FVWM warning eats 90% of CPU power

Hi, I have fvwm 2.2.4-2 installed on potato system. One user have a strange process FvwmCommandS running all the time and consuming all of CPU power. In the "ps axf" output it's process number 1833 Why is that? 1745 ?S 0:00 \_ -:0 1795 ?S 0:00 \_

[Solved] PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes

a couple of messages blaming PA-2013, and > people switch to Tyan, and it seemed to help, despite the fact that > both motherboards carry exactly the same VIA chipset. > > It smells like bad motherboard. > > Thanks again, > Sasha. > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAG

Re: PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes

GIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > > MB: FIC PA-2013 (revision 2.0) > > CPU : K6-2-450 with huge fan on top of it. > > HD: IBM 15 Gb > > CD: CD-DVD Toshiba > > Sound : SB live (value) &

PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes

Hi, I have trouble making Linux run smoothly on my new computer, components are: MB: FIC PA-2013 (revision 2.0) CPU : K6-2-450 with huge fan on top of it. HD: IBM 15 Gb CD: CD-DVD Toshiba Sound : SB live (value) Video : AGP Diamond V770 TNT2 Modem : Actiontech PCI Linux : Debian Sl

Re: dselect still not working

Hi, I have similar problem. Fixed by manual installation of debconf. Worked fine after that. Hope that helps, Sasha. > UGH! dselect still is messing up. I don't see any packages that are > suspect, it gives basically no other information. > > Configuring packages ... > /tmp/fileiCcdVa: /usr

SQL database editor?

Hi, I have MySQL database and sometimes need to modify few entries there. So far I was doing it using SQL language, which is not very convenient in this situation. Is there simple SQL database editor to do that? Thank you, Sasha.

270Mb xdm.log file and keeps growing :(

Hi, Just noticed that my xdm.log file is filled with lines like: X internal error: trying to rotate odd-sized pixmap. and the file is already about 270 Mb and it's keep growing :( This problem was mentioned on this list (may 1999): http://debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9905/msg00162.html

lossless repartition of NTFS

Hi, There is an NT computer with 3Gb NTFS single partition. We want to chop out of it a piece for Linux partition. Is there a tool/procedure (fips cn not do that) that will manage to do that? NTFS disk is only 0.5 Gb full. Thanks, Sasha.

Re: tetex-nonfree -- Potato -- foils.cls is gone?

Hi, Thanks for you comment, I reported a bug. Sasha. > Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I used to prepare transparencies with foils.cls. Apparently it's gone from > > potato release of tetex-nonfree. It worked fin

tetex-nonfree -- Potato -- foils.cls is gone?

Hi, I used to prepare transparencies with foils.cls. Apparently it's gone from potato release of tetex-nonfree. It worked fine on my slink computer. Should I report a bug or am I missing something? Thanks, Sasha.

Solved: Where did my disk space go?

On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 02:31:56AM +, kpanic wrote: Hi, You are absoultely right, file was ~/.gimp/gimpswap.455 Thank you Sasha. > hi alexander, > > > I got a strange problem. I was running gimp processing quite big image, at > > some point I got impatient and killed the program. To man

Where did my disk space go?

Hi, I got a strange problem. I was running gimp processing quite big image, at some point I got impatient and killed the program. To manipulate with image GIMP has quite big buffers allocated on hard drive and now all that space is gone. Effectively "du" reports that my home area occupies 150

Totally OFFTOPIC: tournament scheduler program

Hi, Sorry to bug you with this, it is totally off topic. I'm looking for Linux program to build a basketball tournament schedule, several rounds, so that teams would have same number of back-to-back games, with different opponents in different rounds etc. With number of teams greater than 10

environment variables when X starts

Hi, I bet this question was answered many times, sorry to bug you again... Usual situation when I start program using fvwm2 menu or some button, then not all environment variables are set ($PRINTER in particular). I usually define environment for all users in /etc/profile and for "xterm" fix

Re: OPL3SAx sound card

> Hi > > Has anyone been able to get this card to work? I've tried every > combination in the kernel and the best I've gotten is a series of > four tones, each at a higher frequency than the last. If someone > could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. > > TIA >

Plextor PX-412C ? (was: what cd-writer ?)

