Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-18 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
> > "The mainboard has a built-in AC'97 4Ch Codec, provides an AMR > >slot..." > > Ah... now THIS is meaningful. I had a bear of a time getting this > identical piece of dung working on my otherwise "cherry" computer. > This next bit assumes that you're running sid. I don't know how it > i

Re: Net Install Requirements..

2002-06-18 Thread John
Oleg wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:09 am, Daniel Freedman wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Matthew Tedder wrote: I'd like to install Debian on an old 8MB i386 with ~500MB of disk space. Is this possible? Why? AFAIK there are organizations giving out i486s and Pentiums for free. If that

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Juranich
> $ lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 02) > 00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev > d0) > 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 > 00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS

Re: Net Install Requirements..

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 08:34:16PM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote: | I'd like to install Debian on an old 8MB i386 with ~500MB of disk | space. Is this possible? I don't know if the installer works with that little memory, but after the install it will work ok. I have a 486SX 25MHz, 8MB RAM, 320M

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Juranich
The 'K7' builds are only for us who run AMD Athlons. I thought I made this point in my previous message, but obviously not. So when you do an 'apt-cache search asla-modules' (BTW, learn to love apt-cache, it will save your skin many times), you get: coffee (steve)$ apt-cache search alsa-module

Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

2002-06-18 Thread tvn1981
Hello, I just recompile the kernel for my old machine. I can boot into this new kernel and everything seems like what I wanted, except when I shut down the computer It tries to turn off all services and such but at the line "Deactivating swap " the HD led just blinks and it won't pass that

Re: aptitude, dselect, synaptic at the same time

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Petr Vanek wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:12:41AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > If one sometimes uses aptitude sometimes uses synaptic sometimes uses > > dselect, and in each sometimes quits out after making his selections > > and then not following thru and installing the packages, can th

sound problems...

2002-06-18 Thread alo
I've been having a hell of a time attempting to get my audio to work. I have a Via82C686 card with an AC'97 codec deal (I think). I've been trying to use ALSA to get sound, but I've followed all the quick installs and everything else. Here's what I have in a file within my /etc/modutils alias char

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-18 Thread Paul E Condon
I upgraded to Woody two or three months ago, but did not upgrade the kernel then because I did not feel confident of my ability to read and follow the various directions. Recent posts in this thread gave me a feeling of confidence, so I've attempted to follow the recipe given. Now I need help. Th

hpijs and Ghostscript: hp1115

2002-06-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
Does anyone have any clues on how to print with hpijs? i have an hp photosmart 1115 the documentation is scarce (or i am lazy) thanks -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Tim" == Tim Grogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> I'm trying to compile the exact same image on my Athlon 1700 Tim> system. I've been following this thread with great interest. Tim> I've seen some good pointers from a lot of folks. Could someone Tim> please just put a dummy list of step

Re: what if I have a 2nd cdrom drive?

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dan Jacobson wrote: > > I have two CDROM drives. This is apparently not noticed upon debian > woody installation. Swifteax. Neateaux. I suppose the distributions > of the pros consider that a personal issue or something. I think you're being paranoid. > OK, so I must do this myself. OK, I m

Re: hpijs and Ghostscript: hp1115

2002-06-18 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:42:41PM -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Does anyone have any clues on how to print with hpijs? Sure do. > i have an hp photosmart 1115 I'm sorry. > the documentation is scarce (or i am lazy) The second is the correct answer. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To U

Re: apt-get source

2002-06-18 Thread Mark Janssen
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 00:12, nate wrote: > of course most things that i do apt-get source i also mark them as > HOLD in the dpkg database so my next upgrade doesn't overwrite my > custom packages. i do this by doing: > > dpkg --get-selections >selections > (edit selections, change 'install' to 'ho

X, KDE login, new monitor

2002-06-18 Thread DSC Siltec
I have debian Woody in a setup with KDE login (that blue login page with graphics options for such things as console login) installed. My monitor just blew. Odds are, whatever monitor I get will have different specs, and X will have to be reset to the new monitor. Problem is, if the KDE login co

lo not coming up

2002-06-18 Thread Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
I am running woody. On boot up, ifconfig does not show the lo interface. Only the tap0 interface is up. why is this so ? I thought having lo was essential to quite a few programs. How do I start it up by default at boot up ? regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Homeopath and Lin

