On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Randy Edwards wrote:
redwar > This ought to be interesting, because as Corel establishes itself I'm
redwar >sure we'll be dealing with more and more Corel users here in
Debian-User...
maybe a good time to unsubscribe ? ;)
actually sounds kinda scary.
nate
---
George Bonser writes:
> But the dependancies need to change. I want rwho on one system but I do
> NOT want rwhod on it. I want rsh but I do NOT want rshd. Separating the
> clients from the daemons would be a good idea ... netstd-client and
> netstd-server would be better.
All those services used
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:57:12PM -0600, ktb wrote:
>
> Brad wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote:
[[[SNIP]]]
> > >
> > > As it is I can boot to all three os's but the kernel I have compiled for
> > > Slink is 2.0.36. When I boot from lilo into Slink at this point
[[previously to noavail sent to the listmaster]]
Dear People of the Debian Movement,
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, please redirect me.
For some month I enjoyed reading linux.debian.user, as all of a sudden
the fload of messages dropped drastically. Some months before my own
posti
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:12:27AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I didn't print for a long time;
>
> when I try to print a simple text file (lpr ZZZ),
> lpq says: "waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)"
Motherboard is an ABIT BE-6.
Of course, // port is in the kernel.
I al
Hi all,
I didn't print for a long time;
when I try to print a simple text file (lpr ZZZ),
lpq says: "waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)"
I check the cable, I de-installed/re-installed the 'lpr'
package (always using my conf files for a Epson 750, on
/dev/lp0). Still nothing (even under
Brad wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> > I've looked through the archives, lilo documentation and howtos. I'm
> > either not understanding this or am not seeing what I need. I have
> > windows 95 on hda. Slink and Redhat 6.0 are on hdb. Slink's bootable
> > r
> David Blackman wrote:
>
> Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA,
>meaning Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the
>pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with Corel,
>Netscape, and Sun, to include Wordperfect, Communicator, and
>Staro
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Hi,
I went to the Xig.com web site and they say to use Accelaerated X with
debian i have to load the termcomp package.
I have looked all through the cd's for this .
Could someone tell me where this is at?
Thanks
Rick
Rick Knebel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:53:45AM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Brad wrote:
>
> > Whatever the netstd package now depends on is what used to be in netstd.
>
> But the dependancies need to change. I want rwho on one system but I do
> NOT want rwhod on it. I want rsh but I do
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:48:15AM -0800, aphro wrote:
> It may not help but i remapped ctrl-0alt-del to go to runlevel 1, instead
> of reboot usually allows for a clean shutdown when something goes
> wrong(like X breaking, or some startup script hanging the system)
Hi Nate,
Thanks for the idea.
David Blackman wrote:
> Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA,
>meaning Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the
>pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with Corel,
>Netscape, and Sun, to include Wordperfect, Communicator, and
>Staroffic
Hi
I screwed up the first time I posted this, my apologies if there has been a
double posting.
I have just recompiled my kernel (potato) to get my sound card working and
since then when I try to run Nescape 4.? I get "Bus error" returned after a
little HDD grinding.
Any ideas? TIA
Brett
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> I've looked through the archives, lilo documentation and howtos. I'm
> either not understanding this or am not seeing what I need. I have
> windows 95 on hda. Slink and Redhat 6.0 are on hdb. Slink's bootable
> root partition is on hdb3 and
> My guess is that the windows install probably uses the same
> lowest-common-denominator graphics mode (it looks like it to me) regardless
> of video hardware and the Linux X-based setup is using different modes
> during setup, dependent upon which video card it thinks it detects. The
> Windows-b
> Adriano Filipe wrote:
>
> My name is Adriano , i´m from Portugal and i wanted to now secrets of
> net , secrets from all types the more simples to the more complicated
> even does to get into web sites and chang it or go inside my best
> friend´s cpu. Don´t get me wrong ,and don´t think that i w
"A. M. Varon" wrote:
>
> How do refresh/reinstall debian binaries while all the configs
> are intact?
