ctivity. Do yours shut off after longer
inactivity?
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Did you try apt-get -i kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17
--- Patrick Boe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> the current stable debian distribution includes
> kernel version
> 2.2.19pre17. a look at the source packages in
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ shows,
> however, that though the
> entire s
he daemons and reboot. Then all is well.
I wasn't actually using exim, so it is probably still messed up, but
I'm still not actually using it so it doesn't matter in my case.
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lter) should be
applied to the data sent to the spooler.
Cups is a completely different system for printing. If you want to
use cups you don't need lprng or magicfilter, or a printcap. It has
its own configuration system. I use cups on my system. There is a
lot more information regarding cups, and the best place to get it is
the website.
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e, why re-install? Just store the settings in
/etc/interfaces and /etc/modutils/aliases. If this works you could
start the network connection manually, then use apt to upgrade to
woody over the network.
HTH,
-D
Make yourself a menu.lst file (a sample is
included in the image) and reboot. At the grub command line you can
install it on the MBR. This is how I installed it.
HTH,
-D
edit that file (shouldbe root, unless you want ot
leave your pboot system open for cracking). To enter at boot time it
depends -- grub allows setting a password and unless that password is
entered at the boot prompt, it doesn't allow access to the command
line (you can only chose from the predefined choices in the menu).
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:15:57PM -0400, Kent Pirkle wrote:
| That worked perfect, thanks!
Good. You're welcome.
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the resolution I wanted. The RH7.0 installer couldn't
get it right no matter what I did. I gave up on that and just copied
by backed up version from RH6.1 and it worked just fine. (Since that
time I have switched to Debian and configured X by hand using my old
config file for reference. I also have a new box with a diff. video
card.)
HTH,
-D
o you want hooked up
simultaneously.
HTH,
-D
g 'apt-get dist-upgrade' without too much trouble on a
system that already had potato.
HTH,
-D
stem.
I think your idea is nice, but is a "technofix" for a social problem.
The existing documentation efforts and debian-user already solve that
problem for those that want it solved.
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that was marketed as 'unstable' with the
latest-and-greatest, not a
stable-without-the-latest-and-greatest-(stuff-released-after-our-release)-but-really-unstable-because-we-used-a-broken-compiler).
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ist ;-)) because it's
probably been seen before. It took a little work, but not too much
(less than installing stuff or upgrading to a new devel release of
GNOME on RH), for me to get woody installed.
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he bit is left. Changing this bit changes the type so
that an OS doesn't think the partition is real (or something like
that).
HTH,
-D
mpute.
Otherwise you could list each month and the corresponding end-of-month
day. I don't know how you would handle leap-year with that though.
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will explain it. They explained it to me last time and the
messages should be in the archive.
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directory is installed and you can set it to what
you want. It may even allow configuring by right clicking on the
applet and select "Properties" in the menu. I'm really not sure
because I don't use that applet (in fact, at the moment I hardly have
any applets because gnome-applets isn't in woody).
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mplifies quite a few
things. IMO Python is much better designed, much easier to use, and
more powerful (and flexible) than Java.
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er
(not to mention several different techniques already discussed on
-user).
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:12:56PM +0200, Brendon wrote:
| On Tuesday 26 June 2001 19:14, D-Man wrote:
| > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote:
| > | Does anyone know of a good site where QT/KDE programming is explained?
| > | And what did you start with when l
uired).
I would recommend getting the patch from RH, and using the kernel
source that is packaged for Debian. Apply the patch yourself as it
should be the easiest way. I also recommend looking through the patch
so you know what it does to your kernel.
HTH,
-D
get XFree to work. I even upgraded it to version 4 (I
think, I did upgrade it). If anyone has some tips, it would be
helpful. Then again, after tinkering around a home quite a bit, I may
have the experience necessary to beat it into submission now ;-).
-D
There is also OrCad. This is a commercial product that is free for
student use. It is really quite good (I used it for my Intro to
Digital course), but it requires MS Windows. Maybe it would work
under wine? There is another name for it, but I don't remember right
now.
-D
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:54:44PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:25:21PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
|
| > There is also OrCad. This is a commercial product that is free for
| > student use. It is really quite good (I used it for my Intro to
| > Digital course
version of
MS's MUA).
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osed!, duh :-)). I
could, however, ssh in from a diff. box and kill X (it was at max CPU,
BTW) or press Alt-Ctrl-Del to reboot properly. (Interesting that my
potato box can't ssh into the woody box now, a bug for a different
day).
