New xawtv has compile problem :-(

2002-03-18 Thread stan
I beileve that one of my dselect runs upgraded xawtv a few days ago. Now it won't capture images using the "g" key. Runing it from an xterm reveals it's puting out the following error message: link(snap-SPDV-20020318-010437-1.ppm.$$$,snap-SPDV-20020318-010437-1.ppm): No su

Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread stan
I'm puting a few Debian machine into systems with lot's of ther *NIX boxes. All the oothers have the backspace jey maped to ^H, but Debian seems to have choosen to map it to soehting else (delete ?). How can I fix my Debian machines to be more friendly twoard thee neighbors? -- "They that would

Re: Newbie: problems intalling aps

2002-03-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:28:55AM +0300, FFF wrote: > I'm a newbie to debian, I had problems when I try to install from a > local disk, after selecting the packs using either "simple" or the > "advanced method" it fails to find them. I checked the installation > path file:/mnt/hde6/debian and is c

Re: XF86Config-4 and Voodoo3 2000 agp botchup

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
Could you post your XF86Config-4. Glen Snyder wrote: > I upgraded a machine at work to Woody. No problem at the start, gdm runs > fine, but both KDE and Gnome (Debian) crash on startup. I also recompiled > the kernel to 2.4.18 and installed DRI and agppart, but not improvement. > It looks like XF

Re: Slow mailing list (41 min. for internal process)

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
You are doing well, I'm getting a lag of about 3 hours here in the UK. It used to take minutes. I don't think this difference can be accounted for by the recent extensive thread on racism as some have suggested. Osamu Aoki wrote: > Mailing list is slow now. > > For example: > Delivery-date: Sun

Xaw question

2002-03-18 Thread a
(If you know other list I should post, please tell me.) why does my scrollbar not scroll? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], i'll leave in a minute. #include #include #include #include #include float gg=0.0; void scroll(Widget w, XtPointer client, XtPointer call) {gg+=0.1; XawScrol

how to download and save files from the internet?

2002-03-18 Thread Gary Turner
BrowseX is such a quick little browser on Win98 I want to try it on my Linux box. After a 2M download to a page(!) (now that's a big page--almost as big as those tricked up flashed/framed sites :-)), Mozilla help didn't, and I have no idea how to download and save to file. On Win, it was OK to

Re: Slow mailing list (41 min. for internal process)

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
Typical !! I just got this back in minutes, guess somebody fixed something last night... Simon Hepburn wrote: > You are doing well, I'm getting a lag of about 3 hours here in the UK. It > used to take minutes. I don't think this difference can be accounted for by > the recent extensive thread on

Re: how to download and save files from the internet?

2002-03-18 Thread Tyrin Price
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 01:14:42AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Mozilla help didn't, and I have no idea how to download and save to > file. On Win, it was OK to be a big dummy :( This is http url. See > http://browsex.com. Will someone help me with the proper incantation. > Or point me to the do

cracklib problem

2002-03-18 Thread David Wright
Whenever I insert password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=3 at the top of my /etc/pam.d/passwd stack, I get passwd: Critial error - immediate abort whenever I try to change a password. Am I misusing this module (running sid)? I notice that the PAM documentation says t

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

2002-03-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
Its guys like this that led me to add this to my .forward. # NUISANCE POSTS TO DEBIAN USER if ${lc:$h_to:} matches "debian-user" and $h_subject contains "subscribe" then add 100 to n1 endif # DEFINITE SPAM if ($n1 is above 99) then save $home/mail/junkmail logwrite "[$tod_log] ${lc:$h_From:} ${l

Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Cook
Hi all, I know this is probably not the place for this question, but there seem to be a lot of mutt users here. I have made the plunge, ditched netscape as my MUA and have moved to mutt. It looks pretty nice. Well, sort of. The message index is very wierd, though. It displays the wrong info

Re: Slow mailing list (41 min. for internal process)

2002-03-18 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Simon! On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Simon Hepburn wrote: > You are doing well, I'm getting a lag of about 3 hours here in the UK. It > used to take minutes. I don't think this difference can be accounted for by > the recent extensive thread on racism as some have suggested. it appears that murphy i

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Mar-2002 stan wrote: > I'm puting a few Debian machine into systems with lot's of ther *NIX boxes. > All the oothers have the backspace jey maped to ^H, but Debian seems to > have choosen to map it to soehting else (delete ?). > > How can I fix my Debian machines to be more friendly twoard

Re: how to download and save files from the internet?

