Re: Enlightenment 0.15 .debs

1999-03-14 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: > > Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the > distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that Where's the GNOME staging area? For those of us who like to live dangerously...

Help

1999-03-14 Thread Joe
I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when I try to connect online I get error message :In file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem.. Here is what I'm doing,,, Login as root,,,pon(enter),,, got message,,, /usr/sbin/pppd: in file /etc/ppp/peers/prov

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread John Leget
Hi, "depmod -a" check out "man depmod" cheers Mark Wagnon wrote: > I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. > > I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, > but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was > empty. I too

Re: How to run a script when disconnecting a dialup connection

1999-03-14 Thread John Leget
Tongue in cheek reply >;0). It sounds like he's after a means to "predict" when the modem drops the line. Anyway if you find one email it to me and ill customise it to show me the upcoming lottery results cheers Sorry about the wasted bandwidth , just couldnt resist. John Hasler wrote: > Ol

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-14 Thread buns
This is a bit off-topic. " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: > > > Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user > > account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. > The address seem to indicate that the i

Re: Enlightenment 0.15 .debs

1999-03-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: > > > > > Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the > > distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that > > Where's the GNOME staging area? For those of us who like to

Re: Book on Xwindow

1999-03-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 01:42:48PM -, Shawn Nguyen wrote: > Does anyone know a good book for Xwindow? I looked up O'reilly and > they seems to have two of them. One for MIT version and one for > Motif. I have no idea which one I should get so if anyone can > recommend

Re: junkbuster acting up

1999-03-14 Thread John Leget
Hmm , just tested that by changing to /root as root then "su"->normal user no problem "ls" of course gives permission denied. Anyway i think i solved the problem in a round about way, i noticed in one of the sys logs that and error would come up with regards to user "nobody" i deleted it and re

Re: Help

1999-03-14 Thread ktb
Make sure you don't have a win modem, works only with windows. See http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html and http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html Hope that helps, Kent Joe wrote: > I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when I > try to connect onlin

Re[2]: ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
thomas lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there's a debian package for it, `pppupd': Aha. Thanks for the tip. Stupid me though, it dawned on me, when I got the pppupd package, that I'm using a new OpenBSD box for dialling up and that this Linux machine is not the place I want to do the 'keepal

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, I haven't tried downgrading yet, though I know that the problem is not > with the kernel version. I get the same problem with kernel 2.2.3. I'd > also be very surprised if this were an MTA problem because pine works > fine. I haven't tried downgr

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 04:37:06PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: > > You're complaints hardly apply only to the computer world (I know you > didn't say they did). People just EXPECT everything in general. That > bugs me to no end also, but in this case, there's nothing wrong with > WANTING

kernel 2.2.1 boot error, help.

1999-03-14 Thread Roddie Rod
I finally got a new kernel compiled. But when I boot it I get this error. kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt -464c errno=8 request_modle[binfmt-464c]:fork failed errno=11 it scroll up the screen and all I can do is crtl+alt+del, to reboot and stop it. Luckly I can still bot my old k

Re: [Systalk] freshmeat crashes Netscape

1999-03-14 Thread Ted Rolle
Mee, too. RH 5.1/2. Netscape 4.5. It happens regularly. I just keep plugging away until it works. Doesn't seem to matter which mirror it uses. Seems to help to go to a specific article in freshmeat (from, say, slashdot) first. Ted

Re: Help

1999-03-14 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Make sure you don't have a win modem, works only with windows. See > > http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html > > and > > http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html > > Hope that helps, > Kent > This has nothing to do with winmodem. Winmodem is not recognised by the system, and

Mending a broken Package

1999-03-14 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- Whenever I use dpkg to install anything, right after it says reading database... I get an error saying that xservers-vga16 is broken. How do I fix it? Thank you, -James

Re: Help

1999-03-14 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when I > try to connect online I get error message :In file > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem > ... > What can I do about this? Run pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Danc

Problems with dpkg

1999-03-14 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- Whenever I use dpkg, while it is checking the package databse it always says: "Files list for package xserver-vga16 missing assuming package has no files currently installed" This is the file I want to install so I have a problem. Thank you, -James

