directory / conta

Re: .config in kernel source?

2001-09-23 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Martin F. Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > okay. so it's really just basic vanilla source (with patches > applied)? so the actual kernel data (not image) is in > kernel-headers? Kernel-source contains a tarball /usr/src/kernel-source-x.x.x.tar.bz2 which has everything you need to compile a ker

Re: apache .htpasswd problems

2001-09-23 Thread Jens Gecius
Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > trying to get apache to authorize users through .htaccess. this isn't > my first time, but it's not working and i am clueless. > > i can either configure the following settings via .htaccess (having > set AllowOverride AuthConfig for Directory /, or i

Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel?

2001-09-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 21:19, richard wrote: > A still new installation of potato from CDROM. > > Upon mount /dev/cdrom or mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom I get the > subject error message. > > The line >/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,no auto > is already in /etc/fsta

Re: apache .htpasswd problems

2001-09-23 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Jens Gecius (on Sun, 23 Sep 2001 11:19:04AM -0400): > Do you have a 'loadmodule sys_auth_module ...' in your http.conf? > > If yes, comment it out. That was what my box didn't like back when I > had the problem to get the user-auth to work at all. i do have that in my httpd.conf, but

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-23 Thread Sunny Dubey
On Saturday 22 September 2001 01:59 pm, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". so it should be like windows where it just grows all the time right?? > If > you wan

Re: text in menu bars has turned to hash marked boxes

2001-09-23 Thread Charles Baker
I saw that too. I had similar problems with fonts. It turned out that since I didn't initial do an dist-upgrade to woody, and probably since I was running X and apt-get from a virtual tty, that some parts of Xfree86 3.x were installed along with the 4.x fonts. The 3.x Xserver was in some instances

Re: xfonts packages broken?

2001-09-23 Thread Charles Baker
I had similar problems with fonts. It turned out that since I didn't initially do an dist-upgrade to woody, and probably since I was running X and apt-get from a virtual tty, that some parts of Xfree86 3.x were installed along with the 4.x fonts. The 3.x Xserver was in some instances confused by th

[tpeters@xs4all.nl: XF86 on Debian documentation]

2001-09-23 Thread Branden Robinson
Would someone please help this gentleman out? -- G. Branden Robinson|Damnit, we're all going to die; Debian GNU/Linux |let's die doing something *useful*! [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Hal Clement, on comments that http://people.debian.org/~br

Re: apache .htpasswd problems

2001-09-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:11:44 +0200, Martin F Krafft writes: >trying to get apache to authorize users through .htaccess. this isn't >my first time, but it's not working and i am clueless. > >i can either configure the following settings via .htaccess (having >set AllowOverride AuthConfig for Direct

Re: m86k Xwindow

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake mmissett: > I am new to this and have been trying to get some sort of GUI installed and > running. I think I have succeeded in getting at least some bits installed, > but I have yet to get anything to work, and would appreciate a bit of > guidance. First off, the computer in questio

Re: apache .htpasswd problems

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
How about the /etc/apache/access.conf? Check the Options and AllowOverride sections. I think the AllowOverride is set to "None" by default. I had to change and restart apache. At 05:11 PM 9/23/01 +0200, you wrote: hi dudes, trying to get apache to authorize users through .htaccess. this isn

Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)

2001-09-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 21 Sep 2001, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if there is Mozilla package somewhere that is newer than > the Debian M18 that is in the standard mirror locations. I want to try > multizilla which would like 0.92 or 0.94. I compiled mozilla 0.92 and 0.93 from deb sources (I'm cur

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:26:06PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Sure, stable is always well tested, but by the time it becomes available > > the software included in it is so old that nobody wants to run it > > anymore. > > Well, almost. I run Potato on machines that I don't generally want to l

Re: etherconf reconf

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Tarjei Huse: > Hi, > > this may sound like a stupid questions, but I'm a bit new to debian. > > I've installed debian via the progeny debian distro. Thereafter I changed my > sources.list to debian unstable and did a lot of dist-upgrades etc. > > The problems I am wondering about are

Font problem with some X progs

2001-09-23 Thread Mark Fox
Greetings: About a month ago I started to see font problems in some X programs. Instead of characters I see squares. I've attached a PNG picture, of XEphem, which displays the problem. I've also seen this problem in 'gnapster', although some fonts display just fine. The problem

More on the font problem

2001-09-23 Thread Mark Fox
Greetings: Oops. Here's the picture that I should have attached. Mark A. Fox font_problem.png Description: PNG image

Re: Way OT: getting values of list of variables

2001-09-23 Thread Jeremy
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:27:16AM -0500, Jeremy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm sorry about this being so OT, but I've been searching around in > > documentation (man pages, books, scripting HOWTOs, etc) for a several hours > > now, and I can't fi

