Re: Pregunta sobre la Ge Force II (X-window)

2001-02-17 Thread ESTEBAN P OSSES ANGUITA
hola, segzn entiendo, esa tarjeta esta soportada en el XFree 4.0 ... ademas, en el sitio de nvidia existe otro server para la tarjeta, q' creo q' tb funciona con XFree 4.0 espero q' te sirva .. nos leemos, esteban On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, =?iso-8859-1?q?oliver=20Fornell?= wrote: No tengo ni

Comsat

2001-02-17 Thread Hue-Bond
Repetidas veces durante el día me sale en los logs un ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from localhost [127.0.0.1] Le consulto al icmpinfo y me dice: Feb 17 11:14:23 ICMP_Dest_Unreachable[Port] 127.0.0.1 - 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 sp=64520 dp=512

funcion mount y NFS

2001-02-17 Thread Javi Roman
Hola, estoy intentando montar una un directorio por NFS mediante un programita. Intento usar la funcion mount de glibc. Segun man 2 mount es posible esta idea pasando una estructura como ultimo parametro a la funcion: int mount(const char *fespecial, const char * dir , const char *

Re: problemas de instalacion de argus.1.8.1

2001-02-17 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Podrías darnos más información sobre argus o una dirección URL? Quizás sirva tambien si detallas los problemas: compilación, configuración ??? Javi On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:09:24PM +0100, Izabela Katerina Kot wrote: Hola. Soy Izabela Katerina.Me encuentro con

Re: Manual APT

2001-02-17 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
En www.laespiral.org hay un mini-como sobre apt, sino esta disponible en http://www.dat.etsit.upm.es/~jfs/debian/doc/es/contribuciones Javi On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:29:09PM -0500, David Felipe Arias Ochoa wrote: en que lugar puedo encotnra un buen manual, practico teorica de

Error: isdn_tx_timeout dev ippp0 dialstate 0

2001-02-17 Thread mogas
Hola gente, Cuando trato de conectar con RDSI con el mandato 'isdnctrl dial ippp0' me aparece el mensaje del Asunto, creo tener bien configurado los ficheros de /etc/isdn. Alguien me puede orientar en porque sucedo esto y como solucionarlo? Gracias a todos, Santi Moreno [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cliente y servidor PPP

2001-02-17 Thread José Luis Ayala
Hola a todos... Acabo de configurar el ordenador de mi casa como servidor PPP (así puedo conectarme desde el laboratorio) con mgetty. Sin embargo, aunque éste funciona correctamente, me he cargado la posibilidad de conectarme como cliente PPP. Ahora, cuando lanzo el pppd, no se

Re: Leer una tubería en perl

2001-02-17 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 16 de febrero de 2001 a la(s) 22:10:50 +0100, Hue-Bond contaba: El texto va por la tubería y aparece en pantalla porque el servidor lo imprime. PERO! desde este momento, el servidor se pone a comsumir frenéticamente todo el micro que puede. #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: como desistalo el portmap ?

2001-02-17 Thread aSkAiNeT
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:18:25 +0100 Prosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, en /etc/rc2.d no tengo nada que llame al portmap y este se inicia es este nivel... hola, lo tienes en /etc/rcS.d/S41portmap como hago pa que no se inicie? simplemente renombra el fichero a s41portmap, la s minuscula

¿Red com Mulinux como?

2001-02-17 Thread José Miguel Sisó Espitia
Hola: Sigo con el problema de red, aunque algo se ha solucionado gracias a vuestras contestaciones. Ahora ya he conseguido hacer ping a la tarjeta de cada equipo, pero no puedo hacerlo desde un equipo a otro. Creo que problema de cable no

problemas con las librerias y las X

2001-02-17 Thread Oscar Ramos Moreno
Buenas compañeros poetas: Hace un par de semanas por requerimientos de un programa de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme me vi obligado a actualizar libc6. La cosa iba bien hasta q enderrepente y por sorpresa el gnome dejo de funcionar. Realmente esto ocurrió la siguiente vez q arranque el

para diego

2001-02-17 Thread laura diaz
me lo pasaron en la oficina en www.signalar.com podes registrar gratis tu dominio y te dan hosting y mails sin cargo con dominio propio. yo puse la pagina ahi!! miralo y contame!! besos

Re: Netscape

2001-02-17 Thread Gerardo Lopez
Asunto: Re: Netscape Fecha: Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 04:35:55PM +0100 Time to reply! Citando a Ricardo Villalba ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A mi me pasaba lo mismo y lo dejé por imposible. Consejo: usa el kmail. Una cosilla: ¿que os parece postilion? Yo lo he probado y me ha dejado

Re: ¿Red com Mulinux como?

