Re: StarOffice now GPL?!

2000-10-14 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Jubal" == Baran writes: Jubal> Linux-java from Blackdown is. Java-dependant Star Office Jubal> should have dependencies described in Debian Java policy. Hell will freeze over before jdk >= 1.2 gets into Debian unless Sun explicitly grants permission for third-parties to redistribu

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Stephen Zander
> "John" == John Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> ps. You shuld get 8bpp, 16bpp and 24bpp resolutions no prob! Thanks for the response, John. When I tried 3.3.x I just got a blnk screen and then vt corruption when I quit the Xserver. I'll live with 4.0. -- Stephen "Farcical aqu

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Stephen Zander
>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> Thanks for your help. And thanks again, Colin, Bruce & Sean. I still can't get XFree86 3.3.6 to do the right thing, but I now have XFree86 4.0 running successfully at [EMAIL PR

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Stephen Zander
Sean> I'm running a Voodoo3 2000 PCI on a dual PPro system. My Sean> desktop is running at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and looks great. I've Sean> attached my XF86Config file, and the /proc/cpuinfo and Sean> /proc/interrupts info that you requested, though I don't Sean> know what good it'

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> I don't know if any of this helps, but let me know if Colin> there's anything else in your setup you'd like to compare Colin> with mine! Bruce sent me a similar email, there's nothing unusual in either of your configurat

Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-16 Thread Stephen Zander
Please cc me, I'm not subscribe to -user Does anyone have a Voodoo3 card that they're running in 16bpp or 24bpp mode? I bought one yesterday and couldn't get X 3.3.6 to come up even in 8bpp. I get characters written all over the screen as though something's not setting the card mode correctly.

Re: ssh and kernel 2.2.9

1999-06-09 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Paulo" == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paulo> Hi all, I installed ssh in my Sparc 5 and I have Paulo> kernel 2.2.9. The instalation begin to generate a 1024 bit Paulo> key and was generating the entire morning? What is wrong? Paulo> T

Re: Seagate Baraccuda drives and Adapetc AHA1460 controller prob.

1998-02-23 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Bill" == Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> I am 'just clutching at straws here' but in the past there Bill> have been some drives that 'lie' to the SCSI bus about their Bill> capability during the scsi inquire. Some of these things Bill> typically 'hang' the scsi

Re: Seagate Baraccuda drives and Adapetc AHA1460 controller prob.

1998-02-22 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Bill" == Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thanks for the suggestions... Bill> Stephen, has cfdisk complained after the first time you set Bill> up the drive (the first time would have been ok since there Bill> was not a DOS/PC sort of partition table on the drive)? That'

Seagate Baraccuda drives and Adapetc AHA1460 controller prob.

1998-02-22 Thread Stephen Zander
Please reply direct as I'm not subscribed to debian-user... Does anyone have any experience with the Adaptec 1460 SlimScSI PCMCIA card? I have a Seagate Baracuda (rebadged as SUN Microsystems) drive I'm trying to use with my laptop through this card. The card recognises the drive, spins it up,

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-12 Thread Stephen Zander
Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet > card. If you copy the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages to > the laptop (with a floppy), you can install them with dpkg and do > the rest with dselect and ftp. Should work for a pcmc

Re: Problems with new install on old laptop

1998-02-09 Thread Stephen Zander
Tim Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an old 486 DX2-66 laptop which currently has a 1.1.59-based > Linux installation, and I'm trying to install Debian on it. Booting > with the rescue disk is fine until just after it loads the md driver, at > which point it hangs. I haven't seen this w

Re: Install Help on ThinkPad Wanted

1998-02-09 Thread Stephen Zander
"William V. Vera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'd be most grateful to anyone who can help me with my installation > of Debian 1.3.1 on an IBM ThinkPad 760C. I was able to complete > the base installation from diskettes where I believe I included the > necessary > drivers to support

Re: even further off topic

1998-02-04 Thread Stephen Zander
Stephen Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wow some people on this list do have lives! Maybe there is hope for me > yet :-) > > I'll go even further off topic :) > > > > I had twins a week ago. > > rick You did? Isn't modern science wonderful.. your wife must be proud of you! :)) (wish I kn

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-02 Thread Stephen Zander
"David E. Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are a whole suite of tools I'd need to be running on the linux > side before I could make that switch. For example, I'd need to be > running ppp and Navigator and Navigator's email before I'd consider > dropping Win95. For another thing, I'd nee

Re: Printing Guru question.

