At 07:56 PM 3/1/02, Carel Fellinger wrote:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:40:14PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Manoj, please relax.
[[ There must be something wrong with the mail system somewhere,
there seems to be a hudge time gap between posting to the list and
receiving, and judging from
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 19:23, Harry Putnam wrote:
> All I really want is to use gnome/sawfish if in X. When I say
> `startx' thats what I want to start. I vaguely remember there being
> some place where you put a desktop choice and then its settled.
>
> Does debian have something like that too?
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:28:30PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> [snip] As
> for backups, I'm really sorry but i can't figure out what a MO disk is.
I think this is tech speak for a magneto-optical disk, which is a rare
beast that I've
Dumb question: why does Debian like to have a symlink, /vmlinuz,
pointing to the kernel image in /boot? Does some program depend on being
able to find the kernel at /vmlinuz? Would something break if I simply
deleted this symlink?
I ask because I install kernels by hand, and I use a naming scheme
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:52:51PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| [...]
|
| > | > A couple of posters have mentioned a network install. Where are the
| > | > details spelled out?
| >
| > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install
|
| I read that over a
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how to process a docbook document using the mathml
module and jade?
Streph
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:08:50PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:48:59AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
[...]
| > | I saw that stuff and couldn't make heads or tails of it.
| > | My feeling is that it explains nothing and is downright confu
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:23:24PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few
> > rinkles.
> > 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx.
>
> Whee, got lots of help on that one.
>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Harry> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Considering you are asking about pre-release, unstable, wildly
>> unusable software on a users list, rather than the developers one, it
>> should come as no surprise no one would be abl
>>"Timothy" == Timothy R Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> above to this:
>> >unstable -> sid
>> >??? -> testing
>> >stable -> woody
Timothy> Does ??? equal "buzz" or "lightyear" this time around?
Perhaps sarge.
manoj
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I came to MIT to get an education for
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"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix
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Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> >
> >Should
> >
> >date '+%a %b %e %Y'
> >
> >work from within crontab?
>
> It likely won't with Vixie Cron. IIRC, Vixie Cron uses the % character
> as a newline/comment. Here's the relevant part from cronta
I don't know what causes that error, but it's not
what stopping Nautilus.
If you check, you'll probably see that you get that
error with a lot of programs.
I just installed the version in testing and it's working for
me so far.
Are you sure that's the only output?
try running it from a terminal i
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> The new warning reads:
> ==
> As a reminder, in order to configure lilo, you need to
> add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz
> stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf
> ==
"Timothy R. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > above to this:
> > >unstable -> sid
> > >??? -> testing
> > >stable -> woody
>
> Does ??? equal "buzz" or "lightyear" this time around?
Buzz was used for Debian 1.0, or something like that. Last I heard,
Woody+1 will be "sarge".
--
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> received valuable help and turns out to be okee afterall. It appeared
> that in the install he was adviced to use a certain driver for his
> nic, turned out to be the wrong driver. Thanks to the list, he's back
Close, but it was actually a helpful po
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:01:20PM -0700, Arthur H.
Edwards,1,505-853-6042,505-256-0834 wrote:
> I'm running an ACER 342T under potato. I just did a dist-upgrade with
> ximian and debian in my sources path. Aftward, when the machine came up
> in gnome my keyboard was useless. I couldn't even use
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > All I hear from Woody is `can't won't or doesn't' And this on a
> > machine that has had 2 flavors of linux, 2 of the BSDs and Solaris
> > (intel) install successfully. Hardware recognized etc.
>
> I do have a hard time being patient with
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
> This may not solve your problem though, do have a look at a GPLed Flash
> player/plug-in.
Is this the flashplayer package?
--
Baloo
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sure. As I look it over again (it's been a while since I read it),
> the first sentence of Chapter 5 is :
>
> You can install Debian from a variety of sources, both local (CD,
> hard disk, floppies) and remote (FTP, NFS, PPP, HTTP).
>
> Note the FTP and
In case anyone cares, I rebuilt php3 for potato i386, with the recent
security patch[1] applied.
debs available at:
http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~maher/debian
Use at your own risk etc. This is just a stopgap till they get the
official security update out. If they don't work let me know and I'll pul
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, I'll work on my teaching skills a little more :-).
I think you should be promoted to `oracle' or something. That was
good. It seems so easy once explained, but I'll be damned if I could
see that in it.
Thanks..
Thats another one of those things that once
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Joseph Maher wrote:
> In case anyone cares, I rebuilt php3 for potato i386, with the recent
> security patch[1] applied.
