Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-12-01 Thread Paul Johnson
(Please trim your quoting...) On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:49:46PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > hmm.. dumb question perhaps but how do you get mplayer to display a > GUI? Its working from the console and I did install some skins. Run it in X. You'll get a video window. Scroll up and down on y

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-12-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 December 2002 4:45 am, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... > I > ended up creating a single 20GB partition, and currently have a 5GB > /data/media logical volume and a 1GB /data/prjmgmt (for the cvs root > and aegis project repository) logic

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-12-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 02:43, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:32:01AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Yep, the modules are fine - I've been burning CDs for a couple years > > with this box. Xcdroast also is fine at burning CDs, just not seeing any > > CDs to read in, data or audio.

Graphics & Linux

2002-12-01 Thread Aedificator
Is there any graphics program for working with graphics in Linux as powerful as CorelDraw is? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Graphics & Linux

2002-12-01 Thread Praveen Kumar
Aedificator said: > Is there any graphics program for working with graphics in Linux as > powerful as CorelDraw is? Haven't you heard of The Gimp? +--+--+ | Praveen Ravi Kumar, |.''`. | | Final Year B.Tech Electronics,

Re: Graphics & Linux

2002-12-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 03:26, Aedificator wrote: > Is there any graphics program for working with graphics in Linux as powerful > as CorelDraw is? You mean, like, umm, CorelDRAW for Linux? In addition, there is Sketch (conceptually the same, but not as complete as yet) and Kontour (f/k/a KIllustra

Re: gtk2 very slow and memory hungry?

2002-12-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:06:38AM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am not sure what problem is it? But since I upgrade to gnome2, things > are just very slow. Startup time for gnome-terminal (gtk2), gvim (gtk1) > and galeon (gtk1) are much longer then it used to be. gnome

Re: your mail

2002-12-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-12-01 05:17]: >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>* Gregg & Monica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-11-30 17:56]: >>>I need to know if my computer can support debianand I need to knwo if >>>it will support the gui...here are my computers info... >>> >>>[Information abo

Re: your mail

2002-12-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:17:39PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Thorsten Haude wrote: > >* Gregg & Monica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-11-30 17:56]: > >>I need to know if my computer can support debianand I need to > >>knwo if it will support the gui...here are my computers info... > >> > >>[Informat

remote printing

2002-12-01 Thread Raymond Gree
Hello Debian community I installed Debian to replace my RedHat on my server and have the following problem I can't print anymore on my remote Debian printer from my other Redhat machine am I missing something in the upgrade Thanks for the help Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

No Umlauts in Gnome Apps

2002-12-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, I cannot see Umlauts (äöÜ) and other special characters (æß) in my GTK applications (Gimp, EasyTAG, Gedit, GKrellM). I use a US keyboard layout and a modified keymap to enter these special characters. This works fine for KDE, LessTif and Tk, but GTK does not display them, all I get is a zero-

Re: dist-upgrade (potato->woody): how to get X back up?

2002-12-01 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > under potato i had X (and kde2 thanks to some unofficial > sources.list items) up and running like a champ. occasionally > konqueror would die colorfully (hit alt-left to go back a few > pages and boom, only one desktop, no window borders...) > > and X windows wo

Re: OT: Major screwup in multiboot

2002-12-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:21:24PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I CARE NOT, as you wont be reading this, I dont mind calling you a dickweed. Seriously man, what's your problem? This is a mailing list, it's not real life, why do you seem to care so much? You obviously have useful knowledge t

Re: Sound (SBLive) | Gnome Problems

2002-12-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:33:51PM -0800, Andres Guedez wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been having trouble getting sound to work in my > Debian unstable setup. Environment sounds seem to work > well in KDE (I get a sound when I open and close > windows and that kind of stuff) and I was able to get >

Re: Upgrading XFree86

2002-12-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Aedificator wrote: > Is there a simple way to upgrade XFree86 (deb, tar, gzip package, source)? Uh, you'll need to give a little more information that that. If you're using woody and you want a more recent version, then go get the source from sid and reb

Re: cdrecorder and IDE burners

2002-12-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:36:00AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > > > Tim Wood wrote: > >now all I have to do is learn how to use CDRoaster. > > Unless you want to try Xcdroast - see the peripherals section at > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ Or gcombust, which works very well for me. Select t

