Re: binary content in mysql

2001-07-16 Thread Matthias Richter
Jonathan Daugherty wrote on Mon Jul 16, 2001 at 12:09:14AM: Is it possible to store binary data (say images or .doc files) in a mysql database? If so, how? Binary Data can be stored in Binary Table Fields: CHAR BINARY, VARCHAR BINARY, TINYBLOB, BLOB, MEDIUMBLOB, LONGBLOB. You should think

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread Brian May
Jeremy == Jeremy Gaddis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremy Two possible suggestions: - tunnel the NFS traffic over an Jeremy SSH traffic (similar to remote X sessions) Can you use SSH to tunnel UDP traffic??? (I didn't think it was possible, and last I heard, NFS over TCP was still very

Re: Glibc

2001-07-16 Thread Matthias Richter
Brian Ballsun-Stanton wrote on Sun Jul 15, 2001 at 03:04:25PM: while I'm upgrading, and the libc6 package was already included potato is based on glibc-2.1 -- woody is based on glibc-2.2 So although a libc6 package is installed it may be the case that it is not the one from woody. As already

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing (do that quite often myself). dpkg itself doesn't use it AFAIK. dpkg does. if you do dpkg -i foo.deb, it

Re: python2 and qt

2001-07-16 Thread Bruce Sass
Yes. I've built sip and PyQt (2.5pre stuff) in /usr/local against Debian's Python-1.5.2 and 2.0.1, and 2.1 in /usr/local... in all cases, I used --with-python=/path/to/py/executable in the ./configure ... command and everything just worked. - Bruce -- On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Sergio E. Schvezov

Re: Real Player for potato

2001-07-16 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:24:10AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:51:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, just need a little help here trying to install realplayer on my debian potato box. I went to the real.com site and downloaded their

Re: A small doubt ..

2001-07-16 Thread Brendan O'Connor
I hear that this is possible with Debian and not Red Hat. Actually, this is quite possible with any distro. I think in Mandrake the partition resizing is actually built into the installer. Ah, if only we would rip off the nice installers or something... I would just like to add it might

Compaq Proliant 370 installation

2001-07-16 Thread Dieter Schicker
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 2.2r2 (Kernel 2.2.18pre21) on a Compaq Proliant ML370 with a Compaq Smart Array 431 - Controller and 2 (mirrored) scsi-disks from CDROM. Problem: The installation routine doesn't _see_ any hard disks. I have already installed Debian on some PCs with IDE-Disks

Re: python2 and qt

2001-07-16 Thread Brendan O'Connor
So do i have to build pyqt against python-2.x? Probably, and you may have to much around in debian/rules or other files. I had this same experience with getting wxPython for python2, but I just copied the entire /usr/lib/python1.5/wxPython directory into

Re: Installing Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread Brendan O'Connor
The image, rescue.bin, is an exact binary duplicate of the bits that should be on the floppy disk. The floppy needs to be created with a program, such as 'dd', that will dump the raw bits to the disk. You will then have a compressed ext2 filesystem on the disk, which windows can't read.

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ (again)

2001-07-16 Thread Gerjan Teselink
Hi, I tried the Realtek 8139 driver with no parameters and unfortunetely i got the device busy error. Have you tried to use the NE2000 module? Or is it possible for you to configure the nic in NE2000-mode? It worked for me (oke it was another card) Good luck, With kind regards, Gerjan

Re: midi problem with on board sound i810

2001-07-16 Thread User zos
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Steve Kieu wrote: Do you have proper permissions? I did chmod 666 /dev/sequencer but no help Yeah. That was just my first thought. I dunno. I've seen weirder things not work. You might want to try that as root... I also did but nothing Have you

Re: Yamaha card problem

2001-07-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Sajeev.G.P ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010706 00:50]: On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:12:21AM -0400, Robert Mosher wrote: Hi Not too long ago I installed Debian2.2r2 on my computer. Since then I have tried to install sound card, could'nt do it properly. In linixconf it is correctly probing,