Re: More on the font problem

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Mark Fox: > Greetings: > > Oops. Here's the picture that I should have attached. > Mark A. Fox Hey - There's been a lot of discussion on this, as it seems to be a very common break in switching from X 4.0 to 4.1 - check the list archives for font problems. The general consensu

Re: horrible harddrive performance

2001-09-23 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:44:10PM +0200 or thereabouts, Timeboy wrote: > > > ** ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 > > Which kernel is running on this system? Sorry if my idea has nothing to do > with your trouble. But i had a similar problem with my new Abit mainboard. > And i used a

Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:43:49PM +0200 or thereabouts, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does Debian 2.2 r0 support the ReiserFS? How can i do it? I can't find > > this option in fdisk, but kernel 2.4.9 support it. > any filesystem support is done vi

Re: etherconf reconf

2001-09-23 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > c) How do I update my keyboard and language setting from us to > norwegian? > > I think: dpkg-reconfigure console-data should do it Thanks, Hereward pgpxYeutHhdqW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: proftpd is burning me after upgrade

2001-09-23 Thread John
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:22:46AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:18:24PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > >I am getting a message just starting proftpd daemon after upgrade the > > package. > > It's "No certificate files found!". > Sure that it is from p

Re: [tpeters@xs4all.nl: XF86 on Debian documentation]

2001-09-23 Thread Steve Kowalik
> On debian-user someone suggested that this is configured in > /etc/X11/Xserver, but I believe that that file is obsoleted: it is not in > my new install, `dpkg -S` doesn't know about it (apparently on my old > installation it is a relict of a previous Debian version), and I cannot > find it docum

Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay Guys, I've just set up a 100TX network with 2 computer both running debian. Netgear FA311 cards and a single cross-over cable. Generally it runs well, but occasionally I get weird freezed - using dselect via an ssh session suffers from freezing of the session for a minute or two every now and

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > I've just set up a 100TX network with 2 computer both running debian. > Netgear FA311 cards and a single cross-over cable. What version of the kernel are you running? If it's 2.4, are you running the natsemi driver included with t

Cable on Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Reza
hi.. I need a problem here.. I just subscribed a cable, but I don't know how to get connected now.. can anyone please help me? just for additional, I got cable from [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, I hope you want to help me, Thanks Reza __ Do You Yahoo!? Get

Re: m86k Xwindow

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake mmissett: > Stephen, > Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, trying that fix did not appear to make > any difference. Specifically, the "startx" command produces 'command not > found", as it always has. One further clue, though: Since anXious says it > cannot open /proc/bus/pci/devi

Re: DSL connection has stopped working in Debian.

2001-09-23 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 23 September 2001 05:50 am, Jack Andrews wrote: My only question is have you run apt-get lately? Maybe a package was updated and something changed. I would've suggested checking the cable, but if you can ping then it's probably fine, so I'm at a loss. That's pretty weird. I think i

Re: kernel problems -- boot and network

2001-09-23 Thread Rossy Roman Salgado
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, dman wrote: > > I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and > network. First some background : > > I now have a laptop (Dell 7500) at work that I am allowed to install > Debian (woohoo!). The install went great. I used a potato cd (2.2r2) > then swi

Re: m86k Xwindow

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:44:00PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Let's see - I'm not sure how you're trying to open /proc/bus/pci/devices It doesn't matter at all how he's trying to open the file. He's running on a 68040 Mac. It doesn't *have* a PCI bus, so there won't be a /proc/bus/pci/devic

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:34:30PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: | On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:26:06PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | > > Sure, stable is always well tested, but by the time it becomes available | > > the software included in it is so old that nobody wants to run it | > > anymore. | >

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
Yes, it's a 2.4.9 kernel on both machines with the included natsemi driver. dmesg reports much the same for both machines: eth0: link is back. Enabling watchdog. eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. eth0: Link changed: Autonegotiation advertising 05e1 partner . eth0

Re: HDD Kernel messages...

2001-09-23 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 23 September 2001 05:51 am, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following kernel messages mainly after boot up. > > kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Oh no. :( Last time I had a SeekCo

Re: Cable on Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 12:41, Reza wrote: > hi.. I need a problem here.. Ok ... lesse here ... wait, you want us to GIVE you a problem? ;> > I just subscribed a cable, but I don't know how to get > connected now.. can anyone please help me? just for > additional, I got cable from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HDD Kernel messages...

