realplayer plugin

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
Does anyone have the realplayer plugin working? Realplayer works fine, but when I go to a site like http://www.cbc.ca and try the realplayer video there, or CNN.com, the plugin doesn't seem to work. Mike To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the

Re: It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread William Jensen
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:12:08PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote: I did a reinstall. The first time I installed potato, the mouse was all fd up, it sticks to the bottom of the screen and refuses to com up. I can see the tip of the pointer on the bottom edge of the screen. When that happened, I

Re: realplayer plugin

2000-09-10 Thread Jaume Teixi
On Netscape you must handedit Preferences-Navigator - Applications both two following handlers should have there: Description RealAudio MIMETypeaudio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes ra,rm,ram v Use this MIME as outgoing default Application/usr/local/RealPlayer7/realplay %s

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

2000-09-10 Thread C. Falconer
Yeah - it sounds useless, but its prime use is to fsck iso-style images mounted in the file system, before burning them to CDROM At 10:44 AM 9/10/00 -0700, you wrote: Shane Pearson wrote: I noticed that fsck /cdrom reveals the possibility of fsck.iso9660, so do you know where I can get that

Re: shut down cpu fan on suspend?

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yeah, there's an option in the BIOS called fan off on suspend which I've set, but it doesn't seem to help.. -chris On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: Krzys Majewski wrote: Has anyone managed to have their cpu fan shut down when they (and/or their machine) go to sleep? Can APM do

Re: realplayer plugin

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
Hmm. Didn't work for me. If I add both of these entries, it tells me that a plugin for audio/x-pn-realaudio could not be found. Without these entries, and just the audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin with an rpm suffix pointing to the plugin, I get: Unable to establish a connection to the

Re: no ping

2000-09-10 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:02:17PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies They're there already. However, a ping localhost still works... Notice the 1 in the above statements. That means true.

Re: no ping

2000-09-10 Thread ktb
Michael Soulier wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, ktb wrote: From: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/stoddard.html Before you save and close the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, we want to keep the system from responding to ICMP requests, such as ping and traceroute, so we add the following

Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-10 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, has anyone the same experience with (all packages up-to-date) HelixGnome and Sawfish: The middle mouse button, which brings up sawfish's root menu contained under programs the whole Debian menu with apps ... Since some days I miss it! There are only some entries: xterm, Emacs, Netscape and

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:06:59AM -0400, Chris Jenks wrote: From what I have seen since this thread started, IMHO, is that a lot of RH users that have switched to Debian enjoy Debian more. Now this might be geek like, or gump like I'm not sure, Well, the reason I enjoy Debian more is

Debian or Stormix

2000-09-10 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I currently use FreeBSD 4.1. I have played with RH, MD, SuSE, and Caldera in the past. I like learning new things and thought that I would like to try Debian. As I understand it, Stormix is based on Debian. Other than different system installers and Stormix has a graphical boot screen, are

gnapster

2000-09-10 Thread Dale Morris
I just checked on the official napster website and it says the system is up and functioning.. but it's not working on my system, does anyone else have it working? -- The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Re: XF68_FBDev

2000-09-10 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:05:37PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: IIRC this is just for use with the m68k arch systems - I used this when I was running Debian on my Amigas. I *think* that the Frame Buffer drivers have been used on more architectures than that. But now they've been ported to x86 as

Re: gnapster

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Dale Morris wrote: I just checked on the official napster website and it says the system is up and functioning.. but it's not working on my system, does anyone else have it working? not here, it always gives login incorrect even if i try a new account. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336

Re: It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:12:08PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote: I did a reinstall. The first time I installed potato, the mouse was all fd up, it sticks to the bottom of the screen and refuses to com up. I can see the tip of the pointer on the bottom edge of the screen. When that happened,

Re: It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:13:44PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: I've seen this type of mouse behavior before when gdm(?) is being run. If you check the archives just a couple weeks ago you will see a fair amount of usefull fixes for this situation. It's called gpm. It sucks ;) Phil

