Hamm post-install blues - wvdial vs pon/wmppp

1998-09-16 Thread Ken Westerback
When I installed Debian 2.0 I chose 'Dial-Up' and got the large number of useful packages included in that selection. The first time (let's not count the retries) I installed it I postponed the configuration of wvdial, not knowing what it was for, and followed the instructions in the Installation d

Re: Linux for Disabled -- Contact sought

1998-09-16 Thread robbie
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 03:54:26PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > I know of blinux for the visually impared. I do not have the website handy > but you can find it from www.linux.org I think. That site might have other > links to Linux for the disabled. blinux is at http://leb.net/blinux/ I thin

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #953

1998-09-16 Thread Preston Landers
> Subject: Weird fonts problem in X > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:45:30 + > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > I get messages that seem to indicate some fonts are missing, but I can't > figure out how to fix it. If anyone has a clue please tell me! > > Here's what Ne

Re: XEmacs novice customisation

1998-09-16 Thread David Warnock
Matt, Thanks for your reply. I have been attempting the (x)emacs way of selecting text as you describe and I agree the functionality is similar but I find it is not as easy for me to remember. All I needed to remember in MultiEdit was that the cursor keys worked, the control key made them go furt

Re: XEmacs novice customisation

1998-09-16 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:27:27AM +, David Warnock wrote: > I definately do not want to start any kind of flame war on this. I > believe that our preferences here are simply due to the what we learnt > first (the best block support I have ever used was in MultiEdit on > msdos). I also believe

xgalaga: can't fire!

1998-09-16 Thread Matt Garman
I installed the xgalaga deb. It works, mostly (even sound!)...except for the space key: I can't fire! And the "q" and "Q" keys are also useless. Really, I can only move back and forth, which is pretty boring. Anyone know what's up? Thanks

GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, I need urgently be able to use ICQ. I think gtkicq is the better choice, isnit ? So i donwload gtkicq version 0.53. I have done /autogen.sh --prefix=/usr and it went ok. Now when making `make' linux said: bla, bla make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filsin/temp/gtkicq-0.53/su

Re: Fw: PPP and wtmp not working together

1998-09-16 Thread Gavan Murphy
Hi Folks, Peter and Jens have commented on this matter already, but I have a slight variation on the theme. I can get wtmp entries made when the user connects and initiates PPPD, but I fail to get a corresponding entry in wtmp when the session is complete. It is not until another user gets that tt

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread Ian Eure
Don't think a "reset" will do it, as that just manipulates the terminal behaviours... I'll give it a shot anyways in a minute though. As for the ``shutdown -r now'', I know that I can reboot the system and be fine, I just want to fix this without doing that, as I stated in the last sentence of my

Re: is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-16 Thread DMDP
Yes. Emacs recognizes C++ by the file extension ... cc, cpp, etc. The program also has functions, such as ESC a, ESC e, to browse to the beginning and end of statments and to browse between errors. D. -Original Message- From: Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@li

IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-16 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
Hi All, If some kind soul could help, I'd appreciate it. :-) The HOWTO instructions don't seem to work correctly (but more than likely, my lack of understanding is at fault), so I plea for help. :-) THE MACHINES: The firewall machine is running that latest Debian. Aside from a few default thing

Re: is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 09:29:10PM -0400, DMDP wrote: > >I would like to know if there is some kind of "source navigator" mode to > >browse C/C++ under emacs. Investigate etags. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann

Re: g++/gcc system errors

1998-09-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 04:29:39PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: > > > While working on some C++ code for a programming assignment, I got the > following error: > > /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined reference to `main' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > And that is simply after typing "

q: Web/Mail Server

1998-09-16 Thread deans
I am bringing a 256k DSL into my home to connect my Debian Linux Server to. I plan to use it as a Web Server. I am currently running the simple Mosaic Web Server software on it because all I really need to do is serve up HTML, but I have a few questions for anyone who might have an opinion or the

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Eric Jensen wrote: > Well, I reinstalled the debs, and it didn't help..same problems. Anyone > else got ideas? > I just created an anonymous ftp account for my system, copied the libs from /lib as specified below, and it worked fine. > > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Thomas Apel w

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread Ian Eure
No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, it restores the previous mode, eg a graphical mode instead of a text console. When I close my

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Greg Frye wrote: > I have 4 NT Servers running MS SQL Server 6.5 and though there is a lot > of documentation, it isn't always that easy to follow or necessarily > accurate. I have found Linux support through this mailing list and > other newsgroups to be FAR superior to paid

Re: Audio

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > [...] > > The same problems happens to me too. Is occures when my machine is low on > > physical memory and there seems to be not enough room to allocate the DMA > > buffer. When you start some big programs (memory consumption) like > > nets

RE: Modem statistics.

