On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote:
> I mucked up my package list. I'm trying to install kde and xfree86, the
> stable versions. One of the 2 required, so I thought, a xlibc _unstable_
> version. I connected to the local debian distribution ftp site and got the
> unstable directory listin
Daniel Mashao wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> >
> > > I runs fine here. I am running slink and have tried three different
> > > kernels, 2.0.32, 2.0.35, and 2.1.127, all work fine. Maybe you need
> > > more video RAM? That thing is a resource pig.
> >
> I am running on a Pen
hey.
i while back upgraded all my x stuff and unfortunately timed it just as
the packages had been split up. i managed to figure out what was wrong
and patch things back together but now i'm getting this error when i tried
to change my xserver from s3v to svga.
i'm trying to get work done on
Dear all,
Where is that page that explaines why we use xterm-debian instead
of xterm? Searching for xterm-debian on the debian site only produces the
FAQumatic. I have seen this somewhere before (Branden's pages?), and need
it RSN, as someone has decided to flame me
Thanks,
Matthew
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 11:39:26PM +, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> i can't use xplaycd or any other cd playing program as a normal user.
> the message i get from xplaycd is that permission is denied to use /dev/cdrom.
> i can make the program work using sudo though.
> any way i can fix this?
See if
> Hi, when I ssh to another sshd machine, I can't forward X11
> connections back to the machine where I am logged into the console. I
> always get the following error message:
this means (surprise, surprise) that tcp_wrappers is denying the forwarded
x session. what i do is restrict ssh via tcp_
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 12:10:31AM +, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Where is that page that explaines why we use xterm-debian instead
> of xterm? Searching for xterm-debian on the debian site only produces the
> FAQumatic. I have seen this somewhere before (Branden's pages?), and ne
No, it's still unregistered, because it says so on the title bar, and I've
tried reinstalling like 5 times already. That's why I asked the list in
the first place -- I can't for the life of me figure out what the problem
is with it, and it dosen't seem to bother anyone else. Thanks for trying
tho
> David Welton wrote:
> > Don't want to spend a fortune
> > Don't need anything fantastic
> > Do want something that works well with Debian
> > Don't want to have to use proprietary X servers.
I picked up an HP OmniBook 800 a few weeks ago specifically to run
Debian. So far I'm delighted. It has
Subject: Re: bogomips
Date: Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 12:56:21AM +0100
In reply to:Martin Bialasinski
Quoting Martin Bialasinski([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
> >> "w" == wtopa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> w> Yes that would seem about right. The problem I have is that my
> w> 166MMX
I'm running a 'stable' (hamm) system and want to have Sendmail 8.9 for
its spam-blocking abilities. Hamm comes with 8.8.8 which I am not
happy with.
Is there an 8.9 .deb file that will work with hamm?
--Bill.
--
William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/
[EMA
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Chang, FKK wrote:
> As I am forced to work with Dos 95 at work here - after a fruitless crusade
> to be at least *allowed* to use Debian/TeX, I stumbled upon the Cygnus
> win32 - GNU - thing.
[...]
> This cygnus-win32 base seems an ideal base for distribution of free softwar
I've seen posts to this list about this problem before, but I
can't recall the solution. I'm trying to revive an ip
masquerading setup I had in the past, but when I try to start it
up a get a long list of unresolved symbols on the net modules.
The modules were made and installed after the last ker
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Tomas Petersson wrote:
> Hello, I have just reinstalled debian 2.0 on my
> computer. For some reason the network has not been
> configured correctly.
> The netcard seems to work ok, and have a ipaddress assigned.
>
> Which commands do I have to issue to set up an default rou
Having looked around, I'm pretty sure there's no decent speech
recognition for Linux around. Please please correct me if I'm
wrong!
But am I also right in thinking that running one of the windoze
speech rec packages under Wine wouldn't work?
What I -really- want is to be able to work in my virt
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only
> delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway.
> (Unless you actually need them)
apt is very *bad* in this place - if you use apt as method in dselect,
Please include the program's output and the result of: ls -al on the
/dev device that /dev/cdrom is linked to.
On 12-Nov-98 Vincent Murphy wrote:
> i can't use xplaycd or any other cd playing program as a normal user.
> the message i get from xplaycd is that permission is denied to use
> /dev/cdro
Mine worked. Make sure that you are typing a zero and not an oh when
you are puting in your reg #. Also check to make sure that your first
and last name and e-mail address are exactly the same as the ones you
typed on the web page. You may want to direct any furher queries to the
server: starne
On 12 Nov 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote:
> Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only
> > delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway.
> > (Unless you actually need them)
>
> apt is very *bad* i
On 12 Nov 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote:
> Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only
> > delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway.