2001-02-17 Thread Rafa Sánchez
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, José Miguel Sisó Espitia wrote: Si hago un route -n en el amd me contesta: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0

pregunta.

2001-02-17 Thread Mig
Recuerdo que hace mucho tiempo yo podia ver los errores del kernel cuando se iniciaba linux con el comando dmesg, pero ahora no lo puedo hacer, alguien sabe como puedo ver esos errores o donde puedo consultarlos, estoy intentando ver los errores que me marca con la tarjeta de sonido, al arrancar

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
I agree with Carel. As long as X read from /dev/gpmdata (most sane configuration but too many people disregards...), reboot is not needed for KB/mouse initialization. I just unplugged my mouse while in X4, replug -- cant move, restrted gpm to initialize, there I go again. By the way, when you

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:19:29PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a reboot to do this. Did you reboot after

Re: DSL NT

2001-02-17 Thread wujf
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:43:57PM +0100, Erich Baur wrote: Hi *, Since some days I'm able to access the internet through a MS Proxy Server (MS Proxy Server 2.0 runs on a NT machine in a network). I just had to change to Browser/Proxy settings to the right values. But how is it possible to

Modules, modprobe, and 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-17 Thread Dean A. Roman
Hello all, I recently configured, compiled, and installed the 2.4.1 kernel. So far things are going ok with it. However, modprobe has stopped working correctly, and can't find any modules. I looked in /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net and found drivers (3c509.o) for the modules I

Modules, modprobe, and 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-17 Thread Dean A. Roman
Hello all, I recently configured, compiled, and installed the 2.4.1 kernel. So far things are going ok with it. However, modprobe has stopped working correctly, and can't find any modules. I looked in /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net and found drivers (3c509.o) for the modules I am

Dreamt of Debian ...

2001-02-17 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Okay, this is too much. I just dreamed of Debian programming. I don't know the details anymore, but ithad something to do with a package being split into others and the resulting dependencies problems. The dream also included my university and high school. For some reason I had to go

RE: Newbie

2001-02-17 Thread #KUNDAN KUMAR#
I am surprised!! What's the TV tuner card doing here? I don't have one. When might it have seeped into? How should I remove it. Moreover, there are no modules for my sound-card snd-ymf-pci. What shoud I do to get my sound card sonfigured? Kundan -Original Message- From: Jimmy Kaplowitz

HDDs (Re: Rebooting is foolish .... )

2001-02-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:41:04 +0100, William Leese writes: ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe? I use

Where is tbackup?

2001-02-17 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, A long time ago, back in the days when I used slackware, I used a backup program called tbackup. I have been looking for the Debian package of it and can't find it! Is it not packaged? From memory it was quite a good program. I can't think why it would not be packaged. It is released

Re: debian command list

2001-02-17 Thread sc
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:40:19AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi all... I'm looking for a web site that would have a nice list and basic description of debian commands. Anyone know of such a place? or even just linux commands for that matter... I know this isn't what you're

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-17 Thread sc
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a few friends who are interested in (trying)linux. For TRYING purposes I want them to use a debian based Linux. I love using debian 2.2 and I am pretty new my-self(1.5 year). I think it might be a little to overwelming for them. I

Re: Modules, modprobe, and 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Dean A. Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Hello all, # #I recently configured, compiled, and installed the 2.4.1 kernel. So # far things are going ok with it. # # However, modprobe has stopped working correctly, and can't find any # modules. Chances are, you need a newer version of

libgal2 package missing from mirrors, which have link to libgal2

2001-02-17 Thread Jameson Burt
gnumeric 0.61-1 (sid) requires libgal2, but while debian's mirrors pretend to serve libgal2; eg, thru http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages those links lead to no such package. Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 - Very low resolution - how to increase?

