Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
Marco d'Itri said: On Nov 13, Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fcntl() locks don't work over NFS, unfortunately (well, I'm told they They *do* work with 2.2 kernels. Any ideas what would cause them to not work with 2.2 kernels? I'm running 2.2.9 on both of the machines on my

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote: debian I like Debian's approach to distributing only gnu free debian software. But taking out gif support in the gimp is debian going too far IMHO. I prefer that the gimp is not debian distributed with Debian if Debian can't leave debian the gimp package

Re: named (bind)

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Onno wrote: ebbin2 Wouldn't: named -u named -g named ebbin2 be sufficient ??? thats what i do, named -u named -g named -t /var/named Although i eagerly await a BIND update, i was much more fearful of exploits to my proftp daemon when the new security flaws were

Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:47:43AM -0800, aphro wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: esper Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for esper resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that hadn't esper been claimed by my root and

Install woes: reset when configuring modules

1999-11-15 Thread Drew Bell
I'm re-sending this issue with some details: I'm installing slink from CD on this system: -Pentium 60 -16MB RAM -hda: 3.2 GB -hdb: 540 MB -hdc: generic IDE CDROM -Aztech sound card -Intergraph Voodoo 2d/3d -3Com Etherlink III IDE NIC Everything's peachy until I get to Configure Device Driver

Re: Shuffling drives

1999-11-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: of uptime, you tend to suspect that dual-boot isn't needed) and considering swapping the drives so the system is booting Linux from /dev/hda. Why do you want to do that? Just leave the kernel on /dev/hdb and use your new space on /dev/hda for home

Xset and auto repeat

1999-11-15 Thread Kevin M. McLin
All this discussion of xlock and xset has put me in mind of a small annoyance I've been experiencing on both my systems (running slink). I like to have auto repeat on, so I have xset r on by default. However, when I lock the screen it tends to reset the auto repeat function to off. I just type

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-15 Thread Joe Block
aphro wrote: one thing i would like to understand is what apple is doing by restricting who uses their codec. i mean..how does it hurt them if other people use it for decoding purposes? i can only imagine it helping the population In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They

Re: Cannot print after kernel upgrade

1999-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have used lpc to stop/restart my printer, but still I cannot print to lp1, even though magicfilter is set up for lp1. Your ports might have gotten reversed ... change lp1 to lp0 and see if it

g++ and libstdc++2.9 circular dependancy

1999-11-15 Thread Charles Kaufman
I am trying to install the version of g++ in stable, using dpkg. g++ depends on libstdc++2.9-dev and libstdc++2.9-dev depends on g++. dpkg will not allow the installation of one without the other, as in catch-22. Must the installation be forced? There is a bug report about a similar problem with

Re: g++ and libstdc++2.9 circular dependancy

1999-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles Kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am trying to install the version of g++ in stable, using dpkg. g++ depends on libstdc++2.9-dev and libstdc++2.9-dev depends on g++. dpkg will not allow the installation of one without the other, as in catch-22. Must the installation be forced?

Re: cron messages

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Ron What does the following mean and how do I fix it?? Ron /etc/cron.daily/cfengine: Ron cf:mustang:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:26: parse error Ron cfengine:mustang::26: Warning: actionsequence is empty Ron cfengine:mustang::26: Warning: perhaps cfengine.conf has not yet been Ron set up? Ron

Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi I have a Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro 8MB AGP, which I've generally been pretty happy with. But I've spent 6 MONTHS (on and off) trying to get the darn thing to give me 1600x1200. I can do it in WinNT, and the card and monitor are both able to take it (even should be able to handle

window managers

1999-11-15 Thread pplaw
debs, how do tell twm not to be my window manager when i type startx? ia,t. bentley taylor. // do things well! do them with heart!--linus torvalds, Linux Journal, (11/1999). //

window managers

1999-11-15 Thread pplaw
debs, how do i prevent twm from automatically being my window manager when i type startx? ia,t. bentley taylor. // do things well! do them with heart!--linus torvalds, Linux Journal, (11/1999). //

