Re: several questios

2001-07-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Martin Bretschneider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010714 12:01]: 2. I use enlightenment and also wanna use shortcuts to start prgramms for example. In my old-Suse-sytem there was a tool named e-conf but debian doesn't seem to have it. How can I manage it? e-conf was only for enlightenment v0.15.

Re: Where can I find modversion.h???

2001-07-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kevin Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010714 12:12]: Hi, I am tring to get my network card working and recently got the source codes from a developer. I followed his instruction to compile but got the error of modversion.h not found error: DarkHorse:/usr/src/modules# gcc

Re: linksys nc100 problem. modversions.h not found.

2001-07-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010713 16:56]: snip cd /usr/src apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19 Then I think you have to untar or bunzip2 it like so... tar zxvf kernel.tar.gz file or tar jxvf kernel.tar.bz2 file Then it should make a directory called 'linux' and

Re: Kernel 2.4.x: umount failing during shutdown (devfs?)

2001-07-17 Thread User zos
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Norbert Nemec wrote: Hi there, I've been using Kernel 2.4.x for quite a while now (2.4.4 at the moment) and it really works great, except for one last problem: At shutdown time, the machine complains that devfs can't be unmounted, because it is used (remounting ro

boot problem

2001-07-17 Thread Dan Cox
During the boot process the computer starts starting all the regular services but hangs at ,Starting X font server: xfs/usr/bin/X11/xfs notice: listening on port 7100 What do I do? I just have a blinking prompt. The boot doesn't go anywhere. I have been trying to get x installed (another post).

Gnome got ugly?

2001-07-17 Thread Kurt Dresner
Does anyone know what happened with the recent (last couple of weeks) update of gdm, such that the login screen is just really ugly looking? It used to have the little picture and just the simple welcome to hostname screen. Now it has all these menus and stuff. Is there any way to change it

Re: Newbieish question

2001-07-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brian Ballsun-Stanton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010715 19:13]: This is my dilemma: to run samba-tng, I have to upgrade to unstable. My mandate explictly states that downtime is *BAD*, very, very, very, bad. How risky is running unstable? What shouldn't I do? Should I upgrade to 2.4.6? (I'm

Re: kernel 2.4.6

2001-07-17 Thread George
Matt, when you get to the lilo prompt, type linux single this will get you into maintenance mode. (kind of lke safe mode in windows). Then type cfdisk look for which partition says linux and look at the device /dev/ Then quit that, edit /etc/lilo.conf and look for the line root=... and change

Re: MRTG

2001-07-17 Thread M . PITZL
Hi Peter, i had had this problem once because our nameserver has been down. I don't know how the snmpd is set up per default so i can't give you any advice what to do with it :( But as far as i can consider it's a problem with resolving the hostname. Greetings, Matthias I'v tryed to use the ip

Re: X Numpad mouse emulation

2001-07-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010716 00:53]: 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

Reverting to stable from test

2001-07-17 Thread William Morris
Is test broken? I don't know if this is normal, but... I just installed ntp. Unfortunately, I had the test archive in my source list instead of just stable (I installed X 4.0.? a while back from test and then forgot to remove the entry from the source list). In the course of installing ntp,

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-17 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:05:10PM +1000, Brian May uttered: Well, in theory, all UDP packets could be numbered, much like TCP packets, and you get exactly the same reliability TCP offers. This I doubt that. UDP isn't a connection oriented protocol, and as such, it can't deal with a packet out

Re: kernel 2.4.6

2001-07-17 Thread der.hans
Am 17. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Matt Jones so: I have a problem. I have been trying to get the recent version of the kernel into my box. I am a relatively new user so I have not done this before. I used a kernel-update guide and followed all the directions and everything worked fine until I

XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Paul Tansom
I've just pulled XFree86 4 from testing as part of another package update and as far as I can work out it no longer includes the svga server. Am I missing something? I have a Savage 4 chipset (which quotes a null driver), and all was working fine under the previous version (so I'm tempted to

Re: kernel 2.4.6

2001-07-17 Thread der.hans
Am 17. Jul, 2001 schwäzte George so: Matt, when you get to the lilo prompt, type linux single this will get you into maintenance mode. (kind of lke safe mode in windows). Then type cfdisk look for which partition says linux and look at the device /dev/ Then quit that, edit /etc/lilo.conf

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Paul Tansom wrote: I've just pulled XFree86 4 from testing as part of another package update and as far as I can work out it no longer includes the svga server. Am I missing something? I have a Savage 4 chipset (which quotes a null driver), and all was working fine

Re: .deb

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:41:16PM +1000, Peter Donaldson wrote: This might sound like a dumb question. But how do i make a .deb file??? Start with man dpkg, then install dpkg-dev, read a few manpages, then go to www.debian.org and find the rest of the information scattered over the developers

Re: boot problem

2001-07-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
well maybe you misconfigured your video card. Run xf86config. Its a text based environment and re-do the configurations. It may help. be sure you know what chipset your board has. I think yuo can also choose and general chipset that should work on most cards. If you can put it to work, then use

How can I trace a segfault on program start?

