Re: Gnome2 in testing - any chances?

2003-02-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Actually, I have Gnome 2 running in testing. The procedure was established by chance: 1. Had stable. 2. Installed Gnome 2 in stable. 3. Upgraded to testing. Kept Gnome 2. - Original Message - From: "DvB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 18,

Error in php script, or may be in apache installation

2003-03-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am testing some php script in my home network, from my win98 machine keep getting Method Not Allowed The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /test/writing.php. I have `chown www-data test' and `chown www-data test/* ' to no avail the post method is simply from a form, here goes th

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Checking my system, I don't have any /etc/apt/preferences file. What script installs it? It seems to be a regular text file from what I read in this thread. I am planing to downgrade one of my boxes from sid to sarge, this seems to be the way to go, but I don't know the exact configuration of t

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How would you produce this list? Jor-el wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote: Hugh Saunders wrote: ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill [...snip...] 2) how do i get kill

Cd difficult to burn

2003-01-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I posted a message to the list a while ago, some time in the early afternoon about a CD difficult to burn, but the message got somehow lost. In essence, how do I burn a CD difficult to burn, using "readcd" or "dd", any one, I don't really care which tool. I tried dd and readcd, both gave me errors.

Re: CD difficult to burn

2003-01-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
This "particular CD is invisible", other CDs are visible from XCDroast. Notice that I am able to use readcd and dd. I can burn other CDs, is this one the one that is difficult. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 10:32 PM Sub

Re: CD difficult to burn

2003-01-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Well no, the CD is in perfect shape - Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 12:18 AM Subject: Re: CD difficult to burn > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:13, Antonio Rodri

Re: Cd difficult to burn

2003-01-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What I meant was: Wanting to burn a CD, first had to copy the original CD to an iso file to my hard disk. This copying process was the difficult one, as I said. I guess is my fault for not explaining well - Original Message - From: "Rob Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian Users" <[EMAIL

Sun java in testing

2003-01-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am trying to install drawboard (http://drawboard.souceforge.net) in my home network as trial before making it accessible to the outer world. But when I run "java -cp ." as indicated the response from the system is "unknown option" I have installed sun java jdk.1 version from testing, so I sus

Re: LinkSYS BEFSR41 router

2003-01-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
rowser to the routers ip from the outside it just hangs there. I assume it most be some issu with permissions in the Apache settings, or may be some module missing, but I don't exactly what the problem is. Any ideas? Thanks. Paul Mackinney wrote: Antonio Rodriguez declaimed: I am trying to

Re: Sun java in testing

2003-01-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
s Guptill wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:44:05PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am trying to install drawboard (http://drawboard.souceforge.net) in my home network as trial before making it accessible to the outer world. But when I run "java -cp ." as indicated the respon

Re: Sun java in testing

2003-01-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Is the java sun 1.3.1 version compatible with testing? If so, do they have debs, apt sources, or just plain download? Thanks, Dough ( I am very interested in this drawboard thing, and don't have a clue about java programming, so I will probably need all the help that I can get) If that really m

Re: AudioCD

2003-01-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
The package is called cdtool, has a bunch of text based tols to interact with the CD cdtool (optional, sound) Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:22:50 - "bio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Use cdplay to play an audio CD Where can I find it ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: LaTex editor

2003-01-31 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
emacs + auctex - Original Message - From: "ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 6:09 AM Subject: LaTex editor > Hi all, > I would like to know a good TEX editor...any recommendations? > ian > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-02-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Hi Karsten, I have a perhaps stupid question with an obvious answer (but not so evident to me): During the installation process of a Debian system, I don't remember ever being prompted a question asking me in what partition I wanted to install anything except / , so I figure that this redistributio

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Knowledge can't be generated. Humans don't generate knowledge, they acquire it. Didn't you get the hint, so clear back then, that several human units would discover the same facts at the same time in different parts of the planet? It was a very clear hint, that as usual we blind units just dismiss

