Re: SB AWE 64 versus Soft. Syns. for making midi... Also, m

1997-09-18 Thread shawn . fumo
>>> I figure that maybe I can spend the money on a midi-compatable >>> keyboard instead. Anyone with exp. on using one of those under >>> Linux? I saw a keyboard for about $170 at Electronic Boutique, which >>> was basically one devoted to Midi, without any samples built in. That >>> seems to be t

Re: comment about Linux

1997-09-18 Thread Trevor Barrie
On 13 Sep 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > The only solution is a terminal attached to your computer, some people > use their calculators (the better TI and HP ones) for this purpose. Okay, this I have to learn how to do.:) How good a calculator do you need? I have a HP 48S with (I think) 32 k of

Re: graphics accelarator cards ?

1997-09-18 Thread Richard Morin
On 17 Sep 1997, Stephen P. Ryan wrote: > I think Matrox is a good choice, though you do have to be careful. Current > support is excellent for the Millenium and the Mystique, alpha / early-beta > level for the Millenium II, and this is the first I've heard of the Mystique > > I've been very happ

Re: graphics accelarator cards ?

1997-09-18 Thread Bruce Perens
My problem is that the best Open GL cards don't seem to run on Linux. Has anyone had good experience with one? Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Problem with serial port?

1997-09-18 Thread Bob
Thanks to everyone who responded. The problem was an incorrectly configured interupt for COM1. Needed to be int 5 instead of 4. Is there a way to find out what interupts are in use in my Linux system? I'm not sure of what is using int4 and would like to find out. Thanks again Bob On Tue, 16 S

Re: xscreensaver

1997-09-18 Thread lance
> Hi. Trying to run xscreensaver and I get the following messages: > > Xlib: connection to "0:0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display :0.0 > > Running fvwm95...43a and x 3.3-3, kernel 2.0.27, xscreensaver 1.27.1. Are yo

Re: xscreensaver

1997-09-18 Thread lance
> Hi. Trying to run xscreensaver and I get the following messages: > > Xlib: connection to "0:0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display :0.0 > > Running fvwm95...43a and x 3.3-3, kernel 2.0.27, xscreensaver 1.27.1. Are yo

Re: graphics accelarator cards ?

1997-09-18 Thread Richard Morin
On 17 Sep 1997, Stephen P. Ryan wrote: > --- end of quote --- > I think Matrox is a good choice, though you do have to be careful. Current > support is excellent for the Millenium and the Mystique, alpha / early-beta > level for the Millenium II, and this is the first I've heard of the Mystique

Re: Problem with serial port?

1997-09-18 Thread Bruce Perens
Cat /proc/interrupts -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Re: reading mail with gnus

1997-09-18 Thread lance
> > Hi, > > I'm trying to set gnus to manage email with split methods. > Using XEmacs I was able to configure the methods but I > couldn't find how to have the e-mails shown in the screen. > Is there some tutorial/howto to do this? Can someone help me > with a step-by-step gui

SOCKS proxy with win95 clients

1997-09-18 Thread Bujtar Janos
Hello ! DOes anyone use SOCKS 4.2beta with w95 clients How can I set up Netscape or M$ explorer to work with SOCKS proxy?? THNX! jam -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

[Q] Need suggestion on hardware/config

1997-09-18 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hi all, I am sorry if this not exactly the right question to ask here -- but I will still try: I am running Debian 1.2 with kernel 2.1.51 on a 486 dx100 -- I would like to upgrade it to a dual pentium 100 (not pro) I already have one pentium 100 processor -- now I need to by another pentium 100 a

[ 0.84 Debian compile ?]

1997-09-18 Thread Victor Torrico
I sent this also to the mutt users list. Victor -Forwarded message from Victor Torrico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:38:49 -0400 From: Victor Torrico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mutt User Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 0.84 Debian comp

KDE

1997-09-18 Thread bhaal
Has anyone tried to compile and successfully tried to compile KDE? Its a new windows manager which is still in alpha testing stage, but looks nice... if u have, could u please tell me what order u compiled the packages in and what u developer source u have installed on your system. Thanx.. --

Re: Where is resolv.conf?

