Re: Woody Release questions...

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When woody is officially "released", does that mean it will eventually > be called "stable"?? Yes > If so, does that mean that having "testing" in my sources.list will > actually try to grab packages from the next release? Yes. If you don't want

Re: route goes on reboot ?

2002-05-02 Thread David Smead
Put the info in /etc/network/interfaces. Mine looks like: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.8.30 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.8.0 broadcast 192.168.8.255 gateway 192.168.8.254 Technically you don't need all the fields but I put them

RE: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-02 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Get memtest86. I was having some whacky problems on the PC I'm using right this second, and memtest86 showed that I had some bad memory. I randomly pulled one of the three memory modules and retested, and it passed the test. It's been stable as a rock ever since. http://www.memtest86.com/

Re: route goes on reboot ?

2002-05-02 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello David Smead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BTW, if I have multiple routing table, where can I define so that it will work upon reboot? On Wed, 1 May 2002 21:59:25 -0700 (PDT) David Smead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put the info in /etc/network/interfaces. Mine looks like: > > auto eth0 > iface e

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 09:11 pm, ben wrote: > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 08:17 pm, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > > Or, better yet, mail the winmodem back to Wal-Mart, with a "thanks > > > anyway, bought a Courier v.Everything external on eBay for $20 >

Help... "RPC: Sendmsg returned error 101"

2002-05-02 Thread Johannes Angeldorff
Is there someone who could please help me on this matter... I run a RedHat 7.0 web server (will migrate it soon to debian). I don't know exactly what has happened to it, but now when I restart the server, I get this error: "RPC: Sendmsg returned error 101" And the box doesn't seem to connet to

Re: route goes on reboot ?

2002-05-02 Thread David Smead
Someone more knowledgeable than me will correct this if I'm wrong, but I think /etc/rc.boot gets executed after everything else. You can put route commmands there. Then again, you need to worry about what happens on a networking restart. If that clears the routing table then you'll need to call yo

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread craigw
On Wed May 01, 2002 at 08:17:06PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > > Or, better yet, mail the winmodem back to Wal-Mart, with a "thanks > > anyway, bought a Courier v.Everything external on eBay for $20 instead." > > Better still, purchase a better

RE: Help... "RPC: Sendmsg returned error 101"

2002-05-02 Thread Wolftales
Are you running NFS? What are your NFS configurations on this system? It may be that the system is failing out on NFS and not getting to the network config? This error message is related to NFS and portmap. -Original Message- From: Johannes Angeldorff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wedne

Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-02 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 2 May 2002, andrej hocevar wrote: > Hello, > I'm helping a friend configure his first Debian/Linux box. He's got adsl > access to the internet but I don't really know what it is -- if I'm not > mistaken, he needs kernel 2.4 with pppoe support and the pppoe programs > (pppoe, pppoeconf, ...

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Um, http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/ should help clear it all up for ya :) Oh, yeah, I remember him now. The only other person I've talked to with a *sane* view about POTS modems. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 1 May 2002, craigw wrote: > > Better still, purchase a better modem at WalMart, put the sound card > > claiming to be a modem in the modem box, and return it saying it was > > defective for a refund. Break even. > > > LOL > I love it! That's a good one. I used to do that with the Wilsonv

Re: Konqueror takes forever to load

2002-05-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I normally use Mozilla for the web and a shell for local file browsing > on a Gnome desktop(up to date testing system), but occasionally I want > to use Konqueror for one reason or another. The problem is that it > takes 8 or 9 *minutes* to load. If I q

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread craigw
On Wed May 01, 2002 at 11:01:05PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2002, craigw wrote: > > > > Better still, purchase a better modem at WalMart, put the sound card > > > claiming to be a modem in the modem box, and return it saying it was > > > defective for a refund. Break even

Re: route goes on reboot ?

2002-05-02 Thread John F
Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello David Smead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BTW, if I have multiple routing table, where can I define so that it will work upon reboot? To set 'special' routing instructions use the 'up', 'down', 'pre-uo' and 'post-down' options in /etc/networks/interfaces. I've found them

Re: Abiword font problem. SOLVED!

