Re: Callback ppp

2002-11-17 Thread Alexey Chetroi
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:01:23AM +, Vittorio wrote: > Alexey Chetroi [debian-user] <15/11/02 10:21 +0200>: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:45:16PM +, Vittorio wrote: > > > > > > At work they've installed a callback RAS. > > > > > > I've read the PPP documentation and had a look at the c

Re: apt and dist-upgrade

2002-11-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Doug MacFarlane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021116 21:30]: > I thought apt-get dist-upgrade would take you from woody to sarge, or sarge > to sid, and so on?? I'm obviously missing something here . . . . Not exactly. dist-upgrade is mostly like upgrade, except that it handles handles dependencies bet

XF86 UK Keyboard setup

2002-11-17 Thread Hooper
How do I change the keyboard setup in the XF86 Config file? Im using Woody... Is there a configuration program that can do it for me or will I have to do it manually? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rob VanFleet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021115 23:26]: > > moreover, i have spell, ispell and aspell installed. is there a way i > > can use them while in vi? > > If the file has been saved, just run > > :!ispell % > > I think there is a way to spell check an unsaved file, but I can't > recall it a

Re: NOT SOLVED [Re: archivemail will not delete mail]

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:52:19AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:11:56AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: > > > > I got it to work > > > > $ archivemail --delete -d 21 -v imap://user:passwd@imapserver/inbox.backup > > > > Sorry about the false report. It still doesn't work! I

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:20:05AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > That said, unless you *really* need any of these and they are compiled > in, framebuffer is a re-implementation of text mode in the kernel with > slower methods and more overhead, and as such isn't exactly the most > useful. Or is thi

Re: Mozilla 1.1. plugin failure

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:58:05AM -0800, Jim Hickstein wrote: > I run unstable on x86. Not 15 minutes ago, I did my usual why-the-hell-not > "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade". Worked OK. Rebooted. > > Then mozilla wouldn't run. It was (buried deep inside) complaining about > not f

Re: avi2mpeg tool in linux

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:04:46PM -0800, John Joe wrote: > do you know any avi2mpeg tool in Linux? > or even avi2realmedia? Mplayer includes mencoder now, which can convert files to and from lots of different formats. I highly doubt that you'll find anything Free which can convert _to_ RealMedia

Re: Packet Writing

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:22:10AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > Hi > Anyone out there had experience doing packet writing on CD-R or CD-RW using > cdrecord or udftools. > > Been reeading lots but need some pointers to start. Haven't done it myself, but, IIRC, it requires special a special kernel p

Re: A serious X problem after Testing upgrade

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:15:14PM +, Barry Samuels wrote: > (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Nov 6 11:51:21 2002 > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" > (EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal" (module does not exist, 0) > modprobe: Can't locate module mga > [dr

Re: phpnuke problems

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:44:57AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have setup phpnuke to act as a small site for my home network. > > When I access this site from my konqueror browser (on two separate machines) > it works fine. > When I access it via Windows/IE on one machine it works fine, but w

Re: Network Install: dbootstrap exits with error after package download

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:14:53AM -0500, Avdi B. Grimm wrote: > Hi folks, maybe someone can help me with this. Although I've been > running Debian testing/unstable for many months now on what was > originally a Progeny box, this is the first time I've done a plain > vanilla Debian install. I'm t

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:00:54AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > He speaks the truth. > Removing non-free would probably cause some serious migration of > users. I'm not really sure where I stand on this whole issue (not that it really matters), but why would people migrate? How much non-Free soft

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:48:50PM -0500, Tim St. Croix wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:26:46 -0700 (MST), you wrote: > > >HP just kinda sprung to mind as a Debian friendly entity > > Oh how I wish that were true! I'd be able to get my HP 3400C scanner > working. If HP were truly Debian (or ev

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:26:43PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I can't really comment on emacs other than the fact that when I have > large chunk of time open, I'll try to learn it. I forced myself to > learn vim when I first started using Linux by using it to write mail. > Emacs is a little hef

