Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, dman wrote: > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian sid/non-US main contrib non-free Thanks a lot; it's just what I need. BTW, what's the magic behind it? There was no example on "sid/non-US". Oki

errors installing libc6 -- HELP!

I recently upgraded to the upgraded packages in debian stable (using dselect) One newly updated package is the oh so important libc6, however, it does not install. I narrowed down it's install probelm due to a configuration problem: (noahsark:/var/cache/apt/archives) sudo dpkg --configure li

Re: Arphic unifont Y2K

Hi Hmmm, I am not a Linux expert, so I am not sure how to do it exactly, yeah... and how do you come up with those name/spec in the hint file I tried ftinfo those fonts, but it doesn't give all the proporties. How did you do it? Edwin Lau On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:47:14AM +0800, Anthony Fok w

verifying the local files

Hello, If I build my Debian box all from apt-get from official source hosts, is there any way to verify the integrity, say, md5sum, the files and directories against the original official source media? If I am not wrong, rpm -V can verify the integrity via network against the official rpm packag

Re: errors installing libc6 -- HELP!

> "Noah" == Noah Coccaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Noah> I recently upgraded to the upgraded packages in debian Noah> stable (using dselect) I assume you are upgrading a pre-potato system to stable? Or is this just upgrading a potato system to the most recent version of potato?

Re: Dual-boot failure with 2.4.8

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 08:59 pm, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I am running both NT4.0 and Linux (Debian Woody). I recently > installed the 2.4.8 kernel. Since it ran fine from a floppy, > I copied the bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8 > Ran lilo > dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/bootsec

Re: DVD player

Peter Good wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:15, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > Video RAM is nearly irrelevant. Anything with 2MB can do > > 1024x768/16-bit which is what you want for DVD. > > This might be a silly question, but why then, do they sell video cards > now, > with at least 8mb stan

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.x

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Rocha?= wrote: >i realy want to know the best way to upgrade my debian 2.2 r4 (potato) to use >XFree 4.x. Pardon me (I've yet to dist-upgrade to 2.2r4) - is Potato r4 using XFree86 4.x? If not, I think there are unofficial XFree86 4.x debs (once saw it listed in debian

unresolved symbols

Dear Sirs, I'd like to show you a nice error message which I met with when I tried to install a new NVIDIA driver file under Debian 2.2.19 kernel: rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux nv_compiler.h NVdriver gcc -c -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE

Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

On 4 Dec 2001, Bill Wohler wrote: > That plugin provides application/x-java-applet and others. It does > not provide application/x-java-vm. Same thing here; and I use Sun's JDK. Oki

Re: Arphic unifont Y2K

I was trying to create the hint file, but have some questions. Unifonts 2K have unicode encoding with various charsets, (big5/gb/etc) am I right? so what does it mean? I thought unicode is just a big charset. I have this big confusion for a while. Can someone help me? and back to the hint file

BIG xwindow apps

I use Debian for all my servers and have only recently decided to give it (Debian) a go for my desktop machines as well. I seem to run into a problem where the OS installs fine and all the programs work but the GUI is very large. I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, t

suck broken in testing

Hi list, Since my last apt-get upgrade yesterday, suck(1) does not work anymore: $ suck suck: relocation error: suck: undefined symbol: stat Unfortunately, i cannot recall anymore which packages got upgraded during the apt-get upgrade. How can i find out, which lib contains (or should contain)

Re: BIG xwindow apps

> I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, > they are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a in my 5 years of running X windows my experience is X is unusable for the most part with anything below 1024x768. 800x600 is just too painful. i would reccomend using a

Re: BIG xwindow apps

nate wrote: > in my 5 years of running X windows my experience is X is > unusable for the most part with anything below 1024x768. > 800x600 is just too painful. i would reccomend using a virtual > desktop of 1024x768 or higher if your using 800x600. see > the X docs on how to do this, its not too

Re: verifying the local files

> Hello, > > If I build my Debian box all from apt-get from official source > hosts, is there any way to verify the integrity, say, md5sum, the > files and directories against the original official source media? > > If I am not wrong, rpm -V can verify the integrity via network > against the offi

Re: chess program recommendations?

