Re: Upgrading to Woody and Config'ing

2001-12-12 Thread Ian Chilton
Hello, Thanks for the reply! > I don't recommend installing all packages then getting rid of them > one by one. One - you can't install all packages for some packages > conflict with other packages. Two - not a good policy on simplicity's > grounds, as production environments shouldn't be burden

Re: Programming man pages.

2001-12-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 23:18:31 -0800, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Roden wrote: > > > > Hi everyone. > > > > I apologize for such a silly question. > > well, if you can't find an answer then it's not silly to ask... > > > I can't seem to find which package contains the man page

Re: Q: Does an "on screen keyboard" exist for *nix?

2001-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Andreas Maresch writes: > The least expensive and easiest way to circumvent such key loggers would > be to display a keyboard on the screen (with a random key map, for the > case that the mouse events are logged) and enter your password via the > mouse. The simplest way would be to display all the

/dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

2001-12-12 Thread Ross Boylan
I am running alsa and KDE. The first time I log into KDE I get an error that /dev/dsp can't be found. It's there when I look. If I log out and back in, I get no warning, and sound works. I believe I have all the modules.conf setup properly. I suspect that the relevant module isn't being dynami

Re: purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , December 12, Brian Stults did write: > Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like > win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the > program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an > annoyance, and probably doesn't affe

Re: adding applications to WindowMaker menu

2001-12-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:40:18PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > A stub WMRootMenu might look as follows: Alternately, you can edit ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu to contain "/etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook" instead of just menu.hook and then use wmakerconf (or, I assume, WPrefs) to suck the D

Re: Upgrading to Woody and Config'ing

2001-12-12 Thread Mark Lanett
dpkg -l or dpkg --get-selections From: "Ian Chilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I ment, before I do the dist-upgrade, I wanted to remove stuff from the > base install that I didn't want..

Re: Patititioning hard drive

2001-12-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Does these aregument below true for highly on-memmory cached file system > like Linux? It aint DOS. Also modern HDD comes with quite a bit of > memory and optimized firmware to reduce headmovement. That's why I mentioned big iron: I imagine on a h

Local (entreprise) mirror

2001-12-12 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
Hello, I will be installing Debian/sid on several machines. They will probably be internet-connected when I install them. At the moment the LAN is NOT connected to the Internet, waiting for an ADSL line installation. I already have a Debian/potato installed on the same LAN. I created from an

Rendering difference between Galeon and Mozilla

2001-12-12 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello. I've recently (yesterday) installed galeon and mozilla from sid. I'm experiencing strange rendering issues with galeon : Try to go to http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/ with both browsers and feel the difference !!! A lot of other sites behave like this. I don't understand how this

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:59:37PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody > system boots. > > dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the kernel, > and I'm seeing erros after that, that flash by

Re: central repository of changelogs for debian packages?

2001-12-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > Is there a way to easily and quickly tell what has changed from debian > package to debian package? (i.e. short of downloading the source of each > package and reading the changelog.) Yes, you can subscribe yourself to one of the -changes list in lists

Re: Q: Does an "on screen keyboard" exist for *nix?

2001-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:08:53PM +0100, Andreas Maresch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hallo there! > > I want to create a _very_ secure environment (in my case: an encrypted > disk to store all my passwords. The creation of a encrypted disk is > very easy. But i miss a secure way to enter the pa

Re: Ghostscript fonts missing

2001-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:56:30PM +, Milo Thurston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > I'm running Debian 3.0, and have run into a problem when viewing > ps files with gv. This is typical: > > > Error: /invalidfont in findfon

Re: Ghostscript fonts missing

2001-12-12 Thread Craig Dickson
Milo Thurston wrote: > I'm running Debian 3.0, and have run into a problem when viewing > ps files with gv. This is typical: > > > Error: /invalidfont in findfontGNU Ghostscript 6.51: > Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 > > Operand

Re: Need help w/ dhcpd and shared-network option . . .

