> Did you 'make config' first? (or make menuconfig, etc?) Otherwise, you are
> almost 100% sure to end up with an unusable kernel...
Uh, oh. Not sure if I did this or not ... way to many iterations for my
sieve-for-a-brain to recall.
> running `make menuconfig` from your top-level kernel directo
I believe that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in X is supposed to shut down the X
server, but it's not working that way. Where is this behavior defined?
The bigger problem is the way it is working. If I start X, I can switch
back-and-forth from console to X window with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and F7, but if I
hit Ctrl-
> Hi there,
>
> when compiling a very large program, it would come in handy
> to stop the compiling process, and start it again later.
> The make system should be able to just start again where I
> stopped, but how do I tell debian/rules to not start over
> again at configuring?
>
debian/rule
Ingo Hohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Karsten, Cameron,
>
> Once upon a time Karsten M. Self spoketh thus: > on Sat, Oct 27, 2001
> at 07:16:14PM +0200, Ingo Hohmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've got a little problem with my mouse:
>
> After getting rid of gp
Henryx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 29 Oct 2001 23:42:14 +1300 Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > If you uninstall gdm / kdm / xdm ("dpkg -r gdm xdm kdm") you will
> >get the login prompt and be able to log in, then go 'startx' to start
> >an Xsession.
>
> If don't change the
If you only want to change the settings for yourself, then edit them
locally, NOT in the system-wide files, e.g.:
$ cat .bash_profile
...
export
PAGER='less --quit-if-one-screen --quit-at-eof --jump-target=2 --ignore-case
'
PATH=~/bin:${PATH}
~mark
From: "Gary Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This
>>> On 29 Oct 2001 12:16:33 -0500,
>>> "Shaya" == Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shaya> you misunderstood me. I know how to get truetype fonts working, I
Shaya> want to get the unicode portions of those fonts working (the
Shaya> regular latin glyphs)
I managed to do it by addi
Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi there.. I have task-imap installed using apt-get... Is there
> anything I need to do to be able to use it? I'm trying to get my email
> using evolution from another machine, and nothing happens, not even an
> error, but If i use pop it does work a
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.29 13:18:30-0500]:
> Have you ever tried 'ed'? (I haven't, but I've heard some stories)
i still use it for small edits over dialups. it's fast, it's easy
(once you know it), and it's marvelous. *and*, it's at the heart of
vi.
--
martin; (greeting
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:52:43PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:56:27PM +0200, J?rg Johannes wrote:
> | I have installed a potato box for a friend. She would like to use japanese
> | fonts in GNOME, so I have installed the xfonts-intl-japanese
> | and xfonts-intl-japanese-big pa
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:05:43PM -0600, the Edward Blevins wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:11:38PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> > Where is the path variable stored?
> check out /etc/login.defs
Very interesting. (I overlooked this.)
So this /etc/login.defs defines PATH provided by login. Th
Hi. I'm trying to set up X so that I can input Japanese
characters (kanji, etc.) in applications like Mozilla, without
the necessity to have the interface itself in Japanese.
To this end, I used `set-language-env' from the `language-env'
package to set up a Japanese environment in .Xresources and
#include
Timothy Webster wrote on Mon Oct 29, 2001 um 04:52:54PM:
> Upgrading to 2.4.12-k6 with initrd works fine.
>
> Using kernellab I create a new kernel 2.4.12-ac6.
What is kernellab? Whatever, if you take official Linus' sources,
don't use them. They don't support for many filesystems on in
Hello,
Am Freitag, den 26. Oktober 2001 12:18:18 schrieb Karsten M. Self:
> on Thu, Oct 25, 2001, M G Berberich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I experienced some wired behavior. 'apt-get update' does not find the
> > Packages-files from security.debian.org if I dail in using MSN
> > (germany) (Ein
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 06:53:56PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Incidentally, where is the release process / requirements documented?
There are some vague guidelines in the developer's reference, but as far
as I know it's mainly documented in the oral history of the mailing
lists.
