Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

2004-03-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Mar 2004, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a nice display manager (for XFCE4). My > expectations are: > > * good looking :-) (GTK+ 2 preferred) > * small (not hundreds of dependencies on GNOME, KDE, ...) > * remote capable (XDMCP support) > * "system menu" (reboot/shutdown) >

Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

2004-03-15 Thread Toby Batch
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 13 Mar 2004, W. Borgert wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a nice display manager (for XFCE4). My expectations are: * good looking :-) (GTK+ 2 preferred) * small (not hundreds of dependencies on GNOME, KDE, ...) * remote capable (XDMCP support) * "system menu" (reboot/shutdow

VIRUS ELIMINATO / DELETED

2004-03-15 Thread antivirus
VIRUS ALERT / ALLARME VIRUS Abbiamo riscontrato la presenza del/dei virus: -- Our viruschecker found the viurs/es: W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] in un messaggio apparentemente proveniente dal Suo indirizzo e destinato ad uno dei

Re: readline support in xmaxima

2004-03-15 Thread Goran Christiansson
Hi, > I dont know what I am doing wrong, But I cannot use up and down arrow > keys in xmaxima to go to previous and next commands. Instead the cursor > goes to the previous/next line. CTRL-p and CTRL-n are also not working. > > I am using debian testing, Maxima 5.9.0. Downloaded the packages from

Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

2004-03-15 Thread Number Six
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:28:49AM +, Toby Batch wrote: > >On 13 Mar 2004, W. Borgert wrote: > >> > >>I'm looking for a nice display manager (for XFCE4). My > >>expectations are: > > Fluxbox. I moved to it a couple of years ago and can't leave it now. > It has features that the hefty wm's d

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svgatextmode question

2004-03-15 Thread harry_b
Hi everybody, I have a question regarding svgatextmode. I installed a new HDD in my notebook and installed a fresh SID system on it. Everything works nicely except that I can't get svgatextmode working again like it did before. The notebook has a neomagic graphics chipset (Neomagic Corporation

AW: AW: webmin-samba configuration problem

2004-03-15 Thread Simmel
Hi Jaldhar, I'm running Samba 2.X on woody stable. I used the "real" webmin package and ALSO the one provided with debian (but I upgraded it because it's version 0.97 in stable :-) Greets, Simmel -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Jaldhar H. Vyas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag,

AW: webmin access?

2004-03-15 Thread Simmel
Right and the port usually is 1 and not 1000 :-) maybe that's the problem -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Jaldhar H. Vyas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Marz 2004 19:47 An: stan Cc: Debian User List Betreff: Re: webmin access? On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, stan wrote: >

Gnome2 install - HELP

2004-03-15 Thread Setyo Nugroho
Hi all, I did not really succeed installing gnome2.2. in my woody debian. my /etc/apt/source.list file contains ONLY this: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody gnome2.2/ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http:

Re: debian newbie...

2004-03-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello mixo (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have been playing around with debin woody (rc2) for about week now, > and I have varying success. The biggest problem I have is my wireless > NIC (prism2). The "vanilla" kernel simply freezes my system, the > "bf24" never connects to the network but giv

Dell GX1 CPU upgrade adaptor

2004-03-15 Thread Tacobell
Dell GX1 CPU upgrade adaptor http://www.upgradeware.com/english/product/slott/slott.htm   Dell GX110 CPU upgrade adaptor http://www.upgradeware.com/english/product/370gu/370gu.htm

Re: No PS/2 Mouse with Kernel 2.6.x

2004-03-15 Thread Sascha Petranka
Ok, I got the answer from Dmitry Torokhov and Peter Osterlund. You have to pass psmouse.proto=bare to the kernel an now it works. If you want IntelliMouse pass also psmouse.proto=imps The Problem is: (Dmitry Torokhov) It seems that older Compaqs and some ASUS have the following issues: 1. The

