Re: Installing Compaq Qoftpaq After Linux

1999-04-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > The BIOS for Compaq machines is a seperate partition. You'll have to blank > out the drive so its got no partitions, install the SoftPaq, then > reinstall your OS stuff, being careful not to wipe out the Compaq stuff. > > Now you know why I'll never buy Co

Re: KDE

1999-04-19 Thread Alec Smith
Get them from ftp.kde.org and its mirrors. Due to the current QT license KDE can't be included in Debian. On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > Are there .debs of KDE on ftp.debian.org? I can't seem to find them in > the package lists. Thanks. > >

Sound cut out

1999-04-19 Thread Robert Rati
My sound cuts out on me after using LIcq for a period of time. I'm not sure what the time interval for it to cut out, or even why it is doing it. I can't remove the sound module and re-insert it because it is apparantly in use. Anyone know of a way to reset the sound or something like that? Thank

Re: Looking for trouble.

1999-04-19 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Oliver Elphick" writes: > Bob Hilliard wrote: > >"Oliver Elphick" writes: > > > >> To go to the directory you were in last: > >> cd ~- > > > > What is the purpose of the tilde in this command? In bash and > >sh, at least, `cd -' is what I was taught, and it works fine. Do so

KDE

1999-04-19 Thread Robert Rati
Are there .debs of KDE on ftp.debian.org? I can't seem to find them in the package lists. Thanks. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1

Re: slrnpull won't work on Mindspring.com

1999-04-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: slrnpull won't work on Mindspring.com Date: Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 01:18:58PM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (now [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > I am trying out a new ISP and have run into a problem I have not seen > before. I wonder if anyone e

Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 06:13:16PM -0400, James M. Mastros wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:41:39PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > I'm a pine user (as can be seen from the header of my message), and > > because of the unclear status and future of this program I would like > > to switch to

Printer Compatability

1999-04-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I couldn't find the answear to this on the Hardware-HOWTO I am looking for a printer to connect to my linux machine. I was wondering which of these printers (this are whats avainlable) will work with linux without too much of a fuss ( I don't have too much time in the near future to take on

Re: Client side DHCP

1999-04-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 10:25:54AM -0400, Dan Willard wrote: >I need to set up a box to get a dynamic ip from a NT server over the lan. > Everything that I've managed to find on dynamic ip is for ppp, will the same > methods work for ethernet? Or is there some other obscure little way that I

Re: More Star Office 5.0

1999-04-19 Thread Bud Rogers
Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got Star Office to install finally thanks to everyones help. I > installed it as root, figuring it would be a network type application, but > since it's the personal edition I'm guessing only the person that > installed it can use it, right? When I try

Children Linux and Wine....

1999-04-19 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi Fellas, I'm at work and my 10 year old just called me to find out how to shutdown Debian and boot Win95. This brings a question to mind. Has anyone successfully or half-successfully gotten a Win95 game for Kids to work? I have gotten wine to run notepad and such, but being there is nothing I r

Re: A file is not always what you think it is.

1999-04-19 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 05:58:18PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > > Apparently a .txt file written under Win95 can be chmod-ed, but not > executed. I used ae to write a simple script from scratch under Linux > and it worked no problem at all. > > That makes me wonder: I have to install so

Re: Installing CDROM drive

1999-04-19 Thread Thomas S. Howard
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Steve Girard wrote: > I am trying to install a cdrom drive on a Linux system. What needs to > be done to update the kernel to install the drivers for the cdrom. Well, unless you compiled a kernel without support for IDE CDROM drives (or SCSI, as the case may be), you should

Re: Hashed mailspool on procmail and qpopper

1999-04-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >FWIW, I have managed to get procmail to use _only_ the hashed mailspool, >but haven't been able to get qpopper to compile (missing a mailock.h file >as referenced in pop_dropcopy.c). To compile qpopper you need to install li

Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-19 Thread James M. Mastros
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:41:39PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > I'm a pine user (as can be seen from the header of my message), and > because of the unclear status and future of this program I would like > to switch to another mailer. Mutt -- it's bar none the best mail client I've ever used

