Re: Internet World LINUX Frenzy

1998-10-09 Thread PJBarbera
I love it. Passing out free stuff and dressing well. Almost as cool as the show the LUG put on outside Fry's when Win 98 was released. Peter Barbera .Allan Bart wrote: > > Hello, > > It was an exciting day at the internet exposition in New York city and > the penguin was everywhere. > > The ho

Re: turnkey debian?

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Kenneth Scharf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had this idea of basing a turnkey end user system on debian linux. > In order to pull this off, a login prompt is NOT WANTED. I want the > system to come up running the end application. (some backdoor method > of logging in as root would be provide

Re: turnkey debian?

1998-10-09 Thread PJBarbera
At least you can slowly start to put Linux on your resume... Peter Barbera Kenneth Scharf wrote: > (I wouldn't bet that I would be allowed to suggest linux now for such > a system, but maybe in a few years?) > > _ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get you

Re: Quake2/3dfx

1998-10-09 Thread Dave Swegen
I don't know if it would be of any help in this case, but there is a quake for linux FAQ floating about on the net (sorry, don't know the URL - search for "quake", "linux" and "FAQ" at dejanews). As for playing as normal user: have you tried setting the suid bit (as root: chmod u+s )? Now, if I c

Please help! Debian can't find SCSI HD during install

1998-10-09 Thread David Sherow
I have a IBM PS/2 486dx with a 200 mg SCSI hd. The SCSI adapter is on the sys. board. I have the IRQ, ID,and LUN, is there boot method so that Debian will recognize that the hd is there. Cfdisk gives me an error like this FATAL ERROR Can not open hard disk. With fdisk it says it can not access the

Please help! Debian can't find SCSI HD during install

1998-10-09 Thread David Sherow
I have a IBM PS/2 486dx with a 200 mg SCSI hd. The SCSI adapter is on the sys. board. I have the IRQ, ID,and LUN, is there boot method so that Debian will recognize that the hd is there. Cfdisk gives me an error like this FATAL ERROR Can not open hard disk. With fdisk it says it can not access the

Scripts ...........

1998-10-09 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, -I want to create some scripts, but i know nothing about that language, so i need some help The first script is for calculate the time im connected to internet: 1) If pon is executed, (by anyone) then catch time1 2) If poff is executed, (by anyone root, users, or another script), catch

Getting Dubian to work

1998-10-09 Thread steve
I have tried three times to intstall debian 2.0. I don't seem to have a problem once the install is complete. The system boots just fine. However, I have been trying to using man to look at the various manuels for assistance and the os reports that it can't find "man". Also in trying to download

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread Dave Swegen
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:38 -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:46:58PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have succeeded in getting apt to connect to a distant ftp site but I've > > been unable to get it to access my cdrom drive, which currently has the > > Cheapbytes version

Re: Getting Dubian to work

1998-10-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello Steve, On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 10:36:51PM +0100, steve wrote: > I have tried three times to intstall debian 2.0. > > I don't seem to have a problem once the install is complete. The system > boots just fine. Great, this is the first step in the Debian world! > However, I have been tryin

screensaver

1998-10-09 Thread Default Debian Reader
Is there a way to completely lock your screen when you do screen lock from X? I mean a person could easily type control-alt-backspace or control-alt-delete and kill your screen lock, or even just conrtrol-alt-F(x) and get another virtual console or something. Well thanks in advance for any help.

Re: Do I have a win-sound card?

