Re: ldap/pam problem

1999-06-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 16 Jun 1999, Rob Browning wrote: > > If so, then when I tried those modifications, I couldn't figure out > how to get reasonable behavior. If you have > > auth sufficient pam_ldap.so > auth required pam_unix_auth.so try_first_pass > > then if the entry is found in ldap,

RE: Ethernet card problems

1999-06-16 Thread Brad
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, David Karlin wrote: > Hi, > I get a similar message when I boot the system with no ethernet cable > connected to the ethercard, no matter which card. BTW, I have the > same card running in a '386 slink box. No problems. Just thought i'd throw in a word. My card (a "3Com 3c9

Re: Kernel 2.2.10

1999-06-16 Thread Michael Fox
No.. I untared it etc, did the edit on the file saying the io/address range, compiled and the kernel sees nothing, I am yet to try the stallion support as a module, but I prefer it in the kernel and have never had problems, until it seem 2.2.9 and 2.2.10 which don't work with it compiled into the

Re: UPS anyone?

1999-06-16 Thread debian
And who can tell me how to get the APC Back-UPS 650 running.. APCd for smart ups's doesn't work.. what else do I need? -Original Message- From: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users Mailing List Cc: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, 17 June 1999 5:19 S

Re: ATX power on

1999-06-16 Thread Carl Mummert
> Does anybody how to make an ATX motherboard boot without having to >press the 'power' button everytime? That is, I want an standard AT >behaviour: if there's power in the line, then I want the machine running >without having to press anything. There was a long discussion of this on slashdo

Help with setting up a mailing list.

1999-06-16 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Hi, I would appreciate some advice on setting up a mailing list. I would like to create an internal mailing list for my company. I have a machine running Debian GNU/Linux on our intranet. I have installed the mailman package and everything that it was dependent on, f.ex exim. Mailman seems to be

ldap/pam problem

1999-06-16 Thread Rob Browning
Before I ask more detailed questions, I wanted to know if I really need to edit the /etc/pam.d files presuming that I've modified my /etc/nsswitch.conf file? If so, then when I tried those modifications, I couldn't figure out how to get reasonable behavior. If you have auth sufficient

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ed Cogburn wrote: > Yes the file is 17428 bytes. Hold down the shift key when > clicking on a file to download; this will cause Netscape to > download 'as-is'. so it should be. but not with my communicator 4.6. therefore i´m on the search for a version, which will do, what should be expe

VCD PLAYER

1999-06-16 Thread dedo2
DO YOU HOW TO CHANGE AN AUDIO CD PLAYER TO A VCD PLAYER?

Re: ATX power on

1999-06-16 Thread David Todd
On some boards, it's a matter of connecting two pins on a jumper on the motherboard, the case switch performs that connection. That should translate to (if these two pins are connected, the power supply is supposed to be on, until the drop and then go on again.) Your BIOS manual might tell the

JDK 1.2 and libhpi.so

1999-06-16 Thread formasic
Folks, I'm interested in getting JDK 1.2 to work on box. I've upgraded to slink and downloaded JDK 1.2 from Blackstone. When I try to run javac I get the following: /usr/local/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/javac: error in loading shared libraries libhpi.so: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: weird booting question

1999-06-16 Thread David Todd
What makes a drive bootable is that the BIOS sees a partition as bootable, and you have bootblocks in the proper place. All you need to do is make sure your use fdisk to mark the boot partition bootable, and make sure lilo gets run with that disk as a target. Please note the the scripts on the

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > greetings, > well, now it´s me who have to whine. > firstly, a hearty gghh. > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use > another version, which will download a fi

Re: ATX power on

1999-06-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody how to make an ATX motherboard boot without having to > press the 'power' button everytime? That is, I want an standard AT > behaviour: if there's power in the line, then I want the machine running > without having to press anything. This

Re: ATX power on

1999-06-16 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Pere Camps wrote: > > Hi! > > Does anybody how to make an ATX motherboard boot without having to > press the 'power' button everytime? That is, I want an standard AT > behaviour: if there's power in the line, then I want the machine running > without having to press anything. > >

