What just happened?

2003-01-18 Thread Steve Juranich
I was catching up on my Dilbert funnies when all of a sudden my GNOME session died, and X restarted. I didn't get any error messages, but I found these in /var/log/syslog. Jan 17 23:55:13 coffee gconfd (steve-6943): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly Jan 17 23:55:13 coffee gconfd (steve-

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 20:28, Erinn wrote: > > I never really considered Debian to be for more advanced users. I > > installed it just fine back when hamm was current. Granted, the > > installer can use some work, and I hear that boot-floppies is being > > replaced in favor of debian-installer. >

kernel-headers & compiling source

2003-01-18 Thread Jeff Penn
I have read through the kernel-header docs, & am still not sure I understand what they are for. I assumed that they enable source to be compiled when using a kernel-image. If this is correct, what is the procedure for compiling i2c-source or lm-sensors-source?. thanks Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: MOUSE won't function

2003-01-18 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:43:04AM -0800, Joris > Huizer wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > First of all, sory about the number of mails I > > allready have sent about this subject - I just > want to > > get debian working as soon as possible and it > seems >

Re: Nautilus load problems

2003-01-18 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Greetings, On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Robert Rati wrote: > I'm running unstable with gnome2, and nautilus has recently started > going nuts. When nautilus tries to load, it takes 100% of the CPU and > then endlessly starts popping up windows, all of which fail to load > properly. It spews out error me

help with hfc_pci

2003-01-18 Thread mess-mate
Hi, on a 'make dep' ( kernel 2.4.20) I've the following error: md5sum: can't open hfc_pci What about hfc_pci and is there anything I omit to download or mis-configured ? Thanks for your help. Debian Woody. mess-mate -- Computers are like air conditioners, they are useless when you open Windows.

Compiler error: C compiler cannot create executables

2003-01-18 Thread Achton N. Netherclift
Hi, I am using Debian Woody on an AMD Duron PC. Things are running smoothly, except that I can't compile anything. When running any configure-script, I receive errors like the following: = Latest PHP5 snapshot: checking for gcc... gcc checking

Re: Compiler error: C compiler cannot create executables

2003-01-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:07:24PM +0100, Achton N. Netherclift wrote: [snip] > According to packages.debian.org, the file that is missing according to > the config.logs (crt1.o) is contained in the libc6-dev package. The file is > missing on my system, so I attempt to install it: AFAIK crt1.o wou

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fluxbox-users] Fluxbox and Redhat 8.0]

2003-01-18 Thread clemens kurtenbach
Hi, try to start fluxbox from an executable .xsession in your $HOME Are you sure it has to be executable? sure!, when i do 'chmod -x .xsession' and login, my old gnome comes up ... greets ck -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

mouse [still] not functioning

2003-01-18 Thread Joris Huizer
Hi everybody, As some of you allready knows I've got many problems to get an USB mouse working (I only have that USB mouse) I found I still have got some boot info of Redhat, which was in use on this computer before I installed Debian. I included a tar file which includes: - mouse-log-debian.txt

Re: Nautilus load problems

2003-01-18 Thread mobtek mobtekl
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:37:48 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcin Fusinski) banged a keyboard: wow you can load gnome2 in unstable atm? I can even get gnome2 to start, or anything that interacts with gconf2 either, so I'm writing this from kde land [;P cheers Peter van der Male > Greetings, > > On F

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Re: Heretic2 install-trouble

2003-01-18 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 17 Jan 2003 7:46 pm, Claus Christian Larsen wrote: > >Do anyone knows how to install heretic2 on debian 3.0 geforce2 ? > > clalar@debian:~$ su > Password: > debian:/home/clalar# cd /cdrom > debian:/cdrom# sh setup.sh > Unable to find file 'bin/x86/heretic2' > > > debian:/cdrom# ls > Manu

