Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-12 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:08:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:59:31PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: Here is my somewhat OT question since this is not exactly Debian but generic BASH question... In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R (reverse

PPP patched for SSL?

2000-08-03 Thread Simon Law
Has ppp in potato been patched for SSL? I'm planning a network and am hoping that my Debian router will be able to doing ppp and poptop so that some Windows clients can connect securely to my LAN. Thanks for the info.

Re: your mail

2000-08-03 Thread Simon Law
Hi, You want to: bash$ export http_proxy=http://msproxy.on.windows.box:portnumber; You probably also want to set ftp_proxy to the same thing. On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: Hi guys! I have been searching high and low for the answer but no such luck.I am

Re: Is Debian the last OS ? (Long reply)

2000-08-06 Thread Simon Law
Was this a compilation error? Shouldn't have failed, as that is the correct and documented way of doing it. What was the error message? (I remember a friend who tried compiling and it didn't work because he didn't have bin86 installed. Would cut out because it couldn't find as86.) Of course,

Re: lilo problem

2000-08-06 Thread Simon Law
Looks like your lilo.conf is wrong. There should be a line saying lba32 in there. man 8 lilo for more information. Dale Morris wrote: I'm running libranet version of debian potato. It uses the 2.2.14 kernel. I am having a problem with lilo. My hard disk is a 15 gig with the following

Re: XF86Setup

2000-08-07 Thread Simon Law
Try apt-get install xf86setup Dale Morris wrote: I just did an ftp installation of 2.2.17 potato debian and I can't run the XF86Setup program. It doesn't seem to be on my machine. I do have a working XF86Config file that was generated by the installation script, but I would sure like to

Re: Lilo Problem

2000-08-12 Thread Simon Law
Grab a recent copy of lilo (in the 21-x series). This includes support for LBA32 extensions which allow LBA32 compliant computers to boot above 1024 cylinders. Then, all you need to do is run lilo -L or you can edit the linear entry in your /etc/lilo.conf to lba32 On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Dirk

Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-12 Thread Simon Law
Some BIOSes allow you to flush them by holding down the INS key on boot. However, I find the most reliable method is to deprive the CMOS of power. There's a little watch battery on the motherboard, if you power off your computer and carefully remove the battery for about 60 seconds, all the

re: temporary allowing telnet to use x-windows

2000-08-12 Thread Simon Law
Oh. Well, John. Your user will have to install an X-server on his machine. IIRC, there used to be a free beer version of M/IX for Windows, but as of version 2.0, it isn't. So, you can go with that -- or MicroX or Exceed or hope that the XFree on Windows project ships something soon. Once your

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM SOLVED!!

2000-08-12 Thread Simon Law
Ah... That's because music CDs are not written in ISO 9660 format. They are in Red Book Audio, which mount doesn't handle. (Why bother? There's no filesystem anyway...). cdplayer knows about audio, therefore it works. On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: Well then, let me explain: I had

Re: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!! 2

2000-08-12 Thread Simon Law
Argh, no! Well, okay, you COULD do that, but then you'd be wasting the efforts of the kernel-package maintainer... Do an apt-get install kernel-package kernel-source bin86 Then chdir /usr/doc/kernel-package Read the README.Debian On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: Ronald Castillo said:

RE: Installing Debian on 486

2000-08-12 Thread Simon Law
Hi Daniel, I've done exactly what you have on an old 486. What you DO need is a floppy drive and an internet connexion. An old external modem should do the trick. Go to your local debian mirror and find the floppies. You should be able to get potato boot disks at:

RE: Dual-Boot Win2K Debian

2000-08-12 Thread Simon Law
It's more like NT, but it matters not. You can still use LILO to boot, if you're more comfortable with that. Otherwise, do that NT bootloader thing, but that requires you to copy over the bootsector to your NT drive everytime you upgrade your kernel. -Original Message- From: Nate Duehr

RE: just a question

2000-08-12 Thread Simon Law
Nero does it quite well. You can find instructions on how to use it (and other burners) at cdimage.debian.org -Original Message- From: Geoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 9:43 PM To: Robert J. Zdebiak Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: just a

RE: where do all the *.deb files go?

