Re: Podeis ver peliculas de cd-rom en formato divx

2001-04-14 Thread 31
José Pérez wrote: Cómo soy un temeroso de linux, pues quisiera saber si lo que he instalado ya desde escomposlinux.org traerá problemas con lo que dices tu que se ha de hacer (y con un posterior apt-get dist-upgrade). Vamos, que si descomprimo todo lo que dices, lo instalo y tal, tendré

Re: GnuPG [Firma pgp]

2001-04-14 Thread Luis Arocha data
Y el sábado 14 de abril, Toni B escribió: El programa que uso para el correo es el Kmail i la firma gpg la he generado de la siguiente manera: gpg --gen-key # aca le he dejado todos los valores por defecto (1) DSA y ElGamal (por defecto) La longitud por defecto es de 1024

Re: Problemas al apagar el PC

2001-04-14 Thread Manuel Clos
David wrote: Tengo el Windows Me y cuando me dirijo a apagar el sistema en el menu INICIO hace un amago de apagarse pero se me queda encendido y tengo que apagarlo dejando calcado el boton de apagar.Luego al iniciar me hace el scandisk por apagarlo mal y no se de que puede ser.Agradeceria

Re: PSPS - SPSS

2001-04-14 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Hay un programa para realizar cálculos estadísticos que se llama R. No entiendo de eso, pero dicen que es muy bueno. En el sitio home (que ahora no recuerdo, pero no creo que sea difícill dar con él en google) hay paquetes para Debian. Creo que también corre en Win, aunque no estoy seguro. En la

nose

2001-04-14 Thread javiermf
prueba

Re: Problemas al apagar el PC

2001-04-14 Thread Santiago Vila
No sabia que se resolviesen preguntas de ventanucos en esta lista... En esta lista hay gente que sabe de todo, pero eso no es motivo para preguntar cosas sobre ventanucos. Por favor, busca una lista sobre ventanucos y reservemos esta lista para hablar de Debian.

¿Cómo empezar con ncurses?

2001-04-14 Thread Dani
¿Alguien podría indicarme alguna dirección donde pueda encontrar ejemplos básicos de cómo utilizar la librería de ncurses?. Tengo la traducción de Escribir programas con Ncurses (original de Eric S. Raymond y Zeyd M. Ben-Hamlim) y he estado mirando las páginas del manual, pero necesitaría

Pine y Mutt

2001-04-14 Thread Josep
Malgrat de Mar, 14/04/2001 a les 13:59:04. Hola a todo el mundo! Tengo, para variar, un par de dudas, y agradecería un par de empujones... (con cariño, eso sí... ;-) ¿Mutt precisa, en un ordenador que no está en red y tiene un servidor smtp remoto en internet, de otro programa

Re: Problemas al apagar el PC

2001-04-14 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On sáb, abr 14, 2001 at 01:19:40 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: En esta lista hay gente que sabe de todo, pero eso no es motivo para preguntar cosas sobre ventanucos. Por favor, busca una lista sobre ventanucos y reservemos esta lista para hablar de Debian. Concretando al ilustre Santiago :) :

Re: Pine y Mutt

2001-04-14 Thread Luis Arocha data
Y el sábado 14 de abril, Josep escribió: Tengo, para variar, un par de dudas, y agradecería un par de empujones... (con cariño, eso sí... ;-) ¿Mutt precisa, en un ordenador que no está en red y tiene un servidor smtp remoto en internet, de otro programa para mandar correo?

Re: Poner la Potato en cristiano

2001-04-14 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Esta, como ya comenté en un correo anterior, en el paquete user-es. Vale para ajustar el sistema y configurar los ficheros necesarios para que éste quede localizado. Lee la documentación que le acompaña :) Javi On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:04:28AM +0200, Carlos Martinez wrote:

Re: Podeis ver peliculas de cd-rom en formato divx

2001-04-14 Thread Monkiki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Vie 13 Abr 2001 01:31, José Pérez escribió: Bueno, a ver si me echáis un cable, please!!! Prueba con avifile-player. A mi me va muy bien. Necesitas unas DLLs de Windows, de modo que te las pillas de la página del programa o te las paso yo

