Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
No -- I did that using: amixer set Master on amixer set PCM on amixer set Master 75% amixer set PCM 75% Thanks for the suggestion, though. --kurt On Thursday 11 October 2001 h:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you forgot to unmute the card? under WARNING you should have read

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 08:30:34PM +0200, Morbo wrote: Unfortunatly I have only space for one screen and keyboard. I could use some switch, but they usually degrade image quality at high resolution (or cost a fortune), so I found it's much more convenient to telnet/ssh into the linux machine

Re: SSH2 + HostbasedAuthentication

2001-10-11 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 08 Oct 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: I cannot use HostbasedAuthentication with ssh. ssh just keeps on asking for the password. Here is what I tried: [...] I solved this now. There were two errors: 1) You need to swich on HostbasedAuthentication in the _client_! The manual page is wrong,

dead/slow mirrors?

2001-10-11 Thread glynis
i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin are not responding, so my updates and upgrades always get hung up. is it possible to get these broken hosts out of the list? or is it just me? this happens to

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

2001-10-11 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: 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

Re: dead/slow mirrors?

2001-10-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin are not responding, so my updates and upgrades always get hung up. is it possible to get these broken hosts

mySAP.com WebApp Server on Debian?

2001-10-11 Thread Timo \Blazko\ Boewing
Hello, some months ago [when I was a SuSE user], I tried to install the SAP WebApplication Server w/ a basic R/3 onto my SuSE 7.2. Well, finally it did not run due to an incompatible glibc, it was only certified for SuSE 7.0 (or 7.1?) and RedHat 7.1 Enterprise (am I right?). My question: has

Querying apt-get

2001-10-11 Thread Daniel Serodio
How can I find out which installed packages are not from my APT::Default-Release? I use woody for almost everything, but some selected packages from sid. I'd like to know which packages came from sid. Thanks. -- []'s Daniel Serodio [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gtk themes

2001-10-11 Thread Harold Bibik
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:27:48PM +, Kurt Dresner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something like: 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. I believe you are trying to use

About Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread MRZ
Morbo wrote: Hi, I have two computers at home. On one I'm running Linux, and snip machine if I want to use it. I'm also want to try some free X servers for Win32 (any suggestions?) so that I could actually log in through X. snip Balazs Luke Reeves replied: For an X-server for

exim sending problems (dial-up) need to be masqed?

2001-10-11 Thread john smith
Hi, I am stll having trouble with exim. I need to have my header re-written in order to be able to send messages over the internet since I get this error when sending a test message: snipped This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent

Re: About Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:40:31PM -0700, MRZ wrote: Do these types of solutions work bothways a-la pcAnyWhere? I'm thinking of looking into that VNC option but want to be able to control the Win box from Linux and not necessarily the other way around. VNC will let you control the windows

Re: /etc/aliases file

2001-10-11 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 11 October 2001 10:16 am, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: 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

gotmail

2001-10-11 Thread alephtnull
Hello, I gotmail installed and tested it. the message was there (on the hotmail server) but when I run gotmail in the terminal it does retrieve the message but doesn't forward it to my mailbox (i.e. bash still reports no mail for me) my [EMAIL PROTECTED] is different from my u [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-10-11 Thread csj
On Thursday 11 October 2001 17:14, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: Linux is a couple of steps behing in ease of use in comparison to windows. Windows is weak where linux is especially strong like stability and flexibility. Ms has billions of dollars to invest getting windows to be as good as Linux

Re: Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:50:25PM -0400, Luke Reeves wrote: 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

Re: I'm in a loop

2001-10-11 Thread Josh McKinney
The person is using AOL. On approximately Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:11:42PM +, Piotr Foremniak wrote: 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.

Re: dead/slow mirrors?

2001-10-11 Thread David Z Maze
Jeffrey W Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JWB On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly g troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin g are not responding, so my updates and upgrades always get

Display total No. of messages in KMail

2001-10-11 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello List, Is there anyway I can get the folders panel in Kmail to display the total No of messages in each folder as well as the No. of unread messages? Haven't found anything in tfm. TIA LeeE

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Keith Willoughby
Morbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to log in through telnet and ideally also through X into the Linux machine, start an ftp client or irc client etc. then close the connection again with the started applications continueing to run? Also if I could do that, could I then log in

question

2001-10-11 Thread Carl VdB
how can i change my keyboard from qwerty to azerty (or to BE) in my debian bash shell ? thanks in advance

Re: question

2001-10-11 Thread MarceI Figuerola Estrada
kbdconfig I think... but I'm not sure. Marcel - Original Message - From: Carl VdB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:33 PM Subject: question how can i change my keyboard from qwerty to azerty (or to BE) in my debian bash shell ?

