t the sync and refresh rates for your *exact*
monitor, either from the monitor's manual or the manufacturer's website.
Run "anXious" (check "anXious --help" for the options to let you
manually setup the card/monitor, otherwise it "guesses" for you). Enter
the sync and refresh rates by hand.
Good luck !
Hall Stevenson
> Second,
>
> I've enabled framebuffer support but this screws my video
> in textmode when i jump to a console from X. How do i
> disable this without the need to recompile ?
> (i'm currently using XFree86 4.0.2 with a Matrox G200
> 8MB, i've also installed the matrox beta driver)
I've got the sam
entries of the
file you created in /etc/modutils to the file /etc/modules.conf. It
*should* also create your modules.dep file correctly. You are using the
correct version of modutils, right ??
Good luck!
Hall Stevenson
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010120 09:10]:
> Hello, all.
>
> While I generally trust apt-get upgrade, I'd like to have it print out a
> list of the packages to be upgraded and possibly check with me before it
> actually does anything. I'm a little unsure how to do this, though. Based
>
* Alex Chamberlain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010121 03:49]:
> I'm tearing my hair out trying to get Netscape installed on potato. I
> have netscape-base-475 and all its dependencies selected in dselect,
> but then dselect says "netscape-base-475 depends on netscape-base-4;
> netscape-base-4 does not ap
* Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010121 10:50]:
> Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer
I've got the same one ;-)
> x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second
> IDE controller, yes?
Yes, it's the slave device. Wh
There may be a newer version of X and it wants to update it.
2) You compiled XFree86 on your own and deselect/apt doesn't know about
it. If that's the case, you need to put the X packages "on hold".
Regards
Hall Stevenson
> My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an
> attractive deal on DSL service. They will supply a "3COM
> HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM PCI" (I think it is model
> 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze ("support" means
> they supply a driver).
You could try telling them that you don't have a
t's one of Debian's
"virtual" packages.
Hmmm, http://packages.debian.org/ doesn't come up with an individual
package named "navigator". Maybe I'm wrong...
Also, what site are you using to get your packages from ??
Regards
Hall Stevenson
> > starfish:~# apt-get install navigator
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > E: Couldn't find package navigator
> >
> i installed this yesterday. I used:
>
> apt-get install navigator-smotif-476
>
> This installed just the web browser and all
cription: Meta package that depends on other packages
This package depends on the real netscape packages, so as to
make things easier for people to install.
meta-package: yes
Regards
Hall Stevenson
for
retreiving your mail from your ISP. There's a "fetchmailconf" package
that will help set things up. Use exim to send mail, ideally using it's
"smart relay" ability. Run eximconfig again and enter DSLNetwork's SMTP
mail server's name when it prompts for it.
Regards
Hall Stevenson
> My problem is, that I have in non-KDE-apps a very big font. All menus
and
> buttons in GTK-Apps are drawn with a 14 or 16 pixel font. Also
Netscape
> 4.76 has a too big font in his interface. However, the xfs is working,
> KDE-Apps can use all fonts correctly.
>
> I nearly tried everything to sol
> I have no /etc/resolv.conf on my harddisk. Can
> you give mi an example how /etc/resolv.conf
> has to look like?
search your-isp's-domain.com
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
*** Replace the first "xxx" sequence with your ISP's primary DNS
server's IP address. Replace the s
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL
> FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=4319:
> host ausmtp02.au.ibm.com [202.135.136.105]: 501
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist
>
> I understand the STMP server at the other end is
> trying to auth my IP address which doesn't
> I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time
> I log in but I don't want to do it manually.Is
> bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it
> from? How can I prevent it form being launched
> several times if I login at several consoles?
I don't believe fetchmail will run multiple instances of
>> How can I get some feedback of what fetchmail
>> is doing?
> If you're running it manually, add a -v flag, and it'll
> print out everything it does.
Something like what's shown in the lower, right-hand corner is what I
would like (sorry, it's a large screenshot):
http://www.us.rasterman.com/
> I'm sitting behind a firewall and want to use IRC. The
> firewall does masquerading and is also limiting incoming
> and outgoing traffic. I thought the problem may be identd
> which can not access my machine behind the firewall.
