Re: Re: blackdown java

2002-12-05 Thread Wojtek Piecek
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:14:46PM +, Tom Badran wrote: Then install : j2re1.3 j2sdk1.3 if using woody, or j2re1.4, j2sdk1.4 if using unstable. 1.3 wont work on stable, although it will probably install, and i dont know whether or not 1.4 works on woody. 1.3 _can_ work on unstable, but yo

Re: Mutt mail to Mozilla

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:37:04AM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > I know this might be a stupid question, but can I read Mutt mail/folders > with Mozilla? The only import option is for Netscape 4 :( but is there > a plugin perhaps - I fancy using nice graphics instead of command-line > for a bit. R

Re: What is a 'path'?

2002-12-05 Thread Alberto Cabello Sanchez
El Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:42:42AM -0800, Ben Hartshorne escribió: > > Could someone say exactly what the export PATH part does and under what > conditions it's necessary? > an example: alberto@marmota:~$ FOO=bar alberto@marmota:~$ bash alberto@marmota:~$ echo $FOO <--- FOO is not available in

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:04:34AM +, Stig Are M. Botterli wrote: > Basically, if my /boot/vmlinuz image exceeds a certain size (the limit seems be > somewhere around 90 bytes), the following occurs on boot: Whoa! Huge kernel! Module some of that stuff out and it should help if there's s

Re: Realtek NIC and Modem trouble.

2002-12-05 Thread nate
Mike Russell said: > the bios defaults, trying the options like pio instead of mmio in the > kernel config. The NIC is a Realtek 8139 and the driver used is 8139too. you try the normal 8139 driver? > All the hardware above worked fine for me 6 months ago but not now. Both > the modem and NIC wor

Re: best traffic shaper solution for modem line?

2002-12-05 Thread debian
> On Thursday 05 December 2002 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > I have only a dial up connection (stone age, I know). I notice there > > > a number of traffic shaper/QoS solutions around now and I am wondering > > > if anyone has an opinion which is the best. I w

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2002-12-05 Thread nate
Paul Johnson said: > Whoa! Huge kernel! Module some of that stuff out and it should > help if there's some hidden size limitation. I have a pretty big > kernel, the bzImage is 644,225 bytes. sounds like a 2.4.x kernel. I was amazed how huge the 2.4.x kernel got. my biggest 2.2.x kernel I think

RE: sync root passwords?

2002-12-05 Thread Jan Johansson
>Thanks for any suggestions! Most would opt for NIS / NIS+ for this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-05 Thread debian
> >Thanks for any suggestions! > > Most would opt for NIS / NIS+ for this. > I'd be a bit worried that I couldn't get in if the network was down, even from the machine itself. I guess my own idea has that problem though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Mutt mail to Mozilla

2002-12-05 Thread Harvey Kelly
Genius!! Well almost, I had to delete the Local Folders folder and put a symbolic link to ~/Mail, but hey it works. Thanks! Harvey On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:17:17AM +0100, Roman Joost wrote: > This will work lovly. Point your mozilla¹ to your local mail folder, where your > mutt is saving your

RE: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-05 Thread alan brown
I tried reconfiguring but now I'm in a worse pickle than ever... When I first installed Xserver I was at least able to ctrl-alt-delete out of it (returning to a console view of the world), and edit the XF86Config-4 file and then run startx again and see how my changes changed X-Windows' behaviour.

Re: Step by step instructions for "sessions".

