Re: UrlView strangeness

2002-02-05 Thread Alexander Steinert
> I use mutt which uses urlview to present a list of url's in a message. > Lately, sometimes some of the lines in that list are blank (sometimes > they're *all* blank). If I count the url's in the message and arrow down > to the appropriate blank line it fires up lynx and takes me where I want > to

Re: Device or resource busy error.

2002-02-05 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:43:32PM -0800, James Rende wrote: > Folks. > > I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from > Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get > Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe > rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the > Devi

Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-05 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On 05 Feb 2002 13:28:45 +0800 "Crispin Wellington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What experiences have people had with Matrox G400's? I actually have one currently. :) No tv on the primary display though. No acceleration of any kind on the second, afaict. :/. Correct me if I'm wrong though. --

Re: reinstall

2002-02-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:28:46PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > Is there some way to get apt to re-download and re-install ALL > packages installed on the system? I am not looking for an upgrade, > but a reinstall. Should I just write some script to get a list of > installed packages and xargs them t

Re: Promise SuperTrak SX6000 IDE-RAID drivers and installation

2002-02-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Lasse Øverlier wrote on Mon Feb 04, 2002 um 02:53:34PM: > 3) use another IDE-RAID card? Yes I know the 3Ware controller is > supported in 2.4 kernels, but I suspect this does leave me with the same > kind of installation problem of Debian (but I have not tested) When we release the ne

Verifying packages

2002-02-05 Thread Cameron Kerr
Hello, I've just suffered a bit of a crash after playing with pcmcia packages, and after restarting, had some lost inodes and stuff. I was able to fix the broken /var/lib/dpkg/available by deleting it and then doing a dpkg --clear-avail, which seemed to fix the problem. My question is: Is it possi

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-05 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts > under X ? > I installed xfstt and read the docs. Bob

kernel messages

2002-02-05 Thread Alexey
Subj. "kernel messages" is derived from "simple questions" > > MSDOS FS: Using codepage 866 > > MSDOS FS: IO charset koi8-r > This is kernel messages. > You can't hide them on a console. > > Romuald. > Thanks. Can I compile my kernel using any special options to make messages like tho

Re: kernel messages

2002-02-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:17:16AM +0300, Alexey wrote: > > Subj. "kernel messages" is derived from "simple questions" > > > > MSDOS FS: Using codepage 866 > > > MSDOS FS: IO charset koi8-r > > > This is kernel messages. > > You can't hide them on a console. Yes you can. > Thanks. Can I c

Re: Device or resource busy error.

2002-02-05 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:43, James Rende wrote: > Folks. > > I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from > Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get > Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe > rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the > Device is not rea

Re: Auctex/LaTeX/Emacs problem

2002-02-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:14:40AM +0200, Ryan Claycamp wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:08:52PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Ryan Claycamp did write: > > > > > I have lost the color markings in xemacs when I edit a LaTeX file. > I > > Assuming that you've got fon

Accented characters with unstable

2002-02-05 Thread Tristan Tarrant
Hi all, I've just installed Debian unstable on my notebook, and I am having problems getting apps to display accented characters (both console and X). The problem is not with displaying them: showcfont under the console and gcharmap under X display accented characters correctly. I believe it is a p

Re: Any interest in a cyrus2 package

2002-02-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Nigel Pauli wrote: > > On Saturday 02 February 2002 06:58, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > [Apologies if you're seeing this the second time, I post a couple of > > days ago but it doesnt seem to have shown up.] > > > > The Debian package of cyrus-imapd is rather old and the maintainer > > seems to be M

Re: Accented characters with unstable

2002-02-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:44:27AM +0100, Tristan Tarrant wrote: > Hi all, > I've just installed Debian unstable on my notebook, and I am having > problems getting apps to display accented characters (both console and > X). I have the same problem. On previous distributions I could use xkeycaps t