Hi, We are also looking for a good SCSI CDR to buy for our university group. We plan to redistribute experimental data on CDs, so we may burn few CDs a day occasionally. After reading net we decided to go with something like: Plextor PX-412C, or Sony 948S, or Yamaha CRW 4260 Are they good? W

Re: day planner/scheduler program

Hi, Noah! Thanks for the comments! > > I was using plan, but it's daemon can > > spontaneously stop working without no apparent reason. So I'm about to > > give > > up on it. > > I use plan occasionally, and haven't ever noticed the daemon stop working. > Are you talking about the system wide

day planner/scheduler program

Hi, I'm looking for a simple program (like plan) that would send me reminders about meetings and things like that (paying apartment rent in time turns out to be quite challenging for me). I was using plan, but it's daemon can spontaneously stop working without no apparent reason. So I'm about

Re: Installation

Hi, Sam! I believe one of 3 CD's you got is Debian Installtion disk. Put it in drive, make your computer bootable from CD first and reboot. Computer should reboot and nice line like Linux should show up. After that there will be menu's with build in help (have installat

Re: Loadlin is my only way out!!!

Hi, Nathan! Am I right that you would like to install Debian on your harddrive using loadlin? Details of that are in chapter "installing from hard disk" "Debian Installation manual". Worked for me all the time. I even prefer it to diskette installation. > Greets, >I have given up instal

Re: nVidia TNT help!!

Hi, Ian! I don't really have any good advice for you, other than "keep trying". You may try download different Xserver binary from ftp.suse.com (unless they are all gone after X3.3.3 release). Try to make your card work in normal VGA 640x480 mode. Of course it's not usable but it'll give you

Re: resolv.conf problems

Hi, Daniel! It's indeed is a strange problem. You may try a few things: 1. One you boot, can you ping computer on the same local network, just using it's numerical IP address? 2. Can you ping computer outside of your local network using it's numerical IP address? 3. Can you ping DNS server usi

Re: Getting a list of attached devices

> All : > > I am trying to determine the name assigned to my CDROM drive so that I > can mount it. Anyone have a suggestion ? > > BRGDS > Mike Rae > How about /cdrom? I think it comes as an "official" place for it in Debian. So this directory should actually exist on your Debian box. Sasha.

Re: hosts.allow - words of wisdom?

Hi, Carey! Thanks for your detailed answers, [snip] > DNS names and DNS servers being down, so, for example, I have a line: > ALL : 127.0.0.1 192.168.117. : ALLOW Good point, I switched to them. [snip] > I'm actually using the IP firewall code in Linux 2.2.0-pre5 to provide > most of the protec

Re: Learning more/Linux programming books

Hi, Kent! > read? What computer languages do I need to learn? In general if > someone could point the direction. You've heard quite a few recommendations about C. And I agree with that. But I think Pascal is somewhat easier language to start with. It's based on my teaching experience of pe

Re: Disk maintenance

> > On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:49:11PM +, Christian Lavoie wrote: > > > I've got a single ext2fs partition, so it is the root partition. > > > That's the one I need to defrag/scan, so even having it mounted as > > > read only won't help. (At least for the defrag) > > > > > > So as far as I can

Re: Lyx with typein

> > > This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, > > it does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite > > limited also.But more importantly thing that worries me is that there > > seems to be very little support behind LyX, project look

Re: Lyx with typein

> Okay, everybody says lyx is great, but for the darnest, I can't get it > to work with latex's \typein. Hi, This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, it does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite limited also.But more importantly thi

