Re: Sender con exim

2000-05-28 Thread pookie
puedes poner en el /etc/exim.conf que el qualified_domain no sea wanadoo.es, si no otro :) aunque cuando te respondan mails no los recibiras :P Normalmente tendrias que poner la ip de tu maquina en formato alfanumerico, p.ej. 212.78.157.52 se resuelve a dom6-52.menta.net (lo se pq es mi ip) asi

Re: Ayuda sobre semi-reinstalacion

2000-05-28 Thread Jaime Fernández Martínez
Gracias a todos (en especial a mi tocayo y a correcaminos). Al final he utilizado un poco de aquí y un poco de allí, he resuelto el problema y he aprendido bastante de la instalación de paquetes en Debian. Un saludo Jaime -- --

Re: Sender con exim

2000-05-28 Thread benalb
Cuando: dom, 28 de may de 2000, a las 01:12:14 +0100 Quien: Luis Arocha -data- Que: Sender con exim Tengo un pequeño problema con exim. Mi cuenta de correo es [EMAIL PROTECTED], y mi usuario en mi pc es lah. Cuando mando un correo exim pone en el campo sender [EMAIL PROTECTED], que es

RDSI

2000-05-28 Thread Nestor A. Diaz L.
Buenas, Tengo una pregunta tecnica con respecto a una RDSI y tanto me temo que meti las patas: Compre un linea RDSI, un adaptador RDSI (chip winbond) para configurar el acceso remoto a un servidor, pero al acceso remoto llaman personas que tienen lineas analogas, segun la FAQ de la RDSI, esto no

Re: RDSI

2000-05-28 Thread Francisco Jose Toledano Alcala
Nestor A. Diaz L. wrote: Buenas, Tengo una pregunta tecnica con respecto a una RDSI y tanto me temo que meti las patas: Compre un linea RDSI, un adaptador RDSI (chip winbond) para configurar el acceso remoto a un servidor, pero al acceso remoto llaman personas que tienen lineas

correo de novato

2000-05-28 Thread Ramon Almeida
hola colisteros,soy nuevo en linux y tengo un problema con el correo,cada ves que conecto a internet mi maquina le manda un maila mi proveedor con el chequeo del sistema y diferentes erores. -- -- Forwarded message -- Received: from isabel.edu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RDSI

2000-05-28 Thread Nestor A. Diaz L.
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Francisco Jose Toledano Alcala wrote: Nestor A. Diaz L. wrote: Buenas, Tengo una pregunta tecnica con respecto a una RDSI y tanto me temo que meti las patas: Compre un linea RDSI, un adaptador RDSI (chip winbond) para configurar el acceso remoto a un

Re: correo de novato

2000-05-28 Thread JFA
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] test -x /usr/sbin/autolog /usr/sbin/autolog X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 19:50:01 +0100 autologout: Can't get status of

Dudas sobre fetchmail

2000-05-28 Thread Jose Carlos Fortea Marín
Al final he conseguido conectarme a Internet utilizando PPP. Pero al intentar configurar la lectura de correo, me han surgido ciertas dudas: 1.- Para leer el correo pensaba utilizar fetchmail, ya que sólo me conecto de vez en cuando.¿Sirve fetchmail para enviar correo (protocolo SMTP)?.¿Necesito

Re: Sender con exim

2000-05-28 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 11:23:26AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al final del exim.conf añade algo como esto, modificandolo para que se adapte a tus necesidades: fácil, ¿verdad? :-) Benjamín Albiñana Pérez Si Gracias. Creo que va bien. -- Luis Arocha Hernandez data

Re: Dudas sobre fetchmail

2000-05-28 Thread Danito
1.- Para leer el correo pensaba utilizar fetchmail, ya que sólo me conecto de vez en cuando.¿Sirve fetchmail para enviar correo (protocolo SMTP)?.¿Necesito algún otro MTA (exim,sendmail,etc) para ello? Fetchmail unicamente sirve para recivir correo. Para enviar correo necesitaras como bien

openmotif

2000-05-28 Thread Danito
Hola, ¿Habeis hechado un vistazo a la página http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif?. Estaba mirando información de Motif cuando por casualidad vi en la página del opengroup que había licenciado el motif para uso con sistemas operativos de codigo abierto. E incluso se comenta que la licencia será

