Re: Quake2

1998-10-02 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > > I am having problems with running Quake2 (v 3.14) under Debian. Quake2 > running under X-Windows runs fine, but the version running under SVGALIB > segfaults. I am running a MACH 64 video card. Haven't changed anything to > the standard Hamm setup, exc

Re: keyboard issues

1998-10-02 Thread Michael Beattie
[snip] > > The automatic key repeat rate is a little > > too slow to my liking. > > $ /sbin/kbdrate -r 30 [snip] > echo "Setting stupid Compaq keyboard" Hehehe... :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key avail

Re: Soft reboot = hard drive not recognized

1998-10-02 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: > At 04:41 PM 10/1/1998 -0400, Jeff Miller wrote: > >Hi all: > > > >I have had a problem ever since I installed Debian on my Dell P60 > computer. If I cold boot (power on) the computer Linux starts up with no > problems. But, if I perform a warm boot (ctrl-al

Re: help

1998-10-02 Thread john
Wilson Tuma writes: > I need a utility that will automatically dectect my modem. > How can I do it manually. I am totally at a loss about what to do. I don't understand what you mean by 'detect my modem'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: help

1998-10-02 Thread dsb3
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote: >Hi > >I need a utility that will automatically dectect my modem. > >How can I do it manually. I am totally at a loss about what to do. > take a look at the wvdial package. included is 'wvdialconf' which does a pretty good job of probing serial devices and

Re: cdrom: "hdc: unexpected_intr: status=0x80"

1998-10-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:07:35PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > For the last two days I get the message in the subject line from time to > time. /dev/hdc is my cdrom. > > Those "unexpected" signals interrup any program whether I am listening to > music on cd or whether I am reading data from cd o

Re: Partitioning programs

1998-10-02 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Not sure what post you are referring to, but here's some URLs for some well known partitioning programs: Partition Magic (new version 4.0 now resizes, moves etc. Linux partitions) http://www.powerquest.com Ranish Partition Manager (freeware) http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Partition

time zones

1998-10-02 Thread D'jinnie
I've hamm installed on my laptop, and recently started playing around with javascript. When I try to put in a 'last modified' javascript thingy into a webpage, it displays the time in GMT, although everything else is CST/CDT. How do I change the global TZ? Thanks! --- If you can't convince them, c

Re: talk

1998-10-02 Thread D'jinnie
:I recently upgraded my talk and now it seems to be broken. Whenever i try :to talk to someone on my machine it says waiting for [No connection yet] :then sits for a bit then says [Checking for Invitation on caller's :machine] then never moves. Can anyone tell me what is the problem? I've run in

debian 2.0 cd from lsl

1998-10-02 Thread Rahul Sood
2 weeks ago I ordered the Debian 2.0 CD from Linux System Labs in Michigan, US, and included a $50 contribution to Debian with my payment. I haven't heard from them since, and their web site, www.lsl.com is down. Has anyone bought from lsl recently? -R. Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian as secretary?

1998-10-02 Thread servis
*- Phillip Neumann wrote about "Re: debian as secretary?" | | Hello, | | I didnt understand very much what xringd do (i have read the man page...). | So far i understood that xringd whatch the ring and if that match a sequence tha | t it knows => take a given action. | | If that is what it does

Re: A True newbie here

1998-10-02 Thread john
Christopher Jay Stevenson writes: > I'm trying t figure out how I can install Debian Linux so that I can get > it to receive the IP address and all the other jass automatically (just > like Win95 does here [I have boot manager software] ) Assuming that you have Debian 2.0, log in as root, type 'pp

Re: debian 2.0 cd from lsl

1998-10-02 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Rahul Sood wrote: > 2 weeks ago I ordered the Debian 2.0 CD from Linux System Labs in > Michigan, US, and included a $50 contribution to Debian with my payment. > I haven't heard from them since, and their web site, www.lsl.com is down. > Has anyone bought from lsl recently?