Re: ATI rage Mobility M1 and 3D accerelation

2003-01-18 Thread Tom Badran
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 12:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > perhaps glx gears is designed to run in software No it isnt. If you X is in anything other thatn 16bpp then you 3d acceleration will be shite with this card. The simple test is to run glxinfo and see if you have the line: Direct Rende

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.11.1817 +0100]: > > See my other post. If I then get a friend over who wants to connect > > (legitimally) through wireless but doesn't have IPsec, he won't be > > able to... > > Then take a look at http://nocat.net/ should do what your tryi

Block access in Apache

2003-01-18 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, There's a guy who's troubling my girlfriend by adding smut-talk messages to our guestbook at our site. He's a dynamic IP-adress, so I want to know: is there a way to block hostnames so he can't access our site? Kind regards, Willem-Jan Meijer <-- Alle inkomende en uitgaande e-mail worden

Switching smart relays automatically in Exim...

2003-01-18 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I use my laptop both at home and at work. I've been completely unable to send email to a few mailing lists for some reason, and have narrowed it down to Exim complaining about retry timeouts connecting to their mail servers. When I switched to using my ISP's smart relay, everything started work

Re: Nautilus load problems

2003-01-18 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Greetings, On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, mobtek mobtekl wrote: > wow you can load gnome2 in unstable atm? I can even get gnome2 to start, > or anything that interacts with gconf2 either, so I'm writing this from > kde land [;P Yes, I can (dist-upgraded last this morning). Mind you, the mirror I usually upg

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-18 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Deb

Re: DHCP prob (woody)

2003-01-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
What happens when you try to get the address manually? Try typing: dhclient eth0 as root and report back the results. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel

2.4.20 kernel crashes while scanning partition list (fwd)

2003-01-18 Thread Peter Karlsson
I am installing Debian Linux on my new Athlon XP PC, and I have problems with the 2.4.20 kernel crashing on boot. I can successfully boot using the 2.4.18 kernel build that is included with the Debian 3.0 install cds. The problems seems to stem from my use of Promise FastTrak133 RAID controller (y

Re: Block access in Apache

2003-01-18 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:21:50PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > There's a guy who's troubling my girlfriend by adding smut-talk messages to > our guestbook at our site. He's a dynamic IP-adress, so I want to know: is > there a way to block hostnames so he can't access our site? You can use "d

Unable to get IP address after new kernel compile

2003-01-18 Thread Ajay Gautam
Hello, I compiled 2.4.18 (from the debian disks), and installed it. Unfortunately, when I use the new kernel, I do not get an ipaddress from my cable modem (dhclient eth0), but if I use the old kernel (2.2.20), I am able to get an IP address ? Any idea whats up ? Thanks Ajay Gautam = Ajay

Changeover of SCSI buses

2003-01-18 Thread Phil Reynolds
I have been using Debian for some time now, and over that time have acquired several new items of hardware. I have a CD writer, which is IDE, and therefore needs SCSI emulation. This was always device 0,1,0 when specifed to cdrecord. I also have a digital camera, which is USB mass storage. I know

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-18 Thread John Hasler
Erinn writes: > It's not so much that debian is difficult to use, but it doesn't > automatically detect hardware as well as the more commercial, friendlier > distro's. Debian includes several hardware detection packages (kudzu, for example). It just doesn't have one in the installer. -- John Hasl

Fwd: mouse [still] not functioning

2003-01-18 Thread Joris Huizer
The attaching must have gone wrong ... here's the attachment --- Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 03:59:09 -0800 (PST) > From: Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: mouse [still] not functioning > To: debian user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi everybody, > > As

re: KDE 3.0.5a on Sid

2003-01-18 Thread mobtek mobtekl
Hi guys, Anyone using KDE 3.0.5a on Sid? Any problems/issues I should know about before upgrading? Advice and or experience would be appreciated. cheers Peter van der Male -- -- "For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest." or -- "Sono kaeru o nameru na. Genkaku o okosaseru." "Do

