Re: No sound from CD, but timidity works

2001-04-22 Thread John R Lenton
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:28:40PM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: > > Thanks! You called it right. I had the cable going to my cdrom on /dev/sr1 > and not the cdrw on /dev/sr0. xmms has this wonderful plugin that reads music CDs via the data cable á la cdparanoia, xmms-cdread. In unstable, at leas

ipchains packets logs get displayed on active tty

2001-04-22 Thread Keith Johnson
As per subject. Quite annoying when I am trying to do important things. (Like play nethack). I am using firestarter v6.1 with debian woody. Thanks for any help pgp6KMYvs7H8N.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I dumped reiserfs - what about ext3 on Debian?

2001-04-22 Thread John R Lenton
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 03:23:16PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm running ReiserFS under 2.2.18 with no problems. I've also heard > persistant rumors of "not there yet" under 2.4, including from several > kernel hackers, and have no plans to migrate until I hear differently. > I haven't ta

Re: time format in logfiles (I miss the year)

2001-04-22 Thread John R Lenton
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:27:34AM +0200, Marcel Lanz wrote: > > at the moment I parse huge logfiles like /var/log/messages and I am > suprised that the date string doesn't include the year in the timestamp. The idea I guess is that if you actually keep the logs for more than a year you're probab

Re: Exim problem

2001-04-22 Thread John R Lenton
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:49:09PM +0200, Mateusz Mazur wrote: > Hi. > > It wasn't good idea to put all questions in one letter. So know I post > it single. I will be very great ful fot any help. > > Q: > How should I configure exim to relay mails. People from my office want > send mails to anywh

Re: mailboxes?

2001-04-22 Thread John R Lenton
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 01:29:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > mailx was made no longer setgid mail in a potato security update because > it was too riddled with security holes, and hence it doesn't have write > permissions to the /var/mail directory. You can still use it for sending > mail, bu

Re: dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-22 Thread Peter Schüller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > any particular reason you need perl 5.6 and xfree86 4? perl 5.6 is > not part of debian stable(for good reason if you've read the archives > it is a source of problems from time to time in unstable). same > for xfree86 4, it is not "stable" yet so it

Re: dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-22 Thread Nate Amsden
Yang Shouxun wrote: > I found Debian's package management strategy often frustrated me. i haven't. > Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp. that can be a problem. im not sure what kind of proxy wingate is. > Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /e

Re: No sound from CD, but timidity works

2001-04-22 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Sunday 22 April 2001 05:29 pm, csj wrote: > On Monday 23 April 2001 06:10, Stephen Boulet wrote: > > When I use a cdplayer and start it, the disc spins up, and it even > > identifies it correctly from the freedb database, but no sound > > comes out. > > > > But when I use timidity to pay a midi

xbanner w/ X4.0 upgrade

2001-04-22 Thread Terry Hancock
Hi, I recently had to upgrade many packages on my system to the unstable "Woody" distribution, which included upgrading to X 4.0, which -- not surprisingly -- broke scads of things, most of which are now fixed. The one continuing annoyance is that xbanner is no longer doing anything! I suspect th

dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-22 Thread Yang Shouxun
Dear Debian users, I found Debian's package management strategy often frustrated me. Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp. Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /etc/environment, but that seems to be not working. In a word, I cannot find any hostna

Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?

2001-04-22 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:09:23PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: > Thank you Walt! You're welcome. :-) > I can't believe I didn't find that! In case anyone else wants to view > more info on "history expansion" with bash... > > http://www.kashpureff.org/nic/linux/texinfo/bash_6.html > > or more

Simple Linux Dbase4 database application?

