Re: HPT370 and other errors :-(

2001-12-08 Thread Anthony Lau
Hello, On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:21:24PM +0100, Josef Oswald wrote: > I installed a IDE Controller Card with HPT370 chip from > http://www.highpoint-tech.com > sold as > Davicontrol DC-100 Raid I have a Abit KT7-RAID which uses the same controller. > http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/wo

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-12-08 Thread Brian Clark
* David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 07. 2001 18:42]: > Ijust bought a 32MB nVidia TNT 2 card, and I run Woody with a > fairly late 2.4 kernel. Am I going to have trouble? Xfree claims to > support this card in X 4.0 > > Am I in for it, as Mother used to say? I've used a 32Mb nVidia TNT2 on

Re: Is it possible to convert a debian source package to a tar b

2001-12-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Dec-2001 scott worley wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading the man pages on dpkg & dpkg-deb to find out if it's > possible to covert the deb source directory: > > foo-x.y.z.orig > debian-dir with all the patches > upstream-source-dir > > to a source tar ball with all patches app

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Craig Dickson
DvB wrote: > Personally, I suggest using mozilla instead... NS6.2 is an older version > of Mozilla with netscape commercial stuff included. > I would probably suggest it over NS4.77 though I can't remember how good > that version of mozilla was. I think Netscape 6.2 is Mozilla 0.9.3. Definitely b

Re: Movie players in certain Linuxes , O God !

2001-12-08 Thread Robert Storey
I've found that if I don't have a sound card installed and set up with the proper drivers, many of the movie players totally screw up - distorted pictures, slow speed, crashes, etc. Sometimes you'll see an error message saying there is a missing sound driver, but sometimes not. Installing the sound

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > Have they ever used WinAMP? Most people I know (who have/use > computers) use winamp (well, most of them have windows) and don't have > trouble with it. Winamp on Linux? No, they don't use Windows at all. Preben -- () Join the worldwi

Re: Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]Newbie #61

2001-12-08 Thread Ian Balchin
Wendell & Andrew, I take the point that you are making, but I had retained the original header for a specific reason. It is obvious that many posts to the list are from experienced linux users querying relatively obstruse points who are not, as I am, a first-time user with linux experience mea

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > What's bad about the XMMS interface? I see the standard cassette player > controls. The way I see it, your first problem should be getting a good > desktop environment. If your father and sister can live with any > existing Linux desktop o

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > what I see as a problem is management of the actual files and > playlists. Yes this is the biggest problem. > I find freeAmp much better from this perspective - the skins are a lot > better implemented (more flexible) and you hav

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
George Dancheff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > which version of gcc did you use to compile the > kernel. 3.X doesn't produce stable code yet , so > fallback to 2.95.3 & 2.95.4 for the time being. Hmm I thought 2.95, but I'll check. Anyway it sound like the explanation about ne

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > I have been using 2.4.16 since it came out and hadn't had a single problem. > On the other hand xscreensaver and xlock has always been trouble. A crashed GL > application sometimes will leave your video card in such a mess th

Re: how to save my setting of window maker

2001-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:57:39PM +0800, Yu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I set an icon of mozilla and rxvt on the right dock of my desktop on my > woody box > and then I disable the "keep on top" option > but when I reboot ,window maker didn't remenber my setting and return to > the origin setting

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-08 Thread Craig Holyoak
Jeffrey W. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > XMMS is very hard to use at 120 dpi and totally invisible at 200 dpi. You can magnify xmms's interface by going "doublesize" (Ctrl-D) which I guess would help if you have trouble seeing it at higher resolutions. -- Craig Holyoak [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: how to disable gnome panel

2001-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:16:42PM +1100, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:02:59PM +0800, Yu wrote: > > I want to use window maker as my window manager and I also install gnome > > on my woody box > > but it's to crowded with window maker dock and gn

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

2001-12-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:42:47PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > > The author says you should install it, then use it to make a deb of > itself and reinstall it using the deb. > But I downloaded the deb of checkinstall from the home site. It also included install watch which che

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread CaT
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote: > Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to prefer it to > Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? I haven't used Netscape in months. I find mozilla far more stable and capable. Major downside is that it does see

Re: HPT370 and other errors :-(

2001-12-08 Thread Josef Oswald
Hi :-) Anthony Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:21:24PM +0100, Josef Oswald wrote: > > I installed a IDE Controller Card with HPT370 chip from > > http://www.highpoint-tech.com > > sold as > > Davicontrol DC-100 Raid > > I have a Abit KT7-RAID which us

Re: Debian ethernet networking

2001-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:45:35PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am having the darnest time getting my first Debian machine(s) / > ethernet network set up...Debian Potato... I cannot figure out what > script or configuration file to put the 'route -add ...' commands in?