X, KDE login, new monitor

2002-06-18 Thread DSC Siltec
I have debian Woody in a setup with KDE login (that blue login page with graphics options for such things as console login) installed. My monitor just blew. Odds are, whatever monitor I get will have different specs, and X will have to be reset to the new monitor. Problem is, if the KDE login co

RE: Exim Vs Sendmail

2002-06-18 Thread Jan Johansson
> Is there any way I can make the script work without having to install > sendmail? It calls sendmail like this: "/usr/lib/sendmail -i -t" Exim should be compatible with sendmail in that respect. Just symlink exim to sendmail. Else i am sure the exim user list will be able to fix-you-up in no t

Trying again... X, KDE, Monitor

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Rudmin
[Sorry if this is the 2nd or 3rd attempt at posting. My Mac system here is acting wierd, and I'm not sure if the email went or not.] I have Debian/Woody with KDE login, the kind that shows users' heads, and allows options to be selected such as "console login". Problem is, my monitor just blew,

Re: hpijs and Ghostscript: hp1115

2002-06-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
Thanks so much for the help. but still having some issues... ;) i have configured using apsfilterconfig. i try to print test page and recieve: unable to write to output, fd=0, count=1000: Bad file descriptor how bout that? any constructive comments? so much for honesty ;) On Tue, 2002-0

imap / squirrelmail

2002-06-18 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I'm using imap and squirrelmail on a Debian Woody. I have a problem with one of my users: only the INBOX folder is available on his imap box, the Drafs, Sent and Trash folders are missing. I tried to recreate the account, but it didn't change anything. Anyone has an idea how I can have those

Re: Net Install Requirements..

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Tedder
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:17 am, John wrote: > Oleg wrote: > >On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:09 am, Daniel Freedman wrote: > >>On Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Matthew Tedder wrote: > >>>I'd like to install Debian on an old 8MB i386 with ~500MB of disk space. > >>>Is this possible? > > > >Why? AFAIK there are or

Re: Trying again... X, KDE, Monitor

2002-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jun 18, 2002, Mike Rudmin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [Sorry if this is the 2nd or 3rd attempt at posting. My Mac system here > is acting wierd, and I'm not sure if the email went or not.] 3rd. > I have Debian/Woody with KDE login, the kind that shows users' heads, > and allows options

Re: whats wrong with this grep?

2002-06-18 Thread Tim locke
Hi first of all, thanks to those who helped. Sorry to karsten who seem to dislike yahoo mail, I'll get a decent mua nxt time. However, I still need a bit more help. Here's the list of my scripts that clearly needs cleaning/fixing... (see below), I've included the data for clarity. data: scans.txt

Re: autodetect floppy filesystem type

2002-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:59:56PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > I have a question about "floppies". First, quaint, aren't they? OK, > > In /etc/fstab: > > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 > > That's norm

Re: lo not coming up

2002-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am running woody. On boot up, ifconfig does not show the lo interface. > Only the tap0 interface is up. why is this so ? I thought having lo was > essential to quite a few programs. > > How do I start it up by default at

Re: aptitude, dselect, synaptic at the same time

2002-06-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:41:05AM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:12:41AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > If one sometimes uses aptitude sometimes uses synaptic sometimes uses > > dselect, and in each sometimes quits out after making his selections > > and then not following t

Re: aptitude, dselect, synaptic at the same time

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:41:05AM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote: > could i uninstall dselect - is that even possible without making > problems in dpkg system? No, it's not possible yet. dselect will be split out into a separate package for the release after woody, but dpkg will pre-depend on it to ensu

Re: Report to Sender

2002-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Dave Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:27:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Incident Information:- > > > > Database: d:/lotus/domino/data/mail2.box > > Originator:debian-user > > Recipients:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Welcome to