Re: Poner la Potato en cristiano

2001-04-14 Thread Toni B
A Dissabte 14 Abril 2001 05:04, Carlos Martinez va escriure: -Mensaje original- Te olvidaste de comentar el comando `castellano' muy util si se quiere castellanizar el sistema. ¿Para qué vale y en qué paquete está? Carlos -- Lo encontraras en el paquete user-es pero recuerda

Re: Curiosidades

2001-04-14 Thread Monkiki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Vie 13 Abr 2001 15:37, Daniel Payno escribió: Hombre, yo uso mutt, pero te has olvidado de Kmail (lo que no sé es si el Evolution lo soporta) Pozí, KMail funciona muy bien con GPG. Con PGP no lo he probado, pero también dice funcionar :-) -

Re: kde 2.1.1

2001-04-14 Thread Monkiki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Sáb 14 Abr 2001 02:23, Esteban Aguilera escribió: quisiera saber como puedo hacer para instalar kde 2.1.1 si alguien sabe de donde me puedo bajar los paquetes, porque fui al site de kde donde ya tienen los binarios .deb pero son millones de

Re: ¿Es posible instalar Debian desde remoto?

2001-04-14 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:50:15PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: ¿Es posible hacer la instalación TOTALMENTE desde remoto? Hola Carlos ;) Hay un HOWTO por ahí titulado RedHat to Debian HOWTO o algo así. Explicaba como debianizar una Redhat o Suse, a mano. No encuentro el howto por ninguna

Re: SQL

2001-04-14 Thread Monkiki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Vie 13 Abr 2001 15:27, Luis Manuel Asensio Royo escribió: Una pregunta, ¿hay algún sitio en donde comparen el mySQL y el PostgreSQL?. Quiero instalar uno para practicar de cara a programar en un futuro consultas a Oracle. PostgreSQL tiene un

RV: Poner la Potato en cristiano

2001-04-14 Thread Carlos Martinez
mck apunta esto en privado y pide que lo mande a la lista: -Mensaje original- De: mck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: sbado, 14 de abril de 2001 15:41 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: Poner la Potato en cristiano El Vie 13 Abr 2001 02:51, Carlos Martinez escribi: Bueno,

vmlinux enorme

2001-04-14 Thread chupacabra
wenas. resulta que cuando hago el make bzImage me da como resultado un vmlinus ¿no deveria ser vmlinuz? y ocupa 1.6MB y luego me dice el lilo que eso es muy grande. ¿porque es eso? se supone que deveria salirme mas pequeño que el de instalacion que ocupa 900k ¿es porque tengo que poner

Re: vmlinux enorme

2001-04-14 Thread Juan \(Casa\)
chupacabra wrote: ¿alguna sujerencia? Buenas. Si, una sugerencia. Que mires en /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot y ahi encontraras un bzImage, que es el verdadero nucleo. Y otra cosa. Te recomiendo que, despues de hacer el make bzImage, hagas un make install te instalara el nucleo correctamente

Re: Problemas al apagar el PC

2001-04-14 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Manuel Clos wrote: David wrote: Tengo el Windows Me y cuando me dirijo a apagar el sistema en el menu INICIO hace un amago de apagarse pero se me queda encendido y tengo que apagarlo dejando calcado el boton de apagar.Luego al iniciar me hace el scandisk por apagarlo mal y no se de

Re: vmlinux enorme

2001-04-14 Thread Luis Arocha data
Y el sábado 14 de abril, chupacabra escribió: resulta que cuando hago el make bzImage me da como resultado un vmlinus ¿no deveria ser vmlinuz? y ocupa 1.6MB y luego me dice el lilo que eso es muy grande. ¿porque es eso? ¿Tienes instalado bzip2? Si no, no se puede comprimir el

Re: ¿Es posible instalar Debian desde remoto?

2001-04-14 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
On 14 Apr 2001 19:44:29 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:50:15PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: ¿Es posible hacer la instalación TOTALMENTE desde remoto? Hola Carlos ;) Hola Hay un HOWTO por ahí titulado RedHat to Debian HOWTO o algo así. Explicaba como

Re: Pine y Mutt

2001-04-14 Thread Thomas Bliesener
On Sat, Apr, 14, 2001 at 14:02:20 +0200, Josep wrote: ¿Mutt precisa, en un ordenador que no está en red y tiene un servidor smtp remoto en internet, de otro programa para mandar correo? Sí. A mí no me gusta incluir todo en un programa. Te quita mucha flexibilidad. Es la filosofía

desinstalación recursiva de paquetes

2001-04-14 Thread José Luis Fernández Barros
Hola, Hay alguna forma automática de desinstalar un paquete y todos de los que depende, recomienda y sugiere (siempre que ningún otro paquete los necesite). Algo así como lo contrario de la instalación normal de un paquete Debian. Gracias.

