Re: gnome slowdown

2001-10-18 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: I just installed unstable freshly, including GNOME. I noticed that GNOME was *totally* useless if esd wasn't running. Nautilus would hang for 15-30 seconds at a stretch, as would Galeon. Logging out was impossible or took a

gnome slowdown

2001-10-17 Thread Frank Preut
hello, after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is gnawing at my nerves again.. now it slows down in a very haphazard manner.. first of all it seems to start up slower than before.. secondly, applications might load normally but then take minutes to shut down.. or they

Re: gnome slowdown

2001-10-17 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: hello, after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is gnawing at my nerves again.. now it slows down in a very haphazard manner.. first of all it seems to start up slower than before.. secondly, applications

Re: modutils won't install on testing

2001-10-16 Thread Frank Preut
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:22:54AM -0500, DvB wrote: My last apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade modutils and then bombed with the following message: Setting up modutils (2.4.10-3) ... depmod: Unexpected value (20) in '/lib/modules/2.4.9-686/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for

Solved: gnome sound

2001-10-16 Thread Frank Preut
okay, okay.. it's all quite simple.. while it was admittedly stupid to start gnome with esd while mpg321 was running (which caused the crash and finally prompted me to carry my grief to this list), my other problems are rather easily solved because not only is mpg321 esd-aware or rather, can be

Re: gnome sound

2001-10-15 Thread Frank Preut
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:51:33PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:13:30AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: okay, i've had it.. gnome just completely froze my system.. i had to unplug it! just because i had mpg321 running in the background.. i have no idea why

Re: Mozilla on woody.

2001-10-15 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:23:48PM -0400, Thomas Hallaran wrote: Anyone know the best place to ged debs for Mozilla 9.5/woody. I have only been able to find 9.3 kicking around. The Mozilla in sid appears to be 9.4 so I am not holding my breath. Anybody sitting on unoficial apt sources for

Re: gnome sound

2001-10-15 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:30:44PM -0400, dman wrote: It's probably more of an issue with the kernel driver. When esd starts and tries to use the hardware while the hardware is in use, the driver doesn't handle that well and ends up killing the kernel (because it is the kernel). but

Re: Spam impersonating me (was Re: Spam: the last straw)

2001-10-15 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:17:23PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I'd post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and report the issue. There's not a whole lot ^ Do you know this is the correct address to send complaints to or are you just assuming the abuse part? If so, where

Re: Mozilla on woody.

2001-10-15 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:42:44PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: No, very public reasons: http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html hm, i didn't find that very useful.. does that mean, trying to apt-get mozilla 0.9.5-2_i386 isn't possible because the way it is packaged

Re: gnome sound

2001-10-15 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:52:57PM -0400, dman wrote: Normally esd is started when you start up gnome. There is a way to disable it, I think, because I don't get error messages on my workstation (has no sound card). esd will keep the sound card in use and the theory is that all applications

gnome sound

2001-10-14 Thread Frank Preut
okay, i've had it.. gnome just completely froze my system.. i had to unplug it! just because i had mpg321 running in the background.. i have no idea why that is, it works beautifully in kde but idon't like kde as much as i do gnome but this sound issue is really bugging me.. what is it in gnome

Re: Umlaute

2001-10-10 Thread Frank Preut
may suggest the german debian user list?? subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (subscribe as subject) - duerfte ich vorschlagen die deutsche liste zu benutzen?? zum abonnieren an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (subscribe in der betreff zeile) On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:01:27PM +, Wilfried Muszynski

Re: Puzzling PPP Problem

2001-10-09 Thread Frank Preut
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:18:35AM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: I have a problem that I have started getting recently with one of my ppp connections. have you tried to specify noccp in /etc/ppp/options ?? seems to be problem here and maybe it works without.. just a thought..

Re: Exim default build

2001-10-09 Thread Frank Preut
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:48:03PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: login: driver = plaintext public_name = LOGIN client_send = : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : password Timo have you (or anyone else) tried MD5 authentication with the default exim install (i.e. installed from a .deb binary,

Re: Can Linux use a Microsoft Proxy Server to access the Internet?