2001-07-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
I have compiled a program with gcc 2.95. It segfaults immediately on starting and neither gdb nor strace reveal any useful information: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ people Segmentation fault (core dumped) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ gdb people GNU gdb 2001-07-05-cvs (MI_OUT) ... (gdb) run Starting

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, yeah. I'm not worried about congestion on my home LAN, I was just curios about (theoretical) reliability knowing it used UDP. To give you a perspective: Lots of people run mission critical stuff over NFS and have done so for

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Leonard Stiles wrote: Note that you can alternatively specify auto as the file-system type, in which case it will be auto-detected by mount. I realized some problemes with auto and vfat, namely long filenames. When I tried the auto/detection it always showed 8.3 filnames. Well, most

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Pete Harlan
means everything works. To make it your default: ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 That should read: ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X --Pete

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

2001-07-17 Thread Nikki Locke
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sebastiaan wrote: Darmed. The problem with my card was that the clockmodes were probed incorrectly. Well, do not waste your time anymore, if the whole system hangs, that is a bad sign. I am told that often chips with bugs are sold for cheap production. They make

Re: How can I trace a segfault on program start?

2001-07-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
just an easy try - did you use the gcc -g flag? pietro.

AIPTEK PenCam (usb) and linux

2001-07-17 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
hi, is it possible to use this device with the usb-support under linux? What is needed and what are possible drawbacks? Anyone tried it? --- Andor Demarteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

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

2001-07-17 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Nikki Locke wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sebastiaan wrote: Darmed. The problem with my card was that the clockmodes were probed incorrectly. Well, do not waste your time anymore, if the whole system hangs, that is a bad sign. I am told that often chips with

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

2001-07-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could further limit your rules by specifying the source address of you cable modem provider, something like: -A INPUT -p icmp -s provider.cable.net -j ACCEPT Just figure out from your logs what ip address(es) they use

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Nathan Weston
On Monday 16 July 2001 09:47 pm, Rebecca Dridan wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:33:50PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: Done, thanks. But, in order to access /dev/dsp for audio, I still have to 'newgrp audio' or 'sg audio -c [command]', and enter a password. The problem here is that I want,

InfraRed port in a Linux Laptop

2001-07-17 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I am trying to configure my InfraRed device without much sucess. I have a HP Omnobook XE3 with the 2.4.4 Kernel installed. I have read (tried to) the Linux InfraRed Howto, but it seems outdated, the tools have changed, some of the tools discribed seems not to exist... Can you help me? Thank

Re: Anyone succesfully using Alsa 0.9 and esound on unstable ?

2001-07-17 Thread christophe barbé
This is certainly a clue why I never succeeded configuring my via686 with alsa. The libesd-alsa0 is certainly broken. I will try it soon. Are you using sid ? Christophe Le lun, 16 jui 2001 22:31:16, Andrea Vettorello a écrit : Lars Knudsen wrote: Hi folks, the subject really says it

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: SNIP Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that the list address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on most lists? Anyway, now that I've logged out and back in, everything works fine. Thanks.

locale problem

2001-07-17 Thread Richard Black
My locales seem to be screwed up: nedit NEdit: Locale not supported by C library. NEdit: Using C locale instead. I reran local-gen: #locale-gen Generating locales... en_CA.ISO-8859-1... done en_IE.ISO-8859-1... done en_NZ.ISO-8859-1... done en_US.ISO-8859-1... done fr_CA.ISO-8859-1...

