Re: multiple terminals on a serial line (was Re: ccing)

2004-06-14 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:54:43AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:39:55PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > I know screen. My point is that I consider having to remember what > > I read an advantage because it forces me to actually *learn* instead > > of copying. > > W

Re: [SE/Linux] status / progress report 13jun2004

2004-06-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 03:01, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:36:48PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > * debian kernels need to be available compiled with se/linux security > > enabled (and boot-time optional) by default. this results in a >

problem while update to kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-14 Thread Jinzhi Lei
Dear all, While I update the the kernel from 2.2 to 2.6.6, I had the following question: VFS: Cannot open root device "1606" or unknown-block(22,6) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(22,6) But I had root=/dev/hdc6 at the

Re: how to upgrade a debian system not connected to network

2004-06-14 Thread J.S.Sahambi
But if for whatever reason it must remain unconnected, then you'll want to get the .deb packages downloaded on PC-A for transfer to PC-B. apt-get has a -d option: apt-get -d install [package] which downloads a .deb to /var/cache/apt/archives/[package][version].deb So to upgrade everything on P

Re: Network install fails on reboot

2004-06-14 Thread Thomas Hood
Start by reading the Network Configuration chapter of the Debian Reference. It is available online here: http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

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Re: Save to Live CD

2004-06-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 02:18:16PM -0500, Ian Melnick wrote: > Hello all, > > I'd like to use a "live" cd and be able to save my stuff to it without > requiring a separate medium. What I'd like to happen is partition a > cd-rw so that the first part is from the iso that I'd download from > somewhe

Re: S/MIME support in Emai clients

2004-06-14 Thread chris-usenet
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, "Luis R. Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > is thunderbir in the apt-get or aptitude tree? Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is in testing (0.5) and unstable (0.6). It's also on backports.org if you're running stable. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: MicroWhat Winwhat???

2004-06-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just gotta say that debian is giving me all the functionality I had in > windows. Slack didn't. Redhat didn't. Gentoo was just a pain to get > installed. I love my Debian, but I really don't see how Debian has some Windows functionality that Slack or RedHa

Re: MicroWhat Winwhat???

2004-06-14 Thread Chad Perrin
John L Fjellstad wrote: Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I just gotta say that debian is giving me all the functionality I had in windows. Slack didn't. Redhat didn't. Gentoo was just a pain to get installed. I love my Debian, but I really don't see how Debian has some Windows functionality t

Woody server - rebooted itself (twice)

2004-06-14 Thread James Green
Hi We have a number of Debian woody servers, mostly Intel kit. One of our P4 boxen decided to reboot itself twice over the weekend. last -x: runlevel (to lvl 2) 2.4.20 Sat Jun 12 08:04 - 10:12 (1+02:07) reboot system boot 2.4.20 Sat Jun 12 08:04 (1+02:07) shutdown

Re: Woody server - rebooted itself (twice)

2004-06-14 Thread Tauber, Mathias Mailing
Hi, We have a number of Debian woody servers, mostly Intel kit. One of our P4 boxen decided to reboot itself twice over the weekend. last -x: runlevel (to lvl 2) 2.4.20 Sat Jun 12 08:04 - 10:12 (1+02:07) reboot system boot 2.4.20 Sat Jun 12 08:04 (1+02:07) shutdow

Debian

2004-06-14 Thread Pablo Cebrian Piazuelo
Please, I have installed Debian 30r2-i386 succesfully. But, when I get into the shell and I want to change to Xwindows, a message appears saying that I have Screens detected, but any can be used. So I can't get into the Xwindows. It seems to detect my GraficCard, and I think that it detects

Testing + Kerberos

2004-06-14 Thread Beck Zoltan Gyula
Hi! I've a problem I can't resolve for a few day, I installed a Debian Testing on it Mit Kerberos: ii krb5-admin-ser 1.3.3-2Mit Kerberos master server (kadmind) ii krb5-config1.6Configuration files for Kerberos Version 5 ii krb5-doc 1.3.3-2Documentation

Re: Debian

2004-06-14 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 14 June 2004 09:51, Pablo Cebrian Piazuelo wrote: > Please, I have installed Debian 30r2-i386 succesfully. But, when I get into > the shell and I want to change to Xwindows, a message appears saying that I > have Screens detected, but any can be used. So I can't get into the > Xwindows.

