Re: error related

2001-10-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
"Vince Mulhollon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > >> Unknown HZ value! (12) Assume 100. > >> Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map has an incorrect kernel version. I'd ask, "how did you install your kernel?" regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer

Re: Gnome and X no longer works

2001-10-06 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hmmm weird, I tried both method... it still didn't work.. =( it showed the grey X screen and then quit Edwin Lau On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:52:19PM -0700, Robert Gill wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 06:48:23PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Don't know what's happening

mouse problems in KDE

2001-10-06 Thread tim
I am not sure where this problem lies. The mouse seems to work fine from the console. It also seems to work fine at the kde login screen, but once kde loads I can not move the mouse smoothing, it mouse jumps all over the place and adds random mouse clicks. I am using imps/2 mouse. It didn't see

Re: Gnome and X no longer works -- My fault... sorry

2001-10-06 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi, well, it works... it was my fault when I edited the file.. thanx Edwin Lau On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:52:19PM -0700, Robert Gill wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 06:48:23PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Don't know what's happening. I upgraded today in uns

Man

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
is there any on-line version of the man pages? like for "man 5 interfaces" I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control chars that the text file was too hard to read. mike

Re: Man

2001-10-06 Thread ktb
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:31:44AM -0500, Michael Grover wrote: > is there any on-line version of the man pages? > > like for "man 5 interfaces" > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > chars that the text file was too hard to read. > google.com will net you lot

[jps@maxlingua.com: xfree86, installation question]

2001-10-06 Thread Branden Robinson
Someone please introduce this gentleman to our packaging system! :) -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | If ignorance is bliss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is omniscience hell? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | --- Begin Mess

Re: Man

2001-10-06 Thread Aaron Hall
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Michael Grover wrote: > is there any on-line version of the man pages? > > like for "man 5 interfaces" > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > chars that the text file was too hard to read. You can strip those control chars using 'col -b'. So,

dvips printing problem

2001-10-06 Thread Dale Morris
I posted this sometime back and was never able to get a satisfactory solution. Maybe someone can give me some better pointers now.. When I try to print a file using dvips quantum.dvi command, what prints out is the following: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Soft

Re: Man

2001-10-06 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:31:03AM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:31:44AM -0500, Michael Grover wrote: > > is there any on-line version of the man pages? > > > > like for "man 5 interfaces" > > > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > > chars that

Re: modules - can't get ip

2001-10-06 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > when i boot up i get the message > modprobe: Note the file etc/modules.conf is more recent than the file > /lib/modules/2.4.9/modules.dep run depmod -a or update-modules, both as root. Regards, Joey -- In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-

telnet sucks

2001-10-06 Thread michael young
i know i know...but i still would like to use it. i have telnetd installed, hosts.allow and deny dont have anything in them, /etc/inet.d shows telnet running bec. telnet works when the hostname/eth0 ip is used but not with the inet addr... I would like to telnet to work over the internet even if

Re: compiling a kernel?

2001-10-06 Thread Hans Steinraht
I did it!!! As root I checked disk space, and did: make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image (with an underscore). And it works, I get the image.deb and after dpkg -i it is installed. After rebooting it's a bit dissapointing that my new kernel will not work, but I'm going to start to find

Re: Man

2001-10-06 Thread Richard Hector
Michael Grover wrote: > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > chars that the text file was too hard to read. Apologies for not answering your question (but others have anyway), but Why do you want it in a test file? If you're reading it on line, then less works

Dell Inspiron 7500 install problems

2001-10-06 Thread neigaard
Hi all, didn't know which list to post too. I'm trying to install on subj., and I have gotten some hints from some of you earlier. But I can't figure out where I setup the PCMCIA card (Xircom 10/100/56). The only thing I am asked about my PCMCIA card, is whether it's a intel thing or some T... thi

Re: psql: IDENT authentication failed for user 'js'

2001-10-06 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Saturday 06 October 2001 01:29, Johann Spies wrote: > On Woody - postgresql_7.1release-4_i386.de > > After upgrading to woody I had the following problem with posgtresql: > > > As user postgres: > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ createuser js > Shall the new user be al

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Matthew Sackman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/ > > > > I've never done that at all - I just put in /etc/network/interfaces, > > and it gets loaded

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-06 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:32:40PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put > watches on variables etc. Another debugger is "xxgdb". I used to use it a lot.