/debian-non-US/dists/woody/Contents-*.gz

2000-09-10 Thread Horvath Akos Peter
...hi all, what is happened with this file(s)? Only Contents-hurd-i386.gz and Contents-arm.gz are in ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US :-( bye MaXX

Re: two apt-get questions

2000-09-10 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Sean == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. How do I get apt-get to tell me which version of a package it would install, without actually installing it, regardless of the version of the existing package if any? Sean apt-get -s foo bar Sorry, but it doesn't show

Re: realplayer plugin

2000-09-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:56:57PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: Hmm. Didn't work for me. If I add both of these entries, it tells me that a plugin for audio/x-pn-realaudio could not be found. Without these entries, and just the audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin with an rpm suffix pointing to

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-10 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
What's up with all the mail box full messages? On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:04:38AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -|Dear Sir/Madam -| -|Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box storage limit has exceeded. -| -|The summary of your previous message: -|From:

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-10 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
What's up with the mailbox full messages? On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:04:38AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -|Dear Sir/Madam -| -|Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box storage limit has exceeded. -| -|The summary of your previous message: -|From:

Getting closer to setting up scanner, but...

2000-09-10 Thread Gutierrez Family
Thanks to those who have helped me so far with setting up my HP ScanJet 5p scanner. I think I'm almost there, but I'm probably missing one (or a few) last steps... Here's a summary so far: From bootup messages, my scanner seems to be detected - OK !: Sep 8 18:46:54 navi kernel: Vendor:

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-10 Thread QBA
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:57:09PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: Is everyone else getting bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or is it just me? I assume it will eventually be noticed by the list admin? I sent 2 messages to the list and got 2 messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] the same notice as you.

Re: realplayer plugin

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
I vaguely remember, after installing realplayer, having to manually run one of the shell scripts (maybe mime-install??) it comes with. As for the mimetype-application bindings, editing ~/.mailcap works for me. -chris On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: Does anyone have the

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread techlists
Which also goes back to Wayne's comment on RH being better because it's more popular.=20 Well, the reason I got RedHat initially was because that was the only version of Linux at the local Fry's (or was it CompUSA?) store. Today's newbies can choose between alot more distributions, and

Problem installing Oracle 8i

2000-09-10 Thread James Grant
Hi, I am trying to install Oracle 8i on a Debian box and even though I have followed the directions to the tee, I keep recieving the same error when I try to run the ./runInstaller command. This is the error I am recieving: Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre.

Re: gnapster

2000-09-10 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I've found that gnome-napster works perfectly whereas gnapster stays disconnected. However, gnome-napster has few less features, but at least its a temporary answer. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This

changing partiton size

2000-09-10 Thread QBA
Hi, I have a problem because in a few days will have no free space on one of my partitons. I mounted on it /var directory and gave only 150MB for use. But now (after 3 months) I have only 21MB free. Because I also have one almost unused partition I thought that maybe I could resize these 2

Re: changing partiton size

2000-09-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:08:10AM +0200, QBA wrote: Hi, I have a problem because in a few days will have no free space on one of my partitons. I mounted on it /var directory and gave only 150MB for use. But now (after 3 months) I have only 21MB free. Because I also have one almost

Re: changing partiton size

2000-09-10 Thread ktb
QBA wrote: Hi, I have a problem because in a few days will have no free space on one of my partitons. I mounted on it /var directory and gave only 150MB for use. But now (after 3 months) I have only 21MB free. Because I also have one almost unused partition I thought that maybe I could

Re: gnapster

2000-09-10 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: I've found that gnome-napster works perfectly whereas gnapster stays disconnected. However, gnome-napster has few less features, but at least its a temporary answer. Andrei I have a different problem when I use gnome-napster--I'm

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-10 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:54:13AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: If there are no fixed events then everything should go in the yearly files. The events are fixed. The main point is that the Jewish calendar is based on the motion of the moon, so that a regular Jewish year is 354 days long (Yet

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

2000-09-10 Thread Shane Pearson
:) I realise I can't fix the errors, I just want a reliable methodm of testing the CD to show the shop that they are faulty. Thanks.

