Re: [users] Re: email: Windows (Outlook, Eudora) - Linux

2001-05-16 Thread Viktor Lakics
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:39:45AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15, maj, 2001 at 06:16:09 -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Viktor Lakics (on Tue, 15 May 2001 07:17:09PM +0100): The most comfortable way (I never tried it though) seems to be to have a nice KDE 2.1.1 desktop. I use

Re: sources.list file

2001-05-16 Thread Viktor Lakics
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:13:39PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:40:04PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: Hello, Can somebody tell me what is wrong with the following entries in my sources.list file deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib

Re: perl locale

2001-05-15 Thread Viktor Lakics
Aren't you runnig woody? Two days ago I did an aborted experiment to dist-upgrade from potato to woody. I kept getting the same messages, but before that there was a different perl problem, with a little bit more info (Thanks to the peple on this list I did this upgrade on a clone of my system, so

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Viktor Lakics
Thanks Karsten for the interview, very useful, just some remarks: 1. Opera Opera is in stable 5.0 now (as of yesterday, at least on the ftp server, you might want to give it a try, debs available, it is a very easy call to test) 2. Netscape It is in 4.77 now, and though not much changed, I

Re: email: Windows (Outlook, Eudora) - Linux

2001-05-15 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi, The most comfortable way (I never tried it though) seems to be to have a nice KDE 2.1.1 desktop. I use Debian potato, and noticed, that there is a kmail import utility under Utilities in the KMENU. It imports Outlook express 5.0 folders, and pegasus mail folders. And eudora addressbok. Don't

Re: How many Linux is enough for lilo!?

2001-05-10 Thread Viktor Lakics
Thanks that did it. -- Viktor On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:53:57PM +0100, David Wright wrote: Quoting Viktor Lakics ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I run into a prob with lilo. I want to have two Linuxes on the same hard drive (root partitions /hda8 and /hda9 respectively) and have lilo on the MBR

Re: How the average guy gets mail...

2001-05-09 Thread Viktor Lakics
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:58:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 600 for 10 minutes and add the line to your .xsession profile (name depends on what window manager you use, mines xdm). the correct way is to put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ directory which would be activated as soon as

How many Linux is enough for lilo!?

2001-05-09 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi fellow Debianers, I run into a prob with lilo. I want to have two Linuxes on the same hard drive (root partitions /hda8 and /hda9 respectively) and have lilo on the MBR. Whatever I do, lilo can only recognize the kernel from one root partition. I can have several kernels bootable by lilo, as

Re: XFree 4.0.3 for woody

2001-05-07 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Timo, If I understood correctly, you had potato X3.3.6 and upgraded it to X4.0.3?! Could you please elaborate how did you do it? Didi you have to setup config files by hand or was it setup automatically? On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:09:03PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: How are all the other apps after

Re: mouse wheel scrolling

2001-05-07 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Mitul, On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:58:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get my USB MS Intellimouse to scroll in Linux. have downloaded and installed imwheel 0.9.9. My Pointer section in the XF86Config-4 is as follows. If you are running XF4.0x you do

Re: Unable to start X

2001-05-07 Thread Viktor Lakics
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:20:33AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I just did a dist-upgrade to woody and when I try to start X I get the following error message: X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory) aborting xinit: server error I think somehow you do not have the X server

Cloning your Debian system

2001-05-07 Thread Viktor Lakics
I got a crazy idea: if you want to make 100 % sure that you do not brake your production system, why don't you have an exact copy of that system before you do an upgrade (or just use that system for trying out things, which you cannot afford on your system). I got a spare 2 Gig partition on my

AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, I know this was discussed in this list already, I did my homework, read the archives, but I am still confused. Here is my problem: I have stock potato 2.2.r3 with XFree 3.3.6. and Ivan's KDE for potato. I want to get antialised fonts work n KDE with as less unstable packages as it is

User permissions for an ext2 partition

2001-05-05 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Debian gurus, I have a data partition mounted in /data. I want to read and write the whole partition as a regular user. What should I put into my /etc/fstab? Right now I have: ___/etc/fstab___ # file systemmount pointtype options

xmms and audio cd playing

2001-05-05 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, I used xmms with Mandrake for playing almost everything, mp3, audio CD, oggs wavs etc. Under Debian, I cannot play Audio CDs with xmms. (dedicated CD players work!). Xmms has a audio CD plugin, which I enabled, set the cdrom pointing to the right dir, and now what? How can I tell xmms

How to configure supermount?