Dubuger problem (ddd segfaults - xxgdb maloc problem)

1999-04-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to run a debuger under x for c / c++ when i try to run ddd i get a reply: ddd: Symbol 'XmStrings' hasdifferent size in shared object, consider relinking Internal error (Illegal instruction). when I try to run it on a file i also get a message: Segmentation fault I am running DDD vers

Hashed mailspool on procmail and qpopper

1999-04-19 Thread Pete Templin
Does anybody have good patches for procmail and qpopper (from the hamm vintage) that implements a hashed mail spool (aka /var/spool/mail/u/s/user), preferably such that they use the hashed version if it exists, and the non-hashed if it doesn't? I'm not a good enough C programmer to even attempt t

More Star Office 5.0

1999-04-19 Thread Robert Rati
I got Star Office to install finally thanks to everyones help. I installed it as root, figuring it would be a network type application, but since it's the personal edition I'm guessing only the person that installed it can use it, right? When I try to run it as my user account, it asks me to inse

Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?

1999-04-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Apr-99 Keith G. Murphy wrote: > That makes me curious. He used "quoted-printable". (He also used a > multipart message with HTML as one of the parts, but that's irrelevant > here). Can PINE not handle that? How do other list users feel about > using "quoted-printable"? The idea is that t

Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?

1999-04-19 Thread John Hasler
Keith G. Murphy writes: > How do other list users feel about using "quoted-printable"? I hate it. If I turn on automatic mime processing gnus will spit out a browser every time it see html. If I don't I have to hit W-q to tell gnus to translate the quoted-unprintable, and then W-W to tell it to

Re: mailing offline

1999-04-19 Thread Jim Foltz
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 12:21:23PM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > I use exim and mutt. I get my mail on demand with fetchmail. > I'd like to send mails even when I'm offline. Is it possible to store those > mails locally until I hookup to an ISP and having them send then? > > Armin Y

Re: Client side DHCP

1999-04-19 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Bernard wrote: > > > As far as I remember, version 0.70 (or so) is included in slink but does not > > support kernel 2.2. For kernel 2.2, you need version 1.3 (or so). This > > version > > can be found somewhere on the n

Re: how to serve /~username with apache

1999-04-19 Thread Carl Mummert
All you have to do is put 'UserDir public_html' in your /etc/apache/srm.conf Then, you need to issue the following commands: chmod a+x ~user mkdir ~user/public_html chmod a+rx ~user/public_html echo "hello" > ~user/public_html/test chmod a+r ~user/public_html/test Then, try lynx localhost/~user

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I'd like to say thanks for all the great info I've had in such a short space of time. It seems to work fine when I embed the \label inside the \caption, but I'll try with the \label afterwards to see what happens. Back to writing bad maths coursework :-) -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] "

Re: Realplayer wrapper for 2.2?

1999-04-19 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > I remember reading that the linux realplayer 5.0 was broken with kernel > 2.2 and that there was a wrapper to fix this. I just learned about the > Linus keynote at comdex being broadcast and I'd like to get realplayer > working to

how to serve /~username with apache

1999-04-19 Thread Ben Frame
I've heard that this is a simple task, so hopefully someone out there can help... I want to configure my apache web server (v1.3) to automatically serve out some arbitrary directory within each user's home directory (i.e. /home/public_html ) I've heard that this is common practice and that it wou

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Mon, 19 Apr skrev Andrew Holmes: > However when I try to do the same thing with a reference to a table, it > prints the section the table is in, instead of the number of the table. I can > show the number of tables with \arabic{table}, but when I put \ref{a_table}, > it prints the section number of

Re: Home Page

1999-04-19 Thread ktb
"Michael W. Wernicki" wrote: > > Hello, > > I've not been able to use the search utility on your home page. Every > time I select it, it sits there waiting for a response. > I tried the search function and am told by Netscape that the server is down, I'm sure it will be back up later. I don't

RE: Client side DHCP

1999-04-19 Thread Brad
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Bernard wrote: > As far as I remember, version 0.70 (or so) is included in slink but does not > support kernel 2.2. For kernel 2.2, you need version 1.3 (or so). This version > can be found somewhere on the net (maybe you need to run alien to a redhat > package). You can get

spam & debian-user?

