Re: Hello

1999-03-24 Thread shaleh
> > Has anyone else had problems with Netscape and the coloron the task > bar. On 8 bit color depth it is fine but under 24 it goes black and > white. It is kind of strange. Even upgrading to Slink Dis did not > solve the above problems. > Does this on every Xfree 86 based server I have ever

Re: XFree86 with Neomagic

1999-03-24 Thread shaleh
> > I am currently running Linux on a Compaq laptop with a Neomagic NM-2160 > video card. I would like to use Debian 2.1. Could I use XFree86 3.3.1 with > Debian 2.1, even though the distribution supports an older version. Thanks > for any help. > > Debian 2.1 has the neomagic driver. If yo

RE: rpm to deb

1999-03-24 Thread Edward Di Geronimo Jr.
> > Also, how come Netscape is distributed with RedHat and now Debian? > > > > Thanks. > I thought RedHat had an agreement with Netscape that allows RedHat to > distribute the software. I thought it was included because when Netscape made the software free, the new license allowed Linux distribut

Re: what is "net-pf-19"?

1999-03-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Mar-99 Gregory T. Norris wrote: >> According to /usr/src/linux/include/linux/socket.h, something called >> "Acorn Econet" uses protocol family 19. I've never heard of it, but >> experimental support for it is in kernel 2.2.3. > > I've never heard of it either - I was running 2.2.3 at the

Re: Why can't I force the NIC driver to load???

1999-03-24 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Robert W. Mudge Miller wrote: > My NIC (a Winbond W89C940 type) is not detected at boot time because its > PCI ID is unknown (as predicted in the Ethernet-HOWTO, Sec 3.4). I am > running Caldera OpenLinux Lite V1.1, Linux kernel v2.0.29. I am following > the advice given in th

w3mir and perl

1999-03-24 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi all, When I try to use "w3mir" on just about any site it says: w3mir: bookc/c21-2.ps, receiving headerCan't locate object method "basename" via package "URI::file" at /usr/lib/perl5/URI/WithBase.pm line 41. Is this a problem with w3mir or perl? and how do i fix it? :) These are my package ver

Re: Why can't I force the NIC driver to load???

1999-03-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Robert W. Mudge Miller wrote: : Dear Linux folk: : : My NIC (a Winbond W89C940 type) is not detected at boot time because its : PCI ID is unknown (as predicted in the Ethernet-HOWTO, Sec 3.4). I am : running Caldera OpenLinux Lite V1.1, Linux kernel v2.0.29. I am followi

Re: what is "net-pf-19"?

1999-03-24 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 06:34:18AM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > > Since it doesn't seem to be hurting anything, I've disabled it for now > > by adding "alias net-pf-19 off" to /etc/modutils/aliases... still, I'm > > curious about what it was tr

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-24 Thread homega
Hamish Moffatt dixit: > > That IS my point -- US vendors cannot ship non-US out of the US. > > Most of these programs are in non-US not because they can't be used in the > US (only pgp-i is in that category AFAIK), but because once they're in > the US, they can't leave. Damm it!!! aren't LSL bas

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 01:14:49PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > That depends. If you think it will, then it will. If you think it > won't, then it won't. Each distribution is a sum of its parts. No one Debian is more than the sum of its upstream parts. Extra stuff like dpkg, update-rc.d, upd

Re: OFFICEJET + MAGIC FILTER

1999-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, steven walsh wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I'm looking for a Linux driver for HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C. > > Apparently, magicfilter does not support it. > > > > Can anybody help me ? > > > > Thanks. > > Try APSfilter instead. >

SOUND HELP

1999-03-24 Thread Craig T. Hancock
Maybe you can help me with this but I am using kernel 2.2.3 and I still can't get sound to work I originall used OSS to find out what my settings were for sound and this is what it should be OSS/Linux 3.9.2f (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-1999 License serial number: E0008 Open Sound System is

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:24:29AM +0100, Holger Schauer wrote: > IMO man pages serve as a quick thorough overview and should be as > compact as possible. Info pages serve IMO a different need: they > should provide detailed information, perhaps for some more obscure or > advanced features. If _the

