On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:59:25PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote:
| On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, dman wrote:
| (snip)
| > What kind of keyboard and mouse?
|
| I'd assumed PS/2 - the mouse definitely is, and an external PS/2 keyboard
| can be plugged in - I have CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y and the mouse isn&#
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:10:24AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote:
| On Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| > The problem that sometimes arises is that with a mainly default
| > install, exim simply queues messages for delivery but doesn't actually
| > deliver them until a cr
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:51:21PM -0400, Timothy Webster wrote:
| I have 4 machines I can't install for this reason.
| When I look at the error console "Alt F4" it says proc already mounted.
|
| df shows nothing, but there is a /proc directory with contents.
Right, /proc does not exist on any d
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 09:07:08AM +0800, Jerry Wang wrote:
...
| now the following packages are installed on my Debian -- cupsomatic-ppd,
| cupsys, cupsys-pstoraster, xpp, apsfilter, lpr
You should also add cupsys-client and cupsys-bsd (cupsys-bsd provides
the 'lpr' and 'lpq' commands, you'll pro
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:08:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| How do I set up my Debian workstation to use initrd, so I can
| upgrade my Kernel with apt/dselect?
What bootloader do you use? BTW, you can install the new kernel but
still use the old one until you adjust your bootloader to us
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:19:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:45:39PM -0400, dman wrote:
| > Here's what I do:
...
| > First I set some default values the way I want them for all buffers.
| > Then I have a series of auto commands to set certian
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:42:01PM +0200, Oliver Korff wrote:
| Hi folks,
|
| I need a tool to scan my network for open samba or windows shares. nmap and
| netcat are well known, but I want someting thet tells me, what shares are
| open eg.: //192.168.0.55/C/ or something like that.
smbclient
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:49:49PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote:
| When I installed my current (debian-2.2r2) distribution, I think I
| unconsciously chose a reduced version -- that is, with a smallish subset
| of the files on the CD-rom. I may also have chosen a much too small set
| of lib files.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:47:06PM -0300, Rossy Roman Salgado wrote:
| On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Lars Jensen wrote:
|
| > We just configured a potato with samba server, and it seems to work. I
| > understand that this way I can use the potato as a file server for our
| > Windows PC's. My questions is w
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:52:37PM +0200, Isaac Aranda Nebot wrote:
| Por favor, ¿dónde podría encontrar información sobre el nuevo Kernel
| GNU/HURD? y ¿dónde podría bajármelo? Muchas gracias.
Check out the 'debian-hurd' mailing list. Be aware though that the
people on it may not know Spanish.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:33:20PM +, Vittorio wrote:
| I've just installed woody with xfree 4.1 and gnome 1.4, all from scratch.
|
| I've had some problems to launch X because issuing "startx" linux has
| been complaining that X was not executable. I've relinked X (which
| pointed to a non ex
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 07:51:56PM -0400, Doc - KD4E wrote:
| insmod finds cdrom module but fails to find the pcmcia mocule
|
| "find -name pcmcia" shows /lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia
This is a directory.
|
| I am in the midst of upgrading Progeny to Woody and my laptop
| froze up (no idea why, n
Ok, I know you're all tired of hearing about X font problems, but this
problem is a bit different and wasn't solved by any of the recently
posted solutions.
Ok, I have a woody box (that got sid by accident several weeks ago).
I tried reordering the FontPath lines in the X config file. Then I
got
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 08:59:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:26:44PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...
| > Then I got some messed up fonts in X
...
| Incidentally, the confirmational phase of my tweak may be of use. The
| xfontsel program will show
(Cc'd back to the list)
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:53:33AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote:
|
| on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:26:44PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
|
| > Ok, I know you're all tired of hearing about X font problems, but this
| > problem is a bit different and
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > So, did you learn why the lower res fonts look better? It seems
| > counter-intuitive to me.