Re: knowledge

2003-02-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Quotes: System is thought's way of orienting itself. Facts are largely useless until reason can fit them into their correct contexts (historical, logical, psychological, or causal ones). All rational thinking is based on principles and systems. Every thinking man has made his own system, whether h

Re:

2003-02-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
We are sorry for the quoted reply, Ivan. I don't use Corel, so I can't help there. Someone else will probably. - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Gaddis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'petrovic ivan'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:14 PM Subject:

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> > >The issue is not the modification of the hardware, per se, but rather >the data that can then be pirated after the modification is made. >Therefore, the one alternative is to limit piracy. In order to do that, >strict policing of data streams is necessary. > > This is a logic conclusion onl

test

2002-10-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
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Re: Setting up a firewall

2002-10-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
http://www.fwbuilder.org/index.html bob wrote: > lameth wrote: > >> I just upgraded to a cable modem at home. Is it necessary to set up a >> firewall under linux to protect my computer and if so is there a >> firewall packaged for debian? >> >> > > Suggest Bastille. > apt-get install bastille

Re: Gnome session errors

2002-10-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Similar here, but looking for a more drastic solution: I want to re-install gnome for a specific user in a box (several users have access to same box) due to several reasons, without affecting the settings for any other user. What should I do? Thank you. A R wrote: >Every time I login using

Re: PPT files

2002-10-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/ testing main contrib Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply ! > > Is there corresponding DEB (Woody) files somewhere in the web ? > > Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > >> On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:41, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >>> Does Debian p

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
For Cuban-Americans it is much easier: we just say it in Spanish. Debián. jerry k wrote: Wendell Cochran wrote: Back to `Debian'. Both de- & -ian are common in English, & it's a tossup whether a reader chancing upon `Debian' for the first time will favor `De-' or `-ian'. Hence ehb vs eeb.

Changing Hostname

2002-10-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do you change your host name after your installation is done? (network settings) Also, what are valid parameters for host name? I made afresh installation of woody in a 386 I got in an auction, and every time gdm starts it complains about the host name. I also noticed that email sent from c

Re: Changing Hostname

2002-10-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Donald R. Spoon wrote: If you got the box at an auction, there are some other places that might need "personality" changes to fit your situation. This is probably the reason your mail commands are disappearing. You should probably re-configure your MTA (i.e. eximconfig if using EXIM) to s

Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
http://www.laurency.com Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 19:00, Oleg wrote: Hi While I was reading http://telemetrybox.org/tokyo/ (a paper about Debian based on a presentation), a few things cought my attention: The last line of the author's academic credentials read

2 questions: ethernet card s82595fx ; bunch of background sounds

2002-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
ethernet card s82595fx: What is the module for this? bunch of background sounds: I had to disable gnome audio events to avoid a bunch of repeating sounds that didn't seem to stop. Even that didn't help. What could be wrong? Thanks. Using sb module, sound card is ess es1869 thanks to all -- T

Re: 2 questions: ethernet card s82595fx ; bunch of background sounds

2002-11-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thanks Stephen for your help, just another question: how do you control the volume output level (system wide, and/or user wide)? Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Antonio Rodriguez said: ethernet card s82595fx: What is the module for this? bunch of background sounds: I had

usb Cable modem entry in interfaces

2002-11-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
what entry must be written in interfaces for a usb cable modem, probably using usb-uhci module? That is, I assume that ethx will not work here. Thanks to all -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: obtaining debian

2002-11-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Another one: Use piggy at http://www.progeny.com/products/enablingtech.html Levi Waldron wrote: On November 11, 2002 11:44 am, james leclair wrote: Hello, could someone please give detailed info on obtaining the latest stable version of woody. Instructions on where to go(FTP preferably)and w

LAN: (Linksys Cable/DSL router) + (Deb/Win98 dual boot) + (Woody)

2002-11-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have a LAN as explained in the subject of this message: A 4-port Linksys cable/dsl router, a dual boot win98 + woody machine, and a pure woody machine. More detailed: 1. In both woodys there is a dhcp client working. This apparently can create conflict (according to the documentation for the ro