Resetting Cron

2002-11-17 Thread Tim Barker
I have a problem changing a Cron script. Whilst I have changed the actual script in /etc/cron.d/mrtg to do what I want the Cron job is still using the original commands. Now it must be looking somewhere else on the system but I cannot find any other references in any other directory. I thought i

Re: avi2mpeg tool in linux

2002-11-17 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:10:37 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:04:46PM -0800, John Joe wrote: > > do you know any avi2mpeg tool in Linux? > > or even avi2realmedia? > You can try avidemux.It definitely can do this but is still a little rough around the edges.T

Re: putzing with the Radeon 9000

2002-11-17 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Russll, you & me both, when it comes to these Radeon 9000 Pros *mutter-mutter* We both get the same output from lspci. On the XFree86 "xpert" list, the advise is too The patch for Radoen 9000, M9 and Radeon 9700 2D support has been submitted and will be in XFree CVS tree in

Re: putzing with the Radeon 9000

2002-11-17 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Sven, whom typed as below. Alternatively, you could make use of the dri-trunk packages from michel, which i guess will include this, not sure though. Where does he abide on the net? *BFN* Greek Geek :-) "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract Sve

Shutting down LVM -- order in rc6(0).d

2002-11-17 Thread Lukas Kubin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am using LVM installed from the Woody lvm2 package. Its symlink in rc6.d and rc0.d has number 50 (S50lvm2) which means it is ran after unmounting local filesystems (umountfs with number 40). I've met a problem LVM tries to flush some config informati

Re: Resetting Cron

2002-11-17 Thread D. Clarke
Well, if you added the crontab as a user by running crontab, and put it in /etc/cron.d then it will be run twice, since it's scheduled twice. And that's what it sounds like to me. - Original Message - From: "Tim Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: A serious X problem after Testing upgrade

2002-11-17 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All, once upon a time, I had a Matrox card & Matrox had binary closed source drivers for it. Check out the Matrox site. Heck, even the Perihelia (sp?) has Tux drivers. That makes Nvidia & Matrox one up on ATI *mutter-mutter* If anyone is here from ATI, please blush now ;-) Sigh, I

mozilla and dns

2002-11-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
Does mozilla do it's own name resolution? Or ip caching? Recently slashdot changed its ip and I wasn't able to connect until I quit mozilla and restarted it. The same seems to have happened with newsforge. -- "Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember."

vncserver errors

2002-11-17 Thread Matt Price
hi, trying to run vncserver... I getthe following error on startup: vncserver xauth: /home/matt/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored xauth: error in locking authority file /home/matt/.Xauthority New 'X' desktop is anarres:3 Starting applications specified in /etc/X11/Xsession Lo

Standards docs available in Debian?

2002-11-17 Thread Michael D. Crawford
In the discussion going on about removing non-free, Rob Weir mentions that he has some w3c and IETF standards docs that are non-free. He seems to imply that he got them from the Debian non-free section. But I don't find them in dselect. Free or not, they would be pretty handy to retrieve thro

Re: XF86 UK Keyboard setup

2002-11-17 Thread Glyn Kennington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I change the keyboard setup in the XF86 Config file? > > Im using Woody... Is there a configuration program that can do it for me or > will I have to do it manually? If you're after a UK keyboard, as your subject suggests, then try this in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: putzing with the Radeon 9000

2002-11-17 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All again, ahhh, that is where he is. Missed it last time I had a look. Anyhow, here is the url for Debian packages (currently for powerpc and i386) based on CVS snapshots are available via deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ ./ Have not complied against them yet. Time f

Soundmixers all mixed up... :( How do I resolv?

2002-11-17 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Hi all, I use Sarge, kernel 2.5.44 and Alsa compiled in. Thats mainly because the alsa modules available in Debian didn't work well with my soundcard, an ICH2 on an ASUS P4B mobo, ( 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 05) What happens is that instead of amixer that I'm used to configure alsa with, aumix

problem with images-1.20/root.bin

2002-11-17 Thread German Garcia
I'd like to install woody in a pc with 5 1/4 floppy drive, but the root floppy image (dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.20/root.bin) seems to be bad. (images-1.44/root.bin is ok, and it's a gzipped ext2 image) It seems as images-1.20/root.bin should be gzipped but it isn't. Does anybody

Gaim: writing to offline msn user

2002-11-17 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Hi, Am I missing something with Gaim 0.58-2.3... When trying to write a message to an offline user using the msn protocol, I get at warning for each keypress that the user is either possibly not getting the message or user is offline. Ofcourse I know that, isn't msn able to queue messages or is t

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-17 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 18:52, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the best/most useful ICQ client in your opinion? I've checked out > gaim, licq & kicq2. Is there any better ones, with closer resemblance the > original windows client? > > Thanks in advance, > Pontus I use sim-icq.

