Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:00:47AM -0700, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get Debian installed on a 486 that does not know how to boot from the CDROM. I was able to get to the CD with a Windows 98 startup diskette and execute boot.bat in the install

re: xdm crash

2001-10-11 Thread Sidney Brooks
I decided to reinstall the Debian package xdm since it wasn't working, using dpkg. When I tried, I got the error message: unable to fill /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i with padding: No space left on device This suggests that the new files that I downloaded were so large that they filled my hard

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and alsa

2001-10-11 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:33:26PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: you can use oss emulation under alsa, that's what I use, works fine (unstable, 2.4.10, alsa 0.9, sbawe driver (sb awe 64)) Of course I can, in fact generally all games use the OSS interface. I'm pretty sure I had a valid reason

Re: Compiling kernel 2.4.11

2001-10-11 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:20:57AM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, if you follow the kernel mailing list, it is not recommended to have 2.4.11 installed and running due to security problems. Linus just released 2.4.12 -- and some patches for the parallel port do exist now as well. I

Re: Apache.pm

2001-10-11 Thread Tom Allison
Colin Watson wrote: For more details, see 'man cgi_to_mod_perl' and http://perl.apache.org/, especially the excellent mod_perl Guide at http://perl.apache.org/guide/. Thanks to everyone for the excellent response! I know what's fixed I know what to read and where to find it You've set my

Re: route configuration

2001-10-11 Thread Davi Leal
Thanks, this was what I wanted. You can add this additional routing into /etc/network/interfaces like this: iface eth0 inet static address 217.153.114.164 netmask 255.255.255.248 gateway 217.153.114.161 up route something up route something iface eth0:1 inet static address

Re: webalizer

2001-10-11 Thread Tilmann Holst
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll make a new package available in the next few days and I'll put it up for download on some debian.org machine. You won't find in the potato archive however. Is it possible to put it into proposed-updates? -- Tilmann Holst - TUCCO - the

Re: /etc/aliases file

2001-10-11 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 11 October 2001 00:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want mail delivered to my username different from my username at the mail server. so I set up /etc/aliases file to point any mail that is sent bob should go to username cat instead. bob:cat however, it doesnt work. I

Re: xdm crash

2001-10-11 Thread sheine
I followed up on my reported guess that my hard disk was full by removing files. My xdm is now working.

samba printer suddenly down

2001-10-11 Thread Vicente
Last week I was able to print from Windows machines on a printer shared with samba. Since yesterday I can't. I get the following message: # smbclient my-machine\\printer -P -cprint /file.txt load_client_codepage: filename /etc/samba/codepages/codepage.850 does not exist.Added interface

Mailx and exim

2001-10-11 Thread Antti Tolamo
I can't anymore for other users than root send mail using mail command. Mail and mailx complain that permission denied to /usr/sbin/sendmail. This despite is there an sendmail in the directory or not. Changing rigths to sendmail doesn't have any effect. I have Debian Potato, and Exim 3.33

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade dropping carrier

2001-10-11 Thread Hamma Scott
--- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:52:53AM -0700, Hamma Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from v2.2r17 to woody and have been able to apt-get update. When I do an apt-get dist-upgrade, my ISP drops carrier.

How to gracefully handle unavailable DHCP server

2001-10-11 Thread Danie Roux
Our DHCP server is notoriously unstable. If pump can't renew the lease, it then quits. Which means I have to go up 5 stories later to ifup eth0. What is the easiest/best way to let pump perodically try again? -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

RE: How to gracefully handle unavailable DHCP server

2001-10-11 Thread David Harrigan
Hiya, Try this little bash script: #!/bin/sh IFACE=eth0 /sbin/pump -i $IFACE -s 2 /dev/null 1 /dev/null if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then /sbin/pump -i $IFACE fi Put it into your cron, say every 5 mins or so... Hope this helps. David. -Original Message- From: Danie Roux [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-11 Thread Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo
I was just pointing out that Earthlink DSL uses pppoe and that the pppoe packages in stable and testing work with Earthlink's DSL service. Tony On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:29:47PM -0700, Allen Wayne Best wrote: tony, wayne: for what it's worth, adsl is, imo, much easier than ppp(oe).

