Re: Gimp1.2

2001-04-07 Thread José Luis Fernández Barros
On Saturday 07 April 2001 06:25, Imobach González Sosa wrote: Saludos a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¿Alguien sabe dónde encontrar los paquetes de gimp 1.2 compilados para potato? deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main (aunque aparece en unstable funciona en potato sin

Re: Linux (RH) se a cepillado el HD

2001-04-07 Thread José Luis Fernández Barros
On Friday 06 April 2001 23:48, IJAS wrote: Hola perdón por el OT, pero es un mensaje de auxilio de mi sobrino... está en primero de teleco y le convencí para instalar linux para hacer las prácticas de programación c, el caso es que comenzó a instalar una RH en hdb y tras un error (me parece

Re: ficheros de texto anchos

2001-04-07 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 07 de abril de 2001 a la(s) 01:05:37 +0200, Rafa Sánchez contaba: Solución Emacs: (Ctrl-? == Pulsar Ctrl y sin soltar pulsas lo que se === (Ctrl-? == Pulsar Ctrl y sin soltar pulsas lo que se indica) Ctrl-u 80 Ctrl-x Ctrl-f Esto fija el el ancho de linea a 80 caracteres

RE: Particion PPC

2001-04-07 Thread Personal Oscar.Morato
Meguel S. Garrido wrote: En www.mklinux.org encontrarás pdisk que es el que usé yo. http://www.mklinux.org/getting_started/preparations/pdisk.html Te recomendaría que leas las preparaciones pues te orientarán en otros programas que puedes usar y en particionar Discos Apple...

Re: Debian sin CDRom

2001-04-07 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:50:24AM +0100, Luis Arocha -Data- wrote: En cuanto regrese a casa te enviaré una copia de los scripts que yo usaba para la configuración. Espero que entre eso y los comentarios anteriores puedas llevar la cosa a buen puerto (paralelo, se entiende). :-)

Re: manpages-es y .bmp

2001-04-07 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:11:58AM -0300, Ricardo Marcelo Alvarez wrote: Tengo un problema con la instalacion de las manpages-es las instala pero las deja sin configurar por que da un error en el script de instalacion y la verdad no se que puede ser. Um... qué versión utilizas?

matrox g 450

2001-04-07 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hola Ando un poco desesperado Estoy intentando hechar a andar una Matrox G 450 de 16 MB con una Debian Woody. Hecho todo lo que he podido, y lo maximo que veo es como una niebla con el cursor gigante, es decir, no veo nada del escritorio, sino que todo se mueve como interferncias (que mal me

Diferencias entre OpenOffice y StarOffice

2001-04-07 Thread Carlos Martinez
Veo que hablis mucho de OpenOffice y lo comparis con StarOffice. Es lo mismo? En caso contrario, qu es OpenOffice y qu tal va? Saludos, Carlos

Re: 2 eth [solucion]

2001-04-07 Thread Anglés
El sáb, 07 abr 2001, ^pi^,,, escribió: Supongo que sí, mira con la orden # route -n la interfaz por la que envias los paquetes dirigidos al la red 192.168.0.0. Lo que te debe passar es que en la tabla de ruteo tienes que para salir a la subred especificada se utilitce una interfaz

RE: Para cuando los paquetes del StarOffice?

2001-04-07 Thread Carlos Martinez
Yo tengo un .deb del StarOffice que es el resultado de debianizar un rpm. Si eso te vale... ¿Dónde está ese RPM? Carlos ---

RE: checkeo de discos de potato

2001-04-07 Thread Carlos Martinez
-Mensaje original- Era eso no tengo isosize instalado, donde lo consigo? entre los paquetes que tengo cargados no esta. Alguien de la lista me lo dijo y lo puse. Creo que era el paquete cdwrite y si mal no me acuerdo está en otherfs. Dime a ver si lo encuentras ahí y si no te lo

RE: manpages-es y .bmp

2001-04-07 Thread Carlos Martinez
Por otro lado alguien sabe como es el formato de los archivos .bmp por que tengo que hacer un trabajo para la facu y no se donde puedo conseguir informacion de eso. Bueno, creo que preguntas por el formato interno de los BMP. Si es así, me lo pides y te lo mando en privado(cuestión de

Scripts de conexión plip (puerto paralelo)

2001-04-07 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
Y el sábado 7 de abril, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a escribió: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:50:24AM +0100, Luis Arocha -Data- wrote: En cuanto regrese a casa te enviaré una copia de los scripts que yo usaba para la configuración. Espero que entre eso y los comentarios anteriores puedas

Re: Para cuando los paquetes del StarOffice?