Thank you!
--
Baloo
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
> > Is this the flashplayer package?
>
> This is not a debian package btw. It is a GPLed replacement for the
> flash player/plugin.
Will this ever be Debianised?
--
Baloo
Chris Jenks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I've noticed that it will take a couple of hours to get this to you, but...
> what your looking for is .xsession or the .xinitrc
Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> One (of several) ways to do this is (as root):
>
> update-alternat
Needing some thoughts of some other Debian users on this one.. I thought
this would be a good place to ask about quality of tech schools, as I am
sure a lot of listers have/are attending one.
I am presently going to a local community college working towards an
associate's degree in Computer
Science
I have a copy of Corel's WP Office 2000 which I have never managed to get
working on my Debian unstable box. Using some advice I found on the 'net I
managed to at least eliminate the fontastic font server errors, but now
when I enter 'wordperfect' it tells me it is 'Building font metrics. This
may
On Friday 01 March 2002 22.36, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've been spending the last two days struggling with installing Debian on
> > a Dell PowerEdge 4400 server
>
> . The problem is that the raid card (Perc 3/Di)
>
> > does need to be enabled in the kernel to be detected correctly. I have
>
On Saturday 02 March 2002 01.07, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> I noticed all the talk of Open Office on potato, but is it also on woody?
> and, if so, where?
>
> Thanks
Hi, I've been running it for a while on Woody, (2.4.17). As far as I know,
it's not available as a deb-package. You can download the b
Craig Dickson wrote (on 1 Mar 2002 at 20:29):
> of 2.4.18-ac2. This means I have to go change the /vmlinuz
> symlink every time I install a new kernel, and I'm wondering if I
> can safely just delete the link and never bother with it again.
Yes, you can. Just make sure lilo.conf or whatever boot
On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 00:04, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> I have a copy of Corel's WP Office 2000 which I have never managed to get
> working on my Debian unstable box. Using some advice I found on the 'net I
> managed to at least eliminate the fontastic font server errors, but now
> when I enter 'word
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Hash: SHA1
Hi Ionut,
terminals are nightmare for me too :) It was more actual when I was
writing telnet client called SemTel ... I was working on that for three
years and during that time was terminal definiton on Debian changed few
times, RedHat have similar pro
Hi,
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, nate wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I use bind for my domain and I am trying to forward any www queries
> > to the providers' server. So suppose my domain name is domain.com,
> > I want that every www.domain.com is redirected to
> > www.me.provider.com.
> >
> > I have tried v
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:36:30PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >the Flash player to stop working. I've done trouble shooting, including
> >installing the lastest verion of Netscape 6.2.1.
>
> Try getting it straight from the vendor. When I used the
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:29:57PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:13:57PM +0100, Martin Hermanowski wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I got an unwanted logout after about 20 minutes of inactivity under X. I
>> am using Sawfish and the only programs I running are xterms. I am not
>> using
I may have jacked up my terminfo database.
I built emacs from sources today. A very recent beta of emacs-21.
I used no special flags with ./configure since emacs has quite a smart
configure and make setup. Just ran it like:
./configure
make
make install
There were no build errors or even warn
Hello,
just set up a new debian sid box. Installed xfree86 4.1.0-14 and
everything works fine except the keyboard! I'm using icewm, and
I cannot switch to virtual consoles via ++ for example.
Other key mappings I configured in my icewm-keys-config don't work either.
>From my XF86Config-4:
Sectio
Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:12:16PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> My installation is a dual boot setup with Solaris 8 (intel) on first
>> master and Debian on second master. Solaris is very particular about
>> its boot sector I think. So I'm booting from
Hello,
I have a user on my computer that I don't want to be able to do stupid things
like "yes > /dev/mem". I found a file called /etc/security/limits.conf that
seems to be able to do what I want. How do I enable it? Thanks.
-Greg Murphy
Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One (of several) ways to do this is (as root):
>
> update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
>
> You will be presented with a list of alternatives that are currently
> installed on your system. Pick one.
>
> If the one you want isn't there, install
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:19:14PM -0600, DvB wrote:
> Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Shaul Karl wrote:
Hi,
> > >Should
> > >
> > >date '+%a %b %e %Y'
> > >
> > >work from within crontab?
> >
> > It likely won't with Vixie Cron. IIRC, Vixie Cron uses the % c
HI
Under redhat i was able to use my cdrw. In debian when i type
cdrecord -scanbus
it comes back with
spaceport:/home/davidr# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For pos
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I may have jacked up my terminfo database.
