Re: debian-wisdom

2001-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.14 18:41:26-0400]: > Any reason for using https instead of http? passwords are involved. that's the reason. > | one last thing: the list is of course archived: > | http://lists.madduck.net/pipermail/debian-wisdom/ > > Any reason for using mailman for the l

Re: where can I get older versions of debs?

2001-10-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:15:51PM +0200, Tarjei Huse wrote: > I whant to revert back to the 4.0.6-6 version of php4 in unstable. Where can I > get the debs? 1) your /var/cache/apt/archives 2) According to apt-cache policy php4 php4: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3:4.0.5-2 Version Table:

Re: maildir : mutt and fetchmail

2001-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.14 19:00:11-0400]: > Ok, now I'm using maildir for my folders. For some reason, though, > mutt shows most messages as having a size of 0. Why might this be? because somehow Maildir is missing the Lines header. use this in your procmail: :0 Bfh * H ?? !^Li

Re: changing mutt index entry of message based on header

2001-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
* Karsten M. Self [2001.10.14 19:01:08-0700]: > $cat <> ~/.muttrc > color header brightyellowred "^X-Rainbow:" > EOF thanks for the reply, but that would color the header... i would like to color a message in the index, which contains that header. is this possible? --

Install KLyX

2001-10-15 Thread Mark Rompies
Hi! I want to install KLyX in my Potato box. Here's the result: # dpkg -i klyx_0.9.8a-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 73566 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace klyx 0.9.8a-1 (using klyx_0.9.8a-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement klyx ... dpkg: dependency problems

USB Keyboard

2001-10-15 Thread Tomoo Nmura
こんにちは。 Sid 2.4.9 で USB Keyboard (Apple G4) と ELECOM のマウスを接続したのです が、なんとなく動いていたのに、動かなくなってしまいました。 次のようなメッセージが出ます。 hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1/1/1, assigned device number 4 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/pro

Error messages during Woody installation

2001-10-15 Thread Mikael Petersson
Hello, Entire weekend I failed to install Woody with ext3 support. During installation of the base system, I get the following error message: Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force-auto-select --force-overwrite --force I get this error independently of which flavor of installation di

Re: changing mutt index entry of message based on header

2001-10-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:44:51AM +0200, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self [2001.10.14 19:01:08-0700]: > > $cat <> ~/.muttrc > > color header brightyellowred "^X-Rainbow:" > > EOF > > thanks for the reply, but that would color the header.

Re: : changing mutt index entry of message based on header

2001-10-15 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:44:51AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > * Karsten M. Self [2001.10.14 19:01:08-0700]: > > $cat <> ~/.muttrc > > color header brightyellowred "^X-Rainbow:" > > EOF > > thanks for the reply, but that would color the header... i would like > to

Re: debian-wisdom -- confirmation of subscription -- request 821391

2001-10-15 Thread glyn

Re: : changing mutt index entry of message based on header

2001-10-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:54:43AM +0200, Stephen Rueger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:44:51AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > * Karsten M. Self [2001.10.14 19:01:08-0700]: > > > $cat <> ~/.muttrc > > > color header brightyellowred "^X-Rainbow:"

Re: debian-wisdom -- confirmation of subscription -- request 821391

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Re: mozilla ssl doesn't work!

2001-10-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 00:58, Alexander N Gould wrote: > When I click on https links in mozilla 0.9.4 from sid, nothing happens! > The libnss3 package is installed and up to date. Any ideas? Thanks. > Do you have mozilla-psm installed? Andrea

Re: debian-wisdom -- confirmation of subscription -- request 821391

2001-10-15 Thread Glyn Millington
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Re: : changing mutt index entry of message based on header

2001-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
* Stephen Rueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.15 09:54:43+0200]: > color index red green '~h ^X-Rainbow:' cool. i actually just discovered it myself. i remember reading that anything like ~h or ~b wasn't allowed due to efficiency, but i guess it is. thanks! -- martin; (greetings fr

Any HOWTO on PAM ? (qpopper pop3 auth)

