Re: Esta lista

2001-01-14 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola El 13 Jan 2001 a las 12:13PM +0100, José Esteban escribio: Supongo que muchos estaremos de acuerdo en que repasar esta lista, junto al resto a las que uno está suscrito acaba llevandose su buen tiempo. Personalmente, he asumido que es inevitable. En mi opinión debería pensarse en

Re: Problemas raros al arrancar

2001-01-14 Thread Cesar
Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: ¿Como sabes que no puede liberar esa memoria? ¿Te va alguna cosa mal una vez que te da esos avisos/errores? En realidad no,sólo me aparecen dichos mensajes vía mail y xsysinfo y free mantiene marcado el swap,lo que suelo hacer es rearrancar los programas no

Re: Recomendacion RAID hardware.

2001-01-14 Thread Jesus Hellin
Josu Arenas wrote: Voy a instalar un servidor y tengo pensado ponerle una controladora RAID, he mirado en Internet cuales soporta linux pero me gustaria que alguien me recomendase alguna y si ha tenido una buena experiencia con ella en Debian. O alguna direccion web donde hagan

Re: introducir datos en un formulario web con el navegador w3m

2001-01-14 Thread Manuel Jiménez
El sáb, 13 de ene de 2001, a las 03:00:51 -, BPD :-) dijo: tengo una dudilla con respecto al navegador w3m. Cuando intento ir a Yahoo mail para leer el correo, resulta que no puedo introducir mi login y mi passwd en el formulario. Cuando me pongo encima del espacio asignado al login e

/etc/shadow

2001-01-14 Thread Cesar
Nas. Alguien sabría decirme que significa el simbolo ! en el campo contraseña del /etc/shadow ? Tengo dos usuarios con ese campo.Es normal ? Gracias anticipadas. César.

Curiosidad sobre kernel y compilador.

2001-01-14 Thread Juan Ignacio Llona
Hola a todos! Curioseando en las fuentes del kernel 2.4 he visto que al elegir como procesador un Athlon, se hace una prueba de si el compilador de C admite el parámetro 'mcpu=athlon' y si no, lo compila como para un PPro. He probado que el compilador que viene con Potato (gcc 2.95.2) no admite

Acentos, KWord y la Bruja Avería.

2001-01-14 Thread Zephryn Xirdal
Hola a todos y todas Llevo bastante tiempo suscrito al foro, y opero desde una Potato con KDE. Suelo arreglármelas por mi mismo normalmente, y casi siempre lo consigo, consultando documentos, FAQs y demás, pero este problema creo que me supera. Llevo algo así como una semana con un problema de

Re: Ratón de portátil

2001-01-14 Thread Fco. Aguilar
En Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:37:03PM +0100, Faro escribió: On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:51:50AM +0100, Diego Bote wrote: He instalado la Potato en un portátil Fujitsu liteline y todo va bien en principio. Lo único es que el ratón, ese cuadradito sensible al tacto delante del teclado, se

Pregunta sobre imagen ISO debian-i386-1_NONUS

2001-01-14 Thread Francisco Gonzlez Cavero
Quera preguntaros, por si alguien sabe darme una solucin. En el trabajo tengo que instalar unos servidores con Debian y para ello hemos bajado la imagen ISO del primer CD NON-US (que creo que es el que aparece en el asunto) de la revisin 2. El caso es que despus de volcar la imagen a CD e

Re: Pregunta sobre imagen ISO debian-i386-1_NONUS

2001-01-14 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:06:00PM +0100, Francisco González Cavero wrote: Ah, por cierto, y no os riáis mucho de mí, que nunca he administrado un sistema Linux. Una pregunta suelta que ahora me viene a la cabeza: ¿Cómo puedo hacer para programar una tarea que me baje los paquetes por la

Re: Pregunta sobre imagen ISO debian-i386-1_NONUS

2001-01-14 Thread Christian García
El dom 14 ene 2001 21:06:00 GMT, Francisco González Cavero escribió: Ah, por cierto, y no os riáis mucho de mí, que nunca he administrado un sistema Linux. Una pregunta suelta que ahora me viene a la cabeza: ¿Cómo puedo hacer para programar una tarea que me baje los paquetes por la noche y que

Héctor ya es desarrollador :)

2001-01-14 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hola, Que eso, que Héctor ya tiene su cuenta al fín, enhorabuena! -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Rediscovering Freedom, aka Oskuro in|| [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Using Debian GNU/Linux Reinos de Leyenda || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://debian.org

RE: Problemas con netscape y balsa

2001-01-14 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Jon Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian-user-spanish debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: miércoles 10 de enero de 2001 20:16 Asunto: RE: Problemas con netscape y balsa [...] Por cierto ¿para compilar la versión 0.9.0 es necesario actualizar también

¿Interfaz web para wordtrans?

