Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > True to some extent but you are using dangerous words. "local economy" > is crap since Intel export most of low value-added activities to the > outside-US and hires border-less for skill. I bet their security guards > are local but many seem to understand

MPEG Player?

2002-04-14 Thread Dennis Krinke
It seems like smpeg-gtv is no longer a woody package? What mpeg player is recommended? Thanks, Dennis Krinke __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X server crash: could not open default font "fixed"

2002-04-14 Thread aaron rydberg
I am new to debian. When i try to start x it crashes giving me the message "could not open default font 'fixed'". I have checked the FontPath and font directories for fonts.dir and everything appears to be ok after reading the Fonts-HOWTO. Is there an obvious solution to this problem?

Re: MPEG Player?

2002-04-14 Thread tom poe
Hi: Do you know why? thanks, tom Poe Reno, NV http://www.studioforrecording.org/ http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/ http://renotahoe.pm.org/ On Saturday 13 April 2002 22:23, Dennis Krinke wrote: > It seems like smpeg-gtv is no longer a woody package? > What mpeg player is recommended? >

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-14 Thread David Wright
I think problem is Debian "testing" is not released but too stable. So people tends to dive in without knowing how to deal with broken packages. After all it is testing, we need to know how to handle broken package :) This brings out a bit of hypocracy in the typical Debian advocacy argumen

Re: java

2002-04-14 Thread Florentin Ionescu
dpkg -S java Florentin. On 13 Apr 2002, Greg C. Madden wrote : | Date: 13 Apr 2002 18:30:07 -0800 | From: Greg C. Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" | Subject: Re: java | | On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 09:26, Ted wrote: | > Shyamal Prasad wrote: | > > | > > "twager" ==

Re: list archives

2002-04-14 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 16:23, Kent West wrote: > It's been my experience that you need to ignore the notes that say > things like "If you don't choose a group, 'user' will be the default" > and "The last three months will be searched for by default". > Specifically set those two things, and see

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:33:50PM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > >I think problem is Debian "testing" is not released but too stable. So > >people tends to dive in without knowing how to deal with broken > >packages. After all it is testing, we need to know how to handle broken > >package

Re: reply

2002-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 12, 2002, Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:48:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:33:39PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > >lets you set up mailing list replies. Then reply only to the person > >if it's something trivial tha

Re: color text in terminals...

2002-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 12, 2002, Paul Mackinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self declaimed: <...> > > May I suggest: > > > >alias ls="ls --color=auto" > > > > ...which toggles color on and off depending on whether stdout is a > > terminal or a pipe. > > > > > Personally I find it lurid an

Vim question

2002-04-14 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, What is the command to save a file under another name? For example, if I have editted a Makefile and do not have write access, how can I save it as ~/pkMakefile Thanks in advance, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Wrong sender address!

2002-04-14 Thread Andreas Grabner
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:35:07AM -0500, dman wrote: > | >From: Andreas Grabner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | OK, this shows as From: ^ And this is what i want my perfered Address > > That is because the From: header doesn't match the user passing the > message to exim. Is your (An

Contacts for Sybari (was Re: Antigen found HTML/MimeExploit.IFRAME (CA(InoculateIT)) virus)

2002-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 12, 2002, ANTIGEN_INDY1NTM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Antigen for Exchange found Unknown infected with HTML/MimeExploit.IFRAME > (CA(InoculateIT)) virus. > The file is currently Removed. The message, "[Gimp-user] Welcome to my > hometown", was > sent from debian-user and was discove

Re: Vim question

2002-04-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:41:43AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the command to save a file under another name? For example, > if I have editted a Makefile and do not have write access, how can I > save it as ~/pkMakefile :w ~/pkMakefile Note, after the file is written, Vim d

Re: X server crash: could not open default font "fixed"

2002-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
aaron rydberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am new to debian. > When i try to start x it crashes giving me the message > "could not open default font 'fixed'". > > I have checked the FontPath and font directories for > fonts.dir and everything appears to be ok after > reading the Fonts-HOWTO.

starting nfs

2002-04-14 Thread David Smead
I'm not on the list, so please cc me. Why can't I find a simple answer when I search for `starting nfs' on the Debian site? I'd like to get nfs started and show up in some form when I do a ps ax |grep nfs, but I'm stymied. Man nfs is no help either. What am I missing? -- Sincerely, David Sme

