Re: plpgsql function

2000-11-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:24:19AM -0300, Lamas Osvaldo wrote: Hello!! I'm an Argentine programmer,so please ,excuse me if my english is very poor. I have a lot of questions.I was working whith Store Procedures,more exactly with plpgsql language. I need to know if it is posible,where can

Re: Newbie question

2000-11-07 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Tuesday 07 November 2000 14:49, Sreeni R. Nair wrote: Hi: I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and apt. Is there any available document or URL that compares rpm with the above tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any help is much appreciated. The hardest

Re: Newbie question

2000-11-07 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:49:39PM -0500, Sreeni R. Nair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi: I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and apt. Is there any available document or URL that compares rpm with the above tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any help is much

Re: plpgsql function

2000-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:24:19AM -0300, Lamas Osvaldo wrote: I have a lot of questions.I was working whith Store Procedures,more exactly with plpgsql language. I need to know if it is posible,where can I found a complete reference of this language. I find the postgresql-sql mailing list

Re: Vim's background colour

2000-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks to everybody who replied. Vim's syntax highlighting is working correctly now. Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336 / 023 55 11 568 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. John

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:46:05AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Exactly the same as here. See a thread some time ago on telnet not finding localhost... We founf no solution to the problem at that time. Try: telnet localhost 80 This is what I get here: telnet: could not

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:06:54AM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: Can you 'ping localhost' successfully? Else look at /etc/network/interfaces, the loopback interface must be active (uncommented). Yes, I can 'ping localhost' successfully and the only active line in /etc/network/interfaces seems

Re: Email questions

2000-11-07 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:11:11PM -, thus spake Richard Taylor: Hi, Is there a way that I can copy the archives of mail I have received using a Windoze client into a linux mail prog? I have no intentions of using the Windows client, which BTW is Pegasus, much anymore, and would not

Re: [debian-user] GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-07 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: Hi! --[Andy Bastien]--[EMAIL PROTECTED] --[Rüdiger Kuhlmann] I have a GeForce2 MX, but I still don't get 3D running. At first, kdm crashes unless there is also an libGL.so.1 pointing to the _old_ libGL.so. You

Re: tnt2 vanta and dell 21

2000-11-07 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Anders Lennartsson wrote: It seems Andy responded to a question by Anders Lennartsson: There are those who would have you believe that Anders Lennartsson wrote: Hi I'm trying to configure X on a PII 300 Mhz dual proc with a Creative TNT2

Re: latex question

2000-11-07 Thread Paul Huygen
Manuel Hendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by myself. Can anyone give me a hint. I don't know about g-brief, but the brief class (in package ntgclass) enables titled

Re: XFree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: mheyes writes: Hi, I upgraded XFree86 yesterday to 4.0.1 and had several problems in WindowMaker with the color mapping, ie can't find black, white etc and I'd like to go back to 3.3.6 for awhile until things settle down. I downgraded xserver-common, removed the new xserver for 4.0.1,

Re: sed question (bibtex problem)

2000-11-07 Thread Brian May
Daniel == Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel It should work from command line using bash's multiline Daniel input capability (with the '). It checks for % at the end Daniel of lines (hence the $), then reads the next line into the Daniel buffer and then removes the

Re: latex question

2000-11-07 Thread Paul Huygen
Manuel Hendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by myself. Can anyone give me a hint. I don't know about g-brief, but the brief class (in package ntgclass) enables titled

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-07 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:24:23PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: interesting, replacing it with the same version. Odd. Same here with gmc -- after an 'apt-get --compile source gmc' another 'apt-get upgrade' will replace my newly compiled

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-07 Thread Brian May
Joachim == Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joachim Same here with gmc -- after an 'apt-get --compile source Joachim gmc' another 'apt-get upgrade' will replace my newly Joachim compiled package with the same version. I guess (from my experience) that if the version

Re: HELIX and potato

2000-11-07 Thread Rob Hudson
If I installed helix gnome in this way, and have since put the helix stuff in my sources file and have been getting updates from them, is there something else I should do to right it? I've noticed that task-helix-gnome is always held back and never updated. Anderson, Tim TL33E said these

Re: Q: Default bpp resolution 32 in Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Lee Elliott
Marcelo Ramos wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:52:37PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, While I realise you can have many different color depths, I remember reading (but am not sure) that 32bpp is the Linux default... assuing the card supports it. I just want to check if that's so

Using apt-move to share apt-gotten kde2 packages not working.