2001-01-14 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Buenas. Como ya sabeis estoy desarrollando ahora mismo un programa llamado wordtrans que es un front-end de varios diccionarios. Pues bien, la versión gráfica usa internamente html, y esta tarde se me ha ocurrido añadirle una opción a la versión para consola para que saque ese html por la salida

Re: /etc/shadow

2001-01-14 Thread Miquel
El domingo, 14 ene 2001, a las 17:13, Cesar contaba: Nas. Alguien sabría decirme que significa el simbolo ! en el campo contraseña del /etc/shadow ? Tengo dos usuarios con ese campo.Es normal ? es normal, simplemente es el resultado de haber creado esas usuarios con la opcion

NEWALIASES PROBLEM.

2001-01-14 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hej! FÖrsökte updatera min alias fil med newaliases här om dagen. Dock fick jag ett meddelande om att filen /usr/lib/smail/mkalias inte hittar /usr/lib/smail/getopt. Vad gör jag då? Har den trots detta updaterat filen eller måste jag först installera något? Vad i så fall? /Anders. /usr/

[no subject]

2001-01-14 Thread thx1984
All Existe um aplicativo no debian que consiste em simplificar os scripts de inicializacao, os arquivos rcX.d. O problema eh que eu nao me lembro do nome do aplicativo. Por acaso alguem tem alguma ideia do nome do programa !?! Sei que a pergunta esta meio vaga !! [

Re: your mail

2001-01-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nome do aplicativo. Por acaso alguem tem alguma ideia do nome do programa O nome do pacote é file-rc -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where

Re: your mail

2001-01-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva \(KoV\)
Topico eh sempre bom =) concorda comigo hmh? On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 02:06:01PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nome do aplicativo. Por acaso alguem tem alguma ideia do nome do programa existem alguns comandos que me ajudam muito quando sei o

problema com o mutt

2001-01-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
Aí pessoal, Depois de um dist-upgrade que eu dei há um tempo, sempre que eu vejo uma mensagem no mutt, os acentos aparecem estranhos, como no caso abaixo: FELIZ ANO NOVO!! Primeiro as not\355cias pt =). Todo acento aparece assim, como uma sequência de contrabarra e 3 números. Como eu poderia

Re: problema com o mutt

2001-01-14 Thread Lalo Martins
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:09:34PM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote: Aí pessoal, Depois de um dist-upgrade que eu dei há um tempo, sempre que eu vejo uma mensagem no mutt, os acentos aparecem estranhos, como no caso abaixo: Laviola, há um tempo é vago :-P será que vc pegou a transição para o

RealPlayer installer problem

2001-01-14 Thread JC Portlock
Hello to the group. I'm not currently a subscriber, but do have a question. I recently upgraded for the latest/greatest. Am running potato 2.2.14. All went well with the update except for the RealPlayer install. The installer came as part of the upgrade, but the program has to be retrieved

Re: Missing tty2-6

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
Tim Wood wrote: I have Debian 2.2 with Helix-Gnome/icewm running on my desktop (BE6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 128MB PC133 RAM) but only have tty1 and tty7/X. On my laptop tty1-6 (P2-233 64MB RAM) show as processes but on my desktop only tty1 and I cannot switch to any other. My family is used to

Re: RealPlayer installer problem

2001-01-14 Thread David Steinberg
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, JC Portlock wrote: The installer is set up for rp7, but the only version currently available is rp8. I could not fool the installer by renaming the app. The filename called for is: rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm Is this available anywhere? Or is there some way to

Re: RealPlayer installer problem

2001-01-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:14:35PM -0800, JC Portlock wrote: Hello to the group. I'm not currently a subscriber, but do have a question. I recently upgraded for the latest/greatest. Am running potato 2.2.14. All went well with the update except for the RealPlayer install. The

Re: RealPlayer installer problem

2001-01-14 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
JC Portlock wrote: installer is set up for rp7, but the only version currently available is rp8. I could not fool the installer by renaming the app. The filename called for is: rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm Is this available anywhere? Or is there some way to slap the installer around

Re: How to get Woody on an Off-line computer?