|
| Because "resolution" for bitmap fonts under X has nothing to do with
|
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 03:31:05PM -0700, sucks the bag wrote:
|
| i'm trying to install debian onto a friend's amd-k7 from the potato
| cdroms. his network card says it's a "d-link dfe-530tx", and sure
| enough, running "lspci -v" gives:
|
| [snip non-relevant devices]
|
| 00:0e.0 Ethernet con
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:31:24PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > How do I do that? That is, how do I know if a font is scalable or
| > not? Should I just remove the 100dpi and 75dpi font directories, or
| > are some of them scalable?
|
| Any
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:39:52AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:
...
| What should I do in this situation? I'm more concerned with not losing data on
| the disk than resucing my debian install, although doing both would be
| preferable.
Do you have another machine that is hardware-compatible? (lik
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:25:33PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
| How the heck do I get my name to show up on the
| From: line instead of "To debian-user ..."?
man muttrc
/index_format
The following index format string does what you asked (and some others
too) :
'%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15t(%4l) %s
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:06:32AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hello folks,
|
| I have just joined this list in the hope that you can sort me out ;-)
| And you have probably seen this request many times before, but I am still
| learning.
|
| I have just upgraded to XFree86 V4* from V3* usin
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:50:43PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
| On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 14:50:00 -0400, dman wrote:
| > Hey, yeah, xfontsel is a pretty neat tool.
|
| > It would be nice if it showed which specific font it was displaying when
| > it says "20 matches".
|
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:29:01PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
| Message Index in Mutt. I see everyone elses mail fine. It is only
| mail from myself that shows up as the To: Header.
Maybe you'll like
"%4C %Z %{%b%d} %-15.15n(%4l) %s"
instead. I have mail sorted into folders based on the
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:00:33PM -0700, sucks the bag wrote:
|
| thanks for the quick reply.
|
| > On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 03:31:05PM -0700, sucks the bag wrote:
| > |
| > | i'm trying to install debian onto a friend's amd-k7 from the potato
| > | cdroms. his network card says it's a "d-link
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:55:27PM -0400, Joe Hu wrote:
| Does anybody know how to set default sytem-wide PATH? After installing
| Apache, I'd like to add /usr/local/apache/bin to the system path. I don't
| want to do it in the .bash_profile, because that only works after a shell
| session is start
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:12:06PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
| Hey,
|
| I was upgrading one of my debian boxen to testing, but during the install my
| keyboard stopped working. I figured it was a hardware problem (unplugged
| keyboard or something), but when I couldn't find anything wrong, I
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:59:27AM -0500, Fabien Piuzzi wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| I am having some troubles with python-gdk-imlib on Sid. In short,
| it doesn't work at all, I can't even run the example program.
|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/doc/python-gdk-imlib/examples/imlib
| % ./view.py
| Fa
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:38:50AM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
| On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 01:16, Andreas Leitner wrote:
|
| > Yep, the idea is good. But in practice how much space do you give /home
| > ? I hate it when I ran out of disk space, even though there would be
| > plenty.
|
| The question is
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:25:55PM +0200, Franck Benhamou wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| I have a problem to install 3c90x driver on Debian 2.2.17 .
|
| I have installed the 3com packages : 3c90x-1.0.0i.tar.gz
Do the prepackaged ones not work for you?
| Any ideas
Try 'modprobe 3c59x'.
-D
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:36:28AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
| I'm runing potato + Progeny + 2.4.9 kernel packages. I'm using gnome, and
| have it set up to start the svreen saver after 5 minutes, which it does.
| However, sometime later the whole screen balnks. I've noticed that the
| 2.4.9 kernel
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Christian Eckert wrote:
| Hi friends,
| for some reasons during the debian (potato) installation
| I had to leave out my Ne2000 compatible network-card.
| I plugged it in later and installed the module 'ne'.
| wonderful,no ioport-problems nor irq-problems.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:26:56AM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
| Your best bet, other than buying a Posix subsystem for Win, is to hope
| it is written a portable, or relatively so, language: Java comes to mind
| followed by Perl and Python.