1998-01-23 Thread Stephen Zander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Can i send print jobs directly to the printer without conflict with the > NOVELL print Queue??? Assuming the JetDirect card is relative ly new (less that 2yrs or so) the answer is: yes. The printer won't accept jobs from both Novel & LInux simultaneously but you can c

Re: Netscape releasing source code for 5.0

1998-01-22 Thread Stephen Zander
"Jaakko Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > YES! > > Did I read that correctly (It's going to be put under GPL)? > > Now GTK - version! Not GPL, GPL-like. very large difference! -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )

1998-01-22 Thread Stephen Zander
Chris Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Using some options I don't know about because I'm not an expert here. > This looks like what you were trying to do with chain.b. I have no idea > what chain.b does, and so I can't help you there. > I'd suggest adding Linux to the standard Win95 boot

Re: MWave Modem

1998-01-21 Thread Stephen Zander
"tommy knocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an IBM computer with debian installed and it uses an internal > Mwave modem. I can't seem so write a script that will initialize the > modem. Does anybody have a script that will work with this modem that I > can look at? I have bad news

Re: ftpproxy with dselect

1998-01-21 Thread Stephen Zander
Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a pretty kettle of fish: > the method recently recommened for ftp proxies with dselect doesn't work, > because my lovely isp requires you to login to the proxy using your > username and password, and to get to the site by issuing a > > ftp> user [EMAIL

Re: Netscape 3.04 Bus Error

1998-01-20 Thread Stephen Zander
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What files do you have under (from memory) /usr/linux-libc1/X11? > Some missing symlinks will stop Netscape from starting properly, > with a bus error or segfault. Not the infamous xlibc bug again! :) The path is /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11. It needs

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-11 Thread Stephen Zander
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Why shouldn't our kernel factory-default to 5 too? I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another ("Why can't I use my ... printer?" :)) Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-10 Thread Stephen Zander
Neilen Marais wrote: > Am at my wits end as to how to hanlde this Could someone PLEASE > help? Sure, if I knew where & when perl was core dumping what exactly is going wrong? Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

Re: fetch/mail and xconsole

1997-12-08 Thread Stephen Zander
Brian Skreeg wrote: > Xconsole is started by xdm before login. It appears in the bottom > left corner. > > 1. How do I change the resources for this? I`ve altered personal resources, > xdm`s and even app-defaults. Can`t get the bugger to shift :) /etc/X11/xdm/Xresource_0 is the X resources file u

Re: PHP/FI Apache Module

1997-12-08 Thread Stephen Zander
Wintermute wrote: > BTW, what version of Apache comes with the Hamm dist? I haven't > upgraded to it yet (wanting to wait for a little while for sake of > paranoia). On my box: ii apache 1.3b2-3Versatile, high-performance HTTP server However there is a later version out (it jus

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-06 Thread Stephen Zander
Steve Witt wrote: > If I may be permitted a quick retraction, 'xterm' works as the class name > also. > > xterm*scrollBar: on > > is a valid .Xresources line (I checked it). > > Perhaps 'xterm' isn't valid under SunOS (which I use mostly at work). > Sorry about the mis-information. XTe

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zander
E Papantoniou wrote: > my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. > When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do > Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 More importantly, why are you trying to? There are several window ma

Re: command logging

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zander
Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > Is there a way to log all commands typed by someone ? > > ttysnoop does not work all that great, > .bash_history only logs AFTER the person logs off, > not sure if I can alter bash to log everything... > > I looked at telnetd, but I'm not sure if any of the > debugging

Re: Problems compiling perl 5.004.04 - ld: cannot open -lnsl

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zander
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I am trying to compile perl 5.004.04 and am having problems. My > compiler is unable to locate -lnsl (for some reason). But I'm sure that > the reqd library is in /lib The linker is looking for /usr/lib/libnsl.so. This is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1

Re: HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines

1997-12-04 Thread Stephen Zander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I think he needs: > > A PICK interpreter or so. > Something to convert the old data. > Some program to later on replace that PICK interpreter? > Probably some way to keep both systems in parallel. That sounds like a pretty complete list. However, it's likely t

jdk breakage (was: pon permission problems)

1997-12-01 Thread Stephen Zander
michael wrote: > PPS. I installed the jdk stuff via dpkg as well. It took a while to > figure out why Netscape was exiting by itself. I thought Java was > included with it, why isn't it and why does it crash without it (because > I've got Java module support installed in the kernel?)? Eh, Commu

Re: [Off Topic] Dumb Perl Question...