Re: Kabelmodem unter Debian

2001-12-08 Thread Josef Oswald
Leitwarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ich habe folgendes Problem. posting to a English-speaking News-group? OK :-) that being out of the way:-) Did you disable PNP on the card (I got a similar situation with a 3com 3c509-TPO and cable? If no, then that could cause your problem...since that

Re: login + passwd for 30 users

2001-12-08 Thread Greg Wiley
on Friday, December 07, 2001 4:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > does any script exist, which creates 30 users automaticaly, > with the list of 30 persons containing their name, christian name, etc... > instead of using 30 times "adduser" ? It's been a number of hours so you've probably entered t

Re: SNAT or MASQUERADE?

2001-12-08 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:48:13AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, David B Harris wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:36:20 +1000, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > SNAT would be. However, you better make sure that each time the IP > > address of your interface changes, your firewa

Re: Kabelmodem unter Debian

2001-12-08 Thread Josef Oswald
Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Leitwarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ich habe folgendes Problem. > > Did you disable PNP on the card (I got a similar situation with a > 3com 3c509-TPO and cable? > > If no, then that could cause your problem...since that card works in > the Wi

Re: how to disable gnome panel

2001-12-08 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:18:53PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > My problem with numerous GNOME apps (goats comes to mind) is that they > start the panel. This is one of several extremely annoying GNOME > behaviors. Any possibility to override? Maybe you're having this problem because goats is

Re: how to disable gnome panel

2001-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:38:39PM +1100, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:18:53PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > My problem with numerous GNOME apps (goats comes to mind) is that they > > start the panel. This is one of several extremely annoyin

looping symlink = reboot ?

2001-12-08 Thread nate
im not sure who to mail on this, so i figure best to start with a general mailing list for some pointers. Basic problem, never happened to me before, on 2 of my systems, when attempting to access a symlink that points back to itself crashes the system. either a reboot(4/5 cases) or a lockup(1/5).

Re: program balks at 3.9GB file

2001-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:27:48PM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > lav2wav +p /xb/base/input-20011207-1948.avi | mp2enc -o audio.mp2 >INFO: Norm set to PAL > **ERROR: Error opening /xb/base/input-20011207-1948.avi: File too large > **ERROR: EOF in WAV header > **ERROR: failure reading W

Re: login + passwd for 30 users

2001-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:57:19AM +, Gerard Robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > does any script exist, which creates 30 users automaticaly, > with the list of 30 persons containing their name, christian name, etc... > instead of using 30 times "adduser" ? There's the "newusers" comma

Re: Does anyone know a good X windows documentation

2001-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:46:10AM +0100, der der ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For example setting up the video card, monitor Walking through the installation is suggested. There are several HOWTOs. > and the differences between the different window managers... WindowMaker blows them all away

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to prefer > it to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? I'd far and away recommend Galeon. Mozilla and Konqueror round out the top of the full-featu

Re: how to disable gnome panel

2001-12-08 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:23:29AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ...though that does suggest maybe I want to look at > gnome-gnoteswhich doesn't exist. Bad news, gnotes is actually another applet (it's in gnome-applets) :). > It's not so much the memory (thought that's an issue), it's just

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-08 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self spake thus: > > Could be I just did it wrong. Maybe the > > echo foo > /dev/ttyS0 > > method doesn't have any way to say back "OK". Except for > > lighting up the lights and making beeping noises, of course. > > AFAIK, it doesn't. > > My usual test is to run a test string int

