Re: Where to specify StyleSheet in Firefox

2004-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 07:20:27AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I thought Mozilla allowed one to specify a custom stylesheet, and yet > I'm finding no option for that in FireFox. Am I missing something? I did > a google and went to the FireFox Extensions page and searched fro >

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Stefan Tibus
> Anthony Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyone with half a brain can see what moronic thing the `Taiwan, > Province of China' is. It's the _only_ `editorial comment' in the > entire list (all other comma-separated entries are simple prefixes which > when used result in each country's fu

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Miles Bader
"Stefan Tibus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debian shouldn't _make_ editorial comments like this, but they shouldn't > > dumbly stand by and mirror those made by others with fewer scruples. > > I wouldn't say Debian _made_ that editorial comment, they used it as it > was proposed by some stand

Re: where can I find glutf90.h file?

2004-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:35:34PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am trying to compile the source code of f90gl package from > http://math.nist.gov/f90gl/software.html > In the INSTALL file contained in f90gl-1.2.9.tar.gz >

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Weaver
This is exactly the reason for which I suggested the name change for "Taiwan" in iso-codes. As far as I know and as far as I have understood, the "Taiwan, province of China" name is accepted by both People Republic of China and "Republic of China" ("Taiwan"). I'm sorry, Christian, but the above sta

Re: Upgraidng to 'testing'

2004-04-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/04/04 15:55), Paul Johnson wrote: > jack kinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I started off with 'stable' and a dial-up modem. Now I have upgraded to > > broadband. The idea was to have faster download to assist in upgrading to > > 'testing'. The trouble is that 'stable' only works with

'8' character displays incorrectly on console

2004-04-05 Thread Nicholas Pattison
Hi, I have an interesting issue on my recent install of Debian. There are a few quirks, but the one that is getting a bit annoying is when the console trys to display an '8'. About half the time, it will display fine, and look like and 8. About the other half, it will look like a lowercase

Re: Error installing libgimp2.0 on Debian unstable - SOLVED

2004-04-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/04/04 23:24), Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > When trying to upgrade my system today, I got this error when > > installing libgimp2.0 (output from apt-get -f dist-install follows) > > This is already filed -- hopefully it will be fixed soon

Reply to Your Recent E-Mail to Macromedia

2004-04-05 Thread noreply
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Re: debian, gnome and shutdown again...

2004-04-05 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
Paul Johnson wrote: "Michal R. Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [] How attached are you to Gnome for this? Sounds like you're looking for KDE with KDM, in which you get those options when you click Log Out. Plus you could give your kids each their own login and let them go nuts with their o

What a great forum this is

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
Just want to say "thanks" to all you, for the help, and what a great forum this is. I am a Debian 'newbie', but learning a lot, already, from you folks. I have just successfully compiled (my first) 2.6.4 kernel, using some of the advise and links posted here, and the 'Debian way' is the only way!

Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

2004-04-05 Thread robert fernando
Hi all, Further investigations into this problem, suggest thast it is a conflict between diald and pppd. Do I need to get diald and pppd working together if I want to support dial in connections and ppp out to my isp. I use the pon script to start a connection to my isp and poff to disconnect th

Re: debian, gnome and shutdown again...

2004-04-05 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
Katipo wrote: Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: According to this mail you need RH consolehelper (Unfortunately not available as a Debian package) http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2001-October/msg00075.html I've seen what you want working in Fedora. Jaap Install alien, and then install it. Regards

Module loading problem

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Semt
Hello list, I use Debian woody and try to get a module working ... without success :-( I've compiled DRBD (does "RAID-1 over IP network") and this gone fine and smoothly. The module drbd.o was installed, however I can't use "modprobe drbd" but "insmod drbd" works, output: "Using /lib/modules/blo