2001-12-12 Thread Jeff
Jeff Vincent, 2001-Dec-11 19:25 -0700: > There are no other routers between the subnets that I know of. > > When we configure our machines statically, all use the same static > route at address X.Y.D.254 (same as static route?) and all use the same > subnet mask of 255.255.252.0 regardless of sub

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
I just did that to be sure and it still does the same thing. Is there any basic thing I can do to test the sound without using XMMS? that would enable me to make sure it's not just an XMMS problem. -D On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 06:28, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Didier Malenfant wrote: > > > > On Mon,

libapache-mod-mp3 doesn't stream ogg files

2001-12-12 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
Hello, I've spent 6 or so hours trying to play my mixed mp3/ogg home music collection on my office computer. They both run Debian/unstable, so I set up libapache-mod-mp3 and used documentation from http://media.tangent.org/faq.html to set it up. After some banging on the wall I now have xmms pl

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
I tried both and no luck. What happens in xmms is that the song/wav file (I've tried both) doesn't even start playing. I hit play and it stops right away. Is there anything I can do to test the sound seperatly from xmms? cat a file to /dev/dsp -D On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 23:24, Cameron Matheso

Re: Rendering difference between Galeon and Mozilla

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:48:18PM +0100, Dominique Deleris wrote: | Hello. | | I've recently (yesterday) installed galeon and mozilla from sid. I'm | experiencing strange rendering issues with galeon : I haven't gotten galeon from sid recently. I have : galeon 0.12.4-0.1 mozilla-brow

Re: Rendering difference between Galeon and Mozilla

2001-12-12 Thread Dominique Deleris
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:21:16 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: dman> | Try to go to http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/ with both dman> | browsers and feel the difference !!! A lot of other sites behave dman> | like this. dman> Both browsers look the same to me. Can you post a scre

Kernel modprobe boot error

2001-12-12 Thread Barbara Pfieffer
I'm currently running Woody, with kernel 2.2.19pre17. I wanted to try the newest kernel 2.4.16. I downloaded the kernel source and the pcmicia source, since this is a laptop with a pcmcia network card. I unpack them, run make menuconfig, being sure to put pcmcia in as a module. I run make-kpkg

Kernel v2.4.16 problems

2001-12-12 Thread shock
I just downloaded v2.4.16 and am trying to get it compiled. Following is the output from make: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.16/arch/i386/lib' ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.16/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o i

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-12 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001, Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT wrote: > Thanks you very much for your advice. > > > do you have a real smp kernel installed? > > Good question ;-) > > I guess that I have installed Debian > in the basic way: > 1] how can I check this point ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep SMP /b

Re: lm-sensors build, sanity check

2001-12-12 Thread David Z Maze
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MW> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:06:13AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: DZM> If you're using an older kernel or want the updated i2c drivers, DZM> you can also install them from the i2c-source package (in which DZM> case you should completely disable i2c in the

Re: Kernel v2.4.16 problems

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:28:28PM -0600, shock wrote: > I just downloaded v2.4.16 and am trying to get it compiled. Following > is the output from make: [the binutils vs. 2.4.x kernel thingie] Get one of the 2.4.17-preX kernels (X == at least 6), the problem is fixed in this. greets, Stephen

Re: [slightly OT] How the heck can the private LAN make DNS requestsbehind a proxy?

2001-12-12 Thread Calyth
I guess i'll set up a split DNS because I do have a domain (shh... don't ask) and I need to get a DNS running anyways. Is it possible for me to move the internal DNS to another machine other than the firewall? Calyth

evolution

2001-12-12 Thread herve
J'utilise une woody mais pour les paquets nouveaux je charge en unstable. je pratique comme ça depuis un certain temps. et si j'admets que cette pratique n'est pas othodoxe, je n'ai pas rencontré de problème jusqu'alors. J'ai essayé Evolution à divers stades de son développement et à part les bu

NFS problem

2001-12-12 Thread Peter Billson
Hello *, I am having permissions problems with a NFS mount that I just can't figure out and I'm hoping someone can help. I am NFS mounting a USB floppy drive on machine A by using automount on machine B. The floppy shows it is mounted rwxrwxrwx and owned root.root. Any user can read and wri

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody > > system boots. > > > > dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the kernel, > > and I'm seeing erros after that, that

Re: Rendering difference between Galeon and Mozilla

2001-12-12 Thread DvB
Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > I've recently (yesterday) installed galeon and mozilla from sid. I'm > experiencing strange rendering issues with galeon : > > Try to go to http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/ with both > browsers and feel the difference !!! A lot

Re: central repository of changelogs for debian packages?