2001-04-07 Thread Monkiki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Sáb 07 Abr 2001 19:40, Carlos Martinez escribió: ¿Dónde está ese RPM? Lo pillé de un disco de la Mandrake. - -- - - * In an Internet without fences who needs gates

Re: Hp720C

2001-04-07 Thread Rusty Debian R000Lz,,,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rusty Debian R000Lz,,, escribió: Rejolas: Sigo bastante fastidiado con el tema de la Hp Deskjet 720 C porke resulta que no la hago andar ni por asomo.Alguien del que no recuerdo el nombre(lo siento),me prestó su ayuda y tenía alguna preguntita que hacerle,por

Soleis actualizaros a menudo?

2001-04-07 Thread Monkiki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo si, a diestro y siniestro. Lo malo es que me han pasado dos cosas raras: 1) La grabadora bien, pero el lector de CD se abre solo ¿? Y no puedo montar discos. 2) Aunque nunca me funcinó, me revienta: no puedo montar cosas en /dev/scd0 que es

Re: ficheros de texto anchos

2001-04-07 Thread Francisco Callejo
El viernes, 6 de abril de 2001, Carles Pina i Estany escribió: si tengo un fichero de texto con lineas de más de 80 carácteres (creo) y lo imprimo con lpr me salen cortadas... Alguna solución auomatica? fmt fichero.txt fold fichero.txt cat fichero.txt | par El primero parte las líneas

espiral

2001-04-07 Thread Esteban Aguilera
HOla lista estoy intentando entrar a www.laespiral.org y no hay caso alguien sabe porque ?

Re: kernel 2.5.x

2001-04-07 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva \(KoV\)
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:42:55PM -0300, Leaozim wrote: E agora uma resposta para você, na minha opinião (minha, não precisam concordar) acho que o melhor para você utilizar o máximo possível do seu Pentium 166 é usar o Mandrake, pois ele já vem com TODOS OS PACOTES compilados para

Re: kernel 2.5.x

2001-04-07 Thread Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro
num acredito que ouvi isso =( o cara nem citou .deb... soh falou de rpm... bem... soh pra explicar, esse negocio de pacote i586, nada que digam sobre eles sobre velocidade foi comprovado... se ha realmente ganho, parece ser minimo... Acho que o cara está certo. O negócio é usar

exim ainda não funciona

2001-04-07 Thread Fabiano Manoel de Andrade
Olá pessoal da lista. Tudo resolvido fetchmail funcionando redondo e com mais de um provedor, obrigado a todos. Agora me diga o tal do Sylpheed precisa de muita coisa da versão instavel para ser instalado ou é só do gtk e a versão do gtk é a potato? Ainda estou com problemas com envio de

RE: panic

2001-04-07 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 07-Apr-2001 Renato De Giovanni wrote: - usei o restorrb do fips para restaurar a partição original do hd (inteira para o win). - logo em seguida usei o fips para dividir a tabela em duas partições (tipo win) conforme as dimensões originais. - usando o tomsrtbt / fdisk removi a segunda

Mais um problema cp, e-mails

2001-04-07 Thread Fabiano Manoel de Andrade
Olá novamente pessoal. Agora danou-se tudo:-(, o fetchmail cata as mensagens nos pop para mim e coloca no endereço /var/mail/fabiano, mas o pine e nem mutt conseguem ler, recebo a mensagem Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 17:00:53 + From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: panic

2001-04-07 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva \(KoV\)
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 01:38:46PM -0300, Renato De Giovanni wrote: Estou com um notebook toshiba que possuia win98 e debian, cada um numa putz... meu sonho de consumo... um notebook com Debian... - usei o restorrb do fips para restaurar a partição original do hd (inteira para o win). heh... c

RE: Installing Debian

2001-04-07 Thread Aaron
I just had another thought, what if I were to run fdisk with the /mbr parameter. I think that the right parameter or its something close. Then I would run /sbin/lilo to reinstall lilo on the mbr. Could that maybe work? Aaron -Original Message- From: Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Need to do some weird keymapping

