Re: gnu make files

2001-11-01 Thread Matthew Dalton
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:50:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > here's a question I can't seem to find an answer to.. > > why does GNU make automatically compile .cpp files, but with .cxx > > files I have to explicitly add a g++ line in the make file? > > There is no

Re: What's the file system of root.bin?

2001-11-01 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, It's a loopback filesystem. Read the loopback HOWTO. Cameron Matheson On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:30:40AM +, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Hi, Dear All > > I want to create rescue diskette from the Debian official CD-rom. I found > that rescue.bin is msdos system, however, I could not figure o

Re: Patches applied to stock kernel to make deb kernel image

2001-11-01 Thread Adam Warner
On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 11:35, Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Adam Warner, > > > > make dep > > > > make bzImage > > > > make modules > > > > make modules_install > > > > make install > > > > > > We have "make-kpkg" for such tasks. Makes your life easier. > > > > I can't imagine how it could be easie

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-01 Thread Ian Balchin
dman et al. Hi. Have done a reinstall. Barest minimum, no extra packages except for newbie.docs , joe (which am used to on local university Free BSD system). > To get mouse support at the console, install gpm. Then edit > /etc/gpm.conf to have the proper protocol and device for your > mouse. F

Re: What's the file system of root.bin?

2001-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:39:32AM -0700, Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey, > > It's a loopback filesystem. Read the loopback HOWTO. No such beast. Looback is a device that allows mounting of filesystem image files as filesystems. The file itself must contain a valid filesyst

Re: something wrong with my fonts

2001-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:03:50PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Since I fixed my problem with the fonts in RealPlayer 8 I get a > different fonts when I start gimp from the xterm then when I start it > from the menue (gnome or blackbox). This doesn't apply only t

Re: ooops.. I think I messed something up...

2001-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:30:03PM +0100, Rune Elvemo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think it was like 14 days back in time, I had this thought that I > should give Debian/Woody (also known as testing) a go. > > So I added the right stuff to my sources.list, did a "apt-get update", > then a "apt-g

HELP: dselect whining about not enough space....

2001-11-01 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! don't know how we are supposed to partition a disk with debian, but there are recursively problems by the fact that programs store their stuff there: i have only 200M for /var, and that's not enough for apache, postgres and apt/dselect so its no problem to relocalise apache and postgre

Re: mouse doesn't work with xdm

2001-11-01 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Brian, Once upon a time Brian Nelson spoketh thus: <..> > Note that it is possible to run gpm and X simultanously. You merely > need to reconfigure gpm to repeat the raw output to /dev/gpmdata. My > /etc/gpm.conf looks like (modify with gpmconfig): <..> thanks for your help, but that was a

Unable to umount filesystem whe shutting down

2001-11-01 Thread Vittorio
This is the first time it happens to me! Under woody I've compiled my own, very light kernel 2.4.13-1 (Bunk's stuff) for my hardware eliminating many options I don't need. Now, it all works ok (in syslog there isn't anything strange or missing dependency warning) but when I shutdown woody hangs e

Playmidi problem

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, When I run playmidi midifile.mid it doesn't complain anything but no sound at all. if I run xplaymidi, I could see the equalizer moving :-) but no sound. I ran debian woody, sound card cs4236 and alsa-5.x.x . Play mp3 with mpg123 is fine as well as any other apps using soundcard What sh

Re: XF86Setup for woody?

2001-11-01 Thread George Karaolides
On 31 Oct 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > I don't know about a card database, but you want the "nv" driver. Thanks, got that from xfree86.org. I seem to be on the right track now, thanks to everyone who helped. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08

Re: Playmidi problem

2001-11-01 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
> > > Hi, > > When I run > > playmidi midifile.mid > > it doesn't complain anything but no sound at all. > > if I run xplaymidi, I could see the equalizer moving > :-) but no sound. I ran debian woody, sound card > cs4236 and alsa-5.x.x . Play mp3 with mpg123 is fine > as well as any other a

Re: Playmidi problem

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Kieu
I use alsa and according to the installation instruction, it says that I should not compile any thing from the kernel but only enable sound support (without any real sound modules) so there is not midi loop back as you said. I will try it later thanks > -- > I am Martin Kacerovsky, student of

Re: HELP: dselect whining about not enough space....