2002-03-18 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote: > BrowseX is such a quick little browser on Win98 I want to try it on my > Linux box. After a 2M download to a page(!) (now that's a big > page--almost as big as those tricked up flashed/framed sites :-)), > > Mozilla help didn't, and I have no idea

Re: web-based email for debian?

2002-03-18 Thread Karsten Heymann
* David Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020316 18:24]: > OT: I've had one annoying problem, though. I believe it's an > Apache-SSL/PHP issue, however. I have several different addresses for > my webserver -- The public domains point to the IP of my firewall, and > the firewall forwards port 80 and 44

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-18 Thread Thomas Halahan
Opera is great. Fast, doesn't crash. Is compilant etc. Mozilla I found to be big, slow and simply refused to be configured. I hated it. On Monday 11 March 2002 18:16, Panuganty, Ramesh wrote: > I had read a review in news.com recently that opera is > the most stable and fastest (in terms o

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Pat Colbeck
Thats a weird problem. I have used mutt on and off for four years and never seen that. However it is a console app and so its display can get screwed up if the console is weird or chages size (dependant on the console being used). I you running mutt in X ? If so what terminal are you using (rxvt,

Re: compiling slapd with tls

2002-03-18 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Ramin Motakef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020318 09:32]: > Hi, > ... > deb1:~# slapd -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf -d 255 -h "ldap:/// ldaps:///" > @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.0.23-Release (Sam Mär 16 17:04:30 CET 2002) $ > [EMAIL > PROTECTED]:/home/ramin/tmp/server/ldap/openldap2-2.0.23/debian/build/servers/sl

Re: Emacs question

2002-03-18 Thread Glyn Millington
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yeah, that works... in both emacs and xemacs... but man, how can you put > up with those colours??? Aaargh! It's the windows hotdog-stand theme! Hey, it's gorgeous!! I *like* black/darkbackgrounds and fiery frames etc May be a sign of my ultimate desti

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-18 Thread Glyn Millington
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wow, OK, I'm confused. Is this a Joke or not? > > I have heard of the anti-emacsen religion before - where is it based? > alt.religion.vim Tom, as with your other post on debian-user, I got four copies of this one! Obviously I need to adjust Gnus,

Re: pam-ldap and passwd

2002-03-18 Thread Karsten Heymann
* David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020318 09:33]: > > I am having problems using passwd to change passwords stored on an LDAP > database. > > I have /etc/pam.d/passwd looking just like it does on my RedHat box: > ... I have the following in my /etc/pam.d/passwd #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Pat Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thats a weird problem. I have used mutt on and off for four years and > never seen that. However it is a console app and so its display can get > screwed up if the console is weird or chages size (dependant on the > console being used). > > I you run

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pump does not obey the RFC and has been known to not work on all networks. > Debian is moving away from it. This is no longer the case. pump is now useing AF_PACKET to send discover packets. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.or

Re: noise when using esd

2002-03-18 Thread Preben Randhol
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/03/2002 (15:43) : > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:56:07PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > To be honest I don't know what esd and artsd are but it sounds like you > could be experiencing a feedback problem. Check the placement of your > speakers and look inside yo

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hmm Try this : mutt -n -f ~/Mail/foobar where foobar is a mail spool This will bypass all the mutt config files un case they are causing the problem. Does the index work then ? Pat

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-18 Thread Pat Colbeck
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:11:54PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > pump does not obey the RFC and has been known to not work on all networks. > > Debian is moving away from it. > > This is no longer the case. pump is now useing AF_PACKET to send d

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-03-18 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.03.16 10:25, Pev a écrit : I can't boot my new kernel 2.4.10, the boot process looks like : LILO Loading Linux ... Uncompressing Linux ... Ok booting the kernel and then nothing else ! Perhaps you ask lilo to redirect output on another device ? And so, kernel is booting but you don't

Re: how to download and save files from the internet?