That's only part of it. You can write non-portable co
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:48:27PM -0500, Fabien Piuzzi wrote:
| Here is all the version:
|
| % dpkg -l|grep python
| ii python-base1.5.2-18.4 An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
| ii python-gdk-iml 0.6.8-8GTK gdk_imlib support module for Python.
| ii python-gnome 1.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:22:22PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Boggio wrote:
| Ref : Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:46:10 PM
|
| d> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Christian Eckert wrote:
| d> This isn't right. There should be a directory /etc/network/ on your
| d> system, if you installed the
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:34:35PM -0600, John Purser wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I'm running Debian Woody with a custom 2.4.10 kernel. On weekends someone
| plugs their laptop running Win2K into my ethernet network. In order to
| allow her to browse the internet I have to reconfigure her (static) IP
|
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:13:15PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote:
| On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:43:33PM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
wrote:
| > Just to know, have you devfs compiled in the kernel and mounted at boot ?
| > are you sure the entry /dev/scd0 exists at boot-time ?
| > what is th
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:58:39AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote:
| Using sid.
|
| How can I print multiple copies using lpr? I tried this:
...
| Does Debian lpr come with this option disabled?
Which 'lpr' are you using? There are several variants. I use CUPS,
and the SysV commands, 'lp -n' works
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:58:39AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote:
...
| -#num The quantity num is the number of copies desired of each file
| named. For example,
Duh! I just realized what is wrong with this : the shell uses '#' to
mean the beginning of a comment. Everything fro
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:16:41AM -0500, Michael Grover wrote:
| why I need a mount point on hda to get to hdc?
If you don't have the "mount point" (or, to paraphrase, "point at
which the drive is mounted") you can't mount it there. Think of it
like trying to bolt a new alternator into your car
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:36:44PM -0700, Charles Bray wrote:
| - Original Message -
| From: "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To:
| Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:57 AM
| Subject: Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces
|
|
| > Charles Bray wrote:
| > > Strangely (to me),
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:30:27PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
| On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:13, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| >
| > > Which will give you a Java Runtime Environment. Note
| > > that this is non-free software.
| >
| > Where can one get a truly 'free' version of Java ?? This would
| > c
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:38:16PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
|
| Following an update from a working "stable" Debian installation,
| to "unstable" (from an Australian mirror), running startx elicited:
|
| X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory)
|
| Trying: strings
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
| Is there a way to get a more accurate time value, preferably to a
| nanosecond, using the system clock? I need to write a program that needs to
| output the time it takes various sorting algprithms to sort various numbers
|
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:26:57PM -0500, Peter Hutnick wrote:
| The problem is if I try to upgrade my X thus:
|
| # apt-get install xfree86-common/unstable
|
| I get:
|
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree... Done
| Selected version 4.1.0-8 (Debian:unstable) for xfree86-
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:14:55PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
| I have cups installed and I am trying to setup a Win2000
| machine to print. Samba is configured and working, I have
I haven't tried with a win2k client, but I have CUPS/samba working
with win[95,98,me] clients.
| shared drives.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:02:34PM +0200, Christian Eckert wrote:
| Thanks for your help
|
| I will follow the proposals given to to by this list.
| But nevertheless as described in
| http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/ch-tcpip.html
| the configuration-file should be 'network'
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:27:10AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
| On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:38:16PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > Thanks Mike , but where can I get those sources from.
| > > I was asked if , ' gcc ' , the GNU C Compiler has a source code
| > > that is available
| > > Good questi
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:26:21AM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
| On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:31:21PM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
wrote:
| > Well, i'm sorry i'm really not an expert, but maybe you should
| > try a kernel with a initrd option.
| > With a initrd, you'll get somewhat of a prom
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:22:11AM -0400, Rupert Heesom wrote:
| I've installed Debian using a couple of CDs which I downloaded. I'm
| still very new to Debian. Thus the question
$ cat /etc/debian_version
testing/unstable
$
If yours says "stable" then you have potato. Otherwise you have
wo
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:07:51AM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
| I know this is a chip of some sort. Could someone fill me in on what it
| does and why this would be occuring? Potato Ran like a charm.