1997-12-01 Thread Stephen Zander
Adam Shand wrote: > How do I untaint the glob, or better yet access it so that it's not > tainted to start with (if that's possible)? The files I'm accessing are > safe as only root can write to them, but I'd like to do this the 'right > way'. > > I can't find anything relevant to this in the docs

Re: mailing list/newsgroup loopback?

1997-12-01 Thread Stephen Zander
Wintermute wrote: > Same problem here. Only I have been checking my mail constantly today.. > and I stop for like 1 hour to hop out of X and configure some things, > come back, start up Netscape, check my mail..and I've got like 150 > messages. > > Whew... My answer was a bit-bucket rule in mail

mailing list/newsgroup loopback?

1997-11-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Hi, I'm suddenly getting duplicates from debian-user through a [EMAIL PROTECTED] gateway to the linux.debian.user news group. Someone somewhere screw something up?? Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscr

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-26 Thread Stephen Zander
Dale Scheetz wrote: > The ctrl-v works fine for a tab, but I have no newline key on my keyboard, > only an enter (which produces ^M when pressed after ctrl-v and the search > fails). Is there a way to enter a character by giving its ascii value (in > dos the alt key lets you enter the decimal value

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-26 Thread Stephen Zander
Aaron Denney wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For the tabs, I try the following: > > > > sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' outfile > > > > Which very cleanly places every t in the document with a space!?? > > > > For the hyphonation I try: > > > > sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' outfile > > > > and althoug

Re: bash syntax

1997-11-25 Thread Stephen Zander
"Eloy A. Paris" wrote: > Witold Grabysz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: > : ((ls);(ls)) > : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? > > Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This does work: > > ( (ls);(ls)) > > Try changi

Re: tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-24 Thread Stephen Zander
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > The asterisk was perhaps a bad example. This works for me (including all > dot files): > > tar cf /path | ( cd other/path ; tar xvf -) > > Some people add a bunch of other flags to tar. Wading in late but Why not cd /path; find . | cpio -dump /other/path

Re: More Laptop Video stuff...

1997-11-15 Thread Stephen Zander
Andrew Akins wrote: > When I switch the server to SVGA, the screen is shifted up about, oh, 20 > pixels. That is, the top 20 or so pixels of the image are off the top of > the screen, and the bottom of the screen has a blank area about 20 > pixels high. Try using the "nostretch" option. BTW, on m

Re: netscape

1997-11-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Dale Martin wrote: > No problem. You did disprove my theory of mine however. Normally, when I > post to this list, if I don't get a response within 15 minutes one never > comes. :-) There's a link to Heilsenberg's (sp?) Uncertainty Principle there somewhere :) > Well, I'm running 3.3.1-1, I and

Re: netscape

1997-11-13 Thread Stephen Zander
Dale Martin wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think I have all of 3.3.1; would you believe it still doesn't work? > > Bus error. WIth a whole lot of XKeysymDB errors before it, which > > are fixable by setting XKEYSYMDB to the appropriate directory IIRC. > > I'm having the

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #992

1997-11-13 Thread Stephen Zander
Alex Yukhimets wrote: > Exactly! > > And for one simple reason: jdk uses Motif which is not available for > libc6 yet. When I get brave (or foolhardy) I'm going to try building jdk against lesstif & libc6... assuming I find where I put my tuits :/ Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusio

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #992

1997-11-13 Thread Stephen Zander
Daniel Martin wrote: > I use it (the 1.1.3 jdk package) just fine on my bo system. For the record, when I asked the linux jdk maintainer if he intended a libc6 version, he felt that it would just complicate things. Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: JDK 1.1.4 deb

1997-11-12 Thread Stephen Zander
Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > Is the JDK 1.1.4 debian package available yet? Thanks! The short answer is no. As 1.1.4 is only a bug-fix, is there any reason you especially need it or will 1.1.3 do? Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: Java executables

1997-11-05 Thread Stephen Zander
Mike Patterson wrote: > I assume I'm missing a package somewhere, but I can't for the life of me > tell which one...? What version (if any) of the jdk do you have installed? Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Re: netscape

1997-11-04 Thread Stephen Zander
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Ever since I upgraded to XFree86 3.3 (in unstable), netscape won't run. > First it complains that it can't find XKeysymDB, so I set that > environment variable; then I get a bus error. > > Any ideas? There was a well-known (and often remarked on) bug with 3.3-6 wrt libc5 s