Re: Som on-board infernal, argh (asus)

2001-04-14 Thread juliano
Lalo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Pois é gente... comprei uma máquina nova... lindinha, maravilhosa, tou super satisfeito com ela, até minha placa de TV tá funcionando :~) e tem suporte on-board a infravermelho, é só colocar um transceiver (que é bem mais barato que o kit completo).

Exim????

2001-04-14 Thread Ricardo Melo
Olá pessoal, Estou me atrapalhando com a configuração do EXIM , alguem pode me ajudar a fazer a configuração corretamente para eu receber os e-mail pelo fetchmail? Atencisamente, Ricardo Melo.

Re: Exim????

2001-04-14 Thread Itamar Grochowski Rocha
Ricardo Melo escreveu em Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 03:37:13AM +0100: Estou me atrapalhando com a configuração do EXIM , alguem pode me ajudar a fazer a configuração corretamente para eu receber os e-mail pelo fetchmail? Olá Ricardo, para receber e-mails pelo fetchmail não

Novato

2001-04-14 Thread Lúcio
Estou interessado em aprender como se instala o Debian Linux, mas tenho sentido muita dificuldade na instalação. Já tentei várias vezes, mas sempre deixo de selecionar algo que atrapalha a inicialização. Alguém conhece alguma página que ensine passo a passo como instalá-lo ? Se houver, por

Re: Using an alternate XF86Config-4 file

2001-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:40:07PM -0500, Stephen Boulet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How do I tell X to use a config file other than /etc/X11/XFree86-4? From the XFree86(1) man page: -xf86config file Read the server configuration from file. This option will work

Re: Galeon for potato

2001-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:43:57PM -0400, Francois Fayard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I want to try galeon on my Potato+Ximian. I have mozilla from potato, and I've tried to find a deb of galeon. They all depends on xutils (=4.0.1) and I don't want to install XF4. So I try to compile

Best way to run a 2.4 kernel with stable?

2001-04-14 Thread Mark
Is it safe to run a 2.4 kernel with stable? If this is OK then, what is the best way to do it? Should I use Adrian Bunk's stuff to do it? http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html Is this safe or will this cause potential problems? Regards Mark.

Re: Fw: su in X

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:35:12AM -0500, b3 wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:09:35AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: X11 apps should not be run as root, if it requires that its broken. I'd have to agree here - my one exception is Mozilla, which requires one run as root before it'll work

Re: slow shutdown

2001-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:35:38PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi All, I've been playing around with NIS and NFS and now my system hangs for about four minutes on shutdown. It goes along OK until it gets to: Deconfiguring network interfaces: then stalls and after

setting up VNC server on Linux

2001-04-14 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I need to be able to control my friends computer from mine. Telnet doesn't work, and ssh is broken, so I thought VNC would be rad. I am to the point where I can use vncviewer from my Linux to control my windoze box, but that doesn't do much for me. If I run vncserver on my computer,

Re: how to get rid of wwwoffle, leafnode and anaocron

2001-04-14 Thread Register
Personally this is what I normally do ... check inetd.conf to see if there are any services that should not be started ... then check if there are any daemons running using netstat .. you can also check the processes using ps ... another way could possibly be checking in the /etc/rcx.d (where

Re: setting up VNC server on Linux

2001-04-14 Thread Kent West
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I need to be able to control my friends computer from mine. Telnet doesn't work, and ssh is broken, so I thought VNC would be rad. I am to the point where I can use vncviewer from my Linux to control my windoze box, but that doesn't do much for me. If I run

Re: Hepl! I messed up! PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 pacakges

2001-04-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Stan Brown wrote: I just really messed up! I have a stable machine, and i had installed all the PostgreSQL related pa ckages from the stable archive, and all was well. Then I downloaded all the PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 packages from http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/,

Re: setting up VNC server on Linux

2001-04-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
Please set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 colums. on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:34:30PM -0600, Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey, I need to be able to control my friends computer from mine. Telnet doesn't work, and ssh is broken, so I thought VNC would be rad. I am to the

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good. I add her to the audio group, fire up xmms, install kmix and crank everything up. Nothing. kmix shows her card, no problems. xmms is playing, the power's on, the volume is turned up, but we're hearing nothing.