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On 15 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Did you try pppload ? > Franck > > >--- > >Hello, and thanks in advance. > > > >I'm looking for a program to extract modem statistics from my dial-up > >conection to the > >internet. I use the ppp log, but my boss wants this information in a >

Re: HAMM - do I need everything right now?

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Andreas Kahari wrote: > > Hi > > After running autoup.sh on my 1.3.1 system, do I need to update *all* my > packages at once, or may I choose to wait with some of the packages and > update them when I have time? > > Is my system "unstable" if I run autoup.sh without doing a

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-16 Thread Eric Jensen
Ya, I got mine to work just fine too. I didn't think I was replying to that message...sorry. :) _ _ | |(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | ICQ #19022931 | |___ | | Page me via ICQ at |__/ | http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19022931 |__/ On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, M

Re: Define printer

1998-09-16 Thread Jay Barbee
At 9/15/98 09:50 PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > >How do I install a printer under Debian 2.0? I have an Epson Stylus COLOR >200 and have setup "magicfilterconfig". Is there anything else I have to >do? Do you have lp driver compiled into your kernel or loaded as a module? Did it find your LPT p

Re: Unrecognized binary format?

1998-09-16 Thread Raja R Harinath
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > > What does 'file > Well, I am floored. :) > > It seems that the "compiled" program is a Bourne Shell script, according > to the file program. I confirmed this by viewing the contents of my > "executable." It turns out that the binary/scrip

Postgresql refure to connect

1998-09-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi, I have just installed the postgresql DBMS from debian hamm. I am trying to play a little with it, but at the first attempt I get this error: hsogso:~# psql Connection to database 'template1' failed. FATAL 1: SetUserId: user "root" is not in "pg_shadow" hsogso:~# uname -a Linux hsogso 2.1.120

Re: Postgresql refure to connect

1998-09-16 Thread Nicolai Guba
> "Giuseppe" == Giuseppe Sacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Giuseppe> Organization: HSO Business Company Giuseppe> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Giuseppe> hsogso:~# psql Giuseppe> Connection to database 'template1' failed. Giuseppe> FATAL 1: SetUserId: user "root" is not in "pg_shadow

Multiple hosts & hosts.equiv

1998-09-16 Thread Gunnar Strand
Hi, I've never connected two or more computers before, and have questions regarding administration. I now have two Debian Linux boxes connected via Ethernet and NFS up and running, no problem. However, I can't get rlogin/rsh/rcp working "passwordlessly". I have added + in /etc/hosts.equiv on both

Re: can't compile 2.1.121 under Debian Hamm 2.0

1998-09-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
"James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using a typical installation of Debian Hamm 2.0, I am having trouble > compiling the current development kernel. Can anyone give me a clue > on the following error message: I compiled it without problems (well, one problem on driver/char/apm_bios.c)

Re: Kernel Strategies

1998-09-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 15 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Chad" == Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chad> No, I haven't R-all-TFM's out there, but I'm getting burnt out > Chad> on 'em. So, I'd like to hear a little about what some of you > Chad> do personally to keep track of things. W

My clock troubles me unexpectedly

1998-09-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hello list, somehow the time settings on my machine are messed up. The reason is: /sbin/hwclock does not work anymore. Instead it gives this error message: $ hwclock --test --debug Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno = No such file or directory (2). falling back to more primitive clock access method

Re: Postgresql refure to connect

1998-09-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi Nicolai, I thank you very much for explaining that I have to use the postgres user. I will. About the second problem you said thet I should delete the file in /tmp/.s.PGSQL. but this file does not esists! This is the problem. I am not sure but I think that the /tmp directory is completely clean

core dump user + memory map

1998-09-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I understand that it should be possible to feed core to an editor that will clear it up (remove lines of nulls for example), and will show the hex characters and ascii equivalents. In addition the c compiler should I think be able to produce a memory map as well, in order to make

Re: Postgresql refure to connect

1998-09-16 Thread Nicolai Guba
> "Giuseppe" == Giuseppe Sacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Giuseppe> Organization: HSO Business Company Giuseppe> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Molto grazie Giuseppe ;) Giuseppe> About the second problem you said thet I should delete the file in Giuseppe> /tmp/.s.PGSQL. but this file

Re: Audio

1998-09-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[audio crashes because `cannot allocate dma buffer'] > > Unfortunately, the PC ISA DMA controller can't address memory beyond the > first 16MB. So, when a DMA buffer is requested, the kernel has to find a > continuous chunk of memory that is physically below 16MB. If it can't find > it, too bad.

