Upgraded to buster; screen offset on wake

2020-03-15 Thread alan/james
Hi all, I just updated to buster from stretch (no problems). I have a desktop with two monitors. I have the basic power saving setting that blanks the screens after 5 minutes. When I wake the screens, the primary display is offset to the left by about 2 inches, leaving a black band along

Re: Restore CD image equiv.

2002-04-02 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:10:52AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: Well, you could use Ghost or DriveImage. Or PartImage: http://www.partimage.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim - remove many messages

2002-03-26 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:43:43AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Secondly, I'd like to make something like the line below work in bash. Exim complains in this case of not finding a message with id -. cat /tmp/e | exim -Mrm - have a look at the xargs program. You should be able to cat

Re: rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:11:20AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. In my new Woody installation, I cannot find rc.local. What is the correct place / file to use for boot-up configuration / control commands? I just put this

Re: mutt + smtp authentication

2002-03-21 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:59:09PM +0200, janet wrote: SMTP server I must use to send my email requires authentication. snip Is there possibly some easier solution? You could just stop using this server and send mail direct from your own machine. Unless theres some firewall in the way then

Re: mutt + smtp authentication

2002-03-21 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:34:33AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Hmmm I feel sure that when I tried this a couple of years ago I ran into the DUL list - many e-mails bounced because I wasn't registered with them. Has that problem gone away? No, it didn't go away... I tried to send

Re: ncurses HeLP

2002-03-21 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:08:48AM -0600, Ronneil Camara wrote: And also, I am doing the traditional way of compiling the kernel, make menuconfig, make dep clean modules_install bzImage Will this work on debian? It'll work but you might find it easier to: make menuconfig make-kpkg

Re: dosemu: com port problem partially solved

2002-03-21 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:00:25AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: Hi Phil and list! I discovered that my com ports work as root, but I'm not sure how to get access myself. My ttySx are currently set for root and dialout, and this isn't a problem in linux since i am a member of dialout. However,

Re: make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1

2002-03-21 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 03:11:47PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile a custom 2.4.18 kernel and keep getting this error: make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/arch/i386/boot' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18' touch

Re: Need some sound advice - SB Live!

2002-03-20 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:44:23PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: I think I need soundcore, but I'm not clear what kernel config I should use to build it. I'm not clear if I need ALSA or OSS in addition. fgrep SOUND /boot/config-2.4.17 | grep -v ^# CONFIG_SOUND=y Thats why you dont have a

Re: xawtv and fullscreen

2002-03-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 07:07:38AM -0500, stan wrote: Soes this thread imply that xawtv, in full screen mode, is able to automagicly swtich X resolutinos such that it does give full screen, instead of just centering the TV image on the display with a black border around it? Yes it can.

Re: Need some sound advice - SB Live!

2002-03-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 07:56:16AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: Oh, ok, so that's soundcore. But is that a problem -- will startup scripts expect soundcore to be a module? I dont think it'll be a problem. I have a module so i wouldnt really know though. I dont think I have any audio related

Re: dosemu

2002-03-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:08:17AM -0700, Phil Reardon wrote: I installed dosemu on my potato box to try to help Cheryl, but it did not give me any man or info pages. Who maintains dosemu, anyway? Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like there is some info in /usr/share/doc/dosemu

Re: apt-get reinstall?

2002-03-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:33:59AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: Hi, Is there an easy method to re-install a package? I rebooted my machine and apache is segfaulting right as it starts up. Other applications are running fine, even Tomcat which taxes memory. apt-get install --reinstall

Re: Galeon PSM

2002-03-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:32:11AM -0800, Michael Montagne wrote: What is PSM for Galeon (mozilla?)? mozilla-psm - Mozilla Web Browser - Personal Security Manager (PSM) its the https/ssl component. there will be much overwriting)? I've installed everything else with apt-get so I'd like to