Re: More microsoft crud

2002-11-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Very good article (at least for me, a non tech). Thanks. Russell wrote: http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm enjoy;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: calendar formats

2002-11-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
check pcal, beautiful output, highly customizable Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Anyone know if there is a way to create a calendar file where one can imply "Every other Thursday" or "Once every other Wednesday"? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

gnuplot (lines,background) color

2002-11-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am trying to figure out what command I need to change the default color of lines and background in the running session. Can someone indicate? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnuplot (lines,background) color

2002-11-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
couldn't be better than the linux one. Thanks again, AR Gregory Seidman wrote: Antonio Rodriguez sez: } I am trying to figure out what command I need to change the default } color of lines and background in the running session. Can someone indicate? You can use X resources if you are talking

Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I installed Nautilus and saw all my Gnome panels disappear. I like Nautilus, but I would like keeping all panels with applets and quick launchers ready. Is there any way of achieving that, or do I have to remove Nautilus? Thanks, 2 all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Using sawfish. How do I fix it? Thanks Mark. Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 17:51, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:32:27PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I installed Nautilus and saw all my Gnome panels disappear. I like Nautilus

Re: Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
ng is that now Nautilus isn'y running, but I still can not see any panel, nor I see any way of restoring them, big foot and similar are gone from the screen Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 18:38, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Using sawfish. How do I fix it? Thanks Mark. Mark

Re: Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
doing it from woody? Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 18:38, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Using sawfish. How do I fix it? Thanks Mark. Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 17:51, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:32

ripping shots from webshots.com wbz

2002-11-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does any one know how to do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Perfect idea, Antoine! I second it. Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins (Flash+Java+Real Player...). Is this allowed ? I think it would be a good idea to include this in Debian, so you could apt-get the plugins without violating the dis

Re: How to manage a large number of JPEG images?

2003-03-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Install picview, then type picview "directory-where-all-images-are" from the command line, and you will have what you are asking for. - Original Message - From: "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:06 AM Subject: How to manage a l

Re: How to burn JPEG files to CD?

2003-03-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
you have to make an iso file first. info makeisofs - Original Message - From: "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 10:57 AM Subject: How to burn JPEG files to CD? > I successfuly downloaded 93 JPEG files from a digital camera to th

localhost refuses logins from same machine

2003-04-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What could the reason be for this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gdm, xdm, kdm and wmanager (woody)

2003-05-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What's the way of making gdm and xdm have similar ability as kdm to offer choice of simple window manager or whole desktop environment (kde, gnome)? I have tried wmanager, the info pages are empty. According to the documentation in /usr/share/docs/wmanager by setting some .xinitrc or .xsession it m

Re: sndconfig problems: sound only works until reboot

2003-05-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Debian Planet has some info that may help you. Check the comments and links http://debianplanet.com/node.php?id=949#comment - Original Message - From: "Joris Huizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 3:36 AM Subject: sndconfig problems:

firewire card for sony dcr trv33

2003-06-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I got a sony camcorder (trv33), and a firewire, but I am not sure about what firewire card would work with debian( have a woody, kernel 2.4.18 running). Another question: From what I have read, kino seems to be the application to install, any other ideas? Thanks to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

avi, mpeg

2003-01-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What would be the best to see some avi or mpeg movies? Or converter from avi to mpeg? Using woody 3.0 Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Plain Tex to Latex, hevea

2003-01-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am running into some trouble here with hevea: I have a bunch of plain tex files that I need to convert to html, but hevea is coming back with a bunch of errors, since it is expecting Latex commands. Any suggestions? May be some plain to latex converter? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: How to set colors of ls listings?