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 12:45:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Of course, no US-based vendor is going to ship non-US to Rainer who's > > > domain is .de; that's the whole point of non-US. > > you sure? I thought they wouldn't ship non-US to someone whose domain is a > US based one. For

Re: VMware again

1999-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
I see from the vmware web page that 64 MB RAM is required. Does anyone know if this is a hard requirement? I'd like to install the demo on a system with 40 MB. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 10:53:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It wasn't that long ago (a few months?) that Slackware released 3.6 (2.0.35) > ... isn't it two short for a new release? Depends. Both Red Hat and Slackware have had new versions out the door in 2 months, and new versious o

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread homega
Steve Lamb dixit: > home I run my Laptop on Debian 2.1, my "main" machine on some portions of > Potato. My main machine runs kernel 2.2.1, my laptop 2.0.34. Functionally, > they are identical to one another. I telnet in, I run X aps, no big deal. > They work. I really can't tell the differenc

Re: Communicator email & security

1999-03-24 Thread Paul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Friends: > > I'm having a variety of problems with Netscape Communicator & > Debian. In my Hamm installation I tried installing Netscape both with > & without the installer .deb package. In both cases I experienced very > flaky outgoing mail performance using mail.e

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:32:03PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and > redhat? That depends. If you think it will, then it will. If you think it won't, then it won't. Each distribution is a sum of its parts. No one individ

Re: Compaq ESS1887 sound and Linux?

1999-03-24 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: > Am getting ready to reinstall onto my shiny empty 6G drive in a Compaq > Presario 4840, and would like to avoid the only problem I had last time - > the sound wouldn't work. No playing CD's :-( It auto-recognized the ATI Rage > Pro AGP, the Compaq D

Why can't I force the NIC driver to load???

1999-03-24 Thread Robert W. Mudge Miller
Dear Linux folk: My NIC (a Winbond W89C940 type) is not detected at boot time because its PCI ID is unknown (as predicted in the Ethernet-HOWTO, Sec 3.4). I am running Caldera OpenLinux Lite V1.1, Linux kernel v2.0.29. I am following the advice given in the HOWTO to bypass the PCI probing. I enter

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread steven walsh
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > I saw a posting on linuxtoday.com that a slackware 4.0 beta was uploaded > to ftp.cdrom.com. It is based on glibc2.1 and kernel 2.2.3 > > So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and > redhat? > > (not that debian has to

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-24 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: > I'm looking at purchasing a cd-r /cd-rw in the near future, and was looking > for some advice as to what to purchase. My main linux box has both ide > and scsi in it, so I can go either way. I was wondering if there were > advantages to going either wit

Re: IPX Support in slink's PPP?

1999-03-24 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Ken: Go into /etc/ppp/options. At the bottom of the file IPX is shut off, simply turn it on. Peter Ken McCord wrote: > Does anyone know if IPX support was compiled into slink's PPP? If not, > where do I need to modify the source to add support? > > Thanks, > > Ken > > -- > Unsubscribe?

Re: Epson Stylus Color 740

1999-03-24 Thread steven walsh
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Epson Stylus Color 740 > Date: Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 08:22:17PM -0800 > > In reply to:Mono > > Quoting Mono([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm having major problems with my printer. Parport detects it at startup > > and does nothing. I'v

slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I saw a posting on linuxtoday.com that a slackware 4.0 beta was uploaded to ftp.cdrom.com. It is based on glibc2.1 and kernel 2.2.3 So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and redhat? (not that debian has to be first, just best). === Amateur Radio, when all else fails

Re: OFFICEJET + MAGIC FILTER

1999-03-24 Thread steven walsh
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Hi. > > I'm looking for a Linux driver for HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C. > Apparently, magicfilter does not support it. > > Can anybody help me ? > > Thanks. Try APSfilter instead. "See you on the flip side" - Steve Walsh (EfNet:#Babylon5:Knara