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

2002-06-18 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, The problem is that the existing HOWTO's on root-on-RAID refer to lilo versions earlier than 21.8. Debian woody comes with 22.2, which is easier to configure for root-on-RAID, once you find out how... You should have, in /mnt/etc/lilo.conf (better leave lilo.conf on your original installati

Re: Trying again... X, KDE, Monitor

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:08:30AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > - Run "dpkg --reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to re-run your X11 > configuration. For 'dpkg --reconfigure' read 'dpkg-reconfigure' (dpkg doesn't have a --reconfigure option; dpkg-reconfigure is a separate program). -- Colin W

Re: Trying again... X, KDE, Monitor

2002-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jun 18, 2002, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:08:30AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > - Run "dpkg --reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to re-run your X11 > > configuration. > > For 'dpkg --reconfigure' read 'dpkg-reconfigure' (dpkg doesn't have a > -

Re: X, KDE login, new monitor

2002-06-18 Thread Michel Loos
Em Ter, 2002-06-18 às 06:38, DSC Siltec escreveu: > I have debian Woody in a setup with KDE login (that blue login page with > graphics options for such things as console login) installed. > > My monitor just blew. Odds are, whatever monitor I get will have > different specs, and X will have to b

Re: Kernel Making

2002-06-18 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 00:29, Larry Smith wrote: > I managed to get a kernel built. > > I copied it to /boot > > I made a link to it in / (root) > > I added reference to the root link in lilo. > > I install lilo. > > When booting, I told lilo to load the new kernel. > > The computer printed a few

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Helgi Örn
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 04:12, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Dale" == Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dale> Does lame even encode in ogg format, I believe it only does > Dale> mp3. Try abcde, it's a debian package and encodes ogg by > Dale> default. > > Another good choice for

Re: debian on iBook,ftp connect how ?

2002-06-18 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 00:52, Alexander Carôt wrote: > [snip] > Can anyone tell how I can establish an FTP or http connection with > this version of debian I have installed now ? > I can only say that I got it from the net install page and > kernelversion shows me a 2.4. Hmmm... be a little more

Re: erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?

2002-06-18 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 02:41, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:03:04PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: [snip] > | (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled > > What is this? Maybe this is causing the problems? It shouldn't. Never did for me. -- Embedded Linux -- True multit

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Mark Janssen
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:28, Helgi Örn wrote: > By the way; I have been looking for a mp3 -> ogg converter without luck, > does anyone here know if there is one such an app around or if this is > at all possible? > Is there a seperate Debian multimedia mailinglist? There might be, but converting f

tv out in general

2002-06-18 Thread christian . schoenebeck
Hi! So far I only had the opportunity to test a few graphic cards with tv out (e.g. Asus V6600, 3D Savage something), but all produced a very bad TV picture: low amount of colors and - which is even more worse - an inaccurate picture size (either too small or too big). Is this a general problem o

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:28:46AM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > By the way; I have been looking for a mp3 -> ogg converter without luck, > does anyone here know if there is one such an app around or if this is > at all possible? I don't know of any "out-of-the-box" tools, but something along the line

Re: OT: How to find a modem that works with Linux...

2002-06-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First, please quote readably. The burden is on the sender to format mail in a readable fashion. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://ursine.dyndns.org/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:04:44PM +1000, Chris Ke

Re: More modem problems with kernel 2.4.18

2002-06-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:22:59PM -0700, Seth Carbon wrote: > Summary: I cannot get my USR modem to work with the 2.4.18 kernel. > modem: US Robotic internal ISA 56k Data (on-card DSP) (prod#: 005687-03) > Any help or pointers would be greatly appre

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Helgi Örn
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:32, Mark Janssen wrote: > There might be, but converting from one lossy audio codec to another > only makes matters worse, just leave mp3's as mp3's... and ogg's as > ogg's. > > You could convert them by doing something along these lines. Decode the > mp3 back to waveforms

Re: Trying again... X, KDE, Monitor

2002-06-18 Thread Anita Lewis
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > [Sorry if this is the 2nd or 3rd attempt at posting. My Mac system here > is acting wierd, and I'm not sure if the email went or not.] > > I have Debian/Woody with KDE login, the kind that shows users' heads, > and allows options to be selected such as "console l

Re: hpijs and Ghostscript: hp1115

2002-06-18 Thread René Seindal
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 09:52, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Thanks so much for the help. > > but still having some issues... ;) > > i have configured using apsfilterconfig. > > i try to print test page and recieve: > > > unable to write to output, fd=0, count=1000: Bad file descriptor Try giving g

Re: Net Install Requirements..