2002-05-02 Thread Lars Jensen
The problem seemed to be that xfs, the X fonts server, was installed. xfs apparently isn't needed when running XFree4?! Thanks for to anyone that replied. Lars. On Wed, 1 May 2002, Mike Alonzo wrote: Lars Jensen wrote this message last Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:17:53PM -0700: > Abiword crashes

Re: Anyone using ulogd?

2002-05-02 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:30:24PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Alan Poulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wednesday, May 01, 2002, 2:42:15 PM, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > > > Okay. I lied a bit here. I compiled from source but I used > > > dpkg-buildpackage, so it applied the Debian patches.

Logrotate and mail

2002-05-02 Thread Adar Dembo
I have a question regarding the use of logrotate. I rotate syslog, apache/error.log, and auth.log weekly. I would like to have the old logs e-mailed, then compressed. As such, I am using the 'mail' command. However, can I use mail to mail a log to a system user? That is, a user specified in /etc/p

RE: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread Wolftales
colloquial called the "F" by Fry sticker or tag ;) I agree, I'll never touch something with one of those tags on it. -Original Message- From: craigw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 11:19 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited On W

Re: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-02 Thread dkotian3
Thanks , Could someone help in how to add network drivers for debian. The network card seems to be RTL8129. Thanks and Regards Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote You'll have to put a driver for your nic in /etc/modules. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 2 May 2002

Re: Abiword font problem. SOLVED!

2002-05-02 Thread Peter Whysall
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 07:22, Lars Jensen wrote: > The problem seemed to be that xfs, the X fonts server, was installed. xfs > apparently isn't needed when running XFree4?! That's true. If you load the freetype and type1 modules, and have the appropriate FontPath entries in XF86Config-4, you can

Re: Abiword font problem. SOLVED!

2002-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:18:58AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 07:22, Lars Jensen wrote: > > The problem seemed to be that xfs, the X fonts server, was installed. xfs > > apparently isn't needed when running XFree4?! > > That's true. If you load the freetype and type1 mod

Re: rlogin without a password

2002-05-02 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 11:47 pm, David Z Maze wrote: > Run ssh-keygen(1) to generate a public/private keypair. These should > wind up in $HOME/.ssh, as identity and identity.pub. Use scp to copy > the identity.pub file to the target machine, and cat it on to the end > of $HOME/.ssh/authorized_

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 1 May 2002, craigw wrote: > They always are at Fry's. I wouldn't touch anything there that shows any > signs of having been opened before. Returned stuff goes straight back > on the shelf AFAIK, maybe with a little Tape or new shrinkwrap. If it's been opened before, I open it myself and m

Re: rlogin without a password

2002-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Long time no hear! On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:25:47AM +0100, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 11:47 pm, David Z Maze wrote: > > > Run ssh-keygen(1) to generate a public/private keypair. These should > > wind up in $HOME/.ssh, as identity and identity.pub. Use scp to copy > > the

RE: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-02 Thread STOJICEVIC Edi EXPSIA
>Thanks , >Could someone help in how to add network drivers for debian. >The network card seems to be RTL8129. > >Thanks and Regards >Deepak Hi, What an ifconfig give you ? Did you compile it in the kernel ? Did you configure your /etc/network/interfaces file ? Give us more informations...

mirroring the base install

2002-05-02 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, I would like to mirror the base part of debian ftp server. I just have red the mirror page from debian.org but I don't find the list of files I need. Any idea ? Thanks François -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: preferences cahnges, once woddu becomes stable?

2002-05-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:52:12AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > So, assuming I want to keep reasonbly up to date, with current packages, > > what changes should I make to this, once woody goes gold (stable0? > > > > rather than use the generic "stable" "testing" use the actual relea

Re: crashme

2002-05-02 Thread Ulf Rompe
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately, this machine is down for about every week (if not > five days). I don't know what happens. I'm still looking for the > culprit. BTW, some of the oops files said about Java and mgetty > processes that caused the oops. It makes me wonder... Check

Re: How to keep Woody update when not in stable release?