Re: openmotif

2000-05-28 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 09:45:54PM +0200, Danito wrote: ¿Que pensais sobre esto?, ¿la existencia de lesstif deja de tener sentido?, No, mientras la licencia de OpenMotif sea tan absurda. Evidentemente gtk no va a desaparecer pero esto abre nuevas puertas a la comunidad linux. Creo que si

Re: como usar a tecla de print screen

2000-05-28 Thread Fernando Fraga e Silva
Clovis Sena wrote: descobri recentemente que no meu linux, em modo texto, se por acaso eu quero imprimir o que esta na tela, a tecla de print screen nao funciona; eu imaginava que ela ia jogar o que esta na tela na impressora default, dai eu dei um export PRINTER=lp0 mas mesmo assim nada

Re: Tulip ethernet performance issues

2000-05-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Damon Muller wrote: I have a couple of tulip-based ethernet cards (I think they are made by Acton, and may certainly be re-badged), one in my Debian box and one in my win98 box. They are connected together by an 8-port 10/100 switch (specifically a LanTech MINI Switch

Upgrade Problem

2000-05-28 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Guys, I have a qestion on Xwindows. I had it working great with Slink, Then I upgraded my box to Potato. Now when I try to start X I receive an error: Fatal server error: could not open font `fixed` So what will I need to do to fix this so I can use X again? Thanks Jay

Re: Upgrade Problem

2000-05-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 09:17:18PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Hello Guys, I have a qestion on Xwindows. I had it working great with Slink, Then I upgraded my box to Potato. Now when I try to start X I receive an error: Fatal server error: could not open font `fixed` Common error... So what

Problem with rescue disks

2000-05-28 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, I am attempting to modify the Debian rescue flopy to be an emergency recovery for my system. Actually it's root.bin which I am modifying. I am having problems adding utilities. I need to add the raid tools as well as restore(8). When I chroot to the floppy and try a restore, it give me

Re: kysmoops (was keysmoops)

2000-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that I didn't create /var/log/ksymoops (I wouldn't have known how to or why to; I had never heard of ksymoops before I noticed the existence of the log files); it must have been created automatically in the upgrade process from slink to frozen. But that seems

Help. pcmica doesn't work any longer.

2000-05-28 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Please help. I just updated my frozen on my laptop. After updating, I am not able to use pcmcia any longer. The pcmcia-core module is not being loaded automatically on startup any longer. When I try to load it using modconf, I get the following messages: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in

Command

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
Whats the command for telling me if I have slink or potato? Thanks.

Re: Command

2000-05-28 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Daniel Burrows say Whats the command for telling me if I have slink or potato? cat /etc/debian_version or /etc/issue.net, /etc/issue 2.1 slink 2.2 potato or check your /etc/apt/sources.list if you used apt to install debian. Chanop --

Re: Best hardware?

2000-05-28 Thread maillists
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 09:58:25PM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote: Well see, that's what I mean. There's hardware that is great on Windows, but there just aren't any drivers for it in Linux. Well, like I said the vast majority of Win9X only hardware works very poorly even in Win9x and the majority

apt

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
I am trying to point my apt sources.list file to a UK debian ftp site for potato so I can perform an upgrade. The address for the site is: ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian and I think it should be pointing to /dists/potato but when I try and change this in apt and perform a apt-get update it bombs

Re: Login without user name and password?

2000-05-28 Thread kmself
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 10:15:45PM +, ktb wrote: I there any way to configure Slink to boot directly into a 'regular user' account without entering user name or password? In other words boot directly into a '$' prompt but requiring a password for root. I'm using shadow passwords.