2001-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:45:41AM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > don't know how we are supposed to partition a disk with debian, but > there are recursively problems by the fact that programs store their > stuff there: i have only 200M for /var, and that's not enough for > apache, postgres and ap

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-11-01 Thread Bob Koss
> "Viktor" == Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Viktor> You are mostly correct. IIRC, if the package structure Viktor> changes, e.g. some packages get split up and others are Viktor> added, then "upgrade" won't handle that and only upgrade Viktor> the packages you

Re: Unable to umount filesystem whe shutting down

2001-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:25:25AM +, Vittorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is the first time it happens to me! > > Under woody I've compiled my own, very light kernel 2.4.13-1 (Bunk's > stuff) for my hardware eliminating many options I don't need. > > Now, it all works ok (in syslog the

good MPEG video player needed

2001-11-01 Thread Paolo Falcone
Hello! Can anyone recommend a good MPEG video player and where can I download the package? that is, aside from smpeg from potato? I'm using debian potato with XFree 3.3.6. I'm specifically looking for an MPEG video player capable of playing .dat files from a VCD (smpeg doesn't play the entire .dat

Re: good MPEG video player needed

2001-11-01 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:44:19PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote: > Hello! > > Can anyone recommend a good MPEG video player and where can I download > the package? that is, aside from smpeg from potato? I'm using debian > potato with XFree 3.3.6. I'm specifically looking for an MPEG video > player c

Ugly fonts when converting to pdf

2001-11-01 Thread Preben Randhol
I have made a document in yudit (http://www.yudit.org) which I printed to a Postscript file. Yudit uses truetype fonts. I then used the ps2pdf13 program from gs-aladdin 6.50-5. This worked nicely on a Word 97 document (printed to file as PS) that I had to convert to pdf. But now with this document

Re: ISA AWE64 not detected

2001-11-01 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Chris Keelan wrote: I have a Soundblaster AWE64 which was detected automatically by Mandrake. Now I'm running Woody and I can't get the card detected. pnpdump finds a bunch of listings but pnpprobe gives me "no cards found". I've been through the mini-HOWTO, edited my isapnp.conf and even get s

pppd and kernel 2.4.7

2001-11-01 Thread Jens Müller
I just tried out kernel 2.4.7 - everything seems to work fine, except the PPP connection. pppd quits just after being started. I tried out pppoe - it can connect to my access concentrator. What has changed from 2.2.19 to 2.4.7 which could prevent pppd from working?

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-11-01 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:38:59AM -0500, Bob Koss wrote: > If I'm already tracking woody, should I be routinely using "upgrade" > or "dist-upgrade" ? > upgrade pgp5EIgftmrxC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ISA AWE64 not detected

2001-11-01 Thread Erik Steffl
"Donald R. Spoon" wrote: > > Chris Keelan wrote: > > I have a Soundblaster AWE64 which was detected automatically by > Mandrake. > > Now I'm running Woody and I can't get the card detected. pnpdump finds a > bunch of listings but pnpprobe gives me "no cards found". > > I've been through the min

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:38:59AM -0500, Bob Koss wrote: > > "Viktor" == Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Viktor> You are mostly correct. IIRC, if the package structure > Viktor> changes, e.g. some packages get split up and others are > Viktor> added, then "upgrade"

Re: pppd and kernel 2.4.7

2001-11-01 Thread Frank Zimmermann
I just tried out kernel 2.4.7 - everything seems to work fine, except the PPP connection. pppd quits just after being started. I tried out pppoe - it can connect to my access concentrator. What has changed from 2.2.19 to 2.4.7 which could prevent pppd from working? Quite a lot did change. I s

Re: Printing: use of lpf (filters) w/ Postscript printer?

2001-11-01 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:50:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | I was having problems printing from my desktop -- Debian/Sid, lprng. | Playing with my /etc/printcap, I found that a vastly simplified setup | (no filters) appears to work, at least for postscript inputs, where the | lpf filtered ve

Re: good MPEG video player needed

2001-11-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya paolo i liked xtheather when i was playing with mpeg2/3 with xfree-3.3.x rest of the players http://www.Linux-Video.net/Video.Players c ya alvin On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:44:19PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Can anyone