Re: Help

1999-03-14 Thread Alec Smith
You could also try changing the line to /dev/ttyS1 if your modme is on DOS com2... Or whichever other port. They're numbered starting with /dev/ttyS0 which is com1 on DOS. On 13 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when

DHCP and problems with apache, samba etc

1999-03-14 Thread Dean Carpenter
When using dhcp, since the hostname doesn't resolve to an IP address right away, there are a few packages that barf, like apache and samba. These appear to attempt to find the IP address from the system name. In the case of dhcp, this may not be known. You can't hardcode an address in the /etc/h

Debian 2.1 Miscellany

1999-03-14 Thread SEGV
I'm installing Debian 2.1 from ISO-image-burned CDs onto a clean drive, /dev/hda2. I have an existing hamm beta installed on /dev/hda3, and Win95 (for games) on /dev/hda1. I have lilo installed as MBR on /dev/hda. Is it possible to configure lilo to load both different kernels from both different

Allowing Connections

1999-03-14 Thread wax_man
I'm having problems getting my /etc/hosts.allow file set up correctly. I"m trying to allow any system on my network (192.168.1.X) to connect to leafnode and get the news groups. The original file had: leafnode:127.0.0.1 I've tried adding: leafenode:127.0.0.1 192.168.1.* but it does not seem to

Where is ldd in potato?

1999-03-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just noticed that I no longer have ldd on my system. I see in the changelog for ldso that it was removed and is now provided by glibc 2.1. I have also seen messages which infer that glibc 2.1 isn't quite ready for use. What is suggested here? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EM

Re: ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-14 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 01:06:00AM +, Bob Bernstein wrote: > thomas lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > there's a debian package for it, `pppupd': > > Aha. Thanks for the tip. Stupid me though, it dawned on me, when I got the > pppupd package, that I'm using a new OpenBSD box for dialli

Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Benjamin Suto
I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've recently upgraded to the newest distribution sometime yesterday, March 12. Now, when I try to telnet/ssh in, I get an immediate disconnection, and the following message in my system logs. Mar 13 23:00:12 edgy inetd[27942]: getpwnam:

Re: SMP with kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread John Leget
Hi, Seems to work ok here, runnning potata SMP with kernel 2.2.3 also running the distributed-net client and top shows full utilisation, i was also using xosview but that seems to be broken with my current setup :( Interestingly some months back when i went SMP top showed 200% for a while :). A

Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Alec Smith
I know on Slink I can't login as root because of the way login is configured. Can you log in as a regular user and then use 'su'? That would be my uneducated guess as to your problem. On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Benjamin Suto wrote: > > I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've rec

Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Benjamin Suto
Alec Smith wrote: > > I know on Slink I can't login as root because of the way login is > configured. Can you log in as a regular user and then use 'su'? That would > be my uneducated guess as to your problem. > No, I can log in locally as a user, then su to root, but when I try to telnet in, it

Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:14:01 -0500, Benjamin Suto wrote: >No, I can log in locally as a user, then su to root, but when I try to >telnet in, it disconnects me before I can even get a login prompt with >the following error in the syslog: Check you

init runs away with glibc2.1

1999-03-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
Shortly after installing the new glibc 2.1 packages, I noticed that init had started to run away: USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 12.5 13.0 8944 8300 ? R17:42 44:26 init [2] (That RSS is awfully big, too, but doesn't seem to be growing.)