1999-04-19 Thread Lev Lvovsky
hey all, I noticed thast this list gets posted to usenet...what do ppl on the list do to avoid gettting their e-mail addresses getting picked up by spam bots? does the system get rid of this possiblity somehow? -lev

Re: Slow floppy boot

1999-04-19 Thread ktb
Paul Winkler wrote: > > I boot linux (presently Debian 2.1) from a floppy disk. Before Debian 2.0, I > had no problems, since then however the boot process takes between 6 and 7 > minutes to complete! It used to take only a few seconds. > > I notice when the floppy is being prepared by the inst

Re: A file is not always what you think it is.

1999-04-19 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
That sounds suspicious. Hmmm. Are you sure that the permissions *and* the ownership were set properly for *you* to execute it? After all, a text file is just a text file. The only variation would be CR/LF line endings. In fact, the .txt extension should be no barrier to running a script, as lo

Re: trouble with LILO

1999-04-19 Thread Mark E Drummond
Brian Morgan wrote: > > I just got done installing Debian 2.1 on a 486 33mhz machine. When > rebooting after the install, it hangs on LILO, with the "LI" appearing on > the screen. doesn't ever go anywhere after that. This is caused (AFAIK) by changing something that lilo depends on (eg recompi

Upgrading gcc, libc6 and others from hamm to slink

1999-04-19 Thread homega
After much trouble trying to compile a 2.0.35 kernel on a hamm 2.0.34 machine, I've decided to upgrade some stuff. Will this be enough, or would I need anything else? Will it cause any trouble in hamm? (touching libc6 scares the hell out of me!) I've downloaded (from Slink): bin86_0.14.3-1.deb (

Re: More problems compiling kernel

1999-04-19 Thread homega
Wayne Topa dixit: ~> ~> Subject: Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel ~> Date: Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 02:43:38PM +0200 ~> ~> In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> ~> ln -s kernel-source-2.0.35 linux ~> > ~> ls -l should show you that linux -> points to kernel-source-2.0.35 ~> ~> > c

Slow floppy boot

1999-04-19 Thread Paul Winkler
I boot linux (presently Debian 2.1) from a floppy disk. Before Debian 2.0, I had no problems, since then however the boot process takes between 6 and 7 minutes to complete! It used to take only a few seconds. I notice when the floppy is being prepared by the installation program a calibration o

Home Page

1999-04-19 Thread Michael W. Wernicki
Hello, I've not been able to use the search utility on your home page. Every time I select it, it sits there waiting for a response. Mike

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Paul Huygen
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (about my suggestion on how to put a \label in in a table): >> \label{tab:a-table} >> \caption{blablabla} >> \end{table} > >I think that's wrong. Have you tried it? > >The \label needs to be in a \caption. Well, actually I haven't tried right befor

Re: slrnpull won't work on Mindspring.com

1999-04-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: slrnpull won't work on Mindspring.com Date: Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 02:35:39PM -0400 In reply to:Mitch Blevins Quoting Mitch Blevins([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > I am trying out a new ISP and have run into a problem I have not seen > > before

FW: Installing Compaq Qoftpaq After Linux

1999-04-19 Thread simonst
Are you referring to the special (type x'12') Compaq diagnostic partition on the hard drive? When I moved to a larger drive on my Compaq Deskpro2000, I had to define/load the partition using several boot diskettes downloaded from www.compaq.com (your model may require different versions): SP8

Re: Installing Compaq Qoftpaq After Linux

1999-04-19 Thread Alec Smith
The BIOS for Compaq machines is a seperate partition. You'll have to blank out the drive so its got no partitions, install the SoftPaq, then reinstall your OS stuff, being careful not to wipe out the Compaq stuff. Now you know why I'll never buy Compaq -- Not even if my life depends on it. :) O

Installing CDROM drive

1999-04-19 Thread Steve Girard
I am trying to install a cdrom drive on a Linux system. What needs to be done to update the kernel to install the drivers for the cdrom.