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timo \Blazko\ Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, I am using ssh/scp and NFS for syncing data between my woody desk and my FreeBSD thing. My question: is there a distributed fs that combines the advantages of both techs? A google search for crypto

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ (again)

2001-07-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Evan Flynn wrote: Hi. I tried the Realtek 8139 driver with no parameters and unfortunetely i got the device busy error. Please note that I am INSTALLING Debian and therefore i can't compile drivers (well maybe) or use kernel 2.4. Well I compiled the version that came with the card (they

Re: X Numpad mouse emulation

2001-07-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Ari Pollak wrote: Hi, I've been looking around for this answer for a while, but I can't find docs anywhere that show what I'm looking for. I know there's a keystroke combination to get X to make the numpad act like a makeshift pointer/mouse, but I can't figure out what that combo is.

Re: SSH

2001-07-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nick Furman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010707 12:35]: I have a quick question regarding the secure server package and scp. I prefer not to use NIS to share the password file between two servers so I wrote a script to push /etc/passwd to another server so they both have duplicate copies when a

Re: is the apt version in tsting (0.5.3) reliable?

2001-07-16 Thread der.hans
Am 16. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Faheem Mitha so: I am currently running Debian 2.2rs (potato, stable). I'm opting for building packages from (Debian) sources for things I need that are not in potato. The version of apt in testing has some functions that would make this much easier (apt-get

RE: SSH

2001-07-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
Nick, It's probably not what you wanna hear, but why not go for something like NIS or LDAP? My ISP has scripts that automatically copy over /etc/{passwd,shadow,etc.} as they're updated on the main machine, but this occasionally breaks and screws everything up. I've never played with NIS, but I

Re: Compaq Proliant 370 installation

2001-07-16 Thread Klaus Brand
Hi Dieter, Dieter Schicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 2.2r2 (Kernel 2.2.18pre21) on a Compaq Proliant ML370 with a Compaq Smart Array 431 - Controller and 2 (mirrored) scsi-disks from CDROM. Problem: The installation routine doesn't _see_ any hard

Re: Real Player for potato

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:54:44PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:24:10AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: It naturally want to upgrade your packages if you put in a deb uri that points to all updated packages. No need for the automatic power screwdriver if all you

Re: Glibc

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:04:25PM -0700, Brian Ballsun-Stanton wrote: while I'm upgrading, and the libc6 package was already included I just ran update myself. It looks like locales is busted: Depends: glibc_2.2.3-7 Last version had: Depends: glibc2.2 Package libc6 Provides: glibc2.2,

FW: alsa awacs Power mac G4

2001-07-16 Thread Florian Kessler
Hi all, is there a appropriate list for debian powerpc users? following message bounced: -- Von: Florian Kessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:45:55 +0200 An: debian-ppc@lists.debian.org Betreff: alsa awacs Power mac G4 Hi all, i´ve managed to install the alsa

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ (again)

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:57:42AM -0400, Evan Flynn wrote: I tried the Realtek 8139 driver with no parameters and unfortunetely i got the device busy error. Please note that I am INSTALLING Debian and therefore i can't compile drivers (well maybe) or use kernel 2.4. Well I compiled the

Re: Compaq Proliant 370 installation

2001-07-16 Thread Frans Schreuder
Hai; Check the maillistarchive; I posted something on this yesterday (if it arrived). I bumped in to that as well. Try google with: proliant 370 linux install By messing arround, you must be able to find wich bootmessage to give to the kernel. Mine looks like#boot:

GUI for GCC

2001-07-16 Thread Ellenkamp, Guus
I'm looking for a Graphical User Interface for the GCC compiler. ** De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n) en zij die van de geadresseerde(n) toestemming

Updating Sid (And not quite failing all the way)