Re: Total lockups using ext3

2002-02-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Feb 2002, Arne Goetje wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2002 07:53, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > After weeks of frustration, I've finally settled that the frequent > > > lockups I've been getting when on-line with 2.4

CD playing problem (xmcd vs. grip or gcd)

2002-02-05 Thread Alexander Koch
Hi all, I have a problem here I can't seem to find a solution to... I use xmcd and all works, I can listen to CDs just fine. When I use grip or gdc I get these errors: ATAPI device hdb: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Invalid command operation code -- (asc=0x20, ascq=0x00) The fa

php-cgi and apache

2002-02-05 Thread Tuure Vartiainen
Hi! Could someone help me howto run php-cgi under different user uids ?,I need to run php-cgi under same uid than .php files owner in users public_html,but just having one php in /usr/lib/cgi-bin. Tuure V.

Re: Error on Gnome startup

2002-02-05 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 22:00, Chris Tillman wrote: > I have an error box coming up when I launch gnome. It says 'The applications > menu could not be loaded. Look at the condole output for a detailed > description of the errors.' > > But, what console is it referring to? I looked at the console fro

direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread Vegh Karoly
Hi all, I'd like to set up an ISDN connection, in case the net-connection would be unreachable. I mean direct, because the two computers are far away from eachother, and we really need a fallback connection. I would like to be able to dial in to the other ISDN computer, but found only HOWTOs expl

Re: Accented characters with unstable

2002-02-05 Thread Tristan Tarrant
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 11:24, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > I can not yet master the voodoo of keyboard config, but from root, try > "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and add, for example "it_IT ISO-8859-1" or > "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15" for euro support (i don't like the translated > message so i've c

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 18:27, Vegh Karoly wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to set up an ISDN connection, in case the net-connection would be > unreachable. > I mean direct, because the two computers are far away from eachother, and > we really need a fallback connection. > I would like to be able t

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Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Vegh Karoly wrote: > I'd like to set up an ISDN connection, in case the net-connection would be > unreachable. > I mean direct, because the two computers are far away from eachother, and > we really need a fallback connection. > I would like to be able to dial in to the other

Re: atx shutdown

2002-02-05 Thread stan
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:12:15PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > >Greetings: > > I'm running into some problems trying to get an ATX box to really shut off > during a shutdown. Originally with 2.2.19 & 2.4.10, it would reboot with > 'shutdown -h now' command. Odd and irritating. I

Re: Equivalent of rc.local

2002-02-05 Thread stan
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:35:04PM -0600, Michael Merritt wrote: > What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in RedHat (ie, where to > put user defined commands that should run at boot time?) > Look at update-rc. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deser

Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Sargent
Hi People, This might not be classed as a debian problem per-se, but I'm wondering if anybody here has any suggestions to get me out of this hole, a hole which is probably more political than technical. Maybe somebody else has been in a similar situation. I'm in charge of a Linux Box which we use

Re: printers

2002-02-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Fred([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have spent 30 minutes searching the Debian.org site for information on > supported printers. > > I am new to Linux and currently have Mandrake installed, but I am > thinking about changing to Debian. I have been told that the apt-get is > f

Re: printers

2002-02-05 Thread Christian Timmer
> Fred([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I have spent 30 minutes searching the Debian.org site for information on > > > supported printers. > > > > I am new to Linux and currently have Mandrake installed, but I am > > thinking about changing to Debian. I have been told that the a

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread Vegh Karoly
Hi, thanks for the help. > Which one you choose depends on your needs. If you are to network two > computers which are both under your control, then I suggest you use rawip > for the folllowing reasons: > > - Simpler configuration. [...] sounds good. I dont need to allow users dial in, i only

Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-05 Thread David Bellows
You might consider getting a good video card without the TV out (save a little money) and instead buying a scan converter. These devices take your normal monitor output and converts to a signal suitable for the TV. The benefits are that you get XV (the video card thinks the signal is going to

Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-05 Thread David Bellows
You might consider getting a good video card without the TV out (save a little money) and instead buying a scan converter. These devices take your normal monitor output and converts to a signal suitable for the TV. The benefits are that you get XV (the video card thinks the signal is going to

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Paul Sargent wrote: > This might not be classed as a debian problem per-se, but I'm > wondering if anybody here has any suggestions to get me out of this > hole, a hole which is probably more political than technical. Maybe > somebody else has been in a similar situation. It l

A mutt question

2002-02-05 Thread stan
I've just converted over from elm to mutt, and mostly I love it. Espically the threading features. However, there is one thing which continues to annoy me, and I'm hoping someone here can tell me how to fix it. After I finish composing a message, I'm dropped back to a menu, where among other thin

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Sargent
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:44:45AM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > > It looks to me like a library incompatibility issue. Differences in the > way the libc handles malloc can cause weird problems[...] Maybe I was being naive, but I thought such things were reasonably constant. Oh well. > The s

xf86config-v3 broken in testing

2002-02-05 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi xf86config-v3 seems to be broken in testing. When it comes to showing the card database i get: # Do you want to look at the card database? y Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry S3 Savag

Re: A mutt question

2002-02-05 Thread Andy Mott
Yep - just add this line to your .muttrc: bind compose \n send-message HTH :o) Andy stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've just converted over from elm to mutt, and mostly I love it. Espically > the threading features. > > However, there is one thing which continues to annoy me, and I'm ho

Re: atx shutdown

2002-02-05 Thread craig duncan
> I'm running into some problems trying to get an ATX box to really shut off > during a shutdown. Originally with 2.2.19 & 2.4.10, it would reboot with > 'shutdown -h now' command. Odd and irritating. I built a new kernel with > 2.4.17 and now I can get it to actually halt and not reboot, but

Re: A mutt question

2002-02-05 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2002-02-05 08:10:56, stan wrote: > After I finish composing a message, I'm dropped back to a menu, where among > other things I can edit the headers. At this point in elm the default > action (the one taken if I just hit [return], is to send the message. Not > so in mutt. There I am dropped back

Re: reinstall

2002-02-05 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 08:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:28:46PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > > Is there some way to get apt to re-download and re-install ALL > > packages installed on the system? I am not looking for an upgrade, > > but a reinstall. Should I just write some script

"syslog-ng[16821]: STATS: dropped 0" ?

2002-02-05 Thread Michael A. Miller
I've got a system that has started to produce many messages in the system logs that say "syslog-ng[16821]: STATS: dropped 0". I've looked over the syslog-ng docs, but I've been unable to figure out what these messages mean. Can anyone explain them to me? Mike

Re: Accented characters with unstable

2002-02-05 Thread mcpierce
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:03:24PM +0100, Tristan Tarrant wrote: > > I can not yet master the voodoo of keyboard config, but from root, try > > "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and add, for example "it_IT ISO-8859-1" or > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15" for euro support (i don't like the > > translate

Re: A mutt question

2002-02-05 Thread stan
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:17:18PM +, Andy Mott wrote: > Yep - just add this line to your .muttrc: > > bind compose \n send-message > Thanks. Got time for one more mutt question? I;v set up the index page so that all threads are compressed. I'm also using less as the external pager. I w

Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread Liam Black
Hi, I've just set up my first-ever Debian box (Potato, 2.2.19). After ironing out a few minor problems everything went fine. I'm now at the point where I want to have my soundcard working -- it's an ISA CMI8330 based. I have been trying to install it, but no one source seems to have all of the inf