2002-03-18 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:31:29 +0100 (MET), Sebastiaan wrote: >High, > >On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote: > >> BrowseX is such a quick little browser on Win98 I want to try it on my >> Linux box. After a 2M download to a page(!) (now that's a big >> page--almost as big as those tricked up fla

Cost

2002-03-18 Thread John Lynch
I was e-mailing, just to triple check that if I download debian it will not cost me a cent. (Sorry for asking this but I've been burnt before when downloading products). _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messe

Mozilla won't install (sid)

2002-03-18 Thread franck routier
Hi, my last dist-upgrade result in this error message for mozilla : Setting up mozilla-browser (0.9.9-1) ... sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail" sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail" sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail" sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail" source requires an argument send

Re: Cost

2002-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
(Not sure if you're subscribed to the debian-user list, so cc'ing) On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:13:03PM +1100, John Lynch wrote: > I was e-mailing, just to triple check that if I download debian it > will not cost me a cent. You are absolutely safe. Debian doesn't even have a mechanism for charging

WOW

2002-03-18 Thread John Lynch
Thanks everyone for all your help, *thinks "wow!!! I asked the question 15mins ago!! and I already got 2 answers"* as I read more about Denebian I will probably harrass you with more and more questions so I'd just like to say I appreciate any help you give me. Cheers John __

Re: svgatextmode and ATI rage 128 video cards

2002-03-18 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:28:25AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:11:15PM -0600, Curt Daugaard wrote: > > Has anyone on the list had any luck in configuring svgatextmode with > > a video cards in the ATI Rage 128 series? I recently changed from > > an S3 card to the 128 Pr

Sendmail or GnuPG or Mutt problem how to know ?

2002-03-18 Thread Pac
Hi, every time I try to sign a message with GnuPG under Mutt I receive after a few second this error message : sendmail: 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html what is it and how to fix this ? thanks Best Regards -- R.Pac

Re: svgatextmode and ATI rage 128 video cards

2002-03-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:11:37AM -0600, Curt Daugaard wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:28:25AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:11:15PM -0600, Curt Daugaard wrote: > > > Has anyone on the list had any luck in configuring svgatextmode with > > > a video cards in the ATI

Re: Cost

2002-03-18 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, John Lynch wrote: > I was e-mailing, just to triple check that if I download debian it will not > cost me a cent. Totally cost free, man! -- Baloo

wap mail?

2002-03-18 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I am looking for a solution for wap mail, that would work on debian woody distro. As I see it, debian has no such packages. Has anzone stumbled upon a working wap mail, that would work on Debian woody? Any help would be much appreciated. Regards/Lep pozdrav Boštjan Müller -- [*] Boštjan Mü

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-18 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:13:37PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> Apparently I've given exim bad info, but not at all clear how to > >> tell exim to address my mail with newsguy but I'm not really > >> it... hehe. > >> > > > > exim uses ad

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

2002-03-18 Thread Robert L. Harris
Thus spake Bruce Burhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > - Original Message - > From: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 9:16 PM > Subject: Re: unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - > On 18/03/02 Pau

linux on IBM PS/1

2002-03-18 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! We recieved a few IBM PS/1 machines in our local cybercaffe, and would like to install linux on them, but none of the install floppies would recognize the disk controler nor the disk. If anyone has any information about installing linux on PS/1 machines I'd be verry gratefull, if he/she would

Re: gatos drivers for ATI AllInWonder cards

2002-03-18 Thread Bill Triplett
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 00:04, stan wrote: > > Now a philisophical question. Any ide if the gatos drivers are going to > get merged inot the mainstream XFree code? Good question... I don't know... it sure would be nice! > I'm just thinking thta someday > (perhaps soon) I'm going to do a dselect