Help! I have destroyed my /etc/init.d/lpd

2001-11-01 Thread Debian User
Hello! I have made a big mistake: I just wanted a module to be loaded at the system-start. Since I didn't know how to do this the proper way, I decided to run modprobe on startup. To do this, I edited the /etc/init.d/lpd (to have a point to start from) and edited it to fit my nedds. But then I ma

Re: ISA AWE64 not detected

2001-11-01 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Why don't you use the isapnp support in the actual kernel (version 2.4.x). This works a lot better with my modem and with the souncard on my dad's computer than the isapnp tools. Hope this helps -- Ananda Samaddar e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help! I have destroyed my /etc/init.d/lpd

2001-11-01 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:32:28PM +0100, Debian User wrote: > Is there a easy way to regain the file? Or does it help if I get a copy > from another (i386 potato 2.2.19pre9) machine? If so, can somebody post > it or send it to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED])? apt-get --reinstall install lpr -- John

Re: Small bug in Abiword

2001-11-01 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:42:05PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:28:24PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > After doing a dist upgrade to unstable, my Abiword is now at 0.9.4. > > What an improvement. I'm able to open all sorts of MS .doc >

Re: Help! I have destroyed my /etc/init.d/lpd

2001-11-01 Thread martin f krafft
* Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.01 13:32:28+0100]: > And the other question: How can I start a module on starup? > Adding it to /etc/modutils/ doesn't work. i replied personally. but you'd add to /etc/modules, one module per line, and then it gets loaded at startup. there is also a way

How to confirm ncurses installed properly

2001-11-01 Thread Rupert Heesom
Guys: I'm really new to Debian, trying to set my Debian VM up with NFS to access my RH host. In doing so, I need to configure the kernel for NFS support. To run "make menuconfig" (I don't have X installed), I need ncurses installed. I've just run through dselect & thought I installed ncurse

Re: XWindow

2001-11-01 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll start my problem w/a confession: my new computer has a winmodem (which I'll replace). The Debian installation is amazingly smooth -- until I get to XWindow. At that point, I can get nothing but Cannot Connect. If the winmodem is the culprit, the solution is o

Upgrade problem with kernel and modutils

2001-11-01 Thread Kyle Girard
I was trying to upgrade my system the other day and apt-get upgrade first tells me that my modutils can't be configured since my kernel sturcture has changed. I figured nothing of but now it's not just modutils it's initrd-tools and modconf as well. I tried upgrading to a new kernel kernel-image

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Querybts and text-mode browser in X11?

2001-11-01 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
I want querybts to start a text-mode browser (links) when I run it in an xterm. If I set X11BROWSER to links, I just get a blank screen when I go "More details". Not setting it gets me Netscape, no matter what I set for BROWSER or CONSOLEBROWSER. Does anyone have an idea, or is the wishlist bug

Re: Ugly fonts when converting to pdf

2001-11-01 Thread Alan Shutko
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have made a document in yudit (http://www.yudit.org) which I printed [...] > But now with this document I have written on linux I get very ugly > fonts when I look at the pdf file in xpdf or acroread. When I print > the pdf file it comes out very nice

Re: pppd and kernel 2.4.7

2001-11-01 Thread Jens Müller
>>I just tried out kernel 2.4.7 - everything seems to work fine, except >>the PPP connection. pppd quits just after being started. >> >>I tried out pppoe - it can connect to my access concentrator. >> >>What has changed from 2.2.19 to 2.4.7 which could prevent pppd from working? >> > >Quite a lot d

Re: framebuffer-konsole

2001-11-01 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake BURLET Frederic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > To use framebuffer on console, you have to recompile your kernel with > experimental stuffs (activate-> Code maturity level options -> Prompt > for experimental stuffs). Then in the Console Driver section you have > to activate some options (expla

Re: framebuffer-konsole

2001-11-01 Thread Gordon Fraser
Patrick Schnorbus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i'd like to use framebuffer on konsole, but i don't know what i have to do. > i've searched in the www but i cannot find any howto. > > can anybody of you give me an instruction or a link? http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html Ht

framebuffer-konsole

2001-11-01 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
hi, i'd like to use framebuffer on konsole, but i don't know what i have to do. i've searched in the www but i cannot find any howto. can anybody of you give me an instruction or a link? TIA patrick

Re: framebuffer-konsole

2001-11-01 Thread BURLET Frederic
>framebuffer on konsole any howto. It exists a FrameBuffer-HOWTO ( in the /usr/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/ in the Debian GNU/Linux system) To use framebuffer on console, you have to recompile your kernel with experimental stuffs (activate-> Code maturity level options -> Prompt for experimental stuffs).