ATX power on

1999-06-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody how to make an ATX motherboard boot without having to press the 'power' button everytime? That is, I want an standard AT behaviour: if there's power in the line, then I want the machine running without having to press anything. TIA! -- p.

weird booting question

1999-06-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I've got a weird question for all the 'booting gurus' in the list. My question: is it possible to make a hard disk that's mounted on /dev/hdc to be bootable if it gets plugged into /dev/hda? If so, how? TIA! p.d.: the application? a ready-to-boot backup of th

Re: Help with Dynamic Drive overlays.

1999-06-16 Thread Bradley Bell
this list has nothing to do with either win95 or DOS, but i'll try to help you anyway. ddo resides in the mbr (master boot record) of the drive. It is probably still intact. just boot from floppy and do format /s c: if that doesn't work, you'll need to use the ddo tools. go to the seagate web pa

Need help with Sound Modules

1999-06-16 Thread Andrew C. Gronosky
Hi, My new PC has a Creative AWE64 card and I've been pulling my hair out trying to configure it. :) I am running the 2.2.1 kernel with all the correct modules according to the kernel documentation. The card is PnP and I believe I have it configured properly with isapnp. /lib/modules/2.2.1/misc

Re: gtcd seems to of disappeared in potato

1999-06-16 Thread Bradley Bell
it's been moved to the gnome-media package -Brad On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Lawrence Walton wrote: > The topic says it all. > The last round of gnome packages broke a bunch of stuff, and I can't seem to > find > gtcd any more. > -- > *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 > *--* Fax

communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
greetings, well, now it´s me who have to whine. firstly, a hearty gghh. my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use another version, which will download a file _unchanged_ if demanded. could som

Re: how do i produce a core file?

1999-06-16 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> It appears that the default behavior of debian systems is to Jeremy> print "Segmentation Fault" rather than produce a core file. Jeremy> Can anyone tell me how to change this behavior for debugging Jeremy> purposes? `help

RE: Ethernet card problems

1999-06-16 Thread David Karlin
Hi, I get a similar message when I boot the system with no ethernet cable connected to the ethercard, no matter which card. BTW, I have the same card running in a '386 slink box. No problems. Feel free to contact me if you have further problems. HTH, --David > -Original Message- > Fro

gtcd seems to of disappeared in potato

1999-06-16 Thread Lawrence Walton
The topic says it all. The last round of gnome packages broke a bunch of stuff, and I can't seem to find gtcd any more. -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k

Enlightenment Seg Fault

1999-06-16 Thread Kelly Corbin
Problem: Enlightenment seg faults with the sound turned on. It plays the intro sound, and then crashes if I hit a button. Gnome sounds work as well as CD sound if I use Enlightement-without-sound. Any ideas? I have a Crystal CS4236 on-board sound chip compiled into the kernel. Thanks. Kelly

how do i produce a core file?

1999-06-16 Thread Jeremy Taylor
It appears that the default behavior of debian systems is to print "Segmentation Fault" rather than produce a core file. Can anyone tell me how to change this behavior for debugging purposes? Appreciate any help! Jeremy

Re: Possible bug report - confirmation anyone?

1999-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Stuart" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stuart> I recently ended up with a package that refused to either Stuart> install or remove with dpkg or apt-get. The package was Stuart> bplay; the version is 0.96-7, which is current in slink. It Stuart> refused to run either the postinst or th

Re: Locating fdformat...