2001-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 2001, Martin Albert wrote: On Friday 16 February 2001 09:41, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm currently confused about X-4. I've been keeping up to date with Testing and now I don't know which version of X I'm running. My driver is xserver-svga 3.3.6X. I tried running xf86config and

How to compile for debugging (APT)?

2001-02-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to compile a debian package, specifically apt, for debugging? I got curious about some odd apt-get behavior (posted here previously) and wanted to try to track it down. Easier said than done! I think the problem is that I'm linking with my main

Re: Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
For my (little home) servers, I always try a reboot after I installed something regarding to the things it serves. If something goes wrong (power failure, accicent, etc) I know that the vital parts work directly 100% after reboot. As for my client/workstation system, I have to reboot when I need

Re: Modules, modprobe, and 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Have you installed the latest modutils? Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dean A. Roman wrote: Hello all, I recently configured, compiled, and installed the 2.4.1 kernel. So far things are going ok with it. However, modprobe has stopped working correctly, and can't find any

Re: Modules, modprobe, and 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: To quote Dean A. Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Hello all, # #I recently configured, compiled, and installed the 2.4.1 kernel. So # far things are going ok with it. # # However, modprobe has stopped working correctly, and can't find any #

library's hiding?

2001-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I try to run a program, but it seems that it cannot find the librarys needed. With ldd, I see that the following librarys can not be found: libXt.so.6 libXext.so.6 libX11.so.6 They are all present in /usr/X11R6/lib directory. My /etc/ld.so.conf contains, among others, this directory too.

Re: XFree86 agpgart.o

2001-02-17 Thread peter
hi thx for the response... i solved the problem in another way... i got me the binaries for xfree86 4.0.2 and installed them over the old stuff... finally it worked :-) kde is up and running... greets peter Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 23:39 schrieben Sie: I used the i810gtt-0.2-4.src.rpm and

gmc mime-types question

2001-02-17 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I am trying gmc (gnome midnight commander) and I find it pretty fast and usable, but I have one major problem. Whenever I set up a mime type for a mime type, that allready had a program (to open with) set and change it it makes no effect, the files still try to be opened with the old programe

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Martin Tanzer
John Galt wrote: --- snip --- Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a reboot to do this. Did you reboot after running fdisk when installing Debian? I definitely have to reboot installing my alphas. I don't know if I had to reboot the machine with the

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-17 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello, IIRC, when I first tried X 4 I tried compiling the mga driver into the kernel and had crashes. Since then I compiled it as a driver and it's been ok. Strange, as it works in 16bpp. I can't think of anything else to try, other than checking everything again. I would have thought that as

Re: Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...

2001-02-17 Thread John Quirk
hogan wrote: Can I make the onboard and oncard ttyS's play nice on same IRQ? or should I play musical jumpers until they're on separate IRQs? What I did when presented with this problem was to do a bit of surgery on the old ISA board and change its IRQ to a spare in the computer I

Where are the iso images for woody?

2001-02-17 Thread mgriffa
I guess the subject is clear enougth, does woody come with XFree4.0 and kde2?

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-17 Thread Lute Mullenix
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 01:18:21AM -0600, sc wrote: I guess it depends on your friends. A friend of mine introduced me to Debian when I had a dormant P133 w/32MB of RAM. Only reason I used Debian was because he introduced it to me. I had no meaningful UNIX knowledge, and I'm not a

Re: Where are the iso images for woody?

2001-02-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED], # I guess the subject is clear enougth, does woody come with XFree4.0 and # kde2? There are currently no Woody ISOs. Whether Woody will have XFree86 4.0.x or KDE2 will be determined when Woody is frozen, or when the part of Woody that those packages are in is frozen.

Re: ls no longer uses @ when -F is used

2001-02-17 Thread Jim Meyering
John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi. I am using 4.0.35 (using Debian unstable distribution) and if I | use ls -1 -F all the links to directories have a slash at the end | instead of @ . | | Any workaround or is new version coming out to fix this? Thanks for the report. However, I can't

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-17 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 17 February 2001 07:40, Lute Mullenix wrote: Compared to that, Debian is a breeze. I see it like the old driving a car comparison, they just want to turn the key and drive, they don't want to change the plugs, let alone the water pump. They are just unwilling to expend the time

Re: Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...