Re: Accented characters with unstable

2002-02-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:24:48AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Now, for the next question: how to I tell mutt and tin to display the > extended characters? I can more my email archives and see the accented > characters, but when I try to read them with mutt, they're still be > displayed wi

upgraded kernel to 2.4.16 now no DNS

2002-02-05 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I've got a strange problem. I just upgraded the kernel on my woody box to 2.4.16 and now DNS has stopped working. I'm getting my IP address from a win2k DHCP server and that still works so my ethernet comes up; I can ping all the other boxes on my net; I can ssh into and out of the box,

praise to the debian gods

2002-02-05 Thread John Cichy
Well, after spending Sat, Sun and most of Mon trying to get Mandrake to install on a K6/3 with 'no joy' (could not make it past package selection), I tried to install debian (woody), IT WORKED ON THE FIRST TRY!! My reasons for trying Mandrake were two fold: 1) I run MySQL as my database server

Re: A mutt question

2002-02-05 Thread Andy Mott
stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Got time for one more mutt question? Sure... I'm only at work ;o) > I;v set up the index page so that all threads are compressed. I'm also > using less as the external pager. > > I would like to be able to read through a thread without going back to the > inex,

Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-05 Thread Alan Shutko
David Bellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The downside is that scan converters run from like $70USD - $180USD > (and more). And if you're going to buy one of those, just save yourself a whole lot of trouble and buy a real DVD player. On a PIII-700 (with Xv, mind) I haven't gotten flawless perf

Re: Accented characters with unstable

2002-02-05 Thread mcpierce
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:37:44PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > For mutt, I resorted to setting > set locale=da_DK > in ~/.mutt/muttrc. (I'm Danish and some of my correspondence is in Danish) > Setting LANG on its own didn't do the trick for me. > > Of couse, you will probably want to se

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-05 Thread Josh
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts > > under X ? > > > > Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways. > > > > Add > > > >

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread Andrew Dixon
Liam Black wrote: > But what do I do now? There is no /usr/src/linux directory on my machine, > and I've never dealt with reconfiguring/recompiling the kernel (which seems > to be something I have to do?) Yup, if you want sound you'll need to recompile a kernel. > > Is there an "easy" way to do

RE: Error on Gnome startup

2002-02-05 Thread Chris Tillman
Yes, although it had been missing. I had uninstalled and reinstalled all the gnome applications because I was just getting a background Debian logo, and motd window, nothing else with gdm. It's still the same using gdm, but startx launches gnome OK and gives me that error message. I recognized the

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread Tristan Tarrant
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 16:05, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Liam Black wrote: > > > But what do I do now? There is no /usr/src/linux directory on my machine, > > and I've never dealt with reconfiguring/recompiling the kernel (which seems > > to be something I have to do?) > > Yup, if you want sound you'll

Re: Accented characters with unstable

2002-02-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 14:37:44 +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > For mutt, I resorted to setting > set locale=da_DK > in ~/.mutt/muttrc. (I'm Danish and some of my correspondence is in Danish) > Setting LANG on its own didn't do the trick for me. LANG sets the preferred language for message

system service?

2002-02-05 Thread linuxman
hi,   I am sorry for the stupid question!   Anyone can tell me how to start apache automatically in debian? Thanks!   linuxman=Linux is all my life

Re: upgraded kernel to 2.4.16 now no DNS

2002-02-05 Thread shri
If i remember correctly, it has something to do with the socket filtering option or such in kernel config Regards, Shri - Original Message - From: "Andrew Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: upgraded kernel to 2.4.16 now no DNS > Hi All, >

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread Kent West
Andrew Dixon wrote: Liam Black wrote: But what do I do now? There is no /usr/src/linux directory on my machine, and I've never dealt with reconfiguring/recompiling the kernel (which seems to be something I have to do?) Yup, if you want sound you'll need to recompile a kernel. Not necess

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:33:31AM -0400, Liam Black wrote: > I've just set up my first-ever Debian box (Potato, 2.2.19). After ironing > out a few minor problems everything went fine. I'm now at the point where I > want to have my soundcard working -- it's an ISA CMI8330 based. I have been > tryin

eth0 up, but unable to ping out

2002-02-05 Thread Tom Schuetz
I've got my rtl8019 acknowledged and "up", but am unable to ping anything but lo and the local ip (192.168.1.1). What am I doing wrong? Below are dmesg and ifconfig dumps. dummy0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.25

Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-05 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi I did a minimal install on a server here that is just going to be an FTP and DNS server in a test lab. I did the initial install to reboot and then quite the install so far so good. Unfortunately when I go into dselect to install proftp etc and the choose install dselect also wants to install

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 16:36, Kent West wrote: > "make-kpkg kernel_image" should be the only thing you have to do. It'll > compile the kernel and modules, put everything where it needs to be, > reconfigure lilo.conf to use the new kernel, and ask if you want to run > lilo to make the changes to

Re: eth0 up, but unable to ping out

2002-02-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 16:45, Tom Schuetz wrote: > I've got my rtl8019 acknowledged and "up", but am unable to ping > anything but lo and the local ip (192.168.1.1). Does ping say anything? It may be that you have no DNS configured (try to ping a remote IP, if you know one, instead of hostname). A

RE: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-05 Thread Jeff Bonner
> And does anyone have any reason why I should not run reiserfs > on the partion where the database will be stored? First, the usual caveat: ReiserFS is an "experimental" kernel feature and as such, you should observe all the normal cautions if this is a critical production environment. Also, t

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Vegh Karoly wrote: > also they do see eachother, they connect, but they also sofort do a > HANGUP, and this is what i dont like... > what/how shall i fix it? > TO tell the truth i dont know what should happen, but i await at least > that a ping goes through... what should be t

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:18:44 +0100, Chris Mueller wrote: >At 00:11 -0500 01.02.2002, Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote: >>Are you saying that when I decide to read the debian-* lists >>I'm subscribed to, I should close Outlook, ... > >For your own advantage >you should close Outlook - for ever. >And switch

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread Vegh Karoly
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, George Karaolides wrote: > Please do: > > isdnctrl list > > on both computers, and post the output. the local computer: inet:/etc# isdnctrl list isdn0 Current setup of interface 'isdn0': EAZ/MSN:9905 Phone number(s): Outgoing: 9907 Incoming:

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread Kent West
Mario Vukelic wrote: On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 16:36, Kent West wrote: "make-kpkg kernel_image" should be the only thing you have to do. It'll compile the kernel and modules, put everything where it needs to be, reconfigure lilo.conf to use the new kernel, and ask if you want to run lilo to mak

file under /initrd/lib/modules doesn't exist for make-kpkg made kernel--> does not boot?

2002-02-05 Thread Walter Tautz
I can't get a make-kpkg kernel to boot. It can't mount the root fs. Note I am using initrd and compiled make-kpkg with --initrd. One difference I notice with the stock kernel and mine is: # locate ext3 /initrd/lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3 /initrd/lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:47:03PM +, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > I did a minimal install on a server here that is just going to be an FTP > and DNS server in a test lab. I did the initial install to reboot and > then quite the install so far so good. > > Unfortunately when I go into dselect to i

undo apt-get install

2002-02-05 Thread Rick Pasotto
When the installation process returns an error and even 'apt-get -f install' bombs out, how do I tell apt-get to forget that I asked for the packages and to just leave the system as it was? The errors are: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-pty-helper.1.gz', which is al

Re: Any interest in a cyrus2 package

2002-02-05 Thread Rupa Schomaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Looks like someone is already working on cyrus2: http://people.debian.org/~hmh/cyrus2/ and in wnpp: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=108942&repeatmerged=yes I currently use my own cyrus2 and will do so until there is a cyrus2 in the debian arc

Re: atx shutdown

2002-02-05 Thread briand
> "craig" == craig duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm running into some problems trying to get an ATX box to really >> shut off during a shutdown. Originally with 2.2.19 & 2.4.10, it >> would reboot with 'shutdown -h now' command. Odd and irritating. >> I built a new kernel wi

Re: file under /initrd/lib/modules doesn't exist for make-kpkg made kernel--> does not boot?

