Re: GTK question

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Weir
if rendered with GTK2. Are they so different as to not be compatible from v1 to v2? Programs have to be ported to GTK2 from GTK1.2 for this to work at all. It's more than just a recompile, too, it requires actual source changes. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I

Re: huge amount of unsed kernel modules.

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Weir
the 2.4bf but there are heaps of modules that are unused. /etc/modules: af_packet 8139too #sound es1371 apm ide-scsi Run rmmod -a to remove them. Not sure why they're loaded to begin with, though. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words

Re: X: No screens found

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
up on the web somewhere or else post all the lines beginning with (EE). -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:clones SCUD missile threat overthorw Waco, Texas Crypto AG Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Abnormal CPU usage...

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
, and additional error emails being generated. Then each of those errors creates more errors, yadayada. /var/log/mail.log and /var/log/exim/mainlog are the ones to look at. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: ASO

Re: emacs can't find bitstream vera

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
the new fonts. They should then show up in xfontsel. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Ortega subversive Verisign bomb encryption Commecen warfare Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc

Re: Knoppix and Internet connection problems

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
the address) or try #knoppix on irc.freenode.net. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: enigma IRA Centro rs9512c Ft. Bragg Perl-RSA number key Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
and prints the value of the pointer gave me the same address 20 times in a row. Of course, you're not supposed to worry about this sort of thing, and just let the kernel and libc handle it for you...So, I guess that's a maybe ;-) -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want

Re: no volume display in XMMS

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
to the audio group, which will give you all the permissions you need, with no fiddling. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:ASLET Comirex Majic Mole Kosovo president digicash Leitrim Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
not converting an mp3 to a wav and then back again, are you? That's really not going to help improve the quality :-) -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: NSA Comirex codes e-cash Leitrim eternity server InfoSec Hi, VeriSign

Re: Installation via HTTP?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
from my local apt-proxy mirror via http last year. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: csim benelux Vickie Weaver AMEMB assassination Croatian Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: A Selection of XMMS Skins?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
thousands of them, it could get tedious... -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:Bosnia Ortega bce AUTODIN Hacker embassy ASO AGT. AMME Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
. Is this what you have? That will be fine. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: MD4 Albright Albright Treasury smuggle Capricorn SDI MD2 Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: bayesian spamassassin throwing error

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
getting confused. Oh, and try enabling the debug option for sa-learn, perhaps that will show you something interesting. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Axis Of Evil Ft. Bragg morse Serbian red noise colonel spies Hi, VeriSign

Re: What is the difference between `Sid' and `unstable' ?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
temporary synomynous ? I vaguely remember apt ignoring one or the other nameing style, there's probably a bug about it if the problem still exists. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Mena plutonium explosion Audiotel plutonium M-14

Re: apt-get problem

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-base.list and then dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-base_4.1.0-16.deb. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: SSL corporate security credit card ISEC global Manfurov Hi, VeriSign

Re: Apt error message

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
show us your /etc/apt/preferences or /etc/apt/apt.conf file? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: bce Skipjack lynch Ermes number key Watergate argus brigand Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc

Re: ICQ's problem

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
or konq was built with) you'll need to get a version of the JRE that was built with gcc 3.2. Last I checked, this was only available as tarballs, and had gcc3.2 in the filename. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Sarin nerve gas

Re: hotmail refusing connections?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
takes adding one line to your postfix/main.cf (hint: relayhost). -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: PGP Khaddafi government defense information warfare freedom Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What is the difference between `Sid' and `unstable' ?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
of a package, and then let you decide which one to install. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: CNCIS digicash David John Oates CBNRC Rumsfield UOP enforcers Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: HELP!Problems with 160GB SATA drive

2003-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
) onto the new disk, and either build a kernel that supports the the controller or install a new kernel-image package that supports it natively. Once it's installed, move the disk and controller back to the original machne, and boot. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look

