D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
D cd / ; rm -fr *.exe
D
D This command will remove all files ending in .exe from the entire
D filesystem.
No, it won't. It will find all files and directories in the root
directory whose names end in .exe and completely and permanently
remove them. 'find', as
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MC Does exist a Debian front end for LaTeX, like pctex for windows?
Sure; just install the various tetex-* packages. /usr/bin/latex is a
perfectly servicable LaTeX2e driver.
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David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PS On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:02:09PM +0100, Joerg Huber wrote:
JH I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the
JH debian-paket mentioned in the subject. But I could not figure out
JH for what kind of card the module will work. Does
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ES note that to get DRI working you need very recent kernel, either one
ES of the pre- 2.4 version or 2.2.18 (is it out yet?)
You need 2.2.18. It's out; I don't think there's an official Debian
package of it yet in unstable, but getting your own package is
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
NEN Running woody with Helix Gnome packages.
Keep in mind that the Helix packages aren't part of Debian. Unstable
seems to have had pretty current GNOME packages for a while now.
NEN I use gdm as my display manager, gnome-session as my session
NEN
Wesley Wannemacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
WW The preferred (Debian) way to change this would be to
WW update-alternatives. Set the editor alternative to your favorite text
WW editor.
Only if you want to change it for every user on your system and you
have root. I'd leave editor set to
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bob On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:11:03PM -0800, Nick wrote:
Nick i am having a few problems when i try to MAKE a module
Nick
Nick error file not found linux/vmalloc.h
Nick linux/poll.h
Nick linux/init.h
Nick asm/uaccess.h
Nick
Nick and in
D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
D The only problem is that many of the packages are old (ie gnome-*,
D sawmill, python, etc). When was Potato released?
Only a couple of months ago. Some of the packages are likely older
because Debian goes through a substantial freeze to make sure that
every
Robert L Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RLH I just did a dist-upgrade of my woody box and now I can't cut and
RLH paste between my xterms or ETerms anymore...
Okay; you should diagnose the problem in a little more detail and
report a bug. See http://bugs.debian.org/ for details.
--
David
Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
M Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere on a
M system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have
M Packages.gz files
Nope.
M (how are those created anyhow?).
Install the dpkg-dev package, and look at the
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ES I have internal modem (real one, it works, the question is not about
ES it and I know I should get external one:-) which acts as a serial port.
ES It is ISA PnP card, can use different IRQs.
ES
ES My main question is: how do I find out which IRQ it uses
Xucaen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Search the recent archives. ;)
X
X does anyone have the address of the archives?
Have you tried the prominent Mailing List Archives link from the
left side of http://www.debian.org/?
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David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Glenn Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GB The last salvo seems to have irked *something* in my X setup, but I can't
GB figure out what. I had always run the command
GB
GB startx -- -bpp16
GB
GB to get a nice display.
(And it doesn't work now.)
In my memory, you've always wanted to use 'startx
uland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
uland I want to submit a job to crontab, and follow the new format
uland such as:
uland m h dom mon dow user command
uland 0 12 * * * someone /bin/somecommand
uland But it does not work for me. I find some message in syslog:
uland Dec 14 12:00:00 omega
Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CS On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:46:20 -0800 (PST)
CS Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CS
AP Greetings. I'm trying to compile (from source) alsa-driver and the other
AP components of alsa, and running into this (rather opaque) problem:
AP
AP make[1]:
David A Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DAR On 14 Dec 2000, David Z Maze wrote:
DZM Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CS It seems that kernels and the alsa driver like to live in
CS certain directories. I assume here, you do have the kernel
CS sources comiled and installed (BTW
Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AS i wanna build my own kernel using make-kpkg with some custom patches (the
AS openwall patch and the sub domain patch from wirex) with the release
AS 2.2.18 kernel (which isn't in debian yet).
AS
AS it looks like i can just put the patches into
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chris I am new to Debian.
Chris I have installed the base system.