Re: XDM

Hi, > > My last question/issue/problem is I didn't answer "yes" to making XDM the > > default logon prompt, therefore one must sign onto the box in text mode, > > then type "XDM" then sign on again. The first signon must be root. > > > > Is there anyway of changing this as to make the box ALWAYS

Re: Search and Replace

Hi, Yes there are quite a few ways to do that, another example: GLOBAL REPLACE in the files: awk '{gsub("call", "mall", $0); print > FILENAME}' *.kumac change call to mall in all *.kumac files Word of CAUTION: If you process really big files you may run into trouble, that only part of your file

Re: version control systems

Hi, > > Summary: can anyone recommend a good multi-user version control system > > with Windows and Unix support, that runs in an acceptable time on a WAN, > > which supports binary files? > > > > cvs almost fits the bill, but I need to store Delphi source files in it, > > I use CVS at work to m

Re: X 3.3.3 (which files to use)

> > On 07-Jan-99 David Welton wrote: > > As there is no official .deb of 3.3.3, and the recommendation is to > > replace the files, I'd like to know what exactly to replace, so as to > > create the least amount of confusion on my system (after all, I run > > Debian so as not to have to futz with s

Re: hosts.allow - words of wisdom?

Hi, Thanks for the comments, But would wrapping Apache do any good? AFAIK wrapping works only when daemon starts and Apache is sort of always on? Sasha. > On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:39:30PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > > > Questions: > > > 1. Does it have some striking errors? I bet I forgot some s

hosts.allow - words of wisdom?

Hi, We try to set "mostly closed system" for Debian "slink" boxes that operate primarily as X-terminals. So it has in hosts.deny "ALL:ALL" Here what I set in hosts.allow: # ALL : localhost in.telnetd : .our.network : allow sshd: .our.network : allow in.ftpd : .our.network :

Re: Mailing list archive search

Hi, I think you are right. Here what happens IMHO. There is a 25 messages limitation. If you search (for example "notebook") you'll get ONLY messages for October (about 18 messages). In total there are about 33 "notebook messages" from October to December. One may expect 7 Notebook messages

Re: talk problems

Hi, Zoro! I'm not sure, but you may want to check: 1. Do you have lines in /etc/inetd.conf like: talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.talkd ntalk dgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd 2. /etc/servic

Solved: [Offtopic] SSH X problems.

Hi, Hamish! You are actually right. It turned out that that particular user filled all his disk quota and .Xauthority was not created right. Well, all kinds of strange errors happens when you out of quota :) Sasha. > On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:20:33PM -0600, Alexander Kushnirenko wr

Re: how to reinstall all? Alias: how to dup. an installation ?

Hi, Paolo! > > Q. Is it possible to copy an installation from a PC to another? > A. Yes (of course :-) > > Q. HOW ??? > A. ... > Here what we do to synchronise 4 Linux boxes: 1. Pick one to be your master. 2. set all lovely products that you want on it 3. Run "dpkg --get-sel

Re: Toshiba Kernel Compile

Hi, Mike! You may need to compile zImage, rather than bzImage. It's one of options in 'make-kpkg'. Check email from Manoj: http://debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9812/msg00364.html > Does anybody know where I can get the .config for the toshiba kernel that > is on the debian 2.0 cd? I

Re: Background(color)

> On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:16:05AM +0100, CUNO wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Can I change the background(color) of the xdm login screen. > > > I think you can pretty much do whatever the hell you want to xdm. > Swiped from #e on efnet: > > Info on configuring xdm - http://torment.ntr.net/xdm/ >

Re: supported hardware

Hi, Frits! > Dear sir, > I just bought two distributions of Linux ( SuSe and Redhat) they bought don't > support my hardware. I would like to check if debian can help me out. If so I > will be happy to download the distribution or buy it from a reseller. > Distribution is somewhat irrelevant in

Re: supported hardware

> Dear sir, > I just bought two distributions of Linux ( SuSe and Redhat) they bought don't > > support my hardware. I would like to check if debian can help me out. If so > I > will be happy to download the distribution or buy it from a reseller. > Distribution is somewhat irrelevant in this qu

[Offtopic] SSH X problems.