RE: X server problems

1998-10-02 Thread Paul
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I have always been able to get a virtural terminal by typing > once the xdm process started. > --- The problem is that when xdm cannot start, it keep retrying. may get you to a console, but as soon

Re: nn & local news spool

1998-10-02 Thread Paul
Set NNTPSERVER=localhost in your environment. It took me months to figure this out. I do NOT find this documented anywhere. On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, mwb wrote: > I'm using suck and inn to run a local news spool. > Trn works fine, but I'd prefer nn. However when > I try nn on my local spool it spits

Re: lp1:device not configured

1998-10-02 Thread Paul
Replied previouly, but just noticed that the subject line says lp1 not configured. Perhaps you have no lp1 in the /dev directory. In which case you will have to use /dev/MAKEDEV On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Stephen August Korbett I wrote: > I have a scanner hooked to a parallel port, and from the scanner

Re: lp1:device not configured

1998-10-02 Thread Paul
It appears that you have lp defined in printcap, but it is pointing to a device that does not exist. Traditional printer ports in MSDOS did not always point to the same I/O address for LPT1 and LPT2. New kernels of Linux handle printers somewhat different, but more consistantly. This does, however

Re: debian 2.0 cd from lsl

1998-10-02 Thread Greg
Their site is up again... Rahul Sood wrote: > 2 weeks ago I ordered the Debian 2.0 CD from Linux System Labs in > Michigan, US, and included a $50 contribution to Debian with my payment. > I haven't heard from them since, and their web site, www.lsl.com is down. > Has anyone bought from lsl recen

Transparent xterms under Debian

1998-10-02 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi All, When checking out a few screenshots of enlightenment, I saw xterms that appeared to be transparent. Does anyone know how I could set this up in Debian. Thx Zhang Shao Ying Shao Zhang \\/ 5/28-30 V

RE: Transparent xterms under Debian

1998-10-02 Thread Sean
On 02-Oct-98 Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > Hi All, > > When checking out a few screenshots of enlightenment, I saw xterms that > appeared to be transparent. > > Does anyone know how I could set this up in Debian. Zhang, it is no Xterm, rather it is a program called Eterm. I am working on getting

PPP: permission denied?

1998-10-02 Thread hwalton
I am trying run my ppp scripts, but everyone of them results in "permission denied." What am I doing wrong?

PPP: permission denied?

1998-10-02 Thread hwalton
I am trying run my ppp scripts, but everyone of them results in "permission denied." What am I doing wrong?

RE: PPP: permission denied?

1998-10-02 Thread Shaleh
Edit the file /etc/group and add the user who is trying to use ppp to the end of the "dip" line. Any user in group dip (dialup IP) can use ppp. dip:x:30:shaleh Is how mine reads. You need to logoff and log back in for your group to be reset. On 02-Oct-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying

Any non-X graphical browsers?

1998-10-02 Thread Kent West
Are there any graphical web browsers available that don't need X? I've only got 8MB on this laptop, which is unusable with X and Netscape. Thanks. Kent

Low memory installations?

1998-10-02 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Hi, please forgive the newbie... While waiting to get a copy of Hamm for my main machine, I thought I'd try putting Bo on an old machine I've got. 486DX33, <4MB RAM (3968kB), 520MBHD (no CD, I was going to install debs via FTP from my thin-netted major machine or even floppy).

Re: Transparent xterms under Debian

1998-10-02 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, Well actually thats not an xterm. It is a called Eterm. If using it, you can put images on it. `Transparent images' too. Get it with `apt-get eterm' . But i dont know if the debian-package is new enouf. (i didnt try it..) Bye... Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > Hi All, > > Wh

Re: PPP: permission denied?

1998-10-02 Thread Phillip Neumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying run my ppp scripts, but everyone of them results in > "permission denied." What am I doing wrong? Hello, to do that you must be able to do that. Actually you dont have permition to it. Add yourself to the dip group. Try as root ``adduser you dip''

Re: Transparent xterms under Debian

1998-10-02 Thread Phillip Neumann
Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Well actually thats not an xterm. It is a called Eterm. If using it, you can > put > images on it. `Transparent images' too. > > Get it with `apt-get eterm' . But i dont know if the debian-package is new > enouf. (i didnt try it..) > new `enouf' for been

STB velocity 128

1998-10-02 Thread Default Debian Reader
I have an STB velocity 128 AGP card and don't see it anywhere in the supported cards in xf86config? Does anyone else use this card, and if so how did you set it up for X? Thanks alot for any help.