1999-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Michael" == Michael Talbot-Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Where in potato are fdformat and setfdprm? fdformat has been superceded by superformat. __> dpkg -S setfdprm fdutils: /usr/bin/setfdprm fdutils: /usr/man/man1/setfdprm.1.gz Michael> They aren't in util-linux

Re: Kernel compilation problem

1999-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Johann" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> I am trying to compile a kernel with Johann> make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image Johann> dpkg-deb - error: (upstream) version (`scsi') doesn't contain any digits Johann> dpkg-deb: 1 errors in control file

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Bruce Chapman wrote: > >longer ftp or telnet to my machine. ("421 Service not available, remote > >server has closed connection", and "Connection closed by foreign host"). > > In /etc/hosts.deny try commenting out the line ALL: PARANOID The problem was not ALL: PARANOID, it

Ethernet card problems

1999-06-16 Thread Manuel
Hi there, I have an Intel Ether Express 16 ISA card and I'm trying to get it to work with linux. Linux seems to detect the card ok, but after detection on boot up I get the message: eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem The dos diagnostics program for the card indicates that

Re: UPS anyone?

1999-06-16 Thread Mitch Blevins
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I want to put a small UPS on my work system to let it shutdown > > gracefully when there's a power outage. I'm looking at: > > > > Best Power Patriot > > Best Power Patriot Pro > > > > APC Back-UPS BK500M > > APC Back-UPS BK650M > > > > Anyone have any recommend

Installation of IBM DB2 v5.2 failed on Slink

1999-06-16 Thread Jean Michel DOUDOUX
Hello, I am looking for someone who succeed in installing DB2 beta on Slink Linux Debian system. I am a french user of Debian Linux 2.0. During searching information about the installation of IBM DB2 in the history of the debian-user mailing list, I find several messages with this installation an

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Your subject line sounds a lot like something that just happened for me: Note: *this is not a complaint or cry for help -- just potentially useful information* After upgrading to potato, I tried some of the various telnet offerings: regular, SSL, and '98. (The latter two sound suspiciously simila

Re: UPS anyone?

1999-06-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I want to put a small UPS on my work system to let it shutdown > gracefully when there's a power outage. I'm looking at: > > Best Power Patriot > Best Power Patriot Pro These people have historically shown much more enthusiasm for Linux support

Re: Debian Updates?

1999-06-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 07:18:22PM +, Christian Lavoie wrote: > I *think* r releases affect the install process only, since the > updates must be making it in the apt-available updates. For example, > Slink was delayed because of troubles on the install-floppy. If those > problems had some

Re: custom kernel won't boot

1999-06-16 Thread Michael C. Yoon
Well, I got it to boot by running LILO again. The reason I didn't in the first place is because of this line in the installation instructions: "Your new kernel-image-2.0.36 package is also clever enough to automatically use lilo to update the kernel image information allowing you to boot, so there

Re: UPS anyone?

1999-06-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to put a small UPS on my work system to let it shutdown > gracefully when there's a power outage. I'm looking at: > > Best Power Patriot > Best Power Patriot Pro > > APC Back-UPS BK500M > APC Back-UPS BK650M > > Anyone have any recommen

UPS anyone?

1999-06-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I want to put a small UPS on my work system to let it shutdown gracefully when there's a power outage. I'm looking at: Best Power Patriot Best Power Patriot Pro APC Back-UPS BK500M APC Back-UPS BK650M Anyone have any recommendations? Does any of them work `easily' with Debian packages (e.g

Re: configure compiler to core dump

1999-06-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 01:22:28AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > On some unix machines, when it seg faults, the compiler > will say something segmentation fault(core dumped). Then the > compiler will write a file core in the current dir. > On my linux machine, when it segment

custom kernel won't boot

1999-06-16 Thread Michael C. Yoon
Hi, I just compiled my first custom kernel last night. Now, when I reboot, my computer freezes after LILO (I assume) prints out "Loading Linux" It never gets to "Uncompressing kernel" Originally, I installed Debian 2.1-stable, kernel 2.0.36, from CD. Then, in order to g

Re: Strange NFS/networking problem

1999-06-16 Thread Jens Ritter
try fuser -n udp 800 HTH, Jens Daniel Dorau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > So what I did was figuring out which packets were blocked. They are > udp packets sent from port 800. There's no port 800 in /etc/services. [...] > So where the hell are those packets from port 800 coming?! > I f

Re: Cron Job

1999-06-16 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:18:21AM -0700, ASHA TARACHANDANI wrote: > Hi, > Can you give me how to set up a cron job on Solaris 5.6. Or refer me to > some site where this is explained. > -Asha > > -- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Asha Tarachandani [EMAIL PROTECTED

dpkg verify?