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-14 Thread R R Potratz
Where, in all this pabulum of replies, is the answer to the original question??? On 13 Apr 2002 at 22:02, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > True to some extent but you are using dangerous words. "local economy" > is crap since Intel export most of low

Limewire

2002-04-14 Thread traxlend
Does anyone know how to get the LimeWire linux client working in Debian? I keep getting java errors when I use unstable's jdk1.1 package, and Sun's downloadable JRE complains that the file 'libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2' is missing. Any pointers? -- Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: starting nfs

2002-04-14 Thread David Wright
Why can't I find a simple answer when I search for `starting nfs' on the Debian site? I'd like to get nfs started and show up in some form when I do a ps ax |grep nfs, but I'm stymied. Man nfs is no help either. What am I missing? nfs runs in the kernel, so you won't see an "nfs" process wh

upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread Lars Jensen
My woody system has the pre-compiled debian kernel-image 2.4.17-k7. Is support for ext3 compiled into this kernel? If so, is it correct that all I do to upgrad is, tune2fs -j /dev/... and replace ext2 in /ect/fstab by ext3 ? Thanks, Lars. %%%

Re: starting nfs

2002-04-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 12:17:54AM -0700, David Smead wrote: > I'm not on the list, so please cc me. > > Why can't I find a simple answer when I search for `starting nfs' on the > Debian site? I'd like to get nfs started and show up in some form when I > do a ps ax |grep nfs, but I'm stymied. Ma

Re: Anyone know of a good debian mailing list?

2002-04-14 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:58:44PM -0400, Kurt Lieber wrote: > This sure is a great PoliSci list. Anyone know of a similarly good list for > discussions about Debian? Stick around Kurt. My sense is that recent events and the tenor of the times generally have conspired to bring many to the fore

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:49:38PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > > > > Does the system on which you're reading this have an Intel processor? > > > > > > No, but they're not the evil empire. > > > > At least

Re: Need utility to search for duplicate files

2002-04-14 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> My desktop system is used by 3 users, each having a few thousand files > in their home directory. Since we primarily have the same interests, > there are a LOT of duplicates to be found. Earlier I found an mpeg movie > that all three of us had that was 120 MB. That's 240 MB of wasted space. > Unf

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread David Wright
My woody system has the pre-compiled debian kernel-image 2.4.17-k7. Is support for ext3 compiled into this kernel? I know it is compiled into 2.4.18-k7. To see for your kernel, look for the module: /lib/modules/2.4.17-k7/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o If so, is it correct that all I do to upgrad is

Re: Anyone know of a good debian mailing list?

2002-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 14, 2002, Eric d'Alibut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:58:44PM -0400, Kurt Lieber wrote: > So perhaps we should be grateful for the generosity of our > self-appointed moralists? As for Debian-related questions, just direct > them squarely at Karsten, who seems

Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm

2002-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 13, 2002, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do i get gdm to run on the vnc server when a client connects? It is > just going inot the session How are you launching the VNC server and client? You need to provide more information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kms

Re: starting nfs

2002-04-14 Thread David Smead
David, Thanks for the quick reply. I have a small network with several RedHat machines, a Slackware machine, and now a Debian machine. I'm considering migrating all to Debian because I think apt-get is the best way to maintain. Using nfs is my first big stumbling block. Server henry has been a

Re: [WARNING] Broken libxml2 2.4.19-2 in unstable

2002-04-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> libxml2 2.4.19-2 in unstable is broken. In fact, it sounds like any package which was built against it might cause trouble with other version of libxml2. The change was reverted in 2.4.19-3, but please check if bug reports on pingus etc. are valid. The most important question is: do package

Re: Vim question SOLVED

2002-04-14 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 07:57, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:41:43AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > What is the command to save a file under another name? For example, > > if I have editted a Makefile and do not have write access, how can I > > save it as ~/pkMa

Re: MPEG Player?

