xsession errors

2000-07-19 Thread estoy
No se si este es el lugar adecuado para preguntar algo nivel novato. Pero espero que alguien me pueda ayudar. No puedo iniciar una session en X por que me salen los siguientes mensajes de error: (~$USER_NAME/.xsessionerrors) ==

Re: /dev/lp0

2000-07-19 Thread Jose Antonio Ortega Garcia
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Hue-Bond wrote: Haz 'ls -la /dev/lp*' y verifica que se parezca a esto: crw-rw1 root lp 6, 0 abr 4 1999 /dev/lp0 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 1 abr 4 1999 /dev/lp1 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 2 abr 4 1999

Re: quitar salvapantallas de terminales

2000-07-19 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Eso es APM, no es un salvapantallas. Puede estar activado por varios lados: 1.- la BIOS 2.- el kernel 3.- el windowmanager Mira a ver cual lo tiene puesto y lo quitas. Javi On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:03:09AM +0200, Miquel wrote: hola

Re: Mapeo de nombre de fuentes

2000-07-19 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:51:01AM +0100, Jaime E. Villate wrote: Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Ya consigo ver los tipos de fuentes de marras, esta escribiendo mail el fonts.dir, ahora las veo en el Netscape y en otras cosas, pero lo que no consigo es que salgan impresas, y estoy mas perdido

Programilla para Zmailer

2000-07-19 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas... después de mucho tiempo de no pasarme por la lista... :))) Veamos... Me han pedido un programa que, teniendo una base de datos, mysql o postgresql, coja y cada vez que entra un emilio al server MTA, lo guarde en una de éstas dos bases de datos. Luego, para colmo, quiere que haga

Instalar un weblog

2000-07-19 Thread 31
Hola: Con el subject ya os imaginareis a lo que voy :). Necesito ayuda sobre como instalar un weblog con Debian, he leido un articulo de Solo Linux y he intentado instalarlo pero no casi no consigo ni empezar, supongo que será porque nunca he instalado nada parecido y no soy muy experto del tema

perdones

2000-07-19 Thread TooManySecrets
os pido mil perdones por haber enviado un emilio en formato html... perdón perdón perdón... :(((

repetición problema Zmailer

2000-07-19 Thread TooManySecrets
Debido a mi ineptitud (mi anterior emilio en HTML), os vuelvo a poner otra vez el emilio, esta vez en formato plano (espero)... Buenas... después de mucho tiempo de no pasarme por la lista... :))) Veamos... Me han pedido un programa que, teniendo una base de datos, mysql o postgresql, coja y

Re: repetición problema Zmailer

2000-07-19 Thread Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 06:42:58PM +0200, TooManySecrets wrote: Estaría dispuesto a cambiar de MTA, pero NO a Sendmail. Como mucho a Postfix o Qmail (siguiendo éste orden). Bueno. Postfix no lo he tocado, pero con qmail podrías pasar todo mensaje que entre por SMTP a donde quieras (los ficheros

Matrox Dualhead G400

2000-07-19 Thread Ricardo Marcelo Alvarez
Tengo una matrox dualhead G400 y en el sitio de Matrox hay un link para bajar drivers para linux. La cuestion es que el xfree 3.3.6 soporta la placa pero estos drivers son para que tenga aceleracion 3D se llaman glx que es una libreria para el xfree. Yo lo instale y hasta ahora anda todo bien

Re: Instalar un weblog

2000-07-19 Thread Luis Cabrera Sauco
Quien:31 Cuando: miércoles, 19 de julio del 2000, a las 01:49, Qué: Instalar un weblog Hola: Con el subject ya os imaginareis a lo que voy :). Necesito ayuda sobre como instalar un weblog con Debian, he leido un articulo de Solo Linux y he intentado