2001-02-17 Thread hogan
What I did when presented with this problem was to do a bit of surgery on the old ISA board and change its IRQ to a spare in the computer I was using. I cut one track solder a wire the new interrupt pad to get it to work. With setserial and this setup I was able to run four Serial Terminals of

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-17 Thread hogan
I did my time with a Coco and OS9 as well. I can relate utterly to OS9? Geez.. Awhile since I booted the old TRS80 and CoCo3 with that :) - I should dig them up for old times sake - had fun playing Kings Quest under OS9 on CoCo3 :) I had to laugh when Apple brought out OS9 :) ... had more

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-17 Thread Cam Ellison
sc wrote: I'm not sure why Debian gets such low marks for newbies. Great for learning Linux because everything's not hidden behind a control panel. Not for every newbie, but it now has some reputation of eating every newbie for breakfast which is too bad. I have had my problems with it,

news server setup

2001-02-17 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings -- My ISP is once again changing Usenet providers, meaning that I'm going to have to deal with the whole article renumbering mess. Grrr. (Did I mention that this has happened before?) I've decided that enough is enough, and it's time to

Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x

2001-02-17 Thread Nils Crefeld
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:05:42PM +0100, peter wrote: with apt-get update you receive the package informations (provided by /etc/apt/sources.list)... with apt-get install packagename you get the wanted packages... but it's usefull (when dealing with woody) to use apt-get -s install

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Cam Ellison
Osamu Aoki wrote: I agree with Carel. As long as X read from /dev/gpmdata (most sane configuration but too many people disregards...), reboot is not needed for KB/mouse initialization. I just unplugged my mouse while in X4, replug -- cant move, restrted gpm to initialize, there I go

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 - Very low resolution - how to increase?

2001-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
I have similar problem on ATI mach64 system. After checking system, I found FB support is enabled only on Matrox system, if you are using default kernel. I recompiled kernel with ATI, VGA, SVGA enabled. Now my boot console screen goes crazy. I am playing with it now. (Teleneting from other

Re: real unsubscribing problems

2001-02-17 Thread USM Bish
I am leaving town for two weeks ... Unsuscribed about 20 min back using the usual blank message as described below all mails. Confirmation msg was received within 5 min .. No problems at the debain-user end .. at least for today. Will be with you again ... shortly USM Bish On Fri,

Re: how to remove auto start to X

2001-02-17 Thread USM Bish
Indeed ... that sure will work. Uninstalling will remove everything. As a matter of fact AFAIK the post-removal script of packages call update-rc.d! Since the package itself is not the offender, it does not seem necessary to remove the package. If xdm/ gdm (whatever) needs to be reactivated,

Re: Fetchmail Sendmail

2001-02-17 Thread Nils Crefeld
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: When fetchmail gets mail, I think it passes it to sendmail which checks to make sure the domain exists. Today, my DNS servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf were down, and all the mail I fetched got bounced and lost. I'd like for this

Re: general kernel question

2001-02-17 Thread c-3
Date sent: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:57:59 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Erik van Roode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: general kernel question Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org At 10:32 PM 2/16/01

how to use gnapster....more generally...where to find cool music/sounds?

2001-02-17 Thread Walter Tautz
i must confess I just managed to get my sound card to work. I was wondering how to subscribe to napsterI am guessing because of the legal case against napster that one can not subscribe? I notice that newsgroups have a lot of files... any advice on how to find interesting sounds/music etc.

Re: OT: Use xearth in term window?

2001-02-17 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:13:39AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, Is there anyway of getting xearth in a terminal window and not the default root window? The man pages has nothing but I was wondering... Try xplanet, it has a -window option plus it supports nicer bitmaps, cloud overlays,

Re: general kernel question

2001-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, c-3 wrote: Date sent:Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:57:59 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Erik van Roode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general kernel question Forwarded by:

Re: library's hiding?