> But iptraf shows also that my connection is not
> answered (the S
> I'm new to the multimedia things under Linux :)
> CD (even CD's I bought, no CD-R or CD-RW)
> and I want to mount it I get...
You do *NOT* mount audio CDs.
Just put 'em in and use something like "gtcd" (a gnome CD player) or
"cdp" (or is it "cdplay" ??) (a console-based CD player). You mention
> What I was looking for was a font for use within X -
> specifically, for use in an xterm.
>
> I found a suitable font as part of the BitchX package, but I
> still can't find the original anymore. Most unfortunate.
There's some nice fonts here:
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/mudhoney/fonts.html and
nable-pop"
>
> but this was a guess, because I didn't really know
> where to put the --enable-pop switch.
./configure --enable-pop should do it just fine... You normally can
"pass" configure flags at the command-line instead of having to edit any
files.
Regards
Hall Stevenson
* Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010124 19:14]:
> Hi all..
> what changes the background color of X?
> I don't even know what to look up in man for
> this.
> I just wanted to change the background from the
> default gray to something else..
"the default gray" ?? Are you talking about the screen where
Out of curiosity, I made .xinitrc a symlink to .xsession. Is this okay
?? Saves me from having to edit two files in case I change from using
xdm or starting X with startx...
Regards
Hall
> xdm runs .xsessionrc, startx runs .xinitrc
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> > I ad
DU/index.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO.html
Regards
Hall Stevenson
> > Incidentally, X uses the next free tty. So if you have
> > 'getty's up to tty11, X will be on tty12.
> I was under the impression that X had tty7 hardcoded
> into it (or was that xdm?)
I don't think it's hard-coded because I've had X running on tty8 before
and don't know how or why it was the
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls
> aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp
> xsetroot: bad bitmap format file:
> /home/xucaen/new.bmp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
> I made new
ttp://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/19981115-11.html
Regards
Hall Stevenson
> > does anyone know how can i change irq number for
> > a soundblaster Live 1024 soundcard that uses the
> > Alsa emu10k1 driver ? On booting it set IRQ 10 that
> > it's shared with my ethernet card. In modules.conf
> > i set options snd_irq=5; but if i do a cat /proc/interrupts
> > i see IRQ 10
* Ralf M?ller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010126 13:30]:
> I am using gnapster but every time I want to download a file, there comes
> 'Remotely queued' and then it cancels with
>
> Is there any possibility to increase the timeout level to lets say several
> hours? Because I have a direct connection to i
> I downloaded firestarter and am wondering how I get apt-get to install
> it. When I run the command, it says it cannot find the deb file.
You need to use "dpkg" to install it now that it's already downloaded.
"dpkg -i filename.deb" will do it.
Regards
Hall
* Roberto Diaz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010128 05:34]:
> I want to install galeon (in a potato)
> Please some help? Mozilla leaks a ton of memory...
Isn't galeon just a "front-end" for mozilla ?? If so, the memory leak
will likely still be there. By the way, you do know that galeon
*requires* mozi
* Daniel de los Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010128 13:02]:
> I just installed urlview and added
>
> macro index \cb |urlview\n
> macro pager \cb |urlview\n
>
> to my .muttrc but I can't see anything special happening when there is a URL
> in a message.
> How is this supposed to work?
You have to
* David B . Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010128 12:10]:
> To quote Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> # Isn't galeon just a "front-end" for mozilla ?? If so, the memory leak
> # will likely still be there. By the way, you do know that galeon
> # *require
> I have changed the kernel modules several times and
> in looking over the various files that are used when the
> kernel boots..I noticed the the file /etc/modules has not
> changed since I installed the system Dec.18,2000. It
> seems that this should be altered as the kernel gives a
> lot of boot
> i have running stabel. I installed kernel-headers-2.2.17,
> kernel-source-2.2.17 and kernel-package. Then i
(Off-topic -- kernel-package isn't needed since you're compiling kernels
the "old" way or the "non-debian" way)
> made my own kernel ( make dep clean bzImage;
> make modules; make modules
> I've some doubts about apt-get behaivor...
> I did a "normal" installation of potato some months
> ago...from time to time I'll was install another packages
> that I didn't installl at first installation...so I don't know if
> when I do an apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade it
> review only
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:03:01AM -0800, thus
> spake Tom Schuetz:
> > Could someone please give me a hint re. how to get
> > a functional shell script?