Re: printer setup for hp laserjet 6L

1998-10-02 Thread Peter Granroth
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 06:43:51PM -0500, Mrpeabody shared with us the following words of wisdom: > I just got a hp laserjet 6L and I'm trying to set it up I got it to > print by doing a cat > /dev/lp0 ,but the printing is sloppy, how do I > further configure my printer? I got gostscript from deb

Re: NIS Server and Clients

1998-10-02 Thread Paul
See comment below. On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > I'm trying to setup a NIS server with some clients. > I'm following the steps of /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz. > I begun with the server. > At step 3.6: Setup

Re: Partitioning programs

1998-10-02 Thread AJT60
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Not sure what post you are referring to, but here's some URLs for some > well known partitioning programs: > Yeah, I realised it was actually comp.os.linux.misc that had the URLs. Thanks anyway, Andrew Tarr "If you're not part of the solution, you're p

Re: Any non-X graphical browsers?

1998-10-02 Thread Johann Spies
Try zgv. Regards Johann On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: > Are there any graphical web browsers available that don't need X? I've > only got 8MB on this laptop, which is unusable with X and Netscape. > > Thanks. > > Kent > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: STB velocity 128

1998-10-02 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 12:11:49AM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: > I have an STB velocity 128 AGP card and don't see it anywhere in the > supported cards in xf86config? Does anyone else use this card, and if so > how did you set it up for X? Thanks alot for any help. Just use Riva128. I ah

qmail-pop3d

1998-10-02 Thread mpf
Hello! I installed ucspi-tcp and qmail. How could I use qmail's pop3d?

process monitor tool.

1998-10-02 Thread Sakai Atsushi
I want to monitor the process status in netscape or in some Java Virtual Machine. Do you know the tool to monitor like to discriminate Garbage Collection or Others? A.Sakai

Re: Install on an IBM Thinkpad 380Z

1998-10-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> Now to find drivers for this 3Com Ethernet/Modem combo card (are there Nathan> any? It's a "Megahertz 10/100 LAN+56K Modem", Model 3CCFEM556 B) Linux PCMCIA Information Page http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/ho

Re: printer setup for hp laserjet 6L

1998-10-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
> > My printing system consists of a HP LJ6L, ghostscript 4.03, lprng, > and magcfilter. I used magicfilterconfig to set up /etc/printcap > to look like: > > lp|lp|lp|HP Laserjet 6L:\ > :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ > :if=/etc/magicfi

Can we make the dependencies a little more strict?

1998-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay, here's the deal: I've got perl, mysql, perl-dbi, and mysql-dbd all loaded. The perl-dbi stuff is very dependent upon the build of perl (to the point where I suspect that a rebuild of perl will break DBI unless it, too, is rebuilt in the context of the new perl binary). The same seems to hold

How about a system health-monitoring tool

1998-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
I was upgrading some packages last night and I broke two things, DBI and smail. I didn't find out about the mail one until the next morning (and boy, were the clients pissed...). So, I got to thinking. Suppose we made a directory called, say, /usr/lib/healthcheck or something. Package maintainers

Electric eyes

1998-10-02 Thread John Leget
Hello all, For some reason electric eyes (0.3-1) bombs, im running debian slink. Everything seems ok until i either try to open or save anything then the following results. Gdk-Message: ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught any ideas. Thanx

Problems with NFS (is this a bug?)

1998-10-02 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hi! I've been using Debian 1.3.1 at my work for sharing my local SCSI disk with NFS. Everything worked ok until I upgraded to Debian 2.0. I did not changed anything in config files. My disk is shared with a Sun Solaris 2.5.x and 4 PCs (Debian Hamm). When activating NFS things work ok for a while

[HELP:]howto hamm->slink + dpkg problems

1998-10-02 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i didn't find any README in the slink directory, so how does the upgrade work (and the maintenance...) do i simply install the packages of the slink directory? In fact i would like to have packages like gnome easily installed and maintained through dselect... and that seems possible only u

Installing pine 4.05

1998-10-02 Thread Daniel Mashao
Anybody installed this package from project/experimental? I replaced -ltermcap with -lncurses as suggested elsewhere but still I cannot compile the package becuase it is looking for a crypt() function. Any help? I am having a problem with apps that are color intensive (eg netscape) and font int