Umm, you kind of need to install the rest of the system. The base
system contains a minimal set of packages, such that (a) it can fit on
a sane number of floppies and (b) you can install the rest
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ES you need to reconfigure the package, I am not sure which one, probably
ES xserver-xfree86, and I am not sure how exactly
With dpkg-reconfigure packagename.
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
Theoretical
QBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
QBA I've been browsing through this list contents and learned that
QBA Debian has tools letting me make deb packages from tarballs or
QBA rpms (and source packages too of course).
(Probably 'alien', no?)
QBA But I don't know if it's really useful and needed.
I've
Ray Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RP I'm going to be getting a new mouse/trackball for xmas. Before I start
RP telling people what I want though I thought I'd check with you all.
RP So have any of you used the logitech Trackman Marble Wheel
Yes, works fine, no problems with it at all. I
Scott Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SP I believe you can tell your computer which run-level to start with
SP at the LILO prompt (assuming you're using LILO). IIFC, simply
SP typing 2 and enter, will start you at run-level 2 (no X-Server
SP running...plain ole console mode).
You can, in
Brian Potkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BP If I understand you correctly you are saying that using -dpi 75 informs
BP an application which wants to display a 72 point font that it will be
BP allowed 75 pixels whereas with -dpi 100 it will get 100 pixels. Having
BP spent some time in the recent
patd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
pd i'm thinking of removing python, but before i do, i want to know which
pd packages depends on it. is there a dpkg/apt command that will show me
pd what the dependencies are?
(1) Start dselect.
(2) Find the appropriate Python package. Type '-' to remove it.
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MC I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the .gnome-error file and
MC I found inside of it a lot of the following two lines:
MC
MC GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in
MC module_path='libpixmap.so'
My guess on this one is
Richard Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RH Are there official cd images?
RH I have bought three CDs called Official Debian 2.2 CDs 1-3.
RH From the Linux Emporium in the UK.
Part of the point of the DFSG is that everything in Official Debian
(TM) is free to redistribute pretty much without
a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
a I have Debian 2.0 and Intel Pentium 100 and notice the following message
a when booting Debian:
a
a Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled
a
a Does it means that I have a buggy chip? How to verify that and find more
a info?
In fact, you do have a buggy
Timothy C Phan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TCP Is there any utility to convert CD files to MP3 files on Linux?
I highly recommend abcde. You'll have to provide your own encoder.
On Woody, abcde defaults to producing OggVorbis files; it's the same
concept as MP3, but free of nasty patent problems.
Robert D Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RDH Is there a command available in Debian to determine what
RDH resolution is being used in an X session?
In amidst all of the information 'xdpyinfo' displays is this:
screen #0:
dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (325x260 millimeters)
I assume from
Jinsong Zhao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JZ This is the first horrible thing I can think of: code compiled on
JZ Debian does not run on Redhat! Several programs I compiled on the
JZ Debian run fine on Debian, but when I installed Redhat and tried to
JZ run those programs, say in bash you type ./pgp,
David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DZM Jinsong Zhao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JZ I used this command: sh pgp and then the error message is:
JZ
JZ cannot execute binary file
DZM
DZM This generally means there's some sort of library problem.
Now that I'm looking at this again, it's worth
Karsten M Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
KMS I note that my system is running at 75 dpi. Will 100 dpi give more or
KMS less resolution, and how do I set resolution anyway?
That number is basically a measurement of how big fonts are; a bigger
number means you'll have larger fonts. On a 75dpi
Frank Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FC On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LHR I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular
LHR subscribers to this list to deal with the high volume of
LHR messages (250/day)?
FC
FC A mail2news gateway. A
Wesley Wannemacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
WW I don't think you need to be a programmer, usually the following works
WW for me to install from source:
...
WW Normally one can also start by taking a gander at the README file
WW (RTFM). For PHP in particular, I used something close to the
Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JP I did as the documentation tells:
JP
JP - Install lm-sensors-source, i2c-source
JP - Go to top of kernel source tree
JP - Use make-kpkg to build the kernel
JP
JP Since I did a make-kpkg clean, I did:
JP
JP - make dep
JP - make-kpkg modules_image
Ringo De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RDS BTW, what are the semantics of the different run levels under Debian.
