Re: Where can I get xserver-svga-3.3.3-* i386 for potato?

1999-09-08 Thread Marcin Kurc
Maybe try to download binaries for SVGA 3.5 and repleace with the one that comes with 3.3.4 package. On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:05:17AM +0200, Achim Bohnet wrote: > Hi, > > I've a Cyper 9397 chip. For this chip one has explicitely turn > acceleration on (disabled due to potential problems). >

RE: Startup hangs because of bad partition

1999-09-08 Thread B. Szyszka
> try mounting our /usr partition - some editor should be there... Yep, that's exactly what I did. Noticed /usr wasn't mounted so I mounted it and was able to use an editor. Everything is fine now. Thanks everyone. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com

Re: Upgrading mail-transport-agent to postfix?

1999-09-08 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >A conflict in the debian sense, or a conflict in the "one is allowed but a A conflict in the debian sense - ie dpkg produces a conflict error message. Just in case enyone is confused (I don't understand why everyone seems to be quoting my old case), I wil

RE: Other KDE apt sources?

1999-09-08 Thread B. Szyszka
> KDE TDYC is currently restructured (check kde-debian mail archive at > kde.tdyc.com). Network traffic/load was too high. Hopefully the > transition will be finished RSN (tm). After that there should be > sources available again (but there will be no sources for kde2 until > it reaches beta stat

Where can I get xserver-svga-3.3.3-* i386 for potato?

1999-09-08 Thread Achim Bohnet
Hi, I've a Cyper 9397 chip. For this chip one has explicitely turn acceleration on (disabled due to potential problems). Option "accel" worked fine with 3.3.3-* xserver-svga but is broken in the 3.3.4-* xserver (fine, but horrible slow without Option "accel"). All window background are sudden

Re: Modules

1999-09-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:43:24AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > When you recompile the kernel, the filesystem support you want to > support as a module, you hit the M key for module when you do either > > # make config > > or > > # make xconfig > > or > > # make menuconfig > > I am ass

Re: Startup hangs because of bad partition

1999-09-08 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:05:36PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:10:16PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I wanted to move /var to another partition since it kept on > > filling up, but I accidentally forgot to make its partition a > > Linux one and

Re: Startup hangs because of bad partition

1999-09-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:10:16PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I wanted to move /var to another partition since it kept on > filling up, but I accidentally forgot to make its partition a > Linux one and now Linux won't start. When I boot it, it > asks me for my root password for

Re: Help! Hang on boot, with letters LI

1999-09-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Low!! On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 08:42:49AM -0500, Brian Boonstra wrote: > Hi > > I can no longer boot into Debian! I installed IE5 in my WinNT > partition, and after that Lilo would boot WinNT at the prompt, but hang on > trying to boot Linux. Then after some fiddling it broke complete

RE: Where are my copy buffers?

1999-09-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Sep-99 David Blackman wrote: > I'm want to start writing perl & c programs that actually do stuff. What > I'm wondering is this: > > When I'm in X windows, and I highlight something, where does it go (I > know to the clipboard), but is that an actual file I can access? > In X, cut and pa

Where are my copy buffers?

1999-09-08 Thread David Blackman
I'm want to start writing perl & c programs that actually do stuff. What I'm wondering is this: When I'm in X windows, and I highlight something, where does it go (I know to the clipboard), but is that an actual file I can access? When I'm on the console and I highlight something, where does it

qmail setup

1999-09-08 Thread Paul Nesbit
I'm trying to get pine working on top of qmail. I'm having problems with ./configure in /var/qmail/qmail1.02 The output of ./configure is as follows: Your hostname is nezgnu. soft error Sorry, I couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS. You will have to set up control/me

Re: Matrox Millenium G200 AGP

1999-09-08 Thread Marcin Kurc
ii xserver-svga3.3.4-2X server for SVGA graphics cards this is from potato but slink also have xserver-svga. If you want to use a newer one just download server binaries from ftp.xfree86.org and replease with the one in /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA, after you install the package. On We

ICQ Debian users?