2001-04-22 Thread Abner Gershon
Is there a simple open source Linux database program available that can access Dbase IV file types. I have many Dbase IV files with personal and scientific information such as a CD library, address file, medical information, 35mm slide catalog which I now access via Lotus Approach. ___

Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Hurley
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:32:33PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > Assuming you're running bash, you probably want to use !* : > >ls A*.pdf >rm !* Thank you Walt! I can't believe I didn't find that! In case anyone else wants to view more info on "history expansion" with bash...

why does ps->eps conversion reduce line thickness?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Mackenzie
I do ps->eps conversions using: echo -n '\004' | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite \ -sOutputFile=box.eps box.ps >/dev/null using box.ps below. When box.ps is printed, it comes out as a 1mm thick 1" box (quite dark). When box.eps is printed, the lines are very thin (perhaps .2mm) and faint. Th

Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk"

2001-04-22 Thread Ansel Sermersheim
> "Mark" == Mark Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] Mark> When I run... Mark> cat *somebinaryfile* Mark> My term displays irregular ansi characters. (I've called space Mark> junk) I realize the correct information is being displayed, just Mark> sort of encrypted. ;) Mark> Without

Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk"

2001-04-22 Thread Angus D Madden
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:47:22PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: > > cat *somebinaryfile* > > My term displays irregular ansi characters. (I've called space junk) > I realize the correct information is being displayed, just sort of > encrypted. ;) > > Without exiting the term how do you fix

HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk"

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Hurley
I'd like to think I resort to man's, HOWTO's etc. before posting. BUT.this one has been bugging me for a while now. When I run... cat *somebinaryfile* My term displays irregular ansi characters. (I've called space junk) I realize the correct information is being displayed, just sort

Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?

2001-04-22 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:15:40PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: > > Anyone know of a method to easily solve this ... > > I *sometimes* list the files before deleting them: > > ls A*.pdf > > Ensuring I have only listed the ones I wish to delete, I then enter: > > rm A*.pdf > > Great,

Re: upgrading with dselect

2001-04-22 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:12:12AM +0200, Hans wrote: > I think you shouldn't mix apt-get with dselect, but I'd like to hear some > comments on this. Or maybe use deselect to make choices and use upt-get > dselect-upgrade, but I haven't tried if this works. Erm ... dselect and apt-get are both fro

HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Hurley
Anyone know of a method to easily solve this ... I *sometimes* list the files before deleting them: ls A*.pdf Ensuring I have only listed the ones I wish to delete, I then enter: rm A*.pdf Great, but anyone know of an easier why than the following? 1) Type the second command

Re: german keyboard

2001-04-22 Thread Ralf Batri
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:59:22 +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:48:06PM +0200, Ralf Batri wrote: > > install-keymap is on the system, but don't find any > > keymaps ! So what to do ? > > Just give me a hint ! > > keymaps should be in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz No, t

Re: tulip.o

2001-04-22 Thread Dan Christensen
Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is my problem with the Linksys NIC: > > . I have two NICs: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 and Intel 10/100 > . Using 2.4.3 Kernel and have tulip.o module compiled in it. > . The Interl NIC is detected as eth0 (btw, did I compile any support > for that

Re: terminal types

2001-04-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:08:38PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:00:03PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > what are my available choices as to terminal types? when i telnet into a > > redhat box, it replies that debian-terminal is unknown. i'd like to set

Re: [Newbie]XF4 Xvideo extension

2001-04-22 Thread n hems
is xv a module? if it is then add xv to the modules section: Load "xv" see the attached. but it seems too simple an answer, as you seem to know enough to work this out. any way hope it helps -nhems - Original Message - From: "James Leigh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Re: app for making cards?

2001-04-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:03:22AM -0700, Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Anyone know of an app that will make calling/business cards? I've > searched freshmeat, linuxapps, google, etc. and none of the results > were exactly what I want. Basically there are 2 columns, 5 rows on > each 8.

Re: /usr/src/redhat on Debian?

2001-04-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:55:11PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > Because you have rpm installed, which may be because you installed > > alien. > I did install alien but these directories were all empty which is why > I asked the question. If you use alien package, then these directory will be

Re: /usr/src/redhat on Debian?

2001-04-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Ben Collins wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:30:12PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > I was downloading the kernel source and found the following: > > > > ls /usr/src/redhat/ > > BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS > > > > All the directories and sub-directories are empty. I'm using >

Re: /usr/src/redhat on Debian?