2001-04-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Look into loadkeys -Brian On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:24:49PM -0500, Craig McPherson wrote: I'm in a situation where I need to do some keymapping. This is what I need to accomplish. 1. This is for console only. X is not installed on the machine. 2. A few keys (like the up and down

Re: sis900 problem

2001-04-07 Thread Mark Devin
I noticed from your message in the Debian-user mail group that you have the same Mother board as me. I was wondering if you have gotten the sound card on that board to work? It is Cmedia's CMI8738 audio controller. Please give me any suggestions you may have on getting this to work. I have

cdda2wav not copying right? (long)

2001-04-07 Thread Ron Farrer
hello; When copying an audio CD to .wav format, I use cdda2wav like so: cdda2wav -D 1,4,0 -B This works great except for one thing. Sometimes it produces skips in the .wav. The only thing I can think of that would cause this is that perhaps it is copying data too fast? My system is all SCSI:

RE: Newbie-xwindows graphics server?

2001-04-07 Thread Rick Commo
I am using an ATI XPert98 with an AOpen 15" LCD monitor. I used the simple install and it did not detect my video card what I did was (1) apt-get install xserver-mach64 (I am assuming that the ATI 3D RAGE PRO is mach 64 based) (2) XF86Setup card = ATI XPert 98 screen = interlaced,

Re: Netscape

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Simmons-Davis posts: whether the complete Netscape Navigator and Communicator packages come on the official Debian 6 cd set Netscape products have a license which is not DFSG compliant. They are non-free and due to this nature they do not come on the Official Debian 6-CD set. Please do a

Re: xfree86 4.x and unstable

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
JACKSON, DEAN posts: does anyone know of a good place to start for newbie documentation on setting up the 4.x Xserver? The debian-user mailing list archive at http://www.debian.org/ has a good search interface. Use it and dig... Please do try http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/ and

Re: fast graphics in testing. please to help?

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
mudbuddha Last Name wrote: What is the fastest card that would have driver in debian ftp for very fast opengl? Try nVidia Riva TNT-2 chipset cards, they have got good support. I hope the mudBuddha smiles :-) -- ragOO, VU2RGU Keeping the Air-Waves FREE...Amateur Radio Keeping your

Re: char-major-10-135

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Philipp Lehman posts: is that for real time clock? Do I need kernel support for that? Yes, it is. You need to compile 'rtc support' either into the kernel or as a module. Can I safely change the alias to off? Go ahead, you can switch it off. Usually a normal 'joe' user does not require

Re: Need to do some weird keymapping

2001-04-07 Thread Craig McPherson
Thanks for the suggestion. I've been researching Loadkeys, and it looks like it'll do the job. There are two things I haven't been able to find, though: 1. What Debian package includes loadkeys. 2. A list of all keycodes. Look into loadkeys -Brian

Re: kmod

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Andrew D Dixon posts: I've been looking around for documentation on it and can't seem to find anything useful. You have not been looking at the relevant docs. Have you gone through the Debian Policy manual ? Do that so that you become very clueful. Does anyone know of a good reference for

Re: Which IDE to use with Gnome?

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Abyss posts: Which IDE packages are most people using and is there a clear winner? To take off real fast from the starting blocks, use glade-gnome. It is a very good RAD tool but all GUIs suck. Why do you need a winner to get your work done ? -- ragOO, VU2RGU Keeping the Air-Waves

Re: hardware clock keeps local time?

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Michael A. Miller posts: I've just added a win98 partition to a debian machine Adding a Win 9x partition has nothing to do with the Debian system you have. Why are you coming to the conclusion that 1+5=7 without doing some research first ? I've changed UTC=yes to UTC=no in

Re: Corrupted partions?

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
SoftHome posts: /dev/hda41574 2485 3670852+ 83 Linux Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 254, 63) should be (1023, 127, 63) Can anyone give me a little insight into this. Should I worry about it ? You have to worry real bad if you have got

Re: MTA security

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Dave Sherohman posts: I'd like to go with exim, but I'm not entirely convinced that it would be a good choice for functionality and security. What is the exact reason for not being convinced about exim ? Go ahead but before that read Yann Golanski's papers on setting up exim for catering to

Re: HP's InkJet drivers on Debian -- success?

