Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-07 Thread Andy Saxena
Brian W. Carver wrote: >Your assumptions below are correct. > >I am using potato 2.2 r5, but this problem started when a dselect session >went bad >and I believe that I may now have some sid and some woody packages. > >I know I have a new xdm interface because it looks totally different when >I b

Re: My network card

2002-04-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
The file you have atached is the rtl8139 driver. This is already in the kernel. Log in as root. Enter 'modconf' Choose network devices and then load your driver. If its the correct driver it should say 'Successfully Loaded' Kind Regards Crispin Wellington On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 13:30, Ariel Foloni

Re: Scroll mouse?

2002-04-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 08:38, Jeremy Petzold wrote: > Florentin Ionescu wrote: > > >what mouse ? > > > >On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, jeremy wrote : > > > >| Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:00:32 -0500 > >| From: jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >| To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >| Subject: Scroll mouse? > >| Resen

Re: Per user info directory

2002-04-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Apr 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> What is the general technique to allow users to have their own info >> directory or at least an `dir' file that concatenates per user info >> files into a place that allows `info whatever_software' to work. > > Have

Recent changes in woody broke vmware: AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED?

2002-04-07 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hello. I am still using vmware 2.0.4 on a Debian woody system with kernel 2.4.18. I had a working version of vmware, and a recent 'apt-get upgrade' in the last day or two seems to have caused this error when vmware tries to restore the Win98 session: VMware Workstation PANIC: AIO:

less and xterm

2002-04-07 Thread Patrik Modesto
Hi! The problem: less and zless programs unset options 'Enable Application Cursor Keys' and 'Enable Application Keypad' in xterm. Every new xterm window has these options set correctly accoding to the .Xresources file. After use of less or zless, these options are unset. :-( Can anyone help? T

Re: Recent changes in woody broke vmware: AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED?

2002-04-07 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Sunday 07 April 2002 10:11, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hello. > > I am still using vmware 2.0.4 on a Debian woody system with kernel 2.4.18. > I had a working version of vmware, and a recent 'apt-get upgrade' in the > last day or two seems to have caused this error when vmware tries to > restor

Re: Is Mozilla mail brian dead?

2002-04-07 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 23:40, Kent West wrote: > Patrick Kirk wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > I [snip] Sorry about that. I was looking for a lightweight alternative to Evolution that would play nice with mutt. spent about 30 minutes searching Moz menus and Google looking for a box to put my passw

Re: Scroll mouse?

2002-04-07 Thread Florentin Ionescu
Try this link - http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue5/m5mouse1.html Check /etc/gpm.conf and/or paste it in e-mail. Florentin. On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Jeremy Petzold wrote : | Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 19:38:10 -0500 | From: Jeremy Petzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: Florentin Ionescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Make users belong to indivdiual groups.

2002-04-07 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
I have 60-70 users on my system, all have been added with the useradd -m command, which I realize now made them belong to the same group 'users', had I used the command adduser instead then they would have ended up belongig to individual groups, which is what I need... My problem commes from the f

SOLVED Re: more alt key questions

2002-04-07 Thread Bob Thibodeau
After sleeping on it, I realized that I needed to combine some of the solutions I had tried. I had to switch meta <-> alt AND turn off wm grabbing. I had thought I did that, but apparently not. Thanks, everybody! Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: less and xterm

2002-04-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:55:47 +0200, Patrik Modesto wrote: > The problem: less and zless programs unset options 'Enable Application > Cursor Keys' and 'Enable Application Keypad' in xterm. I think this is what they should do. > Every new xterm window has these options set correctly accoding to

Re: Is Mozilla mail brian dead?

2002-04-07 Thread Luiz Carlos Santos de Alencar
Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Hi all, > > I tried Mozilla today. > Perhaps I missed something very obvious > but there's nowhere to enter your password when you set up a mail > account. No, there isn't (refering Mozilla 5.0) > When you fire it it up it sits there giving silly > "Connection refused"

Re: Make users belong to indivdiual groups.

