Problems building a GCC cross compiler using the toolchain-sourcepackage

2003-03-06 Thread Pedro Sanchez
to override this with the -d flag because I believe my host machine is going to be toasted with the wrong libraries. What is the work around? My host machine is an Intel PC running Debian/unstable. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you, -- Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nortel Networks

Problems building a GCC cross compiler using the toolchain-sourcepackage

2003-03-05 Thread Pedro Sanchez
to override this with the -d flag because I believe my host machine is going to be toasted with the wrong libraries. What is the work around? My host machine is an Intel PC running Debian/unstable. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you, -- Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nortel Networks

What to do with source rpm files?

2001-09-07 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I need to test a piece of software under Debian/testing that it's being distributed in .srpm format only. Is there any way under debian to unpack this thing so that I can attempt to compile it? Thank you, -- Pedro

Re: What to do with source rpm files?

2001-09-07 Thread Pedro Sanchez
As far as I know, Alien doesn't know what to do with .srpm files. It only deals with binary packages in .rpm format. -- Pedro On Fri, 2001-09-07 at 09:40, Sebastiaan wrote: High, On 7 Sep 2001, Pedro Sanchez wrote: Hello, I need to test a piece of software under Debian/testing

Evolution 0.12 and LDAP support

2001-08-08 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm testing the Evolution package in unstable and can't get it to work with my LDAP servers. Has anyone succeded in testing this? I can access the LDAP servers with a bunch of other utilities so I'm pretty sure this is a problem with Evolution or with the debian package (probably compiled

Re: Monochrome XFIG

1999-12-20 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Riku Saikkonen wrote: Hmm... Does the xlogo program show the X Window System logo in color or monochrome? (The colors in the logo should be white and red.) It uses the application default files XLogo and XLogo-color in the same way as XFig. The Xlogo shows up in monochrome :( You could

Re: Monochrome XFIG

1999-12-20 Thread Pedro Sanchez
work I'll bother you and the Debian list again ;) I wish you (and all of you Debianers) a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays in love and peace! -- Pedro Riku Saikkonen wrote: Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Riku Saikkonen wrote: You could try running XFig with xfig -xrm

Re: Monochrome XFIG

1999-12-15 Thread Pedro Sanchez
never shown its colors. Any other suggestions? -- Pedro Riku Saikkonen wrote: Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why is xfig monochrome-only for menus? I can add colors to my drawings You should have, among others, the following lines in the file /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common

Monochrome XFIG

1999-12-13 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Why is xfig monochrome-only for menus? I can add colors to my drawings but the panels and menus are plain black and white as if I had started xfig -monochorome. -- Pedro

Re: same-gnome kills sawmill

1999-12-01 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Where did you get sawmill 0.17 from? I'm running Potato and the latest available deb version is 0.16-1. Are you compiling that yourself? -- Pedro Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 02:26:46PM +, Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following looks to me like

same-gnome kills sawmill

1999-11-29 Thread Pedro Sanchez
The following looks to me like a bug against sawmill: Launch the same gnome game and click the maximize button. This always logs me out of the gnome-session (which is my only command in .xsession) killing all other applications except communicator which has to be killed manually. This doesn't

Where is Netscape with strong (128 bits) encription?

1999-11-25 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I can't find the subject software in the available Potato packages (not even in non-US). Where is this supposed to be? Thank you, -- Pedro

How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I want to have a local Debian mirror but to do this I have to go through our firewall. I'm looking at rsync and mirror. The documentation of the former doesn't mention proxies at all and that of the latter suggests defining the variables proxy=true, proxy_ftp_port= and

Do ALSA packages work for you?

1999-11-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to use the Debian ALSA packages without success at all. I have two different servers with different sound cards and the problem is basically the same: /etc/init.d/alsa start does nothing but saying alsa driver installed which is not true. In fact, as soon as I try to run a sound

Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I have two virtual desktops defined in enlightenment but when I launch the gnome panel it only shows up on one of them. How do I get the panel to show up in every virtual desktop? I'm running the latest from potato. Thank you, -- Pedro

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Thank you, This effectively solves the problem. -- Pedro Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:15:31PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote: I have two virtual desktops defined in enlightenment but when I launch the gnome panel it only shows up on one of them. How do I get

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Pedro Sanchez
, alt-right-click it again and go to remember and tell it to remember that setting. - Harlan Crystal -Original Message- From: Pedro Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 9:16 AM To: debian-user Subject: Gnome panel and Enlightenment Hello

Who sets default locale environment?