Re: installation date

2003-01-18 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:44:46 +0100 Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Is there a way to find out which packages were installed / > re-installed recently, to find out which packages were updated > after a certain date, or to get a list of installed packages > sorted by installation date/time? I don't know

Re: Unable to get IP address after new kernel compile

2003-01-18 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Ajay Gautam wrote: Hello, I compiled 2.4.18 (from the debian disks), and installed it. Unfortunately, when I use the new kernel, I do not get an ipaddress from my cable modem (dhclient eth0), but if I use the old kernel (2.2.20), I am able to get an IP address ? Any idea whats up ? Yup. I thi

Re: Unable to get IP address after new kernel compile

2003-01-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
WHat happens when you try to get it? Try, as root, dhclient eth0 and report back the results. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MOUSE won't function

2003-01-18 Thread Kent West
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:43:04AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: I just want to get debian working as soon as possible and it seems the *only* problem right now is the lame mouse... I had a look at the page. However, it says I have to run: gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 (which doesn't do a

sid: gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030109 (Debian prerelease) strange!

2003-01-18 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, trying to compile c++ programs that I developed with gcc 2.9 I get the following errors: ../List/List.o(.text+0xcd): In function `List::~List [not-in-charge]()': : undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)' ../List/List.o(.text+0x169): In function `List::~List [in-charge]()': : und

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-18 Thread Alaa The Great
On 18 Jan 2003 03:46:40 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Me too!! Started w/ Mandrake, but when RPM Hell bit me one too > many times, I made the jump... I started with debian (potato) freaked out, moved to mandrake and now I just moved back to debian last week, and I have to say

Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-18 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I just got a new motherboard and cpu: asus a7n266-vm with amd xp 1800. I currently having about 128MiB of DDRAM. In the bios I have set the agp ram to 32MiB. The machine is currently running sarge. As noted from the recent discussions on compiling nvidia modules, I followed the recommended procedu

Re: Compiler error: C compiler cannot create executables

2003-01-18 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, January 18, Eric G. Miller did write: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:07:24PM +0100, Achton N. Netherclift wrote: > [snip] > > According to packages.debian.org, the file that is missing according to > > the config.logs (crt1.o) is contained in the libc6-dev package. The file is > > m

IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for my IDE disks. I get mesages like: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func. only: 14 hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest } hdc: drive not ready for comman

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-18 Thread Alaa The Great
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:06:24 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone help me to get X running on this machine? I never had a problem with my TNT but I'll make a guess. do you have the nvidia devices in the /dev/ directory?? on my system I get $ ls /dev/nvidia* nvidia0n

Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Lloyd Zusman
I'm using the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences to control the software base from which I'm updating my system. I had 'testing' set to the highest priority for a long time. But recently, I made the mistake of setting 'unstable' to be the highest priority, which meant that my daily upgrade runs f

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-18 Thread George Georgalis
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:20:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:03, George Georgalis wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: >> >> >> by the way, any baddies when it comes to mobo chipset? >> > >> >Nforce chipsets. AFAIK you need a non-free dr

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Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?

2003-01-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
My brother gave me a 128MB Radeon 9000 Pro for Christmas to replace my aging 8MB Matrox G200. Does anyone here have one? For drivers, ATI distributes a binary RPM package here: http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html which says: "Fixed in this driver: * fglrxconfig p

Re: talkd through ipmasq

2003-01-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Paul Johnson said: > I've been trying to get talkd to be redirected from my network's > gateway to Ursine so ktalkd can actually be useful. > > What I've tried so far hasn't worked. > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p any --dport 517 -j DNAT --to-destination

apt-get failure

2003-01-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have a cron job that runs every morning that includes: apt-get -q update && apt-get -q -s dist-upgrade Today it produced the following error message: Fetched 6713kB in 28s (238kB/s) Reading Package Lists... E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing asp

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:32, Alaa The Great wrote: > On 18 Jan 2003 03:46:40 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Me too!! Started w/ Mandrake, but when RPM Hell bit me one too > > many times, I made the jump... > > I started with debian (potato) freaked out, moved to mandra