Re: Help proftpd

2004-06-14 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:15:49PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > Proftpd only has one config file, and it doesn't seem complicated. However, > it seems I only have anonymous ftp service. This is interesting because all > of the anonymous section of the conf file is commented out by default. What

debootstrap finally works, i think

2004-06-14 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- I believe I have finally gotten somewhere with debootstrap. What a PITA this has been. For review, I have a somewhat interesting piece of hardware with no CD, video, or keyboard, and I not only want to be able to install a major *NIX release (where I don't have to do all of the buildi

Controlling services

2004-06-14 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
How do I control which services I would like to have running at each runlevel? Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alsa not working

2004-06-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
John van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only thing to remain is to actually find the alsa modules. > They do not appear to be included with the kernel image (OSS modules are). > > I could not find a package with alsa modules for the latest 2.4.26 kernel > (only for 2.4.25). > Am I cor

Re: How does one get ssh to not wait?

2004-06-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, June 13, Dan Jacobson did write: > How does one get ssh to not wait? > > ssh somewhere < touch file > sleep 333 && rm file& > ! > echo I want control to arrive at this line without waiting 333! > > I tried (...)&, disown, etc. > Must I resort to batch(1)? > Perhaps one could use n

Re: Controlling services

2004-06-14 Thread glenn
in /etc/init.d/ you will find a whole lot of scripts that are used to stop and start scripts. e.g. /etc/init.d/somescript start OR /etc/init.d/somescript stop By symbolically liking those scripts to the directory of your chosen run level (e.g. /etc/rc2.d for run level 2) you can cause those serv

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Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

2004-06-14 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 11 June 2004 20:18, Brad Sims wrote: [...] > Hrm, Abiword, Koffice are options, Kile is an option if you > like LaTeX but despise Lyx,. I have cracked it now -- I think. I am going with memoir and Kile -- and learning a lot about LaTeX in the process. I tried Vim+LatexSuite for a day

Help proftpd

2004-06-14 Thread John Fleming
Proftpd only has one config file, and it doesn't seem complicated. However, it seems I only have anonymous ftp service. This is interesting because all of the anonymous section of the conf file is commented out by default. What am I missing? What is the key element in having "normal" access by

Re: i810 watchdog troubles (solved, but...)

2004-06-14 Thread Hendrik Fuss
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 03:53, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > i8xx TCO timer: initialized (0x1060). heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) > > > > nowayout=0 means it should shutdown the watchdog on close. You have > > a kernel bug. Someon

Re: Controlling services

2004-06-14 Thread Pau Novella
If you're using kde there's a nice interface to deal with that: sysV-init editor > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 21:01, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > > How do I control which services I would like to have running at each > > runlevel? > > > > Thanks, > > Jacob -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Volume control broken after Gnome 2.6 Upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread josh
Mark Roach wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 06:38, josh wrote: After upgrading to Gnome 2.6 in unstable, the volume control applet no longer works. if I click on the slider, it just jumps back to the original position. If I open the volume applet's preferences dialog, the text area supposedly containi

Re: New newbieDoc articles

2004-06-14 Thread Chris Lale
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 19:08, Chris Lale wrote: > Today I have committed some new and changed files to CVS. Will someone > OK them and add links to the newbieDoc home page, or can I do that > myself? Can anyone link these articles to the newbieDoc homepage, or tell me how to do it? Peripherals ==

Problems running firestarter

2004-06-14 Thread Thomas Beresford
Hello, I"m running a woody sytem and have a dial up connection with a 56k USR modem. I"ve installed firestarter through apt-get. So I started firestater, passed through the wizard, but whenever the firewall starts, all my network is blocked, can"t even browse! I"ve chosen the default values f

XConsole in Root Window with KDE

2004-06-14 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! Is there a possibility to get the messages send to /dev/xconsole vissible on the root window whilest running KDE (in my case the latest version comming with Debian unstable)? Or alternatively, is there a KDE application which replaces the "xconsole" application which comes along with the xb

