mutt domain

2000-07-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Anyone recall how to get mutt to use the domain defined in .muttrc? It has recently changed behavior and everything I have tried has failed. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of s

Helix Code Packages

2000-07-15 Thread Timothy Ritchey
Greetings! I have a debian system running woody, and tried to load up the HelixCode using their installer. Everything seemed to work okay, but even though I selected the full install, many packages were not installed (such as the 1.1.24 gimp, etc.) When I did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. It

Re: sound still not working

2000-07-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > i did the cat /proc/pci step and it returned: > > "Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq AudioPCI (rev 0). Slow devsel. > IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=12" > > i tried to compile in the es1371 driver with sound

Re: esd says "unable to bind port 16001"

2000-07-15 Thread Timothy Ritchey
> > > Unable to bind port 16001 > > > > > > and then it aborts. What does that mean, and how do I > > > > I thought of that, but esd is definitely not running on > my system when this error occurs. I think this means that there is a problem with the gnome-sessions and/or ORBit. I believe you get

Re: Xfree86 4.0.1

2000-07-15 Thread Corey Popelier
No debs yet - a few people report installing from the binaries quite happily, and I know a couple of people who compiled source and got it working too. Lazy me is waiting for the debs :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, geek. wrote: > A

Xfree86 4.0.1

2000-07-15 Thread geek.
Are there .deb's out there for this? will this totaly break xfree86-common and all related 3.3.6 stuff?

Re: Good way to keep kde2 up to date?

2000-07-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:04:56PM -0400, Todd Suess wrote: > I am curious if any other debian users have a method they use to do this > that avoids totally screwing up dpkg, etc? I build everything in either: /usr/local/src and set an install prefix of /usr/local/kde, or under a directory in

Re: sound still not working

2000-07-15 Thread Corey Popelier
The zImage, bzImage issue is probably because zImage doesn't contain enough compression to fit the kernel into the required size properly - hence why bzImage was formed - bz compression is much more effective than z compression. The dmesg line is because the cat /proc/pci command has been replaced

Re: esd says "unable to bind port 16001"

2000-07-15 Thread Louis F. Melahn
Esko Lehtonen wrote: > > "Louis F. Melahn" wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I installed Helix Gnome on my Potato Debian system. > > Of course, a lot of the Gnome packages depend on > > EsounD, so the esound-common and esound packages > > were installed alongside the Gnome ones. Now, my > > sound hard

Good way to keep kde2 up to date?

2000-07-15 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings, I recently installed kde2, from the debs found with apt-get. I would like to keep up to date with the development snapshots as they come out, as many bugs get fixed in each one. I am curious if any other debian users have a method they use to do this that avoids totally screwing

sound still not working

2000-07-15 Thread Bob
i did the cat /proc/pci step and it returned: "Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq AudioPCI (rev 0). Slow devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=12" i tried to compile in the es1371 driver with sound support into the kernel, but didn't detect my sound card irq. then i c

Re: I cannot get JunkBuster to work

2000-07-15 Thread Frank Copeland
Barry Samuels wrote: >I would like to continue using woffle and to use junkbuster in addition but the >instructions are going to have to be of the 'put this here' and 'put that >there' >type I'm afraid. In /etc/junkbuster/forwardfile make sure you have something like this at the very end: *

Re: Adding sound card ?

2000-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
If it is the old non-pnp card, I have the same one. In menuconfig, select Sound, OSS Sound modules, 100% Sound Blaster compatibles. This is for 2.2.16. I think the menu selections were a bit different for some earlier kernels. If you select Y, you will see where to enter the parameters. If y

Re: IRQ conflict with soundcard

2000-07-15 Thread Esko Lehtonen
Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello all, > Im trying to get the soundcard to install. Im using kernel 2.2.16 > and am installing a SoundBlaster 16. I have enabled the options in > the kernel and selested them as modules. I cat /proc/interrupts and it shows > the sound card on irq 7. Then I want to the isap