Re: diffs between kernel-source-2.4.22 and source of kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
think of is gcc versions. It shouldn't matter, but maybe it's built with gcc 2.95 still? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: White Water Watergate smuggle counter terrorism Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
fonts. Another neat feature of fontconfig is that you can just drop fonts in ~/.fonts/ and all your fontconfigified programs will have access to them immediately. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Ft. Knox arrangements

Re: Installing with root fs as reiserfs

2003-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
the bf2.4 disks? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Axis Of Evil Leitrim supercomputer CipherTAC-2000 Becker Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
or needless? That directory contains no fonts at all for me. It would do no harm to have it listed as a FontPath, but it would do no good, either. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: MD5 VX NSA SDI Centro codes MP5K-SD Pine

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:47:50AM +0800, csj said At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:33:09 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: [...] For GNOME2 and KDE3, you need to setup fontconfig which Xft2 uses to find fonts. I'll get to that in a minute. I didn't have to do anything to get my fonts available

Re: problems upgrading libstdc++2.10-dev on unstable

2003-10-15 Thread Rob Weir
sit tight until the maintainer uploads the fixed version. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Project Monarch kilo class ANC Rand Corporation Ft. Meade Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-15 Thread Rob Weir
? No. If you don't use fontconfig, ignore it completely. It has no bearing on your other X fonts. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: domestic disruption computer terrorism credit card red noise Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL

Re: Couple of problems here... ;)

2003-10-16 Thread Rob Weir
misc drwxr-xr-x2 root root16384 Oct 15 13:07 ttf drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Oct 15 09:55 util How would I go about fixing this one?? ;) How do the permissions of the fonts *inside* the ttf directory look? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-17 Thread Rob Weir
/ and /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ instead of into /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/. Yes, x-ttcidfont symlinks the fonts into /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/, they still get installed somewhere else. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:16AM +0800, csj said On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: Yes, defoma aka Debian Font Manager. When you install a new font, it handles setting up symlinks and such so that you can just point X at /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:33:15PM -0700, Ross Boylan said Rob, thanks for making this available. I have one comment. On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:33:09PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: 4) Add :unscaled to the end of the 100dpi and 75dpi font lines, so they look like this FontPath

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:09:56PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said Rob, On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote: Quoting Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just spent a while expanding on my short guide that I've used on the list a couple of times. It's available from

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
support version 3 of MySQL. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: USCODE David John Oates Watergate counter terrorism militia signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Newbie on troubles...

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
? Is it powering down? Was something not correctly installed? If the problem is that your machine isn't powering down, then it could be that you haven't loaded the apm module. modprobe apm should do the trick. Should I install Debian again No. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:43:40PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:56:10PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:09:56PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said Since it is a small topic, if you wish, I will be grad to make it a part of Debian Reference. Rewite around

Re: X 4.3 mouse cursor

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
it to whiteglass or redglass and restart X. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: World Trade Center freedom Agfa keyhole SEAL Team 6 Area 51 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: software download

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
- GameBoy Color Advance Emulator No. - LibMagick5.5.5 (needed to install transcode package) (i have found libmagick5.5.7 but it isn't compatible) Why not get transcode that's actually built for your system? http://marillat.free.fr/ -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I

Re: Installing my own Apache?

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
, installing into /usr/local is no problem. Have a look at stow, it makes handling stuff in /usr/local/ quite simple. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:Subversion Leitrim AMEMB kilo class ASO Defcon Hi, VeriSign

Re: apt-get install pkg and remove pkg on the same line?!

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
packages remove packages? Im not meaning apt-get install packages; apt-get remove packages you see, so it would collect all packages in need to be added, and all packages that needs to be removed.. $ apt-get install installme removeme- -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mouse

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
you're talking about. KDE? GNOME? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: supercomputer world domination Consul keyhole BRLO illuminati Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dependency problems

2003-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/baliola# That's a bug in either libxcursor-dev or xlibs-dev. Are they both up to date with what's in sid? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL

Re: allowing a normal user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
to that group. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: event security enigma Ft. Bragg Firefly csim bluebird Defcon signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: what exactly does init_module: No such device mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
or IRQ number so it can find your hardware? You sometimes need to specify those things, or else you'll get the No such device error. I've never had to specify options for PCI or USB devices, however. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words

Re: X 4.3 mouse cursor

2003-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
of stuff that doesn't get upgraded implicitly. In aptitude, I did a search for ~V4\.2\.1 to find all my old X stuff, with very few false positives. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Waco, Texas government MD2 lock picking CIDA

Re: Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Weir
. How? Use bind as the filesystem type, iirc. And if it is possible, is it a good idea? Why not just mount the new disk somewhere under the original one? This is unix, the mountpoint will be transparent. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words

Re: How to find out where memory leaks to

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Weir
, the kernel will flush the cache and a program can use the memory. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Mantis JUWTF LLNL UK MD4 brigand NSA pink noise Lon Horiuchi signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to find out where memory leaks to

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Weir
as time goes on. Because your files are cached in memory, which is about 1000 times faster than your hard disk, everything feels quicker. If the memory is needed for an actual program, the kernel will clear out the disk cache and make it available to whatever app wants it. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mail setup for new user in Debian

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
receives mail (the one fetchmail is talking to) accepting mail for your new address? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: USCOI investigation arrangements ISEC Indigo Albania Qaddafi signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
. You've just doubled the number of mails flying around (thought not the volume, of course). -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: bemd basement 2600 Magazine industrial intelligence JSOFC3IP signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:53:49AM -0700, Steve C. Lamb said On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:32:59PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: Hm, now I check, 27253 of those did *not* come from my secondary MXs. That is a stupid amount of crap. In fact, it is 3.8985GB of crap. Imagine that instead of dropping

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:20:46AM +0100, Karsten M. Self said on Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:32:59PM +1000, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you have the level of MTA control neccessary to automatically reply to CR queries, then just block Swen at the MTA level. I've rejected 34552

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Majic eternity server advisors Majic Rumsfield CIA terrorist signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:31:50AM -0700, Tom said On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:21:41AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: Yup. Reason #23131 why CR is a poor solution. I'm quite amazed at how well SA and simple checks like my Postfix body regexp work. I still get spam, and oodles of it, but it's

Re: update-modules, sound on boot-up

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
/modules, and it will be loaded during the boot sequence. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Geraldton Subversion Perl-RSA Soviet Debian Iran basement signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: make-kpkg: need clues

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
, and oldconfig should ask any questions that were removed from later versions. So, uh, it should work. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: IDEA hackers AIMSX S Key counter terrorism subversive signature.asc Description

Re: suspend to ram, or hibernate

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
just use ACPI or APM on hardware that supports it? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: InfoSec emc enigma computer terrorism class struggle CID bomb signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
this, I only know what I do from experience. An explanation of how the whole X/xft/fontconfig font system works and inter-relates is definitely something I'd like to write sometime, but I'll have to understand the whole thing myself, first :) -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
versions in unstable) then it's using fontconfig, too. If the only GUI-sounding library it depends on is xlibs, then it's probably just using the basic X core font system. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: national information

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:57:11AM -0600, Monique Y. Herman said On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 at 17:43 GMT, Rob Weir penned: This is a good point, but it's not something I notice anymore. I scan through my lists and hit y on any spam in mutt; it passes the mail to sa-learn --spam and moves

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
at once, it takes about 30 seconds. For 32 at once, it took long enough and thrashed my machine enough that I ended up using magicsysrq to reboot. This is on a p3-450, 2.4.22. 2.6 was better, but I was never game to try it on a huge pile to see how it would handle it. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:47:22AM +0100, Karsten M. Self said on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:43:46AM +1000, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is a good point, but it's not something I notice anymore. I scan through my lists and hit y on any spam in mutt; it passes the mail to sa

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:53:33AM -0700, Steve Lamb said Rob Weir wrote: I'm dropping mail based on a DATA regexp. I have the following line in /etc/postfix/ms-crap Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the DATA regexp come after all the DATA is already across the wire? There has