2002-04-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 16:50, Klaus Ade Johnstad wrote: > I have 60-70 users on my system, all have been added with the useradd -m > command, which I realize now made them belong to the same group 'users', > had I used the command adduser instead then they would have ended up > belongig to individua

configure error 10 with dpkg

2002-04-07 Thread Andreas Grabner
Hi once again since i lost a lot of mails :-( there was no dependencies problem and i cant install a lot of different packages. What scripts ar used for pre-, post- config (bash,python ??) Hi i have got a problem since some weeks which doesn't solve it self and i can't solve it. There are mor

Re: mail client and maildir

2002-04-07 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020406 09:41]: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:24:21PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > > Is that any mail client that supports maildirs, other than Mutt of > > course? > > I seem to remember that KMail uses a Maildir-ish format...I switched > to mutt a while back tho, so I'm not

Re: Problem recognising floppy with debian

2002-04-07 Thread Karsten Heymann
(I cc to debian-user. hopefully that's ok for you) * David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020405 17:04]: > On Friday 05 April 2002 09:51, Karsten Heymann wrote: > > > > You're perfectly right. To mount the floppy, use > > > > mount /floppy > > This will work IFF you have msdos or vfat in /etc/fi

Re: Strange Problem with Promise Card and Zip drive

2002-04-07 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020405 17:03]: > Gordon Talge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >... > > I have a Promise Card to add IDE devices to my system. > > I have a IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI hooked up to the card as ^ > > hde and a Maxtor 5T060H6 hard disk as hdf.

SOLVED: pppd always on

2002-04-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.05.1238 +0200]: > > Don't put demand in your options, put these two lines in: > > > > persist > > holdoff 0 > > i had that, but then when i got disconnected once/24h (frickin' german > telekom!), it wouldn't reestablish... > > i'll try aga

Re: Is Mozilla mail brian dead? SOLVED

2002-04-07 Thread Patrick Kirk
> > Unless you told Mozilla in the first "get messages" to > save the password you gave, you will be asked to give > it each time you want to access the mailbox. > > -- It doesn't ask for a password when I click get messages. I think its best just assume that Moz can't cope with IMAP on localh

installing Gnome

2002-04-07 Thread Michael Palmer
hello,   i need help installing Ximian gnome on my debian 2.2r5 system. I have 300+ .deb files for the gnome installation. I type "dpkg -iEG *.deb" and its gets to a certain lib and says "segmentation error" please help.   Mitchell Palmer

Re: installing Gnome

2002-04-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:05, Michael Palmer wrote: > hello, > > i need help installing Ximian gnome on my debian 2.2r5 system. I have 300+ > .deb files for the gnome installation. I type "dpkg -iEG *.deb" and its gets > to a certain lib and says "segmentation error" > please help. I installed

Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear Group - I would like to build on old iron (P90/64Mb) a simple Galeon only Internet terminal. I have prepared a Sid configuration that contains the following: - Internet access - IceWM-experimental - Galeon Things seem to work well (b.t.w. any chance of adjusting the Gnome fonts in menus etc

Can't start X based programs on a remote host

2002-04-07 Thread Ralf Doppelstein
Hi *, I have 2 woody based hosts with gnome/gdm, last update at last night. I try to open i.e. xclock on the remote host and show on the local host. I always get the message Can't open display: :0. I do the following steps: A) localhost: xhost + ssh remotehost remotehost: export

Problem installing gdm

2002-04-07 Thread Frank Hart
Hi all, I've been using Debian for about a month now (switched from SuSE) and I'm very happy with it. Looks like SuSE became a little too easy and I was getting annoyed to reinstall every 3 months when a new version came available (still think it's a fine distro though). Debian is running on my des

Re: Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:25, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Dear Group - I would like to build on old iron (P90/64Mb) a simple > Galeon only Internet terminal. I have prepared a Sid configuration > that contains the following: > > - Internet access > - IceWM-experimental > - Galeon > > Things seem

Re: Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.07.1425 +0200]: > Dear Group - I would like to build on old iron (P90/64Mb) a simple > Galeon only Internet terminal. I have prepared a Sid configuration > that contains the following: not quite your solution, but look at how jamie did

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

2002-04-07 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Sorry to be so long in getting back to the list, but I had been working at home on a laptop with USB options compiled into the kernel, and wanted to make sure that using them as modules was not the problem. I am at work now where I am running a 2.4.18 kernel built from the debian source packag

Re: Can't start X based programs on a remote host

2002-04-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 07, 2002, Ralf Doppelstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi *, > > I have 2 woody based hosts with gnome/gdm, last update at last night. > I try to open i.e. xclock on the remote host and show on the local > host. X disables remote tcp connections by default in Debian. You can't do t

Re: Debian on PS2 with 2.5" IDE raid??

