Re: apm broken in 2.4.10

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 11:04:49AM -0500, Jack wrote: | Does any body have the same problem with apm from 2.4.10? | | . apm does not work with any arguments passed to the kernel, like: | "apm=on" I noticed this when I upgraded to the Debian-packaged 2.4.x kernel. The apm stuff is also as a

Re: international characters in mutt

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:56:58PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: | dman wrote: | > Yeah, the coloring in view is neat, but the scrolling and quitting | > wasn't as convenient for a pager which is why I don't use it. | | Try the following script: | | #!/bin/sh -e | vim -c 'so /usr

Re: Can't print via samba

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:49:31AM +0900, Tomoo Nmura wrote: | Hello, | | This is the first post. | After installing sid samba, I can't print anything. Samba said the | following message. | What is wrong ? | | [2001/10/09 11:06:18, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(40) | =

Re: PCMCIA - Please help

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 06:43:36PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 with a Xircom CardBus Ethernet 100 + Modem | 56 (Ethernet Interface). | | I can't get my networt up and running. I have at no time specified | that Debian should use the xirc2ps driver, and I don't know w

Re: PCMCIA - Please help

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:41:03PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | Tuesday, October 09, 2001, 9:54:05 PM, dman wrote: ... | d> | Is this good or bad? | d> It is good, but not complete. For example right now with this | d> Inspiron 7500 (3Com PCMCIA NIC) I get : | d> eth0 Link en

Re: -dbg packages

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:12:40PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: | here's a dumb question - how would I use the libgtk1.2-dbg (and, while | I'm at it, libc6-dbg) packages to debug programs more thorougly? I've | tried linking with -lgtk_g and -lgdk_g along with the regular libraries,

Re: KDE X as root

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:29:07PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | I have kdm running on the 'testing' Debian build. | | I can log in and out OK. | But if I log in as root, it resets back to kdm. | I didn't want this -- how do I fix it back so I can get to log into the | GUI as root? Don't. It is s

Re: Newbie needs help finding newer packages ...

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:52:06AM -0500, Brice D Ruth wrote: | I'm a newbie when it comes to debian - I've relegated myself to the | likes of redhat and mandrake for the past 5 years :( ... I have an | installation of debian 2.2 and it seems to be working all right. My | main problem is that

Re: Accessing Deb package Mirror via LAN on a dial up PPP connection

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:05:33PM +0100, Wayne Brown wrote: | Hi there, | Could anyone tell me if this is indeed possible and if so point me in the | right direction: | [ 2 machines on LAN, one WAN connection ] You can certainly share the WAN connection with the LAN. This is done via IP Masquer

Re: Oops, forgot...

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:37:17AM -0700, Royce Bell wrote: | Uh...is there a reason why several posts to the list (usually from specific | individuals), come with attached text files. I'm not in the habit of | opening ANY attachment, not even from friends I know well, and this is quite | disconce

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:59:14PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: ... | Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and | when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I | assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. Sorry to disappoint you Hall, but I hav

Re: ethernet card IO address

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:16:50PM +0200, MarceI Figuerola Estrada wrote: | I've tried to load the module that friend Vineet suggested for my | ethernet card. I did it giving no parameters (io, irq). I got the | following error: | | >/lib/modules /2.2.18pre21/net/via-rhine.o: init module: Device o

Re: How to use Linux as a dial-up provider?

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:49:16PM -0500, Kent West wrote: | I don't know exactly the terminology to use. I'd like to set up a Linux | box on the ethernet at home, slap a modem on it (attached to an analog | line of course), and then dial-up from home to the modem, authenticate, | and have inter

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:49:40PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 03:25:09PM -0500, David Teague wrote: | > I LIKE emacs. We were using vi as our only text editor with System V | > machines in the late 80s. I found and installed Emacs, within one | > week everyone on my facult

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:44:17AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... I'm not sure where in the thread my comments belong so I'll put them here. | So what is it that makes you (and others) react so vehemently? I've tried to use info a few times, and it is always difficult. The keybindings are u

Re: Threading Mail

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:58:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.2100 +0100]: | > I recommend just using fetchmail intstead and having exim or procmail | > sort the mail into folders for you. The advantage of using | > fetchmail+e