2000-04-20 Thread Simon Law
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I've removed packages (with dpkg --remove packagename) and even purged (with dpkg --purge packagename), I've noticed that I have been able to get everything back (via apt-get install packagename) without apparently going back into the ftp

RE: virtual ip's

2000-05-05 Thread Simon Law
Download the kernel-source package and the kernel-package package. Recompile your kernel with IP aliasing turned on. You can find information about how to recompile your kernel in /usr/doc/kernel-package. Simon On Fri, 5 May 2000, Wayne Sitton wrote: how do I enable ip aliasing?

RE: LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-06 Thread Simon Law
I tried setting hdd from 0x82 and from 0x83 but to no avail. Any other ideas? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Pfeifer Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2000 9:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO and Multiple Disks

RE: LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-07 Thread Simon Law
Tom Pfeifer wrote: Simon Law wrote: I tried setting hdd from 0x82 and from 0x83 but to no avail. Any other ideas? Not really. The only thing that comes to mind is that maybe the swapping only works for drives on the same IDE channel. In other words 0x80/0x81 and 0x82/0x83

RE: LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-10 Thread Simon Law
For those following my ongoing saga... I have gone with wimp out solution. I have gone and physically switched my Win98 and Linux drives. Thus, Win98 becomes hda, and the BIOS boots its MBR first. What I am now using is PowerQuest's BootMagic to default to the Linux partition instead of LILO.

RE: [Off-Topic] Pentium Motherboard

2000-01-14 Thread Simon Law
From: AU,SCOTT CHUONG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snip 1. It seems there's a VGA controller built into the motherboard with an accompanying serial cable to attach to a monitor. Does this mean I no longer need a video card like in older 486/386 models? If there's a port to attach

RE: I'm confused

2000-01-23 Thread Simon Law
From: Cameron Matheson Hey, I'm am so freaking confused about configuring my kernel, it's not even funny. I was reading the sound HOWTO, when it told me to read the kernel HOWTO. I began reading that, and it told me to go to /usr/src/linux. I don't have a directory called

RE: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-27 Thread Simon Law
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For reference... The New Oxford Dictionary of English says... daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon) noun {Computing} a background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when

Routing Problem

2000-02-18 Thread Simon Law
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I seem to have a problem. The problem is this: I have two computers, one of them a Windows 98 box and one of them a slink box. I am running on a residence network and they allow me only one IP. It is 129.97.35.30 and it has to go through a gateway

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:15:53PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a mixed system (stable+unstable) and wanted to downgrade to stable. here's my /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 and

Re: mutt tips

2003-09-09 Thread Simon Law
/passwd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mutt should auto-generate this. However, you may choose to create your own From lines. == .muttrc == set use_from=no my_hdr From: Simon Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:13:33PM -0500, David P James wrote: Gary Turner wrote: It is interesting to note that gv and xpdf render Type3 fonts very nicely while Acroread looks like crap. Regardless of how they look on screen, printed docs will look fine. See

Re: Linux: a gentle, growing approach

2002-10-13 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:50:18AM -0700, Josh Rehman wrote: I want to master Linux. I figure there are two ways to learn Linux system administration and usage. The first is to install a distribution and then explore it's nooks and crannies. The second is to begin with a seed and *grow* the

Re: Name resolution on internal network

2002-10-14 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:19:48PM -0700, nate wrote: Alex Malinovich said: I just checked it and that was it as it turns out. Interestingly enough, the problem was not that the search line was missing, but that it had \000 appended to the end of it. Since his was the first computer that

Re: How to pronounce Debian?

2002-10-23 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:43:59AM -0500, will trillich wrote: medicine -- med-ih-sin, not med-ih-see-nay Er, no. Medicine is pronounce med-sin. The med-ih-sin pronounciation is a relatively recent corruption. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Setting console timeouts

2002-10-22 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:19:51PM -0500, steve wrote: I was wondering it there a way to prevent the console from turning the monitor off? For instance if you want to run a program like iptraf and leave it running all the time and always have it within eye sight. You probably want to

Re: Upgrading, getting the package

2002-11-07 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:55:22AM -0500, Seneca wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:03:01PM +0200, Laura Rudmin wrote: I generally use dselect, not understanding the apt-* system (not for want of trying, but the documentation is completely opaque to me. Sorry, there seems to be a density

Re: pinfo from testing or unstable.