Changing window managers (Gnome 2.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Soumyadip Modak
I've Sawfish running as the window manager for Gnome 2.4. I intend to use Metacity. I installed Metacity (i'm running Debian, so i apt-get install-ed it), but now i can't find a way to make Gnome use Metacity instead of Sawfish. Googling around posted 2 possible solutions : 1> Use metacity --repla

Re: kmix with kernel-2.6 - volume up/down osd

2004-04-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* LeVA [Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:40:57 +0100]: > I've just installed the 2.6.2 kernel, and I noticed that when I'm using > my multimedia keyboard's Volume UP/Volume Down keys, an osd-like window > appears on the top of my desktop, showing me the current volume (and it > alters when changing the volu

GTK and antialias

2004-04-05 Thread Kaj Wiik
It looks like gtk disables antialiasing between font sizes 8-16 pt, changing /etc/XftConfig has absolutely no effect. So, can anyone tell where this can be adjusted? I have latest gtk/gnome packages from testing, e.g. 'xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera" -fs 10' works perfectly so my setup should be

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-05 Thread Jaap Haitsma
>> > I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I >> try >> > to startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login manager. >> I >> > don't have any problem using a normal user. >> > >> > Anybody know what's the problem? >> >> Problem exists between keyboard and chai

Re: Screen size in GNOME?

2004-04-05 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:07:03PM +0200, Michal R. Hoffmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello. Recently I found I couldn't log in into GNOME. I found the reason. In XF86Config-4 I have defined resolutions: 1024x768, 1280x1024, 800x600, 800x600PAL (this is for my VooDoo 3

Re: [ilug-cal] Changing window managers (Gnome 2.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:04 +0530, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > I've Sawfish running as the window manager for Gnome 2.4. I intend to > use Metacity. I installed Metacity (i'm running Debian, so i apt-get > install-ed it), but now i can't find a way to make Gnome use Metacity > instead of Sawfish. Goog

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-05 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
Jaap Haitsma wrote: [] I can start x application if I login as myself and then do su -m, but if I do a su - it says it cannot open the display. Any idea how I have to set it up to get it working. AFAIR, you should (as logged user): $ export XAUTHORITY=~/.XAuthority you can put this to your login sc

Re: Help! update - upgrade Problem

2004-04-05 Thread Patrick Beard
> Thanks, Paddy, that did it for me, too. Out of curiosity (as a Debian > newbie) what had gone wrong with the package upgrade? > > Ollie Glad to help. I still class myself as a newbie to. It would appear to be a simple bug with the way the libxft-dev was built. If you noticed the line in the erro

USB Digicam access

2004-04-05 Thread Tom Simnett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an Oregon Digital EyeCam, which under Windows just comes up as a removable drive that i can read and write to as any other storage device. Does anyone have experience of getting this camera to be accessible under Linux? If so, any help would

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:21:42PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Bruce Miller wrote: > > Joey Hess was on the mark to criticize members of this list for > > rising to flamebait. > > This far exceeds flamebait. It is a serious issue. > I, myself, feel that we should have all been advised of this. Que? If

Problems with the Debian installation

2004-04-05 Thread Jansen Carlo Sena
Hi all, I'm trying to install Debian woody in my HP Pavilion ze4500 laptop. However, when I boot the system with the CD installation using "bf24" option I can't able to do anything more because my keyboard doesn't work. By the other side, when I don't use the "bf24" to install kernel 2.2, my keyb

harddisk patitioning doubts

2004-04-05 Thread jaisu_sai
how i can create, delete partitions on harddisk what is primary and extended partition what is logical partition can i have more thn 1 primary partition is it required that os should be in primary partition is it required that os shold be on master disk   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: Root1

2004-04-05 Thread smurfd aka nicklas boman
lör 2004-04-03 klockan 18.43 skrev smurfd: > Hey there! > > Ive recently installed Sarge/Testing. Everything went fine. > Love the new installer.. Smth. > Autodetected all my hardware on the laptop of mine :) > > BUT, after some usage i found a file called /1 wich contained something > about