Re: How to confirm ncurses installed properly

2001-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:14:11AM -0500, Rupert Heesom wrote: > I'm really new to Debian, trying to set my Debian VM up with NFS to > access my RH host. > > In doing so, I need to configure the kernel for NFS support. > > To run "make menuconfig" (I don't have X installed), I need ncurses >

RE: DHCP and Adelphia Cablemodem (dhcpcd)

2001-11-01 Thread Michael Patterson
I'm responding to everyone in one message. The cablemodem setup still isn't working. Commenting on each part individually: [Donald] > > ---snip---< > > Also, ifconfig doesn't show eth0. When I was running > DHCP-client, eth0 did > > show up, but without an IP address (not even 0.0.0.0, which is >

badiane: upgraded to Xfree86 4.0.2

2001-11-01 Thread gdurand
I have upgraded to the progeny/woody line and now have Xfree86 4.0.2. Since then I have not been able to utilze my backspace/delete properly (they don't work.) I have been looking for xmodmap and can't find it. How do I reinstate the functionality of the keys? Can anyone help please. Badiane

Re: Startup order (PCMCIA and init 2)

2001-11-01 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
* Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled: > What I need is the PCMCIA stuff already started up, this being done, > the DHCP client started up, this being done (it takes a few seconds), > ntpdate. How would I proceed, just rename the links in /etc/rc2.d/? that's what i did. > What could happen

Re: How to confirm ncurses installed properly

2001-11-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rupert Heesom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Unable to find the ncurses libraries. >>> You must have ncurses installed. >make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1 Install libncurses5-dev That error message should be fixed to say 'You must have the ncurses developmen

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-11-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:02:38PM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: > IIRC, some have suggested a cycle of "upgrade" followed by "dist-upgrade" > when moving from one distribution to another. Is there an advantage to this > as regards split/packages, changed directory structures, etc.? I'm one of th

Re: HP2200d printer

2001-11-01 Thread hallstevenson
Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to crrectly set-up a HP2200D printer, > using lpd and magicfilter. ... > Anyone has any experience with this? This page, http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_2200, has info on the '2200' model, but makes no me

troubles with OpenGL

2001-11-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to compile some examples from GEANT4 (from Cern) using the opengl visualization driver (X Windows) version. The program compile fine but fail to link, giving me the messages: [...] Compiling exampleN01.cc ... Using granular libraries ... Linking exampleN01 ... /usr

Rsync

2001-11-01 Thread Chapman, Matt
Does anyone have a sample rsync conf for syncing woody?  And about how large would the directory have to be to hold it?   -matt

RE: Slow inital connect to WU-FTP, SAMBA, TELNET

2001-11-01 Thread Craig Coles
FWIW I added reverse DNS entries for the address range I was working with. The entries had not been there for different reasons, we are not the master for this address range, or the address range is bogus (10.1.1.1)... anyway I added the entries to our DNS server and it's all working. Note: The

KMail question: launching URLs with Mozilla, not Konq

2001-11-01 Thread Gordon Paynter
Is it possible to have KMail use Mozilla to launch URLs instead of Konqueror? This seems like a fairly simple thing to do, but I can't find out just how. (If it matters, I run woody, and use WindowMaker day-to-day with some KDE apps.) Thanks, Gordon

HP2200d printer

2001-11-01 Thread Michel Loos
I would like to crrectly set-up a HP2200D printer, using lpd and magicfilter. It prints fine with the psonlyxxx-filter but I would like to know how can use the other features of this printer (Duplex, ink density etc.) Anyone has any experience with this? Michel.

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-11-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:38:59AM -0500, Bob Koss wrote: > If I'm already tracking woody, should I be routinely using "upgrade" > or "dist-upgrade" ? You can always use dist-upgrade or you can routinely use upgrade and only dist-upgrade when packages are listed as having been held back. Either wa

Re: Using japanese input systems

2001-11-01 Thread francisco m neto
» Stephan Seitz disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > Debian Potato (stabl) or Debian Woody (testing)? I guess the best answer would be both. I use woody at home and potato at work. > > portuguese and English. How can I have the possibility to input > > japanese characters when I need to? I'v

Oracle 9i on Debian

2001-11-01 Thread Anant Kabra
Hi, After struggeling for quite a while trying to get Oracle 9i running on Debian properly, I copped out and went the easy route. Since I wasen't ready to move from Debian to Suse just for a test/play oracle installation, I took the middle road. If anyone is interested, here is what I did to get O

Packages list?