Re: Debian ethernet networking

2001-12-08 Thread lloyder
Hello Matt and all, Thank you for the quick reply. Is that the "correct" place for the route info? Right now via interfaces the machines are speaking well together, but the lack of entries not having the numeous route table entries is quite contrary and concerning to all the networking HOW-TOs

Re: Bug#122845: What happened to compose? - further information

2001-12-08 Thread Matthias Klose
Joey Hess writes: > 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

Re: Bug#122845: What happened to compose? - further information

2001-12-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Matthias Klose wrote: > Joey Hess writes: > > 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 id

Re: Audigy Drivers

2001-12-08 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, csj wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (Side note: I > just spent days figuring out you have to compile the thing into > the kernel. I had thought it was an entirely user space program.) > Hi Has anyone had any success with making the Audigy card work with Linux? The alsa-pr

Re: Does anyone know a good X windows documentation

2001-12-08 Thread Tom Pfeifer
der der wrote: > > For example setting up the video card, monitor and the differences between > the different window managers... > > would like to hear from someone. Another window manager to take a look at is icewm which I use, or the gnome compatible version of it icewm-gnome. I like it, some

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > I have been using 2.4.16 since it came out and hadn't had a single problem. > On the other hand xscreensaver and xlock has always been trouble. A crashed GL > application sometimes will leave your video card in such a mess th

How can i install woody?

2001-12-08 Thread Stan Brown
I have a new machine, on which I wish to isntall woody. What's the best way to do this? I have fast network conectivity, and for potato systems in the past, I have just downloaded the boot, root, and driver floppies, and done an install via ntework. But I don't believe there are any install floppi

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-08 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:55:39PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: > 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

get leds on after bootup. Newbie #61

2001-12-08 Thread Ian Balchin
Karsten, Thanks, I have written this into /etc/rc.local which I created as there was not a file of this name. However, it has made no change and I did not see the echo message so the file is maybe not being read. Next step please? Regards Ian > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:07:52AM +0200, Ian B

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-08 Thread Erik Simon
Hi, You could install potato and upgrade to woody. I don't know if it's the best way, but it's a way, and it worked fine for me. Good luck. Erik

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-08 Thread David Teague
Hi Stan What they told me is: If you have trouble with Woody floppies (oxymoron?) use Potato install floppies, install enought to use apt, the follow the apt sequence of commands for upgrading then use dselect to install what you like. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Be

Re: get leds on after bootup. Newbie #61

2001-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 03:58:05PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Place this in in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to activate Numlock for the > > first six terminals: > > > > echo "Activating Numlock ..." > > for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do > > /usr/bin/setleds +num < /dev/tty$

XFree86 problem

2001-12-08 Thread Seneca Cunningham
I have just installed XFree86 onto my computer, tried it with a few configurations that look like what should work, and "Fatal server error: No valid modes found" and "X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown" keeps coming up. I have the rest of the output on file. About 45 lin

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:40:29 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, right? Wrong: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ Note though that there are still some bugs - in particular, last time I used them, I had to

Is it possible to get an ISO image of woody?

2001-12-08 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to install woody on several computers, and on one of them, I'm having trouble with the floppy. Since i have aquired a new CD burner, I thoght I would try a CD based install, but I can't seem to loacte the ISO's. Do they exist? f so where can I grab them? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Laptop and debian

2001-12-08 Thread Steffan Baron
I'm using 'ogle' for the dvd part and 'cdrecord' to burn cd's. Gruss Steffan On Fri, Dec 07, 2001, www wrote: > >What software do you use for dvd playback and what for cd-rw? >I never ran a cd-rw on linux before myself. > >- zeno > >

crc error after uncompressing the kernel

2001-12-08 Thread Guy Durand
what does it mean when you get a crc error after the lilo prompt and the kernel start uncompressing. It happened with my laptop and I am able to boot the original kernel bot not the new kernels I had compiled after. Badiane

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-12-08 Thread Kyle Girard
If you don't want fast 3d the nv module in X 4.0 will suit you fine I would suggest that you try the nvidia drivers though...from www.nvidia.com or apt-get nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src from unstable Once compiled and installed I get 3d perfromance on par with windows My problem (discusse

Re: crc error after uncompressing the kernel

2001-12-08 Thread Jor-el
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Guy Durand wrote: > what does it mean when you get a crc error after the lilo prompt and the > kernel start uncompressing. It happened with my laptop and I am able to > boot the original kernel bot not the new kernels I had compiled after. > Badiane, Are you sure you

Any GOOD bttv grabbers ?