2003-03-07 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:47:03AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: Can people who run testing or unstable verify the following? I have a non harmful bug with pinfo on testing or unstable. More specifically, I can scroll past what was supposed to be the bottom of the top dir page and get a 2nd

Re: Reconfiguring exim to use a smarthos

2003-04-01 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:40:49PM -0500, stan wrote: I'm building a new Debian machine for use at work. When I ste it up at home, I took option 1 for the exim seup. Now I need to change it to use a smarthos. I looked through the exim.conf file that I have, and did not see how to do this.

Re: clearing the screen

2002-12-05 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:40:19PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it will clear the screen first? Use the .bash_logout file to declare what you want to do when logging out. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: clearing the screen

2002-12-05 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:49:47PM -0600, Justin Ryan wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:43, Simon Law wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:40:19PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it will clear the screen first? Use the .bash_logout

Re: bash

2002-12-18 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:01:51AM +, Pigeon wrote: Puzzled Pigeon: Huh? It gets executed, according to the first line... # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells. It sure looks like a shell script, and you put shell script commands in it. And shell scripts need to be

Re: bash scripts misrepresenting white space

2003-12-25 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 07:44:16PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: I try, for example: for i in `ls` do echo $i done You want: for i in * do echo $i done which will do what you probably want. I'd suggest consulting the Bash info manual which should tell you what you need

Re: PINE

2001-07-17 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, dude wrote: I know PINE is not what debian users use, but i recently convinced my girlfriend to let me install debian on her windows computer. Her only gripe with using it is that there are no debs of Pine. She has tried building it from source downloaded from

Re: X with dvorak

2001-07-05 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Bek Oberin wrote: I have the dvorak keymap loaded for myy everyday use in consoles, but after upgrading to X-4 it insists on using a qwerty layout. How do I set up X to use the dvorak keyboard layout? Thanks to all, BTW, for answering previous silly questions :) I

Re: no modules after upgrade to 2.4.13

2001-11-15 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Rory O'Connor wrote: I just upgraded from kernel version 2.2.19pre17 to 2.4.13 and everything went fine...except that it appears no modules loaded (lsmod returns nothing). After 'make bzImage' i did 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' and that didn't break, so i

Re: Man pages to PDF or RTF?

2001-11-17 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Rafe B. wrote: Hi. Nother newbie windoze-user question. I know this has been asked before, apologies and thanks in advance. Is there a windoze util that will convert Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript? Specifically, what is the format of man pages?

Re: Small-Text console Tweaks?

2001-11-17 Thread Simon Law
On 17 Nov 2001, Sean wrote: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt Also, you have to have framebuffer support compiled into your kernel. If you happen to have a matrox card, then you'll wanto look at: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt instead. Sean On Sat,

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-02 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: I did an apt-get dist-upgrade, to move from 2.1 to 2.2r3, then did an apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19, based on a recommendation from this mailing list. My problem now is that when I start Mozilla it takes 50 to 60 seconds before the

Re: Not Resolving on new box

2001-10-07 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Adahma Ashirah wrote: I've just re-installed Debian unstable onto a new box. At first it worked fine, but suddenly I cannot resolve anything. I can talk to the internal network, as well as the internet by IP address, but nothing resolves. I've been through all my files

Re: 3c905b-TX

2001-10-07 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Atamas wrote: I am having some problems configuring my network card. I have a 3c905b-TX, which is connected to a hub which is connected to a cable modem (serviced by Comcast @Home). I have installed potato of off CD's, but I can never seem to configure the card

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to compile KImap but it requires Qt-1.4 checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for killpg in -lucb... no checking for Qt... checking for killpg in -lucb... noconfigure: error: Qt-1.4 (headers and

Re: [newbie]Please help with Matrox G400 and XFree 4.1.0

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, R. Alexander wrote: Dear friends, I have desperately searched some appends but really cannot understand if they apply to my case. With XFree 3.x I had a perfect XF86Config for my Matrox G400 driving my 16 TFT display. Upgraded to 4.1.10 (on a 2.4.10 kernel) and am

Re: [newbie]Please help with Matrox G400 and XFree 4.1.0

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, R. Alexander wrote: Simon you are a genius !!! We are getting closer. I have enlightement window manager installed but maybe the /etc/X11/Xsession is not invoking it ... When I launch xinit (not startx) as a matter of fact I see the X desktop with just a window up

