Re: precmd problem

2001-11-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeff wrote: > 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

Re: PPP Problems !

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Kieu
I got a modified simple script to setup dial-up ppp you can use it to test. If you want I can send it to you. > = S.KIEU http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase - Manage your files online.

pppd callback

2001-11-01 Thread Russell Coker
If you use the callback function in pppd (or want to use it) then please contact me off list. I've got a patch for it that I'm considering for inclusion in my Portslave package (and for submitting to the ppp package maintainer). -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive ben

Re: Packages list?

2001-11-01 Thread Shaul Karl
> 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. > >

Re: Upgrade problem with kernel and modutils

2001-11-01 Thread Shaul Karl
> > 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

Re: Can't mount audio CD - help

2001-11-01 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:18:10PM -0500, Simon Law wrote: > 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

Making Video CDs

2001-11-01 Thread Craig Dickson
I'm interested in making my own Video CDs (playable in my VCD-compatible DVD player). I have a number of good-quality MPEG-2 movies. I gather I would have to convert these to MPEG-1. Is there any free Linux software that can do this? I read somewhere that a Video CD is simply a data CD with a par

Re: Making Video CDs

2001-11-01 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > I'm interested in making my own Video CDs (playable in my VCD-compatible > DVD player). > > I have a number of good-quality MPEG-2 movies. I gather I would have to > convert these to MPEG-1. Is there any free Linux software that can do > this? > > I read

Re: nvidia driver's opengl is slow

2001-11-01 Thread iehrenwald
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > I was just wondering why the NVidia driver's OpenGL is so slow when I Did you run 'make install' from the NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541 directory? This removes the software OpenGL and installs the NVIDIA stuff. You'll need to re-run 'make install' every time y

Re: IMSI mouse - middle button

2001-11-01 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:15:02PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: | I have an old mouse from an outfit called IMSI. It has 3 buttons. I | can simulate a middle button with the "chord" X setting, but does anyone | have a clue or driver to get the middle button to actually work? | | It works OK n

Re: OT: IPtables maillinglist

2001-11-01 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> Does anyone know of a good firewall maillinglist and faq? > > Tarjei Look in http://netfilter.samba.org/ Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: Mutt - sent-date hook?

2001-11-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:58:32PM -0500, Patrick Mahoney wrote: > Since Mutt since to be a hot topic, might as well... > I'm looking for a way to put my outgoing mail in a month-dependent-mailbox so > i could retrieve a sent mail more easily. I would have mailboxes of the form > Sent/Oct-01 , Se

Mutt - sent-date hook?

2001-11-01 Thread Patrick Mahoney
Hello all, Since Mutt since to be a hot topic, might as well... I'm looking for a way to put my outgoing mail in a month-dependent-mailbox so i could retrieve a sent mail more easily. I would have mailboxes of the form Sent/Oct-01 , Sent/Nov-01 , etc... Ive gone through Mutt's documentation, an

Re: licq wont send messages

2001-11-01 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:00:50 -0800 (PST) "Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 Nov 2001, Andrew Austin 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

IMSI mouse - middle button

2001-11-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I have an old mouse from an outfit called IMSI. It has 3 buttons. I can simulate a middle button with the "chord" X setting, but does anyone have a clue or driver to get the middle button to actually work? It works OK now (other than the middle button) using the Microsoft mouse selection under

Re: licq wont send messages

2001-11-01 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
(Your linewrap is broken) On 1 Nov 2001, Andrew Austin 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 and everyt

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

2001-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:13:51AM +1100, Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > For the Potato 2.2 disks, however, root.bin found under /install is a > > gziped ext2 filesystem image. This can be determined by running 'type' > > against the file (it reports gzip),

Re: Can't mount audio CD - help

2001-11-01 Thread DvB
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josh McKinney wrote: > > > You can mount an audio cd... > > > > www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/ > > > > or > > > > packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/cdfs-src.html > > And what can you then do with this mounted audio CD? > > Can you pull the audio

Re: Kde

2001-11-01 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 18:59, Denis wrote: > Molto lieto di parlare con voi. Salve, mi chiamo Denis, ho installato > da poco Linux nel mio pc, ho scelto la distribuzione Debian 2.1. Ho > installato il sistema operativo senza però l'interfaccia grafica. > Ora, terminata la configurazione di re

Re: mp3 encoder?