QPopper question?

1999-04-19 Thread Clint Rhodes
I am having some strange problems with my qpopper. I have several usres who are not able to check their email, and I also have several (including my office) who ARE able to check their email. I was trying to track down the culprit, and I notice some conspicuous errors in my popper log. There are

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, Thanks for the help. It's working fine now :-). Should I nest the labels like this when I do figures as well, or is it not important? -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!", Edmund Blackadder

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, Here is some of the doc This is the end of one of my tables... --- $y$ & 0.00027& 0.00034& 0.00042& 0.00050& 0.00057& 0.00065\\ \hline \end{tabular} \label{tab:dec} \caption{Decimal Search Values} \end{table} -- and this is where I try to referenc

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However when I try to [reference with the \label/\ref mechanism]] with > > a reference to a table, it prints the section the table is in, instead > > of the number of the table. > > What you want to achieve can only be do

Re: slrnpull won't work on Mindspring.com

1999-04-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > I am trying out a new ISP and have run into a problem I have not seen > before. I wonder if anyone else might have run into this? > [snip problem] Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone. (I feel your pain) I cannot list newsgroups by wildcards in slrn

Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel

1999-04-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel Date: Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 02:43:38PM +0200 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ~> > ~> > by doing a make clean after make dep you are clean out all that you > ~> > just did. > ~> > > ~>

Re: Oscilloscope for Linux

1999-04-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
You might look at ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/circuits/oscope-1.4.tar.gz I plan on trying it out myself and if it looks good, will attempt to package it as well. Bob On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Sean McIlwain wrote: > I was wondering if there was any packages for Debian that will allow >

Installing Compaq Qoftpaq After Linux

1999-04-19 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Got a Compaq computer loaded with Linux. However I needed to do some PCI IRQ stuff and found out that the softpaq was gone. Downloaded the lastest greatest softpaq from Compaq and have attempted to install but get an error each and every time the program tries to write to the

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread paul . huygen
Andrew Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However when I try to [reference with the \label/\ref mechanism]] with > a reference to a table, it prints the section the table is in, instead > of the number of the table. What you want to achieve can only be done if you put the table in a "table float

Re: A file is not always what you think it is.

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: In case these aren't on a particular system, I've found this works well. $ perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' (DOS->UNIX) $ perl -pi -e 's/\n/\r\n/g' (UNIX->DOS) AFAIK it's the CR you want to remove (\r in perl) and not the newl

slrnpull won't work on Mindspring.com

1999-04-19 Thread Wayne Topa
I am trying out a new ISP and have run into a problem I have not seen before. I wonder if anyone else might have run into this? I use slrn to get newsgroups and has been working fine. I am, however, having a problem using slrnpull, 'on this new ISP (mindspring). When slrnpull goes out to get 'a

Re: Problem compiling with g++/libc6

1999-04-19 Thread Prashanth Mundkur
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote: > I have a later version of g++ than you: > egcs-2.91.60 Is this egcs-g++ from a slink package? It did strike me as odd that the egcc --version and g++ --version on my system differ. > also when I ldd on the executable, I get > libstdc++-

Oscilloscope for Linux

1999-04-19 Thread Sean McIlwain
I was wondering if there was any packages for Debian that will allow someone to use a sound card as an oscilloscope? Thanks, Sean McIlwain

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread John Maheu
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Andrew Holmes wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but with the recent converstaion about > latex I was wondering if someone could help me? I'm writing a document in > latex and I can use \ref and \label to identify figures fine. So if I put > \ref{something

Re: Problem compiling with g++/libc6

1999-04-19 Thread Richard Harran
I have a later version of g++ than you: egcs-2.91.60 also when I ldd on the executable, I get libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 (0x4000f000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40053000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4006e000) /lib/ld-

Re: Looking for trouble.

