Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-12 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Marc Wilson wrote: [...] It really is just that simple. I had zero luck getting xfstt to cooperate with XF4, and had all sorts of weird font-isms until I disabled it. Aterm would display hash instead of line-drawing characters, rxvt wouldn't even START, Eterm would start, but not

Re: gpm-configuration for use of ps2-mouse with X-Windows

2000-11-14 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Walther, Christoph wrote: [...] ...so gpm works correctly at the console at the test ...but if I starting X-Windows again, the mouse doesn't still work! Of course there is a possibility to stop the gpm manually by: /etc/init.d/gpm stop ...but I'd like to get an automatism in

Re: AC-97 audio and MC-97 modem?

2000-11-16 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Thomas J. Hamman wrote: I'm going to be upgrading my computer soon, most likely with a motherboard with a KX133 (with an Athlon) or a KT133 (with a Duron or Thunderbird) chipset. Does anyone have any experience with those chipsets/CPUs in Debian? Are there any problems with them? And,

Re: basic xscreensaver question

2000-11-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Ethan Benson wrote: 2.I have the GL screensavers turned on, but I get errors about not setting my MESA_GLX_FX variable. Right now I have it so that it sets it in my bashrc. What would be a better (global) file to put that it so all programs could take advantage of it? (please

Re: AC-97 audio and MC-97 modem?

2000-11-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Alson van der Meulen wrote: [...] I've an Asus KX133, the on-board audio (VIA VT82C686) works quite well with ALSA (version 0.59d), if you really want OSS, the current stable kernel (2.2.17) has only support for 8 bit SB emulation, but there is a new driver in the next 2.2.18

Re: How to change imwheelrc to scroll with mozilla line by line ?

2000-11-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Damon Muller wrote: Quoth Michael Meding, mozilla keeps scrolling a page up or down even after adding a mozilla section in the imwheelrc (exactly like the navigator section) and then changing Page_Up and Page_Down to just Up and Donw respectively. I have found that the best solution to

Re: Question about shortcuts

2000-11-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Brian Kallinen wrote: Hi, I had a question about about using shortcuts under Debian (kern 2.2) running Gnome desktop under Sawfish. At the present time, I have shortcut icons for my applications in the bottom panel, but I was wondering how to setup up a key shortcut for the same

Re: debian upgrade mess

2000-11-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: Hi, on shopping for packages, I like gnome-apt. It's Xwindows based so if X is hosed you can't use it. I tend to avoid GUI's if I can, but this one I like :) I would like to suggest stormpkg: has a very useful filter option... Andrea

Re: Xterm Font

2000-12-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jack Morgan wrote: I want to make my Xterm font bigger. I tried control + middle mouse click but didn't see any option to change the font as the FAQ says. Any pointers to appropriate docs would be great Thanks! To quick change the font size try SHIFT + and SHIFT - using the + and - from the

Re: mkboot

2000-12-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Andrew McRobert wrote: hi all Can anyone tell me a reliable way to make a boot disk? I've tried the mkboot util, and I have to say it's pretty average - it hasn't successfully booted a disk, only get's to: LILO boot: Loading linux and dies ... I'm pretty sure there's a way to make a

Re: Quake installation

2000-12-03 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Yobb wrote: Help. Am I missing something? I downloaded and tried to install the following: quake-lib_1.06-10.deb quake-x11_0.1.1-1.deb I got the following error: # dpkg -i quake-x11_0.1.1-1.deb (Reading database ... 46278 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to

Re: onboard sound with via82cxxx

2000-12-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Pascal Hos wrote: Hi, I have a MSI 694d board with onboard audio with via82cxxx chip. I'm having severe problems trying to get the sound working. When compiling the kernel I selected modular sound card support and modular OSS sound modules with modular VIA 82C686 Audio Codec. When doing

Re: voodoo5 and debian

2000-12-10 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [...] i know this isn't much to go on, but can you take a guess as to what might be happening? basically, when i run quake3, the screen goes black and the keyboard/mouse lose focus. i have to ssh in from another local machine to reboot. :( Maybe this can be