2002-12-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi list, here is the bad guy. Be warned :-) On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:14:56PM -0500, Mr. David Bersson wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Since this fellow who asked for advice on how to go directly into > different window managers has objections to the method, it may of > confused some of the newbies

Re: Mutt mail to Mozilla

2002-12-05 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 05.12.2002 um 07:37 schrieb Harvey Kelly: > I know this might be a stupid question, but can I read Mutt mail/folders > with Mozilla? The only import option is for Netscape 4 :( but is there > a plugin perhaps - I fancy using nice graphics instead of command-line > for a bit. You don't even ne

Re: modifying initrd.img

2002-12-05 Thread Herbert Xu
Richard Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, the loadmodules script tries to load INI9100 for my SCSI > card, but that module doesn't exist, so I end up with a kernel panic > (can't mount root fs). Make sure you've got initrd-tools >= 0.1.23 and regenerate the initrd image: mkini

RE: Clock running slow

2002-12-05 Thread alan brown
I also saw this problem on a suite of machines that were being used for distributed performance testing. We had xntpd running but the clocks still lost too much accuracy too quickly. We ended up setting up a process that automatically ran ntpdate every 10 seconds on each of the machines. It solv

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Re: Clock running slow

2002-12-05 Thread debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I also saw this problem on a suite of machines that were being used > for distributed performance testing. We had xntpd running but the > clocks still lost too much accuracy too quickly. We ended up setting > up a process that automatically ran ntpdate every 10 seconds

Re: best traffic shaper solution for modem line?

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:12:43PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you propose to stop the other bloke from sending it? ICMP source quench exists for a reason. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better thing

Re: Partition size

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Naumann
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 07:15, Rob Weir wrote: > X has to know about poer events, since it will have to re-initialise > your video hardware when your machine wakes up again. Thanx, that X tells me about such events, where it is actively doing something as important as re-initialising my har

calendar items in Mozilla with Exchange server

2002-12-05 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Another question, I have hooked my mozilla mail client to the exchange server at work, and all is going well, but I have the calendar folder with items, but the items have the message with a link at the bottom to a .eml file. Does anyone know how to be able to interact with the calendar items

Cups

2002-12-05 Thread sdownes
Struggling with Cups. It is installed with apt-get I can print a test page OK from Cups I can print through cups from my windows box Cups is updating /etc/printcap when I modify the printer Printing from Abiword to lp does nothing command line (lp -d lp@rm "filename") returns:- lp unable

RE: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-05 Thread Geordie Birch
said alan brown (on 2002-12-05), > So I'm not sure that I'm > truly out of x-windows (though I think perhaps I am). No, you're not out of X at that point. > So my question is, How can I use the keyboard to kill X-Windows (as my > mouse is dead)? Ctrl-alt-backspace should kill X. This can be d

RE: Pretty much a Debian newbie

2002-12-05 Thread David Pastern
Harold Henderson said on Wednesday, 4 December 2002 4:55 PM >Hello Debian gurus! >Well, I'm new here and >I must apologize >in advance for my >naivity in the world of >Linux. Please forgive >any questions that >may seem a bit gullible. Welcome to Debian Harold. Best place to learn Linux is

Re: Cups

2002-12-05 Thread Donald R. Spoon
sdownes wrote: Struggling with Cups. It is installed with apt-get I can print a test page OK from Cups I can print through cups from my windows box Cups is updating /etc/printcap when I modify the printer Printing from Abiword to lp does nothing command line (lp -d lp@rm "filename") returns:-

Re: Cups

2002-12-05 Thread Olivier Esser
On Thursday 05 December 2002 10:54, sdownes wrote: > Struggling with Cups. > > It is installed with apt-get > I can print a test page OK from Cups > I can print through cups from my windows box > Cups is updating /etc/printcap when I modify the printer > > Printing from Abiword to lp does nothing >

Re: modifying initrd.img

2002-12-05 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 21:36, Herbert Xu wrote: > Richard Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, the loadmodules script tries to load INI9100 for my SCSI > > card, but that module doesn't exist, so I end up with a kernel panic > > (can't mount root fs). > > Make sure you've got i

Re: sawfish makes itself x-window-manager

2002-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:23:04PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >dpkg is one of those packages that has a lot of bugs but by and large > >works pretty well. Looking purely at the number of bugs and ignoring the > >fact that it's mostly very solid, tested code is not really rati

Re: rebuilding available

2002-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:08:36PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Is it possible to rebuild the dpkg available file? 'dselect update' does so. It won't get (much) shorter though. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: make-kpkg and .changes

