Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:18:50 -0600, Mac McCaskie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I think my point would be closer to not allowing a package on-board > without adaqate instruction on what it was and how to use it. > Where is the value of providing a widget to a customer without > giving them a clue a

Re: Gnome-session startup failure

2004-01-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A.L.Meyers wrote: >> Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash >> screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in >> /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how to get around this. Lux > > /var/log/gdm ? > /var/l

Re: Problems in apache2 on Debian/Sarge

2004-01-17 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 20:47, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Thanks very much, I'll google for the hack. The Debian bug db came up > empty on this issue, maybe it's an apache bug? Whoops! I renamed the working apache2-doc file and left it in /etc/apache2/conf.d/, so it was being used after all. Add this

Re: Documentation and Usability was Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:23:37 -0600, Mac McCaskie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > rigid? not hardly, I am asking everyone to be less rigid on what > the noobies must to do. It should not be asked of them to bow down > and scrape in order to gain admission into the great and sacred > learning hall.

Re: How to compile with .so libraries instead of .a ones?

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:50:21PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > I always thought that the libxx.a libraries are needed to compile > programs. However it appears that it is > possible to compile programs without them (I suppose this means .so > version will be used). This I gat

Permission to print on samba

2004-01-17 Thread glenn
Hi My XP workstation is unable to print to my samba server due to some sort of access denied type of problem. All users can browse/write their home directories and other shares with no permission probs. Printing and printcap is set to cups and the printers appear when the server is browsed from XP.

How to compile with .so libraries instead of .a ones?

2004-01-17 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I always thought that the libxx.a libraries are needed to compile programs. However it appears that it is possible to compile programs without them (I suppose this means .so version will be used). This I gather from the response from the debian maintainer of libqt-dev (testing) - libqt-dev

New kernel crashing - how to test without corrupting disks?

2004-01-17 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I am having problems with CD mounting crashing 2.6.1. Each time it craches it freezes and I need to hard reset. Reboot always has severe disk errors on /var and some time in /. I suspect improper set of driver combo to be the problem. I like to try a couple of combination. But like to minim

Re: wtmp backup script - howto change "how often"

2004-01-17 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:14:22PM +0100, Peto V. wrote: > Hello. > I'm using unstable & I don't like "settings" of logrotate-I mean "backing > up of /var/log". > For example: > I wanna wtmp to be backed up 1/year (or 1/month), but (!) I wanna have > only_one wtmp for all year (eg 2004).

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:34:47PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:04:48 -0500 > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I repeat what I implied before: Debian isn't for beginners who want > > hand-holding. There are plenty of distributions that specifically do > > supply just

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-17 Thread David Purton
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:01:37PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Stephen wrote: > > >On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Damon L. Chesser > >wrote: > > > > > >>Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only > >>thing I use windows for anymore is to

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:04:48 -0500 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:21:13PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > > > There's one more point I'm surprised nobody's mentioned yet. The > > documentation for the "other" operating system. > > Jacob, comparing yourself to Windows

Re: problem with dns/network

2004-01-17 Thread enantiomer
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On 2004-01-17, enantiomer penned: > > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >> On 2004-01-15, enantiomer penned: > >> > > >> > --resolv.con

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Stephen wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only thing I use windows for anymore is to view .tiff's I get from work and Linux does not (that I have found) have a way to view the

Re: groff problem: it insists on A4 rather than letter! [solved]

2004-01-17 Thread Lance Simmons
* Lance Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040117 18:20]: > I'm trying to use groff to create postscript, but it keeps returning > pages for A4 paper rather than letter. There wasn't really a problem. I was making two mistakes: 1. I wasn't using a macro, such as -me, so there was no header or footer,

Re: Mozilla broken, does not start up

2004-01-17 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:20:08 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > Unfortunately these do not work. One further information is that not > only mozilla-bin but another process called "gconfd-2" is left hanging > and must be killed. Then go and do this ! Personally, I'd just reboot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Problems in apache2 on Debian/Sarge

2004-01-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Gary Sandine declaimed: > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 11:33, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > But the manual > > foobar should be working by default... > > What versions of apache2 packages are you using? I used to have this > problem, too, and there was a hack for /etc/apache2/conf.d/apache2-doc > that fixed

NEC DiamondPoint V50LCD panel flickers under X 4.2.1-12.1 (testing)