Re: Standards docs available in Debian?

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:33:51AM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > In the discussion going on about removing non-free, Rob Weir mentions that > he has some w3c and IETF standards docs that are non-free. He seems to > imply that he got them from the Debian non-free section. But I don't find

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-17 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:44:43 + Meir Kriheli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 November 2002 18:52, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > What is the best/most useful ICQ client in your opinion? I've > > checked out gaim, licq & kicq2. Is there any better ones, with > > closer r

Debian3.0, Win2000 and LILO problem

2002-11-17 Thread Jan Krupa
I have Pentium IV, HD 40 GB. First Windows2000 professional was installed on first 30 GB of the HD (on hda1). Then on hda3 (10GB ) I installed Debian3.0 (current stable) using compact floppies and then via ftp. I chose (in the end of the installation process) to use menu version of LILO and t

Re: putzing with the Radeon 9000 *****SUCCESS****

2002-11-17 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Ok, I "had" to reinstall the Radeon 9000 Pro hardware, after Synaptic did the DRI update & yes it works! :-) GLXgears works too. I've found a couple off wee errors in the XFree log, but that is on the 3D side & I am mainly focussed on 2D. Yay Well, it has been an intense couple of weeks

Re: german isp's

2002-11-17 Thread Christian Mascher
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:02:02AM +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote: > > can anybody recommend a cheap linux-friendly isp in germany? > > > > Not Compuserve > > (I said "not compuserve" because compuserve's DNS apparently does not > respond to non-compuserve-office-dialin DNS requests. I can piong it

Re: phpnuke problems

2002-11-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 17 November 2002 6:43 am, Rob Weir wrote: > I vaugely remember someone telling me that some versions of IE had a bug > to do with following relative or absolute links with funny characters in > them (as PHPNuke URLs would), but I can't remem

Re: Shutting down LVM -- order in rc6(0).d

2002-11-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 17 November 2002 10:42 am, Lukas Kubin wrote: > I am using LVM installed from the Woody lvm2 package. Its symlink in rc6.d > and rc0.d has number 50 (S50lvm2) which means it is ran after unmounting > local filesystems (umountfs with number 40

Re: amavis - which one?

2002-11-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 the mental interface of Kevin Coyner told: > > I'm setting up clamav and amavis to scan incoming email. > > A quick check of apt-cache search amavis gives me several choices: > > amavis-exim - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. > amavis-milter - Interface between MT

Re: Gaim: writing to offline msn user

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:31:43PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > Hi, > > Am I missing something with Gaim 0.58-2.3... When trying to write a > message to an offline user using the msn protocol, I get at warning for > each keypress that the user is either possibly not getting the message > or

Re: Can't get ATI Rage128 to work with XFree86 on Debian

2002-11-17 Thread Shawn Lamson
I had the ATI Pro 2000 which is much the same. If you dont want 3D then just make the video driver "ati" in XF86Config-4... worked like a charm for me :) Of course you want to make the video ram match your card too. I can send you copy of mine if you want to edit yours (XF86Config) HTH Shawn

Re: Gaim: writing to offline msn user

2002-11-17 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:05:11 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:31:43PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am I missing something with Gaim 0.58-2.3... When trying to write a > > message to an offline user using the msn protocol, I get at warning

MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?

2002-11-17 Thread stan
I'm reading a bunch of records inot myy system using the great gramofile package. I'm converting these .wav files to .mp3's (or maybe .ogg's) but I wonder if it's possible to go the other way? I would like to retain the ability to write CD's of these tracks on a conventianl Cd. But the .wav files

Re: Soundmixers all mixed up... :( How do I resolv?