1999-04-19 Thread Carl Johnson
"Oliver Elphick" writes: > Bob Hilliard wrote: > >"Oliver Elphick" writes: > > > >> To go to the directory you were in last: > >> cd ~- > > > > What is the purpose of the tilde in this command? In bash and > >sh, at least, `cd -' is what I was taught, and it works fine. Do so

Re: WEIRD!

1999-04-19 Thread Fabio Olive leite
Ola! ] > I have noticed lately when I look at my server when it has been idle there ] > is multiple lines that say "Unable To Load Interpreter" ] ] Maybe something ran out of memory, or your processtable was full so bash (or ] another shell) couldn't get loaded. Maybe you have some script as a c

Re: Realplayer wrapper for 2.2?

1999-04-19 Thread James Dietrich
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 05:37:43PM +0200, Patrick wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Dan Brosemer took time to write: > > > > I remember reading that the linux realplayer 5.0 was broken with kernel > > 2.2 and that there was a wrapper to fix this. I just learned about the > > Linu

Re: Star Office 5.0

1999-04-19 Thread Alec Smith
I once had SO5 running fine with my S3 ViRGE/VX using the SVGA server. On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > > > Has anyone gotten Star Office 5.0 to install on Debian 2.1? Everytime I > > try to ru nthe setup program, An error message pops u

Re: kernel question

1999-04-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Actually, if you set versioning info on all modules, you're required > > to compile ppp support as a module. Besides that, if you use modules > > at all, you may as well just load things as needed since you've already > > committed to the overhead

Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-19 Thread Ian Peters
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:41:39PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm a pine user (as can be seen from the header of my message), and > because of the unclear status and future of this program I would like > to switch to another mailer. I'll suggest Mutt, the mailer I'm using righ

Re: Realplayer wrapper for 2.2?

1999-04-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I used the rvplayer .deb package to install 5.0 and it mostly works with 2.2 kernels. A few sites don't seem to work, however. I wonder if possibly the new G2 server is incompatible with the 5.0 player. Bob On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > I remember reading that the linux realpl

Problem compiling with g++/libc6

1999-04-19 Thread Prashanth Mundkur
Can someone figure this out? The most trivial C++ program crashes. ( main(){} ) The link between the compiler and libc6 seems fishy. I have a slink system, with both libstdc++2.8 and libstdc++2.9. -- wintermute:test >g++ --version egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release) wintermute:test

Re: A file is not always what you think it is.

1999-04-19 Thread Carl Mummert
Synopsis: file, created in Windows, won't execuate as shell script on Linux box. Here is an 'od' dump of the first line of the file: > 000 # ! sp / b i n / s h cr nl The trick here is to get rid of the newlines. The easiest way I know of is to use the 'fromdos' prog

Diald Installation and Setup

1999-04-19 Thread Russell Rademacher
Hello guys. It seems it is little frustrating here on getting good answers on trying to get the diald working. So... how about someone giving me a step by step on their setup to get the diald working and the copies of the files related to it so I can just edit the phone number and the dev

Re: Realplayer wrapper for 2.2?

1999-04-19 Thread Patrick
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Dan Brosemer took time to write: > > I remember reading that the linux realplayer 5.0 was broken with kernel > 2.2 and that there was a wrapper to fix this. I just learned about the > Linus keynote at comdex being broadcast and I'd like to get realplayer

Re: Star Office 5.0

1999-04-19 Thread William R Pentney
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > Has anyone gotten Star Office 5.0 to install on Debian 2.1? Everytime I > try to ru nthe setup program, An error message pops up about the window > manager not setting the window size and it defaults to the default size, > then the windows start to come u

Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?

1999-04-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
David B.Teague wrote: > [snip] > > One thing: your message had a very long line, it will help those of us > who use text mailers (PINE, etc) for you to press return every 70 > characters or so. Some mail composers generate local but don't > insert them into the file. > That makes me curious. H

Re: A file is not always what you think it is.