Hi, One user on our computer can not start X windows one's she uses SSH to login. Message is like: <> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication at Mon Jan 4 14:10:40 1999. a Rejected connection at Mon Jan 4 14:10:40 1999: X11 connection from pc781b.fnal.gov port 1171 X connecti

Re: xbase XFree86 bug 24985 ?

Hi, Michael! > I am having problems with xbase. Would you help? > > When it tried to /usr/sbin/xbase-configure (XFree86 config file), it > said to press Enter to switch to graphics mode. I did. The screen came You may want to try "xf86config" to set XF86Config. This is ascii mode program it'l

Re: upgrade to slink

FA925F2C251110 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > > > Hi, Ralph! > > > > Could you please specify more details: when it happens? > > Immediately after "Updating packag

Re: upgrade to slink

Hi, Ralph! Could you please specify more details: when it happens? Did you succeed in installation of APT? Which version of APT are you running? Did you select it in you access method? Could you please include your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Thanks, Sasha. > > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.or

Re: Moving partition

Hi, just a comment > On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:49:46AM +0100, root wrote: > > I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr. > > In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new > > one while > > ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ?

Re: upgrade to slink

Hi, Brian! APT is quite useful for package installation. I would recommend to install it by hand. Get apt, libc6, libstdc++2.9 from slink for example. Install them with "dpkg -i" (first libc6, after that libstdc++ after that apt). Now you have apt. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to select slin

Re: Matrox Xserver on Debian

Hi, Installing RPM package sometimes is not working quite well. (Different libc library warnings, whatever...) You can get directly XFCom_Matrox.tar.gz from ftp.suse.com (NOTE not from Web page, they don't have links there). After that you just extract 1 binary XFCom_Matrox and you are all

Re: can't run editor when su... why?

Hi, Jesse! Unless you really want to use xauth, you may want to use slogin instead, which is more secure and will do the job. Example: slogin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mycomputer# xemacs Will work just fine. Sasha. > Hi, folks > > Thanks for the info... so far, the method (for root) described >

Re: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery ?

Hi, Shaul! > I don't seem to have /etc/nmh/maildelivery. Should I be concerned about it ? I don't think so. I don't have it eather. But everything works fine. > > The reason I am even thinking about it is that the presort Inc method of my > exmh sometimes get stucked. To be more specific, It se

Printing on network printer with my own banner.

Hi, I know how to print on remote network printer using remote host and so on. One annoying thing there is that the banner page that remote host is providing is printed with very little fonts. There are like 40 people who use that network printer, and you have to search though sometimes quite

Re: afbackup: comments and problems.

> Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > WHAT DOES NOT WORK: > > Centralised process, no clashes, but afbackup = afclient = Does not > > work. Briefly it's a specail type of installation (remote client) > > of afbackup-client that i

Re: xanim package?

Hi, Richard! Sure. And guess the name - xanim! ii xanim 2.70.7.0-3 Plays Multimedia files Sasha. > Is there a Debian package for xanim? I have the source code already, I'm > just being lazy. > > Richard Hall > Network Services > University of Tennessee > > > -- > Unsubscrib

afbackup: comments and problems.

Hi, In my search for backup software I settle down on afbackup. I would say it's an excellent piece of software with GUI interface for configuration + build-in help. It's powerful, flexible and simple enough for small clusters of Linux boxes and single Linux box. Unfortunately setting it up was

Re: Xdm

Hi, Andrew! > I'm wondering if a wrong configuration on video card and/or monitor, when > used with xdm (not startx), could lock up the machine. > Here is what happened: couple of month ago when I installed X for the > first time, I configured xdm to start at the boot. > My machine worked fine wit

Backup recommendations

Hi, After quite a few disks died on me I start to realize that backup may be worth the effort :) There are several backup programs in Debian, so could someone recommend one for our case: 4 computers serving like X-terminals with no users (yellow pages + /home area is mounted from another comp

Thanks: Mail on computer with no users.