RDS KDE2 seems to launch KDM even in runlevel 2.
There are no predefined semantics. The local administrator is welcome
to change the /etc/rc?.d symlinks by hand to get whatever
Andrew Dwight Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ADD I'm using telnet to log into my desktop machine from my laptop and
ADD I would like to be able to run an application on the desktop machine and
ADD have the display be on the laptop. After loging into the desktop and
ADD switching the DISPLAY
nw x [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
nw I have a question about my printer: When I print some pdf from
nw acroread, the printer works fine, however, when I want to print
nw some plain text file from xterm with the command lpr filename, I
nw can just get the first two lines of the file. Does anybody know
Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DS There are a few things which seem to reset themselves to defaults when
DS upgraded without offering an option to keep the old config:
DS
DS - Eterm resets all of its 'system' (i.e., the ones in
DS /usr/share/Eterm/themes) themes back to the default
Chris Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CP Anyone running a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 on Debian?
CP Just curious if it works well or not.
I have a Voodoo3 2000, and it works fine. I used the XF86_SVGA server
on XFree86 3.3.6 (the version in potato), and am using the XFree86
server in woody. Getting 3D
Christian Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CE I always used successfully dselect with the option multi-cd for
CE to install some deb-packages of my distribution. Now I like to
CE install a downloaded deb.package or one from another cd. I tried
CE (with option mounted) and dselect wants to know
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SB Could someone pleas explain the relationship between Gnome and
SB windo managers?
They're orthogonal. You can run any window manager you want with
GNOME and it'll work just fine[1].
SB Is there a Gnome Prefered window manager?
No.
SB How do I set up to
Karsten Bolding [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
KB As user kbk - logged in via xdm - on orca.
KB xhost +
KB access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
You realize that this is a Really Bad Idea (TM), right?
KB As user lene (also on orca)
KB setenv DISPLAY orca:0
KB xterm
KB xterm Xt
Grischa Schuering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GS I just changed from SUSE to Debian and kind of have problems with
GS the VI. When in INSERT mode I used to see that from the status
GS line below, now there isnt anything. Also Delete isn't working as
GS before, also when using the cursor keys,
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MC I would like to know if alien can be user to obtain a .deb from a
MC .rpm.
Yes.
MC If this is the case, what happens with the directories were, after
MC installation, files are installed? I mean RH may use some
MC directories and Debian anothers.
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
WT On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:02:43PM +, sena wrote:
Hi.. I believe that this must be a FAQ, but here it goes anyway...
How can I upgrade from Potato to Woody? I'm thinking of doing the following:
1) change all the lines in sources.list from stable
Paul Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PS How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was
PS Redhat) which did all the magic. What packages/setup do I need to get
PS this to work.
You probably want a print spooler (either lpr or lprng) and the
magicfilter package.
GYULAI Mihaly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GM I tried to use an 'apt-get install netstd' command, but received
GM many error messages about other packages that were selected before,
GM with 'dselect'. (these packages are mainly Python-related).
GM
GM The error messages are about unconfigured
Michael Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MP Ok, I recently got a Maxtor 80Gb HD, so I figured I'd start with a fresh
MP install of Potato on my system. My problem is that I can't seem to get a
MP kernel that gives me both IP Masquerading and support for the drive.
MP
MP Now, on the kernels
Sreeni R Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SRN I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and
SRN apt. Is there any available document or URL that compares rpm
SRN with the above tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any
SRN help is much appreciated.
dpkg is sort of like rpm.