Re: Threading Mail

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:21:53PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: | Not true! I switched from mutt to gnus. It's IMAP support was too weak | for me, IMAP in mutt is actually somewhat controversial. The author doesn't really like it (mutt is _just_ a MUA), but there would be too much wailing and

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:38:07PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: | dman wrote: | ... | > info2vim converter then I could be happy :-). If you don't already | > know : vim allows for hyper-links (start with :help) that can be | > followed with ^] and ^T takes you back where you were befo

Re: man v. info

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:31:12PM +0100, Michael Mauch wrote: | You might argue that I should use w3m or links to read those large HTML | files - but then I would have to remember the keystrokes of these | programs (i.e. I can't use my favourite browser) and I have to | install/build these progr

Re: gcc conflicts with gcc-doc, gpc conflicts with gpc-doc

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:59:31PM +0200, Serafim Zanikolas wrote: |Hello dear debian fellows! | |Why does gcc-2.95 conflicts with gcc-doc? It is the specific versions that conflict. The packaging was reorganized somewhat, but I don't remeber the details for those packages. -D -- the

Re: User process killer script..

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:44:38AM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: | I was thinking at a script run either from root's crontab that would check | all processes and if the users that started them are not logged in (here | i'm stucked) it would kill them all,or a inittab script that would be | spawned

Re: Threading Mail

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:23:49PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: | dman wrote: | > | > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:21:53PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: | > | > | Not true! I switched from mutt to gnus. It's IMAP support was too weak | > | for me, | > | > IMAP in

what happened to galeon (was Re: man v. info)

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:14:36AM +0100, Michael Mauch wrote: | Galeon 1.0 from the Debian system really is a lot faster (2 seconds | for the whole file). So maybe something went wrong with my | Galeon-0.12.7 build here (built from sources on something that once | was a SuSE-6.1). Ok, so galeon

Re: Email client programs

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:36:15PM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote: | On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, martin f krafft wrote: | | > > why the insistence on fetchmail? | > | > it's the unix philosophy -- let one program do its job and do it well, | > let other programs use that... | | hehe, really? I guess you can

Re: Email client programs

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:46:44AM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: | I am wondering what other Debian Users recommend for an email client | program. I like mutt the best. It is good, makes good use of screen real-estate, has good threading and list support, and is light, fast, and stable. The one

Re: software install problems

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:18:31PM -0500, Phil Beder wrote: | Hello all, | I'm having trouble installing software. I have downloaded Gimp, Netscape, | Mozilla and others and seem to have compatibility problems with the version | of Debian I'm running. I thought I had 2.1.1, but in fact it returns

Re: software install problems

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:00:09AM -0500, Phil Beder wrote: | At 11:34 PM 12/26/01 -0500, you wrote: | >On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:18:31PM -0500, Phil Beder wrote: | >| Hello all, | >| I'm having trouble installing software. I have downloaded Gimp, Netscape, | >| Mozilla and others and seem to hav

Re: Reading Package Lists... Error!

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:28:35AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: | I was running an update on my sid system, and everything seemed to be | going fine until it died with the following: | | Reading Package Lists... Error! | E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) | E: The package lists or status

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | Hi, | | I did a fresh install over the Xmas break. | | Prior to this I saved all the various conf files to a floppy. | | Now I cannot mount the floppy | | # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy | # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy | # moun

Re: Reading Package Lists... Error!

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:23:05PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: | Actually, any apt operation results in that error. It can't read the | current list for an update. | | sausage:/home/aarons#apt-get update | Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Packages | Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/

Re: debian install fails always?

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:45:10PM +0100, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: | hello | | I've tried to install Debian already a few times. I started with the | download of the bootdisks of pototo 2.2 v4 , I booted and was unable to | use the net (http nor ftp) install. reboot to MDK :) | then download the

Re: more gnucash on woody

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:46:06PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | I get this while trying to install python2.1 to try to get gnucash | working. Can someone tell me what might be happening? | | TIA, | | Paul Scott | | (Reading database ... 67569 files and directories currently installed.) | Prepari

power management in X

I want my display to blank (or "off" or "suspend" or "standby" or whatever) if it is left idle for a long period of time. I have this working in GNOME if I am logged in and leave the screen saver running, but I want it to work even if the gdm login screen is displayed. I looked at 'man XFree86-4

Re: power management in X

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:47:22PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: | dman wrote: | | > I want my display to blank (or "off" or "suspend" or "standby" or | > whatever) if it is left idle for a long period of time. I have this | > working in GNOME if I am logge