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives?

2001-10-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm administrating a network of Debian potato machines using NIS/NFS at >a small high school right now. We're behind a pretty beefy firewall, >but I still know it's not very secure. I couldn't get LDAP >authentication worki

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives?

2001-10-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... for more secure rpc... secure portmapper etc.. ( bottom of link ) http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/services.gwif.html for allowng users to log into any pc and get work done.. - requires a home server that is gonna stay up most of the time - - you'd need to

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-06 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 05:21, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > Please do note that the ping derived from netkit-ping_0.10-8_i386.deb is > broken. But for me, ping from iputils-ping_0ss010824-1_i386.deb works > without any hitch. So do look out well, actually the problem is not about ping itself. t

Re: Man

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
I was wanting it in a text file to print. The -t option will work great! My hat's off to all on this mail group!! Your replies are quick and informative. mike Richard Hector wrote: > > Michael Grover wrote: > > > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > >

WordPerfect 8 problem (won't run)

2001-10-06 Thread Russ Cook
I have WordPerfect 8 on CD, and recently reinstalled it (I had a system crash, and had to reload everything.) It used to run fine, before I reloaded Debian (unstable) and all my software. Now, when I try to start WordPerfect, I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./wp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dvips printing problem: Repost

2001-10-06 Thread Dale Morris
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001, Dale Morris wrote: > I posted this sometime back and was never able to get a satisfactory > solution. Maybe someone can give me some better pointers now.. > > When I try to print a file using dvips quantum.dvi command, what prints > out is the following: > %!PS-Adobe-2.0 > %%

Re: Getting sound to work

2001-10-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! I've had some problem sorting my mail in the last days - if wrote a mail which I did not respond to in that time, please send it again. Cheers, Stephan

Re: mouse problems in KDE

2001-10-06 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:16:17AM -0400, tim wrote: > I am not sure where this problem lies. The mouse seems to work fine > from the console. It also seems to work fine at the kde login screen, > but once kde loads I can not move the mouse smoothing, it mouse jumps > all over the place and adds

RE: telnet sucks

2001-10-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Oct-2001 michael young wrote: > i know i know...but i still would like to use it. i have telnetd installed, > hosts.allow and deny dont have anything in them, /etc/inet.d shows telnet > running bec. telnet works when the hostname/eth0 ip is used but not with the > inet addr... I would like t

Re: mouse problems in KDE

2001-10-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
>On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:16:17AM -0400, tim wrote: >> I am not sure where this problem lies. The mouse seems to work fine >> from the console. It also seems to work fine at the kde login screen, >> but once kde loads I can not move the mouse smoothing, it mouse jumps >> all over the place and

Pon

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
I have configured ppp on my machine to dial out and have setup a fire wall script using ipChains. All my home computers access the internet fine. (soon to have DSL setup, waiting on phone company) All is working good except, I use pon to connect, after I have connetced, It starts wwwoffle. I thi

Re: slow sound

2001-10-06 Thread Knut Ivar Skattebo
>| Sound is playing at half speed on my Compaq Presario 9520 with ES1788 >| onboard. I have searched the net for a solution, but couldn't find >| anything. >It is using the right IRQ and DMA channel? I think if it is sharing >an interrupt with something else, then it might be getting starved, >he

Re: dvips printing problem: SOLVED!!

2001-10-06 Thread Dale Morris
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001, Dale Morris wrote: > I posted this sometime back and was never able to get a satisfactory > solution. Maybe someone can give me some better pointers now.. > > When I try to print a file using dvips quantum.dvi command, what prints > out is the following: > %!PS-Adobe-2.0 > %%

How to fix device asignment oredre?