Re: Problems with the Debian installation

2004-04-05 Thread Jansen Carlo Sena
All, I found the solution to my problem. For your information: I needed disable USB Legacy support on BIOS and everything works fine. Jansen. Em Seg, 2004-04-05 às 07:56, Jansen Carlo Sena escreveu: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install Debian woody in my HP Pavilion ze4500 laptop. > However,

Re: [OT] harddisk patitioning doubts

2004-04-05 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. http://www.google.com -> you should ask there on the beginning. 2. isn't it too off-topic? how i can create, delete partitions on harddisk fdisk, cfdisk what is primary and extended partition http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/structPartitions-c.html what is logical

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-05 Thread Kent West
Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Jaap Haitsma wrote: Blame my ignorance but what's the bad thing of starting an x application under the root account? It works fine in other distros I used to use. this is the same reason as you shouldn't work as root. In GUI is much easier to mess up the system (oh, i

Re: harddisk patitioning doubts

2004-04-05 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how i can create, delete partitions on harddisk what is primary and extended partition what is logical partition can i have more thn 1 primary partition is it required that os should be in primary partition is it required that os shold be on master disk [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with the Debian installation

2004-04-05 Thread Kent West
Jansen Carlo Sena wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install Debian woody in my HP Pavilion ze4500 laptop. However, when I boot the system with the CD installation using "bf24" option I can't able to do anything more because my keyboard doesn't work. By the other side, when I don't use the "bf24" to i

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Weaver writes: > Taiwan, R.O.C. Just Taiwan. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Leo Spalteholz writes: > So there was no (easy) way to execute a graphical application as root... There is no good reason to do so and good reason not to do so. > ...I was prevented from doing with no explanation. A bug. An explanation should be provided. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Katipo
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:21:42PM +0800, Katipo wrote: Bruce Miller wrote: Joey Hess was on the mark to criticize members of this list for rising to flamebait. This far exceeds flamebait. It is a serious issue. I, myself, feel that we should have all been advise

Re: Module loading problem

2004-04-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andreas Semt wrote: Hello list, I use Debian woody and try to get a module working ... without success :-( I've compiled DRBD (does "RAID-1 over IP network") and this gone fine and smoothly. The module drbd.o was installed, however I can't use "modprobe drbd" but "insmod drbd" works, output: "Us

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Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Bruce Miller writes: > International technical fora are adamant that they discuss only technical > issues and leave politics to the politicians. If that were true the subject of this discussion would not exist. > The International Standards Organizations operates by consensus. The > flip-side of

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
[Please stop sending me private copies of mailing list mail. I read the list, although probably not for much longer at this rate.] On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:17:15PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:21:42PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > >>This far exceeds flamebait

Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

2004-04-05 Thread John Hasler
robert fernando writes: > Do I need to get diald and pppd working together if I want to support > dial in connections and ppp out to my isp. You don't need diald at all. Pppd supports demand dialing. Run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', and select 'Demand'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Has

Re: /dev/pts/X not getting reused

2004-04-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, since some days ago, I've noticed that pts devices are not being >reused. I mean, the usual behavior was: open a xterm, which gets e.g. >pts/7, close it, open another one, which will get pts/7 again. Now it'd >get pts/8,

Re: Disk speed on different partitions (was: Re: ext2/ext3/vfat on laptop vs. desktop)

2004-04-05 Thread Stefan Goessling-Reisemann
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Stefan Goessling-Reisemann wrote: > > > Question1 : could this be related to the position of the partition on the > > disk? > > yup > > > How could I verify this? > > wite a block of data to certain cylinders starting from cylinder-0

mouse/trackball calibration

2004-04-05 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have a Logitech Cordless Trackman Optical trackball and everything works fine, except that the axis seem to be rotated 45 degrees. Meaning you have to roll the ball in an unnatural direction in order to move your cursor horizontally/vertically. Under windoze it works as one should expect a