Problem installing Oracle 8i

2000-09-10 Thread James Grant
Hi, I am trying to install Oracle 8i on a Debian box and even though I have followed the directions to the tee, I keep recieving the same error when I try to run the ./runInstaller command. This is the error I am recieving: Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre.

hard drive errors..

2000-09-10 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi all, on our / partition whenever anyone tries to ssh in we get: Sep 11 10:45:39 kaos kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 11 10:45:39 kaos kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=34431, sector=343 68 Sep 11 10:45:39 kaos kernel:

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

2000-09-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Use md5sum Shane Pearson wrote: :) I realise I can't fix the errors, I just want a reliable methodm of testing the CD to show the shop that they are faulty. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-10 Thread kmself
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What's up with the mailbox full messages? On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:04:38AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -|Dear Sir/Madam There's a misconfigured mailer which is bouncing replies to sender rather

Re: It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread Paul T. McNally
on 9/10/00 4:03 PM, Philipp Schulte at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One possible solution is to find somebody with the same mouse and ask him hor his config. You could just copy the pointer section. I could reinstall Redhat and look at it's config looks.. and then, well that would be time

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

2000-09-10 Thread Shane Pearson
Use md5sum OK thanks Antonio,

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 01:58:45PM -0700, John L . Fjellstad wrote: [snip] distributions can't start using debs. Heck, every major version of RPM is incompatible with previous version anyways. Reason I switched is because the RPM used in 6.x (v3.x) can't read packages for 7 (v4). Now, I don't

Re: Required Hardware?

2000-09-10 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:39:07PM -0400, Jeffrey H. Young wrote: I have an Intel 386, with 3.5-1.44MB 5.25-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says

Re: hard drive errors..

2000-09-10 Thread ktb
Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: Hi all, on our / partition whenever anyone tries to ssh in we get: Sep 11 10:45:39 kaos kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 11 10:45:39 kaos kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=34431,

RE: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-10 Thread Dexter Graphic
Thanks for helping me understand how the Debian apt-get program can be used instead of the Helix-Gnome updater utility to install the latest version of Gnome from the HelixCode web site. Here is a summary of what I've learned: 1. Login as root. Note: I assume that Gnome and maybe even X should

Re: debian-user-digest down?

2000-09-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:19:27AM -0400, Kent Pirkle wrote: I've not received the debian-user-digest or debian-devl-digest for the last couple of days. Is anyone else having this problem? Same here:(, so I finally switched to the non-digest -- groetjes, carel

apm/hdparm/power-supply saga, latest installment

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
-- For the knowledgeable and impatient, there are two questions at the end of this post: 1) How to stop both the hard disk and the cpu fan at the same time? 2) How to stop the power supply fan? -- OK here's the latest Re: putting my machine to sleep. First of all, what I

NEC 260 cdROM

2000-09-10 Thread dwaetta
I am novice novice! Long strory. Problem I have a Gateway 2000 1995 model. I had to reformat to correct some missing files. I lost the Driver for the NEC 260 that is in my tower. Everything seems to be working but the CDROM. I found this while checking the Internet (only a few hours

RE: hdparm

2000-09-10 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I included an additional SXX in the rc2.d dir as follows:- #! /bin/sh # Enabling dma for hda hdparm -d1 -c1 -a1 -A1 -m8 -k1 /dev/hda Remember to chmod the file created to 755 less it does not execute at boot. Also, I'd manually try this first

Re: NEC 260 cdROM

2000-09-10 Thread William Jensen
If your very new, perhaps you do not know this is a list for debian gnu/linux. It sounds like your asking for windoze driver help. If that is the case I would recommend going to gateway's www site and downloading the cd-rom drivers from them. Alternatively you should have a rescue/windows

RE: Weird messages after kernel compiling...

