Official Debian

1999-02-22 Thread Allen Wong
If I find a piece of software useful, I buy it. With this small gesture, I hope to support and encourage those developers to continue their work. Does anyone know where I can buy an official Debian Linux package? I know LSL sells an "official" Debian CD, but the price is under $5. Is this the g

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-22 Thread Larry Fletcher
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Larry writes: >> Can anyone tell what went wrong and how to fix it? > >In /etc/ppp/pap-secrets you will find a line like: > > ay903 * "" The line turned out to be: molec3 * password >Change it to: > > ay903" * qwertyuip >

Re: Official Debian

1999-02-22 Thread Joey Hess
Allen Wong wrote: > If I find a piece of software useful, I buy it. With this small > gesture, I hope to support and encourage those developers to continue > their work. Does anyone know where I can buy an official Debian Linux > package? I know LSL sells an "official" Debian CD, but the price i

Re: Official Debian

1999-02-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
Allen Wong wrote: > > If I find a piece of software useful, I buy it. With this small > gesture, I hope to support and encourage those developers to continue > their work. Does anyone know where I can buy an official Debian Linux > package? I know LSL sells an "official" Debian CD, but the pric

Re: GRiD install

1999-02-22 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been trying to install linux on a grid laptop and when it probes the ide > controller ( I think, its after the line starting with hda, identifying the > harddrive, one more line comes up then) the system reboots. Anyone know how > to fix this?

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-22 Thread John Hasler
Larry Fletcher writes: > I thought pressing on all of my previous defaults except for the > change from PAP to CHAT might be causing pppconfig to think that nothing > was changed, so I was trying to get rid of my defaults and start over. No, pressing enter like that is just like re-entering every

Re: Replying to messages with gnus

1999-02-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union) writes: < snip > > When replying with gnus the mail-self-blind and mail-signature* > variables are not honored. Instead use you can use > message-default-headers, message-signature, and > message-signature-file. I think the

Re: Apache and public_html directories

1999-02-22 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Mark Ciciretti wrote: > How do I set up public_html directories for users? I installed the > 1.3.4 package of apache and apache-common. I then created a public_html > directory under /home/mark/. When I enter the URL localhost/~mark/ I get > Forbidden > You don't have pe

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 12:27:28AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > This is silly. You are ruling out a hell lot of possibilities without > > technical reasons. I think both is possible, a logo without "Debian" and a > > logo that plays with the letters "Debian". > > My e

Re: ip-up question

1999-02-22 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > My /etc/ppp/ip-up does not appear to be working. Am I correct in assuming > that in Debian, ip-up won't work unless it is placed in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ? > I want to start fetchmail when I go online and I believe that is where my > script needs to be placed.

Re: /etx/X11/Xserver

1999-02-22 Thread servis
*- On 21 Feb, Deniz Dogan wrote about "Re: /etx/X11/Xserver" > "servis" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > servis> It is created by the xserver-common package during > servis> install. Files that are created in the install scripts are not > servis> registered as beng owned by a package. Fr

Re: color broken after slink upgrade

1999-02-22 Thread Joey Hess
Ryan Yeske wrote: > I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my hamm system to upgrade to > slink. Everything worked smoothly, except now I notice that I am not > getting color in a few places that I used to, namely aalib stuff and > nethack. Where there was color before in these programs I simp

Re: Soundpro Under 2.2.1

1999-02-22 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Under 2.0.34 I setup my soundcard as a "sound blaster", but with the new > > version, it refuses to detect the sound Card (it's a Soundpro > Techies, a CMI8330 PCI (onboard) sound card>). > > I have the sound adapter card on my motherboard. How d

Printing to non-postscript printer via smb

1999-02-22 Thread Chris Frost
I have a quick question reguarding magicfilters; I need to do a postscript to pcl (hp laserjet 4p) conversion and then send this to a printer resident on a win95 box via smb. How would I do this? About all I know how to setup is the printer while on my box through magicfilter's config utility... T