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Jaap Haitsma wrote: > Blame my ignorance but what's the bad thing of starting an x application > under the root account? X applications are not secure enough to be run as root. > It works fine in other distros I used to use. Other distros are more interested in sales than security. -- John Hasl

Re: Root1

2004-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:10:19PM +0200, smurfd aka nicklas boman wrote: > l??r 2004-04-03 klockan 18.43 skrev smurfd: > > BUT, after some usage i found a file called /1 wich contained > > something about /etc/emacs and /2 and i dont use emacs. Though in > > /etc/emacs there was some that could ha

Bold fonts not showing properly in Openoffice 1.1.1

2004-04-05 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I am using Openoffice on debian/unstable as follows (the output of dpkg-l |grep openoffice is given below): ii openoffice.org 1.1.0+1.1.1rc3 high-quality office productivity suite ii openoffice.org 1.1.0+1.1.1rc3 OpenOffice.org office suite binary files ii openoffice.org 1.1.0+1.1.1rc3 Debian sp

Re: libc6 - initscripts conflict

2004-04-05 Thread Tim Stegmann
hello ng, same problem here with initscripts version 2.85-13. calling apt-get -f install doesn`t solve the problem. when i try to update to initcripts_2.85-14 i get an unmet dependency error: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-11) but 2.3.2.ds1-10

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:02:31 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adopting an international standard that includes a gratuitous political > statement is an endorsement of that statement. The added clause serves > no technical purpose. Throw it out. *plonk* -- Chris Metzler

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-04-05T07:21:42Z, Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To be placed in the position of taking a political stance, without prior > knowledge and consultation is odious. Let's try this from the other direction. ISO says that Taiwan's name is really "Taiwain, R.O.C.". If Debian accepts ever

Re: 2.6 kernel install, lilo problems in sarge (?)

2004-04-05 Thread Andrés Roldán
The real problem is that your lilo.conf file makes reference to an /initrd.img file which may not exist. The warning can be skipped and means that your kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS support and you are not using it. -- Andrés Roldán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key-ID: 0xB29396EB http://people.flu

Re: harddisk patitioning doubts

2004-04-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya for fun On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how i can create, delete partitions on harddisk fdisk, cfdisk, etc...etc.. and a few typing ( keystrokes and mouse clicks ) > what is primary and extended partition primary works by itself and is NOT divisible into more partitions

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Mike M
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 11:52:43AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > Anyone with half a brain can see what moronic thing the `Taiwan, > Province of China' is. It's the _only_ `editorial comment' in the > entire list (all other comma-separated entries are simple prefixes which > when used result in ea

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debian source for gaim 0.76 in debian?

2004-04-05 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, i notice that gaim 0.76 was released on april 1st. does anyone have a debian source for it up yet? thanks a lot, -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^ *

Re: need tool to configure network

2004-04-05 Thread Christian Eyrich
On 04.04.2004 02:50, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:03:51PM -0800, mike wrote: >> On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:15:02 +0200, Christian Eyrich wrote >> > >> > I know how to do this manually (using route). But after rebooting >> > I've the old address again. I know I can

Re: Root1

2004-04-05 Thread smurfd aka nicklas boman
mån 2004-04-05 klockan 15.20 skrev Colin Watson: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:10:19PM +0200, smurfd aka nicklas boman wrote: > > l??r 2004-04-03 klockan 18.43 skrev smurfd: > > > BUT, after some usage i found a file called /1 wich contained > > > something about /etc/emacs and /2 and i dont use ema

Re: need tool to configure network

2004-04-05 Thread Christian Eyrich
On 04.04.2004 05:30, Paul Johnson wrote: > Christian Eyrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I know how to do this manually (using route). But after rebooting I've >> the old address again. >> I know I can edit /etc/network/interfaces by hand, but there's this >> warning "etherconf DEBCONF AREA. D