Re: Debian

2004-06-14 Thread Dan Hunt
* Pablo Cebrian Piazuelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-14 04:36]: > Please, I have installed Debian 30r2-i386 succesfully. But, when I get into the > shell and I want to change to Xwindows, a message appears saying that I have Screens > detected, but any can be used. > So I can't get into the Xwin

Re: Debian

2004-06-14 Thread Kent West
Pablo Cebrian Piazuelo wrote: Please, I have installed Debian 30r2-i386 succesfully. But, when I get into the shell and I want to change to Xwindows, a message appears saying that I have Screens detected, but any can be used. So I can't get into the Xwindows. It seems to detect my GraficCard, an

Re: Controlling services

2004-06-14 Thread John Hasler
Pau Novella writes: > If you're using kde there's a nice interface to deal with that: > sysV-init editor The only place apt-cache finds the string "sysV-init" is in the description of the runit package, which is a replacement for sysvinit. Is there a binary by this name somewhere in KDE? Jacob F

Re: ccing

2004-06-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:13:41PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > A little pricier if you have to replace your entire machine to gat over > > the 48Meg limit because they don't make mamory that old any more. > > Hrmmm, how old would that be? Just got some sticks of PC133

Re: how to upgrade a debian system not connected to network

2004-06-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:29:53PM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > > >But if for whatever reason it must remain unconnected, then you'll want > >to get the .deb packages downloaded on PC-A for transfer to PC-B. > > > >apt-get has a -d option: > >apt-get -d install [package] which downloads a .deb to

Re: multiple terminals on a serial line (was Re: ccing)

2004-06-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:17:41AM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:54:43AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > I don't know how you can stand the serial console - I just setup linux > > on a sparcstation 5 using one yesterday and the speed drove me mad. > > Did you run

Re: fonts are ugly in some gtk apps

2004-06-14 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 22:55 +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2004. jÃnius 12. 20:34, > Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 04:13, LeVA wrote: > > > I noticed that after an upgrade from woody to sarge, some gtk apps > > > turned to very ugly (their fo

Re: Controlling services

2004-06-14 Thread Pau Novella
On Monday 14 June 2004 14:59, John Hasler wrote: > Pau Novella writes: > > If you're using kde there's a nice interface to deal with that: > > sysV-init editor > > The only place apt-cache finds the string "sysV-init" is in the description > of the runit package, which is a replacement for sysvinit

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Re: hardware change

2004-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 01:10:28AM +0400, Alex Lorca wrote: > i'm going to change some hardware in my computer (motherboard and video > card)... do i need to reinstall the whole system?? in this case how can > i save my configuration??? Depends. X is unlikely to work without some fiddling, and i

Re: Debian

2004-06-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:51:45AM +0200, Pablo Cebrian Piazuelo wrote: > Please, I have installed Debian 30r2-i386 succesfully. But, when I get into the > shell and I want to change to Xwindows, a message appears saying that I have Screens > detected, but any can be used. > So I can't get into

Re: XMX for Debian?

2004-06-14 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 14:38 +0300, Kalle Tuulos wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to make a similar system for X like the "screen" does for > console, i.e. I would be able to use the same X screen both from work > and home. It seems that XMX would be solution for this. VNC is another, already packa

gDesklets

2004-06-14 Thread Ed Sutherland
I'm using the PPC Debian distro. I'd like to try gDesklets for my Gnome environment. Does anyone have experience with gDeskets? I have a few questions. I click on the gDesklets icon and nothing happens -- at least no windows or sign of anything happening. What gDeskets work on a PPC-based syste

Re: fonts are ugly in some gtk apps

2004-06-14 Thread LeVA
2004. jÃnius 14. 11:37, Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > what does 'echo $GTK_RC_FILES' give you? Are there any fonts specified > in the .gtkrc files it lists? I've attached my ~/.gtkrc > > also, try installing gtk-theme-switch, use the button to the right of > the theme dro

Re: Xfce4 dies instead of prompting when I click the logout button on the panel.