1999-09-08 Thread B. Szyszka
Hello, I was wondering if there are any Debian users here who use ICQ and wouldn't mind me asking them questions if I had problems. My ICQ number is 4982727 . Feel free to add me to your list if you wouldn't mind. Thanks. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread Andreas Tobler
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 13:45:47 -0500, Brad wrote: > > The file /usr/sbin/update-rc.d is in the dpkg package, i'm not sure why > > you don't have it... > > It's not the file Andreas doesn't have; it's the interpreter (/usr/bin/perl) > he doesn't have yet (as it

Re: Other KDE apt sources?

1999-09-08 Thread Achim Bohnet
>>>Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hello, > > Once again, the kde.tdyc.com apt source is having problems. Can anyone > suggest an alternative one for KDE? Gnome has a TON of them. There can't > be just one for KDE, can there? [FWIW: If you have problem with kde stuff at tdyc it's best to ask on [EMAIL

Re: Mutt and NFS (reprise)

1999-09-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Obi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, > >I know this topic already showed up on the mailing list but the solutions >weren't really up to mu case: that is having the file on the local FS!! > >The situation is /home NFS mounted and mutt refusing to do anything to >e

Re: Matrox Millenium G200 AGP

1999-09-08 Thread Jason Christensen
The name of the debian SVGA Xfree86 X Server package is xserver-svga_3.3.2.3a-11.deb. It is part of slink r4. You'll of course need other packages as well: fonts, Xbase, etc. Dependencies should take care of that though. Jason >On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote: > >> mg200 AGP is supported b

SV: Problems building book from source, Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage

1999-09-08 Thread Christian Ericsson
Doesn't work for me! Seems to report the same error messages. Have you installed some extra fonts on your system? CH -- Från: Chanop Silpa-Anan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 6 september 1999 21:20 Till: Christian Ericsson Kopia: debian-user@lists.debian.org Angående:

Re: Matrox Millenium G200 AGP

1999-09-08 Thread Robert Kerr
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote: > mg200 AGP is supported by xf86. Use SVGA server, and XF86Setup or xf86config > to set it up. > > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:06:26PM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > > Hi All, > > Where can I find the .deb for the Above-mentioned video card? > > Thanks > > y

Re: Manually importing Debian menu to WMaker

1999-09-08 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > (...) Also, make sure you don't have a file > > ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook, and that the file > > ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu contains only the one line "menu.hook" (with > > the quotes). > > G

Re: Matrox Millenium G200 AGP

1999-09-08 Thread Marcin Kurc
mg200 AGP is supported by xf86. Use SVGA server, and XF86Setup or xf86config to set it up. On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:06:26PM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi All, > Where can I find the .deb for the Above-mentioned video card? > Thanks > > -- > -bob > > You know you've landed with the wheels u

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 13:45:47 -0500, Brad wrote: > > The file /usr/sbin/update-rc.d is in the dpkg package, i'm not sure why > > you don't have it... > > It's not the file Andreas doesn't have; it's the interp

Other KDE apt sources?

1999-09-08 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, Once again, the kde.tdyc.com apt source is having problems. Can anyone suggest an alternative one for KDE? Gnome has a TON of them. There can't be just one for KDE, can there? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com PHP Interest Group http://www.g

Re: Full Duplex Sound...

1999-09-08 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > I have the Soundblaster 16. I just got it working. Are you saying that > you have to have the ALSA driver for full duplex support. Where do I find > it? Well, you can either install the Debian packages (type '/alsa

Re: Zombie process using pppd

1999-09-08 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Wed, 08 Sep, 1999 à 08:30:35AM -0400, Mark Buda wrote: > > "Alex" == Alex V Toropov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alex> In what situation process becomes Zombie ? > > When a process exits, it can return an exit status code to its parent > process. The parent process retrieves th

Re: soundblaster live

1999-09-08 Thread Brian William Barrett
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: last I checked, the driver still did not support SMP. Brian > hi, > > im trying to configure a soundblaster live with kernel 2.2.10 in slink. > > i have a dual celeron and the kernel is compiled with smp > > i tried the driver emu10k1 but the only

