Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Theo Cabrerizo Diem wrote: > I have to install an Oracle (and Progress) databases here ... but a > question remains in my mind ;o) ... In Oracle's website they say that > Oracle is supported only in a few rpm based distros ... > > I know that Oracle run on Debian/Linux ... but what kind > of prob

Re: compiling with g++ 3.3

2003-06-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Shawn Lamson: > I refer to page: > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/headers_cc.txt > which lists iostream as a standard library header. So why throw the > message from "backward/backward_warning.h" at me? > In addition, if I alter the #include to be > #include > then I

Re: wmmon IO

2003-06-15 Thread David selby
Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:26:27AM +0100, David selby wrote: I have wmmon running, the CPU & memory screens work AOK but the I/O screen showes zip no matter how much disk I/O I do. I checked out there web site at http://windowmaker.mezaway.org, it no longer exists. I sc

Re: Peer-2-Peer in Debian

2003-06-15 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Jernej Zidar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14-06-2003 12:45]: > Is there a good file sharing app for Debian such as WinMX & Co. ?? Soulseek. The Linux version is called pyslsk and is available in Debian. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: compiling with g++ 3.3

2003-06-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:59:12 -0500 Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Shawn Lamson: > > I refer to page: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/headers_cc.txt > > which lists iostream as a standard library header. So why throw the > > message from "backward/backw

Re: Need advise about FTP

2003-06-15 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Saturday 14 June 2003 12:38, Sven Hoexter wrote: > Or choose a SQL DB or LDAP as backend. I've no experince with LDAP at all > but the mySQL backend worked nicely. thanx, that's look like a nice idea. Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Totally Remote Debian Install Help

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Heiming
[ Removed (for me) invalid ng ] Fredderic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a use for it (which also happens to benefit him), and so he's opened > up his firewall so I can get to its VNC service. All I have to do now is > send him an email to tell him to flick on the power switch. Trouble is,

Pb using mii.o and eepro100

2003-06-15 Thread Emmanuel Pinault
Hi I have been trying to use the mii.o module that normally eepro100 depends on... I tried load mii.o using insmod mii and then doing insmod eepro100 and I cannot get my network card working.. What am I missing? how do I get my "eth0" interface? any other configuration required somewhere? I

Re: kdm locale problem

2003-06-15 Thread LeVA
Hi! Ben Kal wrote: On 13 Jun 2003 LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, you now have to take the next two hurdles (the final ones, luckily): - installation of fonts that support the Hungarian character set and configuration of applications to use them; - configuration of the keyboard for gener

Re: compiling with g++ 3.3

2003-06-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Shawn Lamson: > It actually doesn't look like it does search the /usr/include/g++-3/ > directory. > > ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/i386-linux/include" > #include "..." search starts here: > #include <...> search starts here: > /usr/include/c++/3.3 > /usr/include/c++/3.3/i386-l

Re: esd and 2 concurrent users on machine?

2003-06-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 03:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, this is certainly a dirty hack, but you could always just put > > "esdctl unlock" into your default session. > > Can someone elaborate on this? Applications menu -> Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Sessions. Now on the "Startup P

Re: Pb using mii.o and eepro100

2003-06-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Emmanuel Pinault: > So to me it looks like eepro100 depends on mii but I cannot force > eepro100 to use mii? with insmod I could not find how > how would I use it with modprobe? modprobe modulename Will load all of modulename's dependencies, and then load modulename itself. -- N

Re: LITEON Cd Burner problems.