2000-11-07 Thread Robert Guthrie
Apt-move works great for sources of packages that support rsync, but as far as I can tell, it won't work for deb http://kde.tdyc.com stable kde2 The thing I'm trying to accomplish is this: Using my pathetic 33.6 modem, I apt-get install some packages. After it's installed, I want to have

Re: HELIX and potato

2000-11-07 Thread Hubert Chan
Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I installed helix gnome in this way, and have since put the helix stuff in my sources file and have been getting updates from them, is there something else I should do to right it? I've noticed that task-helix-gnome is always held back and never

Re: joystick

2000-11-07 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:46:54PM -0500, jason lee wrote: hello all, i'm new to linux and i'm trying to get my microsoft sidewinder working under debian 2.2. i've recompiled my kernel with: make menuconfig (enabled joystick support; built-in sidewinder support) make dep make clean make

Re: keyboard configuration

2000-11-07 Thread urbanyon
hi, thanks for the tip. question - is XF86Setup the same as XF86config? On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:22:24PM -0500, Brett Singer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Is there a keyboard configuration program, or a line in the xfconfig file

XFree 4.0.1 and ct65554

2000-11-07 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
After upgrading Friday(?) to XFree 4.0.1, I have been unable to get my xserver working. The chip is a Chips and Technology ct65554 (in a laptop), and the X server crashes hard. I have read what documentation is distributed, but the start up process seems to abort without an error being written

Re: Q: Default bpp resolution 32 in Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Hubert Chan
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I don't think that using 32bpp increases the number of colours that can be used - 32bpp is generally used as 24bpp (8bpp each for RGB) + 8bpp alpha channel. 16bpp is split R=5bpp, G=6bpp B=5bpp. I've seen 36bpp scanners and they do work with

SAMBA_TNG_2_5_GOOD

2000-11-07 Thread Craig Law
Does anyone know whether there is a deb package of Samba_tng_2_5_Good. I've had a quick look through unstable but haven't had any luck finding it. Craig

need help locating a file

2000-11-07 Thread Hubert Chan
This past weekend, I experienced a partial hard-drive crash. I've managed to reinstall and recover most of my stuff, except for one thing. I used to have several fonts, which came with Debian, but I have been unable to figure out what package they are from. The font that I remember was called

Re: Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-07 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:27:16AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to fill you in on my situation. The other day, I had a friend set up one of my computers with Debian. He set it up as my firewall/router, since its main function is just that. I'm mostly a Hardware person, I could

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Joachim == Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joachim Same here with gmc -- after an 'apt-get --compile source gmc' Joachim another 'apt-get upgrade' will replace my newly compiled Joachim package with the same version. Actually, this is by design and the reason the equivs package was

Re: need help locating a file

2000-11-07 Thread iehrenwald
On 7 Nov 2000, Hubert Chan wrote: [snip] what package they are from. The font that I remember was called neep, and the foundry was jmk. Can anyone tell me which package it's in? [snip] apt-get install xfonts-jmk Hubert Ian

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 7 Nov 2000, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Joachim Same here with gmc -- after an 'apt-get --compile source gmc' Joachim another 'apt-get upgrade' will replace my newly compiled Joachim package with the same version. Actually, this is by design and the reason the equivs package was

Re: need help locating a file

2000-11-07 Thread Andre Berger
Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This past weekend, I experienced a partial hard-drive crash. I've managed to reinstall and recover most of my stuff, except for one thing. I used to have several fonts, which came with Debian, but I have been unable to figure out what package they are

Re: need help locating a file

2000-11-07 Thread Hubert Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7 Nov 2000, Hubert Chan wrote: [snip] what package they are from. The font that I remember was called neep, and the foundry was jmk. Can anyone tell me which package it's in? [snip] apt-get install xfonts-jmk Hmm. Seems so obvious. I wonder how I

Off Topic Apache-logging question

2000-11-07 Thread Jeff Green
If anyone is on an Apache list that this seems appropriate to please forward it there or reply to me with the list name, I do not know of one. In my Apache log files with Referrer and User-Agent turned on a significant proportion (around 25%) of the referer logs appear as -. Can anyone tell me

Re: new and needing help

2000-11-07 Thread Kent West
brent morrison wrote: dear kent all of my hard drive is given to mandrake im not sure what version it was they gave me of debian he said it was the newest one out and if it hard to put both on like it is now i can just kill mandrake and install debian i just dont know anything about this

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:58:52AM -0600, Denis Kosygin wrote: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:53:59PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: I tried to put #! /bin/bash --login as the header to my ~/.xsessions file but this did not work. should=20 this

Re: apt download security?

