Re: [SOLVED] Re: wireless (Atheros AR5001) was working on squeeze, then stopped

2010-07-02 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 22:28 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 30. 06. 2010 20:51:08 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a): > > > Or did some key combo I pressed somehow disable it? > > You betcha. Most notebooks have such key combos (or even dedicated > keys), and HPs are no except

[SOLVED] Re: wireless (Atheros AR5001) was working on squeeze, then stopped

2010-06-30 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 07:28 +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote: > Brian C. Wells wrote: > > Hi. I have an HP G60-249WM laptop, and am currently using squeeze for > > better wireless support. (The latest kernel from backports might also > > work; but after trying that, I can say it d

wireless (Atheros AR5001) was working on squeeze, then stopped

2010-06-29 Thread Brian C. Wells
Hi. I have an HP G60-249WM laptop, and am currently using squeeze for better wireless support. (The latest kernel from backports might also work; but after trying that, I can say it doesn't play well with the non-free nvidia driver, which I also need.) After "upgrading" to squeeze, and updating m

Re: which debian i should install?

2010-02-07 Thread Brian C
The OP sounded like they just didn't know which of the 31 CD images were necessary to get Debian going. I agree with the poster who suggested a Debian Live CD. If you have a 32-bit processor, try: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-cd/debian-live-503-i386-gnome-deskto

Re: apt-pinning: how to avoid installing of all-new packages?

2010-02-07 Thread Brian C
Adrian Zaugg wrote on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:09:30 -0800 > PS: If you see the error: > > relocation error: /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3: symbol krb5_hmac, version > k5crypto_3_MIT not defined in file libk5crypto.so.3 with link time reference > > you were hit by the above mentioned bug. To solve, do the fo

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-11-02 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 21:05 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:47:55PM -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote: > > Vacuuming brought the idle temperature down by 5C. sauerbraten now runs > > great at about 80C, but glchess/gnuchess still gets up to 95C or more! > >

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-28 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 19:30 -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote: [...] > I also want to apologize for taking 4 days to respond. I thought it > would be best to wait until I had tried using the vacuum, but still > haven't gotten around to it. I don't have carpeted floors where I live

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-27 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 07:49 +, marc wrote: > Brian C. Wells wrote: > > > Hi. My HP G60-249WM Notebook's CPU is overheating, to the point that it > > shuts itself off, whenever I use any CPU-intensive game such as glchess > > (in the gnome-games package) or the

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-27 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 00:34 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Well, the script is quite simple, it only works in Gnome (a > more system-wide script would have to be run as superuser and I just > couldn't be bothered to type in my root password every time I wanted to > change CPU governor): > >

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-24 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 10:35 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 24. 10. 2009 05:40:01 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a): > > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > evidence that the CPU's temperature is increasing to dangerous > > levels > >

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-24 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 22:19 -0700, Raquel wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:40:01 -0700 > "Brian C. Wells" wrote: > > > > > I don't -think- it's a fan problem. It seems to be blowing plenty > > of hot air out, and I can't see or blow out any

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-23 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > evidence that the CPU's temperature is increasing to dangerous levels > > (>95 deg. Celsius). As soon as I start a game, it rises, and as soon as > > I stop it it falls. > > Sounds like a hardware problem; most likely a fan problem: eit

HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-23 Thread Brian C. Wells
Hi. My HP G60-249WM Notebook's CPU is overheating, to the point that it shuts itself off, whenever I use any CPU-intensive game such as glchess (in the gnome-games package) or the non-free game sauerbraten. I also use the non-free nvidia-glx for accelerated graphics, and have the laptop software

What's wrong with this kernel config?

2006-07-06 Thread Brian C
Hi, I must be missing something. The standard Sarge 2.6.8.2 kernel with initrd boots fine on this ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard with a single 500GB IDE Hard drive as /dev/hda, but the config I made for 2.6.17.3 kernel panics at the point where it is looking for the hard disk (which it cannot fi

Boot from SATA drive--module or built-in?