2002-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:03:58AM +, Frank Copeland wrote: > I would like to install locally built kernel packages in a local > repository managed by mini-dinstall. For that I need a .changes file > generated. Is there some way to get make-kpkg do that when it creates > the packages? Dunno, b

Re: Cups

2002-12-05 Thread Kai Großjohann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (sdownes) writes: > Printing from Abiword to lp does nothing > command line (lp -d lp@rm "filename") returns:- > lp unable to print file server-error-service-unavailable > from a remote host or:- > job queued but cant start daemon > (it isn't queued in cups) /etc/pri

cluster: rsh vs. ssh

2002-12-05 Thread Hannes Loeffler
Hi, our cluster configuration has a master node with two NICs: one connected to the outside world, one for a private network. The software we use is parallelized via MIPCH, hence either rsh or ssh will be used to make connections. Every user on the cluster needs to access all the machines withou

Package conflicts

2002-12-05 Thread Kovacs Istvan
Hi, I would like to install the Zorp firewall (http://www.balabit.hu/en/news/) on Woody. The packages provided by the manufacturer require libglib1.3 and python-base, which are not available on woody. Instead of libglib1.3, we have libglib2.0-data (replacing libglib1.3) and python1.5 or python rep

Veritas Netbackup agent

2002-12-05 Thread Scott Spence
Hi, Is anyone using the Veritas Netbackup agent on their debian/linux machine? I am interested to hear any good/bad comments. It has been mentioned to me that the Veritas agent for linux is free - but try and work that out from their website! There seem to be plenty of press releases out there a

IBM x440

2002-12-05 Thread boukhairi
Hi everybody Has ever some of you played with a debian and an IBM X440 (the one with 4 Xeon 2.4 and the summit chip) I'm trying since some days to make it boot with a 2.4.18 kernel from kernel.org. I've applied some patch (summit etc...) but i got always the kernel panic ! It happens when the ker

[OT] USB -> serial converters

2002-12-05 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello everybody I am thinking about buying a laptop, and I absolutely need a serial port. Now that many if not most, laptops do not have serial ports any more, I'd like to know if (and how) I could get one of those USB to serial converters to work Any experiences, anyone? thanks joerg -- To U

Re: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??

2002-12-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:33:52 -0900 Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Andy initially wrote: > >So I did this command: grep -r cardmgr /var/log |less > >and can't find that message that scrolls by on bootup. > > >Then dave mallery wrote: > > less /var/log/dmesg > > It is not in there. I just chec

PS/2 and IMPS/2 mice

2002-12-05 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I did several tests here with our different PS/2 mice. I had the problem, that not every mouse was usable trough XFree86 with the same config. I found out that i am able to use every PS/2 mouse with eather ther "PS/2" driver or the "IMPS/2" driver (im talking about the "Protocol" option

Re: Cyrus 2.0.17 and 2.1.11 released

2002-12-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Updated Debian packages of 2.1.10 with all security patches are already available, since yesterday. 2.1.11 was uploaded to Debian unstable and will be installed today. I may backport 2.1.11 to Debian stable soon (or not), since ALL the security fixes have been already backported to 2.1.10-5.woody0

RE: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-05 Thread Wathen, Metherion
ctrl-alt-F1 :will get you to a terminal/console mode screen. you'll probably have to login in again, that's what happens on my system anyway, but you'll be in console mode. As for not having any options at your login screen you're going to have to edit your gdm resource file. I'm not sure what i

Re: Mutt mail to Mozilla

2002-12-05 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Dennis Stosberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > But still I wonder why anyone should want to use Mozilla instead of > Mutt... I can understand wanting a point and click client, but there are ... well, there's at least one other client that I'd take over Mozilla (Sylpheed), and I'm sure there are a d

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Re: Veritas Netbackup agent

2002-12-05 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:41:16PM +, Scott Spence wrote: Hi Scott, > Is anyone using the Veritas Netbackup agent on their debian/linux machine? Jupp. > I am interested to hear any good/bad comments. > > It has been mentioned to me that the Veritas agent for linux is free - but > try and wo

Re: Clock running slow

2002-12-05 Thread Kent West
Bill Moseley wrote: I setup a machine for a friend and every few days I ssh in to see how things look. Twice now I have found the date about twenty minutes behind. This is on an old Dell PIII machine. Weak CMOS battery? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Doing an "apt-get --purge remove" after an earlier "remove"?