Re: Configure muttzilla

2000-05-28 Thread kmself
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:56:11PM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro wrote: [Please CC me in all replies, as I don't manage to read -user] Hi. I've setup muttzilla to call mutt from inside netscape, but it seems to have a problem, as I can't setup the From: field. I've setup the email address in

Re: dumbass wm question

2000-05-28 Thread kmself
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 03:45:41PM -0500, Brad wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Unix, Windows, Mac, OpenVMS, etc. Client-server -- though the nomenclature is backwards from the usual meaning, your display is a server, and applications

Re: apache question

2000-05-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 06:51:58PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:07:10PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: [ snip ] all keeping the logs owned by the unpriviledged user seems to buy you is a security hole. That's why on new debian installations the log are owned by

Re: apt

2000-05-28 Thread kmself
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:54:15AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: I am trying to point my apt sources.list file to a UK debian ftp site for potato so I can perform an upgrade. The address for the site is: ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian and I think it should be pointing to /dists/potato but

Re: apt

2000-05-28 Thread AntonioB
I believe he wants potato, not stable. Your sources.list file should have deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main On Sun, 28 May 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote: I am trying to point my apt sources.list file to a UK debian ftp site for potato so I can perform an upgrade. The address

Re: apt

2000-05-28 Thread kmself
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 02:36:00AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:54:15AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: I am trying to point my apt sources.list file to a UK debian ftp site for potato so I can perform an upgrade. The address for the site is:

Re: apt

2000-05-28 Thread Ron Rademaker
And if you want contrib, non-free, non-us and security updates: deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib non-free Ron

Re: Error Messages

2000-05-28 Thread Ron Rademaker
The unresolved symbol is that during boot a module is loaded in that shouldn't be loaded in, nothing to worry about. About isdn, why don't you just delete all of your isdnutils: apt-get remove idsnutils Ron Rademaker PS. Renaming will also work On Sat, 27 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: Hello

Re: Problems with TeTex

2000-05-28 Thread Esko Lehtonen
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi folks, I've installed TeTeX on my machine (from slink), but I can't get it running. I ran texhash texconfig all as root, but when I try to translate a file with latex file of tex file I get the following error message This is

Re: Realplayer, Lilo suddenly mysteriously segfaulting (potato, kern 2.2.15) -- SOLVED RP problem

2000-05-28 Thread James Sleeman
Hi all, if anyone is interested I found the source of my problem with realplayer (lilo is still segfaulting though), I had a fish around the dot files in my home directory and there were two files and a directory left behind by realplayer, I deleted these and realplayer sprang back to life.

Re: Login without user name and password?

2000-05-28 Thread ktb
So it has finally happened, I have become 'evil and twisted' it must be the radiation emanating off these three computer screens;) I am simply lazy and tiered of logging in on my personal computers. Also in learning how to 'remove the logging in process' I would learn more about using Linux. If

Second Best - was Re: Best Hardware

2000-05-28 Thread Rob Lilley
Bart Szszka wrote: Well see, that's what I mean. There's hardware that is great on Windows, but there just aren't any drivers for it in Linux. Or sometimes the second best hardware for Windows ends up being the best option for Linux simply becausethe drivers are more complete. I

external clock sync

2000-05-28 Thread Attila Csosz
How to sync. my hw. clock to an external source? I tried 'rdate -a time.kfki.hu' but this isn't set my clock. Runnig 'date' I got the same time as before using rdate. Thanks Attila -- -- - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian

Re: external clock sync

2000-05-28 Thread Harry ten Berge
How to sync. my hw. clock to an external source? I tried 'rdate -a time.kfki.hu' but this isn't set my clock. Runnig 'date' I got the same time as before using rdate. You need the timeserver daemon. Take a look at 'xntpd'. Success, Harry

Re: Realplayer, Lilo suddenly mysteriously segfaulting (potato, kern 2.2.15) -- SOLVED RP problem