--
Colin Wa
Casper Gielen wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> I'm maintaining an FTP server however I'm not very pleased with the
> performance. It's a 100Mbit connection (half duplex) to a PIII-500
> with 400 MB RAM and 240G software RAID1 running glftpd on a 2.4.13
> kernel. top doesn't reveal any obvious problems, the
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:00:40AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Deeper question is "What is a PATH before login?"
>
> Specifically, What is PATH for /etc/rcS.d/ scripts? Some scripts
> (modutils) defines PATH inside. Are these hardcoded in init?
Yes, init has a hard-coded initial $PATH (/usr/bin:
Hi,
I'm having my first go at woody on a spare machine. I have installed X,
but not configured it yet.
Is there a way to run XF86Setup on woody? apt-get install xf86setup
returns an error:
phobos:~# apt-get install xf86setup
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Packa
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
Ich moechte Ihnen im Auftrag von Novosoft Inc. unsere
Software-Entwicklungsdienstleistungen anbieten. Ich habe einen
Kontakt-Info auf der Website http://www.abra.de/
gefunden und vielleicht koennte unsere Erfahrung zu Ihrem Geschaeft
beitragen.
Als das Ziel des vorl
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 17:12:39 -0700, Kris Huber wrote:
> I see one under 'unstable' but from what I read, application binaries need
> to be compiled for the kernel you are running.
Regular applications (assuming they're well-written) do not depend on
particular kernel versions.
The reason runn
Hello,
I've been using screen for the last few months after someone pointed it out
to me, and I love it. :)
Yesterday, I apt-get upgraded my sid instilation, and now when I login as
any non root from within an xterm I get "Must be connected to a terminal".
Though, it does work if I actually use i
Hi All,
As the title suggests, are there any linux packages that can be used to
access mdb files. Im running sid.
Thanks for your help,
Shri
Shri Shrikumar
Partner
U R Byte Solutions
23 McDonald Road
Edinburgh EH7 4LX
www.urbyte.com
[EMAIL PROTECT
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Gary Turner wrote:
> I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored?
> I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not
> there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't
(snip)
>From the bash manpage,
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:50:18PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.29 13:18:30-0500]:
> > Have you ever tried 'ed'? (I haven't, but I've heard some stories)
>
> i still use it for small edits over dialups. it's fast, it's easy
> (once you know it), and it's mar
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:10:40AM -0500, eDoc wrote:
> > - cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.13
> >
> > - Configure the kernel. This isn't Debian-specific. Some people
> >like "make menuconfig", others "make xconfig", others just plain
> >"make config". One handy tip: Debian kernel packages store
Hi All
Sorry if this question has already been
answered.
How do I get gnucash 1.6.1 to work?
I had it working but thengot sources for 1.7,
downloaded the
build dependencies to compile and lost gnucash
1.6.1.
Thanks in advance.
Stephen Grant Brown
By accessing, I meant, a replacement app in Linux for Ms Access - not to
access it for a web app.
Thanx
Shri
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 15:07, nik butler wrote:
> This is going to depend on your experience with perl and iodbc neither of
> which are relevant enough for me to post back to the list
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.29 13:18:30-0500]:
>> Have you ever tried 'ed'? (I haven't, but I've heard some stories)
>
> i still use it for small edits over dialups. it's fast, it's easy
> (once you know it), and it's marvelous. *and*, it's a
Hi group - I have seen this asked (and answered) years ago, but am
unable to reproduce the solution.
If I telnet to a new (Debian unstable) box, I get:
Connected to junior.avondel.nl
Escape character is '^]'.
right away, but it takes almost a minute to continue to the login prompt.
I vaguely
Shri Shrikumar wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> As the title suggests, are there any linux packages that can be used to
> access mdb files. Im running sid.
>
Can't access it directly, since it's proprietary Microsoft stuff.
If you have a networked Windows box available, run DBI::ProxyServer and
DBD::ODBC
What is with these errors every (15) minutes ???