2002-04-14 Thread Patrick Lane
I suggest MPlayer. It's not a debian package, nor will it be, so you have to compile it yourself. It does have a lot of supported file formats though (divx, mpeg, avi, dvd, etc...). www.mplayerhq.hu --Patrick On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 22:23, Dennis Krinke wrote: > It seems like smpeg-gtv is no long

OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 14 Apr 2002, Brian Nelson wrote: > Oh yeah? Then will does your Intel chip likely say it was assembled in > Malaysia or Costa Rica? And how many of Intel's engineers are actually > American? Actually, all Intel chips are manufactured up the street from where I live. Most Intel engineers are

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Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, David Wright wrote: > > My woody system has the pre-compiled debian kernel-image 2.4.17-k7. > > Is support for ext3 compiled into this kernel? > > I know it is compiled into 2.4.18-k7. To see for your kernel, look for > the module: /lib/modules/2.4.17-k7/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread David Wright
I think ext3 *must* be compiled into the kernel, not as a module, if you want / to be ext3 Oh, yes, this is certainly correct. (I never thought about this because I've never thought to use ext3 for /). And, based on my experience with the stock 2.4.18-k7, I would assume that none of the Debi

Re: exim config b0rken

2002-04-14 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:44:20AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > my problem is that exim isn't sending out *any* email, > (...) > i'm attaching my exim.conf file, and hopefully it can help you > help me. There is no attachment. I recommend to run eximconfig, at least for me it worked well.

equating groups

2002-04-14 Thread David Wright
Is there some way to make all members of one group members of another? In detail, my situation is this. I have a large number of users in an LDAP database, all with primary gid=users. I would like to give them access to floppy drives. One way is useradd username floppy for every username -

RE: S3 TRIO 32 and XFree86?

2002-04-14 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
I have just installed xserver-s3 and used Debian conf to configure it. When I try and run it I get the following: Is it possible for you to send me your XF86Config file? so I can compare it to mine. How much memory does your card have? XFree86 Version 3.3.6a / X Window System (protocol Version 11,

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 14, 2002, Lars Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My woody system has the pre-compiled debian kernel-image 2.4.17-k7. > Is support for ext3 compiled into this kernel? $ ls /lib/modules//kernel/fs/ext3.o ...if it's modular, else: $ grep ext3 /proc/filesystems ...if it's bu

Re: reply

2002-04-14 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:51:10 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > ... > How about a recipie to filter list mail, run it through formail, add a > "Reply-to:" header (appropriate to the list), and dump the mail to an Something like :0 * ^TOlists\.debian\.org { RESENTFROM=`formail -zx "Resent-F

Re: Wrong sender address!

2002-04-14 Thread Brett Parker
Andreas Grabner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After reading in my Exim book (page 1 to 10) i know where a lot of my > mails go they are bounced to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" which does not exist in > Internet (i hope). So my problem is still how to get the right Envelope > Sender which would be something l

Re: Limewire

2002-04-14 Thread Karsten Heymann
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020414 10:16]: > Does anyone know how to get the LimeWire linux client working in > Debian? I keep getting java errors when I use unstable's jdk1.1 > package, and Sun's downloadable JRE complains that the file > 'libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2' is missing. > Any

Re: Microsoft Access

2002-04-14 Thread Karsten Heymann
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020414 10:14]: > > Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, > > is there any software that can interact with Access? MySQL (backend) Just jokin', Karsten -- Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CAU-University

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:53:48AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > >I think ext3 *must* be compiled into the kernel, not as a module, if you > >want / to be ext3 > > Oh, yes, this is certainly correct. (I never thought about this because > I've never thought to use ext3 for /). And, based on my e

Re: Limewire & J2SE support

2002-04-14 Thread hanasaki
The J2SE 1.4 download for Linux - from Sun - Works great. www.javasoft.com Karsten Heymann wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020414 10:16]: Does anyone know how to get the LimeWire linux client working in Debian? I keep getting java errors when I use unstable's jdk1.1 pa

Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm

2002-04-14 Thread hanasaki
The VNCSever was installed using apt-get - from Woody - as root "vncserver :0" The Client is the current download for Win My need is to make sure GDM ALWAYS comes up. Cant have people dropping into a running X session by accident. FYI: vncserver -kill :0 is leaving beh

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-14 Thread dman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:33:50PM -0700, David Wright wrote: | | >I think problem is Debian "testing" is not released but too stable. So | >people tends to dive in without knowing how to deal with broken | >packages. After all it is testing, we need to know how to handle broken | >package :) |

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-14 Thread hanasaki
Could someone define what a "release" constitutes? What is it about "Potato" that makes it "old" - other than the kernel. dman wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:33:50PM -0700, David Wright wrote: | | >I think problem is Debian "testing" is not released but too stable. So | >people tends to

Re: Limewire

2002-04-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:24:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know how to get the LimeWire linux client working in > Debian? I keep getting java errors when I use unstable's jdk1.1 > package, and Sun's downloadable JRE complains that the file > 'libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2' is miss