>
> regards,
>
> = == Andre M. Varon - Technical Head
> = = == Lasaltech, Inc. - http://andre.lasaltech.com
> = === =
> = = = If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
> = =
Hi all --
I was recently trying to render a pdf from docbook, but the farthest I got
was TeX. Upon calling jadetex on jade's output, metafont dumped a bunch of
complaints about missing files.
What font packages do I need installed?
TIA
--
..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
My guess is that the windows install probably uses the same
lowest-common-denominator graphics mode (it looks like it to me) regardless
of video hardware and the Linux X-based setup is using different modes
during setup, dependent upon which video card it thinks it detects. The
Windows-based setup
Godric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi. Anyone know if there is a deb package (I'm using Slink still with
>2.0.36 kernel) for converting ordinary dates into Julian dates (as used
>in Astronomy)? Or if no debs then any GNU/Linux package which I could
>use alien on?
The "date" command (in the shellu
I think you bring up many problems and issues that debian has. but
i don't think any of these issues haven't been the issue of a flame
war sometime or another.
debian is based upon the ideal that free software should be available
without sticky licensing issues so that you could do just what you'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Bernstein) wrote:
>"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Well, you posted this Friday afternoon and got thirteen replies (including
>> > braindead recommendations such as "get Corel"), none of which you
>>
>> Braindead ? It is based on debian ... Do you really thin
What steps do users take to keep logs down to
reasonable sizes? I have seen nothing on this aspect
of management and so have been using 'rm' and then
creating a new file.
If it is possible, I would like to remove everything
older than say seven days on a twice monthly basis
after checking there
On 12/05/99, Svante Signell addressed "Q: Where to configure things in
slink/potato":
> Having installed slink (twice) and upgraded to potato (twice) I'm
> wondering if somebody can give pointers to the appropriate tools/files
> to change for configuring different utilities.
Most everything is i
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David Blackman wrote:
[ snip uninformed ranting ]
: I'm going to get flamed for this. I know it. We don't want to
: think we're techno-snobs. We want to think our distribution is
: superior. We want to leave out KDE. We don't want Joe Blow to start
: with Debian, if h
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 11:33:24AM -0700, Ray Woodcock wrote
> Making a little progress here. Many thanks to John Pearson for the most
> recent increment.
>
> Next:
>
> 1. Not sure whether my installation completed. I was looking at someone's
> comments about editing a file in /usr/src/linux,
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:50:34AM -0600, John Foster wrote
> I just upgraded a very stable pure Slink system to Potato and I have a
> few legacy problems ( I think)!
>
[snip]
>
> For some reason Enlightenment is set as the default and the Gnome
> control panel will not change it. Yes I told it
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 06:43:06AM -0800, Howard Mann wrote
> This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Howard Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Be sure to reply to that address.
>
> Hi,
>
> I am going to install Debian from a CD using my
> ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM. I am switching from Red Hat.
>
> In th
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 02:31:04PM +, Randy Edwards wrote:
>Can someone point me to some documentation or clue me into the netstd
> reorganization?
>
>I understand that netstd was broken down into individual components, but
> I sort of miss the old way, simply because I never learned a
Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have been running redhat rawhide with enlightenment and gnome for
> some time now. Recently another machine got debian slink installed,
> upgraded to potato. In rawhide an ordinary user can log out of X,
> reboot or halt the computer, jus
Hello debian-users
The slink version of scm (scheme interpreter) seems to be missing
'build.scm', so I cannot use the 'hobbit' compiler (scheme to C)
Alex.
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 02:08:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
>
> Personally I think you should separate installation from configuration
> into different parts. The configuration could be made mandatory, but
> not until you have a bootable base system (HD and floppy) up and
> running.
Actually,
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Sven Gaerner wrote:
> I have installed PHP3 as cgi- and apache-module on an slink-based machine. I
> also have installed some PHP-modules (mysql and imap). When I try to call a
> string function (strip_tags) I get an error message in my browser window: call
> to unsupported fun
I love Debian, I use Debian, I administer Debian at my
school. Why do I use Debian? Because my school uses it. Why does my
school use it? Because they didn't like the GUIness of RedHat, and
Slackware is just too much of a hassle. Plus, they were drawn to apt-get.