Re: need tool to configure network

2004-04-05 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Try: dpkg-reconfigure etherconf Ralph On Monday 05 April 2004 10:29 am, Christian Eyrich wrote: > On 04.04.2004 02:50, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:03:51PM -0800, mike wrote: > >> On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:15:02 +0200, Christian Eyrich wrote > >> > >> > I know how t

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Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Kirk Strauser writes: > ISO says that Taiwan's name is really "Taiwain, R.O.C.". If Debian > accepts every other ISO name from that list, but rejects "Taiwan, > R.O.C.", isn't *that* also a political stance? "Taiwan, Republic of China" is as much a political statement as is "Taiwan, Province of C

"Магическая формула фортуны!"

2004-04-05 Thread Aleksei
Привет, дружище! Недавно наткнулся на кое-что НЕОБЫЧНОЕ. Если ты сейчас потратишь несколько минут своего времени, то в результате получишь КУЧУ ДЕНЕГ! Уверен, что если ты читаешь далее, то ты не из тех, кто старается выдрать заветный кусок хлеба из рук проносящегося мимо бомжа, думая, что это и

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-04-05T15:12:28Z, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Taiwan, Republic of China" is as much a political statement as is > "Taiwan, Province of China". "Taiwan" is just a place name. ...and a political statement that you don't recognize China's claim. Again, I have no stance on the

autoproject

2004-04-05 Thread Charlie Anicete
I'm using woody and seemed to have problems dpkg'ing packages: When I try installing using dpkg the following message is written. "files list file for package 'autoproject' contains empty filename" Can seem to get a solution, Thanks, Chalie __ Do you Yahoo!? Yah

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2004-04-05 Thread esafety
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trouble with finding the keyboard

2004-04-05 Thread James D. Freels
Hello Debian Users ! I have a new system that I cannot seem to compile a kernel for and find the keyboard. I know that the keyboard is working because I can use it when operating the bios functions before Linux boots. However, when the kernel (which I have compiled from scratch, see .config atta

Re: trouble with finding the keyboard

2004-04-05 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, James D. Freels wrote: > Hello Debian Users ! > > I have a new system that I cannot seem to compile a kernel for and find > the keyboard. I know that the keyboard is working because I can use it > when operating the bios functions before Linux boots. However, when the >

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Help - Can't install on IBM PC

2004-04-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Yesterday I tried to install Debian on an IBM NetVista model 2254. This is a 1.+ Mhz Pentium that was running Win2k satisfactorily but has recently been replaced. I tried to install Debian from the iso cd image #1 but no luck. Same results when I tried several other linux distribs. The

Re: need tool to configure network

2004-04-05 Thread Christian Eyrich
On 05.04.2004 17:00, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: >> > It is put by the package etherconf. Run etherconf as root and it will >> > put the proper entries in /etc/network/interfaces. >> >> As I wrote I installed etherconf but don't know how to use it. There's >> no tool called etherconf in the path. >> >

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > "Taiwan, Republic of China" is as much a political statement as is > "Taiwan, Province of China". "Taiwan" is just a place name. Kirk Strauser writes: > ...and a political statement that you don't recognize China's claim. "Taiwan, Republic of China" is a political statement that you d

Supported Video Card list for Linux (actually Debian) ??

2004-04-05 Thread users
I need to get a new video card but i dont know what is supported, and what is not in the linux OS (Debian in preticular.) Is there a list somewhere that shows the cards that are supported? Thank you. Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: need tool to configure network

2004-04-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/04/04 18:17), Christian Eyrich wrote: > On 05.04.2004 17:00, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > > >> > It is put by the package etherconf. Run etherconf as root and it will > >> > put the proper entries in /etc/network/interfaces. > >> > >> As I wrote I installed etherconf but don't know how to use i

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-04-05T16:18:47Z, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Taiwan, Republic of China" is a political statement that you don't > recognize China's claim. I don't follow the Taiwan situation that closely, but don't you mean it the other way around? > "Taiwan" is neutral. Failure to parro