2001-10-15 Thread R. Alexander
I would like to have qpopper authenticating not on the system's userid/password but on it's own userid's/passords (to avoid passing system passwords in the clear). Someone told me that qpopper supporto PAM authentication ... >From here to getting what I want I am afraid I'll have to study quite a

configuration "startx"

2001-10-15 Thread muthu mmpr
Hi GNU/Debian Team, we have a AMD Athlon PC with Octek mother board, AGP inbuilt, sound inbuilt, we use a Rlt network card. i want to configure graphics (xf86config) when i did it asked for the mother board, i (nor my vendor) are not sure about the mother board you have listed( on xf86config). y

Re: configuration "startx"

2001-10-15 Thread alephtnull
use xf86cfg to configure xfree86.. instead of xf86config...that's obsolete now... -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Horde won't install correctly

2001-10-15 Thread andrew . clark
I've been trying to get Horde to install on my unstable machine, and I've been having no end of problems. Whenever the postinst script runs, either during a fresh install or a dpkg-reconfigure I get the following error message: pgsql extension for php4 found. Include of /etc/hor

modem doesn't dial with pon.

2001-10-15 Thread Shane - www.iordy.com
I have a machine ( pentium75 with no fans at all so I can leave it running all the time ) that I would like to set up as a dial on demand machine for the rest of the boxes on my home network except I'm having a few problems. So I thought I would list the ones here I haven't found answers too in doc

Re: linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes

2001-10-15 Thread Frank Zimmermann
ramsubs wrote: greetings all. i came across this article in linuxworld.com: http://www.linuxworld.com/ic_706716_6995_1-3133.html --- "One of the very few technical problems that arose with the Linux OS and the custom interface stemmed from Linux's tendency to leave an application

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-15 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Søren Neigaard wrote: Why haven't I got the XF86Setup btw.? XF86Setup is, AFAIK, for XFree86 3.x. Thats why you don't have it and don't need it. You can try xf86cfg, didn't work for me though since X seems to be broken on my system. -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Frank

Re: Help/Info on E-Mail Headers

2001-10-15 Thread Richard Hector
"Donald R. Spoon" wrote: > > An earlier post "mail headers - why do they differ? Sam Varghese " > caused me to do a bit of investigation here, and I noted the same thing > happening on my posts to this group. Since I don't have an MTA setup to > pass my E-Mail on to the internet, I use the Road R

Re: configuration "startx"

2001-10-15 Thread MarceI Figuerola Estrada
The configuration application is called xf86config, not xf86cfg Marcel - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 10:50 AM Subject: Re: configuration "startx" > use xf86cfg to configure xfree86.. instead of xf86config...that's obsolete > now... >

Re: webalizer

2001-10-15 Thread Tilmann Holst
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Somebody please test and report :) I still have no potato box around > for extensive testing, unfortunately. I just installed it from "proposed updates" and it is running fine on my potato box. But it I have not done "extensive testing". btw - thank

Re: Strange KDE Problems

2001-10-15 Thread Jean-Paul Smets
Le Lundi 15 Octobre 2001 06:53, Nathan Weston a écrit : > I am running debian unstable. I just dist-upgraded tonight, and all of a > sudden KDE won't start. KDM comes up fine, I login, and then X crashes > and I end up back at the KDM login. > > My .x-session-errors contains something along the l

Re: Dillo (Web-Browser Recommendation)

2001-10-15 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 08:53:33PM +0200, "Jürgen Karsten> A. Erhard" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> It doesn't do frames, or SSL, or fancy layouting (doesn't know >> or and all that). Karsten> ...or cut'n'paste, though thi

RE: modem doesn't dial with pon.

2001-10-15 Thread Wayne Brown
On 15/10/01 Shane wrote: > > I have a machine ( pentium75 with no fans at all so I can > leave it running > all the time ) that I would like to set up as a dial on > demand machine for > the rest of the boxes on my home network except I'm having a > few problems. > So I thought I would list

How to debug

2001-10-15 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hello. Since I set up a (terminal-) server for testing, there are really strange problems with X (or maybe the kernel). I'm using sid on this system in order to experiment with the newest features and kernel 2.4.10, the thin clients use a nfs-rooted stripped down debian image (sid, kernel 2.4.12

ASDL with potato? FreeSWAN with potato?