OT: using printtool under Debian

1999-09-08 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, today I was following a suggestion sent here and installed RH's printtool using alien... The installation goes fine (except it wants control-panel also installed, but this is also easy to do), but then when I try to add and configure my printer here I find some problems: 1) It compl

Matrox Millenium G200 AGP

1999-09-08 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi All, Where can I find the .deb for the Above-mentioned video card? Thanks -- -bob You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi. ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *368 Clyde Building, BYU

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
Windows 95 was available on 13 disks, of a ~1.7 MB format (upgrade version, at least). Is there a significance about that number? On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 07:54:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't wanna start a flame war, but it is reeelly all that difficult to use > 7(or is it 9? -I

Re: Manually importing Debian menu to WMaker

1999-09-08 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> Sanity check: you installed WindowMaker from the debs? Yeap! But I guess I found out what was going on... > (...) Also, make sure you don't have a file > ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook, and that the file > ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu contains only the one line "menu.hook" (with > the

Re: Window managers or desktop managers...

1999-09-08 Thread Marcin Kurc
Enlightenment sure looks nice but is pretty slow. You can also use GNOME with Windowmaker. IMHO, Windowmaker is small, fast, clean and highly configurable. You may also want to check blackbox. On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 08:52:43PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanna

soundblaster live

1999-09-08 Thread bj
hi, im trying to configure a soundblaster live with kernel 2.2.10 in slink. i have a dual celeron and the kernel is compiled with smp i tried the driver emu10k1 but the only think i can get is: e3-0138:~# modprobe emu10k1 /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol remap_page_range /

test ignore

1999-09-08 Thread NatePuri
-- NatePuri ("natedawg") Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ompages.com PGP: http://www.ompages.com/PGP.html UIN: 43504034 IRC: office.ompages.com #ompages

Mutt and NFS (reprise)

1999-09-08 Thread Obi
Hi all, I know this topic already showed up on the mailing list but the solutions weren't really up to mu case: that is having the file on the local FS!! The situation is /home NFS mounted and mutt refusing to do anything to every file in the home directory because of the dreaded locking mechanis

Startup hangs because of bad partition

1999-09-08 Thread B. Szyszka
Hello everyone, I wanted to move /var to another partition since it kept on filling up, but I accidentally forgot to make its partition a Linux one and now Linux won't start. When I boot it, it asks me for my root password for maintenance or press Crtl+D to continue booting. If I put in the passwo

Re: Enlightenment pager

1999-09-08 Thread jchristensen
Right click on what? You can right-click on the Gnome pager applet in the panel to get it's properties, but no right click is available for the Enlightenment pager windows other than what is present for all windows in X. No specific "pager settings." The enlightenment configurator also lacks a way

Modules 2

1999-09-08 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, In my message 'Modules' I've expressed my question wrong... I want to know if there is any tutorial about DEVELOPING modules for filesystems (in the Module Programming Guide on LDP is not explained). I've said in my last mail creating filesystem modules... that's WRONG. Bye. PD: Sorry,

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread Brian Kidder
I've had similiar problems installing debian until I switched base2_2.tgz files. The current file (2.1.99.0-1999-07-20) seems to have these problems with no easy way of solving them. Using a slightly older file http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/disks-powerpc/2.1.8-1999-02-24/b

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 13:45:47 -0500, Brad wrote: > The file /usr/sbin/update-rc.d is in the dpkg package, i'm not sure why > you don't have it... It's not the file Andreas doesn't have; it's the interpreter (/usr/bin/perl) he doesn't have yet (as it's a symlink managed by update-alternatives an

Window managers or desktop managers...

1999-09-08 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I just wanna know opinions. What do you think is better/faster to use, GNOME/Enlightenment, Window Maker or Enlightenment? Why? Window maker is more advanced that Enlightenment, isn't it ? Bye. ---

Re: Modules

1999-09-08 Thread Brian E. Lavender
When you recompile the kernel, the filesystem support you want to support as a module, you hit the M key for module when you do either # make config or # make xconfig or # make menuconfig I am assuming you know how to compile the kernel. Here are the basics in case you have never done it.