1999-06-16 Thread Dean Spicer
Is there any way to get dpkg to verify all the packages installed on your system? The reason I ask is that I inadvertently erased my menu directory (the one which holds all the shortcuuts to the applications for the windowmanagers). I'm just looking for an easy way to restore my menus. I've trie

Re: Debian Updates?

1999-06-16 Thread Christian Lavoie
> Hi all, > Ok, I'm a little confused on how updates to the Debian system are > supposed to work. I hope someone can help me figure it out Well, let's at least giveit a try =) > So what determines an "r" release? The Debian pages say the current > release is at 2.1r2. How do I know if I have

Cron Job

1999-06-16 Thread ASHA TARACHANDANI
Hi, Can you give me how to set up a cron job on Solaris 5.6. Or refer me to some site where this is explained. -Asha -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Asha Tarachandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intern, Internet Technology Engineering group SUN, Milpitas, USA (408) 276-3375 -=-

Re: Can't boot linux anymore from HD

1999-06-16 Thread Peter Allen
You could try replacing the kernel image on the hd (from disk) and running lilo again, as it may sort it. Peter Allen Thomas Ruedas wrote: > > Hello, > yesterday I suddenly could not boot Linux from the HD anymore. When > booting, LILO begins the boot process correctly, but after

Help with Dynamic Drive overlays.

1999-06-16 Thread Thomas Duffett
Sorry if I am posting to private list, but I came across this post during an altavista search concerning DDO's. I have an old machine that has DDO running. The windows 95 has been corrupted. Can I just boot from a dos 6.22 boot disk and format the c drive or is it more complicated than that. The bi

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Greg Baker
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: > Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing > with a "bus error." This usually happens when I close a Netscape > window (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a > Netscape window), which is painful because I

Re: Xemacs20 reading compressed files?

1999-06-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could not find it in the xemacs-documentation. > > Emacs20 and Xemacs20 are using the same .emacs file. Emacs can read .gz > files and Xemacs not. > > How can I get Xemacs to do it? > > I have got (require 'jka-compr) in my .emacs file. There was

Re: (X)Emacs in the console

1999-06-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Matthew Gregan wrote: > I tried rebinding backspace in XEmacs while in the console, but when I > hit the backspace key to tell it what key to rebind, it shows 'delete' > as the key it read, so I'm stuck... I have changed mine this way: Menus: Options --> Customize --> Ema

Xemacs20 reading compressed files?

1999-06-16 Thread Johann Spies
I could not find it in the xemacs-documentation. Emacs20 and Xemacs20 are using the same .emacs file. Emacs can read .gz files and Xemacs not. How can I get Xemacs to do it? I have got (require 'jka-compr) in my .emacs file. Johann -

Re: clocks

1999-06-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The 'hardware clock' is a standalone piece of hardware (it can run without power from the motherboard, getting it's power from a battery), and is sometimes referred to as the Real Time Clock because it only measure "Real" (wall clock) time. This clock is the reason when you turn your PC off and

Re: Kernel 2.2.9 and soundblaster module

1999-06-16 Thread Brad
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Ingo Hohmann wrote: > Hi, > > is there something about soundblaster support that I should > have known by now? Seems that my irq, ... settings get lost > when I compile soundblaster support as a module. (Sound works > when compiled in, but I get "device is busy" error, when I

Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Joachim" == Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joachim> If you mean the Debian *package* psgml, note that it doesn't work with Joachim> xemacs (all versions), it depends on a flavour of (GNU-)emacs; xemacs Joachim> users most of the time had to be contented with older versions

Re: RealPlayer G2 under Debian

1999-06-16 Thread Craig Hancock
What are the permissions on /dev/dsp Mark Wagnon wrote: > Is anyone using RealPlayer G2? I downloaded it tonight and installed it > in my home directory. It runs when I click on a link that's a real audio > type file, but then it responds with this error: > > Cannot open the audio device. Anothe