Re: More leafnode woes

2001-04-14 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi As requested my leafnode config file. I also checked the permisions as you suggested and all directories from / var/spool/news downwards are owned by news.news. Looks OK to me - no expert though. One thing that caught me out - if you don't

Pos1 and End keys not working

2001-04-14 Thread Stefan Schwandter
In my up-to-date sid-system the pos1 and the end -keys don't work when i'm using bash or zsh. In other apps, like mc, mutt, vim etc. they work as they should. Does somebody know what's wrong ? regards, Stefan

Re: An intro to Debian website

2001-04-14 Thread Jason Pepas
this sounds like a great idea. it sounds like what you are talking about would be slightly different than Debian newbiedoc, but I was wondering if you had heard of it? http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ It sounds like perhaps this would make a great section at newbiedoc - something like a

PS/2 mouse under X.

2001-04-14 Thread Andrzej Swedrzynski
Hello! Recently I've installed Debian 2.2 potato. I tried to make my mo­ use working under X but I can not. This is Logitech M-S48a PS/2 mouse. It works great under gpm, but doesn't want even to move in X. I selected PS/2 as a mouse protocol and /dev/psaux for device (it works for gpm). What

startx not working, but X does

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Davis
I am running the unstable branch of debian and everything was great until I did an upgrade and then startx broke. I tried downgrading a bunch of packages that I thought were related (including xbase-clients, which created startx). To start X, I can do: $ X $ DISPLAY=:0 kde2 If I do that, than

Email permissions - was Email embarrasment

2001-04-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:14:39PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:22:42PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: Thanks Tim. This helped me to discover that she could see the mail queue using mailq when she is root and not as normal user. Adding her to the group mail seemed to

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-14 Thread Hans
At 04:50 PM 4/13/01 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:16:16PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you post the error to one of the corel newsgroups, you may get some help. Without the error I can't help you, and I'm trying to

Re: i810 woes... please help!

2001-04-14 Thread Phil Moore
Hi Alvin, I am aware of the XF86Com_i810 driver but I have read in several places that this is only needed with XFree86 3.3.5. Apparently though, XFree86 3.3.6 has i810 support built in (certainly the -showconfig option lists the i810). Cheers for the help though! Any other ideas? Phil

Re: startx not working, but X does

2001-04-14 Thread Corey Popelier
If you just did an upgrade today, then you aren't the only person with the problem. However, I suspect its' actually a KDE related problem that's breaking X. I've now reverted to a X/WindowMaker setup until I see some more KDE updates arrive, and X is running fine. As for the cause of the

Re: Email permissions - was Email embarrasment

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I removed her from the group mail by editing the /etc/group file (is there another way of doing this?). gpasswd -d user group -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgphdVaJk0Mla.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PS/2 mouse under X.

2001-04-14 Thread Dieter Schicker
Maybe you should stop gpm before starting X. Dieter --- Andrzej Swedrzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Recently I've installed Debian 2.2 potato. I tried to make my mo­ use working under X but I can not. This is Logitech M-S48a PS/2 mouse. It works great under gpm, but doesn't

Sane and Gimp - way round?

2001-04-14 Thread Glyn Millington
I'm running a Potato system, but with those upgrades necessary in gtk to run the Gimp 1.2 - which is gorgeous. The good news is that I've acquired a scanner - the bad news is that when I try to install the stable version of Sane 1.0.1-1999-10-21-12, I get the message telling me that Sane

Re: CD-RW recommendations

2001-04-14 Thread Robert Voigt
$200 Iomega 4x4x6 USB CD-RW , part number in ad: 31475 Take the iomega, it doesn't have those stupid rebates attached to it. When I came to the US I was amazed how people jump like a dog when the marketing manager says hops, here's a rebate. Fortunately this kind of sales practice is not

Re: Sane and Gimp - way round?