2002-04-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 04:00, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:16:25PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > I'd like to install Debian on Sony PS2 with 2 2.5" IDE disks as software > > raid disk array. Is it possible? Is there anyone having experience? > > [Disclaimer: I've never tried this,

Re: Linksys Wireless WDT11 w/ Woody

2002-04-07 Thread Mike Madden
Thanks for the info. I couldn't find Linux drivers on the Linksys page. However, it looks like it will work. It's just a matter of some research and experimentation. Thanks, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Although I don't own these products I had them under serious consideration to > buy

Re: Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:44:06PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > Have a script that starts X for a certain user and begins galeon. Run > this as a respawn process under /etc/inittab. Make a certain runlevel be > kiosk mode (the default). Make other run levels the admin mode (normal > logins e

Re: Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what Crispin Wellington said on Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:44:06PM +0800: > > Have the whole system use ext3. Have no shutdown at all (just switch it > off like a stereo) Jeebus. Do you tell people with airbags to not bother using their brakes, just go ahead and hit a tree to stop?

Re: Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 21:30, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:44:06PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > Have a script that starts X for a certain user and begins galeon. Run > > this as a respawn process under /etc/inittab. Make a certain runlevel be > > kiosk mode (the

Re: Recent changes in woody broke vmware: AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED?

2002-04-07 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 03:20, Meir Kriheli wrote: > On Sunday 07 April 2002 10:11, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I am still using vmware 2.0.4 on a Debian woody system with kernel 2.4.18. > > I had a working version of vmware, and a recent 'apt-get upgrade' in the > > last day or two

High Memory usage

2002-04-07 Thread Scott Henson
I recently added a new 256M sdram module to my computer and started noticing some weird behavior. For one the kernel is only able to detect 628M of the total 640M. I know I can fix that with a simple append, but I noticed some really wierd memory usage. When I just simply open up gnome, nautilus

Re: Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 21:33, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin quoting what Crispin Wellington said on Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at > 08:44:06PM +0800: > > > > Have the whole system use ext3. Have no shutdown at all (just switch it > > off like a stereo) > > Jeebus. Do you tell people with airbags to not b

I wish to ask a silly question on starting an ftp server

2002-04-07 Thread shyamk
How do you start an FTP server program ? This might be a silly question , but it is something for which I have no answer. In our server , we faced a two-fold problem : o One that we could not log-in as any user.This I solved by entering single-user mode (on rebooting after we knew somethi

Re: Is Mozilla mail brian dead?

2002-04-07 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 03:34, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 23:40, Kent West wrote: > > Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > > >Hi all, > > > > > > I > > [snip] > > > Sorry about that. I was looking for a lightweight alternative to > Evolution that would play nice with mutt. spent about 30

Re: I wish to ask a silly question on starting an ftp server

2002-04-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 22:05, shyamk wrote: > > How do you start an FTP server program ? > This might be a silly question , but it is > something for which I have no answer. > > In our server , we faced a two-fold problem : > > o One that we could not log-in as any user.This I solved >by ent

Re: configure error 10 with dpkg

2002-04-07 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 07:15, Andreas Grabner wrote: > Hi once again since i lost a lot of mails :-( > there was no dependencies problem and i cant install a lot of different > packages. > What scripts ar used for pre-, post- config (bash,python ??) > > > > Hi > i have got a problem since some