1999-11-11 Thread Pedro Sanchez
After installing a new Potato machine I get the following: $locale LANG=(null) LC_CTYPE=(null) LC_NUMERIC=(null) LC_TIME=(null) LC_COLLATE=(null) LC_MONETARY=(null) LC_MESSAGES=(null) LC_ALL= Aren't there supposed to be any defaults there? -- Pedro

Abiword 0.7.6-1 segfaults

1999-11-11 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I installed the abiword package in Potato, version 0.7.6-1, and I get the following at the prompt: $ abiword /usr/bin/abiword: line 40: 9194 Segmentation fault $DYNAMIC_BIN $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 The wrapper is actually calling /usr/bin/AbiWord_d and this one segfaults. Is it working

Re: Who sets default locale environment?

1999-11-11 Thread Pedro Sanchez
. -- Pedro Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 10-Nov-99 Pedro Sanchez wrote: After installing a new Potato machine I get the following: $locale LANG=(null) LC_CTYPE=(null) LC_NUMERIC=(null) LC_TIME=(null) LC_COLLATE=(null) LC_MONETARY=(null) LC_MESSAGES=(null) LC_ALL

Latest ALSA-source packages don't work

1999-11-09 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, There was a recent thread in this list called Alsa with audiopci1370 which sort of concludes saying For some reason /etc/init.d/alsa (start) was not loading the drivers properly. I want to add that this also happens with my AW64 sound card. /etc/init.d/alsa simply doesn't work and I get a

Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. I use the command du -x to get a report on only the root partition and it says

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Pedro Sanchez
No way, This machine is not loaded and there are no users at this time. I just rebooted and loaded linux single and I get exactly the same, / is full but du only reports 8MB being used. I'm puzzled here :( -- Pedro I. Sanchez Nick Cabatoff wrote: On Oct 26, Pedro Sanchez wrote: Hello

Re: Who is using up my root partition? [Solved]

1999-10-26 Thread Pedro Sanchez
The directory /data was being used to nfs mount a remote file system. However, there were some LOCAL directories under /data also. Unmounting /data and removing the local subdirectories fixed the problem. du -x was only seeing the remote files and certainly not reporting any file space

Re: Sound on Window Maker?

1999-10-21 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Well, in my case wsoundserver revision 0.2.0-1 doesn't work at all. It ALWAYS segfaults. I'm using kernel 2.2.12 and the latest wmaker 0.61.1-1 running on Potato. Could anyone with the above setting please tell me if wsoundserver works for them? I want to see if I'm alone on this or if this is a

Sound on Window Maker?

1999-10-18 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to enable sounds in wmaker but wsoundserver segfaults everytime I execute it. Is it working for anyone out there? (I'm running Potato). -- Pedro I. Sanchez

Help with this simple makefile

1999-10-14 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I have this simple makefile: eps_files = fig1.eps fig2.eps $(eps_files): %.eps: %.fig fig2dev -L ps $ $@ It is supposed to process both input files, fig1.fig and fig2.fig, and generate the corresponding .eps files. But it only processes fig1 and completely ignores fig2. What's

Re: Help with this simple makefile

1999-10-14 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Thank you!, It works! -- Pedro I. Sanchez ESN 393-6084 GMS 117/A1/C5 Hi How about this? eps_files = fig1.eps fig2.eps all : $(eps_files) %.eps: %.fig fig2dev -L ps $ $@ - Brian You wrote: Hello, I have this simple makefile: eps_files = fig1.eps

Re: small fonts in Netscape packaged with Slink

1999-09-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Take a look at http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html -- Pedro I. Sanchez Hello Why is that even though I have both the 75dpi and 100dpi fonts installed for X windows, Netscape still uses tiny unreadable fonts?

[Fwd: small fonts in Netscape packaged with Slink]

1999-09-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Probably even better, see also http://www.dimensional.com/~bgiles/debian-tt-2.html which is debian specific. Take a look at http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html -- Pedro I. Sanchez Hello Why is that even though I have both the 75dpi and 100dpi fonts installed

LyX Problems, what is dviprint?