2000-05-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 29 May 2000, James Sleeman wrote: Hi all, if anyone is interested I found the source of my problem with realplayer (lilo is still segfaulting though), I had a fish around the dot files in my home directory and there were two files and a directory left behind by realplayer, I

potato install

2000-05-28 Thread Harry ten Berge
I've downloaded a cd-image of the potato 1st test cycle. Installation goes ok, but with potato there are tasks instead of profiles. The manual claims it's still possible to select a profile. I can't find it. Is it a glitch in the manual or am I doing something wrong? Harry ten Berge

Re: Help. pcmica doesn't work any longer.

2000-05-28 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Jens K. Olsen wrote: Please help. I just updated my frozen on my laptop. After updating, I am not able to use pcmcia any longer. The pcmcia-core module is not being loaded automatically on startup any longer. When I try to load it using modconf, I get the following

Changing my hard disk setup

2000-05-28 Thread Johann Spies
At the moment my setup is like this: /dev/hda - 10G IDE hard disk Fujitsi - recently installed after a hard disk failure with Redhat which I only use to start up the system.(At that stage I did not have a Debian system ready to install). /dev/hdb - Ricoh MP 7040A CD-RW /dev/hdc - 8G IDE hard

Re: Upgrading to potato

2000-05-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 01:16:37AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: Is there a URL which anyone can recommend to take me through the process of upgrading to potato from slink? You could have a look at http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/ The upgrading process is given in

potato C++

2000-05-28 Thread jon
Hi. I'm having trouble with potato's C++. Programs, including 'Hello World', compile cleanly but produce only produce some line feeds as output. dselect/apt indicates everything is up to date as of yesterday. I've tried running ldconfig even rebooting, with no luck. btw: I have both the

Re: potato C++

2000-05-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:29:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble with potato's C++. Programs, including 'Hello World', compile cleanly but produce only produce some line feeds as output. Weird. g++ --version 2.95.2 (compiles clean w/ g++, but produces only a few blank

Gnome Problem

2000-05-28 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, I am running Potato and have just install Gnome using apt-get install gdm. I have two question. 1, When the gnome login screen appears I select gnome for my session from the drop down mune and enter my login and pass and hit enter. The screen goes black the right back to the login

Re: Changing my hard disk setup

2000-05-28 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Recently somebody suggested that it may be my setup that is causing the problems and that it is better to have the two hard disks on the same cable and the two CDROM's on the other. sound sensible. this was my first thought, too. :-) /etc/fstab is necessary for the system to shutdown

Re: external clock sync

2000-05-28 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
How to sync. my hw. clock to an external source? I tried 'rdate -a time.kfki.hu' but this isn't set my clock. Runnig 'date' I got the same time as before using rdate. You need the timeserver daemon. Take a look at 'xntpd'. i think, that this is overkill - at least for a home system.

easy configue www server package

2000-05-28 Thread Alex Kwan
I want to setup intranet server for a small office, which easy configue is recommand?

Kernel 2.4-test1 + patch ac4 + SMP Netscape v4.72

2000-05-28 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi all, just for information the config in the topic completly crash my boxes so pay attention. If someone know why can post me how to fix Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - South European @ccess Back Bone -- http://www.seabone.net/ ---

Re: Gnome Problem

2000-05-28 Thread Joseph A. Martin The LaterDude
Jay Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Group, I am running Potato and have just install Gnome using apt-get install gdm. I have two question. 1, When the gnome login screen appears I select gnome for my session from the drop down mune and enter my login and pass and hit enter. The

Re: Gnome Problem

2000-05-28 Thread David Z Maze
Jay Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jay I am running Potato and have just install Gnome using apt-get Jay install gdm. Note that this will just install the GNOME display manager; it won't install any of the rest of the GNOME stuff that gdm doesn't directly need. Jay 1, When the gnome login

Potato - locked out of X

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
I have just upgraded to potato and I can't get into X as a normal user, only root works. When I type startx (as a normal user) I get a message saying I don't have privileges to do it. Thanks. Get Your Private, Free