2000-11-07 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:22:29AM +, John Carline wrote: However, I'm not above accepting all the help I can find. Can someone verify the statement below? Or better yet, is the statement wrong? Is there a way to verify the integrity of the downloaded debs? dpkg -p debian-keyring man

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-07 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:39:06PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: * Joachim == Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joachim Same here with gmc -- after an 'apt-get --compile source gmc' Joachim another 'apt-get upgrade' will replace my newly compiled Joachim package with the same

Re: apt download security?

2000-11-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote: Unfortunately, while source packages can be checked quite easily, they are not always verifiable. There is no simple mechanism for verifying debs *at all*. Nor even Packages.gz - and the integrity of Packages.gz isn't actually a guarantee of the

RE: How to burn Linuxcare BBC ?

2000-11-07 Thread Kenrick, Chris
i downloaded iso image of BBC from Linuxcare. I tried to burn file lnx-gold.iso as iso/jolliet image with Cequadrat software. But i doesnt seems to be bootable. I had no problems with it. I'd be checking a couple of things a) did the file download properly? Have you verified the md5sum of the

Re: need help locating a file

2000-11-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
Hubert Chan wrote: This past weekend, I experienced a partial hard-drive crash. I've managed t o reinstall and recover most of my stuff, except for one thing. I used to hav e several fonts, which came with Debian, but I have been unable to figure out what package they are

Re: Off Topic Apache-logging question

2000-11-07 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:38:43PM +, Jeff Green wrote: If anyone is on an Apache list that this seems appropriate to please forward it there or reply to me with the list name, I do not know of one. In my Apache log files with Referrer and User-Agent turned on a significant proportion

Re: D-Link Again!

2000-11-07 Thread W. Paul Mills
Are you sure you have a 530TX and not a 530TX+ They use different drivers. The TX+ uses the rtl8139 (RealTek) driver. Willi Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi Debianers, : i've posted a similar mail a few weeks ago but didn't get : a satisfied answer. so i am going to try it again. : i have

mutt

2000-11-07 Thread John-Mark
I have just installed mutt on my system but cant see how to configure it any help much appreciated jm

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 crashes hard

2000-11-07 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Marcelo Ramos said: Jeremy Hankins wrote: But when I run xinit to test it the the machine crashes hard. Console doesn't respond, no response to pings, etc. I've tried several things: using the vga driver rather than s3virge, taking out some of the modules options that xf86cofig

Re: keyboard configuration

2000-11-07 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:32:58PM -0500, urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:22:24PM -0500, Brett Singer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Is there a keyboard configuration program, or a line in the xfconfig

Re: mutt

2000-11-07 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:21:08AM -, John-Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just installed mutt on my system but cant see how to configure it any help much appreciated jm There are several sample .muttrc files under /usr/doc/mutt. Look at these. Try them out. Modify them to your

Corrupt fonts in X4

2000-11-07 Thread Collin Peters
Debian upgraded X without my desire to do so but after a few struggles I have it all working. Only problem so far is that it seems some fonts are corrupt/missing and I have no idea how to find out which ones. This screenshot ( http://www3.telus.net/cadiolis/fonts_screenie.jpg) shows the

Re: Newbie question

2000-11-07 Thread David Z Maze
Sreeni R Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SRN I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and SRN apt. Is there any available document or URL that compares rpm SRN with the above tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any SRN help is much appreciated. dpkg is sort of like rpm.

RE: MP3 and Floating Point exceptions

2000-11-07 Thread Steven Downing
Do you mean emulate math coprocessor turned on? No I don't. The Gimp works fine, as does everything else, bzflag, svgalib quake, and anything else I threw at it. apt-cache show tells me that the only other package they all rely on is libc6 (currently ver. 2.1.3-10 on my machine) Only other clue

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-11-07 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a TNT2 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III. Quake 3 runs fine until I try to start a game. It load game media and all that other stuff, but as soon as I go into the real game it dumps

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-11-07 Thread iehrenwald
I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a TNT2 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III. Quake 3 runs fine until I try to start a game. It load game media and all that other stuff, but as soon as I go into the real game it dumps me with a GLX

RE: D-Link Again!