Timo Benk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TB Hi,
TB On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Matthew Sackman wrote:
MS The problem is that my kernels refuse to install. I have
MS downloaded the kernels from ftp.kernel.org, unpacked
MS them. Configured them using menuconfig,
TB If I understand you right you downloaded a
milenium moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
mm I come from Indonesia. I want ask you about
mm licensing/limitation of use from non-US/main section
mm that include in Debian 2.2 Official CDs. If in my CDs
mm contain non-US/main section (application/software)
mm is legal or ilegal if I instal to my
Iohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Iohan I installed WP8 (download version) and I get the following when I try
Iohan to run 'xwp'
Iohan
Iohan xwp: can't load library libXt.so.6
...
Iohan When attempting to install WordPerfect 8.0 on the download version of
Iohan Corel Linux 1.0, the following error
Terry Boon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TB In Running Linux, the example lilo.conf includes the line
TB
TBboot = /dev/hda
TB
TB This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The
TB explanation continues If you give a partition device name (such as
TB /dev/hda2), instead of a
Jesse Goerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JG I just installed the Vim editor but seem to be having some
JG problems. When I type help it says:
JG
JG Sorry, help file /usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt not found
JG
JG I tried typing help version5 and it says:
JG
JG No tags file
JG Sorry, no help for
Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JD On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:03:37PM +, Greg Gilbert wrote:
GG Sounds like someone disobeyed the XFree86 maintainer when he said
GG not to build packages against the beta packages of XFree86 4. They
GG are on www.debian.org/~branden if you are willing
john gennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JG Trying to install libmng_0.9.2-3.deb (from the command line)
JG to satisfy a dependency of libqt2.2_2.2.1-4.potato.2_i386.deb
JG and progress on to KDE2, I get the following error:-
JG libmng depends on libc6 (=2.1.94)
JG version of libc6 on
john gennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JG I have used Slink and now use Potato. As I seem to be getting
JG problems installing KDE on Potato and many people say they
JG are running Woody successfully, I wonder if I shall go to Woody.
Well, remember, Woody is Debian's *unstable* branch. Which
Thomas Guettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TG On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Kai Weber wrote:
KW I just installed the task-sgml package for learning and using sgml. But
KW where do I start? There is no hint from where I should start learning
KW the sgml syntax and so on.
TG
TG Start
Gyulai Mihaly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GM I just upgraded from 'slink' to 'potato'. Now my /root partition is
GM full. Do I need the contents of the following directories, or may I
GM delete them?
GM
GM /var/cache/apt 6 MB
GM /var/state/apt/lists 3.7 MB
GM /var/lib/dpkg/info 4.6 MB
GM
Paul D Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PDS Now when I boot the system it prints MBR, then does a hard hang. I
PDS can't even C-A-D or use the reset button, I have to power off/on.
PDS
PDS If I hold the SHIFT key down, it prints MBR 2AF, then does the same
PDS hard hang.
PDS
PDS I can boot off
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mark I'm looking at the wine documentation directory, and half the files
Mark seem to be sgml ones. How do you read them? Do you need to run a
Mark utility to convert them to latex or something?
In general, you need a tool capable of reading whatever
Robin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RC I've recently started using Debian after some time with SuSE and
RC am finding lots about Debian I like better, not the least is
RC dpkg/dselect/apt.
Welcome aboard! :-)
RC One thing I've done is to accumulate a number of updated packages
RC off the
Chris Blazie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CB I've never used a debian distribution, but now I have a need to
CB look at some debian packages. Where can I get the debian package tool
CB (dpkg?) in a non-package format?
Source and compiled (.tar.gz) binaries are on the FTP site in
debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
d after a apt-get dist-upgrade my system (woody) seems quite
d broken.
Yup, it happens. shrug If this is a problem for you, don't run a
distribution that advertises itself as unstable. Or, even better,
find the problem and file appropriate bug reports.
--
A R [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AR I have problems installing Ggradebook (Gnu software), it complains that
AR some libraries for gtk+ are absent.
You're trying to compile software, so you need the -dev package for
whatever libraries it needs. In the case of Gtk+, it's libgtk1.2-dev;
do you have
Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DR Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more
DR information, as I still don't understand, why the warning
DR main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
DR is generated in my case:
DR
DR I have the following
Rogelio E Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
REC I've a COM21 cablemodem from my cable local company to access Internet...