Re: Matrox Dualhead G400

2000-07-19 Thread Esteban Barrientos
Ya revisaste matroxusers.com? Ahi hay drivers para linux e informacion sobre glx. http://matroxusers.com/Driver/Linux.html El matroxset y otros utilitarios lo podes bajar de ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest Saludos, Esteban

un script para lectores de LA y SL

2000-07-19 Thread 31
¿cuantas Linux Actual o Solo Linux teneis? ¿cuantas veces sabeis que hay algo que os interesa en una de ellas y venga a buscarlo? pues hoy por la tarde me he puesto a copiar todos los titulos de los números que tengo y luego le he hecho una mierdecilla de script para encontrar articulos sobre lo

Re: Instalar un weblog

2000-07-19 Thread Jaume Sabater
(...) Vereis, tengo la Debian potato y ya en el momento de instalar los paquetes necesarios ya me armo un lio, porque no me coinciden mucho los nombres de los paquetes, he instalado los paquetes apache, php3, phplib y php3-mysql y recuerdo haber tenido algún problema con apache por lo de la

Re: Matrox Dualhead G400

2000-07-19 Thread Jonathan Arrien
mira tambien en http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/fbdev/

Re: un script para lectores de LA y SL

2000-07-19 Thread Antonio Beamud Montero
G R A C I A S por tu esfuerzo. -- Saludos. Antonio.

Re: un script para lectores de LA y SL

2000-07-19 Thread Luis Cabrera Sauco
Quien:Antonio Beamud Montero Cuando: sábado, 15 de julio del 2000, a las 08:07, Qué: Re: un script para lectores de LA y SL G R A C I A S por tu esfuerzo. ¡¡¡ Cuanto tiempo queriendo hacer esto... !!! ¿Alguien con un postgreSQL publico...?

Re: un script para lectores de LA y SL

2000-07-19 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 11:34 p.m. 2000-07-19 +0100, Luis Cabrera Sauco wrote: Quien: Antonio Beamud Montero Cuando: sábado, 15 de julio del 2000, a las 08:07, Qué: Re: un script para lectores de LA y SL G R A C I A S por tu esfuerzo. ¡¡¡ Cuanto tiempo queriendo hacer

Re: un script para lectores de LA y SL

2000-07-19 Thread Luis Cabrera Sauco
Quien:Ugo Enrico Albarello Cuando: miércoles, 19 de julio del 2000, a las 05:51, Qué: Re: un script para lectores de LA y SL At 11:34 p.m. 2000-07-19 +0100, Luis Cabrera Sauco wrote: Quien: Antonio Beamud Montero Cuando:sábado, 15 de julio del

Re: Instalar un weblog

2000-07-19 Thread Miquel
como alguien ha mencionado ya, tienes squishdot que resulta bastante sencillo de instalar y muy fácil de administrar. Nosotros la usamos en sindominio desde hace meses, y va bien mientras no haya grandes volumenes almacenados, pues la base de datos que usa es algo endeble (puedes ver squishdot en

Re: xsession errors

2000-07-19 Thread estoy
Si a alguien le sirve, ya se cual era el problema que tenia, que impedia que algun usuario no-privilegiado iniciara sesion en X. Me falta el archivo Xwrapper (no se donde debe de estar localizado, pero ya lo busque por todos lados). Si alguien es tan amable de mandarme una copia del suyo o de

Re: Upgrade openssl .deb? or purge old ver and install new?

2000-07-19 Thread montefin
Well, I vote for wipe both clean, 'apt-get install' Woody's openssl-0.9.5a and build openssh-2.1.1p4 from source tomorrow morning. montefin looks at all the votes. Er...vote. H. I won! Somebody stop me! montefin montefin wrote: Hi, Just hoping for a little guidance before I

midi html tags

2000-07-19 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, Rather silly querry, but needs asking; I built my website using M$ frontpage, and it worked well. browsing it with M$ browsers etc produces midi. Not so with netscape. is there a fix to make netscape work with the M$ midi tag? I can browse sites that were built with netscape and the

Re: Fw: failure notice

2000-07-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
user gone absent debian-user subscribed quota exceeded montefin wrote: Lucky it doesn't originate From: [EMAIL PROTECTED].