> > (Unless you actually need them)
>
> apt is very *bad* i
Are you running a 2.1.x kernel? If so comment out the route commands in
/etc/init.d/network and read linux/Documentation/Changes in the kernel
source.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia
voice +61 8
-> > w> Yes that would seem about right. The problem I have is that my
-> > w> 166MMX gives me 149.9 BogoMips on my Slackware partition and only
-> > w> 130.6 on my Debian partition. Same hardware (same box).
-> >
-> > Same kernelversion? The bogomips implementation changes sometimes.
->
-> Yes.
Thank Thorsten,
I will read the documentation to term-mode, hope this will help me !
Marcus
Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
>
> On: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:09:20 +0100 Marcus Geiger writes:
> >
> > XEmacs-Shell-mode doesn't seem to work correctly. I get some
> > [ldksjf] <- control-codes in braces. My mach
Steve,
I am having the same problem registering StarOffice 5.0 that you
explained. When I try to do an online registration I get the HTML page
and email with my Customer Number and Registration Key, but there is a
failure. When I try to enter the Customer Number and Registration Key by
hand th
On: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:24:32 - Moore, Paul writes:
[...]
> PS I'd like to do apt-get upgrade (or even dist-upgrade) but I don't
> want to do the multi-megabyte download all at once. Can I get apt to
> tell me what would be done by a [dist-]upgrade and then let me do it
> in stages?
apt-get
>
> hey.
>
> i while back upgraded all my x stuff and unfortunately timed it just as
> the packages had been split up. i managed to figure out what was wrong
> and patch things back together but now i'm getting this error when i tried
> to change my xserver from s3v to svga.
>
> i'm trying t
Hi, Adam!
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 03:06:52PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote :
> i while back upgraded all my x stuff and unfortunately timed it just as
> the packages had been split up. i managed to figure out what was wrong
> and patch things back together but now i'm getting this error when i tried
How can I solve the problems of colors on my system. I installed gnome and
it always comes up with pepper noise. Apps such as xearth cannot run as
they do not have enough colors.
/--/
Daniel J. Mashao
Ele
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> > I am running on a Pentium 233 with 64 Meg and installing StarOffice
> > crashes my machine too. It crashes everytime I try. I think it damaged
> > my partition somehow. Now its time to get gwp working.
>
> which x server are you using? i'm in the pro
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:51:32 -0800 (PST)
Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could some one tell me how to set up an ISP on Linux. I remember seeing a
> howto on the subject, but can not seem to find it. How to apply for
> IPaddresses?
I seem to recall having seen one once as well, but
Hi all,
I have the following problem with kde and debian 2.0: I have installed
all
the required deb packages (kdebase, kdelibs0g, qt1g) without any problems. All
the packages are correctly installed and configured; when I try to start kde
(or kdm) I get the following message:
kaudioser
Hi all,
I shelled out good money (Swedish) to purchase the official 2.0
distribution from Linuxpress. However, as soon as I mounted the CD to begin
the upgrade, strange things appeared when I did this:
[root]:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mou
> [root]:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom
> mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only
This is entirely correct. CDROMS are write-protected by definition (unless
you have a burner)
> [root]:~# ls -l /cdrom/
> total 14
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 263 Jul 24
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 11:48:08AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> >
> > > I am running on a Pentium 233 with 64 Meg and installing StarOffice
> > > crashes my machine too. It crashes everytime I try. I think it damaged
> > > my partition somehow. Now its
Hi Curt,
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 08:54:50PM -0600, Curt Daugaard wrote:
> I've seen posts to this list about this problem before, but I
> can't recall the solution. I'm trying to revive an ip
> masquerading setup I had in the past, but when I try to start it
> up a get a long list of unresolved s
So I'll answer my own post:
Though all other modules worked, and I had only one version of
modules installed, somehow the ipmasq pieces were not recognized.
A reinstall of the kernel-image using the kernel-package utility
solved it.
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 08:54:50PM -0600, Curt Daugaard wrote:
>
Well, I haven't had much joy with apt. It works fine, unfortunately, I can't
find a decent http server to connect to. (I can't use ftp because I'm behind a
firewall and have to proxy). I've tried a couple from the mirror sites
listing, but they seem to have problems finding packages. Can anyone rec
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On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Cesare Tagliaferri wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have the following problem with kde and debian 2.0: I have installed
> all
> the required deb packages (kdebase, kdelibs0g, qt1g) without any problems.
> All
> the packages are correctly inst
> There's a replacement shell for Windows that looks very Afterstep-like.
>Again, I've got a URL somewhere. Put it all together and you could have
>tricycle that gives people a taste of what it's like to ride the Linux
>motorcycle. :->
>
> Sincerely,
>
Look at http://www.litestep.net
Sorry, I forgot another site which lists all alternatives to Windows
Explorer:
http://www.msoe.edu/~rookd/wm/
HI all,
Any mirror users out there, how do i force it to download the files that
symlink's on a remote site point to, ive had no success, it just ignores
them.