2001-12-08 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! Does anyone know any _good_ bttv grabbers ? Up to now I know only bad ones: - bttvgrab which crashes after start with a segfault lots of times. After trying several times, it works but can write only single pictures or one big file in a propriatary file format (i.e. no mjpeg avi) - xawtv

Re: Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Paolo Falcone
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote: >Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to >prefer it to >Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? Compared with 4.77, Netscape 6.2 is light-years away... with better HTML/XHTML standards compliance (NS 4.77 is

Re: Is it possible to get an ISO image of woody?

2001-12-08 Thread dooshiant
Stan Brown wrote: I'm trying to install woody on several computers, and on one of them, I'm having trouble with the floppy. Since i have aquired a new CD burner, I thoght I would try a CD based install, but I can't seem to loacte the ISO's. Do they exist? f so where can I grab them? Here's

Woody: "packages kept back"

2001-12-08 Thread Alec
What does it mean "the following packages have been kept back"? When I do apt-get upgrade, I get: The following packages have been kept back libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dev What's the meaning of this? They could not be upgraded for some reason? Alec ___

rtl8139 vs. 8139 too

2001-12-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, I would like to know which of these drivers works better for people in kernel 2.2.x. Reason: one of them may be enabled as the default driver in the next woody installation system (boot floppies). Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Flüssigseifenbenutzer! Fristeneinhalter! Geschenkpapierbügler! Au

Re: Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]Newbie #61

2001-12-08 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 09:05:31AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: ... | This last weekend it took over a minute to download even one email | and I had to give up with over 400 waiting in the queue. I cannot | read all of these messages en-masse and so filter out and delete | anyhing other than those w

Re: Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Alec
On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:34 am, Paolo Falcone wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote: > >Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to >prefer it > > to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? > > Compared with 4.77, Netscape 6.2 is light-yea

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-08 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:01:18AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : | > Have they ever used WinAMP? Most people I know (who have/use | > computers) use winamp (well, most of them have windows) and don't have | > trouble with it. | | Winamp on L

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-08 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:44:30PM -0800, George Dancheff wrote: | --- Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > After compiling and installing 2.4.16 things seemed to work nice | > until i looked at the computer again a bit later and saw that my | > screensaver had stopped (I had the GL text s

passwd segfaults on woody

2001-12-08 Thread whbell
Hello all, I have a current Woody box with a 2.2.19 kernel. When I run the passwd command I always get a Segmentation fault. I have searched the Deb User archives and bug list for passwd to no help. Please let me know what else I could do on this system to trouble shoot this problem. Thanks, B

Re: how to disable gnome panel

2001-12-08 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:23:29AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:38:39PM +1100, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:18:53PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | > > My problem with numerous GNOME apps (goats comes to mind) is t

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-08 Thread DvB
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > > Have they ever used WinAMP? Most people I know (who have/use > > computers) use winamp (well, most of them have windows) and don't have > > trouble with it. > > Winamp on Linux? No, they don't

Re: Does anyone know a good X windows documentation

2001-12-08 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:46:10AM +0100, der der wrote: | the differences between the different window managers... Karsten menitoned GNOME and KDE. I'd like to point out that GNOME and KDE are not window managers, but rather desktop environments. You still need a window manager to go with it to

Re: crc error after uncompressing the kernel

2001-12-08 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:48:38AM -0500, Guy Durand wrote: | what does it mean when you get a crc error after the lilo prompt and the | kernel start uncompressing. It happened with my laptop and I am able to | boot the original kernel bot not the new kernels I had compiled after. It means the fi

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread DvB
"Paolo Falcone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote: > > >Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to >prefer it > >to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? > > If you're to install to a low-end machine, just go fo

Re: Woody: "packages kept back"

2001-12-08 Thread DvB
Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does it mean "the following packages have been kept back"? > > When I do apt-get upgrade, I get: > > The following packages have been kept back > libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dev > > What's the meaning of this? They could not be upgraded for some reason? >