2001-12-12 Thread DvB
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > Is there a way to easily and quickly tell what has changed from debian > > package to debian package? (i.e. short of downloading the source of each > > package and reading the changelog.) > >

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread DvB
herve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > J'utilise une woody mais pour les paquets nouveaux je charge en unstable. > je pratique comme ça depuis un certain temps. et si j'admets que cette > pratique n'est pas othodoxe, je n'ai pas rencontré de problème jusqu'alors. > J'ai essayé Evolution à divers sta

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-12 Thread David Teague
Thanks to Aaron, Nate, dman, and Gary, especially for the web page references. I'll spend some time looking at that before asking again. Your articles were enlightening, but you don't address my question. I know only 256 or 384 K will be in the cache at anyone time. I also know that the tag ram

Divulgação do meu site e icq

2001-12-12 Thread Michael William Cypriano
B"H (Baruch Hashem) Paz Profunda. Saudação em todas as pontas do sagrado Triângulo. Sempre Alerta!! *** olá este é o meu site e meu icq /// S

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread Sebastiaan
Bonjour, On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, herve wrote: > > > J'utilise une woody mais pour les paquets nouveaux je charge en unstable. > je pratique comme ça depuis un certain temps. et si j'admets que cette > pratique n'est pas othodoxe, je n'ai pas rencontré de problème jusqu'alors. > J'ai essayé Evolut

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
It's not an xmms problem. I have two files to try, a .raw and a .au Catting those to /dev/dsp just hangs there, no sound and I have to CTRL-C out of it. -D On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 12:24, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Didier Malenfant wrote: > > > > I just did that to be sure and it still does the sam

wp8 for linux

2001-12-12 Thread Thomas Kral
Hello, Does eanybody know what happened to wordperfect8 it has literally vanished from all web sites. Can it still be downloaded somewhere? Just wondering..

Re: emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 December 2001 4:11 pm, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having weird problems with sound using the emu10k1 module. The > system bell is coming out through the speakers, but other sound (xmms, > gcd, etc..) seems to play (ie no c

Re: vncserver ignoring ~/.vnc/xstartup :(

2001-12-12 Thread Martin Rowe
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 19:12, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Martin Rowe wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be > > bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls up > > KDE. The .vnc/ session log doe

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread Michel Loos
Si ton probleme est similaire au mien, regarde: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200111/msg04113.html This list is debian-user, no specific language specified, even if we use much more english Michel. On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:07, herve wrote: > > > J'utilise une woody mais

Re: wp8 for linux

2001-12-12 Thread Steve Kieu
> vanished from all web sites. Dunnt no > Can it still be downloaded somewhere? Search in LimeWire network, may be you will find it somewhere sometime > Just wondering.. = S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Free CDs for thousands of Priority Shoppers!

Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

2001-12-12 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! I've had quite a similar problem... maybe this will fix it: Search all packages for the script file "snddevices" by typing dpkg -S snddevices Then cd into the directory where the script is and call it... after that the devices should be there. Cheers, Stephan - Original Message

accented chars in abiword

2001-12-12 Thread Thomas Kral
Hello, Has anyone tried typing accented chars using iso8859-2 type1 font in abiword0.7.7-1 stable? I have some ult1mo(iso8859-2) type 1 fonts installed in lieu of those provided by abiword-0.7.7-1*.deb. I have set XkbKeymap to "xfree86(us_cz_qwertz)". Well, when I try to use accented chars of

Re: emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-12 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:57:50 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 12 December 2001 4:11 pm, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having weird problems with sound using the emu10k1 module. The > > system bell is

Re: central repository of changelogs for debian packages?

2001-12-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, DvB wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes, you can subscribe yourself to one of the -changes list in > > lists.debian.org. > > Which one should I subscribe to for testing/i386? I see > "debian-all-changes", "debian-changes", "debian-i386-cha

Can't find vroot.h

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am trying to compile a couple of screensavers, and they call for a file called vroot.h, apparently in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/. I looked at packages.debian.org for which package it comes in (I would have thought xlibs-dev) but oddly, there is no such file. Googling it I find that it "

Re: accented chars in abiword

2001-12-12 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Hi, I used biznet(iso8859-2) type 1 fonts it does not crash for me, but accented char are bad displayed. It looks, that AbiWord handle bad accented chars ... Elf Thomas Kral wrote: Hello, Has anyone tried typing accented chars using iso8859-2 type1 font in abiword0.7.7-1 st

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Network config problem

2001-12-12 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Monday 10 December 2001 19:39, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Reading again /etc/init.d/dhcp I see the following: > > > > # Add all interfaces you want dhcpd to handle here > > Change the lines in /etc/init.d/dhcp that look like > > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $DHCPDPID

