Re: xcontrib and xproc packages

1997-10-05 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I need to install the xproc package for xcontrib, but it requires > elf-x11r6lib which is not available.. Where can I find this package or > another verion of xproc which doesn't require elf-x11r6lib? The xproc package,

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-05 Thread Britton
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:28:24AM -0800, Britton wrote: > > > > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it > > > act/function like the SB16? > > > > It will act like

Re: mp3 player application

1997-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 02:18:18PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > I'm looking for a MP3 player which has the following features: > * for Linux > * play lists > * shuffle and repeat > * view/edit MP3 tags > * fade in/out > * play two songs at once (one fading in while the other fades out) > * pr

Re: Sound support in kernel-image-2.0.30

1997-10-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone please help me interpret the following messages: > > during boot: > > "/dev/hda3 (my Linux part.) has reached maximal mount count ... forced > check" This is a harmless message. If you mount and unmount an ext2 partition a certain nu

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 04:35:21PM -0800, Britton wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:28:24AM -0800, Britton wrote: > > > > > What you want is awedrv, which is available as a debian source package. > > > Trouble is, it won't compile as a module, whic

Re: telnet users

1997-10-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > how do I kill an idle telnet user? Manually? Kill his/her shell process. Automatically? Use idled. This program removes users that have been idle too long. > how do I watch a telnet user? Use ttysnoop. Ttysnoop is in the admin section, idled is in non-f

Re: netscape communicator 4.03

1997-10-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > Has anyone gotten an error like this one when loading Netscape 4.03? How > can I fix this? > > netscape: locale `C' not supported. Yes, this is caused by version 3.3-6 of the xlib6 package. Downgrade it to 3.3-5 and you'll be fine. If you can't find it,

Re: mp3 player application

1997-10-05 Thread Paul Miller
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 02:18:18PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > I'm looking for a MP3 player which has the following features: > > * for Linux > > * play lists > > * shuffle and repeat > > * view/edit MP3 tags > > * fade in/out > > * play two so

Re: xcontrib and xproc packages

1997-10-05 Thread Paul Miller
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > I need to install the xproc package for xcontrib, but it requires > > elf-x11r6lib which is not available.. Where can I find this package or > > another verion of xproc which doesn't require elf-x11r6lib? >

[OFFTOPIC] fighting spam: how to read mail headers?

1997-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello! Could someone be so kind and drop me a pointer to some documentatiuon, how I can read the mail headers to fight spam properly. I would like to find out the origin of the mail without bothering admins from faked domains. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Marcus Brinkma

Re: xcontrib and xproc packages

1997-10-05 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > The xproc package, as well as several other packages, has an obsolete > > dependancy on the virtual package elf-x11r6lib. This virt

Re: re- thinkpad install

1997-10-05 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Problem #1 - I cannot access the floppy on the ThinkPad > root: linux floppy=thinkpad > Were is this referenced in the debian install ? For some reason, the Thinkpad inverts the meaning of some floppy control lines. You always have to put

Dosemu and a Matrox Millenium?

1997-10-05 Thread Johannes Martinez
Has anybody had any luck getting this to work? I can't seem to get any graphics modes. Or has anybody been able to get QPV working under dosemu, i really want to use this graphics viewer. johannes martinez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

Re: Converting a ps file from letter to A4 ? fig2dev ?

1997-10-05 Thread Carey Evans
"Shaul Karl." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Is there a debian package that contains fig2dev or an equivalent utility ? % zgrep fig2dev Contents.gz usr/X11R6/bin/fig2devgraphics/transfig usr/X11R6/man/man1/fig2dev.1xg

Network frustration

1997-10-05 Thread Mike Patterson
Ok, to start with, my network was working beautifully until this afternoon. Then, without (explainable) reason, two of the computers on the network had their network cards die. One was on the fileserver. I replaced the cards, and now all of the machines can ping each other again... however, noth

savelog with "immediate" compress

1997-10-05 Thread Debian List
Hi, I want to use savelog but I need the option that the .0 file created gets compressed immediately... Can savelog do that? Thanks Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: savelog with "immediate" compress

1997-10-05 Thread Joey Hess
Debian List wrote: > I want to use savelog but I need the option that the .0 file created gets > compressed immediately... Can savelog do that? No. However, I think if you run the same savelog command trice in a row, you will get the effect you want. file.0 will still be uncompressed, but the logs

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-05 Thread Britton
> > > You HAVE to install it as a module, because isapnp must be started first, > > > and then the sound module has to be installed. In fact, isapnp will be > > > started automagically by the current initrd scripts, so you have just to > > > install it, and add two entrys two the isapnp config fi