Re: How to install a new kernel when your / partition is neary f

2002-03-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:00:43AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Or perhaps /tmp is a culprit? On my system / looks like this: 3.4M/bin 1.2M/boot 26k /dev 4.8M/etc 8.4M/lib 2.8M/sbin my /lib is 35M. Including about 5M of modules for each kernel image. I

Re: sawfish and gnome-panel

2002-03-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:42:23AM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: Does anyone know what caused the change or how I might get the old behaviour back? Its possible that gnome is starting up before sawfish has finished loading so gnome sees no window manager at all. how do you start X ? perhaps

Re: An evangelism success -- new Debian convert

2002-03-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:12:00PM -0700, dave mallery wrote: could you please tell me where to find the genlocal thingie he mentions. i have the perl local problem since my woody upgrade last nite. he means /usr/sbin/locale-gen it's in the locales package.

Re: xawtv and fullscreen

2002-03-19 Thread Alan James
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:07:01PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: If I'm right, Modelines are not necessary any more with XF86-4.1 . That's right, X now has a set of vesa display modes built in, so you dont need to set up common modes. So, how can I get this (from the man page): Modeline

Re: docs material

2002-03-19 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:52:53PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for some readable documentation about ethernet frame. I've looked at google, but there is too much of links, and as I'm beginner ... cant choose Must be something wrong with your googling technique..

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-15 Thread Alan James
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:25:31AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:37:06PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: (and to know that they're in maildir format), then run all your old messages back through procmail again. I believe procmail comes with a utility called 'formail'

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-14 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:59:15PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: begin Alan James quotation: Are you still using MH folders ? How'd you get mutt to show a list of MH folders with the new message count for each ? I converted my MH folders to maildir and now I use that. Mutt seems

Re: Playing with domains: virtual host

2002-03-14 Thread Alan James
I am not sure how to solve this with DNS. The DNS server should return the new domain name too, not only it's ip. You cant. its the browser that asks the webserver for that domain. Your fighting a losing battle here. You'll have to ask that your web host accepts the alternative name for your

Re: power off problem

2002-03-13 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:16:14PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: I already tried APM, then APM with 'use real mode APM BIOS call to power off' option and finally I tried ACPI instead of APM - didn't make any change. Does anybody have an idea? Sorry if this is a stupid question.. Do

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:36:28PM -0500, Chris wrote: You are kidding right? IRC is extremely inappropriate for a child to use, period. You are way off base, your perspective is badly skewed and I fear for the safety of your daughter online. I wish her the best of luck with such poor

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Alan James
This bug is fixed. This is no longer an issue. Please dont reply to this thread, or at least dont CC every other list about it.. Yes, I was foolish enough to group reply already, sorry. You can get the get the details of this mess from :

Re: kernel compile problem -- unresolved symbols

2002-03-12 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 04:53:52PM -0600, Christopher M. Jones wrote: I'm compiling for a K7/Athlon/Duron system. As far as I can tell, -all- modules come up with unresolved symbols. In other words, any module I try to load comes up with unresolved symbols, whether part of the kernel, or

Re: kernel compile problem -- unresolved symbols

2002-03-12 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:24:22AM +, Alan James wrote: This may be a daft question but when you load modules are you using inmod or Sorry I meant insmod there of course. Still modprobe is the one to use.

Re: Mutt Configuration

2002-03-11 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:20:28AM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote: To all: I recently just installed Mutt 1.3.27-4 and I want pull my email off of an Exchange server with IMAP enabled. How would I configure Mutt for this and what would be the proper steps or procedures in configuring Mutt

Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:28:18AM -0500, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: I installed Debian Linux 2.2 on a machine at home that I want to configure as a firewall. I don't have a monitor for this machine so I've been swapping my monitor between this machine and my NT workstation. I do have an old ASCII

Re: fatal server error: no screens found

2002-03-11 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:23:31PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: I have run xf86config and xf86cfg with different resolutions and color depths, but I still end up with the same error. Any help would be appreciated, I have run out of ideas. Make sure you have xserver-xfree86 installed.

Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:04:33PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:30:09PM -0500, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: add the following to your lilo.conf append = console=ttyS0,9600 or whatever port you connecting to then just run minicom Why would you run minicom? *How*

Re: PPP DNS Problem: Corrected!

2002-03-07 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 07:25:49AM -0800, John Shepherd wrote: All, . I previously listed my machine's local network IP address (192.168.1.1) as the gateway address when setting up the network. I left gateway address blank this time. That was probably it, not that I read your previous

Re: IRC Client?

2002-03-07 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 07:43:23AM -0800, John Shepherd wrote: Does the debian distribution include a character-based IRC client? If so, what is it I like xchat-text, I'm not sure which debian branch you need to be running to get it though. It helps if you've run the gui xchat first to

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-06 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:06:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Not to US, but just out in _EVERY_ direction, since that alien civ doesn't know in what direction the receiving civ is. apt-get install alien Sorry I had to ;-)

Re: Doubts about Quake II

2002-03-05 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:44:04PM +0100, Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote: So the real questions are... ¿What can I do to get my PS2 mouse working below Quake using SVGAlib? ¿Whan do I need to get Open GL acceleration with my Voodoo under Quake? I assume that if you get it working under X

Re: Cannot give access to X-Server to other users on same machine

2002-03-04 Thread Alan James
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:19:59PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. Still no answer... :( use sudo, its easier. install sudo, edit /etc/sudoers to make yourself a sudoer. then you can $sudo kreatecd Password: enter your user password not roots Tada it works. sudo seems to keep the

Re: Powered by Debian logo request

2002-03-04 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:05:10PM -0500, sam wrote: i am currently using Debian, how do i get that offical Powered By Debian logo to put in my web? http://www.debian.org/logos/

Re: www forward with bind

2002-03-01 Thread Alan James
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:00:28PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: Hello, I have tried various variations in the zone files, like: www IN CNAME www.me.provider.com. but I have not gotten it to work. That should work, sort of. Assuming the ret of bind is set up ok then resolving

Re: Xf864 config, and LCD flat panel dispalys?

2002-03-01 Thread Alan James
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:14:23AM -0500, stan wrote: How can I configure X to work with the new display? Assuming X4, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Then you can tell it that you have an lcd display and choose the relevant resolution. With luck you might end up with sub-pixel-antialiasing

Re: resource for woody freeze status?

2002-02-28 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:29:59PM +0100, Oliver Doepner wrote: Hi, is there any online resource that documents the (current) status of the woody freeze process? Debian Weekly news is a great resource. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ The last few weeks have had interesting news about

Re: Apache fails to ExecCGI properly

2002-02-28 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:43:00PM -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote: If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate the help. Thanks! Error messages from the failures might help. look in /var/log/apache/error.log If the configs are the same it might be the locations of the cgi scripts If its sometimes this

Re: trouble with scp: partly a re-post

2002-02-27 Thread Alan James
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:19:10 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using the form ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:filename user2ipaddress:filename and have also tried I dont think you can do that. I never made it work anyway. One side of the scp expression has to be local it seems.

Re: trouble with scp: partly a re-post

2002-02-27 Thread Alan James
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:38:11 + Alan James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:19:10 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using the form ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:filename user2ipaddress:filename and have also tried I dont think you can do that. I never

Re: Can't access www

2002-02-27 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:59:02AM +, Martin Price wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try them tonight when I get home (I too am an NTL sufferer - I feel your pain). Then its ntls fault. must be. look here for the alternate proxies

Re: problems w/ colors, PLEASE HELP!!

2002-02-27 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:43:26AM -0500, Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: I do have the rgb.txt file and the symlink in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 ?