Re: color broken after slink upgrade

1999-02-22 Thread surak
> I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my hamm system to upgrade to > slink. Everything worked smoothly, except now I notice that I am not > getting color in a few places that I used to, namely aalib stuff and > nethack. Well, from what I hear from the Nethack maintainer (Ben Gertzfield), li

Re: ip-up question

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Peter Ludwig wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> My /etc/ppp/ip-up does not appear to be working. Am I correct in assuming >> that in Debian, ip-up won't work unless it is placed in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ? >> I want to start fetchmail when I go online and I believe that

How to move system directory to other partitions?(debian 2.0)

1999-02-22 Thread tboy
I have several partitions and want to move my /home to another partition. How to do this and make it work properly? I've tried this( / is in /dev/hda3): mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /home But I couldn't execute any script in the new '/home',even as root. BTW: I noticed that some directories have a st

Unable to load NLS charset

1999-02-22 Thread Jim Power
The following lines are thrown out during boot time: . . . Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437) Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1) Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437) Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1) Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437) Unab

DNS

1999-02-22 Thread eferen1
I got the dial-up to finally work. Now my question is: Where do I find some DNS numbers? (Like Netscape.home, Internic, etc). Thanks for any help you can give. Ed

Re: ppp difficulty - resolved

1999-02-22 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Thanx to everyone who responded on this... I'm happy to report that the problem is now resolved. There turned out to be two things I needed to do in order to resolve the problem. Firstly I needed to be using the same network/netmask pair as the "official" network (I had been mistakenly trying to

Re: exim

1999-02-22 Thread Gregory T. Norris
That took care of it. Thanx for the pointer! On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:56:22PM +0100, Robert Vollmert wrote: > > When I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail, exim delivers the first 10 and > > then leaves the rest queued until cron next fires-up it's queue-runner. > > Take a look at `smtp_accept_q

Re: Unable to load NLS charset

1999-02-22 Thread eferen1
I have the same problem when I start KDE. -Original Message- From: Jim Power <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 02:22 Subject: Unable to load NLS charset The following lines are thrown out during boot time: . . . Unable to load NLS charse

Exim wierdness

1999-02-22 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, I am experiencing some wierdness with exim. I run fetchmail and download say 30 messages, but only some of them show up in my mail box. Running mailq doesn't show anything. The messages show up eventually, magically from somewhere but I have no way of knowing if all of them made it that wer

Re: Official Debian

1999-02-22 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 21-Feb-1999, Allen Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I find a piece of software useful, I buy it. With this small > gesture, I hope to support and encourage those developers to continue > their work. Does anyone know where I can buy an official Debian Linux > package? I know LSL sells an "

Re: Exim wierdness

1999-02-22 Thread Gregory T. Norris
> I am experiencing some wierdness with exim. I run fetchmail and download > say 30 messages, but only some of them show up in my mail box. Running > mailq doesn't show anything. The messages show up eventually, magically from > somewhere but I have no way of knowing if all of them made it that wer

X/KDE weirdness

1999-02-22 Thread Stephen Pitts
Reply-To: I just switched from WindowMaker to KDE and I'm having some keyboard problems. Sometimes, for no reason, my keyboard just locks up. I'm using the Intel 740 server from RedHat (installed using alien), the KDE packages from ftp.kde.org, and the latest potato X packages on the archive. Can

Re: Printing to non-postscript printer via smb

1999-02-22 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:51:24PM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > I have a quick question reguarding magicfilters; I need to do a postscript > to pcl (hp laserjet 4p) conversion and then send this to a printer > resident on a win95 box via smb. How would I do this? About all I know how > to setup is t

Transfering mail from netscape

1999-02-22 Thread wax_man
Is there anyway to transfer mail out of netscape? (Specifically to tkrat). Thanks, Chris

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-22 Thread John Galt
I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be an essential tool in USENET. On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Frederick Page wrote: > > Well I tried

Re: ip-up question

1999-02-22 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hey Peter, Don't change any permitions anywhere, just add yourself to the group "dip". John Peter Ludwig wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > > My /etc/ppp/ip-up does not appear to be working. Am I correct in assuming > > that in Debian, ip-up won't work unless it is placed in

Which services are being used by Messenger !?

