Re: /cdrom directory

2003-02-12 Thread David Z Maze
Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having some difficulty regarding accessing an audio cdrom through /cdrom directory. You don't. Audio CDs don't have filesystems (typically), and so there's no way to mount them. Currently, I can access the audio cd through /dev/cdrom. Here are

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

2003-02-10 Thread David Z Maze
Brian Potkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/texmf is your rather overwhelming starting point. Diving into latex/general gets you what you want. You can use the 'texdoc' tool to conveniently read a file in this tree. For a good beginner's reference, I'd recommend The Not So

Re: Defragment

2003-02-10 Thread David Z Maze
Itsik Aviad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had a serious lock up that forced me to shutdown the system. When I brought it back. It went through the normal procedure of 'fixing' everything, except for a section where it said (and I don't remember the correct syntax) that it wasn't 'continous'.

Re: apt- and dselect

2003-02-08 Thread David Z Maze
alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried running deselect and received this error message: E: Malformed line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (deb) update available list script returned error exit status 1. Press enter to continue This is the trouble maker line: deb

Re: OT: Plagiarism Monitor S/W

2003-02-07 Thread David Z Maze
Abdul Latip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, this is not so related to Debian. I am just wondering if there exists a script/ software that compares similarities between two files. It should be more sophisticated than comm and diff. Someone would like to use that script for screening

Re: Permissions on /usr/src/kernel-source-x.y.z and compiling as anordinary user

2003-02-04 Thread David Z Maze
Doug MacFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Up to now, I've been building my kernels as root. In fact, doing everything as root. Installing the source, compiling, and installing the resultant kernel. But this group seems to think that sound practice would be to only use root to

Re: lm_sensors

2003-02-03 Thread David Z Maze
karrottop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Although I am sure I have about 75% of what I need to do complete, could somebody give me a walkthrough of getting lm-sensors up and running on debian? The goal being getting some sort of information with the command sensors or with gkrellm's sensor plugin,

Re: i2c and lm_sensors

2003-02-01 Thread David Z Maze
karrottop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to get im_sensors running on my debian box, but I am getting some opposition. First of all, I do have my kernel source, and it is symlinked to /usr/src/linux. but for some reason when I go to where i2c installed from apt get

Re: libs are not elf binaries ???

2003-01-31 Thread David Z Maze
franck routier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libfam.so.0.0.0 is not an ELF binary - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start In my experience, this generally indicates disk corruption. You might check the affected packages with debsums or just try to reinstall them. This is

Re: LaTex editor

2003-01-31 Thread David Z Maze
ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know a good TEX editor...any recommendations? Emacs. Or vi. Or anything else that can edit text. There are a couple of WYSIWYGish things (I think LyX is the main one), but all of the reference material I've seen assumes you're going off and

Re: Which version of X should I use?

2003-01-30 Thread David Z Maze
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried this last month and ran into trouble with the video card (ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder). It turns out the version of X in the current stable branch does not support my card well. The previous version supported it and 4.2 supports it. So am I

Re: cdrecord -scanbus - not working

2003-01-30 Thread David Z Maze
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 25.01.2003 19:33 Jonah Sherman wrote: You need ide-scsi emulation to use an IDE CDRW drive. Add SCSI(CONFIG_SCSI), SCSI Generic(CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG), and SCSI CDRom(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR), and SCSI IDE Emulation(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) to your

Re: How crazy is it to run 2.4.20 on woody?

2003-01-30 Thread David Z Maze
Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machine's built-in sound But I don't want to upgrade to testing or unstable in general. How crazy is it to do this? What will I break? (I'm comfortable self-compiling kernels.) I suspect

Re: HOWTO HELP ? creating mp3s of a cd (just for personal use)

2003-01-28 Thread David Z Maze
Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got this question: Is there a program to read a cd store songs or whatever as a MP3 format ? I like to use abcde; by default it will take a CD, stare at it, and produce a directory full of Ogg Vorbis files. If you *really* want MP3 you can

Re: Getting gcc to work

2003-01-28 Thread David Z Maze
Dave De Graff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Can you please configure your mailer to only send plain text?) I've installed gcc but can't find its executables. Seems like the last time I installed it on a fresh woody installation, it was all

Re: apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 !