Re: Kernel Strategies

1998-09-16 Thread Nicolai Guba
> "Manoj" == M C Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chad> My personal guidelines (and really, I hope all that one would Chad> need to know) exist in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. I have Chad> included in there a step by step process to creating kernel Chad> packages. If I have missed some

Re: Linux for Disabled -- Contact sought

1998-09-16 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 11:40:40PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > A few years back there was a guy (in the US) active on some of the Linux > lists who was developing linux applications for the disabled. > > He set up his own list, as I recall, and disappeared from general view. The Linux Access HOWT

passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi everyone, I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root accounts. In /etc/passwd this looks like root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash sup

Re: My clock troubles me unexpectedly

1998-09-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
George Bonser hat gesagt: // George Bonser wrote: > Sorry, I could not help but laugh. Every morning my clock also troubles me > unexpectedly too. Yeah, I know this "boot time" trouble as well. Especially on sunday mornings when I have reached my "maximum mount count" the evening before and e2fs

Adaptec AIC-7890 and kernel 2.1.121

1998-09-16 Thread Max
Has anyone been able to get the latest development kernel (2.1.121) working with an Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I compiled the kernel with AIC-7xxx support built in, but it refuses to recognize the SCSI interface at boot time. I'm currently running 2.0.34 with the AIC-7xxx patches, but I ne

Re: Apple diskettes OK

1998-09-16 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I got what I needed - THANKS! > Get the hfsutils package. xhfs has done its job! > Mac double-density disks (800K or so) ... > IBM floppy controllers physically *cannot* read Fortunately it was a 1,44M, anyway: thanks. Blazej

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! [...] > I have X running on the console (login to another box, ssh over to the > borken one, screen, startx, detatch) - I just can't get the text vtys > back to normal. Tried running a SVGALib program. No dice. The only > thing that works is X. I suffered

Re: Is there a .deb version of netscape?

1998-09-16 Thread Blazej Sawionek
> There are .deb's of the 4.5b1 prerelease. Get them from > http://master.debian.org/~doogie/netscape/ I'd say. > -Remco Sorry, for not knowing that, but who is who there: communicator4-dmotif_..16-Jul-1998 17:32 4.1M communicator4-smotif_..16-Jul-1998 17:31 4.9M movemail_4.50-0pr1.0...16

watchdog & UPS

1998-09-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Anybody know a good (cheap too!) UPS that can also work as a UPS for debian? I guess 400W would do it. It's only a K6 and a 15" monitor. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread timothy
I don't understand how much of these configuration things are supposed to work, but I got the impression that it didn't configure itself properly for our debian system and is still for the authors? redhat system. So I simply went thru the files in gtkicq-xx/support/.deps and replaced all th

Re: passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser > password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users > are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root > accounts. In /etc

pine & debian v1.3

1998-09-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm running pine 3.96 and debian 1.3.latest with smail. Sometimes when I send messages from pine it tells me: [Sending mail | 100% |] But the program is blocked and it takes anything from 2 minutes to 10 to unblock. If i run mailq, the m

FTP oddity

1998-09-16 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I have two hosts, running bo and hamm respectively. I can't ftp (telnet either) from hamm to bo. The session goes as: $ ftp bo Connected to bo.my.domain.name 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection ftp> ... If I ping from hamm it sees bo. Additionally I _can_ ftp from hamm

Re: passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser > > password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users > > are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root > >

Re: passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread Blazej Sawionek
> I dont know about anyone else, but in my mind, two users with the same UID > is a Bad Thing (tm). As for the different username... `echo $USER` or > `whoami` dont know if either would work.. but anyway.. I used it under Solaris, and it was quite a Good Thing. The root account was reserved for

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PN" == Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PN> I need urgently be able to use ICQ. I think gtkicq is the better choice, PN> isnit ? Better than what? I made a Debian package for gicq, but I have problems contacting the upstream authors to clearify some issues before I release them.