2002-11-17 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I use Sarge, kernel 2.5.44 and Alsa compiled in. Thats mainly because > the alsa modules available in Debian didn't work well with my > soundcard, > an ICH2 on an ASUS P4B mobo, ( 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 05) > > What happens is t

Re: MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?

2002-11-17 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 09:14:33AM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm reading a bunch of records inot myy system using the great gramofile > package. I'm converting these .wav files to .mp3's (or maybe .ogg's) but I > wonder if it's possible to go the other way? mpg321 --wav file.wav file.ogg ogg123 -d wav

Re: MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?

2002-11-17 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-11-17 15:14]: >I'm reading a bunch of records inot myy system using the great gramofile >package. I'm converting these .wav files to .mp3's (or maybe .ogg's) but I >wonder if it's possible to go the other way? Sure. The first thing that comes to mind is xmms, wh

Re: Debian3.0, Win2000 and LILO problem

2002-11-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi Jan, On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of Jan Krupa told: [...] > # /etc/lilo.conf - See: `lilo(8)' and `lilo.conf(5)', > # --- `install-mbr(8)', `/usr/share/doc/lilo/', > # and `/usr/share/doc/mbr/'. > > # +

Re: Modules Dont Load At Startup - THANKS

2002-11-17 Thread Thomas H. George
Thanks for all the responses. I am begining to understand the roles of the various module files. For the moment I inserted the line alias char-major-195 NVdriver in the file /etc/modutils/aliases and then ran modconf so the line is now included in /etc/modules.conf. With this change xdm runs suc

Re: MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?

2002-11-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of stan told: > I'm reading a bunch of records inot myy system using the great gramofile > package. I'm converting these .wav files to .mp3's (or maybe .ogg's) but I > wonder if it's possible to go the other way? > > I would like to retain the ability to

Re: apt and dist-upgrade

2002-11-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Vineet" == Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vineet> (or better yet, do the upgrade using dselect or aptitude Vineet> for a good overview of what will be upgraded, what new Vineet> packages need to be installed, what packages are no longer Vineet> used, etc.) FYI to t

Debian3.0 and KeyMouse (PS/2) problem

2002-11-17 Thread Jan Krupa
My KeyMouse (two buttons and one wheel in the middle ) works under Win2000 as PS/2 compatible (6 pins) but I cannot force it to work under Linux Debian3.0 (PC Pentium IV). It does not work neither on the console nor under X Window 4. On the console gpm does not recognize the mice. gpm-mouse-test

Re: MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?

2002-11-17 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of > stan told: > > > I'm reading a bunch of records inot myy system using the great > gramofile > > package. I'm converting these .wav files to .mp3's (or maybe > .ogg's) but I > > wonder if it's possib

Double APM Resume

2002-11-17 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, I want to lock my notebook's screen on resume, so I added a short script in /etc/apm/resume.d. However, I get the resume event twice and I wonder why this happens. Do you have any idea why this happens or what I can do to avoid it? Thorsten -- Getting a thrill out of some stupid quote is a

Re: Debian3.0 and KeyMouse (PS/2) problem

2002-11-17 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My KeyMouse (two buttons and one wheel in the middle ) works > under Win2000 as PS/2 compatible (6 pins) but I cannot force it > to work under Linux Debian3.0 (PC Pentium IV). It does not work > neither on the console nor under X Window 4. > On the c

Re: Soundmixers all mixed up... :( How do I resolv?

2002-11-17 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 06:24:34 -0800 (PST) Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I use Sarge, kernel 2.5.44 and Alsa compiled in. Thats mainly > > because the alsa modules available in Debian didn't work well with > > my sound

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-17 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 00:50, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:00:54AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > He speaks the truth. > > Removing non-free would probably cause some serious migration of > > users. > > I'm not really sure where I stand on this whole issue (not that it > really matt

Re: Soundmixers all mixed up... :( How do I resolv?

2002-11-17 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 06:24:34 -0800 (PST) > Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I use Sarge, kernel 2.5.44 and Alsa compiled in. Thats mainly > > > because the a

Re: Soundmixers all mixed up... :( How do I resolv?