2001-07-16 Thread Kurt Dresner
So I managed to get most of the packages updated and everything, thanks to everyone who helped me on that one, but now I am getting error messages with two packages that come in the flavor of: dpkg error: trying to overwrite file foo.bar which is also in package baz What does this mean, and

Linux/W98

2001-07-16 Thread H. Kruppa
Hallo! Habe 2 CD aus dem Heft LINUX-Ausgabe 2001 von CHIP erworben. Nach der Installation von Debian ist mir W98 verschwunden. Habe probiert lilo.conf in Verzeichnis \etc mit dem ae-Editor zu modifizieren (wie im Heft-CHIP steht aber ohne jegliche Resultaten. Habe 1 x 20GB-Festplatte, Part. 1-W98

Re: Linux/W98

2001-07-16 Thread Frank Zimmermann
H. Kruppa wrote: Hallo! Habe 2 CD aus dem Heft LINUX-Ausgabe 2001 von CHIP erworben. Nach der Installation von Debian ist mir W98 verschwunden. Habe probiert lilo.conf in Verzeichnis \etc mit dem ae-Editor zu modifizieren (wie im Heft-CHIP steht aber ohne jegliche Resultaten. Was heisst Du

Re: Real Player for potato

2001-07-16 Thread Sebastiaan
# dpkg -i realplayer_8.0.5_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package realplayer. (Reading database ... 23682 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking realplayer (from .../realplayer_8.0.5_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of realplayer:

Re: FW: alsa awacs Power mac G4

2001-07-16 Thread Sebastiaan
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Florian Kessler wrote: Hi all, is there a appropriate list for debian powerpc users? Hello, yep, debian-powerpc@ Take a look at: http://lists.debian.org/ for the different lists. Greetz, Sebastiaan following message bounced: -- Von: Florian Kessler

Re: GUI for GCC

2001-07-16 Thread Matthias Richter
Ellenkamp, Guus schrieb am Montag, den 16. Juli 2001: I'm looking for a Graphical User Interface for the GCC compiler. ¿What is this GUI supposed to do? Aren't you rather searching for an application deveopment environment like Xemacs, Kdevelop, GIDE ...? Matth¡as -- Matthias Richter --+-

XWindows library

2001-07-16 Thread Ellenkamp, Guus
I'm new to Linux and am trying to compile an X-Windows program but can't seem to link it. The library doesn't seem to be in place. ** De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) is uitsluitend bestemd voor de

RE: GUI for GCC

2001-07-16 Thread Ellenkamp, Guus
Hello Matthias, Thanks for the reply. Might be I'm looking for an ADE. I used to work with an Atari-ST, which had a nice integrated editor/compiler/linker/debugger (edit sources, compile, jump from errors to source, graphical debugger...) Which one do you recommend? Guus -Original

Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]

2001-07-16 Thread Nikki Locke
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carel Fellinger wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:35:53PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I think that exim by default will continue to send the message for 4 days before giving up. So long as you connect several times within these 4 days and flush

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Timo \\ Blazko\ Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question: is there a distributed fs that combines the advantages of both techs? as there are: NFS: mountable (more via combining with other things?) SCP: quite secure, may compress and crypt data Have a look at sfs (http://www.fs.net/)

Re: pppd redial

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:45:16AM +0930, David Purton wrote: I'm looking for a way to get pppd to try for n times to connect to my isp before giving up. You need to write a chatscript that does that then. The problem is that quite often, pppd dials, then noting happens for a little while

Re: Linux/W98

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:25:12PM +0200, H. Kruppa wrote: Hallo! Habe 2 CD aus dem Heft LINUX-Ausgabe 2001 von CHIP erworben. Nach der Installation von Debian ist mir W98 verschwunden. Habe probiert lilo.conf in Verzeichnis \etc mit dem ae-Editor zu modifizieren (wie im Heft-CHIP steht aber