2002-05-02 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, This is what I am worried about. If the fixed packages of woody take a couple of days before dropping into the official woody archive. Then my woody system will become vulnerable in this period. I am kinda paranoid in this way? On 26 Apr 2002 10:29:28 -070

Re: [2002-04-30] Release Status Update

2002-05-02 Thread Karl Hammar
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Well, not the best news, but this means we have a week or two before > release in which testing is going to be entirely frozen with no changes. > This seems like an excellent opportunity to do final testing of woody. > It would be gre

kernel error messages

2002-05-02 Thread Rick Pasotto
I've been getting some errors from the kernel. Should I send them to someone and if so, who? Here is an example: May 2 06:02:03 tc kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0008 May 2 06:02:03 tc kernel: printing eip: May 2 06:02:03 tc kernel: c012aec4 M

Fwd: Samba Messaging

2002-05-02 Thread Tinus Kotze
Hi(I have posted this message a while back, but I'm not sure if it was not received or if no-one could help me.Thought I'd try again) I converted my system to debian a while back and got the following problem. I can't receive/send messages while i can pretty much do anything else. I am connecte

reiserfs bug in woody 2.4 boot floppys

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Westgate
Hi, I think I've found a bug in the woody bf2.4 disks. for some reason partitions formated reiserfs using this disk are auto detected by the kernel as vfat :( I think this may have something to do with the previous format of the disk (which was vfat win98 in this case). Anyway after spending a

Re: [2002-04-30] Release Status Update

2002-05-02 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 12:01, Karl Hammar wrote: > Well, I installed recently on a i486 class box, and when the bf-kernel > booted the screen went blank. I've done some vmware installations and one on a real system (pentium firewall/gateway box), used disabled framebuffer (without knowing it at the

Re: rlogin without a password

2002-05-02 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Thursday 02 May 2002 9:51 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Long time no hear! > I've been too busy in the garden :-) > > > > Notice the extra line: 'Creating SSH1 key' > > !? Perhaps you didn't purge everything? As far as I can see from > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.postinst this should be dependent o

Re: kernel error messages

2002-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:06:41AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I've been getting some errors from the kernel. Should I send them to > someone and if so, who? > > Here is an example: > > May 2 06:02:03 tc kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference > at virtual address 0008 > M

Re: rlogin without a password

2002-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:22:24AM +0100, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > On Thursday 02 May 2002 9:51 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > [ snip, snip, snip ] > > > > > and type it in, rather than from a telnet session. i.e. The telnet > > > session produces: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh-add > > > Could not

Re: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-02 Thread Kapil Khosla
On Thu, 2 May 2002 12:29:44 +0500 (IST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks , > Could someone help in how to add network drivers for debian. > The network card seems to be RTL8129. > > Thanks and Regards > Deepak RTL8129/39.. Drivers have an excellent support these days. I have been using mine

Multi-Gnome-Terminal Copy/Paste

2002-05-02 Thread Carlos A P Gomes
Hi, I'm using Woody/Gnome/Sawfish/kernel2.2.20 on my desktop and on my notebook, and use Multi-Gnome-Terminal very often but I can only copy/paste from a Gnome App to Multi Gnome Terminal and not from Multi Gnome Terminal to a Gnome App like Gvim or AbiWord. Inside Multi Gnome Terminal I can cop

Re: debian.org down?

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
I had problems with http.us.debian.org day before yesterday, and again today. apt-get update returns either "Error reading from server Remote end closed connection" on several of the gets, or it succeeds but takes forever, but the next one goes fast. Yesterday it was fine. The problem is happeni

Re: Multi-Gnome-Terminal Copy/Paste

2002-05-02 Thread Ulf Rompe
Carlos A P Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can only copy/paste from a Gnome App to Multi Gnome Terminal and > not from Multi Gnome Terminal to a Gnome App like Gvim or AbiWord. > Inside Multi Gnome Terminal I can copy/paste to any application. Is > it a bug or is there any configuration I'm

Re: preferences cahnges, once woddu becomes stable?