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:02:34AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > My second best option is to use nfs to symlink the laptop's > > /var/cache/apt/archives to the desktop's. This might work --- the > > only problem here is that dselect-apt decides

Re: resolv.conf

1999-03-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: resolv.conf Date: Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 06:17:48PM + In reply to:Shao Zhang Quoting Shao Zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > I have installed linux on many computers including both redhat & debian. > > Sometimes, the dns works ok and sometimes it does not. On my

KDE-Mail Client problems

1999-03-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Is KDE's mail client supposed to be able to view mime-types? Mine won't render any html. How do I enable this option for kmail? Thanks... -- NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian/GNU Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems with new ppp package from potato

1999-03-24 Thread James Dietrich
I just upgraded ppp and ppp-pam to version 2.3.6-1 that is in potato and noticed a couple of oddities. First of all, with the new version I am unable to execute the command 'pon' as a regular user, even though I am a member of the dip group. Here is the error message it gives: /usr/sbin/pppd: Ca

jdk broken in slink

1999-03-24 Thread Edward Di Geronimo Jr.
Hi everyone, I had JDK working fine in Hamm, but when I upgraded to Slink, it broke. For starters, it looks in /usr/lib/jdk1.1/i586 for javac, but that directory is empy. I'm using a Pentium MMX. I eventually got it working by removing the i586 directory and making it a symlink to i686. Then, I ha

Re: X11

1999-03-24 Thread Havoc Pennington
> When Linux boots up xdm is automatically started (which is fine). The GUI > login screen appears. When I login in as root or any other user X11 seems > to try to start but then flickers and returns to the login screen. If any > one knows how to correct this I would be grateful. > In the di

Re: SCSI aic7xxx problem

1999-03-24 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I have a similar problem which I have not been able to resolve. It seems that I can access the discs from the console after boot (read and write is fine - note that the disc is classed as (rw) in /etc/fstab), but NOT after firing up X. Once X has started, or at any time after I terminate

Re: udp packets

1999-03-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oh, I should add the Socks5 supports UDP. You may want to look into that: www.socks.nec.com I believe. brad gray wrote: > i am having problems getting udp packets through my firewall ( required > for some on-line gaming like > > diablo ).. i have experimented with commands like ipfwadm and

Re: udp packets

1999-03-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
So you're using IP Masquerading for your firewall? In this case the problem is that IP Masquerading doesn't handle UDP anything unless custom code is added. The reason is that TCP connections are easy because they are just that, connections. UDP is connectionless so when a packet comes back in t

Re: Xfree and Frame Buffer

1999-03-24 Thread Sarel Botha
> Hi, > I'm using XF86_FBDev as X11 Server for frame Buffer system. My problem is > that I don't succeed to configure any mode in 16,24, or 32 bits, can > anybody help me ? did you try `startx -bpp 16` ? -- Sarel Botha

Re: C question

1999-03-24 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (richard) > > I know this is the wrong place to ask, so I've got two questions > now. What is a good unix/C newsgroup? I think I'm gonna need some For general C, try comp.lang.c. It's probably the wrong place for these questions, since they are UNIX specific. comp.unix.programm

CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-24 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm looking at purchasing a cd-r /cd-rw in the near future, and was looking for some advice as to what to purchase. My main linux box has both ide and scsi in it, so I can go either way. I was wondering if there were advantages to going either with scsi or ide. I'm looking more at ease of ope

Re: prioritizing packets

1999-03-24 Thread Sarel Botha
> I mean that I want to have those packets be higher priority on the PPP > link, not just higher in the matching order. I believe PPP uses a FIFO system (First In, First Out) so this is not possible. What you could do though is use the IP Traffic shaper to create different interfaces with differen

Re: Staging Areas.

