Re: Corrupt kernel-source package?

1996-11-16 Thread Martin Weinberg
Guy Maor's message dated: 14 Nov 1996 00:56:11 CST >Lamar Folsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I downloaded kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb today and found that dselect/dpkg wa >s >> unable to install it. > >I tried to extract the copy on the master site, and it's fine. Maybe >your download got cor

Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-16 Thread rac0043
Hello to all users, I have a problem with debian1.1.4 lpd+lpr. I had previously debian0.93 and a 9pin dot matrix printer. I write my printcap, used ghostscript in a filter and used lpr to print files. Then I sold my 9pin printer and I bought an epson stylus color pro. I also upgraded 0.93 to 1

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-16 Thread Jim Pick
> > I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on > > Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is > > delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a > > significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will > > keep

Re: ldconfig warning : inconsistent soname??

1996-11-16 Thread Philippe Troin
On 14 Nov 1996 00:36:38 CST Guy Maor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1b1 has inconsistent soname > > (libtix.so.4.1), skipping > > That's a bug in whatever package provides /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1.b1. > File a b

Re: Big IDE drive on old bios

1996-11-16 Thread Martin Konold
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Is this < 1024 cylinders only an issue if you don't have LBA mode? Yes it is. It is a problem on old PC BIOSes which did not support more than 1024 Cyl. It is also a problem of DOS Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Ger

Re: Big IDE drive on old bios

1996-11-16 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote: > > However, the way I recommend is NOT to use lilo, but loadlin. Create a > small (a few meg) DOS partition as the first partition, and have the > AUTOEXEC.BAT simply run loadlin. Hmm, just try 'linear and

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-16 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: > -> Have look at the kde project. > [ Stuff snipped ] > > I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on > Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is > delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I d

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-16 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Martin Konold writes: ->!! There is a solution up and coming !! -> -> Have look at the kde project. [ Stuff snipped ] I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for noncommercial us

PPP-connection slowing down. Please help!

1996-11-16 Thread jhspies
When I use the Linux box, my ppp-connection is becoming so slow that I have difficulty in handling a few email messages. I cannot think of ftp or other internet services. Ping produces the following results (only while using Linux. On winsock {windows 3.1} the average is about 232ms with no pack

xrdb under xfree86 3.2

1996-11-16 Thread Alex Romosan
xrdb doesn't seem to work on a 486 which i recently upgraded to xfree86 3.2. when i run it i get this: /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POS IX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DHOST=rosalind -DSERVERHOST=r osalind -DSRVR_rosalind -DDISPLAY

Re: xv requires libtiff3

1996-11-16 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I just upgraded to the most recent release of xv from the > non-free section and it is giving me the dependency problem > that it requires libtiff3. Yet, I can't find libtiff3. > Am I looking in the wrong place or something? Did you have a

Re: Big IDE drive on old bios

1996-11-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote: > > [snip] > > Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I > > make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be > > pretty sure that I can at least boot the thing with a floppy? > > I'm pretty sure you can do either and i

Re: g77 failure

1996-11-16 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, David Gaudine wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: > > > > I have now installed: > > > gcc_2.7.2.1-2.deb > > > g77_0.5.18-2.deb > > > > > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `f771': No such file or > directory > > As I understand it, f77 wants gcc 2.7.2 and

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-16 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote: > > > I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is > > > still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface. > > This is a true problem which last from the fact that X11 is seperated > > from the stadart toolkit Mot

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-16 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On 15 Nov 1996, Andy Guy wrote: > Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Paul Christenson writes: > > > > > >On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote: > > > > > >My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have > > >been a number of times that I wanted to grab o

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-16 Thread Andy Guy
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Christenson writes: > > > >On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote: > > > >My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have > >been a number of times that I wanted to grab one new package via ftp > >install, and came up with