On 05 Dec 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I'm looking for a good chess program for Debian. I've done apt-cache search > chess, so I know the options out there. I'm looking for recommendations from > people that have played some/all of them. > > Something that has a reasonably intelligent AI so I ca

Re: BIG xwindow apps

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Matt Chipman wrote: > I use Debian for all my servers and have only recently decided to > give it (Debian) a go for my desktop machines as well. Consider to install Gnome too. > irc or any other type app, the application is huge and sometimes goes > off the screen so much s

Aztech Sound

Hi, I have problems installing a non pnp isa sound card with azt 2316-s and cs4231A chip. it is a Aztech MM Pro 16 ABI EP-U. I could not find any working drivers. Does anybody know how to install this card?? Thanks Norbert -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net

Re: HELP horrible ssh upgrade

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > but if that doesn't work does anyone have any suggestions? I upgraded ssh on a woody box, and it failed because of some incorrect dpkg option. I solved it by installing ssh-nonfree. I should probably file a bug report... -- Frederik Vanrenterghem

Re: BIG xwindow apps

>I seem to run into a problem where the OS installs fine and all the >programs work but the GUI is very large. > >I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, they >are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a program such as >irc or any other type app, the applicatio

viewing sgml documentation

Hello, many documents in debian are written in SGML. What's the recommended way to read them? -> "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> > which is the easiest way to read formatted sgml docs in potato? -> -> SGML is a language in which you can define the structure documents must -> conf

Re: OT: perl Crypt::IDEA

shock wrote: > > Sorry for the OT, but I haven't found anything relating to my problem. > I'm trying to install the Crypt::IDEA perl module. I've tried it with > both perl -MCPAN -e shell and downloading the .tar.gz file. Both end > with the following: > > cc -c -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

Romuald DELAVERGNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Christian Schoenebeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Really? What's the name? I haven't found one named trancsode or > > similar. > > You install this package with dpkg (It come from marillat packages) > So 'apt-cache search transcode' can't

Audigy Drivers

Does anyone know the status of drivers for Creative's Audigy sound cards? I would like to buy one and use it with Debian. Does Alsa 0.9.x support it? If so, how to I use the Alsa drivers on a Debian (Linux 2.4.x) system? If not, can someone point me to a development site/list?

Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

Hi all, I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought I should mention it). Before I make a real mess I thought I'd get some advice on the error message: apt-get install ucbmpeg-play Reading Package

Re: verifying the local files

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:48:27AM -0800, nate wrote: > > > If I build my Debian box all from apt-get from official source > > hosts, is there any way to verify the integrity, say, md5sum, the > > files and directories against the original official source media? > > > > If I am not wrong, rpm -V

Re: Question about bug-tracking

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:45:13PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Let's say I saw some behavior in one of programs, namely XMMS, and > wanted to file a bug. Trying to not overload our hardworking maintainers, > I dutifully first checked with bugview xmms to see if someone had > already filed a bug

Re: Character-mode clock

Yes, thanks David, 'watch -n1 date' worked fine for me. George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, David Z Maze wr

Re: Character-mode clock

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a > > character-mode terminal? > > M-x display-time. You _are_ running everything in Emacs, right? 8^) I'm actually trying to un-le

Re: Movie players in certain Linuxes , O God !

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 04:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are certain movie players in certain Linuxes , > that are horrendously pathetic . > It is something like this : > You see two hands , you hear some sound , and after > 5 minutes you see Silvester Stalllone ? Check out mplayer: http://w

Re: chess program recommendations?

on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:05:52PM -0800, Kurt Lieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm looking for a good chess program for Debian. I've done apt-cache search > chess, so I know the options out there. I'm looking for recommendations from > people that have played some/all of them. > > Somethin

Re: Character-mode clock

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sounds like what you want is `vcstime` > ...it's part of console-tools, so I'd be betting it's on your system already. > Check in /etc/console-tools/config for the option to turn it on on system > boot. I think vcstime only runs in the console, not