2006-06-06 Thread Brian C
Hi, This is a kernel-related question to which I cannot find a definitive answer. If I am not going to use an initrd image, and I want to boot Debian from an SATA drive (in a system with no PATA drives and all SATA drives) using a 2.6 kernel, then is it necessary to compile-in the specific

Re: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile

2005-12-17 Thread Brian C
Hi, I describe a partial solution and the next problem below. David Kirchner wrote: On 12/16/05, Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect to create the lockfile it wa

dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile

2005-12-16 Thread Brian C
Hi, You may recall that I destroyed my /var partition earlier this month trying to learn how to use dd to clone a hard drive. See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg00612.html I have, surprisingly, managed to mostly recover from backups. However, I did not have a full /var backu

Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

2005-12-06 Thread Brian C
Warning to archive readers. I believe a typo in one of the commands below will destroy your data. Read on... Alvin Oga wrote: [snip] - if you want to leave bad data behind mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new-disk HERE IT COMES tar cvfp old-disk-paritions /mnt/new-disk DON'T TYPE THE ABOVE.

Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

2005-12-06 Thread Brian C
Hi, /dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions. /dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions. /dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it to the new drive, remove the old drive, move new drive to /dev/hda (primary master) and then run from the new

BIND DNS

2004-01-29 Thread Brian C
Hi, I have a single machine running BIND and Apache. I've never used either before. I've just upgraded this box from stable to testing. I have never been able to get the web site to show up using its domain name. I can type my static IP address into a web browser and it will show up, and I jus

Bind setup on Woody

2003-11-05 Thread Brian C
Hi, Here's what I'd like to do. I've been fumbling with it for months and just can't seem to find resources out there that are easy enough to understand: 1. Configure BIND on a woody box so that it is the nameserver for a domain name I've registered. The domain is just parked with the registr

Bind9 Files for Debian

2003-10-16 Thread Brian C
Hi, I'm trying to read the DNS HOWTO at: http://langfeldt.net/DNS-HOWTO/BIND-9/ and am running into some confusion because Debian (woody) seems to name some of the files differently than the HOWTO. For instance, the HOWTO suggests the following in its example named.conf: zone "." { typ

Video Card for Woody

2003-09-13 Thread Brian C
Hi, I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with Woody. I've successfully upgraded XFree86 to unstable but X still barfs when I try to start it. (mga_hal module doesn't exist, etc.) Anyway, that's no

New Install Doesn't Boot from HD

2003-08-14 Thread Brian C
Hi, Just built a new box I'll use as a server at home. On that reboot during the installation process of Woody, I had to boot from floppy. I don't think it's a BIOS issue. I had CD, Floppy, HD0 as the boot order, and even tried HD0, HD1, HD2 and it still wouldn't boot from the HD. (I have 1 HD

at doesn't nice its jobs

1997-04-17 Thread Brian C. White
A previous version of "at" started its at-jobs with a nice of 2 and its batch-jobs with a nice of 4. The latest doesn't nice at-jobs at all and only has a nice of 1 on batch-jobs. I quite liked having these jobs put somewhat in the background. Could this be reinstated? Also, batch jobs are now

Re: master.debian.org???? BIG PROBLEMS??

1997-04-17 Thread Brian C. White
> I just checked again. It's not there. I get all the other directories but > nothing under Debian. > > I just got a msg from Christian saying it may be an ftpd error. > > What did you use to check this? I logged on to master directly and checked. Bri

Re: master.debian.org???? BIG PROBLEMS??

1997-04-17 Thread Brian C. White
> I was downloading bo from frozen on master. It should have taken about 4 - 5 > hours. I reduced my terminal and did other things. about 18 pkgs were > recv'd when, evidently, the entire Debian directory tree disappeared. I just checked... master:8 - ~/Debian/frozen/binary> find . -type f | w

Re: WINE

1997-04-16 Thread Brian C. White
> Has wine been pkged for deb? If so where can I find it? > Have a good one. You can find a really old version of wine in project/experimental. I have a newer version compiled on my machine and will be uploading a new package before the release of 1.3. Since Wine isn't really useful as a tool, y

Re: Netscape/Lynx long startup time - why?