2001-10-06 Thread Stan Brown
I have a machine that hs 2 SCSI adpaters, and 2 network cards in it. How can I control what oreder the devices for these are asigned in? Both are PCI if it maters. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless

Re: dvips printing problem: Repost

2001-10-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Dale Morris([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, 05 Oct 2001, Dale Morris wrote: > > > I posted this sometime back and was never able to get a satisfactory > > solution. Maybe someone can give me some better pointers now.. > > > > When I try to print a file using dvips quantum.d

international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi, I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they are supposed to. It is, in other words, only a problem in mutt. I have read m

Re: gs vs. gs-aladdin

2001-10-06 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:14:33PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:54:10PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: | > | Which one will do double-sided printing on my HP OfficeJet G85xi? | > | > This printer doesn't do double-sided printing regardles

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: | On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: | > Matthew Sackman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | > > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/ | > > | > > I've never done t

Re: dvips printing problem

2001-10-06 Thread Mark Copper
Disclaimer: I'm no expert. Lame work-around: When I had difficulties with dvips, I was able to use dvipdfm for most purposes. I don't know if divpdfm comes with Linux but it's on CTAN. Of course, you need to be able to print pdf files then. I used the Acrobat reader. I know--if you were interes

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | Hi, | | I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. æ | and ø). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, | and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they | are

Problems with dosemu

2001-10-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I know I must be missing something glaringly obvious here. I have been trying to get dosemu up and running on my debian linux system. As far as I can tell, I've followed all the directions in the README.Debian file, and I've tried it both with the freedos package (not debian of course) and my own

Re: WordPerfect 8 problem (won't run)

2001-10-06 Thread John
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:48:55AM -0500, Russ Cook wrote: > I have WordPerfect 8 on CD, and recently reinstalled it (I had a > system crash, and had to reload everything.) It used to run fine, > before I reloaded Debian (unstable) and all my software. Now, > when I try to start WordPerfect, I ge

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:16:29PM -0400, dman wrote: > > Why not put > > set pager=less > > in your .muttrc? I don't think the built-in pager was meant to be as > complete as a dedicated pager. Is there a way to get mutt's colour support with less? Mike -- Michael P. Souli

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives?

2001-10-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Alvin Oga: > for more secure rpc... secure portmapper etc.. ( bottom of link ) > http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/services.gwif.html That's a portmapper with tcpd/libwrap support. In other words, the portmapper that Debian uses already. It doesn't have anything to do with "secure

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? > | and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, > | and if I use more or les

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Problem

2001-10-06 Thread mikepolniak
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 06:37:22 GMT "Z-Gen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not found during installation. > How can I set it up? > netconfig or linuxcfg? > Thanks in advance. Make sure your kernel has CONFIG_8139TOO=y or =m If its compiled as a module, make sure 8139TOO is loaded.

Assembler -to- Binary vs. C -to- Binary

2001-10-06 Thread shyamk
I compiled the same set of instructions : 1. Using C 2. Using Assembly into Binary . I issued the file command to show the type of the resulting files (assembler - binary and C - Binary ) Both showed different results : 1. sangharsh.cexe : ELF 32-bit LSB Executable , Intel 80386 , version 1

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-06 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
* Timo Blazko Boewing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > well, actually the problem is not about ping itself. the problem ist > that DNS resolve works (e.g. nslookup), but it is like the webserver on > that machine won't give me data when trying with a browser. > But I know from my friends that these mac

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 10:48, dman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > | On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > | > Matthew Sackman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > | > > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0

Another debconf-db than config.dat

2001-10-06 Thread Alexander Hosfeld
Hi! For some packages I want to use an another debconf-database than /var/cache/debconf/config.dat. In /usr/share/debconf/debconf.conf you can IMHO only change the db globaly and in the templates.dat seems to be no way, too. Is there any easy (-> without changing the debconf-code) possibility to

Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

2001-10-06 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to set up a new machine this weekend, and i'm in trouble. I installed a minimal "stable" over the network. then upgraded to Progeny. Then I wen to istall the 2.4 kernel packages from http://people.debian.org/~bunk (thanks for the good work on these BTW). Now, I have a problem. The mach

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Matthew Sackman wrote: >--snip--< > It's a module. The natsemi module. It loads fine without there being > anything relating to eth0 anywhere under /etc/modutils. > > Weird - I simply never knew this should be there. In fact, come to > think of it, on all the boxes I've set up I've never put eth0

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

2001-10-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 8:17 PM Subject: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04 > I'm trying to set up a new machine this weekend, and i'm in trouble. > > I installed a minimal "stable

Re: Assembler -to- Binary vs. C -to- Binary

2001-10-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:57:16 +0530, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I compiled the same set of instructions : > 1. Using C > 2. Using Assembly > into Binary . > > I issued the file command to show the type of the resulting files > (assembler - > binary and C - Binary ) > > Both showed different r

Re: How to fix device asignment oredre?

