Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Is there a serial terminal program in testing? Like what you'd use to log in to another host over a serial line? Not something like xterm or gnome-terminal which is for login shells over a network login. I need something that communicates over serial ports, and will let me set the baud rate a

Re: kde applications signal 11

2004-08-16 Thread Yusuf
Hi there. I had the same problem. The cause was that I had a half-finished install of the Nvidia GPU drivers, and glx (the module Nvidia uses to "talk 3D" to X) was conflicting with the OpenGL and dri modules, thus not loading and making *all* of KDE's apps to cry on exit. I don't have what h

Dead Gnome MIME settings

2004-08-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
My Gnome MIME settings appear to have suddenly died. If I go into Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> File types and programs the only category I see is Internet Services. When I try to do things on the desktop, I get "no action associated with" errors. I've tried reinstalling libgno

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-16 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, August 16, Rthoreau did write: > > Date: Yesterday 14:49:47 > > > Lo, on Sunday, August 15, Richard Cobbe did write: > > >> The computer did come with a PCI IDE controller card (the "unknown mass > >> storage controller" line above) that has another two controllers on it. > >> I h

Re: Quick question: Choice of release

2004-08-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:33:49AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > I and a friend are playing with the idea of convincing our gymnasium to > using Debian GNU/Linux as their main server OS. > > As it comes to this issue, which release we would want; stable, testing or > unstable? > > Making

Re: KDE Crashing - Sarge

2004-08-16 Thread Yusuf
Hi there. I had the same problem. The cause was that I had a half-finished install of the Nvidia GPU drivers, and glx (the module Nvidia uses to "talk 3D" to X) was conflicting with the OpenGL and dri modules, thus not loading and making *all* of KDE's apps to cry on exit. I don't have what have

Re: Publishing program?

2004-08-16 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:59, stan wrote: > I remebet using a publishing layout application in Debian a while > ack, had a cutesey sort of name. But I can't rememner what it was. > > Can anyone jog my memory? Scribus (http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/) appears to be a publishing layout progra

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:34:12 -0300 "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a serial terminal program in testing? Like what you'd use to > > log in to another host over a serial line? > > Not something like xterm or gnome-terminal which is for login shells > over a network l

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Monday 16 August 2004 19:34, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there a serial terminal program in testing? Like what you'd use > to log in to another host over a serial line? I've always used minicom; I use it all the time to talk to FPGAs. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP

Re: OT: 48 hrs and still no list mail

2004-08-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 09:26:53PM -0400, Brian Pack wrote: > My posts on the usenet mirror aren't making the web archive, So I'm > chiming in here. > > From what I've seen, it's multiple ISPs with the problem. I haven't > received any list mail since Saturday night, when the usual load is > hundr

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:34:12PM -0300, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there a serial terminal program in testing? Like what you'd use to > log in to another host over a serial line? > > Not something like xterm or gnome-terminal which is for login shells > over a network login. I need some

RE: Systemimager 3.0.1-11 on Sarge.

2004-08-16 Thread Michael Bellears
> > You're probably better off asking on the systemimager support > list; see http://www.systemimager.org/support/. > > However, you should provide more details when you ask for > help there; at least, the hardware you're trying to install > onto (including type of SCSI card, and drives. > >

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Michael D. Crawford
minicom looks like just what I want, thanks! But is there a way to avoid "initializing the modem" when it starts up? When my device receives any input from the serial line, it enters a little homebrew debugger. I'd like to just connect. Also, the status line says "offline" all the time. Do I

X resolution gnome/wmaker

2004-08-16 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, I just installed Sarge from Netinst (very cool) and have X11 running. The problem is that the resolution is incredibly high (1600x1200) and I cannot see the icons or fonts very well. I am using Wmaker and Gnome as the desktop. I have tried to reconfigure using both gnome-conf and wmaker

Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

2004-08-16 Thread Jeremy Brown
I've been trying Debian out off and on for the last two weeks and was following the instructions about creating and installing a Sun Java SDK package located in the java-common package...I was going to create a file "/etc/profile.d/jdk.sh" (to initialize some environment variables, mainly) when

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:31:21PM -0300, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > minicom looks like just what I want, thanks! > > But is there a way to avoid "initializing the modem" when it starts up? > When my device receives any input from the serial line, it enters a > little homebrew debugger. I'd