Debian is a wonder
Carl,
seems you know the standard ways -- have a look at the wmanager
package (brandnew in potato):
$ apt-cache show wmanager
Package: wmanager
Version: 0.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libfltk1, libstdc++2.1
"Gregory T. Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> > Try package netdate :) (it has its own .deb now).
>
> I tried that but couldn't find it... guess my mirror just wasn't up to
> date. Doh!!!
Doh myself ... seems I have an out
First, an easy question. Is there a simple way to get -idle to
override -persistent. I want to redial until I get connected, but
if I forget to log off, I want the modem to hang up after 15 minutes.
This seems like a reasonble thing to do.
OK, now the real question.
IMHO it's a fun one. I'm runni
I've looked through the archives, lilo documentation and howtos. I'm
either not understanding this or am not seeing what I need. I have
windows 95 on hda. Slink and Redhat 6.0 are on hdb. Slink's bootable
root partition is on hdb3 and Redhat's is on hdb1. I have lilo
installed now through Redh
I'm trying to install xmms, but it needs libgtk1.2 >= 1.2.6-1 but 1.2.6-0
is installed. I've done update and upgrade and this is still the libgtk
installed. What's the best way to get a "blessed" version of libgtk?
I just got this box working right and dont' want to hose it up now.
Robert
---
My name is Adriano , i´m from Portugal and i wanted
to now secrets of net , secrets from all types the more simples to the more
complicated even does to get into web sites and chang it or go inside my best
friend´s cpu. Don´t get me wrong ,and don´t think that i wanna now this to make
bad us
Hi!
I have installed PHP3 as cgi- and apache-module on an slink-based machine. I
also have installed some PHP-modules (mysql and imap). When I try to call a
string function (strip_tags) I get an error message in my browser window: call
to unsupported function...
It seems to be that this module is
I am trying to get the beast to work but I am unsuccessful anyone out
there know how to get it to work so I can record CD's?
I get the following messages during booting
paride: epat registered as protocol 0
pcd: pcd versi
Hello,
Having installed slink (twice) and upgraded to potato (twice) I'm
wondering if somebody can give pointers to the appropriate tools/files
to change for configuring different utilities. I have been running
redhat since 5.0 to 6.1+ with rawhide. For rpm-based distributions I
am rather confiden
Thus spake Tom Cato Amundsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > What library do i have to install.
>
> libterm.cap.so.2 ;-) I remember reading somewhere a good explanation why not
> use
> Accelerated X on debian, I don't remember what is was.
Actually, I had alot of problems on my box with XF86. I c
Rick Knebel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install slink on my computer, which i successfully did.
> This is my first debian install.
>
> I have two questions.
>
> My Matrox 400 card is not supported with the version of Xfree that comes
> with Slink.
>
> I tried installing my Accelerated X but i
*- On 5 Dec, Arcady Genkin wrote about "XFree86 3.3.5 for slink? (was: Corel
to Slink upgrade)"
> Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Joe Block wrote:
>> >
>> > When I did the install on my friend's laptop, the first thing I did
>> > after corel's install was done was add my local mi
Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any package/application to convert HTML format to plain text ?
Lynx can do that with the -dump option.
lynx -dump file.html > file.txt
--
Francois Deppierraz student
http://www.ctrlaltdel.ch
I
Hi,
I am trying to install slink on my computer, which i successfully did.
This is my first debian install.
I have two questions.
My Matrox 400 card is not supported with the version of Xfree that comes
with Slink.
I tried installing my Accelerated X but i keep getting the error mesage
cann
Hi,
Is there any package/application to convert HTML format to plain text ?
Thanks.
Best regards,
Nuno Carvalho
?
Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Dep. Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra
Portugal
?
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joe Block wrote:
> >
> > When I did the install on my friend's laptop, the first thing I did
> > after corel's install was done was add my local mirror of slink,
> > security.debian.org, the y2k updates & the XFree86 3.3.5 to its
> > sources.list and up
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to set up my debian box as a router to share the modem
> between itself and another machine which is dual-boot (debian/win98).