Re: gtk themes

2001-10-11 Thread francisco m neto
» Kurt Dresner disse isso e eu digo aquilo: So I just got Debian testing up and running on my brand spankin' new Dell Inspiron 8100 (PIII 866-m 256 MB RAM, Geforce2Go 16 MB), and I've almost worked out all the little bugs. One major one left - I can't get GTK themes to work. Several of

Re: ytalk...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thank you! That was it, the change in /etc/login.defs, It worked! I really apreciate your help! Take care! On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 04:03:05PM -0600, Alexander Wallace wrote: Using mesg y fixes the problem... Now, how do I make a mesg y permanent

Flashplayer for potato?

2001-10-11 Thread Stan Brown
Can someeon point me to a place to get a Netscape FalsgPlayer plugin for a Debian stable machine? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and

Where to get RealPlayer for potato machine?

2001-10-11 Thread Stan Brown
Can some kind soule point me to a place to et a version of RealPlayer that will work on a Debian stable machine? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit

Re: gtk themes

2001-10-11 Thread Ross Burton
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 13:31, francisco m neto wrote: So I just got Debian testing up and running on my brand spankin' new Dell Inspiron 8100 (PIII 866-m 256 MB RAM, Geforce2Go 16 MB), and I've almost worked out all the little bugs. One major one left - I can't get GTK themes to

Re: ytalk...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks for the answear... I know now that is running but I appreciate the ps ax command, is something I've been looking for for a couple of days (didn't look to hard as you may see :) ) Thanks also for the date thing... We lost power yesterday and I guess the MB Battery is dead, I'll have to shut

Re: gnucash in sid

2001-10-11 Thread Charles Baker
Yes, I'm using i386, PII 300 on a laptop to be exact. How big is the deb? I would appreciate having the deb if it's not too big. I'm unfamiliar with apt-move mirror. Guess I'll have to read up on it when I get home this evening. --- Greg Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally gave up, and

Re: Where to get RealPlayer for potato machine?

2001-10-11 Thread Pawel Dudek
try realplayer package best regards, pawel On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: Can some kind soule point me to a place to et a version of RealPlayer that will work on a Debian stable machine? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 843-745-3154

a close call

2001-10-11 Thread will trillich
Boy, THAT was close. My bind/name-d(for those who want to know how to pronounce it)/dns server was fritzing out. Couldn't ndc reload ndc restart I could ndc stop but it didn't really stop anything. I kept getting socket errors and it wouldn't re-establish my server

Re: exim qualify_domain question

2001-10-11 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:45:08AM +, john smith wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem. I want all my outgoing emails to pretend to come from @hotmail.com (bec. I can't leave it blank since my system's hostname won't work; dialup machine) so I set my qualify_domain in exim to

Re: Flashplayer for potato?

2001-10-11 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 11 October 2001 08:46, Stan Brown wrote: Can someeon point me to a place to get a Netscape FalsgPlayer plugin for a Debian stable machine? go to www.macromedia.com/downoads works well with my netscape in woody; worked well in potato hth bob

Re: ethernet card IO address

2001-10-11 Thread MarceI Figuerola Estrada
- Original Message - From: Bojan Zdrnja [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:00 AM Subject: RE: ethernet card IO address This looks to me like you're choosing wrong module. Which card was it ? My card is a standard 100/10M ethernet

RE:Nvidia Gforce2 / no screens available

2001-10-11 Thread Andrew Agno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed Debian, and upgraded to Woody. I have an Nvidia Gforce 2 64meg video card. I installed XFree86 4, and followed all the settings but when I try to start X it errors saying there are no screens available Take a look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for the

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

2001-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux,

allowing access to rsh from client...works but I don't know why

2001-10-11 Thread Walter Tautz
I am allowing rsh access from a select client list by adding them to .rhosts file which only read permission and this works. Yeah I know this is inherent insecure but it is required for what I am trying to do. Currently inetd.conf has tcpd wrappers which runs in.rshd. Strangely enough

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

2001-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:14:45AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: Hi All, firstly, these are just my opinions so lets not start a war. I think most of us would agree that linux is not the easiest to use and in X, it is not the fastest and still not near the ease of use of windows -

New to debain

2001-10-11 Thread Nick Sanders
Hi, I just installed debian after having a bad experience with Mandrake 8.1. I've always used Redhat or Mandrake before this and never Debian so I've got a couple of problems that I haven't been able to find the answer to. I started with Debian 2.2r2 and I've upgrade to sid. How do I change

