Re: Happy Valintines Day!!!

2000-02-15 Thread Fam. Engelen
> PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THIS. JUST READ A LITTLE BIT. > IT REALLY DOES WORK! YOU WILL BE GLAD THAT YOU DID. [ snip ] I suggest we all send a couple of unstamped envelopes to these adresses, just to annoy them like they annoyed us. [ snip ] > REPORT #1 "The Insider's Guide to Advertising for F

Eterm keys

2000-02-07 Thread Fam. Engelen
Hi, I just got myself a 'theme' for wm at themes.org. Looks great, especially with those pseudo-transparent eterm backgrounds. I found it impossible to use the 'home' and 'end' keys in an Eterm, while they do work in an xterm... Why? Can I enable them in any way? I told WM to launch an Eterm on s

'Network unreachable' to the localhost?

2000-02-05 Thread Fam. Engelen
Hi, I use Debian on an old 486. I removed a lot of packages (especially networking) for speed. Now when I decided to install a printer, I installed the 'lprng' package. '~#echo hallo > /dev/lp1' works as expected (staircase, but it works) '~$echo hallo | lpr' gives a message similar to 'network

HP880c printing from (i.e.) GIMP

2000-02-03 Thread Fam. Engelen
Hello, I just installed a new HP Deskjet 880c. I installed 'apsfilter' and chose the 'cdjcolor' driver. I can print from Lyx fine, but I can't seem to get nice output from the GIMP. How exactly does this work? Saving the same image and printing it in Windows (Photoshop 5) does work. Arnout [EMAIL

Installing printer on stripped-down machine

2000-02-03 Thread Fam. Engelen
Hello,   I am trying to install a printer (HP deskjet 510) on an old machine. I have removed a lot of packages here, especially much of the networking. 'echo hallo >/dev/lp1' as root works. I installed the lprng package. 'echo hallo | lpr' gave some confusing error messages (sorry, don't rem

Re: STILL can't install!!!

2000-01-31 Thread Fam. Engelen
>The fist thought that occurs to me is: does dselect know enough to put >files on the usr partition, or did it freeze trying to stuff 400+ megs >onto a 100 meg root partition? How does dselect know which files to put >on which partition? Or does it know? Dselect automagically puts everything where

Re: Broken Debian Installations

2000-01-31 Thread Fam. Engelen
> I'd also recommend staying away from dselect. apt-get upgrade > will allow you to break out in the cases where some new package > decides it wants to remove dozens of conflicting packages. > Dselect seems to just go ahead and do it. Huh? When I de-select something that is depended on, dselect

Menu empty?

2000-01-25 Thread Fam. Engelen
A friend of mine has recently installed Debian (well I did it for him, most of it). Now he's suddenly having trouble with his X Menus: They work fine as Root, but the menu is empty as a user! I couldn't reproduce this here, and have no idea what could cause this behaviour. Any ideas? Arnout [EMAIL

libc.so.4

2000-01-11 Thread Fam. Engelen
I recently came across a program (for which I have not found the source code, though it may be available) which seems to depend on libc4 (it gives the error message 'file libc.so.4 not found' or similar). There is no Debian package for slink containing this library, as there is for libc5. Doe

How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-09 Thread Fam. Engelen
After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on boot:   --- /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s).   UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.         (i.e., without -a or -p options)   fsck failed. Please r

dselect behaving oddly - package not installed, but no err. msg.

1999-08-25 Thread Fam. Engelen
I do not understand this. Why isn't kanjidic installed? Not that I need this particular package, but this _should_ work, shouldn't it? I use slink, kernel 2.0.36 on a pentium-based system. (the below was cut-n-pasted from an xterm. I only changed the prompt.) # dselect install Get currently ins

Sound volume problems

1999-08-21 Thread Fam. Engelen
I have recompiled my kernel (slink, kernel 2.0.36 i think?) to supportsound. I can now play waveforms catting to /dev/audio, s3mod works and I canplay xkoules and quake with sound. The problem is that the volume isextremely low. The sound is very faint even when I turn the amp up to 100%,whi