> >
> > I've done the #! /bin/bash, and I've chmod'd to +x,
> > and the CHMOD shows up correctly as executable
> > in ls -l, but still wil
s too, except that it asks you first
;-)
You mention that dist-upgrade "will attempt to upgrade the most
important packages". Who decides if they're important ?? Or, is it
stored somewhere from when you first installed Debian that you did
install "A" or install "B" ??
Still curious...
Hall Stevenson
> I recently apt-get updated my unstable box which broke
> lilo. In my system, I have two hard disks. The first disk
> is /dev/hda and has Win2k. The second disk is /dev/hdb
> and has Debian unstable installed. I am assuming that
> lilo should install to the MBR on /dev/hda, but I think it
> is
> I know this is possible (I even vaguely remember seeing
> it mentioned somewhere).
>
> What I want to do is compile a kernel on my desktop
> PC for my laptop. Just build it, copy the new kernel image
> across the network, rejig the laptop's lilo, reboot it, and
> Roberta's your crossdressing Aunt
> Hello. Has anyone come across anything like this
> before. The system is a perfectly running Debian
> 2.2r2 with an AMD K6-2 500mhz with 256M mem (two
> 128M sdrams). I swapped out the two sdrams and
> installed one 256M sdram. The bios sees the memory
> OK and starts the boot process. Linux
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:19:54PM +0100, Joris
> Lambrecht wrote:
> > i think you should try adding something like
> >
> > mem="256"
> >
>
> Just to clarify that would be -
> append="mem=256M" but..
>
> The kernel or bios or whatever takes up part of the first
> part of the memory. So if you ad
I won't send (3) messages saying so... ;-) but mine says the same thing.
Don't know why either, but I seem to get all of the messages from
debian-users just fine.
Mine reads:
Status: U
Return-Path:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: from murphy.debian.org ([216.234.231.6])
by tyner.mail.mindspring.
* Peter Quiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010202 20:33]:
> i just wanna know how to force the ethernet kart in halfduplex mode
> .. its a rlt8139.
Only thing I could find is Donald Becker's diagnostic program here:
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Regards
Hall
* ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010203 17:48]:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:28:38PM -0800, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > After installing potato, I added:
> > append="mem=256M"
> > to my lilo.conf, but when I tried to boot, my kernel panicked,
> > which had never happened before (even thoug
> > Please try rtl8139 for ReaTek 8129/8139.
>
> I'll try (box is at work not home), but it's a realtek
> 8029 card, which I think uses a the ne2000 chipset.
You are correct. If it uses a Realtek 8029 chipset, it uses the ne2k-pci
driver. I have one myself...
Regards
Hall
> 1)
> Has anyone succesfully used
>
> HP cd-writer 9100i (IDE)
I have the 9150i model... probably close enough.
> xcdroast
> Debian 2.2. (potato)
>
> combined to burn cds?
>
> My brand new machine has got the above combination
> and I cannot setup xcdroast. xcdroast setup doesn't
> seem to see
- Original Message -
From: "virtanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Debian User List"
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: HP 9100 series cd -writer?
> Didn't find any clue yet,
> Didn't find any clue yet, what to do.
> Still nothing happens.
> For most of the time 'xcdroast' command is
> answering:
>
> 'No Generic SCSI-Support has been detected.'
That's your problem ^^^
> (Anyway there are the modules sg and ide-sci emulation installed.)
You're telling them to be load
> Primary master (hda) with Debian, just installed las weekend
> Secondary master (hdc) with Win98 already installed and
working...(sic)
> Well I install Debian on my primary disk and tell lilo to install at
the
> MBR (unsafe I know)
> Now when I select to boot win98 it appears:
> Loading win
> L?
> I compiled 2.4.1 and tried to sign on the internet. pppd
> sent a string that caused the connection to fail. I
> reloaced 2.2.12 and signed on with no difficulty in order
> to send this message. Any ideas?
You need a specific, updated version of pppd to work with kernels 2.4.x.
All the update
> > >helpful page: http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf
>
> I use XFree86-4 with the xfs-xtt font server. I have tried other
> ways and xfs-xtt gives the best results of any in netscape.
I followed the directions on the page above and got the results shown
here with Netscape:
http://www.mindsp
hanks lot for your help.