Re: CVS /var/lib/cvs filesystem standard

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
. This clever cookie has created an email address with N=0, and is thus dropping all the mail he will ever receive to it. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: counter terrorism CIDA diwn Crowell UNSCOM Telex signature.asc

Re: midentd: problems questions

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
purge this from my system when there's seemingly a bug (or two or three) in the scripts? Yes, it is a very old bug, which hasn't been fixed in stable. Bug #120247 however contains a workaround that will get the package off your machine neatly. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: libc6 gcc wrapper

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
sucks - it may break compilation of some packages that rely on being able to set particular options to make things compile properly - it forces -O2 -march=i686 if pigeon.gccopts cannot be read (edit source and recompile to change this) Isn't this exactly what pentium-builder does? -- Rob Weir

Re: Why startx files on /dev/agpgart when xf86cfg runs? (XFree86 4.3 for Woody)

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
installed something xinit needed. For future reference, the x-window-system-core package installs just enough to get the X server running locally. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: AIEWS PLO e-bomb M-14 Janet Reno Albright ISEC

Re: X11R6

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
reloaded it four times thinking I needed to use a different disk. I downloaded all seven. All I get at login is this: Install x-window-system-core and run startx. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Rule Psix SWAT

Re: Migrated to debian; aliases stopped working

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
PROTECTED], which is my FQDN attached to the alias name. That is, the alias db is not being used. I ran both # newaliases (which I did under RedHat/sendmal) and I ran # postfix /etc/aliases (I'm now using postfix under debian). postalias /etc/aliases. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL

Re: vim syntax

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:41:05PM +1300, Paul William said Hi How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to type :syntax on? Create a ~/.vimrc with this one line: syntax on and it will highlight whatever it can. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can't find ethernet card

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
on it already, try installing the discover package which should detect and load the module for you. The card works fine when I boot from Mac OS9, so I know its not hardware or connections. Cool. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day

Re: Spam filter recommendation

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
of this. SA + some simple procmail rules catches basically all my spam. I don't know how you could integrate SA into mozilla without setting up a proper Unix mailsystem with procmail et al, though. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day

Re: postfix /etc/mailname

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
this. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: tempest LABLINK airframe import AFSPC mania signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?(Don't think the server accepted this last time).

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
In future, it's a good idea to check the archives on http://lists.debian.org/ to see if your message got through, before posting it again. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: RSA Mantis Australia AVN eavesdropping FIPS140 Oil

Re: Can't find ethernet card

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
module does it use? Have you loaded it? Check dmesg during the install to see if it's detected. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: red noise Rumsfield JUWTF cybercash S Key Treasury VX Roswell signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: gnome crash, fontconfig

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
: the .xsession_errors file is recreated. Can't see any decent output from gnome in /var/log - can anyone tell me what's going on or how I'm supposed to find out? Try removing gsfonts-other? It was segfaulting fontconfigified apps last week. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dpkg needing to allocate 700MB of memory?

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Peking e-bomb defense information warfare Adriatic Soviet signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
stuff you don't use anymore. Very little effort, spread over a long time period. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:TWA eavesdropping Serbian kibo Maple MILSATCOM ANDVT ASDIC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which one is better??

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:19:59AM +0100, Marco Bagni said Personally I prefer the nfs-user-server for this flexibility which cannot be ignored if you have quite a considerable number of partitions. Note that the user space server does not implement proper locking. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL

Re: Postfix and spamassassin not working properly

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
, messages are received w/o content and the to: address has changed in undisclosed-recipients. What's going wrong ? No idea, but this system worked very well for me: http://www.wdg.us/Content/rd/mta/spampd/spampd.html -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC

Re: The best way to install 'sid'

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:07:14PM +0100, Davi Leal said I mean, autodetecting all the hardware. My new system is AMD, Geforge4, IDE, 3Com, ... Note: I have been using 'sid' since more than two years ago, 24x7 as server. You know sid doesn't get special security updates, right? -- Rob

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
packages make this rather easy. This is only an option on x86, however. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Commecen virus FBI brigand diwn cryptanalysis UFO AVN signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RP Debian Font guide for beginners plz ...