Re: GL screen hacks corrupting display

2000-12-11 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Rob VanFleet wrote: I'm using potato with the /dev/3dfx - Mesa combo for 3D. When I run a GL screen hack like gears or morph3d, it runs accelerated and looks nice. The problem is that when I exit them, the display in X is completely whacked; I can't do anything. So far, I've just been

Re: XFree / Font error

2000-12-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Hall Stevenson wrote: Running Debian Woody and XFree86 v4.0.1 and trying to get TrueType fonts under X. I've followed the instructions fully, I believe, but still no TT fonts. I finally ran across this error: Could not init font path element unix/:7101, removing from list! in

Re: apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

2000-12-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19-Dec-2000 David Z. Maze wrote: Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: M Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere on a M system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have M Packages.gz files Nope. M (how are

Re: Scrolling the mouse wheel of Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (again) in Corel Linux 1.2

2000-12-25 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Rob VanFleet wrote: On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 07:20:19PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: if your using gpm to interact with X you need to set XF86config to use /dev/gpmdata instead of /dev/psaux Not necessarily. Actually, that method gave me problems. I got gpm and X working together

Re: sound blaster live! 512

2001-01-03 Thread Andrea Vettorello
romain lerallut wrote: have you tried the ESD output plugin instead of the OSS one ? [...] such device Looks like I might have deeper problems than permissions... Have any ideas? Could you look in your /var/log/syslog for any messages like modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0?

Re: Spelling for netscape.

2001-01-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Joshua Kruck wrote: Hello, I am trying to get spell check to work for netscape's email progam. Does anyone know how to do this? The button is greyed out and i can figure out how to work it. Also, does anyone know the command to just launch the mail component of netscape. I know the

Re: Voodoo 3

2001-01-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
David Steinberg wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what to do to set up my voodoo 3 to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL under X 3.3.6? At this point, what I think I know is that Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL API, and that it can work with

Re: How to get Woody on an Off-line computer?

2001-01-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Preben Randhol wrote: D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/01/2001 (14:37) : You could just download all the packages you might want and to a HD install. (Assuming you have a machine with a decently fast connection and a disk big enough to transfer to the un-connected machine)

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Dale Morris wrote: I'm having a problem with LILO. I have windows installed in the first partition on my hd but somehow have wiped out the mbr. I've also tried to compile the new 2.4 kernel, but am getting the following error: cat bzImage /vmlinuz cp /usr/src/linux/System.map / if [ -x

Re: [OT]IDE patch help

2001-07-11 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Cam wrote: I'm attempting to use the IDE patch that I got from kernel.org. However I'm running into a problem. Everytime I try to patch it...i get this error: bash-2.05# zcat ide.2.4.7-p3.all.07092001.patch.gz | patch -p0 can't find file to patch at input line 4 Perhaps you used the wrong

Re: Tuxracer and 3D accelaration in debian

2001-07-11 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Steve Kieu wrote: Okay I try to run it from the console and here is some warnings but I donbt know what to do :-) $tuxracer Tux Racer 0.61 -- a Sunspire Studios Production (http://www.sunspirestudios.com) (c) 1999-2000 Jasmin F. Patry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tux Racer is a trademark of Jasmin

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-12 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Tommy McDaniel wrote: That doesn't seem like to me like what I want to do, but it could be. Basically, I downloaded the basic files to install Linux on my Windows partition and now want to use dselect to install packages, which will also have to be downloaded onto the Windows partition before

Re: MTA choice

2001-07-12 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Paul Tansom wrote: I'm just about to start configuring a mail server with IMAP support on a new Debain 2.2r3 install. Does anyone have any views on the best MTA - no flame wars please ;-) I was looking to install Postfix with Cyrus for IMAP support. I need to check up on the folder and

Re: scaning the mails and attachment before sending out

2001-07-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Peter Kok wrote: Hi all I receive some mails which have the following footnote: How do I do in my mail server? 'scaning the mails and attachment before sending out.' Does the debian have this free software Many thanks B. Regards Peter Messages and

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
der.hans wrote: Am 14. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Joost Kooij so: Try to run update again from the dselect menu. If you keep having problems with the integrity of the /var/lib/dpkg/available file, please post again. I don't think he can. I think this is the case where debian has no net

Re: Anyone succesfully using Alsa 0.9 and esound on unstable ?

