486SX33 --> 486DX2 66 ??

1997-05-25 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, I have here a 486sx33 and i would like to know if i can change the cpu for a dx2 66 ... In the specification of the board, i seen that a 486 sx2 66 is supported. A mathematics coprocessor is also supported. Thanks in advance for your help ;) Dany Dionne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

Re: localize problem after upgrading to libc6

1997-05-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
I had similar problems after installing the Star Office beta. Star Office requires the enviroment variable LANG to be set, in turn this warning is generated when a number of other programs are run. The only way around at this time I know of would be to unset the LANG variable, then use a shell scri

Re: localize problem after upgrading to libc6

1997-05-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
When I reported the same problem, someone suggested changing LANG from 'us' to 'en'. Since doing so, I have not had any problems with StarOffice. Maybe there is a more standard nomenclature for german than 'de_DE' (just plain 'de' possibly?) Bob On Sat, 24 May 1997, W. Paul Mills wrote: > I ha

Re: News batching problems since upgrade

1997-05-25 Thread George Bonser
I found the problem ... MAINTAINER OF CNEWS TAKE NOTE!!! I have a backup uucp ihave/sendme feed that only kicks in when one of our sites has a catastrophic failure of our other feeds. The cause of the problem is the new eval. It does not like a regular expression starting with ^ and will croak b

gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
Can GPM and X co-exist or not? I recently tried GPM, and it seemed to work in text consoles and co-exist with X. I could switch back and forth between text consoles and the virtual console displaying X. Then it crashed X. It seems that they co-exist as long as there is no mouse activity fo

Re: gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread George Bonser
Everything I have read has always said to be sure to DISABLE gpm before using X. On Sat, 24 May 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > > Can GPM and X co-exist or not? > > > I recently tried GPM, and it seemed to work in text consoles and co-exist > with X. I could switch back and forth between

Re: gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread Clint Adams
> Everything I have read has always said to be sure to DISABLE gpm before > using X. Both are running right now, and I'm having no problems. I even tried the mouse-in-motion trick while switching between X and console. This applies to both a Microsoft mouse and a PS/2 glidepad. -- TO UNSUBSCRI

libc6, motif, xfree86 bugs

1997-05-25 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hello all. Could anyone shed some light and explain advantages of switching to libc6? As far as I can see from discussions the only "safe" bet is to have everything in libc6. But what should do people who are using commercial developmental suits like Motif or XRT PDS? As you can guess, they are co

Re: #debian irc channel

1997-05-25 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 24, Igor Grobman wrote > Just wanted to remind you that #debian channel is still available. [snip] It would be nice if someone who knows IRC well could write up a description of the resources available to Debian users over irc and get it included in the FAQ and on the "Support" section of t

Re: gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On May 24, George Bonser wrote > > Everything I have read has always said to be sure to DISABLE gpm before > using X. > > > On Sat, 24 May 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > > > > > Can GPM and X co-exist or not? This has been a bit of a mini-topic in the last few weeks. GPM and X can live to

Re: gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread George Bonser
The documentation that I read saying to disable gpm was about a year or possibly more old. It could be that gpm has evolved to be more x-friendly since then. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL P

Re: gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread edwalter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 24 May 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > Everything I have read has always said to be sure to DISABLE gpm before > using X. > > > On Sat, 24 May 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > > > > > Can GPM and X co-exist or not? > > > > I have been running gp

Re: supposed fvwm2 menus

1997-05-25 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel S. Barclay: > Supposedly, Debian packages install menu data for FVWM 2.x and Debian's menu > system. > > I just installed the fvwm2 package, but the application menu is pretty much > empty. > > Do I have to reinstall every package that has a menu entry? (I hope this isn't > Windoze.)