1999-03-24 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Can the developers subscribed please tell me/us where the various staging > areas are? I keep losing the various posts that have the urls (stupid me). > (i.e. gnome, apt, whatever) And if possible, an apt sources.list line too. There is only _one_ (to my knowledge)

RE: rpm to deb

1999-03-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Mar-99 Doug Dine wrote: > Hi all, > > I got tired of downloading so I went to my RedHat CD and converted Netscape > to a Debian package with Alien. The conversion was a success. Question is > that when your convert a package is there a way to find the dependencies > with DPKG or Dselect? Do

Re: out of ptys

1999-03-24 Thread Kevin Dalley
"J.H.M. Dassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:51:53 -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > rlogind: Out of ptys. > > rlogind cannot allocate a pseudo-terminal, which is necessary for an > interactive terminal session like "rlogin". > > This can e.g. happen if you've switched to g

IPX Support in slink's PPP?

1999-03-24 Thread Ken McCord
Does anyone know if IPX support was compiled into slink's PPP? If not, where do I need to modify the source to add support? Thanks, Ken

some doubts

1999-03-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I did a mistake and some files of my system were rm'ed. I found what files were missing and reinstalled the respective packages. But, for my surprise, if a file is missing the new installed version didn't correct the problem, even if is a crucial file. Should I --force

Re: C question

1999-03-24 Thread Richard Harran
Try the comp.lang.c newsgroup for C questions. For creating directories, try #include int mkdir(const char *path, mode_t mode); For removing directories, #include int rmdir(const char *path); Also see man 3 ... opendir closedir telldir

Re: udp packets

1999-03-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: udp packets Date: Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:20:58PM -0500 In reply to:brad gray Quoting brad gray([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i am having problems getting udp packets through my firewall ( required > for some on-line gaming like > > diablo ).. i have experimented with comm

who's shooting me out (idle = 37 min)

1999-03-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I having some annoying system logout even if not idle at all. Who is shooting me out? I couldn't find nothing in login.defs. idled isn't installed, man login doesn't help, ... Any help? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Meneze

X11

1999-03-24 Thread Kevin Lee
I have just installed Debian Linux 2.1 from scratch. Everything is working properly except X11. I am currently using a Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM graphics adapter. My problem is as follows: When Linux boots up xdm is automatically started (which is fine). The GUI login screen appears. Whe

rpm to deb

1999-03-24 Thread Doug Dine
Hi all, I got tired of downloading so I went to my RedHat CD and converted Netscape to a Debian package with Alien. The conversion was a success. Question is that when your convert a package is there a way to find the dependencies with DPKG or Dselect? Do RedHat packages have this info in them or

Re: cannot compile v 2.2.4 of kernel with standard Debian 2.1

1999-03-24 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Mar, James D. Freels wrote about "cannot compile v 2.2.4 of kernel with standard Debian 2.1" > > Today, I patched my v 2.2.3 source (which compiled fine) with > the new v 2.2.4 kernel source. However, it compiled with error as > shown below. I issued > > make mrproper > make oldconfig

C question

1999-03-24 Thread richard
I know this is the wrong place to ask, so I've got two questions now. What is a good unix/C newsgroup? I think I'm gonna need some help. Now my real question. I've got a perl script that checks the permissions and creates directories. Now I want to rewrite the script in C. I know nothing abou

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > My second best option is to use nfs to symlink the laptop's > /var/cache/apt/archives to the desktop's. This might work --- the > only problem here is that dselect-apt decides to delete all the files > in the cache! How can I turn this off??? This ac

Re: X11 installation

1999-03-24 Thread Kent West
"Favreau, Vincent F." wrote: > Hi, > I installed your latest 2.1 version from floppies adn it works fine. > I am configuring the drivers and mounting them. > But I can't find any windows manager on the HD... Did I missed something in > Dselect process ? > > = > Why don't I have any X11 files ? How

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:12:37PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt. It downloaded a whole > lot of package files to do this (but dselect, I think, has now deleted > them). > > Now I have a laptop which needs to be upgraded to Slink. It would > appear

cannot compile v 2.2.4 of kernel with standard Debian 2.1

1999-03-24 Thread James D. Freels
Today, I patched my v 2.2.3 source (which compiled fine) with the new v 2.2.4 kernel source. However, it compiled with error as shown below. I issued make mrproper make oldconfig (no changes were present) make menuconfig (just to confirm) make dep make clean make bzImage Has anyone else exp

Re: Less DEB Package

1999-03-24 Thread Bruce Sass
What would be really nice is if there was such a thing as addendum packages for stuff that doesn't really deserve to have a package to itself, but would result in package bloat if they were incorporated into the base packages. e.g., All the little python-* packages. Instead of having a separate

Compaq ESS1887 sound and Linux?