Re: Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

On Thursday 06 December 2001 00:40, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Graham Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > ... > > > Eventually VFS Kernel Panic. Cant mount root fs. There's also a > > message about block-major-8. > > It's trying to load the driver from /lib/modules on root fs. Oops. > > Y

dac960 module

I'm trying to install on a box with 1 IDE hard drive, 1 IDE CDROM and a 3 SCSI disc array controlled by a Mylex 960 controler card. When I use a floppy to load the DAC960.o module it see the drives and I can partition them. I also get an error message... DAC960#0: Physical Device 1:5 Error Log

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.x

--- Américo Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-12-05 23:38): > i realy want to know the best way to upgrade my debian 2.2 r4 (potato) > to use XFree 4.x. There are unofficial debs here: http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/READ.THIS Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: chess program recommendations?

Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:05:52PM -0800, Kurt Lieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm looking for a good chess program for Debian. I've done apt-cache search chess, so I know the options out there. I'm looking for recommendations from people that have played some/all o

What happened to compose?

What happened to the compose key in debian? It used to work without a problem on my machine not so anymore. I do a daily dist-upgrade. I did a install-keymap of both the default keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps and both of them makes provision for a compose key, but it does not work. It is a bit f

Fwd: Gnome panel fonts replaced by rectangles.

Any ideas on this one folks ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded message from Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:33:58 +1100 From: Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Gnome panel fonts replaced by rectangl

Re: BIG xwindow apps

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:45:59AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > I have never tried to use X on anything less than 1024x768, but why > should it be any worse than running MS Windows at the same resolution? > (Purely considered as a graphical display -- ignore the issue of MS > Windows crashing left

Re: Fwd: Gnome panel fonts replaced by rectangles.

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 00:40, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Any ideas on this one folks ? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg01284.html The solution in my case: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg01470.html Regards, Adam

Re: chess program recommendations?

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:34:55AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > >gnuchess & xboard. > > didn't work for me. Configuration was hosed. > uninstalled it out of frustration. > Did you try eboard and crafty? Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informa

Re: chess program recommendations?

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:05:52PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I'm looking for a good chess program for Debian. I can recommend xboard + crafty. Apt-get install both debs, then use something like: nice xboard -fcp crafty -size medium -highlight -xclock & "Nice" is important, since crafty will

MX Records ?

I normally use Linux to receive mails , not to send any . And I use PINE/fetchmail on my Linux box. What I have done is I created a login ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of the same name as my account at my ISP([EMAIL PROTECTED]) , then configured .fetchmailrc and PINE for this login. It fetches the mai

djbdns and local network

I'm trying to setup djbdns (from daemontools-installer 0.70-25 and djbdns-installer 1.05-4) for my small local network [1]. Installing the software was not a problem. According to the documentation on http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html, I did the following steps: On the linux-server (IP 10.0.0.1): 1: in

Re: What happened to compose? - further information

I have further information: Typing in vim the compose key works, but not in bash. I can thus type ëê etc in vim, but not in bash. Any ideas on how to solve it? Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "In my Father's house

Re: BIG xwindow apps

Craig Dickson wrote: > > nate wrote: > > > in my 5 years of running X windows my experience is X is > > unusable for the most part with anything below 1024x768. > > 800x600 is just too painful. i would reccomend using a virtual > > desktop of 1024x768 or higher if your using 800x600. see > > the

Cannot forward into files

Hi there, I'm encountering a strange problem in the interaction of a Solaris mail server and a file server running potato. Usually, my users can forward their mail into a local file by specifying its path in their .forward. However, this doesn't work if the user home is stored on the Linux file

many terminal windows appears after X start

When my x window starts,many terminal windows appears(about 6 or 7 ) I have changed .xinitrc and Xsession just for locale setting (export LANG=zh_TW.Big5 export LC_ALL=zh_TW.Big5 export XMODIFIER="@im=xcin") Did I change any X setting to make it so curious? How should I do to make it normal(don't a

Errors compiling PHP4 on potato

Hi, I'm trying to compile PHP4 on Debian potato. I'm using the Debian source package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1. I'm getting the following errors, which seem to be related to mysql. This is despite the fact that I've commented out the mysql configuration options in debian/rules (I don't need mysql

Re: djbdns and local network

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:27:30PM +0100, Jan Tammen wrote: > I'm trying to setup djbdns (from daemontools-installer 0.70-25 and > djbdns-installer 1.05-4) for my small local network [1]. Installing > the software was not a problem. According to the documentation on > http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html,

Uptime

>From the Man page: uptime gives a one line display of the following informa­tion. The current time, how long the system has been run­ning, how many users are currently logged on, and the sys­tem load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes. What exactly does the 'load averages'

Re: Movie players in certain Linuxes , O God !