Netscape won't go

1999-03-14 Thread eferen
I had had Netscape working once under Caldera OpenLinux, but had to do a re-install. Naturally, I thought since it worked before it would be easy to get Nescape going again. HA!! I cannot figure out for the life of me what I'm doing wrong. I am now trying to get it to go under RedHat (since I'm

Directory Stats & Mounting Partitions

1999-03-14 Thread David Densmore
How do I list the total size of all files in a directory in bytes (not including ./ and ../)? How do I list the total size of a directory recursively showing total bytes, number of sub directories and number of files without actually listing them all like ls -R, which does not list the grand total

Sound Card Plug-n-Play

1999-03-14 Thread Doug Dine
Hi, Does anyone have a sound card with an AD1816 chip that they have successfully configured to work? I found a sound driver for it at http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~tek/projects/linux.html Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/dougdine http://members.xoom.com/lov

Re: Allowing Connections

1999-03-14 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I've tried adding: > leafenode:127.0.0.1 192.168.1.* Try leafnode: 127.0.0.1 192.168.1 Hope this works, Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http:/

E 0.15.1 debs

1999-03-14 Thread Brian Almeida
Well, a new release, a new set of debs. Same thing as before: http://www.debian.org/~bma/enlightenment/ Apt line: deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ Also, people asked about the gnome staging area - apt line deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main Imlib 1.9.4 debs

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-14 Thread Max Kamenetsky
On 13 Mar 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, I haven't tried downgrading yet, though I know that the problem is not > > with the kernel version. I get the same problem with kernel 2.2.3. I'd > > also be very surprised if this were an MTA problem becaus

Re: SMP with kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread Max Kamenetsky
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, John Leget wrote: > Seems to work ok here, runnning potata SMP with kernel 2.2.3 also running the > distributed-net client and top shows full utilisation, i was also using > xosview but > that seems to be broken with my current setup :( You are right, I think it works fine, i

Turtle Beach Montego

1999-03-14 Thread Jesse Lee
I have a turtle beach montego sound card. Can it work under linux? If so what driver do i use? I have a dual boot macine and by the time you read this Hope fully  I will have kernel 2.2.3 installed(hopefully reiterated)!!   any info is greatly appreciated (newbie here:)   Jesse Lee (aka Dad

Kernel patches

1999-03-14 Thread Doug Dine
Hi, Where can I download patches for the Linux kernel? I have 2.0.36 currently and am seeing that everyone else has 2.2.x Thanks. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/dougdine http://members.xoom.com/loveless NetZero - We

Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!

1999-03-14 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >groups. I use mutt to read my mail, and it threads email. >GNUs also does this. If worst comes to worst, and you >_MUST_ use a news reader to read debian-user, use mail2news >with a filtering program (exim or procmail) and

Re: Kernel patches

1999-03-14 Thread Alec Smith
http://www.kernel.org and look at the mirror list for latest versions. On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I download patches for the Linux kernel? I have 2.0.36 > currently and am seeing that everyone else has 2.2.x > > Thanks. > > Doug Dine > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ht

rvplayer segfault

1999-03-14 Thread Max Kamenetsky
This is truly bizarre, but I can't get rvplayer to work on my system. I'm using kernel 2.2.3 with glibc2.1.1 and rvplayer segfaults every time I try to start it. I'm attaching the full strace in the hope that someone knows what's going on. It seems to barf as soon as it opens locale.alias, but t

Re: rvplayer segfault

1999-03-14 Thread Alec Smith
There's bugs in kernel 2.0.x which RealPlayer takes advantage of. These holes were closed during development of 2.2.x, therefore breaking RealPlayer. I believe there is a way around the problem, but I do not have it as I'm using 2.0.37pre8 on my workstation. What really needs to happen is RealNetw

Re: rvplayer segfault

1999-03-14 Thread Max Kamenetsky
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > There's bugs in kernel 2.0.x which RealPlayer takes advantage of. These > holes were closed during development of 2.2.x, therefore breaking > RealPlayer. I believe there is a way around the problem, but I do not have > it as I'm using 2.0.37pre8 on my works

Re: Allowing Connections

1999-03-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 10:50:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having problems getting my /etc/hosts.allow file set up correctly. > I"m trying to allow any system on my network (192.168.1.X) to connect > to leafnode and get the news groups. [...] > I've tried adding: > leafenode:127.0.0.

