dmi and Mobo monitoring

2001-09-20 Thread Vector
I am running potato on a new dual AMD box with Tyan's K7 mobo. I need to monitor the temperature inside my box and send notifications (snmp trap or email or something) when it reaches a certain level. This is regular DMI/LDCM stuff under windoze and I am having great difficulty finding something

Re: Howto use dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile + tar to extract one file?

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 18:04, Shaul Karl wrote: > Quoting dpkg-deb man page: > > --fsys-tarfile > Extracts the filesystem tree data from a binary > package and sends it to standard output in tar for- > mat. Together with tar this can be used to extract > a particular fi

Re: view package contents w/o installing

2001-09-20 Thread DvB
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 03:17:13PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > | dvanbalen writes: > | DvB> Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to > | DvB> install it first? > | > | If you already have the .deb file, you can run 'dpkg --conten

Re: Package stuck

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 17:48, Paul Tansom wrote: > Help - now that's always a good start! > > I have managed to get my courier-imap install stuck. I have previously > installed and removed (in order to go for Cyrus) and then decided to install > again. On reinstall I have the error "ERR: > conf

POP3 Server

2001-09-20 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I'll make this short and sweet. What POP3 server does everyone suggest?

Re: MBR not being read.

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 17:29, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hi People, > > Got a weird one here... > > I've been setting up a new box and swapping things over from my > existing computer. On this computer the windows drive is hda > and linux is on hdb and hdd > > Previously, using LILO writing to the

Re: INIT:Entering runlevel:2 failed

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 20:09, Robin Gerard wrote: > hello, > I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially > with woody. > All ran fine, but after my system crashed, linux > boot correctly until: > ttyS00 . > ttyS01 > > after a while > > /dev/ttyS00 .. > /dev/ttyS01 .. > .

Re: Hercules Fortissimo II and sound mixers (using the headphones plug)

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 16:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I finally got my Hercules Fortissimo II sound card, and by using the Sound > Fusion driver as a kernel module, it played sound. > Now my only question is what do i have to do with the mixers in order to make > it so it would shut up on the s

Re: woody and security.debian.org?

2001-09-20 Thread der.hans
Am 20. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Martin F Krafft so: > do you really not need the security apt servers if you run testing? i > know that the only dist they serve is stable anyway, but i seem to > recall that someone once said that they should always stay in. I leave it. If a package hasn't been update

Re: loading pcmcia modules in 2.4.9

2001-09-20 Thread der.hans
Am 20. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Richard Black so: > I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9. Everything seems > okay, _except_ I have no sound and no network (both work fine with > 2.4.3). As best as I can tell, the my compilation options are the same > (or very similar) in both versions

Re: printers

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michael Ward Cole: > I listed lsmod and only had parport and parport_pc. I have been around > the debian site looking for lp but can't seem to locate it. Again, any > assistance will be appreciated. > Michael OK - now we're getting somewhere. The parport and parport_pc modules control

Re: .config in kernel source?

2001-09-20 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello linuxfriends: > > I have downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.9 and I couldn't find the debain > .config file for this version of the kernel. Is debian giving the configure > options used in the kernel-compilation ? I need to do some changes and want > to keep the debian options... > > than

question another.

2001-09-20 Thread mail2zyp
I have downleaded the dpkg. But when I were compiling it indicated : 1.debiandoc2html:Command not found", 2.***[internals.html/index.html]. I have not installed the debian.Or you can tell me where I can get it. ÖлªÍøÈ«

Re: printers

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Ward Cole
I listed lsmod and only had parport and parport_pc. I have been around the debian site looking for lp but can't seem to locate it. Again, any assistance will be appreciated. Michael

Re: printers

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Ward Cole
I tried lsmod and did not see the lp module. I do have the parport and parport_pc modules. Later, Michael

Re: Problem Printing ... RESOLVED

2001-09-20 Thread Brian J . Dumont
Thanks to all who offered advice. Steve's suggestion led me on a path where I happened to bump across someone else who had had the same problem. The solution is that (for some reason I don't understand), the printer needs to be turned OFF while the computer boots. Both cases involved an Epson

Re: view package contents w/o installing

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 03:17:13PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: | dvanbalen writes: | DvB> Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to | DvB> install it first? | | If you already have the .deb file, you can run 'dpkg --contents | file.deb'. But probably downloading is t