2001-04-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:30:12PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I was downloading the kernel source and found the following: > > ls /usr/src/redhat/ > BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS > > All the directories and sub-directories are empty. I'm using > 2.2r3/potato upgraded from 2.2r0

Re: No sound from CD, but timidity works

2001-04-22 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On Sunday 22 April 2001 18:29, csj wrote: > JUST wondering did you connect the audio cable on the CD writer to > the soundcard? You can try connecting your headphones to the > headphone jack on the writer's front panel (if it has one). Otherwise > bring out your screw driver. before you get out t

/usr/src/redhat on Debian?

2001-04-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I was downloading the kernel source and found the following: ls /usr/src/redhat/ BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS All the directories and sub-directories are empty. I'm using 2.2r3/potato upgraded from 2.2r0. Anybody know why the redhat directory is there? Thanks, Eric

Re: Mathematica on Linux

2001-04-22 Thread john
Hi, I used Mathematica for lInux in 1996 during my Honours program, and then later in my PhD. The Student Version is feature complete - but it adds nasty little watermarks to any printed pages and any wepages you make with it. The most annoying thing I found was that after I had a disk failure I

Re: Problems Configuring X w/ GForce 2

2001-04-22 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hello Stephen, * Stephen Boulet wrote: > This is how I did it. > > Download the latest drivers (NVidiaNVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and > NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769) and as root do "make" in the kernel and then GLX > directory. > > Run and configure X with xf86config. I believe graphic card you want is under

Re: unable to insert ftape module

2001-04-22 Thread Robert
Message has been automatically signed by PGPsendmail 1.4.4, available from ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/people/rgooch/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert) > Date: Sun Apr 15 14:22:11 EDT 2001 > > When I try inserting the ftape module: > > % modprobe ftape

Re: upgrading with dselect

2001-04-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:12:12AM +0200, Hans wrote: > I am also experimenting with upgrading potato to testing now that I have > some more bandwith available. I screwed up big time by doing apt-get update > && apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. I > tried to remedy

Re: german keyboard

2001-04-22 Thread Frank Preut
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:48:06PM +0200, Ralf Batri wrote: > install-keymap is on the system, but don't find any > keymaps ! So what to do ? > Just give me a hint ! keymaps should be in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz frank.

Re: Problems Configuring X w/ GForce 2

2001-04-22 Thread Stephen Boulet
This is how I did it. Download the latest drivers (NVidiaNVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769) and as root do "make" in the kernel and then GLX directory. Run and configure X with xf86config. I believe graphic card you want is under number 320. Then you'll need to edit your /etc/X11

Re: Memory by free -b(263307264 about 251MB != 256MB)

2001-04-22 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I never bothered memory size until now (<64MB). > > How come memory is less than actual size (256MB)??? > It looks like 251MB but it is exactly 256*1024*1024-5008*1024 You might want to check the output of `dmesg` and, more specifically, look for a line starting with "Memor

Re: No sound from CD, but timidity works

2001-04-22 Thread csj
On Monday 23 April 2001 06:10, Stephen Boulet wrote: > When I use a cdplayer and start it, the disc spins up, and it even > identifies it correctly from the freedb database, but no sound > comes out. > > But when I use timidity to pay a midi file, the sound comes out > fine. > > What's happening? I

Re: how to set correct time?

2001-04-22 Thread Ross Boylan
I think I have another solution, and an explanation. ntpdate -u tells it to use an unprivileged port. The man page notes that -d (debug) always uses an unprivileged port, and I guess -q (query) does also. So I expect I can close the port and use -u instead. On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:26:16PM -

Re: Problems Configuring X w/ GForce 2

2001-04-22 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:50:04AM -0700, John and Kristy Woodill wrote: > I have just bought a GForce 2 graphics card and now i can't seem to get x to > configure and load correctly. I just get a black and white screen all > scrambled up. I have a Riva TNT 2 before and had zero problems with t

Re: Problem dialing in via mgetty.

2001-04-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:33:09PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I am putting together a four machine (Debian) GNU/Linux network in my > HS classroom. It's substantially working, and, I might add, much to > the credit of the Debian team and the excellent install setup. I am > running 2.2, p

Re: I dumped reiserfs - what about ext3 on Debian?