Re: XWindows library

2001-07-16 Thread smokez
On Monday 16 July 2001 11:52 am, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: I'm new to Linux and am trying to compile an X-Windows program but can't seem to link it. The library doesn't seem to be in place. what program are you trying to compile? which library is it failing on? adam

Re: damn. so much for MAPS

2001-07-16 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Craig Sanders (on Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:34:19AM +1000): MAPS was a good idea when it started, but its inertia has damaged the fight against spam for at least two years. in the long run, we'll be better off because alternatives will spring up which aren't as sluggish and

Re: rfc-ignorant.org (WAS Re: damn. so much for MAPS)

2001-07-16 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Jeremy Zawodny (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 06:56:01PM -0700): I already responded privately to offer some DNS and bandwidth help. so did many others. i am currently totally swamped with work, but freerbl.org is registered, and there is not too much that needs to be done. we are always happy

RE: XWindows library

2001-07-16 Thread Ellenkamp, Guus
I don't have the information here, but I'm just compiling a very small program which only opens a window, so only the 'basic' library is missing. Header files seem ok, it just doesn't link. It gives some errors like symbols not found. -Original Message- From: smokez [mailto:[EMAIL

kmail

2001-07-16 Thread Brian Schramm
OK, I have heard several times that kmail uses imap. Yet I cannot find a way to set it up for that. Can anyone tell me how? All I have for options are local and pop accounts. I would like to use kmail to have full support for imap including server side mail folders. Any chance of that

dependency problem in Debian unstable distribution

2001-07-16 Thread Emil
locales depends on glibc_2.2.3-7 glibc_2.2.3-7 does not appear to be available -- Regards, Emil -- What's the point having bad manners if you don't use them?!?

Re: kmail

2001-07-16 Thread Martin Rowe
On Monday 16 July 2001 1:32 pm, Brian Schramm wrote: OK, I have heard several times that kmail uses imap. Yet I cannot find a way to set it up for that. Can anyone tell me how? All I have for options are local and pop accounts. I would like to use kmail to have full support for imap

Re: No funciona...

2001-07-16 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 06:45 p.m. 15/07/01 +0200, Juan Pablo García Esquerdo wrote: Primero felicidades por la calidad de la informacion de vuestra Web. Comunico con vosotros, ya que tengo Corel Linux desde hace mas o menos un año y hasta ahora el unico problema que he tenido ha sido que no conseguia Driver

Re: dependency problem in Debian unstable distribution

2001-07-16 Thread ray p
Somebody pushed the new version of locales down early that version of glibc will be in testing in ~10 days according to the excuses page/ On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:40:03PM +0300, Emil wrote: locales depends on glibc_2.2.3-7 glibc_2.2.3-7 does not appear to be available --

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-16 Thread Nathan Weston
On Friday 13 July 2001 05:53 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: D-Man wrote: Sure it's a flaw : suppose someone creates an executable trojan in the current directory named 'cd'. If '.' is the first thing in the path you will execute the trojan rather than the usual /bin/cd. s/cd/ls/g for a better

Re: XWindows library

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:52:48PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: I'm new to Linux and am trying to compile an X-Windows program but can't seem to link it. The library doesn't seem to be in place. Did you install the relevant *-dev package? Start dselect, do an update first and next, in the

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane? (SOLVED!!!)

2001-07-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, yes, finally succeeded. A guru at school assisted me in building a new XF86Config file. The dotclocks are probed incorrectly, so forcing other values seemed to work. However, the card has really wierd behaviour and crashes sometimes when switching between resolutions. But we have succeeded

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-16 Thread Alan Shutko
Nathan Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So if your path is /bin:/usr/bin:./, it will only search ./ if it doesn't find the command in /bin or /usr/bin. Which means that there is much less danger of someone replacing a standard program with a trojan. It just means the attacker has to be a bit

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:58:30AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the items in the path were searched in order. So if your path is /bin:/usr/bin:./, it will only search ./ if it doesn't find the command in /bin or /usr/bin. Which means that there is

Re: XWindows library

2001-07-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: XWindows library Date: Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:52:48PM +0200 In reply to:Ellenkamp, Guus Quoting Ellenkamp, Guus([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm new to Linux and am trying to compile an X-Windows program but can't seem to link it. The library doesn't seem to be in place.