2001-04-07 Thread Chris Howells
I found some drivers for hp880 here: http://www.gelhaus.net/hp880c/ I downloaded the debian source packages of ghostscript 5.50 and with the instructions on the site I hacked through the configurationscripts of debian/rules. 2 hours has passed to compile the b*tch. It gave so much errors... I

Re: char-major-10-135

2001-04-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:27:07AM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Philipp Lehman posts: is that for real time clock? Do I need kernel support for that? Yes, it is. You need to compile 'rtc support' either into the kernel or as a module. Can I safely change the alias to off?

sources.list

2001-04-07 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, There was somewhere recently, possibly even here in the last few days, although I have lost it now, a posting with the command to make apt-get create additional default sites for the stable sources, can some one tell me again what the command is as the UK sites seem to have frozen over the

custom kernel can not install

2001-04-07 Thread eric
Dear Mano or debian user: after I kpkg to make new kernel.deb, I got error dpkg -ikernel-image-2.4.2_custom* dpkg: regarding kernel-image-2.4.2_custom.1.0_i386.deb containing kernel-image-2.4.2: pcmcia-modules-2.4.2 conflicts with kernel-image-2.4.2 ( 0.02) kernel-image-2.4.2 (version

Re: char-major-10-135

2001-04-07 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:27:07AM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Philipp Lehman posts: Can I safely change the alias to off? Go ahead, you can switch it off. hwclock uses it to update the hardware clock, this is done at shutdown

Re: sources.list

2001-04-07 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sat, 07 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There was somewhere recently, possibly even here in the last few days, although I have lost it now, a posting with the command to make apt-get create additional default sites for the stable sources, can some one tell me again what the

what is the major and minor number of cdrom in mknod?

2001-04-07 Thread eric
Dear gnu or debian users: What is the major and minor number of cdrom in first ide (hda) in the command mknod? sincere eric

Re: what is the major and minor number of cdrom in mknod?

2001-04-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
eric wrote: Dear gnu or debian users: What is the major and minor number of cdrom in first ide (hda) in the command mknod? brw-rw1 root disk 3, 0 Jun 23 1998 /dev/hda But are you sure that the CDROM is /dev/hda? That would put it where the first hard disk is

Re: Need to do some weird keymapping

2001-04-07 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Craig McPherson (CM) writes: CM Thanks for the suggestion. I've been researching Loadkeys, and CM it looks like it'll do the job. There are two things I haven't CM been able to find, though: CM 1. What Debian package includes loadkeys. ithilien$ dpkg -S loadkeys console-tools:

Re: char-major-10-135

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Ethan posts: hwclock uses it to update the hardware clock, this is done at shutdown to keep the clocks synchronized. Agreed that 'hwclock' updates the hardware clock while shutting down the m/c. This does not have anything to do with the 'rtc' module and hwclock does in no way use it. The

Re: char-major-10-135

2001-04-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 04:15:04PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Ethan posts: hwclock uses it to update the hardware clock, this is done at shutdown to keep the clocks synchronized. Agreed that 'hwclock' updates the hardware clock while shutting down the m/c. This does not have

Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-07 Thread Mark Phillips
I created a directory /opt/tmp and later wanted to delete it, but I accidentally typed rm -r usr instead (within the /opt directory). I realized my mistake fairly quickly and ctrl-C-ed it, but some files have been deleted. In particular I've deleted dpkg and apt-get!!! I think I've got a

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
I created a directory /opt/tmp and later wanted to delete it, but I accidentally typed rm -r usr instead (within the /opt directory). What is the best way to restore my system to health? I suggest you read the recent archives of this list, as some poor guy did much the same as you The

Re: char-major-10-135

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Ethan posts: yes, hwclock uses /dev/rtc, well at least on powerpc it does, without a working /dev/rtc it fails. You may be right with a PowerPC but your reasoning will not work on an x86 machine. Can we say that the original poster did not give us architecture details ? ;-) checking it

Help me setup ADSL please

2001-04-07 Thread Mark Devin
I can't seem to get it working. I have my eth0 configured OK I think. I typed this to get it up: #ifconfig eth0 up and now #ifconfig shows: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:18:03:4F:FC UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:490 errors:0