2001-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Preben Randhol wrote: I guess apt-setup will have to be updated to handle this ? Now it only gives you the choice between stable and unstable. It already has been. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/packages/base-configgrep testing apt-setup.templates Choices: stable, unstable, testing -- see shy jo

Re: 386-4 MB startup question

2001-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
DSC Lithuania wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion on what I can do to get this system up and running? I am hoping to get this successfully installed on the computer that hasn't run before, because that becomes an increase in our assets without additional risk. Have you thought about

Re: Additional PHP Modules?

2001-01-14 Thread Harlan Crystal
I've been wondering this myself. I needed to code some spell checking functionality, and using the built in pspell() and aspell() functions from the PHP modules seemed alot cleaner than piping through ispell. I was about to install the packages for these modules when I realized that they,

Re: Answering machine software?

2001-01-14 Thread kmself
on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:30:52PM -0500, David B . Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To quote kmself@ix.netcom.com, # Odd, never noticed this, but there's no 'mgetty' in Unstable. No # mgetty-voice either. I have mgetty-docs, but that's just about it. Any # thoughts? # # Um: # #

Re: Desktopless StarOffice for 486?

2001-01-14 Thread Steve R. Hastings
I have a 486 with less than 1 GB total HDD space (on three HDDs). Is there still an older, smaller, desktop-free version of StarOffice around? I'd actually mainly need the StarWriter component. I suggest you look at AbiWord. It is small and fast, and it would be my first choice on a 486.

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-14 Thread Steve R. Hastings
You should try apt-get install gdm. gdm is the gnome equivalent of xdm. Thanks! I did that, and it's working great. It took care of un-installing xdm, too! I also solved the 60 Hz problem. I had read through the Xfree86 documentation quickly, and I read that with 4.x you don't have to

Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Kristian Rink
Hello there... ...can anyone give me a help by posting me the patch that makes NVIDIA's kernel module driver build with 2.4.0? By now I only found an url for this on linuxgames.com but it seems the site is down, at least I can't get there, right now... :(( Thanks for your help, have a nice

Re: New Gimp 1.2 in pool is...?

2001-01-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Rogerio Brito wrote: On Jan 12 2001, Jonathan Gift wrote: In other words, short of compiling, has someone done a deb? Yes. Helix/Ximian gnome has one compiled for potato, it seems. Thanks, but I assume that's using Ximian Gnome? Or, as my case, you can use it without there setup?

re: default route

2001-01-14 Thread Matt Chipman
Thanks for all the replies everybody, the problem is still there, and whatever route i put in /etc/network/interfaces still doesnt apply at boot. I am thinking maybe i have to have a package installed that makes the route stick?? I am using a custom install of potatoe Is there something route

Q: Unstable Gimp 1.2 work Potato GTK upgrade?

2001-01-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, The quest to build Gimp 1.2 on a potato system is getting pretty involved with an assorted half-dozen packages to build before attempting it. I know Gimp 1.2 needs libgtk 1.2.8 and 1.2.7 comes with potato. If I upgrade the libgtk, would the unstable/sid binary work or it depends on newer

Re: Can't talk to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread Sebastiaan
HI, you can try to do as user: $ mesg y It could be that you have your messages turned off. Greetz, Sebastian On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Kent West wrote: I'm trying to get talk to work and can't. It started out with me trying to talk from my Debian box to a friend's Mandrake box. After that

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Kent Nyberg
I have tried to run 2.4.0 with that patch from you are talking about. It just dont work. I have crashed my system about a million times with it. X just wont start, it just crash the computer. You could try it, but dont get angry when it crashes your system, i have warned you now :) But please