1997-04-16 Thread Brian C. White
> > The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since > > it tries to use tests that lynx can recognize internally without forking > > an external process. > > Where is 2.12 available. I can only find 2.11 on my nearest Debian > mirror. It was stuck in incoming until this mornin

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-15 Thread Brian C. White
> The odds that Mr Iannarelli is starting this thread just to > concentrate the flammage, flak and junk into one thread which he can > easilly killfile is astronomical =) This is especially probable given his > insistence on exact spelling in the subject... Excuse me, but this is completely uncal

Re: Netscape/Lynx long startup time - why?

1997-04-14 Thread Brian C. White
> Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start? It takes forever because they both read the entire file and run every single test condition they encounter. The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since it tries to use tests that lynx can recognize internally with

Re: "dselect" replacement project ("deity")

1997-04-12 Thread Brian C. White
Those are all points that have been brought up before and will be addressed. Thanks for the input! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- the difference

"dselect" replacement project ("deity")

1997-04-12 Thread Brian C. White
It is my pleasure to announce the formation of the dselect replacement project, code-named "deity". The project will be made up of the following 7 people: Project Leader: Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - General organization, dispute resolution, final say on "capabilities" Chief Prog

"dselect" replacement team

1997-04-11 Thread Brian C. White
As part of the facelift for Debian 2.0, I'd like to offer an improved interface as an alternative for "dselect". To this end, I'm going to be putting together a team of people to produce such a product. If you would like to work on this, please let me know and tell me what resources you have (mac

Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail

1997-04-09 Thread Brian C. White
Here's mine... :0 * (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian * !^TObcwhite { :0: * (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)(board|debian-board) Filtered/debian-board :0: * (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian.*-announce $DEFAULT :0: * (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debia

Re: Is Bo frozen???

1997-04-07 Thread Brian C. White
> is Bo frozen already? When Rex got frozen I received a message from > Debian-Announce saying so. I also read in www.debian.org that Rex > was frozen. I think I have heard that Bo is frozen but I have not > checked the FTP sites yet. Yes, it is. It was announced to debian-user, but not debian-an

Bo has been Frozen -- Beta Test

1997-04-05 Thread Brian C. White
I'm not sure if this was announced before, so... * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bo has now been officially frozen! If you'd like to start upgrading to the packages in that distribution, please do. We can use all the testing we can get. People who

Re: BO

1997-04-04 Thread Brian C. White
> I don't understand you fuc**ng ppl! Okay, let's all just take it easy. Yes, the original mail was a little overbearing but this doesn't help calm the situation. It's really easy to take what is said in email more seriously, more condesending, and more rudely than the author intended (with blam

Re: Netscape popup windows zero size problem

1997-04-02 Thread Brian C. White
> I looked on my CD for a netscape...deb file, but didn't find one, so > just downloaded a copy of netscape from netscape and loaded it. You can find the netscape installer packages in the contrib section. Brian ( [EMAIL P

Re: Perl On Linux Where?

1997-03-29 Thread Brian C. White
> I am a newbie, but i would like to install perl on my > debian system, can anyone tell me where it is located > and how much space will it take. Try debian/bo/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.003.07-8.deb It will take about 5MB installed. Brian

Re: Zyxel

1997-03-26 Thread Brian C. White
> Has anyone used Zyxel(?) it is in the unstable directory and looks a lot like > mgetty (v,and the fax stuff). Has anyone used vgetty and had it work > *with out problems*. I asked earlier about using my linux box as an aswering > machine and got tons of messages telling me to use vgetty and now

Tiff utils missing from new net-pbm

1997-03-17 Thread Brian C. White
It seems the "tifftopnm" and "pnmtotiff" programs are missing from the latest netpbm. What happened to them? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ---

Re: netscape: Floating Point Exception,

1997-03-04 Thread Brian C. White
> I Loaded something like > netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz > I got the exec-ready-to-use file > I ran it .. and it said: Floating point exception (core dumped). > Haa. It was too simple to work so easily ! What is wrong ? > Is there a better release without any problem for linux

Problems with FVWM-2

1997-03-03 Thread Brian C. White
I upgraded to fvwm2 today and ran into a few problems. Some of these may be worthy of bug reports, but I thought I'd mention them here first. - The postinst of fvwm2 fails if you ask it to convert fvwm1 rc files to the new format and gawk is not present. fvwm2 should either depend on gawk o

Re: mailcap error

1997-03-01 Thread Brian C. White
> I get the following message when I install packages > like xanim, imagemagic, etc: > > Error: '/etc/mailcap' is not in required format > > What is wrong? In order for mime-support to work, it requires a specific format of the mailcap file. I suggest you re-install mime-support and make sure t

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

1997-03-01 Thread Brian C. White
> Yep, it's 2056. In fact I set plug-gw up on www.debian.org and assigned > it a new IP address so it could be canonical, only to find that the > protocol is changing to an undocumented UDP-based system for no good > reason. See http://zero.genx.net. > > Anyone have ideas about what how to handl

Re: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?