> finally I can boot from Lilo to my two OSs. I'd must
> to change the hard disks, win on the primary IDE
> and Linux on the secondary IDE, then I modify my
> references to hds on fstab and lilo, rerun lilo and
> ready!
> Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
>
ked
http://packages.debian.org and it does *not* appear to be... it's still
in "unstable". Note though, it has a 99% quality rating. Should be
pretty safe to use. ;-)
Also, why would the package ppp-2.3.11-1.4 be listed in "stable", but
have a quality of 1% ??
Regards
Hall Stevenson
> El Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:49:06PM -0500, Alan Shutko dijo:
> -| Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> -|
> -| > I know this is quite dumb, but how can I see the modules inside a
> -| > repository.
> -|
> -| cvs co -c
>
> mmm I may be doing something wrong but I get no output from
> Due to a somewhat shaky net connection I decided
> to download the debs for xfree 4 (from
> http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha) to my local machine.
> I'm trying to add the dirs where they reside to my
> sources.list but apt complains about malformed lines.
> This is what I did:
>
> deb fi
> This seems to be an exact answer.
> What I actually asked above, was the question if
> it is enough to just
> change (using a text editor) the lines in
>
> /boot/config-2.2.17
>
> into something else (eg 'y' to 'm', eg that ide-scsi
> line) without
> compiling completely a new kernel.
Changing t
> I am planning on upgrading my debian (potato) box
> buy 'replacing' mother board, CPU and RAM. I know
> the RAM will not be a problem, but what about the
> motherboard and CPU? Is it possible to do this without
> a reinstall(going from TX mobo with pentium MMX to
> Bx with cleron)? I have not com
done. Mandrake-Linux actually came
with a daemon that turned it on (or off) at the console.
As for X, I've tried "xset led 1" up through 20 with no luck (the
command shown may not be correct, but I believe when I was trying it, I
was doing it right -- at least I got no error messages).
Regards
Hall Stevenson
> You might also find this link helpful; it's a little more up-to-date
> than the TT-Debian mini-HOWTO.
>
> http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/debian_tt.html
That's the page I used in order to get my TT fonts set up, along with
the http://home.c2i.net page that it references. Since I'm using XF
* Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010617 21:51]:
> I got a Fathers' Day present of a Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical
> mouse. Has anyone have this mouse? Will it work under Linux or
> FreeBSD?
I've got the non-cordless version (I assume the "receiver" connects to a
PS/2 port, so fro
> Is there an epplets package for potato out there? I found
> one for woody but apt-getting it causes apt to want to
> remove a bunch of packages (including xbase-clients)
> which I would really rather not lose.
Here's an apt entry: deb
http://people.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads epplets-cvs/
"ljl
> > I got the mouse up and running (bothe Debian & FreeBSD)
> > except for the "wheel". I would assume that the "wheel" is
> > used to scroll up and down in lieu of the scroll bars in
an
> > apt such as Netscape. I did add the
> > Option"ZAxisMapping""4 5" to my XF86Config
> > file but the
> > This is with XFREE86 4.0.x
> >
> > The wheel generally works. The thumb button duplicates
> > button 2.
>
> is there any way to set thumb (side) button to do
> something else? like double click?
I think XFree86 only makes the buttons "available". It doesn't
necessarily define *what* the but
> Does anyone know of a GOOD (I mean not xanim) mpg
> player? I need to watch my futurama episodes!!
I'm not sure about "avi" files, but xmms has a pretty good
plug-in for playing mpg files.
I'm also interested in where you found futurama videos...
Hall
> Has anyone managed to get the RealPlayer installer
> package to work under sid? Mine crashes out.
Mine doesn't crash, it just doesn't prompt me for the file
it's looking for... I haven't dug at all though. I rarely use
RealPlayer and the one that's currently installed worked last
time I tried i
> > Upon su -'ing from console to say use gedit it says
> > cannot open display (for root)..reg user is finehow
> > do i fix this.
> >
> I think you need to allow other 'hosts' to connect to your
> display. You can turn this on with: xhosts +
>
> as a regular user. This will allow eve
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, G.LeeJohnson wrote:
> You can narrow it down by specifying the allowed hosts:
> xhost + allows every host
> xhost +foo allows computer 'foo' to connect
> xhost - allows only the owner of the display
>
> I do not know how to specify a user. You could try
> 'xhost localhost' f
> I purchased a new 40 G IBM harddisk.