2003-01-28 Thread David Z Maze
michaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded to Gnome2 for woody on i386 and decided at one point to purge gdm2. Well there was this warning 'directory /etc/gdm/some not empty so not removed', leaving it half-configured. There are several states a package can be in. Half-configured is, I

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread David Z Maze
Charlie Reiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tips for moving to XEmacs $ dpkg -l | grep emacs ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Common facilities for

Re: Missing a PERL module called 'concat'

2003-01-28 Thread David Z Maze
Keith Steensma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I trying to run a perl script that uses a 'concat' function. I can't find it as a built-in function of the language nor can I find it in the Debian packages list. The error is - Undefined subroutine main::concat called at ./mbox2maildir.pl line 31.

Re: Which driver for a VIA AC97 Chip?

2003-01-27 Thread David Z Maze
Andrew M. Lindley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a new motherboard with a VIA AC97 chip for sound, I can't get the via82cxxx_audio driver to load for it. I've read around on the internet but they all seem to refer to PCI string 0x1106:3058 whereas (as you can see) lspci gives 0x1106:3059.

Re: kernel-2.4.18 module mis-install

2003-01-27 Thread David Z Maze
Jonathan Brandmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Installed the stock kernel-image-2.4.18-i686 debian package, with dselect. Installed and unpacked kernel-source-2.4.18, with dselect and tar. Downloaded and unpacked nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, with apt-get and tar. Built

Re: booting ,different configurations

2003-01-27 Thread David Z Maze
Caoilte O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got several services installed on my laptop that I don't always use (db+webserver for example). What would be the best way of configuring my system such that I can choose an option on my grub boot menu for which services I want started? I've

Re: make-kpkg install question

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
Ramsay D. Seielstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, between following the list and reading the various man pages and documentation I'm about ready to try my hand at rolling my own kernel. I'm planning on using 'make-kpkg' to do this and the one item I have not seen (or found an answer

Re: Mounting partitions HELP

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. How can I mount the /dev/hda ( the bootloader says /dev/hda1 ) (as root and/or as normal user) ? See mount(8) and fstab(5). 2. Is it possible to clean (format, initialize) the /dev/hdb3 and set a new partition ( /tmp) there ? Create a new filesystem

Re: pci scan

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some tool that you can use to autoscan your hardware? For PCI specifically? /sbin/lspci should get you a listing of everything you have installed; there are a couple of packages that claim to do autoconfiguration of one sort or another but I've

Re: DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
Jameson C. Burt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For Device File System, Debian devfsd package, how might I test that devfsd properly creates files in /dev? Does your kernel actually have devfs support? I believe the standard Debian kernel's don't, or at least don't have it enabled by default.

Re: M$ Curse

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
Jernej Zidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a Windows reinstall, I have lost lilo. How do I install lilo or any bootloader, so I will be able to access my linux system? Use a boot floppy or Debian install CD to get access to your Debian partition. Then run 'lilo' or 'grub-install', depending,

Re: debian rookie trying to get his bearings...