Re: Help! Hang on boot, with letters LI

1999-09-08 Thread jchristensen
It sounds like LILO is installed in the boot sector of the partition that you have linux installed to and not the MBR of the disk. Using an alternative boot loader like PQ Boot or System Commander still requires LILO to be installed in the boot sector of the linux root partition while PQ Boot or SC

RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-08 Thread B. Szyszka
> I don't wanna start a flame war, but it is reeelly all that difficult to use > 7(or is it 9? -I forget) installation disks instead of two?. 7 or 9 disks?!? I just downloaded the files for the base installation to my harddrive and used my *1* rescue disk that I created from an image to kick-start

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Andreas Tobler wrote: > Setting up libc6 (2.1.1-12.2) ... > Current default timezone: 'US/Eastern'. >Local time is now: Wed Dec 31 21:42:03 EST 1969. >Universal Time is now: Thu Jan 1 02:42:03 UTC 1970. > Run `tzconfig' if you

Re: Enlightenment pager

1999-09-08 Thread Tommi L. Jensen
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 01:51:44PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > How can I disable the Enlightenment pagers that appere when I run it ? > I'm tired closing them, because I use the gnome pager instead. Right click *poof* pager settings... -- You name it, I lame it /Lam

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 07:54:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't wanna start a flame war, but it is reeelly all that difficult to use > 7(or is it 9? -I forget) installation disks instead of two?. Well ... I remember doing an install on a system with a dodgy disk drive. Making the in

Re: CD player question

1999-09-08 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Lex Chive wrote: > There is a catch with the es1370 driver in the kernel: it does not support the > /dev/dsp interface the way the other drivers do (eg you cant use 'cat > myfile.au >/dev/dsp' to produce sound). If saytime try to use something like I see.

Re: Problem with ISA Kingston ethernet card

1999-09-08 Thread jchristensen
Is the card PNP? I have a NE2000 based PNPcard where I experienced a similar problem. I had compiled into the kernel (2.2.x) PNP support and also had the isapnptools pakage installed. Removing the isapnptools pakage solved the problem. You could also just make the /etc/init.d/isapnp script no

Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"W. Paul Mills" wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam C Powell IV) writes: > > > William T Wilson wrote: > > > > > They probably aren't, but based on what you have to say here, I'd check > > > and make sure that your network card isn't sharing an interrupt with your > > > > > > ide interface. > > > > A

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-08 Thread vw
I don't wanna start a flame war, but it is reeelly all that difficult to use 7(or is it 9? -I forget) installation disks instead of two?. I had a truly great experience installing Debian "by the book" using floppies and apt. BTW: How many disks would you need to install Windoze -about 50-60?! (If i

Re: re: Re: init id S

1999-09-08 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:08:31PM -0500, Koyote wrote: > > ttyS2 is there, plugged into the pcmcia slot. It is removeable, so I > > guess I should make this a mountable device? > > Wait a minute: wvdial finds the modem as ttyS2, but the boot process > finds only ttyS1 with a 16550A UART > >

Re: HD Space Left, dselect

1999-09-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
Tom Lineman said: > I installed linux on a 75 mb partition and have no others to spare, > so obviously space is a problem for me. All I'd like to know is how I can > see how much space there is left on my system, other than going through each > directory and ls'ing and then adding up space used.

Re: Missing functions in debian's packaging system

1999-09-08 Thread Scott Barker
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:11:01PM -0500, Bruce Walzer wrote: > This thread prompted me to play with the apt stuff a bit. Would the > following be useful? [snipped] > The stuff in the Dependencies section could be attacked with sed/cut or the > like and fed directly to a "dpkg --purge" for a _rea

Re: Missing functions in debian's packaging system

1999-09-08 Thread Bruce Walzer
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 11:47:15PM -0600, Scott Barker wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:00:55PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib/modules/2.2.12>apt-cache search quake > > Cool. Thanks. Now, all we need is a switch to apt or dpkg to remove forward > dependent packages (so, for

Re: Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP

1999-09-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Lex Chive wrote: > The printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). We have the same model printer here and I got it working on the first try with magicfilter. I don't recall which filter I picked, and the portable I configure is out of the office right now. But just to let you know it works for me,

Re: This is only to verify subscription

1999-09-08 Thread Sergio Moretti
do not read, this is only to verify the post.