2004-06-14 Thread Hamilton Coutinho
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:40:57PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Friday 11 June 2004 20:50, Hamilton Coutinho wrote: > > > Same thing here. Did you also notice that the icons appear clipped on > > the panel now? > > No, my panel looks the same. May be triggered by a (relatively) low resolution.

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Re: hardware change

2004-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:54:38AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > will save a list of all installed packages and their status, and > > dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt > apt-get install > > will try to install the same packages on the new box. Oh, and you'll need a copy of their c

Re: how to upgrade a debian system not connected to network

2004-06-14 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:42:47 +0530 "J.S.Sahambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a two debian/unstable systems (let us name them PC-A and PC-B). > > Both have got different packages installed. PC-A is connected to > internet with 2 MBps link and so there is no problem in upgrading it > regu

Re: gDesklets

2004-06-14 Thread glenn
I'm a bit confused - you know about the starterbar.display, but are surprised when nothing happens when starting gDesklets? So you know to browse to /usr/share/gdesklets/Display and use the various .display's found in there? I know nada re ppc, but I had several annoying, non-specific probs relatin

RE: ccing

2004-06-14 Thread Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL
Some of us have no choice in our mail client. The network nazis have disabled everything but MSAPI on the mail servers, so I end up running Outlook under VMWare just to get my e-mail. Oh, and big surprise, Outlook gets the reply *Wrong!* --JATF -Original Message- From: s. keeling [mailt

Re: XMX for Debian?

2004-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 06:00, Mark Roach wrote: > On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 14:38 +0300, Kalle Tuulos wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I am trying to make a similar system for X like the "screen" does for > > console, i.e. I would be able to use the same X screen both from work > > and home. It seems that X

Re: Woody server - rebooted itself (twice)

2004-06-14 Thread James Green
Tauber, Mathias Mailing wrote: Hi, We have a number of Debian woody servers, mostly Intel kit. One of our P4 boxen decided to reboot itself twice over the weekend. last -x: runlevel (to lvl 2) 2.4.20 Sat Jun 12 08:04 - 10:12 (1+02:07) reboot system boot 2.4.20 Sat Jun 12

Re: [SE/Linux] status / progress report 13jun2004

2004-06-14 Thread James Morris
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > * debian kernels need to be available compiled with se/linux security > enabled (and boot-time optional) by default. this results in a > 2% performance hit (wow big deal) when se/linux is not enabled > at boot time. Gentoo, SuSE an

Better file manager

2004-06-14 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks,   Is the file manager offered by KDE the best available for Debian GNU/Linux? As I mentioned before, it takes a long time to load up.   Cheers   Do you Yahoo!?Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger

Re: [SE/Linux] status / progress report 13jun2004

2004-06-14 Thread James Morris
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 03:01, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's actually disabled again (compiled in but disabled) in SuSE because > > the performance hit was much much worse. And I remember benchmark > > numbers where the lsm hooks al

Commercial-grade application software

2004-06-14 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks,   I have now a working Linux system with an acceptable GUI and a broadband link for communication, all with freely available software. But without application software, they don't mean much. I'm looking for good application software in the areas of hardware and software design.   In hardw

Re: [SE/Linux] status / progress report 13jun2004

2004-06-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:59:21AM -0400, James Morris wrote: > > > It's actually disabled again (compiled in but disabled) in SuSE because > > > the performance hit was much much worse. And I remember benchmark > > > numbers where the lsm hooks alone decreased the SpecWeb numbers on ia64 > > > by

Re: gDesklets

2004-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 06:05, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I'm using the PPC Debian distro. I'd like to try gDesklets for my Gnome > environment. Does anyone have experience with gDeskets? I have a few > questions. I click on the gDesklets icon and nothing happens -- at least > no windows or sign of an