X on a 486

2000-05-28 Thread Atila Nemet
Hi! Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there window manager which is low on system resources so I could set up X on this 486? Attila

RE: Gnome Problem

2000-05-28 Thread Jay Kelly
Whats the Command to start Gnome from the console. With X I was using Startx. What will I use to start Gnome? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Z Maze Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 9:59 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Gnome

Re: X on a 486

2000-05-28 Thread Mike Werner
Atila Nemet wrote: Hi! Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there window manager which is low on system resources so I could set up X on this 486? I'd suggest blackbox. Of the ones I've tried - which include Window Maker, blackbox, Enlightenment, Sawmill (and its

Re: Help. pcmica doesn't work any longer.

2000-05-28 Thread Didi Damian
Did your kernel get upgraded too ? The PCMCIA package comes in matching versions to the kernel version. Make sure the two versions match. * Jens K. Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [28-05-2000 06:55 AM +0900] Please help. I just updated my frozen on my laptop. After updating, I am not able to use

RE: easy configue www server package

2000-05-28 Thread Paul McHale
The easiest for me was to download the source for apache 1.3.12 from www.apache.org. Then get mod_frontpage from www.freshmeat.net to get Frontpage 2000 support. If you are looking for easy, this is pretty straight forward. You can do regular publish from Frontpage rather than FTP. There are

window-managers

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
I have just upgraded to potato. Previously, in slink, I had setup my window-managers file to start kde by default but now I get fvwm2 when I type startx. Why is this? The file still points to kde as the first option - is there a different config file for this in potato? Thanks v.much.

Re: potato C++

2000-05-28 Thread jon
On Sun, 28 May 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:29:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble with potato's C++. Programs, including 'Hello World', compile cleanly but produce only produce some line feeds as output. Weird. g++ --version 2.95.2

GNOME

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
How do I start gnome from potato? Thanks.

potato on 386

2000-05-28 Thread Thomas Niesel
Hi there I have installed debian-frozen-base-system on my 386 via floppy and my local network. Beside a problem to load any modules wich I was able to fix all went fine. (I had to copy /etc/modules.conf to /target/etc/modules.conf cause it was missing from the start !) A bug ? It's the first time

Re: Problems with TeTex

2000-05-28 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I had this problem also. There is a fixed version in proposed updates. I compiled from sources and had no problem. Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq. NM 87108 (505) 256-0834

RE: Problem with rescue disks

2000-05-28 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 28-May-2000 Shane Wegner wrote: Hi, I am attempting to modify the Debian rescue flopy to be an emergency recovery for my system. Actually it's root.bin which I am modifying. I am having problems adding utilities. I need to add the raid tools as well as restore(8). When I chroot to

Re: Second Best - was Re: Best Hardware

2000-05-28 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
MTC Linux gives the best of all worlds as long as Debian thrives. With all the new distros with 'EASY' (read restrictive) installations that are targeted to new users we will get more driver and software support. Debian will allow us to have maximal control over our systems because it does not

Re: Potato - locked out of X

2000-05-28 Thread Esko Lehtonen
Daniel Burrows wrote: I have just upgraded to potato and I can't get into X as a normal user, only root works. When I type startx (as a normal user) I get a message saying I don't have privileges to do it. Thanks. Check out /etc/X11/Xserver file. The first line should be path to your X

Re: X on a 486

2000-05-28 Thread John Carline
Atila Nemet wrote: Hi! Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there window manager which is low on system resources so I could set up X on this 486? Attila I've tried most of them and on my machine the ones that use the least are fvwm95, blackbox and olvwm. I find fvwm95

Re: Tulip ethernet performance issues

2000-05-28 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:53:32PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote Hi gang, I know that this has come up on the list recently, but I haven't really seen anything that has helped me solve this little problem. I have a couple of tulip-based ethernet cards (I think they are made by Acton, and may

Re: apt

2000-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if you want contrib, non-free, non-us and security updates: deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security

Mailing list search

2000-05-28 Thread Rick Younie
I'm working on a rexx script to send search requests to the Debian mailing lists search engine and display the results in lynx. The advantage over the web page form is that you can search more than one list at a time and it sorts the hits a little better. It's at

AWE64 support

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
Can someone suggest how I configure potato for my AWE64 s/card?? Anyone have any experiences doing this? I would be interested to know what happened. Thanks.