2001-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:02:57AM +0100, Jens Müller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can't GPL an MP3 codec, > > Why not? IMO it is not copyright but patent restriction that prevent > the distribution and usage of LAME. Nope:

Re: good MPEG video player needed

2001-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:44:19PM +0800, Paolo Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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

Re: Launching URL from Gnome-terminal

2001-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:44:18PM -0800, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:14:38 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" > wrote: > [snip] > > Incidentally, how do you invoke the control center independent of GNOME? > > I use WindowMaker, and don't care for GNOME, but prefer Galeon

Re: How to confirm ncurses installed properly

2001-11-01 Thread nate
Rupert Heesom said: >>> Unable to find the ncurses libraries. >>> You must have ncurses installed. you have ncurses, which is fine for running precompiled binaries that require it. since your building a program from source you need the -dev version of the package in addition to the libraries

Re: ISA AWE64 not detected

2001-11-01 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Ananda Samaddar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 Good idea -- I haven't had to mess with isapnp

Re: Querybts and text-mode browser in X11?

2001-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:49:18PM +0100, "Jürgen A. Erhard" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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". I don't understand what you're using to

Re: nvidia driver's opengl is slow

2001-11-01 Thread David
On Thursday 01 November 2001 11:29 pm, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just wondering why the NVidia driver's OpenGL is so slow when I > play games like Quake 2 or bzflag. I get a lot of choppiness. I have > checked /usr/lib for traces of libMesaGL, but nothing has turned up. I > am n

Re: gnu make files

2001-11-01 Thread dman
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? default pattern rules? -D

Re: mp3 encoder?

2001-11-01 Thread Jens Müller
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can't GPL an MP3 codec, Why not? IMO it is not copyright but patent restriction that prevent the distribution and usage of LAME.

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?? I have an inofficial source of LAME ... Let's see ... debian:/home/jens/docs# apt-get install lame Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The f

Re: Can't mount audio CD - help

2001-11-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Josh McKinney wrote: > You can mount an audio cd... > > www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/ > > or > > packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/cdfs-src.html And what can you then do with this mounted audio CD? Can you pull the audio tracks off in digital form just by copying files from the CD to your

Re: mp3 encoder?

2001-11-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Jens M?ller wrote: > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can't GPL an MP3 codec, > > Why not? IMO it is not copyright but patent restriction that prevent > the distribution and usage of LAME. The restrictions of the patent, however, conflict with the requirements of the GPL. If

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

2001-11-01 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Karsten M. Self, > For the Potato 2.2 disks, however, root.bin found under /install is a > gziped ext2 filesystem image. This can be determined by running 'type' > against the file (it reports gzip), then uncompressing the file (most > likely to a location other than the CDROM), and running

Exit behaviour of less

2001-11-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
Previously, when exiting less, the displayed document remained on the screen. Since an apt-get upgrade (in testing), however, less now restores the prior display to its window when it exits. How do I change it back globally? `export LESS="-X"` fixes it per-user, but I want the old default back.