1997-02-28 Thread Brian C. White
> Also, NetScape takes about 5 minutes to start if you have > mime-support installed. It seems to run /bin/sh for every entry > in /etc/mailcap and it doesn't like what it finds in there at all. > Eventually after spewing a bunch of error messages, it settles down and > runs. I've had to temporar

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-02-27 Thread Brian C. White
> From: "John T. Larkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Harvey Mudd should be producing somewhere between 3 and 4 M kps by > > tomarrow. Right now, most of us are running under [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > but we can change that if Bruce still disagrees with our possition. > > I asked the people at Zero to lu

Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

1997-02-26 Thread Brian C. White
> I think it would score a lot of PR points for Debian to place, or win. > Debian is a Linux distribution. Our win is Linux's win. Our win is the > FSF's win. Our win is even, to some degree, RedHat's and Slackware's win, > because they serve a similar market with a similar product. Microsoft >

Re: PostScript without PS printers

1997-01-22 Thread Brian C. White
> I now have my printer (Canon BJC-4100) working under Debian. It was > really easy; only one tricky part. We're running an HP-850C as a network printer using the cdj550 driver of ghostscript. Works great! Brian ( [EMAIL

Re: gcc & cc1

1997-01-22 Thread Brian C. White
> My new installation (1.2.1) no longer compiles via gcc. The system error > message is: > 'gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': No such file or directory' > Any clues/hints? Try running the gcc command line with "-v". This should tell you what program it cannot find.

The CD Issue

1997-01-22 Thread Brian C. White
I'm just coming into this conversation, so please forgive me while I get up to speed on this... As I understand it, Bruce proposed... - Debian would have an specific "ultra-stable" CD image that anybody could use. - Debian would have an "Official" logo which it would let people put on th

Re: Netscape problems :(

1997-01-20 Thread Brian C. White
> I just installed Netscape 3.01 for Linux, and it looks not bad. The > problem is screen sizes. I'm running XFree86 3.2 in 800x600 mode with the > fvwm95 manager, but whenever I open the mail window, it won't fit on the > screen. Not to mention that I can't figure out how to get past 256 colors

Re: Free space on Linux Drive

1997-01-19 Thread Brian C. White
> I think this a simple enough question, but even my Unix teacher can't > answer it. I just installed Debian on my 586 Windoze machine, with a 200mb > partition. The first time I installed it on 100 megs but I ran out of > room. My question is how can I check how much space is left on my Linux >

Re: Backspace, Delete in xterm

1997-01-19 Thread Brian C. White
> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Brian C. White wrote: > > > Please, PLEASE, correct this! Either set all the ttys to use BS (^H) > > as the rubout character or fix xterm to send DEL (^?) when the backspace > > key is pressed. > > For what it's worth, I used to have

Re: "Tip of the day" (was :Re: Documentation)

1997-01-15 Thread Brian C. White
> Perhaps we can obtain the Tip of the Day database from Micro$oft Word. We > all know there's tons of useful information in that databank. Like the "Never run with scissors." one? Brian

Re: netscape and LANG variable

1997-01-15 Thread Brian C. White
> it seems that netscape has problems when the environment variable LANG > is set to de_DE. The postscript file produced by netscape isn't > correct in this case > > e.g. With LANG variable set: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] translate > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] scale > > and

Re: Backspace, Delete in xterm

1997-01-15 Thread Brian C. White
> less does not do backspace and delete correct, when having the > variable TERM=xterm set. > > While using the search command backspace sends delete and delete sends > ESC[3~. With TERM=linux it's ok. > Backspace and delete are doing the right thing in the command line. Actually, backspace is no

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-14 Thread Brian C. White
> > Note: You DEselect what you want to remove. When I first used dselect, I > > unselected everything and then selected the packages I wanted to remove. > > You can guess the rest... > > That probably should be clarified: > > You select for removal or purging those packages you don't want. > Y

Re: Netscape 3.01 and Java?