Re: Sound configuration

2001-10-11 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:15:15PM +0800, JimmyMah wrote: I am a new user to debian linux. I have install the os (version-potato) in my laptop recently. However I could not activate the sound system. Please advise. Thank you and regards Jimmy Mah what is your sound card? --

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-11 Thread mark
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:03:46PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: cite l10n support If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no use fiddling with the variable charset, as described in the manual page muttrc(5). Instead, you'll need to have the Debian

Re: New to debain

2001-10-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
The modules for my sound card and USB ADSL modem don't load automatically on Add their module names to /etc/modules boot I've tried editing /etc/modutils/actions and running update-modules but without any success (not sure of the syntax). If you're running 'insmod module_name_here' with no

Re: New to debain

2001-10-11 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 09:07, Nick Sanders wrote: Hi, I just installed debian after having a bad experience with Mandrake 8.1. I've always used Redhat or Mandrake before this and never Debian so I've got a couple of problems that I haven't been able to find the answer to. I started with

dump for resierfs?

2001-10-11 Thread Stan Brown
Where can I get a version of dump, that understand resierfs? For a stable machine? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a

Re: Where to get RealPlayer for potato machine?

2001-10-11 Thread Stan Brown
On Thu Oct 11 09:17:35 2001 Pawel Dudek wrote... try realplayer package best regards, pawel The realplayer package says it's an installer only, and that I have to download the binary first. It also says that it requires Version 7, when I believe the current version is 8. -- Stan Brown

Re: dump for resierfs?

2001-10-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
Where can I get a version of dump, that understand resierfs? For a stable machine? I can't say for certainty that any of the three packages you're asked about are available this way, but have you tried 'apt-cache search enter_search_string_here' ?? This will return a list of matching

Re: BIND, named daemon

2001-10-11 Thread Davi Leal
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 Why do I not get answer from the 'named' daemon?. I think it is not due to /etc/hosts.allow or deny options. The bind/README.Debian file does not say anything about. nslookup: ERROR: IP, ... No response from server dig: ERROR: Connection time out Must I enable any

Re: Sound Editing Package

2001-10-11 Thread Tim Moss
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 05:27:30 +0100 Stephen J. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Can anyone suggest a GOOD sound editing package for linux? I need to be able to trim sound files and save them as wav's. There's a big list here

Re: New to debain

2001-10-11 Thread Nick Sanders
On Thursday 11 October 2001 3:42 pm, you wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:07:42PM +0100, Nick Sanders wrote: How do I change the keymap for the console (permanently) ? Should I edit /etc/init.d/keymap.sh directly ? I have to do 'loadkeys uk' after every boot. dpkg-reconfigure

Re: New to debain

2001-10-11 Thread John Hasler
How do I change the keymap for the console (permanently) ? apt-get install console-tools -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

RE: /etc/aliases file

2001-10-11 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Did you run newaliases? from the man of newaliases: DESCRIPTION This is a simple shell script calling /usr/lib/sendmail with the -bi option. It is provided for compatibility with the sendmail program. It is not actually necessary to notify exim of changes

Re: Source packages for unstable - where?

2001-10-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Piotr Sulecki wrote: Yes, I did, but apt-get source always gave me the sources for the stable version, never finding the ones in unstable (I have no deb-src lines referring to testing). As if there was no sources for the package in unstable. However, thanks to Faheem

Re: Where to get RealPlayer for potato machine?

2001-10-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
try realplayer package best regards, pawel The realplayer package says it's an installer only, and that I have to download the binary first. It also says that it requires Version 7, when I believe the current version is 8. As for being an installer only, that's correct. Realplayer is

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

2001-10-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... Sorry to disappoint you Hall, but I have used windows since the first release of 95, and still have to use it regularly. Up until about 2 weeks ago I had to have NT, then 2k on my machine at work. Fortunately for me I now have Debian running on it.

