Re: Exim, SpamAssassin and AV-advice needed

2003-01-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Friday 10 January 2003 19:59, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: More-or-less. A lot of the (snipped) requirements are variations on the same theme. Thanks a lot for your response! It is actually an snippet from your page I use for my exim config of SA. :-) | Long version: I did apparently

apt-get error

2003-01-10 Thread Matt Price
hi, can someone parse this error for me? Got it while trying apt-get update: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing kernel-image-2.4.18-hotplugforalsa (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or

apt-get error (more)

2003-01-10 Thread Matt Price
... and now I get a segmentation fault every time I try using apt-get or apt-cache. help much appreciated as always!!! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get update - Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2003-01-10 Thread Dave
Recently whenever I try to apt-get update on my workstation, it gets all of the package lists then runs out of memory trying to read them. At least, that's how I interpret the tail end of the output: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while

Re: Exim, SpamAssassin and AV-advice needed

2003-01-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Kjetil Kjernsmo said: On Friday 10 January 2003 19:59, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: 2) Limit SA to scan only a few messages concurrently. Add '-m 5' to the command line options passed to spamd. How would I do that in Debian...? :-)

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:27:01PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 07:04:37PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Well, if one could put on hold a particular version of a package (given by the user), it would be better than nothing. Is there a way to do this? You could

Re: apt-get error

2003-01-10 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi Matt, try adding 'APT::Cache-Limit 25165824;' to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file. Cheers, Bruno. On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 15:13, Matt Price wrote: hi, can someone parse this error for me? Got it while trying apt-get update: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

Re: Linux config question: dates don't display year?

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Mackinney
Brian Potkin declaimed: On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:34:49AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: OT disclaimer... what controls the standard date abbreviation? On some Linux systems 'ls -l' displays the year, on others it doesn't. 'finger' duplicates the behavior, so it appears to be some heinous

I need a driver, please

2003-01-10 Thread Ezequiel
FCCID=KQ53181LE-1 This is an ISA OEM SCSI card. Chipset Domex 436P My operating system is Windows Millenium. Thanks.

Re: Converting audio CDs to audio files

2003-01-10 Thread Trey Sizemore
Just wanted to have them on hard disk without the CD's Konqueror's functionality sounded simple and easy (essentially drag and drop) with Ogg Vorbis and CDDB capabilities built-in. Just can't seem to get it to work for me. -Trey On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 01:47, Emil Pedersen wrote: Trey Sizemore

kernel update and nvidia drivers

2003-01-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i compiled my own 2.4.20 kernel and it works great. Then sometime later i compiled the nvidia module via the 2 nvidia packages in the distribution. When i upgrade the kernel soemtime in the future and thus compile my own kernel again, will i have to recompile the nvidia module too? Thanks

aptitude and dpkg

2003-01-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hello, i have put some packages on hold via aptitude like my own compiled kernel. However when i do dpkg --get-selections, the packages i put on hold in aptitude are not put on hold here. Is there a way i can syncronize these settings between dpkg and aptitude? Thanks, Benedict -- To

Re: apt-get update - Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2003-01-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op vr 10-01-2003, om 21:16 schreef Dave: Recently whenever I try to apt-get update on my workstation, it gets all of the package lists then runs out of memory trying to read them. At least, that's how I interpret the tail end of the output: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap

Re: apt-get update - Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2003-01-10 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Add 'APT::Cache-Limit 25165824;' to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file. Cheers, Bruno. On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 15:16, Dave wrote: Recently whenever I try to apt-get update on my workstation, it gets all of the package lists then runs out of memory trying to read them. At least, that's how I interpret

Re: apt-get update - Dynamic MMap ran out of room - SOLVED

2003-01-10 Thread Dave
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 13:16, Dave wrote: Recently whenever I try to apt-get update on my workstation, it gets all of the package lists then runs out of memory trying to read them. At least, that's how I interpret the tail end of the output: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap

Meaningful XML Conversion from Word, RTF, HTML, Text and PDF?