Proposal: dpkg change: scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci

2001-04-07 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
Hello, I mounted /var as noexec/nodev because of security reasons. I created partition /exec for using it on scripts etc that needs to be executed. Now I can't install packages - dpkg extracts package into /var/lig/dpkg/tmp.ci directory which is created for every new package and removed after

raid support

2001-04-07 Thread Werner Reisberger
I am trying to build a kernel 2.2.17 with raid support. I thought the raid support is already in the kernel but that seems not to work. The latest available raid kernel patch is for 2.2.11 (kernel.org) or 2.2.10 (debian package). I applied patch 2.2.11 to the kernel sources but compilation

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-07 Thread Mark Phillips
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote: The short answer is: restore from your backups :) No backups? Copy all important stuff to your other machine, reinstall from scratch, and learn from the experience :) No backups. This machine needs to be working by tomorrow (if at all possible) so I

(partly solved)Re: what is 'slot-service-0-3' ?

2001-04-07 Thread Philipp Bliedung
THANKS to everyone to replied to my question! I got it partly solved - I can now play music from the CD player. I found out that my sound card can emulate a sound blaster and after recompiling the kernel w/o pnp-support I now listen to CD's. Playing mp3's is still not working. Here's what I have

Re: Proposal: dpkg change: scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci

2001-04-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 02:13:06PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: Hello, I mounted /var as noexec/nodev because of security reasons. I created partition /exec for using it on scripts etc that needs to be executed. Now I can't install packages - dpkg extracts package into

Re: Installing Debian

2001-04-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:49:02PM -0700, Aaron wrote: hey Dan, thanks for the reply. I could erase the hard disk and start from scratch, but I don't think having something on the hard before doing the install is a problem. If I can't eventually figure this out I will erase everything and

Re: Proposal: dpkg change: scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci

2001-04-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
While we're on the topic, I would love to see the -S option to dpkg take symlinks and relative paths. Currently, when I do a dpkg -S /usr/bin/vi, it doesn't track the symlink through /etc/alternatives to nvi. I think it should. It's not that hard to do. I should report on the real path, and

Lexmark 5700/5770 printer help please

2001-04-07 Thread Len D
I have been trying to get my Lexmark 5770 printer to work in debian for a few weeks. It is the last piece of the debian puzzle and I am determined to figure it out. The same printer works fine in SuSE 7.1 so I know I can do it. I have the driver ( lex5700 ) loaded in both systems. Question 1:

Re: Netscape

2001-04-07 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 06 April 2001 23:56, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Please do a search on http://www.debian.org/List-Archives before you post your question. A reasonable request. Try to use a GPLed mail client to post your message, no html mails please. A bit much. Most of us agree that html doesn't

Re: raid support

2001-04-07 Thread Vinh Truong
* Werner Reisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010407 07:14]: I am trying to build a kernel 2.2.17 with raid support. I thought the raid support is already in the kernel but that seems not to work. The latest available raid kernel patch is for 2.2.11 (kernel.org) or 2.2.10 (debian package). i am

Re: fast graphics in testing

2001-04-07 Thread mudbuddha Last Name
From: Raghavendra Bhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the fastest card that would have driver in debian ftp for very fast opengl? Try nVidia Riva TNT-2 chipset cards, they have got good support. So geforce drivers are not free software? And new ATI card are not free and open either? Something

Re: upgrading kernel 2.1

2001-04-07 Thread Stephan Kulka
I have had Debian 2.1 installed and running in text mode for about a year now. I have not played with it much as I prefer to have a working X server, hence I have used and maintained several Mandrake systems, which I am sick of. I am stuck in text mode in Debian with a dial up connection

Quicktime player?

2001-04-07 Thread Stan Brown
I have installed xanim, and xanim modules, but I still don't seem to be able to play QuickTime movies. This is on a stavble system. Is there something special I need to do to enbale this? Or can someone sugest a different QuickTime viewr? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

UK mirror

2001-04-07 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, The ftp.uk.debian.org site is jammed. I thought it was me, but it got mentioned by some others in uk.comp.os.linux. Is there a problem? Is it being fixed? Is there a story? Is the UK being isolated because the HMG signed a £15M deal with Microsoft? Please don't take our mirror away! Keith

Re: Quicktime player?

2001-04-07 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed xanim, and xanim modules, but I still don't seem to be able to play QuickTime movies. This is on a stavble system. Did you install the modules from http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/xa_dlls.html ? Is there something special I

Unidentified subject!