Re: Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP

1999-09-08 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 04:43:08PM +0200, Lex Chive wrote: > I recently got a printer from someone who wasnt using it. He lost all the > manuals but claims the printer used to work correctly under win 95/98. The > printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). Now here is the problem I get: I tried > settin

Re: confused about NFS-server in kernel versus nfsd package

1999-09-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, James D. Freels wrote: : I would like to take advantage of the apparent better performance of : NFS-server capability of the new kernel. I have built my kernel : 2.2.12 with nfs-server capability. I cannot find any documentation on : this capability (howto, etc.) The hel

confused about NFS-server in kernel versus nfsd package

1999-09-08 Thread James D. Freels
I would like to take advantage of the apparent better performance of NFS-server capability of the new kernel. I have built my kernel 2.2.12 with nfs-server capability. I cannot find any documentation on this capability (howto, etc.) The help message from the kernel configuration is attached bel

more on setting up print queue with gs for novel printer

1999-09-08 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Hmm, I also just found that gs can print to it without resetting gs to gslj, if that makes a difference. rick --

Re: xdm problem

1999-09-08 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:54:53PM +0200, Fabrizio Roccato wrote: > > Same problem with my potato box. > I have changed in the /etc/inittab the default runlevel to 5 > id:5:initdefault: > and all works fine. > I'm not sure that 5 is the right runlevel for xdm, but it works and let > me use tty1 t

Re: CD player question

1999-09-08 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:46:25PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > My other system using an es1370 chip set PCI card that is (wherever > possible) identically configured. I have no problem playing WAVs and MP3 > with play resp. splay. But that's about it. None of the CD players gives me > any out

setting up print queue with gs for novel printer

1999-09-08 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
The documentation for ncp suggests that it is possible to create a normal print que for sending to novell networked printers. However, I can find no hints for this either there or in anything to do with printcap. To complicate matters, it is not a postscript printer. However, I have found t

Problem with ISA Kingston ethernet card

1999-09-08 Thread Lex Chive
The card is a KNE2021LC, ISA, made by Kingston. I use the normal NE2000 ISA drivers. The card appears to be detected correctly but fails to work if I try to transmit anything on it. There is no error message. I tried changing IRQ, but that did not work. I used the test programs provided by Kingston

CD player question

1999-09-08 Thread Michael Meskes
Could anyone please explain to me how the CD players put out the music? It seems I'm having a problem with the sound card on one of my systems. I have one with a isapnp Sounblaster that works fine. For instance I can use play to play wav files, splay for MP3s, saytime tells me how late it is and x

Re: Modem connection speed

1999-09-08 Thread John Hasler
Enrico Zini writes: > This is my chatscript (I added ECHO and REPORT to the original pppconfig > generated script, but nothing changed): > connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/mclink2" Change that to connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -r report_file -f /etc/chatscripts/mclink2" where 'report_

Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP

1999-09-08 Thread Lex Chive
I recently got a printer from someone who wasnt using it. He lost all the manuals but claims the printer used to work correctly under win 95/98. The printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). Now here is the problem I get: I tried setting up apsfilter and magicfilter, using the filter ljet2p, ljet2plo a

Re: Compaq and ncr53c876

1999-09-08 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Leonardo Bocchi wrote: > I am experiencing a strange effect with a > compaq server. > > I installed the default kernel from debian, and it works ok. > I tried to rebuild the kernel (to add a module for multiport serial), > but the new kernel seems not to be able to detect the

Re: broken packages

1999-09-08 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Bill West wrote: > Am I the only one or is the most recent epic4 and gnudip packages for slink > x86 platform broken. Epic4 segfaults on all 6 machines I have upgraded it on > and gnudip bombs out with postinst problems. > ---end quoted text--- Nope, epic4 bombs here also. I don't use gnudip, so