2001-11-01 Thread Signal Electronic Supply
I have managed to install Debian on an old laptop via a "pile of floppies".  Now I need to install other packages via the same way for x.  When running "dselect" it requests a floppy, with the packages list?  How do I get or make this.  I've looked around in ftp with no success.   Any help w

anyone have wmaker_0.62-1_i386.deb? (and troubles with intellij idea)

2001-11-01 Thread kiss the sun and walk on air
I'm using wmaker 0.70 and running the java ide "IDEA" from intellij using the IBM jdk. There is a problem where certain popup windows do not persist onscreen, the appear and dissapear. Another user on the wm-users list suggested I try wmaker 0.62, but that version is no longer in the debian archive

PHP + GD + JPG?

2001-11-01 Thread James Rolfe \(Agg - OCAU\)
Hi, I'm using Debian 2.2r2 and have installed apache, php4 and php4-gd (with the other packages they required). I've also installed the libjpeg62 and libjpeg62-dev packages (before apache). The problem is that GD does not seem to have JPG access enabled by default. An older Debian 2.1 machine I

unicode x11 and console font?

2001-11-01 Thread Bostjan Muller
Does anyone know where to get unicode fonts for X11 and for console for Debian? THX in advance! Bostjan -- [*] Boštjan Müller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://neonatus.net/~neonatus [*] [*]GPG/PGP key -> finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], DSA id: 0x9B2FF108[*] [*] Celular: +386(0)41243189, Powered b

Startup order (PCMCIA and init 2)

2001-11-01 Thread Andre Berger
Hi everyone I have a question about changing the startup order (init 2) of /etc/init.d/{dhcpcd,pcmcia,ntpdate}. The problem is, the dhcp client is executed before the PCMCIA stuff loads. So there is no network connection when ntpdate tries to synchronize the clock. I have to log in as root and res

Can't mount audio CD - help

2001-11-01 Thread Andy Hartford
I'm having trouble mounting audio CDs. I can mount data CDs fine however. I'm using the scsi driver for my CD drive since its a CD-RW, and need to burn CD's as well. I pass the kernel (2.4.12 - the debian one) the parameter hdc=ide-scsi through lilo. Then I load these modules at startup through /

Re: Upgrading the kernel on a woody box

2001-11-01 Thread Russell Coker
Firstly I'm moving this to the debian-user list as it's got nothing to do with KDE. In future please ask such questions on debian-user, feel free to CC me on such questions as I maintain the devfsd and lilo packages. On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:11, rikiwarren wrote: > I've downloaded the kernel-imag

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-11-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:50:45AM -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Donna. wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: > > > How do I get the module for debian? I downloaded a module from > > > Last year, we had to use the 3com card to (1) install an

memory usage from top...can't seem to account for totals (is it normal?)

2001-11-01 Thread Walter Tautz
quite a bit of it seems to be in buffers $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:257928 191744 66184 35584 122628 38364 -/+ buffers/cache: 30752

Strange problem after reboot

2001-11-01 Thread Alexander Spengler
Hi, After I compiled a 2.4.13 kernel on my potato (with modutils etc. from Adrian Bunk) everything seemed to be ok. But after a reboot LILO hangs when loading win98. boot>2 Loading 2 and that's it. After a poweroff and after a reboot with kernel 2.218pre21 everything works fine (i.e. win98 will

mp3 encoder?

2001-11-01 Thread Andy Hartford
Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find any mp3 encoders in Debian. Where's LAME, etc?? Andy

Re: apt_preferences

2001-11-01 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:19:56AM +1100, Stephen Brown wrote: | Hi All, | | I do not know if I am just lazy or whatever, but the apt_preferences man page makes no sense to me. | | How do I get a stable distrribution of debian except for the latest unstable version of gnucash? - /etc/apt

Re: something wrong with my fonts

2001-11-01 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:03:50PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Since I fixed my problem with the fonts in RealPlayer 8 I get a different fonts when I start gimp from the xterm then when I start it from the menue (gnome or blackbox). This do

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-11-01 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Donna. wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: > > How do I get the module for debian? I downloaded a module from > Last year, we had to use the 3com card to (1) install and (2) get the > latest source from netgear.com, cuz the stuff on the floppy

Re: Can't mount audio CD - help

2001-11-01 Thread DvB
Andy Hartford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having trouble mounting audio CDs. I can mount data CDs fine > however. > Linux doesn't currently have an implementation of the redbook file format (used for audio cds). I guess no one's thought it was really necessary to mount an audio cd... why

Re: IMAP...