More info with my problem with NFS

1998-10-02 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hi! The following is the log of Sun (Solaris 2.5.1) with has problems with my NFS shared disk (Debian HAMM 2.0) as related before. Sep 26 10:36:05 teide unix: NFS server 193.144.131.181 not responding still trying Sep 26 10:36:05 teide unix: NFS server 193.144.131.181 ok Sep 28 09:30:16 teide un

Re: printing problems

1998-10-02 Thread Dirk Bonne
Bradley Bell wrote: > > I need to print to an HP Laserjet 5Si printer which is hooked up to a > netware network, > > Can anybody point me to any resources on printing to netware printers? > > I've studied and tried every trick in the IPX- and Printing-HOWTO, and > the instructions there are pret

Re: debian 2.0 cd from lsl

1998-10-02 Thread Edward Kear
At 09:29 PM 10/1/98 -0400, Rahul Sood wrote: >2 weeks ago I ordered the Debian 2.0 CD from Linux System Labs in >Michigan, US, and included a $50 contribution to Debian with my payment. >I haven't heard from them since, and their web site, www.lsl.com is down. >Has anyone bought from lsl recently

Re: Any non-X graphical browsers?

1998-10-02 Thread Dirk Bonne
Kent West wrote: > > Are there any graphical web browsers available that don't need X? I've > only got 8MB on this laptop, which is unusable with X and Netscape. > take a look at lynx Dirk

Re: A True newbie here (fwd)

1998-10-02 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
Hmm... meant to send this to the list > > > What you'll probably want to do (I'm assuming you're not installing from > > > CD-ROM) is install the base system, then download the dhcpcd package with > > > Win95, mount the windows partition from within Linux, copy over the dhcpcd > > > package, and

qmail-pop3d

1998-10-02 Thread mpf
Hello! I installed ucspi-tcp and qmail. How could I use qmail's pop3d?

Scanners - recommandations?

1998-10-02 Thread John Plate
Hi I'm planning to buy a scanner. What type will work well with Linux? Thank you in advance. -- John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Excel DLLs (.xll) in Wine or Willows or Bochs or ...

1998-10-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, my boss at work have to run a simulation into Excel that uses a DLL of Excel (.xll). The problem is that the simulation will take too long (about 7 years) and he couldn't put this kind of thing to run in Windowze because it could go into GPF and loss the entire s

Re: problems with finger

1998-10-02 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! > looks like your utmp file is mangled. the easiest way is to just wipe it > out entirely. (try as root: "> /var/run/utmp") it's also possible to > fix the utmp file by manipulating it's contents - depending on the number > of users on your system this may be better, or simply wiping the u

Relisys AVEC Easy 3

1998-10-02 Thread Sean Johnson
I have a Relisys AVEC Easy 3 scanner. It is of the EPP Parallel Port variety, and I was wondering how I should go about setting it up under Linux. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanx. Sean

Re: Soft reboot = hard drive not recognized

1998-10-02 Thread Jeff Miller
My computer does not have PNP support in the BIOS (it is from 1993). I do use "Auto" for the drive type in the BIOS, though. >>> Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/1/98 8:01:11 PM >>> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: > At 04:41 PM 10/1/1998 -0400, Jeff Miller wrote: > >Hi all: > > > >I

Re: [HELP:]howto hamm->slink + dpkg problems

1998-10-02 Thread Jens Ritter
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello, > > i didn't find any README in the slink directory, so how does the upgrade work > (and the maintenance...) do i simply install the packages of the slink > directory? > > In fact i would like to have packages like gnome easily installed and >

Re: Problems with NFS (is this a bug?)

1998-10-02 Thread Dale E. Martin
Jose Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I've been using Debian 1.3.1 at my work for sharing my local SCSI disk > with NFS. Everything worked ok until I upgraded to Debian 2.0. I did not > changed anything in config files. My disk is shared with a Sun Solaris > 2.5.x and 4 PCs (Debian

Re: Electric eyes

1998-10-02 Thread Dominik Rothert
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:42:37PM +1200, John Leget wrote ... > For some reason electric eyes (0.3-1) bombs, > until i either try to open > or save anything then the following results. > Gdk-Message: > ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught I have the same problem, since I use libgtk-1.1

Shared file

1998-10-02 Thread ivan
Hi, all I would like to know how can I creat and handle a file that can be shared by more than one process at the same time in Debian. I got it working in AIX, but in Linux's open system call there's no option to do this. Thanks in advance.