2001-07-16 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Lars Knudsen wrote: Hi folks, the subject really says it all. I have alsa 0.9 working nicely when using aplay, but so far have not succeded in making it work with esound. With my crappy integrated VIA686 esd works, but there is a disturbing noise on the left channel (if i use OSS the

Re: Anyone succesfully using Alsa 0.9 and esound on unstable ?

2001-07-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
christophe barbé wrote: This is certainly a clue why I never succeeded configuring my via686 with alsa. The libesd-alsa0 is certainly broken. I will try it soon. Are you using sid ? Christophe Le lun, 16 jui 2001 22:31:16, Andrea Vettorello a écrit : Lars Knudsen wrote: Hi folks

Re: evolution beta

2001-07-25 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On 23 Jul 2001 19:51:35 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: has anyone had a go with the new beta of evolution? i got it down last night but it seems to have a most peculiar bug - you can't reply to any mail which you receive! Try to update the gtkhtml gtkhtml-data packages... Andrea

Re: ALSA problems

2001-07-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Ross Boylan wrote: I recently upgraded to 2.4.6 kernel and alsa 0.9xxxbeta; I had previously been using 2.4.2 and (I think) alsa 0.5. [...] 4) Some error message about alsactl or alsaconf scrolls by when I start the system. Can anyone suggest what is happening, or how to fix it? Don't

Re: How long from release to unstable?

2001-07-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jeremy Whetzel wrote: I'm just wondering how long it generally takes something like the next version of X to make it's way into the unstable branch of Debian? I'm looking forward to 4.1.0 because I need it for the support it has for my video card, but it has yet to make it to the unstable

Re: setting fonts-75dpi as the default xfonts

2001-08-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Florian Fritze wrote: Hi, how can I set the fonts-75dpi fonts as the default xfonts. If I install the fonts-100 package, the configuration is set to 100dpi, but I want to keep 75dpi as the default. If I deinstall the fonts-100 package, the default is 75dpi, but gimp needs also 100dpi fonts.

Re: Search engine on lists.debian.org broken?

2001-08-10 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On 10 Aug 2001 02:06:12 -0700, Herbert Pirke wrote: Hi, Has anyone had any problems searching the user mailing archive recently? Since several days, I always get 0 results whatever I enter as search string. Is it broken or am I just too stupid? I've read on www.debianplanet.org that

Re: yet another apt question

2001-08-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On 13 Aug 2001 13:32:48 +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi List Where does apt store the packages.gz files it downloaded when doing apt-get update? My idea is to copy them to another computer (which has no internet access) for doing a dist-upgrade. I think all I need is an up-to-date list of

Re: AC97 sound HOWTO

2001-09-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 20:52, Jonathan David Pearce wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, --- wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:08:21PM -0400, Jonathan David Pearce wrote: I have a new mainboard with built-in AC97 sound. I installed the kernel module ac97_codec. That hasn't gotten me to where I need

Re: Voodoo3 on potato with X 3.3.6

2001-09-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 18:18, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I've searched the archives, and elsewhere, but all the useful info seems to be about installing with X 4 (which isn't in potato(?)), or on redhat, or occasionally on Debian by using redhat packages. Is there no way to get 3d from

Re: Voodoo3 on potato with X 3.3.6

2001-09-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 14:14, Richard Hector wrote: Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 18:18, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I've searched the archives, and elsewhere, but all the useful info seems to be about installing with X 4 (which isn't in potato

Re: dmi and Mobo monitoring

2001-09-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 06:41, Vector wrote: I am running potato on a new dual AMD box with Tyan's K7 mobo. I need to monitor the temperature inside my box and send notifications (snmp trap or email or something) when it reaches a certain level. This is regular DMI/LDCM stuff under windoze and

Re: Error

2001-03-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me how to fix this error after installing XF86. /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd (invalid argument) 2 xda8 hdc8 pts/ptyva sde14 ttyb8 ttyx3 xdb hdc9 ptya0 ptyvb sde15 ttyb9 tty

Re: TTF problem in X

2001-03-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Christophe TROESTLER wrote: Hi all, I have been trying to set up a way to get TTF fonts on the X display. * With xfs-xtt, I configured the directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ (put symlinks for the fonts and made mkttfdir) and added FontPath unix/:7100 to

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Ethan Benson wrote: see subject, all the documentation i have been following on linuxprinting.org involves ghostscript, which is broken on debian. (see my other mail, all it does when run by lpd is spit out svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.) if anyone has gotten this or a similar model

Re: What kernel module for Sound Max Digital Audio?