2000-09-10 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK...what you need is to cp from /usr/src/linux System.map to /boot and replace the file System.map-kernel_version. Also, what I normally do is mv /lib/modules/kernel_version to /lib/modules/kernel_version.original (Just in case the backward

Re: apm/hdparm/power-supply saga, latest installment

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
curious why you'd be so interested in doing all this i could never see why people wanted to suspend/sleep a desktop system(a notebook i can see..) as far as the power supply fan is concerned, i had a 486 a while back that did this. it had a temperature senstive fan, if the temp was above XX the

RE: hdparm

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
How do I know if I need any of these options for my hard drive? Are the kernel/ide driver defaults reasonable? Do these flags improve performance? (Right now I'm just using hdparm -y to spin down the disk) -chris On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: apm/hdparm/power-supply saga, latest installment

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: curious why you'd be so interested in doing all this i could never see why people wanted to suspend/sleep a desktop system(a notebook i can see..) Yeah I get this question a lot. To me it's really obvious though: I live in a small apartment and the

laptop

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
So I'm installing Linux on my first laptop, an IBM thinkpad, P-III 500 from work (they had '98 on it *shudder*). Installed fine, but I have no idea how to configure X. What monitor do I chose for these LCD things? There are three LCD screens listed, but none of them seem to work.

Re: laptop

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Michael Soulier wrote: So I'm installing Linux on my first laptop, an IBM thinkpad, P-III 500 from work (they had '98 on it *shudder*). Installed fine, but I have no idea how to configure X. What monitor do I chose for these LCD things? There are three LCD screens listed,

security of deb pkg's proftp and sftp

2000-09-10 Thread William Jensen
Can anyone shed any light upon the likely security risks I would run using proftpd vs sftp? From what I can tell sftp is for users only and it sets up an encrypted connection before any passwords/users names are sent. That's great, but how secure is this against hackers? Any different than

Re: ClassyTcl

2000-09-10 Thread Shaul Karl
Have not found a deb for ClassyTcl. I'm running 2.2 woody and have problems compiling the source. What error messages do you get? ClassyTcl looks like a robust GUI builder. Installed the Windoze binary to evaluate it, but only interested in Linux version. = Original Message From

Re: security of deb pkg's proftp and sftp

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
William Jensen wrote: Can anyone shed any light upon the likely security risks I would run using proftpd vs sftp? From what I can tell sftp is for users only and it sets up an encrypted connection before any passwords/users names are sent. That's great, but how secure is this against

Harddrive Weirdness

2000-09-10 Thread Gregg C
This is somewhat more of a hardware question but it might interest someone here. I was installing (with the pci/ide disks) on a system that has very been running 2.1 for 9 or 10 months (I built it when I loaded 2.1 on it, so its recent hardware western digital ide hd, asus p5a, k6-2 450),

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread Chris Jenks
At 01:58 PM 9/10/00 -0700, John L . Fjellstad wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:06:59AM -0400, Chris Jenks wrote: Which also goes back to Wayne's comment on RH being better because it's more popular. Also, preinstall has a lot to say, too. That said, berating people because of their choice

Re: Getting closer to setting up scanner, but...

2000-09-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:57:53PM -0700, Gutierrez Family wrote: Thanks to those who have helped me so far with setting up my HP ScanJet 5p ... One problem is when I type scanimage --list-devices, I get nothing back, just another prompt line. And when I type scanimage, I see scanimage: no

HELP! with ethernet

2000-09-10 Thread Cam Ellison
I upgraded to potato, although without replacing the slink kernel (2.0.36). Then I installed a D-Link DFE-538TX ethernet card (which uses the RealTek rtl8139.o driver). It was fine. I could ping my kids' machine, could ping mine from theirs, and even had telnet working on theirs (though not the

Re: Phone-answering software?

2000-09-10 Thread Shaul Karl
Is there any software available for Linux that can intercept phone calls (to a phone that's connected to a modem), and... 1) Serve as an answering machine when the modem isn't in use, and/or You might want to look at mgetty. I believe there are others. 2) Inform me when I'm on-line

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