Re: Debian, Putty and home and end keys

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Epting
y began responding correctly to the Home and End keys when I entered the string as above, but also, somewhat counter-intuitively, under Terminal/Keyboard selected Standard for "The Home and End keys" and ESC[n~ for "The Function keys and keypad". That is, selecting Linux for the

Re: Filesystem error?

2003-01-23 Thread Michael Epting
t slower than spec. Life is full of tradeoffs -- this board was very inexpensive and for me it's still fast enough. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD - driving me crazy...

2003-02-05 Thread Michael Epting
aybe it's fixed now. mplayer from marillat.free.fr works for me, but doesn't do dvd menus. There's also videolan, which has debs and also works. All of them require either killing the sound server or configuring them to use it. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Epting
ipient = local_domains = localhost:localhost which seems to be the right thing. Does anybody have any other suggestions? -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread Michael Epting
I'm now running pretty much pure Sid -- I didn't go straight to a dist-upgrade, but installed many packages individually first. Frankly if I had it to do over, I'd probably just go for it and not pussy-foot around. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-22 Thread Michael Epting
igns either static or dynamic ip > addresses to computers plugged into it. It also says that it is Linux > compatible. I got a "free" SpeedStream 5100 as part of the deal. Obviously it works with the DLink. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-22 Thread Michael Epting
> > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them > > > up to ask if it would work with Linux. > * Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 21:32]: > > There is some tru

Re: friendly scp (help)

2005-05-16 Thread Michael Epting
g dialog enter [EMAIL PROTECTED], enter my remote machine password at the prompt, and navigate the remote machine in one pane and the local machine in the other. mc truly is an amazing piece of work... -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE2 debs from TDYC

2000-08-24 Thread Michael Epting
A quick update: shortly after posting my original questions last weekend, new KDE2 .debs were made available on tdyc -- these solved the problems I had been having. I noted this morning (8/24) that yet again new ones were up -- these also work fine. If you don't need KDE for real work and want t

Patching the kernel

2000-09-01 Thread Michael Epting
I'm trying to apply the IDE patch so I can get UDMA with my ASUS P5A (Aladdin chipset) motherboard. I know how to build a kernel using make-dpkg and I have successfully applied patches also, but I have not before used a Debian kernel-patch deb. The docs are giving me a splitting headache. I'm t

Patching The Kernel

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Epting
Nobody here answered my question about using kernel-patch .deb files, so I'm going to answer myself. This way, anybody searching the list archives will at least gain a little info and maybe get over this hump more quickly than me. I have had a separate email exchange with Manoj Srivastava, the au

Re: help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Epting
make sure you have installed the -dev packages of the major kde2 files. Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having troubles to use kwm. I've installed kde2 packages > from tdyc (Ivan's packages). All dependencies are resolved but I'm not > able to start kwm either from kdm (it's

Re: help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Epting
Yes, that's why I didn't have them either. But Ivan (krusty - the maintainer of tdyc's Debian packages) told me to do it, so I did, and it worked. Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Epting wrote: > > > make sure you have installed the -dev

KDE2 debs from TDYC

2000-08-19 Thread Michael Epting
There have been some new .debs made available from tdyc the last couple of days. These *almost* work for me, unlike the ones available before yesterday. If anybody else is successfully using these, could you please tell me how you got a panel to appear? By the way, I had to modify /usr/bin/start

Re: Net-tools followup

2001-02-12 Thread Michael Epting
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Needless to say this is *EXTREMELY* stupid behaviour of ifconfig > > and completely breaks your system. > > Okay, for those of you who have iproute installed, you can still get things > up an

Re: dictonary

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:31:50PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:52:23PM +0100, Hans wrote: > > Is there any front-end GUI available for dict, or ways to access it via a > > browser? --hans > > gdict comes standard with GNOME. And although this will become obvious in mer

Re: Net-tools followup

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 08:25:40PM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: > > This was hilarious. I had shut down my laptop this morning after reading, > > but not entirely absorbing, the above. > > Thanks for

Re: more info on "Important Package Not Found In Sid!?!"

