Re: GPM (Urgente)

2000-01-23 Thread Xavier Andrade
Cuando diga lilo aprieta alt y luego escribes linux 1 enter. Eso te va a modo mono usario donde seguramente no cargara gpm y hay reeditas el gpm.conf. Xavier On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, DRodriguez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Xavier Andrade wrote: Bootea en modo

Re: Linux Expo en Madrid

2000-01-23 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Jordi writes: On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 06:11:59PM +0100, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: Rehago la pregunta: ¿interesa tanto como para que x personas, que a ser posible incluyan algún miembro de Debian, se comprometa a organizarlo? Yo puedo echar una mano, pero esos días voy a estar

Re: Nuevo programa para usuarios hispanoparlantes 'ayuda'

2000-01-23 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On dom, ene 23, 2000 at 12:34:44 +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: Me gustaría que los interesados lo bajarais de http://www.dat.etsit.upm.es/~jfs/debian/ENVIAR/ayuda y lo probarais, y tambien me gustaría recivir todo tipo de chuletas que creais útiles para incluir en el programa y

Sección sobre Debian en BarraPunto

2000-01-23 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Hola! Desde hace algunos días tenemos en pruebas una nueva zona en BarraPunto, la sección sobre Debian (http://barrapunto.com/debian/). En ella vamos a poner información sobre el proyecto Debian, y queda a disposición de los que estéis interesados en contribuir de cualquier forma a este

Re: Sección sobre Debian en BarraPunto

2000-01-23 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On lun, ene 24, 2000 at 12:45:08 +0100, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: Hola! Desde hace algunos días tenemos en pruebas una nueva zona en BarraPunto, la sección sobre Debian La vi hace dias y me pareció una idea genial. Muchas gracias al equipo de BarraPunto, es un esfuerzo que se

Re: Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

2000-01-23 Thread tjm
Hi. If you are using modules for your sound, you can modify the conf.modules file to run a program after a module is loaded. The following is the pertinent line from my conf.modules file: post-install sb /bin/volume 10 This line runs the volume program with a parameter of '10' (a low volume)

Re: Debconf troubles

2000-01-23 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Schuller wrote: However, there is a bug somewhere, because AFAIK apt should have installed perl-5.005 automatically, right? So it seems to be there's a dependency bug in the debconf package. I will report it as a bug after further investigation. I fixed it yesterday. -- see shy jo

Re: x11amp/xmms

2000-01-23 Thread ferret
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Wakko Warner wrote: I just have one problem with xmms. I can't find the skin from x11amp which is what's keeping me from upgrading the one copy I have on my machine (I don't like the default skin and I've yet to find one I

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: automate multi form submission

2000-01-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 04:17:16PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I am setting up a system where I can automatically submit all the info to a FORM for registering a new domain name using perl scripts. I use the following in my perl script and it works with most of the

Re: Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

2000-01-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 11:20:55AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 12:55:48PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: How does one add commands to be executed after the machine boot is complete? When my box starts up, the sound levels are maxed out, and I'd like to be able to

Re: Diskless from NFS --1) nfsd (rmtab); 2) /dev

2000-01-23 Thread Brian May
Olexiy == Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olexiy I think anyway the solution I suggested -- to re-write Olexiy nfsd to check the same mount point first was correct, Olexiy because tcp standard may to use time-out. Only one Olexiy problem, nfs uses udp :(.

Re: vt220 or higher and 8 bit terminal with latin-1

2000-01-23 Thread ferret
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Hans Ekbrand wrote: I have problems with this: Conex7.5 on the DOS-side of the null-modem cabel and getty 38400 vt220 in /etc/inittab The problem is that ascii characters in the 160-255 range is displayed alright, but I can't type them from the terminal(emulator). I

A non existent process is locking the modem?

2000-01-23 Thread Shaul Karl
I believe mgetty-fax or start-stop-daemon and the /etc/init.d/mgetty-fax script does not handle the port correctly. Does anyone else have it? [03:42:11 /tmp]$ cat /var/lock/LCK..ttyS2 623 [03:43:12 /tmp]$ ps 623 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND [03:43:15 /tmp]$ tail

menu 2.1.5-2.1 broken?