Re: running dot matrix printers in Linux

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:16:19PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: | Hello: | | I've checked the printer compatibility list, and most printers that | are listed are either inkjet or laser printers. Is there any way to | print using dot matrix printers? I still have an old Epson LX-300 | printer

KDM and dead keyboard

2001-09-20 Thread Daniel Jones
Running KDE 2.1.2 over Debian unstable with kdm. Upon boot-up, the machine comes up to the kdm login but the keyboard is nonfunctional. I see the keyboard lights flash on initial bootup and I can change the numlock status during the first stages of bootup. Shortly before the kdm screen appears,

Re: 再一次麻烦您(help again!)

2001-09-20 Thread mail2zyp
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Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Craig Dickson: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > I keep having silently dropped emails to some servers and I can't quite > > figure out why. My ISP (Comcast - god bless 'em for the speed, but tech > > support, well, never mind) has been less than helpful about getting it > > resolved. As I

Re: fbset

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake dman: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:35:35PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > | Thus spake dman: > | > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:47:18PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > | > | Thus spake dman: > | > | > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > | > | > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001

Howto use dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile + tar to extract one file?

2001-09-20 Thread Shaul Karl
Quoting dpkg-deb man page: --fsys-tarfile Extracts the filesystem tree data from a binary package and sends it to standard output in tar for- mat. Together with tar this can be used to extract a particular file from a package archive. Can you advice the correc

Re: libapache-mod-mp3

2001-09-20 Thread Jason Healy
At 1001036889s since epoch (09/20/01 15:48:09 -0400 UTC), Hereward Cooper wrote: > Has anyone had experience using mod_mp3? I'm running it right now on my Debian Testing system. Works great with WinAmp over my cable modem. > I had it working perfectly when I used potato ages ago (when mod_mp3 w

Re: Can't compile VIM

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:46:16PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm using potato with all recent upgrades and security fixes. I'm trying > to compile vim 6.0av and I receive the following error message when I > run make: > objects/os_unix.o: In function `mch_set_shellsize': > objects/os_unix.o(.text

Re: Using mouse in console and X?

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:24:01AM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: | I installed Progeny, which features XF86v4 . It didn't install gpm, so I | did that; I used the same gpm.conf that I had, which works fine now: | type=ps2 | device=/dev/psaux | repeat_type=ms3 | | However, in X

Re: fbset

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:35:35PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: | Thus spake dman: | > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:47:18PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: | > | Thus spake dman: | > | > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: | > | > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet K

Re: Xfstt problems?

2001-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:58:34AM +0200, Peczöli Zoltán ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing problems with the "xfstt" package, not sure if it's a > bug so i thought i would ask you folks here before reporting one. > > Installing xfstt I follow the guide in the mini FAQ of TT-D

Re: kde in woody

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:30:46AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > > Hi Bob! > > I did: > > #apt-get update > > #apt-get install task-kde > > E: couldn't find package task-kde > > > > what should i do? > > Now that's weird. Are you sure you're running Woody? > > Do a 'apt-cache search task-kde'. I se

howto:? use postscript fonts for netscape, window managers,etc

2001-09-20 Thread john smith
Hi, I have ttf fonts and misc fonts running for my various applications in X but I want to scrap! those off and use postscript fonts for displaying everything (note that I said "display" not "print" to a printer)...possible? please point me to the right documentation to get started... thanks

Re: mortals may not run X?

2001-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:26:50AM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed Progeny, and got rid of that obnoxious gdm. However, when as > a mortal I do "startx" I am told that the user is not allowed to run the > X server. Says who? /usr/bin/X11/X is world-executable.

Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-20 Thread Craig Dickson
Stephen Gran wrote: > I keep having silently dropped emails to some servers and I can't quite > figure out why. My ISP (Comcast - god bless 'em for the speed, but tech > support, well, never mind) has been less than helpful about getting it > resolved. As I never get a bounce, and the logs say a

Re: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:00:02AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > I would suggest woody since when woody becomes stable testing will > point to something you probably wouldn't want it too. i.e. testing > would once again consist a small number of packages so that the > next stable release after w

Re: Where do I report this? (postfix error in upgrade potato->woody)

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:37:25AM +0200, Miquel Martin wrote: > Upon running postfix, it gave out no error messages but did not really > start. Examination of mail.log gave: > _servername_ postfix/master[12060]: fatal: bind _your_ip_here_ port 25: > Address already in use > > The problem turned

Re: Woody tool to configure XFree 4

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:35:45PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: | What tool should I use to configure XFree 4 on woody. What is the name /usr/X11/bin/XFree86 -configure | of the xconfiguration file? Is it XF86Config or XF86Config-4? Or do I | need both files? If the -4 file exists it uses that. If

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:50:17AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: | Adam McDaniel writes: | > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would | > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. | | And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack. How so? *Y

Re: fbset

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake dman: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:47:18PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > | Thus spake dman: > | > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > | > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > | > | > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]: >

IMAP server?

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I keep having silently dropped emails to some servers and I can't quite figure out why. My ISP (Comcast - god bless 'em for the speed, but tech support, well, never mind) has been less than helpful about getting it resolved. As I never get a bounce, and the logs say all sent mail sends

mortals may not run X?

2001-09-20 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
I installed Progeny, and got rid of that obnoxious gdm. However, when as a mortal I do "startx" I am told that the user is not allowed to run the X server. Says who? /usr/bin/X11/X is world-executable. Where is this configured? -- #>!$!%(@^%#%*(&([EMAIL PROTECTED]@^$##*#@&(%)@**$!(&!^(#((#&%!)

Using mouse in console and X?

2001-09-20 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
I installed Progeny, which features XF86v4 . It didn't install gpm, so I did that; I used the same gpm.conf that I had, which works fine now: type=ps2 device=/dev/psaux repeat_type=ms3 However, in X the mouse runs berserk. Progeny's XF86Config-4 has: Option

INIT:Entering runlevel:2 failed

2001-09-20 Thread Robin Gerard
hello, I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially with woody. All ran fine, but after my system crashed, linux boot correctly until: ttyS00 . ttyS01 after a while /dev/ttyS00 .. /dev/ttyS01 .. . Cleaning /tmp /var/lock /var/run after a while INIT: Entering runlevel:2

Re: ReiserFS revisited

2001-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:40:55AM +1000, Andrew Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey, > > I'm soon to redo my home ADSL gateway/firewall/muckaround box and > wanted to toy with ReiserFS. Highly recommended. I'm running 2.2.19. > What's the status of ReiserFS Debian bootdisks? Where's the

Re: .config in kernel source?

2001-09-20 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >also sprach John Patton (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 02:14:26PM -0500): >> The config file does not come with the package (although perhaps it >> should). It is generated by make config... but of course you will >> have to go through every

Re: fbset

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:47:18PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: | Thus spake dman: | > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: | > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | > | > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]: | > | [...] | > | > > for.

Help with CD image.

2001-09-20 Thread Nathan Cole
Hey. I have and old compaq. I beleive that it is an alpha machine. Where can i find a CD image of the newest version so that i can burn it to a CD? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Re: disk partitioning problems

2001-09-20 Thread Greg Wiley
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:48 PM, Duncan Smith wrote: > As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure > and install Debian Linux on my PC, and I am having > problems partitioning my new hard drive for this. I > would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new > disk is approx 40

Package stuck

2001-09-20 Thread Paul Tansom
Help - now that's always a good start! I have managed to get my courier-imap install stuck. I have previously installed and removed (in order to go for Cyrus) and then decided to install again. On reinstall I have the error "ERR: config file missing" when I use "dpkg --configure ..." or "apt-g

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Brooks R. Robinson (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 04:12:17PM -0500): > What about port forwarding? It'd still up the CPU usage on a machine, but > would it have the same results? I so much want to do this. sure, that would work. if you can afford the bandwidth. i got 2.7Gb in four hours in mer

Where do I report this? (postfix error in upgrade potato->woody)

2001-09-20 Thread Miquel Martin
Hi all! I finally cracked the problem, but it's driven me crazy. With a working postfix in potato (postfix 0.0.19991231pl11-1) I updated to woody, and thus, also to the new postfix (postfix 0.0.20010502.SNAPSHOT-5). Upon running postfix, it gave out no error messages but did not really start. Exam