Re: Permission Mode

1997-10-28 Thread Stephen Zander
"Bao C. Ha" wrote: > > What is the permission mode of S (capital S), like > -r-Sr--r-- fpexe ??? This means that you've got the setuid bit on without the user's execute bit on. As you can guess, that means the setuid bit is meaningless (and ls is telling you that) Stephen --- "Normality is a

Re: fetchmail & multiple hostname (was laptop in different places)

1997-10-16 Thread Stephen Zander
Obi wrote: > I tried with the smtphost option in the fetchmailrc, but after the list I'm > giving fetchmail always add the 2 hosts ... Now the workaround is to add a > dummy interface with the IP address of the host.domainA, but I'd like to > instruct fetchmail to do the right thing: that is for

Re: Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?

1997-10-16 Thread Stephen Zander
"David Morris" wrote: > I'm sure I'm missing something in setting things up, but the settings I > can see in the various README files I've checked. But still nothing. Which applets specifically? I have jdk1.1.3 (from hamm) & it works just fine. However, I'm aware that the kind soul who ported j

Re: Q: gcc & cpp

1997-10-16 Thread Stephen Zander
"Dean C. Sullinger" wrote: > When I executed the application, it ran > yet I did not get the "This is a test" > message to show up on my screen. I have > read the doc's on gcc. Am I missing > something? I even tried using cpp and > I get the same results. I'm willing to bet you ran it as

Re: mail delivery notification

1997-10-09 Thread Stephen Zander
Lukas Eppler wrote: > When a mail server is set up properly, you can use the command 'finger > [EMAIL PROTECTED]' to see when your recipient checked his mail for the last > time. Assuming the admin is supporting fingerd, the machine is not behind a firewall, etc, etc. Stephen --- "Normali

Re: Install over firewall

1997-10-08 Thread Stephen Zander
Adrian Bridgett wrote: > Any ideas on how best to do this? I have installed a version of Socks5 > and have symlink /usr/bin/ftp to point to /usr/bin/rftp. This works fine. What sort of fire-wall? Does it support user @ dpkg-ftp uses perl's libnet package to provide ftp. This should be

Re: netscape communicator 4.03

1997-10-07 Thread Stephen Zander
Scott Ellis wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: > > This, as has been observed before, is a BAD THING.XKeysymDB > > > > Only the XErrorDB, XKeysymDB, app-defaults & locale dirs under > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 need to be sym-linked to /usr/i486-linuxlibc1

Re: netscape communicator 4.03

1997-10-07 Thread Stephen Zander
Scott Ellis wrote: > My solution to the entire problem was to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 to > /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11, thereby giving it all the symlinks it could > possibly need in one fell stroke. This, as has been observed before, is a BAD THING.XKeysymDB Only the XErrorDB, XKeysymDB, app

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Guy Maor wrote: > Sorry, all the libc5 _development_ packages in hamm that have libc6 > versions use this directory. The runtime shared libs go into > /usr/lib/libc5-compat. This was a design error, btw, but it's too > late to change. That still makes the current behaviour of xlib6 a bug (ie loa

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Guy Maor wrote: > Safest is: > cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 > for i in XErrorDB XKEYsymDB locale ; do > ln -s ../../../$i $i > done Thanks for the tip: will change that right now. > All the libc5 packages in hamm that have libc6 versions use this > directory. Then someone (me ?) should log

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Paul Miller wrote: > Anyone know what the problem is here? when I run xvidtune I get 'Please > install this program before running.' .. I installed the xbase package.. > is it in the xcontrib? if so, is there a xproc which does not depend on > that elf-x11lib?? package? This is related to the sl

Re: remove

1997-09-11 Thread Stephen Zander
Rick Hawkins wrote: > > remove > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . This was a joke, right?? Stephen -- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-09-03 Thread Stephen Zander
> I think that MS will have to do this within a few years anyway. no > commercial OS will be able to compete with the free operating systems > like linux or freebsd. Linux isn't playing catch-up anymore, and hasn't > done for at least a year...it's now already better/faster/more reliable > than th

X-capable mail reader

1997-07-03 Thread Stephen Zander
Has anyone got any suggestions for an X-capable threaded mail reader that I can use with mailagent or deliver. Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the 200+ emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I just need multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :( Stephen --- "Normality is a

Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?