1998-10-09 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: > I just bought a new machine (at work) and it came with both video and > sound on the motherboard. [...] > The motherboard is made by Amptron and is a PM-9100. The description > of the sound is "SB 16/PRO compatible with DirectSound 3D support", > "HRTF 3

HELP!! problem installing Debian

1998-10-09 Thread David Sherow
I have a IBM PS/2 486dx with a 200 mg SCSI hd. The SCSI adapter is on the sys. board. I have the IRQ, ID,and LUN, is there boot method so that Debian will recognize that the hd is there. Cfdisk gives me an error like this FATAL ERROR Can not open hard disk. With fdisk it says it can not access the

Re: Survey about linux

1998-10-09 Thread David Welton
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 04:35:36AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how about counter.li.org, isn't that good enough ? ... > >For those of you who like to stand up and be counted, here is a survey > >being conducted about linux usage. I have nothing to do with it, just > >thought I'd pass the i

Re: Survey about linux

1998-10-09 Thread chadi
how about counter.li.org, isn't that good enough ? ... On 10/9/98, at 1:19 PM, David Welton wrote: >For those of you who like to stand up and be counted, here is a survey >being conducted about linux usage. I have nothing to do with it, just >thought I'd pass the information on... > >http://www

Re: diamond 8MB permedia2 AGP in Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Zheng Wang
Thanks Brian. I went to www.suse.com. It seems the "servers" item does notwork. I clicked it. It contains nothing. Zheng Wang, Ph. D Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/~zwang On Fri, 9 Oc

checkerg++ does nothing

1998-10-09 Thread Felix E. Klee
Hi, does anyone know why "checkerg++" does not compile the source files I give it? It terminates without displaying any messages on the screen even if I give it the "-v" (Version) option. "checkergcc" however works fine. TIA, Felix

Survey about linux

1998-10-09 Thread David Welton
For those of you who like to stand up and be counted, here is a survey being conducted about linux usage. I have nothing to do with it, just thought I'd pass the information on... http://www.webcmo.com/mis/S967328.HTML Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw

Re: diamond 8MB permedia2 AGP in Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Brian Weiss
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Zheng Wang wrote: > > Hi, > I am configure my Debian. I got trouble when I config the Card. I have > diamond 8MB permeida2 AGP. I could not find the this item in the list. I > have Debian2 with kernel 2.0.34. If I try one of the item from Diamond, > some time the machine will

Re: dfm ?

1998-10-09 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"tracheotomy_bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Is anyone using dfm. I think I read in this group that it was a decent filemanager, anyway I followed a link and downloaded it, so I've just got a couple of question now. Is there anyway to modify the menus, it's not that I need to do it, I just want t

Re: understanding mail

1998-10-09 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"tracheotomy_bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hallo everyone, | I'm not certain I've got a grasp of mail yet, so I could use your help. Currentli I've got smail, fetchmail, tkmail, xlbiff and exmh installed. I don't know if I need all these. From what I understand of smail this is just used for

diamond 8MB permedia2 AGP in Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Zheng Wang
Hi, I am configure my Debian. I got trouble when I config the Card. I have diamond 8MB permeida2 AGP. I could not find the this item in the list. I have Debian2 with kernel 2.0.34. If I try one of the item from Diamond, some time the machine will die, sometime it can not start the X server. Could

turnkey debian?

1998-10-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I had this idea of basing a turnkey end user system on debian linux. In order to pull this off, a login prompt is NOT WANTED. I want the system to come up running the end application. (some backdoor method of logging in as root would be provided for system maintance). The default application wo

Re: dselect not updating.

1998-10-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brent McMillan wrote: > > Okay, that makes sense then. But how can I now get dselect to list all > the available packages at ftp.debian.org and not just the ones on my CD? > Once you ran update (while pointed to hamm on ftp.debian.org) you should have a list of all files of Debian 2.0

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > No, I already tried this and it doesn't work. It gives "unable to state > /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz" > > The problem seems to be that the file structure on my cdrom is > /debian/main/binary-i386/. Stable is a link to /debian/main. Th

Re: building a boot disk

1998-10-09 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"tracheotomy_bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I would really like to be able to build a system up from scratch. While I appreciate the excellence that is debian, I find that for understanding how everything fits together building a system up from scratch helps. Initially I only had the debian inst

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:40:34AM -0400, Rob Collins wrote: > It disabled writing to my floppy disk, for one thing. how so? are you sure thats not disabled in BIOS? can you describe the behaviour? maybe an example of what happens when you try? > The ppid points to > xdm. In fact, in top it rep

dfm ?