2002-11-17 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 06:24:34 -0800 (PST) > > Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > --- Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I use Sarge, kerne

X 4.2.1 and MGA G400 dri issue

2002-11-17 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, I can't get proper 3d acceleration working in X 4.2.1. It worked in 4.1 glxinfo says : direct rendering: No while /var/log/XFree86.0.log says : (==) MGA(0): Direct rendering enabled I have the /dev/dri/card0 device, my kernel supports both agpgart and mga drm. (attached : x server log, g

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-17 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 02:26, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:20:05AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > That said, unless you *really* need any of these and they are compiled > > in, framebuffer is a re-implementation of text mode in the kernel with > > slower methods and more overhead, a

Re: Can't get ATI Rage128 to work with XFree86 on Debian

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Holger Wiechert said: > Hi, > > after a hell of a time trying to get my ATI Rage 128 to work with XFree86 on > Debian (Woody), it's time to get help from the > outside... > I tried the stuff recommended from > dri.sourceforge.net (installing the xserver-xfree86-dri-tru

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of Mark L. Kahnt told: > On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 02:26, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:20:05AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > That said, unless you *really* need any of these and they are compiled > > > in, framebuffer is a re-implementati

realaudio on xmms

2002-11-17 Thread suresh kumar sharma
Hi, Is there a way to play realaudio ,.ram and .rm files on xmms . thanks in advance suresh __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: realaudio on xmms

2002-11-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 08:43:21AM -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: | Hi, | Is there a way to play realaudio ,.ram and .rm files | on xmms . Grab ftp://ftp.xmms.org/xmms/plugins/rmxmms/libreal.so and put in in ~/.xmms/Plugins. Then open the .ram file in your editor and copy the rtsp:// url i

DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-17 Thread Doug MacFarlane
OK - static network config works fine. DHCP doesn't, with the usual messages about the socket filter and packet socket needing to be set to yes . . . . So where do I set these two options? I use a pre-packaged kernel. madmac -- Doug MacFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

runaway wtmp and setuid on my cluster

2002-11-17 Thread dave mallery
hi both of the above files are filling up at amazing rates: dozens of megabytes per day. the wtmp seems to be filled with login attempts from tty 1-6. the setuid has entries from every device in /dev/ in order. -rw-r-1 root adm466257 Nov 12 06:30 setuid.today -rw-r-

Gnome2 and SID ?? HOWTO

2002-11-17 Thread Patrick Brunier
Hello Debian Fanatics, At the moment I'm waiting...and waiting and waiting until I see GNOME2 show up in dselect. I allready have SID installed but when I do a apt-get update... still no Gnome2 shows up in the dselect lists. apt-get install gnome2 doesn't work. What am I doing wrong ? How do yo

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 17 November 2002 4:50 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > OK - static network config works fine. DHCP doesn't, with the usual > messages about the socket filter and packet socket needing to be set to yes > . . . Are you talking pcmcia here? - --

Re: alsa: no device

2002-11-17 Thread Thaden
Am Fre, 2002-11-15 um 05.31 schrieb Florentin Ionescu: > Run again the snddevices. ahaa! that actually helps, i can now use alsa devices. thank you very much for all your help in getting alsa running. however, esd-alsa seems not to work on my system, so after all i may still have to stick with os

Re: Resetting Cron

2002-11-17 Thread sean finney
hiya, cron jobs are also/actually? stored in /var/spool/cron/*, have you looked in there? i'm not familiar with how cron runs on debian, but on systems that strictly use /var/spool/cron, cron doesn't notice if you change the textfile without telling it (which is why the manpage says to edit cron

Re: Debian3.0, Win2000 and LILO problem

2002-11-17 Thread Jan Krupa
Thanks for answer. On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of > Jan Krupa told: > > [...] > > > # Boot up Linux by default. > > > # > > default=Win2000(hda1) > ^ > What do you w

Re: MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?

2002-11-17 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:39:31PM +0100, Vincent Hanquez wrote: > mpg321 --wav file.wav file.ogg > ogg123 -d wav -f file.wav file.ogg i have to agree with vincent that this is probably the most straightforward way of doing it. further more, if you have your stuff separated by album, and

Version to use?