Re: configure compiler to core dump

1999-06-16 Thread scratch
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > On some unix machines, when it seg faults, the compiler > will say something segmentation fault(core dumped). Then the > compiler will write a file core in the current dir. I noticed this thread a few days ago. I thought of something then

Re: EPSON LX-300 under Linux

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi Debian users, > I have an Epson LX-300 under Linux and cant it to work. Already tried > Magicfilter and Apsfilter. I dont know the right driver... > Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique

IMP and folders

1999-06-16 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I'm installing IMP on our mail server. Most users read mail using some POP3 client but some still use pine (don't ask, it's a long story). My problem is that i can't configure imp to read the folders that already exist in the mail directory. Does anyone have a clue on how to fix this! I'm cc'i

Re: exim configuration problem

1999-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I fixed this, with known_smtp_domains: driver = domainlist route_list = "hostname.domain1 hostname.domain2 byname remote_smtp" and another entry for hostname.domain2. Seems ugly but it works. Not sure why I never had to do this before. Is there a quick way to reset the retry timeout? hostna

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-06-16 Thread Rob Browning
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is also a correct method. By setting your HELO to the name your IP > address resolves to, you are assured of delivery to most every site that > accepts mail from ISP dialups. Right. I get the same effect (though there's a minor bug because DNS isn

Re: apt-get segfaults while creating dependency tree

1999-06-16 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > Woooahhh!!! I just swapped the two 4MB SIMMs to each other's slots. > > After rebooting, I can no longer cause the seg faulting. (And I *have* > > rebooted the machine before without curing the problem). Might be bad

Running application as root.

1999-06-16 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, if I want to run my X windows based file manager with root privelidges from my user account, how could I do that? I do not want to have to log in as root to do this, or do a su and run MC. TIA //\\//\\//\\ Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.

exim configuration problem

1999-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm reconfiguring my local mail setup at home and I've run in to a problem. I converted one machine from smail to exim, which is working fine (just a plain smtp/smarthost system). The problem is with its MX receiver, also running exim. The target host is known as both hostname.domain1 and hostname

Re: configure compiler to core dump

1999-06-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Thx for the reply. Maybe I am not clear myself. On some unix machines, when it seg faults, the compiler will say something segmentation fault(core dumped). Then the compiler will write a file core in the current dir. On my linux machine, when it segment

Re: Scanner, TV tuner, PC-TV support on Debian 2.1

1999-06-16 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 09:00:29AM -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: > Hi: > > I am trying to find out some information on scanner support for Debian 2.1. > Can someone recommend a good scanner for use? Check out the SANE project at http://www.mostang.com/sane/ for scanner information. Right now, I

Re: Newbie - Creative ATAPI CDROM 8x

1999-06-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Romeu wrote: > HI. I'm a newbie with Linux. > > I have installed Debian in my system. > As I try to mount it (mount /dev/hdc /h -t msdos or mount /dev/hdc /h -t > iso9660), the system says that the "tray > is open...". Just as a check, try "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /h". I

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-16 Thread Shao Zhang
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 10:35:52AM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > I'm the guy that asked which package had the HOWTOs. I know it seemed like > a dumb question, but I did try searching on "HOWTO" in both dselect and on > the Debian web site, and came up with nothing. again, I kindly advise y

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread John Foster
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 16 Jun, David Wright wrote about "Re: Switch console in xterm" > > > > Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's > > why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from > > less when you quit, but just your interactive comman

Re: Can I get the .deb files that I currently have installed.