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-02 Thread Christopher D. Judd
> *- Christopher D. Judd wrote about "Re: What causes single user boot?" > | > |This happens on my system since upgrading to Hamm. The problem seems > | to be that fsck -A tries to check /fd0 (since I have entries for /fd0 in > | fsab) and fails since no disk is in the drive. If that is the

Voodoo Rush

1998-10-02 Thread Ehren Wilson
I have a friend interested in changing his machine's OS over to Debian, the only problem that I can see is that he has a Intergraph Voodoo extreme as his video card, and I can't find a X-server for it. I was simply wondering if there is such an X-server for Debian. Thanks, Ehren Wilson --

Long term Debian growth

1998-10-02 Thread Tom
I am thinking that Debian should consider taking some steps to increase its commercial presence by becoming more attractive to small entrepreneurial business owners with low to moderate technical skills. The reasons for this is to provide an increased source of funding for Debian expansion. Lets

newbie question: when dpkging libpam0g & libpam0g-util

1998-10-02 Thread zuwi
Hi, I'm using Debian 2.0. When I tried to dpkg --configure libpam0g, it told me this depends on libpam0g-util, and libpam0g-util had not been configured, so failed. Then I tried to dpkg --configure libpam0g-util, it told me this depends on libpam0g, and (of course) it had not been configured yet

Re: tin charset problem

1998-10-02 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Has anyone ever seem this error from tin? > > Error: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding (must not be us-ascii) > > I consistently get this error and it won't let me post because of it. The solution: Press M in rtin, choose item 73. MM_CHARSET and set it to ISO-8859-1. Now I can post without rt

Installing Sybase server from RH ftp site

1998-10-02 Thread Douglas Bates
Yesterday on http://www.redhat.com/ they were offering a free download of RPM package of the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise and of its docs. You are asked to register but can access the ftp site directly (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/sybase/) if you prefer not to do that. Has anyone tried to insta

Re: newbie question: when dpkging libpam0g & libpam0g-util

1998-10-02 Thread \"J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:56:42PM +0800, zuwi wrote: > When I tried to dpkg --configure libpam0g, it told me this depends on > libpam0g-util, and libpam0g-util had not been configured, so failed. > > Then I tried to dpkg --configure libpam0g-util, it told me this depends on > libpam0g, and (of co

Configuring sound (and video) in Cyrix MediaGX

1998-10-02 Thread Jorge Sanz Forcada
Hi all, I have installed Debian 2.0 in my Cyrix Media GX MMX enhanced 200 Mhz. I have seen that there are some users that are also installed this system in that computer before, so perhaps they can help me. I have two questions: 1.- I am trying to install the sound "card" as a

Re: Excel DLLs (.xll) in Wine or Willows or Bochs or ...

1998-10-02 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:16:59AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > my boss at work have to run a simulation into Excel that uses a DLL of > Excel (.xll). The problem is that the simulation will take too long (about 7 > years) and he couldn't put

Re: Soft reboot = hard drive not recognized

1998-10-02 Thread Kent West
At 08:02 AM 10/2/1998 -0400, you wrote: >My computer does not have PNP support in the BIOS (it is from 1993). I do use "Auto" for the drive type in the BIOS, though. > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/1/98 8:01:11 PM >>> >On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: > >> At 04:41 PM 10/1/1998 -

Re: PS/VaulePoint Problem--Can't install.

1998-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Man, is the Adaptec SCSI card ever a FAQ. I wonder if this is in the FAQ-O-Matic... Should be. "Cap'n Fred" wrote: > Actually my machine is a 486DX2 66, as far as I know it is not a MCA. The > Adaptec card is AHA 2840VL, whis is the VESA model I think. You might want to try the boot disk me

Re: A True newbie here (fwd)

1998-10-02 Thread Kent West
At 05:39 AM 10/2/1998 -0500, Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > >Hmm... meant to send this to the list > >> > > What you'll probably want to do (I'm assuming you're not installing from >> > > CD-ROM) is install the base system, then download the dhcpcd package with >> > > Win95, mount the windows p

Re: Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI under Debian?