Re: No Umlauts in Gnome Apps

2002-12-01 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hello! First, I want to apologize for breaking the thread, but I accidentally deleted the original message... I see this as a general problem with Debian. The locale system doesn't really cover everything needed. Say, it works well as long as you survive with only C as locale. I would file a bu

block webistes

2002-12-01 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, I saw the history of the webbrowser at one of the computers in my network, a Windows-XP machine. One site is forbidden, but it was visited. Is there a package for debian (the server here) to block forbidden URL's? There's no graphical environment, only a remote-login by ssh with MC. Willem

Re: firewall problems !!

2002-12-01 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Son, 2002-12-01 um 00.38 schrieb daves debian: > I have firestarter installed on my system, I logon as root, start the setup > wizard, simple config, test as root, aok, log out and into a user account, aok > > re-boot my machine and root is OK but no matter what I configure, my day to > day u

Re: Graphics & Linux

2002-12-01 Thread Alan Shutko
"Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 03:26, Aedificator wrote: >> Is there any graphics program for working with graphics in Linux as powerful >> as CorelDraw is? > > You mean, like, umm, CorelDRAW for Linux? Actually, because of various things which are buggy or un

Re: block webistes

2002-12-01 Thread Jason Stechschulte
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:58:00PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Is there a package for debian (the server here) to block forbidden > URL's? It doesn't sound like this is exactly what you want, but it could be useful. $ apt-cache show dansguardian Description: Web content filtering DansGuar

caught in apt conflict with libc6, zlib1g and zlib1g-dev

2002-12-01 Thread Lukas Latz
I tried to install Xine (lib-xine and xine-ui) from locally installed debian packages (that I downloaded from their site) on my pretty newly installed debian Woody. Before doing that, I had changed /etc/aps/sources.list from CD to a net URL and got updates from stable main contrib non-free. Xin

Re: firewall problems !!

2002-12-01 Thread Richard Kimber
On 01 Dec 2002 15:13:34 +0100 Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I admit iptables and IP addresses confuses me, > > > > Can anyone tell me of an idiots firewall ? One even I can set up ? > > Setting up a firewall without knowing what it exactly does is dangerous. > You should cons

Re: block webistes

2002-12-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:58:00PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > I saw the history of the webbrowser at one of the computers in my > network, a Windows-XP machine. One site is forbidden, but it was > visited. Is there a package for debian (the server here) to block > forbidden URL's? There's no

Re: block webistes "websites"

2002-12-01 Thread Hell.Surfers
you should try a HOSTS file, define 127.0.0.1 as localhost on first line and type 127.0.0.1 forbiddendomain.com on second, I use mine to block doubleclick... Regards, Dean. On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 07:13:54 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02

Re: block webistes "websites"

2002-12-01 Thread Hell.Surfers
works in xp and debian... Regards, Dean. On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 15:22:33 + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- you should try a HOSTS file, define 127.0.0.1 as localhost on first line and type 127.0.0.1 forbiddendomain.com on second, I use mine to block doubleclick... Regards, Dea

Re: block webistes "websites"

2002-12-01 Thread Paul Johnson
(Your mailing habits are somewhat broken. Please turn on your line wraps and don't top post.) On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:22:33PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > you should try a HOSTS file, define 127.0.0.1 as localhost on first > line and type 127.0.0.1 forbiddendomain.com on second, I use mine

scsi errors, how dangerous could it be?

2002-12-01 Thread Alexey Chetroi
Hello All, I have some messages in /var/log/syslog which attracted my attention. it about scsi errors which I don't fully understand: Dec 1 07:40:30 ial kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x9 Dec 1 07:40:30 ial kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data

Re: firewall problems !!

2002-12-01 Thread daves debian
On Sunday 01 December 2002 15:04, Richard Kimber wrote: > On 01 Dec 2002 15:13:34 +0100 > > Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I admit iptables and IP addresses confuses me, > > > > > > Can anyone tell me of an idiots firewall ? One even I can set up ? > > > > Setting up a firewall w

what is 'fixup'?