2003-01-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Can you be more explicit about what you did? Where is the profile for gnome-terminal, etc? , gnome2? - Original Message - From: "Adam Kao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:33 AM Subject: Re: How to set colors of ls listings? > > Someone on IRC

Re: Really, really nice monitor

2003-01-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Hi Gary, my brother has the exact same Radeon chip and video card you mention, and I don't think he's got it to work beyond acceptable. Can you give a pointer? Thanks - Original Message - From: "Gary Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 2:52

RE: web based mail

1999-03-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does anyone know Ian Moore? Or why his server seems to be down? I have gotten spoiled by .deb packages... A > -Original Message- > From: William Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 5:20 AM > To: Erik van der Meulen; Randy Edwards; debian-user@lists.debian.o

segmentation errors in APT-GET

1999-03-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Has anyone had the following problems with apt-get: I wanted to upgrade to slink but there were some broken packages (including for some reason libc6) which I opted to fix with apt-get -f install and now I am geting the following message: Fetched 2038k in 0s (4561k/s) Updating package file cache.

Help with Xfree and Gnome

1999-10-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I got (about a week ago) the official Debian distribution from Linux System Labs, and installed it after some adventures in a Packard Bell computer (pentium 60mh, desktop, etc, I know not enough, just to give you an idea). Now I have it finally running, but still trying to learn to move within a UN

Booting problem

1999-10-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I recently installed Debian from an official set, slowly the things get better. The last changes that I managed to do ( a whole adventure for a windows newcomer!) left me with even a connection to the internet through wvdial. My main problem is that I have very little memory (about 1.3 gig). Any wa

Re-installing

1999-10-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do you re-install from zero a debian systemon an existing one that doesn't boot properly, unless with the boot disk? Mine was booting good until last change, after which is just cycling from Lilo to reboot and again.

www connection????

1999-10-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Hi there. You can tell I am new, any way: I have installed and configured my connection trough pppd, but I am unable to connect to my isp with browsers ( I've tried lynx and arena), which I run after pon-ing. They tell me they are unable to find url, or to connect. I couldn't find any helpful indic

Re: www connection????

1999-10-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Well, I just did it, and it says: lo: Link encap: Local Loopback inet address: 127.0.0.1 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNINGMTU: 3584Metric:1 Etcetera, with all parameters 0. Which seems to me means it is working. Laurent Martelli wrote: > >>>>> &q

Re: www connection????

1999-10-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
owser available? Thanks to all, Antonio. Brad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Well, I just did it, and it says: > > lo: Link encap: Local Loopback > > inet address: 127.0.0.1 > > U

Copying to a floppy; www connection

1999-10-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Silly-Newbie questions: 1. How do I read what is in a floppy - Cdrom? I have tried "ls -F /dev/fd0" but shows nothing? 2. How do I copy a file to a floppy? 3. Follow-up with previous questions regarding www connection: After reviewing my ppp.log I discovered that some times the connection reaches t

Re: Copying to a floppy; www connection

1999-10-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
using pon dyer wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Silly-Newbie questions: > > 1. How do I read what is in a floppy - Cdrom? I have tried "ls -F > > /dev/fd0" but shows nothing? > > You must first mount the device--either floppy or cdrom. read the

www connection again

1999-10-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I believe the problem is somewhere in what happens after I send the password to the service provider. According to the plog that is what happens: (You can tell I learned to read and write with floppies, thanks to all:) Any way, here goes a copy of what is happening, I changed the password, everythi

Re: www connection????

1999-10-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
pppd[287]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Oct 10 04:45:31 arc pppd[287]: Modem hangup Oct 10 04:45:31 arc pppd[287]: Connection terminated. Oct 10 04:45:32 arc pppd[287]: Exit. __ "Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 04:06:39PM -0400, Antonio Rodri

Banner

1999-10-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have Debian (slink) installed in a Packard Bell, and I want to get rid of the Packard Bell banner that shows up at the beginning, when it is rebooted. I would like to replace it with the Debian logo, or the Linux penguin may be. How do I do it?

dselect can not allocate memory

1999-10-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am trying to install some stuff using dselect, but it tells me that can not allocate memory, returns error 1 My status: # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem 1405640929964 1484 196 1752 -/+ buffers/c

netscape, arena etc in root

1999-10-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
After installing the system from zero for the 4th time, I made the mistake of running a few browsers as root from root, so I ended up with a few arena. lynx and so on directories there, which I deleted thinking contained only cache or so. Any way, now they run with trouble, i.e., don't run good. 1.