1998-10-02 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I was skimming through the messegas from the last few days and I haven't noticed any answers so I'm answering (even though it is rather late). > I've been trying to install Debian on a P-II, with a ASUS P2B-LS > Motherboard, and a Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra2 SCSI chipset. Matthias Klose wrote

Re: Debian & Chinese & Netscape!

1998-10-02 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi Jimen, What do you mean by builtin?? You still need to download the chinese fonts before you can use the 'encoding' in netscape. Is this right?? I can get Chinese displayed in most of cases... But for some web pages with heavy java and frames, I cannot read Chinese there...

can any user have the right of root and can lunch Netscape

1998-10-02 Thread Chan Min Wai
Hai, I'm asking about that can a user have the rithr of root and can lunch netscape as well in Xwin..

Re: Scanners - recommandations?

1998-10-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"John" == John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I'm planning to buy a scanner. What type will work well with Linux? You should look into the SANE project. Specifically, the backends (which are scanner specific) are detailed in http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.htm

Re: Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI under Debian?

1998-10-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I was skimming through the messegas from the last few days and I haven't | noticed any answers so I'm answering (even though it is rather late). | | > I've been trying to install Debian on a P-II, with a ASUS P2B-LS | > Motherboard, and a Adapt

HELP: Newbie with fsck problem

1998-10-02 Thread Albert Hurd
A power outage just caused a file check failure. I was told to fix the problem manually with fsck. When I run fsck or fsck -r -f, it replies with the usual, "Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)" and immediately returns me to the (root) prompt without doing any repairs. When I try to reboot

Where is the default dir for kdebase...

1998-10-02 Thread Chan Min Wai
I'm a debian linux 2.0 user I'm trying to use kde after I install Qt (free 1.4) then I continuate to install the kdelibs0g with dpkg -i .deb then install the kdebase with dpkg -i .deb. now I start my Qt setting the CPLUS_DIR, LD_LIBRARY and other then I start to start to set

Re: CPU temp/fan tachometer for linux?

1998-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Try lm_sensors. > > http://appindex.freshmeat.net/view/904554804/ Cool. Have you compiled this? (Which do you pick? lm78-1.2.3.tgz or lm_sensors-1.4.6.tar.gz) I get: # insmod ./lm_sensors.o ./lm_sensors.o: kernel-module version mismatch ./lm_sensors.

Re: Voodoo Rush

1998-10-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > I have a friend interested in changing his machine's OS over to Debian, > the only problem that I can see is that he has a Intergraph Voodoo extreme > as his video card, and I can't find a X-server for it. I was simply > wondering if there is such an X-server for Debian. All Voodoo Rush ca

Re: can any user have the right of root and can lunch Netscape

1998-10-02 Thread Jim Foltz
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:31:53AM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: > Hai, > I'm asking about that can a user have the rithr of root and can > lunch netscape as well in Xwin.. Any user can start X windows if it is intalled properly. Any user can start netscape if it is intalled properly. Root user i

Savage3D X server?

1998-10-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does anyone know if there is an X server that will support the Savage3D or if an X server/driver is in the works? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HELP: Newbie with fsck problem

1998-10-02 Thread Jim Foltz
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:33:57AM -0700, Albert Hurd wrote: > A power outage just caused a file check failure. I was told to fix the > problem manually with fsck. When I run fsck or fsck -r -f, it replies > with the usual, "Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)" and > immediately returns me

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-02 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2. A filesystem check failed because there were serious errors and >the system wants you to run fsck manually It is not 1 and 3 so it must be 2. That sounds reasonable, because the "operator" (who had no idea what he was doing) read

RE: Shared file

1998-10-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
What do you mean by "shared"? Unless you take special measures, all files are opened in shared mode. You have to explicitly lock them if you don't want shared access. For example, use 2 consoles (or xterms) and do cat - > share.txt in the first window and do tail -f share.txt in

Re: CPU temp/fan tachometer for linux?