1999-04-19 Thread Jan Muszynski
On 19 Apr 99, at 17:58, Hans van den Boogert wrote about A file is not always what you think: [snipped to conserve bandwidth] > What I did: - write a script using Notepad under Winblows on the > P200. Saved it as a .txt file. - copied it on a DOS formatted > disk. Changed the filename to one

Re: Amanda rescue floppy

1999-04-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Max wrote: > > I would like to make a floppy that would allow me to boot up my system > from that floppy and contain all of the Amanda tools that would allow > me to recover my hard drive file systems in the event something goes > wrong. Has anyone set up something like this? Any pointers would

Realplayer wrapper for 2.2?

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
I remember reading that the linux realplayer 5.0 was broken with kernel 2.2 and that there was a wrapper to fix this. I just learned about the Linus keynote at comdex being broadcast and I'd like to get realplayer working to view it but I can't seem to find this wrapper anywhere. Am I delusional

Re: RPM on Debian

1999-04-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Urban Gabor wrote: > > someone has mentioned in these lists that installing alien packages from > > .rpm can be dangerous. I'd like to know more about it, so please write > > some pro's and con's. > > Installing alien packages from rpm can be dangerous if t

Re: Banshee

1999-04-19 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Eric wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:37:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Banshee cards are not currently supported. A coworker of mine sold his and > > bought a TNT. Cheaper and in all ways a better card. > > > > It can be forced to work by using the frame buffe

Re: Running a script from /etc/ip-up.d

1999-04-19 Thread John Hasler
Jiri writes: > That should be #! and there shouldn't be a space after it. The space doesn't matter. > Actually, there's not much point doing this. The reason everything else > has it is because when you uninstall a package (rather than purge), dpkg > will leave the ip-up.d script behind and it ne

Re: Star Office 5.0

1999-04-19 Thread John Foster
Robert Rati wrote: > > Has anyone gotten Star Office 5.0 to install on Debian 2.1? Everytime I > try to ru nthe setup program, An error message pops up about the window > manager not setting the window size and it defaults to the default size, > then the windows start to come up and X freezes. A

Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi all, Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but with the recent converstaion about latex I was wondering if someone could help me? I'm writing a document in latex and I can use \ref and \label to identify figures fine. So if I put \ref{something}, it will print the number of the figure called using

RE: Client side DHCP

1999-04-19 Thread Bernard
There is a package called dhcpcd which you configure by giving the interface where the dhcp server can be reached. As far as I remember, version 0.70 (or so) is included in slink but does not support kernel 2.2. For kernel 2.2, you need version 1.3 (or so). This version can be found somewhere on

Client side DHCP

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Willard
I can't seem to find anything on this subject and am wondering if ya'll could help. I need to set up a box to get a dynamic ip from a NT server over the lan. Everything that I've managed to find on dynamic ip is for ppp, will the same methods work for ethernet? Or is there some other obscu

Re: Linux Hardware website??

1999-04-19 Thread ktb
Here are a couple of sites that might help you piece things together: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi These I know from the Modem and Printer howtos. There are probably more if you pick through he howtos. hth, kent Shao Zhang wro

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Russell Rademacher wrote: > > Okay... I checked the process by ps x and seen that diald is running. > Unfortunably, the dial-on demand is not working yet as I tried doing lynx, ftp > or ping from root or user account. > > As for the package version, it is diald_0.16.5-3.deb versio

Re: PS/AUX

1999-04-19 Thread John Foster
Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > Ouch... well, Im not going that far, yet, Ive been told my VX/Pro MB wont > > > like the 2.2 series very much... but a simple upgrade to 2.0.36 with PS/2 > > > enabled sorted things... My only question.. how do I increase the mouse > > > speed in X? gpm was easy. > >

Re: Looking for trouble.

1999-04-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:58:21AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Bob Hilliard wrote: > >"Oliver Elphick" writes: > > > >> To go to the directory you were in last: > >> cd ~- > > > > What is the purpose of the tilde in this command? In bash and > >sh, at least, `cd -' is what I

PARIDE almost working (but not quite).