Re: Updating Sid (And not quite failing all the way)

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:19:56AM -, Kurt Dresner wrote: So I managed to get most of the packages updated and everything, thanks to everyone who helped me on that one, but now I am getting error messages with two packages that come in the flavor of: dpkg error: trying to overwrite

Anyone succesfully using Alsa 0.9 and esound on unstable ?

2001-07-16 Thread Lars Knudsen
Hi folks, the subject really says it all. I have alsa 0.9 working nicely when using aplay, but so far have not succeded in making it work with esound. Anyone having better luck ? Happy hacking, \Gandalf

dbootstrap

2001-07-16 Thread Alexey Plotnikov
Hello! Can I get source code dbootstrap file? Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dependency problem in Debian unstable distribution

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:40:03PM +0300, Emil wrote: locales depends on glibc_2.2.3-7 That is a broken depends, afaik. Depends: glibc (=2.2.3-7) was perhaps intended, but it got out differently. Welcome to unstable. glibc_2.2.3-7 does not appear to be available The archive contains a

Re: dbootstrap

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 07:14:21PM +0500, Alexey Plotnikov wrote: Can I get source code dbootstrap file? Sure, just download the boot-floppies.tar.gz file from the debian archive. If you want to do serious development on it, be sure to also check out the debian-boot mailing list archives at

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ (again)

2001-07-16 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Evan Flynn wrote: Hi. I tried the Realtek 8139 driver with no parameters and unfortunetely i got the device busy error. Please note that I am INSTALLING Debian and therefore i can't compile drivers (well maybe) or use kernel 2.4. Well I compiled the version that came with the card (they

Re: Unable to delete file

2001-07-16 Thread Kelly Corbin
That did it, thanks! Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Try running lsattr /usr/share/doc/tk8.2/copyright and see if the file has the immutable bit set. If it does, chattr -i will remove it. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kelly Corbin [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: .bashrc

2001-07-16 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, July 13, 2001 1:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use xdm, the trick is [...] Since programs in your x session are usually descendants of ~/.xsession, they will automatically be run with the right environment settings. Right, just make sure your bash-specific com- mands (like

Re: GUI for GCC

2001-07-16 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:56:34PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: Which one do you recommend? Maybe try glimmer, it works pretty well, not to fancy or anything I'm looking for a Graphical User Interface for the GCC compiler.

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:08:49PM -0700, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: | | As far as java itself goes, there are blackdown java 2 packages at: Yeah, Sun didn't want to pay to make a Linux JDK so instead the Blackdown people agreed to sign NDAs with Sun for the privilege to create Linux binaries. It

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:03:13AM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: | On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: | On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jeff Maxson wrote: | | JM mount -t vfat /dev/hdd1 /zip | JM | JM gets me | JM | JM hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and 100646912 bytes as its capacity

Re: Real Player for potato

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:54:44PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, is it fine to just run the installer rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin I have already downloaded from real.com, or is there some better way to not upset my stable potato machine? Run the installer. I have done that and I

Re: .bashrc

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:00:16AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: On Friday, July 13, 2001 1:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use xdm, the trick is [...] Since programs in your x session are usually descendants of ~/.xsession, they will automatically be run with the right environment

How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread Ellenkamp, Guus
I have an MAD-16 soundcard and thought I installed all the required stuff, but program's don't recognize the card. How to install correctly? ** De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) is uitsluitend bestemd

Re: Setting up printing

2001-07-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Brian McGroarty wrote: I've never configured a printer under Linux. I've got an Epson Sylus Color 740i hooked up via USB, and I've got it to the point where I can cat files directly to the device and see them printed. I'm a bit baffled by the number of choices of

hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i am having a particularly baffling problem. i have added a 4th ide drive to a debian system, yet debian doesn't see it. on the other hand, if i boot the machine to redhat 7.1, it is there. how may i get debian to see this drive? details: under debian, kernal 2.2.12 first ide model:

Re: Setting up printing

2001-07-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Brian McGroarty wrote: I've never configured a printer under Linux. I've got an Epson Sylus Color 740i hooked up via USB, and I've got it to the point where I can cat files directly to the device and see them printed.