2000-01-23 Thread leckert
Has anyone else experienced a rather substantial loss of menu items after upgrading to menu 2.1.5-2.1 in frozen? I am using windowmaker, and I no longer even able to select a terminal from my drop down menu. I am running two boxes, one with gnome and one without, and it happened on both. Or have I

Re: Need recommendation for wireless networking

2000-01-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi william.. here's my list of wireless T1 stuff... http://www.linux-consulting.com/T1/wireless.txt have fun alvin On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, William T Wilson wrote: I am in need of a networking solution that fulfills the following requirements. Keep in mind I know next to nothing about

Re: menu 2.1.5-2.1 broken?

2000-01-23 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 09:32:02PM +, leckert wrote: Has anyone else experienced a rather substantial loss of menu items after upgrading to menu 2.1.5-2.1 in frozen? I am using windowmaker, and I no longer even able to select a terminal from my drop down menu. I am running two boxes, one

menu question

2000-01-23 Thread David S. Jackson
I gather than menu creates entries for all menus where window managers are found, right? I've also noticed that sometimes menu's choice for where to put a tool (ie, on which submenu to list a tool) doesn't jibe with where I would put it, or perhaps misses finding the tool altogether. Is there a

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote: It only specifies 'usually' here, but it's still a bit confusing. Should I file a (wishlist) bug report, do you think? personally I think the .Xdefaults name is dumb, after all what does it contain? X resources! they are not defaults at all, defaults are what

Re: What to edit

2000-01-23 Thread Shaul Karl
Replace http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US frozen non-US with http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US frozen/non-US main contrib non-free ? ---BeginMessage--- What do I need to edit to upgrade from Slink to Potato? I've attached a co[y of my sources.list# Use for a

Re: Rescue Floppy Freezes on SCSI

2000-01-23 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Bart Szyszka writes: If this is an aic7xxx type of SCSI card, then you'll need to use the modified Rescue and Driver floppy images from: http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/ Thanks! Works like a charm. Is this documented anywhere? If so, I sure didn't find it. \\// | R | T

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-23 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Some what recently, Big Gaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults :) Big Gaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :) :) Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :) :) On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote: :) :) to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start

FW: RE: HELP: dhcp client probs

2000-01-23 Thread Bryan Scaringe
There are 3 DHCP clients available for Linux: 1) pump: I've never used it, but from what I've read on LinuxNewbie.org, It's best avoided 2) dhcpcd: Pretty much the szstandard DHCP client on most Linux distributions. Uses /etc/init.d/dhcpcd as it's init script. You need version 0.7.X for

Re: FW: RE: HELP: dhcp client probs

2000-01-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:15:22AM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote: There are 3 DHCP clients available for Linux: 1) pump: I've never used it, but from what I've read on LinuxNewbie.org, It's best avoided Could you expand, or post a URL? I'm usig pump with my cable modem and have had a total

Re: libc.so.4

2000-01-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:02:35PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: 2) Try to locate a hamm libc4 package. Actually, it was discontinued after 'bo'. The problem is that the tools to build it don't work any more. I experimented with this just before hamm's release; it appeared that the command

mail problem

2000-01-23 Thread aphro
I asked about this before but never saw a reply so i'll ask again. I have 2 machines that handle 99% of my accounts. 1 is acting mail server(bebo.firetrail.com) and the other does everything else(galactica.firetrail.com) all of the domains i host MX to mail.firetrail.com (which goes to

Re: A non existent process is locking the modem?

2000-01-23 Thread aphro
the init process (PID 1) handles serial connections.. make sure that your /etc/inittab does not contain any uncommented entries related to /dev/ttyS2 and restart inittab (kill -HUP 1) and try again.. nate On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: shaulk I believe mgetty-fax or start-stop-daemon

I've got sound!

2000-01-23 Thread David J. Kanter
After many months wallowing because of my Aureal Vortex 2 chipset, I finally downloaded Aureal's Linux drivers, recompiled the latest kernel, and viola: I've finally got sound in Linux! Sorry for an essentially pointless post, but I'm so excited. Now I can probably use my Quake III Windows CD in

Re: I've got sound!

2000-01-23 Thread aphro
can you let me know what you think of those drivers? one of my friends has a vortex2 and doesnt want to pay for OSS.. (hes on suse 6.3) nate On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, David J. Kanter wrote: djkant After many months wallowing because of my Aureal Vortex 2 chipset, I finally djkant downloaded

Re: I've got sound!