2001-04-07 Thread Jasper
unsubscribe - Everyone should have http://www.freedom2surf.net/

Re: cdda2wav not copying right? (long)

2001-04-07 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Hey, When I said it was moving too fast, I meant the CD-ROM was reading the data faster then the system could keep up with, which is basically what you are saying. :-) Ah... Sorry about that... :) Some of the time the system was idle (other then ripping) and a couple of times I was

Sound Config

2001-04-07 Thread Ted Gervais
What is the best way to configure the sound card with Debian. I am looking for something like sndconfig. Not sure how it is done in Debian.. -- Ted Gervais Coldbrook, Nova Scotia Canada

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-07 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks Gavin for your help! I managed to restore my system!! What I did, was use dpkg --get-selections to find out what packages were installed on my system. I redirected this to a file and then edited it. I turned it into a script which ran apt-get --reinstall install list of

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-07 Thread Richard Stallman
Could you please tell me if we have some mailing list ready to organize some kind of struggle against this kind of insanities which are starting to plague the internet? I don't know of one. I think it is a worthy cause, but I am overloaded already so I cannot take the lead here.

Cursor and GNU Emacs and console

2001-04-07 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Hi! Please, tell me, what should I do to get normal non block cursor in GNU Emacs. In console I have normal cursor. -- Alexander Zhuckov [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:5030/518.50

Re: Cursor and GNU Emacs and console

2001-04-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Alexander Zhuckov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please, tell me, what should I do to get normal non block cursor in GNU Emacs. In console I have normal cursor. I don't think that can be done (easily?) in Emacs 20. Emacs 21 will let you do it -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety

Re: custom kernel can not install

2001-04-07 Thread ktb
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 02:48:54AM -0600, eric wrote: Dear Mano or debian user: after I kpkg to make new kernel.deb, I got error dpkg -ikernel-image-2.4.2_custom* dpkg: regarding kernel-image-2.4.2_custom.1.0_i386.deb containing kernel-image-2.4.2: pcmcia-modules-2.4.2 conflicts

Re: Quicktime player?

2001-04-07 Thread CaT
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:53:44AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: I have installed xanim, and xanim modules, but I still don't seem to be able to play QuickTime movies. This is on a stavble system. Is there something special I need to do to enbale this? Or can someone Yes. You need to wedgie

Routing/networking..

2001-04-07 Thread Ted Gervais
I seem to have a problem or at least I don't understand why things are working this way. When I take down and bring up my ethernet connection using 'ifup eth0', I can't go anywhere on the internet . Nothing seems to work. A 'route' query shows the following: -- Kernel IP routing

Re: MTA security

2001-04-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:28:37PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Dave Sherohman posts: I'd like to go with exim, but I'm not entirely convinced that it would be a good choice for functionality and security. What is the exact reason for not being convinced about exim ? Primarily lack of

PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 packages, including potato

2001-04-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
Packages of PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 have been uploaded to experimental (I think they're still in incoming). These have been built for unstable. The same packages are available at http://www.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql At this URL you can also find versions built for potato. -- Oliver

Re: cdda2wav not copying right? (long)

2001-04-07 Thread Ron Farrer
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hmmm. If you're getting skips without any other system activity, then it might be a problem with SCSI throughput...here's a section from the cdda2wav README: Recommendations for higher throughput on Linux SCSI systems

Re: Cursor and GNU Emacs and console

2001-04-07 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Alan Shutko (AS) writes: AS Alexander Zhuckov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please, tell me, what should I do to get normal non block cursor in GNU Emacs. In console I have normal cursor. AS I don't think that can be done (easily?) in Emacs 20. Emacs 21 AS will let you do it May be

cd-burning problems

2001-04-07 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, I tried to set up everything for burning cds under Linux. The basic setup is working for root, but there remain a number of problems. 1.) Is it actually possible to burn cds as normal user (neither root and nor suid-root)? I did create a group cdburn, changed group ownership and the

RE: Newbie-xwindows graphics server?