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-08 Thread Glyn Millington
A fairly primitive solution, this, but it works. Have gkrellm with its "Volume" module installed permanently on the desktop (I use blackbox, so park it in the 'slit'). Then set up MidnightCommander to play the mp3s or whatever with the appropriate player when you hit return over it. I use mpg123

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread DvB
Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mozilla0.9.5 is probably the slowest browser I've ever come across. > As an example, on my K6-2 550Mhz & 256Mb RAM box, when I'm in > "Edit/Preferences" and click on "Fonts", it takes 2.5 seconds for the fonts> > menu to actually appear. C'mon! > > Again, in m

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Netscape 4.x is a buggy, standards-busting, festering load of crap. It > was one of the worst things to happen to GNU/Linux -- It was pretty bad to the Win32 world too, since it pushed a good number of Netscape users over to IE. Craig

Re: Any GOOD bttv grabbers ?

2001-12-08 Thread Volker Schlecht
> Does anyone know any _good_ bttv grabbers ? Up to now I know only bad ones: On woody and unstable: apt-get install vcr regards, Volker -- "Being against torture ought to be sort of a bipartisan thing." -- Karl Lehenbauer

/etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....

2001-12-08 Thread Josef Oswald
HI:-) The Problem I run into after I installed a HPT370 driven Card, details can be found in my other post (HPT370 and other problems), I had to install a new Kernel with umda-100 patched with A. Hedrick, I got that Kernel and installed it without installing the drivers.. Only later did I instal

big-brother alternatives

2001-12-08 Thread Sean
Hello, Is there any big-brother alternatives available inside the testig distribution. I am using netsaint but need something have the big-brother look. Please advise. (I am not subscribed to this list, please reply to my email address shown above, thank you!) _

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-08 Thread ben
On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:40 am, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a new machine, on which I wish to isntall woody. > > What's the best way to do this? I have fast network conectivity, and for > potato systems in the past, I have just downloaded the boot, root, and > driver floppies, and done an ins

Network config problem

2001-12-08 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I've a small diskless proxy booting from a floppy based distro called Coyote. Now I've got an old HDD and I'm installing Debian Potato, but I'm failing to get the access to the Net working. Right now I get the external interface be assigned the valid IP address as before, configuring i

Re: Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]Newbie #61

2001-12-08 Thread ben
On Saturday 08 December 2001 09:06 am, dman wrote: [snip] > > I imagine that you can configure mailfilter to delete all messages > from debian-user except for the ones that match your subject (whatever > you make your header to be). Just be sure to update the filter > if/when you change your subje

Re: /etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....

2001-12-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The Problem I run into after I installed a HPT370 driven Card, details >can be found in my other post (HPT370 and other problems), I had to >install a new Kernel with umda-100 patched with A. Hedrick, I got >that Kernel and i

Automatic pruning of unused libs

2001-12-08 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three former versions are not required by any installed package -- they just consume disk space. It would be

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

2001-12-08 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get | as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my | system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three former versions are | not requi

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

2001-12-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Dec-2001 dman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: >| Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get >| as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my >| system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The thre

Accessing URLs from a MUA

2001-12-08 Thread Bob Hilliard
Until recently, I could right-click on a URL in a mail message, and my running copy of Netscape would access that URL. For some time now this has failed to work. I'm sure the path to my Netscape must be shown in some configuratiOn File, but I can't locate it. I would appreciate being pointe

Re: SMTP Server... Allowing remote users to send mail...

2001-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello there! I would like to be an SMTP server for some friends that are > in different domains, and prefferably with authentication required... > What do I need to do??? Thanks! I already have SMTP server working for > local users, the standard one

Re: Accessing URLs from a MUA

2001-12-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Dec-2001 Bob Hilliard wrote: > Until recently, I could right-click on a URL in a mail message, > and my running copy of Netscape would access that URL. For some time > now this has failed to work. I'm sure the path to my Netscape must be > shown in some configuratiOn File, but I can't

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

2001-12-08 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:23:03AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: ... | deborphan combined with cruft (another package) can lead to a very clean | system. Is cruft useful for you? When I tried it on my system, it listed much of the system as probable cruft, but it wasn't. About the only hel