REC But, The dhcpcd doesn't obtain an IP Address,
I don't know what your provider is like, but mine would only install
on a Windows or Mac machine, which I fortunately
Michael P Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MPS On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
WT
WT New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be
WT upgraded without changing the install status of another package
WT will be left at their current version. An
Matthew Emmett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ME Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ME $ ps -o pid,ppid,cmd | grep dns helper
ME
ME tells me the pid and ppid of any dns helper netscape processes (and
ME grep, but I'll filter that out). Next, I take all but the largest pid
ME and kill it. This
Karsten M Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
KMS On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
PK I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update
PK apt-get -d install sth)
KMS
KMS Using two different package management systems on a
Andreas Tscharner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AT I wonder when XFree86 4.0.1 comes into woody.
It'll be in when the X maintainer decides that his packages are stable
enough for general use. My impression is that their current state
isn't particularly usable unless you're willing to do significant
Francois Fayard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FF I have compiled XF 4.0.1 in /usr/XF40 (I don't want XF 4.0.1 from Woody
FF because I run Potato). But now Gdm doesn't start the X server at boot time
FF and I don't know where I have to configure this special installation.
FF
FF I have put the new
Rino Mardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RM heh. just want we need someone from #linux recommending RTFM. if
RM you read my message right, security updates are done via http in
RM /etc/apt/sources.list what i'm looking for is if someone has done
RM it using ftp as i can't.
Why can't you? Have you
Bob Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BE (1) What all do I have to configure if I want to use gnome as my gui ?
There are a couple of different things you can do. One is to install
the GNOME Display Manager (gdm), and select GNOME off of its menu.
Another is to create a $HOME/.xsession file
Francois Fayard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FF Does anybody knows if some programms that convert man pages, emails,
FF info pages, etc... in LaTeX ?
Each of those is a little different; the basic answer to each is no,
not to my knowledge. But:
-- Manual pages are formatted using 'roff. Running
David Kronholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DK I'm a Linux newbie, and I've jut installed 2.0 on a PC.
Why not the much newer Debian 2.2?
DK Everything went okay, except when I try to boot from the hard
DK disk, it hangs at a '1FA:' prompt, and I can't type anything.
This is the master boot record
Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JD What's the news on Libc6 ? I had to repartition my HD so I wiped
JD the whole thing. I'm going to reinstall potato tonite, but I'd
JD like to upgrade to woody. I use EXIM a lot. Is libc6 still causing
JD problems ?
A reminder: Debian unstable is just that,
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JS Can somebody explain the subject line to me please. I have read it in
JS a linux training document and it is not doing what the document says
JS it should do. What I do not understand and do not know where to find
JS documentation on it is the
Francois Fayard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FF I own a AC97 PCI Audio sound card built in my main board.
I've had decent luck with a similar configuration using ALSA, using
the snd-card-via686a module.
FF I've tried to load the ac97_codec module with modconf.
FF Here is the list of my modules
I'm hiding a small apartment network behind a potato box running IP
masquerading. This all works fine for the most part; I use dhclient
and the ipmasq package, and everything just works.
This morning, I couldn't reach the outside world. Some poking around
revealed that I couldn't even reach the
Scott Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently installed Potato and I'm having difficulty installing HelixGnome.
Rather than perform an installation over the modem at home, I downloaded all
of the .deb files using the leased line at work, took them home via Zip disk
and tried to perform
Scott Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DZM Scott Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SP Then, put the helixcode source in your /etc/apt/sources.list
SP file. Run a apt-get update, apt-get install task-helix-gnome
SP and that should install everything...I hope. YMMV:)
SP
DZM Well, you
Bernd Worsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BW I'm at the moment trying to use a search facility provided
BW with my perl-cd-bookshelf. They used java to implement this,
BW well i installed the kaffe package which gave me a java
BW executable. But that aint enough, cause i get:
BW
BW ./run_me.sh: [:
Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AG How would I get a real-time CPU load information? I found
AG /proc/loadavg, but that's not what I need, since it only gives average
AG load values.