Re: watchdog & UPS

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello! On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > Anybody know a good (cheap too!) UPS that can also work as a UPS > for debian? > > I guess 400W would do it. It's only a K6 and a 15" monitor. I would like to suggest you to buy a BestPower

Powersave / clock / crontabs

1998-09-16 Thread Felix Chang
Hello, I have been using debian for quite a long time now and have recently upgraded to hamm. I must say that it is quite an improvement over 1.3. My question is not so much debian related but the problem is as follows. I want to keep my computer on all day to receive faxes and voice messages wit

undump or unexec under Linux 2.0/2.1?

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all Looking in the execellent perl book "Programming in Perl" from O'really i found that in some Unix systems there are undump/unexec wich seems to use core dumps to re-rerun programs... at the point it died... Any comment will be greatly appreciated,

Re: q: Web/Mail Server

1998-09-16 Thread Oliver Thuns
>1. Should I move to Apache, even if I don't need that much power? > Would it be best because everyone else is running Apache and I > can get better support? Do you need better support? I don't think you need Apache, but it could be wrong to install it. >2. Before I place this online, is ther

THANKS: is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I would like to thanks the massive posting suggesting me the available options Thanks! Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!! http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.whorlinux.htm - ---

PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread Johann Spies
Some time ago on this list there was reference to a PLIP -mini-howto with information on how to connect two linux machines through a parallel cable. After upgrading to Debian 2.0 it no longer in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. Does anybody know which other documentation is available on the subject or what h

program to do avi->mpeg

1998-09-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I couldn't find a program to do avi->mpeg transformation. Is there such program? A command line one should be better! Thanks []s, Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails" Prov. 19.21 "Then you'll

Re: xconsole doesn't tell me anything

1998-09-16 Thread Jack Kern
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:38:12PM -0500, Eric Jensen wrote: > I don't understand this problem at all. I remember back when I ran bo > that the xconsole started automatically when I started X and it reported > things like remote logins and stuff. Now, it doesn't start automatically > (which is fi

Installation from Win95-Fat32 HD partition?

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
It is possible to install debian2.0 from Win95 (Fat32) HD partition? If so, could someone explain how to do it? I have not found information in "The Can I after having installed the base system from 5 floppies just on the other console 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win95' ? Which module have I to

Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PAP authentication failure

1998-09-16 Thread Ken Westerback
I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or wmppp as evidenced by the console messages: Sep 16 08:38:26 pinky pppd[577]: pppd 2.3.5 started by krw, uid 1000 Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (BUSY) Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Sep 16 08:38

Re: pine & debian v1.3

1998-09-16 Thread dsb3
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote: >Hi! > > I'm running pine 3.96 and debian 1.3.latest with smail. > > Sometimes when I send messages from pine it tells me: > > [Sending mail | 100% |] > > But the program is blocked and it takes anything from 2 m

Re: PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread Jack Kern
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 01:23:27PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Some time ago on this list there was reference to a PLIP -mini-howto with > information on how to connect two linux machines through a parallel cable. > > After upgrading to Debian 2.0 it no longer in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. > > Does an

Re: Gateway monitors and X

1998-09-16 Thread David Wright
On 10 Sep 1998, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Brian Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i would be glad to hear from people who have gotten (or not) X running > > with a gateway monitor (in particular an EV700) > > > Have you tried the Linux Monitor Data Base > (http://cande.dyn.ml.org/monito

Re: Hamm

1998-09-16 Thread Kent West
At 04:09 PM 9/15/1998 -0600, you wrote: >I relativley new to Debian. I did my first Debian install a week ago, After >4 years of slackware, and a brief stint with RedHat > > >(I asked three email support questions like, why doesn't g++ wok with full >error messages etc. All answers "this is not an

Re: xgalaga: can't fire!

1998-09-16 Thread Kent West
At 07:44 PM 9/15/1998 -0500, you wrote: > >I installed the xgalaga deb. It works, mostly (even sound!)...except >for the space key: I can't fire! And the "q" and "Q" keys are also >useless. > >Really, I can only move back and forth, which is pretty boring. >Anyone know what's up? > >Thanks > I h

Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Oliver Thuns
Hello! Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development?