>
> I built emacs from sources today. A very recent beta of emacs-21.
> Something like the rpm commands `rpm -qf ' will tell
> exactly what package a file belongs to. Then with that info you can
> say r
High,
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, David Richards wrote:
> HI
> Under redhat i was able to use my cdrw. In debian when i type
> cdrecord -scanbus
> it comes back with
> spaceport:/home/davidr# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J?rg Schilling
> cdrecord: No su
http://Jan.Bretschneider.bei.t-online.de/debian/libglib1.3-12_1.3.12-2_i386
On Saturday 02 Mar 2002 1:31 am, Michel Loos wrote:
> Does any one have a libglib1.3-12.deb ?
> Or is there some chance to have a new release og libkmid before March
> 5th ?
>
> I have to make a demonstration of installing
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> That doesn't seem to do the job here. Running that command gives me
> two choices twm and sawfish. No mention of kde or gnome. Both of
> which are installed.
>
> I do want to use sawfish so set that as default but startx still
> starts kde.
If you
I was not paying attention when gpg-idea was removed fromt
he archive it seems, now gpg is not working anymore with my
old script, namely:
gpg -s --clearsign -o ~/tmp/$1.pandora.asc -u 0x4217BFD9 ~/tmp/$1.pandora
it does not work with the -u anymore at all:
gpg: protection algorithm 1 is not sup
also sprach Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.01.2308 +0100]:
> 1) Why do not you try to create a kernel for the desktop with
> CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY = m?
but why? ppp_sync is not loaded on the laptop, and it's not needed for
pppd/modem communication, which is asynchronous.
> 2) Can you dial
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:29:00AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > One (of several) ways to do this is (as root):
> >
> > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
> >
> > [...]
>
> That doesn't seem to do the job here. Running that command gives
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:56:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> People have told me the debian package manager is more sophisticated
> yet, and can pull up more detailed info. What do I need to read to get
> on top of those kind of commands?
I've found
http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-package
On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:28, Pontus Edvardsson wrote:
> On Saturday 02 March 2002 01.07, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> > I noticed all the talk of Open Office on potato, but is it also on woody?
> > and, if so, where?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Hi, I've been running it for a while on Woody, (2.4.17). As far
Hi.
Against conventional wisdom, I'd like to ask if anyone knows where I can still
grab a copy of CorelDRAW for Linux. It's quite sad that the GIMP can't open
a CDR file (I tried doing it, but then again I might be wrong), and that Corel
isn't anymore distributing CorelDRAW for Linux. Kind of I ba
Em Sáb, 2002-03-02 às 02:58, Harry Putnam escreveu:
> Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > received valuable help and turns out to be okee afterall. It appeared
> > that in the install he was adviced to use a certain driver for his
> > nic, turned out to be the wrong driver. Thanks t
On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 02:35, dman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:21:50PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> | Hi all,
> |
> | If I visit www.icq.com/icqwebbie I am prompted to download a vm. If I
> | do so as a user, the installation fails. If I do so as root,
> | installation succeeds but when
Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You can fix emacs by using
>
>apt-get install termcap-compat
>
>
> It's about time that emacs supported terminfo but unfortunately there
> is no one with the time to do the work.
Thanks for the usage tips for dpkg. And the above install did get
thin
Netscape 6.2.1 runs on the mozilla code, so The flash problem is
inherant in both. Install Netscape 4.77 from apt-get. It works with
flash. at least that is what I did.
Wayne
On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 11:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:36:30PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote:
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:42:29PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
> You have to compile the ide-scsi emulation support in the kernel. So
> basically, you recompile your kernel with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y
> (module does not work) and boot your kernel with parameter 'hdc=scsi',
I use ide-scsi emulation
On 02 Mar 2002 00:55:36 -0900
"Greg C. Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not much traffic there now but the archive is very helpful.
> news://cnews.corel.com/corel.wpoffice.office2000-linux
Thanks, Greg. It does appear CWP for Linux is a terminal case - Xandros,
the new owners of Corel Linux,
Found this log...
An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x40880389
Function name=(N/A)
Library=/lib/libc.so.6
NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error
just occurred. Please refer to releas
Somehow I missed the post this post reacts to, so I anwser here instead.
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:27:13PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:08:10PM -0800, paul wrote:
> | cat < /dev/lp0
> | a short line
> | a second line
> | a third line
> | EOF
> | No such file or directory. Note
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Jeff J. wrote:
> Needing some thoughts of some other Debian users on this one.. I thought
> this would be a good place to ask about quality of tech schools, as I am
> sure a lot of listers have/are attending one.