RE: linux on IBM PS/1

2002-03-18 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
what model? Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 9:05 AM To: Debian User Mailing List Subject: linux on IBM PS/1 Hi! We recieved a few IBM PS/1 machines in ou

Re: linux on IBM PS/1

2002-03-18 Thread ktb
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:05:21PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > We recieved a few IBM PS/1 machines in our local cybercaffe, and would > like to install linux on them, but none of the install floppies would > recognize the disk controler nor the disk. > If anyone has any information abou

Re: linux on IBM PS/1

2002-03-18 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:29:01 CST, ktb writes: >A few years back I installed on a IBM PS/2 386. It had a MCA bus. I >would imagine the PS/1 does also. I don't know off the top of my head >if debian supports MCA. At least the stock kernel always complains 'cause it can't find any MCA-bus ;)

Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am interesting in learning what programs there are running on Linux to work with digital video recorders to create personal movies burned onto DVDs. (MPEG-2 encoding, DVD burning, etc.) I am trying to determine if Linux, Windows, or the Mac is the better environment for this work. What options,

Re: linux on IBM PS/1

2002-03-18 Thread ktb
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:45:37PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:29:01 CST, ktb writes: > > >A few years back I installed on a IBM PS/2 386. It had a MCA bus. I > >would imagine the PS/1 does also. I don't know off the top of my head > >if debian supports MCA. > > At

Re: biggest, newest IDE disk stuck in PIO mode; because no BIOS support? [dsb]

2002-03-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > I've been having trouble using hdparm to speed up one of my disks. > > I suspect it's because I had to disable the disk in my BIOS so the > BIOS wouldn't hang when booting. > > Has anyone seen this problem or does anyone know how to fix it? > Would th

XFree86 and NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400

2002-03-18 Thread Anna Lindgren
Title: XFree86 and NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400    Hi, I’m a totally fresh user to Debian, have tried Red Hat before, but wanted to try out Debian instead, but I seem not to be able to install the Xserver. I have a NVidia GeForce 2 MX graphics card, which is not supported in Xfree86-3.3.6 that is in

Basedebs.tar's Md5

2002-03-18 Thread Jeff Peters
Hi;   Where can I find the Md5 checksum for the basedebs tarball     /dists/woody/main/disk-i386/base-images-current/basedebs.tar   thanks   Jeff

Introduction to Debian Packaging Paper

2002-03-18 Thread John F Davis
Hello I wrote a Introduction to Debian Packaging Paper (html) for my local linux users group. Nothing fancy, but its a quick intro to the packaging on debian. How to use apt, dpkg, dselect, and even how to build a package - quick summary of new maintainers guide. I would like comments on correc

XFree86 Install Problem

2002-03-18 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
I'm attempting to install the newest version of XFree86. I downloaded the binaries and ran Xinstall.sh. The install seemed to proceed correctly however when I run startx I get the follow error message: xauth: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /usr/X11Rs/lib/libX11.so.6 A

Re: XFree86 Install Problem

2002-03-18 Thread Pac
Le 18/03/02 à 10:46, Bodnyk, Bruce W a écrit: Bodnyk,> I'm attempting to install the newest version of XFree86. I downloaded the Bodnyk,> binaries and ran Xinstall.sh. The install seemed to proceed correctly Bodnyk,> however when I run startx I get the follow error message: Bodnyk,> Bodnyk,> Bod

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-18 Thread Angus D Madden
Rick Macdonald, Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 02:39:02PM -0700: > > I installed squirrelmail, but which IMAP should I use? > > Can I still keep running qpopper to provide POP3 for users on my lan (wife > and kids)? Or does IMAP conflict somehow? > What SMTP server are you using? If you are using qmail

Re: linux on IBM PS/1

2002-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 08:29, ktb wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:05:21PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > > Hi! > > > > We recieved a few IBM PS/1 machines in our local cybercaffe, and would > > like to install linux on them, but none of the install floppies would > > recognize the disk controle

RE: XFree86 Install Problem

2002-03-18 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
How would you not have a libc installed on your system? :) check the version you are running dpkg -l |grep libc6 you probably have to upgrade your libc6 Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -Original Message- From: Pac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, M