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le dim, 14 jan 2001 11:56:40, Kent Nyberg a écrit : I have tried to run 2.4.0 with that patch from you are talking about. It just dont work. I have crashed my system about a million times with it. X just wont start, it just crash the computer. You could try it, but dont get angry when it

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
There you are, have a lot of fun Romain Kristian Rink wrote: Hello there... ...can anyone give me a help by posting me the patch that makes NVIDIA's kernel module driver build with 2.4.0? By now I only found an url for this on linuxgames.com but it seems the site is down, at least I

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
I've used that patch for a while now and no problems with it, though X needed some tweaking (it's X 4.0.2 BTW). If you want/need help, please send your X log files (/var/log/XFree86.0.log) and some kernel info... regards, Romain PS: thanks for pointing out that the patch is NOT

fvwm95: error in loading shared libraries

2001-01-14 Thread Gary Jones
I've just installed X and am getting this error on typing startx: fvwm95: error in loading shared libraries libXpm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory What I've done is to install X 3.3.3.2 + fvwm95 from my CD-ROM and then installed the X 3.3.6 binaries

Re: fvwm95: error in loading shared libraries

2001-01-14 Thread David Purton
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Gary Jones wrote: I've just installed X and am getting this error on typing startx: fvwm95: error in loading shared libraries libXpm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory What I've done is to install X 3.3.3.2 + fvwm95 from my

Re: fvwm95: error in loading shared libraries

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
here's what I got in /usr/X11R6/lib with a dpkg -S libXpm.so.4 xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4.11 xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.11 xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 HTH Romain Gary Jones wrote: I've just installed X and am getting this

Xfree86 4.02?

2001-01-14 Thread William Leese
Hello all, does anyone know where i can apt-get Xfree 4.02? I tried installing 4.01 however i ended up with a broken X, i believe that was due to the lack of an X_server but i'm not certain. Has anyone has previously installed 4.01 (or preferably 4.02) succesfully that can tell me how to do

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Kristian Rink
And Kent Nyberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] gave word to the following thoughts: Hello there... Thanks for your hints. :)) -|X just wont start, it just crash the computer. Hmmm... by now I managed to get + install the patch, and now I am running X on the 2.4.0... did a few tests, like, xawtv, some mpleg

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Kristian Rink
And Romain Lerallut [EMAIL PROTECTED] gave word to the following thoughts: -|There you are, -|have a lot of fun -| Thanks! :))) Installed it already, works fine. :)) Bye, Kris -- These outrageous events break through the peaceful silence. Into a fragile community enters madness, insanity...

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Kristian Rink
And Romain Lerallut [EMAIL PROTECTED] gave word to the following thoughts: -|I've used that patch for a while now and no problems with it, though X -|needed some tweaking (it's X 4.0.2 BTW). Ooops... I'm running 4.0.1 and it is also fine with this one, even the accelerated stuff works great, by

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Casey Webster
www.nvidia.com, click on support, then drivers, then linux On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Kristian Rink wrote: Hello there... ...can anyone give me a help by posting me the patch that makes NVIDIA's kernel module driver build with 2.4.0? By now I only found an url for this on linuxgames.com but it

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
Casey Webster wrote: www.nvidia.com, click on support, then drivers, then linux Well, no... The driver won't compile with kernel 2.4. Romain

Re: Answering machine software?

2001-01-14 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Well, get them from potato. I don't think there will be any problem. David B. Harris wrote: To quote kmself@ix.netcom.com, # Odd, never noticed this, but there's no 'mgetty' in Unstable. No # mgetty-voice either. I have mgetty-docs, but that's just about it. Any # thoughts? # # Um: #

Building a kernel

2001-01-14 Thread William Leese
Hello all, i wish to build a kernel but i've read somewhere that things cant be done quite the same way as with other (rpm-based) distros because it would confuse apt-get. can someone fill me in on this or point me to some debian specific documentation? William Leese

Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Debians! I want to buy a new computer. My old one is a five year old P100. I want to set up a little debian network: The new server -- the old P100 -- a SUN LX as XTerminal -- a not yet bought notebook -- and a 486 as router for the internet or second X-Terminal for the kids (games!). I

Re: why use Debian?