Ethernet Adapter Configuration

2003-01-18 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi All, Well, Debian Linux 3.0r1 (powerpc) installed and working like a dream, well just about anyway. ;) I'm trying to work out the ifconfig tool and how to assign more than 1 IP address to the ethernet card. I have an IP address assigned to eth0, however, I don't know how to assign another IP

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 10:21, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > I'm using the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences to control the software > base from which I'm updating my system. I had 'testing' set to the > highest priority for a long time. But recently, I made the mistake of > setting 'unstable' to be the h

Re: Nautilus load problems

2003-01-18 Thread Robert Rati
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 04:37, Marcin Fusinski wrote: > Greetings, > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Robert Rati wrote: > > I'm running unstable with gnome2, and nautilus has recently started > > going nuts. When nautilus tries to load, it takes 100% of the CPU and > > then endlessly starts popping up windo

GNOME2 config

2003-01-18 Thread Simon Tod
I've been running woody up on laptop for a while now and have been regularly running apt-get update/upgrade. After updating last night I decided to have a go at installing GNOME2 and Mozilla 1.2.1 from their respective sites on people.debian.org. It all looked to running nicely, I rebooted after in

Re: sid: gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030109 (Debian prerelease) strange!

2003-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:29:09PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > trying to compile c++ programs that I developed with gcc 2.9 I get the > following errors: > > ../List/List.o(.text+0xcd): In function `List::~List [not-in-charge]()': > : undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)' gcc 3.x has stri

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ ... ] > > Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude' command(s) should I invoke to perform this downgrade? When I go into `aptitude', I don't see anything obvious whic

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [ ... ] > > > > Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. > > Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude' > command(s) should I invoke to perform this downgra

System/KDE slowing over time :(

2003-01-18 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hello, First lemme thank all u guys for all the help u've provided me over time thru this list. I'm using a P4 2.2 with 512MB RAM and 256 MB Swap space. OS is Debian 3.0 with KDE 3.0.4 I've got great uptime with my system lasting for weeks (a month usually) on end and mostly it's been me who'

unresolved symbols with make-kpkg but not with make, make modules, etc.

2003-01-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
What does it mean when compiling a kernel using make-kpkg yields a number of unresolved symbols but using "make" or "make modules" compiles with no errors? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: SCO-ANSI emulation via telnet

2003-01-18 Thread Shawn Lamson
On 16 Jan 2003 02:59:36 +0800 Crispin Wellington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:54, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a way I can get sco-ansi terminal emulation in a telnet > > session? > > > > Thank you for any hints, > > Use a telnet programme that emulat

looking inside zip/tar files with nautilus2

2003-01-18 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
I have: numenor# dpkg -l | grep nautilus ii libnautilus2-2 2.0.0-1Shared libraries that part of Nautilus (GNOM ii nautilus2 2.0.0-1file manager and graphical shell (GNOME2) ii nautilus2-data 2.0.0-1Development files of Nautilus (GNOME2) What else do I need to insta

Re: GNOME2 config

2003-01-18 Thread Joris
> I've been running woody up on laptop for a while now > and have been regularly running apt-get > update/upgrade. After updating last night I decided to > have a go at installing GNOME2 and Mozilla 1.2.1 from > their respective sites on people.debian.org. It all > looked to running nicely, I reboo

Re: sid: gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030109 (Debian prerelease) strange!

2003-01-18 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-18 19:03]: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:29:09PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > trying to compile c++ programs that I developed with gcc 2.9 I get the > > following errors: > > > > ../List/List.o(.text+0xcd): In function `List::~List [not-in-charge]()': > >

Re: looking inside zip/tar files with nautilus2

2003-01-18 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Saturday 18 January 2003 10:41 am, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > I have: > > numenor# dpkg -l | grep nautilus > ii libnautilus2-2 2.0.0-1Shared libraries that part of Nautilus > (GNOM ii nautilus2 2.0.0-1file manager and graphical shell > (GNOME2) ii nautilus2-data 2.0.0-1

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > [ ... ] >> > >> > Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. >> >> Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude' >> c

Re: sid: gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030109 (Debian prerelease) strange!