2002-05-02 Thread stan
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:52:12AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > So, assuming I want to keep reasonbly up to date, with current packages, > > what changes should I make to this, once woody goes gold (stable0? > > > > rather than use the generic "stable" "testing" use the actual relea

Re: Abiword font problem. SOLVED!

2002-05-02 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:58:25AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:18:58AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 07:22, Lars Jensen wrote: > > > The problem seemed to be that xfs, the X fonts server, was installed. xfs > > > apparently isn't needed when

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-02 Thread Quenten Griffith
Well I think my camera and my usb mass storage module don't get along. I am running Woody with a self compiled 2-4-18 kernel with the USB mass storage module, when I plug the camera in it locks up the whole computer can not do anything to it, could not even ssh or telnet in from another comput

weird problem with apt.

2002-05-02 Thread Tuomo Karhu
while trying to install anything at all apt displays these lines.   Reading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneCorrecting dependencies...E: Internal Error in pkgMinimizeUpgradeE: Unable to minimize the upgrade set   and same when trying to install something with dselect. i

Re: preferences cahnges, once woddu becomes stable?

2002-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:09:07AM -0400, stan wrote: > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:52:12AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > rather than use the generic "stable" "testing" use the actual > > release name "potato" "woody" "sid". That way you are always > > running exactly what you mean to be ru

Re: Multi-Gnome-Terminal Copy/Paste

2002-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:47:32PM +0200, Ulf Rompe wrote: > Carlos A P Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can only copy/paste from a Gnome App to Multi Gnome Terminal and > > not from Multi Gnome Terminal to a Gnome App like Gvim or AbiWord. > > Inside Multi Gnome Terminal I can copy/paste to

Re: Galeon takes two tries to start

2002-05-02 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:14:17PM +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 19:52, Roach, Mark R. wrote: > > I am running galeon on an old armada laptop. Often when I start galeon > > up, it shows up on the screen for a moment, and then disappears. This is > > if I run it from the g

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > > > Or mail it to Rick Moen. :-) > > Who? Go to Google. Type in "rick moen modem". Hit "I'm Feeling Lucky." -- Join the Sergio Brandano Fan Club: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/debian-user-199910/msg00981.html pgpbo4hjfDSC5.pgp Descripti

Re: How to keep Woody update when not in stable release?

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Patrick Hsieh quotation: > > If the fixed packages of woody take a couple of days before dropping > into the official woody archive. Then my woody system will become > vulnerable in this period. I am kinda paranoid in this way? Your system doesn't "become vulnerable" the minute a patch is

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-02 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:30:06AM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Well I think my camera and my usb mass storage module don't get along. > I am running Woody with a self compiled 2-4-18 kernel with the USB mass > storage module, when I plug the camera in it locks up the whole computer > can n

Re: preferences cahnges, once woddu becomes stable?

2002-05-02 Thread dman
(stan's reply was off-list but I think my response should be on-list because I may be wrong :-)) On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:12:03AM -0400, stan wrote: | On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 12:20:46PM -0500, dman wrote: | > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 12:49:47PM -0400, stan wrote: | > | Thinking just a bit ahaead

Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Michael D. Crawford quotation: > Get memtest86. I was having some whacky problems on the PC I'm using right > this second, and memtest86 showed that I had some bad memory. I randomly > pulled one of the three memory modules and retested, and it passed the > test. It's been stable as a

lan problems

2002-05-02 Thread Pierre
Hi all My debian pc cannot connect to my two other pc's that run win98, however when i boot it under win98 the lan works fine. I must mention that this is my second install of debian on this pc -- the lan worked fine on the first instal-- which makes me think i am doing something very basic wro

RE: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-02 Thread dkotian3
Hi, >>What an ifconfig give you ? ifconfig eth0 eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found >>Did you compile it in the kernel ? I did it, and boot with the new kernel. I have both 2.2.19 installed from CD and also 2.4.18 (source from kernel.org). When I do uname -a, I c

Re: lan problems

2002-05-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020502 16:00]: > My debian pc cannot connect to my two other pc's that run win98, however > when i boot it under win98 the lan works fine. Could you specify "cannot connect"? Do you are unable to use samba shares? Or does not even a ping get through? -- cu Alex