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ (again)

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:57:42AM -0400, Evan Flynn wrote: | Hi. | | I tried the Realtek 8139 driver with no parameters and unfortunetely i got | the device busy error. Please note that I am INSTALLING Debian and Hmm, that's not fun. What are the numbers on the card itself? Is there a

Re: No bbox device for ghostscript?

2001-07-16 Thread C Want
The gs-aladdin 6.50-5 package in woody supports the bbox device. Bob Thanks for replying Bob, This gets me a little further -- there is a bbox device in gs-aladdin ... unfortunately it segfaults on every postscript file I feed it =(. I guess I better send the package maintainer an e-mail --

Re: Real Player for potato

2001-07-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:23:23AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:54:44PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, is it fine to just run the installer rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin I have already downloaded from real.com, or is there some better way to not upset my

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane? (SOLVED!!!)

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:22:09PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: | Hello, | | yes, finally succeeded. A guru at school assisted me in building a new | XF86Config file. Cool! | I have attached a working XF86Config (sorry, its for the greater good), | works with the SVGA driver as well as with S3.

Re: Unable to delete file

2001-07-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
Cool. Glad to be of help. Are you adminisetring Linux system at 'The IQ Group' there in Kansas? I love Kansas. I used to live on a farm there every summer when I was a kid, just outside a little tiny town called White City. Boy, those were the days. Jimmy Richards On Mon, Jul

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: | I have an MAD-16 soundcard and thought I installed all the required stuff, I am not familiar with this one. | but program's don't recognize the card. How to install correctly? You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:56:02PM +1000, Brian May wrote: | Jeremy == Jeremy Gaddis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Jeremy Two possible suggestions: - tunnel the NFS traffic over an | Jeremy SSH traffic (similar to remote X sessions) | | Can you use SSH to tunnel UDP traffic??? | | (I

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:21:10AM -0700): i am having a particularly baffling problem. what's the redhat kernel version? and are you using stock kernels? compare the two kernel configs, and do a recompile with the same options for IDE

Re: GUI for GCC

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:56:34PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: | Hello Matthias, | | Thanks for the reply. | | Might be I'm looking for an ADE. I used to work with an Atari-ST, which had | a nice integrated editor/compiler/linker/debugger (edit sources, compile, | jump from errors to source,

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like The file is /etc/modules.conf Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: XWindows library

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:27:40PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: | I don't have the information here, but I'm just compiling a very small | program which only opens a window, so only the 'basic' library is missing. | Header files seem ok, it just doesn't link. It gives some errors like | symbols

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Monday 16 July 2001 08:50, Martin F. Krafft wrote: also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:21:10AM -0700): i am having a particularly baffling problem. what's the redhat kernel version? and are you using stock kernels? yes, both are out of the box

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:53:36AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | | You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think | /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like | | The file is /etc/modules.conf Not on

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like The file is /etc/modules.conf On a Debian system you should _not_

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:59:38AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | | You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think | /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like Sam Varghese wrote: | The file is

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ (again)

2001-07-16 Thread Andrew Agno
D-Man writes: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:57:42AM -0400, Evan Flynn wrote: | I tried the Realtek 8139 driver with no parameters and unfortunetely i got | the device busy error. Please note that I am INSTALLING Debian and Hmm, that's not fun. What are the numbers on the card itself? Is

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ (again)