2001-02-14 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:00:12PM -0800, David Frey wrote: > I have another thing to add. Take a look at this: > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/gnome-core.html > > Notice how it says that gnome core depends on libgnomeui33, > but that it isn't available. What can I do? Do I just have

Tasklist broken in gnome-panel_1.3.1-1

2001-03-09 Thread Michael Epting
After today's upgrade, the Gnome Tasklist no longer works (segfault when you try to add it to the panel). The reason is fairly obvious, it seems: tasklist-applet is no longer present in the gnome-panel deb. If you check the buglist this morning, you will see that the maintainer is asking for all

Re: Tasklist broken in gnome-panel_1.3.1-1

2001-03-09 Thread Michael Epting
FYI, I received this from the gnome-panel maintainer: ME> Has perhaps tasklist_applet moved to another package ... Yes and no, now the tasklist applet isn't a binary but a library/plug-in file. To solve the problem quickly, install the libpanel-applet-dev package. This is fixed inthe -2 release

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:22:37PM -0800, brian moore wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:17:06PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Does mutt have any address book support? Autocompletion would be really > > yes. either the internal one, or using an external database. Believing this to be true, I in

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:21:32PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > > abook package where? In unstable, at least, it's in main/Mail. Just apt-get install abook. I took my Outlook Express (sorry!) address book and pulled it into (Windows) Netscape 4.76, then copied it over here to Debian. I think there

Re: kde2 problem

2000-10-13 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:26:07AM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > I've installed KDE2 from Debian's servers, but I haven't had much luck > getting it running. What happens, basically, is kicker dies with a > signal 11 almost as soon as it starts up (the status indicator is on > "Restoring session").

Re: kde2 problem

2000-10-13 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:26:07AM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > I've installed KDE2 from Debian's servers, but I haven't had much luck > getting it running. What happens, basically, is kicker dies with a > signal 11 almost as soon as it starts up (the status indicator is on > "Restoring session").

Can apt be steered?

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Epting
apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I see that I have a gnome-bin (and maybe some other Gnome-related packages) that is not from Helix and I suspect that is the source of my problem. So, does anybody know a way to steer apt preferentially. That is, how can I

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Epting
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:53:04PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > If the package doesn't say "Helix", purge it. You don't > need any non-helix gnome packages to have a working gnome > distribution. > > > > apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I > > see that

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Epting
must be deleted (commented out). If kde2 needs upgrading, I think I might stick with debian and comment out tdyc, but maybe vice versa On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:24:46AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I > see th

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-18 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:01:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:19:49PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > > > is, we get kde2 package combinations that don't work. I'm beginning to > > think there is a serious fundamental problem with apt..

Re: My emails are vanishing...

2000-10-18 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:41:25PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Are you using exim? It has a limit on the maximum number of messages > per smtp connection. > > Check your /etc/exim.conf file for a line like > > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100 Make the value 0 for unlimited messages

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-18 Thread Michael Epting
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find. > You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use > --dummy-run to do a dummy run). I didn't know about --dummy-run. I just searched man apt-get

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-18 Thread Michael Epting
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:36:57PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can > > >

Re: Help! I upgraded ssh, it doesn't work, I want to go back to an earlier version.

2000-10-19 Thread Michael Epting
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:42:55PM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > Foolish me: I'd been happily running ssh 1:2.2.0p1 on my Potato > system, and then I upgraded to ssh 1:2.2.0p1-1.1. (I got both of > those versions from "unstable".) Well, that newer version doesn't > work on potato, because it r

Re: how to test hardware acceleration / GL / utahglx?

2000-10-30 Thread Michael Epting
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 03:39:01AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Finally, I've got some utahglx debs installed, how do I test whether > the hardware acceleration is working? If you are running Gnome, select the Atlantis screensaver in GnomeCC. Then press the lock button on your panel. If the s

KDE2/Gnome GL differences

2000-11-06 Thread Michael Epting
I've been trying to solve my problem of unusable virtual consoles (the F1 through F6 ones) in XF 4.01 for weeks now. At one point I decided that it was a chipset problem, but I have since swapped motherboards and the problem was unchanged. I'm a Gnome user, but I've also been trying out the KDE2

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

2000-11-13 Thread Michael Epting
Since the problem is a conflict between Helix and Debian versions of some libraries, perhaps you can temporarily comment out the Debian lines in your sources.list, do an apt-get update and then try apt-get install task-helix-gnome. Don´t forget to fix your sources.list afterwards or you won´t be

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

2000-11-13 Thread Michael Epting
Sometime this morning, Helix made new packages available. I´ll bet it all works OK now, so ignore my earlier post. On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:55:07PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: > I can't seem to install Helix Gnome on my woody box. > > dimmu:~# apt-get install task-helix-gnome > Reading Package Li

Re: Dependency problems

2000-11-16 Thread Michael Epting
I "fixed" this problem by doing: apt-get install libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data The trick is to have both packages in the same install command. On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:47:41PM -0500, Casey Henderson wrote: > Hi all, > I'm having a problem upgrading a couple packages on my system. I

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-16 Thread Michael Epting
This advice applies to /etc/host.conf, not resolve.conf. On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 08:42:34AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > ... Something else to > look at first is your /etc/resolve.conf*. It should contain a line like > "order hosts,bind", which tells it to look first in /etc/hosts, and then

Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI238 and kernel

2000-11-17 Thread Michael Epting
In 2.4.0-test10, it´s Creative Ensoniq AudiioPCI 97 (ES1371). I have heard that some older PCI128´s might be ES1370, which is also available. If you check the archives, you will find several people saying that you need the ALSA drivers to make this card work. I can verify that it works with ALS

Re: PS Help ISP/Fetchmail

2000-12-29 Thread Michael Epting
> > > yes. ("man fetchmail" could explain it better). > > Yes, I add it to the command line. Any way to log that? And see it, so > > not just "fetchmail >Log"? > Not sure, but I would say "fetchmail -vv 2>&1 | tee Log" >From 'man fetchmail': The -L or --logfile option (keyword: set

apt-get hold?