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-19 Thread Joseph de los Santos
From: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Are there any *good* apps that I *need* to have? :) AFAIS, I just *love* eterm. Great stuff! :) Yes. get those cute little epplets. if you like eterm..you'll also like those tiny epplets too!

xsession errors

2000-07-19 Thread estoy
Hi there: My problem is I can't get into X mode, aparently 'cause of an authorization issue. My .xsessionerror file has these lines: === xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not

Re: NE2k problem

2000-07-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi. I have a problem with my NE2000 PCI clone. Whenever I do an insmod on the module, it comes back with an `unresolved symbols' error. If anyone has tips out there it would be appreciated. What are the symbols? What's most likely

Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome

2000-07-19 Thread Ross Boylan
I think apt had some problems with handling CD's, especially multiple ones. You might want to check the bug list. On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:45:05AM -0500, Robert Maynord wrote: Dear debian-user List Friends: I have been following the Potato and Helix-Gnome discussions, and decided to try

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-19 Thread Pap Tibor
Stephen A. Witt wrote: Well, I'm sure there are a lot of ways around this. What I do is to use diald to allow on demand connections to my ISP. I then have a cron job that runs fetchmail periodically to get the mail about 4 times a day. Additionally I wrote a little perl script that runs when

apsfilter and dselect

2000-07-19 Thread Charlie Ebert
I'm having a hard time printing and decided to use dselect to load apsfilter. When dselect ran the configuration for apsfilter I noticed that several programs apsfilter used were not there. g3cut html2ps pnmtolps ras2ps recode bunzip compress melt pack Of this list, html2ps and recode I found

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-19 Thread Alan
Hi All, A quick question on the verge of this discussion ... I am about to setup fetchmail to collect my email from my ISP via diald (as described in this thread) but would also like to redistribute the mail once collected to individual user accounts based on the alias (contents of the mail

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-19 Thread Ethan Pierce
have you tried EFM?? :) - Original Message - From: Joseph de los Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 11:21 PM Subject: Re: Enlightenment and X From: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Are

Re: LINUX ON FAT32

2000-07-19 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Fips 2.0 is also on the Debian ftp site here: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/ Tom Alan wrote: Hi Vijay, Are you using fips v 2.0 (partitioning fat32 is new in this version). I've repartitioned a Win98 PC with fips recently - no problem. I picked up the source and binaries a wee

Multiple Domains

2000-07-19 Thread Martin Fluck
Hi. I have one debian linux server, which manage the domain name system. Now there´s one domain on this machine for sending and getting emails. How can I configure bind8 to manage more than one domain with this machine. Thanks for your help Martin

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-19 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Alan wrote: A A quick question on the verge of this discussion ... I am about to setup A fetchmail to collect my email from my ISP via diald (as described in this A thread) but would also like to redistribute the mail once collected to A individual user accounts based

2.2 kernel and frozen

2000-07-19 Thread BEL List Manager
Hi, I've just upgraded to the 2.2 (2.2.16 I think) kernel, and have a couple of questions: 1. How come there is a debian package for 2.2.17, but all I could find on ftp.kernel.org is 2.2.16? 2. If I compile as bzImage, I get an error on booting after uncompressing the kernel. It either gives a

(Kein Betreff)

2000-07-19 Thread Martin Fluck
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Re: staroffice

2000-07-19 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:01:14PM -0400, David Teague wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig. It handles MS file formats fairly well though. I do a lot of revising of documents, and find that SO doesn't export 'tracking changes' to

Re: Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:43:14 -0700, Jens Helweg wrote: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory As the other folx already suggested, you need the NCurses development package. But you also need package bin86. This is used to assembler the boot sector code, IIRC. Make sure you got that

Re: apsfilter and dselect

2000-07-19 Thread Morten Liebach
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:52:13AM -0500, Charlie Ebert wrote: I'm having a hard time printing and decided to use dselect to load apsfilter. When dselect ran the configuration for apsfilter I noticed that several programs apsfilter used were not there. g3cut html2ps pnmtolps ras2ps

Potato Install Problem (Base System Step)

2000-07-19 Thread jpglutting
Hi, I have been trying to install a copy of Potato, from last Sunday (July . The install is causing problems - first it gave me a bad lenght error when unzipping and installing the kernel and drivers (drivers.tgz). I solved this by copying the CD to a linux partition on another hard drive