Re: missing posts to list

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:20:28AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: | On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:55:53AM -0500, k l u r t wrote: | > there seems to be some posts to this list that are missing. | > when i tried to back track and look up some past posts on | > http://lists.debian.org and usenet, some posts

Re: "C" Manual

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:31:36AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: | Gary Turner muttered: | > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:11:33 -0500, Phil Beder wrote: | > | > >Where can I find a good, complete manual for C and C++ programming | > >languages for the gcc compiler. | ... | Kernighan and Ritchie is 'the'

Re: power management in X

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:55:55PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: | dman wrote: | > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:47:22PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: | > | dman wrote: | > | | > | > I want my display to blank (or "off" or "suspend" or "standby" or |

Re: dpkg install

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:54:56PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | from the dpgk(8) manpage, ll. 119-123: | | ACTIONS |dpkg -i | --install package_file... | Install the package. If --recursive or -R option is | specified, package_file must refer to a directory

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:34:35AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | OK, Pietro, Martin, | | I use console mode, but always shut down via 'poweroff'. I likely removed | the disc and put it safely in its box before not doing a sync or umount. | | I could not have done it more wrong! lesson learnt. | |

Re: "C" Manual

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:54:59PM +0100, Henrik Enberg wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > I have "The Complete C++ Reference" by Schildt, and it includes a good | > reference of the standard libraries as well as explaining the | > languages. I never bought i

Re: How do I stop X

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:35:26PM -0800, Dennis Krinke,,, wrote: | I would like to change configuration | so that I boot into a console, | rather than to X-windows graphical login. | | I tried changing /etc/inittab line 5 from | id:5:initdefault: to | id:2:initdefault: | but this did not do

Re: Where did my memory go?

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:18:35AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: ... | In that case it sounds to me like there is a genuine problem on my | system. Even if the swap is cached in RAM, this doesnt explain the stats | reported by top : the 8M of swap + the total of the RSS column doesnt come | close to

Re: using tail in a pipe and script

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:56:13AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: | I am trying to write a script and I need to remove the top 3 lines of a | file. I thought tail would be the tool for the job. | | The script is: | | enscript -1 -r -M Letter -p outputfile $1 | | I need tail to take off the top 3

Re: Need advice on Linux Programming tool

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:00:23AM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote: | I would like to ask for some advice on what programming tools can I | use in developing Linux apps. I've been developing Windoze | applications for about 3 years and would like to shift to Linux. | I'm interested in GUI tools for

Re: All Debian CDs..

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:32:15PM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: | Heyah,so i got the binary cds 1,2,3 the non-us and now i am downloading 2 | extra cds from ftp.fsn.hu | Are there more? There is a total of 7 cds floating around. There are 3 binary and 3 source cds, and (as you've noticed) one of t

Re: "C" Manual

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:50:22PM -0500, Daniel Freedman wrote: | On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, dman wrote: | > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:31:36AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: | > | Gary Turner muttered: | > | > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:11:33 -0500, Phil Beder wrote: | > | > | > |

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:23:24PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:13:32AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: | > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | > > | > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy | > > # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy | > > # mount -t au

Re: "C" Manual

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:19:26PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | See the term bullschildt in the jargon file. | > | > I just did, on ESR's web site. It's not in the 'jargon' package. | | The term was added to the

Re: How do I stop X

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 04:37:52PM -0800, Dennis Krinke,,, wrote: | >To understand _why_ this stops gdm from starting on boot read up on | >how SysV init works. | | OK, I browsed man sys(8) init. | That did help a little. | Perhaps that plus other reading and more time | will help more... Here's

Re: Cannot play audio CDs

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:29:23PM +0100, Simonyi Andras wrote: | Hello, | I recently ugreded from Potato to Woody, and I've just noticed that I | can no longer play audio CDs in the CD Rom drive. More specifically, any | CD program I start seems to behave normally, I'm able to select a track, | "p

Re: Configuration!