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
it straight to my addy if you like. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-xfs-tt -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Panama Crowell cybercash Roswell Ft. Meade UFO Saddam Hussein signature.asc Description

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
yet ;-). The driver's name is nvidia. Colin handled this quite adroitly. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: unclassified IRA government Perl-RSA undercover espionage signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
/net/via-rhine.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/via-rhine.o: insmod via-rhine failed - This usually means the module is already loaded, or in the case of the Debian install kernels, that the module is built in. Have you checked dmesg to see if your card is already detected? -- Rob Weir

Re: question about Qt package needed

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
will pull in libqt3c102 which contains the actual library. The -mt is for multi-threaded and is a particular feature of that version of the library. The c102 comes from the C++ ABI transition (http://people.debian.org/~rmurray/c++transition.html) but will eventually dissappear. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
I don't understand this. Apparently apt-get reads my sources.list, but can't use it. Running apt-get update has the same result. I added apt-get update has the *exact* same error? update should try to go out on the network and get the missing package lists from your debian mirror. -- Rob Weir

Re: How to test a hard disk?

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
which will verify the contents of your disk and point out files that have changed. You'll need to weed out the ones that should have actually changed to find the ones that have been hit by disk corruption, though. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words

Re: tasksel on testing - unmet dependencies for Desktop

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
it if you can't find it. kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable Known problem: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=212933 -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like

Re: Enquiries

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
applications on Debian on an x86 CPU. You can see if the particular applications you're interested in are supported on this website: http://appdb.codeweavers.com/ -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:Taiwan Sarin nerve gas red

Re: no sound with kernel-image-2.6.0-test9-1-386...deb

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
I use rexima and when I run rexima I get: rexima: couldn't open /dev/mixer. (rexima works fine when I boot with the kernel 2.4.20) That looks like a kernel oops, you should file a bug on the kernel image package you're using. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like

Re: How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
from the broken rpm/deb that you can cleanup later. No go. ANT tips or ideas are aooreciated. Tip: don't ever overwrite your C library :-) -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: ASO FTS2000 Ermes ANZUS kilderkin BRLO Watergate

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
with sharing that server's font directory and not using XFT at all? Hm, that could work. Post to the list when you've tried it? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: supercomputer Firewalls UNSCOM ISEC keyhole number key Taiwan

Re: A butchered Apache2 Installation

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
-rc.d. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: covert video Mena rail gun Capricorn Crypto AG kibo sweep signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
to the user, except for having to insert/remove it. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:AVN overthorw security cryptanalysis pink noise monarchist signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: NVIDIA driver install

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
to point the installer at the source tree you built your kernel from. Incidentally, the nvidia Debian packages I mentioned earlier explain this in their README.Debian. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:NASA clones

Re: libc6 2.3 and libdb1-compat

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:11:39PM +0100, Alexander Borghgraef said Ok, I'm trying to upgrade libc6, but I'm getting some surreal error messages: Does installing both of them at the same time with apt or dpkg work? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
storing archives }; }; Are you actually intending to run a proxy on this machine? If not, comment out the Proxy lines in this section and try apt-get udpate again. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:NASA number key

Re: I want to only download package

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
give apt-get the -d flag, then it will only download, and NOT install the packages. There is also the debget program from the debian-goodies package. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:NATO high security brigand Glock number key

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
heard it on this mailing list. I don't know if the DFE-530TX uses more than one chipset, but the DFE-530TX+ uses a completely different one; tulip, IIRC. Sure screwed me around when I bought one of these d-link cards a few years back. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I

Re: Installing kernel 2.4 in Woody

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
you have installed. You certainly won't have any problems installing KDE or GNOME or emacs or apache or whatever if you upgrade your kernel. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: SHA Fidel Castro DES Ft. Bragg ASDIC credit card

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