2002-12-05 Thread Lloyd Zusman
I have searched the various docs and mailing list archives, and I couldn't find anything about my question. But please forgive me if I have missed something obvious in the docs, because I've only started using debian a few days ago. My question: sometimes when I have wanted to purge a previously

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2002-12-05 Thread 汪小姐
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Re: Pretty much a Debian newbie

2002-12-05 Thread Kent West
Harold Henderson wrote: This week I'd like to put in some hard drives & configure them with grub ( or is it lilo?) Either. A lot of people are beginning to migrate to grub. One of it's advantages is that if you've got something wrong in your grub configuration, you can edit it from the boo

Re: cluster: rsh vs. ssh

2002-12-05 Thread sean finney
how well do you trust your users? is your cluster's network physically secured--that is, do users not have access to the machines and their network cables? for example, if i had access, i could unplug one of the nodes and plug in my laptop with a pre-configured ip/mac addr, and then i could go an

Re: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]: [...] Thanks for the help guys. I'll go with the filtype/filesize comparisons suggested. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Mutt mail to Mozilla

2002-12-05 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:56:14AM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > Dennis Stosberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > But still I wonder why anyone should want to use Mozilla instead of > > Mutt... > > I can understand wanting a point and click client, but there are > ... well, there's at least

Need help installing from floppy/ls-120 to Thinkpad R31

2002-12-05 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Hello to all: Whenever I boot from a rescue disk created with Potato or Woody, then switch to the root disk, I constantly get an end_request error. I've tried every configuration I can think of, including: - Switching disable/enable legacy floppy support in BIOS - Using the LS-120 drive and ex

RE: Mail Server (LINUX)!

2002-12-05 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi Keith, Glad I was able to help with the mouse situation, unfortunately I don't have any idea about what to do for the mail server. When I set up my linux box I told exim not to config because I knew that I'll prolly never use it for email. I receive all my email at work through M$ Outlook. Try r

Re: Doing an "apt-get --purge remove" after an earlier "remove"?

2002-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:34:01AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > In other words, I intended to type this: > > apt-get --purge remove the-package > > ... but I inadvertantly typed this: > > apt-get remove the-package > > In these cases, is there any way that I can now do the equivalent of the

Re: Mail Server (LINUX)!

2002-12-05 Thread sean finney
heya, instead of just leaving yourself with an unconfigured mail server, how about installing ssmtp? it's a simple mta that does not listen for incoming mail and merely forwards all mail to another server. i suggest it because there are often important things that get sent via email (like output

Re: SB Live - Resolved - Network Issues

2002-12-05 Thread Peter van Oene
Please don't top post. Good point. Participation on too many top post heavy lists has lead to some bad habits :-) You can find that module in the latest kernel versions. I use it myself. Either download a pre-built kernel binary (look for kernel-image packages), or better yet, build

RE: Mail Server (LINUX)!

2002-12-05 Thread Wathen, Metherion
are there processes that run on a stand-alone system that need/use an email server? mw. -Original Message- From: sean finney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:56 AM To: Wathen, Metherion Cc: 'Samaad Story'; Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: Re: Mail Server (LINUX)!

Re: Mail Server (LINUX)!

2002-12-05 Thread Tom Badran
On Thursday 05 Dec 2002 3:05 pm, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > are there processes that run on a stand-alone system that need/use an email > server? Some daemons report errors through email, i think cron does too. They will work okay without one though normally. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Doing an "apt-get --purge remove" after an earlier "remove"?