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
Nope, just tried that too. I also, as someone suggested, tried to just cat a raw file to /dev/dsp and that justs hangs. I wish I could find the right steps to get an idea of where the problem lies. -D On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 13:17, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Didier, > > Check your preferences by r

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
On 12 Dec 2001 at 2:02, ben wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:26 pm, Adrian Bolzan wrote: > [snip] > > When using 'df -h' we receive the following: > > > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sda1 1.4G 757M 577M 57% / > > /dev/sda5 1.8

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
On 12 Dec 2001 at 0:36, nate wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > where did the other 1.6GB go? > > did you delete a buncha stuff? in many cases deleted > data is not actually freed up until the process that > was using the data exits. one quick way to be sure > all processes exit cleanly is to go t

Re: php4 parameter problems

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Clark
* Patrick Hsieh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 12. 2001 01:25]: > http://host.domain.com/test.php?111+222+&test_par=aaa&; > > then in test.php, I can get > 111 as argv0 > 222 as argv1 > &test_par=aaa& as argv3 > > but I can't get the value of $test_par, which should be aaa What's wrong with just usin

Re: Gnome window manager problems with woody.

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Dec 12 00:27:45 2001 Marc Wilson wrote... > > >--ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:01:14AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> I'v added swafish-gnome, but when I try to

A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen J. Thompson
Hello All, I have a package that does not want to be removed. All I keep getting is the following: ferengi:~/temp# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: The package firebird-classic needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. I have

Re: Kernel modprobe boot error

2001-12-12 Thread Michael Wagner
On Mittwoch, 12. Dez. 2001 at 12:36:35, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: >When I boot the new kernel, it starts to boot, then I get over a >screenful of the same error message: > >kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno = 8 > >Where did I go wrong? Hello Barbara, you didn't read the

Found GOOD bttv grabber !

2001-12-12 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi! Some time ago I wrote: > - xawtv or streamer: too many lost frames which don't appear in bttvgrab > and it has a FIXED aspect ratio so that I cant grab in 352x288 which is > the vcd standard thats not true. streamer CAN grab with any aspect ratio (while xawtv can't...). Sorry for that !

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... > >| Adding "video=vesa" made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an >| append statment, still no framebuffer. > >For lilo both vga= and video= should be in "append". I've also read >for older versions of lilo that it didn't handle hex numbers correctly >

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread m\(y\)
> > Quelqu'un peut il me dire quels paquets je devrai installer à la main ? Les paquets necessaires pour installer la version developpement d'evolution sur un systeme debian sont disponsible à: ftp://spidermonkey.ximian.com/pub/evolution-snapshot/debian-potato-i386/ Je crois qu'il y avait un "apt

Re: Debian Weekly News - December 12th, 2001

2001-12-12 Thread Bob Hilliard
(This message was sent to Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and the -devel list. I screwed up the copy to -user.) > Too Many Acronyms? The Debian mailing lists are rife with Linux gurus > and newbies alike. When a newbie wanders into a discussion the acronym > and jargon ratio is usually mo

Re: Kernel modprobe boot error

2001-12-12 Thread Barbara Pfieffer
No, I have all the programs updated as of today. Everything is as required. I'll try reconfiguring the kernel Barbara Michael Wagner wrote: On Mittwoch, 12. Dez. 2001 at 12:36:35, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: When I boot the new kernel, it starts to boot, then I get over a screenful of the same

Re: Need help w/ dhcpd and shared-network option . . .

2001-12-12 Thread Jeff Vincent
Ahh!! The fog is beginning to lift. Thank's Jeff and Brandon (and others)! I pasted in the output from ifconfig along with my dhcpd.conf as it is being used now (and appears to be working). /*- From ifconfig —--- */ eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:AC:4C:5B:3F

Re: Found GOOD bttv grabber !