Re: I cannot get JunkBuster to work

2000-07-15 Thread Stelios Bounanos
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rumoured to have said about `` I cannot get JunkBuster to work '': > > I have JunkBuster installed on Potato and it is running as a daemon but it > > won't filter anything. > > [snip] > > I reported this bug a week ago. The /etc/cron.we

Re: esd says "unable to bind port 16001"

2000-07-15 Thread Esko Lehtonen
"Louis F. Melahn" wrote: > > Hello, > > I installed Helix Gnome on my Potato Debian system. Of course, a lot of > the Gnome packages depend on EsounD, so the esound-common and esound > packages were installed alongside the Gnome ones. Now, my sound hardware > works fine: I have an Opt0924 chipset

IRQ conflict with soundcard

2000-07-15 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello all, Im trying to get the soundcard to install. Im using kernel 2.2.16 and am installing a SoundBlaster 16. I have enabled the options in the kernel and selested them as modules. I cat /proc/interrupts and it shows the sound card on irq 7. Then I want to the isapnp.conf and remove the # from

Re: Can't mount cd when using SCSI emulation

2000-07-15 Thread Andreas Schmidt
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:16PM +0300, Esko Lehtonen wrote: > Hello! > > I have internal HP 7200 atapi cd-rw drive in my debian 2.2 machine. I am > using self compiled 2.2.14 kernel from debian kernel package. I want to > write cds with my drive, so I removed IDE/ATAPI cd support from kernel,

Re: Potato install won't let me set root password.

2000-07-15 Thread Joey Hess
Well you're the second person to report seeing this problem. Stephen Starling wrote: > Had to use potato because I have an Athlon (tried > slink, it hangs, did research here and found that the > kernal was too old). So Potato installs fine up to and > including "The Moment of Truth" > > Then it a

Re: DVD-Rom Drive

2000-07-15 Thread Rob
Hiya, Well, there are hardware decoder boards( DXR2 and DXR3 ) from creative labs. ( i read something today about DXR3 drivers being available, but double check that before you buy anything ) latest model: http://americas.creative.com/pc-dvd/encore-6x/ Also check out http://opensource.creative.

Re: Adding sound card ?

2000-07-15 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > Ok group, > I want to add a sound card (SoundBlaster16) and want to make sure I > have the step right. I have compiled the kernel for pnp support. When > I look in Sound options, I cant see my sound card. Which driver > should I choose? My sound is a old So

esd says "unable to bind port 16001"

2000-07-15 Thread Louis F. Melahn
Hello, I installed Helix Gnome on my Potato Debian system. Of course, a lot of the Gnome packages depend on EsounD, so the esound-common and esound packages were installed alongside the Gnome ones. Now, my sound hardware works fine: I have an Opt0924 chipset, and I use the mad16 driver. All the or

PLEASE help me with apache package

2000-07-15 Thread Chris R. Martin
I've installed Apache 1.3.9-13.1 (from frozen) I can access the default page from my windoze box, but any other page (including the links on the default page) gives the client 403 Forbidden. I've checked and all the directories and files should be world accessible (read, execute world). Why

Can't mount cd when using SCSI emulation

2000-07-15 Thread Esko Lehtonen
Hello! I have internal HP 7200 atapi cd-rw drive in my debian 2.2 machine. I am using self compiled 2.2.14 kernel from debian kernel package. I want to write cds with my drive, so I removed IDE/ATAPI cd support from kernel, and compiled scsi emulation instead. Now I can write cds, but I can't mou

Re: does 'apt-get remove' nuke packages recursively?