Re: Digest: TNT2 Ultra and SB Live

1999-10-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
There is a link in the front web site "www.debian.org" to mail archives. Follow it. Erich Newell wrote: > Could someone please forward me the digests for the 7 days? > > I'm particularly interested in the posts regarding the Diamond > V770 Ultra (TNT2 Ultra) and the Sound Blaster Live... > > ...

Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am trying to install slink from zero, but I am quite unable to install sucesfully the cdrom module. My cdrom is a Matshita cdrom CR 5633 (got this from the win95 previous installation). I had been able to install and read before from the cdrom, by just not entering any command line, after which

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
mean in the last few attempts, before that I did it about 4 times. I am going to follow your recomendations now, and see what happens. John Carline wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > I am trying to install slink from zero, but I am quite unable to install > > sucesfully th

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I did the mount -t ... /dev/hdx, tried all, none worked. I did later modconf to install the sbpcd, installed nicely, but again didn't let me read my cdrom. What I get is, after a lot of failures of the kind sbpcd-0 [x]: Diskinfo: Read capacity "y" returns - 602 sbpcd-0[x+1]: CD contains no data

Panas.CDROM hooked-2-sound card trouble

1999-10-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Please help!!!: After many attempts of initially installing slink from CD, having already installed sbpcd module succesfully, I have been unable to read from Cd everytime I try. So I have also tried the following: I did the mount -t ... /dev/hdx, tried all, none worked. I did later modconf to insta

Microsoft Joliet

1999-10-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do I enable support for Joliet files system in my box? I have only the base system. That's it. I suspect that my debian cds are in that format. Please help. thanx, antonio

Aztech Modem

1999-10-31 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do you install a MDP7800SP-U Modem (Aztech 56)? Haven't been succesfull.

Xserver tune up tool

1999-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
If I am not mistaken there was some message the other day about a tool that automatically detects and indicates the xserver and parameters that your machine has. Does any one know anything about this? If so, how do I implement it in a slink system? Thanks, antonio

Booting from floopy slow

1999-11-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I installed Debian slink in a second hard drive, which is hdb1 (there are hda1 to hda4), my system does not allow booting from a slave hard drive, so I use the floppy system, but it is very slow. What can I do to accelerate it? Is there any command to type that will speed it, say redirect it to hdb

XFree update

1999-11-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have slink installed with the Xfree version that comes with it. My video card is not supported in that release (Matrox Productiva G100 8mb AGP). I checked and it is supported in the new release of xfree. Can you indicate what exactly I must download, and how to install it so that it works? So far

win95files names

1999-11-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name without the funny ~1 thing? I have tried "mount -t msdos ", but this truncates the name to *~1. I have a few linux files that I want to be able to recognize from the linux partition. Thanks, antonio.

Official CD copy

1999-11-14 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I want to make a copy of my slink official cds for my brother in law. what's the best and safest way, from win 98? i have a burner, but i haven't installed it yet in Linux. thanx antonio.

Printing- LPRng, lpd?

1999-11-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am trying to enable printing from my slink. Following the instructions in Printing-HOW-TO i have searched for LPRng and lpd, but it answers: command not found. I did lpr primo (short text file). It blinked back and forth, but no spit from the printer (HP Deskjet 540) I did apt-get update and says

Aztech Sound card

1999-11-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have an Aztech 3D sound card. Is it supported that you know? I didn't see it in the list of supported hardware. Thanx

Gnumeric

1999-11-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
When I try to run gnumeric, it says Unable to open module file:/usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/libpython.s0: undefined symbol:_Py_NoneStruct Whats wrong? How do I fix it? Thanx

Xfree-changing default

1999-11-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do I change my default starting of Xserver to 32 from 8 or so? I have several modes avalable, but if I try from the command prompt: startx -- -bpp 32 it says: Xserver already running. Can't, or something similar. So, what should I do to swithch to 32? Thanx

Re: Gnumeric

1999-11-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I run apt-get install phyton and it says: there are many, which package you want? Well, which do I want? Have no idea. Thanx Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I try to run gnumeric, it says > > Unable to open module file:/usr