2002-12-05 Thread Jason Bleazard
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 09:34:01 Lloyd Zusman wrote: . In these cases, is there any way that I can now do the equivalent of the "--purge" without re-installing the package and re-issuing the "remove" command with the "--purge" flag? Try 'dpkg -P' or 'dpkg --purge' if the latter is easier to r

Re: Doing an "apt-get --purge remove" after an earlier "remove"?

2002-12-05 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:34:01AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> In other words, I intended to type this: >> >> apt-get --purge remove the-package >> >> ... but I inadvertantly typed this: >> >> apt-get remove the-package >> >> In these cases, is

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2002-12-05 Thread Stig Are M. Botterli
In article <20021205080347.GE7442@ursine>, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:04:34AM +, Stig Are M. Botterli wrote: >> Basically, if my /boot/vmlinuz image exceeds a certain size (the limit se= >> ems be >> somewhere around 90 bytes), the following occurs on boot: > > Who

configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (library qt-mt) not found ???

2002-12-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello just wondering, am trying to compile a program, and configure stops there... but i did indeed install that lib... so if anyone has an idea on what's going wrong. dpkg -l libqt3* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-ins

mozilla 1.2 and commandline

2002-12-05 Thread Gregory Seidman
With mozilla 1.1 and earlier, running mozilla from the commandline with an URL when mozilla was already open would open a new window with that URL. Now it launches and asks which profile to use (and refuses to use the profile currently in use.) Is there a setting to regain the old behavior? Note t

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-05 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:58:19PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Take the canonical, one-password case, and give me a reasonably good > password, say one generated from the phrase "I Procrastinate On Grading > Papers By Debating Debian!": > > I!engsygN > > (whoever finds the phrase->password algo

Re: Help configuring old mozilla compile

2002-12-05 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:46:58AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > Phoenix > > it's light, it's fast, it's *just* a browser, its moz/gecko based. > > only at 0.4 but even here in windows land it's what we've waited these long > years for Thanks. I downloaded it, and followed the installation inst

Debian cannot find the CD

2002-12-05 Thread Barry Cugley
Hello all   Debian cannot find the CD drive (though Windows 98 can) so I have used the vi editor to change the file system table. Unfortunately, the CD is still not being found by Debian.   I have changed the line in /etc/fstab /dev/cdrom    /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto 0  0

Re: Clock running slow

2002-12-05 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Kent West wrote: > Bill Moseley wrote: > > >I setup a machine for a friend and every few days I ssh in to see how > >things look. Twice now I have found the date about twenty minutes behind. > > > >This is on an old Dell PIII machine. > > > > > > > Weak CMOS battery? No

Re: Permedia 2 hardware acceleration (was:openGL question)

2002-12-05 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:14:12AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:45:20PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > High, > > > > > > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > The direct rendering is se

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2002-12-05 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:16:29 + "Stig Are M. Botterli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <20021205080347.GE7442@ursine>, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:04:34AM +, Stig Are M. Botterli > > wrote:> Basically, if my /boot/vmlinuz image exceeds a certain size > >

missing paperconfig?

2002-12-05 Thread Gustav Olsson
I need some help on this one: When installing bonobo with "apt-get install bonobo", it depends on libpaperg 1.1.10, and there fore tries to download and install it as well. But I get: "/var/lib/dpkg/info/libpaper1.postinst: line 20: /usr/sbin/paperconfig: No such file or directory" while run

Re: Package conflicts

2002-12-05 Thread Travis Crump
Kovacs Istvan wrote: Hi, I would like to install the Zorp firewall (http://www.balabit.hu/en/news/) on Woody. The packages provided by the manufacturer require libglib1.3 and python-base, which are not available on woody. Instead of libglib1.3, we have libglib2.0-data (replacing libglib1.3) and p

Re: mozilla 1.2 and commandline

2002-12-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:31:49 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > With mozilla 1.1 and earlier, running mozilla from the commandline with an > URL when mozilla was already open would open a new window with that URL. > Now it launches and asks which profile to use (and refuses to use the > profile cu

Re: Permedia 2 hardware acceleration (was:openGL question)

2002-12-05 Thread Wim De Smet
[...] Hi, I may be wrong but AFAIK there is no support for hardware acceleration in the xserver drivers. It is my understanding that this requires some level of knowledge about the hardware that is usually not disclosed. So the only drivers that I know of that do provide hardware acceleration are

postgres upgrade failed.....