Re: problem while update to kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-14 Thread J. Preiss
I have exactly the same message on the screen. I think it has something todo with this initrd-option (which I ignored of course...). My device is 305 (3,5). Am Montag, 14. Juni 2004 09:10 schrieb Jinzhi Lei: > Dear all, > While I update the the kernel from 2.2 to 2.6.6, I had the following

newbie postfix/mta question

2004-06-14 Thread Ignatz Sol
I have set up postfix on a machine to send/receive mail. Normal install and seems fine EXCEPT that I don't think that port 110 is open for POPing. I can send mail fine but I can't get into the machine to download mail. I can't figure out what the problem is. I cannot telnet into the machine on

trouble adding window manager to GDM

2004-06-14 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hello, I am running Debian unstable and updated to Gnome 2.6 this past weekend. After the update (and an update to the newest version of gdm 2.4.4.7-3) I can't select any other window managers from the GDM login-screen. I want to add blackbox and Xfce4. I created a file named "Blackbox" in /etc/

2.6.6 ignores tulip (DC21041)

2004-06-14 Thread chris-usenet
I'm stumped on this one. I've been playing around for a while with 2.6.6 on AMD (x86), trying to get it to recognise my DEC 21041 (tulip) PCI network card. FWIW, 2.4.25 and earlier all work fine with it. I've googled (web and news), and generally had a look around but cannot see anyone else having

[Fwd: New Bitstream technology comes to Linux and Desktop/LX]

2004-06-14 Thread David Palmer
This is a newsletter from the Lycoris Linux commercial distribution, concerning something new in font/font management. I'm not aware of the licencing details (I would be very surprised if it could be classified as 'free'). Point the first. Point the second: There seems to be an ever accelerating in

SOLVED Re: newbie postfix/mta question

2004-06-14 Thread Ignatz Sol
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:34:27 -0400, Ignatz Sol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have set up postfix on a machine to send/receive mail. Normal > install and seems fine EXCEPT that I don't think that port 110 is open > for POPing. I can send mail fine but I can't get into the machine to > download

Re: Better file manager

2004-06-14 Thread Kent West
jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, Is the file manager offered by KDE the best available for Debian GNU/Linux? As I mentioned before, it takes a long time to load up. That depends entirely on personal preference, and what you're using it for. And are you saying that Konqueror takes a long time to l

Re: Commercial-grade application software

2004-06-14 Thread Kent West
jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, I have now a working Linux system with an acceptable GUI and a broadband link for communication, all with freely available software. But without application software, they don't mean much. I'm looking for good application software in the areas of hardware and softw

Re: XMX for Debian?

2004-06-14 Thread paul
Quoting Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 06:00, Mark Roach wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 14:38 +0300, Kalle Tuulos wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I am trying to make a similar system for X like the "screen" does for > > > console, i.e. I would be able to use the same

Re: gDesklets

2004-06-14 Thread Derrik Pates
Ed Sutherland wrote: I'm using the PPC Debian distro. I'd like to try gDesklets for my Gnome environment. Does anyone have experience with gDeskets? I have a few questions. I click on the gDesklets icon and nothing happens -- at least no windows or sign of anything happening. What gDeskets work

Re: gDesklets

2004-06-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Ed Sutherland told: > I'm using the PPC Debian distro. I'd like to try gDesklets for my Gnome > environment. Does anyone have experience with gDeskets? I have a few > questions. I click on the gDesklets icon and nothing happens -- at least > no window

Re: gDesklets

2004-06-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Derrik Pates told: > Ed Sutherland wrote: > >I'm using the PPC Debian distro. I'd like to try gDesklets for my Gnome > >environment. Does anyone have experience with gDeskets? I have a few > >questions. I click on the gDesklets icon and nothing happens

Re: Better file manager

2004-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:47:46AM -0700, jack kinnon wrote: > Is the file manager offered by KDE the best available for Debian > GNU/Linux? As I mentioned before, it takes a long time to load up. Define "best". The fastest I've used is mc (curses-only, no graphics). If you want something nearl

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-14 Thread Sudarshana Koushik
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 04:00:10PM +0200, Joachim Reichel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the menu font in my xemacs is really ugly (I've uploaded a screenshot to > > http://www.joachim-reichel.de/tmp/xemacs.png). I know how to set the fonts > > for the editor