2000-07-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "chris" == Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: chris> Suppose package C depends on package B depends on package A. chris> Now, it just so happens that no other packages depend on B, but chris> package D also depends on A. If I do a apt-get remove C is it chris> supposed to do the rig

Re: apt-get problems

2000-07-15 Thread Ross Boylan
OK, everybody, remain calm. *If* you have space somewhere other than var, then just tell apt to use that area. Here's my /etc/apt/apt.conf: Dir { Cache "/usr/var/apt"; }; DSelect::Clean "auto"; / Pre-configure all packages before they are installed

Re: Many problems with KDE2

2000-07-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 03:12:14PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > Anyone else had any luck getting this mess to work? Every few weeks I do a cvsup run and check out the latest and greatest KDE2 source, but it is far from soup; it's beta, and imho, still early beta. The code base is being worked on r

Adding sound card ?

2000-07-15 Thread Jay Kelly
Ok group, I want to add a sound card (SoundBlaster16) and want to make sure I have the step right. I have compiled the kernel for pnp support. When I look in Sound options, I cant see my sound card. Which driver should I choose? My sound is a old Soundblaster 16 ISA card. And should I select modu

Re: Many problems with KDE2

2000-07-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Well. Use HelixCode Gnome. :) Quoting Todd Suess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My system upgraded itself during an apt-get dist-upgrade today to KDE2, > and man did everything get hosed now. Just a few problems are: > > 1. kdm no longer starts at login, I enter username and password and

Re: What bkernel to use ???

2000-07-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello Group, > I want to upgrade my kernel. Im currently using 2.2.16 and want to > add sound support for a soundblaster 16. So should I go for the > newer of the kernels like the 2.4.x or 2.3.x ? And is there any real > difference bet

Many problems with KDE2

2000-07-15 Thread Todd Suess
My system upgraded itself during an apt-get dist-upgrade today to KDE2, and man did everything get hosed now. Just a few problems are: 1. kdm no longer starts at login, I enter username and password and get put into a shell terminal (Eterm) where I have to type /usr/bin/startkde for it to run.

What bkernel to use ???

2000-07-15 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, I want to upgrade my kernel. Im currently using 2.2.16 and want to add sound support for a soundblaster 16. So should I go for the newer of the kernels like the 2.4.x or 2.3.x ? And is there any real difference between the kernel versions ? Thanks Guys -- It feels so good, It's a m

Re: Domain names in spain

2000-07-15 Thread Markus Fischer
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 03:51:03PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote : > Where can I register domain names in Spain? (top level domain .es if I'm > right) How about http://www.nic.es/ ? Note, 'nic' is generally the first try for domain registration .. Markus -- Markus Fischer, http://josefin

Re: I cannot get JunkBuster to work

2000-07-15 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:18AM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > I have JunkBuster installed on Potato and it is running as a daemon but it > won't filter anything. > > I also have Woffle running on port 8080 and that is specified as the proxy > server in Netscape. Generally speaking, you filter

Re: I cannot get JunkBuster to work

2000-07-15 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:59:55AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have JunkBuster installed on Potato and it is running as a daemon but it > > won't filter anything. > > [snip] > > I reported this bug a week ago. The /etc/cron.weekly/junkbuster and > /etc/cron.monthly/junkbuster files gra

Re: SCSI tape errors

2000-07-15 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:34:13PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > i have set up a SCSI DAT tape onto debian slink with kernel 2.0.38 and nfs > (no_root_squash) mounted an IBM AIX directory. I use a simple backup > program which tars the files from the AIX directory onto tape. It works

Re: I cannot get JunkBuster to work

2000-07-15 Thread bsamuels
** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:29:36 -0500 > > I also have Woffle running on port 8080 and that is specified as the proxy > > server in Netscape. > > > Could someone please explain what I need to do. > > You need to either tell Netscape to use junkbuster as i

does 'apt-get remove' nuke packages recursively?