Re: ntpdate no longer working

2001-07-17 Thread Richard Black
I seem to have the same problem...does anyone know what is happening? thanks Richard Robert Waldner wrote: Hi! Sometime this afternoon, ntpdate stopped working. Some debugging shows that it doesn´t even send out any packet to the server. strace´ output doesn´t help me, either:

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Richard Black
Did you get the correct driver from: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html I'm not sure that it is in the main stream of 4.x yet--the above site has details on that though cheers Richard Paul Tansom wrote: I've just pulled XFree86 4 from testing as part of another package update and as

Re: fetchmail version inconsistent

2001-07-17 Thread bmcintyre
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:19:49PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote: when i fire up dselect, it tells me that fetchmail version 5.8.11-1 is availible. when i check the same on the website it states that version 5.8.12.1 is current my problem is that fetchmailconf 5.8.12-1 depends on the latter

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Paul Tansom
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote: Did you get the correct driver from: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html I'm not sure that it is in the main stream of 4.x yet--the above site has details on that though No, but I've found that the savag_drv.o file is already available, and

IDE kernel messages after potato install

2001-07-17 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I have had two messages in kern.log since installing potato 2.2-r3 yesterday. First, brief background: Gateway Solo 9300 with a 450 Mhz Pentium, 288 MB RAM, 12 GB IDE hd and IDE CDROM. Phoenix BIOS 16.53. Windows 98 currently resides on /dev/hda1, but I haven't added it back to lilo yet.

Re: Adaptec problems with 2.4.6?

2001-07-17 Thread Michael Danicich
Which version of the driver are you using? The 2.4 series has two Adaptec SCSI drivers: the old Adaptec SCSI driver, as well as a new one. Check your kernel configs. The newer driver is known to have a lot of problems, but it's new and being actively maintained. The old driver is pretty

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:53:51PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:05:10PM +1000, Brian May uttered: | Well, in theory, all UDP packets could be numbered, much like TCP | packets, and you get exactly the same reliability TCP offers. This | | I doubt that. UDP isn't a

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that the list address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on most lists? 1) Yes, there is a reason. Do a search on reply-to considered harmful for more

Re: Kernel upgrades

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:18:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've noticed that progeny Debian has auto-upgrade of kernel upgrades. How do I do this with my Desktop Debian system, and what are the cons? apt-get doesn't _automatically_ change (upgrade or downgrade) your kernel if you

Re: But ....

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:23:53AM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: | 2) reboot in maintenance mode (or whatever is called in english: in | italian is Modalità provvisoria: 640x480 screen with very few colors); FYI it is called Safe Mode in English. You may need to press F5 during startup to get the

apt-get package list problem

2001-07-17 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Hello, I added the line for security updates to my sources list as mentioned on the security web site. Now I get the following message whenever I run apt-get: (voyager):/home/frank# apt-get install kde-base-crypto Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't

install debian up redhat 6.2 ...

2001-07-17 Thread Saul Fabian
Hi! I have a problem, ¿How I can format my hard disk ? I want to change my redhat 6.2's linux to debian, but I can´t install debian. When I boot the debian installation disk, my system gives my this message: loading linux ... can anibody help my??? thanks ...

Re: apt-get package list problem

2001-07-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Frank Zimmermann wrote: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main

VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Just wondering if there is any software under Gnome or X11 that play VCD? I try xanim, it gives me some error saying unsupport format. I am using unstable right now. -- Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _ Do You

Re: install debian up redhat 6.2 ...

2001-07-17 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 09:42 a.m. 17/07/01 -0500, Saul Fabian wrote: Hi! I have a problem, ¿How I can format my hard disk ? I want to change my redhat 6.2's linux to debian, but I can´t install debian. When I boot the debian installation disk, my system gives my this message: loading linux ... can anibody help

Re: install debian up redhat 6.2 ...

2001-07-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Saul Fabian wrote: Hi! I have a problem, ¿How I can format my hard disk ? mkfs /dev/sda1 I want to change my redhat 6.2's linux to debian, but I can´t install debian. When I boot the debian installation disk, my system gives my this message:

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread Hereward Cooper
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 14:53, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, Just wondering if there is any software under Gnome or X11 that play VCD? I try xanim, it gives me some error saying unsupport format. I am using unstable right now. try xine, it has vcd support but i've never

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread smokez
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 3:53 pm, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, Just wondering if there is any software under Gnome or X11 that play VCD? I try xanim, it gives me some error saying unsupport format. I am using unstable right now. pretty sure with a few extra bits xine

PCMCIA Network driver.