Re: XF86Config-4

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: Hi, I was browsing through the archives to find a way to make the wheels of my MS Intellimouse work on X. I found a piece of configuration that should be inserted on XF86Config: Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Sarimanok wrote: On Wednesday 10 October 2001 13:40, Simon Law wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to compile KImap but it requires Qt-1.4 checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for killpg in -lucb

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and alsa

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Marc Becher wrote: hi, alsa-source-0.5 won't compile against kernel-source-2.4.10 unless in /usr/src/linux(or whatever)/include/linux/timer.h line 22 typedef struct timer_list timer_t; isn't commented out. Just didn't find a bug-report and asked myself if this is

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, pirmin2 wrote: Thanks for the advice about the appropriate permissions. I followed it and - beginning in pwd /root - now get the following outputs: ls -ld /home drwxr-sr-x6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 /home ls -las /home total 100 4 drwxr-sr-x

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, pirmin2 wrote: it should but I'm afraid it doesn't... A. chsh avh Changing the login shell for avh Enter the new value, or press return for the default Login Shell [/bin/bash]: return su avh No shell su - avh Unable to cd to /home/avh chsh avh

Re: Software DVD players vmware express

2001-10-12 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Royce Bell wrote: Silly boy... We're male! That's why. It's a kind of ultimate control of the remote control thing -- or so my wife thinks. Per Jason's post and while I'm at it, does anyone have any perspective on vmware express or a similar product that will let

Re: EXT3

2001-10-20 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Aniartia wrote: For the sake of mild curiosty, what's 'special' about the -ac kernels? Alan Cox distributes it (as opposed to the plain old Linus Torvalds kernels). A lot of stuff Torvalds picks up was in -ac for some

Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-20 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ingo Hohmann wrote: Hi to all, I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... I'd put even money on this being a reverse DNS problem. You see, exim and telnetd will both use tcpwrappers to do

Re: EXT3

2001-10-20 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Morbo wrote: Hi, Where do you get those Alan Cox kernels from ? Many thanks in advance! regards, Balazs The easiest way is to get them from kernel.org. Grab the appropriate Linus kernel and apply the -ac patch. Simon

Re: the {home} and {end} keys in woody via ssh

2001-10-24 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: Greetings, I use PuTTY to ssh into my boxen. I recently upgraded a couple of them to woody, and the {home} and {end} keys don't seem to work properly anymore, instead of going to the beginning or end of the line, they produce a tilde

Re: Shift-Return

2001-10-26 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: Whenever I press Shift-Return in less it displays ESCOM. This is annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press / + RETURN repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I have a german keyboard and to type

Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-29 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: Hey again, ASDF JLK; This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain annoying. Anyone discovered a solution yet? I've got a question for you. Is

Re: rtc module with 2.4.12-ac3

2001-10-30 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, DvB wrote: When configuring 2.4.12-ac3, I couldn't find an option for real time clock... I decided not to worry about it and got an error while booting about not being able to find char-major-10-135 which, according to modules.conf, is the rtc module. Is it there and

Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-31 Thread Simon Law
Hi, On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Simon Law wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: Hey again, ASDF JLK; This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain annoying. Anyone

Re: Can't mount audio CD - help

2001-11-01 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Andy Hartford wrote: I'm having trouble mounting audio CDs. I can mount data CDs fine however. I do't think that you =can= mount an audio CD. If you want to play an audio CD (say using xmms), you usually tell it where your CD-ROM device resides (/dev/cdrom for

Special 3D bar graphs

2001-11-02 Thread Simon Law
Hi there, I'm looking for an application that will give me transparent 3-D bar graphs. I want to have a bar graph will three levels of depth, but because some bars in front are too tall, they obscure the data behind them. I took a look at gnuplot, but it doesn't do what I need it to do.

Re: Sound configuration

2001-11-05 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, JimmyMah wrote: I am new user to Debian linux. I have install Debian linux on my laptop and I am unable to activate the sound. I have an integrated ESS1688 sound chip and I could not find the drivers in modconf. Do I need to recompile a new kernel? Could you please

Re: Open Source ???

2001-11-05 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote: Now I'm confused.? Well, OK, I was born that way. New Debian installation.? Need to compile some source code, build an object.? Have makefile and a .C file, provided by NIC card vendor. Run make.? Make complains that modversions.h is not found.?