1997-09-18 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Thomas J. Malloy wrote: > > If debian does not use it where do I dns and gateway information. Thanks > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? > e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . If you have loaded the dns bind package all of the

RE: X connections refused between hosts (foo/unix:0 syntax)

1997-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > On 18-Sep-97 David Wright wrote: > >I've obviously missed something in the explanations of .Xauthority files > >and MIT cookies. I have two Debian 1.3 machines, foo and bar with > >essentially identical configurations, with few changes from how thing

Re: SOCKS proxy with win95 clients

1997-09-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Bujtar Janos wrote: > > Hello ! > > DOes anyone use SOCKS 4.2beta with w95 clients > > How can I set up Netscape or M$ explorer to work with SOCKS proxy?? > > THNX! I believe M$ IE has socks support. Look at the network preferences for proxy settings. Netscape definitely has SOCKS4 s

Re: X connections refused between hosts (foo/unix:0 syntax)

1997-09-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
David Wright wrote: > > I've obviously missed something in the explanations of .Xauthority files > and MIT cookies. I have two Debian 1.3 machines, foo and bar with > essentially identical configurations, with few changes from how things > install themselves. I start X as user myself on foo. Typin

xterm and utmp

1997-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Some time in the past few months, xterm has forgotten how to write to the utmp file again. When I first started using Debian (0.93R6) this was broken, then it got fixed, now it's broken again. There seems to be an ever-active shell game when it comes to the format of the utmp file. To observe th

Re: [ 0.84 Debian compile ?]

1997-09-18 Thread joost witteveen
> > Has anyone been able to successfully compile 0.84 using the Debian GNU/Linux > distribution. I have installed all legal combinations of gcc, cpp, bin86. > binutils, libc5 and libc6 with no success. "configure" is successfull with > no problems. "make install" gives the following error messa

Re: elf-x11r6lib ?

1997-09-18 Thread joost witteveen
> Hi All, > > Trying to install the xforms package I get the following error message: > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xforms0.86: > xforms0.86 depends on elf-x11r6lib; however: > Package elf-x11r6lib is not installed. > > Where is "Package elf-x11r6lib"? That package d

Where is resolv.conf?

1997-09-18 Thread Thomas J. Malloy
If debian does not use it where do I dns and gateway information. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: X connections refused between hosts (foo/unix:0 syntax)

1997-09-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
David Wright wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > > On 18-Sep-97 David Wright wrote: > > >I've obviously missed something in the explanations of .Xauthority files > > >and MIT cookies. I have two Debian 1.3 machines, foo and bar with > > >essentially identical configurations,

Re: Incoming PPP question - subnetting

1997-09-18 Thread Kevin Traas
>Hmmm. What's the netmask on the ethernet interface? If it's set to >255.255.255.224 then everything should work fine even though Yes, it is. >the NT box sets 255.255.255.0 on the PPP link. This is because the >routing algorithm chooses the route with the most matching bits (that >is, the one wi

elf-x11r6lib ?

1997-09-18 Thread Victor Torrico
Hi All, Trying to install the xforms package I get the following error message: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xforms0.86: xforms0.86 depends on elf-x11r6lib; however: Package elf-x11r6lib is not installed. Where is "Package elf-x11r6lib"? Regards, -- Victor Torrico

Re: Where is resolv.conf?

1997-09-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Thomas J. Malloy wrote: > > If debian does not use it where do I dns and gateway information. Thanks > debian does use it. If it isn't there create it. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troub

ESS vs SB16 sound cards?

1997-09-18 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
With the ESS 16-bit sound cards about $20 cheaper than the SB16 stuff, I'd consider getting one. How good is the ESS support under Linux? How about DOS? (I'd like 16-bit sound for the few DOS games I play, and so far as I know the ESS cards are only compatible with the (8-bit) SB Pro. Does a

Running DOSEmu as a regular user...