2002-12-01 Thread Leon
In Kpackage (always used the command line previously) there's an option under Special>>Apt:Debian called 'Fixup'. Does anyone know what its purpose is? many thanks, -Leon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: caught in apt conflict with libc6, zlib1g and zlib1g-dev

2002-12-01 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:48:02AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > I tried to install Xine (lib-xine and xine-ui) from locally installed > debian packages (that I downloaded from their site) on my pretty newly > installed debian Woody. Before doing that, I had changed > /etc/aps/sources.list from CD to

Re: No Umlauts in Gnome Apps

2002-12-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * Johan Ehnberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-12-01 14:15]: >Edit /etc/environment or apt-get install localeconf so that the result >is (replace fi_FI@euro with your own locale: de_DE@euro): > >LANG=C >LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro >LC_NUMERIC=fi_FI@euro >LC_TIME="C" >LC_COLLATE="C" >LC_MONETARY=fi_FI@euro

sound over lan

2002-12-01 Thread fLokNo
hello! is it possible to transfer sound over lan or wan like in winXP with some sort of client and server technology? im thinking of connecting to a remote server with vnc similar to remote terminal connections in winXP. any help is appreciated thanks and bye, flo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: remote printing

2002-12-01 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Raymond Gree wrote: Hello Debian community I installed Debian to replace my RedHat on my server and have the following problem I can't print anymore on my remote Debian printer from my other Redhat machine am I missing something in the upgrade Thanks for the help Ray I assume you are usi

RE:Re: block webistes "websites"

2002-12-01 Thread Hell.Surfers
Im not trying to troll but what complications? Regards, Dean. On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 07:30:28 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- (Your mailing habits are somewhat broken. Please turn on your line wraps and don't top post.) On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:22:33PM +, [

Re: No Umlauts in Gnome Apps

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:15:18PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: | I see this as a general problem with Debian. The locale system doesn't | really cover everything needed. It's not just debian, though. The problem has deep historical roots. Originally there were no locales, and ASCII was all that

Re: How do I do a net install when there's no driver for my nic?

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:19:16AM -0500, Brian Kendig wrote: | I have a Dell Latitude CPi laptop computer with a Dell Latitude C/Port | dock. The laptop has no network connectivity, but the dock provides an | Ethernet port powered by a 3Com 3C905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 chip. The driver is "3

Re: is it possible to install eMule unser wine?

2002-12-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le sam 30/11/2002 à 09:04, Paul Johnson a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:01:11PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > Anyone has experience? It's a pity that eMule does not support Linux > > platform. > > mldonkey will be a debian package RSN. *That's* good news ! Will it be able to run as a ser

Re: SpamAssassin Config Questions

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:15:45PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: | in /usr/share/spamassasin/ | | There are a lot of files. [...] | Do I need to? or Should I? Copy those files into my /etc/spamassassin | folder? No. | I've finally got my spamassassin working to the point that I'm actually | recie

Re: cfdisk revisited

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 02:58:24PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: | Bruce Park wrote: | >Hello all, | > | >First, thanks for all those to that replied with the original question. | >OK, I have more question regarding cfdisk. I've successfully created the | >boot, swap, and root partition. Here are som

Re: Exim permissions

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:36:42PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: | "jah" == jah pigeon writes: | | jah> BUT... /usr/sbin/exim is setuid root. Huh? | | Exim probably uses the root permission for very, very few things (like | opening port 25 when in daemon mode). It probably drops the root

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:52:40AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | On Sunday 01 December 2002 4:45 am, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | ... | > Both VGs and LVs can be dynamically resized (though | > I'm not certain if LVs can decrease in size or only increase). | | You can decrease an LV if you ha

testing - no new packages

2002-12-01 Thread Richard Kimber
I have not seen any new packages in testing for quite a long time. Is this because I'm using a mirror that's not being updated, or aren't there any? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Alternative to jdiskusage and xdiskusage?