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
Jeff Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm setting up a test debian server (contemplating a move of several redhat boxes) One quick question to get me going a little better... How do you install services (apache, samba, whatever) and NOT have them start on system startup? Probably the easiest

Re: redirect of ls --color causes problems

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
Lukas Ruf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: using tcsh on debian sid, I defined an alias for ls alias ls 'ls --color -F !*' '--color=auto' might be better for your purposes; it only inserts the color magic if its output is connected to a terminal. I would like to make use of the color feature

Re: compiled kernel problems with ide-scsi and modversions.h

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
Haim Ashkenazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having problems with the new kernel I've compiled on woody. I've used the 2.4.8 source and patched it with xfs filesystem support, and loopback filesystem encryption support. (2.4.8? Do you mean 2.4.18?) It was compiled with make-kpkg. The

Re: GCC 3.2 transition question

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
Balazs Javor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a pure sid system running on my notebook. Could somebody please tell me whether I can still run apt-get update etc. during this phase without completely messing up my system? Or should I wait with any update until the transition is over? If yes,

Re: we've been hosed, Tommy

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
cyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a flurry of unwise decision, while trying to setup synchronization of my clie and looking at java sdk 1.4.1 - I attempted to upgrade my libc6 to 2.3.1 from 2.2.5 - a process that I didn't see as a huge problem as I could just roll back. LONG story short - I

Re: cdrecord -scanbus - not working

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
cmustard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas why `cdrecord` is not working for me. Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.18bf thanks. snip hdb: R/RW 4x4x24, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1092/240/63 hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM

Re: redirect of ls --color causes problems

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:54:29AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: 'chsh /bin/zsh', then ls() { /bin/ls --color=auto --classify $@; } please explain... The syntax for aliases is substantially different in Bourne-like shells than in C-like shells. I tend

Re: sed

2003-01-24 Thread David Z Maze
(Please send a new mail to debian-user if you're talking about something new, rather than replying to a message you're not actually replying to...) behapy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kdjwiskjkdf+-www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi

Re: AudioCD

2003-01-23 Thread David Z Maze
Sergey A. Ovchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I play the Audio-CD's ? Use an audio CD player. gtcd is buried somewhere in the GNOME stuff and has always worked adequately for me; you might also install the 'cdtool' package, which gives you command-line programs like 'cdplay' and 'cdstop'.

Re: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

2003-01-23 Thread David Z Maze
Sergey A. Ovchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I convert several *.wav to *.mp3, by the _one_ command, using lame. I'm interesting about batch mode. Reading This F.. Manual didn't take desired effect :(. And how can I redirect output trom cdparanoia -B to the lame ? It sounds like you

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-23 Thread David Z Maze
Benedict Verheyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you say make, is that the same make program most c++ programs use? If so, i didn't know one could use it with other languages. I'll have to start learning it then. make, in general, is good for describing ways of turning one sort of file into

Re: OT: functional languages

2003-01-22 Thread David Z Maze
Eric E Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric G. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In C, statements are executed in order. I'm not too up on functional languages, but I seem to recall they need special syntax to execute statements sequentially. Not really. top level forms in a scheme program

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-22 Thread David Z Maze
Eduardo Gargiulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should I point my sources to install it? I tend to be perfectly happy with Emacs (and in particular I generally use XEmacs 21). What features do you want out of it? -- David Maze

Re: Installing Debian on an iPAQ

2003-01-21 Thread David Z Maze
Darryl L. Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anybody have experience doing this? Can anybody point me to some information on doing so? Back when I was playing with one, general advice was that you only wanted to try to put Debian on it if you had a lot of persistent storage. The Familiar

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
Aryan Ameri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is still the default login manager. Howshall I change the default login manager to kdm? The most straightforward thing to do

Re: OT: functional languages

2003-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:23:43AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: imperative and procedural are the same thing, and C is a prime example. It is such because the structure of a C program is a collection of procedures which start with main. Each

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
Oliver Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3) update-rc.d -f xdm remove This is arguably bad advice; if xdm ever gets updated (as in a security release), update-rc.d will notice that there are no links for xdm, conclude that the package was never installed, and recreate the links, leaving you back

Re: ALSA (and kernel?) problem

2003-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
George Georgalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't used alsa in a while but when I did, I used these scripts (RedHat) to compile/install. http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-INSTALL.sh http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-driver-0.5.11.sh http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-lib-0.5.10b.sh