1997-09-18 Thread Dale Martin
I _have_ to be missing something simple. My /etc/dosemu/users looks like: dmartin c_all root c_all I'm user "dmartin". I type "xdos", and it says: ~> xdos Illegal User!!! I have read/write permission on /var/lib/dosemu/hdiamge.first, and the floppy drive. Here are the permissions of /usr

secure-su

1997-09-18 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: > The version of su you're using (from shellutils) isn't part of the > shadow password suite. It's smart enough to use shadow password > functions if it finds them in the library, which it does, but other > shadow features (ENV_SUPATH, SU_WHEEL, MD5 pas

Netstd Package Installation Failure

1997-09-18 Thread <-------->
Hi, I recently downloaded Debian From the ftp site and installed and started installing different packages but theres one that im stuck at The package is called netstd_2.13-1.deb.this is what installation tells me: dpkg-deb:subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pipe) dpkg:error processing netst

Mail command

1997-09-18 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, As I am on a university network I have no right to send mail on my machine. So I haven't installed any mail software until now. However, I have set up my web page with stuff for downloading and a form. I would like to have the cgi script to send an internal mail to a user on my machine , no m

Re: 'tell' is missing from libc6

1997-09-18 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It appears the "tell(path)" command is missing from libc6. What > should I be using instead? The only "tell" that I could find in libc-5.4.33 is the following one: file sysdeps/linux/tell.c: off_t tell (int fildes) { return __lseek (fildes, 0, SEEK_C

RE: X connections refused between hosts (foo/unix:0 syntax)

1997-09-18 Thread George Bonser
On 18-Sep-97 David Wright wrote: >I've obviously missed something in the explanations of .Xauthority files >and MIT cookies. I have two Debian 1.3 machines, foo and bar with >essentially identical configurations, with few changes from how things >install themselves. I start X as user myself on

Re: HELP: problems compiling wine

1997-09-18 Thread Brian White
> I tried it with MS-Word 6.0c, MS-Excel and Matlab > 4.2c (all 16bit applications) and they run to my satisfaction. > I have not tested them thorougly but I am quite impressed already. You got Word-6 to run under it? Wow! I never been able to get it to run ever under the 9708xx versions. Excel

Video Card and SVGA and dosemu

1997-09-18 Thread adavis
I bought a Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM. This is the safe route, I think, as there are some 2MB boards with a slower RAMDAC chip. I guess SVGAlib doesn't support this card, and this is certainly a problem What I am wondering about though is dosemu. I was able to get dosemu (the debian package)

xterm and utmp

1997-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Some time in the past few months, xterm has forgotten how to write to the utmp file again. When I first started using Debian (0.93R6) this was broken, then it got fixed, now it's broken again. There seems to be an ever-active shell game when it comes to the format of the utmp file. To observe th

Re: linux and windoz

1997-09-18 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Marc Fleureck wrote: > To make a long story short: it seems to me that wine is not advancing > very well (Word 2 starts ! wow !). NTFS file system is still alpha. > Recently I discovered (free!) Willows Software TWIN sources > (www.willows.com) ? Is this any better ? Any sug

SVGATextMode with Matrox Millenium

1997-09-18 Thread Jo Sender
Has anyone configured a Matrox Millenium for SVGATextMode, so that the higher frequenzy modes a accessible ? Especially chipset and clockchip settings. --- Jo Sender ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://www.la.dlr.de/~josender -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

Re: tar archive overwritten

1997-09-18 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 09:44:20AM +, Marc Fleureck wrote: : URGENT. I know this is not the wright place to ask this kind of question, : but it is a very urgent one ! My news server is down, so I try here. : It could have happened on a linux system too ! Here's the problem : description: : :

Netscape freezes starting Java

1997-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Under both the Debian "supported" Netscape, 3.01, and under the new 4.03 version available at ftp.netscape.com, the browser freezes solid whenever it tries to start a Java applet. Netscape wedges solid and doesn't even acknowledge expose events from the X server. The only thing to do is kill it.