2003-01-10 Thread michael
Hi, Are you looking for ways to improve how you convert existing content into XML? The CambridgeDocs xDoc Converter allows users to convert existing documents (Microsoft Word, RTF, HTML, PDF, Text, etc) into meaningful XML documents ( e.g. DocBook, HRXML, RIXML, IRXML, FPML, DAS-XML, NewsML,

RE: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csi comp uter

2003-01-10 Thread Michael Kahle
A few years ago, the big high-load PSU I'd just bought literally caught fire inside the server it was installed in, so I swapped the old, low-load, non-burning PSU back in and asked a friend to help me fix it. He was a better solderer than me, so he replaced a couple of power transistors

2.2 kernel vs 2.4 kernel

2003-01-10 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
What are the advantages (and disadvantages ) of Linux 2.4 compared with Linux 2.2? References will suffice. Thanks. s. s. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:27:32 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: In most cases of security alerts, both stable and unstable get prompt updates with the necessary fixes, but testing does not (until the unstable version migrates downward). I'm running testing and have used 'apt-get -b source' to grab

it's starting sulogin at boot up...

2003-01-10 Thread martin f krafft
... and I don't know why. SULOGIN is set to no in /etc/defaults/rcS and yet, when this one particular system comes up, init goes through /etc/rcS.d and before it switches to runlevel 2, it asks for the root password for maintenance. ctrl-D will quit that and start runlevel 2 as usual, but I don't

Re: kernel update and nvidia drivers

2003-01-10 Thread David Z Maze
Benedict Verheyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i compiled my own 2.4.20 kernel and it works great. Then sometime later i compiled the nvidia module via the 2 nvidia packages in the distribution. When i upgrade the kernel soemtime in the future and thus compile my own kernel again, will i have

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:32:44PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:27:32 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: In most cases of security alerts, both stable and unstable get prompt updates with the necessary fixes, but testing does not (until the unstable version migrates

Re: kernel update and nvidia drivers

2003-01-10 Thread Gregory Seidman
Benedict Verheyen sez: } i compiled my own 2.4.20 kernel and it works great. } Then sometime later i compiled the nvidia module via } the 2 nvidia packages in the distribution. } When i upgrade the kernel soemtime in the future and thus compile my own } kernel again, will i have to recompile the

Re: I need a driver, please

2003-01-10 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Friday 10 January 2003 23:59, Ezequiel wrote: FCCID=KQ53181LE-1 This is an ISA OEM SCSI card. Chipset Domex 436P My operating system is Windows Millenium. Thanks. As your email is really wierd, I hope it's not a new spam method. Here is my advice: Go and download debian woody or sarge

Re: gcc-2.95 to -3.2 transition

2003-01-10 Thread csj
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:44:40 -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: csj wrote: What's the real deal on the gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.2 transition? I've read enough FUD I can't distinguish the facts. Particularly, what programs or libraries are actually affected? What havoc would result from compiling the

Samba + CUPS + Windows 2000

2003-01-10 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Does anyone have a working smb.conf for cups printing that I could have a copy of as I just can't get it work here and starting to get annoyed at it all Cheers Rus -- http://www.fsck.me.uk - My blog http://www.65535.net - $120 for a lifetime UNIX shell account -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

restricting wireless access

2003-01-10 Thread martin f krafft
i have a cheap-ass wireless access point which doesn't even do MAC-based authentication, and neither can I get WEP64 to work between it (Addtron AWS-110) and the Orinoco Silver card. I would like to have wireless in my appartment, but I need to prevent folks on the street from linking into the

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-10 Thread iain d broadfoot
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i have a cheap-ass wireless access point which doesn't even do MAC-based authentication, and neither can I get WEP64 to work between it (Addtron AWS-110) and the Orinoco Silver card. I would like to have wireless in my appartment, but I need to

I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'. --- This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #175939: aptitude: This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers. ... has to go., which was filed against the aptitude package. It has been