It's probably the kernel version that makes the difference. On this
machine it is the PCMCIA
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:37:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Upgraded to woody, now GDM will not accept my root password. I can
| change terminals and I can log in as root fine, but GDM will not
| accept it, but will allow user login. So, I installed KDM since I
| log into KDE anyway, but
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:40:09PM -0500, Rohan Deshpande wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have
| gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making?
| i made a new, 300x300 pixel white background workspace, and in save-as
| it i
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:13:52PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
| Craig Dickson wrote:
|
| > /var/lib/dpkg/available seems to be the right thing. I can grep for all the
| > "Filename:" lines, use sed to throw out all but the actual filenames, then
| > grep the resulting file for all the .debs I hav
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:18:14AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
| I'm trying to get framebuffer to work on a Compaq Proliant box. I have
| recompiled the kernel, including what I believe to be the correct
| framebuffer module for thai machine, and _also_ the VESA framebuffer
| module.
|
| Reboot, stil
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:48:17PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
| On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:00:53PM -0400, dman wrote:
| > | What other step(s) am I misssing?
| >
| > Add "vga=0x31A" to your kernel command line. This will give you
| > 1280x1024x16. See the docs for t
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:33:38PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
| First, is there a deb for galeon?
In sid.
| Second, I downloaded the rpm but alien gives the error message:
|
| only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
| query of galeon-0.12.5-1.i386.rpm failed
|
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:02:32PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote:
| Whenever I press Shift-Return in "less" it displays "ESCOM". This is
| annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press
| "/" + "RETURN"
| repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I
Actu
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:37:39PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote:
| I want to install woody from floppy, so I downloaded
| rescue.bin and root.bin.
| After booting up computer using rescue disk, installer
| ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and
| press enter, a kernel panic occured:
| Ker
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:05:55AM +, Rob Bradford wrote:
| On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:24:00AM -0400, Banshee wrote:
| > Just today I decided that it would be a good idea to remove headrat 7.1
| > from my friends computer and install debian. Well he has two netgear
| > fa311 cards (this comp
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 02:41:15PM +0100, Antonio Denia Rubio wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I'd like download ISO images to burn auto-boot CD but this isn't on
| ftp servers. Could you tell me how can I do auto-boot install CD?
You can either follow the instructions on http://cdimage.debian.org/
or go to h
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 05:09:37PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
|(2) ctrl-a and ctrl-e don't work anymore, somehow i have vi
|handling in my shell - but only in X. console works just fine.
Isn't this awesome? In bash you can type "set -o vi" or
"set -o emacs" to change the readlin
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:28:25AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| Oh great; this looks like it's coming from Debian-User because of the
| "unsubscribe" note at the bottom of every post.
Or check the "X-Mailing-List:" header.
| SPAM: It's what's for breakfast.
I'd rather not, thanks.
Not very intell
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 08:15:24PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I recently purchased and installed Debian 2.2 - Potato. When
| installing, I chose the "simple" application installation method. I chose
| all of the programming packages offered and installed, yet I can't seem to
| find
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:00:42AM +0200, Ulrich Büchsel wrote:
| Hello everybody!
|
| I have a pdf file printing and viewing problem to which I don't find a
| solution. I have installed the gs an gs-fonts packages of Debian V2.2.
|
| I don't get the system to print any pdf file nor to convert i
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:32:54AM +0800, csj wrote:
| On Monday 29 October 2001 01:38, Bud Rogers wrote:
| > On Friday 26 October 2001 19:41 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
| > > Thought may be interesting for the debian community:
| > > NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premier
[ quoted text rearranged a little ]
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| I have just installed potato as a dual boot m/c (with dos) on a
| new (for me) Cyrix120 PC. I did several installs to get the hang
| of it and recover from errors made. I have it installed with
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:59:29PM +, Harry Palmer wrote:
| I've just started with debian on my panasonic laptop after using
| slackware for a long while, and would appreciate clarification of a
| couple of things...
|
| lilo.conf has the entry "vga=normal" and yet a some point in the boot
| p
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 02:48:12PM -0500, Greg Lopp wrote:
| On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:21:19PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
...
| > I meant a common metalanguage, so that it could be possible to write
| > one single application as interface to handle any config file.