1999-07-16 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, When I use LyX to print my documents with the dvips driver they come out with bad margins, all text shifted up in every page. However, this doesn't happen when I use the dvips command manually on my dvi files (I adjusted the page output of dvips using texconfig). I noticed that LyX calls

Re: crystal sound on dell

1999-06-24 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I have a Dell with crystal sound running OK. I used pnpdump -c to create the /etc/isapnp.conf file but when running isapnp the system complained about not finding an IRQ for the MPU. I then changed the line in isapnp.conf reading (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING

IMAP - Problem creating new folders

1999-06-24 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm getting my mail from a PC running Debian 2.1 and the imap 4.4-4 daemon. In Netscape, my mail reader, the debian PC shows up as a mail server with an Inbox and I have no problems reading my messages. But I want to create some mail folders under the Debian PC (by right-clicking on it

Ref: 3C905B 10/100 card falls back to 10MB

1999-06-22 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Most likely the autonegotiation is not working well, probably because the switch your PC is connecting to has this feature disabled. If you are loading the driver as a module add the following options when you load it full_duplex=1 options=12 to force it to work in 100Mbps Full Duplex. For

Re: [Fwd: Gnome panel doesn't lock the screen]

1999-06-04 Thread Pedro Sanchez
a launcher for it to my panel. Maybe there's also a way to configure what 'Lock screen' starts. Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed the deb gnome 1.0 files for slink but the lock screen option in the panel does nothing. Does gnome write errors somewhere?

Re: In potato: Gnome session mgmt vs WindowMaker-gnome session mgmt

1999-06-04 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I'm running GNOME with no session management at all. My .xsession file has something like enlightement panel Replace enlightement above with wmaker and that should do it. The only caveat so far to me is that the lock screen option of the panel doesn't seem to work unless the gnome-session is

Gnome panel doesn't lock the screen

1999-06-02 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I installed the deb gnome 1.0 files for slink but the lock screen option in the panel does nothing. Does gnome write errors somewhere? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez

RE: configuration of network card

1998-10-09 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hi I have asked this question b4 and did not get any satisfactory answer. So I will ask it in way that might make you people understand it better. I just bought a Network Card 3com905B-TX. This card model is not listed under modconf. What can I do to make my linux system see and use this

[Solved] Re: Problems with cron

1997-12-18 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, Cron is now working. The problem was (is) what I consider to be a bug which I'd call Inconsistent behavior of crontab and cron with regard to the newline character. 1. When using crontab -e to edit the user crontab file, crontab refuses to accept a newline character (pressing return)

Problems with Cron

1997-12-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I just installed Debian 1.3, the basic system plus whatever is required to run fetchmail, ppp and diald only (everything I installed is from the current stable distribution). I have two problems with cron: 1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file and

Where is rpc.portmaper?

1997-12-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I can't find this file in my system after installing the current stable Debain 1.3. I looked into the Contents file of the distribution and is not there neither. Isn't netstd the package that is supposed to install it? P. Sanchez -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
at 09:40:00AM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: Hello, I just installed Debian 1.3, the basic system plus whatever is required to run fetchmail, ppp and diald only (everything I installed is from the current stable distribution). I have two problems with cron: 1. New entries that I add

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
: hello, this is a silly question but did you do a crontab filename after you made your users' crontabs. if not try that. Couldn't you try to do your fetchmail cronjob in your area instead of /etc/ just an observation. Paul On 17 Dec 1997, Pedro Sanchez wrote: Hello, I just installed

Re: Debian 1.3 ignores more than 2 groups.

1997-12-12 Thread Pedro Sanchez
That's it. I have to logout and login again for the new groups to take effect. I wasn't using X, just the console. Thank you for your answers. P. Sanchez -- In message Debian 1.3 ignores more than 2 groups., [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 07:18:16PM -0500, Joey Hess

Debian 1.3 ignores more than 2 groups.

1997-12-11 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I have a fresh Debian 1.3 minimal installation, just the base packages and two or three more. As root I do # addgroup user-name dialout -- user user-name added to group dialout # addgroup user-name dip -- user user-name added to group dip After this, /etc/group is ok, with user-name