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:44:54PM +0100, Martin Wackenhut wrote: | Hi folks, | | after setting up LFS I am switching back to a distribution. | In comparison to SuSE I miss some configuration tool like Yast. | Could not find any hint in the docs about that. | I know about dselect and apt. | | So

Re: using tail in a pipe and script

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 12:14:30AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach Eric G. Miller [2001.12.29.2350 +0100]: | > C always uses pass by value, C++ can do both. But, what does that | > have to do with shell scripts and pipes? | | C can pass by reference, no? No, but it can fake it good

Re: CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:23:45PM +0100, Jens Müller wrote: | I am using cupsys 1.1.12-3 and samba 2.2.2-2. | | I set up my printer (HP DJ 840 C, USB) using CUPS. | | I can print from Linux (well, the lpr program is not there ...). cupsys-bsd | I set the following in smb.conf: | | | [printer

Re: CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:07:03AM +0100, Jens Müller wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | I can print from Linux (well, the lpr program is not there ...). | > | > cupsys-bsd | | Is then | | printing = cups | | still correct? Yes. -D -- If you hold to [J

Re: CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:30:02AM +0100, Jens Müller wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | Is then | > | | > | printing = cups | > | | > | still correct? | > | > Yes. | | OK. | | Set it, tried it, doesn't work ... | | Any other idea? You

Re: Want custom Deb distro

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:44:08AM +1100, Penguin wrote: | I only have a 56K modem and its just impossible for me to sit there and | download all this myself, constantly redialling after my pathetic TWO isp | providers keep cutting me off, one is down and so use the other... then get | cut off

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:02:13PM -0600, shock wrote: | * Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | # ls -al /dev/sr0 | | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 13 19:32 /dev/sr0 -> scd0 | | how do i know what its numbers are? do i need to delete it and recreate | it? /dev/sr0 is a symlink

Re: gdm bug #126936 -- any workarounds?

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 06:07:24PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: | I upgraded my laptop, which is running sid, this morning, and in the | process removed my ability to log into my gnome session. My symptoms | are exactly the same as those listed in #126936, and after a few hours | spent pok

Re: Advice for fetchmail & exim config

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:45:06PM -0800, scott worley wrote: | Hi, | | I seem to be one of those people you can't understand unix e-mail | configuration no matter how much I read, books, HOW-TO's etc. | | Trying to setup fetchmail & exim. ... | for exim all i did was add: | smarthost: ... |

Re: CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:23:28PM +0100, Jens Müller wrote: | "Jens Müller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | > What do I have to change in my config? | | I now did as described in | . Interesting. I'm using samba 2.2.2-2 F

Re: Advice for fetchmail & exim config

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 12:43:04AM -0500, P Prince wrote: | If you're on a workstation, you probably don't need to be [or IMO, shouldn't | be] running an MTA at all. You should have an MTA on any unix box. It is needed for local delivery. For example, if a cron job has a error, you are mailed t

Re: "C" Manual

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:13:10AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: | Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > I learned C before Schildt started publishing (AFAIK), so I've never | > read any of his books. He actually used "void main()" in his examples? | > Ouch. Someone who does that is definite

Re: CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:44:59PM +0100, Jens Müller wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Say, in windows what did you specify the printer as? I picked HP | > Laserjet IIIp (the postscript version) so that windows generates | > postscript and lets CUPS translate it t

Re: Packages on a cd..

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:28:01AM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: | What's the simpliest way to see what packages i got on a debian cd,using | command line? 'ls' :-). Just mount the disk and browse it. The packages are all .deb files. -D -- If Microsoft would build a car... ... Occasionally you

Re: Need url for debian sources..

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:56:15AM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: | i need some european servers with the potato 2.2.r4 sources cds isos.. | thx Again, RTFM http://cdimage.debian.org. In particular the follow are the lists of mirrors : http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist http://cdimage.debian.org/

Re: Packages on a cd..

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:09:01AM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: | At 09:02 PM 12/30/01 -0500, dman wrote: | >On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:28:01AM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: | >| What's the simpliest way to see what packages i got on a debian cd,using | >| command line? | > | >&

Re: Please help with Python error.