2000-01-23 Thread David J. Kanter
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 11:21:41PM -0800, aphro wrote: can you let me know what you think of those drivers? one of my friends has a vortex2 and doesnt want to pay for OSS.. (hes on suse 6.3) ---end quoted text--- I've only played an mp3; I'm still trying to figure out xfreecd. But it sounds

Re: A non existent process is locking the modem?

2000-01-23 Thread Shaul Karl
the init process (PID 1) handles serial connections.. make sure that your /etc/inittab does not contain any uncommented entries related to /dev/ttyS2 and restart inittab (kill -HUP 1) and try again.. nate [10:01:33 /tmp]$ grep ttyS2 /etc/inittab #s2:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -i

Re: apt's entry for non-US?

2000-01-23 Thread Francois Deppierraz
hypnos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone provide me with an entry to add to my sources file for apt so it will get a list of non-US packages? I've been screwing with it and can't figure it out. Mainly I just want to be able to install apache w/ ssl. deb

Mailbox read-only after change to partition table

2000-01-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Installed a new system yesterday and rather than create a partition for /var I cp -a /var to /usr on a large partition, deleted /var and created a symbolic link to replace it. My mail file is now read-only so perhaps I messed up the permissions. Does anyone know how to fix this?

apt's entry for non-US?

2000-01-23 Thread hypnos
Can someone provide me with an entry to add to my sources file for apt so it will get a list of non-US packages? I've been screwing with it and can't figure it out. Mainly I just want to be able to install apache w/ ssl. Thanks -- hypnos

Where is texi2html package?

2000-01-23 Thread Abdul Aziz
Hi, Can anyone tell in what .deb package texi2html is? I've been looking for it for ages and can't find it. Thanks.

installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 on Thinkpad 380

2000-01-23 Thread Nicolas Renet
I'm trying to install the ufficial release 2.1 (4 CD's) of Debian GNU/Linux on my IBM Thinkpad 380, without success : the installation program begins with loading the kernel (loading root.bin loading linux) but after a few seconds causes the computer to reboot... and restarting the

Re: Where is texi2html package?

2000-01-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Abdul Aziz wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell in what .deb package texi2html is? I've been looking for it for ages and can't find it. Thanks. kuolema!joey(ttyp7):/var zgrep texi2html /home/ftp/debian/dists/potato/Contents-i386.gz ./usr/share/doc/mailcrypt/texi2html.ext.gz

Re: Diskless from NFS --1) nfsd (rmtab); 2) /dev

2000-01-23 Thread Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov
What is /etc/rmtab? On my slink computer, it is a mile long... I am not sure but it may be /var/db/mountdtab or something like that. mountd in 2.0 puts information in /etc/exports files, and it moveing the info into /var, is, of course more then welcome from my own point of view. I thought

Re: exim appropriate for dial-up?

2000-01-23 Thread Phillip Deackes
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In previous installs (Debian 2.0, 2.1 and potato) I've puzzled over how to set up exim. I notice there have been a bunch of questions here about how to set it up, particularly for people who dial-up to an ISP. I'm particularly interested in that, and

Re: Very frustrating

2000-01-23 Thread Phillip Deackes
Don Cavaiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, is it possible to put a new icon on the window desktop so that I can start a favorite program with just a click? You need a file manager which uses icons. A very nice one to use is dfm - in fact dfm is recommended by the author of icewm. It is

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-23 Thread Big Gaute
Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some what recently, Big Gaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults :) Big Gaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :) :) Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :) :) On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote: :) :) to my

keyboard in console

2000-01-23 Thread eric k. wolven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Greetings: I got two problems: One, with my keyboard in console mode. The keyboard has letters switched every which way (q is a, w is z, etc.) I didn't seem to have problems prior to downloading console-tool, etc in updating unstable.Tried removing and

Re: dhcpcd configuration

2000-01-23 Thread Sven Gaerner
Joseph A. Martin wrote: Hello, I have a laptop with PCMCIA networking running Debian. The pcmcia stuff and the networking stuff both work great. I am using dhcpcd to get my 'net configuration as I move the laptop between home and work. dhcpcd works great also, except for one issue:

(Samba) tree connect failed

2000-01-23 Thread Gunter Kuhnle
Hallo, I upgraded to potato and Samba 2.0.6(-3). After having upgraded, it seems to be impossible to connect to my linux box using samba. Our NT Server doesn't find it and connecting via smbclient failed. Doing smbclient -L assel2 produces the error message: tree connect failed: code 0

Playing audio CDs question

2000-01-23 Thread David J. Kanter
Just to be sure I did this the correct Debian way: to let myself play audio CDs, I added myself to the disk group. I can play CDs now, so everything works. But again I want to do this right. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recompile kernel for sound?

2000-01-23 Thread David Z. Maze
David J Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DJK My kernel, 2.2.13, was not compiled with sound support because my DJK card had no drivers. Now it apparently does: the Aureal Vortex 2 DJK chipset at linux.aureal.com. Do I need to (re-download and) DJK re-compile the kernel to enable sound support, or

RE: (Samba) tree connect failed

2000-01-23 Thread Harlan Crystal
I've been getting the same problem and have been pulling my hair out trying to fix it for the last day! Anyone have a fix? - Harlan -Original Message- From: Gunter Kuhnle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 10:37 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:

Re: Playing audio CDs question

2000-01-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/1/2000 David J. Kanter wrote: Just to be sure I did this the correct Debian way: to let myself play audio CDs, I added myself to the disk group. I can play CDs now, so everything works. But again I want to do this right. ack! NO!! now your user can write to ALL disks even your ext2

Re: menu problems

2000-01-23 Thread eric k. wolven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Dear All: Got console keyboard problem fixed--went to kdb and re-configured--duh! I still don't know how it happened... Problem 2, still remains. Menus in all my windowmanagers are incomplete and some applications don't work.Eg, netscape doesn't respond

Re: menu problems

2000-01-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/1/2000 eric k. wolven wrote: Menus in all my windowmanagers are incomplete and some applications don't work.Eg, netscape doesn't respond even from the commandline, much less the menu. The app starts then...nada. Any help would be appreciated. have you tried running update-menus,

[jpb@cybertours.com: Re: menu problems]

2000-01-23 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:30:38AM -0500, eric k. wolven wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Menus in all my windowmanagers are incomplete and some applications don't work.Eg, netscape doesn't respond even from the commandline, much less the menu. The app starts then...nada.

Make menuconfig dependency not met

2000-01-23 Thread Patrick
Can anyone drop me a line to say what I've forgotten to install? enterprise:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' find: /usr/local/lib/: No such file or

insmod sound question

2000-01-23 Thread David J. Kanter
Yesterday I recompiled my kernel with sound support, as a module, and then compiled the Aureal Vortex 2 driver. All worked well until I rebooted. After rebooting I had to log on a root, then type insmod au8830.o because all sound software said no sound device was detected. After that everything

Re: menu question

2000-01-23 Thread Andrew Chung
I gather than menu creates entries for all menus where window managers are found, right? I've also noticed that sometimes menu's choice for where to put a tool (ie, on which submenu to list a tool) doesn't jibe with where I would put it, or perhaps misses finding the tool altogether. Is

Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-23 Thread MiniVend
Is there some way to set up an installation so that it can be totally customized for a specefic user's needs. I want to have the following to be done when installing any system, upgrade, or application. 1. Be able to select which processor that system uses, i386, m68, alpha, etc from a menu.

Re: Playing audio CDs question

2000-01-23 Thread David J. Kanter
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 03:50:36PM +, Ethan Benson wrote: the proper way to identify your cdrom device and do a chgrp cdrom on it, then add yourself to group cdrom instead. if its a ATAPI cdrom (probably) and its master on the secondary IDE its /dev/hdc if its slave on primary its

Re: mail problem

2000-01-23 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-01-22 22:39:50, aphro wrote: I have 2 machines that handle 99% of my accounts. 1 is acting mail server(bebo.firetrail.com) and the other does everything else(galactica.firetrail.com) all of the domains i host MX to mail.firetrail.com (which goes to bebo.firetrail.com). Ok. on

Re: don't want x as default startup

2000-01-23 Thread mek
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: John Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just remove the sym link in the default run level directory in /etc i.e. if the default runlevel is 2, then remove the sym link to S89xdm in the /etc/rc2.d directory. If there's a better way I'm sure others

Re: Make menuconfig dependency not met

2000-01-23 Thread Joseph A. Martin
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory That line is the crucial line. 'make menuconfig' uses the ncurses library to build the menu interface. Installing the libncurses5-dev package should solve your problem. later, joseph -- the LaterDude ICQ:

Sendmail problems - resend.

2000-01-23 Thread paul
Trying this one again - I`m still stumped, at least a clue as to where to start to look would be great. by default sendmail listens on port 25. chances are you have another pgoram on that port though. the debian distributions come with multiple choices for mail transport agents, sendmail is by

Re: don't want x as default startup

2000-01-23 Thread mek
hi eric, mek: Try: ln -s /etc/init.d/xdm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm Just did wdm the other day. eric file exists! in both the ways... mmm mek

netscape: cannot perform malloc

2000-01-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi! I run debian stable, and want to use netscape instead of mozilla. So I downloaded the whole stable/non-free/binary-i386/web directory, got the missing netscape-base-4 package, too, and installed the newest netscape/navigator/communicator packages. However, when I try starting

Re: Playing audio CDs question

2000-01-23 Thread David J. Kanter
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:32:18AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: OK, I did chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc, and then adduser david cdrom. But now I can't play CDs. When I start xfreecd, I get: CDROM device: Permission denied. Do I need to change the group on the /dev/cdrom as well? ---end quoted text---

Re: Printing woes

2000-01-23 Thread Pavel Epifanov
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Howard Mann wrote: =When I print to a file (.ps) in Netscape, and subsequently print the =item via gs, the fonts are still huge. I am using macro (see a the bottom) to print files with headers thru enscript 1.6.2 package (deb). Also you can specify a font size followed

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

2000-01-23 Thread Pavel Epifanov
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Michel DДnzer wrote: =However, the above problem still remains. If I just initialize the modem with ='ATF1', it connects at 4 something bps. But I only get transfer rates =around 1 kB/s! Uploads are as fast as ever. OTOH after 'ATF1N21', it =connects at only 33600 bps,

Re: making a pine deb?

2000-01-23 Thread Pavel Epifanov
On 20 Jan 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: =Does anyone have a diff that I could use to make a deb of pine 4.21? =I've got the source tarball all unpacked and ready to go, but I'd rather =not have to create all of the debian files needed to make a deb. =You can skip the usual, mutt's better try it instead

netscape bus error

2000-01-23 Thread Robert Rati
I just upgraded my potato system to the newest packages and now netscape bus errors. Is this a known bug that was overlooked and will be fixed? Netscape worked just fine before the upgrade. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka

new install network problem

2000-01-23 Thread Roger Weinheimer
I just installed the debian base system on a mac centris 610 (68040). I configured it for network connection using parameters that worked in macos with the same interface. Linux recognizes the interface on boot and ifconfig, route, /etc/init.d/network all look fine. I can't ping any other machines

CD-ROM only plays mono??

2000-01-23 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
I'm using the cdtool package to play audio CD's from my CD-ROM drive. For some reason, playing CD's only outputs MONO sound (ie. only to one of my speakers). It's not a problem with my speakers since .mp3 and .wav files plays as stereo without any problems. Is this a software problem or is it a

sources.list

2000-01-23 Thread Rob Hensley
Hi, I have a quick/simple question. If I plan on staying with potato (stable) for awhile, should I change all the unstable lines to frozen in my sources.list, or should I just leave them alone? Thanks for yout rime, Bye! Rob Hensley

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-23 Thread Seth R Arnold
I like the idea of making things smaller, but at what cost? On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:25:53AM -0600, MiniVend wrote: Is there some way to set up an installation so that it can be totally customized for a specefic user's needs. I want to have the following to be done when installing any

Re: Make menuconfig dependency not met

2000-01-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
Spot 0n! Thanks.

Re: netscape bus error

2000-01-23 Thread eric k. wolven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Robert: Try removing plugger. Joe Bouchard on the list (cf) says menu and plugger are both bad. I removed plugger and netscape works. Maybe someone will fix these apps. eric Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just upgraded my potato system to the

Re: CD-ROM only plays mono??

2000-01-23 Thread Mike Werner
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 03:46:03PM -0500, Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: I'm using the cdtool package to play audio CD's from my CD-ROM drive. For some reason, playing CD's only outputs MONO sound (ie. only to one of my speakers). It's not a problem with my speakers since .mp3 and .wav files plays as

Re: sources.list

2000-01-23 Thread Mike Werner
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:53:34PM -0800, Rob Hensley wrote: Hi, I have a quick/simple question. If I plan on staying with potato (stable) for awhile, should I change all the unstable lines to frozen in my sources.list, or should I just leave them alone? Thanks for yout rime, I'd change them

Re: sources.list

2000-01-23 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-01-23 12:53:34, Rob Hensley wrote: If I plan on staying with potato (stable) for awhile, should I change all the unstable lines to frozen in my sources.list, or should I just leave them alone? Change them to potato as that will work during the transition from frozen to stable.

Re: netscape bus error

2000-01-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
There have been bug reports filed on both of these problems, so the maintainers are aware of the situation. Actually menu doesn't break anything else but many of the menu items don't show up. On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 04:00:13PM -0500, eric k. wolven wrote: Robert: Try removing plugger. Joe

Re: sources.list

2000-01-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Rob Hensley wrote: Hi, I have a quick/simple question. If I plan on staying with potato (stable) for awhile, should I change all the unstable lines to frozen in my sources.list, or should I just leave them alone? Thanks for yout rime, Change it to 'potato' since frozen will be removed in 2

Re: insmod sound question

2000-01-23 Thread Michael Dahlberg
David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I recompiled my kernel with sound support, as a module, and then compiled the Aureal Vortex 2 driver. All worked well until I rebooted. After rebooting I had to log on a root, then type insmod au8830.o because all sound software said no

samba connections

2000-01-23 Thread zdrysdal
Hi I have recreated a samba file server on another machine... ie cp -a for everything from an nfs mounted drive. I copied the passwd, group and smb.conf file as well. When i restarted samba on the new server and tried to map a drive via windows... it told me that my password was invalid. I

copy permissions

2000-01-23 Thread zdrysdal
Hi i have nfs shared a directory on one machine and used cp -a to copy the directory to another machine...(to produce an identicle file server) What puzzles me is that although i was logged on as root... i was still unable to copy some files.. it saying that i was not permitted to copy due to

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:53:40PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote: If I am not mistaken, if you don't install locales, you don't get the extra languages, but .. I could be very wrong. However, I don't think that translations lead to huge packages -- my /usr/share/locale directory contains some

Re: mail problem

2000-01-23 Thread aphro
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: wind Clearly, you are hosting something on galactica, otherwise mail for wind your local user would be forwarded to your other machine. What is wind the mx record for galactica? Do you have a domain hosted on bebo and wind some users from that domain on

Update Xfree, now xterm is monocolor

2000-01-23 Thread David J. Kanter
I updated a bunch of X-related files: all those listed for a basic X set up. However, now when I start xterm-type programs like mutt or slrn, they're black and white. Did I forget to update something? Also, the pretty xbanner is gone during the graphical login. I've just got the box where I can

Fwd: new install network problem

2000-01-23 Thread Roger Weinheimer
Resending. Sorry if this is a duplicate. Not sure if the last one came through, because I haven't seen it on either list. (new subscriber) --- Roger Weinheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:34:10 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Weinheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new install

unzipping *.zip files

2000-01-23 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, just wondering if it was possible to unzip *.zip files with linux. Do I need to download a utility to do this? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: unzipping *.zip files

2000-01-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, just wondering if it was possible to unzip *.zip files with linux. Do I need to download a utility to do this? Yes. It's called unzip. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror.

Re: unzipping *.zip files

2000-01-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hey, just wondering if it was possible to unzip *.zip files with linux. Do I need to download a utility to do this? Install the pacakge unzip. The homepage is http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip if you need to download it. --

Netscape (4.7) trouble on unstable

2000-01-23 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I upgraded my unstable installation with dselect last night and Netscape 4.7 has stopped working. The message is: Bus error and all I get is a lockfile in /home/.netscape and no GUI. What might have caused this, and how can I fix it? -- Regards,

Any considerations for debian on Athlon processor

2000-01-23 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
Are there any special considerations when installing debian (probably potato) in a box with an Athlon 800 Mhz with 10,2 GB and a Matrox G400???