2002-11-17 Thread John Floren
Hello I am looking at installing Debian on my old 33Mhz 486 w/ 16MB of RAM, and I am wondering which release to use. I want one that is featureful but won't be too slow on my machine. I plan on downloading CD images on another computer then installing them on the old computer. Any tips would b

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:08:05AM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > 1) Must be able to "maximize window to available space" a la >enlightenment. I don't know anything that has *that*, save for E itself and probably one of the ion-type window managers (which do it by definition). That would be an i

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-17 Thread sean finney
hi everyone, on the topic of aim/icq clients, does anyone know of clients that support some form of text-only mode? for icq i've used licq and micq, one of which has a text-mode plugin, the other *is* text mode, but i'm not happy with either because the former doesn't keep history in text mode, a

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-17 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:50:28PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > OK - static network config works fine. DHCP doesn't, with the usual messages > about the socket filter and packet socket needing to be set to yes . . . > . you have to got in your .config: CONFIG_FILTER=y CONFIG_UNIX=y this op

Re: Gnome2 and SID ?? HOWTO

2002-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:07:23PM +0100, Patrick Brunier wrote: > At the moment I'm waiting...and waiting and waiting until I see GNOME2 show up > in dselect. I allready have SID installed but when I do a apt-get update... > still no Gnome2 shows up in the dselect lists. Use 'dselect update' (o

Re: Version to use?

2002-11-17 Thread sean finney
hiya, i'd recommend just starting with stable. one release will probably not be horribly faster or slower than any other release, but in either case you won't want to be running X. the really nice thing about debian is that you can configure it to have only what you want right from the install (

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-17 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 17 Nov 2002, 17:14:58, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Sunday 17 November 2002 4:50 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > OK - static network config works fine. DHCP doesn't, with the usual > > messages about the socket filter and packet socket needing to be set to > > yes > > Are you talking pcmcia here?

Re: Gnome2 and SID ?? HOWTO

2002-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:42:23PM +0100, Patrick Brunier wrote: > Dear COllin, > > I also did a dselect update but still nothing much in the list. Only some > gnome2libs. I'm forwarding your reply back to the list, since I'm not a GNOME expert. -- Colin Watson

amavis install w/ exim

2002-11-17 Thread Kevin Coyner
I've apt-get install(ed) amavis-exim and have edited /etc/amavisd.conf to point towards /usr/bin/clamscan (clamscan works fine in testing). Per the instructions in the /usr/share/doc/amavis-exim/README.exim, it says to modify /etc/exim/exim.conf as follows ... --- The default input confi

Re: Debian3.0 and KeyMouse (PS/2) problem

2002-11-17 Thread Jan Krupa
Thanks for answer. On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > --- Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My KeyMouse (two buttons and one wheel in the middle ) works > > under Win2000 as PS/2 compatible (6 pins) but I cannot force it > > to work under Linux Debian3.0 (PC Pentium IV). I

Re: Version to use?

2002-11-17 Thread Christophe Courtois
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > i'd recommend just starting with stable. one release will probably > not be horribly faster or slower than any other release, but in (...) > about debian is that you can configure it to have only what you want I've got a small problem with that :

psaux.o not compiled as a module?!

2002-11-17 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, all of a sudden I've got a strange problem. I'm trying to compile 2.4.20-rc2 with XFS, where psaux should be compiled as a module: CONFIG_MOUSE=m CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y However the psaux.o module is not created?! This NEVER used to be a problem... Does anyone know what could be going w

Re: Version to use?

2002-11-17 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:53:38PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: > I've got a small problem with that : my P75 takes time when using > dselect or apt-get ; it seems to have too many package dependencies to > deal with. It's painful but usable on my P75, I wonder what it would be > li

Re: Version to use?