2003-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:40:17PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-18 19:03]: > > gcc 3.x has stricter behaviour than 2.x in certain cases. It looks very > > much as if you're trying to link your program using 'gcc', which won't > > work; you should use 'g++' i

Re: apt-get failure

2003-01-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bob Hilliard said: > Fetched 6713kB in 28s (238kB/s) > Reading Package Lists... > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing aspell (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status > E: The package lists or status file could not be

Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-18 Thread Seth Williamson
I posted the message below on the Libranet list and got some helpful replies. However, I was not sure about a few of the ramications on suggestions that I got, and I thought I would post it here and see what help I might get. Libranet, as probably everybody here knows, is a specific packaging of

Dosemu

2003-01-18 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hello! I have installed Dosemu (1.0.2.1, the version that is included in Debian 3.0), and have some problems getting my Swedish keyboard to work. I have tested some different configuration, and with this: $_rawkeyboard = (0) $_layout = "finnish-latin1" $_keybint = (on) I get Swedish charac

Re: sid: gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030109 (Debian prerelease) strange!

2003-01-18 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-18 20:23]: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:40:17PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > > yeah. Thanks for the hint, it worked. However, I think this is a > > quite stupid behaviour of gcc 3.x -- it should automagically call the > > correct compiler/linker depen

Mouse / X problems

2003-01-18 Thread Chris Owen
Hi, if someone could help me get my X server + mouse running I'd be very grateful. Hardware details: Old AJP 5400 laptop (you won't have heard of it), 75MHz Pentium, 16MB RAM Trackpad PS/2 mouse Cirrus Logic 754x display chipset 800x600 LCD display Debian 3.0r0 The story so far: I used to have R

Re: sid: gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030109 (Debian prerelease) strange!

2003-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 08:41:03PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-18 20:23]: > > It does, just not in the way you expect. > > Maybe it should! Assume a guy just using Linux wo. knowing much -- A guy using Linux without knowing much should just use g++ for C

Re: Switching smart relays automatically in Exim...

2003-01-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:26:00AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: ... > My question, is there a way to configure Exim to use my ISP's SMTP > server and my SMTP server at work without having to manually change > settings when I go from one place to the other? There are many ways to achieve this,

Re: Dosemu

2003-01-18 Thread CM Miller
unsubscribe --- Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I have installed Dosemu (1.0.2.1, the version that > is included in > Debian 3.0), and have some problems getting my > Swedish keyboard to > work. I have tested some different configuration, > and with this: > > $_rawkeybo

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 11:40, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Lloyd Zusman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > > > why you are so proficient with compiling and

changing icon set in 'gmc'

2003-01-18 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
I'm a GNOME newbie, and don't really use it. I occasionally like to use "gmc", but really dislike the color scheme for the icons used for the folders, arrows, etc. Is there some way I can change the icons used? Are there any alternate icon sets available, like they are for nautilus? -- Maciej

determining UDMA rate

2003-01-18 Thread George Georgalis
I have a 40 pin ribbon on an ide drive (which supports udma100, at least) I know the board only goes up to udma66. do I need an 80 pin ribbon for that? looking at hdparm, I cannot see how to determine the present udma rate. how is that done? // George BTW - this is a scsi box, just adding and i

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-18 Thread Adam Kao
I don't know if this is relevant, but when I installed X on my system I had to remove the "UseFBDev" option from the "Device" section. My system is much older and the video card is an old nVidia card that uses the "nv" driver but it's something to try and can't hurt. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