1999-02-22 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm configuring my firewall with ipchains and when I try to send some mail to my POP3 server using Netscape Messenger it takes too much time (slow). Does anyone knows which services are needed !? I'm configuring with pop-3 and smtp services. Would be enough !? Is there anyone ? Probably po

Re: Exim wierdness

1999-02-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Jim Foltz, you wrote on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:48:00PM -0500: >I am experiencing some wierdness with exim. I run fetchmail and download >say 30 messages, but only some of them show up in my mail box. (some filters snipped) You did not specify, what to do with the messages, that *don't* fit

my systems just keeps rebooting

1999-02-22 Thread limonada
I just finished installing Debian 2.0 for the third time and it just doesn´t seem to be working. Everything seems to install properly but when it comes the time for the "smoke test", it just keeps rebooting, from the system floppy i created during the instalation and from the hard drive wh

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi John Galt, you wrote on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:13:38PM -0700: >I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back >to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be >an essential tool in USENET. You might want to read /usr/doc/slrn/SCORE_FAQ.gz, I

Re: Screen Size in X

1999-02-22 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 09:53:06AM +1100, Stephen Lavelle wrote: > How do I adjust the size of myscreen in X. Its too tall (vertical) and when > I open some apps (Emacs, MAKE xCONFIG) i cannot see some parts of them. > I think its currentlt set to 640x480 . also how do i get the output of the > Xse

SLRN killfiles (was: pine & mutt)

1999-02-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:13:38 -0700 (MST), John Galt wrote: >I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back >to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be >an essential tool in USENET. Uhm... U

vim has no color after moving uo to slink

1999-02-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
Anyone else experience this? When I was running hamm, my vim displayed colored syntax highlighting, but now I have no color, and I get this error message: Error detected while processing /etc/vimrc: line 55: Can't open file /usr/lib/vim/syntax/syntax.vim vim still has the ability to di

libm.so.#: where?

1999-02-22 Thread cej
Does anybody know in which .deb package libm.so.# is located? TIA, Peter.

Re: libm.so.#: where?

1999-02-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anybody know in which .deb package libm.so.# is located? libm.so.5 --> libc5 libm.so.6 --> libc6 Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

IP_Masq and Modem Help Needed

1999-02-22 Thread Robert Current
Hi, I just installed Debian by floppy on an old 386SX20 that I plan to make the gateway to my home LAN. (right now my gateway is a P60 that dual boots, so it's a pain in the butt for others in the house if it is in the wrong OS ;-) Anyhow, I used the setup app "pppconfig" to get

Re: magic cookie error

1999-02-22 Thread Richard Harran
George Bonser wrote: > xhost is ridden with security problems, use the xauth method. Anyone on > any host in your xauth table can view your screen, even change things like > remap your keyboard, while you are completely unaware that it is > happening. If you have typed xauth +myhost at some po

RE: IP_Masq and Modem Help Needed

1999-02-22 Thread Shaleh
> > 1) get pon to come run from the time the box boots, and redial/reconnect > if it looses carrier or get's a busy signal, etc... If this box is on, > I want the modem connected. Not sure what to do here, anyone got a > script or two I could use, and tell me where they go? The supplied ppp pac

Re: libm.so.#: where?

1999-02-22 Thread Shaleh
On 22-Feb-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> Does anybody know in which .deb package libm.so.# is located? > > libm.so.5 --> libc5 > libm.so.6 --> libc6 > remember to install the -dev packages too.