Re: Open Source ???

2001-11-05 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote: At 11:54 PM 11/4/01 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote: Nor is there such a .deb file on my debian distribution CD. So which .deb file do I need to get this steenking header file? Is there some

Re: Converting from gub back to lilo

2001-11-05 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I have a machine (potato + Progeny + 2.4.9 kernel) which curently uses grub in the MBR for a boot loader. Now, I'm pretty happy with grub, but I need to build a disaster recovery CD using Mondo for thei machien, and Mondo does not support grub yet. So,

Re: LyX not setting margins correctly

2001-11-06 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: LyX is not setting the margins to the values I specified. I tried the hoffset/voffset trick in the preamble, but that just scooted everything. Now my top and left margins are correct, but the bottom and right margins are huge. I tried tweaking the

TeX question

2001-11-06 Thread Simon Law
I just installed the eco package, which uses the European Computer Modern fonts. I'm quite happy with them, but I've just noticed that all my Computer Modern fonts (cmr) are being mysteriously turned into European fonts (ecrm). How do I stop this from magically happening? Simon

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-07 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, op wrote: Yesterday I installed 2.4.13-ac8 for the ext3 stuff. It didn't work too well so I reverted to 2.4.13-ac6 which hasn't crashed for 5 hours and 19 minutes. This is probably because Alan introduced some new IDE code in -ac7. We should see that stuff

Re: Eterm weirdness

2001-11-07 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Jim McCloskey wrote: I've had various problems with the newer versions of Eterm, in testing and unstable. Most are now either resolved or are already in the Bug Archive (the weird tty group ownership for instance). One problem remains, though, and it strikes me as

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I run myself potato in another machine with a 3c509B without any problem! But I am asking about the 3c905c, this one doesn't appear in the net section of the Debian installation program... I can try with the 3c509 driver and see...

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-29 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:25:39AM -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not have even existed. I created a

Re: Pentium Freezes (Potato)

2002-01-13 Thread Simon Law
On 13 Jan 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote: Hi, I recently purchased a pentium machine (HP Vectra VL Series 4 5/100, 32M). I installed debian upon it but noticed that the machine would freeze up on occasion even in initial installation (badblocks read test [rw worked fine]). Eventually I

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-18 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:13:09AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson insinuated: What exactly is ytalk? version of it. scrolls text instead of wrapping it; doesn't show random old english and runic characters for delete symbols on another terminal;

Re: VIM reindent with =

2002-01-18 Thread Simon Law
On 18 Jan 2002, Coen De Roover wrote: Hello, when I try to reindent a code block in visual mode or in command mode while standing on the line that needs to be reindented, I use the = command. This works, but the change is only visible when I press another (arrow) key afterwards. Is this

Re: What is wrong with gcc-doc?

2002-01-18 Thread Simon Law
On 18 Jan 2002, Paul Smith wrote: Hmm, after much searching I found gcc-2.95-doc which seems to install OK. I kind of wish it would have been called gcc-doc-2.95 instead as that would have made my searches for it a _LOT_ more successful, but oh well :) Well, it is the documentation

Re: need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig

2002-01-18 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, seg wrote: Just reinstalled a Debian/GNU system. I didn't install X, has it wouldn't load up correctly and didn't it. Without X, to compile a new kernel I am forced to use make menuconfig. Which supposedly requires the package ncurses-dev. Using Debian's apt-get utility I

Re: *SOLVED* (Was: Mozilla fonts huge--'File' menu item takes up most of screen)

2002-01-19 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: And I heard Miquel van Smoorenburg exclaim: snip Daniel When I start up Mozilla, the fonts are *huge*. I'm running at Daniel 1600x1200, and the 'File' menu item takes up the majority of Daniel the screen (nice scaling, by the

Re: Configuring remote xdm

2002-01-20 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Tim Grogan wrote: Hi, being a relative newbie with Debian I'm looking for some help. I'm running woody 2.2.20 and KDE. Does anyone have a step-by-step guide on setting up xdm to support remote x-windows sessions or that can point me in the right direction. I've found a

Re: place for routing commands

2002-01-22 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Juha Pesonen wrote: Hello list. I would like to have a route added each time I reboot, and it doesn't feel a very good (general) solution to put it into network init.d-scripts. /etc/network direcrory contains some directories like ip-up.d etc. So, what's the Debian way

Re: Big Brother deb?