2001-07-17 Thread Case, Benjamin
I just got an ENCORE PCMCIA Netowrk Card. From their website I d/l the linux drivers. This consisted of these files: 8390.c, gen1, gen2, and PCNET_CS.c. as well as a readme with the following instructions: 16-bit 100/10M Fast Ethernet PCMCIA Adapter LINUX DRIVER INSTALL Note: this

Re: Reverting to stable from test

2001-07-17 Thread David Z. Maze
William Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WM In the course of installing ntp, apt updated my C development stuff. WM Now upon compiling applications that compiled cleanly before, I get WM pages of warnings and failures. For example: WM WM In file included from /usr/include/linux/affs_fs_i.h:7,

Re: boot problem

2001-07-17 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:43:26AM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: well maybe you misconfigured your video card. Run xf86config. Its a text based environment and re-do the configurations. It may help. be sure you know what chipset your board has. I think yuo can also choose and general chipset

Re: How can I trace a segfault on program start?

2001-07-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:04:52AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: I have compiled a program with gcc 2.95. It segfaults immediately on starting and neither gdb nor strace reveal any useful information: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ people Segmentation fault (core dumped) [EMAIL

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:32:08AM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: filnames. Well, most times I use vfat foramttd ZIPs and the few times I use something else I use mount -t hfs /dev/hdd /zip (why don't I need a partition number in this case?) You don't. I did mke2fs /dev/sda; mount -t ext2

Re: Grub boot on Reiserfs

2001-07-17 Thread Lutz Mueller
Hi, did you add the initrd line? i've got: title 2.4 kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd BTW: you don't need to build a new kernel, I tried a lot, but it's easy: during boot optain a shell: modprobe reiserfs exit when the system is up do

Re: boot problem

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:12:56AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:43:26AM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: | well maybe you misconfigured your video card. | Run xf86config. Its a text based environment and re-do the configurations. | It may help. be sure you know what

Heterogeneous file and print services

2001-07-17 Thread jim
Hi I hope you can help a inexperienced netatalk admin I have recently being employed to perform admin duties on a Heath Robinson network containing 30 Macs, iMacs, G3/G4 OS 9 and OS X, half a dozen 95, 98, ME machines 3 Windows 2000 professional boxes and a variable number of Linux/BSD

Re: apt-get package list problem

2001-07-17 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Sebastiaan wrote: Hello, It should be: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib (well, it works). Greetz, Sebastiaan I see. Bu tthat is not obvious from the instruction on this site

Re: How can I trace a segfault on program start?

2001-07-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Eric G. Miller wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:04:52AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: I have compiled a program with gcc 2.95. It segfaults immediately on star ting and neither gdb nor strace reveal any useful information: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ people Segmentation

Re: man command made easy?

2001-07-17 Thread Leonard Stiles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:35:30PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote: Even vi is an overkill here, let alone an advanced editor:-) #!/bin/sh Even easier: g install package dwww, point browser to: http://localhost/dwww Pshaw¹! Thats cheating:-)

Re: But ....

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:29:38PM -0400, D-Man wrote: I think it means pick 'safe' settings for your video card and don't start up any fancy services so that, maybe, the user can fix what's broke. Remember that Windows doesn't know what a virtual console is and _always_ needs a graphics card

Re: installing hardware

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:53:01PM -0700, Dan Cox wrote: How do I install hardware? More specifically I have a Hayes Accura v90 modem. I understand that this is a winmodem??? maybe. I looked at linmodem.org and after some searching I found this site http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/ which I

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread Leonard Stiles
Frank Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I realized some problemes with auto and vfat, namely long filenames. When I tried the auto/detection it always showed 8.3 filnames. What is the output of mount when this happens? Have you got vfat support compiled into your kernel, or is it a

How to set up a prefect router

2001-07-17 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I have an old 486 DX33Mhz PC. I'd like to set it up as a router. It has a Ethernetcard, 250MB HDD and no CDROM. What is importatnt to look at? Should i use a 1 floppy Linux? If yes wichone? Should i use debian? Is it important to use kern2.4? Other usful tipps? cheers, Raffaele --

Re: PCMCIA Network driver.

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:02:54AM -0500, Case, Benjamin wrote: I just got an ENCORE PCMCIA Netowrk Card. From their website I d/l the linux drivers. This consisted of these files: 8390.c, gen1, gen2, and PCNET_CS.c. as well as a readme with the following instructions: 16-bit

Re: How can I trace a segfault on program start?

2001-07-17 Thread Philip Blundell
Obviously! But what is causing it? This happens while the program is loading, before any of my own code is executed. Some buggy constructor in a shared library? What do you get if you set LD_DEBUG=files before running your program? p. pgpKb4wHSOnog.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Gnome got ugly?