Re: disk partitioning problems

2001-09-20 Thread Kent West
Duncan Smith wrote: Hi There, As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure and install Debian Linux on my PC, and I am having problems partitioning my new hard drive for this. I would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new disk is approx 40 GB, and I have tried lots of things. W

Woody tool to configure XFree 4

2001-09-20 Thread Lars Jensen
What tool should I use to configure XFree 4 on woody. What is the name of the xconfiguration file? Is it XF86Config or XF86Config-4? Or do I need both files? Thanks a lot, Lars. %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College,

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Frank Preut
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:17:30AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > > > And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack. > > > > Couldn't you just claim that your machine was inffected? > > either way, its microsoft's fault anyway :) > well, they released the patch almost a year ago.. it's thei

Re: [DEB] Re: A good c++ mailing list

2001-09-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:26:24AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > you *need* to get Bjarne Stroustrups "The C++ Programming Language" > 3rd edititon. in addition, www.accu.org has a public mailing list > "accu-general", which sports very competent people. but don't even > think to confuse MFC w

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Greg Wiley
On: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would > > > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. > > Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its > > responsibility to f

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-20 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "A" == A R (Tom) Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want to design printed output, use a wordprocessor. For designing and producing high quality output, printed or otherwise, I suggest using a typographic design system, such as LaTeX, that makes it easy to logically design the

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> Looking at my logs, it seems to work: > > GET /cmd.dll HTTP/1.0" 302 > > GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 Yeah, but just because your Apache sends a 302 code back to the Nimda box doesn't mean it will use this information and hit www.microsoft.com. If you redirected it to an

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Craig Dickson
Sam Varghese wrote: > Looking at my logs, it seems to work: > > GET /cmd.dll HTTP/1.0" 302 > > GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 > > Same Apache redirect response as for /default.ida > and that, I know, works. Depends what you mean by "works". Apache is sending the redirect me

Re: .config in kernel source?

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach John Patton (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 02:14:26PM -0500): > The config file does not come with the package (although perhaps it > should). It is generated by make config... but of course you will > have to go through everything the first time through and configure > things the way you like.

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:24:45AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:20:23AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: | > On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | > > Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting | > > nimda probes using Apache: | > | > >

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:12:17 CDT, "Brooks R. Robinson" writes: >> > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would >> > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. >> >> Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its >> responsibility to

Re: woody and security.debian.org?

2001-09-20 Thread David Z Maze
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> I keep security in my sources.list, but I don't think I've ever gotten D> anything from them since I upgraded to woody. The situation where D> having security would be effective is if a package in security is D> "newer" (higher version number) than a package i

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread DvB
"Brooks R. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would > > > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. > > > > Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its > > responsibility to follow i

disk partitioning problems

2001-09-20 Thread Duncan Smith
Hi There, As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure and install Debian Linux on my PC, and I am having problems partitioning my new hard drive for this. I would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new disk is approx 40 GB, and I have tried lots of things. What I don't understand from

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Craig Dickson
Sam Varghese wrote: > > Code Red, for instance, wouldn't follow redirects. > > try calling default.ida from my server -- > > http://www.gnubies.com/default.ida What for? If I do so with a browser, I'll presumably get redirected. But the virus wouldn't, because IT ISN'T A BROWSER AND DOESN'T SU

Re: building a kernel

2001-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:32:41PM -0400, Robert Schweikert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to debian, actually I don't even have everything running yet as > I want it to. Right now I was trying to build a kernel and I got the > following problem > > make xconfig > rm -f include/as

Re: what's the name?

2001-09-20 Thread John Galt
Actually, it's in the purview of the Release Manager, who is Anthony Towns. I think woody+1 is tentatively named sarge. On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, oivvio polite wrote: >Who gets to wote, developers, users, Rush Limbaugh? I relly like the little >green fellows that gets "saved" by Buzz Lightyear in th

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:20:23AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting > > nimda probes using Apache: > > > RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com > > Heh. I won

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-20 Thread Alan Shutko
"A.R. (Tom) Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Docbook, exactly like HTML was meant to be, does NOT allow you to tweak > appearance. It does, if you change the stylesheets you're using. > Text processors do force you to create a document in a consistent, > structured way with uniform final ap

Re: printers

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michael Ward Cole: > Unfortunately, I am not able to print a blessed thing. I get device unknown > on /dev/lp0, /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2. I have also tried the ttySn ports but > that was on a 'wing and a prayer'. I have tried echo "Hello "World" > > /dev/lp0, lp1 and so on without su

java classpathvariable

2001-09-20 Thread PhantomL0rd
Hi, I'm having trouble setting my classpath variable for jdk under debian potatoe. What do I have to do to make javac accept imports from Exeptions and DataStructures? Thanks in advance, Tarik

RE: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would > > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. > > Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its > responsibility to follow it, unless it's using a toolkit that does so > automatically.