2002-01-23 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Chapman, Matt wrote: Anyone know of a place I can get the latest big brother deb for sparc or even intel? -Matt Chapman Big Brother is not packaged for Debian anymore. Try spong, which can inter-operate with Big Brother and seems to work much better. Simon

Re: What happened to dhcpcd

2002-02-09 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Cameron Kerr wrote: Hello, can anyone tell me why there is no longer any packages for dhcpcd in testing or unstable. I'd rather not use pump, since I've heard that it has problems with multiple interfaces. dhcpcd is in stable, and is what I have been using.

Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has space junk

2001-04-25 Thread Simon Law
Better than that. For an instant fix, just make the terminal display Ctrl-O. The easiest way is to type run 'echo Ctrl-V Ctrl-O' which will make the terminal reset itself. Simon On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:32:30PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Quoting

Re: flush route table?

2001-04-26 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it possible to flush the route table in debian with the route cmd? I know its possible in freeBSD. If not what might be some other options? Thank you in advance for your time. Hi there, If you have the iproute package

Re: local package mirror

2001-04-26 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Brad Cramer wrote: I have a machine running Redhat that has a lot of free disk space on it and I would like to use it to set up a local package mirror for the rest of my network that is running Debian. Could someone give me some pointers or point me to a howto on doing

Re: kdebase-crypto

2001-04-27 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i'm trying to get konqueror set up to access https pages. the setup tells me that i need to install kdebase-crypto, but apt-get install kdebase-crypto responds: Package kdebase-crypto has no

Re: kdebase-crypto

2001-04-28 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Simon Law wrote: I'm guessing you're running testing? kdebase-crypto is in unstable, and I'm guessing that it hasn't filtered down into testing yet. If you want, you can just download the package and do a dpkg -i

Re: Installation Problems with USB keyboard

2001-05-04 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Christoph Pickart wrote: Am Freitag 04 Mai 2001 08:45 schrieb Anthony Lau: At 11:03 PM +0200 5/3/2001, Christoph Pickart wrote: Hello debian users, since a couple of hours I try to install debian 2.2r2 on an AMD1GHz, AsusA7M266 with USB keyboard and mouse.

Re: SSH-2.4.0 ./configure error

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 5 May 2001, J. [iso-8859-1] Ram?n Fdez wrote: I'm trying install ssh in my firewall linux box, when system run ./confugre in ssh-2.4.0 directrory the next error message is displayed: checking whether the C compilier (gcc -g) works...no configure error: installation or

Re: ATI Radeon compatibility

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, 6 May 2001, C+J Baker wrote: I need to know if your product supports the new ATI Radeon chip. Please reply. Thank you. C. Baker I'm not sure if stable (potato) has much support for Radeon cards, but I definitely know that unstable (sid) does. IIRC, Radeon support is

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-15 Thread Simon Law
The 905C support was broken in 2.2.18pre21, which ships with potato. The best way to fix that is via a new kernel, but that may be messy to get on the new machine without the network. Simon On Mon, 14 May 2001, Rich Puhek wrote: Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian,

X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-16 Thread Simon Law
Hello, I seem to have a small, and mysterious problem. I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes of usage. If I don't touch

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-17 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes of usage. If I don't touch my X server, it's fine.

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-18 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: What's funny is that VESA comes up right, it detects my card beautifully; but then it complains that there aren't any screens. Sounds like it can't find a matching resolution and refresh rate. The VESA driver is limited in what resolutions and

Re: building deb-src packages

2002-05-13 Thread Simon Law
On 13 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: Help! I need a Manual to Fscking Read! I've downloaded the mozilla source package, but am unsure of what to do next. Do I do this: dpkg-deb --build /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 or cd /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 dpkg-buildpackage -ai686 Or something

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread Simon Law
On 14 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:42:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file. I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does, how do I enable it?

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:35:37PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file. I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does, how do I enable it? The graphical stuff requires

Re: dhcp3-client init ???

2002-05-16 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Michael D. Schleif wrote: I just apt-got dhcp3-client (V3.0.1rc8) onto an old potato, which is quite remote to my humble hands. I have scoured that system and found *NO* init script to startup dhclient3 -- what am I missing? I know how to configure dhclient.conf

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