2001-04-14 Thread Robert Voigt
The good news is that I've acquired a scanner - the bad news is that when I try to install the stable version of Sane 1.0.1-1999-10-21-12, I get the message telling me that Sane conflicts with Gimp 1.1 and that Gimp 1,2 provides Gimp 1.1. Is there a way around this? I tried compiling sane

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Robert Voigt
On Saturday 14 April 2001 10:00, Glyn Millington wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good. I add her to the audio group, fire up xmms, install kmix and crank everything up. Nothing. kmix shows her card, no problems. xmms is playing, the power's on, the

Re: My mouse wont work...No X

2001-04-14 Thread Robert Voigt
Connect the mouse to the PS/2 port and put /dev/psaux in your XF86Config. It works fine here.

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c

2001-04-14 Thread Luigi Bianca
after recompiling 2.2.17 (official potato) i cant boot normally, but only with cdrom as rescue. I tried to recompile changing modules in different combination but nothing. Anybody can help? Bye, from Luigi

Re: Best way to run a 2.4 kernel with stable?

2001-04-14 Thread ktb
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:26:46PM +1000, Mark wrote: Is it safe to run a 2.4 kernel with stable? If this is OK then, what is the best way to do it? Should I use Adrian Bunk's stuff to do it? http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html Is this safe or will this cause potential problems?

Re: Installing Windows2K and Red Hat

2001-04-14 Thread Willi Dyck
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:17:58AM -0400, Dan Hutchinson wrote: Hello Debian User's, I know I am using Red Hat and Not Debian, but does somebody know how I can get Windows2000 on the same PC as Red Hat. I currently have Red Hat installed, but when I boot from the Windows2000 CD it bypasses

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 April 2001 10:00, Glyn Millington wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good. I add her to the audio group, fire up xmms, install kmix and crank everything up. Nothing. kmix shows her card, no

Re: Hepl! I messed up! PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 pacakges

2001-04-14 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Apr 14 02:18:40 2001 Oliver Elphick wrote... Stan Brown wrote: I just really messed up! I have a stable machine, and i had installed all the PostgreSQL related pa ckages from the stable archive, and all was well. Then I downloaded all the PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 packages

Re: printer and masqmail (potato r2)

2001-04-14 Thread robin
Andre Berger wrote: * robin [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-13 02:06 +0200: Andre Berger wrote: * robin [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-11 19:02 +0200: Pb1: Printer. (I use lpr and apsfilter) . If I want to print a mail with mutt or a file with xemacs nothing is printed

Re: Best way to run a 2.4 kernel with stable?

2001-04-14 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Apr 14 00:26:46 2001 Mark wrote... Is it safe to run a 2.4 kernel with stable? I'm happliy runing 2.4.3. I did it by geting kernel-package, and fakeroot. The downloading the source from kernel.org. Works great! Lokk in /usr/share/kernel-package for some

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:00:49AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: What are the permissions on /dev/cdrom ? Does chmod a+r /dev/cdrom help? I won't issue that command, since it goes against the Debian way. Like I said, I added her to the audio group. She has rw access to

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:58:00PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: I'm not an expert, but what does dev/cdrom have to do with sound if xmms plays? Make sure you set both master volume and PCM volume higher than zero, and then check what ouput is slected in xmms. Should be OSS, but there may be

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:18:02PM +0200, Hans wrote: Found the problem. As soon as I set up her printcap file with a valid entry, it works fine. Baad Corel... Are you saying that you first need to set up a printing system and then choose a printer in the Photopaint configuration

Re: can't get volume

2001-04-14 Thread Ilya Martynov
I'm not an expert, GM Me neither! but what does dev/cdrom have to do with sound if xmms plays? GM Fair enough! Sorry for wasting everyone's time (not mine, I learned GM something) ;-( AFAIK if you play misic from music CD permissions on /dev/cdrom does matters. Actually permissions not

unstable xdm problem

2001-04-14 Thread Cian Cullinan
OK, here's the story: I have 3 boxes connected to a network, which for the most part is made up of FreeBSD machines. I recently installed debian potato on them, and that went more or less smoothly. However, I want them to have the Chooser come up, after they boot, so that a +user can have

how to avoid the X windiws login?

