Re: Why was Galeon droped from STABLE?

2002-04-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:22:26PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:33:07PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: I believe the reason was something along the lines of galeon was dependent upon a version of mozilla that had RC bugs, and both were removed but mozilla made it back in.

Re: Mouse problem

2002-04-17 Thread Kent West
David Smead wrote: Jamin, Thanks for the response. Here's what /etc/X11/XF86Config says about the mouse. Section Pointer ProtocolMicrosoft Device /dev/mouse BaudRate1200 Emulate3Timeout 50 Resolution 100 Buttons 3 Emulate3Buttons EndSection

Re: Mouse problem

2002-04-17 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:06:26PM -0700, David Smead wrote: Apparently potato doesn't default install to XF86Config-4. I figured it was best to start with stable before moving to Woody, but maybe stable has been orphaned. That is correct and mentioned on the Debian website - potato is no

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-17 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I used to do tech support for Microport System V/AT. It was Unix System V ported to 80286 IBM AT's. When I started work there, Microport had swapping. A program would be read into memory in its entirety, or it would be disk resident. It wasn't paged. A program's memory was swapped out to

Re: stoppling console logging

2002-04-17 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:27:18PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: /etc/init.d/cron restart Whatever that was supposed to do, it didn't make any difference. I think you are trying to get rid of the messages syslog(?) directs to the console. I believe your solution lies in the tweaking of the

RE: Swapfiles

2002-04-17 Thread Wienand Ian
I would have thought it was only on 386 as the the 286 did not have a MMU to handle address translation, protection, etc. -Original Message- From: Michael D. Crawford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re:

Re: Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla 0.9.9

2002-04-17 Thread Alan Shutko
John Krasnay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Debian testing and I just got Mozilla 0.9.9. The anti-aliasing works, but I'm trying to enable subpixel rendering. I've added `match edit rgba = rgb;' to my /etc/X11/XftConfig, but the anti-aliasing hasn't changed...it still uses grey for

Re: Mouse problem

2002-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Andy writes: That is correct and mentioned on the Debian website - potato is no longer being actively maintained. Potato _is_ being actively maintained, and will continue to be until Woody is released. It is just not having new packages or new versions of old packages added. Security fixes

CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-17 Thread DvB
I *finally* got my HP DeskJet 932C to work with cups and now I can print test pages from the web front end and ascii pages from the command line using lp, but I can't print pdf file with either acroread or xpdf This was working at first and I printed several documents that I'd been meaning to

mkhybrid question

2002-04-17 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I have a question about how to use mkhybrid to create a CD image that can be used from both Mac OS and Windows. There's two ways you can do this. One is to make an ISO9660 filesystem that has both the Apple and the Joliet extensions. The other way is to make an ISO9660 filesystem with the

GnusXEmacs

2002-04-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello Beginning to use some emacsen, I prefer XEmacs' handling in X (trying the 21-gnome-nomule version). But I can't seem to get Gnus fetching new mail when running it under xemacs. Running Gnus under gnu emacs21 works fine. I have these files on my system: ~/.gnus ~/.xemacs/gnus.el

Re: Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla 0.9.9

2002-04-17 Thread Travis Crump
If you roll your own there is a build option --enable-xft which implies that this option should do something, but I don't think it is enabled by default. Alan Shutko wrote: John Krasnay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Debian testing and I just got Mozilla 0.9.9. The anti-aliasing

Re: GnusXEmacs

2002-04-17 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 18:46 pm, Christian Jaeger wrote: Hello Beginning to use some emacsen, I prefer XEmacs' handling in X (trying the 21-gnome-nomule version). But I can't seem to get Gnus fetching new mail when running it under xemacs. Running Gnus under gnu emacs21 works fine.