RE: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-18 Thread Omnecide
Yea if you go to nvidias page and look under the install guide it tells you to take those out - Original Message - From: "Adam Kao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 4:07 PM Subject: Re: Can't start X with Nvidia > > I don

keymaps

2003-01-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, I want to bind Ø to the capslock key on my keyboard. plusminus is working but how to translate $ man is0_8859_1 Oct Dec Hex Char Description --- ... 330 216 D8 Ø LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE th

Re: determining UDMA rate

2003-01-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 18 January 2003 11:50 am, George Georgalis wrote: > I have a 40 pin ribbon on an ide drive (which supports udma100, at > least) > > I know the board only goes up to udma66. do I need an 80 pin ribbon for > that? > > looking at hdparm, I cannot see how to determine the present udma rate.

galeon: infinite instances; mozilla: won't even start

2003-01-18 Thread James Hughes
Hi, On a fresh install of Woody, galeon worked once, but now just starts firing up new windows about 1/sec. Mozilla won't even start at all. I've tried ditching .galeon and starting over, to no avail. Any ideas what I might try? Thanks, James msg24832/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: determining UDMA rate

2003-01-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya george On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, George Georgalis wrote: > I have a 40 pin ribbon on an ide drive (which supports udma100, at > least) 40 conductor cables does NOT electrically support anything faster than ata33 -- ( too much crosstalk at faster speeds ) they really should have used a differe

Re: Compiler error: C compiler cannot create executables

2003-01-18 Thread Achton N. Netherclift
At 10:45 18-01-2003 -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: crt1.o is, I think, an object file containing a big chunk of the C/C++ runtime. In particular, it contains the startup code that does a bunch of initialization, then calls main(). After main() returns, it does a bunch of OS-specific cleanup, like

Re: keymaps

2003-01-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: > Hi all, > > I want to bind Ø to the capslock key on my keyboard. plusminus is > working but how to translate > > $ man is0_8859_1 > Oct Dec Hex Char Description > -

Re: Nautilus load problems

2003-01-18 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Greetings, On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Robert Rati wrote: > If nautilus has become really unstable, then maybe the next version will > fix things. Let's hope that version comes out soon. :) Right. I used to be quite happy with it. > What seems to make things worse is Gnome itself. When nautilus spawns

Re: Ethernet Adapter Configuration

2003-01-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 05:33:06PM -, Kevin Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > Well, Debian Linux 3.0r1 (powerpc) installed and working like a dream, well > just about anyway. ;) > > I'm trying to work out the ifconfig tool and how to assign more than 1 IP > address to the ethernet card. I have an I

Re: [SOLVED!] keymaps

2003-01-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: > Hi all, > > I want to bind Ø to the capslock key on my keyboard. plusminus is > working but how to translate > > $ man is0_8859_1 > Oct Dec Hex Char Description > -

Re: DHCP prob (woody)

2003-01-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"thanhvu" == thanhvunguyen writes: thanhvu> Hello, I just installed Woody from my system (it was thanhvu> running SID before), the problem I have is I can't get thanhvu> dhcp working. It worked just fine on Sid before. I used thanhvu> the same /etc/resolved.conf /etc/network

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > >> Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > [ ... ] > >> > > >> > Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. > >> > >> Than

Re: Compiler error: C compiler cannot create executables

2003-01-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Achton N. Netherclift said: > But when I get the error already when ./configure is run, could that mean > that I am missing certain libraries? How do I figure out which ones? Yes, probably libc6-dev. > I've run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade several times and

Re: Ethernet Adapter Configuration

2003-01-18 Thread Kevin Smith
Anybody have an answer for this one? Sorry for being persistence, just can't work it out. - Original Message - From: "Kevin Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 5:33 PM Subject: Ethernet Adapter Configuration > Hi All, > > Well, Debian Linu

Queue Task Software on Linux ?