Re: staroffice

2000-07-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
Martin J . Hillyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it will run the complete Office97 suite, even Excel w/VBA macros. I've been running them for three months now with no trouble at all. (It'll run lots of other Windoze software, too.) So - let me get this right - Win4Lin is a virtual machine in

Re: staroffice

2000-07-19 Thread Nick Croft
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Teague wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig. It handles MS file formats fairly well though. It may be the only use for SO, take a Word .doc and turn it into something Unix or universal like html. How fast

Sawfish GNOME control center problem

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Hi everyone, I seem to be having a problem with Sawfish's GNOME capplets: unlike all other capplets, Sawfish's capplets always require me to press Try before pressing OK to actually make the changes have any effect. Otherwise, they are silently ignored, as if I had pressed Cancel. On all

Menu fonts.

2000-07-19 Thread Nick Croft
Debian Users, I've migrated to potato from rh. I changed for philosophical reasons, and am stoked. Some things needed customising. Printing and mail were a little trouble. Only one more major worry: the size of fonts in Netscape menus, gnome menus and the panel need to be reduced. I've fixed

Re: Debian + Windows98 on the same large disk problem

2000-07-19 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Dimitris Dracopoulos wrote: Hi, I have recently got a new hard disk 40GB, in which I decided to install both Windows98 and Debian, FreeBSD. (I never wanted to install this Win98 stuff on my machine but job matters force...) I repartitioned the hard disk using

Re: midi html tags

2000-07-19 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hello, Rather silly querry, but needs asking; I built my website using M$ frontpage, and it worked well. browsing it with M$ browsers etc produces midi. Not so with netscape. is there a fix to make netscape work with the M$ midi tag?

Re: xsession errors

2000-07-19 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Wed, 19 Jul 100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there: My problem is I can't get into X mode, aparently 'cause of an authorization issue. My .xsessionerror file has these lines: === xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Xlib:

Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-19 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On 18 Jul 2000, Bruce Stephens wrote: Pavel M. Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent for binary file? What do you want to do? If you want the following: Given a binary (or text) file A and a variant of it

Re: staroffice

2000-07-19 Thread Richard Taylor
Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: staroffice: On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Teague wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig. It handles MS file formats fairly well though. It may be the only use for SO, take a Word .doc and

Re: Menu fonts.

2000-07-19 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Nick Croft say I've fixed the look of Netscape with some help from a local lad. Wondering if I might get some help from this list in setting a size for gnome. I just tried grdb package from helix. It works very good, mimicing gtk-theme for some motif/lestif

Re: Menu fonts.

2000-07-19 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Nick Croft say Debian Users, I've migrated to potato from rh. I changed for philosophical reasons, and am stoked. Some things needed customising. Printing and mail were a little trouble. Only one more major worry: the size of fonts in Netscape menus, gnome

Netscape E-Mail-trouble

2000-07-19 Thread Marcel Karras
Hallo Debians, I'm using the Netscape Communicator 4.72. (very slow) If I try to recieve an E-Mail then I will be asked to input my password. I did it, but after pressing the return-button Netscape kills itself. But I configured the Server-settings in the right form. (as I did a few time ago in

Re: Menu fonts.

2000-07-19 Thread Nick Croft
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: I've fixed the look of Netscape with some help from a local lad. Wondering if I might get some help from this list in setting a size for gnome. I forget another thing that you should take a look at, the XF86Config file. With new default

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-19 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Barry Samuels wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to prevent this apart from running Fetchmail manually? you can use `fetchmail -d time' to start it and `fetchmail --quit' to stop it. I think fechmail will know what to do if it's fetching and e-mail when you stop it. []s,

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Joseph de los Santos wrote: Yes. get those cute little epplets. if you like eterm..you'll also like those tiny epplets too! Where do you ge those? There aren't any in the Debian package I'm using. Thanks, Peter

Re: Netscape E-Mail-trouble

2000-07-19 Thread Kent West
Marcel Karras wrote: Hallo Debians, I'm using the Netscape Communicator 4.72. (very slow) If I try to recieve an E-Mail then I will be asked to input my password. I did it, but after pressing the return-button Netscape kills itself. But I configured the Server-settings in the right form.

installation question...?