2000-11-07 Thread 李威儒
Are you sure you have a 530TX and not a 530TX+ They use different drivers. The TX+ uses the rtl8139 (RealTek) driver. DFE 530TX has two version, version A and version B. if you use 530TX version A, you can use the drivers included in the kernel I use version B. I compiled the

Re: mutt

2000-11-07 Thread halfdan
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:51:50PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:21:08AM -, John-Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just installed mutt on my system but cant see how to configure it any help much appreciated jm There are several sample .muttrc files

hdparm to increase performance

2000-11-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
In case you guys missed this one, check it out. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/272 I just increased my harddrive throughput by 5 times. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn,

Re: Corrupt fonts in X4

2000-11-07 Thread Rafael A . Schmitt
* Collin Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Debian upgraded X without my desire to do so but after a few struggles I have it all working. Only problem so far is that it seems some fonts are corrupt/missing and I have no idea how to find out which ones. This screenshot (

Thanks everyone! Still problems though.

2000-11-07 Thread Kathy Dusthimer
Thanks everyone!!! Quake 3 runs almost fine now! The only problems I really have are with X. The screen tries to go blank all the time (especially when playing Q3) and when I boot my machine, I have to re-make the NVidia drivers everytime. It doesn't take that long, but if I could get rid

Re: Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

2000-11-07 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
The way emacs sets up the meta key is somewhat a mystery to me. Here is the output on my machine from `xmodmap': xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lockCaps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25),

XFree86 4.0.1 configuration

2000-11-07 Thread Rob Mosher
I just recently installed Debian 2.1r2 and am trying to get everything up and running. I just installed XFree86 4.0.1 off of a CD I have. Everything video card related seems to be working fine, but it's having trouble with my keyboard. Here's what I did: Installed the binary distribution for

Re: Newbie question

2000-11-07 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:07:31PM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: On Tuesday 07 November 2000 14:49, Sreeni R. Nair wrote: Hi: I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and apt. Is there any available document or URL that compares rpm with the above tools (like the

Re: Trouble installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux

2000-11-07 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Thanks for the information. I really need to get this going, and it should be simple(!). I had originally installed the tomcat.deb package, and it required several other packages, one was the ibm-jdk1.1-installer, which sent me to IBM, and there I got the required packages for it. I think

Re: Thanks everyone! Still problems though.

2000-11-07 Thread iehrenwald
Thanks everyone!!! Quake 3 runs almost fine now! The only problems I really have are with X. The screen tries to go blank all the time (especially when playing Q3) and when I boot my machine, I have to re-make the NVidia drivers everytime. It doesn't take that long, but if I could get

newbiedoc.intranets.com

2000-11-07 Thread will trillich
newbiedoc.intranets.com -- the gathering place for newbies documenting linux/debian for newbies -- already has four members. delightful! anybody who wants to pitch in and scribble some notes for future newbies to follow, please join in. http://newbiedoc.intranets.com/ maybe we can

Simple network card problem

2000-11-07 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I can't get my DSL to work, possibly for many reasons, but I'm assuming the first is my network card. I have a 3c509, and for some reason, on bootup the kernel detects it at irq 9 (that's my sound card's irq, which it also detects at 9). The network card is really 10. It tells me that

Re: HELIX and potato

2000-11-07 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Johann, Quoth Johann Spies, Excuse my ignorance, but after reading lynx's man page, I still do not understand what is actually happening in a command like this or let me put it this way: I do not understand how it can help to install helix-gnome or why it has to be run as root. As I

Security

2000-11-07 Thread Vijay Prabakaran
Hi, I have been following the horrifying suggestion thread on the lists and what you say about the go-gnome script makes perfectly good sense. Has anyone talked to Helixcode about the problem? In most distributions all the script does is download the installer and in Debian it just adds

Security

2000-11-07 Thread Vijay Prabakaran
Hi, I have been following the horrifying suggestion thread on the lists and what you say about the go-gnome script makes perfectly good sense. Has anyone talked to Helixcode about the problem? In most distributions all the script does is download the installer and in Debian it just adds

Re: Quake 3 still not running

2000-11-07 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 02:04:57AM -0600, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: It's me again still complaining about Quake 3. I did a fresh install of Debian-potato and then installed the official XFree 4.0.1 .deb packages (I know, its the easy way. .. ) Now, when quake starts up, it gives this as it

Re: To setup display for NeoMagic 256XL on Sony VAIO PCG-XG29

2000-11-07 Thread Mike Brownlow
jimmy sandhar wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know or have done this before, setting up display for Sony VAIO PCG-XG29. Please let me know if so. Thanks and Regards, Uday I also have a PCG-XG29. All you should need to do is have the latest X from unstable installed and to set the video driver

AC97 Sound on Soyo K7VTA

2000-11-07 Thread matthschulz
I just got an Soyo K7VTA. There is an OnBoard sound made with Sigmatel STAC9721T AC 97 CODEC. Has anyone a tip how to set this up? Matth

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