Well, the only one I've had experiance with is Natural Resources
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 22:09, David Bellows wrote:
> According to the README you are also supposed to remove the "dri" and
> "GLcore" options under the Module section.
I got a couple of additional frames but still. from 13fps to around
15fps now.
I had gtop running at the same time which showed
From IPMASQADM(8):
EXAMPLES
Redirect all web traffic to internals hostA and hostB,
where hostB will serve 2 times hostA connections. Forward
rules already masq internal hosts to outside (typical).
ipchains -I input -p tcp -y -d yours.com/32 80 -m 1
Are we talking about sending spam here?
Mike
On 01/03/02 Lance Hoffmeyer did speaketh:
> I am doing some consulting work for a marketing company that wants me to
> perform some mass email using client supplied sample. I grabbed the
> bulkmail.pm perl script and thought all was fine.
On 01/03/02 Bob Thibodeau did speaketh:
> > Now I can startx but now I get put into a kde session. I'd sooner set
> > my hair on fire, and I'm mostly bald.
I pulled mine out long ago. ;-)
Be sure to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace if you use startx. Otherwise, you
can lock the screen, and
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:38:05PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:42:36PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
> > I just deleted something I didn't want to delete; won't hurt my system,
> > just destroyed some important records I was keeping.
> >
> *Immediately* unmount the part
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:32:37AM -, David Richards wrote:
> Under redhat i was able to use my cdrw. In debian when i type
...
> I am root. what do i have to do to get it my cdrw working again ? or can you
> point to some documents that will help me work it out
Few options exist for CD-R(
Hi,
What is the terminfo denotation for the control-key?
I have looked at terminfo(5) and I see all sorts of keys listed
with corresponding denotations but nowhere do I see the
control-key listed.
I want to change the setting in the xterm-xfree86 terminfo
entry with infocmp so that key sequenc
I'm trying to set up lm-sensors on woody. I ran sensors-detect and it
found a sensor on the MB. My question is where do I get/build the
module? In my case I need i2c-via.o
TIA,
Mike
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:51:56AM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
> debian-user posts :
>
> > the Flash player stopped working. I've done trouble shooting, including
>
> This may not solve your problem though, do have a look at a GPLed Flash
> player/plug-in.
I've downloaded, compiled and inst
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 13:07:20 +0100, Alexander Koch wrote:
> I was not paying attention when gpg-idea was removed fromt he archive it
> seems, now gpg is not working anymore
The IDEA plugin is easy to compile from source.
Quoting ftp://ftp.gnupg.org:/pub/GnuPG/contrib/README.ide :
idea
Hi,
I have a 2.2r3 potato on my K6-2 300 MHz 64 Mb RAM, I installed cupsys and
cups-bsd, the z43_drv and other files from linux.printing.org to configure my
Lexmark Z43, and it finally works fine now.. :))
But I don't know how to set the default properties of that printer, because the
web admi
OK. Once i create the new kernel. Could i create a boot disk with the new
kernel on it to test if it boots.
I havent have much with compilig kernels in the past.
david
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From: "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Saturday,
"Jeff J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Needing some thoughts of some other Debian users on this one.. I thought
> this would be a good place to ask about quality of tech schools, as I am
> sure a lot of listers have/are attending one.
Out of curiosity, have you considered getting a university de
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cheryl Homiak) writes:
> Well, it really is too late now, as this was my root partition and I
> couldn't unmount it immediately even if I had known what to do.
>
Maybe you could still save some fragments of the file? or if you are
*really* lucky, the relvant inodes still have
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 18:39, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Anyone who has been following the threads "Linux Progress Patch (Splash
> Screen)" and "The Kernel that Wouldn't Boot," have probably gotten really
> tired of hearing about my little kernel.
> Well, hopefully I'll finally
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:46:47PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
| I am doing some consulting work for a marketing company that wants me to
| perform some mass email using client supplied sample. I grabbed the
| bulkmail.pm perl script and thought all was fine.
I've heard that many versions of
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:29:47PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| Dumb question: why does Debian like to have a symlink, /vmlinuz,
| pointing to the kernel image in /boot? Does some program depend on being
| able to find the kernel at /vmlinuz? Would something break if I simply
| deleted this symlin
Glyn, hi,
no luck, comments below.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:36:08PM +, Glyn Millington wrote:
> Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:28:48PM +0200, inksi wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Now I have really stuffed up my news system. :(
> >>
> >> Iniatially my
Carel, hi,
comments below, thanks for the help.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:41:42AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:28:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ..