2000-07-19 Thread Ken Ebling
Hi, I just downloaded all the .bin files from ftp.debian.org's debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44 directory... I haven't ever seen the kernel-config file before, but that's another question.. =) I used rawrite2 to put all the .bin's to disks... when I boot the

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
Alan said: A quick question on the verge of this discussion ... I am about to setup fetchmail to collect my email from my ISP via diald (as described in this thread) but would also like to redistribute the mail once collected to individual user accounts based on the alias (contents of the

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
Pap Tibor said: And how do you post news messages? Does leafnode do this yob for you too? Yes. -- Two words: Windows survives. - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin. - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L+++ E-

Re: Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-19 Thread Charles Lewis
I think if they put libncurses5-dev and bzip2 (and any other missing package) as suggested dependencies for kernel-source then it would save a lot of non-gurus some time. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jens Helweg wrote: Hi, I've just installed my first debian disrtibution (Potato 2.2) and I wanted

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-19 Thread Davide Libenzi
If the messages are going to different accounts on the mail server, you can have multiple entries in your .fetchmailrc of the form user foo there is bar here. If they're all going to the same account, you'll need to use procmail or exim (or whatever) filters to divide them up. Why don't You

Re: Netscape E-Mail-trouble

2000-07-19 Thread Morten Liebach
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 02:05:53PM +0200, Marcel Karras wrote: Hallo Debians, I'm using the Netscape Communicator 4.72. (very slow) If I try to recieve an E-Mail then I will be asked to input my password. I did it, but after pressing the return-button Netscape kills itself. But I configured

Re: Netscape E-Mail-trouble

2000-07-19 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 02:05:53PM +0200, Marcel Karras wrote: I'm using the Netscape Communicator 4.72. (very slow) If I try to recieve an E-Mail then I will be asked to input my password. I did Why don't you save the password? it, but after pressing the return-button Netscape kills itself.

problem with auto-disconnection

2000-07-19 Thread Marcel Karras
Hallo Debains, where can I control after how many time my modem disconnects from the internet. When I write a mail dure being connected to the internet then I don't surf. So my connection will be dissolved without asking me. Is there an opportunity where I can control this auto-disconnection from

Re: staroffice

2000-07-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:27:25AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: Martin J . Hillyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it will run the complete Office97 suite, even Excel w/VBA macros. I've been running them for three months now with no trouble at all. (It'll run lots of other Windoze

Re: problem with auto-disconnection

2000-07-19 Thread Ethan Pierce
Linux ppp is not like the Windows Internet Explorer where it will disconnect you without permission. It must be an idle timeout with your ISP. Set up fetchmail or some other program that will request network attention frequently so your ISP wont bump you. - Original Message - From:

Re: problem with auto-disconnection

2000-07-19 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Marcel Karras wrote: where can I control after how many time my modem disconnects from the internet. When I write a mail dure being connected to the internet then I don't surf. So my connection will be dissolved without asking me. Is there an opportunity where I can

Re: Netscape E-Mail-trouble

2000-07-19 Thread Jens Guenther
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 02:05:53PM +0200, Marcel Karras wrote: for it? (there's no error-message) Marcel, did you start netscape from some menu? If so, you might get some error messages by starting it from an xterm or other terminal emulator. Cheers, Jens

Re: Netscape E-Mail-trouble

2000-07-19 Thread Marcel Karras
Hello, Am Mit, 19 Jul 2000 schrieb Jens Guenther: On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 02:05:53PM +0200, Marcel Karras wrote: for it? (there's no error-message) Marcel, did you start netscape from some menu? If so, you might get some error messages by starting it from an xterm or other

qmail trouble

2000-07-19 Thread Michal F. Hanula
I have successfully installed qmail 1.02 (slink) and run it for months. This morning it has suddenly stopped acepting messages from the outside world (remote - local) --- local - local and local - remote works OK. /var/log/mail.log contains several entries saying that [...] starting delivery

xfree86 4.01

2000-07-19 Thread Ethan Pierce
The deb packages for xfree4 dont seem to be out yet...will it happen do you guys think? Im wondering if I should compile from source...I really want to get q3 running well and have been told 4.01 is wonderfull with the tnt2 card I have. 1) Has anyone had any luck compiling from source? 2)