1997-07-03 Thread Stephen Zander
"Colin R. Telmer" wrote: > Sorry to continue a long thread, but you have now peaked my curiousity - > why is the point of rxvt to avoid xrdb? Is that part of the reason it uses > less memory? Curiousity killed the cat... Cheers. My understanding, which was supported by the man-page quote elsewhere

Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?

1997-07-02 Thread Stephen Zander
Joey Hess wrote: > 1. It doesn't let you place rxvt settings in /etc/X11/Xresources > 2. It probably means it doesn't preprocess the files with cpp, therefore, it >might read settings it isn't supposed to see. > 3. It's nonstandard and generally just ugly and very confusing. > > It should be

Re: X Free 3.3-3, bug??

1997-07-02 Thread Stephen Zander
Adam Shand wrote: > It is dying with the error that no appropriate screen resolutions can be > found. Does anyone know what this could be or do you need more details? Did you create XF86Config using XF86Setup? What's the video chip in your TP? XF86_SVGA reports the chipset using XF86_SV

Re: scsi controllers, bsd file system

1997-06-28 Thread Stephen Zander
Rick Hawkins wrote: > > a-hah! I've gotten somewhere--but it's not good. > > Once I connected the three scsi devices, I found that it finds all 3. > But . . . The last device in the list does not get a /dev/srX entry. > Thus with jus a cd and a zip in the chain, the cd gets one, but not the > zi

Re: Tecra kernel 2.0.29: PCMCIA unresolved externals

1997-06-28 Thread Stephen Zander
Martin Fehlaber wrote: > I used the 'tecra' disks as Bruce suggested and Debian 1.3 installed > fine on my ThinkPad. Then I tried to get my 3Com PCMCIA Ethernet card to > work. Installing the pcmcia-cs_2.9.5-3.deb and > pcmcia-modules-2.0.29_2.9.5-2.deb gave me a 'need pcmcia-cs_2.9.5-2' > conflict

Re: What programs make disks spin up?

1997-06-27 Thread Stephen Zander
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > Why do I need apache on my laptop? Why do some car owners think > they need nitrous and a super-charger in their Pinto? Don't feel alone running apache on your laptop. I carry a development copy of all our web-based support (which runs on Apache) around on mine. Ste

CDE-like window manager

1997-06-27 Thread Stephen Zander
Anyone know of a CDE/Motif like window manager for Debian? I've gotten used to my CDE desktop at work. Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape SEGV with 3.3 VGA16

1997-06-27 Thread Stephen Zander
"Gary L. Dolan" wrote: > The bus error is unrelated to the colormap problem. Go to > members.ping.at/theofilu for the bus error fix. OK, tried that... still behaves strangely though. with export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/netscape in /usr/bin/X11/netscape, I still get a bus error. H

Netscape SEGV with 3.3 VGA16

1997-06-27 Thread Stephen Zander
Has anyone experienced probelms using netscape with the XF86_VGA16 server? I get the following Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background followed by a buss error. This also happens using the -install option for a private colormap. Should I change the server's colour

Re: Debian 1.3: Boot on ThinkPad 760EL

1997-06-25 Thread Stephen Zander
Martin Fehlaber wrote: > As I have read in Deja News others have (had?) the same problem I do. > The new Rescue Disk does not work on my (new as well) ThinkPad. Other > distrubutions do not seem to have this problem. Am I missing something > obvious? Is there a solution I am not aware of? This sup

SVGA server for X86 3.3 (when?)

1997-06-23 Thread Stephen Zander
Anyone know when an SVGA server for XFree 3.3 will be released? I hoping it will provide better support for Trident's laptop chipsets. Stepghen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

SVGA server for X86 3.3 (when?)