2003-06-15 Thread Brian Poole
Hi, Firstly have a liteon 48*24*48 burner, it works fine for me. I have not experienced your problem. Your burner could be defective, if possible see if it works under another operating system with the software it shipped with. Try removing your philips cd-rom and then reboot. Is the problem s

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:37:34AM -0400, Graeme Tank wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:59:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Have you tried aptitude? It's like dselect but with a bit more brain. > > I recall using aptitude briefly as a Debian novice on stable, but found > apt-cache (search|sh

Questions re kernel

2003-06-15 Thread cr
I've just managed (on my second attempt) to install Debian 3.0 and get PPP working (so this time the RedHat 7.2 hard drive doesn't go straight back in) However, there are a number of things that need sorting, including a couple of what may be fundamental points that I should sort out before this

Good & cheap mp3 player, USB Flash disk, cd/vcd/mp3 player anddigital camera etc

2003-06-15 Thread Hattie Yuan
My dear friend, The price list of USB Flash Disk: USD8.8/32mb USD13.2/64mb USD24.2/128mb USD45/256mb Digital camera 17USD/300K pixels CD/VCD/MP3 player (3 in 1) 25USD(Negotiable with the amount) MP3 player Price negotialble with the amount and the kind Wireless Portable Hands F

Re: Questions re kernel

2003-06-15 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > I've just managed (on my second attempt) to install Debian 3.0 and get PPP > working (so this time the RedHat 7.2 hard drive doesn't go straight back in) > > However, there are a number of things that need sorting, including a couple > of what may be fundamenta

Re: Samba Access

2003-06-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:07:05 -0500 Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I struggled getting the Windows ---> Samba ---> CUPS ---> HP printer > route going here. The solution I finally wound up using was to use a > "Post Script" driver on the Windows machine. I used the "generic" PS > wi

Re: Questions re kernel

2003-06-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:44:58 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mount -t umsdos /dev/hdc1 /mnt/dosC > gives > mount: fs type umsdos not supported by kernel > > Am I using the wrong kernel? (uname says I'm using idepci: > Linux alti 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i586 unknown >

How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Terence Ng
Hi! How do I set xdm as default? I have tried: rcconf and select xdm and /etc/init.d/xdm start but message shows: Not starting X display manager (xdm); it is not the default display manager. I have viewed /etc/X11/default-display-manager and it shows: /etc/bin/gdm but I do not know how to

Antivirus- Clamscan - Exploit.IFRAME.Generic

2003-06-15 Thread SRIKANTH NS
Hi All I installed clamav sometime back. Since I thought Linux is immune from virii(mistakenly) I never scanned Linux partitions. Yesterday I did a scan "clamscan -i -r /home/srikanth" It reported 2 files apart from test signature files with klez virus. I removed it "clamscan --remove /home/srikan

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:19, Terence Ng wrote: > I have viewed /etc/X11/default-display-manager > and it shows: > /etc/bin/gdm > > but I do not know how to set, since there is no > /etc/bin/xdm such file. If xdm is installed, edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager to read /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm. May

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:19:25PM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > Hi! > > How do I set xdm as default? I have tried: > rcconf and select xdm and > /etc/init.d/xdm start > > but message shows: > Not starting X display manager (xdm); it is not the > default display manager. > > I have viewed /etc

Re: How to stop booting into KDE environment

2003-06-15 Thread John Hasler
Mark L. Kahnt writes: > The Debian outlook tends to be rather that if some software should be on > a machine and available on a runlevel, it is best for the decision to be > made by the sysadmin, rather than some guesses/judgements by Debian > maintainers whether something belongs in certain runlev

Problem with sqwebmail login (repost)

2003-06-15 Thread Sasa Babic
/* Sorry if this is double post. I'm not sure if it got to the list (seems * not). */ Debian stable & sqwebmail. I must be doing something wrong, because I'm not able to authenticate trough sqwebmail interface. Searched through Google already, but of no avail. /var/log/syslog: Jun 15 14:08:47 h

Re: Antivirus- Clamscan - Exploit.IFRAME.Generic

2003-06-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:48:17PM +0530, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > Hi All > I installed clamav sometime back. Since I thought Linux is immune from > virii(mistakenly) I never scanned Linux partitions. > > Yesterday I did a scan "clamscan -i -r /home/srikanth" > It reported 2 files apart from test sign

naming of debian distributions

2003-06-15 Thread matt zagrabelny
hi, i installed debian using the woody cds. but in my sources.list i have all my paths set to unstable. am i running sid or woody? -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with sqwebmail login (repost)