GDM vs KDE

2000-05-28 Thread Jay Kelly
Is a real big defference between GDM and KDE? What who should I be using? Also how do I start Gnome from the console? With X I used startx whats the command for Gnome? Thanks Guys

is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?

2000-05-28 Thread john smith
I have a few questions abt using ppp 1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah in the console or term. 2.how can I give permission for users to use the modem device thank you. Get Your

Re: Best hardware?

2000-05-28 Thread Bart Szyszka
Well, like I said the vast majority of Win9X only hardware works very poorly even in Win9x Not from my experiences. Printers generally work well. Monitors generally work well. Mice/keyboards generally work well. Now I need to know how they work on the Linux end. I love trackballs and Logitech's

Everybuddy

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
I'm trying to install everybuddy. http://www.everybuddy.com - I can't seem to get anywhere with it. Anyone use this app and got it to work? I need a step-by-step guide please!! Thanks.

Re: GDM vs KDE

2000-05-28 Thread Mike Werner
Jay Kelly wrote: Is a real big defference between GDM and KDE? There's a huge difference. GDM is nothing more than a GUI login app with a couple of bells, whistles, gongs, and sirens tacked on. KDE is an entire desktop suite. They're not exactly comparable. What who should I be using? I

Setting X resolution

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Lesage
Is there any way to configure X resolutions and select the default directly from X (using a graphical interface), rather than editing the XF86Config file by hand or running a console application? Thanks, Dan.

Strange GPM behavior

2000-05-28 Thread Craig McPherson
Hmm, this is a new one. When GPM is running, the mouse will work in the console... but the mouse cursor in X freezes and won't move. When I stop GPM, mouse access is lost in the console, and the X mouse cursor comes back to life. I've never before seen GPM cause the mouse to stop working in

Re: Setting X resolution

2000-05-28 Thread Craig McPherson
The XF86Setup program is the closest you're going to get to that. On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 05:11:08PM -0400, Daniel Lesage wrote: Is there any way to configure X resolutions and select the default directly from X (using a graphical interface), rather than editing the XF86Config file by hand or

Re: GDM vs KDE

2000-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
also the gnome enviornment is just that, an enviornment, it runs on top of X, so your question should be how do you configure X to run gnome when it starts. someone responded to your mails saying to install 'task-gnome-session', i suggest you do that and it should install the software you need,

Annoying pop-up in fvwm2

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
Just upgraded to potato - I can't seem to get rid of a pop-up message telling me I don't have a fvwm directory every time I start X - even though I thought I had. Where is this supposed to be? Thanks.

Re: Strange GPM behavior

2000-05-28 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
When GPM is running, the mouse will work in the console... but the mouse cursor in X freezes and won't move. When I stop GPM, mouse access is lost in the console, and the X mouse cursor comes back to life. I've never before seen GPM cause the mouse to stop working in X... what could cause

Re: Strange GPM behavior

2000-05-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Craig McPherson wrote: Hmm, this is a new one. When GPM is running, the mouse will work in the console... but the mouse cursor in X freezes and won't move. When I stop GPM, mouse access is lost in the console, and the X mouse cursor comes back to life. I've never before seen GPM cause the

Re: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?