Summary : use 'vim' (or other editor) to setup the /etc/X11/XF86Config file
properly and use Alt-Ctrl-Del to reboot, not the power button.
HTH,
-D
be done in the /etc/interfaces file (then 'ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0').
See also 'man interfaces'.
HTH,
-D
PS. "Unidentified subject" is not a good way to get people's
attention. "NIC configuration" (or something) would have been
better.
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:05:02PM +0100, Nikki Locke wrote:
| In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D-Man wrote:
| > | If I reboot into Windows NT, the thing displays 1024 x 768 quite
| > | happily.
| > |
| > | I have studied the stderr output of xinit, and it says
| > | (--)
e a config
file to start with. Then 'less ' and
'vim /etc/X11/XF86Config' got it working quite well (my only problem
now is getting 1280x1024 while still having 1024x768 and 800x600
enabled).
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There is quite a difference, as I have discovered. It does help to
have used Unix before trying to admin it so that you know how it is
organized and how to use vi, man, less, etc.
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we really ought to start with vacuum tubes,
now shouldn't we <.5 wink>?
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:36:36PM -0400, David L. Craig wrote:
| I wrote:
|
| > D-Man wrote:
| >
| > > The real question is "has he admined Unix?". I use Solaris (Sparc) at
| > > school, but I am a mere user, not the admin. I use and admin Linux
| > > (x86)
ltin IBM NIC that needed a special module from IBM. Check at
www.scyld.com (Donald Becker's employer, he made the drivers) and
ibm.com for details on your NIC. The important info is not what the
NIC can do, but what chipset it uses.
-D
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:00:16PM +0100, Nikki Locke wrote:
| In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D-Man wrote:
| > Maybe try the SVGA driver with no special features enabled? Try just
| > a simple 640x480x8 and see if it is any better. Don't try any special
| > RAMDAC/clock c
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:57:47PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
| And ignore the abacus and the slide rule? For shame! we must remember to
| study our roots!
Of course!
| Remember "heck week" from one of the later Revenge of the Nerds movies?
No, I never saw any of those.
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, but hadn't asked yet.
I'll build my own eventually to get NFS built-in (for a diskless
XTerm). If I think about it for a minute, I have to pick "486" or
worse for that.
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ion, but it can't show the
| login window because the X server on obelix doesn't allow it.
This is possible too.
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nection : a modem dialer (ie wvdial or chat) and a ppp connection
program (pppd). Minicom is a great tool for determining how your ISP
handles an incoming call, then after that it isn't really useful
because (AFAIK) it isn't scriptable.
HTH,
-D
m to figure out what belonged there, I never used pppconfig) I
removed wvdial and don't waste the disk space. As I said in my
previous post, in my view minicom is basically a (interactive)
debugger for dialing a modem. That may not have been the author's
original intent, but it worked well for me in that way.
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that grub needs to be able to read the filesystem to
get the kernel out of it, so it may not actually be a better solution
in this case.
-D
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:19:25PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
| On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote:
| >
| > As Wayne mentioned, minicom and wvdial aren't supposed to authenticate
| > or maintain a ppp connection, that is pppd's job :-). minicom is an
| > _interactive_ dia
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:36:24PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
|
| [
| Aside : Not to start a MUA war, but could you ditch Eudora? It
| seems to work rather badly with replying to a mailing list. I
| notice that all your posts break the threading displayed in mutt,
| so I find it hard
parts that work :-). My first machine came in a box, but I had some
problems with it (Compaq uses micro-towers with miniature power
supplies and no room inside for expansion).
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accel" option or I got really weird
backgrounds and repaint problems.
| Debian's "testing" or "unstable" releases, I suggest xserver-xfree86.
X4 is _much_ better with my card (acceleration works).
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. If that alone doesn't
solve the problem (it ususally does for me) then type something like
'xhost +localhost' in a terminal as a regular user (ie the one who
started the xserver).
HTH,
-D
call your system 'testing" :-).
AFAIK apt likes to updgrade things, not downgrade so you can't really
just apt-get from the newer to the older package.
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ve to rent them again if you
| need to reinstall? Can't we do something about this? I mean really, can't
We certainly can do something : use (and develop) Debian while
boycotting proprietary hardware. Microsoft can't charge us rent for
using Debian :-).
-D
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:30:44PM +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote:
| * On 03-07-01 at 18:22 D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| +Here quoted text begins+
| > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:18:57PM +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote:
| > | Hi!
| > |
| > | I'd like to know if th
o dig up a news reader and check it out :-).