There is a .deb file for mplayer. You need to add libasound2 from unstable and also liblircclient0, libmud0 and libsdl1.2debian from testing. Then add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list do a apt-get update apt-get install mplayer-686 mplayer-fonts mplayer-docs. And you have a nice GUI MPlayer. Do

Re: Errors compiling PHP4 on potato

* George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 09:09]: > I'm trying to compile PHP4 on Debian potato. I'm using the Debian source > package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1. You should consider using a recent snapshot from snaps.php.net > I'm getting the following errors, which seem to be related

Re: video memory (was DVD player)

How can I determine how much video RAM my card has, I tend to buy used parts, which usually means I have to find that stuff out for myself. If I remember right, I used to use a program called SuperProbe to find it, but I can't seem to locate that. For what it's worth, it's a Matrox G450 dual head

Re: BIG xwindow apps

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:51:14AM -0500, Aaron Traas wrote: > Windows apps, particularly older ones, were designed to be usable at > 640x480. I believe X started on Solaris, or at least first caught on > there, and I believe the default then was 1152x864, because at 8BPP, it > fit in 1 MB of video

Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:11:24PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: | On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, dman wrote: | > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian sid/non-US main contrib non-free | | Thanks a lot; it's just what I need. | BTW, what's the magic behind it? There was no example on "sid/non-US". I don't know. It w

Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:20:12PM -0500, Eric Brooks wrote: | Hi. I use Mutt as my mail client. I am trying to set it up so that | messages from the lists to which I subscribe get moved from my mail | spool file to a specific mailbox for storage after reading, filtered out | from the general ma

Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

Brian Clark, 2001-Dec-05 23:32 -0500: > * Eric Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 05. 2001 23:10]: > > > I don't have anything against procmail. I am not familiar with it. I > > will look it up. > > This will help you a great deal then: > > You can

Re: What happened to compose? - further information

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:31:30PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: | I have further information: Typing in vim the compose key works, but | not in bash. I can thus type ëê etc in vim, but not in bash. | | Any ideas on how to solve it? Are you using version 6 of vim? If so, what does :set enc?

Re: BIG xwindow apps

on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:11:29PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote: > > I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, they > are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a program such as > irc or any other type app, the application is huge and sometimes goes > off the screen

Re: MX Records ?

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:49:12PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I normally use Linux to receive mails , not to send any . | And I use PINE/fetchmail on my Linux box. | What I have done is I created a login ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of the same name as my | account at my ISP([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ,

Re: Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

Adam Warner, 2001-Dec-06 23:40 +1300: > Hi all, > > I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any > package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought > I should mention it). > > Before I make a real mess I thought I'd get some advice on the error >

Re: Cannot forward into files

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:00:32PM +0100, Steffan Baron wrote: | | Hi there, | | I'm encountering a strange problem in the interaction of a Solaris | mail server and a file server running potato. Usually, my users can | forward their mail into a local file by specifying its path in their | .forw

Re: Errors compiling PHP4 on potato

Hi, On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Brian Clark wrote: > * George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 09:09]: > > > I'm trying to compile PHP4 on Debian potato. I'm using the Debian source > > package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1. > > You should consider using a recent snapshot from snaps.php.net OK, I

Re: many terminal windows appears after X start

Yu, 2001-Dec-06 21:54 +0800: > When my x window starts,many terminal windows appears(about 6 or 7 ) > I have changed .xinitrc and Xsession just for locale setting (export > LANG=zh_TW.Big5 > export LC_ALL=zh_TW.Big5 > export XMODIFIER="@im=xcin") > Did I change any X setting to make it so curious?