2001-07-17 Thread David Z. Maze
Kurt Dresner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KD Does anyone know what happened with the recent (last couple of weeks) KD update of gdm, such that the login screen is just really ugly looking? KD It used to have the little picture and just the simple welcome to KD hostname screen. Now it has all these

Re: InfraRed port in a Linux Laptop

2001-07-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi I am trying to configure my InfraRed device without much sucess. I have a HP Omnobook XE3 with the 2.4.4 Kernel installed. I have read (tried to) the Linux InfraRed Howto, but it seems outdated, the tools have changed, some of

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

2001-07-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Patton wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:30:29PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: I've setup a fairly restrictive set of rules for iptables and have been, up to this point, extremely satisfied with its performance. However, I've recently started having some

Drivers

2001-07-17 Thread Luis David Zamith
Hi I'm from Portugal anda i have a Deskjet 710c. I have windows 2000 and i don't have the drivers for my printer. Can you send me the drivers for my printer ? best regards

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-17 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
In Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Jim. I had, by deletion of packages that were creating problems (like fetchmail, crafty, postgresql) and repeated use of apt-get dist-upgrade completed everything successfully except for lprng. This is half-configured, but I am able to print to the remote

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jean-Baptiste Note ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... from my own limited experience, stale mounts are not a problem if you can unmount then mount again the partition containing the damaged export. Note that mount -o remount doesnt do the trick, but umount then mount does it.

Re: lanuage

2001-07-17 Thread Leonard Stiles
Martin Bretschneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Leonard Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is what you mean, but posts to URL:news:linux.debian.user are not sent to the mailing list (only the reverse is true). Hm, that's not very well...

Re: Drivers

2001-07-17 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Luis David Zamith wrote: Hi I'm from Portugal anda i have a Deskjet 710c. I have windows 2000 and i don't have the drivers for my printer. Can you send me the drivers for my printer ? best regards Hello, are you looking for win drivers? May I remind you that

PCMCIA Network driver.

2001-07-17 Thread Case, Benjamin
I just got an ENCORE PCMCIA Netowrk Card. From their website I d/l the linux drivers. This consisted of these files: 8390.c, gen1, gen2, and PCNET_CS.c. as well as a readme with the following instructions: 16-bit 100/10M Fast Ethernet PCMCIA Adapter LINUX DRIVER INSTALL Note: this driver for

Re: Anyone succesfully using Alsa 0.9 and esound on unstable ?

2001-07-17 Thread Lars Knudsen
christophe barbé wrote: This is certainly a clue why I never succeeded configuring my via686 with alsa. The libesd-alsa0 is certainly broken. I will try it soon. Are you using sid ? I am using sid, have a via686 so it seems we have run into exactly the same problems. Will try libesd0 as

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:32:08AM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: | Leonard Stiles wrote: | Note that you can alternatively specify auto as the file-system | type, in which case it will be auto-detected by mount. | | I realized some problemes with auto and vfat, namely long | filenames. When I

Re: But ....

2001-07-17 Thread User zos
He is talking about safe mode. Run a full defrag, not a quick one. A quick defrag will just defragment files and not fill in gaps in space from the beginning to the end of your data. That's why its a quick mode, it just moves around the files that are heavily fragmented. At least Norton Utilities

Re: Reverting to stable from test

2001-07-17 Thread William Morris
David Z. Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you trying to build a kernel module? If so, are you explicitly giving it a path to the kernel headers, or are you letting it default to /usr/include/linux? The stuff in /usr/include/linux is almost certainly wrong and has a ~0% chance of

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread csj
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 23:39, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Thanx but xine dependence screwed up. it require libasound1 not libasound2 which is needed by esd I think No problem here (sorry for the ugly output): alpha:~$ dpkg -l libasound1 libasound2 xine Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

Re: doubts

2001-07-17 Thread oscar goto
Hi, I tried to install debian version, the last one. And at the end of instalation, we enter with usr and pass. and we are at debian environment SO, I would like to use ugi interface of.. What I need to do to get ? tks __ Do You

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Joseph Dane
Dave == Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that the list address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on most lists? Dave 1) Yes, there is a

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

2001-07-17 Thread John Patton
Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:22:25PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Patton wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:30:29PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: I've setup a fairly restrictive set of rules for iptables and have been, up to this point, extremely satisfied with its

Sound Support

2001-07-17 Thread Case, Benjamin
I apt-got the kernel-source-2.4.6. I have compiled a kernel and it works great. I just d/l the source for pcmcia-cs and comiled that and I use that module now too. I just realized I forgot the modules for my Soundblaster. How can I add the necessary modules for this card without having to

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Leonard Stiles wrote: Frank Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I realized some problemes with auto and vfat, namely long filenames. When I tried the auto/detection it always showed 8.3 filnames. What is the output of mount when this happens? Have you got vfat support compiled into your

Re: Library versions - SOLVED?