Re: Mutt: '+' prepended to wrapped lines

2001-11-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Craig Dickson wrote: > > Since we seem to be talking about Mutt a lot today, there's one thing I > haven't found the time to track down an answer to, so perhaps Karsten or > someone else knows. > > When I get mail from someone who uses one of those nasty email clients > that doesn't wrap lines (o

Re: The linux and Debian operating systems

2001-11-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Ken Williams wrote: > >Hi Stuart, > > In addition to the helpful advice other people on the list > have already given I'd also say it might be easier for you > to obtain a linuxdistro from a linux-related magazine. I hate to see that recommended, 'cause I've seen lots of problems on these

nvidia driver's opengl is slow

2001-11-01 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi all, I was just wondering why the NVidia driver's OpenGL is so slow when I play games like Quake 2 or bzflag. I get a lot of choppiness. I have checked /usr/lib for traces of libMesaGL, but nothing has turned up. I am not sure why it is going so slow. Oddly enough these programs have gone f

packages - packages list

2001-11-01 Thread Gerald A Spence
I have installed the base system via floppies ( only option ) and need to install additional "packages" to make "x" work.  When I use "dselect" It is looking for a disk with a "package list".  Where do I find it?   I have tried "apt-get" and cannot get it to work on the floppy.   I have trie

Re: Rsync

2001-11-01 Thread Su Yong
From: "Chapman, Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Rsync Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:23:12 -0500 > Does anyone have a sample rsync conf for syncing woody? And about how large > would the directory have to be to hold it? > > -matt The following script to used to mirror i386 part of stable, testing

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

2001-11-01 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I start a module on starup? On a related note, how can I do a postinstall command upon loading a module. I need to run sfxload for my MIDI to work after awe_wave is loaded. -- Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP/GnuPG Key ID 0xC9C40C

Re: Mutt - sent-date hook?

2001-11-01 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Patrick Mahoney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Since Mutt since to be a hot topic, might as well... I'm looking for > a way to put my outgoing mail in a month-dependent-mailbox so i could > retrieve a sent mail more easily. I would have mailboxes of the form > Sent/Oct-01 , Sent/Nov-01 , etc..

OT: SQL + PostgreSQL

2001-11-01 Thread bob parker
I am about to start development of an accounting system using PostgerSQL on Debian. It will reside on a server machine running Apache + PHP and the users will access the system via web browsers. I will need some support for the SQL and PHP. Would someone kindly suggest suitable lists where I should

Re: licq wont send messages

2001-11-01 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: > Would you care to reason your suggestion? I've tested this yesterday > on a machine with a recent woody installation. Without success. It seemed like generic licq funkiness, and for some reason, desting everything but your contact list seems to fix qui

oafd?

2001-11-01 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey all, I was just ps aux'ing one day, and I saw 'oafd'. There is no manpage, and dpkg only showed 'GNOME Object Activation FrameWork." What exactly is this? What does one need it for? Thanks for everything, Rohan

Re: oafd?

2001-11-01 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:37:19PM -0500, Rohan Deshpande wrote: | Hey all, | | I was just ps aux'ing one day, and I saw 'oafd'. There is no manpage, | and dpkg only showed 'GNOME Object Activation FrameWork." What exactly | is this? What does one need it for? I don't know all the details, but

Re: licq wont send messages

2001-11-01 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:37:20 -0800 (PST) "Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: > > > Would you care to reason your suggestion? I've tested this yesterday > > on a machine with a recent woody installation. Without success. > > It seemed like

Re: Mutt - sent-date hook?

2001-11-01 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Justin R. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What about: > > set record=`date +%b-%y` > > I haven't tested this, though -- off the top of my head. Well, except > for the format of 'date' :-) Just tested it, and it works well. I use +%b%Y. -- Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt - sent-date hook?