Thanx
To all in Debian Land,
I have successful installed and run Star Office 5, the only problem I had was
downloading it in the first place
I am using a fairly standard 'Hamm' install and running an external Xserver for
my
Neomagic videocard in my laptop.
I have not had any real problems yet, bu
Hello All,
Reading these emails has reminded me of something strange about the registration
process. When registering On-line I was prompted for my customer number and my
key.
The problem was I was not aware of having a customer number, so simply entered
my
email address, then the key from the
Hi
Is the 2.0_r1 CD image bootable ? I have to burn it here on work and
I don't know how to make a bootable CD out of it.
As far as I understand, I need to make an El-Torento(?) CD-Rom, i.e.
one .raw file which contains a bootable HD partition and one .raw
file that will be the "normal"
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On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Andrew wrote:
> Well, I haven't had much joy with apt. It works fine, unfortunately, I can't
> find a decent http server to connect to. (I can't use ftp because I'm behind a
> firewall and have to proxy). I've tried a couple from the mirror
*- James Dietrich wrote about "Re: xterm-debian"
> On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 12:10:31AM +, M.C. Vernon wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Where is that page that explaines why we use xterm-debian instead
>> of xterm? Searching for xterm-debian on the debian site only produces the
>> FAQumatic. I hav
The "pepper noise" is esound loading. The color map issue is probably caused
by some programs in GNOME eating colors. Try loading xearth w/o GNOME running
and see if that helps.
You failed to mention what window manager you are using. it is the window
managers job to control the color palette.
Dear People,
if I did not do this right it is probably based in this being my first
email having just joined the list.
I am currently using Stacker for DOS (PCDOS 7.0). I would like to
experiment with Linux on a 170Meg removable harddisk (from my 750C with
20Meg DRAM).
With PCDOS I use win 3.
Hello there, I got a source package for my hp scanjet scanner and tried to
compile it. I'm new at programming or fixing code. I was wondering if
you could give me some pointers where to look to fix the error, I am also
going to give you the lsm of the package that I am trying to compile.
Thanks
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ snip ]
: The permissions are whacked! And the file README is a symlink to something,
: yet it appears to be an executable. All symlinks had this "feature", making
: upgrading a potential disaster.
:
: The source CD had the same problem, but the
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote:
> I've seen posts to this list about this problem before, but I
> can't recall the solution. I'm trying to revive an ip
> masquerading setup I had in the past, but when I try to start it
> up a get a long list of unresolved symbols on the net modules.
> T
Hello, I'm just starting out with Linux and am not fairing all too
well. The system seems to be up and running even though it took almost
ten hours for it to load. Not a good start.
The computer is an old (1996) Intergraph dual P133 w/128m RAM, SB16,
Adaptec SCSI, a SCSI CDROM and two SCSI HDs.
Hello:
After searching the web for information I am now more confused than
ever. Maybe you can help. I want to develop a Community FreeNet,but
I am unhappy with what I have seen in other cities. When members/guests
sign on I would like them to experience an "AOL" type of community. My
quanda
Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> The program xdm says it's loaded, but there is no gui visible,
Bill> just the prompt. Perhaps I misunderstood what xdm is, at least I
Bill> have a prompt. I tried startx and it said no such file or
Bill> directory. Whatever, I'll eventually figure it out.
Hm
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is the 2.0_r1 CD image bootable ? I have to burn it here on work and
> I don't know how to make a bootable CD out of it.
>
> As far as I understand, I need to make an El-Torento(?) CD-Rom, i.e.
> one .raw file which contains a boo
Ok...I have a interesting problem.
Since changing from stampede 0.86 to a fresh
debian 2.0 installation, I am having some problems with netscape.
First of all..all the latest versions (4.06, 4.07, 4.08 and so on)
crashes with a seg fault, without apparent reasons. The crashing line
seems to conta
Here are a couple:
A nice background with a lot of info
So you wanna be an Internet Service Provider ISP) -
http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/help/isp.htm
A lot of links with 'The Linux-ISP-HOWTO' as the first link (a good link
as of this morning)
Linux ISP - http://www.anime.net/linuxisp/
These s
Subject: Re: bogomips
Date: Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 07:27:12AM -0600
>
> I remember back in '98 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Yes. 2.0.34/35 on Slackware 149.9. On debian 2.0.34 120 Bogomips and
> > on 2.0.35 130.6. The .config's on both dists are the same as well.
> > Intere
Here's something which may get you started: http://demo.obsidian.co.za/ This
thing
provides all kinds of interesting things users can do, including administration
of
your server!