2004-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
My CRT monitor having died, I purchased a Mitusbishi/NEC DiamondPoint V50LCD 15" LCD panel. It worked fine for a couple of days, but now I'm getting a very irritating flicker. The visual impression I get is that individual horizontal scan lines are being jittered sideways several pixels, several

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-17 Thread Stephen
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only > thing I use windows for anymore is to view .tiff's I get from work and > Linux does not (that I have found) have a way to view the other pages

Re: gpm start at reboot

2004-01-17 Thread Kent West
Dennis Kaplan wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 12:18 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dennis Kaplan wrote: How do I get my gpm mouse driver to start after a reboot. Right now I am running gpmconfig after every reboot. If you did a Debian install of gpm, it will have a gpm entry in /etc/

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:21:13PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > There's one more point I'm surprised nobody's mentioned yet. The > documentation for the "other" operating system. Jacob, comparing yourself to Windows in order to look good isn't very challenging. :-) I repeat what I implied before

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only > thing I use windows for anymore is to view .tiff's I get from work and > Linux does not (that I have found) have a way to view the other pages > after page o

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:43:28PM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: > I don't doubt that Debian is used where there is -no- Internet access or > where Internet access is prohibited. Besides this, websites move, URLs > change and documentation doesn't. I often use Debian on systems without internet a

Re: unsubscribe

2004-01-17 Thread Edward J. Shornock
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viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only thing I use windows for anymore is to view .tiff's I get from work and Linux does not (that I have found) have a way to view the other pages after page one. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:07:46PM -0600, David wrote: > I think one needs to ask himself why he is using Debian, or Linux in any > form. You have people administering servers, or other very intense > professional usages. I think these people deserve serions attention. If they're doing it for pr

Re: Xfree setup: does AGP require anything special?

2004-01-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:34:27AM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Doing a bit of advocay, I've managed to convince a friend to try Debian > on his newly put-together PC for a bit, while he saves up the £165 WinXP > tax. > > Unfortunately, I'm not doing a great job. I did a netinstall from >

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:37:27PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: > > The obvious solution to this quandry, would be to put the URL in the man > page if the page applied to that implementation. Shouldn't that be easy > to do? (but it does leave out those poor unfortunates that do not have > inter

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Mac McCaskie
Micha Feigin wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:02:59PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: -The third part puzzles me. How would you know how to use it without some type of instructions. google et al, home page, man, info, -h/--help, source code (hopefully commented), trial and error, mailing lists,

Re: confused with initrd.gz VERSES initrd.img

2004-01-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:02:58PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > > On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:42 pm, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:39:34PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > Sorry for using caps I did it to disdingush between the code > > > > > >

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..rsync error (code 12) kills lan mirroring

2004-01-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..I'm trying to move a local mirror to another box; and decided it oughtta be rsynced, not wget'ed or scp'ed across. ..so I first tossed in:" rsync stream tcp nowait root \ /usr/bin/rsync rsyncd --daemon " ...into /etc/inetd.conf and then fired it up: cat /home/knoppix/rsyn

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Jacob S.
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 03:25:04 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:22:58PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On 2004-01-17, Mac McCaskie penned: > > > I think my point would be closer to not allowing a package > > > on-board without adaqate instruction on wha

Re: Documentation and Usability was Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-17 Thread Russell
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:04:26AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Saturday 17 January 2004 22:35, Kent West wrote: > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > [...] > > >I honestly wonder how people who are as impolitic as the OP manage > > > to keep their day jobs. > [...] > > Whereas the regulars, such as

Re: Debugging rsh

2004-01-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 03:42:34AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to rsh to my server. I am using kerberos authentication. I > believe I have configured everything correctly, but rsh simply > complains: "hostname: Connection refused". I checked my "inetd.conf". > Unfortunately, I

Re: gpg help

2004-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:42:55PM +0100, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Before format, I backed up my $HOME/.gnupg directory. Now I need to setup > everything. How do I use my private key back ? You should be able to just drop ~/.gnupg in place without

Re: Reading Adobe DRM-enabled e-Books under Linux?