Re: Re: Modem

1999-02-22 Thread Doug Dine
It's a generic internal 28.8 hayes clone modem. I will do as you suggest and see what happens. Thanks. At 2/21/99 3:41:00 PM, you wrote: >What kind of modem is it? >Anyway, that freezing sounds like it could be an IRQ conflict. Check >cat /proc/interrupts to see which IRQs are taken, and >se

Many questions

1999-02-22 Thread Bon Lam
1.  When I boot Linux I always get this kernel message SIOADDRT: invalid argument and later when I start isdn network service: SIOADDRT: operation not    supported by device. What does this mean and how to fix it. 2.  I have got Wine, but I don't understand it, so I would li

X window don't work properly

1999-02-22 Thread ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana
hello, I have a deabian 2.0 and an ATI all-in-wonders pro AGP video card. I took the xfree86 3.3.3.1 binaries and put them on my system, in order to recognize my video card. Super Probe said: First-video: super-vga Chipset: ATI 264GT3 (3D Rage III) (port probed) Memo

Re: Many questions

1999-02-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
[Drop the HTML please. This is mail, not the web] On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 10:02:48 +0100, Bon Lam wrote: >1. When I boot Linux I always get this kernel message > >SIOADDRT: invalid argument > >and later when I start isdn network service: SIOADDRT: >oper

Unidentified subject!

1999-02-22 Thread Berni
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decoding/viewing pictures

1999-02-22 Thread ivan
Hello again ! As I often download fractal images from the newsgroups I would like to find a news reader which will auto-decode the encrypted graphics and auto-exec a viewer programme ? Can anyone recommend a good picture viewer - prefer svgalib based rather than X based but any _good_ viewer is b

dos filesystem panic

1999-02-22 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, every week or two, I get a filesystem panic on one of my dos partitions, and when I reboot to DOS, sure enough, it's a mess. I don't know which comes first, the panic or the mess. I fix it (PC Tools diskfix and/or DOS chkdsk), and a week or two later it's back. Any idea what might be cau

Re: Curious Question.

1999-02-22 Thread Jiri Baum
Dan Willard: > Just how closely does Linux match with Unix? If I know Linux and sitdown > in front of a Unix terminal am I just going to notice a few differences (ie > file locations and a couple of commands) or am I going to be lost? I think > I already know the answer but would like confirmati

Re: How to give users certain privileges?

1999-02-22 Thread Jiri Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Additionally, it would be nice if they could shut down without my > intervention. ... > Ah ... one other thought. Ctrl-Alt-Del is a safe reboot as defined, > isn't it? Yes (though faster than default). Linux allows you to have one other combination that works like Ctrl-Al

Re: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-22 Thread Jiri Baum
Chris Kaltwasser: > Does someone know the meaning of this message? I don't know what the message means, but I got it when I ran out of virtual memory. A way to check how much memory is free is using Shift-ScrollLock (with the default keyboard map). This works even if there isn't enough memory fre

bash question

1999-02-22 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi ppl, As far as I did not find the answer in bash manual, I hope that someone can help me here. Let say I have two bash scripts and I need the parameter which is set in scr2 to be visable in scr1. scr1: #!/bin/sh export LANG=lang1 echo "LANG is $LANG in $0 " scr2

Re: bash question

1999-02-22 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi ppl, > As far as I did not find the answer in bash manual, I hope that > someone can help me here. Let say I have two bash scripts and I need the > parameter which is set in scr2 to be visable in scr1. > > scr1: > #!/bin/sh > export LANG=lang1 > echo "LANG is $LANG in $

Xcopilot on Debian 2.0

1999-02-22 Thread Dan Hugo
Has anyone gotten XCopilot 0.6.6 to run on a Debian 2.0 system using a PalmIII Rom? I keep getting the following when I run it: $ ./xcopilot -datadir ~/.xcopilot -romfile pilot2.rom -ramsize 2048 -memversion 2 Bus error: read a long from undefined memory address 0x10d8 This is the b

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-22 Thread Christian Kurz
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Frederick Page wrote: > > > Well I tried pine at first (it did news, but not too good), then tried > > > SLRN, which was pretty good, but had no nice filtering/scoring. Then

Re: Xcopilot on Debian 2.0

1999-02-22 Thread Dan Hugo
Note: my build does appear to work with the DEBUG Rom image from the Palm web site, both v2.0.2 and v3.0 I did have the 3.0.x (2 I think) update in my new ROM... perhaps this is the problem? Still, if anyone has any input, I would like to know, but at least I can use it. -dh Dan Hugo wrote: >