2000-07-15 Thread Krzys Majewski
Suppose package C depends on package B depends on package A. Now, it just so happens that no other packages depend on B, but package D also depends on A. If I do a apt-get remove C is it supposed to do the right thing and remove B as well (but not remove A)? -chris

Re: I cannot get JunkBuster to work

2000-07-15 Thread iehrenwald
> I have JunkBuster installed on Potato and it is running as a daemon but it > won't filter anything. [snip] I reported this bug a week ago. The /etc/cron.weekly/junkbuster and /etc/cron.monthly/junkbuster files grab blocklist, imagelist, cookiefile. the /etc/junkbuster/config file looks for blo

Re: Question about partitioning

2000-07-15 Thread John Carline
Ed Burke wrote: > Hi Gang, > I have reconsidered installing linux - now that I have all > my ducks in a row. >I had NT installed on an ex-corporate machine. So there were a lot > of nifty programs > but no meat behind them. I opted to discard this and install W 95 > in

Re: Exim for ISDN systems ?

2000-07-15 Thread Preben Randhol
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/07/2000 (12:30) : > Hello Preben > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 12:54:43AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/07/2000 (00:48) : > > > Hi Preben! > > > > > > exim -qf and/or exim -qff will send all mail from

Re: I cannot get JunkBuster to work

2000-07-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:18AM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > I also have Woffle running on port 8080 and that is specified as the proxy > server in Netscape. > Could someone please explain what I need to do. You need to either tell Netscape to use junkbuster as its proxy or tell woffle to for

Re: mod-perl+apache showing html code under IE 5.*

2000-07-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Joe, ya but it seems to work in other old IE versions. Quoting Joe piman Wreschnig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:56:18AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I made a homepage with mod-perl+apache+libpgperl+postgresl fro

Re: mod-perl+apache showing html code under IE 5.*

2000-07-15 Thread Joe \"piman\" Wreschnig
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:56:18AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > I made a homepage with mod-perl+apache+libpgperl+postgresl from potato > packages and tested it under Netscape (Linux). When I showed it for a friend > with IE 5.* and he hits the back butt

Re: New LINUX USER

2000-07-15 Thread Digiover
[ Lost the original mail, so I changed the reply from Suresh ] On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 03:20:47PM +0530, Dhinesh K Kumar wrote: > hello, > i have installed Red Hat Linux in my PC. i am finding problems > in configuring my monitor and Video card. Can u help me in this regard? > Monitor : Samsung S

Re: New LINUX USER

2000-07-15 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Try Xconfigurator On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 03:20:47PM +0530, Dhinesh K Kumar wrote: > hello, > i have installed Red Hat Linux in my PC. i am finding problems in > configuring my monitor and Video card. Can u help me in this regard? >Monitor : Samsung SAMTRON 40Bn >Video Card : Cirrus L

Re: How do I get flexible email headers and sigs?

2000-07-15 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Tony! Tony> I have several "identities" I'd like my mail to go out under - Tony> [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my academic work, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the Tony> start-up I sometimes act for, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for personal stuff etc. Tony> I'd like the From:, Reply-To: fields and the signatu

Domain names in spain

2000-07-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
Sorry for the off topic question, but I know there are people here that know the answer to my question: Where can I register domain names in Spain? (top level domain .es if I'm right) Thanks, Ron Rademaker

Re: Question about partitioning

2000-07-15 Thread Tom Pfeifer
First of all, if you're installing Debian, I'd suggest going with version 2.2 (potato,frozen) instead of 2.1 (slink,stable). Potato is about to be released and is quite stable. Potato includes the new version of Lilo, so the 1024 cylinder issue is no longer a problem. I strongly suggest reading th

mod-perl+apache showing html code under IE 5.*

2000-07-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I made a homepage with mod-perl+apache+libpgperl+postgresl from potato packages and tested it under Netscape (Linux). When I showed it for a friend with IE 5.* and he hits the back button it show all the source code instead of going back a html page. What can be wro

Re: how do i get sound working?