Hi, Joe! Thanks for your help. Both problems are happily resolved :) > >Questions: > >1. How should I redirect user's mails: > >For example I want mail to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] to be redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >because there are actually no user on linuxbox.domainname > > > Put: >sma

Mail on computer with no users.

Hi, We have 4 boxes working like Xterminals. There are no users, except for root of course. Any user login through NIS and his /home area is mounted from another computer (SGI). Questions: 1. How should I redirect user's mails: For example I want mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be redirected to

Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice, terminal Apache, broken partitions...

Hi, Peter! I had a whole spectra of freezes, crashes, etc. I thought that's because of Cyrix processor. Took me a while to realize that I had a bad memory chip. Try memtest86. Sasha. > Hi all, > quick questions: > > 1) Can anyone think of a reason why running the setup of StarOf

Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?

Hi, You may want to check: http://www.xemacs.org/faq/xemacs-faq.html Sasha. It looks nicer. The XEmacs maintainers are generally more receptive to suggestions than the GNU Emacs maintainers. Many more bundled packages than GNU Emacs Binaries are available for many common operating systems. F

Re: mailbox not deleted on inc!!!

Hi, Mark! I had EXACTLY the same problem, ended up with tons of duplicated mails. I solved the problem by running "inc" from nmh in Xterm window (not from exmh). It put everything in my inbox without filtering :(. After that everyting worked fine. Still don't know what it was. I suspect so

Re: /deb/audio and Plug and Play

> Shaleh wrote: > > > > On 16-Dec-98 Jeff Browning wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > > > Just about finished "totally installing" Linux. Need some help with my > > > sound card. I compiled a new kernel with sound support. When the kernel > > > boots up it says "Sound Initialized." But when I try to ru

Re: Installing Debian???

Hi, Sunil! > I am very, very new to linux and attempting to install Debian on my PC. > I am having 3 independent problems that I hope someone can help me with. > 1) I have a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, but when I try to install the drivers > for it during the "install drivers phase" of installatio

Re: Cyrillics and handling

Hi, Andrew! I tried to make it work but failed miserably. Here is what I put in .Xresources: (from http://metalab.unc.edu/sergei/Software/Software.html) ! ! Netscape russification ! Netscape*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r Netscape*XmTextField.fontList: -*-

Re: graphic card again

Hi, One more here. I also have Matrox Millenium G200, works great. Take XFCom_Matrox from ftp.suse.com, I also needed to fix backspace problem ln -s /var/lib/kbd/ /var/X11R6/xkb/compiled Sasha. > > On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:32:52PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > > I gave my Hercules card ba

Re: How to test RAM?

Hi, Ed! Just want to share my experience with memtest86. I had a bad memory module, as I found out later. There are 2 ways of memtest running: as a boot process and from inside Linux. Installation of memtest86 as an independent boot process (you can have memtest in your LILO - Linux, Dos and

Re: exmh presort fails

ow I don't know what exactly was the problem. Sasha. > On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > > I think you need "rcvstore". Here is my .maildelivery (Debian slink) > > cc debian-user@lists.debian.org | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore >

rvplayer and 2.0.34

Hi, I ran into strange problems with rvplayer. 2 computers are running Linux 2.0.34 Debian slink. On one of those rvplayer is working on another one - does not. I'm testing it on "welcome.rm" file, which comes with the package. On "broken rvplayer" computer there is just rvplayer window , bu

Re: Can't start fetchmail in ip-up.d

Hi, You may want to look in the file: more /usr/doc/fetchmail/fetchmail-up #!/bin/sh test -r /etc/fetchmailrc && \ fetchmail --syslog --invisible --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc It's an example you may use. Important thing is location of rc file. Works for me. That directory contains

running dselect on 4 computers.