2001-10-15 Thread Martin Waller
Hello, Two (well 3 I suppose) questions. Can I get ASDL with British Telecom to work under potato, and if so how? Otherwise, how hard is ISDN to get working? Secondly (or thirdly I suppose) has anyone got FreeSWAN to work under potato? Say if I install it myself? Ta, Martin __

Compiling pcmcia support under kernel 2.4.9

2001-10-15 Thread Vittorio
I've installed and tailored Bunk's 2.4.9 kernel. Now I want to install pcmcia support from Bunk's stuff. I've read in pcmcia-cs README-2.4.9 that now with 2.4.x kernels I can compile either the support for pcmcia directly into the kernel or compile the modules coming with pcmcia-cs themselves.

Re: Error messages during Woody installation

2001-10-15 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Mikael Petersson: > Hello, > > Entire weekend I failed to install Woody with ext3 support. During > installation of the base system, I get the following error message: > > Failure trying to run: chroot /target > dpkg --force-auto-select --force-overwrite --force > > I get this error i

Re: How to make on board VIA VT82C686B sound chip work?

2001-10-15 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:28:31AM +0200, Sergio Da Silva wrote: > In order to control the sound volume you may use "aumix" or any other > program that controls the mixer. I do use "aumix" myself. > > Hope it helps. > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:05:12PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > > On Su

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-15 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Frank Zimmermann: > Søren Neigaard wrote: > > > > > > >Why haven't I got the XF86Setup btw.? > > > XF86Setup is, AFAIK, for XFree86 3.x. Thats why you don't have it and > don't need it. You can try xf86cfg, didn't work for me though since X > seems to be broken on my system. > > > >

Re: debian kernel packages and modules

2001-10-15 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:47:29PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: > Okay, here's my debian-newbie question for the week. > When installing a stock debian kernel package, how do > I get and install the modules that match that kernel > w/o killing off the modules that match my old kernel. > The particul

startx crashing with xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-7, not with 4.1.0-6

2001-10-15 Thread Victor Julien
Hi, When I use xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-7 the startx command crashes right after the X screen was set up. The xinit command works correct. Going back to 4.1.0-6 solves the problem. My setup: Debian testing Nvidia card using the nvidia drivers 1.0-1541 Victor

Re: ASDL with potato? FreeSWAN with potato?

2001-10-15 Thread Nick Sanders
> Can I get ASDL with British Telecom to work under potato, and if so how? The short answer is no, you need a 2.4 kernel to get the USB Alcatel Speedtouch modem to work for more info check out the url below. http://www.linuxdude.co.uk/docs/Alcatel-Speedtouch-USB-mini-HOWTO/speedtouchusb.html

pcmcia & smartmedia

2001-10-15 Thread Vittorio
I've bought a nice Olympus Camedia 4040Z digital camera and the pcmcia card to read the 16 MB smartmedia card coming with the camera (I'd like to use gphoto and, above all, the Gimp). According to what I've read on this ML the pcmcia+smartmedia card can be read as an IDE drive, in a nutshell, as i

Re: Debian books

2001-10-15 Thread Nigel Pauli
On Sunday 14 October 2001 16:53, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly > for Debian instead of just general linux? As a newbie of two and a half months I found one book "Debian GNU/Linux 2.1" From SAMS (ISDN 0672317001) but that 2.1 bit

Is the SonicFury supported?