2001-11-01 Thread Tarjei Huse
Also, if I didn't remember to say it, theres a cyrus faq on cyrus-utils.sf.net/faq :) Tarjei "Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Tarjei Huse wrote: > > > Cyrus, hmm. download the .debss, edit the rules to include > > --with-ssl=/usr and rebuild the deb. I think that is the way to

Re: Can't mount audio CD - help

2001-11-01 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Andy Hartford wrote: > I'm having trouble mounting audio CDs. I can mount data CDs fine > however. I do't think that you =can= mount an audio CD. If you want to play an audio CD (say using xmms), you usually tell it where your CD-ROM device resides (/dev/cdrom for in

Re: Can't mount audio CD - help

2001-11-01 Thread Andy Hartford
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:59:14PM -0600, DvB wrote: > Andy Hartford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm having trouble mounting audio CDs. I can mount data CDs fine > > however. > > > > Linux doesn't currently have an implementation of the redbook file > format (used for audio cds). I guess

Re: Help! I have destroyed my /etc/init.d/lpd

2001-11-01 Thread Timothy Webster
I am not sure if you got this fixed yet. Just use aptitude to reinstall your lpr package. I would have to check that exact package name, but it should be obvious. -Tim. -- Original Message -- From: Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: IMAP...

2001-11-01 Thread Tarjei Huse
> I believe packages are still of Cyrus 1.5.x, which needed stunnel or > similar for SSL support. Cyrus 2.0.x supports SSL natively if compiled > to do so. If so, download cyrus and build from src. Downlaod 2.0.16 and build it from there. Read the faq first though. What are you going to use the se

Re: mp3 encoder?

2001-11-01 Thread Jens Müller
Andy Hartford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find any mp3 encoders in Debian. > Where's LAME, etc?? About lame: afaik there are patent issues with LAME. Fraunhofer has patented the algorithms used in the ISO reference implementation. Even though LAME does not use the

Re: mp3 encoder?

2001-11-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Andy Hartford wrote: > Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find any mp3 encoders in Debian. > Where's LAME, etc?? Not there, presumably due to patent issues surrounding the MP3 format. You can't GPL an MP3 codec, so lame would have to be in non-free if Debian had it at all; that it isn't there suggests

ICQPhone behind Debian masquerade

2001-11-01 Thread Martin Budar
Hallo, I'm looking for help. I've some problems with ICQPhone (ICQ2000b) behind ipmasq. I've tried to use ICQPhone to connect to the friends outside my local network but it doesn't work well. I forwarded incoming UDP packets (UDP port 6701, which is used by ICQPhone) to my local IP using ipmas

Re: Querybts and text-mode browser in X11?

2001-11-01 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:49:18PM +0100, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: > I want querybts to start a text-mode browser (links) when I run it in > an xterm. If I set X11BROWSER to links, I just get a blank screen > when I go "More details". > > Not setting it gets me Netscape, no matter what I set for

licq wont send messages

2001-11-01 Thread Andrew Austin
Hi all, I have been having problems with licq the last couple of days. I'm running testing with the 2.2.19 kernel. It worked fine for months and all of a sudden my messages aren't being recieved. I checked the network log and everything seems normal. I send my messages to the icq.mirabilis.c

Re: mp3 encoder?

2001-11-01 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Andy Hartford wrote: > Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find any mp3 encoders in Debian. > Where's LAME, etc?? MP3 is unfortunately covered by patents, so the encoders my be in violation of these patents. Try using Ogg Vorbis. -jwb

Re: mp3 encoder?

2001-11-01 Thread Andy Hartford
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:00:12PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Andy Hartford wrote: > > > Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find any mp3 encoders in Debian. > > Where's LAME, etc?? > > MP3 is unfortunately covered by patents, so the encoders my be in > violation of these

PPP Problems !