Hi, I heard that it's now possible to do installation of packages on several nodes simultaneously. In our case we have 4 linux boxes and would like to have same packages on all of them, yesterday I spend a night jumping between 4 running dselect programs, and start to think that there should

XFCom_Matrox and Backspace

Hi, I got Matrox Millenium G200 Card and installed XFCom_Matrox from SUSE. For some reason Backspace is not working (there is a little beeping sound). If I run svga xserver from slink then keyboard works fine, but of course working on 320x200 display is no fun :( Ctrl-H seems to work as back

Can not find Xserver for Millenium G200.

Hi, I'm looking for Xserver for Millenium G200, it used to be on SUSE, but with the release of new version .tar.gz file is gone. There is a bunch of RPM packages, but I did not succeed in installing them. Any recommendations? Thanks, Sasha.

Re: 512MB RAM, 860MB swap and out of memory ?

Hi, Jan! I was running Mathematica 3.0 on Pentium II 233MHz + 64Mb + 128Mb swap. I did not do any really complicated calculations with Mathematica, but they kept my computer busy for 5-15 minutes. Honestly I don't have good experience with mathematica, mathematica kernel was crashinig quite o

Re: Sony CDU33A

Hi, I had combination CDU33A + Promultimedia Sound Card. It was quite painful to make it work. The only successful pass was to use loadlin from DOS, so that DOS initializes Sound Card + CDU33A interface (SONY) and after that you boot linux (again with loadlin). In DOS there was driver which

NFS mounted /home area from SGI computer, good idea?

Hi, We would like setup 4-5 Debian boxes to be X-terminals. We plan to have 20-30 users on them. Having quite limited system management resources we don't want to backup user areas on those boxes. So we plan to NFS mount /home area from another cluster (it's a big SCSI backed up disk from la

Re: FAQ-O-MATIC (was Re: Linux Tips & Tricks)

Hi! I totally agree with Mark on this subject. The whole idea of FAQ-O-MATIC is great, and once it showed up I thought it would quickly develop. In my PERSONAL opinion it did not quite reach it's goals. 1. I agree with Mike - put it on the main page. 2. It's quite complicated. I tried on

Thanks: Pascal for Linux?

has RPM, but no DEB package I think we may want to have it... Sasha. > Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > > Just wondering is there Pascal compiler for Linux? preferable free? close to > > Turbo Pascal 6? > > There are a couple of compilers out there... GNU has one,

Pascal for Linux?

Hi, Just wondering is there Pascal compiler for Linux? preferable free? close to Turbo Pascal 6? Thanks, Sasha.

Re: C.L.P.M. crashes Netscape 4.05 under Debian

Hi, I'm not sure if I have similar problem to your, but anyway. Here how my Netscape gets stuck: 1. Goto Debian.org --> Mailing list archives --> debian-devel (october) or actually to any big archive for this matter. It starts to read messages and at about 86% gets stuck. No response, have t

Re: X troubles

Hi, Check file /etc/X11/Xserver, it should have server name in it, like: more /etc/X11/Xserver /usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3V Console The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server. The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server: RootOnly Console (anyone whose co

Re: Advice on Hardware

Hi, Paul! General comment - ask your supplier to provide specs :) > * The supplier wasn't 100% clear on the exact video card spec - it's a > Jetway make, using S3 ViRGE chipset. Is this likely to be OK? Yes, it should be OK. > * The video card is an AGP model. All I can find in the HOWTO and t

Re: Compressed epsfigures (LaTeX)

Hi, > Hello everyone, > I would like to store postscript images (ps,eps) in compressed > form and have them decompressed for use during my LaTeX run. I have to > date been unable to figure out if this can be done and if so, how to do > it. Yes you can download and unzip compressed *.ps.gz

Re: installation on older Toshiba laptop?

Hi, You may want to check "Linux on Laptop" page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ though you laptop is not listed explicitly, but there are close models. Sasha. > I am starting to look into installing Linux on an old Toshiba 4400C > laptop. I have the InfoMagic CDs, but no

Re: Microphone always on!