2001-10-30 08:53:02 15yaGE-0003cv-00 Cannot open main log file
"/var/log/exim/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=8 egid=8
exim: could not open panic log - aborting: original error above
I can write to these logfiles as user mail (8:8):
Loki:~# l
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
(snip)
> right away, but it takes almost a minute to continue to the login prompt.
(snip)
Do DNS lookups of uncached hostnames from that box happen slowly too?
Could it have anything to do with it trying to do an ident check on the
person connecting
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 15:27, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> Hi group - I have seen this asked (and answered) years ago, but am
> unable to reproduce the solution.
> If I telnet to a new (Debian unstable) box, I get:
>
> Connected to junior.avondel.nl
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> right away,
Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While it's something of an ugly hack, I use the following shell script
> to download the most recent nightly when I feel like it. Of course,
> you'll have to change the URL to your local mirror.
>
> rm -rf /usr/local/mozilla
> tar xzvf mozilla-i686-
Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Is there a way to get an English interface with the ability to
> input Japanese characters?
I'm not sure of this, but I'd look at yudit.
--
Richard Seymour : Anarchy Software, Inc.
- * - - * - - - * -+- * - - - * - - * -
`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°'
`°º¤ø,¸¸,
When configuring 2.4.12-ac3, I couldn't find an option for real time
clock... I decided not to worry about it and got an error while booting
about not being able to find char-major-10-135 which, according to
modules.conf, is the rtc module.
Is it there and I'm just not finding it?
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.30 07:54:00-0600]:
> Actually, ex is at the heart of vi. It's kind of similar to ed.
you are absolutely right, my bad. *but* if you know ed you know ex and
vice versa...
--
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
\ echo mailto
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:50:18PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.29 13:18:30-0500]:
| > Have you ever tried 'ed'? (I haven't, but I've heard some stories)
|
| i still use it for small edits over dialups. it's fast, it's easy
| (once you know it), and it's mar
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:56:30AM -0600, DvB wrote:
> I'm thinking about just downloading and compiling an ac kernel to get
> ext3 but Alan's latest sound like they've got some issues. Any ideas as
> to which one I should run? Also, has Linus given any kind of timeframe
> for adding it to the offi
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:10:30AM -0500, Mark Carroll wrote:
| On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
| (snip)
| > right away, but it takes almost a minute to continue to the login prompt.
| (snip)
|
| Do DNS lookups of uncached hostnames from that box happen slowly too?
|
| Could it ha
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:05:15AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been using screen for the last few months after someone pointed it out
> to me, and I love it. :)
>
> Yesterday, I apt-get upgraded my sid instilation, and now when I login as
> any non root from within an xterm I get "
Dear all - I have tried to:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
my Debian Sid box. It went out to get approx. 98Mb of files and started
to install as expected. Because I noticed that I was running out of disk
space, I quickly removed some .deb files from /var/cashe/apt/archives. I
thought th
Hi,
I am new to using lists etc.., so if anyone can point me in the right
direction where to send this message, I would appreciate it very much...
I am using the woody distribution and can't get the 2.4.10 kernel to
recognise the logical volume on my megaraid. Everything works fine with the
2.2.
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, dman wrote:
(snip)
> What is the solution? Is it a good idea to open up 'ident' in the
> firewall?
I think so, yes. Alternatively, can you have your firewall at least send
an ICMP reply to say that the packet was dropped? (like the difference
between DENY and REJECT with ipch
George Karaolides said:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having my first go at woody on a spare machine. I have
> installed X, but not configured it yet.
>
> Is there a way to run XF86Setup on woody? apt-get install
> xf86setup returns an error:
what version of X? if your running a current woody its
probably a 4
I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button
mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking the right
button, instead of both, leaving the buttons' functions unchanged for
anything other than X's pasting. How do I do this?
Thanks.
-- Mark
--- "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> This is among the reason few seasoned Debian users
> install from CD -- base tarball plus boot floppies
> is generally sufficient, packages are snared over
> the 'Net.