2000-07-15 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Another thing that may help is to install the pciutils package (if you haven't already), and run the lspci command. That should give additional info on what Linux is recognizing as far as your sound card is concerned, as well as all your other PCI devices. I have an older version of the PCI64 car

I cannot get JunkBuster to work

2000-07-15 Thread Barry Samuels
I have JunkBuster installed on Potato and it is running as a daemon but it won't filter anything. I also have Woffle running on port 8080 and that is specified as the proxy server in Netscape. I understand that to get JunkBuster to work as well I need to make appropriate entries in the JunkBuster

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-15 Thread Jonathan Heaney
David Wright wrote: > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do > this by testing for the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe which > only exists under 2.2. > > Perhaps you have a problem with your /

Re: Exim for ISDN systems ?

2000-07-15 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Preben On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 12:54:43AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/07/2000 (00:48) : > > Hi Preben! > > > > exim -qf and/or exim -qff will send all mail from the queue. If I remember > > they both are blocking, i.e. will only return whe

Eterm backspace and del?

2000-07-15 Thread John Conover
What do you put in ~/.Eterm/MAIN to get the backspace and del keys to work right? Thanks, John -- John Conover[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.johncon.com/ 631 Lamont Ct. Tel. 408.370.2688 http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/ Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602

Re: How do I get flexible email headers and sigs?

2000-07-15 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:58:59AM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: [snip] > One easy way to do this in mutt is have your favourite MDA (maildrop for > me, procmail for pretty much everyone else) deliver your emails to > different addresses to different mailboxes. This is usually trivially > easy. Yes,

Re: New LINUX USER

2000-07-15 Thread Marcel Karras
Good boy! Didn't you notice that this is a Debian-User-List? For questions to this distribution see on http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/ (Support) or on http://archive.rehat.com (Mail-Archive). By the way, the X-configuration in RedHat is done over the pro gramm "Xconfigurator". Bye ToKa --

Re: networking questions

2000-07-15 Thread Marcel Karras
The best way to learn administrative networking is the "Network Administration Guide" you'll find on http://www.metalab.unc.edu/mdw/LDP/nag/node1.html#SECTION00100. My advise to you: Download the sites and read them offline. It teaches a lot. Have Fun. MfG ToKa

Network won't come up

2000-07-15 Thread Raymond L. Zarling
Something has happened to my ethernet connection. I use a Kingston KNE100TX, which uses the tulip driver. The driver looks like it configures OK from the dmesg output, but ifconfig won't activate it. The /etc/init.d/networks file looks ok, and indeed "ifconfig -a" shows all the right configurati

Re: KDE stuff

2000-07-15 Thread Markus Fischer
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 12:52:08AM -0500, Ethan Pierce wrote : > My girlfriend insists on a graphical mail client so I thought kmail > would be good for her. Should I just update my sources.list? Im not > familiar with all the addressess and apt-get commands... Just add the following li

Re: instaling debian in HP LC 2000

2000-07-15 Thread Ragga Muffin
"arnulfo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never used an scsi hard drive, now here i am, trying to install debian > 2.2 to a > HP LC 2000 which has and ultra2 scsi adpater, and two hot swap 9 GB hard > drives, > Is there any way i can install debian to this machine? Possibly, depends on the m

Re: Some basic unix commanding, more please:

2000-07-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 01:51:28AM +0200, Frodo Baggins wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jaldhar H. Vyas scripsit: > >Sarcasm? Hardly. I came to perl via Sanskrit. The way perl compresses > >such a lot of information makes a lot of sense to someone who has studied, >

e2fsck+raid+linux 2.2.16 = crash?

2000-07-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today... One of my systems crashed due to SCSI disk errors. when it came back up it crashed again. so i had to go to the site (2 hour drive!@) and took a look at it. it seems when the system tries to run e2fsck on the raid set the system crashes with the message: Jul 14 13:36:30 galactica kerne

Re: how do i get sound working?

2000-07-15 Thread Ragga Muffin
Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > alright i've read the sound-how-to but it didn't help me. my sound card is a > "Creative Labs Audio PCI 64V". im not sure what sound driver i should be > using or how to set the irq, I/o port, and DMA settings... running pnpdump > does nothing. I'm not awfully