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote: jpb In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license jpb the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who jpb are the ones not giving it away. It might be possible to talk the jpb s-vision folks into releasing a

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
What is the full output of X when you start it ? use startx X.log and print the X.log to the list ..What version of X ? nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services

Re: window managers

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, pplaw wrote: pplaw debs, pplaw pplaw how do tell twm not to be my window manager when i type startx? edit ~/.xinitrc and change it, or if that file does not exist add a line: exec /path/to/your/favorite/wm or edit /etc/X11/window-managers and comment some out, change the

Re: g++ and libstdc++2.9 circular dependancy

1999-11-15 Thread Kevin M. McLin
dpkg -i foo bar seemed a little bit criptic to me. In case it was to you as well, you can just type dpkg -i g++*.deb libstdc++2.9-dev*.deb Both packages will be installed without any problem. I know this because I had the same question as you had, and this was the (successful) suggestion I

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 11/15/99, John Hasler scribbled about Re: New release over due: We are required to build and test our packages for unstable. However, it is a myth that you must upgrade to unstable before installing any packages anything from unstable. I'm not opposed to running stable --- I'm doing it

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-15 Thread Joe Block
aphro wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote: jpb In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license jpb the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who jpb are the ones not giving it away. It might be possible to talk the jpb s-vision folks

Re: umount

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Dave == Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one Dave of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero Dave activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help Dave would be

Re: kernel compile and modules

1999-11-15 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 14 de nov de 1999, a las 03:58:58 -0800, aphro dijo: the only real benefit i can see to compiling sutff as modules is: 1) if you think you may need to unload it at some point this is what I actually thought... you can have the kernel compiled with lots of loadable modules just in

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Boonstra
aphro wrote: What is the full output of X when you start it ? use startx X.log and print the X.log to the list ..What version of X ? Dang. I knew I was leaving something out. Thanks for responding. I've had to leave the machine for the afternoon, but I can say that the X

Re: window managers

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Boonstra
You wrote: debs, how do i prevent twm from automatically being my window manager when i type startx? This is determined by the file: /etc/X11/window-managers. The first one is what gets used. - Brian poe % cat window-managers

Getting modelines for my monitor

1999-11-15 Thread Arcady Genkin
I have just bought a Viewsonic GT755. It's capable of doing ,- | ViewSonic GT775 | .25 17 | 1600x1200 @ 69 | 1280x1024 @ 80 | 1152x870 @ 106 | $515 `- Where do I get modelines for it? Right now all I have for it in XF86Config is: ,- | Section Monitor |Identifier ViewSonic |

Locale C not supported?

1999-11-15 Thread Robert Bell
Hello, I am using the Xi Graphics X server (latest) with Debian 2.1. All was happy till I attempted to run netscape. This is the error: netscape: locale 'C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH env var is not set correctly? This happens to be in XiG's FAQsays to symbolic link the C

Re: Real world IP address of a machine behind a firewall ?

1999-11-15 Thread Kevin Heath
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 11:17:32PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: I am behind a firewall and/or Proxy server (I still have to learn what is the difference between those 2 and when to use each). A firewall is a machine that sits between you and your default internet gatway that blocks and/or modifies

Segfault in libc -- call to malloc from libpng

1999-11-15 Thread Jim Ziegler
I have a program which uses libpng. Libpng makes several calls to malloc. At some point libc segfaults. Stack trace: 0 ... in free from libc 1 ... in mallocfrom libc 2 ... in mallocfrom libc 3 ... in pngmalloc at pngmem:405 Code at pngmalloc:pngmem:405 ret =

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 15, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas what would cause them to not work with 2.2 kernels? I'm running Using the user space nfsd or an old and unpatched knfsd. -- ciao, Marco

Re: kernel compile and modules

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: homega 2) if you need to load something else (i.e. isapnp) before the driver homega loads homega homega should PPP be compiled as a loadable module then? nah, PPP is a network(software) thing not a hardware thing. homega well, I recently made some

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: boonst X starts automatically for me on boot -- I end up in kdm (used to be boonst xdm). How do I get the logfile you mention? kill kdm/xdm, and load X from console. kill -9 will get rid of kdm/xdm then CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACe to kill the X

Re: I killed my monitor!!