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 06:30:27AM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Is was a dep problem. I found a directory inside another directory called > .deps. I remove it and the compilation went ok. Why is this problem? The > conculson of this is that the maker of this program used redhat > .?

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "PN" == Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PN> I need urgently be able to use ICQ. I think gtkicq is the better choice, > PN> isnit ? > > Better than what? There are four or five ICQ free distributables. You can check starting from LDP site. Ciao,

Choice of database

1998-09-16 Thread Douglas Bates
I would like to consolidate some of the data in our office into a database. Our office staff uses Windows NT with the usual MS Office tools. I see they have MS Access available on a menu but I have no experience with it. From the Linux side I would prefer to use an SQL-aware relational database

Emacs20-mule and problem using latin2 under X Window

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed debian2.0. I would like to use emacs20.2-mule under X Window and polish (latin-2) signs (e.g. ogonek) typing them using right-alt+sign but I have the following problem (on the console without X Window I have polish signs in emacs, pine,...; under X Window so far only I can see and

Re: core dump user + memory map

1998-09-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I understand that it should be possible to feed core to an editor | that will clear it up (remove lines of nulls for example), and will show | the hex characters and ascii equivalents. In addition the c compiler | should I think be able to produce a

Re: Adaptec AIC-7890 and kernel 2.1.121

1998-09-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Has anyone been able to get the latest development kernel (2.1.121) | working with an Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I compiled the | kernel with AIC-7xxx support built in, but it refuses to recognize the | SCSI interface at boot time. I'm currently running 2.

scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed scilab-2.4 (binaries form ftp.inria.fr) and when I start it, it works but when I choose from menu demos scilab crashes with the following messages: [1] 410 $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) Major opcode

Re: scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 03:46:51PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: > $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: > X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) > Resource id in failed request: 0x0 > Serial number of failed reque

Re: PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread servis
*- Johann Spies wrote about "PLIP-howto?" | Some time ago on this list there was reference to a PLIP -mini-howto with | information on how to connect two linux machines through a parallel cable. | | After upgrading to Debian 2.0 it no longer in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. | | Does anybody know which oth

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: > Hello! > > Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development? No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find it at www.debian.org -> packages -> search I think it's in the non-US sect

X-modes other than the defaults.

1998-09-16 Thread Mrpeabody
My X-windows automatically loads in 8dpp mode and I have a card that is capable of much better how do I tell x to try other modes instead. -jeff

Re: IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-16 Thread Dale E. Martin
The missing link for me was that if you're using "standard" linux firewalling, which is packet filtering, you _need_ ip forwarding enabled. (The HOWTO says don't enable it, but that's for TIS proxying firewalls - not what we're talking about here.) Also, for ipchains at least, order counts. You

Re: scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread Pierre Blanchet
> > I have installed scilab-2.4 (binaries form ftp.inria.fr) > and when I start it, it works but when I choose from menu > demos scilab crashes with the following messages: > > [1] 410 > $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: > X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter

Dos partition not mounted after new kernel boot

1998-09-16 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debianers, I just compiled a new kernel in Debian 2.0 (excluding PCI, SCSI, ..., from the default Debian 2.0.34 kernel, and adding ISDN, APM) using kernel-package (thanks to Manoj Srivastava for the excellent work). After rebooting (both the diskette and the HD boots work), I noticed that my

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
(I'm copying so much text because the original didn't make it to debian-user) Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/15/98 >at 10:08 AM, Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >"Paul M. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > >> 2) Is there

Re: Choice of database

1998-09-16 Thread aqy6633
> I would like to consolidate some of the data in our office into a > database. Our office staff uses Windows NT with the usual MS Office > tools. I see they have MS Access available on a menu but I have no > experience with it. From the Linux side I would prefer to use an > SQL-aware relational

Re: X-modes other than the defaults.

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
Mrpeabody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My X-windows automatically loads in 8dpp mode and I have a card that is > capable of much better how do I tell x to try other modes instead. > -jeff Two ways: If you're starting X with startx, you can do: startx -- -bpp 16 (or 15, 24, or 32) If you're s

Star Office 5/4 in english?