1999-03-24 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Am getting ready to reinstall onto my shiny empty 6G drive in a Compaq Presario 4840, and would like to avoid the only problem I had last time - the sound wouldn't work. No playing CD's :-( It auto-recognized the ATI Rage Pro AGP, the Compaq DVD, everything, but the sound didn't function at all, on

http://www.debian.org/contact seeking help

1999-03-24 Thread HEMAL.BHANJI.DEDHIA
Respected Sir, I am hardik Oza calling u from India. I have a shell type of terminal dial up a/c here and am searching the net on softwares which can download graphics after dialling my isp's terminal. I had previously heard about software named shell soft,but could not locate it.It sort of conver

Re: newbie unable to install Slink

1999-03-24 Thread Markus M. Schneider
Hi Olivier > I am trying to install slink for CDs (I' ve just burned them). > During the boot process, I got the following (after indentification of > cd and hard drive) > > (scsi0) found at PCI 11/0 > (scsi0) Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs > (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code ... 419 inst

Re: NIC SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX

1999-03-24 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:56:25PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Supervisor wrote: > > Hello debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > >I have network interface card "SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX". And I want > >to put it in my linux (debian 2.0) box. But I have not any idea >

udp packets

1999-03-24 Thread brad gray
i am having problems getting udp packets through my firewall ( required for some on-line gaming like diablo ).. i have experimented with commands like ipfwadm and had no success... any suggestions? could someone point me to some relevant documentation? thanks brad

Re: VMware again

1999-03-24 Thread Collins M. Ben
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:24:08AM -0500, Matthew Cocker wrote: > The install script for vmware installs a /etc/rc.d/init.d directory with > a vmware init script for setting up and loading the required modules. > When I reboot my box the vmware moddules did not load. My guess is if I > make a link

X11 installation

1999-03-24 Thread Favreau, Vincent F.
Hi, I installed your latest 2.1 version from floppies adn it works fine. I am configuring the drivers and mounting them. But I can't find any windows manager on the HD... Did I missed something in Dselect process ? = > Why don't I have any X11 files ? How can I install X11 and motif ? Thanks.

Re: VMware again

1999-03-24 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Mar, Matthew Cocker wrote about "VMware again" > The install script for vmware installs a /etc/rc.d/init.d directory with > a vmware init script for setting up and loading the required modules. > When I reboot my box the vmware moddules did not load. My guess is if I > make a link from /et

KDEDIR and mime problem

1999-03-24 Thread Pollywog
I installed KDE from deb packages, except for KDELIBS, since I had to compile this package with --enable-new-stuff (or similar option). I have installed a few packages, including kexplorer from source, however. Not all of kexplorer's functionality is present, suggesting a problem with mime types.

Re: Epson Stylus Color 740

1999-03-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Epson Stylus Color 740 Date: Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 08:22:17PM -0800 In reply to:Mono Quoting Mono([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm having major problems with my printer. Parport detects it at startup > and does nothing. I've tried putting it's address in the lilo command > lin

VMware again

1999-03-24 Thread Matthew Cocker
The install script for vmware installs a /etc/rc.d/init.d directory with a vmware init script for setting up and loading the required modules. When I reboot my box the vmware moddules did not load. My guess is if I make a link from /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware to /etc/init.d/vmware things should start a

A question about an exim filter rule...

1999-03-24 Thread Dale E. Martin
I've converted my procmail rules to exim filter rules - very nice! There's one I can't figure out how to do though, and I don't really like the idea of calling procmail from an exim filter :-) Here's the procmail rule: MAILDIR=$HOME/.mailspool ARCHIVE=mail-`date +%Y-%b`.spool :0 c: $ARCHIVE S

XFree86 with Neomagic

1999-03-24 Thread MGCANTONI
I am currently running Linux on a Compaq laptop with a Neomagic NM-2160 video card. I would like to use Debian 2.1. Could I use XFree86 3.3.1 with Debian 2.1, even though the distribution supports an older version. Thanks for any help.