Re: kernel-headers compiling source

2003-01-19 Thread David Z Maze
Jeff Penn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read through the kernel-header docs, am still not sure I understand what they are for. I assumed that they enable source to be compiled when using a kernel-image. If this is correct, what is the procedure for compiling i2c-source or

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.20-k7

2003-01-19 Thread David Z Maze
Fraser Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No need to wait. I'm running kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 on my Athlon. You'll only need kernel-headers if you plan on compiling software. ...where software specifically means kernel modules. I suspect most people will never have a reason to install a

Re: Compiling new kernel modules

2003-01-16 Thread David Z Maze
Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been rolling my own kernel using make-kpkg and the other wonderful tools we Debianites have at our disposal for over a year now, yet something just occured to me. Is it possible to compile individual kernel modules outside of the actual kernel

Re: 4.2.1 and 3.3.6 X servers coexist?

2003-01-16 Thread David Z Maze
Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the XFree86 page: http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status9.html#9 some video cards only work with 3.3.6 X servers and others work with 4.2.1 X servers. If i put the two video cards in the pc, can i choose whether to start the 3.3.6 server or the 4.2.1

Re: apt-get install libc6 but want non-latest version

2003-01-16 Thread David Z Maze
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Questions: I was told to get 2.3.1-8, not 2.3.1-9. (Why? The Debian changelog for libc6 suggests that it's mostly non-i386 portability fixes; I'd doubt it would actively hurt anything.) Therefore, a simple apt-get install libc6 will not be enough. Will

Re: MIT versus Heimdal Kerberos 5

2003-01-13 Thread David Z Maze
Frank Lenaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I configured MIT Kerberos 5 and can now use kerberised telnet, ftp, rlogin and ssh. However, I also want to have X over Kerberos. My understanding is that you don't, really, and that the Kerberos code that appears in X might have maybe done

Re: Help, please! telnet down, smtp not available, pam screwy

2003-01-13 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Exim's panic logfile shows TCP service smtp not found ...that suggests that /etc/services is corrupt... daddy:~# telnet localhost telnet: could not resolve localhost/telnet: Servname not supported for ai_socktype ...as does this. You probably need to reinstall the

Re: Kernel help - ICH4 (82801DB) onboard sound

2003-01-12 Thread David Z Maze
Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've now found that I may be able to get sound using a kernel 2.5.11 or above (http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/audio.htm), is there a specific version that anyone could recommend? I'd stay far, far away from the 2.5.x kernel series; it's the

Re: Two sound cards?

2003-01-10 Thread David Z Maze
Qian Gong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have VIA on board sound and an additional Xwave 4000 PCI sound card. The first one (VIA) is supported by kernel (built-in) and for xwave 4000 I use alsa-0.9. The confusing thing is which card is connected to /dev/dsp0 and which to /dev/dsp1. How can I

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: 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: AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working

2003-01-09 Thread David Z Maze
Elijah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to configure my AC97 card since I just removed my c-media to make room for my tv-tuner. My understanding is that AC97 isn't actually a particular type of soundcard, but a sort of meta-standard... I added the ac97_codec in my modules to make it work,

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Saunders) writes: My only query is that when specifying the root file system i have to specify using the /dev/hd* notation rather than the devfs way. is there anyway i can direct the kernel to a root filesystem using devfs? It seems like the kernel find the root

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-09 Thread David Z Maze
Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions? 3D support, too? If you already have a reasonable video card, you might find it just as easy to get a second (PCI) video card. XFree86 supports this configuration very well these days, and it's how my dual-head machine at home is set up.

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-09 Thread David Z Maze
Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Z Maze sez: } If you already have a reasonable video card, you might find it just as } easy to get a second (PCI) video card. XFree86 supports this } configuration very well these days, and it's how my dual-head machine } at home is set up

Re: column position in flex

2003-01-08 Thread David Z Maze
Attila Csosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I get the column position using flex? (for better error handling) I don't see any obvious way to, which seems a little surprising. You might try redefining the YY_USER_ACTION macro, though (see (flex)Miscellaneous in the Info docs): %{ int line =

Re: dependencies .... ???