2002-06-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:11:52AM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote: > On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:17 am, John wrote: > > Oleg wrote: > > >On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:09 am, Daniel Freedman wrote: > > >>On Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > >>>I'd like to install Debian on an old 8MB i386 with ~

LTSP packages

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Allison
I noticed that the ltsp.org has a series of GPLed debian packages for use in installing the lstp client/server files necessary. I am wondering why these packages have not been incorporated into the Debian Package library as official packages? I asked on the ltsp list and the response was two

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:45, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I don't know of any "out-of-the-box" tools, but something along the > lines of (Disclaimer: Untested, No warranty, etc): > > mpg123 --stdout somefile.mp3 | \ > oggenc --raw -o somefile.ogg -a ArtistName -l Albumname -t Title ... >

Re: XF86Config-4 (sid)

2002-06-18 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 08:50:12PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: > I tested /root/XF86Config.new with XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new > successully, well done. > I think, but startx still tries to start with the wrong config > file. Should I rename this to XF86Config-4, and if so where do

usb mouse and XFree86 config problem

2002-06-18 Thread Bill from Tampa
I can't get X to run on my new woody installation (installed from the net using the isolinux method). The base installation went well. I've tried several times to generate an XF86Config-4 file --but none of them work (I used XFree86 -configure, and also the ?debconf method). When I run startx, it e

msdos has umsdos and vfat has ?????

2002-06-18 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi Guys n Gals, I would like to have umsdos with the long file name ability. Does anyone have such a setup ? If so, how ? My googling brought up uvfat (from around 1997-1998) but that seems to have disappeared altogether from most everywhere. Regards, Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

PS1: Lost in quotes!!!

2002-06-18 Thread andrej hocevar
I'm losing my temper here -- why did the first prompt work normally and the second looks fine, yet if I try to type more than one line, it doesn't start a new one but starts overwriting the very same one instead!? andrej ### NC='\e[0m' BLUE='\e[1;34m' function

Re: usb mouse and XFree86 config problem

2002-06-18 Thread Peter Whysall
Bill from Tampa wrote: I can't get X to run on my new woody installation (installed from the net using the isolinux method). The base installation went well. I've tried several times to generate an XF86Config-4 file --but none of them work (I used XFree86 -configure, and also the ?debconf metho

Re: LTSP packages

2002-06-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:46:44AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I noticed that the ltsp.org has a series of GPLed debian packages > for use in installing the lstp client/server files necessary. > > I am wondering why these packages have not been incorporated into > the Debian Package library as o

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 15:31, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Can anybody else shed some light on the difference between SIZE and RSS? Size is how much memory has been allocated through brk(2). RSS is how much is currently paged in. So, a program can (and some do) brk a lot of memory, thus upping their S

Re: usb mouse and XFree86 config problem

2002-06-18 Thread Peter Whysall
Bill from Tampa wrote: I can't get X to run on my new woody installation (installed from the net using the isolinux method). The base installation went well. I've tried several times to generate an XF86Config-4 file --but none of them work (I used XFree86 -configure, and also the ?debconf metho

Re: artsd, scsi & me

2002-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 17:16, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > Very strange. Don't know why you'd be getting an error for a device that > isn't attached. scsi0 and scsi1 refer to the controllers, methinks. Very unlikely he removed controllers. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messa

Re: usb mouse and XFree86 config problem

2002-06-18 Thread Jason Healy
At 1024402523s since epoch (06/18/02 07:15:23 -0400 UTC), Bill from Tampa wrote: > "cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device". > > /dev/input/mice seems to exist, however. "Seems" to exist? Is it actually there, or not? It would be best to actually check. If it's there, can you try c