2001-01-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 03:00:22PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: ... Hey, it's nice to know that at least some of the people I talk to aren't half my age (and able to run circles around me on Linux :( ). Some of these stories get interesting. I'm waiting for someone to pipe up that has been

Re: 386-4 MB startup question

2001-01-14 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! The Parity Check message could be the result of bad memory, but I don't think so, instead I think that this computer is infected by the parity boot b virus, which does nothing bad except of halting the system sometimes and displaying this message... you can clean your computer with f-prot,

Re: Linux 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-14 Thread pplaw
Michael Madden wrote: I'd written yesterday describing problems with linux 2.4.0, Debian 2.2 R2, and NE2000/3C509 NICS. Thanks for all the help! The working solution was to download and install the new modutils package from:

Re: emu10k1 module

2001-01-14 Thread Martin Albert
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Anthony Fox wrote: I have auto module loading compiled into my kernel. How do I specify that when an application attempts to access the sound hardware that the kernel should install the emu10k1 module into the running kernel? Right now, the kernel installs the soundcore

Re: buggy vesa framebuffer.

2001-01-14 Thread Martin Albert
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Kent Nyberg wrote: I compiled the kernel with vesa framebuffer and edited lilo to: vga=0x301 append=console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2 ... But when i for exempel, do an 'ls' in a dir with lots of things in it.. then the framebuffer gets buggish.. (dont know how to

Re: Building a kernel

2001-01-14 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, you can do it with ordinary make menuconfig; make dep; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install, but there is a 'debian' way. Here it is: # apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17 kernel-package libc6-dev bin86 libncurses5-dev gcc fakeroot dpkg-dev bzip2 add tk8.2-dev if you want to

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, dual processor systems are only really usefull when they have to perform several tasks parallel. Unless your kids are planning to play heavy games (if there are heavy games for X) a simple single processor system will do fine. I think you will do better investing in much memory, because

How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread Denzil Kelly
I want to add gmc to one of my windowmaker menus, however, I've not been able to get it done. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Re: RealPlayer installer problem

2001-01-14 Thread Dale Morris
This worked for me, probably *not* the right way to do it, but I renamed the file to end in .rpm and used alien -i [filename] and it installed and is working. JC Portlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to the group. I'm not currently a subscriber, but do have a question. I recently

Re: New Gimp 1.2 in pool is...?

2001-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin Watson wrote: lftp ftp.debian.org:/debian/pool/main/g/gimp1.2 cat gimp1.2_1.2.0-1.dsc [...] Build-Depends: aalib1-dev, libglib1.2-dev, libgtk1.2-dev, libgtkxmhtml-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libmpeg-dev, libpng2-dev, xpm4g-dev, zlib1g-dev,

Re: Where libgtk 1.2.8 on ftp.debian.org?

2001-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin Watson wrote: URL:ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gtk+1.2/. It won't install cleanly on your potato box, though; stick with the older version if possible, otherwise build the newer one from source. I tried compiling and got an error straight

Re: How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
Denzil Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to add gmc to one of my windowmaker menus, however, I've not been able to get it done. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? Have a look at /usr/share/doc/menu/html/index.html, installing the menu package if you don't have it already. Actually, I

Re: New Gimp 1.2 in pool is...?

2001-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, this is invaluable. To the best of your knowledge though, I have the right versions of the above on potato and what I need from unstable or sid is: gimp 1.2 gimp extras libgtk 1.2.8 libgtk-dev 1.2.8 I

Re: GDM dont work

2001-01-14 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 07:07:36PM +0100, Olivier Billet wrote: Hi all, I've the folowing issue : when I loggin under gdm I blinks like it's going to launch a window manager, but it dont do anything and then goes back to the login prompt. I tried

Re: fvwm95: error in loading shared libraries

2001-01-14 Thread Gary Jones
On 14 Jan 2001, David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Gary Jones wrote: Who stole libXpm.so.4?!? on my machine this file is contained in the package xpm4g Yes, on mine too. I had the package installed but the file was nowhere to be seen. I've removed and then

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Sean
The first computer I ever got was a home assembled dual Pentium Pro machine. At the time all I could afford was one processor, but a year or so later I got a second. Ever since that time I've been completely hooked on SMP. The second machine I got, and the one I currently use as my main machine

running xconfig

2001-01-14 Thread Brendon
when opening an xterminal in kde2 and attempting to run make xconfig in /usr/src/kernel-source-x.y.z/ i get the following error: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display :0 i've

Re: KDE packages?