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:34:34AM +0200, Gerjan Teselink wrote: Hi, I tried the Realtek 8139 driver with no parameters and unfortunetely i got the device busy error. Have you tried to use the NE2000 module? Or is it possible for you to configure the nic in NE2000-mode? It worked for me

Re: Linux substitue for Origin

2001-07-16 Thread thedoctor
Try Grace if you want scientific plotting like in Origin. It's in version 5.1.3-2. Optional Packages -- Math -- thedoctor On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:48:54AM +0200, Nikolai Hlubek wrote: Hi there fellow Debian'a'holics, does anybody know of a linux programm which can compete with

Library versions (libg++2.7.2/libc6.1-1)

2001-07-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm trying to install some software whose installer wants to see libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2, libg++.so.2.7.2, and libstdc++.so.27. I've installed libg++27 and symlinked those libraries from /usr/lib/libc5-compat to /usr/lib and /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 to libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2. Needless

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: 1 I have an MAD-16 soundcard and thought I installed all the required stuff, 2 but program's don't recognize the card. How to install correctly? You must read the Sound-HOWTO at http://lonuxdoc.org/ 1

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-16 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Dan Berdine wrote: The Redhat machine I use at work seems to include ./ in the PATH variable, I can always run executables from my current directory without using ./ like on my home debian system. This has always seemed more convenient to me and I wondered why Debian

[OT] legal restrictions on email

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
Disclaimer : Those without a sense of humor should not read this message. It may be dangerous to your health. | Any information transmitted by means of this email (and any | of its attachments) is intended exclusively for the addressee | or addressees and for those authorized by the addressee

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... Interesting ... from my understanding UDP is a connectionless protocol, and as such packets aren't guaranteed to arrive at the destination. It seems to me that for a file system, you really want all the packets to arrive. How is this not a

Re: man command made easy?

2001-07-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:25:10PM -0500, will trillich wrote: caveat -- if your VCR is still blinking 12:00 then you're not ready for linux... Good thing mine blinks --:-- instead... and sometimes there's no documentation at all... but that's rare. (even the most self-satisfied programmer

Kernel Compilation Error

2001-07-16 Thread Case, Benjamin
I just apt-got the kernel-source-2.4.6. I make menuconfiged it and then I make-kpkg cleaned it, and ran make-kpkg --revision custom.1 kernel_image. About 10 minutes in to the compilation it stops with this message: install: cannot stat 'debian/README.debian': No such file or directory

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane? (SOLVED!!!)

2001-07-16 Thread Nikki Locke
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sebastiaan wrote: yes, finally succeeded. A guru at school assisted me in building a new XF86Config file. The dotclocks are probed incorrectly, so forcing other values seemed to work. However, the card has really wierd behaviour and crashes sometimes when

Re: Kernel Compilation Error

2001-07-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:57:04PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: I just apt-got the kernel-source-2.4.6. I make menuconfiged it and then I make-kpkg cleaned it, and ran make-kpkg --revision custom.1 kernel_image. About 10 minutes in to the compilation it stops with this message: install:

Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:41:34PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: Thanks for the compliment. Don't ruin your system just to try this, because it is not perfect. Consider what happens if you: chmod a-x /bin/chmod Easy enough to bootstrap yourself out of that one, provided /bin/cp is still

Re: mkfs.vfat? where is it ??

2001-07-16 Thread Paul Mackinney
Disem uttered: I was unable to create an *windows* filesistem... mkfs -t vfat /dev/myharddrivepartition.. mkfs.vfat: no such file or directory mkfs.vfat returns this error when the specified myharddrivepartition is invalid. You do know that mkfs won't create the partition, right? What

OT Pop3 mail service

2001-07-16 Thread ray p
Does anyone know of a good Linux friendly pop3 mail provider free would be good although pay would also work. Thanks for any thoughts on the subject. -- BOFH excuse #103: operators on strike due to broken coffee machine pgpjMIaUZsopQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

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