2001-05-04 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, I patched the 2.218 kernel with supermount.patch for 2.2.17. There was no error at patching time, but after compiling the kernel it does not seem to work. the /cdrom dir is locked. Does supermount require any more configuration? How? Thanks in advance. -- Viktor

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-05-03 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Mike, Originally this was my question. No it is not a multi-user box, I just wanted my mail downloaded automatically every time I connect, without manually invoking fetchmail... Now it is solved, the prob was that I did not know that for this I have to put my fetchmailrc to /etc on debian --

Supermount patch for 2.2.18pe21 - anyone?!

2001-05-03 Thread Viktor Lakics
debian kernel 2.2.18? TIA -- Viktor Viktor Lakics Through the Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-05-02 Thread Viktor Lakics
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:35:23AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: Why not using /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail ? Note that it uses /etc/init.d/fetchmail which, in turn, needs /etc/fetchmailrc. Please read /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian This was the missing piece of information, thanks. --

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-05-01 Thread Viktor Lakics
. Thanks again, Dave. -- Viktor On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:31:46PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:00:03AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: [...] And I had a file called ip-up.local in /etc/ppp : [...] And at the end of connection I had ip-down.local: [...] I noticed that here

Linux style dialup automatically

2001-04-30 Thread Viktor Lakics
Dear fellow Debianers, I have just come to Debian 3 weeks ago, and still struggle to set up my previous dialup conf using another linux version. Here is what I want: Every time I log on to my isp (from anywhere in my box, could be root, or other users) I want my email downloaded, and sorted to

What extra packages do I need for patching the kernel?

2001-04-30 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, I never needed to compile the kernel until now. I have to patch the kernel, and I would like to know what libraries, packages, programs I need to have on my machine (except the kernel source an headers) in order to do this? I run potato 2.2r3 stable, and at isnstall time I mostly skipped

Re: How to upgrade?

2001-04-29 Thread Viktor Lakics
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:23:19PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: Thanks for the info. And, if I want to upgrade only gnome or gimp thru apt-get, what should I do? Put this in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main Then do apt-get update apt-get install

Sound as an ordinary user - how?

2001-04-28 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Debianers, I cannot play any sound files as an ordinary user, while as root everything works fine (MP3, wav, whatever). I got the message : ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Permission denied Do I have to be a member of some special group (like dialup

Colors in mutt while editing in vim

2001-04-28 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, I saw a lot of those answers to mutt color issues, so I thought I might get lucky and someone knows the answer to my problem: I am moving from Mandrake to Debian (mostly because I do NOT want to do a clean install with every new version of my Linux distro). On mandrake I used mutt with

Re: ximian-gnome-1.4

2001-04-27 Thread Viktor Lakics
Just use dselect, use apt as an access mode, do an update, you will have a list of all ximian packages you can choose from... BTW, to make this work you have to put deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main into /etc/apt/sources.list This is probably the same as you used for

Ximian gnome 1.4

2001-04-25 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, Yesterday I tried to install the now Ximian Gnome 1.4 on potato stable, unsuccesfully. After automatically downloading the installer, then manually downloading the installer, and running it, the installer complains about not having exclusive access to dpkg (it says : could not process

dialup weird problem

2001-03-31 Thread Viktor Lakics
Dear Debianers! I have just installed Debian potato. I have a problem with the dialup internet access. At install time, I configured wvdial succesfully, my external modem was recognised as well. When I dial my isp it connects (pppd started, my modem handshakes etc.), but virtually no connection

Re: Win4Lin (fwd)

2001-03-31 Thread Viktor Lakics
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:28:25AM -0600, stephen wrote: You wrote: Ok... yeah I just check and it seems that they are writing patch for 2.4 kernel but nothing comes out yet. and until I figure out if my UMAX usb scanner and usb logitech webcam pro works under win4lin, I will not buy it.

Re: Linux wannabe

2001-03-26 Thread Viktor Lakics
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:01:40PM -0500, D-Man wrote: I tried LILO myself, and on my machine with my BIOS it didn't work. When asked to add linux to a win2k box at work I tried lilo first. I couldn't get a lilo floppy to dual-boot the system. LILO would also have had trouble on the MBR

PLIP and debian

2001-03-20 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, Has anyone set up PLIP connection between two linux boxes? It would be neat to have this, especially useful for transferring data from your laptop to a desktop? Any personal experience, or pointers are appreciated... TIA-- Viktor Viktor Lakics Through the Internet