Re: a close call

2001-10-11 Thread Tony Crawford
will trillich wrote (on 11 Oct 2001 at 8:25): telinit 1 took me to runlevel 1, and then ^D continued on to runlevel 2. Gladly, ndc/named/bind/dns/whateverthenomdejouris is working again... And i didn't have to mess with my uptime. Whew! 8:24am up 391 days, 9:20, 2 users,

Re: New to debain

2001-10-11 Thread the Edward Blevins
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:07:42PM +0100, Nick Sanders wrote: How do I change the keymap for the console (permanently) ? Should I edit /etc/init.d/keymap.sh directly ? I have to do 'loadkeys uk' after every boot. dpkg-reconfigure console-common This works on recent versions at least. --

Re: Nvidia Gforce2 / no screens available

2001-10-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: I installed Debian, and upgraded to Woody. I have an Nvidia Gforce 2 64meg video card. I installed XFree86 4, and followed all the settings but when I try to start X it errors saying there are no screens available You need nvidia

Re: allowing access to rsh from client...works but I don't know why

2001-10-11 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 09:05, Walter Tautz wrote: I am allowing rsh access from a select client list by adding them to .rhosts file which only read permission and this works. Yeah I know this is inherent insecure but it is required for what I am trying to do. Currently inetd.conf

emu10k1 for debian

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
Hello. Once I wrote about an intention to package emu-tools. I prepared prerelease packages, which con be found at people.debian.org/~sacha/debian/unstable One can put deb http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian unstable/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian unstable/ in his apt's

re: xdm crash

2001-10-11 Thread Stephen Ryan
On 11 Oct, Sidney Brooks wrote: I decided to reinstall the Debian package xdm since it wasn't working, using dpkg. When I tried, I got the error message: unable to fill /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i with padding: No space left on device This suggests that the new files that I downloaded

Re: Where to get RealPlayer for potato machine?

2001-10-11 Thread Paolo Falcone
Stan Brown wrote: Can some kind soule point me to a place to get a version of RealPlayer that will work on a Debian stable machine? I downloaded the rpm from RealNetwork's site. Then alien-ed it. Should work fine, as I'm playing RealPlayer 8 on my potato box right now... Paolo Falcone

Re: BIND, named daemon

2001-10-11 Thread Davi Leal
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 Why do I not get answer from the 'named' daemon?. I think it is not due to /etc/hosts.allow or deny options. The bind/README.Debian file does not say anything about. bind 8.2.3 All the configuration files are the default one. Nothing has been changed. Therefore,

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Paul Scott
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:00:47AM -0700, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get Debian installed on a 486 that does not know how to boot from the CDROM. I was able to get to the CD with a Windows 98 startup diskette and execute boot.bat

how to remove task-packages

2001-10-11 Thread Felix Natter
hi, is there a way to completely remove task-packages (task-kde for example) including dependencies ? thanks, -- Felix Natter

Re: emu10k1 for debian

2001-10-11 Thread Scott Dier
* Alexander Kotelnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011011 11:06]: Once I wrote about an intention to package emu-tools. I prepared How linked are the tools version to the driver revision? IE: if i keep with an 'old' cvs snapshot of the driver, will the tools stop working on an upgrade? -- Scott Dier

Re: nfs mounting and sharing of /usr/share

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:44:53AM -0400, Timothy Ball wrote: I would like to tone down repeative disk usage and would like to share /usr/share via nfs... can anyone think of reasons this would be a bad idea? This would be a good idea (why do you think it's called _share_?), but it won't work

X crash

2001-10-11 Thread sarimanok
Hello all, I did an apt-get dist-upgrade with testing in deb http (sources.list) and my X crashes. Can't anymore install task-x-window-system and other dependencies. What X can I install now? How to do? Sarimanok NetCourrier, votre

Re: exim qualify_domain question

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:45:08AM +, john smith wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem. I want all my outgoing emails to pretend to come from @hotmail.com (bec. I can't leave it blank since my system's hostname won't work; dialup machine) so I set my qualify_domain in exim to

Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-11 Thread Brad R
Hello everyone. Forgive me if my first several questions sound stupid, I've just begun with Linux and have tried to learn what I can, but there is so much to learn. I'm familiar with Unix protocols on the wire, but have never worked directly with the OS before a couple months ago. Microsoft has

Re: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-11 Thread Robert L. Harris
Debian has 3 distrubitions I guess you'd say. The current stable distribution of Debian Linux (gnu/linux) is named Potato. The current testing, soon to be stable distribution is named Woody. At some point in the future Woody will replace Potato as stable and a new unstable will be named (Buz

Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Luke Reeves
Hello everyone. I've recently erased my RedHat Linux machine and installed Debian Woody. I used [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in Canada) with RedHat just fine, using either Pump or DHCPCD - specifying the hostname and interface - with no problems whatever. Now when I try to use the dynamic IP

Re: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-11 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:29:39PM -0400, Brad R wrote: Hello everyone. Forgive me if my first several questions sound stupid, I've just begun with Linux and have tried to learn what I can, but there is so much to learn. I'm familiar with Unix protocols on the wire, but have never worked

Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there, I hope you can forgive my ignorance in this issues, I'm very new to debian and linux/unix in general... I installed potato in this ibm pc 325 i got from ebay, everything is working great, I love it! I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like to have

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-11 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
tony, wayne: as promised, here are the files which you would need to update for adsl usage 1) /etc/resolv.conf 2) /etc/network/interfaces 3) firewall scripts - i am not fimilar with the way debian does this as this machine is behind a firewall already 1) contains the nameservers and related

I'm in a loop

2001-10-11 Thread CICVET
After making choices (series of questions), I'm told that I've reached the moment of truth. Excited, I follow the instruction to reboot and find myself back at the welcome screen which leads nowhere except through the same questions. What am I doing wrong, or not doing right? Your help is

ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
I've been unable to get alsa working on my Woody installation. Here's what I've done so far: * installed/compiled alsa-source * run alsaconf to configure my sound card * run update-modules to update modules.conf * cat /proc/interrupts to make sure I don't have an IRQ conflict (I don't) * looked

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

2001-10-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: I've been unable to get alsa working on my Woody installation. Here's what I've done so far: * installed/compiled alsa-source * run alsaconf to configure my sound card * run update-modules to update modules.conf * cat /proc/interrupts to make sure

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

2001-10-11 Thread John Gilger
From: Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. I'm not an adamant MS-bahser, at least I don't think so ;) However,

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like to have acommon place in which we put our stuff. Like a common directory for the proyects we share and files we share... How would I go about that? does it go in /home? You may want to look at CVS (www.cvshome.org) It's a

Re: I'm in a loop

2001-10-11 Thread Piotr Foremniak
Try to remove CD from drive? :-) On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 16:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After making choices (series of questions), I'm told that I've reached the moment of truth. Excited, I follow the instruction to reboot and find myself back at the welcome screen which leads nowhere

Re: I'm in a loop

2001-10-11 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After making choices (series of questions), I'm told that I've reached the moment of truth. Excited, I follow the instruction to reboot and find myself back at the welcome screen which leads nowhere except through the same

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Wow! Great! Thanks, That linux conf is very nice! Thanks for your answears, I'll give all that stuff a try! Take care! On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like to have acommon place in which we put our stuff. Like a

Installing swatch

2001-10-11 Thread HdV
Hi, I am trying to get swatch installed before I leave for the States tomorrow, since I expect to need it over there. However I am having some trouble getting it installed, so I am in a bit of a spot here. Any help would be appreciated (and needed I am afraid `;-) The problem is when I run perl

Re: routing protocols

2001-10-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:46:16AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: * Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.10.10 17:08:15-0500]: We're way off topic here. Any decent networking with IP text will answer these questions. again, sorry. i panicked. much more chilled this morning. thanks for

Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Aniartia
I've got a 2.2 r3 CD, an inet connection.. what's the quickest and pain-free way to get to testing/unstable? TIA Ani

Re: gtk themes

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Dresner
I installed it into .themes, and I still get the same error message: Gtk-WARNING**: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: libpixmap.so, over and over. -Kurt From: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: gtk themes Date: 11 Oct

Re: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Pawel Dudek
Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade. Best regards, Pawel On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Aniartia wrote: I've got a 2.2 r3 CD, an inet connection.. what's the quickest and pain-free way to get to testing/unstable?