2001-03-04 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Kent West wrote: I just got blessed with a Gateway E-3400 933MHz PIII box; sweet machine. I've recompiled a new 2.4.2 kernel and everything's working well except for sound and vmware (I'll worry about vmware later). The only info I've found so far on the sound, which is integrated, is that

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-05 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: I've a stylus color 880 (mmh, i guess is not a similar model, this model is a 4 colors printer, the photo should be 6 colors), and have played with pdq/xpdq and the linuxprinting stp driver (your

Re: What kernel module for Sound Max Digital Audio?

2001-03-05 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Kent West wrote: Andrea Vettorello wrote: Kent West wrote: I just got blessed with a Gateway E-3400 933MHz PIII box; sweet machine. I've recompiled a new 2.4.2 kernel and everything's working well except for sound and vmware (I'll worry about vmware later). The only info I've

Re: [ze_mil@club-internet.fr: X error]

2001-03-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Branden Robinson wrote: Would someone help this user for me? Dear Laurent, for sure you will found a quicker answer to your questions in the Debian mailing lists (for example debian-user =) instead contacting the packages maintainers... - Forwarded message from Laurent Dubois [EMAIL

Re: Trouble with kernel stability

2001-03-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
franck routier wrote: Hi, I have some trouble with my kernel for a few days : it breaks quite often, giving me a oops... I noticed it is particularly bad with drm accessing null pointer... (???), but not only. X sometimes hangs up without warning too, and once my machine couldn't unmount

Re: What kernel module for Sound Max Digital Audio?

2001-03-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: snip concerning Kent's inability to get sound out of AC'97/intel810 integrated sound on a Gateway E3400 using ALSA Andrea replied: You don't say if you added in the /etc/modutils the requested aliases for your sound card, mine where created

Re: What kernel module for Sound Max Digital Audio?

2001-03-08 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Kent West wrote: [...] So I ran through it again, this time with a 2 error.log appended, and this time putting in 100 on the three questions about frame size,etc. Here's the contents of error.log: touch: creating `/etc/alsa/modutils/0.5': No such file or directory grep:

Re: What kernel module for Sound Max Digital Audio?

2001-03-10 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Kent West wrote: [...] However, when I actually tried to play any sound, no sound came out of the speakers. I've tried both saytime and splay [some .mp3 file]; both tests pause the cursor at the command prompt like the system is busy running a program, and then eventually returns like the

Re: Need Help getting rid of really anoying messages from Pam_unix (cron).

2001-03-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
John Foster wrote: Recent upgrades from woody to a blend of testing/unstable has resulted in me getting a continuous stream of messages on every consol screen from; Pam_unix[1235]: (cron) session opened for user list by (uid=0) and a simalar message from user root. Does anyone have ANY

Re: cdrom permission problem

2001-03-25 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Dale Morris wrote: Yes, I've done the adduser (myusername) cdrom. [...] adduser myusername cdrom chmod 660 /dev/cdrom chgrp cdrom /dev/cdrom is the user you try to run gnomecd player as in the group cdrom? Look in the preference of the Gnome CD player, IIRC it points to

Re: gs : no output

2001-03-27 Thread Andrea Vettorello
christophe barbe wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use pdq (a print spooler system) under potato. It uses ghostscript to convert postscript to printer format file. First I thought there was a problem with pdq but know I'm sure the problem comes from gs. I've tried a lot of command and the result

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jake R. Johnson wrote: I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do this? Maybe with dd or with split, i have only used split long time ago on Solaris, and it was useful with text file, not

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with 2MB ram on it. Anyone know of a Linux distro that will run on it? Maybe one of the embedded one's? Ironic that PDA's are more powerful nowadays. Don't remember the right name, something like

Re: Log oddness

2001-04-02 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Dave Sherohman wrote: Has anything strange been happening in testing/woody's logging facilities lately? In the last week, one of my machines has two days where the archived syslog is completely empty (not even a --MARK--) and this morning I found a warning that auth.log was smaller than it

Re: what is 'slot-service-0-3' ?