Matrox G400 Hardware Acceleration

2002-04-07 Thread Michael J. Madden
Has anyone gotten hardware acceleration for the Matrox G400 working under Woody. I am using XFree86 4.1.0-14 with kernel 2.4.18. I keep getting the following message in XFree86.0.log and glxinfo reports direct rendering is disabled. (==) MGA(0): Direct rendering disabled Here is my XFree86Config

system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-07 Thread Rick Pasotto
ii logrotate 3.5.9-7Log rotation utility For several weeks now my system logs have not been getting rotated. All logging is going to the .0 files. syslog, daemon.log, auth.log, etc. remain at zero length and syslog.0, daemon.log.0, auth.log.0, etc keep growing. If I reboot logging go

Re: Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 08:47, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 21:30, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:44:06PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > > > Have a script that starts X for a certain user and begins galeon. Run > > > this as a respawn process u

Re: I wish to ask a silly question on starting an ftp server

2002-04-07 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 09:13, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 22:05, shyamk wrote: > > > > How do you start an FTP server program ? > > This might be a silly question , but it is > > something for which I have no answer. > > > > In our server , we faced a two-fold problem : > >

fatal error: no screens found

2002-04-07 Thread Henry B.
Hello Please help me out here. I dont seem to be able to use my Matrox G450 card with my IIYama 8617 monitor. But I tried another monitor and configured it with 100% the right settings and I got the same error. Installed the latest matrox drivers, but I already compiled the matrox driver in my

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

2002-04-07 Thread Craig Duncan
Anthony DeRobertis writes: > On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 04:19 PM, Craig Duncan wrote: > > > Jeffrey W. Baker writes: > > > >> Well, I use apt-get clean on occasion. The -14 release of XFree86 was > >> several months ago. Would be nice if there was apt-get > >> clean-except-last-versio

Re: Matrox G400 Hardware Acceleration

2002-04-07 Thread Michael J. Madden
As soon as I mailed this I figured it out. I needed to compile in the Matrox driver into my 2.4.18 kernel. I had the AGP support but no Matrox support. Thanks, Mike On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:29:10AM -0500, Michael J. Madden wrote: > Has anyone gotten hardware acceleration for the Matrox G400

Re: installing oracle 9i

2002-04-07 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Why not give SAP DB a try? It's open source. For more info: http:/www.sapdb.org It uses table spaces (called "devspaces" in SAP lingo) and you are also given the ability to reconstruct/synchronize a database based on redo logs. Greetings, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread Alex Bernson
My suggestion would be to use straight sawfish for a window manager. It's lightning fast when used alone. Also you could configure a shortcut key such as ctrl-alt-esc to shutdown. If memory serves all you have to do is replace the gnome-session& in your .xsession with sawfish& On Sun, 2002-04-

daylight savings time

2002-04-07 Thread Cheryl Homiak
My clock has allways automatically done this change, but not this year! I wonder why. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fwd Please Help Me,lost all my icons on bottom of puter???

2002-04-07 Thread Gajude18z
please help if able and thanks, it's just all empty at the bottom , don't know what happened, they were there this am. Thanks Jude [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with Debian 3.0 and UT

2002-04-07 Thread benfarrell
Quoting "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My question is, is there any debian users that have got the > > GOTY version of UT to work on Debian Woody ? > > I have UT GOTY running fine with unstable. > I don't remember if I had trouble at first or not. > Sorry I don't have any suggestions.

Re: Is Mozilla mail brian dead?

2002-04-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 22:08, Kent West wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 03:34, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > > Seriously, a trip to www.joelonprogramming.com should be compulsory for > > This link "could not be found". Maybe the server's down? www.joelonsoftware.com Crispin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:47:38PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > Also I have made this, only containing 'startx'. > > Now if I reboot, I see no X, but a message repeating: > > > > X: user not authorised to run the X server, aborting. > The su -c command should change to a acceptable use

Re: daylight savings time

2002-04-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My clock has allways automatically done this change, but not this > year! I wonder why. Under Linux/Unix, the clock doesn't change; it's always set to Greenwich Mean Time. The value of your TZ environment variable determines how software interprets that