2004-01-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:45:53 +, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:44:28PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:18:53 +1100, > > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On

Re: Documentation and Usability was Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-17 Thread Mac McCaskie
ROFLOL, Richard Lyons wrote: But this has been a bad week for tempers here. Quite a few rants and upsets. Has anyone else wondered if it's seasonal? Subject for a little paper, perhaps? SUBTLE - Seasonal Usenet Bad Temper Loss Episodes... Climatic Recurring Influences on the Internet Commu

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:02:59PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: > > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > >On 2004-01-17, Mac McCaskie penned: > > > >>I think my point would be closer to not allowing a package on-board > >>without adaqate instruction on what it was and how to use it. > >> > >>Where is th

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread David
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:02:59PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > >On 2004-01-17, Mac McCaskie penned: > >That word "customer"; doesn't it imply that you paid for the product? > -No As has been repeatedly pointed out, but I think this point cannot be overemphasized

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:22:58PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-17, Mac McCaskie penned: > > I think my point would be closer to not allowing a package on-board > > without adaqate instruction on what it was and how to use it. > > > > Where is the value of providing a widget to a cu

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:55:57PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: > I'll let you in on a non-secret, to everyone but yourself. There already > *is* an awareness of the need for documentation. Sadly, no one wants to > do it- it's boring, time-consuming, constantly outdated, and just not > much fun. Your

Re: Postgres

2004-01-17 Thread glenn
just for kicks - try "su - postgres" - seems to work for me Glenn On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 10:25, Christoph Bühring wrote: > Hi, > I´ve got following Problem: > > initdb: cannot be run as root > Please log in (using, e.g., "su") as the (unprivileged) user that will > own the server

Re: gpm start at reboot

2004-01-17 Thread Dennis Kaplan
On Saturday 17 January 2004 12:18 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Dennis Kaplan wrote: > > How do I get my gpm mouse driver to start after a reboot. > > Right now I am running gpmconfig after every reboot. > > If you did a Debian install of gpm, it will have a gpm entry in > /etc/init.d and appropriat

Re: Tunneling application X app over ssh from client to server

2004-01-17 Thread Joris
Micha Feigin verraste ons met de boodschap: > A simple diagram to try and clear things > > shh --> sshd > app --> display > [ remote box][ local box ] I found this problem rather interesting :-), and just ran some tests. It's per

Re: confused with initrd.gz VERSES initrd.img

2004-01-17 Thread Dennis Kaplan
On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:42 pm, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:39:34PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > Sorry for using caps I did it to disdingush between the code > > > > THIS IS WHAT MY LILO LOOKS RIGHT NOW. > > > > boot=/dev/hdb > >

Re: mozilla>print freezes

2004-01-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 19:35, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Hello List, > > > > > > since a while I cannot print HTML file and Emails > > > from Mozilla (1.5-3 Debian testing): > > > mozilla freezes and I have to kill it. >

Re: Xfree setup: does AGP require anything special?

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:34:27AM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > I'll happily post any config files here, but (off the top of my head) > the problem is that X bombs after a couple of seconds with "no screens > found". He's got a NVidia FX mumble in there. I know that some nvidia cards will

Re: Xfree setup: does AGP require anything special?

2004-01-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jonathan Matthews wrote: Doing a bit of advocay, I've managed to convince a friend to try Debian on his newly put-together PC for a bit, while he saves up the £165 WinXP tax. Unfortunately, I'm not doing a great job. I did a netinstall from debian-installer (12-01-04, FWIW, and it *rocks*!), b

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:01:03PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: John Hasler wrote: Kevin Mark writes: compare what you get from the windows world. no community. no help. need to buy $$$ books. pay for tech support. This is an outright falsehood. There are just as many,

Re: Xfree setup: does AGP require anything special?

2004-01-17 Thread rnmscott
Have you tried Knoppix or something like that to see if that works graphically? If so, you can take the X config stuff from there - Original Message - From: Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, January 18, 2004 11:34 am Subject: Xfree setup: does AGP require anything spec

Re: Problems in apache2 on Debian/Sarge

2004-01-17 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 11:33, Paul Mackinney wrote: > But the manual > foobar should be working by default... What versions of apache2 packages are you using? I used to have this problem, too, and there was a hack for /etc/apache2/conf.d/apache2-doc that fixed this. I removed the hack to the file

Xfree setup: does AGP require anything special?