2001-01-14 Thread Olaf Foellinger
* Rob Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] [14.01.01 08:48]wrote: Is there another place to get KDE packages besides kde.tdyc.com? That site appears to be down. Does anyone know why it's down, or when/if it'll come back up? I thought I remembered hearing something about the site disappearing because tha

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread matthew
On 14 Jan, Romain Lerallut wrote: There you are, have a lot of fun WOW! Thank you very much for posting that patch - I can finally get to play games now. I have never been able to get the drivers to compile under the 2.4 kernels and have never been able to get my mits on that patch so many

Re: How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread Denzil Kelly
It does handle menu entries for things I install with apt-get. When I initially installed potato, gmc appeared under the tools menu in WindowMaker. I recently installed helix, however gmc is no longer available via the tools menu in WindowMaker. I can only launch it from the command line. ---

Re: Xfree86 4.02?

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
The debs are in debian/pool: you can get them by adding unstable to your apt sources list (apt-setup will do it fine for you). I did it by hand, because I didn't want to change my apt settings, the files I got are: libfreetype6_2.0.1-1.debxserver-common_4.0.2-1_i386.deb

NIS /NIS+ problem

2001-01-14 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao, I have inherit 20 pc client + 1 server RH 6.2 under NIS+. Slowly, I want to switch to Debian 2.2, starting from the client. I have upgraded :-) 2 client to 2.2, but I can't login as nis user (that exist on nis server) The problem is that under 2.2 there is no nis+, but only nis. Are they

Help: Missing Helix-Gimp 1.2 files where?

2001-01-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I dl the Ximian Gimp 1.2 and in the suggested list were tw debs that were not there. Though the rest were and Gimp 1.2 started up witout a fuss. Where could I find these? First place I checked was potato... libz1 libxpm4 Doing an apt-get -d install I get xpm4g is the newest version and

Re: running xconfig

2001-01-14 Thread Casey W. Liscum
Are you su'ing to root to do the kernel build? If so, make sure you're allowing local connections to your X server. This should work: $ xhost +local: Then su and make sure your DISPLAY environment variable is set to :0. Brendon writes: when opening an xterminal in kde2 and attempting to run

Xft in XFree 4.0.2

2001-01-14 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, I tried to compile xfree-4.0.2 (using the src-packages) on potato but could not get lib/Xft compiled. I have freetype2 version 1.3.1 installed, but lots of the freetype types like FT_Library are not defined in /usr/include/freetype. Any hints? MfG bmg -- Des is völlig

Re: How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:24:20AM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: I want to add gmc to one of my windowmaker menus, however, I've not been able to get it done. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? Edit /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu The syntax is explained in the file.

Re: How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
Denzil Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does handle menu entries for things I install with apt-get. When I initially installed potato, gmc appeared under the tools menu in WindowMaker. I recently installed helix, however gmc is no longer available via the tools menu in WindowMaker. I can only

Re: running xconfig

2001-01-14 Thread William Leese
i was. tried: $ xhost +local: but it gives the same error. how do i add an environment variable and to which file? (~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile?) On Sunday 14 January 2001 17:30, Casey W. Liscum wrote: Are you su'ing to root to do the kernel build? If so, make sure you're allowing

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:56:27AM -0500, Sean wrote: The main drawbacks to SMP, in my mind, are the additional cost (which I really don't think is much of a drawback because I think you get significantly better performance ... but others would probably disagree), The big question on

Re: KDE packages?

2001-01-14 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Huh? I'm not playing with testing, so that would mean I wouldn't get kde updates. Not sure that makes any sense. Last I heard, Ivan was leaving 2.01 and allowing potato users to pull down 2.1 unstable with single addition of 'beta' to sources list. On Sunday 14 January 2001 07:59, Olaf

Re: How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:55:00PM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:24:20AM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: I want to add gmc to one of my windowmaker menus, however, I've not been able to get it done. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? Edit

Re: New Gimp 1.2 in pool is...?