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to prefer > > it to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? > > I'd far and away recommend

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

2001-12-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Dec-2001 dman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:23:03AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > ... >| deborphan combined with cruft (another package) can lead to a very clean >| system. > > Is cruft useful for you? When I tried it on my system, it listed much > of the system as probable c

suppressing "TERM: Undefined variable" in csh

2001-12-08 Thread dman
The Solaris boxes at school default to /bin/csh as the shell, and this can't be changed. In my .cshrc I have lines like if ( "$TERM" == "linux" ) then setenv TERM vt100 exec bash endif if ( "$TERM" == "PuTTY" ) then setenv TERM xterm exec bash endif (yeah, they have crappy term

Re: Network config problem

2001-12-08 Thread ben
On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:41 am, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Hi all ! > > I've a small diskless proxy booting from a floppy based distro called > Coyote. Now I've got an old HDD and I'm installing Debian Potato, but > I'm failing to get the access to the Net working. > Right now I get the extern

Re: how to save my setting of window maker

2001-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:57:39PM +0800, Yu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I set an icon of mozilla and rxvt on the right dock of my desktop on my > > woody box > > and then I disable the "keep on top" option > > but when I reboot ,window maker didn't remenber my sett

Re: Printing...

2001-12-08 Thread Jeff
Alexander Wallace, 2001-Dec-07 19:12 +: > Hi there, I need help... Trying to get my printer to work... I have an > Epson Action Laser, it's HP4 compatible > > I don't thing the lp0 is even working... > > I recompiled the kernel with support for all the parallel stuf (as > modules) and lo

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:40:29 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > > But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, right? > > Wrong: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ > > Note though that there are st

Make a deb package from the running system?

2001-12-08 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I once found it when running dselect ; but now I need it and completely forget its name, poor me, pls remind. I need to make several deb packages from the running woody Thankx = S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Free CDs for thousands of Priority Shoppers!

Re: Fetchmail --ssl

2001-12-08 Thread Jeff
Andrew Pritchard, 2001-Dec-07 20:40 +: > I need to connect to a remote IMAPS server, using a stable debian box. The > testing tree has fetchmail-ssl as an option, but there isn't a package for it > under the stable tree. What would people suggest? > > Cheers, > > Andrew > > "I do not agree

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

2001-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > | Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get > | as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my > | system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20.

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:55:12 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All browsers suck. Konqueror on my woody box is incapable > of displaying GIF89a's, Netscape 6.x has problems displaying some > CSS + tables pages (as in "some parts of the page are simply not > there"). Anything derive

Question marks instead of apostrophes

2001-12-08 Thread Curt Daugaard
Can anyone explain why Netscape (4.78, running on Sid) displays some pages with question marks substituted for apostrophes (and maybe for one or two other characters)? E.g. You?ll want to start by assembling three rows of planks together. Since the flooring "floats" ? it?s attached only

Re: Question marks instead of apostrophes

2001-12-08 Thread Henrik Enberg
Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone explain why Netscape (4.78, running on Sid) displays some > pages with question marks substituted for apostrophes (and maybe for one > or two other characters)? E.g. Because the author of the web page used a proprietary charset from a large

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 12:37, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:55:12 -0600 > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All browsers suck. Konqueror on my woody box is incapable > > of displaying GIF89a's, Netscape 6.x has problems displaying some > > CSS + tables pages (as in "

Re: looping symlink = reboot ?

2001-12-08 Thread nate
> im not sure who to mail on this, so i figure best to > start with a general mailing list for some pointers. ive narrowed it down to interaction between 3ware raid10 arrays and reiserfs. the crash doesn't happen on 3ware raid5 or 3ware raid1 or non 3ware or non raid systems. or ext2 on 3ware rai

[root@natas.g0thead.com: Qt and kde]

2001-12-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Reminder, posts from root or daemons do not get to the lists. - Forwarded message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 11820 invoked by uid 38); 7 Dec 2001 09:40:59 - Received: (qmail 11796 invoked by uid 38

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread DvB
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 12:37, Christoph Simon wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:55:12 -0600 > > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > All browsers suck. Konqueror on my woody box is incapable > > > of displaying GIF89a's, Netscape 6.x

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