2004-01-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Doing a bit of advocay, I've managed to convince a friend to try Debian on his newly put-together PC for a bit, while he saves up the £165 WinXP tax. Unfortunately, I'm not doing a great job. I did a netinstall from debian-installer (12-01-04, FWIW, and it *rocks*!), but can't seem to get X t

Re: mozilla>print freezes

2004-01-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > since a while I cannot print HTML file and Emails > > from Mozilla (1.5-3 Debian testing): > > mozilla freezes and I have to kill it. > > > > Any idea ? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Jerome > > >

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:01:03PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Kevin Mark writes: > > > >>compare what you get from the windows world. no community. no help. need > >>to buy $$$ books. pay for tech support. > > This is an outright falsehood. There are just as many,

groff problem: it insists on A4 rather than letter!

2004-01-17 Thread Lance Simmons
I'm trying to use groff to create postscript, but it keeps returning pages for A4 paper rather than letter. I've checked /etc/papersize, and have set my own PAPERSIZE and PAPERCONF environmental variables to "letter" and "/etc/papersize" respectively. Passing a command to grops doesn't seem to he

Re: Documentation and Usability was Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 17 January 2004 22:35, Kent West wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] > >I honestly wonder how people who are as impolitic as the OP manage > > to keep their day jobs. [...] > Whereas the regulars, such as Monique above, are correct in what they > say, I'd like to speak up in behalf

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
John Hasler wrote: Kevin Mark writes: compare what you get from the windows world. no community. no help. need to buy $$$ books. pay for tech support. This is an outright falsehood. There are just as many, if not more, MS Windows oriented user groups/communities as there are for GNU/Linux. G

Re: confused with initrd.gz VERSES initrd.img

2004-01-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:39:34PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > Sorry for using caps I did it to disdingush between the code > > THIS IS WHAT MY LILO LOOKS RIGHT NOW. > > boot=/dev/hdb > vga=791 > timeout=50 > appen

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Todd Pytel
I won't even respond to your other statements, because I don't think I could do so politely. On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:32:49 -0600 Mac McCaskie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To complain about the documentation is what is known as "looking a > > gift horse in the mouth". > > (I'll let you in on a s

Re: disable ping

2004-01-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:28:09 -0600, Rick Weinbender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Matthias Hentges wrote: > > > Am Don, 2004-01-15 um 23.26 schrieb Jan Minar: > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:48:44PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > > > > Is there a way to disable t

Re: Documentation and Usability was Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-17, Kent West penned: > > Whereas the regulars, such as Monique above, are correct in what they > say, I'd like to speak up in behalf of the OP. > > He's not been with us long, and doesn't yet understand the culture of > this list. He got frustrated, and he vented. I've done worse, even

Re: ati radeon 9200 - slow 3d acceleration

2004-01-17 Thread LeVA
2004. január 17. 22:41 dátummal Bijan Soleymani ezt írta: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:11:51PM +0100, LeVA wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have an ati radeon 9200 card, and want to use it's 3d > > acceleration. > > > > Programs, which needs 3d acceleration (tuxracer, unreal tournament) > > are very slow,

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Mac McCaskie
Paul Morgan wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:18:50 -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: So you would wish, for instance, to deprive me of a package which I can understand and use simply because the documentation is not adequate enough for you, or for somebody non-me, anyway? Yes, because otherwise a value jud

Postgres

2004-01-17 Thread Christoph Bühring
Hi, I´ve got following Problem: initdb: cannot be run as root Please log in (using, e.g., "su") as the (unprivileged) user that will own the server process. I´m using an unstable Debian System. The error appears with postgres- /stable/unstable and testing Versions. The us

Re: Inline PGP signatures and headers created by mutt

2004-01-17 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > Should I file a wishlist bug asking for the mutt docs to explain what > "outlook compatible" actually entails? Of course. Include a patch. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Mark writes: > compare what you get from the windows world. no community. no help. need > to buy $$$ books. pay for tech support. Whereas here you get community and free help, and can _also_ buy books and tech support. If what you are getting for free isn't good enough try offering mon

Re: ati radeon 9200 - slow 3d acceleration

2004-01-17 Thread LeVA
2004. január 17. 22:49 dátummal Roberto Sanchez ezt írta: > LeVA wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have an ati radeon 9200 card, and want to use it's 3d > > acceleration. > > > > Info: > > > > o XFree86 Version 4.3.99.902 (4.4.0 RC 2) > >- radeon drm as module (from the Xdrm.tgz package, source) > > XF