2003-01-18 Thread thannguy
I have a question about the task queuing handling in linux. I am doing some researches within a group and everyone's task needs a lot of computation power and memory (around 500M per task). The machine we have has 2 Xeon processors at 2 GHz/each and 3gigs of memory, the OS is Debian Sid. However s

ALSA (and kernel?) problem

2003-01-18 Thread Alex
I'm running kernel 2.4.20 and have recently got a abit kd7 with an onboard audio chipset. The chipset on the motherboard is via vt8235. I just downloaded the latest alsa ( 0.9.0rc6 developer) version of alsa as i couldn't see the kernel supporting this chipset. did everything according to: http

Re: DHCP prob (woody)

2003-01-18 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hello, thanks for your inputs - turned out that my af_packet , was compiled before as module, never loaded right. It's missing some resolved symbol and I didn't really notice it. I recompile the module with it as built in and it works now ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Nautilus load problems

2003-01-18 Thread Robert Rati
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 16:08, Marcin Fusinski wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Robert Rati wrote: > > If nautilus has become really unstable, then maybe the next version will > > fix things. Let's hope that version comes out soon. :) > Right. I used to be quite happy with it. > > > Wh

Re: Nautilus load problems

2003-01-18 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Greetings, On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Robert Rati wrote: > The default behavior in Gnome seems to be to respawn nautilus, and they > start respawning too fast to tell them not to. Will that command change > the default behavior for the nautilus application, or just just set a > specific instance of nau

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #185

2003-01-18 Thread anthony baldwin
Hi, Folks, I'm a new Debian user with only about 9 months of redhat use for Linux experience in general. I have just installed a "a base system" on a machine I built, but could not mark packages on the package list, for some reason, and now have only a shell installed. I would like to have a gui

kernel upgrade to 2.4.20-k7

2003-01-18 Thread jrn
Hello,   I'm currently using Sarge with 2.4.18-k7 kernel for my Athlon XP and the kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7. I've seen that 2.4.20-k7 kernel was available for the testing version but the problem is that there's no kernel-headers-2.4.20-k7 yet but only a package called kernel-headers-2.4.20. Is

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?

2003-01-18 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Peter, some Debianista's gets it a going with the ATI drivers & some not Surf thru this lists archive or have a look at the forums @ http://www.rage3d.com/ Personally, after much coffee, conjecture & cursing, I got my Radeon 128meg Pro up, with drivers from http://dri.sourcef

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?

2003-01-18 Thread erinn
> Section "Module" > Load"GLcore" > Load"bitmap" > Load"dbe" > Load"ddc" > Load"dri" > Load"extmod" > Load"freetype" > Load"glx"#I tried to comment this out too, still no > loading ATI stuff:-(. > Load"int10" >

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #185

2003-01-18 Thread erinn
Quoting anthony baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, Folks, > I'm a new Debian user with only about 9 months of redhat use for Linux > experience in general. > I have just installed a "a base system" on a machine I built, > but could not mark packages on the package list, for some reason, > and no

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?

2003-01-18 Thread erinn
> That got mine to work. I also have a (not thoroughly or properly edited) > > tutorial/howto type thing at http://www.double- > helix.org/debian/ATIRadeonDeb.html for the ATI Radeon 7000, but it might > > possibly help. Make that: http://www.double-helix.org/debian/ATIRadeon7000Deb.html --

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-18 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:17:06PM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote: > > I never had a problem with my TNT but I'll make a guess. > do you have the nvidia devices in the /dev/ directory?? > on my system I get > $ ls /dev/nvidia* > nvidia0nvidia2nvidia4nvidia6nvidiactl

GNOME2 startup hang

2003-01-18 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, Yes, I know that one shall no use dist-upgrade... However, after this, GNOME2 does not work any longer. It starts up X, then comes the splash screen, but no icons and text. When launching e.g. XFCE (actual 3.x one, gtk1 thus) and then running apps, half of all apps work. I.e. most apps bei

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 18 January 2003 09:54 am, Seth Williamson wrote: snip > However, for a few--a very few--apps, I would like to run versions that > are newer. I'm not talking a lot here. Probably Evolution, Galeon, > Abiword, and that's it. Otherwise I'd like to run everything stable. > > Can somebody

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