2002-02-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:28:58AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > I can't get a make-kpkg kernel to boot. It can't mount the root fs. Note > I am using initrd and compiled make-kpkg with --initrd. One difference > I notice with the stock kernel and mine is: > > # locate ext3 > /initrd/lib/modules/2.

Re: system service?

2002-02-05 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
i think if you install the debian package that is done automatically. At least I installed apace once and it was started from then on automatically On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, linuxman wrote: > hi, > > I am sorry for the stupid question! > > Anyone can tell me how to start apache automatically in debi

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-05 Thread briand
> "Josh" == Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Josh> An easier way to do this is: Josh> apt-get install xfstt I should have specified that this is under X 4. which doesn't need a font server. Why not use anyway one you ask ? Josh> throw all your truetype fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truet

undefined symbol stat

2002-02-05 Thread naveenkumar muguda
Hi, I installed apache 1.3.6 on a redhat 7.2 box.when i start the httpd daemon(/apache/bin/apache/apachectl start). The http daemon fails saying that there is a undefined symbol stat and exits. Please do advise me what i need to do get this thing running. Thanks, Naveen ___

Re: praise to the debian gods

2002-02-05 Thread Eric Blau
* John Cichy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02/02/05 09:47]: > And does anyone have any reason why I should not run reiserfs on the partion > where the database will be stored? Here is one good reason why you should not run ReiserFS, at least on an IDE drive: http://www.reiserfs.org/faq.html#read-starvati

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread Andrew Dixon
Kent West wrote: > > Once you exit out of the "make menuconfig" step, the "Debian way" of > compiling a kernel is next. > > "make-kpkg kernel_image" should be the only thing you have to do. It'll > compile the kernel and modules, put everything where it needs to be, > reconfigure lilo.conf to use

Re: A mutt question

2002-02-05 Thread stan
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:44:36PM +, Andy Mott wrote: > stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Got time for one more mutt question? > > Sure... I'm only at work ;o) > > > I;v set up the index page so that all threads are compressed. I'm also > > using less as the external pager. > > > > I w

Re: file under /initrd/lib/modules doesn't exist for make-kpkg made kernel--> does not boot?

2002-02-05 Thread Walter Tautz
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:28:58AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > > I can't get a make-kpkg kernel to boot. It can't mount the root fs. Note > > I am using initrd and compiled make-kpkg with --initrd. One difference > > I notice with the stock kernel and mi

ISO file

2002-02-05 Thread Phaseuth Arun
Hello there, Just finfish downloading the file binary-i386-1.iso for CD-ROM. How can I write that file to a CD or I just use the normal CD-RW utility? Thanks, arun

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-05 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Thanks Colin Is their a way to say to dselect "just forget about all the packages you currently have marked for install" from the command line so next time you run it it only has a list of allready installed packages and ones you can install. Its just that their are thousands of packages in there

Re: reinstall

2002-02-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:15:59PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:28:46PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > > Is there some way to get apt to re-download and re-install ALL > > packages installed on the system? I am not looking for an upgrade, > > but a reinstall. Should I just writ

Re: file under /initrd/lib/modules doesn't exist for make-kpkg made kernel--> does not boot?

2002-02-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:53:09AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Ben Collins wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:28:58AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > I can't get a make-kpkg kernel to boot. It can't mount the root fs. Note > > > I am using initrd and compiled make-

X-windows + Mouse issue

2002-02-05 Thread Greer, Darren \(MED\)
Title: Message Lo all, I just installed the latest x-window-system-core from "unstable".   I have configured it to my system, and am having some issues with my Mouse in X-windows.  I have configured it with and without scroll enabled with the same problem.   I am using /dev/psaux in XFree86

Re: ISO file

2002-02-05 Thread Michael Merritt
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 10:55 am, Phaseuth Arun wrote: > Hello there, > Just finfish downloading the file binary-i386-1.iso for CD-ROM. How can I > write that file to a CD or I just use the normal CD-RW utility? > > Thanks, > > arun What platform are you trying to write the disk on? If you ar