KIZOMBE KAMARA

2002-04-07 Thread peter kamara
FROM KIZOMBE KAMARA DAKAR SENEGAL. TEL:221-6680399. DEAR sir I GOT YOUR ADDRESS WHILE SURFING ON THE NET,I DECIDED TO FORWARD THIS BUSINESS PROPOSAL TO YOU,HOPE IT WILL BENEFIT ALL CONCERN. LET ME TAKE A BRIEF TIME OUT TO INTRODUCE MYSELF TO YOU, I AM KIZOMBE KAMARA THE ONLY SON OF COL. MANASS

Re: daylight savings time

2002-04-07 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:54:24AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > In general, TZ should get set correctly if the /etc/localtime file > contains the correct timezone info file. You can copy a file from > /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime, or use the tzconfig program, > which does essentially the

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > if you are sitting on a machine called foo and ssh into westek > > > foo:/home/westk> xhost +westek > > westek[westk]:/home/westk> export DISPLAY=foo:0.0 > westek[westk]:/home/westk> gqview & > # > # should disply on the machine fo

Re: Building a single user Internet terminal

2002-04-07 Thread Daniel Similä
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 18:52:40 +0200 Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:47:38PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > > Also I have made this, only containing 'startx'. > > > Now if I reboot, I see no X, but a message repeating: > > > > > > X: user not au

Re: daylight savings time

2002-04-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or better yet, create a symbolic link to it. I think a symlink would be better as well, but Debian doesn't do it for some reason: $ ls -li /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific 152487 -rw-r--r--1 root root 1017 Mar 31 10:27

Re: installing oracle 9i

2002-04-07 Thread jim lewis
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:26:43PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > Uh, what? bash is a bourne shell (and then some). ash is probably a > > more "pure" bourne shell; it's not clear to me whether it strives more > > for bourne or POSIX compliance. Who told you debian didn't have a > > bourne shell?

Re: KDE3 and Woody

2002-04-07 Thread Gabor Gludovatz
> > Is Woody going to use KDE3 or do I need an upgrade to Sid? > > KDE3 will likely not end up in woody. Hi, does someone know when will be available the KDE3 to Sid? thx, Gabor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-07 Thread gob
At 09:22 07/04/02 -0700, Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can think of two ways you might get that version of X running: * Look at http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/xserver-common.html to see what other packages you might need -- I'll bet you need xserver-xfree86. Download a

Re: Recent changes in woody broke vmware: AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED?

2002-04-07 Thread Warren Dodge
The VMWare 3.1 beta takes care of the problem. BTW, the updated libc6_2.2.5-4 package was the particular one that VMWare 3.0 couldn't deal with. On Saturday, April 06 2002 23:11, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hello. > > I am still using vmware 2.0.4 on a Debian woody system with kernel 2.4.18. > I

Re: Mutt and From: line

2002-04-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020406 23:54]: > I have been messing with mutt and trying to make it display my name > currectly for FAR too long, and I have gotten no where. Take a look at the sample finds you can find, if you are using google searching for "mutt config example" or so

Re: daylight savings time

2002-04-07 Thread John Hasler
Walt writes: > Or better yet, create a symbolic link to it. That's what Debian does, but copying would be better if you want your clock to work right when /usr/share is not mounted. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

sequencers in Debian Woody

2002-04-07 Thread Juha Erkkila
hello Linux audio users and fellow debianists about a month ago i upgraded my system from Debian Potato to Woody, looking forward to see all the interesting sound applications people have been writing, and which ones of those have been packaged for Debian. overall, i've been fairly happy with the

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

2002-04-07 Thread john
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:01:47AM -0400, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > Sorry to be so long in getting back to the list, but I had been working > at home on a laptop with USB options compiled into the kernel, and > wanted to make sure that using them as modules was not the problem. I > am at wor

ethernet upgrade

2002-04-07 Thread xucaen
Hi all, I am researching upgrading my thinnet 10BaseT to twisted pair 100BaseT. I am loading the ne module from etc/modules. I plan on upgrading my Linksys 10Base cards with Linksys 100base cards. I believe I will not need to load a different module. Is this in fact true? Is there a HOWTO

Re: less and xterm

2002-04-07 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:55:47AM +0200, Patrik Modesto wrote: >Hi! > >The problem: less and zless programs unset options 'Enable Application >Cursor Keys' and 'Enable Application Keypad' in xterm. > Would you consider using aterm instead? Its smaller and lighter than xterm and does you want.