2001-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi Patrick, I have this in my .muttrc and it works great: set record="=sent-mail-`date +%Y-%m`" -Bryan On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:58:32PM -0500, Patrick Mahoney wrote: > Hello all, > > Since Mutt since to be a hot topic, might as well... > I'm looking for a way to put my outgoing mail in a mon

Re: OT: SQL + PostgreSQL

2001-11-01 Thread Oscar Riveros
Are you doing propietary software? If not why don you try nola from http://nola.noguska.com. It's php an mysql. But it is realy based on ADODB so postgres works "out of the box" exept for the sql scripts which have to be modified. On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:38:31PM -0800, bob parker wrote: > I

Installing a deb

2001-11-01 Thread Marcel Figuerola Estrada
I've just downloaded a deb but I don't know the procedure to install it. I've placed it in my home directory. Please help. Marcel

Xfree 4.1 installation not successful

2001-11-01 Thread Marcel Figuerola Estrada
I run potato and just upgraded Xfree86 to version 4.1. dselect told me that I didn't have the required package for some others libfreetype6, but it went on with the installation. Now when I try to run X, I get error messages. It would help me if someone tells me the files to edit to configure t

Re: Installing a deb

2001-11-01 Thread David P James
On Thursday 01 November 2001 21:28, Marcel Figuerola Estrada wrote: > I've just downloaded a deb but I don't know the procedure to install it. > I've placed it in my home directory. Please help. > Generally speaking, one uses dpkg: dpkg -i /package_location/package_name.deb or, if you're in the

Re: New ssh v2 and authentication

2001-11-01 Thread Bill Wohler
Tom Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SYNOPSIS > ssh-add [-lLdD] [file ...] > > DESCRIPTION > ssh-add adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent, > ssh-agent(1). When run without arguments, it adds the file > $HOME/.ssh/identity. Alternative file names can be

Re: Installing a deb

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Marcel Figuerola Estrada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just downloaded a deb but I don't know the > procedure to install it. I've placed it in my home > directory. Please help. As root run dpkg -i packages.deb Or apt-get install pakcges.deb Read man page to know more pls > -- > To

Re: Installing a deb

2001-11-01 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Marcel Figuerola Estrada wrote: > I've just downloaded a deb but I don't know the procedure to install > it. I've placed it in my home directory. Please help. dpkg -i filename -- Baloo

Re: Installing a deb

2001-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:34:00PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > --- Marcel Figuerola Estrada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just downloaded a deb but I don't know the > > procedure to install it. I've placed it in my home > > directory. Please help. > > As root run > > dpkg -i packages.deb >

Re: OT: SQL + PostgreSQL

2001-11-01 Thread bob parker
--- Oscar Riveros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you doing propietary software? If not why don > you try nola from http://nola.noguska.com. > It's php an mysql. But it is realy based on ADODB > so postgres works "out of the box" exept for the sql > scripts which have to be modified. Thanks Os

Re: DHCP and Adelphia Cablemodem (dhcpcd)

2001-11-01 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:06:15AM -0700] Michael Patterson : > The cablemodem setup still isn't working Are you using dhcpcd on a 'Potato' box ? Can you purge the dhcpcd package and instead, install dhcp-client ? > seems to have something to do with dhcpcd dhcpcd never worked for me and

w3m: ssl error (system library?)

2001-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
SSL error: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory When attempting to access SSL sites with w3m under Sid, I'm getting the following error: SSL error: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory ...and the site doesn't load. I don't see anything particul

I need some advice on :

2001-11-01 Thread shyamk
Dear members , I have heard about something called TDS (not Tax Deducted / Stolen at Source) .I presume that it is a database (an RDBMS) . Please correct me if I am wrong . 2. How do you get a JSP , or Java application/applet/ orangelet/servlet , etc , communicate with a database , all r

quake2 under unstable

2001-11-01 Thread Faust Andrei Tanasescu
Hi I am on a dell csx with neomagic videocard, 500mhz PIII processor and 256M of ram running unstable. I have q2 running perfect on my desktop thats runnin unstable too. Difference is that laptop is being updated everyday, but desktop every 3 months or so. It's been runnin under other distros as

Re: I need some advice on :

2001-11-01 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Shyam, Java uses JDBC for all RDBMS access. Simple JSP's / Servlet's can use this directly. For complex applications you will need to look into EJB's and application servers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear members , I have heard about something called TDS (not Tax Deducted / Stolen

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