Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-08 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Thought wrote: > Do you or does anyone else get these errors right after installing Debian? > I would imagine that at least for the first day or so most everything > would be error free and ready to go, but maybe not? The only thing I can > think of that would cause ME to ha

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Thought wrote: > Whenever I run /sbin/depmod -a, I get the following errors: > > > and on and on and on for about 100 more lines... What should I do about > that? (Oh, and other than /sbin/depmod -a, I followed all of the steps > you mentioned in the previous reply to the

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Kael Rowan - CPTS666 wrote: > 3c59x ether_setup: wrong version or undefined > register_netdev: wrong version or undefined > dev_kfree_skb: wrong version or undefined > dev_alloc_skb: wrong version or undefined > eth_type_trans: wrong version or undefined > netif_rx: wrong ver

Re: XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to > > be slower ? > > > [stuff deleted] > > > > Has anoyone had a similar experience ? > > > I noticed that my C

Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: > William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > : Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and > : libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging > : system, one with and

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: > > Like, dselect is a great and easy tool, but there is no manpage for it... Dselect is pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it, but it needs to be a bit better before I call it a great and easy tool. There were a couple of times that dselect purg

Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-06 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Indus wrote: > > > I am new to Linux and I have just tried to install the system onto a 386 > > DX20 laptop with 8mb of ram. When I try running VIM, I get an error message > > saying that it needs the 'libXaw.so.6' library. Where

Re: no CDROM

1997-03-06 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Chris Tipney wrote: > Dear all, > > I have just finished installing Debian fron the CD that came with Linux > World issue 1 it works fine but doesn't find my Aztech IDE CDROM drive. > > During boot the following lines appear... > > hdb: CDA286031 SE, ATAPI CDROM drive > id

Re: Xfree86 Question

1997-03-05 Thread William Chow
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Terry Martin wrote: > Could not find config file! > - Tried: > /etc/XF86Config > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.neverland > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > > Fatal server error: > No config file found! > Note, the X server no longer looks for XF86Config in $

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-03-04 Thread William Chow
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > 1. what do you expect for free? Well, one would expect at least a clean install... If people perceive Linux/Debian as being impossible to install, then, well, they won't use it :) And if people don't use an OS, well, that's just bad for people in

Re: Problems booting with new kernel

1997-03-04 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Karl Sackett wrote: > > > I've been trying to upgrade my kernel using kernel-source-2.0.27. I > > put the new kernel on a floppy, boot from the floppy, and instead of > > loading the new kernel I get this on my display: > > > > Lo

RE: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-03-02 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > The ISP has nothing to do with it. There is a systematic > approach to setting up anything. Before one can resolve > an issue one must understand the problem. > The approach is: > > 1: manually dial up and log into your ISA > 2: edit the respective

RE: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-03-01 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > I'd like to say the getting PPP up and running was a breeze. > Took about an hour. (1 hour because I had to install hardware, > and track down a priviledge level issue on a cuaX.) > > The actual ppp stuff took abount 10-15 minutes. > "Dial out with

Re: xemacs and c++ //-type comments

1997-03-01 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, root wrote: > > The c++ mode in xemacs does not appear to recognize the double-slash > comments in c++ code (these comments start with // and end at the following > new-line -- like the '#' comment character in ksh scripts). Yes it does, my 19.14 emacs seems to understand t

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-01 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, will > **NOT** work with lprng. > Doesn't getting rid of name canonizing in lpr work? Just get the source of an older version of lpr or unpatch the current sources or get an older lp

Re: PLIP setup?

1997-02-28 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Spineux Alain wrote: > > > > I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm > > having some problems... > > > > I get a pair or error messages when I try to configure the plip interface > > using ifconfig: > > > > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > >

Re: Lilo query

1997-02-28 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote: > |"On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > |" > |"> > |"> Hi, > |"> > |"> I have a debian system at my office . Since I set it up I have been > |"> booting > |"> using the boot disk. However I decided to try using lilo. So I got the > |"> progra

Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)

1997-02-27 Thread William Chow
On 26 Feb 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From> William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Time to RTFM, there, Corey. > > Bruce> That's RTM on this li

Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)

1997-02-26 Thread William Chow
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Corey Allert wrote: > also Xfree86 doesn't run properly .. . it will as root but as any other > user X starts as if no window manager is set . . and typing startx -exec > fvwm2 will bring up the correct gui but there is no command prompt in the > xterm . . . freaky eh?? T

Re: xemacs is ignoring my tab key

1997-02-26 Thread William Chow
On 26 Feb 1997, James LewisMoss wrote: > > "Harmon" == Harmon Sequoya Nine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Harmon> Just ran xemacs and was using it to edit a C++ program. > Harmon> Unfortunately, when I try to indent using my "tab" key, > Harmon> xemacs totally ignores it. I've looked t

Re: HD prob - bad inodes

1997-02-26 Thread William Chow
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, dr. banzai wrote: > > I am having problems installing Debian. Here is what > happens. > > The installation goes smoothly until I get to the part > where it decompresses the selected packages from dselect. > halfway through, it crashes with some kind of kernel memory error

RE: Package configuration philosophy

1997-02-26 Thread William Chow
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Kevin McEnhill wrote: > Yoav wrote: > > #ifdef QUOTE > > It seems that Debian is taking a rather different philosophy on > pre-configured packages than other distributions, such as RedHat. What I > > > > It seems as if Debian

Re: Mail and News with UUCP over TCP/IP

1997-02-24 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Stefan Walder wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use my Linux-Box at home to get mail and news. I'm using my Uni-ISP > and i want to have several Email-Adresses (my family). And I don't want to use > POP, I think uucp is nicer! So I want to use uucp over TCP/IP! > Now my questions:

Re: X window problem

1997-02-24 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > run this after changing environments (i.e. changing to su): > > export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 > > (note: bash specific, csh uses "setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0") > > If this still fails, run

Re: Thrown away...