2001-09-30 Thread Frank Preut
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:32:42PM -0300, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: However, I was able to run ftp and connect to ftp.debian.org.br manually. When I did that, the command CD works, but LS and GET don't. What's going on? Does this have anything to do with FTP being in passive mode, or

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 their fault

Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-19 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:39:42AM -0600, John Purser wrote: I ran: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-686 At this point I got a warning to add this line to my /etc/lilo.conf initrd=/boot/initrd I did and ran: lilo apt-get install kernel-image2.4.9-686

Re: woody: segfaulting all over the place

2001-08-29 Thread Frank Preut
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:48:06PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: it happend to me once, it was memory, you can donwload a boot disk with a mem tester (memtest86, as mentioned before) and see what it says hm, so i'm on the wrong track? let's see.. i didn't think of memory because i didn't

Re: woody: segfaulting all over the place

2001-08-29 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:22:21PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: I suspect that memory words may be stripped accross both modules, so the error remains at the same address after the swap (in the different part of the same word). Can you test each module separately? Or put them in a different

woody: segfaulting all over the place

2001-08-28 Thread Frank Preut
hello friends, i recently did a fresh install of potato and immediately dist-upgraded to woody.. now, after playing around with it for a few days and installing the stuff i wanted i have this strange windows like problem: after i've been working on the computer (or after it has just been

Re: 3com NIC card configuration

2001-08-27 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:17:58PM -0400, dman wrote: The 2.2.12 version refers the Linux kernel that is included in that release of Debian. uh, no.. potato ships with 2.2.17pre[something], it's recommended to update to 2.2.19 IIRC this is the same as in my brother's Dell. In Windows it

Re: german keyboard

2001-04-22 Thread Frank Preut
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:48:06PM +0200, Ralf Batri wrote: install-keymap is on the system, but don't find any keymaps ! So what to do ? Just give me a hint ! keymaps should be in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz frank.

Re: runaway modprobe loop ...

2001-04-21 Thread Frank Preut
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:07:01AM -0400, Barry Mathieu wrote: I just finished rebooting following a, 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19' and during the boot sequence I saw a bunch of messages scroll up the screen that indicated something like, ...modprobe...error I captured the boot

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-19 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote: Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's certainly a change. I remember when I got Helix Gnome it required woody. that's the stupid part about all this:

Re: Gnome taskbar

2001-04-18 Thread Frank Preut
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:13:48PM +0200, Duser wrote: how do I start up the gnome taskbar (you know, the one with applets and a menu and the desktops map...) after I have initialized X? Well to tell the truth i need some background on how Gnome works, where can I start? i guess www.gnome.org

Re: sigh...big problems if anyone has time to help me out...

2001-04-17 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 06:11:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:45:28PM -0700, GPswyft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: First, there's documentation which covers this, the Modem-HOWTO, which you can find at http://www.linuxdocs.org/. ^

Re: Kernel - testing to stable

2001-04-16 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:00:55AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: My stable is based around 2.2.17, if the new stable is based around 2.2.2x, or 2.4.x, then how does apt-get dist-upgrade deal with a new stable kernel? Will it just download and install the new one, give driver module options,

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-07 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:36:23PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: once you have disabled portmap, please report to me whether you have xdm delays during initlevel 3 login. if yes, then you are suffering from the same problem that i have, namely that xdm/X and xfs don't communicate via ipc but insist

portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread Frank Preut
hello everyone, could someone please tell me where i can find portmap, that is, which package contains it (i can't find a package named portmap)?? as much as i can see i don't need it, and i would like to get rid of it (if that is stupid for some reason, please correct me, i'm not an

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:09:23PM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: $ dpkg -S portmap netbase: /sbin/portmap netbase: /usr/share/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap netbase: /usr/share/man/man8/portmap.8.gz You sure as hell don't want to remove netbase. nope.. should have

Re: apache: AddDefaultCharsetName invalid command

2001-02-01 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:13:56PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I'm getting the following error from 'apachectl configtest' under 'testing': [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root]$ apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 133 of /etc/apache/srm.conf: Invalid command

poff doesn't exit connection properly (was: Problems with apt-get and pppd)

2001-01-25 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:01:49AM +0100, Frank Preut wrote: hello everyone, i have two problems with my potato system which _really_ get on my nerves.. 1) i use pon/poff for my dialup connection.. the problem with this is that poff somehow doesn't seem to completely close

Problems with apt-get and pppd

2001-01-23 Thread Frank Preut
hello everyone, i have two problems with my potato system which _really_ get on my nerves.. 1) i use pon/poff for my dialup connection.. the problem with this is that poff somehow doesn't seem to completely close the connection or something because when i try to re-connect with pon

Re: gppp

2001-01-20 Thread Frank Preut
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I am running potato 2.2r plus ximian-gnome. The dial-up utility which appears in the foot menu under the internet submenu is the gnome-ppp 0.99.0. When I try to run it (as an alternative to pon/poff) I received an