My /proc/loadavg looks like
0.04 0.06 0.07 3/56 959
The first three numbers are the average
Michael P Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MPS In a shell where you're logged in as yourself, type
MPS
MPS xhost +localhost
MPS
MPS or
MPS
MPS xhost + if you want to give global access.
You probably don't want to do this, unless you're comfortable with the
concept of any user on
catherinemancuso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CM Does the new version have support for sis 530 video chipset
It looks like the XF86_SVGA server (xserver-svga package) has support
for this chipset.
CM and would a winmodem work for wvdial or ppp
It's doubtful. Keep in mind that a winmodem is
Jason Hammerschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JH RH uses an X Font Server, Debian doesn't (at least potato doesn't).
It does if you install the 'xfs' package. (Though just installing the
package doesn't automagically tweak your XF86Config to use it.)
--
David Maze [EMAIL
I have a machine set up as an IP masquerading gateway, connecting
between an in-house 10base-T LAN and a cable modem. On eth0, it has a
host name of 'annular-fried-pastry' (sometimes known as 'donut'), and
an IP address of 192.168.1.1. Its configuration on eth1 is returned
from the cable modem
Ray Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RP Thanks to the thread from a couple of days ago my mouse is now
RP working. Thanks all. One more question. Does anyone have an
RP example xsession file from 2.2 that launches X with Gnome and E or
RP how to build one? Thanks very much all.
My .xsession
Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JD When I enter dselect and go to [I]nstall and upgrade wanted packages,
JD dselect wants to install 59 packages. I don't want these packages. How do
JD I go about flushing the list of packages that dselect believes should be
JD installed ?
Go to the [S]elect
Cantoni, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MC 1) Should overwrite the source list with a new list when selecting
MC (A)ccess?
You probably never need to re-run the (A)ccess command from dselect.
For APT, it tends to be significantly easier to manually edit
/etc/apt/sources.list anyways.
MC 2)
Mark Schiltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MS I think I have tried everything, maybe my sound card is not fully
MS supported? I have a motherboard with built-in soundpro
MS (CMI8330). The sound is working with the exception of the cd
MS audio. I know the cd is working because I can use the phone plug
jereme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
j I hope this question is directed to the correct group and not
j too redundant. I checked the list archives and the policy manual
j before mailing this off. What i would like is for someone to point me
j towards a good source of information about what headers i
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
KM What's a good way to programmatically disable the mouse under
KM X, and re-enable it again, without restarting X. By
KM programmatically I mean not by unplugging the mouse or cutting
KM the wire and re-soldering it.
Umm, you can't, really; the mouse is
Bob Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BE (1) how do i configure debian for dsl ?
It depends on the sort of DSL modem you have. I think there's a
generic sort that connects with an RJ45 patch cable to a normal
Ethernet card; in this case, the problem reduces to one of setting up
an Ethernet card
Holger Rauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
HR Is it possible to have one .emacs file which can handle both GNU
HR Emacs and XEmacs? If so, what elisp construct do I have to use in
HR order to distinguish between both Emacs flavors?
One possibility is to look at the emacs-version variable:
(defvar
Brien Michael writes:
MO I've tried several different variations on getting my sound card
MO driver to correctly initialize thru /etc/modules.conf. I still have
MO not figured out a good way to do so.
MO
MO However, I can manually install the sound driver using the following:
MO
MOmodprobe
Rubbish5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
R5 Another one I forgot: I'm running GNOME with enlightenment, and
R5 when I'm in root, the pager (GNOME's pager, I got rid of
R5 enlightenment's) displays the icons as if they were programs.
Well, there's an easy answer here: don't log in to X as root. In
montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
mf I upgraded from potato [Frozen] to woody just before potato [Frozen]
mf went stable.
mf
mf I have continued to use the following URL's in /etc/apt/sources.list for
mf my apt-get upgrades:
mf
mf deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib
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