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-02 Thread Quenten Griffith
Is the source or even image file for that under Sid? David Roundy wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:30:06AM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: Well I think my camera and my usb mass storage module don't get along. I am running Woody with a self compiled 2-4-18 kernel with the USB mass storage mo

Apt from behind a firewall

2002-05-02 Thread Johan van der Walt
I am trying to use apt-get from behind a firewall but am not sure exactly how to set up the apt.conf file. When I normally ftp to a site outside the firewall the procedure is as follows: ftp uuu.vvv.www.xx userid: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@uuu.vvv.www.xx passwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@firewallpasswd (1) Shoul

Re: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-02 Thread Elizabeth Barham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Also, when I do make config, I select all default. How do I know, > what card, I have. Depends on your machine's bus. For pci, use "lspci". It has a verbose option which can be increased with more v's, as in lspci -vv With an ISA bus (and PNP devices), use pnpdump

shaper problem

2002-05-02 Thread Baris Metin
Hello; When I try to start shaper I get the fallowing : tiger:/var/www# /etc/init.d/shaper start Starting CBQ traffic shaping: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument RTNETLINK answers: Invali

Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread Daniel D Jones
Running testing. Gimp, installed via apt-get, will not allow me to save a GIF. I can open and edit it, but trying to save says that it is an unrecognized type. The GIF extension doesn't show up (even grayed out) on the list of types to save as. Talking to friends who use Red Hat and Mandrake

Re: Anyone using ulogd?

2002-05-02 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jonathan Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:30:24PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: [snip] > > I also did something I wasn't sure was/is necessary. I recompiled my > > 2.4.18 kernel with CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y it's in the networking options > > if you're using xconfig or

RE: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
it's all about our great friends from wehavethewayout.com - UNISYS they hold a patent for GIF. I belive there is a package called gimp-nonfree which provides gif support Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -Original Message- From: Daniel D Jones [mailto:[EMAI

Re: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread Quenten Griffith
apt-get install gimp1.2-nonfree if you have testing and have nonfree link in your /etc/source.list. Daniel D Jones wrote: Running testing. Gimp, installed via apt-get, will not allow me to save a GIF. I can open and edit it, but trying to save says that it is an unrecognized type. The GIF

Re: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread marshal
> "Daniel" == Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> Running testing. Gimp, installed via apt-get, will not Daniel> allow me to save a GIF. I can open and edit it, but Daniel> trying to save says that it is an unrecognized type. The Daniel> GIF extension doesn't

Re: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:30:04AM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Running testing. Gimp, installed via apt-get, will not allow me to save a > GIF. I can open and edit it, but trying to save says that it is an > unrecognized type. The GIF extension doesn't show up (even grayed out) on > the li

Re: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Hello, try apt-get install gimp1.2-nonfree majestix:/etc/samba# apt-cache search gimp gimp1.2-nonfree - GIF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program Hope it helps, Daniel On Donnerstag, Mai 2, 2002, at 04:30 Uhr, Daniel D Jones wrote: Running testing. Gimp, installed via apt-get, wil

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-02 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Quenten Griffith quotation: > Well I think my camera and my usb mass storage module don't get along. > I am running Woody with a self compiled 2-4-18 kernel with the USB mass > storage module, I had this working fine under 2.4.17, and then it broke when I upgraded to 2.4.18. I upgraded

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-02 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:23:07AM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > Is the source or even image file for that under Sid? No. You can get the patch for it at kernel.org and apply that to your 2.4.18 source, though. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread Alan Shutko
"Kurc, Marcin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it's all about our great friends from wehavethewayout.com - UNISYS > they hold a patent for GIF. I belive there is a package called gimp-nonfree > which provides gif support Iirc, other distributions have a gif plugin which uses libungif (ie, uncomp

Re: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread marshal
> "Alan" == Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> "Kurc, Marcin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> it's all about our great friends from wehavethewayout.com - >> UNISYS they hold a patent for GIF. I belive there is a package >> called gimp-nonfree which provides gif sup

