Re: Fwd: Is it possible to unsubscribe from the debian-userslist?

2002-05-09 Thread Siward de Groot
On wednesday Bill Stoye wrote: > Thank you for your help; I finally got off the list. so it turns out that it is possible, albeit after a delay of 2 weeks. I think it is not-nice and unnecessary to keep users uninformed of the situation. As it is now, they find that unsubscribing doesnt work

Re: Command Line Listing?

2002-04-26 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello Newbies :-) > Travis King wrote: > > Hey there, my uncle and I have just installed your latest Debian Linux > on an older > Solaris system. We formated and installed Debian. > > Everything is working fine that we can see, just we dont have the GUI > (Graphic User Interface)? > Or cant exec

Re: extern modem

2002-04-16 Thread Siward de Groot
"Karl E. Jorgensen" wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:43:35PM +0200, Vincent Poirriez wrote: > > I am new in the debian world, I have a problem in configuring my modem > > connection, either using pppconfig or kppp to configure it I obtain: > > Sorry, the modem is busy. While it's not true of

Re: S3 TRIO 32 and XFree86?

2002-04-14 Thread Siward de Groot
Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > > I have just installed xserver-s3 and used Debian conf to configure it. > When I try and run it I get the following: > (**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000 > (--) S3: Too little memory for mode "800x600" > (--) S3: NB. 1 scan line is required for the hardware

Re: unsubscribe

2002-04-11 Thread Siward de Groot
hi, netburner, that was the 3rd unsubscribe email you sent in 3 days, iirc. ? Are you having trouble unsubscribing ? Then please report it to the list, as you may be not the only one. Correct way to unsubscribe is as listed below : > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: fatal error: no screens found

2002-04-08 Thread Siward de Groot
I unfortunately made a mistake in my previous reply : Siward de Groot wrote: >Modeline "800x600"50.69 800 804 904 956 600 625 628 656 -hsync > -vsync > This might give you 50MHz/800=60kHz horizontal and 60kHz/600=100Hz vertical. That should be : 50.69 MHz/9

Re: fatal error: no screens found

2002-04-07 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello Henry B. , I am still using X version 3, and dont know whether that makes a difference in this case. So if i am talking nonsense here, please ignore it. you wrote: > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > Secti

Re: changing the screen resolutionctrl alt + not working

2002-04-02 Thread Siward de Groot
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:59:10AM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote: > >Hi, > > How do I change the screen resolution in X? I want to be able to shift to > > different resolutions. I read that i can change resolution by pressing > > ctrl+alt and numpad + but it doesnt work. I tried checking the

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello list readers and Debian fans ! I write this to ask you to not take actions agains Jonathan Tabaco, who has inconvenienced a number of you by sending unwanted emails. The reason i request this is because i think it is in the best interest of Debian. Jonathan is sending mail that w

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello Jonathan, I am sorry to hear that Debian lists are giving you trouble. There have been at least 2 other people experiencing this problem in the last couple of days, so it seems Debian's automated mailinglist unsubscription is indeed having problems. I have forwarded yo

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

2002-03-19 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello, John, John Lord wrote: > Same, done that, recieved Confirmation mail, and replied as above, > result the same. > > > Should neither of these work for you, then please send a detailed > > report of > > exactly what you did that didnt work. > > Right. > I have tried subbing via the web s

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

2002-03-17 Thread Siward de Groot
John Lord wrote: > > But the problem is it dosn't seem to work, "unsubbing" OR "subbing". > > Try as I might nothing works beyond getting a 'CONFIRM' mail, which I reply to in a number of ways, just to be certain. When I read a CONFIRM email, i simply click the REPLY button, and then the

Re: problem with dialup connection

2002-03-14 Thread Siward de Groot
hello, everybody, after trying wvdial, which is nice :-) , and plog, and reading man pppd and checking its config files, the problem has now disappeared (although i didnt change any settings, only removed some .bak.bak.bak files..). Output from netstat now lists a tcp process. It seems

Re: problem with dialup connection

2002-03-13 Thread Siward de Groot
Hallo Sebastiaan, thanks for taking the trouble to react :-) . Sebastiaan wrote: > > High, > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Siward de Groot wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a problem getting my dial-up internet connection to work. > >

problem with dialup connection

2002-03-12 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello, I have a problem getting my dial-up internet connection to work. Your help would be appreciated. I cant get net connection from netscape, when using Debian, due to 'host unreachable'. Running netscape from windows shows that provider is ok. The ppp link through my exter