Well, I came here to learn, so where would I find
documentation outlining this procedure? Or w
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:20:31AM +1100, Stephen Brown wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Sorry if this question has already been answered.
>
> How do I get gnucash 1.6.1 to work?
>
> I had it working but thengot sources for 1.7, downloaded the
> build dependencies to compile and lost gnucash 1.6.1.
>
> Tha
Debian users,
I want to use an application which requires the use of a middle mouse
button of a three button mouse but my mouse only has two buttons.
How do I get around this?
Thanks,
--
Jeremiah Mahler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I'm setting up a computer as a multimedia center using Debian (Sid).
The machine is connected to the TV for display and to the receiver for sound.
I have a wireless keyboard/mouse to access it. It'll serve as DVD/CD/MP3/Ogg
player.
I have no problem setting it up and using it, but the rest
Is there such a thing?
Specifically a tool to edit /etc/network/interfaces. And before you say,
"yes, vim", I know it isn't that hard, but some people do find this
difficult, and when I say "Debian is great, install Debian" I would like to
be able to point them in the direction of simple tools
What ports must be opened in the firewall so that the machine behind it
is able to use "apt-get" to realize an 'dist-upgrade'?.
Davi
Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
> Craig was generous enough to allow people to download the needed files
> from his site and if they are still there you can get them from him.
> If not, let me know and I will send you the copies I have of them.
>
> There are stored like so:
> http://crdic.ath.cx/
Actuall
>
> Debian users,
>
> I want to use an application which requires the use of a middle mouse
> button of a three button mouse but my mouse only has two buttons.
> How do I get around this?
Well, there's an XF86 setting called Emulate3Button or something like that;
if it's already on if you press
> What ports must be opened in the firewall so that the machine
> behind it
> is able to use "apt-get" to realize an 'dist-upgrade'?.
>
> Davi
>
AFAIK either the HTTP, the FTP, or both; it depends on what you define in
your sources.line.
If you only define http sites you would only need the
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, DvB wrote:
> When configuring 2.4.12-ac3, I couldn't find an option for real time
> clock... I decided not to worry about it and got an error while booting
> about not being able to find char-major-10-135 which, according to
> modules.conf, is the rtc module.
>
> Is it there
Hi,
it seems like similar problems have happened to other people on this list,
but I could not determine a solution for my special case: After making and
installing a custom kernel with kernel-package my box will not boot any
longer.
Here is what I did:
* installed Debian potato with kernel 2.2.
--- George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having my first go at woody on a spare machine.
> I have installed X,
> but not configured it yet.
>
> I have had no joy so far from xf86config.
>
> Pointers, anyone?
>
> Best regards,
George if when you did the dist-upgrade y
If you enabled 3 button emulation in X, simply press the left and right
buttons at the same time. This will emulate the middle button.
Furthermore, I believe Yellow Dog Linux has a nifty app. called showkey
which uses keystrokes to emulate mouse buttons. There should be something
similar outther
I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:" e-mail
address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me to set
from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the .muttrc file; however, mutt ignores it...
Can someone help?
Calyth
--- "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> This is among the reason few seasoned Debian users
> install from CD -- base tarball plus boot floppies
> is generally sufficient, packages are snared over
> the 'Net.
Well, I came here to learn, so where would I find
documentation outlining this procedure? Or where
Look in /usr/share/doc/kernel-image (or something like that) and read the
README.
Try the wholething again, this time, start with "make menuconfig". Read up
on anything that you're not sure of.
then 'make-kpkg clean' (it should complain if not)
then 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
th
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:22:47AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:"
> e-mail address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me
> to set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the .muttrc file; however, mutt
> ignores it...
> Can s
On 30-Oct-2001 Meir Kriheli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm setting up a computer as a multimedia center using Debian (Sid).
>
> The machine is connected to the TV for display and to the receiver for sound.