2001-10-15 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, Is anyone out there running Debian (unstable) with the VideoLogic SonicFury? It's a PCI sound card based around the CS4630 chip. I've seen reports that it is a) not supported, b) supported and c) supported but bad sound quality. Anyone got one? Thanks, Ross Burton

Re: startx crashing with xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-7, not with 4.1.0-6

2001-10-15 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Victor Julien wrote: Hi, When I use xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-7 the startx command crashes right after the X screen was set up. The xinit command works correct. Going back to 4.1.0-6 solves the problem. My setup: Debian testing Nvidia card using the nvidia drivers 1.0-1541 Victor Probabl

Building modules with make-kpkg

2001-10-15 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, (apologies if this is a re-post - my mail client eat the first mail) I've build a custom kernel using make-kpkg, but I'm now getting a new sound card so I need to build a module. Would it be possible to build a package which just contains the new module from the source tree, or do I have to

Dell 2550 wont install network card

2001-10-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I want to install a Dell PowerEdge 2550 Rack Server that comes with 2 10/100 Mbps/ network cards and 1 1 Gbp/s network card. I'm in lost to get those 10/100 network cards to run. Are they Intel Ethernet Express 100? What driver can I use? Anyone has s

Re: Dell 2550 wont install network card

2001-10-15 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 13:07, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > I want to install a Dell PowerEdge 2550 Rack Server that comes with 2 > 10/100 Mbps/ network cards and 1 1 Gbp/s network card. > I'm in lost to get those 10/100 network cards to run. > Are they Intel Etherne

Re: modem doesn't dial with pon.

2001-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Shane writes: > 1. I set up my scripts in /etc/ppp/peers/ and /etc/chatscripts the > default 'provider' and everything looks correct [for demand-dialling] > according to all the documentation I have read. > ... > I'm not sure what I have wrong but I just cannot get my modem to dial > with pon. If

RE: Dell 2550 wont install network card

2001-10-15 Thread Justin Hahn
IIRC, the 2550 is a slightly modified 2450, which means those are eepro cards. I don't have linux on any of our 2550s, but try the eepro100.o module. That should just magically work. --jeh > -Original Message- > From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

My Potato locked up !?

2001-10-15 Thread Morbo
Hi, I've found this morning that sometime overnight my machine running Potato locked up completely. I'm faily new to Linux, but I thought this doesn't suppose to happen! Also I was running this installation for a couple of month now without problems. The only difference is that I've installed XFr

Re: Debian books

2001-10-15 Thread Ricardo Diz
I have GNU/Debian Bible (based on potato) and another from Unleashed (called Debian 2.1, or so I think). I think the first is a fine book but for advanced users it looses for the latter. Although Unleashed's a bit dated, I'm sticking with it. Anyway, you can see comments on these to books in am

Re: Compiling openssh from source

2001-10-15 Thread David Roundy
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:39:00PM -0500, Matt Wehland wrote: > At 11:42 AM 10/14/01 -0500, Colin Watson replied: > > >You need to look in the pool, not dists/unstable. > > Thanks I see it now, I was trying to use the package_name+version, looking > at the sources.gz file, I noticed that its j

CUPS: lp: unable to print file: client-error-not-found

2001-10-15 Thread Danie Roux
I'm printing to a HP 2100 printer. As root this works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lp -d hp2100 -o raw smbprn.yncNA0 As a user however I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lp -d hp2100 -o raw smbprn.yncNA0 lp: unable to print file: client-error-not-found The user belongs to groups lp and lpadmin for good

[danchev@spnet.net: Weird XFree 4.1.0-6 problem on Sid]

2001-10-15 Thread Branden Robinson
-- 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/~branden/ | space exploration is dangerous

Building modules with make-kpkg

2001-10-15 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I've build a custom kernel using make-kpkg, but I'm now getting a new sound card so I need to build a module. Would it be possible to build a package which just contains the new module from the source tree, or do I have to rebuild an entire kernel package just to get a new module? Thanks for

Re: Debian books

2001-10-15 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 16:22 15.10.2001, you wrote: *** PGP Signature Status: unknown *** Signer: Unknown, Key ID x3A91933C *** Signed: 15.10.2001 16:22:44 *** Verified: 15.10.2001 16:27:29 *** BEGIN PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE *** I have GNU/Debian Bible (based on potato) and another from Unleashed (called Debian 2.1,

Re: debian-wisdom

2001-10-15 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:32:05AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.14 18:41:26-0400]: | > Any reason for using https instead of http? | | passwords are involved. that's the reason. Yeah, but they get mailed back periodically anyways. I don't choose a "real"