1999-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Mark" == Mark Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> That's not really what I'm looking for. What I want is not the Mark> list of .deb's, but the .debs themselves. What I'm trying to Mark> do is to create a ZIP disk which holds everything I need to Mark> replicate my setup. If I do

Re: Scanner, TV tuner, PC-TV support on Debian 2.1

1999-06-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Jun, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote about "Scanner, TV tuner, PC-TV support on Debian 2.1" I am not speaking from experience, just pointing the way. > > I am trying to find out some information on scanner support for Debian 2.1. > Can someone recommend a good scanner for use? > http://www.m

EPSON LX-300 under Linux

1999-06-16 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I have an Epson LX-300 under Linux and cant it to work. Already tried Magicfilter and Apsfilter. I dont know the right driver... Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-16 Thread Frankie
"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: > > > > Debian installation manual is not at all the worst one. It is quite good > > actually. But it definetely isn't easy to find on the website instructions > > how to get started... > > This is getting on my nerves... > > * go to www.debian.org > * note the section

Scanner, TV tuner, PC-TV support on Debian 2.1

1999-06-16 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
Hi: I am trying to find out some information on scanner support for Debian 2.1. Can someone recommend a good scanner for use? Also, what would be a good PC-to-TV card that is supported on Linux. I am looking to run my graphics output to my computer output to my TV (preferably through a S-video co

Re: DNS problem

1999-06-16 Thread Frankie
"Jean-Yves F. Barbier" wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a little problem with my provider DNS: mine is much faster, but I need > to > access the provider's if I want to have the news groups and mail sending > allowed, because my identification is made by these DNS (I'm on a cable > network). > So how

Re: SV: Webmasters Wanted!!! We'll pay you...

1999-06-16 Thread Frankie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This kind of crap is NOT welcome on the Debian-user mailing-list, su butt > off!! > Viggo Wichmann yes it is, see the debian website about charges for advertising/spam. ($1999 to SPI iirc) > > > > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL

Re: Hoping for some help with this kernel error

1999-06-16 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 07:13:08PM -0600, Craig McPherson wrote: > Well, my little foray into kernel compiling didn't meet with much > success... any ideas on this? > > "kmod failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8 > request_module[binfmt-464c]: fork failed, errno 11" > repeat en

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Jun, David Wright wrote about "Re: Switch console in xterm" > > Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's > why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from > less when you quit, but just your interactive commands. less uses > the alternate sc

Re: PS/2 mouse rolling away

1999-06-16 Thread Tracy Nelson
I've seen this happen with cheap mice exposed to bright light. Seems the plastic shell is so thin that they let enough light in to trigger the protoreceptors. The next time it happens, try just shading the mouse with your hand. If that stop it, then you can disassemble the mouse and spray the in

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Brian Servis wrote: > > > > *- On 16 Jun, Gareth wrote about "Re: Switch console in xterm" > > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: > > >> Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch > > >> "consoles" in an xterm. In other words it would

Re: PS/2 mouse rolling away

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > my logitech ps/2 mouse behaves oddly. Sometimes, the pointer > > rolls to the top or bottom of the screen when pressing a button > > while moving left or right in X and on console. I can stop this > > b

Re: Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > instead of that, got to /dev and execute ./MAKEDEV audio as root. (or > > use fakeroot) > > Okay! Now I have a /dev/sndstat. (Would that really have been too hard > to put in the HOWTO? Or maybe it depends on the distribution you're > running?) It's

Re: A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-16 Thread John Gay
Thanks for the info, but I think you over looked a few items. The reason I want to upgrade to potato is, I installed x11amp, which required newer libs than slink uses. This has broken apt. I've seen this problem mentioned before and the recommended fix was to upgrade to potato. Also, my video car

Re: Danger of software patents in Europe

1999-06-16 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hello Sami, What's a software patent ?? A software patent is for software what normal patents are for normal products, i.e. a way "to protect" inventions from being exploited. Usually this means that if you invent something and get granted a patent on it that everybody using your invention in

RE: Hmmmm .deb files??