2002-12-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello i got used to the automatic postgres upgrade... and stopped making myself dumps before upgrading... :( and now i am stuck.. the automatic upgrade failed, and i don't know how to get this back... i tried the migration file, but couldn't get something usable out of it... postgresql-d

Re: support for cluster maintenance?

2002-12-05 Thread Hannes Loeffler
> > begin Hannes Loeffler quote on Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:46:35PM +0100: > > > a) user accounts (NIS probably) > i just installed the c3 utilities from ornl. they were written up in > the december issue of Linux Magazine in the "extreme linux" column. > they are a series of python modules tha

Power Point reader

2002-12-05 Thread stan
What tool can I use to view poer point file? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Mail Server (LINUX)!

2002-12-05 Thread 'sean finney'
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:05:19AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > are there processes that run on a stand-alone system that need/use an email > server? > mw. yeah. look for anything that depends on mail-transport-agent. the only example that i can think of without doing a grep is cron, but i

Holiday Wish list

2002-12-05 Thread Bill Moseley
Ok, so this is coffee induced, but my one wish is that all HOWTOs include a last modified date so I don't spend hours learning and installing the old way, and that all HOWTOs explain *why* each step is done instead of just the steps. (Is that two wishes?) The main reason I pick Debian is that I

Re: Debian cannot find the CD

2002-12-05 Thread sean finney
do you know which ide device your cd drive is? i'd imagine that you're just missing a symlink. normally, /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hd[bcd], depending on where it's plugged in on your ide chain. if you don't know what i'm talking about, you can figure it out really easy by doing the following

Re: Debian cannot find the CD

2002-12-05 Thread David Z Maze
"Barry Cugley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Can you configure your mail reader to only send plain-text mail, especially to mailing lists? HTML mail makes my spam filter unhappy...) > Debian cannot find the CD drive (though Windows 98 can) so

Re: Power Point reader

2002-12-05 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:37, stan wrote: > What tool can I use to view power point file? > $ apt-cache search powerpoint ppthtml - A program for converting Microsoft Power Point Files .ppt And of course... OpenOffice.org Antoine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Doing an "apt-get --purge remove" after an earlier "remove"?

2002-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:14:01AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:34:01AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > >> In other words, I intended to type this: > >> > >> apt-get --purge remove the-package > >> > >> ... but I inadvertantly

[OT] Apache behind Linksys Cable Router

2002-12-05 Thread deFreese, Barry
First off, apologies for the OT post but this list and the Debian-ppc list have pretty much become my only Linux mailing lists. Anyway, I pulled down Apache and PHP4 last night and all went well. I can get to the default page no problem from the machines on my home LAN: 192.168.10.0. This mornin

Re: Debian cannot find the CD

2002-12-05 Thread Kent West
Barry Cugley wrote: Hello all Debian cannot find the CD drive (though Windows 98 can) so I have used the vi editor to change the file system table. Unfortunately, the CD is still not being found by Debian. I have changed the line in /etc/fstab /dev/cdrom/cdrom iso9660 defaults,noaut

Problems with mplayer/xv

2002-12-05 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi, I have just compiled and installed mplayer in my box, but I have been facing a problem when I try to play video using xv video output. The screen appears, but it remains all the time all blue, and nothing is displayed. There are no error messages concerning the video output when mplayer loads,

Re: Permedia 2 hardware acceleration (was:openGL question)

2002-12-05 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:21:58PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > [...] > > Hi, > > I may be wrong but AFAIK there is no support for hardware acceleration > in the xserver drivers. It is my understanding that this requires some > level of knowledge about the hardware that is usually not disclosed. S