Re: debian-wisdom

2001-10-15 Thread Paul Smith
%% dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: d> | > | one last thing: the list is of course archived: d> | > | http://lists.madduck.net/pipermail/debian-wisdom/ d> | > d> | > Any reason for using mailman for the list but pipermail for the d> | > archives? IMO mailman makes really nice archive

compaq proliant 400 scsi-boot problems

2001-10-15 Thread Gerald Richter
Hello Debianists! I've gotten a potato production system up and running, everything works quite fine, but since the scsi-drive was malfunctioning, I used an IDE-drive to set up the machine. NOW I have my scsi UW2 drive and intend to use it, so I wish to move everything to the new drive, but I c

Re: Any HOWTO on PAM ? (qpopper pop3 auth)

2001-10-15 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:27:37AM +0200, R. Alexander wrote: > I would like to have qpopper authenticating not on the system's > userid/password but on it's own userid's/passords (to avoid passing system > passwords in the clear). > > Someone told me that qpopper supporto PAM authentication ... >

Woody: X won't start after upgrade to 4.1

2001-10-15 Thread Tim Wood
Hello, I have just updated/upgraded my Woody system with apt-get. This changed XFree86 from 4.0.3 to 4.1.1 When I type "startx" the server starts then exits. I did not change anything. I ran xf86config but get the same effect. My Xfree86.0.log is 22kb so I'm reluctant to post it straight away.

xfs: problems talking with XTerminal xserver

2001-10-15 Thread Phil Nitschke
Hi all, I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable/testing (i386). I have an old Sun XTerminal on which I (infrequently) run the "SLXT" (SPARC-Linux Xterminal) software. This involves tftp-booting a linux kernel and the Xsun xserver. All this _used_ to work a couple of months ago. Now the problem:

DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread David Harrigan
Hiya, Well, I just went out and bought TPF (The Phantom Menace) on DVD. Now, I'm left wondering - I could play this on my Windows ME machine, or I could play this on my Linux (Debian :) machine. I know which one I would prefer Therefore, I'm asking this esteemed group which combo of DVD Player

RE: Woody: X won't start after upgrade to 4.1

2001-10-15 Thread David Harrigan
Hiya, This posting from previous: Victor Julien wrote: > Hi, > > When I use xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-7 the startx command crashes right after the > X screen was set up. The xinit command works correct. Going back to 4.1.0-6 > solves the problem. > > My setup: > Debian testing > Nvidia card usin

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:46:01PM +0100, David Harrigan wrote: > Hiya, > > Well, I just went out and bought TPF (The Phantom Menace) on DVD. Now, I'm > left > wondering - I could play this on my Windows ME machine, or I could play this > on my > Linux (Debian :) machine. I know which one I would

OT -- Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Well, I just went out and bought TPF (The Phantom Menace) > on DVD... Uhhh, where are you from ?? It's not supposed to be out until tomorrow... You have friends at a video store or something ?? Hall

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-15 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > #include > > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? Thanks to everyone that responded. It seems tha

Re: Debian Mailman broken and undocumented

2001-10-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote: > 2001-10-12 15:24:06 15s9mo-0001Yp-00 Neither the system_aliases > director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery > of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd workbench Sounds like you might not have read the stand

Re: startx crashing with xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-7, not with 4.1.0-6

2001-10-15 Thread Berthold Cogel
"Thomas R. Shemanske" wrote: > > Victor Julien wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > When I use xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-7 the startx command crashes right after > > the > > X screen was set up. The xinit command works correct. Going back to 4.1.0-6 > > solves the problem. > > > > My setup: > > Debian testing >

Re: ASDL with potato? FreeSWAN with potato?