Re:Tuning X

2004-01-17 Thread David Baron
Thanks for your response. I have an ATI-rage 3D AGP 64m card. Not a terrific game playing card but my main focus is not games. However, I would like to get the same level of performance I have under Windows. There, I have full hardware acceleration. How do I set it up here: No choices under KDE

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Mac McCaskie
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-01-17, Mac McCaskie penned: I think my point would be closer to not allowing a package on-board without adaqate instruction on what it was and how to use it. Where is the value of providing a widget to a customer without giving them a clue as to what the widget

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Mac McCaskie
Monique Y. Herman wrote: Do you really consider basic etiquette to be a debian-specific "bow down and scrape" requirement? I consider "basic etiquette" to be very benificial when asking for advice AND when giving it. It is my hope that this conversation (aka debate) will accomplish a few smal

Debugging rsh

2004-01-17 Thread ms419
I am trying to rsh to my server. I am using kerberos authentication. I believe I have configured everything correctly, but rsh simply complains: "hostname: Connection refused". I checked my "inetd.conf". Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to debug rsh. Even using the "-d" option, nothing is

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:10:38PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: > Colin and Stephen > > Let me understand you correctly. You admit the documentation needs > improvement and might be slightly un-helpful to noobies. Ian Murdoch said that debian is a process...not a product. It is ever changing and

Re: Inline PGP signatures and headers created by mutt

2004-01-17 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 04:37:57PM +, Pigeon wrote: > ... how does one configure mutt to produce an inline-signed >message with a "Content-Type: text/plain;" header instead of >"...application/pgp;...format=text"? The otherwise very comprehensive >documentation when you hit F1 g

System builder Downline

2004-01-17 Thread DR.HANS MOB
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Re: Documentation and Usability was Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-17 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: I love debian, and I do try to help people in those limited places where I might have a clue. But if someone posts to a debian user list insulting the entire debian (volunteer) organization and threatening to take their ball and go home, I say, good riddance. I honestly w

sortlist, resolv.conf, DHCP client

2004-01-17 Thread ms419
I need to add a "sortlist" option to my "resolv.conf". Unfortunately, it is periodically overwritten by my DHCP client. The "nameserver" options are not overwritten, using the "supersede domain-name-servers" option in "dhclinet.conf". What configuration will prevent my "sortlist" option from be

Re: ati radeon 9200 - slow 3d acceleration

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:11:51PM +0100, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > I have an ati radeon 9200 card, and want to use it's 3d acceleration. > > Programs, which needs 3d acceleration (tuxracer, unreal tournament) are > very slow, but that glxgears program tells me, that it runs at 240fps. 240 fps on g

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-17 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:23:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I don't get where you're going with this... Merely commenting on a fact. Look at a census for the NW US and Canada sometime. Let's ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > SCORE=100 > SCORE -100 =^Message-Id:.*smtp[0-9]\.your\.isp Correction!!! SCORE +75 =^Message-Id:.*smtp[0-9]\.your\.isp Did that from memory & I should have know better. > > Is how I use it, and as I said, "no false positives in over

Re: Unacceptable HDD performance

2004-01-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: I am running a ThinkPad A31 (1 year old) notebook with 256 MB of RAM, and a 1.8 Ghz Pentium-M processor. While this is by no means a cutting edge system, it is still nevertheless an acceptable system. However the system is really under-performing, and it is complete

Re: No Java on Thunderbird and Sid ? and also sarge

2004-01-17 Thread hanasaki
Running Sarge here and the plugin is killing the process whenever an applet is loaded. sarge + kernel 2.6 / 2.4.x -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to connect with gaim to yahoo messenger

2004-01-17 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-01-17, Kent West penned: Micha Feigin wrote: I just tried connecting with gaim to a yahoo messenger account for the first time and I can't get it working. as far as I can tell I have a profile (I have a yahoo email and it seems to me that I activated the

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Travis Crump([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > >Richard Lyons([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > >>On Friday 16 January 2004 22:23, Wayne Topa wrote: > >>[...] > >> > >>>I have a mailfilter rule that deletes mail without an > >>>originating Message-I

Re: Sony PCI Memory Stick Reader

2004-01-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:25:17AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Not the same, but: I read a my sony memory stick as follows: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # # /dev/hdb1 / ext3errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hdb2 /usr

wtmp backup script - howto change "how often"