2001-04-14 Thread Duser
Well everytime i make X windows work on my pc on a debian installation the next login i'm forced to have a graphic login (on tty7)wich leads me directly to a working windows system (even if at installation time i told the system not to set xdm to give me the grph login), as you can imagine i'm

Re: setting up VNC server on Linux

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:16:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I've never been able to figure out how to get the vncserver to act like a regular X server, serving both the local display and the remote display. Instead, I've only been able to get the regular X server to serve the local display,

Re: An intro to Debian website

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:43:49PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: In particular, I think Debian is missing a broad introduction, something that would be read prior to the installation guide, and a now what guide to follow the installation. Some of the things to include in the intro would be:

Re: CD-RW recommendations

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:48:27PM -0400, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: On Friday 13 April 2001 22:23, D-Man wrote: I think my desktop qualifies as cheap ($, I only paid ~$400) because I bought some parts and kept some others. It is a Duron 750 with 128MB RAM. If I get that drive I will get the

Re: slow shutdown

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:35:38PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: Hi All, I've been playing around with NIS and NFS and now my system hangs for about four minutes on shutdown. It goes along OK until it gets to: Deconfiguring network interfaces: then stalls and after four minutes shuts down

Re: Email permissions - was Email embarrasment

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: Then I sent three test messages: one using xfmail (which is working again), one using netscape and one using the mail-command from the console. As user hs I did a mailq with the following result: ... As root I did a mailq: ...

Re: how to avoid the X windiws login?

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001, Duser wrote: Well everytime i make X windows work on my pc on a debian installation the next login i'm forced to have a graphic login (on tty7)wich leads me directly to a working windows system (even if at installation time i told the system not to set xdm to give me the

Re: PS/2 mouse under X.

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:26:11AM +0200, Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: mouse. It works great under gpm, but doesn't want even to move in X. I selected PS/2 as a mouse protocol and /dev/psaux for device (it works for gpm). What can I do now? Try reading the repeated data from /dev/gpmdata. You

Probs compiling gnucash 1.4.11 from sources (gtk-xmhtml.h is missing)

2001-04-14 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello folks, since the packaged version of gnucash is 1.3.4 (even in unstable) I downloaded the sources to for 1.4.11 and tried to compile from sources. However ./configure tells me, that it can't find the gtk-xmhtml.h header file. I have libgtkxmhtml1 installed, and tried to install

Re: setting up VNC server on Linux

2001-04-14 Thread Mister Chris
One option would be to run the Xvnc server, and then connect locally using the SVGAlib client. That would allow you to avoid running another X server in addition to Xvnc. I've never tried it myself, but it seems like it might work, if you don't mind using SVGAlib. -Chris On Saturday 14

Woody (Testing) Missing Gnome Packages

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I was hoping someone could tell me why Woody (Testing) is missing sawfish, sawfish-gnome and gnome-applets packages? There don't seem to be any important bugs filed against them and these aren't very new packages, I can't figure out why there wouldn't at least some old versions of these

Re: Probs compiling gnucash 1.4.11 from sources (gtk-xmhtml.h is missing)

2001-04-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, April 14, Viktor Rosenfeld did write: Hello folks, SNIP Was anybody lucky in installing 1.4.11 from sources? Or is there an unofficial site out there, that hosts Debian packages for gnucash? Try ximian: http://www.ximian.com/ They've got a number of GNOME packages built

Re: printer and masqmail (potato r2)

2001-04-14 Thread Andre Berger
* robin [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-14 17:29 +0200: with mutt in .muttrc : set print_commande=lpr : nothing printed set print_commande=lpr -Plp1 : %%[stcolor.ps...]%% set print_commande=lpr nothing printed set print_commande=lpr ok but without accent in french It work and works not at

Re: how to avoid the X windiws login?

2001-04-14 Thread Andre Berger
* Duser [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-14 17:29 +0200: Well everytime i make X windows work on my pc on a debian installation the next login i'm forced to have a graphic login (on tty7)wich leads me directly to a working windows system (even if at installation time i told the system not to set xdm

Re: Hepl! I messed up! PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 pacakges

2001-04-14 Thread Andre Berger
* Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-14 17:29 +0200: On Sat Apr 14 02:18:40 2001 Oliver Elphick wrote... You got the packages built for unstable; if you look more closely in that URL you will also find packages for potato. So I dselect _all_ postgress related packages (hey I can

Re: Funny Story

2001-04-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, April 13, Stewart Jenkins did write: On Wednesday 11 April 2001 18:44, Steve Witt wrote: As I said, I heard this third hand and have no idea if its true or not. It was probably started by a bunch of Linux college geeks, I don't know. Someone from NASA will probably roast

Re: Brother HL 730

2001-04-14 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Felix Natter (on Mon, 09 Apr 2001 09:47:46PM +0200): trying to use apsfilter to get a Brother HL 730 working on linux. did you try http://www.linuxprinting.org ? now i did. and it worked. linuxprinting.org is awesome! thanks, martin; (greetings from the heart of the

when does woody go stable?