2001-10-15 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-10-15 12:30): > Can I get ASDL with British Telecom to work under potato, and if so how? Yup, I use it myself and it generally works quite well. You'll have to use a 2.4 kernel, which means that you'll need to update some packages. Luckily, Adrian Bunk

Re: pcmcia & smartmedia

2001-10-15 Thread tony mollica
Hello. > Now my questions are: > > 1) What driver for the card should I set (ide-cs?)? If I remember, if the pcmcia package is loaded, the pcmcia card reader should be recognized automatically. I don't remember changing anything. The card uses the ide_cs driver and the listed database should be

pictures systems 2001/munich

2001-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
dudes, a small set of pictures from our booth at this year's systems fair in munich is now online at http://www.madduck.net/debian/2001.systems. maybe someone can take them official onto a debian.org machine - partially because my poor P5-120 will probably die as all of you start downloading the sc

Re: pictures systems 2001/munich

2001-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.15 17:44:27+0200]: > a small set of pictures from our booth at this year's systems fair in > munich is now online at http://www.madduck.net/debian/2001.systems. > maybe someone can take them official onto a debian.org machine - > partially because my p

Re: gnome sound

2001-10-15 Thread Frank Preut
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:51:33PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:13:30AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > > okay, i've had it.. gnome just completely froze my system.. i had to > > unplug it! just because i had mpg321 running in the background.. i have > > no idea why that is

Re: How to debug

2001-10-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
CP> This is the phenomen: Thin Client and Server work well, then - CP> randomly - with a distance of a couple of days a single client CP> looses its connection to the Xserver. It doesn't recognize this, CP> so you can move the mouse cursor, This is the expected behaviour. X11 connections are not

Re: Building modules with make-kpkg

2001-10-15 Thread John Patton
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:25:54PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > I've build a custom kernel using make-kpkg, but I'm now getting a new > sound card so I need to build a module. Would it be possible to build a > package which just contains the new module from the source tree, or do I > have to rebuil

Re: pictures systems 2001/munich

2001-10-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include martin f krafft wrote on Mon Oct 15, 2001 um 05:44:27PM: > maybe someone can take them official onto a debian.org machine - Size-reduced versions on http://people.debian.org/~blade/tmp/ Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Fernsehen ist das einzige Schlafmittel, das mit den Augen eingenommen wir

gnome panel and syslog messages - VFS: Disk change detected ...

2001-10-15 Thread Michael A. Miller
I've recently upgraded a system to testing and, when gnome panel is running, I'm getting many messages (about two per second) in syslog. They look like this: Oct 15 10:27:20 lumen VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) Can anyone help me understand what this means? Mike P.S. I'm using g

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, David Harrigan wrote: > Hiya, > > Well, I just went out and bought TPF (The Phantom Menace) on DVD. Now, > I'm left wondering - I could play this on my Windows ME machine, or I > could play this on my Linux (Debian :) machine. I know which one I > would prefer Therefore,

Spam: the last straw

2001-10-15 Thread DvB
I've been putting up with deleting spam from my email account for quite a while... it's kind of routine by now. The other day, however, I received the following in my Yahoo! Mail inbox, which leads me to believe that some @#*$&% is placing my address in the "From:" header of his/her scourge as he/s

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2001-10-15 Thread Scott Glover
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Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-15 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, Negative five Negative four Negative three Negative two Negative one Zero One

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:55:55PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > My favourites are xine and mplayer. > xine is GUI based and has a cool looking, starts to support DVD menus but > sometimes segfaults with the d4d plugin (you need this for css DVDs) > http://xine.sourceforge.net > > mplayer is comman

Re: configuration "startx"

2001-10-15 Thread Wayne Topa
MarceI Figuerola Estrada([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > The configuration application is called xf86config, not xf86cfg > > Marcel Oh really ??? man xf86cfg xf86cfg(1) xf86cfg(1) NAME xf86cfg - Graphical configuration tool for X

Sticky Bit for directories and Samba

2001-10-15 Thread Morbo
I'm running a Samba server, and I have set up the shared directories that they have their own samba user name and group name. I also have the sticky bit turned on on the top most directory. If I understood it correctly, this should result in all directories and files below this folder to inherit t

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:55:55PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > My favourites are xine and mplayer. > > xine is GUI based and has a cool looking, starts to support DVD menus but > > sometimes segfaults with the d4d plugin (you need this for css D

Re: compaq proliant 400 scsi-boot problems

2001-10-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 09:15, Gerald Richter wrote: > > Hello Debianists! > > I've gotten a potato production system up and running, everything works > quite fine, but since the scsi-drive was malfunctioning, I used an > IDE-drive to set up the machine. > > NOW I have my scsi UW2 drive and inten

Sound Won't Work...