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread steef
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:01:31PM -0800, Number Six wrote: Are DVD images going to be available? I would think (hope) those would be given "preferred" status. You can make your own DVDs with jigdo already. jigdo is the p

howto compile aic79xx for bf24

2004-03-15 Thread Isaac Claymore
Hi list, plz kindly CC me since I'm not on list. I've been trying to install Woody on a new box, but the installer doesn't include a aic79xx.o. I installed kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4, and downloaded aic79xx source. But the aic79xx source was part of an entire kernel source tree, i.e. it's suppos

Re: xlibmesa-gl1-dri-mach64

2004-03-15 Thread David Baron
This much I realize. That it might not want to keep the "xmesa-glu" and such, I can understand. Guarddog?, The qt library? The only "foreign" sources I have in sources.lst are Daenziger for this dri stuff but I do not believe this is theirs--they offer sources for a drm-mach64 which I cannot g

Re: mga_vid driver - any news? (Newbie) / SOLVED

2004-03-15 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
Hello, I tried xv video driver. It works fine with my (rather old) config using xine (.deb package) or mplayer (.tar.gz), with GNU-Debian Sid / Linux 2.6.4. My config: - Matrox G200 video card - Celeron 400 Thanks again! ;-) Sylvain. Mario Vukelic wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 17:59 +0100, Sylvai

Swiss Keyboard? (woody and sarge)

2004-03-15 Thread Martin Petruzzi
Hi I hope somebody can help me with the following strange problem. I know about wrong settings in XF86Config-4 with keyboards and I know it will work or not consequently, but at the moment I experience only a part of this problem. I have an IBM ThinkPad with a swiss-german keyboard. On the con

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2004 #879

2004-03-15 Thread David Baron
On Monday 15 March 2004 00:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are all the following going to be removed too? (not clear with the [] > parenthesis). > I am not clear either. Said 7 to be removed but then lists all those others in brackets. > x-window-system and x-window-system-core are virtual depen

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Beretta
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:00:28 +0100, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i agree with vanwoerkom. 13 cd's is for the poorer part of the world a >major obstacle for the use of i.c. debian_linux > >cheers, > >steef How in God's name is it an obstacle? Who the hell needs all 13 CD's? Are you planni

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Beretta
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:00:19 +0100, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But even if we are looking at a full 13 x 700 MB = 9100 MB at a >relatively slow 5 minutes per megabyte it would take you less than a >week to download the entire distribution. > What kinda math is that? 5 mins pe

Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

2004-03-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:28:49AM +, Toby Batch wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >On 13 Mar 2004, W. Borgert wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I'm looking for a nice display manager (for XFCE4). My > >>expectations are: > >> > >>* good looking :-) (GTK+ 2 preferred) > >>* small (not hundreds of

Re: Plug and play USB mice in Unstabble.

2004-03-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 06:57:47PM -0500, Thomas G wrote: > I cant get my usb mouse to work for the life of me. Is there an easy way > to configure plug and play usb mice? or a way to get my mx500 to work. > Im on a nforce2 motherboard and am running sid with gnome. any ideas or > input? > You

2.4.22 kernel no longer boots

2004-03-15 Thread David Baron
After running 2.6.3 a while and numerous upgrades, I wanted to test something out on the old kernel. Boom. A panic due to an unsupported option(4). Tried rerunning lilo. Same thing. Sooo ... is it time to say bye-bye to 2.4 or has anyone had this suddenly start happen and found a fix? -- To

Re: c++ reference package

2004-03-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:03:23PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a package with c++ references in one form or another? > > > > I found quite a lot of c references but could locate anything proper on > > c++. > > stl-manual and libstdc++5-doc

Re: xlibmesa-gl1-dri-mach64

2004-03-15 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:52:31 +0100 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This much I realize. > > That it might not want to keep the "xmesa-glu" and such, I can > understand. Guarddog?, The qt library? To use just one example, a simple visit to packages.debian.org would show you that guarddo