2003-01-07 Thread David Z Maze
Dave Selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a ham v90 winmodem .. I tracked down the driver for it which is Intel-V92ham-451 It installs with ... make clean make ham make install When you 'make ham', how does it find your actual kernel source? You almost certainly need unpacked kernel

Re: Turning off printer and other daemons

2003-01-07 Thread David Z Maze
Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a general way to disable start up of specific daemons at boot time. Delete their startup links in /etc/rc2.d or /etc/rcS.d. I know I can rip the whole package out, or do a update-rc.d -f remove lpd, but is there a more elegant way? What do

Re: changing IPs

2003-01-07 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Pentium 200 MMX running Debian Linux v1.3. The machine has recently moved and now needs a new fixed IP as it is functioning as a server. What files need to be modified for this IP change? You should only need to change /etc/network/interfaces. You might

Re: ALSA and kernel 2.4.19

2003-01-06 Thread David Z Maze
Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Warning: ignoring snd_major=116, no such parameter in this module Warning: ignoring snd_cards_limit=1, no such parameter in this module Warning: ignoring snd_device_mode=0660, no such parameter in this module Warning: ignoring snd_device_gid=29, no

Re: Using an X app

2003-01-06 Thread David Z Maze
Dominic Iadicicco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question is: Do you have to run an windows manager in order to use an application? You shouldn't, but... I have the .xinitrc file just starting mozilla and it starts fine. I have access to the mouse but the keyboard does not let me type

Re: root or non-root for make-kpkg?

2003-01-05 Thread David Z Maze
Tim Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:02:19 + Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed a new kernel as per: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.en as non-root. make-kpkg failed, with this error: need root priviledges make: ***

Re: bash, expressions, ???

2003-01-05 Thread David Z Maze
Egor Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. Who can explain? ps ax | grep lpd 398 ?S 0:00 lpd Waiting 5593 pts/13 S 0:00 grep lpd ps ax | grep [l]pd 398 ?S 0:00 lpd Waiting What do [l]? As far as grep is concerned, [l] is a regular expression that

Re: TeX fonts

2003-01-05 Thread David Z Maze
Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I converted a .dvi file into a .ps one. The converter (dvips) couldn't find the font (Computer Modern) for the .ps file, so the font displayed wrongly in gv. What's the error message you're getting? CM, being the TeX standard font, really should Just Work...

Re: no modules after kernel compile

2003-01-04 Thread David Z Maze
Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Part 3 of my kernel compile saga. My new kernel compiles OK, it boots OK, but there are no modules. Typing lsmod shows no modules loaded, even though /etc/modules says: ... A look in directory /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers confirms that the

Re: Will my fonts every look good?

2003-01-04 Thread David Z Maze
Stig Are M. Botterli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Moseley wrote: $ dpkg -l | grep font ii gsfonts-x110.16 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11. This package is a real uglificator. Replace it with a dummy equiv. Why do you say that? That

Re: compiling xfree86 on a debian system

2003-01-03 Thread David Z Maze
b d [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have multiple alpha systems, and unfortunately as it turns out must compile Xfree86 from source, due to the fact that the official alpha packages of debian do not currently have my video card supported, yet support exists according to the xfree86.org

Re: Unofficial Debian package management

2003-01-02 Thread David Z Maze
Frank Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 26 Dec 02 15:00:22 GMT, David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using mini-dinstall to maintain a small private repository (mostly with my custom-compiled kernels). You can add other things to it, but it wants a full source package

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread David Z Maze
Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: make xconfig ... Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display 10.100.4.2:0.0 ... Yes I was login directly as root *Why*? Building a kernel isn't the sort of essential system administration task that requires root access; you're much less