2002-11-17 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:53:38PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: > I've got a small problem with that : my P75 takes time when using > dselect or apt-get ; it seems to have too many package dependencies to > deal with. It's painful but usable on my P75, I wonder what it would be > like on a

Re: amavis install w/ exim

2002-11-17 Thread Ramin Motakef
Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've apt-get install(ed) amavis-exim and have edited /etc/amavisd.conf > to point towards /usr/bin/clamscan (clamscan works fine in testing). > > Per the instructions in the /usr/share/doc/amavis-exim/README.exim, it > says to modify /etc/exim/exim.conf a

traffic shaping https connections

2002-11-17 Thread sean finney
hi all, i'm going through the process of attempting to set up a traffic shaper on my debian box. the deal is, i'm playing online video games on a certain non-free OS, and all of a sudden my connection goes to hell because i have a friend transferring a sizeable amount of data over https from my

Re: amavis install w/ exim

2002-11-17 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:48:46PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote.. > I've apt-get install(ed) amavis-exim and have edited /etc/amavisd.conf > to point towards /usr/bin/clamscan (clamscan works fine in testing). > > Per the instructions in the /usr/share/doc/amavis-exim/README.exim, it > says to

Version To Use? (2)

2002-11-17 Thread John Floren
So, I should just use the new release? Remember, my computer is really slow, I could only download with a 56K modem, and I can't download directly to the intended computer. Also, exactly how large is the current release? I don't want to spend _too_ long downloading it :-) Thanks, >From a Debia

Re: traffic shaping https connections

2002-11-17 Thread Andrea Borgia
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, sean finney wrote: sf>so, i'd like to set up a shaper that caps the bandwidth for https sf>connections. i've looked at both the route-based shaper (the one sf>that works with the shapecfg pkg), and the QoS/CBQ one + the sf>HTB2 patch (which works with the shaper pkg). Have a

Re: Debian3.0, Win2000 and LILO problem

2002-11-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of Jan Krupa told: > > Thanks for answer. > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > Hi Jan, > > > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of > > Jan Krupa told: > > > > [...] > > > > > # Boot up Linux by default. > > ^^

Re: Version to use?

2002-11-17 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Dimanche 17 Novembre 2002 19:00, sean finney a déclamé : > > I've got a small problem with that : my P75 takes time when using > > dselect or apt-get ; it seems to have too many package dependencies > oh yeah, i'm not arguing that it's not dog-slow, but how much longer > would it take to downlo

Help using Linux box as Mac print server

2002-11-17 Thread Martin Weinberg
Folks, I've been trying to use my woody box as print server for a Mac. I've tried two approaches and I can't get either to work. I've played around on and off for several days. Any help appreciated! The set up is: 1) Dual interface box * eth0 connected to cable modem * eth1 c

Re: X 4.2 problems ("out of range") with Matrox G450

2002-11-17 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:56:26 + (UTC) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a reason you are not using the usual X drivers? It's a difficult decision, I guess. On the one hand Matrox presumably know more about their cards than X people (unless they work for Matrox, of course, but

Re: Version To Use? (2)

2002-11-17 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:28:26AM -0800, John Floren wrote: > So, I should just use the new release? Remember, my computer is really > slow, I could only download with a 56K modem, and I can't download > directly to the intended computer. Also, exactly how large is the > current release?

Maintain X11 config with CFengine?

2002-11-17 Thread Kai Großjohann
We use CFengine to maintain the configuration of our machines. It's great stuff. Now, one possibility for CFengine to manage the XF86Config would be to just copy or edit the file. But it occurred to me that it might be better to just maintain the answers asked by debconf. Do you think that migh

Re: Version To Use? (2)

2002-11-17 Thread John Floren
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 10:46, sean finney wrote: > hiya, > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:28:26AM -0800, John Floren wrote: > > So, I should just use the new release? Remember, my computer is really > > slow, I could only download with a 56K modem, and I can't download > > directly to the intended c

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-17 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:34:40PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > what i'm most interested in is a text-only aim clone though. gaim is > nice and all, but on my desktop it's aesthetically horrible with all > those big fonts and buttons (which can be reduced somewhat, but not > completely). also, bec

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 16 Nov 2002 06:15:20PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:05:38AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > | since Solaris never seems to understand my remote terminal well > | enough to allow syntax highlighting. Does anyone know how to fix > | that? :) > > export

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