2001-10-06 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I have a machine that hs 2 SCSI adpaters, and 2 network cards in it. How >can I control what oreder the devices for these are asigned in? Both are >PCI if it maters. If they use different drivers, and are compiled in the kenel as modules, y

Startup

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
In debian I don't find a rc.local file, is there a file that I can use to run some shell scripts at boot? maybe at final boot? thanks, mike

starting sympa fails

2001-10-06 Thread Hans Bausewein
Hello all, I've installed sympa, but starting it fails with: Can't modify reference constructor in scalar assignment at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/smtp.pm line 67, near "$rcpt;" Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/sympa.pl line 22. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/s

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-06 Thread Benjamin Diedrich
Thank you all for the fast reply on my problem. I finally figured it out when I looked at the system log. The NVdriver kernel module was complaining that an IRQ was not set for the VGA adapter. So, I rebooted, enabled the IRQ for my video adapter in the BIOS, and X windows launched right up. The 3D

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:58:35PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 10:48, dman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > | It's a module. The natsemi module. It loads fine without there being > > | anything relating to eth0 anywhere und

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-06 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 19:26, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > I had a similar problem, i could almost anything, ping, ICQ, dns > lookups. BUT i could not browse, fetch pop3 mail, i could browse an > ftp but not fetch. Regarding ftp I have similar probs; but - as with http - only some sites seem to be af

IPTables questions

2001-10-06 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, I've decided to reinstall Debian on my gateway and throw away FreeBSD... But some questions come to my mind about iptables. Do iptables support active FTP's and DCC send/chat protocols? (ipchains supported these very well). Do iptables allow me to redirect incoming connections to the co

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-06 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 21:06, Benjamin Diedrich wrote: > Thank you all for the fast reply on my problem. I finally figured it out > when I looked at the system log. The NVdriver kernel module was > complaining that an IRQ was not set for the VGA adapter. So, I rebooted, > enabled the IRQ for my vide

Re: WordPerfect 8 problem (won't run)

2001-10-06 Thread Russ Cook
Thanks John Your information solved my problem. I have archive your message in case this situation should arise again. Thanks again, Russ On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, John wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:48:55AM -0500, Russ Cook wrote: > > I have WordPerfect 8 on CD, and recently reinstalle

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sat, 06 Oct 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote: > I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. æ > and ø). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, > and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they > are supposed to. It is, in other

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Walter Hofmann wrote: > LANG=de_DE mutt > > and it works fine (but mutt speaks german now, which I don't really > like). Try overwriting LC_MESSAGES, ie LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt . mutt should speak English again, while showing German characters. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld

make X messages more verbose

2001-10-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
You know how when the X server starts with startx, it prints text to the screen and more text to /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Is there a way I can make either or both more verbose (e.g. a debugging option)? Last night when I apt-updated my sid box, it replaced some of the X libraries. Today my X ser

Re: IPTables questions

2001-10-06 Thread HdV
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > Do iptables support active FTP's and DCC send/chat protocols? (ipchains > supported these very well). That's affirmative on both of them. Make sure your kernel has CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP IP_CONNTRACK_IRC IP_CONNTRACK_FTP enabled. (If I remember correctly) >

xWindows, HELP....