2003-06-15 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:49:58PM +0200, Sasa Babic wrote: > /* Sorry if this is double post. I'm not sure if it got to the list (seems > * not). */ > > Debian stable & sqwebmail. > > I must be doing something wrong, because I'm not able to authenticate trough > sqwebmail interface. Searched th

I have a dream... what do you think?

2003-06-15 Thread Frederiks, P.
Title: I have a dream... what do you think? The debian box-profile: - Box:=Desktop;Multimedia Servers:=None Security:=usability-first Country:=NL GUI:=Medium-light Nice-scheme:=responsive-desktop prefered-sound-system:=esd;alsa Fonts:=Anti-Aliased;west

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 02:22:22 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 01:12:57PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:29:09 -0400 > > Graeme Tank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and bug #188900 seems fixed. > > > > Thanks. But this morning listbu

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Terence Ng
I cannot remove gdm by running: dpkg --remove gdm and I have already installed xdm --- Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:19, Terence Ng wrote: > > > I have viewed /etc/X11/default-display-manager > > and it shows: > > /etc/bin/gdm > > > > but I do not know how

Re: Antivirus- Clamscan - Exploit.IFRAME.Generic

2003-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:48:17PM +0530, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > I installed clamav sometime back. Since I thought Linux is immune from > virii(mistakenly) I never scanned Linux partitions. It is. > Yesterday I did a scan "clamscan -i -r /home/srikanth

Re: old interne modem (ISA)

2003-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 02:31:00PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > > Sure. Finely ground, your internal modem will make an extremely > > strong cup of coffee. > Yuck! > > Is that what Starbucks did? :) Someone here apparently isn't a dark-roast fan.

OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

2003-06-15 Thread John Foster
I have tried to burn 4 Knoppix cdr's using different programs including trying windoze nero with the exact same results.the cd burns but does not produce a bootable cd. Their web site seems to indicate that if you can sucessfully burn a cd with the Knoppi.iso file that it should boot. T

Postgresql: pg_dumpall

2003-06-15 Thread ch
Hi! I use Postgresql 7.2.1-2woody2 which is currently included in the Woody distribution. I tried to use /usr/lib/postgresql/dumpall/pg_dumpall, but it doesnt work at all. I had to set the BINDIR-Variable to point to the psql-client executable (/usr/bin), but it still cant find the shared library

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:19:25PM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > but message shows: > Not starting X display manager (xdm); it is not the > default display manager. > > I have viewed /etc/X11/default-display-manager > and it shows: > /etc/bin/gdm > What

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:10:12AM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote: > i installed debian using the woody cds. but in my sources.list i have > all my paths set to unstable. am i running sid or woody? Sid. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 15:45, Terence Ng wrote: > I cannot remove gdm by running: dpkg --remove gdm First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff. Try that first. In general, copying the error messages is more likely to generate helpful answers that just saying you "cannot" :)

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-06-15 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Es geschah am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 15:10 als matt zagrabelny schrieb: > hi, > > i installed debian using the woody cds. but in my sources.list i have > all my paths set to unstable. am i running sid or woody? If you installed it using the official woody CDs it's very unlikely that you have an u

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:12:43AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Since there's no real benefit to having more than one display manager > installed, dpkg --purge gdm, dpkg-reconfigure -plow xdm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man dpkg-reconfigure |grep plow [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ been doing some farming?? --

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff. Try > that first. Its fine to suggest aptitude, its usefull in some situations, but i dont think you can say that people _should_ use it. People can install packages h

anyone using mailutils-imap4d?