2001-09-23 Thread Rossy Roman Salgado
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following kernel messages mainly after boot up. > > kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > My kernel is 2.4.9 and is configured to use m

Re: Cable on Linux

2001-09-23 Thread pemhuygen
Reza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > I just subscribed a cable, but I don't know how to get > connected now.. can anyone please help me? As far as I know, it is very simple to connect to a cable internet connection. The provider supplies you with a "cable modem", i.e. a converter from the relay cabl

Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:43:49PM +0200 or thereabouts, A.R. (Tom) Peters > wrote: > > Reiser warns to avoid 2.4.9, put recent .10-pre patches work fine. I am > > using .10-pre9 that seems to work well thusfar. I did not need to use > > additional pa

GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
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Re: GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
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matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-23 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone run a matrox g450? I've got one working with kernel 2.4.8 and X 4.1.0, but it did hang my box once. Maybe I should be using the drivers from the Matrox site instead? The Matrox drivers need the code for X 4.0.2/4.0.3 to compile. I know, I know, I should just try it and see, but

Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-23 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 23 September 2001 02:28 pm, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anyone run a matrox g450? > I've got one working with kernel 2.4.8 and X 4.1.0, but it did > hang my box once. Maybe I should be using the drivers from the > Matrox site instead? The Matrox drivers need the code for X > 4.0.2/

Re: Cable on Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 13:34, Reza wrote: > hi... > Actually I got static IP from rogers, but the weird > thing is instead of having clientd-id as my hostname, > I got my computer name in the host.. so, can you > please help me in details? So you actually call if-up with static in the /etc/interfa

Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sidney Brooks
I got myself in trouble by playing around with the window manager. I changed from icewm to enlightenment. Now, I find that enlightenment is not as good and I want to go back to icewm. In older versions of Debian, all you had to do was edit /etc/X11/window-managers. With potato, I do not have this f

Re: Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:46:58AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I got myself in trouble by playing around with the window manager. I > changed from icewm to enlightenment. Now, I find that enlightenment > is not as good and I want to go back to icewm. In older versions of > Debian, all you had t

Re: Font problem with some X progs

2001-09-23 Thread Ari Pollak
>From the latest Debian X FAQ: A long-standing bug in many X clients and the widget libraries they use was recently brought to light by the addition of fonts encoded in ISO 10646-1 ("Unicode" in common parlance) to the X Window System. The details are highly technical. The short answer: It's a b

CD Burner permissions

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
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Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sidney Brooks
I still have troubles. Following noahm, I used "update-alternatives --config x-window-manager" to reset the window manager to icewm. Despite this change, when I shut down and restarted, it still went into enlightenment. When I used locate .xsession, the only thing that I found was .xsession-errors

Re: Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
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Re: HDD Kernel messages...

2001-09-23 Thread Eamon Roque
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:51:54AM +0200, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following kernel messages mainly after boot up. > > kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > My kernel is 2.4.9 and is

GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread Stephen Gran
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Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread Wayne Topa
A.R. (Tom) Peters([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does Debian 2.2 r0 support the ReiserFS? How can i do it? I can't find > > this option in fdisk, but kernel 2.4.9 support it. > > Reiser warns to avoid 2.4.9, put recent .10-pre p

[kellyh@clara.co.uk: Re: xvidtune & XFree]

2001-09-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Hello again, > Harvey Kelly([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm trying to configure X - but the problem is that I can get everything > > fine, except the screen is way off to the left. I use xvidtune to alter it > > so it's perfect, but how do I save my

dselect

2001-09-23 Thread Wolfgang Hlawatsch
There must be some undocumented functin in dselect. I have two machines, and both of them have different access-methods. How can I change the access method since I want to install by a remote CD, which option is not shown. In the manpage this option is mentioned, but this function is not availab

Re: GnuPG

2001-09-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:09:55PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Is there any particular reason you are sending encrypted email to a public mailing list? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "Pretty soon, massive bloat is the industry standard and everyon

icewm

2001-09-23 Thread Shawn Lamson
hi sydney - if you log in as sbrooks for example, and your home directory is /home/sbrooks then you need to execute a shell window- either go to a virtual terminal via pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 - or in one of your application menus in Enlightenment find "xterm" "gnome-xterm" or similar. this gives yo

Print Server ?

2001-09-23 Thread George
Heya People,   I was wondering if there's any way I can get my linux box/server/gateway to to act as a something similar to a print server.   Basically, I've got my windows box, 2 linux boxen, and a freebsd box all hooked up to the server and the server is connected via parallel to the prin

Re. Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Sidney Brooks
Following Ano Nim, I created /home/.xinitrc with the text icewm and,lo and behold, when I start Debian, I still get enlightenment. I am not sure what to do with the meassage from Stephen Gran. I downloaded the attachment and have a binary file that I don't know how to handle. The gnome instructio

Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread xio
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:37:00PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > A.R. (Tom) Peters([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Does Debian 2.2 r0 support the ReiserFS? How can i do it? I can't find > > > this option in fdisk, but kernel 2.4.

Re: More on the font problem

2001-09-23 Thread Akintayo Holder
Stephen Gran wrote: Thus spake Mark Fox: Greetings: Oops. Here's the picture that I should have attached. Mark A. Fox Hey - There's been a lot of discussion on this, as it seems to be a very common break in switching from X 4.0 to 4.1 - check the list archives for font problems.

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