AW: dpkg problem (vs. apt-get)

2004-03-15 Thread Simmel
< I tried installing a package (sane) but got:- Uhm, why don't you use apt-get install instead? Do you don't like it or already tried it with apt-get? I always look up packages here, just simply typing in e.g. mozilla and get back the packages I can install http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:02:13AM +0100, steef wrote: > i agree with vanwoerkom. 13 cd's is for the poorer part of the world a > major obstacle for the use of i.c. debian_linux No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not as if the installer requires registration of all 13

Re: Mozilla hangs on Print Preview

2004-03-15 Thread Jack Dodds
H. S. wrote: Apparently, _Jack Dodds_, on 03/14/04 21:05,typed: Thanks for the suggestion, Hugo. What is xprtorg? The package is just called xprt as far as I can tell. Have you tried this: $> apt-get install xprt-xprintorg I tried it and got E: Couldn't find package xprt-xprintorg I also tried

Re: howto compile aic79xx for bf24

2004-03-15 Thread Juhan Kundla
Hei! Ühel ilusal päeval [15-03-2004 12:06] kirjutas Isaac Claymore: [...] > I've been trying to install Woody on a new box, but the installer doesn't > include a aic79xx.o. [...] > I guess the knoppix-install tool may do, since knoppix should have a > proper aic79xx driver included. But, I'm k

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 15. März 2004 11:27 schrieb Beretta: > Are you planning on installing every single binary package there is? That don't work. - -- MfG usw. Werner Mahr registered Linuxuser: 295882 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU

Re: Eterm, gnome-terminal, UTF-8 woes

2004-03-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
Shot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> xterm (as uxterm) does UTF-8. > Yes, I know. The problem is I like the translucent > backgrounds, and the tabs are really useful... I suppose so (but screen works fine, and the background tweaks make the text less readable - ymmv). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://

"Fixing" dependency problems with some sort of alias?

2004-03-15 Thread Norman Walsh
With gaim being broken indefinitely, I thought I'd give ymessenger a try. I'm running unstable so there's a dependency issue with the install (libssl0.9.6 is required but I have libssl0.9.7). I used --ignore-depends on the dpkg install command to get ymessenger installed and it works fine. But apt

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread John Hasler
Colin Watson writes: > No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not as if > the installer requires registration of all 13 before it lets you do > anything else. Most potential users don't know that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin --

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:32:56 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Colin Watson writes: > > No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not as > > if the installer requires registration of all 13 before it lets you do > > anything else. > > Most potential users don't

Re: "Fixing" dependency problems with some sort of alias?

2004-03-15 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:26:08 -0500 Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With gaim being broken indefinitely, I thought I'd give ymessenger a > try. I'm running unstable so there's a dependency issue with the > install(libssl0.9.6 is required but I have libssl0.9.7). I used > --ignore-depends

Apache questions.......

2004-03-15 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all,   There are two Apache packages in Sarge, apache and apache-ssl. But there is also a libapache-mod-ssl package   Apache-ssl works in encrypted mode fine, however I can't get it to use mod_php4, which I need. Apache is able to use mod_php4 but I cannot get it to use mod_ssl, which

linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk

2004-03-15 Thread csj
For some reason I can't get DRI to work for my Radeon VE (7000) under linux 2.6 using the debs from: http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ The same debs work fine under any linux 2.4 version. Can somebody confirm if dri-trunk (especially from the above site) works with linux 2.6? I'm

Re: coda vs. nfs on home lan?