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Well, I Configured xwindows ans started it. The first time I ran it I just got a blue screen with mouse pointer. Now when I boot my machine, I get a xWindows login prompt. I can't get to a bash prompt to fix my xWindows config. If I try ctrl+alt+backspace it takes me back to a xWindows login prom

Webmin in woody

2001-10-06 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, is Webmin (plus modules) included in Woody? I'm currently running Sid, but I would like to know this about woody... Thanks. -- Make a better partition table: http://www.jmmv.f2s.com/ept Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 18961975 pgp5GKIRFyYHk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Man

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:06:06AM -0500, Aaron Hall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Michael Grover wrote: > > > is there any on-line version of the man pages? > > > > like for "man 5 interfaces" > > > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > > chars

gdm Login error

2001-10-06 Thread Mike Kuhar
Greetings, I get this strange error after X starts, but before the GDM login screen: "No servers were defined in the configuration file and xdmcp was disabled. This can only be a configuration error. So I have started a single server for you. You should log in and fix the configuration. Note t

Mail in Communicator 4.77

2001-10-06 Thread Harald Iwe
Hi there, I'm running a standard Potato 2.2r3 and trying to set up the Netscape Communicator Messenger as an easy mail interface for my wife (must be easy to use (point and click), handle MIME, clickable URL's, etc. (I use gnus myself, but she WANTS mouse interface)) To download mail from my

Re: IPTables questions

2001-10-06 Thread Julio Merino
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 10:27:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > > That's affirmative on both of them. > Make sure your kernel has > > CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP > IP_CONNTRACK_IRC > IP_CONNTRACK_FTP > > enabled. (If I remember correctly) Uh... I have: CONFIG

Gravis soundcard problem

2001-10-06 Thread Russ Cook
I am running Debian unstable with Gnome installed. I have a Gravis legacy soundcard installed, with appropriate drivers enable. When I try to run an mp3 or midi file, I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/music$ splaymidi -g bohemian.mid Playmidi 2.3 Copyright (C) 1994-1996 Nathan I. Lar

Re: Another debconf-db than config.dat

2001-10-06 Thread Joey Hess
Alexander Hosfeld wrote: > For some packages I want to use an another debconf-database than > /var/cache/debconf/config.dat. You want to filter this by package? That is possible, but it requires the as-yet unwritten Filter DbDriver. It's on the TODO list. -- see shy jo

network again

2001-10-06 Thread Hans Steinraht
-- Hi, I'm stil working on my network, I managed to compile a new kernel with IP-masqurading in it and continued with trying to get my network running. I did: ifconfig 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 and then ipmasq. All looks good, noerrors this time. I'm able to ping to the windows machine

Re: Startup

2001-10-06 Thread W. Paul Mills
Put a file called local (or whatever you want) in "/etc/init.d/" and then use update-rc.d to set it up to run. See "man update-rc.d". [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Grover) writes: > In debian I don't find a rc.local file, is there a file that I can use > to run some shell scripts at boot? > >

Re: Forwarding X apps

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:01:59PM -0400, Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What does one have to do to enable X apps to be forwarded to my machine? > > For two machine named debian and firewall respectively, I want to > forward a display from fireall to debian > > on debian: > > xhost +

Re: Webmin in woody

2001-10-06 Thread Hans Gubitz
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 10:39:28PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > is Webmin (plus modules) included in Woody? add to your sources.list: deb http://termserv.berlios.de/debian stable main -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Help! Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

2001-10-06 Thread Stan Brown
I've tried grub _and_ lilo. Grub just comes up in the interactive menu. Lilo starts loading the kernel and then the kernel spits out this meesage. This hapened just after I upgraded to the 2.4 kernel from the kernel packages for that. I desperately need to have this machine working by Monday. Ca

Re: Help! Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

2001-10-06 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:42:19PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: | I've tried grub _and_ lilo. Grub just comes up in the interactive menu. | Lilo starts loading the kernel and then the kernel spits out this meesage. Is this the same machine you just asked about the initrd stuff for? To boot with an ini

xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Well, I got around my xWindows start up problem. I booted up with cdrom, went into rescue mode, mounted my hard drive, dumped into a shell, and deleted my XF86Config file. I found out why my XWindows was not working, I put /dev/tty0 instead of ttyS0 for my mouse. Now I have a easy question? The

Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Poul Anker Gensmann
Hi. After an apt-get upgrade (unstable) I have encountered an annoying problem in X. Letters display like squares in eg. xchat and menus in xmms. (I think that it may be related to gtk?) I have searched the bug-archives and various newsgroups and mailing list, but only found one solution: restar