Problems w/menu files, and update-menus, fvwm95

1997-10-05 Thread James A. Abercromby II
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I cannot seem to successfully load menu entries in fvwm95 by creating menus files in /usr/lib/menus for the following two apps: xpostit+ xdvi and then running update-menus at the prompt Although I have successfully created for the below listed apps: zircon lyx

Re: procmail emulate mail error

1997-10-05 Thread Dale Harrison
> > Is there a way to make procmail emulate a mailer error. E.g. when I'm > spammed, procmail (or actually some program that would be run from > procmail) would reply with something along the lines of an unknown user. > This seems like a fairly complicated script and I'm not sure it would > actua

Re: Problems w/menu files, and update-menus, fvwm95

1997-10-05 Thread joost witteveen
> I cannot seem to successfully load menu entries in fvwm95 by creating > menus files in /usr/lib/menus for the following two apps: > xpostit+ > xdvi Were you the one on IRC who complained about that too? Sorry, but you ran away before I could answer you. > I have tried variations of the format

Re: non-English Linux use (Dead keys?)

1997-10-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Or is a non-English keyboard map sufficient ? > > If more than a key.map is needed, what might this be ? > > Does anyone know how to configure a keyboard to allow the insertion > of accented characters under X? > > I know it's got something to do

Re: non-English Linux use

1997-10-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another thing you can do is to make an ~/.inputrc file for bash/readline. > Here is the mine: > > "\e[1~": beginning-of-line > "\e[3~": delete-char > "\e[4~": end-of-line > set meta-flag on > set convert-meta off > set output-meta on > set bell-s

asmail

1997-10-05 Thread Paul Miller
For some reason or another, asmail in the afterstep configuration does not work when xdm is not loaded. When using xdm, I can run asmail manually and everything works fine.. I don't know why it won't work in the wharf module though in xdm.. anyone have this problem? Heres what's in my default aft

Re: Network frustration

1997-10-05 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Mike Patterson wrote: > Ok, to start with, my network was working beautifully until this > afternoon. Then, without (explainable) reason, two of the computers > on the network had their network cards die. One was on the fileserver. > > I replaced the cards, and now all of the

Re: Problems w/menu files, and update-menus, fvwm95

1997-10-05 Thread ychim
IRC? there is a debian channel? what is it? joost witteveen wrote: > > > I cannot seem to successfully load menu entries in fvwm95 by creating > > menus files in /usr/lib/menus for the following two apps: > > xpostit+ > > xdvi > > Were you the one on IRC who complained about that too? > Sorry

Re: xcontrib and xproc packages

1997-10-05 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
>> > The xproc package, as well as several other packages, has an obsolete >> > dependancy on the virtual package elf-x11r6lib. This virtual package used >> > to be provided by xlib6, but it was removed almost a year after it had >> > been announced as obsolete. Installing the package with the >

irc.debian.org (was Re: Problems w/menu files...)

1997-10-05 Thread joost witteveen
Thanks for your email. I haven't recieved email for over 2 hours now, and I was beginning there were conspiracies against me :) > IRC? there is a debian channel? what is it? server: irc.debian.org chanel: #debian Come and join us! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -s

Re: procmail emulate mail error

1997-10-05 Thread Mark Plaksin
> "BM" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BM> Is there a way to make procmail emulate a mailer error. E.g. when I'm BM> spammed, procmail (or actually some program that would be run from BM> procmail) would reply with something along the lines of an unknown BM> user. This seems

what is char-major-10?

1997-10-05 Thread Lawrence
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The Truth of Debian (want a laugh?)

1997-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
I managed it :-) I decoded the hidden messages in /usr/debian/debian-manifesto. The key is the perl code /usr/doc/perl/examples/travesty. Run it on the file with the hidden message, and you will find out the truth. Here is what I saw: * The Truth about the quality of Debian:

Re: xdm background image

1997-10-05 Thread Marco Bravi
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 16:11:25 -0400 (EDT) > From: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User , > Linux Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: xdm background image > > How can I display a background image (gif/jpg) on the xdm login prompt? I have

Re: irc.debian.org (was Re: Problems w/menu files...)

1997-10-05 Thread James A. Abercromby II
Joost, Yo, man thanx alot. Hey, cool, I am assuming that you are in NL? Holland. Suave. Hey, have you ever checked Replay's homepage? Any way, were you being sarcastic in that email dude? I wasn't complaining. Plus, I didn't run away, I went for a ride on my bike. BTW I am constanting hangin

Searching_for_representatives

1997-10-05 Thread casinomarket
Dear Friend! We are offering an exclusive, unprecedented opportunity to earn money, and even start your own marketing business in the field of online gambling. We are a legitimate highly regarded firm, which has now developed a technologically advanced web product that is a completely unique and

Fvwm95 new version---is it a bug?