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-11 Thread csj
On Thursday 11 October 2001 02:06, Wayne Brown wrote: on 10th Oct Royce Bell wrote    Sheesh, you guys are scaring the pants off me!  Or, maybe I'm  just getting  to old to go about things like I did 30 years ago...hmmm?   snip IMHO Mandrake 8.0 would be a good starter for ease of

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:06:56AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: However, to answer your question more directly, it can really go anywhere you want. There's no right/wrong answer on where to put those kinds of files. (There are some conventions, but nothing set in stone) /home or /usr would be

Re: Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Kyle Girard
I have rogers and I'm working fine although my setup is a little different from yours (2.2.17 kernel, unstable). I used dhcp-client and here's my dhclient.conf file send host-name hostname; and here's my /etc/network/interfaces iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp And everything works

Re: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade. Always use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when upgrading between distributions rather than 'apt-get upgrade'. The

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thank you! I think I'll follow your suggestion... On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: Actually, according to FHS, anything that might be modified in the course of using (as opposed to doing maintenance on) the system should not be placed under /usr. This enables admins to mount /usr

Re: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Pawel Dudek
I always use apt-get upgrade. Hm, maybe I've luck that everything going good by this way of upgrade. However, thanks for correct my mistake. Best regards, Pawel On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: Change apt sources in

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

2001-10-11 Thread Brad R
I don't think you're going to have much luck with those entertainment games. Most of the new ones depend heavily on DirectX and custom hardware drivers, but I could be wrong. I play Windows games on my home computer quite a bit so I'd be interested if you suceed. If I might say about this

RE: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Justin Hahn
Actually, dist-upgrade is probably the method of choice for all upgrades once you start using unstable. dist-upgrade tends to resolve dependencies and such that upgrade does not. Since these sorts of things changes (potentially) frequently under unstable it helps keep things running right. --jeh

Re: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:51:19PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade.

Re: emu10k1 for debian

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:19:22 -0500 Scott == Scott Dier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Scott * Alexander Kotelnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011011 11:06]: Once I wrote about an intention to package emu-tools. I prepared Scott Scott How linked are the tools version to the driver revision? IE: if i

Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Morbo
Hi, I have two computers at home. On one I'm running Linux, and it is turned on non-stop. On the other I'm running W$ndows (mainly for games). This one is only running if I'm doing something on it. Unfortunatly I have only space for one screen and keyboard. I could use some switch, but they

RE: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread John Gilger
Justin Hahn noted: Actually, dist-upgrade is probably the method of choice for all upgrades once you start using unstable. dist-upgrade tends to resolve dependencies and such that upgrade does not. Since these sorts of things changes (potentially) frequently under unstable it helps keep things

Re: Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Luke Reeves
Strange. I'll try that when I get home today. Did you change any of the kernel parameters in the /proc filesystem? I remember reading a blurb about that somewhere affecting DHCP systems. Thanks! Luke Kyle Girard wrote: I have rogers and I'm working fine although my setup is a

Re: Best route to testing/unstable?

2001-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:24:45PM +, Aniartia wrote: I've got a 2.2 r3 CD, an inet connection.. what's the quickest and pain-free way to get to testing/unstable? Multi step approach may be a good idea unless you already upgraded apt to woody. 1. edit /etc/apt/souces.list to include

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Morbo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: Hi, I have two computers at home. On one I'm running Linux, and it is turned on non-stop. On the other I'm running W$ndows (mainly for games). This one is only running if I'm doing something on it. Unfortunatly I have only space for one screen and

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
There's an adequate X server for windows that used to be free but is now $25 shareware: http://www.microimages.com/mix/ it will probably do what you need. I haven't played with the cygwin one. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL

Re: Lost cursor in X

2001-10-11 Thread Roland Hinkley
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Angelo Cano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:37:22PM +0100, Roland Hinkley wrote: [snip] I recently did an upgrade and now I do not have a cursor visible in X. The mouse works as the screen will move in the virtual desktop as you move the mouse,

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Luke Reeves
For an X-server for Windows, the two I use are: WeirdX - http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/ - This is an open-source 100% Java server, works fairly well (but you need a hefty system to run it) NetSarang X Manager - http://www.netsarang.com/download/download.html - A really good fast and

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

2001-10-11 Thread alephtnull
did you forgot to unmute the card? under WARNING you should have read WARNING!!! The mixer channels for the ALSA driver are muted by default!!! ** You would use some ALSA or OSS mixer to set the appropriate volume. you can

Re: [Emu10k1-tools-devel] Re: emu10k1 for debian

2001-10-11 Thread Daniel Bertrand
Hi, The rule of thumb is: -Older driver (post kernel 2.4.8), newer tools: ok -Newer driver, older tools: not ok -Really old driver ( driver version 0.7 or earlier - before 2.4.8 and any 2.2.x): not ok, use dm tool instead (http://opensource.creative.com/dist.html). If you find this isn't true,

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