Compaq and ncr53c876

1999-09-08 Thread Leonardo Bocchi
I am experiencing a strange effect with a compaq server. I installed the default kernel from debian, and it works ok. I tried to rebuild the kernel (to add a module for multiport serial), but the new kernel seems not to be able to detect the scsi controler (twin-channel 53c876, I/O at 0x2000 and 0

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-08 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:40:53PM +, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Koyote wrote: > > Ah, but any more than one is a problem for a machine with a USB floppy drive! > Since most USB machines will have a bootable cdrom drive they dont have to use a single floppy. > I think you're missing my point

Re: xdm problem

1999-09-08 Thread Fabrizio Roccato
Same problem with my potato box. I have changed in the /etc/inittab the default runlevel to 5 id:5:initdefault: and all works fine. I'm not sure that 5 is the right runlevel for xdm, but it works and let me use tty1 too, but not the other (tty2-10, xdm start on tty11). Bye Biko

Re: X crashes on start-up

1999-09-08 Thread David Kanter
I'll try the upgrade. I had heard there was one on an ftp site (something like ftp.mokole.com), but when I logged on there was a message that nothing would be made available for download. I tried the xf86config again last night, and set the mouse port to /dev/psaux. That did the trick. But the

broken packages

1999-09-08 Thread Bill West
Am I the only one or is the most recent epic4 and gnudip packages for slink x86 platform broken. Epic4 segfaults on all 6 machines I have upgraded it on and gnudip bombs out with postinst problems. Is apache-common =<1.3.7 hung up in incoming or being worked on somewhere? Alot of packages have bee

Re: ftp

1999-09-08 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 8 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "ftp" > Hi > > does anyone know what the settings are for ftp so that mget will create > subdirectories as well??? When i do a mget * it doesn't grab the > subdirectories so i have to manually create them on the receiving server. > Take a look at the

Re: Executing programs with a keypress under X/wmaker

1999-09-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Low!! On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:06:13AM -0500, Brad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Brad wrote: > > > I'm looking for a way to execute a command under X when certain key > > combinations are pressed. Specifically, i want to make something like > > windowbutt

Help! Hang on boot, with letters LI

1999-09-08 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi I can no longer boot into Debian! I installed IE5 in my WinNT partition, and after that Lilo would boot WinNT at the prompt, but hang on trying to boot Linux. Then after some fiddling it broke completely, giving me the letters LI (in the same position as I previously saw a whole

Re: HD Space Left, dselect

1999-09-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Low!! You can also use "du" (abbr. from Disk Usage) it has some nice options so using it like: du -hs * in a directory will list all subdirectories with their sizes in human-readable units hope this helps Marcin On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 08:06:52PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > Tom -- df will do

Re: scsi advice

1999-09-08 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Joakim Svensson wrote: > Anyone has any suggestions if this will be > a good buy. At the moment only the scanner > will be connected but I will probably > use it in the future to add for example > scsi hard disk. The NCR/Symbios based cards are very well supported under Linux

Re: yet more net but no install...

1999-09-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote: [ snip ] : If you want to install potato, make your /etc/apt/sources.list look like this: : : deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free : deb http://non-us.debian.org/ unstable non-US/main : : or use any of the debian mirr

Re: Q3 + RIVA TNT

1999-09-08 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 06:14:32PM -0700, Mike Garfias wrote: > > Has anyone gotten this combination to work? > > > Not exactly, I have Q3test running with glx extention on RIVA 128ZX, Celereon > 400. It's quite playable :). TNT or TNT2 should be fas

RealPlayer G2 sound

1999-09-08 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. I installled the mentioned above application about 3 days ago, and it works perfectly in root mode. However, when a user tries to run it, the sound coming out of speakers is static. User can play any other apps like x11amp normally. Anyone know what the problem might be and how to fix it? 2

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 14:47:35 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote: > Unpacking perl-base > dpkg:dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-base: > perl-base depends on perl5-base;however; > Package perl5-base is not installed. > .. > > When I try to install a perl-5*-base I get an error abou