Re: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > Alan> Iirc, other distributions have a gif plugin which uses > Alan> libungif (ie, uncompressed and unencumbered by patents). > Alan> Any reason ours doesn't? > > I believe that's only for uncompressing gifs and displaying them. > Writing gifs i

RE: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
I'm no expert in that field but I think gimp uses libungif to open gif files to save the file as gif you have to use compression which is also patented and I don't really see a point of having uncompressed gif. I belive the library was created to help migrate from gif to png. Marcin Kurc CAD Syst

Re: preferences cahnges, once woddu becomes stable?

2002-05-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > so I can yuse these "potato" "woody" "sid" in /etc/apt/preferences > > makes more sense > >a= Archive > This is the common name we give our archives, such > as stable or unstable. The special name now is used > to designate the set of packa

Re: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> "Alan" == Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alan> Iirc, other distributions have a gif plugin which uses > Alan> libungif (ie, uncompressed and unencumbered by patents). > Alan> Any reason ours doesn't? > > I believe that's only for uncompressin

Help with debbugs

2002-05-02 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! Could someone help me with debbugs or point me to good documentation? I have problems to configure the mail system (sendmail). I don't really understand README.mail.gz (and the sendmail docs for mailertable). Could someone send me an example for the mailtertable? This is my dns configuratio

Re: debian.org down?

2002-05-02 Thread Joey Hess
Shawn McMahon wrote: > apt-get update returns either "Error reading from server Remote end > closed connection" on several of the gets, or it succeeds but takes > forever, but the next one goes fast. > > Yesterday it was fine. The problem is happening right now. Well it's a set of round-robin IP

2 keyboards. Want 2 different keymaps

2002-05-02 Thread marshal
Hi all, I have an interesting problem that I'm looking for suggestions for. I have 2 keyboards. One build into my laptop (Apple Powerbook), and a USB one that I connect to the laptop so that I don't keep hitting the stupid trackpad and moving my mouse around. The Powerbook is a US/CDN version,

RE: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-02 Thread Kapil Khosla
-- On Thu, 2 May 2002 19:36:00 dkotian3 wrote: >Hi, >>>What an ifconfig give you ? >> ifconfig eth0 > eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found Hi, Can you also mail the output of cat /proc/interrupts. I have a weird feeling that your eth0 will not be listed there, Thanks

Replacement for xitalk?

2002-05-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Does anybody know a non-setuid program like xitalk? Preben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

what to install to get ldconfig..?

2002-05-02 Thread Tuomo Karhu
(#:/work) dpkg -i libc6_2.1.3-20.deb dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH.NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.   ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/dev/pts/4)(19:53:46)(Thu May  2)(6)(1)(#:/work) locate ldconfig doesn'

Re: chmod

2002-05-02 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Daniel D Jones (by way of Daniel D Jones ) wrote: I've been using Linux for awhile but every thing I know is self taught. That means I know some things quite well and am abysmally ignorant in other areas. Hopefully, this question isn't too stupid. Or maybe it'll give you a good laugh and you'll

Re: what to install to get ldconfig..?

2002-05-02 Thread Roach, Mark R.
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 11:57, Tuomo Karhu wrote: > (#:/work) dpkg -i libc6_2.1.3-20.deb > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and > /sbin. > > ( [EMAIL PROTECTED])(/dev/pts/4)(19:5

RE: what to install to get ldconfig..?

2002-05-02 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
it's really unusual to not have ldconfig on debian, it comes with libc6 location of ldconfig is not in your path do this export PATH=$PATH:/sbin dpkg -i whatever.deb Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -Original Message- From: Tuomo Karhu [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: chmod

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew Agno
Or use 'man -k' with some keyword, or use info. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what to install to get ldconfig..?

2002-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:57:20PM +0300, Tuomo Karhu wrote: > (#:/work) dpkg -i libc6_2.1.3-20.deb > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin. > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/dev/pt

advice-- a friend claims he's under attack

2002-05-02 Thread justin cunningham
Hi, sorry for the dramatic subject; a guy with a server in my colo called me saying his site and mail is down and he had trouble reaching the box. He's sshed in now and says netstat -n shows lots of established connections. I told him to kill them and set ip chain rule to deny all from that ip.