> Since I work at an ISP I can get a static IP for the second box as well
> as the first
Hi!
I'm a student in an engeneer school and I have
to use mysql in C. However, I haven't any sample of
code, just the API, that I don't understand.
That's why I ask you if you could send me an
example (.c), which connects to mysql and performs
some queries.
Thanks
Hi,
I'm looking to set up my debian box as a router to share the modem
between itself and another machine which is dual-boot (debian/win98).
Since I work at an ISP I can get a static IP for the second box as well
as the first (when I dial up the radius server at my ISP recognizes my
username and a
-k will keep the settings active over an IDE reset, not a system reset.
That is: Occationally, the system may find that it needs to update the
state of the IDE devices, and issues an IDE reset to send the disks
or controller to a know state (I'm not exactly sure how or why it does this.)
If this
Joe Block wrote:
>
> When I did the install on my friend's laptop, the first thing I did
> after corel's install was done was add my local mirror of slink,
> security.debian.org, the y2k updates & the XFree86 3.3.5 to its
> sources.list and update & upgrade.
I went ahead and did a Corel to sli
Can someone point me to some documentation or clue me into the netstd
reorganization?
I understand that netstd was broken down into individual components, but
I sort of miss the old way, simply because I never learned all of what was
in netstd. When netstd asked if I wanted to disable the "
aphro writes:
> i always reccomend slackware to those who want to *learn* linux
Debian comes with a complete set of examples of the correct way to do
everything. Slackware leads new users to reinvent the square wheel.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
Hi all,
being the risky type I tried alsa-cvs, but failed miserably:
Installing a freshly compiled alsa-modules-unstable-package results in
this:
linux # dpkg -i
../alsa-modules-unstable-2.2.13_0.5pre+cvs19991129+1445-1+custom.1.5_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package alsa-modules-uns
Hello,
I'm desperate SB 64 PCI user trying to get that card to live.
I've tried alsa 0.3.0pre4, and followed all the instructions for SB PCI
cards, module is loaded, mixer is up but no sound is coming out of speaker.
I'm using kde 1.1.2.
I kindly ask for any help, experience on using alsa on SB
How do refresh/reinstall debian binaries while all the configs
are intact?
regards,
= == Andre M. Varon - Technical Head
= = == Lasaltech, Inc. - http://andre.lasaltech.com
= === =
= = = If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
= = -- Publiu
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:19:04AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
> My spare box has this setup:
>
> hda1 dos
> hdb5 caldera
> hdb6 rh
> sda5 debian
>
> Is anyone willing to help me get it running? Perhaps give me a menu which
> will do the job. Or point me to a more suitable doc.
Try this
Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
>
> Money changes people. And money talks and bs walks. That's all I'm saying.
You make some valid points about the danger for Debian and
GNU/Linux. IMHO the Corel distribution, like some others, is
getting away from the real importance of GNU/Linux. The points
are, as Ric
I just recompliled my kernel(potato) to try and get my sound card working
and since then I am getting 'Bus error' when trying to load netscape 4.?, or
communicator 4.5.
I have found this question asked several times in the archives, but no
answers :(
Brett
*** Brett Shand **
On 12/04/99 10:08PM, aphro wrote:
>
> heard that, when i first started using slackware 3.2 i could _not_ get
> XFREE working, after many months i broke down and got a copy of
> acceleratedX. nowadays its quite a bit easier but those modelines are
> still beyond me. even after goin thru the howtos
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, koyote wrote:
koyote >But if you want to *learn* linux- install Debian.
hate to disagree but i always reccomend slackware to those who want to
*learn* linux :) thats how i learned, and i learned quite a bit manually
compiling/installing hundreds of apps on my own. not that th
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, JB Popnoe wrote:
jbp534 >using common CD module - got all the way to install CDROM and msg -
jbp534 >CDROM not mounted successfully -- System is ancient 486/66 with
a
jbp534 >HD 1.5 gig CDROM is working as I then loaded from CD with
INSTALL
jbp534 >again
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
mwagno >True, but you can't do one without the other. Anyway, there are many
mwagno >more complicated tasks that someone running linux will face. IMO,
mwagno >setting up and troubleshooting my home network was 10x harder than the
mwagno >installation.