2004-03-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:40:55PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-03-14, Kenward Vaughan penned: > > > > Further reading has led me to feel that these would suit me, too. > > It's nice to get feedback from others about the possibilities, though, > > when one is feeling clueless outside o

quick help - kernel won't build

2004-03-15 Thread Simmel
Hi Party people, could you please help me out with this. I got a stable system running woody and I'd like to build a new kernel I've done this a dozen times with this page http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html I always use point 7.11 and had no problems what so ever. B

libxft-dev: unmet dependencies

2004-03-15 Thread Rajesh Menon
hey all. im running debian unstable on 2.6.0 i did an "apt-get update", "apt-get upgrade", and then an 'apt-get dist-upgrade', but i get a recurring error, when it comes to upgrading/installing libxft2-dev at dist-upgrade. the exact error message is: "The following packages have unmet dependencies

Think I've messed up X :(

2004-03-15 Thread Andrew Ingram
Last week, when I did an apt-get update (I'm on Sid btw), I was told that: The following packages have been kept back: x-window-system-core xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev Now, normally when I see that, I do an apt-get install of the packages so that apt then tells me it can't install them be

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:58:43PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: If the packages are going to be roughly sorted through the CDs based on popularity (as the notice suggested) If you aren't already, this is why you should have popular

Re: About: Help us make the Debian CDs even better

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Hugo! On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 03:04:54PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: "Help us make the Debian CDs even better" appeared in announce. To all of you who didn't see it: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0403/msg9.html I'd personally think using the p

installation, usb

2004-03-15 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks,   Whether it's kde or usb, I'm putting them under one thread because they are problems I'm encountering during installation.   My kernel version is 2.2.20. I'm referring to the port options available for modem during pppconfig. I'm keen to get the USB working; I've another device to get

Re: libxft-dev: unmet dependencies

2004-03-15 Thread Bruce Miller
On March 15, 2004 10:46, Rajesh Menon wrote: > hey all. > im running debian unstable on 2.6.0 > i did an "apt-get update", "apt-get upgrade", and then > an 'apt-get dist-upgrade', but i get a recurring > error, when it comes to > upgrading/installing libxft2-dev at dist-upgrade. the exact e

Re: dpkg problem (vs. apt-get)

2004-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:05:38PM +0100, Simmel wrote: > < I tried installing a package (sane) but got:- > > Uhm, why don't you use apt-get install instead? Do you don't like > it or already tried it with apt-get? That's unlikely to work given his error message. Remember, apt-get and every sing

Re: dpkg problem

2004-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:58:13PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > I tried installing a package (sane) but got:- > > dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 58406 > package `libnss3': `Replaces' field, reference to `mozilla-psm': version > contains ` ' > dpkg: parse error,

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:32:56AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not > > as if the installer requires registration of all 13 before it lets > > you do anything else. > > Most potential users don't know that. So

Re: "Fixing" dependency problems with some sort of alias?

2004-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:26:08AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > With gaim being broken indefinitely, I thought I'd give ymessenger a try. > I'm running unstable so there's a dependency issue with the install > (libssl0.9.6 is required but I have libssl0.9.7). I used --ignore-depends > on the dpkg i

Re: quick help - kernel won't build

2004-03-15 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:45:38 +0100 "Simmel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Party people, > > could you please help me out with this. I got a stable system running > woody and I'd like to build a new kernel I've done this a dozen > times with this page > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ref

Re: libxft-dev: unmet dependencies

2004-03-15 Thread quirin
rajesh, it's been discussed on that list recently. check out: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200403/msg01925.html there is a bunch of solutions, some of which might be more appropriate for your system. but what worked fine for me was # dpkg --ignore-depends=libxft-dev -

Re: PATH confusion in BASH

2004-03-15 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
Kent West wrote: > > In /etc/profile are these statements (they're the only path-related > statements in this file): > > >PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games" > >export PATH > > > I do not have a ~/.bash_login nor a ~/.profile. There are no > path-related statements in

Re: svgatextmode question

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I have a question regarding svgatextmode. I installed a new HDD in my notebook and installed a fresh SID system on it. Everything works nicely except that I can't get svgatextmode working again like it did before. The notebook has a neomagic graphics chip