> I have a wireless keyboard/mouse to access it. It'll serve as DVD/CD/MP3/Ogg
> player.
>
> I hav
www.webmin.com/webmin
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 08:50 am, Will Newton wrote:
> Is there such a thing?
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:"
> e-mail address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me
> to set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the .muttrc file; however, mutt
> ignores it... Can someone help?
Try
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled:
> I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:" e-mail
> address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me to set
> from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the .muttrc file; however, mutt ignores it...
> Can someone help?
this
> > What ports must be opened in the firewall so that the machine
> > behind it
> > is able to use "apt-get" to realize an 'dist-upgrade'?.
> >
> > Davi
>
> AFAIK either the HTTP, the FTP, or both; it depends on what you define in
> your sources.line.
>
> If you only define http sites you would onl
Hi,
Does anyone know of a good firewall maillinglist and faq?
Tarjei
about a problem im having with my nix box.
ok.. well i got a chrooted env setup for users and also for most of my daemons
that run .. but i cant seem to get outgoing net access in the chrooted env..
got any ideas?.
ive copied every lib known to man.. it still doesnt work
bout the infra stucture
> > > What ports must be opened in the firewall so that the machine
> > > behind it
> > > is able to use "apt-get" to realize an 'dist-upgrade'?.
> > >
> > > Davi
> >
> > AFAIK either the HTTP, the FTP, or both; it depends on what
> you define in
> > your sources.line.
> >
> > If you only define
--- William De Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personnaly, I install the base system from an old
> CD, then edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the
> distribution I want and then do an "apt-get dist-
> upgrade".
I have done that, and have finally upgraded to Woody.
Right now I'm having a bi
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:05:15 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Yesterday, I apt-get upgraded my sid instilation, and now when I login as
> any non root from within an xterm I get "Must be connected to a terminal".
This is caused by the latest libc6, and details of the problem have already
been report
if you are using a laptop, it seems recent ac kernels have been hanging
if you go standby or suspend (this has hit me)
shaya
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 10:56, David Roundy wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:56:30AM -0600, DvB wrote:
> > I'm thinking about just downloading and compiling an ac kernel t
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:54:55AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled:
> > I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:" e-mail
> > address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me to set
> > from="[EMAIL PROTECTED
my resolution:
apt-get --purge --force-yes remove qmail* ucspi-tcp* dot-forward fast-forward
apt-get install postfix
vi /etc/postfix/main.cf
postfix reload
-ben
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 09:20:29AM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am experiencing a problem mentioned many many times
I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm
considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I
consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all
my computing needs (devel, digital camera stuff, laptop stuff ,text
processing, networking, etc.).
Just noticed that I'm missing quit a lot of files.. Actually 11 144 of them!
Must have done one of those famous 'rm -rf *' which I indiscriminatly do all
the time (not anymoe) in the wrong place.
Managed to find out with the program 'recover', tip from linux journal sept.
issue that this happ
Just noticed that I'm missing quit a lot of files.. Actually 11 144 of them!
Must have done one of those famous 'rm -rf *' which I indiscriminatly do all
the time (not anymoe) in the wrong place.
Managed to find out with the program 'recover', tip from linux journal sept.
issue that this happen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:"
> e-mail address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me
> to set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the .muttrc file; however, mutt
> ignores it... Can someone help?
Comment out the following l
Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, DvB wrote:
>
> > When configuring 2.4.12-ac3, I couldn't find an option for real time
> > clock... I decided not to worry about it and got an error while booting
> > about not being able to find char-major-10-135 which, according to
> >
If memory serves me correctly, during the installation
of Potato at the point of inserting/selecting modules,
if your nic card is on the list and you select it,
when you exit that portation of the install it will
ask you if you want to configure your network. Saying
yes will start the process and
I am using ide-scsi, etc., everything used to work correctly, but these
days, cdparanoia will read the first track, then pause, then come SCSI
errors and timeouts, and finally a complete system crash.