Re: gcc 2.8.x deb-package

1999-03-14 Thread Holger Mense
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this > > list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in > > projects/experimental... but I only find a deb package for gcc 2.9.x > > (gcc_2.91.63-1.1.deb) in the

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread mike shupp
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, William Schwartz wrote: > >it goes on the first bootable partition, PERIOD, > > Well, not true, if you are using NT, you can install it on what ever > partition you would like. All it needs is the NT loader to exist on the boot > device. This could be a floppy... Hmm

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 08:39:00PM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. > > I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, > but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was > empty. I took a look

Re: can't locate module ppp0

1999-03-14 Thread Mike
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Whenever I reboot my machine (Debian Hamm with kernel 2.0.36) I get this: > > Unusual System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 > Mar 13 18:20:10 lilypad modprobe: can't locate module ppp0 > Mar 13 18:20:

Re: Kernel patches

1999-03-14 Thread John Galt
AFAIK there's no patch path through the 2.0.x -> 2.2.x barrier. You could try to install the kernel-source package of the kernel you wish to upgrade to, or you could get the raw source from ftp.kernel.org, the "official" site. On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I downloa

Re: gcc 2.8.x deb-package

1999-03-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 19:16:32 +, Holger Mense wrote: > I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this > list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in > projects/experimental... Its packaging was extremely old, and incompatible with the curre

Re: Mozilla Fault

1999-03-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 09:31:44 -0800, Rob Pratt wrote: > I got Mozilla installed from Debian packages, but when I run it, it > creates two small windows (in fvwm95) then closes and returns the message, > "Segmentation fault." Can anyone help me troubleshoot this one? Not really. The current Debi

Re: Help

1999-03-14 Thread John Hasler
Alec Smith writes: > You could also try changing the line to /dev/ttyS1 if your modme is on > DOS com2... Or whichever other port. They're numbered starting with > /dev/ttyS0 which is com1 on DOS. He appears to be trying to run pppd with the default provider files distributed with ppp. They need

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread ivan
At 06:27 PM 3/12/99 -0800, George Bonser wrote: >Look, people, I could make a Linux distribution JUST as easy as Windows to >install if I build it like the Windows installation ... it goes on the >first bootable partition, PERIOD, it does not allow multi-boot of other >operating systems, AT ALL,

Re: E 0.15.1 debs

1999-03-14 Thread Andreas Kremer
> Well, a new release, a new set of debs. You have really done a great work. Enlightenment now looks like it is possible to use it day-to-day. Only the icE does not want to appear in the theme menu. Well done. Andreas.

Re: Re[2]: ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-14 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Aha. Thanks for the tip. Stupid me though, it dawned on me, when I got the > pppupd package, that I'm using a new OpenBSD box for dialling up and that this > Linux machine is not the place I want to do the 'keepalive' work from. > > Any clue as to a scr

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:05:11PM +0800, ivan wrote: > > George, I know you know that Windows _does_not_delete_ the "alien > filesystem" :) Try to install MS DOS 6.0 It will insist of *erasing* the complete disk, *repartitioning* it to one big partition, and then install DOS. It will NOT let y

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread ivan
At 03:14 PM 3/14/99 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:05:11PM +0800, ivan wrote: >> >> George, I know you know that Windows _does_not_delete_ the "alien >> filesystem" :) > >Try to install MS DOS 6.0 > >It will insist of *erasing* the complete disk, *repartitioning* it to

New glibc & java problems

1999-03-14 Thread Ali Graham
Apologies if this is off topic for this list; I remember seeing that a list had been opened up for debian & java but when I went to the mailing lists page on www.debian.org I didn't see it Anyway, I recently decided to check out Java, and (not being entirely sure what I was doing) installled

Re: web link checker

1999-03-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
> Thus spake Colin Telmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Why not just install the debianized version? I don't know about stable, > > but it is in unstable. Cheers. > > So, in addition to the tarball, you can snag a deb at: > > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/linbot.html > or, a slightly

Re: init runs away with glibc2.1

1999-03-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
Greg Wooledge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Shortly after installing the new glibc 2.1 packages, I noticed that > init had started to run away: > (Is it safe to reboot at this point, or should I drop back to glibc 2.0?) Well, my computer decided the matter for me. About half an hour after writin

Stupid Question

1999-03-14 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- I was wondering how I could view a text file like dos's type Thanky you, -James

Re: Stupid Question

1999-03-14 Thread ivan
At 10:24 AM 3/14/99 -0500, Robert Aisenberg wrote: >Hi- >I was wondering how I could view a text file like dos's type > cat If the file is longer than 25 lines I suggest you use more or less. e.g. cat |moreor cat |less see the manual for cat, more, less, tail hth Ivan. >Thanky yo

DPKG PROBLEM, PLEASE HELP!!