Re: advice-- a friend claims he's under attack

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin justin cunningham quotation: > Hi, sorry for the dramatic subject; a guy with a server in my colo > called me saying his site and mail is down and he had trouble reaching > the box. He's sshed in now and says netstat -n shows lots of > established connections. I told him to kill them and s

java plugin for mozilla?

2002-05-02 Thread Michael Griffis
Hi Group, I am a linux newbie running Woody and Mozilla 0.9.9. How did you get the java plugin to work in Mozilla? I'm finding it extremely painful. I have the plugins for NS4, NS6, and NS6.10 that came with JRE 1.4 ... but they all crash mozilla. When I go to java.sun.com I get a pop-up that

Re: Re: Hard Discs and Virtual Memory ...

2002-05-02 Thread Soul Computer
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:48:47AM +0800, csj wrote: > Shouldn't he be using the bigger disk for swap? A 1.2 GB drive is likely > to be slower (older=slower). I think he's got the right idea. The drive may be slower, but it won't be doing anything else, so swap requests won't have to wait for oth

vmware problem

2002-05-02 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Greeting, I'm trying to test VMware workstation 3.0 and it fails with this: VMware PANIC: (ide0:0) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):688 VMware PANIC: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):688 after power on. I was searching this bug in vmware faq and bugs, but not sucessfuly. Does anyone know what's wrong?

Re: what to install to get ldconfig..?

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:57:20PM +0300, Tuomo Karhu wrote: > (#:/work) dpkg -i libc6_2.1.3-20.deb > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin. > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/dev/pt

Re: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-02 Thread Deepak Kotian
Thanks , I will check that. But, still one problem still remains, why would 2.4.18(kernel built from kernel.org site) kernel boot is not on network and 2.2.19 kernel is on network and it is the same machine. The network card seems to be rtl8139. Where could one find .deb packages or insatallables f

Re: java plugin for mozilla?

2002-05-02 Thread Carson Chittom
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 20:48, Michael Griffis wrote: > How did you get the java plugin to work in Mozilla? I'm finding it > extremely painful. I have the plugins for NS4, NS6, and NS6.10 that > came with JRE 1.4 ... but they all crash mozilla. When I go to > java.sun.com I get a pop-up that ask

Re: vmware problem

2002-05-02 Thread Quenten Griffith
Try VMWARE 3.1 that is what im using with that kernel and it runs fine. Mirek Dobsicek wrote: Greeting, I'm trying to test VMware workstation 3.0 and it fails with this: VMware PANIC: (ide0:0) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):688 VMware PANIC: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):688 after power on. I w

Re: vmware problem

2002-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:23:23PM +0200, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > I'm trying to test VMware workstation 3.0 > and it fails with this: > > VMware PANIC: (ide0:0) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):688 > VMware PANIC: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):688 > > after power on. > I was searching this bug in vmwar

Re: vmware problem

2002-05-02 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 20:06, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Try VMWARE 3.1 that is what im using with that kernel and it runs fine. > > Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > > > Greeting, > > > > I'm trying to test VMware workstation 3.0 > > and it fails with this: > > > > VMware PANIC: (ide0:0) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F

Compiling for FreeS/WAN

2002-05-02 Thread curtis
Ok, I've tried compiling my kernel for FreeS/WAN following directions from various sources, but I just don't get it. As a note: i used kernel-source-2.4.18 and the latest FreeS/WAN source from Woody source list. I based my actions for compiling on an article I found titled "FreeS/WAN & Debia

Re: POTATO to WOODY: reinstall vs. upgrade test result

2002-05-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) [020501 07:48]: > Hello: > > These following are three tests of "switching to woody". They were > conducted on a Pentium 200Mhz/ 32Mbyte RAM/ 4 Gbyte IDE Disk/ > eepro100 ethernet board. The result may be interesting, if you have > a simple X11 system w

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