Cron output logging

2004-04-05 Thread Richard Kimber
A recent upgrade to my testing system has caused stuff to be logged that was not logged before (I think this is pretty poor practice, but that's another question). How do I stop the logging of the actions of one script in cron.daily but not all the others? Thanks, - Richard -- Richard Kimber htt

2.6.4/i810/AGP GART issue

2004-04-05 Thread Tim
I've recently upgraded from 2.4.25 to 2.6.4 via a source from kernel.org. I'm having the somewhat common problem with my x server. The message is: "Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory.) AGP GART is not available..." After 10 kenel recompiles and countless searches, no progress

Re: trouble with finding the keyboard

2004-04-05 Thread James D. Freels
It is a PS/2 keyboard. On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:02, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, James D. Freels wrote: > > > Hello Debian Users ! > > > > I have a new system that I cannot seem to compile a kernel for and find > > the keyboard. I know that the keyboard is working because I c

Re: autoproject

2004-04-05 Thread stderr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Charlie Anicete wrote: > I'm using woody and seemed to have problems dpkg'ing > packages: > > When I try installing using dpkg the following message > is written. "files list file for package > 'autoproject' contains empty filen

Re: need tool to configure network

2004-04-05 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
On Monday 05 April 2004 12:17 pm, Christian Eyrich wrote: > On 05.04.2004 17:00, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > >> > It is put by the package etherconf. Run etherconf as root and it will > >> > put the proper entries in /etc/network/interfaces. > >> > >> As I wrote I installed etherconf but don't know ho

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-05 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
My Install of Woody boots was set up by the installer to boot into KDE (xdm) when the system boots up, and in root, as well as regular user. Christopher J. Noyes - Original Message - From: "John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 09:18 AM Subje

Re: Supported Video Card list for Linux (actually Debian) ??

2004-04-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to get a new video card but i dont know what is supported, and what is not in the linux OS (Debian in preticular.) Is there a list somewhere that shows the cards that are supported? Thank you. Basically, any ATI card up to the 9200 is very well supported with Mesa DR

Re: Preventing default route being wrongly attached

2004-04-05 Thread robert fernando
Hi fellow users, Q1 If diaable diald will I be able to accept incoming dialup connections to my pc/modem. Which package would be used insead to enable this functionality. Q2 How to I prevent diald being activated on my pc bootling linux. thanks Robert Fernando John Hasler wrote: robert fernand

What Perl libraries does Mechanize requre?

2004-04-05 Thread
I am receiving "bad interpreter" error messages when trying to run a script that uses XML:Mechanize. Perhaps I need missing libraries? My Perl is /usr/bin/perl. Robert -- The content of the message is a reflection only of the writer and not of AT&T or Tybrin. Robert Tilley 321-785-2

Re: GTK and antialias

2004-04-05 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Kaj Wiik wrote: It looks like gtk disables antialiasing between font sizes 8-16 pt, changing /etc/XftConfig has absolutely no effect. So, can anyone tell where this can be adjusted? I have latest gtk/gnome packages from testing, e.g. 'xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera" -fs 10' works perfectly so my se

Re: [OT]Europe Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft

2004-04-05 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:22:52PM +, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:25:48AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/business/16CND-TECH.html?hp Arrgh. www.nytimes.com is one of those FOUL sites which requires you to

"Узнай, как запланировать успех!"