2003-06-15 Thread Mark Devin
I am looking for a imap server that will use MAILDIR format, TLS, and support kerberos. The documentation on imap4d suggests that it will do all these things. Can anyone confirm this? Regards. Mark. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

2003-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:24:23AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > BTW these are my first attempts at using Debian SID apps to burn a cd. > Any tips or experiances would be appreciated. Thanks! Have you read the CD Burning Howto? - -- .''`. Baloo

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:36:06PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man dpkg-reconfigure |grep plow > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > been doing some farming?? The man page is out of date if it doesn't include -plow... - -- .''`. B

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Christian Schoenebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030615 16:09]: > If you installed it using the official woody CDs it's very unlikely that you > have an unstable source in you apt list. According to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=157014 you have unstable sources (for the disks) afte

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-06-15 Thread matt zagrabelny
i manually changed sources.list [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/debian_version testing/unstable thanks for the info. -matt On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:09, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Es geschah am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 15:10 als matt zagrabelny schrieb: > > hi, > > > > i installed debian using t

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030615 15:10]: > i installed debian using the woody cds. but in my sources.list i have > all my paths set to unstable. am i running sid or woody? There is a small bug with the Woody CDs, so that the disks are identified as "unstable disks". Please have a vi

Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

2003-06-15 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:24:23 -0500 John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried to burn 4 Knoppix cdr's using different programs > including trying windoze nero with the exact same results.the cd > burns but does not produce a bootable cd. Their web site seems to > indicate that if yo

KDE and Debian conflicts

2003-06-15 Thread Marc Warne
Hi, I'm having dependency problems when trying to install stable KDE packages with the testing Debian ones. This is my sources.list file: deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://download.uk.kde.or

whereami question

2003-06-15 Thread matt zagrabelny
hello whereami users, i cannot find in the documentation or examples of whereami how to set the gateway, netmask, etc for a static interface. i see in the detect.conf that you can set the ip with the ping test, but cannot find how to set the other parameters for static ip. please advise. thanks,

filling the area under a curve in gnuplot

2003-06-15 Thread martin f krafft
Sorry for asking a gnuplot question here... Is it possible to shade the area under a curve in 2D mode (plot)? How? Thanks! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `-

Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

2003-06-15 Thread Kent West
John Foster wrote: I have tried to burn 4 Knoppix cdr's using different programs including trying windoze nero with the exact same results.the cd burns but does not produce a bootable cd. Their web site seems to indicate that if you can sucessfully burn a cd with the Knoppi.iso file th

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:58:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:36:06PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man dpkg-reconfigure |grep plow > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > > been doing some farming?? > > The man page is out of date if it doesn't include

Re: [debian-user] Converting to UTF-8 from ISO-8859

2003-06-15 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
>--[Alex Malinovich]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 06:58, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > > >--[Alex Malinovich]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 1) I've set up an .Xmodmap file to map my left Windows key to Multi_key > > > so that I can type extended characters. However, I have to run "xmodma

RE: naming of debian distributions

2003-06-15 Thread Frederiks, P.
Title: RE: naming of debian distributions The official woody CD's I have create apt.sources lines containing the word 'unstable'. I don't know why, but I do know for sure this is the official woody-release and NOT sid.

woody -> sarge upgrade & finding updated files on home made cdrom

2003-06-15 Thread Rodney D. Myers
in the past month, I've grabbed updates to sarge, and have them "archived" onto cdrom. Now that I've re-installed woody, and upgraded back to sarge, how do I get apt-get to see these updated files, so I can save a bit of time using a dialup internet connection. Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL

NFS: Problem in changing runlevels

2003-06-15 Thread ich du
Hello! I have installed Debian Linux 3.0r1 and a home-compiled 2.4.18 kernel (no additional patches) with NFS-kernel-server (compiled in). Everything seems to work, but when I change the runlevel to 1 and to 2 after doing something or simply typing CNTRL-D the system hangs at this point: Starti

Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

2003-06-15 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Sunday 15 June 2003 17:24, John Foster wrote: > I have tried to burn 4 Knoppix cdr's using different programs > including trying windoze nero with the exact same results.the cd > burns but does not produce a bootable cd. Their web site seems to > indicate that if you can sucessfully burn a c

Re: Problem with sqwebmail login (repost)

2003-06-15 Thread Sasa Babic
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:13:00PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:49:58PM +0200, Sasa Babic wrote: > > /* Sorry if this is double post. I'm not sure if it got to the list (seems > > * not). */ > > > > Debian stable & sqwebmail. > > > > I must be doing something wron

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:42, Hugh Saunders wrote: > Its fine to suggest aptitude, its usefull in some situations, but i dont > think you can say that people _should_ use it. People can install packages > however they like apt-get, dpkg, aptitude, synaptic, wajig, etc. Sure, however, they should r

Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

2003-06-15 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:24:23 -0500 John Foster wrote: > I have tried to burn 4 Knoppix cdr's using different programs > including trying windoze nero with the exact same results.the cd > burns but does not produce a bootable cd. Their web site seems to > indicate that if you can sucessfully bur

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Frederiks, P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030615 17:26]: > The official woody CD's I have create apt.sources lines containing > the word 'unstable'. I don't know why, but I do know for sure this is > the official woody-release and NOT sid. This is a known problem. See http://bugs.debian.org/157014 Si

howto rebuild items under /usr/share/applnk ???

2003-06-15 Thread Michael D. Schleif
In a misbegotten effort to upgrade to kde 3.x, I have managed to delete /usr/share/Applnk/* . Now that I have re-installed kde 2.2.25, and I log into my desktop, the panel in the lower left has gear-icons, instead of application-specific icons, in positions 3-11 and 13. Clicking on one of these g

Re: Unexpected APM functionality after installing gnome2.2 backport

2003-06-15 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:57, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I recently picked up a second-hand laptop (IBM Thinkpad 570). I installed > Woody > > per the usual and found that APM seemed to work fine for putting the laptop > to > > sleep

Re: Questions re kernel

2003-06-15 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:44:58 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, there are a number of things that need sorting, including a > couple of what may be fundamental points that I should sort out before > this installation gets too far down the track. > > First, I have a couple of DOS parti

Re: CVS_RSH for :ext: CVS access

2003-06-15 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 00:02:02 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > A while back I posted this note. It might help in getting up to speed > with the alternatives system. A short tutorial on the subject. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200208/msg02808.html You

USB and PCMCIA card readers

2003-06-15 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all I have 2 card readers - an Sandisk PCMCIA compactflash card reader, and an Lexar USB Smartmedia card reader, and well, the question is how to get those to work on my linux laptop? I'm not fairly sure what is there to need to know to solve the problem, the laptop's a fairly ancient on

Low latency patch worth the fuss?

2003-06-15 Thread iwk
Hi there, I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even with nice level -20 for both ripping & encoding the system "drags" noticeably. The kernel low latency patch should in theory offer a solution by improving on the resposiveness of the system. But does it in practice? Is it really worth th

Re: howto rebuild items under /usr/share/applnk ???

2003-06-15 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Michael D. Schleif (Sun 15 Jun 02003 at 11:02:42AM -0500): > In a misbegotten effort to upgrade to kde 3.x, I have managed to delete > /usr/share/Applnk/* . > > Now that I have re-installed kde 2.2.25, and I log into my desktop, the > panel in the lower left has gear-icons, instead of

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

2003-06-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 20:08, iwk wrote: > Is it really worth > the fuss of recompiling the stock (debian) kernel which is working fine? > Anyone got any practical experience? I've been running Con Koliva's patch set fo a while. http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ It's already out for

kde & ``unmet dependencies'' _heLL_ ???