2001-04-02 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Philipp Bliedung wrote: I tried to set up the sound, but didn't get it to work. I always got this in /var/syslog this: /var/log/syslog . Apr 1 19:13:36 laptop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Apr 1 19:13:36 laptop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module

Re: OT: netscape

2001-04-03 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Andrew D Dixon wrote: Hi All, I'm using Netscape 4.7 but the spelling feature is turned off. This is a real problem for me because I spell like an eight year old. I've got ispell installed and I can't think of what other package it might need. Any suggestions? Try apt-cache search

Re: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Hall Stevenson wrote: [...] How many people use this ?? I've rarely had Linux lock up on me, but a few times I have had X lockup to the point that hitting the power switch was my only option... I think I've seen this in make menuconfig before. Isn't it the last selection in the menu ?? If

Re: telnetd slow to respond

2001-04-05 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Patrick Colbeck wrote: Yup I think the telnetd tries to do a reverse lookup on the incoming telnet session. Adding your ip address and machine name to the hosts file of the machine you are telneting to will speed it up a lot. Same thing applies to proftpd so maybe its a function of the

Re: XF 4.0.2 and glide for v3

2001-01-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Hi - I've been trying to configure drm support for my voodoo3 (hence I'm using xf4 from unstable), and having very little luck. I went through all the configuration questions, insmod'd the 3dfx drm module, and typed startx. this is what I get: (II) GLIDE:

Re: How to install a .deb from floppy???

2001-01-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until newbie can connect to net under linux, he is stuck with having to use win3.1 machine to download .deb's from debian.org. But then, when puts floppy with .deb in linux machine, apt-get can't seem to understand simple directions. Migrate to floppy, type

Re: nfs-common

2001-01-26 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Brock Murch wrote: I have been getting this error every so often in the syslog: Is this a nfs-common bug? or a syslogd bug? running: Linux brockwell 2.2.17 #2 Thu Sep 14 06:08:37 EDT 2000 i486 unknown all packages from the stable upgrade of that time. To me this seems an exploit

Re: Gnome not starting.. (after a crash)

2001-01-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Paul Schulz wrote: Greetings, 'Gnome' is not starting up anymore, and I'm not able to run gnome applications: It opens a connection on the localhost to port 16001, and waits, but doesn't get anything.. and seems to just be hanging. What is this port? I don't know how the gnome system

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-29 Thread Andrea Vettorello
hammack wrote: Problem: I cannot get a cursor in X with my PS/2 generic mouse. I do get a cursor in the Text mode and can cut and paste between VC's. In X I can click in the window and get menus to pop up and occasionally I will lite up a button all in the blind.Below are the two

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-31 Thread Andrea Vettorello
hammack wrote: Andrea, Thanks for the response. I think I tried your suggestins. Below is my setup for the mouse in gpm.config and XF86Config: gpm.config: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type=raw type=psw append= [...] As someone else suggested, try stopping gpm before

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-02-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Martin Albert wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andrea Vettorello wrote: As someone else suggested, try stopping gpm before launching X or trying to configure X (via some graphic configuration utility that right now i don't remember the name, where is dexter =). I don't think, that is hte

Re: sound card is off line

2001-02-04 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Kenneth Scharf wrote: I installed the helix gnome package from the helixcode site as an upgrade to the gnome package that came with debian potato. I won't say that it has exactly broken things, but things have gotten weird. In particular my sound card no longer works, launching XMMS or

Trouble compiling gs (ghostscript) from source

2001-02-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
I would like to try the new stp gs driver (from gimp-print), so i've downloaded the source for the ghostscript and started to read the docs. To start with a simple task, i've tried to create the gs binary package from the debian sources (without the stp patch), but the compilation aborted

Re: Trouble compiling gs (ghostscript) from source

2001-02-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Andrea Vettorello wrote: [...] To start with a simple task, i've tried to create the gs binary package from the debian sources (without the stp patch), but the compilation aborted compiling zdevcal.c Well, seems no one compiled gs from source lately, anyway i've figured out where

Re: [q] apt-get source ..