1999-04-19 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Me again. What I did - Installed Debian 2.1 including base system from 9 floppies on a 486-33 notebook. Selected paride to be a module in the kernel. - Logged in as root. - Did "insmod epia" to load the protocol module for the Shuttle parallel port CD-ROM I happen to have. - Did "insmod pcd" a

HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I'm a pine user (as can be seen from the header of my message), and because of the unclear status and future of this program I would like to switch to another mailer. However I have some special requirements: 1) The program should be free according to the FSG 2) The program should leave th

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mike Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >Nobody answered your post probably because they couldn't guess from > >"not having any luck" why you couldn't just compile the module along > >with whatever kernel version you're using. > > I included shell output from both an attempt to load the module

Re: Linux Hardware website??

1999-04-19 Thread Patrick
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 08:56:09AM -0400, Randy Edwards took time to write: > > Does anybody know any good websites that talks and reviews the > > best hardware and are best supported by linux?? > >This is something that's needed badly. I'm going through this right now > deciding which SCSI c

RE: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

1999-04-19 Thread Paul Sargent
Looks like it's just the config program that requires RFC compliance. I edited it to stop checking my FQDN and then responded to all other question as tdlabs.com. This let me get through the config stage and I then went and changed the exim.conf file. Exim seem to have no problem. I'm about to sub

Re: Linux Hardware website??

1999-04-19 Thread Randy Edwards
> Does anybody know any good websites that talks and reviews the > best hardware and are best supported by linux?? This is something that's needed badly. I'm going through this right now deciding which SCSI card I should purchase. As more and more people buy equipment solely for use with Linu

Re: print via SAMBA

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 02:22:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > another problem i have with printing > on a windows-network-printer. > the linux-comp puts the printer-jobs > right to the spool area, but > then nothing happens.. Here's the relevant lines from my printcap: lp|Samba PostScript

Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel

1999-04-19 Thread homega
~> ~> > by doing a make clean after make dep you are clean out all that you ~> > just did. ~> > ~> Actually, make mrproper is what cleans out everthing. make clean removes ~> object files and kernel images and such. Do an ls -a after make clean ~> sometime. You should still see .depend, .config,

Re: fetchmail is slow

1999-04-19 Thread Armin Wegner
It's faster to compress /var/mail/armin and ftp it. I hoped, that someone knows some options to make fetchmail work faster. On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 07:05:16AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > Fetchmail is working fine here -- Hey, I used it just now to download your > original mail. Sure its not your co

Re: Compressed X-protocoll?

1999-04-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yeah there is. It is called DXPC. Look in stable/X11. HTH. -Ian On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: > Hi, > > I heard rumors that there is a package for debian that uses a-soft-of > compressed X11-protocoll and makes X-sessions via modem possible > (without I wait 10 minutes

print via SAMBA

1999-04-19 Thread plastiques
another problem i have with printing on a windows-network-printer. the linux-comp puts the printer-jobs right to the spool area, but then nothing happens.. thanks for help.. --- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net

Re: Linux Hardware website??

1999-04-19 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Have a look at the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO as a first try: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/Linux/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html -- Thomas Ruedas Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Feldbergstrasse 47

Linux Hardware website??

1999-04-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Does anybody know any good websites that talks and reviews the best hardware and are best supported by linux?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Dep

SMTP problem

1999-04-19 Thread plastiques
when i try to send a mail from a win95 client, SMTP on my linux-server refuses with error: problem creating SMTP socket NOQUEUE: SYSERR: opendeamonsocket: cannot bind: Adress already in use ..seems to be clear, expecially because of the last line.. but i don't know how to solve this problem. tha

Re: Xhost probs

1999-04-19 Thread Richard Harran
Perhaps you want: $xhost +localhost (any user connected to your machine can use the current xsession) The better method is to: #export XAUTHORITY=/home//.Xauthority after su-ing (or add to /root/.bash_profile or whatever) HTH Rich M.C. Vernon wrote: > > Hi, > >

Re: A file is not always what you think it is.

1999-04-19 Thread Shao Zhang
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 07:40:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have found, as you have, that linux sometimes has trouble with files on DOS > partitions. I find that I cannot use gzip/gunzip with files located on my > fat32 partition. I have to copy deb files over to my linux partition bef

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