1997-06-23 Thread Stephen Zander
Anyone know when an SVGA server for XFree 3.3 will be released? I hoping it will provide better support for Trident's laptop chipsets. Stepghen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: Debian books

1997-06-23 Thread Stephen Zander
"Dave Cinege" wrote: > This IS NOT acurate. Off the top of my head: > > everything init.d > rc0.d -rc6.d > ppp > adduser, start-stop-daemon., as well as other scripts things > fs layout What makes you think all that list is debian centric (no, that's not a flame-bait :))? The fs stuff is, some

PS/2 Mouse device

1997-06-20 Thread Stephen Zander
Can anyone tell me what the major/minor device numbers for a PS/2 mouse are? Currently gpm et al want to use /dev/ttyS0 but that is definately not working. Thanks Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Xlib3.3 server probs

1997-06-20 Thread Stephen Zander
"Colin R. Telmer" wrote: > Actually, to be somewhat more secure (if you are connected to the net), > you can use (it should be xhost, not xhosts) > > xhost +fulldomainname > > so that other machines are still refused. Also, if this is the way you > choose to go, you can alternatively create

Multiple kernels & /System.map

1997-06-20 Thread Stephen Zander
Is there some way to pass an alternate name from /System.map (or /boot/System.map) to the kernel at boot? I'm mucking with a custom kernel but want to leave the 2.0.30 image safely intact. I've setup lilo.confto recognise /vmlinuz.2.0.30 as a valid kernel but can't figure out how to seperate the

X support on IBM TP 760CD

1997-06-19 Thread Stephen Zander
Ok, debian is now installed & my PCMCIA token-ring card works (Yay!). Now to X-windows so I can have my beloved XEmacs... Anyone know what the Trident Cyber 9320 chipset should be interpreted as for X86setup? Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Unresolved symbols with ibmtr_cs PCMCIA module

1997-06-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Further in my attempts to setup up a Thinkpad 760CD... When attempting to load the ibmtr_cs.o mdules under the standard 2.0.30 kernel, I get the folliowing unresolved symbols. netif_rx_R9117ffb8 dev_alloc_skb_R24e337ab dev_kfree_skb_R7a61ae71 dev_tint_Rcc72f6b2 unregister_netdev_Re5a9d51a regist

Re: kernel with apm/pcmcia for 1.3 install

1997-06-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Niels wrote: > BootPart: > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm > > More instructions: > http://ledoux.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/~agoon/windows/dualboot.html > > to save AltaVista the hits :-) Thanks for the info... NT's boot manager now handles linux Now I just

kernel with apm/pcmcia for 1.3 install

1997-06-12 Thread Stephen Zander
Sent this before but got no response so I'm trying again... While attempting to install debian 1.3 on a IBM ThinkPad 760CD, I've run into a small problem. The inital install from the disk set went fine. Not having a Debian CD, however, I'm trying to do an FTP install. My problem is all my com

kernel with apm/pcmcia for 1.3 install

1997-06-11 Thread Stephen Zander
While attempting to install debian 1.3 on a IBM ThinkPad 760CD, I've run into a small problem. The inital install from the disk set went fine. Not having a Debian CD, however, I'm trying to do an FTP install. My problem is all my communications devices (modem, token-ring card) are PCMCIA & the

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-22 Thread Stephen Zander
Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > Ok, how's this for a killer Linux feature. killall(1). I f*cking _love_ > killall; you just have to be careful not to use it on non-Linux systems. > 8^) > Nice try, but wrong again. That's a SVR4 feature :) >From my Solaris man page... killall(1M) Maintenan

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-21 Thread Stephen Zander
Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: > > > Linux is great but thouse are NOT linux only things. > > OK, you're right, these are features generic to gnu-ish shells like bash > and zsh which receive their greatest exposure through Linux. Virtual > consoles aren'

Re: Is Linux much easier to install on 68k or PPC?

1997-01-18 Thread Stephen Zander
Ami Ganguli wrote: > Stephen Zander wrote: > > Linux on an 8086??? > > > > That goes to the top of my list of truely perverse activities :) > > I thought so too at first, but think of it: Linux on your palmtop, > Linux in your watch, Linux in your microwave, .

Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread Stephen Zander
J.H.M.Dassen wrote: > PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose > between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would > have the decency to betray his country. > - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan > Excep

Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE

1997-01-09 Thread Stephen Zander
Kendrick Myatt wrote: > At 07:15 PM 1/5/97 -0600, Guy Maor wrote: > >No, dselect's ftp method, dpkg-ftp, uses perl's Net::FTP to do ftp > >(the protocol). It does not require ftp (the client). Use dselect to > >get netstd and you'll have ftp (the client). > # > It may have

Debian & M$ co-habitation

1996-12-27 Thread Stephen Zander
I am looking to install Debian 1.2 on my IBM Thinkpad 760CD. Unfortunately, for work reasons, I need to keep WinNT up & operational also. So, three questions: 1. Does anyone have Debian running on a TP 760? I'm willing to break new ground but previous experiences would help. 2. Does anyone have