Hi, > My microphone seems to have grown a direct connection to the > speakers, even though I'm not running (AFAIK) any mic-using > apps! It's great for impromptu kareoke but really ... > Same here. I think it's a "feature" Sasha.

Diamond Viper 330 AGP card.

Hi, Is X running on Diamond Viper 330 AGP card? Could someone comment is it a good card? Thanks, Sasha.

/etc/X11/config analog in slink?

Hi, What is the analog of /etc/X11/config in slink? I'm missing it... And /etc/init.d/xdm no longer refer to it to define whether to to start XDM or not... Am I missing something? Thank you, Sasha.

OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?

Hi, It's a little bit off-topic. We have a set of Debian computers, which are not quite the same. It would be useful to synchronize certain files on all nodes like /etc/profile or /etc/X11/Xresources, or /etc/menu and so on. But of course not all the files. Reflection of this problem is s

There is one. (Was: SpeakerPhone software?)

Hi, Just FYI. There indeed is Linux SpeakerPhone Software which works fine on my Debian Hamm system. Program is now maintained by Christopher Lansdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ftp://screech.alfred.edu/pub/spk/interim/spk-march.19.1998.tar.gz http://www.cs.alfred.edu/~spk/ You need to compile it

NETENV vs network.conf in PCMCIA-CS

Hi, I tried to install NetEnv (from Slink) on ThinkPad running Debian hamm. Package look very nice - during boot time nice window pops up and asks what network configuration would you like to use. But afterward it still read configuration from /etc/pcmcia/network.conf Removing netowork.conf

Re: SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?

Hi, Jeff! > > > Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to > > > first > > > session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working > > > on one > > > computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. > How? > It's actually described in de

SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?

Hi, Disregard my previous message. I already learned how to do it. > Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first > session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on > one > computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. S

2 XServers on 1 terminal?

Hi, Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. Thanks, Sasha.

Nescape 4.5 for SWim Motif 2.1?

Hi, Is there a package of Netscape 4.5 compiled for SWiM Motif 2.1 ? Thanks, Sasha.

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

Hi, John! Thanks for reminding me about that. Part of the reason I forgot is that there is no direct link to it from main Web page. Perhaps FAQ-O-Matic deserved it's place on Main page. Sasha. > kushni> > kushni>If there were some Debian oriented database, where one could > kushni>add his ex

Re: Network problems

Hi, Vincent! I have 3C905-TX Netowrk card. Module that one shoud is is called 3c59x It's listed when you run modconf. Hope that help, Sasha. > Hi, I'm just starting with Linux. I just installed it yesterday but I > can't seem to get it to recognize the network. It keeps saying 'No > network fo

Re: Midnight Commander

Hi, > Where can one find the Midnight Commander (GNOME version) 4.1.35 .deb files? > The package is called gmc ii gmc 4.1.35-4 Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager I took it from slink and installed by hand (I mean dpkg -i ...) It may be in GNOME Debain pakages, but

Re: web databases?

Hi, Steve! > Does anyone know of a decent database with a simple web interface? Linux > would be fine, but a generic one with a chance of running on FreeBSD would be > better. > I use combination of MySQL (database) + PHP/FI web interface. MySQL is very fast and very simple. PHP/FI is a

Re: Laptop Installation problem

Hi, I was able to install linux on IBM ThinkPad 380XD, thru loadlin. Install.bat worked fine. (Booting from diskette or LILO was hopeless.) But important thing is that you have FAT16, not FAT32. You may prepare a little FAT16 partition (using FIPS for example), format it for FAT16 and put

Re: [Debian] Installing debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT

Hi, Nico! > I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT. unfortunately > the machine keeps rebooting after "Linux..". I tried creating > a Tecra rescue disk (resc1440tecra.bin) but that doesn't help. I believe you already solved the problem, but anyway here is my solution: I install

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