1998-09-16 Thread Mrpeabody
Can you get star office 5 in english? I used to have star office 4 in english but it seems all that it is no longer available now that star office 5 is out. -jeff

Debian on HP 9000

1998-09-16 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Just got my hands on a previously owned HP 9000 635. The system has HP-UX loaded on it currently, but there are some file system troubles and I was going to reload it regardless. I have about a dozen boxes that are running Debian now (Intel platform) and thought it would be fun to

Re: Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PAP authentication failure

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
Ken Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or > wmppp as evidenced by the console messages: > When I try to enable diald by filling out the diald.options files as > follows: > > fifo /etc/diald/diald.ctl > mode ppp > connect "/u

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 04:11:28PM +0200, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: > > Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development? > > No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find > it at www.debian.org -> packages -> search

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

1998-09-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > After upgrading to Hamm, (actually, after upgrading to 2.0.34) I noticed > > > that the advanced extensions to the parallel port (SPP and such) can be > > > recognized. Perhaps these extensions are the source of your pr

Re: Dos partition not mounted after new kernel boot

1998-09-16 Thread Jack Kern
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 04:09:23PM +0200, Remo Badii wrote: > Dear Debianers, > > I just compiled a new kernel in Debian 2.0 (excluding PCI, SCSI, ..., > from the default Debian 2.0.34 kernel, and adding ISDN, APM) using > kernel-package (thanks to Manoj Srivastava for the excellent work). > After

gimp &/or xv resize function?

1998-09-16 Thread paul
Hi everybody, I just installed gimp and was trying to resize an image from 640x480 to 1024x768. I can't seem to do it. In gimp if you use the resize the image it resizes the window and leaves the image at 640x480. Do you have any suggestions. I can't seem to get this task done. There are no fe

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread John Larkin
> No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X > server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X > desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, > it restores the previous mode, eg a graphical mode instead of a text > console. When

RE: Debian on HP 9000

1998-09-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, That box is very similar to the hp9k-835. It's a hppa 1.0 chip set. I don't think I have ever seen any binaries for that one. That system also has i/o cards that are, well, different from the workstations. The 635 was never produced in large numbers so finding drivers for the i/o system wou

Re: Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PAP authentication failure

1998-09-16 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 12:51:46PM +, Ken Westerback wrote: > I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or > wmppp as evidenced by the console messages: [logs and config files snipped] > Can anyone tell me what the problem might be? Sounds like you need to add the

libpng2 troubles

1998-09-16 Thread joseph evan porter
I installed the latest WindowMaker at home, and upgraded the libraries as discussed in previous posts to this list. I have 0.19.2 working fine at work, and it seems that my two setups are identical (except for hardware and kernel, of course). When I type startx with wmaker as the default window m

Re: gimp &/or xv resize function?

1998-09-16 Thread Andrius Sabanas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi everybody, I just installed gimp and was trying to resize an image > from 640x480 to 1024x768. I can't seem to do it. In gimp if you use > the resize the image it resizes the window and leaves the image at > 640x480. Do you have any suggestions. I can't seem to

Re: gimp &/or xv resize function?

1998-09-16 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 16 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody, I just installed gimp and was trying to resize an image > from 640x480 to 1024x768. I can't seem to do it. In gimp if you use > the resize the image it resizes the window and leaves the image at > 640x480. Do you have any suggestions. I can't

Re: Q: Why Midhight Commander stopped working on text console?

1998-09-16 Thread Greg Frye
I'm having the same basic problem except I don't have X to get to Midnight Commander and I don't get any characters after starting MC. I have to go to another virtual console find the PID with ps and then kill it. I have to reboot to get MC to start working again. I can't correlate MC failing to

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Oliver Thuns
>> No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find >> it at www.debian.org -> packages -> search I think it's in the non-US >> section > >Does anyone know why it's such an old version of Apache? There should be 1.3.1/SSL in unstable (slink).

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Oliver Thuns
>> Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development? > >No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find >it at www.debian.org -> packages -> search I think it's in the non-US >section I know, but I'm looking for mod_ssl :-)

Re: PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> See /usr/doc/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini/PLIP.gz And the latest version is always available (in HTML format) at Andrea Controzzi's home-page: http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~controzz/intro.html Jim

PON dials out, but PPP connection dropped

1998-09-16 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I've been messing around with Debian for about 2-3 months now. I recently installed hamm on a 386 box built from recycled parts. The modem seems to be configured properly, however, when I do "pon" it waits about 1/2 a minute, dials my ISP's phone number, and disconnects in about 1/2 a minu

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