Re: apt-get upgrade broken ls broken many others broken

2002-12-30 Thread David Z Maze
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I run apt-get updateapt-get upgrade frequently. Seems a recently installed package is broken (I'm suspecting fileutils). When I do an ls I get: ls: reading directory .: Function not implemented When I do an apt-get upgrade I get: 27 packages upgraded, 0

Re: too restrictive security settings when logging in to email

2002-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:08:29AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: I think my security settings are too restrictive. When I try to log in at mail.yahoo.com using lynx I get an error client doesn't support

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes: The slrnpull program provides the option to use the env variable NNTPSERVER instead of passing the newsserver by argument. As being not that experienced in unix I had a look at the rcS script to look how this might be done. As in, the very first

Re: nvidia kernel driver source compilation - error when makeinstall due to different kernel compiler version/current installedcompiler version

2002-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - nvidia kernel driver source compilation - error when make install due to different kernel compiler version/current installed compiler version - Hello, this question has been clearly addressed in the README file on Nvidia's website, but what should I do?

Re: pcmcia-cs vs. pcmcia-source

2002-12-26 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am compiling my kernel and pcmcia modules from source. Do I need both pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-source. Or will the tools and gizmos that come with pcmcia-cs get built when I compile the pcmcia-source package. You need pcmcia-cs, too; pcmcia-source only builds a

Re: img src=http://ippath/photo.jpg not work,

2002-12-23 Thread David Z Maze
eric lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: www:/home/fsshl# telnet localhost 80 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused That means your Web server isn't running. '/etc/init.d/apache start' as root; if it fails, error messages might be in

Re: swap not being used

2002-12-22 Thread David Z Maze
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mother:~# cat /proc/swaps FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority /dev/hda2 partition 996020 0 -1 mother:~ free total used free shared

Re: wisdom of updating woody python gtk to unstable

2002-12-19 Thread David Z Maze
Luc Lefebvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am developing an app using the default woody python/gtk install. Would it be wise to update to the unstable python 2.2 and python-gnome 1.99 and all of the associated libraries. Basically I would like the added functionality in the newer

Re: Kernel problems: QM_MODULES

2002-12-18 Thread David Z Maze
Tobias Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just recently started a new project; to put together a new firewall/gatway/webserver/etc at home. Now, I installed Debian 3.0 on an old p2-machine and then I did an dist-upgrade to the latest unstable/testing. Everything worked just fine, but then

Re: AucTeX / Emacs syntax highlighting problem

2002-12-16 Thread David Z Maze
Jörg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a file called header.tex in my home directory which I use for every LaTeX document. When I try to do \input{$HOME/header} at the very beginning of my document, emacs colors everything in math-mode-colour because of the $-sign. (Does TeX even

Re: lm-sensors

2002-12-16 Thread David Z Maze
Elimar Riesebieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i just wanted to use lm-sensors to check voltages, temperatures .. Do you actually have (supported) sensor hardware? My laptop, for example, doesn't, though my desktop machine does. 1 I installed lm-sensors, lm-sensors-source and i2c-source 2

Re: alien and rpm

2002-12-16 Thread David Z Maze
Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just recently installed and successfully converted an rpm package to a deb package. I installed the deb package and there were no errors... or so I thought. The package that I converted was the j2sdk_1.4.0_01 and now whenever I try to run anything

Re: bash

2002-12-16 Thread David Z Maze
Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My understanding with the original Bourne shell was that when it starts up, it will execute .profile in the users home directory. How does this work in bash? I have a .bash_profile but I know that it isn't executed since my PATH variable isn't updated

Re: hesiod

2002-12-16 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From what I can gather on this hesiod library, it's a dependency of zephyr which comes from a dependency from cyrus21 (unstable). No, it's an intrinsic dependency of zephyr. In particular, zephyr can use it to find the zephyr servers when the host