Re: xfree86 4.01

2000-07-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ethan Pierce wrote: The deb packages for xfree4 dont seem to be out yet...will it happen do you guys think? This is becoming a FAQ. Unfortunately, I don't know where the answer is. Somebody will post the URL of the web page discussing

Re: xfree86 4.01

2000-07-19 Thread Robert L. Harris
It will happen eventuall. I got the binaries and installed em straight up. They work great. Backup (rar) /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 first. If you hose it real bad, just recover them from the rar and you're back where you started. Robert Thus spake Ethan Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The deb

Re: xfree86 4.01

2000-07-19 Thread Robert L. Harris
Thus spake Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Compiling from source was a breeze. And you won't screw up your own X if you tell X 4.0.1 to install itself to something like /usr/local/X11R6 or something like that. Read the directions included with the distribution and you should be all

installing MS PS/2 mouse Debian Linux2.1

2000-07-19 Thread William Smith
After installing Debian Linux2.1 I tried installing X11 but get an error : Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device) there is no /dev/mouse device installed and when I try using modconf to install an MS Bus Mouse I get an error :

Re: installing MS PS/2 mouse Debian Linux2.1

2000-07-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
What mouse do you got, subject tells me PS/2 and the mail says MS Bus mouse, if it's PS/2, you should use /dev/psaux. Ron Rademaker On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, William Smith wrote: After installing Debian Linux2.1 I tried installing X11 but get an error : Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse

Re: installing MS PS/2 mouse Debian Linux2.1

2000-07-19 Thread William Smith
Hey it worked - thanks Ron! (/dev/psaux that is) Screen size is all a bit screwed up but I'll work on that one! Thanks again. Bill === William Smith Office: +44 1753 550088 Solution Engineer Home: +44 1501 785511 Gensym UK Ltd.

smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail

2000-07-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Since everyone else is asking questions that are completely unrelated to Debian I'll do my bit and ask one that's only slightly related. I've got Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 with the default (ie empty) config files. Here's the problem: 09:54:21/etc/init.d# ./smail restart Restarting mail

Getting mail to recognise multiple identities

2000-07-19 Thread tony . curzonprice
A week ago or so, I posted the list asking for a nice way to get my mail client to send out from different apparent users - I hve my academic job, my consulting job, my start-up, my personal stuff. All these need different signatures and headers, and I was getting bored of doing it all by hand.

Re: xfree86 4.01

2000-07-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:26:12PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ethan Pierce wrote: The deb packages for xfree4 dont seem to be out yet...will it happen do you guys think? This is becoming a FAQ. Unfortunately, I don't know where the answer is. Somebody will

Re: xfree86 4.01

2000-07-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:26:12PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: The deb packages for xfree4 dont seem to be out yet...will it happen do you guys think? This is becoming a FAQ. Unfortunately, I don't know where the answer is. Somebody will post the URL of the web page discussing this

Re: Getting mail to recognise multiple identities

2000-07-19 Thread Ron Farrer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A week ago or so, I posted the list asking for a nice way to get my mail client to send out from different apparent users - I hve my academic job, my consulting job, my start-up, my personal stuff. All these need different signatures and headers,

installation question...?

2000-07-19 Thread Ken Ebling
Hi, I just downloaded all the .bin files from ftp.debian.org's debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44 directory... I haven't ever seen the kernel-config file before, but I don't even get far enough to need it yet...! =) I used rawrite2 to put all the .bin's to disks...

images iso de debian linux ppc ?