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:14:19AM +0100, Niclas Söderlund wrote: | Hi, | | I would love to see what's taking up my space on a few servers I run. In | more detail. The only problem for me is that I dont run X on them. Which | mean that neither jdisk or xdisk will work for me. You don't have to

Re: testing - no new packages

2002-12-01 Thread dave mallery
there is a hangup with libc. On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:03:50PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have not seen any new packages in testing for quite a long time. Is > this because I'm using a mirror that's not being updated, or aren't there > any? > > Thanks, > - Richard. > -- > Richard Kimber

block websites

2002-12-01 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello again, I posted this mail earlier today and I have had some reactions but they don't work or I don't understand it (I'm a dummy) I want to block http://www.grolle.nl for all computers in my network. Internal Ip addresses of the computers are: 192.168.0.1 for the server 192.168.0.11

Re: testing - no new packages

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:03:50PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: | I have not seen any new packages in testing for quite a long time. Is | this because I'm using a mirror that's not being updated, or aren't there | any? There probably aren't any. It's possible that all the packages you have insta

Re: apt after installation

2002-12-01 Thread Chris Lale
Bruce Park wrote: Hello all, I have now succesfully installed debian a second time with DHCP. =) The first thing I wanted to install was emacs and I tried this command as root: apt-get install emacs And I got the follwing error: - E: Package ema

Re: Can't get KDE working!

2002-12-01 Thread Chris Lale
JAMES MERRITT wrote: Hi everyone, I am having a problem with my KDE not running, or rather it is running but all I get when I type: startx is twm. For automatic KDE including graphical login 'apt-get install kdm'. No need to type startx. (Or try xdm or gdm packages.) Cheers, Chris. -- :

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-12-01 Thread Chris Lale
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 18:28, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:06:41PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for cloning bootable

Re: Alternative to jdiskusage and xdiskusage?

2002-12-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Niclas Söderlund [Mon, Nov 25 2002, 10:14:19AM]: > Any suggestions, or perhapse, someone way better than me on shellscripting > and the tools needed for such a script (du, sort etc) have something > already made up? durep. Creates nice html-based (browseable) statistics. Get it from

Re: block websites

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:17:38PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: | Hello again, | | I posted this mail earlier today and I have had some reactions but they | don't work or I don't understand it (I'm a dummy) | | I want to block http://www.grolle.nl for all computers in my network. | | Internal

Re: sound over lan

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:13:26PM +0100, fLokNo wrote: | is it possible to transfer sound over lan or wan like in winXP with some | sort of client and server technology? esound (aka esd) is supposedly capable of doing this. I sorta tried it once, but didn't get it to work through my firewalls a

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-12-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 December 2002 5:23 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:52:40AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > | You can decrease an LV if you have first decreased the overlaying > | filesystem. > > Yeah, I guess that's what I mea

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-12-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 12:21, Chris Lale wrote: > > > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 18:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >>On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:06:41PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > >> > >>>Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without > >>>my brain c

Re: firewall problems !!

2002-12-01 Thread Travis Crump
daves debian wrote: I have firestarter installed on my system, I logon as root, start the setup wizard, simple config, test as root, aok, log out and into a user account, aok re-boot my machine and root is OK but no matter what I configure, my day to day user account cannot access the web, or m

Re: Graphics & Linux

2002-12-01 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Aedificator wrote: > Is there any graphics program for working with graphics in Linux as powerful > as CorelDraw is? Have a look at Sketch or (for _very_ simple things) Tgif. Both are not as powerful as CorelDraw, but Sketch might become in the future. Burkhard -- To UNSU

setting up USB

2002-12-01 Thread Bruce Park
Hello all, I'm still having difficulty in setting up my USB mouse for woody. Since I am currently kernel 2.4.bf2.4, my assumption is that the USB drivers are already loaded. When I setup X, I chose /dev/input/mice for the my mouse path. Is there anyone that can help me getting this correct? As

IDE disks won't interoperate

2002-12-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Situation: I have a 6Gb 2.5" drive from a laptop, that won't boot in the laptop and has been replaced by a 10Gb drive. (The old disk is Hitachi DK228A-65, and the new is DK23BA-10.) The laptop repairers copied the Windows partition but couldn't handle the ext2 partitions. I need to get those par

Re: setting up USB

2002-12-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 01 December 2002 09:03 am, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm still having difficulty in setting up my USB mouse for woody. > Since I am currently kernel 2.4.bf2.4, my assumption is that the USB > drivers are already loaded. When I setup X, I chose /dev/input/mice > for the my mouse p

Re: caught in apt conflict with libc6, zlib1g and zlib1g-dev

2002-12-01 Thread Lukas Latz
Seneca, Did the manual install (zlib1g 1:1.1.4-1) and now everything is groovy again. Apt is happy. Thank you! Lukas --- Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:48:02AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > > I tried to install Xine (lib-xine and xine-ui) from locally installed > >

Re: is software raid across two networked machines possible ?