Re: DNS

1999-02-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
eferen1 hat gesagt: // eferen1 wrote: > I got the dial-up to finally work. Now my question is: Where do I find some > DNS numbers? (Like Netscape.home, Internic, etc). You should ask your internet provider for the IP-numbers of his name servers and put them into /etc/resolv.conf Or do it the

Re: decoding/viewing pictures

1999-02-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
ivan hat gesagt: // ivan wrote: > As I often download fractal images from the newsgroups I would like to find > a news reader which will auto-decode the encrypted graphics and auto-exec a > viewer programme ? > > Can anyone recommend a good picture viewer - prefer svgalib based rather > than X ba

Re: A couple more strange "sound" probs...

1999-02-22 Thread Graham Ashton
On Saturday 20 February, Paulo Silva wrote: > I have promissed to write yesterday, but I completly forgot. Here goes > my awe64 setup information. [snip] that's a very clear description - thanks a lot for the info. I'll try it later on today (maybe tomorrow if I'm too busy), and let you know ho

Re: decoding/viewing pictures

1999-02-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Feb 1999q, ivan wrote: > Hello again ! > > As I often download fractal images from the newsgroups I would like to find > a news reader which will auto-decode the encrypted graphics and auto-exec a > viewer programme ? > > Can anyone recommend a good picture viewer - prefer svgalib based rat

Re: bash question

1999-02-22 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Thanks Eric, I tried sourcing scr2 and it works faster then CALLING scr2. Eugene. On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > Hi ppl, > > As far as I did not find the answer in bash manual, I hope that > > someone can help me here. Let say I have two bash scripts and I need the > >

Re: bash question

1999-02-22 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Thanks Eric, > I tried sourcing scr2 and it works faster then CALLING scr2. > This is to be expected: if you call a script, separate shell is started that runs it. This takes some time. If you source a script, the only overhead is opening and reading an extra file. Eric -- E.L. Meijer

libc.xo.6 missing (for netscape and staroffice)

1999-02-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to instaal netscape 4.05 and staroffice but i keep getting the message that i am missing libc.so.6 (at list for netscape i don't remember what staroffice was missing but it was almost the same. been some time since i tried to install it). If anyone knows how to solve the problem. I am runni

Re: Unable to load NLS charset

1999-02-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Jim Power hat gesagt: // Jim Power wrote: > The following lines are thrown out during boot time: > . > Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437) > Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1) > . > I wonder why and how to get rid of them. Anyone give me a hand, please? TIA. The National

Iomega Easy 800

1999-02-22 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, Is there a Linux driver for this Streamer on the printer port??? (BTW: In the Hardware-HOWTO is none) Thanx, florian attenberger

upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-22 Thread Micha Feigin
How do i upgrade from hamm to slink?

Right to Left languges (Hebrew)?

1999-02-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I wnat to write in hebrew under debian. The question is if this is possible, and also if it is possible to convert wordprocessors and editors to work with hebrew (mainly write from right to left and use hebrew fonts) also if that is possible, how do i install the new fonts (hebrew fonts). I know i

Re: Right to Left languges (Hebrew)?

1999-02-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 16:40:47 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > The question is if this is possible, and also if it is possible to convert > wordprocessors and editors to work with hebrew (mainly write from right to > left and use hebrew fonts) Some editors (e.g. vim) have Hebrew support and a right

Re: i740 and Xserver as user

1999-02-22 Thread Kent West
This is being forwarded to the list; please include Micheal in your reply. Thanks. At 11:11 PM 2/21/1999 -0500, you wrote: >I am replying to your post re the Intel i740 driver and Debian 2.0. >I've recently switched to Debian from Redhat 5.2 to try it out. >Everything installed well. I can only

Re: Web email packages question

1999-02-22 Thread whbell
>> What packages are available that would allow me to get >> to my email from the web server on my system? > > Run -- don't walk! -- to http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/Debian/ and grab Ivan >Moore's IMP setup. When I did an overview of all the web-based systems IMP >stood out as at least one of the