2003-06-15 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I am very confused ;> First, this system is woody. indicates that _all_ I need to upgrade to kde v3.x is to add this to /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.2/Debian stable However, when I then do: apt-get dist-upgrade it re

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

2003-06-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:08, iwk wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even with nice level -20 for > both ripping & encoding the system "drags" noticeably. The kernel low > latency patch should in theory offer a solution by improving on the > resposiveness of the sys

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Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:42:43PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff. > > Try that first. > > Its fine to suggest aptitude, its usefull in some situations, but i > dont

Re: KDE and Debian conflicts

2003-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:09:33PM +0100, Marc Warne wrote: > I'm having dependency problems when trying to install stable KDE packages > with the testing Debian ones. That's really not surprising. The g++ 3.2 transition involved a change in the Qt package names, among other things. "Don't do that

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

2003-06-15 Thread aradorlinux
On 15 Jun 2003 21:09:22 +0200 Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd say it's really worth it, and from my brief encounter with Gentoo > I'd suspect that most of Gentoo's perceived speed is because of the > kernel (they offer the CK kernel in portage, but as I understand also > the stock

Re: Samba Access

2003-06-15 Thread Donald Spoon
Shawn Lamson wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:07:05 -0500 Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I struggled getting the Windows ---> Samba ---> CUPS ---> HP printer route going here. The solution I finally wound up using was to use a "Post Script" driver on the Windows machine. I used the "gene

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:49:11AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Most businesses really don't know what to make of free software. > Therefore they try to make it fit into their traditional model of > commercially purchased non-free software. The concept of buying > software fits the traditional pu

Re: old interne modem (ISA)

2003-06-15 Thread Robin Gerard
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:33:16AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:36:06AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > > Can someone tell me what I forgot to do or which type of internal > > modem (ISA) works with linux. > > Sure. Finely ground, your internal modem will make an extreme

Beginning Linux Programming

2003-06-15 Thread Tinus Kotzé
Hi I am looking for a tutorial for linux programming. I have thorough experience in Delphi and quite a bit in Java. I would like to start programming for Linux in C. I am looking to start with KDevelop as IDE. My problem is I don't know much about "configure". Can somebody advise a tutorial for t

Empty applications-menu in gnome 2.2

2003-06-15 Thread Reto Stalder
Hello, I've installed gnome 2.2 today. Unfortunately my applications menu in the panel is empty. I couldn't figure out why. What can I do that the applications, the debian menu and the kde menu appear? The links to the applications seem to exist. Nautilus shows them under "programs". Thank you fo

Re: old interne modem (ISA)

2003-06-15 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Monday 16 June 2003 01:22, Robin Gerard wrote: > > Sure. Finely ground, your internal modem will make an extremely > > strong cup of coffee. > > Okay, I've mad coffee with my internal modem who's volonteers for a cup ? Me! I love heavy metal(s) :-D -- Frank Van Dammehttp://www.openstanda

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:57:19PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:42:43PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > > First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff. > > > Try that first. > > > > I

Re: Fixing error when installing package

2003-06-15 Thread Ben Kal
On 14 Jun 2003 iwk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Eclipse 2.1 from unstable. It downloaded a whole bunch > of dependant packages, among which the j2re1.4 (Blackdown). > Configuration of the latter failed, leading to a whole series of > dependant packages (ant, junit etc) to fai

Re: Converting to UTF-8 from ISO-8859

2003-06-15 Thread Ben Kal
On 14 Jun 2003 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been working on converting my system over to using UTF-8 wherever > possible. I've already configured galeon, evolution, gnome-terminal and > just about every other graphical application to use UTF-8 by default. I've > set my locale

Re: old interne modem (ISA)

2003-06-15 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:22:58PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:33:16AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:36:06AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > Can someone tell me what I forgot to do or which type of internal > > > modem (ISA) works with linux