1997-01-14 Thread Brian C. White
> Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for me > whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place. It works fine if you install it using the Debian installer package for netscape. It's in contrib.

Re: Netscape 3.01

1997-01-11 Thread Brian C. White
> :> Anyone have any comments on the stability of Netscape 3.01? In > :> particular, I'm curious if it runs o.k. with the lastest libc, or do I > :> need to continue loading Netscape with the older malloc etc. > : > :If you install it with the Debian package (in contrib), then it works > :just fin

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-11 Thread Brian C. White
> > Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs, > > TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I > > fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen > > with Exit highlighted. Is this normal? > > Yes, because

Better Categorization (was: improvements)

1997-01-10 Thread Brian C. White
> Mainly breaking it up a little more into categories would have let > me build the system I want better. Like, I could go into a Utilities menu > and choose editors and then choose vi and pico, but not emacs. Then go back > and under networking go to mail and get pine, then back up and g

Re: Netscape 3.01

1997-01-10 Thread Brian C. White
> Anyone have any comments on the stability of Netscape 3.01? In > particular, I'm curious if it runs o.k. with the lastest libc, or do I > need to continue loading Netscape with the older malloc etc. If you install it with the Debian package (in contrib), then it works just fine.

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-10 Thread Brian C. White
> > Secondly, how much faster can I see between the 28.8 modem, ISDN, > > T1, T2 , etc. I'd also want to know what should I need from the > > ISP in order to setup the connection between my Debian/Linux box > > to the ISP. All the ISPs seem to support only WFW3.11/95/Mac/NT > > and not

Re: UPS Support

1997-01-09 Thread Brian C. White
> Is there any Linux / Debian support for the APC UPS PRO series ?? > If so, what package/program should I be looking for ? I just uploaded "genpower" into unstable in December. I've been using it on my APC Backups-Pro 420 for several months. It works great! Included in the docs is a specificat

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

1997-01-08 Thread Brian C. White
> Has anybody used GNU cfengine? I don't really know what it's capable of, but > it's > a free part of Debian. I was considering using it myself, but I haven't had > time > to investigate it properly. We use it here to maintain about a half-dozen Debian machines. It works great for managing p

Re: Colour inkjet printers

1997-01-08 Thread Brian C. White
> I am currently considering the purchase of a colour inkjet printer, > for text and graphics printing (including images from Photo-CD). I > would be interested in experiences people have had in using them with > Debian - the models I am currently interested in are the Epson Stylus > 500 and Stylus

Re: xterm color

1997-01-08 Thread Brian C. White
> > Instructions for turning on recognition of the color change escape > > sequences is in the xterm man page. > > Yes indeed. And that means you need this resource line: > > XTerm*customization: -color > > in your /etc/X11/Xresources file or your user Xresource file > if you don't want

Re: Buggy "mime-support" package? :-(

1997-01-06 Thread Brian C. White
> > None of these are technically supposed to depend on mime-support. They > > should only test for its availability before calling the "install-mime" > > program. This is documented in the "install-mime" man page. > > Well, I can only speak to the needs of the pine package. /etc/mailcap is > pro

Re: Buggy "mime-support" package? :-(

1997-01-06 Thread Brian C. White
> Anyway, the main trouble seems to be that the Debian-1.2 /etc/mailcap has > grown to a rather ridiculous size as compared to the version provided with > Debian-1.1.xx: > cut-here > [root]/root > v /etc/mailcap* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Re: wine dor Debian ?

1997-01-03 Thread Brian C. White
> Is there a debian package of wine? Seems like I saw this question a > month or so ago & I thought I saved the response, but I can't put my > finger on it at the moment. Yes. You can find it under project/experimental. It isn't really useful yet and so isn't kept scrictl

Re: xterm-color : green cursor??