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread Andreas Tobler
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 14:11:27 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote: > > > Try downloading a perl-base .deb and installing that with dpkg > > > (dpkg -OEG -i perl-base*deb). > > I have the whole snapshot on CD-Rom. > > Did so: dpkg -OEG -i perl-base_5.004.05-1.deb > > -

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Koyote wrote: > > It would be nice if Debian had a similar one-floppy net install arrangement. > > Hmm, seems to me that though it may take a bit more (nine floppies for slink) > the same thing > is available. > Shouldn't be too hard to set up an install based on three floppies > (th

Re: ide disks > 8.4gb

1999-09-08 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 05:25:29AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > My problem was that the fdisk program on the slink resc1440 image only > saw the first 8.4 gb of my drive. The fact that this was a problem in Not true, two weeks ago I temporarily set up slink on WD 13GB. What you need to know is

Re: Zombie process using pppd

1999-09-08 Thread Mark Buda
> "Alex" == Alex V Toropov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> In what situation process becomes Zombie ? When a process exits, it can return an exit status code to its parent process. The parent process retrieves this exit status code by invoking the wait() system call. A zombie process is

Re: Modem connection speed

1999-09-08 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Hasso Tepper wrote: > >I would like to see the modem connection speed after the CONNECT message > in my > >logs; I use ppp 2.3.5-2 on a slink box. > Depends which modem do you use. Look at your modems manual to see how to > enable > connection speed reporting. ATX4, and as yo

ide disks > 8.4gb

1999-09-08 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have been reading several threads on two mailing lists about this (and sumbitted to them). I have had some problems getting a 17.2GB (16.8GB) maxtor to work and have run into alot of the old wives tails here. I hope someone who knows the inerds of fdisk and lilo can answer this correctly, and n

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 14:11:27 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote: > > Try downloading a perl-base .deb and installing that with dpkg > > (dpkg -OEG -i perl-base*deb). > I have the whole snapshot on CD-Rom. > Did so: dpkg -OEG -i perl-base_5.004.05-1.deb > -> Skipping deselected package perl-base Oops.

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread Andreas Tobler
Hi, "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:20:40 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote: > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adduser: > > adduser depends on perl-base; however: > > Package perl-base is not installed. > > This is the root of your problem. Many othe

Potato (was Re: X & Viper 770 again...)

1999-09-08 Thread Greg & Heather Vence
Should I have just installed a potato system? I've really not got this one configured much except get some stuff installed... What parts of Potato are may change between now and release? TIA -- Greg. - Original Message - From: Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Greg & Heather Ve

Re: limiting NIS access

1999-09-08 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Thank you every body. I over looked in reading nis.howto, my apology. I think I know how shoud I do with these Debian boxes, including ppc and old IPX/IPC sparc. Thank you Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:20:40 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote: > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adduser: > adduser depends on perl-base; however: > Package perl-base is not installed. This is the root of your problem. Many other packages fail because their maintainer scripts

Re: limiting NIS access

1999-09-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a method in limiting NIS access. Now every user who has account on >Sun machine can log on to debian box with homedir=/ Don't put +::: in /etc/passwd, but list users individually: +miquels::: +chanop:

Re: offtopic: bttv

1999-09-08 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote: > Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I need help with bttv! This summer I was using Slink. At the beginning, > > when I 'insmod bttv card=6' linux crashed completly. Then, at the end of > > the summer, insmod worked fine and I was able

Re: scsi advice

1999-09-08 Thread Aaron Solochek
Only get the U2W if you are for sure going to add harddriveS. The only way you'll be taking advantage of the 80mb/sec is if you have multiple fast devices conected to it otherwise its just wasted bandwidth, and at a substantial cost. All you really need is a scsiII card. Like the adaptec

Reading defektive cdroms

1999-09-08 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, is there a utility to read even defektive cdrom images? Armin

Where is apt-cdrom?

1999-09-08 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I keep on trying to know more about apt. In a message sent to the list a few days ago, someone talked about installing ".deb" packages from a CDROM via a command called apt-cdrom. I have searched for this tool in my system but it isn't installed. cambados:~# find / -name apt* -ls 30723

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