1998-10-02 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 2 Oct, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Try lm_sensors. >> >> http://appindex.freshmeat.net/view/904554804/ > > Cool. Have you compiled this? > (Which do you pick? lm78-1.2.3.tgz or lm_sensors-1.4.6.tar.gz) > > I get: > > # insmod ./lm_sensors.o > ./lm_sens

Re: Installing pine 4.05

1998-10-02 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > Anybody installed this package from project/experimental? > > I replaced -ltermcap with -lncurses as suggested elsewhere but still I > cannot compile the package becuase it is looking for a crypt() function. Once more I have to say: Please, do not mod

"kickstart" for Debian?

1998-10-02 Thread Thomas Heft
Does Debian have any unattended installation software, like Redhat's "kickstart" or Solaris's "jumpstart"? I'm looking at deploying a bunch of Linux machines, but would like to automate the installation/configuration. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Heft Systems Manager [EM

Re: STB velocity 128

1998-10-02 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 02:55:57AM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 12:11:49AM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: > > I have an STB velocity 128 AGP card and don't see it anywhere in the > > supported cards in xf86config? Does anyone else use this card, and if so > > ho

Re: CPU temp/fan tachometer for linux?

1998-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the Makefile, change the line > CFLAGS = -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I. -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer > > to read > > CFLAGS = -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/include -I. -O > 2 -fomit-frame-pointer Thanks a lot. Now I can build oikay, but I get thi

Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-02 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, I am working with an US-keyboard, but typing German texts in XEmacs. So I tried to teach XEmacs (v19.11) to give me the umlauts if I press the corresponding keys together with CTRL. This works fine for all keys except for u-umlaut which would end up being on CTRL-[ : ;; define umlaut keys (d

Re: HELP: Newbie with fsck problem

1998-10-02 Thread Albert Hurd
Jim Foltz wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:33:57AM -0700, Albert Hurd wrote: > > A power outage just caused a file check failure. I was told to fix the > > problem manually with fsck. When I run fsck or fsck -r -f, it replies > > with the usual, "Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)" a

Kernel compile error and wvdial. . .

1998-10-02 Thread Person, Rod
Hey all, So I have been playing with the compiling of a custom kernel, and go all the way through make zImage...I get this error Id86 cannot find command error[127] then it exits out of the directory. I thought at first it was because I chose to compile the kernel as ELF. So I tried it again

Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On 2 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with an US-keyboard, but typing German texts in XEmacs. > So I tried to teach XEmacs (v19.11) to give me the umlauts if I press > the corresponding keys together with CTRL. This works fine for all > keys except for u-umlaut which would end

Re: Long term Debian growth

1998-10-02 Thread john
Tom writes: > 1. Debian could maintain a list of consultants and technical workers who > can and will support commercial Debian sites. (Perhaps at a discount.) That already exists. > 2. An off the shelf business development kit... > ... > Any opinions? Sure. Start a business, implement your id

Re: how to insert EOF from keyboard ?

1998-10-02 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: > Could someone please tell how can I insert under > Linux (debian2.0) EOF (end of file) sign (in C lang.) from keyboard? > I mean what sequence of keys ? CTRL-D Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anagrams of "dig

Re: X config/setup info.

1998-10-02 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:17:34AM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > Thanks to Pann and Chris for pointing out that I was still using > the VGA16 server instead of the S3 server. > > But ... did I miss something somewhere? Either XF86Config could have > modified /etc/X11/Xserver for me or it could h

Re: debian as secretary?

1998-10-02 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hello, > I want to access my pc from univerisy. Of course i can, i have done it. > But I can only if my pc is connected to internet (obvious). I just > cannot getup on 8:00am, turn pc on, connet go to univ. and then back at > 5:00 becouse the phone-lin

LS-120

1998-10-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Are there any utilities for formatting 1.44m floppies in an LS-120 (on /dev/hdd)? Also I have a custom kernel, how can I create a boot diskette which will boot in the LS-120 drive? (my bios WILL boot a floppy in the LS-120 drive, the debian 2.0 boot/rescue disks do work in the LS-120...but how wer

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-10-02 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:01:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > I agree...but...they still could be. Isn't that exactly what the people who > were writting mainframe applications a few yars ago said? :) > > "Nah this system wont be in use past 9

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