...
| You should take a look
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:14:17PM +, Harry Palmer wrote:
| On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 14:54:45 -0500, you wrote:
|
| >On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:59:29PM +, Harry Palmer wrote:
| >| I've just started with debian on my panasonic laptop after using
| >| slackware for a long while, and would appreci
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:25:24PM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote:
| Hi,
| I'm running Woody (testing) , and I have one simple question:
|When do you think will be released Woody as a stable distribution?
Soon.
| And more... do you think that it's posiible sid turns testing and
| woody will b
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 05:24:30PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
| > | > I meant a common metalanguage, so that it could be possible to
| > | > write one single application as interface to handle any config
| > | > file.
| >
| > | You should take a look at gconf and its derivatives. The idea is
|
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:35:44AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Q: Does it make sense to recompile some packages from source if I
| have a fast cpu?
It depends ...
| And if yes, when will it make sense? From PIII or Athlon? And what
| kind of packages? X11? Gimp? Mozilla?
CPU intensive p
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:35:31AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.28 11:57:47-0500]:
| > Isn't this awesome? In bash you can type "set -o vi" or
| > "set -o emacs" to change the readline mode. The default is emac
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 01:17:04AM -0500, Rupert Heesom wrote:
| On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 06:42, D. wrote:
| > If when you log into Debian you go to eeh console mode
| > instead of xdm, the last line that you see before the
| > prompt is which version of Debian your running.
|
| Well, I don't get any
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:55:02PM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
| "Daniel T. Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > Rumours are that vesafb works just fine, though.
|
| Ok, I compiled a new kernel 2.4.12, disable rivafb and enable
| vesafb. All problems with the new nvidia-drivers seems to b
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:17:13PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJI wrote:
| I am running woody and have two shells open in X. One is su'ed to root
| and has the display variable set correctly and exported. The other is a
| common user id that has done xhost +.
|
| When I run an X program from the su'ed s
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:40:47PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| So, here's the question. Given that I want to build machines with fairly
| moder user interafaces (read that as some recent version of Gnome) on these
| new machines, and that I really just followed the cookbok deirections on
| upgradi
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:56:27PM +0200, Jörg Johannes wrote:
| Hello List
|
| I have installed a potato box for a friend. She would like to use japanese
| fonts in GNOME, so I have installed the xfonts-intl-japanese
| and xfonts-intl-japanese-big packages, selected "japanese" on gdm login, but
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:41:52AM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
wrote:
| I have a Sharp AL 1041 printer at office.
| Anyone knows if this printer works with Linux?
I don't, but linuxprinting.org might.
Is it a PostScript printer? If so, then it works. If it has a
parallel port
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:47:31AM +0100, Marko Djukic wrote:
| > > there is no /home//.xsession-errors file...
| >
| >How about /var/log/XSession*?
|
| nope, no xsession error log file to be found anywhere... just looks like
| xsession doesn't start at all...
|
| i get the command line login
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:50:18PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.29 13:18:30-0500]:
| > Have you ever tried 'ed'? (I haven't, but I've heard some stories)
|
| i still use it for small edits over dialups. it's fast, it
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:10:30AM -0500, Mark Carroll wrote:
| On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
| (snip)
| > right away, but it takes almost a minute to continue to the login prompt.
| (snip)
|
| Do DNS lookups of uncached hostnames from that box happen slowly too?
|
| Could it ha
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:14:18PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote:
| On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:54:55AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
| > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled:
| > > I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:" e-mail
address, and I've looked it up
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:13:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Since changing from WindowMaker to Sawfish, minimized
| windows do not display icons. Are others showing icons
| properly? Is this one of this, slip a line into the rc
| file things?