Re: Mozilla thunderbird crashes when opening attachments

2004-06-14 Thread Alexander Sack
thanks however right click on any attachment pdf, sxc, jpg and select open. THey all crash Does thunderbird crash itself or 'just' the apps started by the open dialog?? If so, does thunderbird crash if you select "save as.." too, or just when trying to open? If it crashes too, please state

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-14 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, Another idea is to put the 100dpi and 75dpi unscaled fonts near the beginning of the font path. That did not help. The font you're seeing looks like some fancy font that tries to be cute. Hm. So perhaps try to find the font and remove it from your system ;-) I looked through all font families

Printing to USB printer

2004-06-14 Thread Curt Howland
Ok, I'm begging. On sid, USB HP PSC2210. KInfo sees the printer when plugged in and powered up. Kprint has the HP driver. All print jobs vanish, however and nothing prints. I would really appreciate getting into a dialog with someone who has done this, so we can figure out where this configura

Re: Printing to USB printer

2004-06-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Curt Howland wrote: > Ok, I'm begging. > > On sid, USB HP PSC2210. KInfo sees the printer when plugged in and > powered up. Kprint has the HP driver. All print jobs vanish, however > and nothing prints. Note: I do not use KDE or GNOME, and I have my deskjet 5550 (similar to

Re: problem while update to kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:01, J. Preiss wrote: > I have exactly the same message on the screen. > I think it has something todo with this initrd-option (which I ignored of > course...). My device is 305 (3,5). man lilo.conf may help > Am Montag, 14. Juni 2004 09:10 schrieb Jinzhi Lei: > > Dear

Soundproblems: Only right channel (unstable / 2.6.6 / terratec xfire 1024 (cs46xx))

2004-06-14 Thread Daniel Klein
Hey all, I recently installed a fresh debian on my box (I need not really mention how happy I am with everything so far - that would only seem like flattery to get more willing helpers - so instead I will mention this fact and hope to get more willing helpers through my great insight into inter

defoma & symbol.ttf

2004-06-14 Thread Martin D. Weinberg
I'd like to use gnuplot's 'enhanced' font mode for png or jpeg which requires a ttf symbol font. Does anyone know how to install symbol.ttf using defoma? (Or better yet, perhaps it's already in some package?) Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: [Fwd: New Bitstream technology comes to Linux and Desktop/LX]

2004-06-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, David Palmer wrote: > This is a newsletter from the Lycoris Linux commercial distribution, > concerning something new in font/font management. > I'm not aware of the licencing details (I would be very surprised if it > could be classified as 'free'). Point the first. It's not

Re: XConsole in Root Window with KDE

2004-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Martin Fluch: > > Is there a possibility to get the messages send to /dev/xconsole vissible > on the root window whilest running KDE (in my case the latest version > comming with Debian unstable)? > > Or alternatively, is there a KDE application which replaces the "xconsole" > ap

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joachim Reichel: > [someone]: > >Another idea is to put the 100dpi and 75dpi unscaled fonts near the > >beginning of the font path. > > That did not help. Try moving 75dpi ahead of 100dpi (or vice versa, depending what you have now). -- Any technology distinguishable from magic i

Question about X Window Crashing

2004-06-14 Thread Haoyu Zhang
Dear Friends, I am a new user of Debian and just installed it in an old Dell machine, Dell Optiplex with PIII 500. The installation went through well, but I met problems of X Window setting. The X Window can start correctly. However, after letting it idle for a while, like one day, the system c

Re: Soundproblems: Only right channel (unstable / 2.6.6 / terratec xfire 1024 (cs46xx))

2004-06-14 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 14 June 2004 13:10, Daniel Klein wrote: > Hey all, > > I recently installed a fresh debian on my box (I need not really mention > how happy I am with everything so far - that would only seem like > flattery to get more willing helpers - so instead I will mention this > fact and hope to ge

Prueba

2004-06-14 Thread JG
Esto es un mensaje de prueba. JG

Why is there no GNU Zebra package in testing / unstable?