Re: KIZOMBE KAMARA

2002-04-07 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:02:53AM -0700, peter kamara wrote: >FROM KIZOMBE KAMARA >DAKAR SENEGAL. >TEL:221-6680399. How does one cathch these with a spam filter? To exclude emails with the names of West African countries seems a little too broad. Its almost always a Colonel who has recently

Recent Woody ISO

2002-04-07 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings: Yesterday, I pulled down disk 1 of the unofficial Woody. I tried to use it for an install on a friends RedHat boxen. It started well (boot) and we proceeded through the install. Finally, boot options were presented, and we choose

Network connection utility

2002-04-07 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings: Does anyone know of a utility to reconfigure a network quickly from dialup to lan-via-ethernet and back without network breakage? Would like to use it when people bring dialup boxen here to add to my lan for upgrading to Woody. Tha

Re: configure error 10 with dpkg

2002-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:24:22AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 07:15, Andreas Grabner wrote: > > i have got a problem since some weeks which doesn't solve it self and i > > can't solve it. There are more and more packages which exits with > > exit status 10. Because i can't f

Re: more alt key questions

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, April 6, Bob Thibodeau did write: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:16:35PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > First step: see what keysym your alt keys are generating. Run xev (from > > the xbase-clients package), make sure the new window has focus, and hit > > both alt keys. If you w

Re: Chrooted Debian install from base image (was Re: Instalation question: Toshiba TECRA 8000)

2002-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:52:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > - Schlep in a package list from another source that you'd like to run: > > # On other box: > $ dpkg --get-selections > file > $ $EDIT file > > # Transfer file to your new system (floppy, network, carrier

Re: Mutt and From: line

2002-04-07 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:54:36PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have been messing with mutt and trying to make it display my name > currectly for FAR too long, and I have gotten no where. > > I have tried every combination of set realname, set from, my_hdr From: > with every combination o

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-07 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:50:19AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > ii logrotate 3.5.9-7Log rotation utility > > For several weeks now my system logs have not been getting rotated. All > logging is going to the .0 files. syslog, daemon.log, auth.log, etc. > remain at zero length and sysl

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Re: Problems with Debian 3.0 and UT

2002-04-07 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:16:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > My question is, is there any debian users that have got the > > > GOTY version of UT to work on Debian Woody ? > > > > I have UT GOTY running fine with unstable. > > I don't

Reducing font size in X

2002-04-07 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear group - I have just installed a Sid box supposed to run only X and Galeon. I found that the default install leves me with rather large fonts for the applications. I recall having solved this before by exchanging the FontPath for 100dpi and 75dpi in XF86Config. Now I have tried this again witho

Re: IPV6 things...

2002-04-07 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! > > Are YOU using ipv6 ? No ? Well, me neither. It's a nice thing and I > > will use it if I have to, but up to now, everything here is ipv4. > > Well, yes, actually. It's a really nice thing, and I'd recommend using > it voluntarily before you absolutely *have* to. Hmm. Where can I read s

Re: exim and DoD - ipv6 dns lookup

2002-04-07 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello, > > marvin is my mailserver and gateway. It is running exim. When I > > connect to smtp on marvin from another computer (telnet marvin 25), > > exim does an ipv6 dns lookup for "marvin" which fires up my DoD line > > :( > > > > Apr 2 12:55:32 marvin named[2315]: query log on > > Apr 2

ICEWM-Configuration

2002-04-07 Thread Josef Oswald
Sorry if I need to ask this question here, after spending a couple of hours ( trial and error approach) to start IceWM with 4 Program's on 4 different workspaces without much luck I turn to this newsgroup for help :-( this is at the very end of .icewm/winoptions file: xemacs-21.4.6-mule.workspa

Re: fatal error: no screens found

2002-04-07 Thread Simon Hepburn
> (**) MGA(0): Using framebuffer device You aren't using the framebuffer. > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "mga" Comment out this line: ># Option "UseFBDev" "true" > Videoram32768 > EndSecti

Re: Recent Woody ISO

2002-04-07 Thread Brian W. Carver
Woody ISOs can be found at: http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html Not sure if there are more recent ones than that. Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greetings: > > Yesterday, I pulled down disk 1 of the unofficial Woody. I tried to use it > for

Re: Recent changes in woody broke vmware: AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED?