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:34:06PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
| also sprach D-Man (on Tue, 03 Jul 2001 12:25:35PM -0400):
| > We certainly can do something : use (and develop) Debian while
| > boycotting proprietary hardware. Microsoft can't charge us rent for
| > using Debian
mera before the presentation and just show them as slides.
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rver error:
| could not open default font 'fixed'
|
| plus this message on the console at boot time :
| [drm] Process 1130 dead (ctx 3, d_s = 0x00)
|
| Any idea ?
Are the font packages installed? Is xfs installed and running?
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ts, not commands. 'xhost foo' is equivalent to 'xhost +foo'.
The 'xhost +' part of the command completely opens up your xserver to
everyone, everywhere. At least specifying localhost only opens it up
to your own machine.
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, and I probably got some error
messages along the way that I solved, and now don't remember.o
HTH,
-D
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:36:04PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
| D-Man wrote:
|
| > Well, business is (almost entirely) built on _wants_ not _needs_. Who
| > _needs_ a computer in the first place, after all? All we _need_ is
| > water, food, shelter, clothes, and companionship :-).
|
). Mine
looks like
--
gome-session
--
and I use gnome's config to specify the WM.
HTH,
-D
sed for the local delivery name)
# cs:
#poll cs.rit.edu protocol imap
#user USERNAME_HERE password "PASSWORD_HERE"
#is local_username here and wants fetchall mda "/usr/sbin/exim %T"
#is local_username here and wants fetchall mda "/usr/sbin/procmail -d %T"
t your sound card
plays all of them. Reallly cool! I guess you don't have it
installed. Try the search on file names in packages.
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Q 5, DMA 1, MPU IO 0x330
#
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330
# Midi
options opl3 io=0x388
# after loading the sound (sb) module, load the midi (opl3) module
#post-install sound /sbin/insmod opl3
---
HTH,
-D
lectro-static discharge,
not elightened sound daemon ;-)).
I recommend that you look around, see what hardware is available,
check hardware web sites and get opinions from this list. Also, if
you can, it is a good idea to take what you can from your old box,
such as NIC keyboard and mouse, unless you plan on keeing the old one
functional.
HTH,
-D
ound packages and all
| seems to be well now.
esound is another abbreviation for the name.
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awfish" instead. That company (I don't remember who)
did this The Right Way and nobody's feelings were hurt :-).
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doing this for the first machine, then copying the
installation to the others since they are identical. I have no
experience with the copying step, so maybe others will chime in here
and explain what tools to use and how to do it (I just didn't pay
enough attention the last several times it was explained).
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format LaTeX is, once you
know how to achieve the formatting you want.
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is really young to be understanding how Unix (or
computers in general) work. I started out with DOS 3.3 in 7th grade,
and to tell the truth I didn't learn anything other than windows until
I started college (I had a brief glimpse of Solaris, but not enough to
understand that there was something other than MS and Apple :-)).
-D
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:07:11PM -0500, John Hughes wrote:
| On Thursday 05 July 2001 13:03, D-Man wrote:
| >
| > I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent)
| > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or
| > computers in gener
install the ones from progeny and debian sites?
Are they still installed? I think if you uninstall them, then run
'apt-get autoclean' after an 'apt-get update' they will be removed
from the list of existing packages.
HTH,
-D
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:36:17PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
| On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:03:50PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| > I'm a little confused here : In the american public education system
| > "K" stands for "Kindergarten" (ie 5-6 year olds) and "10
. I think floppies are a bit big (physically) and small
(storage-wise) and supposedly unreliable. I suggest checking Linux
USB compatibility for using the various adapters and connectors to
hook the camera up to the computer.
HTH,
-D
ing Windows, so those should work well as
diskless X terms. The only concern is that the server is powerful
enough to handle all the simultaneous usage. Also make sure the
server doesn't have a hardware failure and a backup is available (or
that the downtime is acceptable ;-)).
HTH,
-D
l, you are root. Outside
the terminal you are still you. Then type "pppconfig" and it should
work much better.
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imps"
and repeating "raw" that the wheel behaved really oddly while X was
using "MouseManWheel", but when I switched X to "IMPS/2" it worked
fine again (with the proper ZAxisMapping).
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e why. plog must be run as root. If
you try to run it while not root, you will get a message telling you
you couldn't read the file. ('plog' is identical to 'tail -f
/var/log/syslog | grep -e "pppd|chat"', but don't worry about what all
that means just yet)
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ed to reboot stops.
(I've read of this actually happening in some places :-)).