2000-07-19 Thread Julien CANON
quelqu'un peut-il m'envoyer une ou plusieurs URL où il est possible d'obtenir les images ISO des CD de la debian linux PPC. merci beaucoup pour cette info qui me manque cruellement. -- Julien CANON -- AlphaCSP Direction du Système d'Information /

How do I install gnome on potato?

2000-07-19 Thread rickloga
I recently upgraded to Potato and want to use gnome. I am using the command line interface only. How do I install gnome? I read in the mail list archives that there are 3 choices: gnome, debian, and xsession. But, I did not understand the differences. I also do not understand the difference

mysql-server root password

2000-07-19 Thread Northwest Advantage
Please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I am not currently subscribed to the list. When I installed mysql-server debconf said to set the mysql root password. Then it referenced /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian for the instructions to do so. The instructions tell you to change it with

Re: Getting mail to recognise multiple identities

2000-07-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A week ago or so, I posted the list asking for a nice way to get my mail client to send out from different apparent users - I hve my academic job, my consulting job, my start-up, my personal stuff. All these need different signatures and headers, and I was getting

Re: mysql-server root password

2000-07-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
You can also change the password by loggin in as root, and use mysql, change the password entry in the table user (with SQL statements, don't forget to use password=password('$password') instead of password=$password). Ron Rademaker On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Northwest Advantage wrote: Please cc

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-19 Thread Barry Samuels
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Simon Michael wrote: hmm.. surely fetchmail normally would take this in stride, re-fetching the message next time ? Whoops! Embarrassing admission time. Your remark above triggered the thought processes and I've work out what I think happened. I am not yet using the

Re: images iso de debian linux ppc ?

2000-07-19 Thread Bolan Meek
Julien CANON wrote: quelqu'un peut-il m'envoyer une ou plusieurs URL où il est possible d'obtenir les images ISO des CD de la debian linux PPC. My French is not good, but I think that what is requested is a URL for Debian/PPC. I find ftp://ftp.debian.org/\

Re: How do I install gnome on potato?

2000-07-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:20:25AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded to Potato and want to use gnome. I am using the command line interface only. How do I install gnome? I You do not have X Windows installed apparently? read in the mail list archives that there are 3

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-19 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Yep. in my opinion, EFM has potential but I'll wait until it's integrated with enlightenment before trying it for everyday use.it's a real eye-candy though! ;) - Original Message - From: Ethan Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joseph de los Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sven Burgener [EMAIL

Re: How do I install gnome on potato?

2000-07-19 Thread Mike Werner
Pat Mahoney wrote: snip You might also consider the Helix gnome package. I'll second that. I'm using it here on a couple of woody machines. It's quite nice. Simply add the line: # Helix GNOME deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main to

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-19 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Where do you ge those? There aren't any in the Debian package I'm using. I just checked. the epplets can be found on the debian ftp site. the latest version I found is epplets 0.5-2. (from the unstable tree) if you have apt installed you can just call it to get your epplets. Good Luck

Re: mysql-server root password

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Walter
Hello, frodo:~# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password blah /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES)' had the same problem. My sysadmin possibly raised a password during installation. So the

Re: ThinkPad 600, kernel 2.2.17pre6, and hibernation

2000-07-19 Thread Thomas Hood
This is just to inform ThinkPad 600 users that I have tested the latest kernel, 2.2.17pre6, and can report that SFAICT the hibernation problem has been solved. I forgot to mention in my previous message that I had to make a change to /etc/apm/apmd_proxy in order to get suspend and hibernate

Re: ippp0 error

2000-07-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:23:16PM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: in general i've no problem connecting to the internet via isdn. but 3 days ago i've reintalled my debian system and now i can't establish a connection. [...] but ifconfig shows only eth0 and no ippp0 interface [...] isdnctrl dial

Problems compiling kernel...

2000-07-19 Thread Jason Quigley
Hi! I am getting the following errors while trying to compile a 2.2.16 kernel and modules: = = = make -C net CFLAGS=-Wall

Re: Problems compiling kernel...

2000-07-19 Thread Gary Hennigan
Jason Quigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am getting the following errors while trying to compile a 2.2.16 kernel and modules: = = =

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