1998-10-09 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Is anyone using dfm. I think I read in this group that it was a decent filemanager, anyway I followed a link and downloaded it, so I've just got a couple of question now. Is there anyway to modify the menus, it's not that I need to do it, I just want to know. It appears to me that dfm always

building a boot disk

1998-10-09 Thread tracheotomy_bob
I would really like to be able to build a system up from scratch. While I appreciate the excellence that is debian, I find that for understanding how everything fits together building a system up from scratch helps. Initially I only had the debian install disks, and I had to ftp XFree86 mys

understanding mail

1998-10-09 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Hallo everyone,     I'm not certain I've got a grasp of mail yet, so I could use your help. Currentli I've got smail, fetchmail, tkmail, xlbiff and exmh installed. I don't know if I need all these. >From what I understand of smail this is just used for local mail transport, uucp and smtp. N

Re: telnet localhost (still isn't working)

1998-10-09 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi again, I was advised to check inet.conf but it seems that everything is ok with telnet entry in that file. Here it is: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd Also there is a string "127.0.0.1 localhost" in /etc/hosts and ALL: ALL in hosts.allow. ping to localhost i

Re: Only root can print?

1998-10-09 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:57:40 -0400 (EDT) Shawn D'Alimonte writes: > > I am using Linux/m68k (hamm) and am having trouble printing. Only > root seems able to print. When i try as my normal account lpr > responds with 'lpr: can't create /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq'. lpq > claims that no daemon is runn

r2log or rcs2log?

1998-10-09 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, I remeber a script called rcs2log which was in the cvs package. I think this script does not require cvs, but only rcs. Anyway, it makes very nice change-log type files and, since I don't really want to install cvs to get it, would someone send me the script? If the script requires only rc

Realplayer V5.0 and Netscape

1998-10-09 Thread Russ Cook
I downloaded Realplayer_5.0 from www.real.com. At the insistence of the Debian installer package, I downloaded the rpm version. I installed the package, and it runs from command line, but Netscape won't launch it. Apparently the installer can't or didn't tell Netscape about the viewer. Can anyone

Boot-up problem

1998-10-09 Thread Douglas Potter
Debian Users: Without boring you with the details, I have a new mother-board, a ASUS SP97-V Now when I boot-up, Debian hangs for about 5 minutes looking for ports for NCR 53c406a -- a scsi controller. I

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:38:27AM -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:46:58PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have succeeded in getting apt to connect to a distant ftp site but I've > > been unable to get it to access my cdrom drive, which currently has the > > Cheapbytes ve

Re: Oracle

1998-10-09 Thread Default Debian Reader
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > I wish decisions were made on technical merit alone, but this is the > > real world. For that reason, it would be nice if Debian had a marketing > > interface to corporations like Sybase, Oracle, etc. And we

RE: Assigning IP addresses

1998-10-09 Thread Lewis, James M.
Use dhcpcd on the bunch that get their ip-addr's and use dhcpd on the one that acts as the server. dhcp can be used to assign fixed ip addresses for based on the hardware ether net addresses. It is a bit of a pain to set up that way but it works just fine. I seem to recall some examples in the pa

Re: configuration of network card

1998-10-09 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi John Thanks a lot. I understood you. Problem now is I need the debian packages which I have to install to have make work. When I get that I will install it and go to work. Thanks wilson -Original Message- From: John B. Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wilson Tuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:

Re: Quake2/3dfx

1998-10-09 Thread Phillip Neumann
Michael Beattie wrote: > After just acquiring a 3dfx card from a friend, Using Quake2 is much more > attractive.. :) My problem is the mouse. Since Quake2 does not use > svgalib in 3dfx mode, I have no mouse. This upsets me.. Who else uses 3dfx > with Quake2, and if so, Can you use your mouse? Do

Re: configuration of network card

1998-10-09 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi Adr. I am deeply sorry for the tone of my mail. Fact is I was getting frustrated that I could not explain myself well to be understood. The fault was mine. I am a neophyte to linux. My system has just the basal files. Currenly ppp is working and I can connect directly to the internet and down

Re: color ls and log file perms...