>
> My box is an old 100 MHz Pentium, with slot 5.
>
> The problem is that the motherboard doesn't understand
> the harddisk at all.
>
> Anybody knows, what to do?
Take a look at the LILO HOWTO here:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html
Of interest t
> Can anyone advise how to make (a
> working) XMMS work as a plug-in for
> (a working) Mozilla 0.9.1? or if there
> is a more appropriate application, than
> XMMS?
I think there's a difference between plug-ins and simply
"helper" apps. Something like "flash" is a plug-in, or Adobe
Acrobat and Appl
> > > Can anyone advise how to make (a
> > > working) XMMS work as a plug-in for
> > > (a working) Mozilla 0.9.1? or if there
> > > is a more appropriate application, than
> > > XMMS?
> >
> > I think there's a difference between plug-ins and simply
> > "helper" apps. Something like "flash" is a plu
> Galeon is a great brower but is there any pluggin
> like flash, java work under it? Pluggin for network
> work well (most of the time) just wanna switch to
> galeon ASAP coz it is cool =)
galeon is to a large extent just a front-end to mozilla (I
don't mean that negatively towards galeon). Inst
> I have downloaded ash_0.3.8-13_i386.deb. How can
> I proceed to install this package?
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan Y. Wu
> Senior NT Systems Engineer
> Camstar Systems, Inc.
> 900 Hamilton Avenue
> Campbell, CA 95008
>
> P.S. My machine:
> OS: Windows Advanced Server 2000
> Pentium III
Step 1: Install De
> You should read the other mails on this list.
The thought just occured to me:
What if they upgraded their box to this broken version of pam
and for whatever reason either logged all users out or
rebooted. If this is their only box, they can't login. If they
can't login, they can't read their ma
> > Why not give something like progeny or one of the
> > other distros which are debian based but aimed at
> > easy of use ?
> >
> > while i personally prefer just debian (woody)
> > but i know progeny has some pretty good X setup
> > tools ect.
>
> I don't suppose there is any chance of running t
> > I also need to know if i have to configure my browser to
> > work with a lan conection.
>
> I'm sorry, but that doesn't make any sense to me. If the
> network layer works, then it works and applications should
> not have to worry about routing issues at all.
He's used to working with Internet
> Does this mean that one day you will *rent* the
> drivers from HP for a few months or so and then
> have to rent them again if you need to reinstall?
> Can't we do something about this?
Personally, I'd make a backup copy of the file(s) to cdrom,
floppy, another PC, etc, etc.
Hall
> ...I recently doubled the RAM on one of my systems
> (from 128 to 256 MB) but the new RAM is not found.
Maybe a stupid question, but does your motherboard/BIOS
recognize the new memory *first* ??
> I've never really seen a good explanation of why the kernel
> is not always able to find all the
> Addressing other comments in this thread, I too
> considered getting a floppy based camera, since
> floppys are obviously portable to Linux. I rejected
> that idea because it would be a slow, cumbersome
> way to handle that much data. I looked for a
> camera that communicated via a serial inte
> I am running a new inst of Debian and have discovered
> my mouse will not work properly. The main problem
> with the mous is the fact that the pointer does not show
> up on the screen properly. The pointer is limited to a space
> of 1/4cm strip along the botton of the screen and responds
> errati
> The only major drawbacks to this camera:
My biggest complaint about the camera was it's "auto-focus"
feature was way too slow. And with the camera being balanced,
or not balanced, the way it is, actually pressing the "take a
picture" button could often cause the camera to move just ever
so sl
> I might be making a fool of myself by asking this,
> but is there any way of extracting information such
> as text and pictures out of a PDF file that anyone
> knows of? So far I haven't used PDF files to other
> things than view them, and occasionally print them,
> using xpdf, but now I need to
> Can someone please tell me how to restrict a users
> access to one directory only?
>
> The situation is this, we have a /home/projects dir (also
> a Samba and netatalk share)that all users currently
> have access to either thru win98 or G4 macs.
>
> The problem I have to solve is creating a direc
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010710 22:04]:
> Ogg Vorbis is technically superior to mp3 and not patented. (Thomson
> Multimedia, who administer Fraunhofer's mp3 patents, have been talking
> more and more recently about demanding license fees from everyone who
> uses mp3 encoders.)