Re: downloading

1999-03-24 Thread Shanta McBain
Bob Nielsen wrote: > bind is not required. /etc/resolv.conf should contain the ip addresses of This may be true but there is no instructions for the newbie to do that. I had to get bind working before my system would log onto my provider. The bind setup takes care of it for you. > > nameser

Re: Home Page Design

1999-03-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Mar-99 Ulrik Haugen wrote: >> Okay, everyone send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and complain about >> unsolicited >> ads on our mailing list. > Please don't! > > Try to get trough to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something similar and urge them to > remove salesjohn's access. > > Please note that I h

Scanner -> printer problems.

1999-03-24 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
I've been trying for a while to get my scanner and printer to cooperate and act like a copy machine. I've got a small script that I've hacked in various ways, but no matter what I try, I can't get the scale quite right. I've got a Mustek scanner that I use with SANE (at 300dpi, lineart mode) an

Re: Hello

1999-03-24 Thread Richard Harran
For the backspace key: try adding keycode 0x16=BackSpace to your /etc/X11/Xmodmap file. For Netscape: The icon colour just doesn't work properly at 24 bit colour. It isn't much of a problem, it just means Netscape looks a bit funny, and I think that it is fine at 8,16 or 32 bit colour. H

Re: Printer config: still not there

1999-03-24 Thread Ulrik Haugen
Hi! I'm having similar problems (ok, perhaps the similarities are just that I to am having printing problems). * Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > /etc/printcap refers to the generic dot matrix printer and printing > stairsteps off the edge of the page in two lines. No problem -- I I guess I'll

SCSI aic7xxx problem

1999-03-24 Thread Csejtey Gabor Zoltan
I have Debian 2.1 and kernel 2.0.36-3 version. I have problem with the SCSI disk, I can read it but cannot write on it. If I attempt than I got messages like this: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 184) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. At the boot I got these mess

OFFICEJET + MAGIC FILTER

1999-03-24 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hi. I'm looking for a Linux driver for HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C. Apparently, magicfilter does not support it. Can anybody help me ? Thanks.

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-24 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Mar, Jonathan Guthrie wrote about "Re: The GNU thing" > > Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the > editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with > CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals > or do everythi

Hello

1999-03-24 Thread Pat Neumann
Hello All I am still quite new to X and Linux. I have a couple of questions which I require help with. I installed a package for netscape and after I installed it my mouse pointer under X is now a large block, about 2, 2" in size. I have been unable to figure out how to restore it to normal siz

Re: prioritizing packets

1999-03-24 Thread loafhead
> I mean that I want to have those packets be higher priority on the PPP > link, not just higher in the matching order. I think what you are looking for is probably found in the IPchains HOWTO. (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/) It discusses Type of Service bits. This of course assumes that you

Re: prioritizing packets

1999-03-24 Thread loafhead
> I mean that I want to have those packets be higher priority on the PPP > link, not just higher in the matching order. I think what you are looking for is probably found in the IPchains HOWTO. (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/) It discusses Type of Service bits. This of course assumes that you

Re: Loading packages from zip drive

1999-03-24 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Chris Reay wrote: > I have an old-ish Toshiba laptop (486, 200 mb, no CD) onto which I have > loaded the Debian v2.0 base system from the dos partition. I now want to add > a few console editing, development (mostly Python and C), and utility > packages; to this end I've copie

Re: Faxing from Debian - success, but is there a GUI?

1999-03-24 Thread Phillip Deackes
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can fax from Lyx using efax. > > Cheers, Johann. I had considered LyX, and indeed used to use it as my Word Processor. But now things have moved along and I need more of a DTP-type word processor. Lyx is indeed great for text production, but it is so

CD writing (slink)

1999-03-24 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
Hi, I have a debian system here at work which I just upgraded to slink. We recently purchased an ATAPI CD-RW (Phillips PCA362) and I'd like to record some CD's. I have a few questions on how to proceed (I've never used a CD writer before). Which kernel should I use? (I'm currently

Recommendations C++ compiler and IDE.