Re: chkrootkit...lkm trojan?... only from gnome [from debian-user]

2004-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Gregory Pierce: > > In running chkrootkit (version 0.43) tonight I got the following > warning: > > Checking `lkm'... You have16 process hidden for readdir command > You have16 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed > > But when I run c

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:34, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there a serial terminal program in testing? Like what you'd use to > log in to another host over a serial line? > > Not something like xterm or gnome-terminal which is for login shells > over a network login. I need something that co

Re: df weirdness

2004-08-16 Thread Tony Fica
Stefan Nicolai O'Rear wrote: The numbers speak for themselves: stefan:~$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6-56995908899k 1.0k 0.0k 69% / /dev/hda7-2517482356645k 1.0k 0.0k 84% /usr /dev/hda1-8113244456k 1.0k 0.0k 67% /boo

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox

2004-08-16 Thread David P James
On Mon 16 August 2004 17:37, Marc Shapiro wrote: > What about those of us who do NOT use gnome? Any ideas for the rest > of us? I use fvwm2. You can try installing gnome-control-center but it looks like it'll pull in a lot of GNOME in so doing. I believe there is another way of doing this thro

Re: X resolution gnome/wmaker

2004-08-16 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 14:40, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Sarge from Netinst (very cool) and have > X11 running. The problem is that the resolution is > incredibly high (1600x1200) and I cannot see the icons > or fonts very well. I am using Wmaker and Gnome as the > desk

ldaptor-ldap2dhcpconf

2004-08-16 Thread Dave Harrison
Hi All, I'm pondering moving my dhcpd.conf file into LDAP. The only tool I've found so far that could help me with it is ldaptor-ldap2dhcpconf. However it seems undocumented as to the schema it requires or the way that it works. Can anyone enlighten me about how this tool expects the directory to

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Monday 16 August 2004 20:08, Kevin Mark wrote: > Of these, I know minicom works, I use it to send 'atdt' to my modem if > it wont hangup. Also, folks at my local wireless group use it to work > with embeded soekris boards. You should send it "ATH". Possibly with a "+++" first to get it into

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Monday 16 August 2004 20:31, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > minicom looks like just what I want, thanks! > > But is there a way to avoid "initializing the modem" when it starts up? > When my device receives any input from the serial line, it enters a > little homebrew debugger. I'd like to just

Re: On downloading Debian ISOs

2004-08-16 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:38:23 +1200, "Simon Kitching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Just as a side-note, I hope you didn't download the "Woody" (Debian 3.0) > files. The new release is due out *very* soon, and is a major > improvement over the previous version. Unless you are are intending to > set

Re: On downloading Debian ISOs

2004-08-16 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:11:54 -0400 (EDT), "Loki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > However, keep in mind that the more disks you download at work (via > broadband) the fewer packages you're going to have to download at home > (via dialup). Yeah ... that's the reason I am trying to get as much as pos

Re: 'umask' and mounting of vfat filesystem.

2004-08-16 Thread Daniel M .
>VFAT doesn't support unix-style file permissions. What you're seeing >is a unix-style system trying to do the best it can on a crappy >filesystem. It won't get any better than what you've got. I know all that, but *why* permissions on some files cannot be set properly - that is my initial quest

urgetn help date/time settings on debian

2004-08-16 Thread Vijaya S
Hi all, The mail server 's date and time has gone one day ahead and it has debian unstable installed on it. it shows Wed Aug 18 10:25:59 IST 2004 but the actual time and date now is Tue Aug 17 12:21:04 IST 2004 how do i get it right Regards, Vijaya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On downloading Debian ISOs

2004-08-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:30:37AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:11:54 -0400 (EDT), "Loki" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > However, keep in mind that the more disks you download at work (via > > broadband) the fewer packages you're going to have to download at ho

URGETN HLP PLS date/time settings

2004-08-16 Thread Vijaya S
Hi all, The mail server 's date and time has gone one day ahead and it has debian unstable installed on it. it shows Wed Aug 18 10:25:59 IST 2004 but the actual time and date now is Tue Aug 17 12:21:04 IST 2004 how do i get it right Regards, Vijaya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

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