2000-06-02 Thread Michael Epting
I'm running Woody, which is my first foray into really unstable territory, because, frankly, Potato has been very solid. Now and then we get an unusable package into Woody, but since I keep the old .debs for a while, it's no big deal to reinstall the old working one. However, the next time I do a

Re: apt-get hold?

2000-06-02 Thread Michael Epting
OK, I got it now, I think. The argument for dhold or for dpkg --set-selections hold 'filename' does not include the version number for the .deb. For example: dhold pysol does the job. Thanks again for your help.

debian kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.

2001-01-11 Thread Michael Epting
Since I started using the release 2.4.0 kernel I am finding billions of the above error messages on the console from which X is started and in the syslog and kern.log. This happens whenever an app, such as Gnome CD player or Musicmatch Jukebox accesses an audio CD. Everything seems to work OK, bu

Re: PCMCIA modules and kernel 2.2.18

2001-01-18 Thread Michael Epting
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:52:18PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > Is there a problem with the PCMCIA modules in kernel 2.2.18? > I can build the modules for kernel 2.2.16 but not 2.2.18 and I have > tried both several times. I just did this yesterday, on a "new" Tosiba Tecra 550CDT laptop. It's run

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-12 Thread Michael Epting
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 01:47:36AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > not sure where it's documented, probably in X docs. you basically need > to do what you wrote - put the *.ttf files into some directory and add > that directory to FontPath (in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, search for > FontPath, add a lin

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-12 Thread Michael Epting
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:14:00AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > what of debian 2.2r2, and Xfree 3.3.6? The answer to this question is in the excellent TrueType Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO, which is very likely on your system in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/mini/TT-Debian.html or, if you love to c

Re: xcdroast in sid/unstable not installable?

2001-07-03 Thread Michael Epting
> > On Tuesday, 3. July 2001 02:12, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Something else is at work here. Did you, perhaps, forget to update > > > before trying to install xcdroast, and remembered to do that when you > > > used dselect? What happened, of course, is that a new version of xcdroast became availa

Re: Digital camera and Linux

2001-07-06 Thread Michael Epting
that I now have capacious storage for pictures when I'm on the road. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Digital camera and Linux

2001-07-06 Thread Michael Epting
. The bad news is that I have an Epson Photo Stylus 870 that prints on 4 inch roll paper but is not yet supported in Linux. The good news is that I mixed some digital camera/Epson 870 prints in with some 45 millimeter prints from Kodak and none of my friends could figure out which were which. -

Re: Problem with fetchmail (was: I can't start with mutt) solved !

2001-07-11 Thread Michael Epting
many hits? However, even more shocking is that there is one that is absolutely on-topic: http://www.angielski.edu.pl/angielski/content.php3?name=tnv_1 -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread Michael Epting
an't do that, what's the point? And besides, emelfm is far better for moving files around. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: pcmcia

2002-02-15 Thread Michael Epting
nta_socket > else > PCIC=i82365 > fi > PCIC_OPTS= > CORE_OPTS= > CARDMGR_OPTS= Well, I'm running an older 2.4 kernel on my ancient Toshiba laptop and I needed to change /etc/default/pcmcia from yenta_socket to i82365. Everything is back to fine now. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-23 Thread Michael Epting
elfm. It does everything a file manager needs to do and it is fast and intuitive. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: What's happening to the Progeny installer?

2001-10-26 Thread Michael Epting
back towards a standard Debian distro. Anyone know if > there are plans to integrate the Progeny installer into Debian-proper? -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: internal debugger in kdevelop

2002-03-29 Thread Michael Epting
velop Setup/Debugger/Use external debugger. It takes a bit longer to start up (again, I have tested only very simple projects), but it seems to work a bit nicer. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Scripting problem "syntax error in expression (error token is "0 0 - + 95 ")"

2002-06-28 Thread Michael Epting
gwin". It gives one a decent Unix environment while stuck in Windows. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Michael Epting
, maybe most, people, but its documentation is forboding and yet seems to be missing some information. I ended up disgusted with both myself and the tool. And Google failed me, too. -- Michael Epting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]