Are you using GNOME (or KDE) too,
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:30:20PM -0800, allen wayne best just ramblin in his
amx wrote:
| my machine does allow for power down by the kernel and the bios is set to
| take care of that. i know this as i have a earlier version of the kernel that
| was pre-compiled. that kernel will power down th
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:31:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:13:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| >
| > > Since changing from WindowMaker to Sawfish, minimized
| > > windows do not display icons.
| >
| > Good... then sawfish is working properly.
| >
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:52:24PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| Michael P. Soulier wrote:
|
| > Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a
| > way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l?
| >
| > ie.
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l "nets
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:50:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| I was having problems printing from my desktop -- Debian/Sid, lprng.
| Playing with my /etc/printcap, I found that a vastly simplified setup
| (no filters) appears to work, at least for postscript inputs, where the
| lpf filtered ve
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:19:56AM +1100, Stephen Brown wrote:
| Hi All,
|
| I do not know if I am just lazy or whatever, but the apt_preferences man page
makes no sense to me.
|
| How do I get a stable distrribution of debian except for the latest unstable
version of gnucash?
- /etc/apt
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:15:02PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
| I have an old mouse from an outfit called IMSI. It has 3 buttons. I
| can simulate a middle button with the "chord" X setting, but does anyone
| have a clue or driver to get the middle button to actually work?
|
| It works OK n
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:50:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| here's a question I can't seem to find an answer to..
| why does GNU make automatically compile .cpp files, but with .cxx
| files I have to explicitly add a g++ line in the make file?
default pattern rules?
-D
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:37:19PM -0500, Rohan Deshpande wrote:
| Hey all,
|
| I was just ps aux'ing one day, and I saw 'oafd'. There is no manpage,
| and dpkg only showed 'GNOME Object Activation FrameWork." What exactly
| is this? What does one need it for?
I don't know all the details, but
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:53:00AM +, Vittorio wrote:
| I've upgraded my desktop from potato to woody from scratch.
|
| To put it in a nutshell now I have Bunk's kernel 2.4.13, Xfree86 4.1,
| gnome 1.4 and gdm.
|
| My problem is that while starting as ROOT I can obtain gnome, its
| panel and
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:51:46PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| Hi,
|
| A progress report.
|
| I will stay in the console mode as suggested by Karsten. So no
| more queries on Xfree at the moment.
|
| > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:17:34PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| > > device = /dev/ttys0 as
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:02:01AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
| On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Bostjan Muller wrote:
|
| > * On 02-11-01 at 12:51 Vikash Kodati ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > +Here quoted text begins+
| > >
| > >
| > > I am new to Debian. I have to give a seminar in my University a
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:08:15AM -0200, Michel Loos wrote:
| On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 16:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| >
| > Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > >
| > > I would like to crrectly set-up a HP2200D printer,
| > > using lpd and magicfilter.
| > ...
| > > Anyone has any experie
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:32:27PM +, andreas wrote:
| Dear Debian users,
|
| on a testing/unstable system:
| 2. The configure script for xmms seems to indicate that I need
| libgtk-dev and libglib-dev. However, these packages conflict. I can't
| install both, and configure won't run th
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:56:39AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| > (e) Anyway to automatically have the subject line identify the mailing
| > list. A few of my other mailing lists have that, example
| > Subject: [debian-user]: a big problem !!!
| > Subject: Re: [debian-user]: a big problem !!!
|
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:29:54AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| - Original Message -
| From: "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To:
| Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 12:56 PM
| Subject: Re: [debian-user] I'm coming on board
| > > (e) Anyway to automatically have the subject line
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:13:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I guess my question degenerates to,
| "Is there an 'out of box' way to install debian potato where you isolate
| /, /boot, /etc, /bin, /sbin, /lib, /dev
| on a partition without partitioning up every thing else?
Yes, but you
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