2000-05-28 Thread John Hasler
john smith writes: 1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah in the console or term. gpppon, in woody. 2.how can I give permission for users to use the modem device Add them to the dip group. The command is 'adduser username dip', as root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

apt-move sync

2000-05-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Is there any way of sending the packages that are being downloaded by apt-move sync to the mirror before it finishes bringing everything missing? I am afraid I am going to run out of room soon if I don't manage to do it. I haven't been able to figure how to do it. Please send ideas soon

Re: Strange GPM behavior

2000-05-28 Thread Craig McPherson
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 11:34:23PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: this will not work ... repeater ms3 is not implemented - as far as i remember ... I commented out the repeater line, and now everything works nicely. Thank you.

How to start Gnome

2000-05-28 Thread Jay Kelly
What will I need to put in /etc/X11/window-managers or ~/.xinitrc to load gnome when I use 'startx'?

Re: AWE64 support

2000-05-28 Thread Brian Stults
Daniel Burrows wrote: Can someone suggest how I configure potato for my AWE64 s/card?? Anyone have any experiences doing this? I would be interested to know what happened. I've been using this card for quite some time with no problem. I think I did it using only the following two

Re: How to start Gnome

2000-05-28 Thread MH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What will I need to put in /etc/X11/window-managers or ~/.xinitrc to load gnome when I use 'startx'? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null A simple approach would be to put exec gnome-session in your

Re: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?

2000-05-28 Thread Shaul Karl
john smith writes: 1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah in the console or term. gpppon, in woody. [01:53:22 /tmp]$ grep-available -P xisp Package: xisp Version: 2.6p1-2 Priority: optional Section: contrib/net Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL

Re: Everybuddy

2000-05-28 Thread Mike Werner
Daniel Burrows wrote: I'm trying to install everybuddy. http://www.everybuddy.com - I can't seem to get anywhere with it. Anyone use this app and got it to work? I need a step-by-step guide please!! 1) apt-get install everybuddy 2) Find the everybuddy entry in your window manager's menu -

Re: window-managers

2000-05-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 08:35:24PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: I have just upgraded to potato. Previously, in slink, I had setup my window-managers file to start kde by default but now I get fvwm2 when I type startx. Why is this? The file still points to kde as the first option - is there a

Re: GNOME

2000-05-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 08:40:00PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: How do I start gnome from potato? Thanks. Please check the archives. This subject has come up several times in recent days... -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·character­set·when·compos­  » ing·email·messages. 

Re: Annoying pop-up in fvwm2

2000-05-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 11:26:19PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: Just upgraded to potato - I can't seem to get rid of a pop-up message telling me I don't have a fvwm directory every time I start X - even though I thought I had. Where is this supposed to be? cd $HOME mkdir .fvwm -- ¶

Re: /dev/mouse problem

2000-05-28 Thread David S. Bateman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do believe that your mouse should be symbolically linked to /dev/psaux and not /dev/ttyS0 or any sort of ttyS 'if' it is a ps/2 mouse that you are using. It is quite safe to delete mouse and relink mouse to /dev/psaux. is there a reason why the Slink install

Re: X on a 486

2000-05-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:24:50PM +0200, Atila Nemet wrote: Hi! Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there window manager which is low on system resources so I could set up X on this 486? In addition to the others mentioned: flwm is very light-weight, but not too

Re: Setting X resolution

2000-05-28 Thread Shaul Karl
The XF86Setup program is the closest you're going to get to that. xvidtune might also be relevant. On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 05:11:08PM -0400, Daniel Lesage wrote: Is there any way to configure X resolutions and select the default directly from X (using a graphical interface), rather

Re: Everybuddy

2000-05-28 Thread Joseph de los Santos
hi, instead of trying to download it from the everybuddy site in tar format or maybe from source, just download everybuddy from the debian ftp site since everybuddy has been already been packaged for debian install it via dpkg -i everybuddy_ver_no_etc or you can install it thru apt if you have

Re: Login without user name and password?

2000-05-28 Thread kmself
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:37:11AM +, ktb wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 10:15:45PM +, ktb wrote: I there any way to configure Slink to boot directly into a 'regular user' account without entering user name or password? In other words boot

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