Hercules Fortissimo II and sound mixers (using the headphones plug)

2001-09-20 Thread calyth
I finally got my Hercules Fortissimo II sound card, and by using the Sound Fusion driver as a kernel module, it played sound. Now my only question is what do i have to do with the mixers in order to make it so it would shut up on the speakers and play sound on my headphone, because I would like

Re: svgatextmode -> fbset: not so smooth

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ian Zimmerman: > > Hello everyone. I just switched to a more modern graphics board with > VESA 2.0 support. This board is not supported by svgatextmode, and > won't be as there's no development of svgatextmode anymore. So I have > to use the framebuffer console, instead of svgatextmo

GTK Fonts

2001-09-20 Thread Charles Baker
I did an `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` the other night and ever since the fonts on any of my gtk apps ( everybuddy, gftp, gnumeric, etc. ) have been showing as little blocks. I've been doing a little searching on debian-users but can't really find an answer. I've tried rearranging the font

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:30:02AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would > > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. > > Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the re

Re: fbset

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Danie Roux: > Now if someone can help me get more than 10 fps on a voodoo2 in Quake 3 > I'll be happy! > I had a problem getting GL and related accelerated things to work here, as well. I have a Rage 128 based card - a Pro, I think, although I'm not totally sure, as it was parted out

Re: fbset

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake dman: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > | > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]: > | [...] > | > > for. However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just fine. Am i just feeding the > |

Re: fbset -- fixed!

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Wayne Topa: > dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > According to the docs, lilo can't handle hex numbers. The docs say > > you need to convert it to decimal first, then put the decimal number > > in lilo.conf. (I use grub and it handles hex numbers fine) > > Yes, I rea

Re: .config in kernel source?

2001-09-20 Thread Alejandro Diego Garin
> > > options used in the kernel-compilation ? > > If the kernel-source is a Debian package with a corresponding kernel-image, > the kernel-image package installs a config- file in /boot . > > > -=greg Excelent detail greg, thanks a lot! -- Alejandro Diego Garin GNU/Linux user #151577 counter.

Re: euro symbol and debian sid

2001-09-20 Thread Thomas Apel
On Thursday, 20. September 2001 00:27, tim wrote: > > I cant figure out how to get full euro support in X and console. I am > already using -15 fonts and locale.gen is set to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ISO-8859-15". After generating the locales I changed my config to... /etc/environment: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: loading pcmcia modules in 2.4.9

2001-09-20 Thread Richard Black
"Thomas R. Shemanske" wrote: > Richard Black wrote: > > > > Hi All > > > > I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9. Everything seems > > okay, _except_ I have no sound and no network (both work fine with > > 2.4.3). As best as I can tell, the my compilation options are the same > >

Re: dri after upgrade to Xfree 4.1.0 doesn't work

2001-09-20 Thread Eamon Roque
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 06:21:51PM +0200, Peter De Wachter wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Sven Garbade wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I want to complete my previous posting. After upgrading from Xfree 402 > > to Xfree 410 the error log shows the following: > > > > (EE) MGA(0): [dri] MGADRIScreenIni

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-20 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > First, I think I'll go and learn SGML Docbook. I'm very familiar with HTML, > tought. I don't think it will be very difficult. > > As you say, latex2html provides a good output, but ugly... What I want is > to be able to customize that output as much as

Re: bash prompt

2001-09-20 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Lovely. Thanks. T. W. Paul Mills wrote: From man bash: \[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a terminal con­ trol sequence into the prompt \] end a sequence of non-printing cha

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-20 Thread csj
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 10:30, dman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:04:53AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > | On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:29:53AM +0800, csj wrote: > | > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 05:31, Nathan E Norman wrote: > | > > | > > Interesting ... I chose the menu key for my Multi_key :) > |

Re: running dot matrix printers in Linux

2001-09-20 Thread csj
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 21:16, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Hello: > > I've checked the printer compatibility list, and most printers that > are listed are either inkjet or laser printers. Is there any way to > print using dot matrix printers? I still have an old Epson LX-300 > printer on my desk -

Re: .config in kernel source?