Re: GnusXEmacs

2002-04-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Christian == Christian Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Does anyone actually use Gnus under Christian xemacs21-gnome(-nomule)? I've used GNUS to read email in xemacs for at least two years now. On a Solaris box, and xemacs21-nomule on this Debian system. It's a mystery each

Re: debian for embedded...original playstation

2002-04-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, java guru wrote: Hi., Is there any debian port i could run on original playstation ? Any help is appreciated. I don't think any distro's been ported to the PS. At this point, if you want Linux on that hardware, you're likely going to have to do all the gruntwork

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Rick Pasotto wrote: How can I cut-n-paste something that shows as a link in Mozilla and/or the gnome terminal? Every key combination I've tried seems to activate the link instead of putting the text in the buffer. Highlight the text. This copies. Middle click where you

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020417 12:16]: begin Noah Sombrero quotation: Go to the Yahoo web site and establish an identity there. Or, better yet, don't, since that's an email harvesting service for spammers now. And even a telephone number harvesting service for

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: I notice that woody installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision? 2.2 was current when woody was in development. Is the plan to have stable 3.0 run a 2.2 kernel? Yes. I'm planning on building a

[update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-17 Thread DvB
Apparently, it's just one pdf file in particular that refuses to print and all others work (or at least all others that I've tested). This is pretty weird, but at least not as serious as I thought at first. DvB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I *finally* got my HP DeskJet 932C to work with cups

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:53:10 -0700 Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - CPU -- a continuous kernel-build loop is a pretty good test. You're looking for SIG-11 errors. I'll give that a try, how long would

Re: GnusXEmacs

2002-04-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 21:39 Uhr -0500 17.04.2002, Bud Rogers wrote: I ran gnus in Xemacs for a long time and loved it. As I remember, gnus can be built for either Xemacs or Emacs but cannot be compatible with both at the same time. You might want to rebuild/reinstall your gnus with the version of emacsen you

Re: GnusXEmacs

2002-04-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 21:49 Uhr -0500 17.04.2002, Shyamal Prasad wrote: ;;; -*- Mode: Emacs-Lisp -*- I've tried this file (with my name in place of yours and localhost as news server). Since I'm getting mail delivered to /var/mail/chris (what's the format of mail delivered to ~/Mail/spool and how?), I've also

Re: GnusXEmacs

2002-04-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
With a change back to nnml, the 'Wrong type argument' piece went away and really, I have now a listing of the mails I've always downloaded from emacs. But...: 'Window height 0 too small (after splitting)', I can't open the individual mails. Argh. ChŠ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Allow root to telnet

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Watts
Hi, I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet to aDebian 2.2r5 system for testing purposes, but can not find the way to allow this to happen. I have had a look through the man pages, and looked into /etc/securetty but get stuck there. Do I have to add an

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:58:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: I notice that woody installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision? 2.2 was current when woody was in development. I'm not sure what in

Re: xscreensaver

2002-04-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Karsten M. Self declaimed: In a suitable window manager, you can then bind the lock screen command to a key combination. I have a majick three-finger salute that activates xscreensaver for me, damned convenient. I find this more useful than, say, an icon button. Cool idea, I will implement

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:58:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: I notice that woody installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision? 2.2 was

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:39:32PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: | On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:58:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: | | I notice that woody installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 | kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision?

Re: [update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:48:32PM -0500, DvB wrote: | Apparently, it's just one pdf file in particular that refuses to print | and all others work (or at least all others that I've tested). I found one of those too. (I think the one I found didn't even display right even in acroread) | This

Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-17 Thread Dave Price
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:32:45AM +0800, Michael Watts wrote: Hi, I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet to a Debian 2.2r5 system for testing purposes, but can not find the way to allow this to happen. Can't you achieve the same thing by connecting as a

Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael Watts wrote: I have had a look through the man pages, and looked into /etc/securetty but get stuck there. Do I have to add an entry for telnet to securetty to allow root to login that way? Or is it done elsewhere?? Add ttyp0, etc (I think) to /etc/securetty and

Re: Boot Floppys

2002-04-17 Thread David Kimdon
Hi, debian-boot only deals with problems getting a basic Debian system up, that doesn't include X. I'm forwarding this to debian-user where there are more knowledgable people for this type of problem. -David Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:39:39PM -0400 wrote: Gentlemen/Ladies, Have in the past

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