2001-02-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Matthias Wieser wrote: When I download something, is the directory that will be created, contain already the newest version of the drivers? Reason behind the question: I try to compile Ghostscript with the stp driver of the gimp-print project. I have not been able to compile the things, i

Re: problem running xf86cfg

2001-05-27 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Philipp Bliedung wrote: hi I just upgraded to XFree 4.0.3 but when I try tu run xf86cfg I get this error message: [...] Any ideas how I can fix this? BTW what does the VidModeExtension do? Don't know if this can helps, but you could try using xf86cfg in textmode running xf86cfg

Re: middle mouse button

2001-06-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Frank Zimmermann wrote: Curtis Hogg wrote: What do you have your repeater type set to for your gpm configuration? You may have a problem there. Here are the relevant lines in my gpm.conf: device=/dev/ttyS0 responsiveness= repeat_type=ms3 type=ms+ append= Try changing

Re: Qs about Java 2 and potato, also q about Herald installation

2001-06-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... tried to find this information in the archives first but it looks like the search engine's being a tad misanthropic the last couple of days anyways... my questions... I'm currently running the potato distribution... is Java 2 available for that? How do I

Re: Xwapper

2001-06-03 Thread Andrea Vettorello
George Dancheff wrote: Hi, after the last upgrade of X I have been asked if xwapper could be used so the users to start the X through . I answed No and now only root can start X , how can I fix that so the other user can start X too . How to setup this xwrapper ??? Not really sure, but

Re: Alsa and Kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Andreas Tscharner wrote: Hello World, I cannot compile the alsa drivers any longer with kernel 2.4.5 (Kernel 2.4.4 worked) using make-kpkg modules_image Has anyone the same problem? Don't think it's a alsa problem, but yes, i've found trouble creating the modules image. The problem isn't

Re: search engines: htdig or glimpse?

2001-06-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Hi all, I'm undecisive between htdig and glimpse as a search engine for both my local files and our intranet. I would like to hear about which experiences other Debian users have with either one -- a short comparative review would be great. And you could also

Re: DRI - Voodoo3 - confusion

2001-06-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:52:06PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: I want DRI for my Voodoo3 card. But I'm confused. Somewhere I read DRI is included in XFree86 4.0.1. Somewhere else I read it's in the 2.4. kernel. And in /var/log/XFree.0.log I found the line:

Re: Best way to setup a Soundblaster Live card

2001-06-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jeremiah H. Savage wrote: [...] also helpful is # adduser [user] disk so that a user can user the CDROM after ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/hd[x] Adding a user to the disk group is a bad thing, try looking in the mail archive for the full details (the user could fill/trash the

Re: the .xinitrc and .xsession puzzle

2001-06-10 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Alex Suzuki wrote: Hello friends, I wanted to ask you guys what ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession are all about. I run Debian woody, GNOME and sawfish as my windowmanager (sawfish-gnome package). Somehow GNOME just can't remember its settings, and I think I screwed up those files anyway. Which

Re: USB modules

2001-06-16 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Mike Pfleger wrote: Hello. I have just compiled a 2.2.18 kernel w/crypto modules, and am now trying to get USB working. I have dug around on the debian site, and various other sites, trying to find an answer as to why I can't install the input.o module. Apparently I've done something

Re: dialing up my home box

2001-06-20 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Andre Berger wrote: * John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-06-18 22:44 +0200: Sebastiaan writes: If you are on a phone line, you need to install some dail-in server. You already have a dial-in server: pppd. Install mgetty and configure it to use autoPPP to answer incoming calls and

Re: another strange bootup message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

2001-06-20 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Britton wrote: Oddly, this one does't show up in dmesg. It happens a couple of times during bootup and thats it. Ideas what is going on would be mose welcome. IIRC i was having something like that on boot when i've upgraded from slink to potato, try looking in your /etc/network but don't

Re: apt-get without (direct) internet connection?

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Chris Kenrick wrote: I have two boxes here, a Debian woody box, not internet connected and a Windows NT box, internet connected. It's not an option to connect the Debian box to the net, but it is an option to connect it to the NT box via a null modem cable... So what I am asking is, how

Re: setting up Cyrus w/o users in the passwd file?