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-10 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Does the AP have anyway to stop broadcasting it's SSID? If it doesn't broadcast then they would have to know your SSID in order to make use of your AP... Another idea is if you have a firewall in place already as it seems, what are the chances of being able to put a seperate NIC in the

Re: Samba + CUPS + Windows 2000

2003-01-10 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 23:52, Rus Foster wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a working smb.conf for cups printing that I could have a copy of as I just can't get it work here and starting to get annoyed at it all here is a part of it: print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r load printers = yes

Re: Exim, SpamAssassin and AV-advice needed

2003-01-10 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le ven 10/01/2003 à 19:59, Derrick 'dman' Hudson a écrit : On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:51:52PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: | Hi folks! | | I have some real trouble with my mail server. It is running on a Pentium | PRO 180 MHz box with 96 MB RAM, and last night the whole thing almost |

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Rus Foster
On 11 Jan 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'. Well I don't know but prehaps it is Super Cow out of Cow + Chicken? Rus -- http://www.fsck.me.uk - My blog http://www.65535.net - $120 for a lifetime UNIX shell account -- To

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 22:59:36 +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: If you do this, dependencies will be consistent, but not equal to those in the outside world. basically, there are 3 kinds of dependencies : - build-dependencies : these aren't really a problem here - dynamically-made library

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:15:39PM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: * martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would like to have wireless in my appartment, but I need to prevent folks on the street from linking into the network. The question is how. I want to prevent them from using my

RE: restricting wireless access

2003-01-10 Thread Narins, Josh
move to a higher apt sorry, i am very bad if the pun has apt in it what about . . . wireless . . . [wirelesshub]--[loginbox]-internet login to the loginbox (only ssh open to start) then restrict all access to your IP for the session it would take a few scripts -Original

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-10 Thread Jonah Sherman
MAC-based authentication is a joke. All it takes is for someone to sniff traffic, then clone your mac(ifconfig ethX hw ether [...]). The best way IMO to secure a small wireless network is with ipsec. You can do this very easily with freeswan and a good ipsec howto. Just create a

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:45:45AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'. All I know is that there are no Easter Eggs in aptitude, and that apt-get has Super Cow Powers. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Martin Strauss
Try typing apt-get moo at the prompt. (on an apt with Super Cow Powers, that is) HTH Martin Begin Rus Foster quotation: On 11 Jan 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'. Well I don't know but prehaps it is Super Cow out of Cow +

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread erinn
On 11 Jan 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'. Well, if you had it, IIRC you could type apt-get moo and see for yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Alex de Landgraaf
a little hint: apt-get DOES have Super Cow powers :o) drat, nearly ruined it for everyone, bad geek, baaad... Quoting Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11 Jan 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'. Well I don't know but prehaps it

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Rus Foster
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Alex de Landgraaf wrote: a little hint: apt-get DOES have Super Cow powers :o) drat, nearly ruined it for everyone, bad geek, baaad... Where does the super cow powers comes from? I mean why does it have it in the first place? Rus -- http://www.fsck.me.uk - My blog

Re: I need a driver, please

2003-01-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 01:39:31AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: On Friday 10 January 2003 23:59, Ezequiel wrote: FCCID=KQ53181LE-1 This is an ISA OEM SCSI card. Chipset Domex 436P My operating system is Windows Millenium. Thanks. ... PS: If the guy can't find a windoze driver, what are

usefull iptables links (not a question, just info)

2003-01-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hello, i'm having a closer look at iptables for the moment and found this usefull script. At least it's usefull to me since it contains a lof of stuff that i find necessary and it's clearly explained so that it's understandble. http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/scripts/rc.firewall_004.txt The

Trouble w/ ssh server behind speedstream 2602 router

2003-01-10 Thread Lazycode
Hello, I've got a Debian Stable 3.0 machine (ip 192.168.x.y) with an SSH server behind a speedstream 2602 router (ip a.b.c.d). The router has been instructed to foward port 22 to 192.168.x.y . (A) On 192.168.x.y, if I do (1) ssh 192.168.x.y -- I get the ssh prompt (2) ssh a.b.c.d --