Re: Uptime

Andrew Pritchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >From the Man page: >uptime gives a one line display of the following informa­tion. >The current time, how long the system has been run­ning, how >many users are currently logged on, and the sys­tem load >averages for the past 1, 5, a

Newbie comments & queries

Hi, I received this email below. Cannot find any Microcom modems on this page. I tracked down the source of supply of this modem (my ISP in fact) and they are certain that it is a regular modem. Being external they are probably right. Am calling on the ISP on my way home to collect a microc

Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]

>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:13:33 +0200 >From: "Ian Balchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, all, >I am, after all, still alive. Please use a Subject line appropriate to the immediate problem. `Newbie comments & queries' could apply to nearly every post to this list; it's nearly as ineffectual as 'Plea

Re: OT: perl Crypt::IDEA

* Pietro Cagnoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > shock wrote: > > > > Sorry for the OT, but I haven't found anything relating to my problem. > > I'm trying to install the Crypt::IDEA perl module. I've tried it with > > both perl -MCPAN -e shell and downloading the .tar.gz file. Both end > >

Re: Cannot forward into files

> >If you log on to the Solaris machine, can you write to the intended >file? (ie 'echo hello world > ') Yes, this works. >Where is the MTA running? On the Solaris box? As long as the Solaris >system has the proper access to the fs there should be no problems. Yes, MTA (sendmail) is running o

Re: errors installing libc6 -- HELP!

> > "Noah" == Noah Coccaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Noah> I recently upgraded to the upgraded packages in debian > Noah> stable (using dselect) > > I assume you are upgrading a pre-potato system to stable? Or is this > just upgrading a potato system to the most recent version

iptables firewall and MSN messanger

Hello everybody Is it possible to use MSN messanger's voice call over iptables firewall ? I haven't found any module (stg like ip_nat_ftp.o) for this purpose. I use SNAT on 2.4.x kernel, Debian/woody. Thank for your help. Marek Cermak

Does connection in TIME_WAIT count?

Hi, When a client closes, say HTTP, connection to my server then the connection continues to be listed on the server for some period of time in the state `TIME_WAIT'. Does such a connection still counts as valid one, ie does the web server see it? Thank you, Jozef

Re: Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

* David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Thursday 06 December 2001 00:40, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Graham Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > ... > > > > > Eventually VFS Kernel Panic. Cant mount root fs. There's also a > > > message about block-major-8. > > > > It's trying to

Re: Norton Ghost?

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 20:36, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > I have created a bootable CD of a current working machine. I then use the > bootable CD to 'expand' or 'apply' the image to another machine using Ghost. > When > rebooting the second machine, it gives the Lilo error. In order to get it > to wor

Re: Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

Yes there is an option to reinstall. I used it once to reinstall something I cant remember. Let me see...oh It was with apt-get do the following: apt-get --reinstall install PACKAGE_NAME And you should be fine. I didnt test it thought. According to apt-get manpage --reinstall reinstalls & upgra

HELPME

hello mr. I have a ncr system 3350 486 dx2 66 mhz, computer with, a hard disk of 212 megas, conner, cp 30200. when i start it shows the next message: NO SCSI DEVICE DETECTED SLOT 5. i have already checked two jumpers from hard disk and i also checked the connectors for the hard disk but i found n

get some for the holidays

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Re: HELPME

surely you have some configuration that tells you computer that it should recognize an scsi drive. Run the computer BIOS set up, and set it to see ide drives with the configuration of your conner HD. If you have a board manual of that computer, read it too. SCSI drives are a diferent kind from or

How to switch from X to console (ctrl+alt+Fn)

I have installed Potato in an old SparcStation IPC and everything works fine. However I'm unable to switch back to the console, as is normal in PC machines. I mean, I don't want to kill X; I want to use the ctrl+alt+Fn functionality. Is it possible to do it? TIA Carlos

Re: What happened to compose? - further information

Package: libreadline4 Version: 4.2a-2 Johann Spies wrote: > I have further information: Typing in vim the compose key works, but > not in bash. I can thus type ëê etc in vim, but not in bash. > > Any ideas on how to solve it? I have the same problem, so it would seem that this is a problem spe