2001-04-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +0100, Phillip Deackes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have been running my system very well using Reiserfs on all partitions, > including root. However, yesterday my computer suffered a crash and on > rebooting I found that the Opera bookmarks file contained all

No sound from CD, but timidity works

2001-04-22 Thread Stephen Boulet
When I use a cdplayer and start it, the disc spins up, and it even identifies it correctly from the freedb database, but no sound comes out. But when I use timidity to pay a midi file, the sound comes out fine. What's happening? I'm using built in scsi-emulation on /dev/sr0. -- Stephen

Re: GUI for cvs

2001-04-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 03:01:12PM -0700, Edwin G. Castro wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a GUI for cvs? I need to find out for my dad > and he says that a GUI for cvs would interest him a lot. He doesn't care if > it's for X or for Windows. Thanks for everyone's help! tkcvs is gui for cvs.

Re: Corruption many (unknown) files; how best to restore?

2001-04-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:37:55AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Hi all. > > HISTORY (the actual question is below): > > For some reason my Sid box at home has been locking up in X lately. I don't > know if it's an X problem, or a hardware problem, or what. I'm running > 2.2.18; have been for mo

Re: GUI for cvs

2001-04-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 03:01:12PM -0700, Edwin G. Castro wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a GUI for cvs? I need to find out for my dad > and he says that a GUI for cvs would interest him a lot. He doesn't care if > it's for X or for Windows. Thanks for everyone's help! > > --Edwin G. Castro

Re: Mathematica on Linux

2001-04-22 Thread Erik Reuter
I know someone who had the student version of Mathematica and wanted to switch between Windows and Linux (both of which were on the CD, I think). It was a bit of a hassle, but by calling up WRI and arguing a bit he was able to do it without being charged full price for a new version (I can't rememb

Re: Quicken Like program for linux

2001-04-22 Thread Jim McCloskey
M G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Does anyone know if there is a quicken like program |> for personal finances available for linux.. I can run |> quicken with wine, but who wants to do that?! A number of peole have already recommended GnuCash. There's a very useful description and overview of it

RE: [MAPS #33478] Struggle against spam.

2001-04-22 Thread Luiz Carlos Santos de Alencar
Incredibile dictu. I don't know of a such list in .BRasil. You in the outside also. IMHO the struggle against spam should be in and out of the Internet. Spam is some kind of educational fault for the communal life that like the others wont be supressed or reduced to acceptable levels without the c

Re: GUI for cvs

2001-04-22 Thread Victor Foitzik
Hello Edwin, > Does anyone know if there is a GUI for cvs? I need to find out for my dad > and he says that a GUI for cvs would interest him a lot. He doesn't care if > it's for X or for Windows. Thanks for everyone's help! There are quite a lot GUIs for CVS out there (including cvsweb for web-ba

Re: where to find ttmkfdir?

2001-04-22 Thread Colin Watson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hey people. Truetypes in X 4.0.2 apparently require ttmkfdir, but I can't >find it in unstable anywhere. I can grab it from elsewhere, but is there a >reason that this isn't packaged in? It seems to be mkttfdir instead, in the fttools package.

Re: GUI for cvs

2001-04-22 Thread Colin Watson
"Edwin G. Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone know if there is a GUI for cvs? I need to find out for my dad >and he says that a GUI for cvs would interest him a lot. He doesn't care if >it's for X or for Windows. Thanks for everyone's help! There are a number of options in Debian: cerv

Re: GUI for cvs

2001-04-22 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Edwin G Castro writes: > Does anyone know if there is a GUI for cvs? I need to find out for my dad > and he says that a GUI for cvs would interest him a lot. He doesn't care if > it's for X or for Windows. Thanks for everyone's help! tkcvs, perhaps? There are some others, I guess... pharmacy

Re: Consoles inaccessible w/ Ctl-Alt-FN

2001-04-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:41:25PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > I can't recall if I ever was able to access linux consoles since I > installed the Ximian packages. Do users of the vanilla Gnome packages > still have access to the linux consoles? Yes. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^

openoffice 625 on woody/testing problem

2001-04-22 Thread Noel Koethe
Hello, I made a fresh upgrade on my woody machine. ( kernel 2.4.3, glibc 2.2.2 ) Now I want to install openoffice 625. Installed it with the /net option in /usr/local/openoffice6 as root. Then I want to make the user installation: $ /usr/local/openoffice6/program/setup chmod: changing permissi