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-18 Thread Angus D Madden
Dave Scott, Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:04:17PM -0800: > I'm going to try the manual install today. > Very straightforward. There are some changes I make to the default install (don't like db passwords in the DocumentRoot) but the installation and configuration process is a snap. > I'll let you kn

Trouble after installing

2002-03-18 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello.. I finally made the install using the ISO method. Everything went fine except for a few things: While choosing the modules, I accidently installed one for the S3 Virge video card, when I really have a S3 Trio 64V + card. Does this affect me much? It seems like it does with XFree because

Trouble after installing

2002-03-18 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello.. I finally made the install using the ISO method. Everything went fine except for a few things: While choosing the modules, I accidently installed one for the S3 Virge video card, when I really have a S3 Trio 64V + card. Does this affect me much? It seems like it does with XFree because

Re: Slow mailing list (41 min. for internal process)

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> Typical !! I just got this back in minutes, guess somebody fixed > something > last night... > > Simon Hepburn wrote: > > > You are doing well, I'm getting a lag of about 3 hours here in the > UK. It > > used to take minutes. I don't think this difference can be accounted > for by > > the recent

Re: XFree86 and NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400

2002-03-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:08:44PM +0100, Anna Lindgren wrote: > Hi, > I¹m a totally fresh user to Debian, have tried Red Hat before, but wanted to > try out Debian instead, but I seem not to be able to install the Xserver. I > have a NVidia GeForce 2 MX graphics card, which is not supported in

Re: Losing time !

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:03:17PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > I have no idea about why your computer would be losing time. You could set up > a > Network Time Protocol daemon (for example: nptd) to syncronize your clock > with internet time servers. You probably have to reset your clock firs

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:55:26AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Its guys like this that led me to add this to my .forward. > > # NUISANCE POSTS TO DEBIAN USER > if ${lc:$h_to:} matches "debian-user" > and $h_subject contains "subscribe" > then add 100 to n1 endif Damn, this is a great list! I'd

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> I am interesting in learning what programs there are running on Linux > to > work with digital video recorders to create personal movies burned > onto > DVDs. (MPEG-2 encoding, DVD burning, etc.) > > I am trying to determine if Linux, Windows, or the Mac is the better > environment for this work.

Re: XFree86 and NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400

2002-03-18 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Anna Lindgren wrote: > >Hi, > I'm a totally fresh user to Debian, have tried Red Hat before, but > wanted to try out Debian instead, but I seem not to be able to install > the Xserver. I have a NVidia GeForce 2 MX graphics card, which is not > supported in Xfree86-3.3.6 that is included in my

RE: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Scott
Yeah, I definitely have Libc6 2.2.5-3 in my system somehow and my relese is Potato, so I did a big no no I guess. And the part that sucks is that I upgraded to get squirrelmail on. Might be best just to leave it be, since everything appears to work at present? Sucks, for a newb like me, ther

Iptables keeps logging to console (eventhough of "dmesg -n 1")

2002-03-18 Thread Karo Salminen
Greetings, I (and one other fellow too) have suffered of the problem which is iptables' logging related. Iptables keeps logging to the local console eventhough I have typed "dmesg -n 1". Dmesg's manual says the following: "For example, -n 1 prevents all messages, expect panic messages, fro

unsubscribe

2002-03-18 Thread Denni Schnapp
-- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you ma

Re: USB Mouse potato

2002-03-18 Thread Wesley Hart
Twas brillig, and Matthew Linden scrobe: > X fails because I cannot configure the mouse. A USB wheel > mouse. Unfortunately my machine has four USB ports, no PS/2 or serial > ports, so using a different mouse type is out of the question. > > Debian version is potato. I would like to avoid having to

Glibc 2.2

2002-03-18 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
Does anyone know where I can get the latest version of glibc (2.2) which apparently is needed for the latest version of XFree86? I downloaded the glibc source but can't get it to compile cleanly. It appears the version of glibc in the stable Debian site is 2.1.13 or there abouts. Thanks! Bruce Br