Re: What happened to compose? - further information

dman wrote: > BTW, what is the "compose" key (which button on my keyboard) and how > do I use it? I've never had the need for it, but I'd like to learn > how that stuff works. The compose key is probably not on your keyoard, but you can bind it to something like the windows menu key: keysym Menu

Progeny Switch

I've come to the point where I need to cut the cord with Progeny. I've read the how-tos about converting to Woody and they each seem frought with peril. What is wrong with this scenario? I change my sources.list to include the debian sites, run dist-upgrade and call it good. I'll leave the proge

Re: suck: relocation error: suck: undefined symbol: stat

* Joey Hess | Is this a known problem with libc or the linker or something? I have the | same problem. (With suck or another package?) I don't really know what has happened here, except that suddenly people started turning bug reports about suck not working. This was since libsocks4 used to ha

OT: supressing line noise

I'm looking for some help with getting a clean 120v supply to my computer. I'm on the same circuit as my washer/dryer (and no, changing location is not an option). When either electrical motor is running, my monitor flickers: noticably on 1024x768 at 85hz vert refresh, and very annoyingly at 1152x8

Re: Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

Adam Warner wrote: > I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any > package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought > I should mention it). No, nothing to do with alien. > files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline I

Manager for software in /usr/local

Hi, I recall recently someone on this list mentioning a software, maybe a Debian package, that manages installation of software under the /usr/local hierarchy. I seem to recall that it was said that this manager installs each piece of software in a separate subdirectory, and makes symlinks in th

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recall recently someone on this list mentioning a software, maybe a > Debian package, that manages installation of software under the /usr/local > hierarchy. stow, maybe? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Money may

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I recall recently someone on this list mentioning a software, maybe a > > Debian package, that manages installation of software under the /usr/local > > hierarchy. > > stow, maybe? Yes, that's the one, t

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

George Karaolides writes: > Does anyone remember what this was? stow -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: How to switch from X to console (ctrl+alt+Fn)

on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:14:25PM +0100, Carlos Betancourt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have installed Potato in an old SparcStation IPC and everything works > fine. However I'm unable to switch back to the console, as is normal in > PC machines. I mean, I don't want to kill X; I want to use th

procmail recipe not working

I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest message has the following From: line : From: "Lisa J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (some have a different name, but the same address) I want to automatically file these in the bit-bucket. Should be straightforward, right? In my .procma

power management & monitor

Can anyone tell me why my monitor insists on going into standby mode when left alone for a period of time? I've turned off all power management stuff in the BIOS and apm appears to be disabled: % dmesg | egrep apm apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.13) apm: disabled on user request

Re: power management & monitor

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 12:27, Brian Clark wrote: > Can anyone tell me why my monitor insists on going into standby mode > when left alone for a period of time? I've turned off all power > management stuff in the BIOS and apm appears to be disabled: > > % dmesg | egrep apm > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Fl

Re: power management & monitor

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Brian Clark wrote: > Can anyone tell me why my monitor insists on going into standby mode > when left alone for a period of time? I've turned off all power > management stuff in the BIOS and apm appears to be disabled: > > % dmesg | egrep apm > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b

bzip2 is absolutly Amazing!

Hi there! I have just found out that bzip2 is _really_ _great_ for large files. I have tar'ed a whole debian-installation (1.2 gigs). This tar, compressed with gzip, has a size of ~390MB. The same tar, compressed with bzip2 has a size of 110MB!!! So for every body out there: If you have a large f

Re: power management & monitor

* Jeffrey W. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 15:41]: > > I've tried poking around in the usual places and I can't seem to find > > anything. > > xset -dpms Super, thanks! -- -Brian Clark

Re: power management & monitor

* Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 15:39]: > Try this to see if X is doing it: > > timshel:~$ xset -q Yep, and I guess I also just figured out what I needed to know about my repeat rate. Thanks.. -- -Brian Clark

Re: procmail recipe not working

On 2001.12.06 20:23 dman wrote: I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest message has the following From: line : From: "Lisa J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (some have a different name, but the same address) I want to automatically file these in the bit-bucket. Should be stra

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