2004-04-05 Thread Aleksei
Привет, дружище! Недавно наткнулся на кое-что УДИВИТЕЛЬНОЕ. Если ты сейчас уделишь пару минут своего времени, то в результате приобретешь КУЧУ ДЕНЕГ! Уверен, что если ты читаешь дальше, то ты не из тех, кто пытается выдрать заветный кусок хлеба из рук пробегающего мимо бомжа, считая, что это и

Re: Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
I understand what I need to do now, putting stuff in /etc/hotplug/"blacklist", but the problem is that while booting, the stuff goes by so fast, I can't actually pick out any names...I just can't see that fast! I guess I can live with this, till the hotplug issue gets sorted out. Thanks for the r

apt-get in a webbrowser

2004-04-05 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, When installing new apps I find myself searching on packages.debian.org and then look at changelogs descriptions and maybe go to the site where the development to read something about the app and then finally do an apt-install or I run synaptic. I think it would be fantastic if the whole t

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
"Jaap Haitsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> > I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I >>> try >>> > to startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login manager. >>> I >>> > don't have any problem using a normal user. >>> > >>> > Anybody know what's the prob

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > "Taiwan, Republic of China" is a political statement that you don't > recognize China's claim. Kirk Strauser writes: > I don't follow the Taiwan situation that closely, but don't you mean it > the other way around? No. "Republic of China" comes from the days when the KMT ruled the isl

software - plucker question

2004-04-05 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Has anyone gotten plucker to install correctly under debian? I'm pretty sure I have it installed correctly, but when I attempt to run plucker-setup, it does nothing, but gives this message; sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xf6' in file /usr/bin/plucker-setup on line 9, but no enco

iptables question: no chain/target/match by that name...

2004-04-05 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi World! The lokkit question yesterday by Faheem Mitha prompted me to install lokkit on Sarge. As Dircha pointed out: it don't work. All lokkit does is create a little iptables script that sits in /etc/default/lokkit. Then upon boot lokkit in /etc/init.d executes that script. As Dircha also

Mail Filters

2004-04-05 Thread Brad Camroux
Hey all, I am just wondering how I might filter out emails with foreign-language-encoded fonts, like Chinese or Russian. Thanks, -- +--+---+ |Brad Camroux | === http://www.debian.org === | |Student | ===

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/04/04 10:24), Mike Chandler wrote: > I understand what I need to do now, putting stuff in /etc/hotplug/"blacklist", > but the problem is that while booting, the stuff goes by so fast, I can't > actually pick out any names...I just can't see that fast! > I guess I can live with this, till t

Re: Mail Filters

2004-04-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/04/04 10:48), Brad Camroux wrote: > Hey all, > > I am just wondering how I might filter out emails with > foreign-language-encoded fonts, like Chinese or Russian. > > Thanks, mailfilter works well but I'm not sure what regex you would use for this. Regards Clive -- http://www.clivemenz

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-05 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Clive Menzies wrote: On (05/04/04 10:24), Mike Chandler wrote: I understand what I need to do now, putting stuff in /etc/hotplug/"blacklist", but the problem is that while booting, the stuff goes by so fast, I can't actually pick out any names...I just can't see that fast! I guess I can live wit

Re: Mail Filters

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am just wondering how I might filter out emails with > foreign-language-encoded fonts, like Chinese or Russian. If you're using spamassassin, check out the ok_languages variable. -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: Cron output logging

2004-04-05 Thread Bojan Baros
> A recent upgrade to my testing system has caused stuff to be logged > that > was not logged before (I think this is pretty poor practice, but > that's > another question). > > How do I stop the logging of the actions of one script in cron.daily > but > not all the others? > > Thanks, > - Richard

automaticaly collecting email using mozilla -- debin version

2004-04-05 Thread robert fernando
HI all, Is it possible to setup gnome so that on loging in (user /password entered) mail from my isp gets automaticaly downloaded into mozilla, as supplied with debian Woody R3.,and then any new msgs get downloaded every X minutes. thanks -- Robert Fernando Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Website

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/04/04 20:16), Jaap Haitsma wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > >On (05/04/04 10:24), Mike Chandler wrote: > > > >>I understand what I need to do now, putting stuff in > >>/etc/hotplug/"blacklist", but the problem is that while booting, the > >>stuff goes by so fast, I can't actually pick out a

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