[Linux] nfs server crashing all the time

1999-02-22 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I have a Linux compilation server running in a mostly SUN and SGI environment. Everything is running fine except for the NFS which is really a pain. When I try to reach an exported filesystem from a SUN or SGI, the nfs daemon crashes after a few minutes (well, it's still there but it sto

Re: WindowMaker themes -> Debian packages

1999-02-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 01:14:34PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Wooo another one! Diversity is strength... it is, isn't it? :) > I think the best solution would be something like the kernel-package > package that takes a common formated tree, such as the themes from > *.themes.org an

Re: diald

1999-02-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Did you put the options on separate lines? That won't work. You need: pppd-options noauth user talon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Umm -- first off, I'm not subscribed to this list (-devel is enough for me > to sort through for now) -- but it was suggested that I bring the problem > I'm having with

Re: vim has no color after moving uo to slink

1999-02-22 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Vim's been separated into several packages. vim-rt is a step in the right direction. Also, make sure that syntax highlighting is enabled (":he syntax"). In short, you need the line "syntax on" in a .vimrc file. On 02/21/99 at 21:39:30, Mark Wagnon wrote concerning "vim has no color after movin

CRASH: filesystem went read only

1999-02-22 Thread Richard Harran
I just had a huge panic, when my file system 'spontaneously' turned read only! I was using netscape (3.04), and all its windows vanished from the screen. I tried to restart it, and got the 'detected lock' message, so I tried to 'rm' ~/.netscape/lock. It told me: rm: lock: filesystem read

Re: Many questions

1999-02-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Bon Lam wrote: > > 1. When I boot Linux I always get this kernel message > SIOADDRT: invalid argument This is due to the route command in the network startup script. Don't worry about it. I removed the offending command, and the network stopped working :( Matth

cdu31a

1999-02-22 Thread Andrea Novara
Hi to all! I have an old sony cdu33a 2x cd! The problem is that no docs are provided about which io_port I should use. The DOS driver don't tell me the values! The manifacturer of the audio card / controller have retired ( was Reveal ) and all the hints in cdu31a.c don't work! I'm using kernel 2.

Final test build of XFree86 for Sparc/Slink available

1999-02-22 Thread Steve Dunham
I've built the sparc binaries for Branden's final test version of XFree86. The binary packages are available at: http://master.debian.org/~dunham A proper APT tree for all of the packages (binary and all) is available via: deb http://www.cse.msu.edu/debian xfree86/ Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Robert E. Bell
Hi all, I know this issue seems to be beating a dead horse, but I have searched the FAQs (and Faq-o-matic...I love that name :-) and asked a number of people and am still getting nowhere. I am trying to install Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 560x (dual boot with w95 so I can install from hard disk).

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Shaleh
> Any help would be very appreciated! :-) > (The debian user list is much friendlier > and supportive than Red Hat's :-) We try (= On my laptop it would reboot if I was not using a zImage kernel. The tecra disks should provide this kernel. If not, do you have another linux box? If so you coul

System not finding fsck or /sbin

1999-02-22 Thread J.L.Gomez Dans
Hi! I left my computer over the weekend enjoying itself with octave. I tried loggin in from my ppp account last night, but couldn't; my host was asking for login and passwd, and would then close the connection. When I came here, all sorts of kernel messages were around, basically saying tha

I give up ... XFree keymapping problem, perhaps?

1999-02-22 Thread Seth M. Landsman
Okay, I have four(!) debian machines all very up to date with very different hardware. On each of them, I have an MS Natural Keyboard. One of them, my laptop, has a keyboard with windows keys, but I usually use the MS keyboard because it is much nicer to my wrists. Anyways, on all

RE: I give up ... XFree keymapping problem, perhaps?

1999-02-22 Thread Shaleh
> > Anyone have a clue? Can anyone suggest something for me to try > out? > Same thing here, neomagic seems to not accept the Windows key (the menu key does work).