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
I managed to get the installer to at least start up by installing libg++ 2.8.1 and doing a `ln -s libg++-3-libc6.1-2-2.8.1.3.so libg++.so.2.7.2`. So far, this seems to be working, but I can't help feeling like I've set myself up for big trouble somewhere down the road. Have I? Or (in this

Re: Anyone succesfully using Alsa 0.9 and esound on unstable ?

2001-07-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
christophe barbé wrote: This is certainly a clue why I never succeeded configuring my via686 with alsa. The libesd-alsa0 is certainly broken. I will try it soon. Are you using sid ? Christophe Le lun, 16 jui 2001 22:31:16, Andrea Vettorello a écrit : Lars Knudsen wrote: Hi folks,

AX88190 Chipset Not Supported ?

2001-07-17 Thread Case, Benjamin
I have found alot of postings , via a google search, that the AX88190 chipset for my PCMCIA network adapter is not supported in the 2.4.x kernels. I am unable to get the drivers provided by ASIX (the company that makes the chips). Has anyone had any experience getting this card to work ? This is

Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess

2001-07-17 Thread Victor
I'm now having a go at using postgresql, the version included in debian 2.2r3. Now, while I've been able to create my first db and tables using psql under postgres user, I'm in trouble using pgaccess. After trying to open the same db giving its name and postgres as user it invariably answers:

Re: Setting up printing

2001-07-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
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 packages which are

Raid Controller

2001-07-17 Thread CraterL
I have a customer who uses Debian Linux 2.2 with the latest kernel looking for a Raid controller card. Who are your suggested manufacturers for Raid Controllers? Thank you, Louise Crater Sr. Account Manager MICRO/MAC/DATA COMM WAREHOUSE voice: (800)328-2261 ext. 20598 fax: (732)370-6003 web:

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Thanx but xine dependence screwed up. it require libasound1 not libasound2 which is needed by esd I think Edwin Lau On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 03:57:15PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2001 14:53, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, Just wondering if there is any

How to set up a prefect router

2001-07-17 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I have an old 486 DX33Mhz PC. I'd like to set it up as a router. It has a Ethernetcard, 250MB HDD and no CDROM. What is importatnt to look at? Should i use a 1 floppy Linux? If yes wichone? Should i use debian? Is it important to use kern2.4? Other usful tipps? cheers, Raffaele --

Re: install debian up redhat 6.2 ...

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:42:24AM -0500, Saul Fabian wrote: I have a problem, ?How I can format my hard disk ? I want to change my redhat 6.2's linux to debian, but I can?t install debian. When I boot the debian installation disk, my system gives my this message: loading linux ... can

2 Monitors/1 MG400/X 3.3.6

2001-07-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I sent an email out yesterday about setting up 2 monitors on my Matrox Millennium G400 card. The response I received seems to assume that I'm running X 4.x. I'm not, I'm using Potato and don't want to dabble with woody if I don't have to. Can someone give me a lead or hint on what I need to do

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:29:12PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: | Is there a gateway HOWTO? I found something along that lines but none of it | applied to a debian system. It would be titled IP Masquerade and Linux Networking or something like that (on linuxdoc). | Also what do i need a 2.4.6

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:45, Mike Fedyk wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: initially, i had the setup as disk disk cd-rom disk with all jumpers (master/slave) appropriatly set. and as previously noted, redhat 7.1

Re: gnucash 1.6.1-2

2001-07-17 Thread Geoffrey Romer
This is a bug that just appeared in the latest version of libguile9, whereby libqthreads (Which GnuCash needs) was accidentally not included. I've submitted a bug and it has been acknowledged. A corrected version of libguile should be forthcoming, hopefully within a day. In the meantime, you'll

Re: .bashrc

2001-07-17 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:00:16AM -0700 or thereabouts, Greg Wiley wrote: The problem with ~/.xsession for kdm is that you lose the session selection capability of the login app. I ended up creating a new mechanism that sources a local user init file before running the main Xsession.

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