2002-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-29 15:35:13 +0530]: > > I have two PCs connected having IPs 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3, in > one machine I am having an 80 GB HDD and the other 20 GB. My critical > application software is running in the 20 GB HDD machine. I want to > mirror th

Re: scsi errors, how dangerous could it be?

2002-12-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 01 December 2002 06:34 am, Alexey Chetroi wrote: > Hello All, > > I have some messages in /var/log/syslog which attracted my > attention. it about scsi errors which I don't fully understand: > Dec 1 07:40:30 ial kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = > 0x9 Dec 1 07:40:30 ial

How to install proper Java? (1.3.1 or 1.4.1 SDK)

2002-12-01 Thread Lukas Latz
After installing J2SE 1.4.1 the non-apt way (*.tar.gz) I found it doesn't like the libraries it finds on my Debian Woody (stable). Went back to blackdown.org and followed instructions to add their site to my /etc/apt/sources.list . They say: Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb ft

Re: Will Gregg and Monica's computer support Debian?

2002-12-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:48:46PM +1100, Russell wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:56:45AM -0700, Gregg & Monica wrote: > > > >>I need to know if my computer can support debianand I need to knwo if it > >>will support the gui...here are my computers info... > >> > >>cyrix

Re: Sound (SBLive) | Gnome Problems

2002-12-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:49:52PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:33:51PM -0800, Andres Guedez wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I've been having trouble getting sound to work in my > > Debian unstable setup. Environment sounds seem to work > > well in KDE (I get a sound when I op

Re: Wanna make sure I don't screw the list up!

2002-12-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:33:18AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:02:32AM +, Pigeon wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I have the following ~/.forward: > | > | # Exim filter > | if $header_from: contains "digest" > | then pipe "/home/pigeon/bin/burster" > | save "/h

USB Mouse Logitech Trackman

2002-12-01 Thread Casey Scott
I can not get my Logitech Trackman USB mouse to work at all! The kernel (2.4.20) does detect it during boot, and the usbdevfs is mounted. However, when I cat or tail -f /dev/input/mice, and move the mouse, nothing changes. The mouse obviously doesn't work in X. Everything is compiled stati

Re: How to install proper Java? (1.3.1 or 1.4.1 SDK)

2002-12-01 Thread sean finney
heya, On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:35:41AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody >non-free add an entry for main just before non-free and you should be set hth sean msg16413/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cfdisk revisited

2002-12-01 Thread Michael Naumann
01.12.2002 18:07:53, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The linux booters (lilo, grub, syslinux, etc.) don't care about that > flag. It is MS-DOS and MS Windows that cares. Its possible that it > only cares if you use an MS boot loader, it may not matter when you > chainload th

Re: How to install proper Java? (1.3.1 or 1.4.1 SDK)

2002-12-01 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:35:41AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > After installing J2SE 1.4.1 the non-apt way (*.tar.gz) I found it > doesn't like the libraries it finds on my Debian Woody (stable). Went > back to blackdown.org and followed instructions to add their site to > my /etc/apt/sources.list

Voodoo Graphics

2002-12-01 Thread Dennis Krinke
Hi, is it possible to use an old 3dfx voodoo graphics card? I have a diamond stealth 2000 (S3-Virge) and a diamond monster 3dfx (voodoo graphics) I am have tried this with both the stock debian 2.4-18 kernel: $ uname -a Linux 2.4.18-k6 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux and with a cus

Exim + Procmail + Cyrus

2002-12-01 Thread David Ellis
First off I'm a relative Debian Newbie, but I've been using Linux, Unix and Windows Systems for in excess of 13 years. General rule of thumb, assume I know nothing :) Anyhoo, I've got a pretty sweet exim + cyrus configuration going and I'm happy with it - so I thought I'd plug procmail into it and