Re: Mozilla hangs on Print Preview

2004-03-15 Thread H. S.
Jack Dodds wrote: H. S. wrote: Maybe xprt-xprintorg is in unstable, not stable? Thanks anyway for your help. hmm ... yeah, that could be it. I am running Sarge. ->HS -- (Remove all underscores from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is to reduce

[OT]Europe Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/business/16CND-TECH.html?hp Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Time to fix USB in 2.6.*

2004-03-15 Thread David Baron
Now that we are "stuck" with uhci-hcd, it is time to fix it. I have been getting the following on shutdown, then it hangs and I cannot shutdown normally (at least ext3 is working!). URB Status -104 USB-Submit--urb:. -32 BTW, second hotplug upgrade in two days -- this one produces a lot of error

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread steef
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:02:13AM +0100, steef wrote: i agree with vanwoerkom. 13 cd's is for the poorer part of the world a major obstacle for the use of i.c. debian_linux No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not as if the installer requires

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread John Hasler
Chris Metzler writes: > Presumably, when there actually is a release, this fact will be > publicized -- like it was for Woody, which was 7 CDs but didn't require > them all either. It will have to be effectively publicized somewhere other than the installation instructions. People who see Slashdo

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread John Hasler
Colin Watson writes: > No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not > as if the installer requires registration of all 13 before it lets > you do anything else. I wrote: > Most potential users don't know that. Colin Watson writes: > Sounds like a good reason to start tellin

RAID Root Installation

2004-03-15 Thread hazen
Ok, I'm spent; I have 4 disks in a raid 5 setup. This takes less than 2 minutes in redhat, mabye 3 minutes in Suse's Yast. I'd like to use debian due to it's Inherent pro-community and development stances. But seriously, it's like pulling teeth from a wild boar. Here's the deal, I've built a

Re: NFS Groups

2004-03-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Saturday 13 March 2004 10:07 am, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I want to thank those who helped me with the userid. The other half of > this, however, is the group id: > > Assume that a directory on the server is owned by root:users. The group id > number for users is different on the server and

Re: dpkg problem

2004-03-15 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:55:28 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /var/lib/dpkg/status is corrupt. Can you dig an older version out of > /var/lib/dpkg/status-old or /var/backups/dpkg.status.*, perhaps? Check > for differences with the current version before just copying it into > place,

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Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:42:04AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not > > as if the installer requires registration of all 13 before it lets > > you do anything else. > > I wrote: > > Most potential users don't k

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:02:13AM +0100, steef wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:01:31PM -0800, Number Six wrote: > >>Are DVD images going to be available? I would think (hope) those would > >>be given "preferred" status. >

Pinning

2004-03-15 Thread Pedro M.
How to say to Debian I prefer install Mozilla -unstable and not Mozilla -testing ( only this package in unstable). Thanks in advance. I have problems, because when I try in Gnome to open the contextual Menu Disk / Floppy, dissapear all the icon in the desktop, but the disk is mounted ( I have

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Metzler wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:32:56 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Colin Watson writes: No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not as if the installer requires registration of all 13 before it lets you do anything else. Most potential users don'

Re: Swiss Keyboard? (woody and sarge)

2004-03-15 Thread Urs Schroffenegger
Martin Petruzzi wrote: Hi I hope somebody can help me with the following strange problem. I know about wrong settings in XF86Config-4 with keyboards and I know it will work or not consequently, but at the moment I experience only a part of this problem. I have an IBM ThinkPad with a swiss-german

s3 virge

2004-03-15 Thread Ted Parks
I am using an s3virge card on a machine I am trying to configure with Debian Woody. I have tried to set up the card several ways, including X -configure. No luck. I wonder if there is a problem with the s3virge driver--could it be incompatible with the Woody kernel? How do I get an s3virge driv

Re: mozill hangs due to realplayer 8

2004-03-15 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
H. S. wrote: Hi, I installed realplayer 8: 1) Downloaded rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm 2) did "apt-get install realplayer" 3) it asked for the location of the _rpm file, which I specified 4) and it installed the realplayer Then I tried listening to a realplayer music and the window that realpla