Re: hesiod

2002-12-16 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where would you require zephry over DNS? I suspect there was antecedent confusion. *Hesiod* is built on top of DNS. (I think historically Hesiod might predate DNS and it's used for things besides getting server names corresponding to services.) What's a

Re: Kernel compile fails

2002-12-13 Thread David Z Maze
Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded the ac2 patch for the kernel 2.4.20 and applied the same. ... make[2]: Circular /home/software/kernel/alan/kernel-source-2.4.20/include/asm/smplock.h - /home/software/kernel/alan/kernel-source-2.4.20/include/linux/interrupt.h dependency

Re: what is perl 's syntax or grammer?(toward e-commerce)

2002-12-13 Thread David Z Maze
eric lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I follow two boods, one is HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS the other is Teach yourself WEbPublishing with HTML and XHTML may be best weblanguage is java or java script, let me explore html and cgi and perl first (Disagreeing with

Re: OT: functional languages

2002-12-13 Thread David Z Maze
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Haskell, Erlang and Clean are functional programming languages. Lisp is very similar in terms of the paradigm. Is Lisp a functional language? I believe so, yes; the opposite is imperative language, a la BASIC, C, Java, Perl, etc. -- David Maze

Re: LILO on the second disk loaded by GRUB

2002-12-13 Thread David Z Maze
Dai Yuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Park wrote: Dai, I'm confused to why you aren't just using one boot loader to control everything. Can you tell me why you are using two boot loaders? My reason is here: Now I put them together. My intention is: let GRUB load the lilos on

Re: could we use c replace perl in cgi program?

2002-12-13 Thread David Z Maze
eric lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear advanced webprogramers or linuxer: Could we using c replace perl in cgi programming? Sure, nothing's intrinsically tied to Perl at all. Look at http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html for the CGI specification, including a listing of the

Re: internal server error, please help

2002-12-13 Thread David Z Maze
eric lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks your reply, but it is not work( I did not know why yet, maybe some where in my /etc/apache/httpd.conf I should add load mod_perl You don't *need* mod_perl to run CGI scripts. (And if you're doing testing/developing and don't need tight integration with

Re: Depth for X. How choose colormap?

2002-12-12 Thread David Z Maze
Egor Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have some programme. When I run it with X with depth 8, I see error: Cannot allocate colormap entry for gray Cannot allocate colormap entry for yellow2 ... and this program don't work correctly. When I run it with -depth 16 or 24 I don''t see these

Re: Optimizing Debian

2002-12-11 Thread David Z Maze
javier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am a new Debian user. I used to work in Mandrake and there the x86 packages are compiled for i586, while in Debian they are compiled for i386. From my experience, I know you can improve the performance recompiling the kernel for your particular machine

Re: Embedded Linux PDA

2002-12-11 Thread David Z Maze
Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm thinking of getting a Linux embedded PDA, but was wondering what people would advise. Looking at what's out there Sony's Zaurus looks pretty good. AFAIK the Zaurus is the only one that blessedly runs Linux. There are hobbyists who also run Linux on

Re: Debian cannot find the CD

2002-12-05 Thread David Z Maze
Barry Cugley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Can you configure your mail reader to only send plain-text mail, especially to mailing lists? HTML mail makes my spam filter unhappy...) Debian cannot find the CD drive (though Windows 98 can) so I

Re: make-kpkg and .changes

2002-12-05 Thread David Z Maze
Frank Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to install locally built kernel packages in a local repository managed by mini-dinstall. For that I need a .changes file generated. Is there some way to get make-kpkg do that when it creates the packages? A study of the kernel-package

Re: ld ld.so.conf

2002-12-05 Thread David Z Maze
Egor Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I compile programs: $ g77 -o file -O file.f -lX11 I see: $ /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 $ collect2: ld returned 1 exit status But $ cat /etc/ld/so.conf: $ /usr/X11R6/lib When I do: $ g77 -o file -O file.f -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 this OK. I

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