2001-01-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Colin Watson wrote: I too would be worried about using woody apps on my potato system, but the helix gimp file name did end in potato even though in woody directory. Like I said earlier, I aded it and the new libgtk 1.2.8 all as debs and everything seems to work All my gtk apps are running and so

Re: SVGA server

2001-01-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:24:07PM -0500, marty razorback wrote: I have installed potato from a CD. The SVGA server does not install (I have tried several times.) I know it exsits on the CD. I have a Trident 975 AGP video card. Can anyone tell me how to install the SVGA server, either

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rescue disk doesn't support soundblaster

2001-01-14 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. I know this has come up before, but I'm really confused. I have a soundblaster 16 CD ROM, but the rescue disk doesn't support this. I have read all the documentation that came with the debian distro 2.2r2 as well as the documentation on the debian.org web site, and the CD ROM HOWTO at

Cross-Platform Development?

2001-01-14 Thread Andreas Gartus
Hi Everybody! I plan to develop a little GUI application (GPLed of course ;-) using Debian/GNU-Linux as primary development environment. Unfortunately the app also has to run on Windoze... :-(( Does anybody have experience developing such cross-platform apps? Can you recommend a language or a

iptables problem

2001-01-14 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, I'm running unstable with a custom built linux-2.4.0. I'm trying to setup a firewall rule with iptables the following way: iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 5865 -j REJECT The error message I get is: ipchains: Protocol not available If I chage REJECT to DROP everything works

Re: running xconfig

2001-01-14 Thread David B . Harris
To quote William Leese [EMAIL PROTECTED], # i was. # tried: # # $ xhost +local: # # but it gives the same error. In order for 'xhost' to work, you have to be the user who started to X session; so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xhost +local [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make xconfig

Re: Can't talk to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
Sebastiaan wrote: HI, you can try to do as user: $ mesg y It could be that you have your messages turned off. Greetz, Sebastian Sorry; meant to include that in my list of specs. Already tried that; no difference. Thanks anyway. On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Kent West wrote: I'm trying to

Re: Can't talk to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Kent West wrote: My /etc/inetd.conf file looks like: . . . talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.talkd #off# ntalk dgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd . . . Is #off# in front of the ntalk

Re: iptables problem

2001-01-14 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Igor Khavkine wrote: Hi, I'm running unstable with a custom built linux-2.4.0. I'm trying to setup a firewall rule with iptables the following way: iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 5865 -j REJECT The error message I get is: ipchains: Protocol not available If I chage REJECT to

Xemian Gimp 1.2 works-Thanks all-Final Q...

2001-01-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, The Xemian gimp 1.2 seems to have done the trick. I have a few doubts though... 1. Even though in the woody directory on Xemian the file name for the deb ends in potato. I assume that this was compiled for potato then. 2. Either way, just upgrading libgtk1.2.7 to libgtlk1.2.8 and gimp1.04

Re: Cross-Platform Development?

2001-01-14 Thread Jason K. Fritcher
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Andreas Gartus wrote: I plan to develop a little GUI application (GPLed of course ;-) using Debian/GNU-Linux as primary development environment. Unfortunately the app also has to run on Windoze... :-(( Does anybody have experience developing such cross-platform apps? Can

Re: running xconfig

2001-01-14 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, for having authorization you must not have suid in the xsession. you can build the kernel as user, and when finished, su to root and do make modules_install and install arch/i386/boot/bzImage. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Brendon wrote: when opening an xterminal in kde2 and

Re: Software for making phone calls?

2001-01-14 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Anthony Campbell wrote: Any software for Linux to let you make phone calls via the computer? Plate of Shrimp...well maybe you didn't see 'Repo Man' a seminal moment of film making... There was just an article in Linux Journal regarding this, tricky reading for me anyway, but the writer,

Re: How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread Denzil Kelly
Thanks for all the advice. I just decided to dock the app instead of putting it in the menu. Now I'll just have to find a nice icon for it. --- Denzil Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does handle menu entries for things I install with apt-get. When I initially installed potato, gmc appeared

audio filesystem

2001-01-14 Thread MrHobbit420
I am having trouble mounting audio filesystem in my CD-RW. probably specifying the file system might solve the problem. iso9660 filesystem is not accepted. Do you know if audio cd's has a special filesystem name that might work? thanks

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