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:21:06AM +0200, Poul Anker Gensmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi. > > After an apt-get upgrade (unstable) I have encountered an annoying problem > in X. Letters display like squares in eg. xchat and menus in xmms. > (I think that it may be related to gtk?) > > I h

undefined symbol, libXaw.so.7

2001-10-06 Thread Poul Anker Gensmann
Hi again. I also have a problem with x-apps. using libXaw.so.7. When stating eg xterm I get: xterm: relocation error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7: undefined symbol: XmuCvtGravityToString According to bug #90658 , it has to do with mixed libc5/libc6 dependencies, but it should be fixed with xlib6

Re: xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:23:54PM -0500, Michael Grover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, I got around my xWindows start up problem. > > I booted up with cdrom, went into rescue mode, mounted my hard drive, > dumped into a shell, and deleted my XF86Config file. > > I found out why my XWindows

Re: Kde

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:35:37PM -0400, Eileen Orbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > What windows manager do poeple on the list recommend using? I have > just installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato) and was trying to > find KDE. Could someone point me to this or maybe recomm

Re: installing debian on a Jaz

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:39PM +0200, Maxime Gamboni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all ! > > I am new to this mailinglist (as well as to the linux world :-) > I want to install debian on my pc, but there's already windows > installed on it, and I don't want to partition the hard disk (which

Re: xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
I don't think I have WindowMaker Installed? what is package Name? mike "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:23:54PM -0500, Michael Grover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Well, I got around my xWindows start up problem. > > > > I booted up with cdrom, went into resc

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread John Hasler
Karsten writes: > The problems involve Gtk and its handling of non-8859-1 encoded fonts, > due to changes in X11. The fault is Gtk, not X11. Updating to XFree86v4 > should help, as several other modifications to font configuration, > adequately addressed in d-u archives. I found that I had to co

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-06 Thread kerr Avon
Hello I wish to upgrade my Debian 1.3 to 2.2.r2. I would like to know if anyone has tried that before and if so is it safe. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Keith Willoughby
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Karsten writes: > > The problems involve Gtk and its handling of non-8859-1 encoded fonts, > > due to changes in X11. The fault is Gtk, not X11. Updating to XFree86v4 > > should help, as several other modifications to font configuration, > > adequately a

Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Is there a way to get a list of available packages from apt-get? mike...

Re: Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Ok, I found them listed on the Debian web site.. mike Michael Grover wrote: > > Is there a way to get a list of available packages from apt-get? > > mike... > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread alephtnull
if you have gnome installed you could use gnome_dialup. gnome_dialup-This GNOME applet is a graphical replacement of the pon/poff script. To use this program, you need to use pppconfig to configure the PPP connection first. Gnome dialup will automatically detect what account is available for conne

Woody Install

2001-10-06 Thread Chris
Hello, I am having some trouble installing woody on my system. I am starting the install from a dos partition using install.bat and I am using the compact flavour. The installation procedure starts ok but then then when the ?kernel? is booting up it says "Found ramdisk image at block 0" and then

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Poul Anker Gensmann
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Search the list archives. This has been discussed in depth. > The problems involve Gtk and its handling of non-8859-1 encoded fonts, > due to changes in X11. The fault is Gtk, not X11. Updating to > XFree86v4 should help, as several other modificatio

sound distortion

2001-10-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Installed kernel 2.4.10. Built emu10k1 as a module. Before this I was running 2.2.17 and ALSA without trouble. I am now experiencing sound distortions in some instances, such as the program "saytime". Festival sounds fine. There is some distortion in Unreal Tournament when the voice states "You hav

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Charles Baker
``apt-get remove`` any XFree 3.x packages and ``apt-get install`` all the XFree 4.x packages. --- Poul Anker Gensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Search the list archives. This has been discussed > in depth. > > The problems involve Gtk and it

Re: xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread Charles Baker
wmaker --- Michael Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think I have WindowMaker Installed? what is > package Name? > > mike > > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:23:54PM -0500, Michael > Grover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Well, I got around my

Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
How can i get a package into the apt-get list, or install a .deb file? mike...

Re: make X messages more verbose

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:26:45PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You know how when the X server starts with startx, it prints text to the > screen and more text to /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Is there a way I can > make either or both more verbose (e.g. a debugging option)? > >

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