Help! My Debian blew up!

1999-12-11 Thread T.M. Hospedales
All of a sudden while trying to emacs -nw options to setup my new modem , things refuse to execute! It just stalls and doesn't do anything! I see no particular connection between things that work and those that dont: Working: xterm, ls, cat, fsck, vi Not: startx,emacs, xemacs, netscape, sys

SoundBlaster128

1999-10-05 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I've read the list archives on SB128 topics and tried both the OSS and Alsa modules. But whenever I try to do anything I get a No such device error like so: frontier:/dev# ls -al dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root9 Oct 5 02:00 dsp -> /dev/dsp0 frontier:/dev# cat ~/english.au > ./dsp b

Video Board Support?

1999-10-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi, my new computer came with an ATI Rage Fury 128 AGPx2 (32MB). I'm not sure which X-server to use for htis, does anyone know, or know whether it is supported by xfree/accelx/metrox etc at all? Thanks, Tim

Databases

1999-09-08 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi, ive been trying out MySQL and PostgreSQL on debian too see which I will use for my database projects. Can anyone recommend: 1. Documentation / HOWTOs or whatever on how to set these up with web interfaces - expecially about how to do so as a database beginner and not compromise the secu

XDM startup?

1999-09-06 Thread Timothy Hospedales
How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM? Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt installed xdm. :(. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 06-Sep-99 Ti

Palm Pilot Software

1999-07-15 Thread Timothy Hospedales
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Xemacs

1999-07-11 Thread Timothy Hospedales
be nice). Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11-Jul-99 Time: 20:05:02 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --

Palm Pilots

1999-07-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Which palm pilotswill available linux software work well with? I was thinking of buying a palm IIIx and was wondering if there were any isses with it good or bad stories appreciated! Thanks! Timothy PS:Does anyone know if the later palms with infra red are compatable wit heach other across versio

Emacs psgml mode?

1999-06-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
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Writing Drivers? Info Appreciated!

1999-06-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
camera projects ;)). Anyway, if this sort of thing is possible could someone point me to a winblows program to use to examine what gets sent over a port? Thanks! Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03-Jun-99 Time: 01:21:42

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
e ABSOLUTELY NEED RH's fancy GUI tools to configure everything! :). -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03-Jun-99 Time: 01:07:57 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --

Re: Debian applications - where to get them???

1999-06-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
me :-) ). "apt-get update; apt-get install x11amp" allways works for me! :) x11amp uses the least CPU time of any of the others ive tried, (All!), so its probably the best:) HTH. Tim ------ E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

RE: ICQ programs for Debian GNU/Linux

1999-05-31 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I > never get to receive some messages while using it... > > More than that, it looks like gtkicq is no longer in potato (why?), > and I can't upgrade some of my gnome slink stuff to potato, because > this would remove my gtkicq. > > Any comments? -

xemacs + nextawg?

1999-05-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
prettier? (Color at least?) The dull black-grey-white thing kind of spoils a pretty windomaker + gnome-themeified desktop! :) Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19-May-99 Time: 13:06:49 This message was sent by XFMail Powe

rvplayer working?

1999-04-30 Thread Timothy Hospedales
l Error" #1, or Error #19? - Unable to connect to server. :(. Errors of the first kind are accompanied by: "audio: write error: 706 bytes errno: 0" type messages at the command prompt. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?! Thanks! TiM ------ E-Ma

Re: kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-24 Thread Timothy Hospedales
what can i do? >> > > Make more things modules. And do use bzImage. -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24-Apr-99 Time: 17:59:13 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --

Re: File Processing: Please Advise

1999-04-23 Thread Timothy Hospedales
nt >#do stuff to $1 here... > echo $1 #example > --end cut > > Put this in a file, then chmod +x that file. > > Now, invoke this like so: > > $ find . -name '*.jpg' | xargs myscript.sh > > Carl -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedal

File Processing: Please Advise

1999-04-23 Thread Timothy Hospedales
ood way to do this with BASH or should I bring Perl up to the top of my TO-LEARN list or what? Thanx! TiM -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 22-Apr-99 Time: 22:05:40 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --

BASH programming

1999-04-12 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi, Where can I find a bash programming HOWTO? Im trying to make some scripts to make my life easier but I cant seem to decipher the langage by looking at scripts on the system:(. thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTEC

Program Stats & glibc2.1

1999-04-09 Thread Timothy Hospedales
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w3mir and perl

1999-03-24 Thread Timothy Hospedales
i fix it? :) These are my package versions: ii w3mir 1.0.5-1w3mir is an all purpose HTTP copying and mir ii perl5.004.04-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Thanks! TiM ------ E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-22 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Not true. If the manpage says "this manpage is out of date, see the info > pages" then I've learned _exactly_ what I need to know from the manpage. > If there's no manpage there then I'll just be confused and wondering why > there's no documentation. >

dia debian package

1999-02-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
broken on my system? The files seem to be saved allright, as if you uncompress them you can go and read the actual xml. I am running slink with afew things from potato on kernel 2.2.0 Thanks for any advice! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: hp cdwriter (where to mount?)

1999-02-17 Thread Timothy Hospedales
not mount it. For now I'm installing it into my > windows box, until I can figure out how to make this work in linux > > Thanks > > NatePuri > Certified Law Student > & Debian/GNU Linux Monk > McGeorge School of Law > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread Timothy Hospedales
; but its nice to be prepared for the worst. ;). -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05-Feb-99 Time: 00:47:27 This message was sent by XFMail --

GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-26 Thread Timothy Hospedales
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Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?

1999-01-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP > Key > http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID > 36E7CD09 -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19-Jan-99 Time: 15:01:29 This message was sent by XFMail --

Printing with 2.2pre kernels?

1999-01-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
:16 irq $ cat autoprobe $ cat devices $ cat hardware base: 0x378 irq:none dma:none modes: SPP $ cat irq none $ ------ E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19-Jan-99 Time: 13:12:28 This message was sent by XFMail --

CDROM & ISE-SCSI: Help please!

1999-01-17 Thread Timothy Hospedales
work. :(. Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16-Jan-99 Time: 21:07:49 This message was sent by XFMail --

Adding ftp users?

1999-01-14 Thread Timothy Hospedales
#x27;t hardlink to /etc/passwd because /home/ftp is on its own partition...? I haven't seen much about this in the relevant manpages and wuftpd FAQ. "adduser" and "addftpuser" scripts don't seem to be much help either. Thanks for all advice! Timothy ----

X-CD-Roast

1999-01-12 Thread Timothy Hospedales
hat is going on here / how to fix it? Apparantly it can't work without this field filled in. I have 2.0.36 compiled with SCSI-ATAPI-emmulation, and everything detects fine on bootup as well as on the SCSI/IDE info section of X-CD-Roast. Thanks in advance

VCD player.....

1999-01-09 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I just got my first VCD! Does anyone know of a open/source/free VCD player for linux? All I could find was mpegtv which doesn't do audio unless you pay for it. :(. Thanx in advance! Timothy

WindowMaker/XFMail?

1998-05-16 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi all. I just used apt to get and install WindowMaker, (I was using icewm b4). Now that its installed, my xfmail refuses to do anything that involves opening a new window - Reading Mail, Composing mail etc. When I press compose or something, the main XFMAIL window goes into the background, but

Re: Terminal Corruption

1998-05-03 Thread hospedales
Kewl. Thanx. it works. On 03-May-98 George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Any ideas? I really hate having to reboot my computer, it reminds me of >> windoze! >> > > Have you tried the following command: > > reset -- E-Mail: [EM

Terminal Corruption

1998-05-03 Thread hospedales
Any idea why / how to prevent the text on Virtual Consoles going nuts and being replaced with lots of funny garbage characters? This happens to me occasionally if I accidentally cat an executable file. But today it happened when I mounted an msdos floppy, and tried to do 'ls'. When this happens th

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-03 Thread hospedales
First, thanks alot for everyones help! > I am presuming that you want to run programs that open windows on the > X-display that you have already logged into as a 'normal user', yes? > > The 'xhost +localhost' (or any other host that you are using on your > network) is a good solution (probably t

Re: e2fslibsg conflicts with e2fsprogs (hamm) | APT

1998-05-02 Thread hospedales
I did an 'apt-get upgrade', and apt went ahead and removed e2fslibsg in favour of e2fsprogs without any messages or warnings. So now I have no e2fslibsg, but everything seems to be fine, what will happen if I have to reboot? Thanks, Timothy PS, for the developers: apt-get upgrade is real

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread hospedales
Hi! I've been looking for a way to run root stuff under X! I tried doing what you said and su'ing to root, and then export DISPLAY=:0 Then when I start anything X it says: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key I'm not sure what you mean by "whatever I ru

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread hospedales
Ok cool! One more thing though; is the APT GUI going to be X based? Normally when i'm installing stuff, I su to root in an Xterm and use apt or dpkg. But if the APT GUI will be X based, and I do that, won't the X-serve reject the connection? thanks, Timothy -- E-M

Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread hospedales
1. (Out of curiosity) is there any way to specify the server apt-get uses? Are we just out of luck if the default one goes down? 2. Could I make a symlink from /var/cache/apt/archives to another drive/partition with more space and let it keep the cached archives there? 3. If apt retrieves a newer

Free/OpenSource software?

1998-04-30 Thread hospedales
any other major benefit to open source beside peer review? Thanks In Advance! Timothy Hospedales -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-Apr-98 Time: 17:21:23 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread hospedales
I would like to make my Debian box use shadow passwords since it is allways on the 'Net. Firstly, how do I turn on shadow passwords in debian? Secondly, will this affect my pppd, proftpd, telnetd, apache or other daemons? Thanks, Timothy Hospedales BTW, I was reading the Shadow-HOWT

Re: Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread hospedales
Hm. Well. I have no idea what options the default kernel that comes with the hamm install disks built with? Does anyone know where this is documented? But in any case, the default hamm kernel found my 64MB just fine. So I doubt this is the problem. Thanks, Timothy Hospedales

Re: Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread hospedales
Oh! Sorry! My mistake. I meant to say that Total: was about 15MB. Free was slightly less than that again. Which as I understand would be okay for a 16MB system, since the kernel takes about 1MB, but implies that about 16MB is not being found since it is a 32MB system. On 26-Apr-98 Ben Pfaff wrote:

Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread hospedales
128MB systems, and debian finds the 64MB on my box fine. Any ideas? Thanks, Timothy Hospedales -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-Apr-98 Time: 13:49:52 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Possibly Off Topic: Fonts gone bananas in X.

1998-04-16 Thread Timothy Hospedales
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Paralell Port tape drives under linux?

1998-04-05 Thread hospedales
Hi, I have a Parallel Port Ditto 3200 tape drive. Is there support for these sorts of things under Linux? If so where should I start looking to get it setup. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05-Apr-98 Time: 15:34:28 This message was sent by XFMai

Re: [Offtopic: Java Mode broken in Xemacs20?]

1998-04-05 Thread hospedales
I installed cvs, and it works again just like you said. But when I added the line you suggested to the ~/.emacs file, it didn't make any difference when I loaded up .java files. Any ideas? (As you may have guessed i'm a clueless beginner to emacs. Sigh). :). Thanks, Timothy > Well, I don't know wh

[Offtopic: Java Mode broken in Xemacs20?]

1998-04-04 Thread hospedales
Hi. I just installed xemacs20 (I had xemacs19 before). Previously I did Tools->VC->RegisterFile->FileName.java, and it would do syntax highlighting and allow me to use indentation and stuff. Now when I try that, it says "Searching for program: No such file or directory, admin". Any idea on how

DPKG question.

1998-04-04 Thread hospedales
Is there a dpkg command to veryify the integrity of a package too make sure it downloaded okay? I skimmed through the manpage and documentation, but I didn't find anything like that. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Apr-98 Time: 23:11:1

RE: Running java (JDK 1.02) applicatios.