1998-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote: > Where is the color file for the color option of ls? In slackware it's > /etc/DIRCOLORS but I can't seem to locate it on debian :( Maybe you are looking for this: dircolors --print-database [ Complete details in info format ].

Dependencies that make you go ugh

1998-10-09 Thread Mike Cummings
If someone could help me out, I'd much appreciate it. I've been having a really lousy time trying to get my Espon Color Stylus 400 to print worth a darn. In the course of doing this, I decided to upgrade gs to the gs-aladdin package in non-free. So I run apt-get and it tells me I fail the system i

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 us

Re: Oracle

1998-10-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:25:56AM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > Debian is not a company to "sign up with". You can use Oracle on Debian with > no problems whatsoever. It is even distributed in plain tarballs and not > rpms. You can download it right now, if you want. I have a problem with that.

Re: dselect not updating.

1998-10-09 Thread Brent McMillan
Okay, that makes sense then. But how can I now get dselect to list all the available packages at ftp.debian.org and not just the ones on my CD? __ |\^/| Brent McMillan ._|\| |/|_. Math student of t

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Independently of the KDE issue, there's a question I've wondered about > for some time. > > Has the GPL ever been tested in court (i.e. has there ever been a case > that turned on it)? > No, I've never heard of that. It's been successfully used to

Re: Netware server to Linux server

1998-10-09 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Matt Leese wrote: > server is used to store files and as a print server only. First of all, > is there any software package that emulates a netware server for Linux? Hi, I saw an announce from Caldera some time ago that Netware was available to Linux. Take a look at

Re: Oracle

1998-10-09 Thread aqy6633
> >Debian is not a company to "sign up with". You can use Oracle on Debian > with > >no problems whatsoever. It is even distributed in plain tarballs and not > >rpms. You can download it right now, if you want. > > > Yes, where is it available to download? http://technet.oracle.com You have

Gnome .deb files

1998-10-09 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all!!! I have been in http://www.ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/debian/ (a Debian FTP mirror, because I've got no access to FTP from here) looking for Gnome .deb files. As stated in Gnome web site, the files needed are: Basic packages orbit liborbit0 libgnome0 gnome-desktop(

Re: smail not giving me my mail

1998-10-09 Thread Shaleh
Actually George, I seem to have found another bug in xfmail. I have it set to read my local spool as well as pop. The mail from my spool is getting grabbed and placed in my pop inbox rather than spool inbox. Turning that off now. On 09-Oct-98 George Bonser wrote: > > Is it sitting in the queue

Re: DebianNet.pm

1998-10-09 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I upgrade some packages yesterday and found a problem with the > above module. Some *.postint script tried to include it from > /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.005 but it's installed at /usr/lib/perl5. This > broke my upgrade and was solved onl

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:44:06AM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > What makes you think this is a virus? I don't think you would be able > to disinfect a Linux virus with 95. What is the process that is loading? > > On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Rob Collins wrote: > > > ...and a fairly larger problem: I've d

Re: Oracle

1998-10-09 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>> Slashdot ( http://www.slashdot.org/ ) has an article about Oracle's >> plans to support a Linux port. It cites >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/980908-23.html which tells us that >> Oracle have signed up with RedHat, VA Research, Pacific HiTech, and >> SuSE. Slashdot (though not the cited art

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Rob Collins
It disabled writing to my floppy disk, for one thing. The ppid points to xdm. In fact, in top it reports its command line value as "xdm" instead of (what you see in ps) "-:0"... which I figure is garbage. Not that I'm an expert, but from what I gather, it is (at least) an MBR virus, and therefor

Re: CD Writer Recommendation

1998-10-09 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:47:10AM +, David Warnock wrote: > I need to add a CD Writer to my system. Can anyone give me a > recommendation for a very reliable and fast writer (I only need > writeable not re-writeable). I am only interested in a SCSI interface > and would prefer an internal unit

Re: Oracle

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Oldfield
> "Alex" == Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> Debian is not a company to "sign up with". You can use Alex> Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even Alex> distributed in plain tarballs and not rpms. You can download Alex> it right now, if you want.