1999-03-14 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- When I use dpkg I get an error when it checks the database saying: "Files list for xserver-vga16 missing assumeing package has no files currently installed!" The file I want to install is that server. Thank you for your help, -James

PPP connection

1999-03-14 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, when I am logged on to my ISP and do a "ps a" I get the following: /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 Does this mean I have something set wrong. My modem connects at 44-48000, so this puzzles me. A newbie needs help :) --- Regards Christian Dysthe E-Mail: Ch

Re: Stupid Question

1999-03-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "i" == ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i> If the file is longer than 25 lines I suggest you use more or less. i> e.g. cat |more or cat |less You don't need the cat in this case. Just do less filename or more filename Less is better then more. Ciao, Martin

Re: DPKG PROBLEM, PLEASE HELP!!

1999-03-14 Thread Paul Miller
Robert Aisenberg wrote: > > Hi- > When I use dpkg I get an error when it checks the database saying: > > "Files list for xserver-vga16 missing assumeing package has no files > currently installed!" > > The file I want to install is that server. > Try 'dpkg -i [name of .deb file]' -- Paul

Re: Turtle Beach Montego

1999-03-14 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
I'd love for someone to prove otherwise, but as far as I know there is still no driver available for any Vortex or Vortex2 card, which of course includes the Turtle Beach Montego. SJG On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Jesse Lee wrote: > I have a turtle beach montego sound card. Can it work under linux?

Re: PPP connection

1999-03-14 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > when I am logged on to my ISP and do a "ps a" I get the following: > > /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > > Does this mean I have something set wrong. My modem connects at 44-48000, so > this puzzles me. This line refers actually to a program which is listen

Re: rvplayer segfault

1999-03-14 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Max Kamenetsky wrote: > This is truly bizarre, but I can't get rvplayer to work on my system. I'm > using kernel 2.2.3 with glibc2.1.1 and rvplayer segfaults every time I try > to start it. I'm attaching the full strace in the hope that someone knows > what's going on. It s

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread William Schwartz
That is why when you insert the DOS disks (dos 6.22 for example) you dont just let it do what it wants to do... You can still hold the right hand shift key while starting and it will skip the boot files... You can then run FDISK manually to do what you want to... will -Original Message- F

diald question

1999-03-14 Thread Pollywog
Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options? I am using only diald.options and cannot seem to get disconnect-timeout 0 to work when I put in in diald.options. When I get disconnected, diald waits 30s to reconnect. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: PPP connection

1999-03-14 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi again, I do not get anything about the speed when I do "plog -f". The only thing I get there is "connect ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1. However, in my Xisp dialer I get the following: OK PROTOCOL:LAPM COMPRESSION:V42B CONNECT 44000 Is this the same? On 14-Mar-99 thomas lakofski wrote: > On Sun, 14

Linux and Mpact AGP Display Card

1999-03-14 Thread Nitesh
I have installed Red Hat 5.2 Linux in my GATEWAY 2000 computer. It has a AGP Display Card with Mpact Media Processor from Chromatic Research Inc. Now I am trying to run X Windows in my system but I did not find the correct display driver for this card. So how can I use X Windows ? Is there

Linux and Mpact AGP Display Card

1999-03-14 Thread Nitesh
I have installed Red Hat 5.2 Linux in my GATEWAY 2000 computer. It has a AGP Display Card with Mpact Media Processor from Chromatic Research Inc. Now I am trying to run X Windows in my system but I did not find the correct display driver for this card. So how can I use X Windows ? Is there