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Brad == Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Salman Is there any way to check a running X server to find out Salman exactly which modeline is being used at a given time ?? Brad Start xvidtune from a console/xterm window. Press the show Brad button. It will output the current modeline to the Brad

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Nov, aphro wrote about Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro) On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: boonst X starts automatically for me on boot -- I end up in kdm (used to be boonst xdm). How do I get the logfile you mention? kill kdm/xdm, and

Can I build a kernel with builtin IMM (ZIP DRIVE) support?

1999-11-15 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, A while back, I was unable to get my ZIP dribe to work with the PPA support, but IMM support allowed it to work. This IMM support is in a loadable module. I have been reading the Zip_Install howto, in preparation to try to get a Linux system built on a ZIP disk, to allow me to perform a

Re: Problem with named

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Nate == aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian name. How can I fix this problem? Also, how can I add some machine Brian records to the files. I have tried following the howto's and the readmes Brian but I have had no luck yet. Nate best way to do that is to add it to /etc/hosts, and change

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Brian Servis wrote: servis xdm automatically creates a log /var/log/xdm.log. I would assume kdm servis does something similar. If you really want to stop xdm/kdm us the servis init.d scripts to do it properly, i.e. '/etc/init.d/xdm stop'. i see no such log(s) either kdm

Re: Problem with named

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On 15 Nov 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote: itz Hmm, doesn't that defeat the purpose of running named in the first itz place? I'd add a new zone file and reference it from /etc/named.conf. i run named mainly on my dialup for ipmasq. for some reason DNS does not get masq'd for me under kernel 2.2 ..it

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Godric wrote: This IMHO is problem of marketing Debs - of people like us who support Debs making the public aware of just how good Debs is and how easy to upgrade. The point is that people do realise that it is easy, but they're still not ready to give up their redhat et al because a CD is

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Boonstra
Through a telnet session, I followed Brian's suggestions. Basically, I have an xdm.log but no kdm.log. But kdm is what is runnning. Below is what I found. I'll try to get more tonight when I am at console. - Brian mass % psgrep kdm root 269 0.0 0.8 5552 2244 ?

Re: Problem with named

1999-11-15 Thread Pollywog
Brian name. How can I fix this problem? Also, how can I add some machine Brian records to the files. I have tried following the howto's and the readmes Brian but I have had no luck yet. Nate best way to do that is to add it to /etc/hosts, and change your Nate /etc/resolv.conf so it

wine.conf

1999-11-15 Thread tf
Hey guys, can someone please send me a copy of his or her wine.conf? my wine is pretty mangled, and I'd like to try to track down the problem. I just want to run one program (and I believe people have done so with success, with the app in question...) thanks, -- -t

Strange file names

1999-11-15 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have some strange files. Do they have to exist in /usr/bin? ss1:/usr/bin$ ls -l | more total 9010 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root20720 Dec 24 1998 [ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 107956 Feb 24 1999 a2p lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Nov 16 03:44 - host -rwxr-xr-x

Xfonts-75dpi 3.3.4?

1999-11-15 Thread Ribamar FS
Hello! Please, Where I find the packages .deb xfonts-75dpi and 100dpi version 3.3.4? -- Ribamar FS UIN 11.899.871 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vamos catalogar o Linux no Brasil?: http://members.xoom.com/riba/ http://www.terravista.pt/Guincho/5560/

Re: Network sniffer

1999-11-15 Thread Oki DZ
Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: there is: debian/dists/slink/non-free/binary-i386/admin/sniffit_0.3.5-3.deb for i386s. Thanks a lot. (I'm sorry for treating this list like a search engine. But, oftentimes this works pretty fast :-) Oki -- Shells Command shells. Friendly user

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