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread Jim Foltz
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:46:58PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I have succeeded in getting apt to connect to a distant ftp site but I've > been unable to get it to access my cdrom drive, which currently has the > Cheapbytes version of debian. I've tried every combination of deb file:/cdrom > I

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Wayne Cuddy
What makes you think this is a virus? I don't think you would be able to disinfect a Linux virus with 95. What is the process that is loading? On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Rob Collins wrote: > ...and a fairly larger problem: I've discovered I have a virus on my > machine. I figure I can get rid of the v

Re: Oracle

1998-10-09 Thread aqy6633
> Slashdot ( http://www.slashdot.org/ ) has an article about Oracle's > plans to support a Linux port. It cites > http://www.theregister.co.uk/980908-23.html which tells us that > Oracle have signed up with RedHat, VA Research, Pacific HiTech, and > SuSE. Slashdot (though not the cited article)

smail not giving me my mail

1998-10-09 Thread Shaleh
I am using the latest smail from slink on two separate boxes. One connected via ppp and one on my network at work. I see the "in.smtp connect from " yet my mail box never shows any mail. Suggestions?

Oracle

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Oldfield
Slashdot ( http://www.slashdot.org/ ) has an article about Oracle's plans to support a Linux port. It cites http://www.theregister.co.uk/980908-23.html which tells us that Oracle have signed up with RedHat, VA Research, Pacific HiTech, and SuSE. Slashdot (though not the cited article) refer to

Internet World LINUX Frenzy

1998-10-09 Thread Allan Bart
Hello, It was an exciting day at the internet exposition in New York city and the penguin was everywhere. The hottest booth of all was Oracles and their employees were wearing tux tee's as they gave out the oracle 8 for linux. Included in Oracles giant booth were representatives from turbo-Linu

Re: How to get into an ftp site

1998-10-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Wilson Tuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wilson> I finally configures ppp on my linux system to dail my isp. I Wilson> even configured as a dns server and it is working find. I Wilson> tried to do ftp ftp.debian.org I got connected only I am being Wilson> asked for a users name and password. Wilso

Re: dselect not updating.

1998-10-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brent McMillan wrote: > > dselect does not seem to want to update packages for me. Previously, I > had set [A]ccess method to CD-ROM that had only contrib packages. that > went fine. But now, when I try to switch back to ftp access, everything > seems to go well, but dselect thinks only contrib

Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have succeeded in getting apt to connect to a distant ftp site but I've been unable to get it to access my cdrom drive, which currently has the Cheapbytes version of debian. I've tried every combination of deb file:/cdrom I can think of but I keep getting "malformed line in sources.list". Is i

Re: configuration of network card

1998-10-09 Thread John B. Fink
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote: > 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. Wha

Re: X11: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB RageIIC AGP

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I also have had problems with an 'ATI 3D Rage II (DirectDraw)' card. It's on baord and I get odd "mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning: Q < 16" messages, and the screen is garbled. Here's the output when I run X: XFree86 Version 3.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor

configuration of network card

1998-10-09 Thread Wilson Tuma
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 card

Re: Simple Installation?

1998-10-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > > *-"Adrian Gudas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | I'm on a conservative disk space budget, and I want to know which packages I > | have to get to get the base XFree86 system running (after a floppy > | installation of Debian). Only the ones I have to get. I'll use the standard

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread Ted Harding
Independently of the KDE issue, there's a question I've wondered about for some time. Has the GPL ever been tested in court (i.e. has there ever been a case that turned on it)? Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PR