Re: Voodoo Graphics

2002-12-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Dennis Krinke [Sun, Dec 01 2002, 11:10:06AM]: > and with a custom Kernel configuration: > Character Devices > Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRRI suport) > 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ > (but, unfortunately, this seems to be tdfx, not 3dfx) > > CONFIG_DRM=y > > CONFIG_DRM_NEW=y > > CONFIG_

Re: setting up USB

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:03:41PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: | Hello all, | | I'm still having difficulty in setting up my USB mouse for woody. Since I | am currently kernel 2.4.bf2.4, my assumption is that the USB drivers are | already loaded. Don't assume. Check. (do you know what "assume" s

Re: How to install proper Java? (1.3.1 or 1.4.1 SDK)

2002-12-01 Thread Lukas Latz
Guys, "main" was it! ...After unpacking 51.4 Mb will be used <-- looks a lot better! Thanks! --- Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:35:41AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > > After installing J2SE 1.4.1 the non-apt way (*.tar.gz) I found it > > doesn't like the libraries

Re: Exim + Procmail + Cyrus

2002-12-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
Yes, I've run into this. I remember cyrdeliver doesn't like the "From " header, so I solved it by adding this to the top of .procmailrc: :0 f | formail -I "From " I think it'll work better. Xav Le dim 01/12/2002 à 20:19, David Ellis a écrit : > First off I'm a relative Debian Newbie, b

dhclient problems

2002-12-01 Thread Robert J. Lynn Jr.
When trying to have dhclient detect settings via DHCP during setup, this fails. "No response recieved."... However, Win2k and WinXP seem to be able to detect the settings right fine, so I tried entering the parameters manually (my IP rarely changes), but that didn't work. Any ideas? -Rob -- To U

getting rid of xfonts-100dpi

2002-12-01 Thread Bruce Park
Hello all, I'm trying to get rid of xfonts-100dpi and instead use xfonts-75dpi. However, when I try to remove that package: apt-get remove xfonts-100dpi apt states that it will also remove x-window-system and w-window-system-core. I know that these packages should not be removed so what can I d

Re: dhclient problems

2002-12-01 Thread Casey Scott
Make sure you are using the right drivers for your nic. Casey Scott On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Robert J. Lynn Jr. wrote: > When trying to have dhclient detect settings via DHCP during setup, this > fails. "No response recieved."... However, Win2k and WinXP seem to be able > to detect the setti

Re: getting rid of xfonts-100dpi

2002-12-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:38:32PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > I'm trying to get rid of xfonts-100dpi and instead use xfonts-75dpi. > However, when I try to remove that package: > apt-get remove xfonts-100dpi > apt states that it will also remove x-window-system and > w-window-system-core. Don't

Re: Wanna make sure I don't screw the list up!

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:33:51PM +, Pigeon wrote: | On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:33:18AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:02:32AM +, Pigeon wrote: | > | The program "burster", written in C, takes its standard input (the | > | digest) apart into individual

Re: dhclient problems

2002-12-01 Thread Robert J. Lynn Jr.
I have a Netgear FA310TX, Tulip Drivers, correct? -Rob - Original Message - From: "Casey Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert J. Lynn Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 2:42 PM Subject: Re: dhclient problems > > Make sure you are using the

Re: dhclient problems

2002-12-01 Thread Casey Scott
Yes, tulip looks correct from what I found. Are you installing Debian, or just configuring a system for dhcp? Casey On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Robert J. Lynn Jr. wrote: > I have a Netgear FA310TX, Tulip Drivers, correct? > -Rob > > > - Original Message - > From: "Casey Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhclient problems

2002-12-01 Thread Robert J. Lynn Jr.
Installing Debian. The NIC is directly connected to my cable modem. - Original Message - From: "Casey Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert J. Lynn Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 2:48 PM Subject: Re: dhclient problems > Yes, tulip looks

Re: dhclient problems

2002-12-01 Thread Casey Scott
Does your cable modem require a specific hostname or domain name to be used by clients? Check the host name and domain on the windows boxes. On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Robert J. Lynn Jr. wrote: > Installing Debian. The NIC is directly connected to my cable modem. > > - Original Message ---