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:34:17PM -0800, Chris Yeun wrote: | Hello, | | I upgraded to the "Woody" versions of Squishdot 1.3.0-1, Zope 2.4.2-0.2, | and Python 2.1.1-7. I'm receiving an error message when running | Squishdot and trying to post a new article...the error is: | | python2.1: ../Py

Re: Advice for fetchmail & exim config

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:19:11PM +0200, Serafim Zanikolas wrote: | On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:45:06PM -0800, scott worley wrote: ... | > | > When fetchmail is executed I get a rejection error message from exim | > which has | > ...reject relay (host) ... | |By default, exim drops every inco

Re: Kernels - The Debian Way

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:09:08AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: | Keith O'Connell wrote: | > | > Hi, | > | > As I wander about sites, I periodically see references to a document in | > ascii/html/pdf format with a title along the lines of "Kernels - The | > Debian Way", but I cannot seem to find it,

Re: Debian installer

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:20:14PM +1100, Penguin wrote: | How does it work? Broad overview: does it install a root filesystem and | simply do a huge cp /mnt/cdrom/package /wherever then configure, or what? It depends on what you tell it to do. It does all the basic setup of a system (partition

Re: Tarball conversion

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:20:58AM -0800, Paul A. Thomas wrote: | In trying to view the document named 'newbiedoc' I find the only format | it is offered in is tarball zip. The conversion programs I was able to | find all seem to translate from one Linux format to another. | | I am hoping that

Re: via-rhine module won't load on deb 2.1

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:07:25PM +0100, Lucien wrote: | Hi, | I'm trying to use a d-link DFE-530TX on my pII 333 Mhz box running debian | 2.1 slink is _very_ old (even potato, 2.2, is old). I recommend that you upgrade your system, if at all possible, and get a new kernel. | The via-rhine modu

Re: Tarball conversion

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:25:52AM -0800, Paul A. Thomas wrote: | > The format is a "gzipped tarball" (gzip is a different format and | > algorithm than zip). Both winzip and power archiver can open gzipped | > and tarred files without any trouble. Once opened, I think the | > documents are in HT

Re: 2.2 kernel vs. 2.4 kernel, please help!

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:17:33AM +1100, Penguin wrote: | Debian website says 2.4 is not really mature enough yet, does this mean | mature enough security wise also? 2.4 is newer than 2.2 and (therefore) hasn't been tested as much. | I am trying to figure out what kernel I should use, for the n

Re: Tarball conversion

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:01:38PM -0800, Paul A. Thomas wrote: | > Given that you're still in windows (and you want to view the docs | > on-line) I recommend the HTML format : | > | > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tarballs/newbiedoc-html-0.3.0.tar.gz | > | > They also have the HTML docs availab

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:27:36PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: | Casting you can't really get away from nor do you really need to. In fact | the more strongly typed the language is, the more casting you have to do. This statement is incorrect. The strength and staticness of typing are two i

Re: Must I have an `alias char-major-14 off' line?

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: | Yet I wonder why do I get these lines in the first place? In | particular, I have the following in /etc/modules.conf: | | # alias char-major-14 sb | # options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM |

Re: sawfish and sawfish-gnome

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:18:17AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | Evidently I have both sawfish and sawfish-gnome installed on my system. | When I 'apt-get -s install sawfish' it removes sawfish-gnome and when I | 'apt-get -s install sawfish-gnome' it removes sawfish. | | Which should I do? I am run

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:34:25AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: | Lo, on Tuesday, January 1, dman did write: | | > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:27:36PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: | > | > | Casting you can't really get away from nor do you really need to. In fact | > | the mo

Re: Woody and cable modem router

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:09:44AM -0500, james martinez wrote: | Ok I just got a cable modem router for Christmas so I can share the broadband | connection with all the pc's in my house. One thing that I am having a | problem with is when my Woody box is plugged into the router it can not find

Re: Trying to install Sun's Java2 Runtime

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:24:52PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: | Hi, | | I'm on Woody, kernel 2.4.17 and have been trying to install the Java2 Runtime | v1.3.1 from Sun without any luck... | I've followed their instructions; downloaded the autoextracting file and | unpacked it in /usr/java a

Re: How can I get the Euro symbol?

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 08:30:53PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: | On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:48:37 -0600 | Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > It might be worth having a look at the Euro-Char-Support mini-HOWTO | > (/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/mini/Euro-Char-Support/index.html if you | > h

Re: Where are the man pages for the C library?