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Alexander Koch wrote: I want to set up Exim and Cyrus to work w/o any users in the passwd file. I think this is possibly. Does anyone know if it is, i.e. dong some pam stuff or could I change the database cyrus authenticates against? All I want is IMAP and a clean passwd... Mmh, i've

Cyrus and sasl with potato?

2001-06-25 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Anybody out there using Cyrus and sasl authentication with potato? I've read some documentation, but seems that the version of Cyrus in potato is way older than the version mentioned in the Cyrus-HowTo (and the same is for the version in sid). If this could not be feasible, would be very glad if

Re: HELP: netscape crashes with :INTERNAL ERROR..linking error..PR_GetCurrentThread ...

2001-06-25 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello! using latest unstable, and lately netscape stopped from working all i get is: netscape INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load /usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking error=/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined

Re: My voodoo 3...

2001-06-26 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jonathan Daugherty wrote: I *haven't* created the tdfx device file (/dev/cards/tdfx?), because i can't remember how to (or even what the name of the file is). I searched on google, without luck. It's /dev/3dfx, and you don't create it manually. Get the device3dfx-source package.

Re: IP ALIAS

2001-06-26 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:05:10PM -0300, Juan wrote: How can I configure an IP ALIAS ? 1) Build a kernel with IP aliasing support 2) Assign an address to eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. And, IIRC, in the 2.4.x kernel tree aliasing is default (or better, you will not find an

Re: Pluggin in Galeon

2001-06-26 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Hall Stevenson wrote: Galeon is a great brower but is there any pluggin like flash, java work under it? Pluggin for network work well (most of the time) just wanna switch to galeon ASAP coz it is cool =) galeon is to a large extent just a front-end to mozilla (I don't mean that

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-08 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Tommy McDaniel wrote: I have been trying to get package management going since I installed Debian a couple of weeks ago, but have had great difficulties. I am unable to connect to the Internet from my Linux partition, so I decided to set up apt-setup to use a file system and get everything

Re: Printer help please!

2001-07-08 Thread Andrea Vettorello
bernard wrote: For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall (don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was says my sympathetic girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed potato some time ago and tried to install cups, but didn't have much luck, so I

Re: problems with the keyboard?....I don't think so....

2001-11-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 19:06, Fabio Cesari wrote: Hi all! Yesterday I updated a debian woody. It was first installed in June, therefore most of the installed packages have been updated. After dselect finished the update process, all seemed to work fine, and all the services were working well

Re: cyrus and sieve: how to setup?

2001-11-14 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 13:37, Erik Steffl wrote: I have cyrus imap server working and I would like to use sieve to filter email. I have several questions that I hope somebody will answer: 1) the only implementation of sieve in debian that I found is undocumented progam called sieve in

Re: cyrus and sieve: how to setup?

2001-11-16 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 19:42, Erik Steffl wrote: Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 13:37, Erik Steffl wrote: I have cyrus imap server working and I would like to use sieve to filter email. I have several questions that I hope somebody will answer: 1) the only

Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 05:40, Erik Steffl wrote: Hi everybody, I have the following problem, I would appreaciate any help: briefly: sieve does not work. here's my setup (these are unofficial cyrus packages from www.boxedpenguin.com): jojda:~dpkg -l \*cyrus\*|grep ^ii ii

Re: mozilla ssl doesn't work!

2001-10-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 00:58, Alexander N Gould wrote: When I click on https links in mozilla 0.9.4 from sid, nothing happens! The libnss3 package is installed and up to date. Any ideas? Thanks. Do you have mozilla-psm installed? Andrea

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 09:51, Patrick Lane wrote: What do I need to do to get java working in Galeon and/or Mozilla? I'm using unstable with current packages (not cvs). Thanks in advance. I've java working in both (i think) using the Blackdown j2re,look on http://www.blackdown.org; for

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:13, Hall Stevenson wrote: snip Which will give you a Java Runtime Environment. Note that this is non-free software. Where can one get a truly 'free' version of Java ?? This would certainly appeal to Debian folks... I will look for the kaffe package... Andrea

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