1996-12-12 Thread Brian C. White
> I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a > nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a > specific cursor color, either for each window or globally? You can get all this from the xterm man page, I believe, but here are the lines I put in my .

Re: PGP

1996-12-12 Thread Brian C. White
> The International Version of PGP is a slightly modified algorithm with > fewer bits. Currently, it is illegal under the Data Encryption and > Privacy Act (modified) of 1995 to export encryption programs which use > 56+ bits outside the United States. The international versio

Re: I can't find netscape and Debian versions

1996-12-08 Thread Brian C. White
> As the package simply installs the program downloaded from Netscape, you > can also install the program yourself in the /usr/local/ tree. It also makes a few changes so it can find the proper system files. Br

Re: Wine, sources of other debian packages

1996-12-07 Thread Brian C. White
> With the discusion of Wine, I was wondering if a Wine package was in the > works? There has been a Debian package of Wine for many months. It can be found in "project/experimental". I don't update it very often because I haven't found it to be in a useful state as of yet. The latest one seems

Re: I can't find netscape and Debian versions

1996-12-05 Thread Brian C. White
> I know that the directory tree on ftp.debian.org is in a state of change > with the upcoming release of v1.2, but I have spent two hours looking > for the 'netscape-v301' package. Could somone point me to the > correct location? I'll be fine from that point on (I think 8-). It's in "contrib".

Re: Given up on word viewer..

1996-12-05 Thread Brian C. White
> Thanks all for suggestions on trying to get the MS Word Viewer to run > under wine. I've finally given up! :( > WINE segfaults under wordview.exe now. (At least it starts to execute it.. > before I got the share errors)... Wine is still very-alpha. In addition, if you installed the wine packa

Re: Goodbye, all! (Whatever became of X3.2)

1996-11-30 Thread Brian C. White
> what is happening to the debian distribution? is it folding? Absolutely not. Debian is strong and growing. This entire mess was actually a bit of a growing pain with different people having different ideas about what would make Debian the strongest. There is no cause for concern regarding the

Re: Goodbye, all! (Whatever became of X3.2)

1996-11-30 Thread Brian C. White
> This thread seems to have appeared in the debian-user lists a little > like a bolt from the blue. I am a very keen Debian user and > proselytiser and I'm sure that many of us are very concerned about the > future of Debian re. what we have read. > > I don't want debian-user to become a war zone

Goodbye, all! (Whatever became of X3.2)

1996-11-30 Thread Brian C. White
> I've thought about this for many hours, and I'm afraid I agree with Ian. > If we release with XFree86 3.1, that will be the last Debian release ever, > because we will have blown our credibility. We just can't afford to do it. > So, I'm afraid I really must accept the resignation you offered yest

Re: Netscape - bus error

1996-11-28 Thread Brian C. White
> Thank you for your suggestion, it seems a very good one. I will try it > in the evening (at home). > > >Netscape is unable to allocate colors for its display. Try doing > >"netscape -ncols 64" and see if the "unable to obtain" erros go > >away. If not, try numbers smaller than 64 or close some

Re: package sizes

1996-11-28 Thread Brian C. White
> > box. I would like to be able to browse the ftp site and > > find out how big a package is going to be once it is installed > > *before* having to download it. > > Just download the Packages file for each distribution. The installed > size is the 'Size' field. The size of the .deb you can get

Re: dftp and some problems

1996-11-27 Thread Brian C. White
> > I tried to connect and then choose ftp from the dselect access menu but > > I couldn't get the pppd to connect right. as far as I can see everything > > is exactly the same (Except lots of stuff that should be in /usr/bin and > > /usr/sbin is in /bin and /sbin instead.. pppd and chat are i

Re: Netscape - bus error

1996-11-27 Thread Brian C. White
Pedro Quaresma wrote: > > Hi. > > I want to install Netscape in my Debian-Linux 486DX2 (66Mhz). > $ netscape > > unable to obtain ... (I do not remenber exactly something about colors) > > unable to obtain ... > > bus error > $ > > Can you help me? Netscape is unable to allocate colo

Re: User can't log into FTP.