1998-04-02 Thread hospedales
Java just uses the class name, if you add a ".class" extension it won't work. Hope that helps. Timothy. BTW - Does anyone know why Sun makes javac use filename.java and java use filename with no .class extension? On 02-Apr-98 Liran Zvibel wrote: > Hello! > > I re-subscribed (and remembered why

Non-Free Software

1998-03-31 Thread hospedales
I am curious as to what the problem is with the current system of distribution whereby Debian is distributed 'pure' on CD. And those users who have no problem with non-free liscences are free to download non-free debian packages from the Debian FTP site and mirrors thereof? Thanks, Timothy.

BackSpace Key

1998-03-14 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
My backspace key has suddenly stopped working in X. Now it acts like a [Delete] Key. This happened when my KBD package died along with my /usr/loal/ directory, but did not recover when I reinstalled KBD. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks, Timothy -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

POP3 Client..

1998-03-01 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Does anyone know of a good POP3 client for Linux/X? Something like Eudora or Pegasus in Windoze...? I just want to beable to check multiple mail boxes easily. (Its a pain in netscape mail). I'de rather not have to setup fetchmail and related apps. Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

SCSI changes Interrupts?

1998-03-01 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I just got my Adaptec 152x SCSI adapter to work However, two weird things happened in the process that I wonder if anyone could shed some light on Firstly, before I got it to work, cat /proc/interrupts reported my PS2 mouse as being on IRQ 8, "SoundScape" as being on IRQ 10, and had no li

Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-25 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs? Thanks, Timothy > Sounds like you have an IRQ conflict. Read the 'dmesg' output and see > exactly what interrupt the serial port is on, and make sure it's not > the same interrupt as another card. > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: GhostView / GhostScript problem...

1998-02-24 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
> >different sort`s of errors? Or always the same? > >is libpaperg installed and configured? Yes, I have the newewst libpaperg installed: Aside from the error I get when opening gziped ps/eps/pdf files, which I presume is a separate problem, all the errors are the same A4: Unknown papersize thing.

GhostView / GhostScript problem...

1998-02-24 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I have GhostView 1.5-16.1 and gs-aladdin 5.10-3 / gs 3.33-6. Using either gs and gs-aladdin, all the files i've tried to open in GhostView (eps,ps,pdf), have given some sort of errors, such as: Unknown paper size: (A4). Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow. Unexpected interpreter error -17. Error in

Modem Problems....

1998-02-23 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I was trying to setup debian on another computer: The serial module only detects /dev/ttyS1. I tried to get minicom to dial out on /dev/ttyS1, but it doesnt seem to initialize it, and the modem doesn't make any noise when I try to dial. Any suggestions as to where I should go from here to try and g

Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-23 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before I was using the old ones from Bo). Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: No such file or directory. Where can I get this pager thi

Enlightenment Stuff.

1998-02-21 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Has anyone gotten Enlightenment & related apps (ImLib, eMusic, ePlus, eTerm, etc), to compile properly on their debian system? >From what i've seen RH5 people seem to beable to compile E-stuff fine, while they give trouble on other distributions. I'm wondering what the RH5 people have that i'm miss

Sound & Modem on one ISA Board?

1998-02-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
A friend of mine would like to install Linux; he has a board by creative that has both sound and modem on it. Might linux have a problem with this - Is there any reason why it mightn't work properly with a single board for music & modem? (It's not one of the IBM DSP things). Or better yet, has anyo

Netscape 4.0 Bus Error Fixed, New Linux Distribution....

1998-02-15 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Just a note for others who have been experiencing the Netscape Bus Error bug when attempting to view Java Applets; I just upgraded to X-Suse (Matrox), in an attemt to get X-Anim to work better, and inadvertently 'fixed' Netscape. I can run all Java applets I encounter just fine now; (previously any

Xanim.....

1998-02-14 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Thanks for everyones help with the PPP problem. It's fixed now. :). I recently installed the XAnim package; I've tried playing AVI,MOV and MPG files. All of them play black & white, criss crossed with lines, and distorted with multiple outlines of the animation at different offsets. When I add the

Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Yes, we use the same dialup number and everything. Our ISP only authenticates with CHAP, so we have to use this chap-secrets thing. The chap secrets, now mode 600, in /etc/ppp has - Hisusername * Hispassword - in it, just like mine. The PPP.log says: Feb 13 14:32:35 sexmajik pppd[174]: Connect: pp

Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same ISP as me, so I set it up just like mine. It didn't work immediately (It just disconnected shortly after connect), so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the CHAP auth that the server wanted. Now whe

Re: Automating PPP with cron?