Re: setuid root CGI's - how bad it is?

1997-09-18 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 04:57:02AM +, Eloy A. Paris wrote: : Excuse my ignorance but how bad is it to have a setuid CGI script? : I know there should be big security issues with this but I don't : know what it is. Are you 100% sure that your CGI has no bugs, no potential buffer overruns, doesn

Re: Mail command

1997-09-18 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Hi, > > As I am on a university network I have no right to send mail on my > machine. So I haven't installed any mail software until now. However, I > have set up my web page with stuff for downloading and a form. I would > like to have the cgi script to send an internal mail to a user on my > m

Re: Where is resolv.conf?

1997-09-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: > If debian does not use it where do I dns and gateway information. Thanks > Debain certainly uses resolv.conf! You may not have created that file during the initial installation, if you stopped too soon in "Configure the Network". If you skip this st

Re: linux and windoz

1997-09-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Marc Fleureck wrote: > For a long time I dream about running windoz on top of linux. I would > feel very comfortable runnig ms-office or other windoz programs next > to linux programs. (besides, the organisation I work for has > standardized on windows (NT4)) > > Maybe I d

X connections refused between hosts (foo/unix:0 syntax)

1997-09-18 Thread David Wright
I've obviously missed something in the explanations of .Xauthority files and MIT cookies. I have two Debian 1.3 machines, foo and bar with essentially identical configurations, with few changes from how things install themselves. I start X as user myself on foo. Typing xauth list says foo/unix:0

Poppassd - Password changing

1997-09-18 Thread Rowan Deppeler
Hi all, Has anyone had any experience with poppassd? (Installed from the .deb package) I am trying to get it running and all attempts crash out with '500 Unable to change password' username, existing password and new password are accepted and then the error is reported. Any ideas... Thanks.

Re: pcmcia/linux2.030 kernel and new problem

1997-09-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Marc" == Marc Fleureck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> The new kernel 2.0.30 boots ! Thanks for all the tips. Card Marc> Services starts and recognizes the card ! but .. with Marc> another error from cardmgr: Marc> "Loading failed ! The module symbols (from linux_2.0.30) don't Marc>

Re: setuid root CGI's - how bad it is?

1997-09-18 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, At 08:11 AM 9/18/97 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: >Are you 100% sure that your CGI has no bugs, no potential buffer overruns, >doesn't trust input gathered from the User Agent, blah blah blah? > >If not, and you shouldn't be 100% sure, don't run CGI's suid to root. No, I am not sure and I k

No more mail

1997-09-18 Thread Paulo Ramos
I stop receiving mail from this mailing list. Anyone know why? TIA Paulo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: howto enlarge root partition by merging with other?

1997-09-18 Thread spiegl
Hi Dieter, > There is another - more elegant - way: since kernel 2.0.x you can > combine two or more partitions to one big partition. I've stumbled over > this feature while compiling a new kernel and selecting some compile > options. Read the help of the appropriate kernel options and follow the

Motif programming blues

1997-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Can anyone tell me why the following code (in attachments) doesn't work, or point to me someplace that describes in DETAIL the XmLabelWidget class? The lesstif docs describe functions fine, but precious little in the way of the widgets and gadgets. Problem: you give memo no arguments, you get a bl

Re: How to upgrade libc6?

1997-09-18 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hi,all > >Simply, 'dpkg -i libc6_2.0.X.deb' can't instlled. > >How to Upgrade from libc5 to libc6? read the libc6 migration howto : posted here once a week or so. andreas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: How to upgrade libc6?

1997-09-18 Thread joost witteveen
> > Hi,all > > Simply, 'dpkg -i libc6_2.0.X.deb' can't instlled. How about telling us the error messages? It worked for me, anyway. > How to Upgrade from libc5 to libc6? Just install the packages. If they don't install, tell us what your error messages are. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECT