Lilo de Corel

2000-04-20 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hola todos: En la casa de un amigo probamos el Corel Linux. Me pareció muy bonito, pero sigo prefiriendo la versión oficial de debian. Si embargo hubo algo que en verdad me llamó la atención: el arranque. Se me hizo muy bonito, y quisiera instalar uno igual en mi P.C, pero corel no comentó los

Re: VesaFB y las X

2000-04-20 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Mon, Apr 17, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alguien sabe donde conseguir el servidor de las X para framebuffer? Y la instalación es igual a la de los otros servidores? Deberías tenerlo en tu distribución, $ dpkg -s xserver-fbdev Package: xserver-fbdev Status: install ok installed

hacer CD's de potato

2000-04-20 Thread Paco Brufal
Hola! Quiero hacer los CD's de potato con el pseudo-image-kit. Leyendo la doc me dice que necesito unos archivos llamados .list, pero no los encuentro por ningun lado. ¿Donde se pueden pillar esos ficheros? En el servidor de UK he encontrado los de slink, pero esos no los quiero

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-20 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 19 de abril de 2000 a la(s) 13:32:22 +0200, Santiago Romero contaba: Hola a to2!!! Me presento, ya que me acabo de apuntar a la lista DEBIAN... Soy Santiago Romero Ti Qué tal :^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL

Re: bajar linux, para grabarlo en cdrom

2000-04-20 Thread Antonio Castro
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Alex Fredes wrote: HOLA Tengo intencion de bajar este s.o., pues los cdrom que tengo, al parecer tiene algunos archivos corruptos (me muestra algunos archivos, ej. .html con 0 bytes)Este cd me lo concegui en la empresa. La duda es la suiguiente. Mi maquina soporta el

Donde encuentro los correos de la lista de este mes...

2000-04-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hola... ESO ME PASA POR LEER MIS CORREOS EN EL OUTLOOK DE MIe... Bueno, perdi mis correos de abril incluyendo los de hoy... donde puedo bajarme o por lo menos leer los correos de este mes?? Muchas gracias... Ricardo Rodriguez. Colombia.

Re: Documentación:

2000-04-20 Thread ijuanes
El dia Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:39:17PM +0200, Javier Fafián Alvarez tuvo a bien escribir: A pesar de mis denodados intentos no he conseguido nada en castellano sobre los temas que me interesan: HTML, Java, Perl y DNS ( como funciona en general y cómo configurar un dominio en particular - el

Re: Donde encuentro los correos de la lista de este mes...

2000-04-20 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bueno, perdi mis correos de abril incluyendo los de hoy... donde puedo bajarme o por lo menos leer los correos de este mes?? Todos los archivos de las listas de correo están en: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ Suerte, Camilo Alejandro -- * De simio la conoci y

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-20 Thread Miquel
El mié, abr 19, 2000 at 01:32:22 +0200 Santiago Romero va dir: Me presento, ya que me acabo de apuntar a la lista DEBIAN... Soy Santiago Romero, de Mislata (cerquita de Valencia), estudio Teleco (3º), tengo 21 años y uso Linux desde hace 4 (desde la Slackware 96) aunque

Re: Donde encuentro los correos de la lista de este mes...

2000-04-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ya mire... pero no estan los ultimos mensajes... alguien los tiene que me los pueda enviar... solo los de ayer y hoy... Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:30:31 -0500 From: Camilo Alejandro Arboleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org

Debian en Laptop Toshiba

2000-04-20 Thread jorge chavarriaga
Soy Jorge y deseo entrar en el mundo de linux. Poseeo un Toshiba Satellite 2595CDS, y quiero instalar el linux. Intente instalar el Corel Linux, pero no logre pasar de la pantalla inicial (problemas con mi tarjeta de video), asi que decidi instalar primero a Debian, en algun lado lei que

RE: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-20 Thread Arregui-García, Javier
Hola, Santiago Bienvenido a la lista. Ya que estás aquí, ¿por qué no te lanzas a probar Debian? Y nos cuentas qué te parece... Javi -Mensaje original- De: Santiago Romero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles 19 de abril de 2000 13:32 Para: Lista Debian Asunto: Me

rdsi

2000-04-20 Thread Juanma
Queridos amigos: Tengo un problemilla con una RDSI que no hay manera de que me funcione. El modem es un billion y creo que esta bien configurado, pues mirando en var/log/messages veo cómo recibe llamadas del exterior. Resulta que me da los siguientes mensajes: Apr 19 10:52:48 laskorain

RE: ¿Algún programilla para que el ordenador hable?

2000-04-20 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: lunes 17 de abril de 2000 9:37 Asunto: ¿Algún programilla para que el ordenador hable? (Perdon por el gazapo tremebundo. La verdad es que

Re: pppd och Telia

2000-04-20 Thread Kent Nyberg
Jag har pppd version 2.3.11 Det fungerar utmärkt för mig mot telia. HUR det fungerar kan jag däremot inte svara på, det fungerar väll som det ska antar jag :) Enligt mina loggar så tar burken både emot och skickar LCP-paket. Föresten, LCP låter likt TCP.. Vad är skillnaden på LCP och TCP?

Re: pppd och Telia

2000-04-20 Thread Peter Nilsson
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Kent Nyberg wrote: Jag har pppd version 2.3.11 Det fungerar utmärkt för mig mot telia. Jag har en ISDN-terminaladapter på serieporten. Jag hittade senare RFC1618 som beskriver PPP över ISDN. Tydligen skall formatet på ramarna vara anorlunda. När DHCP används (över vanligt

Re: compilando Xlib

2000-04-20 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:26:04AM -0300, Adriano Freitas wrote: Nivaldo A. P. de Vasconcelos wrote: Olah, escrevi um programa que rodava muito bem em outra maquina onde tinha a mesma versao do Debian que tenho agora soh que nesta nao instalei todos os componentes que havia

Problemas com alguns arquivos apos atulizacao do kernel!

2000-04-20 Thread Marcio Henrique Leiner
Bom dia, Meu kernel era o 2.0.38. A máquina foi recentemente atualizada para o kernel 2.2.14. O interessante é que alguns programas, tais como o acrobat read e outros não funcionam mais. Além disso a máquina parece estar meio lenta e instavel. Eu estou usando o KDE, será que seria

Re: Problemas com alguns arquivos apos atulizacao do kernel!

2000-04-20 Thread Marcio Henrique Leiner
Sorry, pessoal, esqueci de dizer que o Acrobat Reader é o 4.05, que teóricamente roda no kernel 2.2.5. Porém acontecia o mesmo com a versão antiga, 4.0, que no kernel anterior funcionava muito bem. On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Marcio Henrique Leiner wrote: Bom dia, Meu kernel era o 2.0.38. A

Re: Problemas com alguns arquivos apos atulizacao do kernel!

2000-04-20 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Marcio Henrique Leiner wrote: Sorry, pessoal, esqueci de dizer que o Acrobat Reader é o 4.05, que teóricamente roda no kernel 2.2.5. Porém acontecia o mesmo com a versão antiga, 4.0, que no kernel anterior funcionava muito bem. uma coisa muito comum eh esquecer de

Re: Compilando Xlib - Caracteres acentuados e Distribui??o

2000-04-20 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 06:37:48AM -0300, Taupter wrote: Uma dúvida minha: Por que é que o patch do Quinot não faz parte do XFree86? Alguem (acho que foi o Lalo) respondeu à pouco tempo sobre isso aqui nesta lista (ou foi na -l10n-portuguese?). Pesquisa nos arquivos que deve estar lá. pmg

Re: communicator-smotif-47 out of frozen.

2000-04-20 Thread Brendan J Simon
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: As some of you may have noticed, communicator is broken on powerpc now. That is, apt-get install communicator won't work, since communicator-smotif-47 is in woody. I asked Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this and he told me that there are RC bugs on

Re: rebooting as user

2000-04-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:02:14AM -0600, Mullins, Ron wrote: Please guys. How do YOU reboot, those of you who haft to. There has to be an easy way to let a DSU home user reboot while in transition. I don't want to hear, I couldn't get anything done. You had the computer in Linux and I don't

Console problems...

2000-04-20 Thread Troy Telford
OK, here's my problem: I'm currently running the Woody release, and have managed to cause a rather interesting problem: Although my syslogd and klogd daemons are running at startup, the system logs themselves are not being written - in fact, the log messages are displayed to the text

help me with apsfilter setup

2000-04-20 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm trying to get apsfilter to work with my Canon BJC-2010. How do I configure apsfilter? Sorry for the HTML, but I need to emphasize this. I'm using Debian slink, and I need to configure apsfilter. apsfilterconfig isn't there, and SETUP isn't their either. What is the program to configure

floppy install problems

2000-04-20 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You might try coping the files to floppies that have been formated on the target machine's drive. Or transfer the target machine's floppy drive to the machine doing the copying and then move it back to the tarket machine. Methinks floppy interchange may be a problem.

IBM Thinkpad 360CSE type 2620-8ZF

2000-04-20 Thread Howard Perkins
Can anyone please supply me with a list of key functions for this computer, I don't have the manual or does anyone know if the manual can be downloaded. Thanks a lot Howard perkins __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Help -- Data recovery

2000-04-20 Thread Martin Bishop
Oswald Buddenhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm ... how did you use dos fdisk at any time? if so, then you _might_ have a problem. but i guess, you used only cfdisk for the whole repartitioning. After booting into Win98 and couldn't see hda2, I ran 'dos fdisk' to check the partition to see

Re: STUFF to order

2000-04-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my opinion is your best off with the voodoo3. nate On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: ke6sls ke6sls Hello, ke6sls ke6sls I have the order all ready except for a Video card for my linux box. Of these ke6sls which is good and will have decent drivers avail? My system is a

Re: samba drive mapped on Win2000

2000-04-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chances are you need to upgrade to the latest samba from CVS for best compadibility with win2k. I have an installation going of samba 2.1-prealpha(CVS from about a year ago) and samba 3.0 (cvs from december of 1999) both work fine i had a lot of trouble with samba 2.0.x with win2k and nt for

Re: Help -- Data recovery

2000-04-20 Thread Martin Bishop
Hi David, Thanks for replying. David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have the start of this thread anymore. You have linux on this machine? If so, I'd try and mount the partition readonly from linux rather than going anywhere near it with other OSes. I don't think linux looks at the

Re: floppy install problems

2000-04-20 Thread kmself
Alternatively, a PLIP (parallel port IP) link to another sytem might also work. I'd probably vote for an HD swap myself. On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:14:53PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: You might try coping the files to floppies that have been formated on the target machine's drive. Or

Re: libc6 howto

2000-04-20 Thread Felix Natter
Dominic Blythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so if i've got libc6 does this mean i've got LinuxThreads/gpthread whatever? libc6 corresponds to GNU libc 2.x (glibc) try info libc (or one of the debian tools) to find out if you have glibc = 2.1.x. older versions (2.0.x) are not threadsafe (I think

Re: STUFF to order

2000-04-20 Thread Brian Stults
I've been using an ATI Rage Fury 32 MEG AGP W/TV for about 3 months now with good results. Haven't used any of the others, though, so I can't compare/contrast. I believe it's only supported in the most recent version of XFree86 (3.3.6), though. Supposedly, ATI is going to open-source their

Re: floppy install problems

2000-04-20 Thread russell simmons
I installed slink on my 486. 210mb hd and 12 mgs ram, from floppy. I was trying to install slack, but just couldn't get it to work, so I tried debian and all went fine. If you are making the floppies from windoz, as I did, it is important to do so from dos, and not a dos window, and I would

Re: newbie problems with eth0

2000-04-20 Thread Agner-Nichols
thanx Pontus, that was a start. After 'modprobe smc-ultra.o' gave me a 'no SMC Ultra card found' error (and 'init-module: Device or resource busy'), I broke open the box, took a long look at the board and the chip, saw it is a 9332, went to the SMC page and found that the driver is tulip.c So

Re: CDROM not mount

2000-04-20 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 11:30:55AM +, New Star Service Co. wrote I buy debian 2.1 cheap CD. I boot from CDROM directly so i don't need to create floppy disk. I make partition under debian and when i going to install : kernel and modules deb want source , i select CDROM drive . but

sane-1.0.1

2000-04-20 Thread Mike Cook
Has anyone gotten sane-1.0.1 to work with debian woody? It can't find my scanner which was /dev/sg0 on slackware. In fact, no sg devices exist in /dev. Any ideas? Mike

Re: rebooting as user

2000-04-20 Thread Surefire
Mullins, Ron wrote: To Nate: I'm assuming that by GDM you mean Gnome? Yes, it's installed. Gnome guys should have the shutdown read shutdown.allow, huh? Please guys. How do YOU reboot, those of you who haft to. There has to be an easy way to let a DSU home user reboot while in transition. I

Netscape 6

2000-04-20 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have dowloaded Netscape 6 from Netscape, but I have the following: $ cd /opt/netscape $ ./netscape .//run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/opt/netscape LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/netscape:/opt/netscape/Cool XPCS_HOME=/opt/netscape/Cool MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin

Re: rebooting as user

2000-04-20 Thread John Bagdanoff
C. Falconer wrote: Lateral thinking solutions 1) Buy her a new machine 2) Buy yourself a new machine and give her your current one 3) Become Amish so you don't need a computer :) -- From: Mullins, Ron[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Why is this critical? I have a

Re: Help -- Data recovery

2000-04-20 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 10:48:31AM +1000, Martin Bishop wrote: Hi David, Thanks for replying. David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have the start of this thread anymore. You have linux on this machine? If so, I'd try and mount the partition readonly from linux rather than

Re: rebooting as user

2000-04-20 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:46:58AM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote: Now, before I start, I'm not a newbie. I've setup Debian many times, setup a masq'ed network, email/ftp/DNS servers, gateways and byways :). What I haven't seen yet is how to reboot in X as a user. I can from the terminal (using

Upgrading to Kernel version 2.3.28

2000-04-20 Thread Jhaanaki MK
Hi, I have with me a software which runs in any Linux Distribution, but requires a kernel version of 2.3.28 or higher. Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2.0.34 kernel versioned Debian distribution to kernel version 2.3.28 ? If so, where can I get more details on how to proceed with

Re: What is libz1?

2000-04-20 Thread M Techter
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter S Galbraith writes: Hans wrote: zlib1g worked after I downloaded it. Tnx. snip Again sorry, but I really had to get this off my chest. That's okay. But there are solutions. So do I think. As the problems described by Hans are

Re: External monitor in X

2000-04-20 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Kari, Kari Ruohonen wrote: I apologise to contact you directly but I would like to ask a few further questions if you don't mind. Not a problem Thank you for your answer. I am running the modified xserver Mach64 from Steve's Dell-pages. What version of debian are you running? I

Imlib; MIT -SHM

2000-04-20 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I tried to run Enlightenment via local network; when it was completely started, it complained about E via network is not that fast, you'd need MIT -SHM. Set this on on your Imlib settings. Question is, where can I set the Imlib configuration files? I don't think that I have /etc/imlib.conf.

Re: What is libz1?

2000-04-20 Thread Christian Surchi
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:50:43AM -0700, Mark I Manning IV wrote: dont know what libz1 is but there is an unofficial potato cd on ftp://ftp.kando.ro :) ftp.kando.hu ! bye Christian

Re: Network Traffic Stats

2000-04-20 Thread Jaume Teixi
I need help on choosing the best tool for exhaustive network traffic stats because of the taxes from isp for hosting services I need to know traffic by separate protocols, pop3, smtp, http, https, etc... On the dists there are: iplogger, ipac, iptraf, nsmon, mrtg, ntop, ... but I need help on

Running Alsa and Esound on an ESS1879 Chipset

2000-04-20 Thread Dataheart
Howdy all, and sorry for the cross post. I have a Compaq Armada 7800 Laptop which according to the Compaq Documentation runs a ESS1879 chipset(documentation below). I have installed Alsa and Esound and alsaconf detects it as a Ess1688, I ok this and it doesnt work, I then modify

Re: rebooting as user

2000-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mullins, Ron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): C-A-Rubout drops me to a console, yes. Using xdm/wdm/gdm that console isn't logged in. This then leaves me with, Ok, honey...now that you've killed the window manager, you now have to login again, then you can hit C-A-Del. (me gets blank stare, then

[*] SB 128 again

2000-04-20 Thread maths
hello everybody i had get my SB pci 128 Digital now, but where to find ess1370 or essl371(sorry)? when ess downloaded, i shall compile it as a module,and i don't need to compile my kernel, right? many thanks! ** zhang xiaolei

Re: Help -- Data recovery

2000-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oswald Buddenhagen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There is also usually a backup of the dos fat 6*512 bytes into the partition: this is a copy of the boot sector, not the fat. Possibly this location could be different depending on the parameters used when formatting, the size, the fat

Re: [*] SB 128 again

2000-04-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
i had get my SB pci 128 Digital now, but where to find ess1370 or essl371(sorry)? when ess downloaded, i shall compile it as a module,and i don't need to compile my kernel, right? it's not ess1371, but es1371. it is in the sound setup of the 2.2 kernels. i don't know anything about support of

IMAP

2000-04-20 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all debian users, I have to install an IMAP Server in a client. Can anyone recommends an IMAP server ammong Debian packages? Can anyone tell more or less what to do after installing this package. I dont know anything about IMAP (yet). Currently I use Exim.

Re: Help -- Data recovery

2000-04-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
There is also usually a backup of the dos fat 6*512 bytes into the partition: this is a copy of the boot sector, not the fat. Possibly this location could be different depending on the parameters used when formatting, the size, the fat size (12, 16, 32). But there should be a

Re: Upgrading to Kernel version 2.3.28

2000-04-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2.0.34 kernel versioned Debian distribution to kernel version 2.3.28 ? If so, where can I get more details on how to proceed with the same ? uuhhh ... you want upgrade by 1.5 major kernel versions at once ... possibly it's the best to wait some

Re: Help -- Data recovery

2000-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin Bishop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi David, Thanks for replying. David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have the start of this thread anymore. You have linux on this machine? If so, I'd try and mount the partition readonly from linux rather than going anywhere near it

Re: rebooting as user

2000-04-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Wouldn't this be possible using sudo? I'd say this is exactly meant to give specific users access to specific super user level commands. Give your wife permission to sudo halt or sudo reboot and the only thing she'll need to know is her own password. note: you can tell sudo not to request a

Re: Help -- Data recovery

2000-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin Bishop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): So to answer your question, yes I did run 'dos fdisk' but I did not modify/change anything when I quit. That's good. DOS invariably (I think) forces you to reboot if you make changes because its idea of how to label the partitions is so bizarre, so a

Re: Help -- Data recovery

2000-04-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Ok so far, I've only recreated a primary partition and that doesn't seem to work. I guess I'll try setting it as a logical partition and see if it restores things back to normal. A quick question. If the partition was originally a primary partition, and now I'm setting as a logical

Re: Console problems...

2000-04-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
not being written - in fact, the log messages are displayed to the text console... for instance, when I log into a regular text-console (non-X), is /etc/syslog.conf setup correctly? there you define where to log to. i don't know, how on debian, but suse logs to /var/log/messages - without any

Mitsumi CR-2801TE under debian - stopped working after firmware upgrade :-(

2000-04-20 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I've used successfully for ca. two years the Mitsumi CR-2801TE. Unfortunately, one of my students upgraded the drive's firmware to the 1.10 version, and now it stopped to work with Linux. I've downloaded and compiledd the newest cdrecord, but it didn't help. Does anybody faced and solved

Re: floppy install problems

2000-04-20 Thread Tom Anzalone
Kenneth, Unfortunately I am unable to transfer drives due to the nature of the the hardware. I may try to transfer the disks to the partitioned drive though like you mentioned. I think I can get to the command line by hitting Alt+F4. Thanks for your help. Tom Date sent: Wed,

What time is it?

2000-04-20 Thread Maurizio Boriani
Hi to all, How can I set by hand (without frontend) the system time? Thack a lot in advance -- Maurizio Boriani General Services (InterNetWorking Staff) 20138 Milano - Via Mecenate 76/3 - Italy Tel. 02/509081 - Fax 02/50908080 - E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: 0xCC0FBF8F fingerprint =

Re: What time is it?

2000-04-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Hi to all, How can I set by hand (without frontend) the system time? date -s HHMM (see man date) to make it persistent: hwclock --systohc -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.

Re: Mitsumi CR-2801TE under debian - stopped working after firmware upgrade :-(

2000-04-20 Thread Robert Waldner
If you look around http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no for variations of the firmwares filename, you'll stumble across older versions. I had to do this myself but didn't keep the older firmware-file... hth, rw On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:19:09 +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny writes: Hi All, I've used successfully

Re: Console problems...

2000-04-20 Thread Troy Telford
Just wanted to say that is EXACTLY what I needed! Thanks. What happened was my /etc/syslog.conf file was missing... somehow. I have a friend with the same version of Debian, so I just copied his over - and without editing *poof* everything worked fine! Of course, I will at least look through

New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-20 Thread Maury Merkin
Hi, New user here. With, no doubt, a few questions you might have already answered forty-four hundred times this week Hey. What else are new users good for? But I'm only new to Debian. I've been using Linux since late 1994. Started with Slackware and somewhere along the way switched to RH.

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Maury! On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Maury Merkin wrote: Hi, [1] My user (i.e. not root) does not have permission to start X. Is X already running, i.e. the xdm on VC 7? [3] What command will I use to dial-in to my ISP? Ditto for hang up? How do I set it up so that my user (again, not

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-20 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Maury == Maury Merkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, New user here. With, no doubt, a few questions you might have already answered forty-four hundred times this week Hey. What else are new users good for? But I'm only new to Debian. I've been using Linux since late

All-in-one fax/printer/scanner compatibility

2000-04-20 Thread Bill White
Does anybody have any experience with any of the all-in-one fax/printer/scanner devices? They all say they require Windows 9X or NT, but is it possible to use them through Linux some way? I would guess that if they are Mac and Windows compatible, they either are or could be made to be Linux

RE: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Apr-2000 15:55:16 Maury Merkin wrote: [3] What command will I use to dial-in to my ISP? Ditto for hang up? How do I set it up so that my user (again, not root) can dial and disconnect? I s'pose that's it for the moment. Any assistance will be graciously appreciated. Install

Help with Bounce Queue

2000-04-20 Thread Kent West
I'm having a hard time figuring out how a bounce queue should work. Here's my goal: When I print something to a certain print queue, I want the document to be printed and to be mailed. Normal printing is filtered through the standard HPLJ4 magicfilter, and from there gets sent to the remote

crypto patch

2000-04-20 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ Rookie question here. I'm trying to setup an encrypted filesystem as per: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO-3.html The first step is installing the latest crypto patch. How do I install the latest crypto patch using apt-get? My sources.list include:

Re: crypto patch

2000-04-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Michael O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rookie question here. I'm trying to setup an encrypted filesystem as per: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO-3.html The first step is installing the latest crypto patch. How do I install the latest crypto patch

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-20 Thread John Hasler
Marshal writes: use pppconfig to setup your ISP information. Then to allow yourselfto dial out, add yourself to group dip. He's using potato: he can do that in the advanced menu in pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-20 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog writes: Make sure you add your nameserver IP addresses to /etc/resolv.conf like so: search yourdomain.com nameserver ns.ip.add.ress Pppconfig takes care of this unless you've already put some nameservers in (and the 'search' line is unnecessary). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Kernel engineering

2000-04-20 Thread Jason Mackay
If there is anyone that knows of kernel engineers looking for a new career, please let me know. Jason Mackay Sr. IT Consultant MIS Consultants 416-489-4334 ext. 234 Toll free 1-800-311-2828 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.misconsult.com

Re: crypto patch

2000-04-20 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Michael == Michael O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hola~ Rookie question here. I'm trying to setup an encrypted filesystem as per: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO-3.html The first step is installing the latest crypto patch. How do I

RE: STUFF to order

2000-04-20 Thread Christian Pernegger
I just love my G400 MAX. Splendid 2D (and 3D, even) Seems to be near perfectly supported, but you'd need to update slink's XFree86. Before that, I had a G200, which is nice except for its 3D performance. Yes, I'm a Matrox fan :) I don't know about the ATIs, however the Voodoo is a pure gamers

connect to Internet via cable modem

2000-04-20 Thread Matthew Quigley
Any thought on how I can do this? Any packages out there to do this?

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Marshal! On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: Maury == Maury Merkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [1] My user (i.e. not root) does not have permission to start X. I have no idea which file(s) is/are actually forbidden to me and, before I start groping around

Newbie Questions

2000-04-20 Thread Irish, Jon D
I have never used any version of Unix in the past, let alone Linux. I have been playing with Slink on a PC at work, and I would now like to install it at home. The problem is that my machine at work has a bootable ATAPI CD-ROM drive, so I could install right off of the CD. My machine at

Re: connect to Internet via cable modem

2000-04-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:17:53PM -0500, Matthew Quigley wrote: Any thought on how I can do this? Any packages out there to do this? You need to be more specific, since there are several flavors of cable connection. For my own connection to Optimum Online, I followed the following steps:

Is there support for my hardware?