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 19:23, Rus Foster wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Alex de Landgraaf wrote: a little hint: apt-get DOES have Super Cow powers :o) drat, nearly ruined it for everyone, bad geek, baaad... Where does the super cow powers comes from? I mean why does it have it in

RE: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Jay
Milk, it does a Linux developer good. May the Force of the Dragon's Spirit be with you...In Accordance With The Prophecy. Happy Hacking, Bright Blessings and Gentle Breezes! -*/ -= )O( Jay CoolDragon Arias-Chavez )O( =- /*- En el horizonte vertical yace el espejo de nuestra Alma. In the

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:39:24AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I don't understand. How will apt-get upgrade know when to upgrade locally-built packages? Normally, when the version of the package in the pool has a higher version number number. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Samba + CUPS + Windows 2000

2003-01-10 Thread Donald Spoon
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 23:52, Rus Foster wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a working smb.conf for cups printing that I could have a copy of as I just can't get it work here and starting to get annoyed at it all here is a part of it: print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r

iptables and dynamic ip

2003-01-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hello, i have a question regarding iptables and dynamic ip's. i noticed in a lot of scripts that they don't use the ip address of the interfaces but rather use eth0 and eth1 for instance. Now on my server, i have eth0 which gets an ip from my isp via DHCP and on eth1 i run a dhcp server for my

Re: md driver?

2003-01-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-09 18:29:42 -0600]: During boot I keep getting: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: could not lock [dev 08:01], zero-size? Marking faulty. What is this? If I determine I don't need it how do I remove it in the kernel? As

Re: I need a driver, please

2003-01-10 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
--- Ezequiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: FCCID=KQ53181LE-1 This is an ISA OEM SCSI card. Chipset Domex 436P My operating system is Windows Millenium. Thanks. Friend, if what you want is a driver to your Windows OS, you can find it in many sites, .. one that comes in my mind now is

Re: Exim, SpamAssassin and AV-advice needed

2003-01-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently there may be a kind of spam/virus/forged mail which is geared toward killing spamassassin. No, razor was (is still?) broken. Turn off razor. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Make like a hockey player and get the

Re: iptables and dynamic ip

2003-01-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 11/01/03 Benedict Verheyen did speaketh: If i start an iptable script and refer in my rules there to the external interface as eth0, will it still work properly after the ip changes of eth0 during it's uptime or will this make the server unreachable? For instance i want to allow ssh in on

Is there trouble with apt-get?

2003-01-10 Thread Todd Costa
Hi, I have been trying all day to build a new debian install. I am gettings files not found messages. I have tried different mirrors too without success. So I am wondering if there's a problem with getting packages from the archives. Thanks Todd

Nur alleine lesen ;-)

2003-01-10 Thread Maria
Hi, wo warste denn hin? Wolltest doch noch den link von mir haben. Hier isser: http://members.lycos.de/moe1/ Viel spaß Dann bis demnächst meld dich mal wieder! cu Schatzi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux config question: dates don't display year?

2003-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:25:02PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: BTW: Before posting I tried man, info, apropos (currently a seg fault engine due to some pesky bug), Upgrade libc6 to 2.3.1-6 or later to fix that one. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:45:45AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'. At the risk of spoiling it, it's a long-standing joke. The developer of apt was known at one point for saying moo a lot, and is still occasionally referred to as the

emacs problems due to X

2003-01-10 Thread Bruce Park
I've been experiencing this weird emacs problem regarding X. I'm hoping that someone can help me to resolve this situation. Before I go on any further, I'm currently using version 4.1.0-16 in the debian distribution under KDE desktop. Here is the normal pic:

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:58:30PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: What kind of video card are you using? I have two NVidia GeForc4 cards (one AGP and one PCI), but I can only get GL on one of them (the GL area is blank if I move the window to the other screen) under Xinerama. This is the