1998-02-09 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Sounds like a dooable crack. I see a cron.daily, weekly & monthly directory in /etc, with scripts in it, which I presume get executed daily weekly and month respectively. I'de like it to run every 6 hours. I tried read the cron & cron tab manpages, but I'm still clueless as to how to do this I

Automating PPP with cron?

1998-02-08 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I would like to setup my system to do two things. To check periodically to see if my PPP connection has died, and redial my isp if it has. And to disconnect and redial every 6 hours, (my isp doesn't like it if you stay one more than 6 hours consecutively). What would be the best way to go abou

Monolith DynDNS + ip-up

1998-02-06 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I'm trying to register my monolith domain from within my ip-up script using mlddc. I have the line "(mlddc &1) >> /var/log/mlddc" as specified in the readme file in ip-up. However, when I login as usual with pppd, it doesn't register and the /var/log/mlddc file is empty. When I type that exact

CircleMUD

1998-01-31 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I was trying to compile Circle MUD 2.20 under my hamm setup. It said 'undefined refrence to 'crypt'' a bunch of times and died. Any idea what package am I missing to cause this message? Thanks, Timothy BTW - Does anyone know of any bininaries of mud servers & worlds available for Linux? -- T

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm. I suspect that the problem is rooted in the half bo, half hamm thing

Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND, (Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem. So! Will anyone who's

SO4, dpkg

1998-01-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi! I just downloaded the StarOffice4 tarball from ftp.stardivision.de, and installed it fine. However, it generates segmentation faults and crashes with what appears to be complete irregularity. I installed it onto /usr/local/Office40 as root. (It seemed to want to install onto the home direct

Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-11 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I had been installing the StarOffice3.1 deb package as root, so I tried to redoo it as a regular user, but dpkg said I needed superuser priviliges.So, I tried untarring the tarballs manually according to the mini-howto, but I ran into the same Server Crash no 11 problem when I tried to do the s

Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-11 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, just a quick question b4 I go to lunch. I just installed the StarOffice thing, and had two problems. The first, was mentioned in the FAQ; it wouldn't register the deamons. Unfourtunately, I have no idea how to enable the portmapper that the FAQ said I had to do. Where do I start with this? Then

ICQ for Java

1998-01-10 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Has anyone got ICQ for Java to work? Mine goes fine until it has to contact the ICQ server for creating a new account, whereupon it gives a warning message and then gets stuck in some kind of a loop between the warning message and the last page of info to fill out. It also screws up when I try to r

Package Installation....

1998-01-10 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi! I just downloaded StarOffice 3.1 from Caldera, and debianized the RPMs with Alien. (Thanks for the help with my Alien problem, it works now!). When I try to install it, it wants to install onto /opt/StarOffice-3.1. But my root partition doesn't have enough space for 100mb's of staroffice!! Any

Kernel Modules...

1998-01-08 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots of messages about not being able to find the old modules. Is there any easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at boot-time so it d

Re: deb package format

1998-01-05 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says /usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not found /usr/bin/checkbash: $TMP: am

Re: Linux article in Sunworl

1998-01-05 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Incase any of ya'll care, in my inexperienced opinion. Debian is definitely the best distribution. :). I tried Slackware, which as mentioned, was very difficult to maintain and upgrade, eventually I gave up. I tried RedHat which was easier, but wasn't quite as configurable. Then I tried Deb

Netscape 4.04 bug / problem?

1998-01-04 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I just downloaded Netscape 4.04 and installed it via the .deb installer. When I start Netscape, it prints out about two pages of messages like: netscape: can't resolve symbol 'execute_java_constructor' The messages are all something about Java or JavaScript.. Then, any time I go to a page wit

Fine tuning X.