1997-10-05 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Is it a bug? I spent a couple of hours the other day learning how to edit the config files for fvwm95, and got some nice features working, when... Lo and behold, I found a NEW version of fvwm95 in hamm... When I installed it, it stomped on my newly edited config files. It didn't ask. The s

Re: xcontrib and xproc packages

1997-10-05 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > You could also fetch Paul Seelig's equivs package from > http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig/debian.html > This is a dummy package. You can place elf-x11r6lib into "provides:" > and rebuild it (instructions how to do this should be inside the > package by now). Then you i

Compose key? (Can a windoze keyboard be configured to...)

1997-10-05 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Can a windoze keyboard be configured, so those three extra keys can do something interesting? Like act as a compose key? a meta key? Alan Davis -- "I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share itMarianas High School

idled package

1997-10-05 Thread Paul Miller
Is anyone using the idled package? It does kick anyone off... I tried restarting it and it still doesn't do anything.. has anyone gotten this package to work? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Fvwm95 new version---is it a bug?

1997-10-05 Thread joost witteveen
> Is it a bug? Looks like it, but I cannot find it. > I spent a couple of hours the other day learning how to edit the > config files for fvwm95, and got some nice features working, when... > > Lo and behold, I found a NEW version of fvwm95 in hamm... Hamm is "unstable". Whenever, after yo

limits.h

1997-10-05 Thread Ralph Winslow
Lately, when compiling various packages (pgp, perl5.004-2) I get errors like: /usr/include/limits.h:52: No include path in which to find limits.h Since it found limits.h in /usr/include I don't get it. I got by one of these by adding #define MAX_NAMELEN 255 but the latest one has me baffled. C

Re: idled package

1997-10-05 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Mine works. Where are they logging in from? I think by default it's set to exclude logins from the console. Check /etc/idled.cf. Watch out for drastically growing logfiles too... I don't think this program has been maintained for awhile; I symlinked /var/log/idled.log to /dev/null (or else it fills

icq - java-version

1997-10-05 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, recently we had a discussion about the pros and cons of icq. I just wanted to check out the java-version. I installed jdk-1.0.2 and got these errors: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no awt in shared library path at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java)

Re: limits.h

1997-10-05 Thread joost witteveen
> Lately, when compiling various packages (pgp, perl5.004-2) > I get errors like: > > /usr/include/limits.h:52: No include path in which to find limits.h > > Since it found limits.h in /usr/include I don't get it. Gcc found limits.h there too. But now it wants the one in usr/include/linux/limit

traplayer?

1997-10-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
Has anyone on the list been able to get traplayer (a non-X interface to Real Audio's raplayer) to work with Debian 1.3.1? I keep getting an "unexpected end of file" error with it. Could this be related to the bugs in bash-2.0? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuc

Re: what is char-major-10?

1997-10-05 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Miscellaneous char devices. See /usr/src/kernel-source-*/Documantation/devices.txt. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Network frustration

1997-10-05 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Mike Patterson wrote: > When trying to connect to the server via telnet, it takes a horrendous time > (in the order of minutes) between where it says "Escape character is '^]'" and > "Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 shadowglen.ml.org" This sounds like in may be a DNS problem. The lates

Re: Network frustration

1997-10-05 Thread George Bonser
On 05-Oct-97 Craig Sanders wrote: > >my guess is that your problem may be broken DNS, mostly because of the >telnet delay. is named still running on your name server machine? can it >resolve hostnames and ip addresses? can other machines on the network >use it to resolve names? are all the zone fi

Re: [OFFTOPIC] fighting spam: how to read mail headers?

1997-10-05 Thread Frank Barknecht
Marcus Brinkmann hat gesagt: // Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Hello! > > Could someone be so kind and drop me a pointer to some documentatiuon, how I > can read the mail headers to fight spam properly. > > I would like to find out the origin of the mail without bothering admins > from faked domai

Re: savelog with "immediate" compress

1997-10-05 Thread Debian List
Yes, thank you. However, that would cause the "useless" creation of the .0 file because it will be nearly empty... :( each savelog would take up 2 files. Anyone used the "logrotate" program (redhat has it) Thanks Ricardo On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Debian List wrote: > > I want to

Re: re- thinkpad install

1997-10-05 Thread frank
Thank you very much Carey, your suggestions were very helpfull. Problem : However, the CD-rom access is still not mounted. and I do not know how access it. There does not seem to be a scsi recognized. the dmesg output lists : --- Failed initialization

Re: limits.h

1997-10-05 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 5 Oct, Ralph Winslow wrote: > Lately, when compiling various packages (pgp, perl5.004-2) > I get errors like: > > /usr/include/limits.h:52: No include path in which to find limits.h > > Since it found limits.h in /usr/include I don't get it. I got by > one of these by adding > This has puz

Re: xcontrib and xproc packages

1997-10-05 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 5 Oct, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> You could also fetch Paul Seelig's equivs package from >> http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig/debian.html >> This is a dummy package. You can place elf-x11r6lib into "provides:" >> and rebuild it (instructions how to do this should be in

Re: mono monitor with x

1997-10-05 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Attached is my XF86Config which I use I am very new to linux so this file is not clean yet, but it works... I have an old 386 20MHz with 6.5M RAM, Hercules monitor and MDA with a parallel port on it... If you are working on a similar system, be aware that it takes ~3min to load X.( for Linux

Re: savelog with "immediate" compress

1997-10-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Debian List wrote: > However, that would cause the "useless" creation of the .0 file because it > will be nearly empty... :( each savelog would take up 2 files. It's just a shell script. Copy it somewhere (so you're changes won't be lost when a new savelog is installed) and

one pentium, two vga adaptors, and linux?

1997-10-05 Thread Britton
Is this possible with the intel platform? With linux? Any idea where I might go to read more about it if it is? __ I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg. -- Thor

kde/Intrinsic.h

1997-10-05 Thread Paul Miller
I'm trying to build KDE and the configuration script says it can't find X.. it's looking for a file called X11/Intrinsic.h .. does anyone know which package contains this file? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

xdm: killing xconsole after user logs on

1997-10-05 Thread Paul Miller
how can I do this? Thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-05 Thread Lawrence
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:28:24AM -0800, Britton wrote: > > > > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it > > > act/function like the SB16? > > > > It will act like a SB16 yes, but this i

Re: icq - java-version

1997-10-05 Thread Lawrence
where did you get the java version icq? Toens Bueker wrote: > > Hi *, > > recently we had a discussion about the pros and cons of > icq. I just wanted to check out the java-version. I > installed jdk-1.0.2 and got these errors: > > java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no awt in shared library path >

Re: xdm: killing xconsole after user logs on

1997-10-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > how can I do this? You can do this in the Xstartup script, which is run as root after the user has logged in and before the Xsession script is run. These scripts are in /etc/X11/xdm on a Debian system. You can simply put a line "killall xconsole" in Xstart

Linux Gazette

1997-10-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
Hi, I was wondering: when will there be packages for issues 20, 21 and 22 of the Linux Gazette? The latest package I can find on debian is issue 19, which came out in July. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 07:49:34AM +1000, Lawrence wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > How your isapnp.conf file looks like? can you send it to me? Just done a minute ago (anyone else?) > > > > You just have to install and congfigure isapnp, that it is (and add the > > sound module to the modu

Re: xdm background image

1997-10-05 Thread Jeffrey Ebert
Marco Bravi wrote: > Obviously, you may want to remove it once a user logs in, just in case he > did not set any particular background that will do this. So I added this > line in my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -gray > Good information, Marco, but I think that resetting the

Re: icq - java-version

1997-10-05 Thread Lawrence
Toens Bueker wrote: > > Hi *, > > recently we had a discussion about the pros and cons of > icq. I just wanted to check out the java-version. I > installed jdk-1.0.2 and got these errors: > > java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no awt in shared library path > at java.lang.Runtime.loa

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-05 Thread Lawrence
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 07:49:34AM +1000, Lawrence wrote: > > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > How your isapnp.conf file looks like? can you send it to me? > > Just done a minute ago (anyone else?) > > > > > > > You just have to install and congfigure isapnp, that it

voyager package?

1997-10-05 Thread Julio Maia
Someone is maintaining or planning to maintain voyager (Java mobile agents/distributed objects libraries by objectspace http://www.objectspace.com) in debian? Voyager is quite popular right now, and is free for non-commercial and most commercial uses, so I guess it can be supported without pr

PS/2 IntelliMouse && X 3.3-3 problems...

1997-10-05 Thread Jason Costomiris
Greetings... When I first got my M$ IntelliMouse, I set it up with the serial adapter on COM1. Now that I have a USR PalmPilot, I need that COM port so that I can HotSync under Lose95. I realized that my MB had a PS2 mouse connector on it, so I uncovered the hole on the back of my case and hooke