Fixed apache-1.3.24 packages

2002-06-18 Thread Vincent Renardias
Hello, For people interested by having fixed(*) Apache packages quickly, I've made available an unofficial corrected version (using patches from apache.org's CVS). Status: it-works-for-me(tm), will try to provide support until the official Debian fixed packages are released. Download page (i386

Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

2002-06-18 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On 18 Jun 2002, tvn1981 wrote: > Hello, I just recompile the kernel for my old machine. I can boot into > this new kernel and everything seems like what I wanted, except when I > shut down the computer > It tries to turn off all services and such but at the line > "Deactivating swap " the

Re: usb mouse and XFree86 config problem

2002-06-18 Thread Rox de Gabba
> /dev/input/mice seems to exist, however. My keyboard and mouse are both > usb. Probably jst the device file exisis, not the device itself. Try running XF86Setup (or is it xf86Setup), it's a graphical configuration program, it lets you move around with tab and lets you try out different option

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-18 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.18 08:04 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 15:31, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Can anybody else shed some light on the difference between SIZE and RSS? Size is how much memory has been allocated through brk(2). RSS is how much is currently paged in. So, a program can (and s

How to install kvoctrain?

2002-06-18 Thread Piotr Sawuk
There's no package for it in debian, compiling is impossible since it requires qt3 *and* kde-dev which can not be installed together according to dselect. all that'S possible is installing qt3 beside qt2, but qt3-dev or qt3-mt-dev refuses to install at all. what can I do?? please reply to me to

apt + proxy

2002-06-18 Thread Andrea Balzi
Hi, I have installed a PC in a LAN where is not web-proxy without problems. After I put the PC in to a LAn with a web-proxy (squid), I've create the apt.conf file in to /etc/apt directory with the following line: Acquire::http::Proxy "10.0.0.169:1428" When I tried launch "apt-get install " bu

"Semi-Hot-Swap" of IDE discs

2002-06-18 Thread Alexander Steinert
Dear list, for backup purposes (on i386 architecture) I'm planning the purchase of two 60GB-IDE discs, an exchange frame [right word?] and a PCI-IDE-Controller Card. SCSI is no option due to the huge difference in the price, at least here in Germany. Since my knowledge about IDE/ATA is near zero

man / xterm display quirk - repeating chars

2002-06-18 Thread Andrew Fowler
Hi all ! I get strange display problems in xterms using commands like man and info. Here's an example from #man man: sion, but [...] compile time. Also, by default, any cat pages[...]ip. Each `global' manual page hierary chy such a[...]n may have any directory as its cat Notice end line

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-18 Thread Ivo Wever
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > > It's written in geek. > > "The mainboard has a built-in AC'97 4Ch Codec, provides an AMR >slot..." > People consider this geek? sincerely, -- Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: LTSP packages

2002-06-18 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On a side note, here is an apt source line for LTSP packages: deb http://termserv.berlios.de/debian stable main non-free -- Arthur H. Johnson II Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA Debian GNU/Linux Advocate, Window Maker Advocate President, Genesee County Linux Users Group IRC:

Re: OT: How to find a modem that works with Linux...

2002-06-18 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
I use a Lucent LT modem with my Debian install. It seems to work perfectly. -- Arthur H. Johnson II Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA Debian GNU/Linux Advocate, Window Maker Advocate President, Genesee County Linux Users Group IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],#debian YIM: arthurjohnso

little postfix problem...

2002-06-18 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I'm having a very simple problem with postfix and aliases. Here is an extract of my /etc/aliases file: webmaster: root root: user postmaster: root I issued the command $postmap /etc/aliases And when someone send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I don' receive it. My mail.log

Re: PS1: Lost in quotes!!!