2002-04-07 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 22:11, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hello. > > I am still using vmware 2.0.4 on a Debian woody system with kernel 2.4.18. > I had a working version of vmware, and a recent 'apt-get upgrade' in the > last day or two seems to have caused this error when vmware tries to > restore

sequencers in Debian Woody

2002-04-07 Thread Juha Erkkila
i'm terribly sorry for the re-post, but i just realized i subscribe from LAU with different email-address, and thus this email didn't get through.. (and i even cross-post... argh) -- hello Linux audio users and fellow debianists about a month ago i upgraded my system from Debian Potato to Wo

Re: THANKS

2002-04-07 Thread Andreas Grabner
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:24:22AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Colin Watson solved my similar problem with the following: > > Your debconf database is broken in some exciting way. Backing up and > > moving aside /var/cache/debconf/config.dat and > > /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat may help, although

Re: Recent Woody ISO

2002-04-07 Thread Michael J. Madden
About a week ago, I downloaded the first cd from ftp.fsn.hu. I have a DSL connection, and I noticed it was quite quick even though it is in Hungary. In the past, I've also seen good speed from the Australian site ftp.planetmirror.com. Take a look at http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#testing for

Re: Chrooted Debian install from base image (was Re: Instalation question: Toshiba TECRA 8000)

2002-04-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:52:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > This is a draft of a HOWTO I'm working on for doing a chrooted Debian thanks for taking your time to add this usefull document. > install. It's a method I've found useful over the years. Yep very handy. I started using it when

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dima not sure, but, think you missed my out-of-order ssh commandline inserted back in before your comments below connections between foo and westek is assumed to be over ssh ( am assuming that they had done ssh before having the ( X11 DISPLAY problem lots of things can be done to ru

Re: Recent changes in woody broke vmware: AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED?

2002-04-07 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On 7 Apr 2002, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > ..this error when vmware tries to restore the Win98 session: > > VMware Workstation PANIC: > AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(566): 1081 > > Shoot. I'm having the same problem, and have no solutions. Hello Eric and other Debian users:

Re: Network connection utility

2002-04-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> Does anyone know of a utility to reconfigure a network quickly from dialup to > lan-via-ethernet and back without network breakage? Would like to use it > when people bring dialup boxen here to add to my lan for upgrading to Woody. > run a dhcp server locally and have a copy of dhcp-client on

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2002-04-07 Thread gob
At 10:50 07/04/02 -0700, Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "gob" == gob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gob> If all else fails, I'll see my brother about Woody CD gob> upgrades. If that means that you're certain you're running something older than Woody, then I'd suggest you u

Re: Recent Woody ISO

2002-04-07 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 10:11, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > What I would like to learn is where I can get a very recent copy of Woody for > the next box (a P100)? I could find no mirrors in the US, only over seas > which, even with my bw, was v

Re: Chrooted Debian install from base image (was Re: Instalation question: Toshiba TECRA 8000)

2002-04-07 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 05:52, Karsten M. Self wrote: > This is a draft of a HOWTO I'm working on for doing a chrooted Debian > install. It's a method I've found useful over the years. > Hi, I wonder if you would find this link on the gentoo site useful. IMO it is the most elegant set of instru

Re: Recent Woody ISO

2002-04-07 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 April 2002 12:20 pm, Brian W. Carver wrote: > Woody ISOs can be found at: http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html > > Not sure if there are more recent ones than that. > > Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > H

Re: Linksys Wireless WDT11 w/ Woody

2002-04-07 Thread Peter Hicks
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:29:35AM -0500, Mike Madden wrote: >Thanks for the info. I couldn't find Linux drivers >on the Linksys page. However, it looks like it will >work. It's just a matter of some research and >experimentation. > >Thanks, > >Mike > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are current

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