2004-01-17 Thread Peto V.
Hello. I'm using unstable & I don't like "settings" of logrotate-I mean "backing up of /var/log". For example: I wanna wtmp to be backed up 1/year (or 1/month), but (!) I wanna have only_one wtmp for all year (eg 2004). I think, its simple and i have to just change something (simple) in logrotate s

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:18:50 -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: > I think my point would be closer to not allowing a package on-board > without adaqate instruction on what it was and how to use it. > > Where is the value of providing a widget to a customer without giving > them a clue as to what the wi

Re: Radeon 9200 poor performance with mplayer

2004-01-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 17 January 2004 17:27, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Also what does your config look like mine is: > Section "Module" > Load"GLcore" I was missing the above - all the others were there. I think I must have removed this because it conflcted with my previous NVidia stuff > > Thi

Re: ati radeon 9200 - slow 3d acceleration

2004-01-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
LeVA wrote: Hi! I have an ati radeon 9200 card, and want to use it's 3d acceleration. Info: o XFree86 Version 4.3.99.902 (4.4.0 RC 2) - radeon drm as module (from the Xdrm.tgz package, source) XFree86 4.3 from experimental will do just fine, unless you would rather use the binary fglrx modul

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-17, Mac McCaskie penned: > I think my point would be closer to not allowing a package on-board > without adaqate instruction on what it was and how to use it. > > Where is the value of providing a widget to a customer without giving > them a clue as to what the widget is or what to do wi

i810_audio module question

2004-01-17 Thread LeVA
Hi! I'm using this audio driver with 2.4.24 OSS support. I can see this when I load this module: i810_audio: Primary codec has ID 0 i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels. i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode. i810_audio: Resetting connection 0 i810_audio: Connection 0 with co

you are an idiot

2004-01-17 Thread debian-devel
why do you do that?

ati radeon 9200 - slow 3d acceleration

2004-01-17 Thread LeVA
Hi! I have an ati radeon 9200 card, and want to use it's 3d acceleration. Info:  o XFree86 Version 4.3.99.902 (4.4.0 RC 2)    - radeon drm as module (from the Xdrm.tgz package, source)  o Driver from the ati's hp 3.7.0    - fglrx (xfree driver, and kernel module by that name)    - ati's libGL.so

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-17 Thread Travis Crump
Wayne Topa wrote: Richard Lyons([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Friday 16 January 2004 22:23, Wayne Topa wrote: [...] I have a mailfilter rule that deletes mail without an originating Message-ID: and it has not had a false positive in over 3 months now. [...] Would you care to shar

Re: Gnome-session startup failure

2004-01-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
A.L.Meyers wrote: Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how to get around this. Lux /var/log/gdm ? /var/log/XFree86.0.log ? Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: gpm start at reboot

2004-01-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dennis Kaplan wrote: How do I get my gpm mouse driver to start after a reboot. Right now I am running gpmconfig after every reboot. If you did a Debian install of gpm, it will have a gpm entry in /etc/init.d and appropriate links in /etc/rcx.d so that gpm starts on boot using /etc/gpm.config for

Re: unable to connect with gaim to yahoo messenger

2004-01-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-17, Kent West penned: > Micha Feigin wrote: > >>I just tried connecting with gaim to a yahoo messenger account for the >>first time and I can't get it working. as far as I can tell I have a >>profile (I have a yahoo email and it seems to me that I activated the >>messenger profile). Wh

Re: mozilla>print freezes

2004-01-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, since a while I cannot print HTML file and Emails from Mozilla (1.5-3 Debian testing): mozilla freezes and I have to kill it. Any idea ? Thanks in advance, Jerome You mean "freezes", does the popup appear that announces he is preparing the print? Or does it free

Re: Unacceptable HDD performance

2004-01-17 Thread Stephen Touset
Agreed. To the original poster, try using hdparm. You can use it to turn on DMA to the device (which seems like the most obvious source of the problem to me) by using `hdparm -d1 /dev/`. If that doesn't fix the problem, use hdparm to run a test on the hard drive, and also use it to output the hard

Re: mozilla>print freezes

2004-01-17 Thread Glen Snyder
I had the same problem on a home computerI did a couple of things at once, so I'm not sure which took care of it, so you might want to try one at a time. Sorry that I can't be more specific, this is probably overkill and someone can probably give you a more concise way of fixing things (I like

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