William Temple wrote:
> Hello:
> After searching the web for information I am now more confused than
> ever. Maybe
I work at a public hospital in Portugal. The hospital has a LAN of
almost 300 personal computers. The vertical distribution is made
through a FDDI ring and the horizontal distribution is made through
Ethernet.
You have a Novell Netware 4.11 server with a software installed called
Unix to Netw
Hi,
I am thinking of installing debian again, but I am wondering were I can find
the Qt free stuff as a .deb file. I do not have much Linux knowledge, but
would like to run KDE if possible.
Thanks for your help.
Marc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Marc van der Vossen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am thinking of installing debian again, but I am wondering were I can find
> the Qt free stuff as a .deb file. I do not have much Linux knowledge, but
> would like to run KDE if possible.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Marc
> [EMAIL PRO
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote:
> The "pepper noise" is esound loading. The color map issue is probably caused
> by some programs in GNOME eating colors. Try loading xearth w/o GNOME running
> and see if that helps.
>
> You failed to mention what window manager you are using. it is the wind
--- "M.C. Vernon" wrote: ---
On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote:
> I mucked up my package list. I'm trying to install kde and xfree86, the
> stable versions. One of the 2 required, so I thought, a xlibc _unstable_
> version. I connected to the local debian distribution ftp site and got the
>
> Does anyone know how many colors I have if the depth is set at 8. Do not
> say 256 because I am not using that many colors to have 256 colors
> exhausted.
8bpp == 256 color
16bpp == 16million
32bpp == 32million
The problem w/ colormaps is that some programs were not written well and use
way
After doing a low-level format of the hard drive and running a
verification check without complaint, I am unable to install Debain
because when the installation program runs fdisk to set up the swap
partition, it immediately chokes, saying "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary
partition". I can't believe that
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know how many colors I have if the depth is set at 8. Do not
> > say 256 because I am not using that many colors to have 256 colors
> > exhausted.
>
> 8bpp == 256 color
> 16bpp == 16million
> 32bpp == 32million
>
> The problem w/ colormaps
Hi!
Lightning killed my modem, so now I need a new one. I'd like
a modem, with voice capabilities that can be used under Debian.
Does anybody have a working setup and if so, with what modem.
feri.
Hello M.C. Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote:
>
> > I mucked up my package list.
...
> b) place all the other packages on hold.
Which would be nice if it could be done easily...
Open the file /var/lib/dpkg/status and replace:
s/^Status: install ok/Status
*-Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Is makeinfo available in the unstable tree yet? If so, what package is it
| in? I couldn't find one.
It should be in tetex-bin. I don't know if it's in unstable.
--
...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (also known as the Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly).
*-"Marc van der Vossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I am thinking of installing debian again, but I am wondering were I can find
| the Qt free stuff as a .deb file. I do not have much Linux knowledge, but
| would like to run KDE if possible.
The runtime files are in:
dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i3
You seem to be answering your own question. Stop running GNOME panel and see
if the problem goes away. If it does, complain to the authors of GNOME panel.
In X Windows programming, each app asks for a colormap. If one app asks for a
large colormap, the window manager doles out whatever is left
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Richard Hall wrote:
: After doing a low-level format of the hard drive and running a
: verification check without complaint, I am unable to install Debain
: because when the installation program runs fdisk to set up the swap
: partition, it immediately chokes, saying "FATA
I upgraded my system from hamm to slink (not entirely by choice) and
encountered a number of problems. I seem to have fixed most of them,
except Netscape appears to be broken. When I try to run netscape, I get
this error:
netscape: locale `C' not supported.
along with a long description about $
I previously installed and had Xwindows working. Then I messed with
upgrading my 'bo' system from libc5 to libc6; it broke a lot of things.
Including X. I re-installed xserver-common, which had been un-installed
by apt; all the other X packages seem to be present, and dpkg and apt both
say ther
Title: Pre beginner
I am trying to install Debian Linux on a PC clone with a genuine Intel 166MMX processor, 64MB SDRAM, a Western Digital 2.5GB IDE hard drive, a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro PCI video card, and a generic NE2000 compatible NIC. I created a 400 MB DOS 6.22 bootable partition an
As part of a homework assignment I've written a little program to do
arithmetic with fractions and mixed numbers, and I wanted to benchmark the
speed of various algorithms for finding 'gcd,' the greatest common divisor.
Not knowing how to do the timing piece, I started playing with gettimeofday.
He
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Andy Tai wrote:
> > Compilers are also an issue I feel strongly about. I think gcc and egcs
> > are awsome, but no match (yet) for commercial compilers.
>
> Don't even think of trying making some commerical compilers part of the Linux
> standard, if they's what you are think
Davide Bolcioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If we say a library is a collection of functions which have a
> signature and an implementation, the notion of change becomes: 1 -
> an implementation change which preserves the signature; 2 - a
> signature change (which may be construed as a deletion
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