2001-10-15 Thread Michael Fontenot
I've just installed debian 2.2r3, and I've got an Ensonic PCI sound card (es1370) that DOES seem to be recognized during boot, and does show up in an lsmod (although it says "unused"... I don't know what that implies).  The lsmod also shows  "soundcore ... [es1370]".  I also have all the /d

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
> This reminds me that I've been meaning to ask this > question for a long time. I have a DVD drive that someone > gave me when I upgraded their computer, and I was > wondering if it would be worthwhile to install it in my > system. I have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 128 MB of > RAM. Is this suffic

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-15 Thread DvB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher S. Swingley) writes: > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, You might want to search on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org to see if there's already a bug filed for this and, if not, file a

Re: Sticky Bit for directories and Samba

2001-10-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I believe the sticky bit (which should show a "t" when you do a ls -l ) will stop other users from deleting the creators file. This is used often on a /tmp directory that has "write" access to lots of users. I believe that the "s" bit is used in the "UID" and "GID" so that any file created unde

Re: how to remove task-packages

2001-10-15 Thread Guy Geens
> "Felix" == Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Felix> hi, is there a way to completely remove task-packages (task-kde Felix> for example) including dependencies ? AFAIK, there is no easy way. If you have woody or sid, try debfoster or deborphan to help cleaning up unused packages. --

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:06:16PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > system. I have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 128 MB of > > RAM. Is this sufficient to play DVDs using a software > > player? > I believe your video card is a (considerable ??) factor in DVD > playback too. What kind do you have ?? I

Re: pictures systems 2001/munich

2001-10-15 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:49:26PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.15 17:44:27+0200]: | > a small set of pictures from our booth at this year's systems fair in | > munich is now online at http://www.madduck.net/debian/2001.systems. | > maybe someone ca

Re: gnome sound

2001-10-15 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:03:42PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: | On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:51:33PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: ... | > Two programs can't use your audio hardware at the same time. That's what | > programs like esd try to solve. | > | > Esd mixes different programs' sound, so that

Installing newest Mozilla over Potato

2001-10-15 Thread Sigue
Hi, I've installed Mozilla via dselect. It says it's version M-18. I've never heard this version. I thought 0.95 is the newest. How do I install the newest version? Should I just remove M-18 with dselect, then unpack the tarball from mozilla.org to /usr/local? Or is there a better way? Also my d

Re: [danchev@spnet.net: Weird XFree 4.1.0-6 problem on Sid]

2001-10-15 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Branden Robinson: > > -- > 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/~branden

Re: gnome sound

2001-10-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, dman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:03:42PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > | On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:51:33PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > ... > | > Two programs can't use your audio hardware at the same time. That's what > | > programs like esd try to solve. > | > >

Sound Won't Work

2001-10-15 Thread Michael Fontenot
I've just installed debian 2.2r3, and I've got an Ensonic PCI sound card (es1370) that DOES seem to be recognized during boot, and does show up in an lsmod (although it says "unused"... I don't know what that implies). The lsmod also shows "soundcore ... [es1370]". I also have all the /dev audi

Re: Sound Won't Work...

2001-10-15 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:57:51AM -0600, Michael Fontenot wrote: | I've just installed debian 2.2r3, and I've got an Ensonic PCI | sound card (es1370) that DOES seem to be recognized during | boot, and does show up in an lsmod (although it says "unused"... | I don't know what that implies). The l

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-15 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > > You might want to search on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org to see if > there's already a bug filed for this and, if not, file a new one. I > doubt that this is a Debian-rel

XFree86 4.1.0-7 and G450 problems?

2001-10-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
Anyone else have a problem running X 4.1.0-7 with a G450? I just upgraded this morning and wdm comes up fine, but when I try to log in, as root or myself, X dies back to the wdm screen and I get an entry in my log like: Oct 15 11:49:53 hostname kernel: mtrr: no MTRR for f980,80 found Ever

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