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p/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider by hand until it
works right.
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look to find a data sheet on the part. For
example TI is Texas Instruments and NS could be National
Semiconductor.
Also try using minicom. It won't get you on the internet, but it can
tell you if the modem works or not.
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|
| anyone know how to fix this or atleast tell me how to get rid of gdm so i
| can successfully dist-upgrade..
I don't know how to fix it, but to remove it try
apt-get remove --force gdm
that may try and remove other stuff too, I don't know.
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up software for installation on these normal
| systems. But not all systems are normal and I don't think that any
| standard should be written which makes those systems non-compliant by
| default.
Normal? What's a "normal" system?
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active comm program that you can use to
communicate with the modem and try it out. It is also really good to
use for determining what sort of "expect-send" pairs to use when
configuring chat to work with your ISP.
HTH,
-D
) will add a menu
titled "System" to the gdm screen. That menu will have "Reboot" and
"Halt" as options so that anyone on the console can shutdown (or
reboot) without logging in first.
HTH,
-D
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:59:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
| D-Man wrote:
| > I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent)
| > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or
| > computers in general) work.
|
| OTOH, we've had debian
t looks like
nameserver 129.21.3.17
then telnet, netscape, etc, will know where to look to figure out what
IP address belongs to the name you told it. If you were to try
specifying an IP instead of a name it would have worked for you.
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h is the parent directory.
| Now only root can use my computer.
|
| Was chmod supposed to understand .* so differently
| than /bin/ls does?
No, it doesn't. ls shows the same thing ("ls -R" anyways).
chmod the stuff back to where it should be ;-).
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each program to use the proper ttySx or psaux
or usbmouse or hdx or sdx or whatever the device really is. I have a
link /dev/cdrom that points to the real drive, /dev/hdc.
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"daemon.log" entries? surely a windo~1 style
| restart is unnecessary...?
Maybe just "touch syslog damon.log"?
| up 296 days, 22:18, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.38, 1.21
Nice! I certainly hope you have a UPS too.
-D
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:09:58PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
| D-Man writes:
| > Why do you say the [/dev/modem] link is a bad idea (serious question)?
|
| Locking.
I didn't know it actually made a difference.
Ok, without doing further research yet so I'll assume locking is a
p
cessful completion with "Happy Hacking".
| I've installed it (twice), but have yet to see this greeting. A pity. I
| would quite like it.
Dunno about that, maybe it is in an old version?
HTH,
-D
had radio buttons for "Shutdown" vs. "Reboot", but I don't
remember exactly as that was several months ago.
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I am using CUPS with my printer, and according to the LCD
it is getting PCL data through lp0 even though I sent PS to lpr.
-D
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote:
| > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| > | The most obvious problem with this is
| > |
| > | 1) a) My user id on SuSE is 500. My user id on Debian is 100
o the directory where the above
files are. Then run 'make' and 'make install' (probably, this is a
pretty universal convention). You will need to have the
kernel-headers package for your kernel installed.
HTH,
-D
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:28:10PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
| D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > Either the printer has a PS interpreter in it (my LJIIIp has one as an
| > add-on card) or you need to convert the PS into its flavor of PCL.
| [...]
| > I am using CUPS with
chmail or your mda isn't behaving well.
Could you post your .fetchmailrc file; replacing your password with
dummy text, of course.
HTH,
-D
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:41:30PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote:
| > | probably find a specific PPD for your printer (or PS card), which
| > | would eliminate the conversion to PCL, give you accurate margins, and
| > | enable any features the printer has
ould be better to have newbie docs talk about ssmtp
instead because it is much easier to set up, and if they are comming
from a Mac/Win background they aren't expecting any more functionality
than what it provide.
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#x27;m
| remembering correctly so.
Debian sets up all (except 0 1 6) runlevels the same. It is up to you
to decide which runlevel you want to mean what. Simply remove the
link to /etc/init.d/gdm from the runlevel you don't want it to run
from. (ie 'rm /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm') Al
system is thrashing about because it is spending
too much time swapping stuff and not getting any processing done (my
486 with 8MB RAM does this every time I use apt-get, especially with
installs, or 'dpkg -l \*' or anything else like that).
-D
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:29:52AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
| D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > That's a nice idea . . . now where do I find such a thing?
|
| You can probably find one in
| ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/all/ppdfiles/ . Docs
I found sev
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:11:17PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote:
| > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:29:52AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
| > | You can probably find one in
| > | ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/all/ppdfiles/ . Docs
| >
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