Re: Beginning Linux Programming

2003-06-15 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 15 Jun 2003 23:40:36 +0200 Tinus Kotzé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody advise a tutorial for the make/configure part? The > programming C part I already have covered. IANAP. I believe the make/configure process is generally known as autoconf; googling for "GNU autoconf" gets many hi

Re: Fixing error when installing package

2003-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:35:14PM +0100, Ben Kal wrote: > On 14 Jun 2003 iwk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just installed Eclipse 2.1 from unstable. It downloaded a whole bunch > > of dependant packages, among which the j2re1.4 (Blackdown). > > Configuration of the latter failed, leading to

Re: whereami question

2003-06-15 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Es geschah am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 17:14 als matt zagrabelny schrieb: > i cannot find in the documentation or examples of whereami how to set > the gateway, netmask, etc for a static interface. i see in the > detect.conf that you can set the ip with the ping test, but cannot find > how to set the

Re: Beginning Linux Programming(THANK YOU)

2003-06-15 Thread Tinus Kotzé
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:16, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On 15 Jun 2003 23:40:36 +0200 > Tinus Kotzé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can somebody advise a tutorial for the make/configure part? The > > programming C part I already have covered. > > IANAP. > > I believe the make/configure process is

Re: pb with eepro100

2003-06-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
Manu wrote: Hi I am having some issues with my pc. I have an intel card and I know it works with the knoppix distribution 3.2 as I have tried it and was connected . I have compared the modules and the only differences between debian and knoppix was the mii.o. In fact this module is a dependance f

agpgart module, gui, and system responsivness

2003-06-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
I am currently running debian unstable on a dual p3 (1Ghz CPU's) tyan (via apollo pro 133a) motherboard for my daily computing needs when I'm home. I've been reluctant to upgrade because, well, it works and it's rock solid stable. But I have always noticed one annoying thing. Mozilla is slow. S

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

2003-06-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"debian" == debian writes: debian> Hi there, I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even debian> with nice level -20 for both ripping & encoding the system debian> "drags" noticeably. The kernel low latency patch should in debian> theory offer a solution by improving on th

RE: Console password generator

2003-06-15 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
thanks -Original Message- From: Jean-Marc V. Liotier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Console password generator On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:24, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Im not sure if debian package has a password ge

RE: Console password generator

2003-06-15 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Pwgen looks pretty good. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Massimiliano Ferrero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 6:06 PM To: Debian User Subject: Re: Console password generator Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Hello, > > Im not sure if debian package has a password

Problems with cups upgrade

2003-06-15 Thread Cam Ellison
I run a testing/unstable mix. Today cups was upgraded on both distributions, so I dutifully followed suit. Cupsd will not start now, withis error: Starting CUPSys: cupsdcupsd: Child exited with status 98! Going back to the previous version does not help, which makes me think the problem is in l

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

2003-06-15 Thread Carlos Sousa
Not responding to the OP's mail since I already deleted it. On 15 Jun 2003 18:57:05 -0500 Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "debian" == debian writes: > > debian> Hi there, I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even > debian> with nice level -20 for both ripping & encoding the system

client-server lprng setup broken

2003-06-15 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hey gang, I've had this setup working fine for about a year and a half and now it's acting up. I have a network printer HP4600 running lpd internally and a central mail server running woody and lprng: printcap: ##LPRNGTOOL## REMOTE POSTSCRIPT 600x600 letter {} PostScript Default {} lp|PostScript|H

Re: Beginning Linux Programming(THANK YOU)

2003-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Tinus wrote: > Kevin wrote: > > Tinus wrote: > > > Can somebody advise a tutorial for the make/configure part? The > > > programming C part I already have covered. > > > > I believe the make/configure process is generally known as autoconf; > > googling for "GNU autoconf" gets many hits, at least

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

2003-06-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hello all > > I have 2 card readers - an Sandisk PCMCIA compactflash card reader, and > an Lexar USB Smartmedia card reader, and well, the question is how to > get those to work on my linux laptop? I'm not fairly sure what is there > to need t

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