2001-09-20 Thread francisco m neto
» John Patton disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:42:48PM -0300, Alejandro Diego Garin wrote: > > I have downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.9 and I couldn't find the debain > > .config file for this version of the kernel. Is debian giving the configure > > options used in the

Re: woody and security.debian.org?

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:12:57PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: | (upgrading stable->testing) | | also sprach Bud Rogers (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:36:08AM -0500): | > It's really very simple. | > | > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list | > s/stable/testing/ all lines in the file. | > comment out

Re: kde font problem

2001-09-20 Thread Geoffrey Romer
I have one guess: check and see if you have font anti-aliasing enabled in the KDE control panel. If you do, turn it off and restart- you should now get a list of all available fonts. Enabling AA disables all bitmapped fonts. > I seem to be having a problem with fonts in kde. > > I had a certain

libapache-mod-mp3

2001-09-20 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Has anyone had experience using mod_mp3? I had it working perfectly when I used potato ages ago (when mod_mp3 was firstly mentioned on /.), but ever since I updated to testing I've never be able to get it working again. I setup apache correctly, but xmms gives me this error when I press play:

[OT] USB Micro Solutions Backpack Hard Drive support?

2001-09-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Anyone know if the Micro Solutions (30 GB) Backpack Hard Drive can be used under Linux? It has parallel port and USB connections, but I'd rather use USB for speed (if the parallel transfers are as slow as a parallel Zip drive!). I know that the parallel mode is supported in the kernel (see pari

Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-20 Thread csj
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 19:30, Richard Hector wrote: > jjheuring wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:28:01AM +0700, San Segkhoonthod wrote: > > > you can either install kernel-source-2.x.x packages or go get it from > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub. > > > > But doesn't 'apt-get install kernel-

Re: woody and security.debian.org?

2001-09-20 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:12 am, Martin F Krafft wrote: > (upgrading stable->testing) > > also sprach Bud Rogers (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:36:08AM -0500): > > It's really very simple. > > > > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list > > s/stable/testing/ all lines in the file. > > comment out the de

Re: .config in kernel source?

2001-09-20 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, September 20, 2001 10:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.9 and I couldn't find the debain > .config file for this version of the kernel. Is debian giving the configure > options used in the kernel-compilation ? If the kernel-source is a Debian

Re: .config in kernel source?

2001-09-20 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:42:48PM -0300, Alejandro Diego Garin wrote: > I have downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.9 and I couldn't find the debain > .config file for this version of the kernel. Is debian giving the configure > options used in the kernel-compilation ? I need to do some changes and

Re: OT: watch out for email "PRINT Summary Report"

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
c.f. W32/Nimda martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- linux: because a pc is a terrible thing to waste pgpMa0xoYYyqX.pgp Description: PGP signature

bridges and routers

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
[cc'd back to debian as a request for confirmation/correction] Please realize that, at least from my side, this thread is purely for informational purposes, and out of interest. i am not trying to make life hard for anyone. the thread started because Andres calls his alamin.org project a gateway,

Re: Procmail Recipes on old messages?

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Jason Rashaad Jackson (on Wed, 19 Sep 2001 05:03:41PM -0400): > OK. I have successfully gotten procmail up and running on my local > host, and it's happily filtering incoming mail. This is great for > new stuff, but what about all the old messages in my spoolfile that > have piled (an

Re: A good c++ mailing list

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
[sorry for the lack of threading] On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:52:16PM -0700, Rick Commo wrote: > I have never programmed in C++ as part of my job or at home, but want to > learn it in order to create a basis for comparison and since I feel very > comfortable with C. > As time permits I am reading

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Julio Merino (on Wed, 19 Sep 2001 07:52:00PM +0200): > Well, I've to write a large, large document. I've think to use LaTeX, but > I don't think it will be a good choice, because it's html output is > really poor (am I wrong?). yes. wrong. actually, it depends. for scientific texts and

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