1999-06-16 Thread David Karlin
Hi, "dpkg -i " will install the .debs on to your system. Make sure you are in the correct directory first, or specify its path. As an alternative, try: "apt-get update;apt-get install " (package name is "foo", not "foo.deb"); apt-get will take care of dependencies. Try "man dpkg" and "man apt-

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 12:03:15PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > >longer ftp or telnet to my machine. ("421 Service not available, remote > > >server has closed connection", and "Connection closed by foreign host"). Have you noticed, that some net services have now their own debs in the net

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> >longer ftp or telnet to my machine. ("421 Service not available, remote > >server has closed connection", and "Connection closed by foreign host"). > > In /etc/hosts.deny try commenting out the line ALL: PARANOID Thanks. That didn't help with the ftp/telnet problem, but I think it solved anoth

Hmmmm .deb files??

1999-06-16 Thread David Ellison
Hello, I've tried the install and upgrade program. Whilst I chose the ones I need now. Since installing base system. I need a mail program and irc. The program complains that they are broken programs? It then refuses to install any!! I have added all the libs and other things that a program need

cron executes at UTC not local time

1999-06-16 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all, I've faced a problem with cron: it's executes all tasks from /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/* at specified time as if it's UTC time, not local time as I'd like it to be. date command returns correct date & time (both for local time and UTC time) Can someone tell me where I should tell cron

Re: clocks

1999-06-16 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 03:35:09AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Ok, I've read man pages, and I'm still confused. What different types > of clocks are there? I know of the system and hardware, but I'm not > sure which is responsible for what. I also would like to know how to > set everything be

clocks

1999-06-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
Ok, I've read man pages, and I'm still confused. What different types of clocks are there? I know of the system and hardware, but I'm not sure which is responsible for what. I also would like to know how to set everything because I think my system time and/or date is wrong. Or maybe its my hard

Re: Configuring exim (or rather fetchmail and procmail)

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> > But I am not sure it is the right thing to do, why wouldnt you want to > > receive > > mail directly? > > Because I am going to want to use procmail soon, and it's easier > to configure it to only work through fetchmail, and because if I > try to fetch mail with POP3 and SMTP a collision some

I made a mistake!!

1999-06-16 Thread www.arjenvv
Hi all, during the installation of Debian a put up also the configuration for the network. But i've made a mistake there. At the end there where three options, PMCIA, Ethernet or fast Ethernet and anotherone. I should've had to point to Ethernet, but i mistyped, and pointed PMCIA. So know i don'

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Craig McPherson wrote: > > I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, > because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even > more often than it crashes under Windows. > I'm having trouble with netscape too. I've tried several things to get around the problem, b

Re: CMI8338 sound card on board under Linux

1999-06-16 Thread Bruno Goncalves Russo
C Media, the manufacturer of this chip, has a driver for Linux. You can download it from their site: http://www.cmedia.com.tw/e_snd_drv.htm It is for the 2.2.x kernels, so you'll have to be running one of these. Ciao. Bruno. On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Paulo

Re: Debian Updates?

1999-06-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Marc Matteo wrote: > > Hi all, [snip] > > What about security updates? I've added "deb > http://security.debian.org/ stable updates" to my sources.list file but > I see that not all the security updates are in "security.debian.org" but > rather some (like procmail) are still in "proposed-updat

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> For the ftp problem, take a look at /etc/inetd.conf and see if the ftp > line has been commented out. If so, remove the octothorpe (#). There > might be more than one of these lines; you should only enable one. These two lines are uncommented in inetd.conf: ftp stream tcp now

Re: Two installations on the same system

1999-06-16 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:52:31 +0930, John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The disadvantage to this is that *both* /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 have to fall >within the first 1024 cylinders cylinders for this to work. With the BIOS harddisk mode set to LBA this shouldn't be a problem, as the hardd

Re: (X)Emacs in the console

1999-06-16 Thread Destrius
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 04:30:47PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: -clip- > Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this, or point me to > something which will help? -clip- Hmm. I got this little bit of code from the XEmacs newsgroup. It works for me. Just insert it into .emacs: ---Cut Here---

Re: debs for WindowMaker sound stuff?

1999-06-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Ben Messinger wrote: > [snip] > > Slink debs for wmsound are at: > > http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/ > > The other sound related packages are listed there, but the deb's are > missing (tarballs are there though). Perhaps they are still being > prepared. I updated WM and wmsound to

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