2001-02-17 Thread Carl Greco
Run the following command and check for errors: ldconfig -nv /usr/X11R6/lib Sebastiaan writes: Hi, I try to run a program, but it seems that it cannot find the librarys needed. With ldd, I see that the following librarys can not be found: libXt.so.6 libXext.so.6 libX11.so.6 They are all

Re: how to use gnapster....more generally...where to find cool music/sounds?

2001-02-17 Thread Hall Stevenson
i must confess I just managed to get my sound card to work. I was wondering how to subscribe to napsterI am guessing because of the legal case against napster that one can not subscribe? I notice that newsgroups have a lot of files... any advice on how to find interesting sounds/music

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:19:28AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: ... By the way, when you have buggy multi-PC KB switcher, and KB goes crazy, restarting gpm also intialize KB nicely. OK, I'll offer a test. I do have a keyboard I want to try, and I don't want to go through

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: On Saturday 17 February 2001 10:13, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote: Why am I pegging away with Linux? If I start the Windows Setup right now, my system will work completely in less than 1 hour I'm feeling 20 years in the past, when configuring all

Re: OT: Use xearth in term window?

2001-02-17 Thread Jonathan Gift
Dave Thayer wrote: Is there anyway of getting xearth in a terminal window and not the default root window? The man pages has nothing but I was wondering... Try xplanet, it has a -window option plus it supports nicer bitmaps, cloud overlays, other planets your pal dave

could not autodetect X server: *discover* not found

2001-02-17 Thread MH
Does anybody know where is discover or did anybody experience a similar error message in the latest xfree-xserver-update in unstable? MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D/0B56B518 key:

ipppd deletes default route

2001-02-17 Thread Jens Müller
I have a Woody system (up-to-date), and isdnutils is set up in the standard way. in device.ippp0, the default route is being set, i.e., right after typing /etc/init.d/restart, a default route to ippp0 is set. But when I dial out with isdnctrl dial ippp0, the default route is being deleted. The

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-17 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 17 February 2001 11:46, Anthony Campbell wrote: Well put. But the original poster said he was using *SUSE*. Now, if only he had been using Debian... I have run SuSE as well as Debian. I went through the learning hurdles Jan is talking about with Slackware. In terms if his

Re: library's hiding?

2001-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, it gives no errors. It shows all the libs and to which they are linked to. Perhaps there is a problem because the program is 'old' (1998) and uses the old binary format (cannot remember which). Thanks, Sebastiaan On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Carl Greco wrote: Run the following command and check

Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. Over the last several months, I've been having increasing pain in my right wrist. A co-worker suggested that this is due to problems with standard mice and recommended that I try a trackball instead. So, I'm looking for a trackball that will work well with potato/X. My primary

dmesg size too small

2001-02-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi, I'm kind of stumped over the dmesg size. I did a search on it and found some are considering a patch to provide on the fly dmesg buffer size etc... What I need to do is find the output of several onboard cards - video and sound. I have found the driver for the video (go XF86Setup!) but

Re: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-17 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 17 February 2001 12:18, Richard Cobbe wrote: * the ball should be under my fingers, not my thumb, as it generates the most pain. A pity, that. I've been using a Logitech Trackman Marble since Christmas and I really like it. Best $40 I've spent in a while. -- Bud Rogers [EMAIL

Re: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have been using AlfaData's trackballs almost half my life now. Perhaps they make them now with PS/2 and the third button enabled, *IF* they are still in production. The biggest advanture is that they have a really big ball, so you can scroll over your screen in notime and retain accurecy.

Re: could not autodetect X server: *discover* not found

2001-02-17 Thread Mike McGuire
Does anybody know where is discover or did anybody experience a similar error message in the latest xfree-xserver-update in unstable? Apparently, it autodetects the video driver X should use, and apt looks for it in the configure part of installing the X packages. You shouldn't have to

Re: 2 simple questions

2001-02-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Brad, Looks like you just need/want to edit the Message Of The Day (/etc/motd) file. Don't run gnome here - sri. On Friday 16 February 2001 06:54, Brad Cramer wrote: I am not really new to linux (used Redhat for 3 years) but I am a recent Debian convert and I have a coulpe of simple