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-14 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Nathan E Norman quotation: > > Wal-Mart sells Chinese crap which is cheaper in price and quality than > goods produced elsewhere (like, here). And as a result, gives Chinese people employment that they otherwise might not have. Americans average $36,000 a year; Chinese average $4,000. Sp

Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm

2002-04-14 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 08:36:06 -0500 hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The VNCSever was installed using apt-get > - from Woody > - as root "vncserver :0" I use display :1 (virtual) for vncserver, it uses its own X server and I don't want vncserver and xfree squabbling over territoria

Re: FW: Kernel identification

2002-04-14 Thread Simon Hepburn
Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hey, I do not know who invented L and R. That is really problem in > modern world. They sound same to me :) Problem is that English is a > lingua-franca of computer world and I do not speak/spell well. > ("frustrated") Your english is excellent, I've seen far funnier mistake

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-14 Thread John Hasler
hanasaki writes: > Could someone define what a "release" constitutes? What is it about > "Potato" that makes it "old" - other than the kernel. The kernel is easy to upgrade, and most people have no need for a newer one anyway. It's everything else, especially libc6. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-14 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 08:46:29 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > Yeah, that's the quandry. The solution, IMO, is to kick out a stable > release at least once a year. That way stable is never more than a > year old, and then its age isn't an issue. potato was ancient more I'm a relati

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-14 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin David Wright quotation: > > I am certainly not an advanced Debian package manager, but I am an > incredibly advanced Unix user by any measure. I think it's a little > disingenuous to claim that people like me shouldn't be using unstable. I can't speak for anybody else, but every time I'v

Re: color text in terminals...

2002-04-14 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > - I've got a copy elsewhere (even if this means shipping 300 MiB over > a DSL line for three hours, as I did this week) > > - I know what I want to have happen to the files. > > - I've tested the procedure on a test case first. > > When I punch ,

X 4.1.0 (woody) stuck in 640x480

2002-04-14 Thread Ryan Jordan
I downloaded Woody using a net-inst disk with the bf2.4 kernel, and I've downloaded and compiled the NVIDIA drivers from www.nvidia.com for my Geforce 3. X seems to work alright, but it starts off in 640x480 resolution and I can't switch using CTRL+ALT++ or CTRL+ALT+-. When I installed, I inadverte

Help recovering from mistake in sources list

2002-04-14 Thread stan
I acidently copied over /etc/apt/sources.list from another machien yesterday without copying over the /etc/apt/preferences file :-( The sources.list contained a reference to unstable, so, needles to say I hosed my nice workign woody machine. A helpful list meber sugeset that I try removing the uns

no /etc/modules,.........huh ?

2002-04-14 Thread Courtney Thomas
Greetings ! I've recently added 2.4.17 to the list of kernels I'm running on a single machine and find that somehow I've managed to foul up the modules so that even when I create a link to /usr/src/linux and reinstall from scratch, my module installation is faulty. For example, if I reboot s

Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm

2002-04-14 Thread hanasaki
:1 gives the same result :( The desired outcome is for the GDM to come up after the client enters the vncserver password. The current outcome is that it drops right into an X session under the ID of the vnc server running. Carlos Sousa wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 08:36:06 -0500 hanasaki <[EM

Installing & Getting Rid of gdm in Woody

2002-04-14 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! I am faced with the following problem: prag:~# apt-get install gdm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded gdm 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1524kB of archives. After unp

Re: equating groups

2002-04-14 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin David Wright quotation: > > Is there some way to make all members of one group members of another? If ALL members of one group are going to be members of another, then why have two groups? Change all the files owned by one group to be owned by the other. > very scalable. So what I would

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-14 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin hanasaki quotation: > Could someone define what a "release" constitutes? What is it about > "Potato" that makes it "old" - other than the kernel. Massive dependency changes. Such as a major system library, which would require replacing many or most packages on a system in order to upgrad

Re: Microsoft Access

2002-04-14 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 14, 2002 at 10:25:13AM +0200, Karsten Heymann wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020414 10:14]: > > > > Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, > > > > is there any software that can interact with Access? > > MySQL (backend) > > Just jokin', >

[SOLVED] Re: Unix(LF) files to MSDOS(CRLF) and vice versa

2002-04-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > How can I use rpl (or any other suitable command) to transform the > > "\n" character between Unix and Msdos formats ?? rpl seems to be > > the right tool, but I can't figure out how to specify that strings. > > Lots of good answers, let's not forget trusty old tr, it's feeling > neglected. The

Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > Please note you'll have to upgrade many packages in order to keep > > using them with a 2.4 kernel, I recall now of pppd but there are > > others. Check the docs in the kernel tarball. > > No, he's already running woody, which supports kernel 2.4 natively. > Only when running potato are package

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread Robin Putters
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 11:38, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, David Wright wrote: > > > > My woody system has the pre-compiled debian kernel-image 2.4.17-k7. > > > Is support for ext3 compiled into this kernel? > > > > I know it is compiled into 2.4.18-k7. To see for your kernel,

koffice doesn't work anymore

2002-04-14 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi everybody, I upgraded koffice to the most recent version in woody (1.1.1-6, before IIRC 1.1-beta) and most applications don't even start any more. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ kword kword: relocation error: /usr/lib/kde2/libkwordpart.so: undefined symbol: __16KFormulaDocumentP17KActionColle

4/14/2002 Woody hangs init 1 and reboot of hernel nfs

2002-04-14 Thread hanasaki
I just did an apt-get update / upgrade on woody (kernel 2.4.17) rebooting works fine init 1 and then ^D hangs on loading the nfs kernel code. Any thoughts? Thanks, -- = = [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problem with jigdo file in woody

2002-04-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi; i've been downloading woody images using jigdo. Got all the way to number 8 using the probided link from the debian website ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/woody/jigdo/woody-i386-4.raw.jigdo Jigdo-lite aborts with 11:13:36 (0.00 B/s) - `woody-i386-8.raw.template' saved [181

Re: no /etc/modules,.........huh ?

2002-04-14 Thread Dale Hair
My modules reside in /lib/modules/ On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 11:10, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Greetings ! > > I've recently added 2.4.17 to the list of kernels I'm running on a > single machine and find that somehow I've managed to foul up the modules > so that even when I create a link to /usr/src/

Re: Help, I hosed my machine's software selection :-(

2002-04-14 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:49:44PM -0400, stan wrote: > I made teh stupid mistake of copying /etc/apt/sources from one machine > to another. Problem is, I did not copy the preferences file also, and > the new sources had a line referencing unstable. > > I then used dselect, and it upgraded 200= p

Re: MPEG Player?

2002-04-14 Thread traxlend
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:36:31AM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: > I suggest MPlayer. It's not a debian package, nor will it be, so you > have to compile it yourself. It does have a lot of supported file > formats though (divx, mpeg, avi, dvd, etc...). > > www.mplayerhq.hu But, you can build a Debia

sound

2002-04-14 Thread Robert James Onions
Hello, I am preparing to install debian and wonder: is soundblaster audigy supported? If so, great! If not is there an UPDATED list of high end soundcards available? Thankyou very much. _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread traxlend
Here's a related question: when will those .journal files go away? I have a RH7.2 system which was installed with ext3 and a Debian system which I upgraded to ext3. The RH7.2 has no .journal files, but the Debian machine still has them, even after a few reboots. -- Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm

2002-04-14 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:07:19 -0500 hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :1 gives the same result :( > > The desired outcome is for the GDM to come up after the client enters > the vncserver password. The current outcome is that it drops right > into an X session under the ID of the vnc server r

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Shawn McMahon quotation: > Meanwhile, a few less girl babies get drowned because their parents > can't feed them. As I understand it, Chinese families that drown their baby daughters do so because the Chinese government limits them to one child, and a son is considered more desireable in

Re: Help recovering from mistake in sources list

2002-04-14 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:58:49 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > scrollkeeper-update: relocation error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: > undefined symbol: pthread_once... > What can I do to fix this? It seems the libxml library on your system is the one that was found to be buggy yesterday on un

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread Steve Juranich
> > I know it is compiled into 2.4.18-k7. To see for your kernel, look for > > the module: /lib/modules/2.4.17-k7/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o Actually, this is not true. If using the *stock* 2.4.18-k7 image, it relies on an initrd.img (i.e., and initial ramdisk image). I'm not entirely clear about w

Re: X 4.1.0 (woody) stuck in 640x480

2002-04-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Ryan" == Ryan Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ryan> On another note, my mouse pointer frequently and erratically Ryan> moves around, usually to the bottom left corner of the Ryan> screen. When it does this, it also thinks i've pressed some Ryan> button (i think button 3) an