> > Now I have really stuffed up my news system. :(
>
> Haven't we all sometime:)
>
> > Iniatially my potato
I was wondering if it's possible to have multiple MTAs on the same system.
My system has masqmail and it works just fine for me -- the reason I chose
it was simply that I could easily configure it plus I can chose different
.route files, depending mostly on what I want to be printed as my "From:"
Note: forwarded message attached.
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Subject: off list TESTFILE
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 12:04:40 -050
I recently created a CD jewel case file with cdlabelgen. I used KGhostview
to open the .pdf file, and also created a .ps file. In both cases, after
opening the files, my screen was blank. However, when I printed the file,
it came out exactly as intended.
Any ideas on how I can force KGhostvi
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote:
> Craig Dickson wrote (on 1 Mar 2002 at 20:29):
>
> > of 2.4.18-ac2. This means I have to go change the /vmlinuz
> > symlink every time I install a new kernel, and I'm wondering if I
> > can safely just delete the link and never bother
Is there a similar command in apt or dpkg to this thing with rpm that
allows you to figure out the package of a file? That really would have
helped me recently.
--
http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno
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short version:
why not have your .signature reflect which debian you're using?
long version:
i've noticed that occasionally someone who uses, say, potato,
asks for advice and information, and the answers some from
another debianista using, say, woody. much of the time this is
not a problem, but t
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> I have a copy of Corel's WP Office 2000 which I have never managed to get
> working on my Debian unstable box. Using some advice I found on the 'net I
> managed to at least eliminate the fontastic font server errors, but now
> when I enter 'wordperfect'
On 2 Mar 2002, dman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:21:50PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> | Hi all,
> |
> | If I visit www.icq.com/icqwebbie I am prompted to download a vm. If I
> | do so as a user, the installation fails. If I do so as root,
> | installation succeeds but when I go back to
Paolo Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Against conventional wisdom, I'd like to ask if anyone knows where I
> can still grab a copy of CorelDRAW for Linux.
Not a clue, but I'd recommend you consider getting VMware and the
Windows Draw. You could also try using it under Wine, but aiui there
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Emacs is not finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile
> with X11 support.
Like redhat's -devel programs, most of the include files in Debian are
in lib*-dev packages. For the X libraries, I currently have installed
xaw3dg-dev
xlib6g-dev
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:45:50PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote:
| Found this log...
| An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
| Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x40880389
| Function name=(N/A)
| Library=/lib/libc.so.6
Oh, nice, a segfaulting JVM. I've had lo
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > You can fix emacs by using
> >
> >apt-get install termcap-compat
> >
> >
> > It's about time that emacs supported terminfo but unfortunately there
> > is no one with the time to do the work.
>
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:53:24PM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| On 2 Mar 2002, dman wrote:
| > 1) add
| > deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/ woody non-free
| > to your sources.list and update
| >
| > 2) apt-get install j2sdk1.3
|
| Does anyone know why this packa
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:57:09PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> In the threads here I've put together a whole plan of
> attack. Involving editing the sources.list. Knowing how to get going
> with the nic. A series of commands for apt-get that clean things up
> and get ready to install a more fles
hi
i have been getting back to debian from 5 years of r/h.
i have a machine dedicated to the process: piii 550 256mb, 3c905 (module
3c59x)... vanilla 2.2r5 potato install
here is my first problem at startup:
the loopback is missing from the route table
if i try to add it manually:
route add -n
am having problems with using my Logitech 3 - button PS/2
mouse on GUI .I do get it in the text-mode console , but when I startx
and Ctrl - Coff the following is what I get :-
(--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 230.000 MHz
(**) SVGA: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.180
(--) SVGA: The
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 05:06:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
...
> things working. However I ran into other problems. Emacs is not
> finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile with X11
> support. I didn't save the error output since I don't really want to
In debian a lot of libs a
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:24:49PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> Ive also looked throught the readme and here is the output of
> /proc/nv/card0
Did you try glxinfo? What does it say?
> - Driver Info -
> NVRM Version: NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0.2314 Fri Nov 30 19:33:20
> PST 20
Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:56:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> People have told me the debian package manager is more sophisticated
>> yet, and can pull up more detailed info. What do I need to read to get
>> on top of those kind of commands?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a user on my computer that I don't want to be able to do stupid things
> like "yes > /dev/mem". I found a file called /etc/security/limits.conf that
> seems to be able to do what I want. How do I enable it? Thanks.
>
> -Greg Murphy
>
I do not know how to use /etc/security
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