Re: Kernel make-kpkg problem And Answer

2004-03-15 Thread CW Harris
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:11:28PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Mark F. Mangano wrote: > >Finally got it working. Turns out there was some problem compiling 2.6.3 > >with gcc-3.3; when I changed the /usr/bin/gcc symlink back to the older > >gcc-2.95, it compiled fine. > > > >Thanks, > >Mark. >

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:31, Beretta wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:00:19 +0100, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > >But even if we are looking at a full 13 x 700 MB = 9100 MB at a > >relatively slow 5 minutes per megabyte it would take you less than a > >week to download the entire d

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Beretta wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:00:19 +0100, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But even if we are looking at a full 13 x 700 MB = 9100 MB at a relatively slow 5 minutes per megabyte it would take you less than a week to download the entire distribution. What kinda math is that?

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 15. März 2004 16:13 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > I hear everybody saying "But you don't need the 13 cd's". OK, I don't > need the 13 CD's. But I have x CD's and have them registered with > apt-cdrom. Now I want a package Y. Synaptic or whatev

Remote administration of packages

2004-03-15 Thread Bob Schlärmann
Hello, I'm searching for a software package to remotely administer apt-get. For example select which packages to be installed on a certain host or group of hosts, so that those packages are automaticly installed. This would be handy if you got multiple computers to manage and want to install or d

Re: Think I've messed up X :(

2004-03-15 Thread Bruce Miller
On March 15, 2004 06:48, Andrew Ingram wrote: > Last week, when I did an apt-get update (I'm on Sid btw), I was told > that: > > The following packages have been kept back: > x-window-system-core xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev > > Now, normally when I see that, I do an apt-get install of the >

Re: c++ reference package

2004-03-15 Thread stephen parkinson
Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:03:23PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there a package with c++ references in one form or another? I found quite a lot of c references but could locate anything proper on c++. stl-manual and lib

Re: AW: AW: webmin-samba configuration problem

2004-03-15 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Simmel wrote: > Hi Jaldhar, > > I'm running Samba 2.X on woody stable. I used the "real" webmin package and > ALSO the one provided with debian (but I upgraded it because it's version > 0.97 in stable :-) > So just to confirm, with webmin-samba 1.130, you are still having the

Graphical version of aptitude

2004-03-15 Thread Andreas Bach Aaen
I guess that this allready exists. Can you provide me with the name of a graphical frontend to apt? Sorry to say but I find the aptitude console application difficult to navigate. Regards, -- /\ ,_ _|,_ _ _ _, |¨) _ _ |_/\ _ _ ,_ /¨¨\| )(_|| (-'.-|`-, |¨).-|(_ | ) /¨¨\.-|(-'| ) ¨¨¨

Re: s3 virge

2004-03-15 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 04:38, Ted Parks wrote: > I am using an s3virge card on a machine I am trying to configure with > Debian Woody. I have tried to set up the card several ways, including X > -configure. No luck. > > I wonder if there is a problem with the s3virge driver--could it be > incompatible

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 11:50:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: | Hi Debian! | | Did you see that in announce? The next stable release is 13 cd's. That | just about prevents all people on 56kb modems (many in the so-called | "third" world) from downloading them and | will I ever see the set i

Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk

2004-03-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:02:26PM +0800, csj wrote: > For some reason I can't get DRI to work for my Radeon VE (7000) > under linux 2.6 using the debs from: > > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ > > The same debs work fine under any linux 2.4 version. > > Can somebody confirm if

Re: Dark fonts in console

2004-03-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:51:21PM -0600, Kent West wrote: | After upgrading a couple of my sid boxes (to 2.6.3-1-k7), after the boot | I find that the console fonts suddenly turn dark just before getting to | the login screen. It's like the brightness on the monitor suddenly gets | dropped down

Re: quick help - kernel won't build

2004-03-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:45:38PM +0100, Simmel wrote: > Hi Party people, > > could you please help me out with this. I got a stable system running woody > and I'd like to build a new kernel I've done this a dozen times with > this page http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en

Re: Hotplug and Udev

2004-03-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 09:04:52PM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote: | I wish to use a combination of kernel 2.6.4 with udev. The udev | documentation specifies using a kernel with the HOTPLUG | configuration option TRUE. | | Where can I find this option? Half-an-hour with menuconfig is too much time.