heard
For a week now, I have been trying to get to hotmail.com using
Netscape 4.05, and continually get the message
The document contained no data
Try again later, or contact the servers administrator
The access worked fine until this began. I can get in using lynx, so
it is a NS proble
Hi all,
I've had slrn and leafnode working together briefly, but I messed with
my partitions to make room for some other stuff. Upon installing
debian and upgrading to potato, I can't get slrn to subscribe to a
group.
AFAIK, leafnode it okay. fetchnews runs alright too. When I try to
subscribe to
On Sat, 1999-12-04 at 17:57:00 -0700, csager wrote:
== snip ==
> I have run XFR86Config, but when I type the command:
> startx
> I get so many error messages that scroll by my screen so
> fast that I don't know what all the problems are.
> Is there
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I just salvaged a P100 system that the local university was throwing
> out and am trying to set it up with an NE2500 ethernet card. The
> card, however, is not cooperating... thanks to Plug 'n' Pray.
Hrm... A quick grep through the ker
JB Popnoe wrote:
>
> New proud owner of Debian CD - Made the 2 - 31/2 floppies - installed
> OK
> up to part - install CD and msg no CDROM - reconfigured &
> tried again
> using common CD module - got all the way to install CDROM and msg -
> CDROM not mounted successfully
I've a few minor problems with man.
To start with, I'm using SVGATextMode. My screen is set to 116x60. However,
whenever I view a man page with man, it reformats the page to 80 columns wide,
and justifies it.
I'm using slink, with most of the core upgraded to potato. When I was in
Redhat before (
1) /sbin/isapnp
2) Donald Becker home page has links to programs to run that will give you
info about installed NIC.
> I just salvaged a P100 system that the local university was throwing out and
> am trying to set it up with an NE2500 ethernet card. The card, however, is
> not cooperating... t
On 12/04/99 08:36PM, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> > What do you mean?
>
> What do you find hard to imagine? That Linux will be forked into several
> competing proprietary incarnations, much as Unix has? What were the job
> prospects last year for a c/c++ programmer who insisted on working on
> GNU/Linux
> based on your email i make the assumption that you may not be fully able
> to install/setup linux on a laptop(one of the more complicated platforms
> to install to due to the hardware in them) i suggest you attempt to seek
> out someone who can help you in person. most linux users are more then
>
> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
>
> > Did you make sure that you have set up exim to do relaying for your
> > internal network? You neet to put the network address when eximconf
> > asks you about relaying local networks. I 've never set this up
> > before, but you can take a look at a Li
+ aphro wrote:
| if i remember rioght the deb of quake2 was 3.19 ? or something earlier
| maybe, upgrade to 3.20 and try again (unles syour already running 3.20
| :) ) i got the retail quake2/linux cd. although ive never tried a network
| game of q2 only q3.
It is 3.20...3.20-3 I believe
Folks-
Problem A.
I'm attempting a reinstall on LibraNet Compilation of debian/linux from
cd.I have a secondary master HD, which is dedicated to linux. when I
attempt to partition it, I can get the primary partion installed, but
system will not allow me to change file type to linux extended. Af
fdutils postinst prints the following message:
Note: /usr/bin/fdformat is obsolete and is no longer available.
Please use /usr/bin/superformat instead. Also, there had been some
major changes from version 4.x. Please refer to the documentation.
Yet /usr/bin/fdformat which is inst
> Debian is said to be one of the more difficult Linux distributions to install,
> though it is easier to maintain. I think it just takes a long time to
> install.
>
Personally, I have found that installing Debina on laptops isn't all that hard-
provided you take a few minutes to understand the
New proud owner of Debian CD - Made the 2 - 31/2 floppies - installed
OK
up to part - install CD and msg no CDROM - reconfigured &
tried again
using common CD module - got all the way to install CDROM and msg -
CDROM not mounted successfully -- System is ancient 486/6
*Please cc all replies to me, as I'm not subscribed to the list currently*
I am using potato, with an ATA/33 HD (Quantum Fireball, 8.4 gig).