Re: Trackpoint and serial mouse simultaneously

2001-02-17 Thread Stefan Baums
Sorry to answer my own question, but a bit of research revealed that while Xfree86 3.3 knows only one pointer, gpm can manage multiple ones for it. My /etc/gpm.conf now has: device=/dev/psaux type=ps2 append=-M -t mman -m /dev/ttyS0 and the pointer section in /etc/X11/XF86Config is:

Trackpoint and serial mouse simultaneously

2001-02-17 Thread Stefan Baums
Dear list, I'm running an HP Omnibook 5500 laptop here, and would like to use, under X, the internal TrackPoint pointing device and an external serial mouse at the same time (i. e., without restarting X to make the switch). More generally, is it possible to have more than one Pointer device for

ipppd deletes default route

2001-02-17 Thread Jens Müller
I have a Woody system (up-to-date), and isdnutils is set up in the standard way. in device.ippp0, the default route is being set, i.e., right after typing /etc/init.d/restart, a default route to ippp0 is set. But when I dial out with isdnctrl dial ippp0, the default route is being deleted. The

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
I have crashed my share of drives too. What I learned is that I get the very best luck out of Western Digital. Of all the WD drives, I only killed one - and that was purely my fault - 1500Watts of RF without benefit of an RF ground = bad/evil/smoke producing things to computers :) Yet WD

Re: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, February 17, Sebastiaan did write: Hi, I have been using AlfaData's trackballs almost half my life now. Perhaps they make them now with PS/2 and the third button enabled, *IF* they are still in production. Is this www.alfadata.com? If so, it would appear that they no

Re: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, February 17, Bud Rogers did write: On Saturday 17 February 2001 12:18, Richard Cobbe wrote: * the ball should be under my fingers, not my thumb, as it generates the most pain. A pity, that. Truly---it's starting to cause problems when I write for long stretches at a

Re: library's hiding?

2001-02-17 Thread Carl Greco
Check that the libs actually exist, i.e., my potato (patched to current release) has the following: peregrine:/etc/init.d# ldconfig -nv /usr/X11R6/lib ldconfig: version 1.9.11 /usr/X11R6/lib: libXaw3d.so.6 = libXaw3d.so.6.1 libforms.so.0.88 = libforms.so.0.88

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-17 Thread John Carline
Forrest English wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 03:40:00 +, John Carline whispered to the router: Ahhh.. 'scuse me, I didn't whisper. I said it loud and clear. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !! !! I got a few friends who are interested in (trying)linux. For TRYING purposes I want them to use a

Debian floppy images questions

2001-02-17 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I have CD's 2.2r0 but a machine that doesn't boot from CD's. I have another machine that I can make the rescue and other floppies. The install/doc/ch-install-methods.en.html suggests four disk sets, vanilla, compact, idepci or udma66. The cd's have compact, idepci, safe, and udma66 and the

Can't send email from machine configured for DHCP

2001-02-17 Thread idalton
Okay. I have one machine set up as a gateway, and I'm using exim with some rewriting rules for my email gateway. It's been working fine for years, but now I set up a machine with DHCP, and I find I can't send email outside my network from that machine. It looks like this is happening because the

Leafnode not getting news

2001-02-17 Thread Glyn Millington
I'm having trouble with Leafnode - moving back from Emacs/Gnus to Vim/Mutt/Slrn, I wiped out the /var/spool/news folder. Long story! I've replaced the folder (as user news) and leafnode has donme it's magic and set up subfolder for the groups I want to read. But the articles aren't coming

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-17 Thread Lute Mullenix
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:55:12PM +, John Carline wrote: And I no idea why you do that because I haven't found any of those distributions to be easier - only different. what is it about debian that inspires such zealotry? Quality software, the ideals of the Free Software

No panel under KDE

2001-02-17 Thread Daniel Jones
Relative newbie running Debian 2.2. I've removed and reinstalled KDE twice via dselect and consistently get the same situation: I do not get a panel under KDE. I only get a desktop with a couple of icons. I can manually run kselect, which lets me set the options on the panel but the panel

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Cam, That really sounds like it could be fun! Just thinking here, how to pull off that ... How about using an 'at'command. give yourself 2 minutes to change the kb, at will restart gpm then do it again 2 minutes later so you can see if new stuff works, and if it doesn't gives you time to