Re: #debian irc channel

1997-05-25 Thread Chad Zimmerman
Best way to put what you get over irc verses here is .. nothing more that the exact same only in real time. No waiting arround, if there is someone alive (i usually am), you will have your question answered right away. On average there are 5 to 7 Debian developers on either net. And on top of th

libc5-dev

1997-05-25 Thread Paolo M. Pumilia
After upgrading to libc5-dev_5.4.20-1.deb on kernel 2.0.27 i was able to run gcc any more. I got gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory I do not know exactly what is the role of cc1, but such file do exist: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1150384 Jan 22 18:54 /usr/lib/

debian 1.2 install

1997-05-25 Thread Richard A Lough
Hi All, I ran into a problem at the early stages of installing debian. I have a soundblaster scsi interface. That means at boot : linux aha1152x=0x340,11,7,1 the install then says: Loading root.bin. Loading linux.boot failed: I suspect this is because the install routine exp

Re: xinetd startup message

1997-05-25 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Sat, 24 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On startup I got a syslogmessage: > > May 23 20:31:06 haitech xinetd[246]: open of /dev/tty failed: No such device > or > address > May 23 20:31:06 haitech xinetd[246]: Started working: 18 available services The failure of opening /dev/tty is a no

INN timeout

1997-05-25 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey I'm looking for a way a can tell INN to keep the line 'open' for a longer period of time (nnrpd <-> client)... anyone know how to configure it, or should I recompile INN ? thanks.. -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //

Segfault with SVGAlib utils

1997-05-25 Thread Dan Everton
I've sent a message to this list about this before but received no reply. I'm trying again. Everytime I attempt to run some utilities (gs4.03, tmview, etc.) I get a segfault with signal 11. I have no idea what this means and I'm completely confused because some other utilities (zgv and lockvc)

Re: fvwm2 FvwmPager or hook problem? [db]

1997-05-25 Thread Eric G. Stern
If you have the default system.fvwm2rc file active, it also starts the pager at the end. To get the pager on all desktops, you have to put Style "FvwmPager" Sticky somewhere in the initializaion. Putting it in post.hook works for instance. Eric Stern -- TO UNS

Re: gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
On Sat, 24 May 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > The documentation that I read saying to disable gpm was about a year or > possibly more old. It could be that gpm has evolved to be more x-friendly > since then. > I have been using mine together for a year or more. I was using Slackware then. Mo

Re: fvwm2 FvwmPager or hook problem? [db]

1997-05-25 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> If you have the default system.fvwm2rc file active, it also > starts the pager at the end. To get the pager on all desktops, > you have to put > > Style "FvwmPager" Sticky > > somewhere in the initializaion. Putting it in post.hook works > for instance. Thanks. (I did finally figure out h

Re: gpm and X or not? - SOLVED

1997-05-25 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > On Sat, 24 May 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > > > Everything I have read has always said to be sure to DISABLE gpm before > > using X. > > > > > > On Sat, 24 May 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > > > > > > > > Can GPM and X co-exist or not? > > > > > > >

Re: gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! gpm and X definitely seem not to get along together on my laptop. if gpm is running, X gives regular 'signal 11' errors when moving the mouse. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Camm Maguire == "The

Re: supposed fvwm2 menus

1997-05-25 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Daniel S. Barclay: ... > > I just installed the fvwm2 package, but the application menu is pretty much > > empty. > > > > Do I have to reinstall every package that has a menu entry? ... > > (I assume you're using frozen or unstable, not old debian 1.2

Compiling IRC][/SOCKS

1997-05-25 Thread Mike Patterson
I'm trying to compile the source from /home/mike/ircII.firewall.tar using socks4b... I get the following error... I figured there was an include I needed to throw in, but I can't find such a beast. bash# make cc -g -DSOCKS -DIRCLIB=\"/root/IRC/\" -DIRCPATH=\".:~/.irc:/root/IRC/script\" -c irc.c

Re: supposed fvwm2 menus

1997-05-25 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel S. Barclay: > Oh, no; don't assume that. I need more reliability than unstable, and > haven't downloaded frozen yet. (How can Debian 1.2 be old; 1.3 isn't > quite released yet, is it? :-) ) 1.2's old because it hasn't changed in many months. We're still developing the menu system, and wh