Re: Debian cannot find the CD

2002-12-05 Thread Miguel Ângelo Soares
You must have a cdrom directory in root.  mkdir cdrom. That might solve your problem. Make sure your drive is an ATPI. - Original Message - From: Barry Cugley To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:34 PM Subject: Debian cannot find the CD

RE: Holiday Wish list

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Olds
oops, sorry for the off-list post Bill, here's what I said: There is definately something very inefficient about these mailing lists for sure. I think a better approach is the Bulletin Board with an active moderator, so that a permanent thread could be opened on a topic and additions and questions

Re: Cups

2002-12-05 Thread Kai Großjohann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: > /etc/printcap has to do with the lpr, not lp, program. (You need to install the cupsys-bsd (or similar) package.) -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn(Frank Nobis) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Mozilla and java plug-ins

2002-12-05 Thread florian florian
Hi, Please help me with this little problem, in a great OS like Debian.In mozilla browser some pages doesn't work when find application java.For egg. the error message is application/x-java -vm can viewed only with appropriate plug-in, but in Nerscape series4.7 works. Is it about some link that

Re: Permedia 2 hardware acceleration (was:openGL question)

2002-12-05 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:14:12AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:45:20PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > > High, > > > > > > > > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Frank G

Re: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Huh? some AVIs and all WAVs are uncompressed, and will benefit > enormously from compression. The theory here is correct, though: > don't try to compress already-compressed data; it won't work. Well, depends on what you mean by uncom

Re: Permedia 2 hardware acceleration (was:openGL question)

2002-12-05 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Wim De Smet wrote: > [...] > > Hi, > > I may be wrong but AFAIK there is no support for hardware acceleration > in the xserver drivers. It is my understanding that this requires some > level of knowledge about the hardware that is usually not disclosed. So > the only drive

RE: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??

2002-12-05 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ?? > > > >Andy initially wrote: > >So I did this command: grep -r cardmgr /var/log |less > >and can't find tha

Re: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??

2002-12-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:33:52PM -0900, Andy wrote: > Is EVERY single message/text that scrolls by during boot up logged > into /var/log/dmesg ??? No. It's a known issue though. -rob msg17209/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Magic with make install

2002-12-05 Thread Eduardo Rocha Costa
Hi, everybody I'm new on Debian, and I was wondering if a magic command exists in deb.. like this: Let's suppose that I want to compile the program foo. before I run make install, I run this magic command, and it gather every information about the installation process. After, when I do not need t

RE: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-05 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Determining the usefulness of compression > > > * Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]: > > > -Original Message- >

LIrc & Linux 2.4.20

2002-12-05 Thread Andreas Eichner
Hi List, I tried to use the lirc-modules-source package with linux-2.4.20 but I can't get it compiled using "make-kpkg modules_image" on my Woody box. With 2.4.18 it works fine. The "make-kpkg kernel_image" and "make-kpkg modules_image" with nvidia-kernel-src & lm-sensors-source processes fine

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

2002-12-05 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:31:48AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > under potato i had X up and running like a champ. > > > > now i've "dist-upgrade"d to woody ... > > Try 'XFree86 -configure' If it detects your hardware, it will produce the > proper XF86Conf

Re: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??

2002-12-05 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:09:53PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > High, > > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, daves debian wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how to view the bootup screen, it goes by so fast > > > > I can use dmesg to view the kernel boot > > I seem to have loads of error messages after the kern

Re: cluster: rsh vs. ssh

2002-12-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:40:50AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > of course if the entire cluster is locked in another room and on > a completely private net, you might not be gaining that much security, > and i'll bet performance is a bit faster without all that encryption. A halfway solution might

seting up debian on presario 1245 laptop

2002-12-05 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi all, anyone has installed debian on a compaq presario 1245 (or similar) laptop? Could you help me a little in setting up sound? I'm having a real hard time setting up sound wiht alsa and 2.4.19 kernel the chipset is supported, because I previously had suse and sound worked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

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