2004-06-14 Thread Brent Miller
Is it under a different name and I just can't find it? Is there something that people recommend that I use instead? Thanks, Brent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Better file manager

2004-06-14 Thread TPfeifer
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:47:46AM -0700, jack kinnon wrote: > Hi folks, > > Is the file manager offered by KDE the best available for Debian GNU/Linux? As I > mentioned before, it takes a long time to load up. > > Cheers > There's quite a few others, and it comes down to personal preferenc

Re: 2.6.6 ignores tulip (DC21041)

2004-06-14 Thread David Sanders
On Monday 14 June 2004 11:38 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm stumped on this one. I've been playing around for a while with > 2.6.6 on AMD (x86), trying to get it to recognise my DEC 21041 > (tulip) PCI network card. FWIW, 2.4.25 and earlier all work fine with > it. > > I've googled (web and new

accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-14 Thread LeVA
Hi! I want to download the pictures from a fuji digital camera. When I plug it in the usb port, my kernel detects the camera: ---###--- Jun 14 20:40:22 leva kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jun 14 20:40:22 leva kernel: Vendor: FUJIFILM Model: USB-DRI

Re: newbie postfix/mta question

2004-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:34:27PM -0400, Ignatz Sol wrote: > I have set up postfix on a machine to send/receive mail. Normal > install and seems fine EXCEPT that I don't think that port 110 is open > for POPing. I can send mail fine but I can't get into the machine to > download mail. I can't f

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > I want to download the pictures from a fuji digital camera. Hi - I use a fuji finepix 310 with no problems. > When I plug it in the usb port, my kernel detects the camera: > > ---###--- > Jun 14 20:40:22 leva kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulati

Using exim4 and fetchmail with imap and authenticated smtp

2004-06-14 Thread Tom Badran
Im using exim4 and fetchmail to recieve email from an imap server using tls, and send using authenticated smtp on an smtp host at the same site. However, when i look over the headers of emails i send, i see lots of them contain [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is my local username, rather than the email add

Re: Better file manager

2004-06-14 Thread LeVA
2004. június 14. 21:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:47:46AM -0700, jack kinnon wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Is the file manager offered by KDE the best available for Debian GNU/Linux? As I mentioned before, it takes a long time to load up. > > > > Chee

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-14 Thread Tom Badran
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 22:17 +0200, LeVA wrote: > And after I try to mount it (mount /dev/sda /mnt/fuji): > > Jun 14 20:43:49 leva kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > Jun 14 20:43:49 leva kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on > dev 08:00. > > What could be the problem? /dev/sd

Re: newbie postfix/mta question

2004-06-14 Thread John W. Fleming
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 15:20, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:34:27PM -0400, Ignatz Sol wrote: > > I have set up postfix on a machine to send/receive mail. Normal > > install and seems fine EXCEPT that I don't think that port 110 is open > > for POPing. I can send mail fine but I can

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-14 Thread stephen parkinson
Andrew Perrin wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, LeVA wrote: Hi! I want to download the pictures from a fuji digital camera. Hi - I use a fuji finepix 310 with no problems. When I plug it in the usb port, my kernel detects the camera: ---###--- Jun 14 20:40:22 leva kernel: scsi1

Re: Printing to USB printer

2004-06-14 Thread Curt Howland
On Monday 14 June 2004 14:55 it was so written: > Install the hpoj package, and let it talk to the USB port of your > printer. It should detect the printer automatically, if you are > lucky. Everything else must be configured to talk to your printer > through hpoj ("ptal" or "mlc" interface), NOT

Re: Why is there no GNU Zebra package in testing / unstable?

2004-06-14 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:59:42PM -0700, Brent Miller wrote: > Is it under a different name and I just can't find it? Is there > something that people recommend that I use instead? From : |[Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:45:22 -0400] [ftpmaster: James

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, stephen parkinson wrote: > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > ... > >I usually use the following: > > > >mount -tvfat -oumask= /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji > > > > > > >mount -t vfat -oumask= /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji > > > > > ?^ > > is the space reqd ? No - those two are equival

Re: Better file manager

2004-06-14 Thread Ignatz Sol
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:30:11 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the previously mentioned 'mc' is the one I use for most everything. > It's nice too in that you can run it from a console with mouse support, > as well as from an xterm in X. It's always about the first package

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