1999-03-24 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, I need recommendations for a C++ compiler and IDE. I am an app developer for a health insurance company, pretty small in size. 3 peopl in the IS shop. So far I have been unsuccesful in my attempts to get the higher ups to switch for a NT network to Debian. So, I like to be able to work a

Emacs Trouble (was Re: The GNU thing)

1999-03-24 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 24 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | > Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the | > | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with | > | CN

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Charles C. Fu
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt Now I have a > laptop which needs to be upgraded to Slink. It would appear that > I'm going to have to download all these files again! The simplest way to avoid multiple downloads is to use a caching p

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-24 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On 24 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the > | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with > | CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtu

Re: Faxing from Debian - success, but is there a GUI?

1999-03-24 Thread Johann Spies
You can fax from Lyx using efax. On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Anyway, what I would like to do is to be able to print directly from an > application like Applix. Failing that, even printing to a .ps file and > faxing that with a GUI would be useful. > Johann --

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-24 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with | CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals | or do everything under X. |

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-24 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, David B. Teague wrote: > > The importance of compilers was one reason I chose to license Linux > > under the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL was the license for the > > GCC compiler. I think that all the other projects from the GNU group > > are for Linux insignificant in co

Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt. It downloaded a whole lot of package files to do this (but dselect, I think, has now deleted them). Now I have a laptop which needs to be upgraded to Slink. It would appear that I'm going to have to download all these files again! What would be ni

Re: what is "net-pf-19"?

1999-03-24 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Since it doesn't seem to be hurting anything, I've disabled it for now > by adding "alias net-pf-19 off" to /etc/modutils/aliases... still, I'm > curious about what it was trying to load. According to /usr/src/linux/include/linux/socket.h, something

Booting Linux from extended partition

1999-03-24 Thread stcroixt
There is a way to boot from a logical partition using lilo...it's one special case, and I did it at one time. I installed linux on hda5 and told lilo to look for it on hda4. Worked fine. Tim >To boot, as a general rule, your operating system must be on one >of your hard disk's primary partitio

Re: NIC SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX

1999-03-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Supervisor wrote: > Hello debian-user@lists.debian.org > >I have network interface card "SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX". And I want >to put it in my linux (debian 2.0) box. But I have not any idea >where to get drivers for it. Do you have one? AFAIK there is SMC EtherEZ c

Re: broken /etc/apt/sources.list

1999-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 07:12:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was using dselect and trying to add ftp://ftp.rising.com.au as a > location to get non-US packages from & have apparently distroyed my > /etc/apt/sources.list. Could someone point out the errors in the > following? (Or send me a

Re: Device detection?

1999-03-24 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I'm not sure I see why checkpointing every test should be particularly > slow. Michele Bini writes: > Because you have to wait after every test for the checkpoint to > be written to disk and the disk to be flushed A few milliseconds, according to my measurements. How many tests do we

Printer config: still not there

1999-03-24 Thread Carl Fink
So, I installed Debian 2.0 back when it was new. I've been using it without problems for a while. Today I decided to go ahead and install LPRng. (No, I don't print very often.) Installation apparently worked okay, but of course /etc/printcap refers to the generic dot matrix printer and printing

Re: Debian Menu and Fvwm2--help!--SOLVED

1999-03-24 Thread Curt Daugaard
Thanks, Richard. It worked perfectly. Curt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 06:58:36AM +, Richard Harran wrote: > You can use the ~/.fvwm2/menudefs.hook menus to override the system-wide > ones. What you also need to do is to provide a ~/.fvwm2rc user config. > file. Do this by co

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-24 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > I thought the following comment from Linus was interesting. It comes from > an article he wrote at www.linuxworld.com > > ... > The importance of compilers was one reason I chose to license Linux > under the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL was the

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