Re: I give up ... XFree keymapping problem, perhaps?

1999-02-22 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 02:49:51PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > > > > Anyone have a clue? Can anyone suggest something for me to try > > out? > > > > Same thing here, neomagic seems to not accept the Windows key (the menu key > does work). Seems odd that the neomagic card would have an

NE200 clone problem.

1999-02-22 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, the problem is as follows: i can make a #modprobe ne io=bla port=bla and the card seems to be configured. An #ifconfig -a shows de interface eth0 with the correct Hardware address. Then a can configure eth0 and te routing table without any advisable problem. But ping can't reach any other

Re: upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Micha Feigin wrote: > > How do i upgrade from hamm to slink? For a newcomer, it might be better for you to wait untill slink is officially released as Debian 2.1. Then you can get a CD of slink and install it. If you are currently using dselect to update against hamm via ftp, ju

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Robert E. Bell wrote: > I am trying to install Debian on an IBM > Thinkpad 560x (dual boot with > w95 so I can install from hard disk). > When I create the boot floppies, > either through the install process OR > downloading floppies from the > debian site, it just continually > reboo

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: >> Any help would be very appreciated! :-) >> (The debian user list is much friendlier >> and supportive than Red Hat's :-) > > We try (= > > On my laptop it would reboot if I was not using a zImage kernel. The tecra > disks should provide this kernel. If not, do yo

Re: cdu31a

1999-02-22 Thread John Goerzen
Hello Andrea, The kernel sources list the following as possible addresses: { 0x340, 0 },/* Standard configuration Sony Interface */ { 0x1f88,0 },/* Fusion CD-16 */ { 0x230, 0 },/* SoundBlaster 16 card */ { 0x360, 0 },/* Secondary standard Sony Interface

libqt.so

1999-02-22 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hello, I installed a new version of libc6 ===> version 2.0.7. 19981211-5 This went well. I installed libstdc++2.9 and libjpeg6a. (for the use of KDE) Now I want to install qt1g 1.42-1 and I get a ldconfig warning: can't find or open /urs/X11R6/lib/libqt.so. I checked but libqt.so is there. Is

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-22 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Sun, 21 Feb, 1999 à 11:02:32PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > My ideas of debian/linux (without any significance in the order) are : > > freedom, power, cooperation. > > Sounds like elephants to me. Why not ? > > What animals symbolize these ? (and don't f

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Shaleh
On 22-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: >>> Any help would be very appreciated! :-) >>> (The debian user list is much friendlier >>> and supportive than Red Hat's :-) >> >> We try (= >> >> On my laptop it would reboot if I was not using a zImage kernel. The tecra >> disks

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: >> I have a bzImage, not a zImage, btw. >> > > NO, use a zImage kernel. Recompile one if need be. A bzImage will reboot > on > you. That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on that machine. I forgot the correct procedure for copying a kernel to

Re: CRASH: filesystem went read only

1999-02-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Richard Harran, you wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 05:14:30PM +: >I just had a huge panic, when my file system 'spontaneously' turned read >only! man tune2fs Your device has reached the time between two file-system checks. Wait until the checks are finished, it should become rw again afte

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: >>> I have a bzImage, not a zImage, btw. >>> >> >> NO, use a zImage kernel. Recompile one if need be. A bzImage will reboot >> on >> you. > > That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on that > machine. > I forgo

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: : : On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: : >> I have a bzImage, not a zImage, btw. : >> : > : > NO, use a zImage kernel. Recompile one if need be. A bzImage will reboot : > on : > you. : : That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on t

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> >> That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on that >> machine. >> I forgot the correct procedure for copying a kernel to a floppy, but when I >> find it, I will try it. > > Uhm, the floppy is a s

Re: i740 and Xserver as user

1999-02-22 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 10:05:15AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > This is being forwarded to the list; please include Micheal in your reply. > Thanks. > > At 11:11 PM 2/21/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >I am replying to your post re the Intel i740 driver and Debian 2.0. > >I've recently switched to Debian

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