2001-04-07 Thread Rick Commo
Made a mistake in the list below. The LCD panel is non-interlaced. I was reminded of that when I was doing a hack install of Mandrake 8.0/beta3 on a spare partition. It didn't find the card/screen combo either so I had to set it manually. That's when I realized my blunder in my last post.

cursed by persistent cursor block

2001-04-07 Thread mike polniak
This is a weird problem. Usually 2-3 hours after starting my computer, either in console mode or x-window, a white cursor block (about 10% larger than actual cursor block size) appears in the center of the screen. This block has a fixed position and cannot be covered up by anything. I've tried

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-07 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001, Mark Phillips wrote: Thanks Gavin for your help! I managed to restore my system!! What I did, was use dpkg --get-selections to find out what packages were installed on my system. I redirected this to a file and then edited it. I turned it into a script which ran

Re: Netscape

2001-04-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Raghavendra Bhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010407 00:05]: Please do a search on http://www.debian.org/List-Archives before you post your question. Try to use a GPLed mail client to post your message, no html mails please. Don't be too extreme. You have *no* place telling somebody what

Re: Sound Config

2001-04-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Ted Gervais ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010407 10:47]: What is the best way to configure the sound card with Debian. I am looking for something like sndconfig. Not sure how it is done in Debian.. There is a sndconfig package available that works with Debian. It's a port from the Redhat version

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2001-04-07 Thread Licensehksoftware
PLEASURE SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY == Office PC Desktop Computer * AMD Duron processor 750MHZ * 128MB PC133 SDRAM * SiS730S 4xAGP w/16MB Display * 40x CD-ROM Dive * 3.5Floppy Drive * 20GB UDMA 100 Hard Disk * PCI 4x Sound

Re: cd-burning problems

2001-04-07 Thread Stephen Boulet
The only thing I can think of is to make the cdrecord command itself part of your cdburn group. I usually use su - in a shell and from there use cdrecord to burn my cds. -- Stephen On Saturday 07 April 2001 11:56 am, Andreas Goesele wrote: Hi, I tried to set up everything for burning cds

Re: Help me setup ADSL please

2001-04-07 Thread Nate Amsden
Mark Devin wrote: I can't seem to get it working. looks like you may be trying to use PPPoE, in which case you need the PPPoE software, pppd i don't think will do it(never used PPPoE myself). on all the DSL connections ive setup i just plug the ethernet line into the system and set the static

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-07 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Hey all, By the way, is there any way of setting up an undelete for averting this kind of disaster? My Dad mentioned that Novell Netware has an undelete which basically puts off really deleting stuff for about 5 days --- unless it has to because of lack of space. This sounds like a _very_

Re: Quicktime player?

2001-04-07 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Apr 7 11:18:21 2001 Philipp Lehman wrote... On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed xanim, and xanim modules, but I still don't seem to be able to play QuickTime movies. This is on a stavble system. Did you install the modules from

Re: raid support

2001-04-07 Thread Werner Reisberger
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:38:33AM -0500, Vinh Truong wrote: i am using raid0 with a 2.4.3 kernel. the raid kernel patch was included with the kernel source. you might want to try using a 2.4.x kernel. I heard there are are some serious flaws in the 2.4.x kernels. Don't know any details. In

Re: cd-burning problems

2001-04-07 Thread Nate Amsden
Andreas Goesele wrote: Hi, I tried to set up everything for burning cds under Linux. The basic setup is working for root, but there remain a number of problems. grab a recent version of xcdrgtk (it comes with cdrecord and stuff) and it has detailed instructions on how to get it to run as

dselect (help please)

2001-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone! Please I really need help. Installing archives via dselect doesn't work anymore and I am not willing to reinstall from scratch. Error Message: 82% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, TEMPLATES chunk 2. E:

Re: Quicktime player?

2001-04-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010407 13:06]: On Sat Apr 7 11:18:21 2001 Philipp Lehman wrote... On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed xanim, and xanim modules, but I still don't seem to be able to play QuickTime movies. This is on a stavble system.

Re: Saving some real radio file

2001-04-07 Thread Patrick
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:56:06AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez took time to write: I want to save some real files, but this option is not allowed when you run real player, is there any way of doing it? I figure dumping or piping it, what would be the way of calling the executable for real player

Re: custom kernel can not install

2001-04-07 Thread Alan Chen
This may not be the simplest way to do it but... Download and compile the source for pcmcia-modules (or is that pcmcia-cs?). Build and update a custom deb for pcmcia-modules. If you're using kernel-package, I beleieve you can do a make-kpkg modules. Then you can do a dpkg -i

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