Debconf X config doesnt offer mouse protocol choices

2002-02-27 Thread Alan James
I think I should be using Intellimouse or Auto for my usb mouse however debconf doesnt offer me the option. The relevant section in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is : Name: xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/mouse/protocol Template: xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/mouse/protocol Value:

Re: VRML browser

2002-02-27 Thread Alan James
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:06:58 +0100 Mirek Dobsicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, I'm looking for some good VRML browser under linux. In school I have lessons from Multimedia and virtual reality. I'm supposed to write interactive(javascritp driven) multiuser virtual world. Is

Re: Good Dual head /w TVout

2002-02-26 Thread Alan James
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:43:15 +0100 Pontus Edvardsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm struggling with the secondary head of my Matrox Millennuim G550. I want to output that to my TV. I understand Matrox does not support this, still, has anyone got it working somehow? Thanks for any

Re: shutdown in gnome 1.4

2002-02-26 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:59:22AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello, I am running woody + gnome 1.4+ sawfish. I would like to know if there exists a clever way of shutdown the system than opening a shell, login as root and type shutdown -h now. Thanks in advance If you are

Re: Can't access www

2002-02-26 Thread Alan James
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 01:25:31 + (GMT) Martin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the stock 2.2.19pre17 kernel. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn doesn't exist, but I wonder if it could be any of the other settings. I have to admit I'm completely out of my depth once I get to messing around in

Re: [OT] More mail filter questions

2002-02-25 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:53:30AM -0600, Corey Halpin wrote: Ok, it's become a mission now. Before I leave .edu, I want to a) find a beer that I like, and b) have a set of procmail filters such that I don't get any ugly stupid email. I'd welcome pointers for both. :-) More to

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Alan James
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:36:18 -0500 Bob Thibodeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd try Sylpheed after seing mention of it on this list, but never felt like configuring another client. Now that I've read it doesn't play nice with mutt, I'll just remove it. I've got it working reasonable

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Alan James
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:44:30 -0800 Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found it a major annoyance, but maybe I just receive a lot more mail than you do. Probably, ive just joined this list, and I've more than doubled my daily mail. To me, also, there was the basic question, why do I

Re: searching for an ICQ application

2002-02-25 Thread Alan James
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:44:41 +0100 (CET) Ondrej Zima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: Ickle (in near future) can send SMS :-) It does already doesnt it ? Ah, wait, I am using the cvs version..

Re: Script that when when you login

2002-02-25 Thread Alan James
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:52:33 -0700 darrell dupas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i give this tip all the time because i find xdm and gdm annoying when trying to configure X This might be a sid/woody thing but after gdm dies about 5 times in a short period of time it stops trying to load it, so

Re: Script that when when you login

2002-02-25 Thread Alan James
On 25 Feb 2002 23:26:48 + Patrick Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have added a command to run a xterm to my .xsession just in case I hose my settings to the point where that xterm will be all that stands between me and disaster. what about virtual consoles ? ctrl+alt+Fsomething

Re: Need help with mailman setup

2002-02-22 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:49:18PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: I've had mailman on my system for quite awhile, but only now am attempting to use it. Following the Debian README, I have tried to access it with http://localhost/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo but I get a 404 error (file not found).

Re: Slow iptables impatient cron solved

2002-02-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: By experimenting, I found out that the long lookup occurred when my iptables rules used a netmask that does not correspond to a known subnet, namely 192.168.2.0/28 when the local network is 192.168.2.0/24. iptables was

Re: Minicom problem

2002-02-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:25:06AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: I can run and dail and otherwise use minicom as root, but if I try as a regular user, I get minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied ls /dev/ttyS1 results in... crw-r-1 root dialout4, 65 Feb

Re: VIM command to convert comma delimited text to latex table

2002-02-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:45:22AM -0800, Abner Gershon wrote: Can someone tell me search and replace commands I can use to convert comma delimited text in form: field 1,field 2,field 3 to text file to be used in tabular latex file of form: field 1 field 2 field 3 Will this do ? cat