2000-04-20 Thread Jeroen Cranendonk
I'm thinking about using Debian, but I have just one 'problem': is there support for the Diamond Stealth III S540 graphics card (with Savage4 chipset)? Or do I need an additional program or anything?

Re: IMAP

2000-04-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:44:14AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to install an IMAP Server in a client. Can anyone recommends an IMAP server ammong Debian packages? I'm just learning about IMAP myself. I'd recommend courier-imap as long as you

debian Linux

2000-04-20 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello debian freaks out there! I am not totally new to Linux. Have set up run web, mail, dns servers on linux. Also done some work with things like shell / awk and nice tools of that kind. I've been using the suse distro during all that time. I dont have much experience on other distros, but I

Re: connect to Internet via cable modem

2000-04-20 Thread Brian J. Stults
Matthew Quigley wrote: Any thought on how I can do this? Any packages out there to do this? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Try the Cable-Modem mini HOWTO. http://www.oswg.org/oswg-nightly/Cable-Modem.html You'll probably need a dhcp client like dhcpcd.

screen in blocking mode.

2000-04-20 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just did a dist-upgrade. I BELIEVE my version of screen has changed or something. At any rate, it seems that screen is running in some form of blocking mode. If I do an ls -la in a large dir, it prints out about 20 lines and waits for me to hit enter before it continues. SSH was upgraded,

Mounting ext2 from win98

2000-04-20 Thread David Henningsson
You mean you can also mount the ext2 filesystem from the Win98 OS? How? I thought this would not be possible? There is a read-only utility I got from a guy at irc.debian.org. So I don't know where on the web it is. The zip file was called fsdext2.zip. / David

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-20 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:55:16AM -0400, Maury Merkin wrote: Hi, But I'm only new to Debian. I've been using Linux since late 1994. Started with Slackware and somewhere along the way switched to RH. There was much rejoicing... Anyway, I installed Debian (potato) this am and all went

Re: Mounting ext2 from win98

2000-04-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
David Henningsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You mean you can also mount the ext2 filesystem from the Win98 OS? How? I thought this would not be possible? There is a read-only utility I got from a guy at irc.debian.org. So I don't know where on the web it is. The zip file was called

Re: What time is it?

2000-04-20 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:44:21PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Hi to all, How can I set by hand (without frontend) the system time? date -s HHMM (see man date) to make it persistent: hwclock --systohc ...but 24 4,10,16,22 * * *root /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp.css.gov

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-20 Thread GECOS
Maury Merkin wrote: Hi, New user here. [2] Somewhere along in the installation process, I was confronted with a series of questions regarding something called Zope (I think it was). I have no idea what Zope is or does. And I simply left all of the fields (having to do with log-on and

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-20 Thread montefin
Maury, I'm a new crossover from RH to Debian, too. While I'm not qualified to answer much about Debian, I have been using Zope in RH for about a year and like it fine, so I'll pick up that part of your thread. Zope is a very nice Application Server put out by, of course,. the zope.org

Re: Newbie Questions

2000-04-20 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 02:20:31PM -0500, Irish, Jon D wrote: Paragraphs are good, Jon. I have never used any version of Unix in the past, let alone Linux. I have been playing with Slink on a PC at work, and I would now like to install it at home. Hooray! The problem is that my machine at

Netscape 6 Time Problems

2000-04-20 Thread Dan Hutchinson
I know this was answered previous back some time but I have downloaded netscape preview 6 Release 1. I wish to install it on a Debian Potato PC but am not sure what the structure is for packages. I have the following questions. 1. Where do I do a tar -xvvzf netscape6 so that I can run Netscape

Re: connect to Internet via cable modem

2000-04-20 Thread Bob Hilliard
Matthew Quigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any thought on how I can do this? Any packages out there to do this? 1. Read /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Cable-Modem.txt.gz (from the Package: doc-linux-text package. 2. Get and install an ethernet card (often the cable ISP will

Re: What time is it?

2000-04-20 Thread jpb
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: 24 4,10,16,22 * * *root /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp.css.gov 1/dev/null ...in your /etc/crontab file is a hell of a lot cooler. Cooler still is to install and run xntp. It will figure out for itself how often to check the time (you can configure it to consult

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