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 09:51, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am interesting in learning what programs there are running on Linux to > work with digital video recorders to create personal movies burned onto > DVDs. (MPEG-2 encoding, DVD burning, etc.) > > I am trying to determine if Linux, Windows, or

Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Kent West
This problem goes back about 4 months; I've posted a few times and gotten some valuable responses, but nothing that's helped. My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was halted mid-stream. Ever since then, several packages refuse to install or uninstall, such as: Sett

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread stan
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:29:21AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 18-Mar-2002 stan wrote: > > I'm puting a few Debian machine into systems with lot's of ther *NIX boxes. > > All the oothers have the backspace jey maped to ^H, but Debian seems to > > have choosen to map it to soehting els

Re: Trouble after installing

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> While choosing the modules, I accidently installed one for the S3 > Virge > video card, when I really have a S3 Trio 64V + card. Does this affect > me much? It seems like it does with XFree because it won't run.. You can always change your xf86 configuration to use the other card, not a proble

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

2002-03-18 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:55:26AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Its guys like this that led me to add this to my .forward. > > # NUISANCE POSTS TO DEBIAN USER > if ${lc:$h_to:} matches "debian-user" > and $h_subject contains "subscribe" > then add 100 to n1 endif What's this do? -- Paul F. Pe

Re: Trouble after installing

2002-03-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:28:29PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > And.. Another question.. Is there any way I can shut down temporarily > my LAN connection and later turn it back on again? I read about using > Ifconfig, but it seems like it is o longer available for download.. If you have a w

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

2002-03-18 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:55:26AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Its guys like this that led me to add this to my .forward. > > > > # NUISANCE POSTS TO DEBIAN USER > > if ${lc:$h_to:} matches "debian-user" > > and $h_subject contains "subscribe" > > t

[OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]

2002-03-18 Thread csj
On 17 Mar 2002 14:21:32 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 18:09, csj wrote: > > On 16 Mar 2002 14:19:36 -0600 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 18:58, csj wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > sound-card plus speaker/headset setup"

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Drew Raines
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I know this is probably not the place for this question, but there seem > to be a lot of mutt users here. There's also a lot of mutt users on the mutt-users list. > I have made the plunge, ditched netscape as my MUA and have moved to > mutt. It looks pretty nice

Re: Introduction to Debian Packaging Paper

2002-03-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:39:02AM -0500, John F Davis wrote: > I wrote a Introduction to Debian Packaging Paper (html) for my local > linux users group. Nothing fancy, but its a quick intro to the packaging > on debian. How to use apt, dpkg, dselect, and even how to build > a package - quick sum

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to > do, since that's the solution in the Microsoft world and isn't supposed > to be the solution for Linux, but unless one of you gurus can help me > fix this, it's the only solution I have left. > cd /var/lib/dpkg/info.

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread Martin Edward John Waller
stty erase ? Martin stan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:29:21AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > On 18-Mar-2002 stan wrote: > > > I'm puting a few Debian machine into systems with lot's of ther *NIX > > > boxes. > > > All the oothers have the backspace jey maped to ^H, but Debia

Re: Dual head howto?

2002-03-18 Thread Paul Mackinney
Thanks very much, this really helped. You had some things that were not in shown in the example in my XF86Config-4 file. Best effort so far: My main monitor runs X, the cursor goes off the screen to the left where I said the other monitor was, but the secondary monitor shows blank/garbage. The goo

Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Kevin Strong
Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the root password but I can login using other users logins. Is there anything I can do to regain the ability to login as root other than rebuilding the server.Thanks for the help in advance. Kevin Strong,BSBA User Support Coordinato

kdm and X-terminals

2002-03-18 Thread Michel Loos
I used to have X-terminals connected to a xdm server. In order to achieve this I had to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and /etc/xdm/xdm-config With kdm I found the files /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers and I suppose that the equivalent of xdm-config is kdmrc but I ha

Help!!!Can't get X running with Radeon7000pci or Voodoo3 2000 agp

2002-03-18 Thread Glen Snyder
I'm still trying to get X-Free86 running on a woody box with either a Voodoo 2000 agp or a Radion7000pci. I am running Woody with XFree86-4. I've tried recompiling kernel 2.4.18 using make-kpkg and have versions without agp support, without agp or DRI support and with both installed or as modules.