Re: How to get into an ftp site

1998-10-09 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>Hi > >I finally configures ppp on my linux system to dail my isp. I even >configured as a dns server and it is working find. I tried to do ftp >ftp.debian.org I got connected only I am being asked for a users name and >password. > >Please what is the user name and password you need to connect

motif & debian

1998-10-09 Thread HAMDOUNI El bachir
hi, did any body tried to install motif 2 ( thoses who had the opportunity to have it ! ) rpm format in a Debian machine , i guess one have first to use Alien ... but did any body succeed ? NB:please don't respond by telling me that i'm damned by daring speak about such an no- freesoftware ;-)

2.0 X still won't work

1998-10-09 Thread MJ Watson
After installing Debian 2.0 onto a clean system, X11 will not run. XF86Setup seems to go fine, my mouse appears to be configured properly, and all the software seems to be correctly installed. Of course, if something is missing, it wouldn't be obvious to me, either. Executing startx results in t

How to get into an ftp site

1998-10-09 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi I finally configures ppp on my linux system to dail my isp. I even configured as a dns server and it is working find. I tried to do ftp ftp.debian.org I got connected only I am being asked for a users name and password. Please what is the user name and password you need to connect to the

Re: backup programs

1998-10-09 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 12:33:53PM -0700, Max wrote: > I just set up my system to use Amanda only to discover that it cannot > append to tapes, thus wasting a ton of space on every run (imagine > putting a 90MB incremental backup on a tape that can store 24GB and > then using a brand new tape the n

Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Rob Collins
I currently run RH 5 on my P-Pro sys, and I want to switch to Debian. While I'm doing that, I figure I should also get a few cool programs I've seen, like KDE, Eterm, the GIMP (the install that comes in RH makes a very minimally useful program ... but I've seen great things with it, so there must

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > As I read in some postings (slashdot.org and several other mailing > lists) debian is planning not to distribute KDE (and qt) anymore. > > Could anyone tell me the reason why kde should not be distributed via > the non-free-tree (ftp)... Netscape is available as well (and this is > software

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 02:55:20PM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote: > As I read in some postings (slashdot.org and several other mailing > lists) debian is planning not to distribute KDE (and qt) anymore. Please read the original announcment as posted on the debian-announce mailing list and the website

Re: Suddenly problems starting X

1998-10-09 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 14:12:24 +0200, Familien Bolding wrote: >At work today I had problems restarting X. > >I tried both woth xdm (which I use as default) and startx. >xdm hang and the screen blinked every now and then. >Using startx I was able to diagnose the problem to somthing like > > >unable t

Re: Ne module forgot its parameters

1998-10-09 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:15:30 +0200 (CET), Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hi again Matthew > >On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > >> >> >> Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules: >> >> ne io=0x300 >> >> Is this OK (it seems to have worked), or hav

dselect not updating.

1998-10-09 Thread Brent McMillan
dselect does not seem to want to update packages for me. Previously, I had set [A]ccess method to CD-ROM that had only contrib packages. that went fine. But now, when I try to switch back to ftp access, everything seems to go well, but dselect thinks only contrib packages are available. So the o

Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread Gernot Bauer
As I read in some postings (slashdot.org and several other mailing lists) debian is planning not to distribute KDE (and qt) anymore. Could anyone tell me the reason why kde should not be distributed via the non-free-tree (ftp)... Netscape is available as well (and this is software what I call NON

Re: Magicfilter setup

1998-10-09 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, mwb wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > I have an HP Deskjet 670c printer - what line do I need to give > > magicfilterconfig (the man pages don't seem to have such helpful > > information)? > > > You'll need to get ghostscript from the slink distribution.

Dutch Debian 2.0 Manual - Nederlandse Debian 2.0 Handleiding

1998-10-09 Thread J.A. Bezemer
[English translation below] In de afgelopen zomervakantie ben ik flink aan het schrijven geweest. Het resultaat is een behoorlijk complete Handleiding Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 Achtergronden, Installatie en Gebruik De onderdelen die aan de orde komen, zijn grofweg

Re: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB RageIIC AGP

1998-10-09 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello j?rg: I believe #27 or 28 in xf86config should meet your requirements. Peter -Original Message- From: j?rg bode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: muc.lists.debian.user To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 7:24 AM Subject: X11: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4