2002-06-18 Thread Craig Dickson
andrej hocevar wrote: > I'm losing my temper here -- why did the first prompt work normally > and the second looks fine, yet if I try to type more than one line, > it doesn't start a new one but starts overwriting the very same one > instead!? Weird. It seems as though bash doesn't like having es

Re: imap / squirrelmail

2002-06-18 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
One of two things could be going on here. Perhaps your mail prefix is missing? Check configure for a mail prefix. Then check to ensure their prefix exists in their home directory. It could be mail, or Mail. -- Arthur H. Johnson II Debian GNU/Linux Advocate Catechist, St John Catholic Church,

Re: LTSP packages

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:46:44AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I noticed that the ltsp.org has a series of GPLed debian packages > for use in installing the lstp client/server files necessary. > > I am wondering why these packages have not been incorporated into > the Debian Package library as o

Re: usb mouse and XFree86 config problem

2002-06-18 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:15:23AM -0400, Bill from Tampa wrote: > I can't get X to run on my new woody installation (installed from the net > using the isolinux method). The base installation went well. I've tried > several times to generate an XF86Config-4 file --but none of them work (I > used X

Re: LTSP packages

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:04:28PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > (It's my understanding that LTSP is made by binaries picked from > various distros, and some things are compiled from source, e.g. the X > packages). AFAIK the LTSP packages does not meet the demands of GPL > and is thus non-free. Ah.

Problem with installing on i386

2002-06-18 Thread oshox
I've got the problem figured out, but I don;t know how to solve it. I'm installing the current Debian (2.2r6) off of the hard drive (I'm booting from the floppies, if that matters) and the drivers.tgz I downloaded puts the modules in /lib/modules/2.2.20/ and dbootstrap looks for them in /lib/mo

Re: what if I have a 2nd cdrom drive?

2002-06-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:07:11PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Also what is the importance of noauto in fstab? Doesn't that just > cause the user to have to issue a mount command if he hasn't since > last reboot, and ha wants to use the cdrom? Not exactly. It prevents the system from attempting

Re: what if I have a 2nd cdrom drive?

2002-06-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:51:33PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > There's no need to make the symlink in order to get things to work. > There's also no need for a new directory, unless you want to mount both > cdroms at the same time. You can also do without the fstab entry. > > Try: 'mount -t iso

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.17 21:26 Rox de Gabba wrote: Well, if you look at it from the practical point of view... screaming and complainting has never done any good... at leat with computer systems it hasn't. Suing... well, have you ever heared of anyone get a penny off M$ for the bilions lost on their syste

Re: sound problems...

2002-06-18 Thread Kristian Rink
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 01:27:33 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been having a hell of a time attempting to get my audio to > work. I have a Via82C686 card with an AC'97 codec deal (I think). [snip] > the volume levels to the max. I've tried playing a file in XMMS > but it pops up an er

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > Klaus Imgrund writes: >> a. complain to and scream at > > People frequently complain and scream at this mailing list. With far more helpful responses that any you'll get from most commercial operations. -- Grant Edwards grante

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > What that whole Servicecontract stuff basically boils down to is that > the customer wants somebody he can: > > a. complain to and scream at and While I try to keep the screaming to a minimum, I do sometimes complain (and on a particulary bad day even whine)

Re: man / xterm display quirk - repeating chars

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:14:22PM +0200, Andrew Fowler wrote: > I get strange display problems in xterms using commands like man and > info. Here's an example from #man man: > > sion, but [...] compile time. Also, by default, any > cat pages[...]ip. Each `global' manual page hierary > chy su

Re: imap / squirrelmail

2002-06-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On 18 Jun 2002, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm using imap and squirrelmail on a Debian Woody. > I have a problem with one of my users: only the INBOX folder is > available on his imap box, the Drafs, Sent and Trash folders are > missing. > I tried to recreate the account, but it didn't cha

numeric keypad vs. nvi/vim ???

2002-06-18 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Is there some configuration option that allows the numeric keypad to type numbers into either nvi or vim? Currently, typing 0 - 9 puts p - y into the document, oddly inserting lines _above_ the current line with each key press . . . What am I doing wrong? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 88

Re: "Semi-Hot-Swap" of IDE discs

2002-06-18 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 15:09, Alexander Steinert wrote: > Dear list, > > for backup purposes (on i386 architecture) I'm planning the purchase > of two 60GB-IDE discs, an exchange frame [right word?] and a > PCI-IDE-Controller Card. SCSI is no option due to the huge difference > in the price, at le

lilo warnings because it isn't sure my computer is new?