Mounting USB devices

2003-01-10 Thread Trey Sizemore
How can I tell how my USB devices are indentified in Linux? I want to be able to mount my Sandisk USB mass storage device to get pictures off my camera's CF card. I know through trial and error that my Zip 250 USB drive is seen as /dev/sda1 so I created a mnt/sda1 to access it. I have several

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-10 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:31:24PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote.. On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 14:45, Bill Moseley wrote: Any suggestions? 3D support, too? I have a Matrox Millennium G450, and while I haven't actually run it dual-head, it has support for that. It is not particulary good

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:45:45AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'. Type apt-get moo. -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Marc Wilson wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:58:30PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: What kind of video card are you using? I have two NVidia GeForc4 cards (one AGP and one PCI), but I can only get GL on one of them (the GL area is blank if I move the window to the

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: $ aptitude --help This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers. sorry fellas, this has to go. Only hip club members know what you're talking about, the rest of us feel left out. No, it doesn't have to go. Just because you don't get the joke

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:23:58AM +, Rus Foster wrote: Where does the super cow powers comes from? I mean why does it have it in the first place? Why does Linux want to SCREAM! when it can't find a root partition? Why do non-existant printers catch fire in many variants of Unix? Why does

rxvt keypad

2003-01-10 Thread Alaa The Great
Hi all, I have a small problem with rxvt, keypadkeys don't work as expected when numlock is of (I mean I can't use keypad arrows, pgup/pgdown ins/del etc.) when numlock is one numerical keypad works fine. how do I solve this?? cheers, Alaa -- get my PGP/GPG signature at

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-10 Thread Tom Hoover
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:05:18PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: How can I tell how my USB devices are indentified in Linux? I want to be able to mount my Sandisk USB mass storage device to get pictures off my camera's CF card. I know through trial and error that my Zip 250 USB drive is seen

Re: Making music

2003-01-10 Thread Frank Copeland
On 9 Jan 03 10:31:01 GMT, I wrote: I've got sheet music for some 19th century military bugle calls and I'd like to hear what they sound like and maybe create .wavs to put on a web site. I'm looking for some combination of software that will allow me to enter the score for each call and then

Re: 2.2 kernel vs 2.4 kernel

2003-01-10 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time Sam Rosenfeld wrote @ Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:31:15 -0500 What are the advantages (and disadvantages ) of Linux 2.4 compared with Linux 2.2? References will suffice. Thanks. For me, The most important is the ext3 journalized file

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-10 Thread David Z Maze
Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hum, well I need to read more. I thought it was Xinerama that made the dual head thing workable -- using two as if one screen. If you are not using Xinerama then can you describe your setup and what it's possible to do? You need a window manager that

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 08:27:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: Hum, well I need to read more. I thought it was Xinerama that made the dual head thing workable -- using two as if one screen. Yep, that's what Xinerama does. Badly. :) But it's certainly not required for supporting multiple

Re: Color in console

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:05:28AM +0100, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: Hi all! I installed debian (stable) at home and at my work. Than I upgraded to -testing. It seems that everything is ok except that when I use the terminal (text console) the colors work only on tty1. In tty2, tty3,

Re: kernel 2.5.55

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:25:39AM -0800, HNIX wrote: Hi everyone, i upraded kernel 2.4 from kernl 2.5 and my nvidia geforce 4 and snd-emu10k1 are not working anymore. Also, make xconfig is not working. I got a lot of error. I already have qt-dev install. Is there any package I need to

Re: Changing default font

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:27:24AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: Two pretty simple questions: 1. What is the directory, in which I shall copy a font, if I want that font to be accessable by all users? It's a Unicode TTF font. /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ might be a good place. Make

Re: USB Mouse

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:54:35AM -0800, nate wrote: Daniel L. Miller said: Is there a known problem with using a USB mouse? My particular configuration is a FIC motherboard for an AMD 750 Athlon (older VIA chipset), connected to a ViewSonic monitor's (P815) USB hub, with a Microsoft