2001-04-14 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, are there any estimates as to when woody will go stable and replace potato as the current dist? please cc me. thanks, martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- the only real advantage to punk music is that

computer hangs when idle

2001-04-14 Thread Gil Elad
Hello, I'm running Potato with kernel 2.2.17 compiled with apm support on an Intel PIII with an Intel D815EEA motherboard with apm enabled at BIOS. When the computer is busy -- for example downloading a file from the web everything's fine, console blanks after a few minutes, and I get control

Re: gtcd/sound problems

2001-04-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 11 Apr 2001 15:23:57 -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: 3. To add permissions to normal devices you may want to use as your normal login, use the following command which adds the user to each of the following groups. adduser user dialout - repeat for - floppy tty cdrom disk audio video

Re: [debian-user] PS/2 mouse under X.

2001-04-14 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
Hi! --[Andrzej Swedrzynski]--[EMAIL PROTECTED] use working under X but I can not. This is Logitech M-S48a PS/2 I seem to have the same mouse - it's an OEM with a black logo, right? I read on http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/, which has been cited on this list several

Creating user w/ one command

2001-04-14 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, my friend wrote a perl script to do a lot of different things, and one of them was adding going to be adding a user. He can't do it though, because the adduser command needs to be able to take parameters such as password, etc. Is their a way to do this? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: Funny Story

2001-04-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:23:28AM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: | Lo, on Friday, April 13, Stewart Jenkins did write: | Specifically: | | http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp1/exp1shepmarfeb.html | | Could someone provide an IP address for this? I'm having trouble resolving |

Re: when does woody go stable?

2001-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are there any estimates as to when woody will go stable and replace potato as the current dist? No - it'll release when it's ready. See archives of debian-devel-announce for the release manager's projections, though. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: An intro to Debian website

2001-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:43:21AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:43:49PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: In particular, I think Debian is missing a broad introduction, something that would be read prior to the installation guide, and a now what guide to follow the

Re: Mailman package

2001-04-14 Thread staf wagemakers
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:45:58PM -0400, Matthew Haas wrote: Also, I am running a Potato system but am currently trying to use Mailman-2.0final (from woody/unstable)... Mailman-1.1.6 or whatever would absolutely refuse to work for me. I've installed any dependencies it required. You could

Re: Passive mode FTP?

2001-04-14 Thread staf wagemakers
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:02:51PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 06:36:33PM +0200, staf wagemakers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:24:00PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: Whats the magic environment variable to get ftp to use FTP mode? If you

Re: Should arrogant, self-important people be encouraged to use L inux?

2001-04-14 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing that got people like Karsten riled is the fact that this guy expected everyone else to provide him with wonderful documentation, on top of excellent software (something many are already trying to do), but in the same breath told everyone

Re: Creating user w/ one command

2001-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Cameron Matheson writes: my friend wrote a perl script to do a lot of different things, and one of them was adding going to be adding a user. He can't do it though, because the adduser command needs to be able to take parameters such as password, etc. adduser _is_ a Perl script. Why not

startx - Fatal server error

2001-04-14 Thread George M. Butler
Hi all, I am sure this is an old one too. But I just installed Debian (potato) r2. I issue startx at the commnand line and get fatal sever error Can't open mouse (no such file or directory ) I have run xf86config 4 times now and each time I select 4, the PS/2 mouse, the 3 button emulation,

Re: startx - Fatal server error

2001-04-14 Thread Terry Warner
I don't know if this will work, but in the config file you could try putting /dev/psaux instead of /dev/mouse Just a thought Terry On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:43:43PM -0500, George M. Butler babbled: Hi all, I am sure this is an old one too. But I just installed Debian (potato) r2. I

from FTP: cre8 a custom Debain boot CD

2001-04-14 Thread Blazko
Greetings Debians! You might find my problem too simple, but even after using Linux for some tiny three years, I could not get a custom Debian boot CD to run the way it was intended...perhaps cos my brain was emptied by using SuSE Linux the past :-) Okay, here the prob: I want to settle over to

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