2001-12-12 Thread csj
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 02:37, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hi! > > Some time ago I wrote: > > - xawtv or streamer: too many lost frames which don't appear in > > bttvgrab and it has a FIXED aspect ratio so that I cant grab in > > 352x288 which is the vcd standard > > thats not true. streamer CAN

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
gmix reports all the sound levels are in the middle. play prints 'Playing Chord.wav' and then hangs there just like 'cat sound.raw > /dev/dsp' would do and I have to CTRL-C out of it. No sound. I'm beginnning to think I have a conflict but dmesg doesn't report any hardware at the same IRQ (5) as

Re: Kernel v2.4.16 problems

2001-12-12 Thread shock
* Stephen Rueger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:28:28PM -0600, shock wrote: > > I just downloaded v2.4.16 and am trying to get it compiled. Following > > is the output from make: > > [the binutils vs. 2.4.x kernel thingie] > > Get one of the 2.4.17-preX kernels (X

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-12 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 06 December 2001 17:32 pm, shock wrote: > So far, it's been *fantastic*. Mail::SpamAssassin is unbelievably > accurate, and the filter script behaves exactly as I expect it to. I've been trying to install this module from CPAN with dh-make-perl. The build fails claiming it can't fi

Re: Kernel v2.4.16 problems

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:57:03PM -0600, shock wrote: > > Get one of the 2.4.17-preX kernels (X == at least 6), the problem is fixed > > in this. > > yep. that fixed it. thanks! (odd that it compiled on my other debian > woody machine..) That might have one of the following reasons: a) you

NVidia GeForce 2 and XFree86

2001-12-12 Thread Kirk Cheney
Hi, I have a GeForce 2 video card and Debian 2.2r2, and cannot start X windows at all. I have been looking at some of the previous postings about these cards, but am confused. I looked at the instructions on the NVidia site, and noted that I needed to upgrade my XFree86. I looked at the XFree86

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread DvB
Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This list is debian-user, no specific language specified, even if we use > much more english > Well, there *is no* "debian-user-english" so I think this probably *is* the English list, even though it doesn't explicitly say so in the list's description.

does mydql-server require more than loopback interface?

2001-12-12 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i'm running php-nuke with mysql on potato with apache. at home, i'm running woody. i have the same set up (apache, mqsql-server, php4, the php-sql package)... at home, i only have a lo (loopback) interface, no eth, no ppp. mysqld starts just fine, no errors. i think i've narrowed down the

dopewars on potato

2001-12-12 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i have dopewars (1.5.2-1 from woody) installed on my potato box. my sources.list points to potato, but i downloaded the deb and: dpkg --ignore-depends=libc6 --ignore-depends=libgtk1.2 --ignore-depends=libncurses5 --ignore-depends=xlibs -i dopewars_1.5.2-1_i386.deb to get it installed. it

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread ben
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 03:20 pm, DvB wrote: > Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This list is debian-user, no specific language specified, even if we use > > much more english > > Well, there *is no* "debian-user-english" so I think this probably *is* > the English list, even though

Re: Difference between APT pin and dpkg hold

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:27:12PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > > What is the difference between pinning a package (as described in the > > APT HOWTO), and setting the ``hold flag'' using dpkg? > > pin decides priority of archived packages against instal

What does xconsole display? (was: Re: proper set-up of xconsole ?)

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:54:16PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I've noticed that the default persmissions on xconsole are : > > > > ~ $ ls -l /dev/xconsole > > prw-r-1 root adm 0 Dec 11 22:52 /dev/xconsole >

More lm-sensors questions

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
I'm still trying to get lm-sensors working on my new machine. The motherboard in question si a Gigabyte GA-71XE. Here is what I have done so far. I built, and installed a 2.4.16 kernel using kernel-package (with all 12c options slected). The i unpacked the debian source lm-sensors modules pack

spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ??

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
A new woody machine that I am seting up just started dispaying this on the console. spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Whart's it trying to tell me? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a

Re: Can't find vroot.h

2001-12-12 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 16:32, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I am trying to compile a couple of screensavers, and they call for a > file called vroot.h, apparently in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/. I looked > at packages.debian.org for which package it comes in (I would have > thought xlibs-d

Re: emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm having weird problems with sound using the emu10k1 module. The > system bell is coming out through the speakers, but other sound (xmms, > gcd, etc..) seems to play (ie no complaints about devices, > visualization shows levels) but no

Re: NVidia GeForce 2 and XFree86

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
"Kirk Cheney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have a GeForce 2 video card and Debian 2.2r2, and cannot start X windows at > all. I have been looking at some of the previous postings about these cards, > but am confused. I looked at the instructions on the NVidia site, and noted > that I

No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. Am I doing somehting wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useles

Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

2001-12-12 Thread Ross Boylan
The things is, I ran snddevices when I did the original install. I think the can't find /dev/dsp message is more of a complaint about nothing functioning being there; /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/dsp0 for me: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Dec 21 2000 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0 crw-rw

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 12:01, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, > but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. I found the same problem the other day too. It has some conflict with libguileXX. Not sure what's happening w

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread D.
I would suggest doing a dpkg --list |more and see if the package is listed. If not then you might have come configuration files still on your system that were not removed from your last removal. To remove these I would do a apt-get -purge . Then I would do the apt-get -remove Then you can reinst

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Dec-2001 Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a package that does not want to be removed. All I keep getting is the > following: > > ferengi:~/temp# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: The package firebird-classic needs to

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, > but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. > > Am I doing somehting wrong? The gnucash package is a mess due to the rapidly changing libs in its dependencies.

Re: More lm-sensors questions

2001-12-12 Thread David Z Maze
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> I built, and installed a 2.4.16 kernel using kernel-package (with all 12c SB> options slected). SB> SB> The i unpacked the debian source lm-sensors modules package in /usr/src. SB> The I compiled using the dbian/rules. This all went well. (I tend to reco

sendmain mail without body text

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
Hi, i hope this is the write forum but... how do i send mail from the command line of a debian box without needing body text? e.g. mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then return to the command prompt thanks for any help. adrian

Re: sendmain mail without body text

2001-12-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > how do i send mail from the command line of a debian box > without needing body text? > > e.g. > mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null or echo "any msg" | mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] c ya alvin -- trying to play

Re: php4 parameter problems

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I use the php4 debian package from woody. But in this case, I can't print the value of $test_par, which should be "aaa" If I get php4 source tarball and compile myself, the function is working. I wonder why the php4 shipped from woody can't work. BTW, I have register_globals = On in php.

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
Tried it. Both 'play sound.wav' and the 'cat > /dev/dsp' just hang there with no sound coming out. I don't thing it's a permission problem, I just don't know where to attack the problem from. -D On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:31, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Didier Malenfant wrote: > > > > gmix reports a

Re: Can't find vroot.h

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Bob Underwood: > On Wednesday 12 December 2001 16:32, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am trying to compile a couple of screensavers, and they call for a > > file called vroot.h, apparently in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/. I looked > > at packages.debian.org for which package it come

Re: /usr/bin/studio in two packages kdestudio and linuxvideostudio

2001-12-12 Thread Mark Purcell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:44, Ben Burton wrote: > Hmm. I realise this is kind of graceless but I'm going to request that > linuxvideostudio change its filenames. :) The reasons being: Hi Ben, Yes I am happy with that. I'll change the filenames in lin

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Didier Malenfant: > gmix reports all the sound levels are in the middle. > > play prints 'Playing Chord.wav' and then hangs there just like 'cat > sound.raw > /dev/dsp' would do and I have to CTRL-C out of it. > > No sound. > > I'm beginnning to think I have a conflict but dmesg doesn

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:57, Stephen Gran wrote: > I missed the beginning of this thread, sorry, but I guess the basics - > are the relevant modules loaded? Here's what it started with, the card seems detected (dmesg): es1371: version v0.22 time 19:13:40 Nov 18 2000 es1371: found chip, vendor id

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ??

2001-12-12 Thread hanasaki
Hmmm no clue.. but I get it too. Stan Brown wrote: A new woody machine that I am seting up just started dispaying this on the console. spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Whar?t's it trying to tell me?

VNC

2001-12-12 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, What is the best way to log out from a VNC session when you are using Gnome? Just kill the VNC client? TIA, Oki

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:01:22PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, | but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. It used to be the same version as potato (really old). Get it from sid. Unfortunately gnucash ha

php4-cgi and php4-cgi-mysql in Woody

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I installed php4-cgi(Version: 3:4.0.100-1) in my woody then I'd like it to support mysql, so I apt-get install php4-cgi-mysql, but it complains: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: php4-cgi-mysql: Depends: php4-cgi (= 4.0.3pl1-0potato1.1) but it is not going to b

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:14:20PM -0500, David Teague wrote: | | Thanks to Aaron, Nate, dman, and Gary, especially for the web page | references. I'll spend some time looking at that before asking | again. | | Your articles were enlightening, but you don't address my question. ... | I have spe

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... | > | >| Adding "video=vesa" made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an | >| append statment, still no framebuffer. | > | >For lilo both vga= and video= should be in "append". I've also read |

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