Re: terminal types

2001-04-22 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:00:03PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: >> what are my available choices as to terminal types? when i telnet into a >> redhat box, it replies that debian-terminal is unknown. i'd like to set >> my TERM environment that would let me telnet bet

GUI for cvs

2001-04-22 Thread Edwin G. Castro
Does anyone know if there is a GUI for cvs? I need to find out for my dad and he says that a GUI for cvs would interest him a lot. He doesn't care if it's for X or for Windows. Thanks for everyone's help! --Edwin G. Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems Configuring X w/ GForce 2

2001-04-22 Thread John and Kristy Woodill
I have just bought a GForce 2 graphics card and now i can't seem to get x to configure and load correctly.  I just get a black and white screen all scrambled up.  I have a Riva TNT 2 before and had zero problems with that.  This is one of the best graphics cards out and i would think that th

Memory by free(SOLVED)

2001-04-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
$ free -k # for 256MB machine total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:257136 230456 26680 45736 116136 75528 -/+ buffers/cache: 38792 218344 Swap: 264996 0 264996 On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:19:42AM -0700, Karst

Re: terminal types

2001-04-22 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > what are my available choices as to terminal types? when i telnet into a > redhat box, it replies that debian-terminal is unknown. i'd like to set > my TERM environment that would let me telnet between different boxes with > no problems. any sug

Re: terminal types

2001-04-22 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
that did it. thanks! On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:00:03PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > what are my available choices as to terminal types? when i telnet into a > > redhat box, it replies that debian-terminal is unknown. i'd like to set > > my TERM envi

Re: terminal types

2001-04-22 Thread ktb
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:00:03PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > what are my available choices as to terminal types? when i telnet into a > redhat box, it replies that debian-terminal is unknown. i'd like to set > my TERM environment that would let me telnet between different boxes with > n

Re: Compiling ghostscript 5.50 on woody : HELP !!!

2001-04-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:18:26PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > 1. download sources for ghostscript 5.50 from unstable (sid) ... > 4. go to gs5.50 directory and make > > Result : > make: gdevx.c: Command not found > make: *** [gdevx.o] Error 127 It may be easier following previous debian pac

terminal types

2001-04-22 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
what are my available choices as to terminal types? when i telnet into a redhat box, it replies that debian-terminal is unknown. i'd like to set my TERM environment that would let me telnet between different boxes with no problems. any suggestions? -- steve * linux : http://exitwound.org m

Re: Mathematica on Linux

2001-04-22 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, M G wrote: > Have any of you used mathematica for linux? i use the > windows version and find it very helpful... but i > don't want to pay all that money for a linux version > if i should just continue using it in windows.. > Urm...are you going to continue using Windows? I

Re: app for making cards?

2001-04-22 Thread JC Portlock
On Sunday 22 April 2001 07:40 am, John Foster wrote: > Ron Farrer wrote: > > Anyone know of an app that will make calling/business cards? I've > > searched freshmeat, linuxapps, google, etc. and none of the results > > were exactly what I want. Basically there are 2 columns, 5 rows on > > each 8.5"

Re: Mathematica on Linux

2001-04-22 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001, M G wrote: > Have any of you used mathematica for linux? i use the > windows version and find it very helpful... but i > don't want to pay all that money for a linux version > if i should just continue using it in windows.. > > > Thanks, > Michael Michael, You may want t

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-22 Thread James Tapping
Hello These are the files that I used from windows and starting the installation with loadlin. These are all in a folder called linux c:/linux base2_2.tgz (not used i think) drivers.tgz install.bat linux loadlin.exe rescue.bin root.bin When you get to the part about using images-144 and rescue.

Re: syslinux floppy boot problem

2001-04-22 Thread Pann McCuaig
Answering my own question, here is the configuration selection (from block devices using make menuconfig) that boots from lilo but not from syslinux: [*] Normal PC floppy disk support [ ] Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support --- Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE

Compiling ghostscript 5.50 on woody : HELP !!!

2001-04-22 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello there... I bought a brand new printer yesterday (HP deskjet 959C), and I am now trying to install the latest HP drivers (yes they now provide drivers for linux)... The problem is that I have to compile ghostscript from source. Question : does anybody have succeeded in this ? It's a real pa

Re: Quicken Like program for linux

2001-04-22 Thread Dominique Deleris
Try GnuCash (Gnome app) Dominique

Re: Quicken Like program for linux

2001-04-22 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
http://www.gnucash.org On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, M G wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a quicken like program > for personal finances available for linux.. I can run > quicken with wine, but who wants to do that?! > > Thanks, > Michael > > __ > Do

Mathematica on Linux

2001-04-22 Thread M G
Have any of you used mathematica for linux? i use the windows version and find it very helpful... but i don't want to pay all that money for a linux version if i should just continue using it in windows.. Thanks, Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! A

Quicken Like program for linux

2001-04-22 Thread M G
Does anyone know if there is a quicken like program for personal finances available for linux.. I can run quicken with wine, but who wants to do that?! Thanks, Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http:

Re: Can you help me: one error in make bZimage

2001-04-22 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:57:21PM +0100, Juan Ram?n Fern?ndez Vera wrote: > When I run make bZimage, the make said: > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot' > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/include -E -D__BIG_KERNEL__ > -traditional -DSVGA_

Re: app for making cards?

2001-04-22 Thread Andre Berger
* Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-22 14:13 +0200: > > Anyone know of an app that will make calling/business cards? I've > searched freshmeat, linuxapps, google, etc. and none of the results > were exactly what I want. Basically there are 2 columns, 5 rows on > each 8.5" x 11" sheet of pape

Re: libncurses.a

2001-04-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 13:35:59 -0500, George M. Butler wrote: > I need to find the file whose name is libncurses.abut cannot find it. A grep through the 'Contents-i386.gz' file on your friendly neighbourhood Debian mirror will tell you it's in the "libncurses4-dev" and "libncurses5-dev" pa

Re: grub <\rant>

2001-04-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:33:16AM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Gerd Arlitt wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The info pages are fine but i needed more info and found it in the > > > May 2001 Linux Journal and at the IBM linux tutorials site: > > > http://www.cn.ibm.com/de

Consoles inaccessible w/ Ctl-Alt-FN

2001-04-22 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, I can't access the linux consoles through Ctl-Alt-F1 anymore. I'm running Potato 2.2r2, with Windowmaker and plenty of Ximian Gnome packages installed. These come from a debian "non-free" cd obtained at ftp.hu.debian.org. I can't recall if I ever was able to access linux consoles

libncurses.a

2001-04-22 Thread George M. Butler
Hi all, I installed Debian 2.2 r2 about 2 weeks ago and am trying to do the Linux From Scratch project and trying to install bash ( basically the first step ). I need to find the file whose name is libncurses.abut cannot find it. It is suppose to be in either the directory /usr/lib/ or

Re: root fs not mounted

2001-04-22 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
i'm not sure of your configuration, but i had the same problem until i answered 'y' to IDE/ATA-2 DISK support. On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Stephan Kulka wrote: > Hi > > I just compiled a new kernel (2.2.19) using make-kpkg. I am using lilo as > bootloader and so lilo.conf was modified by make-kpkg as w

Re: rtl8139 vs. 8139too (was Problems with 8139too...)

2001-04-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:38:42 +0200, Emil Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >While more or less on the subject 8139, could someone please explain the >differenses between these, and what benefits one might have over the >other. I've used them both without trouble, but I asume there is a >reason w

Re: grub <\rant>

2001-04-22 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Joost van der Lugt wrote: > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > > > > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Gerd Arlitt wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The info pages are fine but i needed more info and found it in the > > > > May 2001 Linux Journal and at the IBM linux tutorials site: > > >

Re: [Newbiedoc-discuss] Re: Tutorial for kernel compiling the Debian way, RFC

2001-04-22 Thread Jesse Goerz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 April 2001 08:13, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > Jesse > > In "Making sure you have everything you need," you wrote: > > "This should create a directory called kernel-source-2.2.19. Inside that > directory you should find another called Docu