Re: apt package dependencies

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:18:01PM +0100, willem wrote: Hi, I went thru the man pages but couldn't find what i was looking for. I run testing and unstable, with testing pinned as prime. Now i want to get something from unstable, licq, so checked the dependencies and it's quite a list. But

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:04:54PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: BTW -- I was trying to switch from my nvidia driver to nv the other day for testing and X wouldn't start (I changed the driver plus the modules Nvidia README says to change). I suppose it's the libGL library here:

USB Mouse Problem

2003-01-10 Thread Curtis Spencer
I thought I was going to be able to get some sleep last night, but I ended up staying up trying to get XFree86 working. I have the nvidia modules compiled in to my 2.4.20 kernel and I have my touchpad working fine, but my USB mouse still needs help. When I plug in the USB mouse an event is

Re: Converting audio CDs to audio files

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:22:04PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: I remember reading somewhere that Konqueror can convert audio CDs to audio files by entering 'audiocd:/' on the url window. I have tried this, but cannot get it to find my audio CD in my CD drive. I have SCSI emulation set up and

Re: Is there trouble with apt-get?

2003-01-10 Thread Steve Juranich
On 10 January 2003 at 21:20, Todd Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying all day to build a new debian install. I am gettings = files not found messages. I have tried different mirrors too without = success. So I am wondering if there's a problem with getting packages = from the

Re: rxvt keypad

2003-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 22:43, Alaa The Great wrote: Hi all, I have a small problem with rxvt, keypadkeys don't work as expected when numlock is of (I mean I can't use keypad arrows, pgup/pgdown ins/del etc.) when numlock is one numerical keypad works fine. how do I solve this?? If I'm not

How to make Alt GNU Emacs Meta?

2003-01-10 Thread Adam
In the current stable release of debian, GNU Emacs uses the Windows key as Meta instead of Alt. I am told this is not true for other linux distributions or other releases of debian. How can I fix this? If I have to I can make an .xmodmap but I would rather not. If there is some package I

Re: rxvt keypad

2003-01-10 Thread Alaa The Great
On 11 Jan 2003 00:20:26 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm not understanding you, please correct me! Are you saying that the key-pad Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Ins/Del arrow keys do not work when NumLock is off? yes that is the problem know of a solution?? cheers, Alaa -- get my

Re: rxvt keypad

2003-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 00:42, Alaa The Great wrote: On 11 Jan 2003 00:20:26 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm not understanding you, please correct me! Are you saying that the key-pad Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Ins/Del arrow keys do not work when NumLock is off? yes that

xcdroast - paranoia integration.

2003-01-10 Thread David Fisher
Hi all. I have just upgraded to the latest version of xcdroast from sid and find that according to the changelogs cdparanoia is now integrated. I have not been able to work out how to force xcdroast to use cdparanoia instead of cdda2wav when ripping. Does it just use it anyway (if available)

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:56:13PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I would like to have wireless in my appartment, but I need to prevent folks on the street from linking into the network. The question is how. I want to prevent them from using my internet connection just as much as accessing

Re: Changing default font

2003-01-10 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Friday 10 January 2003 10:17, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:27:24AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: Two pretty simple questions: 1. What is the directory, in which I shall copy a font, if I want that font to be accessable by all users? It's a Unicode TTF font.

Re: Wacom graphics tablet: make error for wacom.o

2003-01-10 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to install a Wacom Intuous2 Graphics Tablet USB on my Debian 2.4.20 and am getting stuck during the make process for the wacom.o driver. /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20-2.4.20/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h: In function

Re: rxvt keypad

2003-01-10 Thread Alaa The Great
On 11 Jan 2003 01:02:56 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 00:42, Alaa The Great wrote: On 11 Jan 2003 00:20:26 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm not understanding you, please correct me! Are you saying that the key-pad

Re: lsof +L1 - mysql.err.1 unlinked ...

2003-01-10 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:25:18PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: I have always these mysql.err.1 files not unlinked in all my mysqlservers, and only a mysqld restart resolve these (nor reload neither mysqladmin refresh doesn't unlink them). The err file is created by safe_mysqld to

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