Re: Xfree-changing default

1999-11-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Worked great. Thanks Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 19 Nov, Antonio Rodriguez wrote about "Xfree-changing default" > > How do I change my default starting of Xserver to 32 from 8 or so? I > > have several modes avalable, but if I try from the command prompt: > > sta

login script

1999-11-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
after fixing my keyboard settings with xkeycaps, it told me to modify my login script to contain a line like xmodemap~ ... etc Where is my login script? I already learned to vi a text file (from windows to unix-linux there is a lot to learn!!!), but first I need to find the script. Please help. Tha

apt-get to install new kernel

1999-11-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do I do to download and install a new kernel using apt-get? I mean, what line should be added to sources.list? What is the last kernel without bugs? Thanks Antonio.

netscape4.7 messages

1999-11-23 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Is there any way of fixing this?: I can not read any already inbox message while netscape is downloading other messages. Now, I remember that in the windows version of nescape this is possible. May be some oddity of the version? Thanks, antonio.

X server fatal error: can't find fixed font!

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I upgraded my XFree to 3.35 from slink without having installed the slink one ( I had had to make a reinstallation because of a mistake while root). Any way, when I started startx after runnig the xf86config, it couldn't satrt any server, complained about fonts not found, asked to run mkfontdir, w

apt-get isn't working properly?

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I did apt-get update , apt-get dist-upgrade, after this the Xserver was not working. Complained about fonts not installed, couldn't find them etc. By pure chance I did apt-get install after a while and it fixed the problem. The fonts had not been installed. Wasn't apt-get supposed to handle the ins

pon script

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times it does not. I didn't think that a chain of instructions could be moody. Please help.

Re: pon script

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Sorry, is ttyS0, rushed to write. That is not the problem, remember, it works at times Pollywog wrote: > On 24-Nov-1999 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in > > tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times

Re: X server fatal error: can't find fixed font!

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Which probably corresponds to the problem with apt-get reported a while ago. Was it your case? Let me include a copy of the report below * Copy I did apt-get update , apt-get dist-upgrade, after this the Xserver was not working. Complained about fonts not installed, couldn't find them etc.

Gnumeric Problem

1999-11-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am having problems with gnumeric. When I tried it for the first time after making a full apt-get from the slink update of gnome packages, I got Unable to connect to UNIX socket /tmp/ .esd/socket and afterwards a small window opened saying unable to open module file :/usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/libp

Re: apt-get is holding back messages

1999-11-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
You will probably have to do apt-get install after that. Just bare, it happened to me yesterday, and I did apt-get install by pure chance. It worked then. It shouldn't happen, I agree, lets hope it will be fixed. Please report if this works back to the list Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 11/25/99 12:

Kernel, make menuconfig

1999-11-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am trying to recompile the kernel according to KERNEL HOWTO, when I do make menuconfig it complains that there is no rule. I checked the info make, it tells me that rule is a file that instructs about changes to be made. The same happens with xconfig. This is vague for me, I have not any good und

File permissions

1999-11-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
While checking some files with ls -l, I have found some permission settings such as: drwx--S--- drwxr-sr-x I have not seen anywhere documentation on settings other than r,w,x. Can you tell where I can find their meaning? Would be great if in the little docs we could see everything possible at once

Re: Kernel, make menuconfig

1999-11-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thanks Martin, it is working now Martin Fluch wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > I am trying to recompile the kernel according to KERNEL HOWTO, when I do > > make menuconfig it complains that there is no

ap-get source.list for kernel 2.2.13

1999-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What line should I add to my sources.list in order to be able to find and intelligently download and install all sources and dependencies for kernel 2.2.13? I've done it through the search tool in the web site, but I suspect that I have already some of the recommended dependencies. I am running sli

Aztech 3D sound card ??????

1999-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does any body know of any support for Aztech 3D sound card? I haven't been able to hear any sound in my Linux-slink box yet. Except for beeps. Thanks Antonio.

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