Yet another PPP question

1997-05-25 Thread Douglas Bates
I have been using Debian 1.3 with a 2.1.35 kernel at home. I usually connect to my ISP using xisp but I also have pppd configured. Recently I upgraded to libc6. I'm not sure that I got all the needed pieces in place. One side-effect of the upgrade is that both pppd and xisp now fail immediately

Re: Security: logging

1997-05-25 Thread Dima
>>>Matthew Tebbens wrote: > >I'm using xinetd(xinetd.conf). >In xinetd.conf I have the following defaults for all services: >defaults >{ >log_type= SYSLOG daemon >log_on_success = PID HOST EXIT DURATION >log_on_failure = HOST ATTEMPT RECORD >} >

Re: gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread Dima
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... With this config, gpm creates pseudo >mouse data on /dev/gpmdata. Then I have /dev/mouse linked to >/dev/gpmdata, and I can point all other programs (X, dosemu, etc) to >/dev/mouse (configured as mouse systems). My mouse is configured like that and I found

Re: Security: logging

1997-05-25 Thread Dima
>>>I wrote: >Sorry to rtmf, but `man 5 xinetd.conf` will tell you all you need. Oops, a typo ^ -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: Yet another PPP question

1997-05-25 Thread W.D.McKinney
On 25-May-97 Douglas Bates wrote: >I have been using Debian 1.3 with a 2.1.35 kernel at home. I usually >connect to my ISP using xisp but I also have pppd configured. > >Recently I upgraded to libc6. I'm not sure that I got all the needed >pieces in place. One side-effect of the upgrade is that

Help with mouse!

1997-05-25 Thread Benjamin White, M.D.
Hello all, I have been struggling with getting my mouse to work for quite some time now. I have read the FAQ and HowTo, and think I have been doing everything right. But when I try out my mouse with select or start gpm I get : gpm: /dev/mouse: Device or resource busy /dev/mouse is a soft link

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-25 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Toens Bueker wrote: > On May 23, Richard L Shepherd wrote > > > > $ unset termcap > > > > Sorry to say but that doesn't do it either. Any other ideas? > > NB: It goes fine from a virtual console and an rxvt, just not an xterm. > > I'm guessing that it's the colors that an x

Re: Yet another PPP question

1997-05-25 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 25 May, Douglas Bates wrote: > I have been using Debian 1.3 with a 2.1.35 kernel at home. I usually > connect to my ISP using xisp but I also have pppd configured. > > Recently I upgraded to libc6. I'm not sure that I got all the needed > pieces in place. One side-effect of the upgrade is t

Re: localize problem after upgrading to libc6

1997-05-25 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 24 May, Bob Nielsen wrote: > When I reported the same problem, someone suggested changing LANG from > 'us' to 'en'. Since doing so, I have not had any problems with > StarOffice. Maybe there is a more standard nomenclature for german than > 'de_DE' (just plain 'de' possibly?) > Remember: It w

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-25 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > $ unset termcap > > > > Sorry to say but that doesn't do it either. Any other ideas? NB: It > > goes fine from a virtual console and an rxvt, just not an xterm. I'm > > guessing that it's the colors that an xterm is not capable of that is > > the pro

Re: IP-Accounting HOWTO?

1997-05-25 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > On May 22, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote > : I'd need to get a finer split in traffic list, I'd need to get an > : accounted list indicating each service and each new destination > : separately. Is there a package to do that yet? > > Try net-acct.

debian 1.2 install

1997-05-25 Thread David B. Teague
Richard Lough writes: > From: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 25-MAY-1997 03:49:04.98 > Subj: debian 1.2 install > > > I ran into a problem at the early stages of installing debian. > > I have a soundblaster scsi interface. > That means at boot : linux aha1152x=0x340,11,7,1 > >

EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-25 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
Hi All, I'm having weird problems with EMACS. I just installed Debian 1.2 (rex-fixed, actually, so that would be 1.2.15 at the time I snarfed it, methinks) -- a clean install, onto a fresh HD. As I recall, EMACS required some X library or other (I don't have X on my system), which seemed odd to