Re: X 4.1.0 (woody) stuck in 640x480

2002-04-14 Thread Ryan Jordan
oh whoops. here it is... stopping gpm worked, now my mouse is sane! yay. --- Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ryan" == Ryan Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > Ryan> On another note, my mouse pointer > frequently and erratically > Ryan> moves around, usually to the bo

Re: Limewire

2002-04-14 Thread jeff
a decent alternative to lime is gtk-gnutella...while not as fancy and pretty as lime, it seems to do the job for me. (unstable) apt-get install gtk-gnutella good luck! -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-14 Thread Noah Sombrero
>Actually, all Intel chips are manufactured up the street from where I >live. Most Intel engineers are Oregonian. As far as companies, >especially tech companies, go, you just don't get more Oregonian than >Intel. I am sure that intel chips are designed here, not far from the Burlingame distric

My woody machine has gnome-gv stuck in it's craw, and it's chocking to death

2002-04-14 Thread stan
Yeseterday I made the mistake of copying over /etc/apt/sources.list from a working machine to another working machine. But I forgot to copu /etc/apt/preferences :-( The I turned dselect loose. Big mistake. Lot' s of stuff is broken gnome, gdm, and who knows what else. A friendly listmsmber suge

Re: Installing & Getting Rid of gdm in Woody

2002-04-14 Thread Holger Rauch
Rehi! Replying to my own post. Here's what I tried: I "apt-get remove"d fluxbox. That worked without any problems. I commented out "set -e" in the "/var/lib/dpkg/info/gdm.prerm" script, since I guessed it might be the culprit. Reran "apt-get remove gdm" ==> same problem (hung after printing "Remo

Re: no /etc/modules,.........huh ?

2002-04-14 Thread dman
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:10:59AM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote: | Greetings ! | | I've recently added 2.4.17 to the list of kernels I'm running on a | single machine and find that somehow I've managed to foul up the modules | so that even when I create a link to /usr/src/linux and reinstall fro

Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm

2002-04-14 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 21:57, hanasaki wrote: > How do i get gdm to run on the vnc server when a client connects? It is > just going inot the session It sounds to me like what you want to do is not have VNC start gdm, but the other way around. Gdm spawns, and respawns, X servers. Xvnc is an X serv

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread Lars Jensen
Robin, How do I place the module on the initrd? Thanks, Lars. On 14 Apr 2002, Robin Putters wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 11:38, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > My woody system has the pre-compiled debian kernel-image 2.4.17-k7. > > > > Is

(samba) nmbd local address used for broadcast messages

2002-04-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hello, I've got a machine in a (fairly typical) NAT gateway role for a small home LAN. I recently set it up as a samba PDC to allow home directory sharing for the windows machines. I often see in my firewall logs that packets sent to the broadcast address of my (RFC1918) lan but with the originat

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > Here's a related question: when will those .journal files go away? > I have a RH7.2 system which was installed with ext3 and a Debian > system which I upgraded to ext3. The RH7.2 has no .journal files, > but the Debian machine still has them, even after a few

Re: (no subject)

2002-04-14 Thread David Bell
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 18:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how do i get a full screen ? I think you want framebuffer. Is that answer vague enough? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: starting nfs

2002-04-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 01:16:50AM -0700, David Smead wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. I have a small network with several RedHat > machines, a Slackware machine, and now a Debian machine. I'm considering > migrating all to Debian because I think apt-get is the best way to > maintain. Using

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Re: S3 TRIO 32 and XFree86?

2002-04-14 Thread Siward de Groot
Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > > I have just installed xserver-s3 and used Debian conf to configure it. > When I try and run it I get the following: > (**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000 > (--) S3: Too little memory for mode "800x600" > (--) S3: NB. 1 scan line is required for the hardware

Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm

2002-04-14 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 14 April 2002 5:56 pm, Carlos Sousa wrote: [snip] > So it would seem your unix machine must have as much instances of > vncserver running as you have users (each on its own virtual display, I > presume). gdm is still not required because user selection and > authentication is done on the

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Ethernet problem

2002-04-14 Thread DSC Siltec
I have an interesting Ethernet problem. I'm on Potato, dually set up -- on two different HDDs with a Win98 box. I use loadlin to boot me up to linux, so I actually have a windows menu-bar item to bring me into linux. It's the way I like it, since I *worry* about dual-boot systems when you have

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