Re: grub <\rant>

2001-04-22 Thread Joost van der Lugt
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Gerd Arlitt wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The info pages are fine but i needed more info and found it in the > > > May 2001 Linux Journal and at the IBM linux tutorials site: > > > http://www.cn.ibm.com/developerWorks/education/linux/l-grub_eng

Re: ot: imap server-side filtering

2001-04-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:24:29AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On 20 Apr 2001 09:59:21 -0700, Bruce Z. Lysik wrote: > > --On Friday, April 20, 2001 8:43 AM -0700 Michael O'Brien > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for a mail filtering program that runs on an imap server. I > >

root fs not mounted

2001-04-22 Thread Stephan Kulka
Hi I just compiled a new kernel (2.2.19) using make-kpkg. I am using lilo as bootloader and so lilo.conf was modified by make-kpkg as well. But when I tried to boot with the new kernel I got the above (and known) error message. I then run /sbin/lilo to be sure, the problem remains. The strange thi

german keyboard

2001-04-22 Thread Ralf Batri
hi list since the last apt-get update the package "console-data" und so kbdconfig seems not to be available anymore. Since that time i have to use an ammerican leyboard-layout, so how to change back to de-latin1-nodeadkeys ? install-keymap is on the system, but don't find any keymaps ! So

Re: ISDN packages broken?

2001-04-22 Thread Willi Dyck
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:10:46PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: > Well, at the time I upgraded to kernel 2.4.2, I used the > packages from Adrian Bunk's 2.4.x-on-potato page, which said the > ISDNutils were not ready. So I kept the ones I had, and they > worked OK--at least, ipppd did. Sorry, tha

syslinux floppy boot problem

2001-04-22 Thread Pann McCuaig
I'm having a problem booting my firewall box from a syslinux floppy. It boots the same kernel from the HD under lilo just fine. I know that this worked once upon a time using kernel 2.2.17, but it's not working now with kernel 2.2.19, and (he sheepishly adds) I seem to have misplaced the .config I

where to find ttmkfdir?

2001-04-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Truetypes in X 4.0.2 apparently require ttmkfdir, but I can't find it in unstable anywhere. I can grab it from elsewhere, but is there a reason that this isn't packaged in? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fin

xfstt in Debian

2001-04-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So, I installed xfstt, and I followed the instructions in the Debian mini HOWTO for setting up truetypes. Now, when I try to start X, I get an error about not being able to find the default font, fixed. Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath"

info

2001-04-22 Thread Laurence Edwards
info please begin:vcard n:Edwards;Laurence tel;cell:0438 669 510 tel;fax:(03) 59 669 510 tel;work:(03) 59 669 510 x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fn:Laurence Edwards end:vcard

Re: ISDN packages broken?

2001-04-22 Thread Felix E. Klee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tony Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kind of ISDN card is it BTW? My card is an AVM Fritz!PCI. Felix

Re: vorbis

2001-04-22 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
i'm running woody, and apt-get install vorbis-tools downloaded and installed 4 packages, including libogg, libao, and libvorbis. i've tried man oggenc, but man can't find it. it's installed in /usr/share/man/man1 and my manpath.config contains this path. On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Robert Voigt wrot

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-22 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello George, I don't know if you have learned about some sad info regarding Amazon, but this links will quickly fill you in. Seems especially pertinant since debian is often regarded as the truest/purest in free(dom) software. http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/amazon.html http://www.oreilly

dpkg serious warning - cannot apt-get or run dpkg

2001-04-22 Thread Keith Elder
I am getting the following error. I have tried everything I can think of to make this thing run, but it is a no go. Here is the output: ---begin--- zorka:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove

Re: Can you help me: one error in make bZimage

2001-04-22 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:57:21PM +0100, Juan Ram?n Fern?ndez Vera wrote: Hi, In the file /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile, change every instance of -oformat to --oformat. I think after that all that you have to do is a make bzImage in that directory to

Re: Can you help me: one error in make bZimage

2001-04-22 Thread ktb
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:57:21PM +0100, Juan Ram?n Fern?ndez Vera wrote: > When I run make bZimage, the make said: > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot' > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/include -E -D__BIG_KERNEL__ > -traditional -DSVGA_

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