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > One thing you might look into is not writing [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the > rwriting rule, but instead [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your mail program > will put that in the From: header, whereas fetchmail will put > [EMAIL PROTECTED], avoiding the rewrite (

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread Paul Mackinney
stan declaimed: > I'm puting a few Debian machine into systems with lot's of ther *NIX boxes. > All the oothers have the backspace jey maped to ^H, but Debian seems to > have choosen to map it to soehting else (delete ?). > > How can I fix my Debian machines to be more friendly twoard thee neighbo

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:36:33PM -0600, Kevin Strong wrote: > Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the root > password but I can login using other users logins. Is there anything I can > do to regain the ability to login as root other than rebuilding the > server.Than

Re: compiling slapd with tls SOLVED

2002-03-18 Thread Ramin Motakef
> Hi, > i need TLS with slapd, so i downloaded the debian source package, > changed debian/rules (--without-tls to --with-tls) and made binary > packages. > > They compiled fine, however they do not run: > > deb1:~# slapd -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf -d 255 -h "ldap:/// ldaps:///" > @(#) $OpenLDAP: slap

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-18 Thread Angus D Madden
Dave Scott, Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:12:44AM -0800: > Yeah, I definitely have Libc6 2.2.5-3 in my system somehow and my relese > is Potato, so I did a big no no I guess. And the part that sucks is > that I upgraded to get squirrelmail on. > I wonder if there is an exisitng document/policy any

Re: ascii

2002-03-18 Thread Marcelo Leal
perfect!! thanks, but i have one short picture, more or less 178 x 128 (in gimp information). And the resolution becomes fine with a ascii file too large... can i make (arguments) for aview produce a asci image equal the original one, and with the same widyh and height??? On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 2

Re: Glibc 2.2

2002-03-18 Thread Pac
You should install this package : libc6 apt-cache show libc6 --> [...] Version: 2.2.5-3 Provides: glibc-2.2.5-3 [...] See you -- R.Pac

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread Pac
Le 18/03/02 à 12:31, Scott Henson a écrit: Scott> xine-ui The best I have seen yet for linux. In my opinion it is as Scott> good as the Windows Media player. I havent used a Mac since middle Scott> school so I dont know there(I am currently a college sophmore). I would Scott> definately go wit

Re: [OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]

2002-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 12:01, csj wrote: > On 17 Mar 2002 14:21:32 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 18:09, csj wrote: > > > On 16 Mar 2002 14:19:36 -0600 > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 18:58, csj wrote: > >

Address rewriting with exim as smarthost

2002-03-18 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I've got my work box (bigdaddy) set up with exim as the mta, sending mail to my router/smarthost (kanyon). Exim seems to send all non-bigdaddy mail to kanyon, even that for my other local boxes (e.g. therock) - that's fine, and I'll solve the problem of mail to [

command line php

2002-03-18 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi Listpeople - I would like to execute a php script from crontab. Some Suse users told me they have a /usr/bin/php which allows for just that. I have tried to find a package in Debian which brings this, but have not been able to locate it. Any ideas? Thanks a lot. -- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAI

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Matthew Twomey
Unless you've left some backdoor for yourself (which would have been a bad idea anyway), you're left with booting from cdrom, or a resuce disk set. The basic procedure is as follows: 1. Boot up from some other media that has it's own root partition and get to a shell. I'm not sure what specifical

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the > root > password but I can login using other users logins. Is there anything I > can > do to regain the ability to login as root other than rebuilding the > server.Thanks for the help in advance. http://qref.sourceforge.net/q

Re: Trouble after installing

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
Ronald Castillo wrote: > While choosing the modules, I accidently installed one for the S3 Virge > video card, when I really have a S3 Trio 64V + card. Does this affect > me much? It seems like it does with XFree because it won't run.. You don't state which version of X you are using but given

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