Re: A mutt question

2002-02-05 Thread Michael Montagne
>On 05/02/02, from the brain of Andy Mott tumbled: > Yep - just add this line to your .muttrc: > > bind compose \n send-message > > HTH :o) > > Andy > > If you do that, how do you edit the message if you want to? -- Michael Montagne [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.boora.com

Re: ISO file

2002-02-05 Thread Michael Merritt
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 11:06 am, Phaseuth Arun wrote: > I have a window XP which I could just send the file to the CD-ROM drive. > That will not work isn't it? > > Thank, > > arun No, you'll have to use something that will actually make a CD from the ISO image file. Did some software not co

Re: eth0 up, but unable to ping out

2002-02-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Tom Schuetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I've got my rtl8019 acknowledged and "up", but am unable to ping > anything but lo and the local ip (192.168.1.1). ... > eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9. Cascade interrupt, eh? I just had this problem with a 3COM (Vortex) card the other

Re: Whats happened to debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386

2002-02-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Crispin Wellington wrote: > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386 > -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 5888437 Feb 03 21:11 Packages > -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 1619616 Feb 03 21:11 Packages.gz > -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 81 Feb 03 21:27 Release >

Re: X-windows + Mouse issue

2002-02-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Greer, Darren (MED) quotation: > Lo all, I just installed the latest x-window-system-core from > "unstable". > > I have configured it to my system, and am having some issues with my > Mouse in X-windows. I have configured it with and without scroll > enabled with the same problem. > >

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread D.
I think that there is one step missing, and that is dpkg -i . After you build the kernel, you have to install it. Don --- Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > Once you exit out of the "make menuconfig" step, > the "Debian way" of > > compiling a kernel is next. > >

RE: X-windows + Mouse issue

2002-02-05 Thread Greer, Darren \(MED\)
This is a Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2 Compatible. I have now installed gpm and tried it with gpm with the same results. Thanks, Darren -Original Message- From: Craig Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:15 AM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject:

RE: X-windows + Mouse issue

2002-02-05 Thread Greer, Darren \(MED\)
Out of a lucky guess I have solved the issue. If I change both Input sections in the x config file to be ImPS/2, it works. Thanks, Darren -Original Message- From: Kurc, Marcin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:19 AM To: Greer, Darren (MED) Subject: RE: X-

Re: atx shutdown

2002-02-05 Thread craig duncan
You need to have APM support in the kernel or loaded as a module before there could be any hope of enabling it. The kernel option to enable APM at boot sounds like it does the same thing as the lilo line. Try it and see if it works. :-) > craig> Do you have the following in your lilo.conf? >

Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Jeff Bonner quotation: > First, the usual caveat: ReiserFS is an "experimental" kernel feature > and as such, you should observe all the normal cautions if this is a > critical production environment. Also, there is no dump and restore > with Reiser, but then again neither does the 2.4 k

A mutt question (new/different question)

2002-02-05 Thread Paul E Condon
I am relatively new to Debian. I installed mutt in order to avoid the clutter of html mail, but sometimes I need to read email from people who send only html. I think I should be able to do this using the 'v' key, but when I do so first I get a screen with just a single line, and when I press the

building packages from source (apt-get source)

2002-02-05 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, Could someone please point me to the documentation for building debs from source *WITH* changes to the source (via the configure script)? I'm trying to compile PostgreSQL from source, after having done an "apt-get source postgresql". After the download, dpkg-source was automatically run.

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Vegh Karoly wrote: > Current setup of interface 'isdn0': > > EAZ/MSN:9905 Can't see anything wrong with these, at first glance at least. Send me the output of ifconfig on both machines. Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelide

Re: Device or resource busy error.

2002-02-05 Thread Jason Majors
> > I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from > > Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get > > Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe > > rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the > > Device is not ready or in use. > > > > I'm running Debian 2.2r2 Ke

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