2001-11-01 Thread Cristiano Gon?alves Ribeiro
HI Pleople, I'm having trouble to connect my ISP through demand dialing, PPPD makes the connection and everything seems ok (pap-secrets, options using defaults,chatscripts,etc), but reports on syslog or ppp.log something like "LCP [request timeout]" after 10 seconds connected. What does it mea

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-11-01 Thread Henryx
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 line id:5:initdefault: in id:2:initdefault: i

xisp question.

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Is there any way to make xisp work with normal user? If I run as normal user it says: No permission to run pppd. Check the path option, it says error although it got right (/usr/sbin) Check pppd, its owner is root , and group is dip ; If I run as root, it is normal If I run use sudo like su

Re: good MPEG video player needed

2001-11-01 Thread csj
On Thursday 01 November 2001 18:44, Paolo Falcone wrote: > Hello! > > Can anyone recommend a good MPEG video player and where can I > download the package? that is, aside from smpeg from potato? I'm > using debian potato with XFree 3.3.6. I'm specifically looking for an > MPEG video player capable

Re: mp3 encoder?

2001-11-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Andy Hartford wrote: > Well, I'm trying to use GDAM (Geoff & Dave's Audio Mixer) which only > seems to work with mp3s. They have Vorbis support listed as a planned feature, but apparently they don't have it yet. Craig

precmd problem

2001-11-01 Thread Jeff
I getting this message printed to screen after every command and I can't figure out how to fix it. Any help will be very much appreciated, since this is very annoying. I couldn't find anything on this in the archives, yet, but I'm still looking. bash: precmd: command not found jc -- Jeff Copp

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-11-01 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Bob Koss wrote: > Viktor> So, if you "upgrade" to woody, better use "dist-upgrade". > > If I'm already tracking woody, should I be routinely using "upgrade" > or "dist-upgrade" ? dist-upgrade. Now following the thread, there seems to be some discussion about the answer. Some people suggest

Re: ISA AWE64 not detected

2001-11-01 Thread Chris Keelan
On Thursday 01 November 2001 05:04, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Chris, > > I got a SB AWE64 working under Debian "testing". It took a bit of > "cut & try", but with the help of the HOWTO, I finally got it going. > Here is what I suggest you do: I'm going to give your suggestions a try, Donald, and

Re: framebuffer-konsole

2001-11-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:03:37PM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > > You have also to configure Lilo by initialising the 'vga' variable. > > I believe that I'm correct in stating that 'vga' corresponds to various > text modes, and 'video' corresponds to framebuffer modes. Not necessarily, as w

Re: ISA AWE64 not detected

2001-11-01 Thread Chris Keelan
On Thursday 01 November 2001 05:14, Erik Steffl wrote: > I wasn't able to get pnpdump & isapnp working (still don't know > why, it used to work with slackware ages ago, but it never worked > with debian (I guess it's more important that it's newer version of > pnp, distro probably doesn't have m

Re: xisp question. done...

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Kieu
I found the reason, that is some permission in /etc/ppp is not right . Anyway I wont use xisp, it is silly that it requires to create in /etc/ppp/peers/xisp_ttyXX by hand so what is the point of ease of use? If I counld do that I would rather use my own way of dialling. I just want a completely G

Re: Small bug in Abiword

2001-11-01 Thread csj
On Thursday 01 November 2001 09:42, Karsten M. Self wrote: [...] > Incidentally, anyone know how to get a Real Browser® (Galeon) rather > than Konqueror, as the AbiWorld help browser? Build the source package with Gnome support? In the debian/rules file change --disable-gnome to --enable-gnome (P

Re: licq wont send messages

2001-11-01 Thread Christoph Simon
On 01 Nov 2001 10:55:21 -1000 Andrew Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been having problems with licq the last couple of days. I'm > running testing with the 2.2.19 kernel. It worked fine for months > and all of a sudden my messages aren't being recieved. I checked > the network log an

More on Adelphia cable (Help! I don't want to go back!)

2001-11-01 Thread Michael Patterson
(continuation of DHCP and Adelphia cable) Right now I'm in the process of testing the connection to see if I can find the problem, and the problem appears to be something with my linux setup. Here's what I've done: * I had a working setup using eth0 connected to a router to the internet (machine

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