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:32:56AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not as if > > the installer requires registration of all 13 before it lets you do > > anything else.

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:13:26AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I hear everybody saying "But you don't need the 13 cd's". OK, I don't > need the 13 CD's. But I have x CD's and have them registered with > apt-cdrom. Now I want a package Y. Synaptic

Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

2004-03-15 Thread Raiz-mpx
>> On 13 Mar 2004, W. Borgert wrote: > > >>>Hi, >>> >>>I'm looking for a nice display manager (for XFCE4). My >>>expectations are: >>> >>>* good looking :-) (GTK+ 2 preferred) >>>* small (not hundreds of dependencies on GNOME, KDE, ...) >>>* remote capable (XDMCP support) >>>* "system menu" (reb

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:13:26 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> Well, it doesn't make much sense to me to put up a page with >> installation instructions ("You only need Disk #1 to install the base >> system...") for a release that doesn't exist and isn't

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:40:45PM +0100, Werner Mahr wrote: > Am Montag, 15. M?rz 2004 11:27 schrieb Beretta: > > > Are you planning on installing every single binary package there is? > > That don't work. Well, that's what you end up doing if you

Re: Plug and play USB mice in Unstabble.

2004-03-15 Thread Thomas G
Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 06:57:47PM -0500, Thomas G wrote: I cant get my usb mouse to work for the life of me. Is there an easy way to configure plug and play usb mice? or a way to get my mx500 to work. Im on a nforce2 motherboard and am running sid with gnome. any ideas or

Re: Think I've messed up X :(

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Ingram wrote: Last week, when I did an apt-get update (I'm on Sid btw), I was told that: The following packages have been kept back: x-window-system-core xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev Now, normally when I see that, I do an apt-get install of the packages so that apt then tells me it c

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:25:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Right on. But this presumes that all you do is download at 5 mins/MB > which you don't: the ISP goes down, while you are sleeping and the next > morning you find out. That's why you

Re: Graphical version of aptitude

2004-03-15 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:20:05PM +0100, Andreas Bach Aaen wrote: > I guess that this allready exists. > Can you provide me with the name of a graphical frontend to apt? > Sorry to say but I find the aptitude console application difficult to > navigate. Install synaptic. Gustavo from Conectiva is

Re: kernel-image-2.6.3-1 (testing) mouse problem

2004-03-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:58:37PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | On Sunday 14 March 2004 11:46, NoÃl KÃthe wrote: | > Am Di, den 09.03.2004 schrieb Gordon Farquharson um 21:19: | > > I have installed the testing (Sarge) kernel package | > > (kernel-image-2.6.3-1). Using this kernel, XFree86 is unab

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:24:01PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 11:50:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > | Hi Debian! > | > | Did you see that in announce? The next stable release is 13 cd's. That > | just about pre

Re: quick help - kernel won't build

2004-03-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Frank Gevaerts: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:45:38PM +0100, Simmel wrote: > > > > could you please help me out with this. I got a stable system running woody > > and I'd like to build a new kernel I've done this a dozen times with > > this page http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/r

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:25:18 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So who knows how much more than 6 weeks if you use jigdo. I know, I > don't need the 13 CD's, but read my qeury further down on how you find > that what you want is on a CD that you didn't get and the reason I want

Re: Curious about AOL users and this list

2004-03-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:34:25PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:50:39AM -0800, Number Six wrote: | > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:47:52PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:48:27AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | > > | > > | From experience,

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