Whenever I restart my system, hdparm yields this:
# hdparm -c -k -d /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
using_dma= 1 (on)
keepsetti
Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but if the GPL could be broken, I would think it would have been Microsoft
> and all its bazillions of lawyers to have already done so.
Naw. Firstly, Linux has only reached critical mass as a viable commercial
enterprise in the past year. Secondly, it's t
csager said:
> I get so many error messages that scroll by my screen so
> fast that I don't know what all the problems are.
> Is there a way to get all of the error message into a file
> so that I can make a reasonable attempt at solving my
> problem? Or possibly a way to step through the errors so
Svante Signell said:
> If I want
> to start in text mode and move to X by startx, is it sufficient to
> remove the scripts at the corresponding runlevel? (Runlevel 2?)
Yep. Or you can mv them from SnnDaemonName to snnDaemonName (e.g., mv S98xdm
s98xdm), which keeps the link there, but disables i
On 04-Dec-1999, csager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way to get all of the error message into a file
> so that I can make a reasonable attempt at solving my
> problem?
If you are using bash for your shell
startx 2>&1 > filename
or if you are using t/csh
startx >& filename
or i
I've got Debian Linux 2.1 running on an old 386 DX intel
chip system.
I've installed all of the X11 packages that I think I need
from
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/x11/
starting with xfree86-common, and xserver-common and then
downloading other dependent packages.
Here's everything that I
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Svante Signell wrote:
> I have been running redhat rawhide with enlightenment and gnome for
> some time now. Recently another machine got debian slink installed,
> upgraded to potato. In rawhide an ordinary user can log out of X,
> reboot or
Actually, you should just uninstall the xdm package.
The last time I tried, gdm worked like a charm. Just installed the
package and the next boot up it used gdm.
Marshal
From: Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to disable xdm
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 01:43:52 +0100 (CET)
> Howdy,
>
Hello,
I have been running redhat rawhide with enlightenment and gnome for
some time now. Recently another machine got debian slink installed,
upgraded to potato. In rawhide an ordinary user can log out of X,
reboot or halt the computer, just by supplying the user password. How
to enable this also
Howdy,
When installing Xwindows the default setup is to start X using
xdm. Obviously initialization was not placed in /etc/inittab, it was
placed in /etc/rc[2,3,4,5].d/S99xdm and /etc/rc[1,6/K01xdm. If I want
to start in text mode and move to X by startx, is it sufficient to
remove the scripts at
Mark Wagnon writes:
> I'm not aware of the agreements between Debian and Corel,...
There are none.
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John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
I just salvaged a P100 system that the local university was throwing out and
am trying to set it up with an NE2500 ethernet card. The card, however, is
not cooperating... thanks to Plug 'n' Pray.
I've found a Red Hat-based NE2500 howto, but it basically boils down to
'install the system using a d
On 12/03/99 02:41PM, aphro wrote:
> based on your email i make the assumption that you may not be fully able
> to install/setup linux on a laptop(one of the more complicated platforms
> to install to due to the hardware in them) i suggest you attempt to seek
> out someone who can help you in person
On 12/04/99 02:05PM, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
> The new Evil Empire is not RedHat. That's a mistake many of us have made.
> Debian will rue the day it got in bed with Corel. I predict Obergruppenfuhrer
> Cowpland will mount a full court legal press - and soon - to break the GPL.
>
Break the GPL? I
Hi,
I've had some problems with X apps compiled on hpux not displaying on
debian systems. I've tried xserver-mach64 from slink and slink-update
(dpks -s reports versions 3.3.2.3a-11 and 3.3.5-1.99.slink.0).
ssh to hp machine (twin) from debian machine, and run software with
DISPLAY pointing bac
You can use ipchains to set up your firewall.. I've already sent a
message about this, and it also includes an example..
Regards
Eber Diniz
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