Re: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Saturday, February 17, Sebastiaan did write: Hi, I have been using AlfaData's trackballs almost half my life now. Perhaps they make them now with PS/2 and the third button enabled, *IF* they are still in production. Is this

WindowMaker install trouble

2001-02-17 Thread Debian User
When trying to select wmaker, wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data. A conflict saying wmakerconf requires a higher level version of wmaker than is available, I use Debian Woody, and this has a been a problem for some time now. I tried debian's ftp site and couldn't find a higher version. When will this be

Re: library's hiding?

2001-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, yes, that is all correct too. Thanks, Sebastiaan On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Carl Greco wrote: Check that the libs actually exist, i.e., my potato (patched to current release) has the following: peregrine:/etc/init.d# ldconfig -nv /usr/X11R6/lib ldconfig: version 1.9.11 /usr/X11R6/lib:

Re: No panel under KDE

2001-02-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Humm... I think the .kde dir still lives even if you compltely remove kde with dselect.. SO, if you want a complete new install with defualt values, might be a good idea following the removal to do a locate kde and see what comes up. example: locate kde | grep /home/yourusername | less So

Partitioning a large drive.

2001-02-17 Thread Lute Mullenix
Ok, here's my situation. I was planning on doing the switch to Debian in the near future, but it came sooner than expected when the HD in my Brand X distro machine bellied up on me. So I went down and picked up a new 30 gig unit and it now sits in my Pentium machine eagerly awaiting a new OS. I am

Re: Linux Professional Institute

2001-02-17 Thread Gary Jones
On 16 Feb 2001, another spammer wrote: P.S.: This is not spam mail. It is Unsolicited. It is Commercial (and Bulk) It is Email. It is spam, QED. Send complaints as normal, folks. -- Gary Debian 2.1r4 (kernel v2.0.39); XFree86 3.3.6 Ghastly .sigs, have they no ending?

How do I get X configured and get rid of vga16fb console mode?

2001-02-17 Thread FBacon197
A few days ago, I made my leap into Linux world by installing Debian 2.2r0 onto my 400 MHz AMD K6-2 system. Things have gone fairly well, but there were a couple of things that got fouled up that I can't seem to fix: [1] The X Window system didn't get configured properly. The xviddetect

Re: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-17 Thread Mike
Richard Cobbe wrote: snip So, I'm looking for a trackball that will work well with potato/X. My primary goals: snip requirements Do people have any other recommendations for trackballs (or other pointing devices, for that matter)? I've got a Belkin Trackmaster (model F8E189) here. It's a

Re: RPC call returned error 111

2001-02-17 Thread Norman Walsh
Sorry to be a pest. Are there really no other suggestions for fixing this problem? Upgrading net-tools didn't help... / Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I recently did and update/upgrade for the latest unstable (yeah, yeah, | silly me :-), and now I get the following messages

annoying modules.dep message

2001-02-17 Thread Dave Bresson
Hi, Just a quick question that shouldn't be too hard to answer. Since rolling my own 2.4.1 kernel, I'm getting this annoying message during bootup that i can't get to go away: modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.1/modules.dep i tried doing a 'depmod -a'

Re: apt-get via firewall

2001-02-17 Thread hanasaki
I have squid proxying ftp/http on my firewall. Thus, I cna see web pages from behind a firewall. I do not want to put a hole in the firewall to let people on the instide directly communicate with the outside via http or ftp. My netscape browser has a place to configure ftp/http/https firewalls

Re: news server setup

2001-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
John S. J. Anderson wrote: Is there any relatively-newbie-level guide to setting up a Usenet server under Debian (or under Linux, period)? I'm looking for something that discusses the pros and cons of the available options (inn vs. inn2 vs. leafnode vs. ...) and how to set each of them up to

Re: apt-get via firewall

2001-02-17 Thread David Z Maze
hanasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: h I have squid proxying ftp/http on my firewall. Thus, I cna see web pages h from behind a firewall. I do not want to put a hole in the firewall to h let people on the instide directly communicate with the outside via http h or ftp. h h My netscape browser

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