1997-02-24 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > Bjoern Starke writes: > > > >Sorry, but it seems that it isn*t possible to install Debian 1.2.6. I > > >have installed Linux (Delix-DLD2.1) 2 Years before and it was an easy > > >thing... But Debian seems to be unuseable. > > > > Juhuuu. I have set

Re: FTP problems (not DSELECT)

1997-02-23 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Bubonic wrote: > Okay this is weird. > > I can FTP to my machine, but only to anonymous. UNLESS, the account that > I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is running tcsh, it > says: user access denied. > > Any ideas? > > I find this rather strange. Yeah,

Re: All of a sudden lost mouse support...

1997-02-23 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: > Very wierd. I install apm which I've disabled but since I did this gpm > says /dev/mouse: Device or resource busy. > Did you look at /dev/mouse? Was it pointing at the right device? In your case it's supposed to point at /dev/psaux. If it's not /de

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

1997-02-23 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Brian Hutchinson wrote: > > > Here is some more information on my sad state! > > Maybe I'll be the first to answer the simplest of your questions: > > The dos mbr can be replaced with dos fdisk: > > c:\=> fdisk /mbr > > ...Ri

Re: People Demanding Credit in the Press Release Silliness

1997-02-21 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Douglas Stewart wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: > > > > > It is a sort of Press Release whipped-up by the Debian Project Leader. > > > I really didn't intend to chastise him for this - I am a staunch

Re: Unstable vs. Stable

1997-02-21 Thread William Chow
On 21 Feb 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > In other words, if you don't have plenty of money, don't use Debian. > > FUD > > It just means that you can be as cutting edge as you feel comfortable > with/can afford. Many other systems don't even give you that option.

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-19 Thread William Chow
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Version 3.13 of ls has the default dircolors compiled in, so the > "eval `dircolors`" line in the profile is redundant as far as 'ls' is > concerned. However, a few other programs (I can't remember which at > the moment) depend on the LS-COL

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-19 Thread William Chow
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Richard Jones wrote: > > William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 17 Feb 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: > > > > > > > > > >.bashrc and/or .profile (or .cshrc or .zshrc, whatever): > >

Re: Weird! My network turns itself off on bootup! Why?

1997-02-19 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, trio wrote: > >Wow. Now i see a /etc/conf.modules! I was looking for all the *.conf > files, but didn't see that one. On the other hand, there's no man page > for that either. > This file and all related module information is covered in the man pages for modprobe, dep

Re: package compilation

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On 17 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for the report, this is a real bug in kernel-package > version 3.16: vi has, for some obscure reason, started to expand info > to information and so on spontaneously. I generally catch it at it,

Re: Ungraceful shutdown

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, David L. Parsley wrote: > Just HOW BAD is an ungraceful shutdown? I.e., when somebody just hits > the power > switch? Besides forcing an fsck, would fsck tell me if some file were > corrupted? > Yup. I've actually trashed parts of filesystems by accidental shutdowns, but

Re: lpr - help please!

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Rich Kolbush wrote: > Hi, > In moving to the 2.x.x kernel I decided to switch to Debian 1.2 > from Redhat 2.1, and thus far am very happy with that decision. Thanks to > all of you that have helped the Debian project, as it seems great! > > I'm having a problem getting lpr

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On 17 Feb 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: > > > >.bashrc and/or .profile (or .cshrc or .zshrc, whatever): > > eval `dircolors` > > alias ls 'ls --color=auto' > > This would be wonderful if it were the correct answer. However, as we This IS the correct answer, WTF are you talking abou

Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD?

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > > On the other hand there is nothing better than a recently burned > writable CD when you want it really uptodate and like being on the > edge. But for the same price anybody could get a CheapBytes CD and > a very good Linux book. Anybody has bought the

Re: Install from CD

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the Cheapbytes Debian 1.2 CD. It has base1_2.tgz and the > kernel and the root.bin image on it. Could someone go through the > process of installing without any floppies? I think i know how to > boot with loadlin and get to the point of lo

Re: Epson Stylus 500 & apsfilter

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: > > I suceeded in installing apsfilter, to print postcript files to > my Epson Stylus 500 inkjet printer. I get a result but it seems that > the printing is sloppy. To me, it looks like a really low resolution > (300 dpi or less). Is there anyway to

Re: wanna trade secondary dns ?

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, mark david mcCreary wrote: > I am a new ISP in Texas, with a minimal amount of traffic. > > I would like to trade secondary domain name service with another one man > ISP for redundancy with network or computer problems. > > Please reply via private email to [EMAIL PROTECT