Re: dead/slow mirrors?

2001-10-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, David Z Maze wrote: Jeffrey W Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JWB On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly g troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin g are not

How do I install lilo?

2001-10-11 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
HI, I have a quick question. I have a new HD that I used to backup my linux system to part of the drive (the drive also contains NT 4.0). After duplicating the entire HD, I was thinking of making it bootable to linux. Question: how do I install lilo now that the HD is not booting into

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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

Re: exim sending problems (dial-up) need to be masqed?

2001-10-11 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:45:45 + john smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am stll having trouble with exim. I need to have my header re-written in order to be able to send messages over the internet since I get this error when sending a test message: snipped This message was

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
That definitely wasn't the answer I wanted to hear, but you were right. I junked all the debian alsa packages, downloaded the latest source, compiled it and had it up and running in no time. For anyone else who runs into the same problem, I was using the deb packages from testing. Thanks

Re: gotmail

2001-10-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:02:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: much cruft deleted my .gotmailrc user=bobwe2302 pass=** proxy=no forward=cat onlynew=yes markread=no delete=no # folder_directory= don't know if this is relavant and what's it used for since formail should #

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:52:40AM -0500, Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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

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

2001-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:05:44AM -0400, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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

Re: dead/slow mirrors?

2001-10-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:32:20PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: What does it take to setup a mirror? I have largely idle bandwidth in an abovenet colo that would be fine for a debian mirror. Not long, as Debian provides most of the scripts that you need in order to set it up. Right now

Re: Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Kyle Girard
Nope i'm using the stock debian kernel On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 14:37, Luke Reeves wrote: 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!

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Paul Scott
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:00:47AM -0700, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sounds like you may have a nonstandard CDROM device. Look at the CDROM

Re: Querying apt-get

2001-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:15:01PM -0300, Daniel Serodio wrote: How can I find out which installed packages are not from my APT::Default-Release? I use woody for almost everything, but some selected packages from sid. I'd like to know which packages came from sid. Thanks. $ apt-cache

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:37:29PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: That's exactly the case. The W98 bootdisk has lots of CDROM drivers. The Caldera Lisa even recognized it but I didn't know to get to a shell to install. Am I really stupid?? I could have just switched virtual terminals!!?

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Paul Scott
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:37:29PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: That's exactly the case. The W98 bootdisk has lots of CDROM drivers. The Caldera Lisa even recognized it but I didn't know to get to a shell to install. Am I really stupid?? I could have just switched virtual

Re: exim sending problems (dial-up) need to be masqed?

2001-10-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, October 11, Geoff Beaumont did write: On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:45:45 + john smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am stll having trouble with exim. I need to have my header re-written in order to be able to send messages over the internet since I get this error

X won't start without .xinitrc/.xsession

2001-10-11 Thread Kent West
I'm running XFree86 Version 4.1.1.1 on Debian (Sid) with a 2.4.7 kernel. This is a fresh install. If I create a .xinitrc in my home directory and put a window manager in it, X starts fine. However, without the .xinitrc X won't start. On all other systems I've installed, X starts without a

Re: X won't start without .xinitrc/.xsession

2001-10-11 Thread Marc Wilson
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg4.html Read. On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:45:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I'm running XFree86 Version 4.1.1.1 on Debian (Sid) with a 2.4.7 kernel. This is a fresh install. If I create a .xinitrc in my home directory and put a

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: 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

Re: exim sending problems (dial-up) need to be masqed?

2001-10-11 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:48:27 -0500 (CDT) Richard Cobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? I thought this type of spam-block involved looking up the hostname in DNS, rather than doing a reverse DNS lookup on the IP address. I could be wrong, though. So could I ;c) I've just been looking

.Xdefaults or .Xsession ( Test-post)

2001-10-11 Thread Josef Oswald
Hi all:-) First off I would like to thank all those people who made Debian to what it is now :-) Right now I do use Progeny-Debian, and I like what I see. A couple of questions though: Which version ofg Debian does Progeny use, can I install or mix packages from different distributions? Does

Re: ethernet card IO address

2001-10-11 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake MarceI Figuerola Estrada: This looks to me like you're choosing wrong module. Which card was it ? My card is a standard 100/10M ethernet PCI one. To be exact it's a SURECOM EP-320X-R. lot of snipping Hello, This site http://www.surecom-net.com/support/download/dl-drvs.htm says

Re: How do I install lilo?