I think this started happening around the time I went to 2.4. Has anyone
else run into/beaten a
--- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> After the process finished, I figured to redo:
>
> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> and be okay again. Not! It results in:
>
> libsdl1.2debian: Depends: libsdl1.2debian-all (=
> 1.2.2-3.2) but it is
> not going to be installed
Here's what I found (thanks to those who replied):
It seems the /etc/apt/preferences file is a feature not yet in the stable
release of apt-get (version 0.3.19). I found some information about the
preferences file in a how-to document based on version 0.5.3 (chapter 3 of
http://www.debian.org/doc
Thus spake Tarjei Huse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Does anyone know of a good firewall maillinglist and faq?
The Firestarter list is quite good, though typically discussions are
based off of firewalls that are created by Firestarter. However,
threads occasionally meander about to general firewall con
Hello my name is Stuart,
Today I went to Dixons to ask the how much the new
XP operating system cost, and after some discussion I was told that I could
download an free Operating system called Linux.
I have looked on the internet for the Linux
Operating system and have come across several s
I installed gnomemeeting on a few machines, but it doesn't exactly work
properly. I can get some sound transmission if I make a horrible noise
with the microphone on one end, but no sound, horrible or otherwise, can
go the other direction, and normal speaking doesn't work at all.
I fiddled with t
Thus spake Michael Kaminsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> * One reason I moved to Mandrake from Redhat (from Slackware) is that
>the packages are extremely up-to-date. Even the unstable version of
>Debian seems sorely lacking. Mandrake seems to put out RPMs within
>1-2 days of the upstream
> Apt + dselect seem very powerful... Have the
> people who wrote these systems outlined their correct usage in a
> FAQ/manpage/etc.?
I'm less familiar with Linux than you, but I can tell you based on recent
Debian experience that there's a How-To document for apt at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manua
While
xset -r
xset r
xset r on/off
works on my machine (Potato, generic keyboard), e.g.
xset -r 38
doesn't work. (keycode 38 = 'a'). Wondering if it's my
problem or bug in xset?
Thanks
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I've been having a frustrating problem with Linux and my video hardware.
Namely, the video has giant "margins" on both sides of the display area --
between 2-3 cm. It's not so severe at the top and bottom. I don't think this
is an X problem, because it seems that the video has the same problems
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Frederico.S.Muñoz wrote:
> AFAIK either the HTTP, the FTP, or both; it depends on what you define in
> your sources.line.
>
> If you only define http sites you would only need the http port open, the
> same with the ftp.
2 things:
1) If you're blocking connections anal reten
Hey again,
Oh I see what you mean, hehe, I was kind of confused by if I was to
trail my text everytime with those codes or change my prompt. All is
well now; I had a typo in my bash prompt that was causing the problem.
Thanks for hte help :)
Rohan
* Simon Law ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Michael Kaminsky wrote:
> I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm
> considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I
> consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all
> my computing needs (devel, digital camera st
Michael Kaminsky wrote:
>
> I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm
> considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I
> consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all
> my computing needs (devel, digital camera stuff, laptop stuff ,te
Michael Kaminsky wrote:
> * One reason I moved to Mandrake from Redhat (from Slackware) is that
>the packages are extremely up-to-date. Even the unstable version of
>Debian seems sorely lacking. Mandrake seems to put out RPMs within
>1-2 days of the upstream developers. There are s
Jeremiah Mahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
> I want to use an application which requires the use of a middle mouse
> button of a three button mouse but my mouse only has two buttons.
> How do I get around this?
Usually by pressing the two buttons simultaneously.
Paul Huygen
Anybody seen this repeated on their console:
syslogd: unknown priority name ""
I cannot find it in any file under /var/log.
It looks like some application is not behaving properly when
communicating with syslogd.
How can I find the offending little bugger?
What do you think?
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Bes
Hi,
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Simon Law wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote:
>
> > Hey again,
> >
> > ASDF JLK;
> >
> > This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone
> > else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain
> > annoying. Anyone
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