X11: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB RageIIC AGP

1998-10-09 Thread jörg bode
Who can tell us please any applicable XF86-settings for this Card (7'1998)? The best result we could get was 2 or more time repeated windows. The README.Mach64 file was helpful, but not to the end. ChipID: 0x475a (not recognized) Chip Revision: 58 (??!) Is there any one out there who

Re: Configuring Network Cards

1998-10-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi > > I just bought a new network card. But it is not include in the modconfig > program. The card is a 3com905B-TX. Could your please tell me how I could > inlcude the drivers in may shell. This card is quite new. I needed to recompile the kernel with the file 3c59x.c replaced with the la

Re: CD Writer Recommendation

1998-10-09 Thread Hannu Koivisto
David Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I need to add a CD Writer to my system. Can anyone give me a | recommendation for a very reliable and fast writer (I only need | writeable not re-writeable). I am only interested in a SCSI interface | and would prefer an internal unit. Well, our company

Re: KDM behaving very funny...

1998-10-09 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:20:03 +0200, I myself wrote: >Hi guys, > >I had my system perfectly up and running for yuite a while, but >suddenly my KDM doesn't want to start up any more and even crashes my >sytem everytime I try to run it. It keeps on switching between >graphics- and text-mode every 2 s

Suddenly problems starting X

1998-10-09 Thread Familien Bolding
At work today I had problems restarting X. I tried both woth xdm (which I use as default) and startx. xdm hang and the screen blinked every now and then. Using startx I was able to diagnose the problem to somthing like unable to use/open default font fixed errno -2 Sorry for the incomplete desc

RE: Telnet and dselect seg fault

1998-10-09 Thread pat
Le 03-Oct-98, David Boisvert a pris ses électrons pour écrire:: > Hello! ... > So, that's the problem, dselect and telnet crash and and don't know > why. > > So, if someone have this problem with or without a solution, mail me. I had once a similar problem after some hard disk corruption, that

PGP 5 and Netscape Mail: How To?

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Laing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a PGP 2.63/premail/Netscape 3.04 combination working OK. Is there a way to use PGP 5 with Netscape mail? Is there another email client that is well integrated with PGP 5? Thanks, Michael Laing -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noc

kdm

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Beattie
Who can get kdm to display a background picture/colour? No matter what I do, It wont work... kdebase Version: 2:980710-1.0-1 (slink) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. ---

Re: Configuring Network Cards

1998-10-09 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hello George You don't understand my situation. I can't just go out of my office and buy a book on linux because there is non around here. I am located in Douala - Cameroon where there a terrible lacking of technical information. Even my connection is not too good so I have to make the best of a

Re: Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 9 Oct 1998, Bostjan JERKO wrote: > > libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x400eb000) > I seem to be missing this library. Can anybody tell me in which > package it is included. For WP, you will need the libc5 version, which is in xpm4.7. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: Suck/get-news problem

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Gossamer wrote: > > My Debian install's -almost- making sense now! > > Just a few tiny things ... when I run get-news to download > Usenet via suck, I get this: > > [snip] > Total articles to download: 929 > 1836135 Bytes received in 62 mins 54.05 secs, BPS = 486.5 > Closed connection to news.me

Re: Strange replies to postings to this list

1998-10-09 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Joey, > > Hi Martin, > s/Martin/Joey/ Sorry, that was too easy to overlook. :-) I don't know about you, but I got this mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] again. Here it is: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 8 22:36:51 1998 Received: from ziele.de ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [194.77.138.21]) by falke

Re: I Cannot upgrade with apt!

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 07:43:34AM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: >yesterday, a perl package had an error, because data-dumper. I tried to >remove data-dumper and all packages that dependes on it. I removed all >lg-issues. Today, the perl package is good and I cannot either insta

I Cannot upgrade with apt!

1998-10-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, yesterday, a perl package had an error, because data-dumper. I tried to remove data-dumper and all packages that dependes on it. I removed all lg-issues. Today, the perl package is good and I cannot either install the lg-issues or remove them. Th

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