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 02:50:30PM -0600, Jor-el wrote: | Hi, | | I can find the man pages for things like strcpy, printf, and things | like that on my system. I installed the glibc6-doc but that only had | info documentation in it. Where are these man pages to be found? manpages-dev -D -- Bu

Re: Lost in apt-get

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 02:41:26PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | Im still a little confused with some aspects of apt-get and would | like to see if someone could orient me a little, either pointing me to | some URLs , or answering briefly... | | I dont quite get it, lets say i apt-get

Re: xscreensaver requires manual activation

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 05:24:12PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | (potato, 2.4.9) | running xscreensaver but it hasn't for some time started up by itself | when i start X. it says it is: | | orange:~> xscreensaver | xscreensaver: already running on display :0.0 (window 0x81) | from process 4

Re: Must I have an `alias char-major-14 off' line?

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:28:05AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: | > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: | > | > | Yet I wonder why do I get these lines in the first place? In | > | particular, I have the following in /etc/modules.conf: | > | | > | # alias char-major-14

Re: cannot add printers w/ CUPS

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:40:21PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: | Just installed cupsys and related packages and am trying to add my first | printer, an HP LaserJet 6L. | | I've tried using the PPDs available through linuxprinting.org as well as the | generic laserjet.ppd included with CUPS. | | N

Re: cannot add printers w/ CUPS

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:06:04PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: | On Tuesday 01 January 2002 06:58 pm, dman wrote: | > Does the web interface work? (http://localhost:631) | | It works in that I can display the page and navigate around, but it doesn't | successfully add a printer. Also, wh

Re: cannot add printers w/ CUPS

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:34:46PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: | On Tuesday 01 January 2002 07:15 pm, dman wrote: | | > Are you using devfs? (if you don't know, then you aren't) | | nope -- just plain ext2 :-). devfs is a magic, non-existant, filesystem, similar to /proc. | >

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:39:18PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: | Lo, on Tuesday, January 1, dman did write: | | > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:34:25AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: | > | Lo, on Tuesday, January 1, dman did write: | > | | > | > The strength and staticness of

Re: XFree 4.1 on Potato

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:02:45PM +1000, Penguin wrote: | I have Potato 2.2r0. Unfortunately the unofficial debs for xserver-common | 4.1, etc etc will not install. dpkg complains that xfree(86?)-common is only | at 3.x version, when I need the 4.1 version. Why is this? I thought all those | pa

Re: xscreensaver requires manual activation

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:18:39PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | on Tue, 01 Jan 2002 08:01:08PM -0500, dman insinuated: | > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 05:24:12PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | > | (potato, 2.4.9) | > | running xscreensaver but it hasn't for some time started up by its

Re: MBR 13FA

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:35:06PM -0800, L Vogtmann wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Tuesday 01 January 2002 08:11 pm, Paul A. Thomas wrote: | > MBR FA13: | | You're seeing the GRUB (Grand Unified Bootloader) boot menu. No. The GRUB menu is a nice graphical (asci

Re: emergency shutdown?

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:57:47AM -0500, P Prince wrote: | Simon, | | On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Simon R Tod wrote: | | > My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. When I came back to it | > this morning it was very hot, the fan was kicking in evert minute or two Since you were compiling a kerne

Re: Just wondering...

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:11:19PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: | | Have I been killfiled by ALL of you guys? No. | :( 'Cause I may well be the only guy that has posted 3 different | questions to this list, since early December, and hasn't received | ANY reaction at all (not even a flame for bein

Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:35:25AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: | I'm not sure on this, but pdf is just compressed Postscript (.ps) which Not quite, but PDF is based on Postscript. PDF files tend to be smaller (they're not compressed, just use an editor to open them) and include additional

Re: Hardware advice needed

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:53:02AM +1000, Penguin wrote: | Hello all, | | I would like to buy some new hardware so I can get rid of my stupid RedHat | bloatware with its buggy latest betas and alphas and get Potato 2.2r4 on my | box here. | | The problems I have so far is: video card (I have an

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:39:46PM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: | On Wednesday 02 January 2002 13:23, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: | > hi, | > | > I'm going from a Mandrake 8.1 system to debian. I've had there (some | > weeks ago, not working anymore) internet sharing enabled. When | > switching, I also

Re: kernel complaint

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:01:43PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have an Intellistation Z Pro which is a few years old with two Pentium | II Xeon 450MHz processors. ... | I've tried recompiling the kernel, ... | intent of activating SMP support. Upon attempting to boot the new | kernel, I

Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:02:59PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | I know of one such a way and would be interested in finding out more. I | use CUPS (cupsys). There are fairly straightforward instructions on | using smbclient to set up a "smb" queue in cupsys in the SAM (Software | Administr

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