1998-01-01 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Can anyone tell me how to, (or just where to start looking in order to): 1. Turn up my mouse sensitivity so it moves faster. 2. Change the font used in xterms and x apps so it's bigger. 3. Make my mouse emmulate 3 buttons. Oh yeah... has anyone tried Linux Explorer succesfully, it claims it needs

Mail not getting through....

1998-01-01 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I have to write all my messages from my old NT system, because for some reason whenever I send mail from my new Linux/X - Netscape, it doesn't seem to get through to the list. Everywhere else I send mail to is fine. Any ideas why its doing this? Thanx, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

Re: Ensoniq Soundscape

1997-12-31 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Can I (and if so how), change the settings that it's using now, or do I have to rebuild the kernel each time I want to change them? Also - when you say disable the SB compatability under MSDOS, do you mean changing 'SBENABLE=true' to false in the soundscape.ini and then running the batch fi

Ensoniq Soundscape

1997-12-31 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Following the Sound HOWTO, I just built a kernel with soundscape support (2.0.32), and only the MIDI is working. :(. Does anyone else have a Soundscape, and if so how did you fix this? It says this on bootup: Sound initialization started at 0x330 irq 9 dma 3 at 0x330 irq 9 dma 3 SoundSca

Debian.

1997-12-31 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Does anyone have an idea of how long it will be until the next release of debian? Thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Question.

1997-12-30 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Does anyone know if there have been any studies on the cost effectiveness of networks based on linux vs networks based on NT? While linux seems to be cheaper, where I live technical expertise is in _very_ short supply and so linux would probably be alot more expensive to admister.

Bizarre problem.

1997-12-29 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hey guys! I've got a really *bizarre* problem!!! When I am using my PPP dialup connection, I can use everything on the 'net perfectly. EXECEPT, that I cannot access any dialup IP's in my ISP's domain, including my own. Any attempt at contacting, using the IPs directly, or via a dyn.ml.org

Debian on CD.

1997-12-29 Thread Timothy Hospedales
My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors? Thanks, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

dpkg

1997-12-28 Thread Timothy Hospedales
IS there a dpkg option to list all the installed packages? I looked in the man pages but didn't see anything that [obviously] did that If not, since it keeps track of what is installed, I presume there must be some file somewhere which has them listed in it, anyone happen to know whic

XF86

1997-12-28 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I asked about this before, but I don't think it got through because I didn't receive the message from the list... What command line options would I use to start X with 24bit color, 1024X size desktop, 75hz refresh rate, and open look window manager? thanx, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

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1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze).. Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any stable versions for linux beyond 1.0.2, or because th

Re: Mail!

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Are you guys using Netscape 3.01? Thats the version that the netscape debian package is. I take it there are no newer versions of netscape for linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Oh yeah!

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I'm also looking for drivers for an APC UPS, and my Ensoniq Soundscape sound board. Thanx Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Mail!

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
wow! I can finally get online with my linux box!:). Thanx 2 everyone who gave me advice. I'm looking for a mail (perferably X based) program to receive/send email from my ISP's POP3 server. Can anyone recomend a good one for me? Oh yeah Can anyone point me to drivers/s

PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1997-12-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I made to try out everyone's suggestions for getting my PPP dialup to work. The first thing that happened is t hat when I turned on my computer, for some reason /dev/mouse was linked to my /dev/ttyS0, and so things refused to use ttyS0. So I deleted /dev/mouse, but then not

Re: PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to my ISP manually, I have to press afew times before the login prompt comes up, how do I tell a script to send ? Thanks, Timothy >You are closer here. ttyS0 is locked by your minicom session. Forget >minicom. All the i

PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Thanks to everyone who helped me before!... Now I have a somewhat more complicated looking problem. :(. I'm trying to dial into my ISP using PPP. (At this point I haven't done any extra configuration besides network config info that the debian setup asks for). In X, I startup minicom, dial, and l

Xfree86 question

1997-12-24 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi! I am a new Linux user converted from Windows NT. :). I have a 17 inch monitor, but my XFree86 insists on displaying in an approximately 15 inch rectangle of my screen. How do I configure it to fill the whole screen? Also! Is there an equivalent of Microsoft's file manager for X