Re: cfdisk revisited

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:55:31PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: | 01.12.2002 18:07:53, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > The linux booters (lilo, grub, syslinux, etc.) don't care about that | > flag. It is MS-DOS and MS Windows that cares. Its possible that it | > only car

Mutt and multiple identities

2002-12-01 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I currently have about three different mail accounts forwarded to my debian server, and then exim sorts them into their respective folders. I have mutt setup to read all of the folders, and I am trying to set specific settings for each account. From what I can see, folder-hook is what I am looking

Font anti-aliasing

2002-12-01 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi, I am running Gnome2 and I would like to know what I have to do to enable anti-aliasing (in particular, font anti-aliasing) in my environment. Which are the options I have? Load freetype on X? Thanks, Bruno. PS: I don't use font servers. -- Bruno Diniz de Paula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rutgers U

RE:Re: Will Gregg and Monica's computer support Debian?

2002-12-01 Thread Hell.Surfers
win 98 every component = 497.2 meg Regards, Dean. On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 16:42:39 + Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:48:46PM +1100, Russell wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:56:45AM -0700, Gregg & Monica wrote: > > > >>I need

Re: IDE disks won't interoperate

2002-12-01 Thread nate
Oliver Elphick said: > Situation: > > I have a 6Gb 2.5" drive from a laptop, that won't boot in the laptop and > has been replaced by a 10Gb drive. (The old disk is Hitachi DK228A-65, and > the new is DK23BA-10.) a lot of older IDE disks have compadiblity issues with each other. some refuse to be

Re: Mutt and multiple identities

2002-12-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-12-01 20:57]: >folder-hook . source ~/.muttrc >folder-hook =INBOX.NWLSDsource ~/.mutt/nwlsd_muttrc > >For testing purposes, the NWLSD setup has a different set of headers >and a different signature. This seems to work when

Re: Font anti-aliasing

2002-12-01 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Looking at http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html There's a short FAQ: How do I get antialiased fonts in GNOME 2? Add the following line to /etc/environment: GDK_USE_XFT=1 Also, if you want antialiasing in GDM, add the following lines near the top of the /etc/init.d/gdm fil

Re: usb mouse

2002-12-01 Thread Bruce Park
Nate, I fixed the problem. I actually had to put "mousedev" in the file /etc/modules or X wouldn't start. Also, usbcore, hid, and usb-ohci aren't being used. I got rid of them and things still run fine. Just wanted to say, thanks for the help. bp From: "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL P

Re: DMI pool data

2002-12-01 Thread messmate
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:15:04 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sun, 01 Dec 2002, Michael Naumann wrote: | > Does your bios have something like | > "Restore faile-save settings" | > | > I would give a try. No, no 'restore fail-save settings. | | Failing that, try

who knows a V.92 compatible ISP?

2002-12-01 Thread Hell.Surfers
Does anyone know a v.92 British ISP? Regards, Dean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Font anti-aliasing

2002-12-01 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi Johan, thanks for your answer. The only problem was that when I enabled the antialiasing just like you suggested, I "lost" my truetype fonts already installed. Is there any way to continue using truetype also with antialiased fonts (GDK_USE_XFT=1) enabled? Thanks a lot, Bruno. On Sun, 2002-12

kbdrate as ordinary user

2002-12-01 Thread Ward Vandewege
Hi all, ** Debian testing/unstable ** I'm having some trouble here with kbdrate. The problem is that on resume from an apmd suspend, my laptop defaults back to a keyboard repeat rate of 10, and that is _really_ slow. Manually executing kbdrate -r30 as root solves that problem. But of course I don

what's everyone's favorite audio setup?

2002-12-01 Thread sean finney
hi all, i'm getting tired by my many audio-wanting apps not getting along with one another, and i'm looking to switch to some kind of audio environment that allows multiple programs access to the soundcard at the same time. i know there are a few programs out there that do this (libarts, esd, ...

Re: Mutt and multiple identities

2002-12-01 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 09:38:35PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Hi, > > * Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-12-01 20:57]: > >folder-hook . source ~/.muttrc > >folder-hook =INBOX.NWLSDsource ~/.mutt/nwlsd_muttrc > > > >For testing purposes, the NWLSD setup has

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