Where c
> > Any idea when Mozilla-0.9.2 or fixes to Mozilla-0.9.1 will
> > be available in testing or unstable ???
>
> the way its looking not until Takuo threatens an NMU
again...
If you're brave enough, try "apt-get install mozilla-cvs". I
believe it's on a non-us server. I got it yesterday, the 10th,
a
> It is a high performance file system, still somewhat
> in the experimental stage. However, it has already
> (as I understand) proven useful to some advanced
> users with very particular requirements.
>
> It has a number of advanced features/benifits, but
> perhaps the most mentioned is journalin
> > It is a high performance file system, still somewhat
> > in the experimental stage. However, it has already
> > (as I understand) proven useful to some advanced
> > users with very particular requirements.
> >
> > It has a number of advanced features/benifits, but
> > perhaps the most mentione
> > Just checked the reiserfs website, www.namesys.com,
> > I think, and it suggested the idea I had already. Resize
> > your existing partition, create a partition to hold your
> > current data, copy the data to the new partition, then
> > make the original into a reiser partition.
>
> As lon
> > They can either let you run linux, or pay for your
> > MCSE courses.
>
> I like these!
That's reasonable ... as long as they've paid for everyone
else's MCSE course who uses Windows on the campus.
Hall
> > > They can either let you run linux, or pay for your
> > > MCSE courses.
> >
> >
> > That's reasonable ... as long as they've paid for
> > everyone else's MCSE course who uses Windows
> > on the campus.
>
> speaking from experience (oops), the mcse doesn't
> buy you jack. okay, i didn't take co
> Pardon me,
> what is up with this list?
> Since I heard that the debian server has
> been down I haven't got any mail.
> Is it useful to subscribe again to this mailing list?
Since you're message made it to the list and was posted, I
believe you're subscribed. The debian lists don't have a
"susp
> >> Is it useful to subscribe again to this mailing list?
> >
> >Since you're message made it to the list and was
> > posted, I believe you're subscribed.
>
> Posting to the Debian mailing lists is open to anybody:
> it's not limited to subscribers.
Thanks, I didn't know that... You just won't ge
> Or you could use the Mail-Followup-To header (that
> mutt and gnus obey) to request a copy. This is what
> I like about open lists, if I don't want to subscribe and
> get a large volume of messages to sort through. Of
> course people using clients like OE, Netscape, etc,
> won't automatically r
> OK, I've read with great amusement all the
> chest-thumping going on about MUAs, MTAs
> and how Microsoft email products are things
> that you scrape off the bottom of your shoe.
>
> I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and
> have yet to find a Linux MUA that meets my
> needs.
At first, I
> reply-to: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> That way you can just autmatically reply to the list
> and not have to change your To: and CC: headers
> EVERY SINGLE TIME. You can also reply to all
> and then if you intend the original sender to get a
> copy, they would recieve one too.
If you use mu
> > I have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive (actually a Creative
> > Dxr2 DVD drive), which I can't get to play audio CDs
> > under debian.
>
> ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
> and in
> /etc/fstab put
> /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,auto 0 0
>
> Then mkdir /cdrom to put a cdrom dir in / Thay way
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but hdc will only be relavent
> if you have a SCSI based system won't it? If your
> system is IDE based, hda,hdb,hdc etc. will be
> devices on the IDE controlers. If you have a SCSI
> card separatly, you need to use something else
> (scr0? I don't know, I'v been trying
Are there boot images available for Debian that incorporate setting up
reiserfs partitions from the beginning, i.e. selecting reiserfs as the
partition type during an installation ??
If not, is anyone aware of another distro that can do this ??
Thanks in advance
Hall
> ...and they routinely want to ping and traceroute to
> my machine. This requires me to take down my
> firewall and wait for them to finish, then put it back
> up. I'd like to make, as part of my rule set, ping and
> traceroute able to get through. So far I've done this
> for my input chain for
> Further OffTopic: I can't get Mozilla to do java. I'm using
> the nightly builds, the installer works great. If I follow
the
> link they recommend to install Java support from the
> netscape sight, it claims success but then every time I
> launch mozilla after that it tells me that I need to rest
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