2002-06-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
My new computer works fine, Linux debian 2.4.18-k7 is fine, just lilo gives these warnings Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different hea

in debian, awk is mawk not gawk

2002-06-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
Back when I used some other leading brand of GNu/Linux, boys were boys, girls were girls, and awk was gawk. Now switching to the debian world, awk is mawk. I'm worried that the scripts that I've been writing for years and years will break. So I installed gawk. However unlike when one installs p

checksecurity keeps loads of records of /dev/*

2002-06-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
I see the checksecurity program makes lots of records of all the "setuid files" in /dev, and puts them in /var/log/setuid.* Mainly I'm not to happy about having my disks given a workout after each daily power up. But who knows, maybe a little exercise is good. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

2002-06-18 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
Thanks George, I am getting closer :) + George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18.06.02 11:23]: [...] > # Better use the first BIOS ID for the disk we'll boot from; > # we'll use the BIOS setup to boot from this > disk=/dev/hdc > bios=0x80 What exactly does that do? [...] > You don't need

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Florian Struck
On Monday 17 June 2002 23:16, Peter Whysall wrote: -snip- > > Random thought. > > Rename that file to blah.mp3 and play it again. > > Are you /really/ encoding in OGG format? > Hah got ya i am gonna use the random thought prozessor from now on =) That was it, it looks like a kind of bug in grip

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On 18 Jun 2002 15:01:22 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) wrote: > In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > > > What that whole Servicecontract stuff basically boils down to is > > that the customer wants somebody he can: > > > > a. complain to and scream at and > > While I try to keep the s

possible python bug?

2002-06-18 Thread Phil Reardon
Do you recognize this as an old bug? Package: python-extclass Version: python 2.1.3-3 Message: Cannot open dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/python2.2-extclass/.dhelp' : at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559 dpkg: error processing python-extclass (--configure): subprocess post-installation script ret

using archived debs

2002-06-18 Thread Alex Hunsley
I'm setting up debian (Potato 2.2r3) on a couple of linux boxes. Given that I've done a hefty download on one of them, can I avoid re-downloading it? I presume downloaded debs are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives to avoid doing the download again on a new machine, would it be enough to copy wh

apache/php memory exhausted

2002-06-18 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I have a very big problem with squirrelmail (again !). I thank all the people who helped me with my previous problem. What's happening is that when I want to compose / reply a message, I get this error: "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of ... exhausted ... in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functi

Re: lilo warnings because it isn't sure my computer is new?

2002-06-18 Thread Ivo Wever
Dan Jacobson wrote: P.S. what can I do about this dmesg item: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. I have the same 'problem'. A bit of googling got me this thread in the linux-kernel archives: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.3/1858.html http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/ker

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > I want you see tell a CEO of a company: > Well Sir we have a little IT problem. > There are 3000 people sitting in front of a black screen and our > customers can't reach us. > Oh, and by the way 50 of our planes are going to crash in about 1 hour. > But don'

Re: checksecurity keeps loads of records of /dev/*

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:06:59PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I see the checksecurity program makes lots of records of all the > "setuid files" in /dev, and puts them in /var/log/setuid.* /etc/cron.daily/standard is a conffile, so you can change it. You can also change /etc/checksecurity.conf: l

Re: in debian, awk is mawk not gawk

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:59:21PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Back when I used some other leading brand of GNu/Linux, boys were > boys, girls were girls, and awk was gawk. Now switching to the > debian world, awk is mawk. Didn't we go over this, including contributions from the maintainer, jus

Re: "Semi-Hot-Swap" of IDE discs

2002-06-18 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:32, Nicos Gollan wrote: > But if you seriously want to do backups, you should have a look at tape > drives. Harddisks, especially IDE disks are in no way a safe medium. > Uh-oh don't start that one up again :) -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

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