2001-10-11 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: HI, I have a quick question. I have a new HD that I used to backup my linux system to part of the drive (the drive also contains NT 4.0). After duplicating the entire HD, I was thinking of making it bootable to linux. Question: how do I install lilo now that the

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:06:21PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: I think I have the CDROM identified and I think I have what I need on the Caldera boot disk but I should be able to find it on the net otherwise. I'm trying to put together a good boot disk tool kit for these situations. Do you

Re: ethernet card IO address

2001-10-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:34:49PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Thus spake MarceI Figuerola Estrada: This looks to me like you're choosing wrong module. Which card was it ? My card is a standard 100/10M ethernet PCI one. To be exact it's a SURECOM EP-320X-R. lot of snipping Hello,

*total* switch of CapsLock and Ctrl

2001-10-11 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I would like to remap CapsLock and LeftCtrl keys on my system - not only for X, but also for console system-wide. Obviously, I have to do better than .Xmodmap. I tried using loadkeys(1) with /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/ctrl.inc but it didn't seem to change anything... What

Kmail won't retrieve local mailbox w/ file locking on

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
I'm using Kmail 1.2 and cannot get it to retrieve my local mbox unless I set it to use no file locking. If I set it to any other type of locking offered in the kmail config screen, the mail just sits in my mbox -- I can get to it through mutt (or by simple cat'ing the file) but not through

fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
So this is admittedly unimportant and frivolous, but when I first saw Debian in use a few years ago, the computer I saw had a fish tank set as the desktop background with fish swimming around, bubbles rising and other cool stuff. (not the screensaver -- the desktop) I always thought it was

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: So this is admittedly unimportant and frivolous, but when I first saw Debian in use a few years ago, the computer I saw had a fish tank set as the desktop background with fish swimming around, bubbles rising and other cool stuff. (not the screensaver

Changing keymap (was Re: question)

2001-10-11 Thread Helmut Trinkl
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:33:01PM +0200, Carl VdB wrote: how can i change my keyboard from qwerty to azerty (or to BE) in my debian bash shell ? # dpkg-reconfigure console-common at least in testing/unstable. Check it up though. Helmut

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: That would be xfishtank Related: I've now seen, twice, a little fish swim across my gnome desktop. I have three widescreen displays so this lasts for several minutes. I think it is an easter egg in Nautilus perhaps? I think it is very endearing.

Re: ethernet card IO address

2001-10-11 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Nathan E Norman: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:34:49PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Thus spake MarceI Figuerola Estrada: This looks to me like you're choosing wrong module. Which card was it ? My card is a standard 100/10M ethernet PCI one. To be exact it's a SURECOM

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Keith Willoughby
Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: That would be xfishtank Related: I've now seen, twice, a little fish swim across my gnome desktop. I have three widescreen displays so this lasts for several minutes. I think it is an easter egg in

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
Related: I've now seen, twice, a little fish swim across my gnome desktop. I have three widescreen displays so this lasts for several minutes. I think it is an easter egg in Nautilus perhaps? So I'm not going crazy! I've seen something similar. I don't have Nautilus installed though.

Re: gotmail

2001-10-11 Thread alephtnull
what did you mean gotmail can deliver the message locally? when I run gotmail from the terminal it does go and get the message. however, I can't find it anywhere in my local machine.. what is also missing in my .procmailrc file? thanks -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Keith Willoughby
Andrew Sione Taumoefolau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Related: I've now seen, twice, a little fish swim across my gnome desktop. I have three widescreen displays so this lasts for several minutes. I think it is an easter egg in Nautilus perhaps? So I'm not going crazy! I've seen

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Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:36:59PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: So this is admittedly unimportant and frivolous, but when I first saw Debian in use a few years ago, the computer I saw had a fish tank set as the desktop background with fish swimming around, bubbles rising and other

Re: gotmail

2001-10-11 Thread Marc Wilson
If that was really your whole .procmailrc, then all the recipies are missing from it, so I dunno what you expect it to be doing when you receive mail. Ok, now as for gotmail delivering the message locally, does the user 'cat' exist on the local machine? When gotmail downloads the message, it's

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