1996-11-26 Thread Brian C. White
> One of my "default system" users (www-data to be exact) can't log in. > My other users can. Make sure that the shell specified for that user in /etc/passwd is listed in the file /etc/shells. > I don't see anywhere that this user is not allowed to log in to FTP. > > What must I do to allow tha

Re: debian via ftp

1996-11-25 Thread Brian C. White
> I wan't to install debian now via etherlink. > Which programs do I need for that ? [ dselect , dk??-ftp , ... ] > And were are they ? You can also use the "dftp" package that is available under "rex" and "bo".

Re: libc-5.4.13

1996-11-25 Thread Brian C. White
> Hold on there. When was Debian 1.2 released? Inquiring minds want to > know.. With a little luck, it _will_ be released this Wednesday. It has been frozen since early November. Brian

Re: Managing a network of Debian machines?

1996-11-25 Thread Brian C. White
> Problems: some packages need hand editing of some config files in > /etc. This could be handled by cfengine, which can be run by the same > cron job after dftp. Another problem is that I *think* dftp can only > do ftp. This is a nuisance when your upgrade center doesn't have > anonymous ftp. If t

Re: bo is full of symlinks to rex?

1996-11-21 Thread Brian C. White
> Prior to the freezing of rex, "unstable" (rex) contained all of the > physical files of the distribution. > > Now, "unstable" is "bo", and it has many links back to rex. > > At what point will "bo" loose the links to rex and be self-contained > again? The plan is to leave symlinks from "bo" to

Re: Where is Netscape package?

1996-11-21 Thread Brian C. White
> I have been looking for the netscape package under rex but can't find > it. Where is it? The 3.0 version is in "contrib". The 3.01 version still hasn't made it out of Incoming (to my knowledge). Brian

Re: cfengine?

1996-11-20 Thread Brian C. White
This is a reply from Mark Burgess (esteemed author of cfengine) regarding your question on cfengine... Brian White wrote: This message was posted to the debian-user list. I thought you would be interested. > > I must admit, I've been a little lax in keeping the version of cfengine > that is av

Re: JDK and JDK

1996-11-20 Thread Brian C. White
> Why didn't you use the available netscape and jdk packages? Just > pick up jdk-static, jdk-common, and netscape from non-free and try > again. That's what I did and it works beautifully! Netscape is actually in "contrib". If you're using the new libc5 and want to use Java, you'll have to wait f

Re: Most & Netscape problem

1996-11-18 Thread Brian C. White
> Also, I missed the instructions on how to get Netscape working. I'm using > 3.01, and its crapping out whenever it hits any Java. Can someone repost? Use the Debian package for Netscape 3.01. I beleive it's still in Incoming at the moment.

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Brian C. White
> Qt forbids anybody from modifying their source code. So what > if they changed their license when they've gained enough momentum? As far as I understand it, you can release code with a new licence, but you cannot change the licence on released code. Thus, if they changed their licence we would

Re: bo, rex?

1996-11-18 Thread Brian C. White
> why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex? Rex has been frozen so only bug fixes are going there. It should be released as stable in a couple weeks. Bo is the new unstable tree. Brian

Re: X11 bashing and "freeness"

1996-11-18 Thread Brian C. White
> > I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on > > Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is > > delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a > > significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will > > keep t

Re: dpkg-ftp won't upgrade CGI-modules

1996-11-15 Thread Brian C. White
> For 3 or 4 days, I've had CGI-modules marked for upgrade in dselect: > > *** Opt net CGI-modules 2.75-4 2.75-5 modules for perl5, for > us > > And yet dpkg-ftp doesn't even try to upgrade it: > > Is this a bug in dpkg-ftp? Or is this a case problem? The file on the > ftp site

Re: default window size for netscape?

1996-11-09 Thread Brian C. White
> does anyone know how i can set the default window size for netscape? I start netscape like this: netscape -geometry 1137x990+3840+1024 -ncols 64 Every new window it starts has those dimensions. The large offsets cause it to come up in a different virtual desktop since the above comman

efax no longer supports "fax view -l ..."

1996-11-09 Thread Brian C. White
The new version of efax (08a-1) no longer accepts the "-l" flag for the 'view' and 'print' commands. If I try to do anything with the faxes I have (all received by the older 07a version) everything gets compressed onto the top of the page. Is there any way I can fix this, or is it a bug?

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