Linux and Mpact AGP Display Card from Gateway 2000

1999-03-14 Thread Nitesh
I have installed Red Hat 5.2 Linux in my GATEWAY 2000 computer. It has a AGP Display Card with Mpact Media Processor from Chromatic Research Inc. Now I am trying to run X Windows in my system but I did not find the correct display driver for this card. So how can I use X Windows ? Is ther

a tiff viewer for faxes

1999-03-14 Thread Pollywog
Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: a tiff viewer for faxes

1999-03-14 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-03-14 18:25, Pollywog wrote: > Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the > e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for > faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? mgetty+fax was pretty easy to get going here (granted it's not as full featured as

[gnome] panel just segfaults :(

1999-03-14 Thread badpixel
Hi! I run linux 2.2.3 and potato, and i'm trying to install gnome. I used to packages from www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage2 or something like that, but panel (and gmc) just segfaults when i try to start em. Ä(~)> panel ** CRITICAL **: file connection.c: line 973 (iiop_get_fd): assertion `gio

Version 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade

1999-03-14 Thread Simon Martin
Hi All I just updated from 2.0 to 2.1. Everything went smoothly except for the sendmail installation. Sendmail found my existing install and asked me whether I wanted to keep it or not, I said keep. Unfortunately there seem to be a few side effects with this. 1) sendmail.cf has been moved from /e

Re: a tiff viewer for faxes

1999-03-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Mar-99 Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 1999-03-14 18:25, Pollywog wrote: > >> Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the >> e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for >> faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? > > mgetty+fax was pretty easy to get go

Xterm not showing Xresources changes

1999-03-14 Thread MallarJ
I'm using KDE 1.1 & Debian 2.1 (slink): I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose: Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file: XTerm*background: black XTerm*foreground: yellow XTerm*geometry: 69x28 Any way I open up an Xterm window, it displays full screen in b

Creating a vfat file system

1999-03-14 Thread Douglas Bates
[Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't usually have the time to keep up with this list.] Is there a way within Debian GNU/Linux i386 to make a VFAT file system on a hard disk partition? Background to the question: My laptop came with Windows 98. I repartitioned keeping

Re: Version 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade

1999-03-14 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Simon Martin wrote: > 1) sendmail.cf has been moved from /etc to /etc/mail, but the script > /etc/init.d/sendmail checks for the existence if the /etc/sendmail.cf > command before it executes anything. There should be a file /etc/init.d/sendmail.dpkg-new -- you might want to

termcap/info help

1999-03-14 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i frequently login to a remote freebsd system. freebsd uses termcap. is there a way to convert my linux and xterm-debian entries from terminfo to termcap format? tic *claims* to be able to convert terminfo *source* to termcap but it doesn't work; even

Re: Stupid Question

1999-03-14 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/14/99 9:22:21 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi- > I was wondering how I could view a text file like dos's type > > Thanky you, > -James > cat will work the same as type will. you can also use: more to do the same thing, but one page at a

Re: mutt-Netscape and nmh

1999-03-14 Thread Mark Ciciretti
To get mutt to read a MH folder all you have to is 'touch FOLDER_NAME/.mh_sequences' . Mutt looks for this file to determine mailbox type. If you do use MHfolders add the line 'set mh_purge' , if you don't then Mutt just move the message file to ,filename and does not actually delete it. I

Re: diald question

1999-03-14 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog writes: > Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options? "diald.conf"? I don't have one, nor does the diald man page mention it. > I am using only diald.options and cannot seem to get disconnect-timeout 0 > to work when I put in in diald.options. 'disconnect-timeout' doesn't do wha

other tools like Xadmin?

1999-03-14 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
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searching for files on cdrom

1999-03-14 Thread Holger Mense
Hi... I have a problem: sometimes I need some special files for a Linux Installation (actually its msgfmt :) , but I don't know in which .deb-package it is. Does someone know how to search the whole cd-rom for a special file, or, is their a possibility to list recursivly with "dpkg --contents" th

Re: Xterm not showing Xresources changes

1999-03-14 Thread James Dietrich
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:08:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using KDE 1.1 & Debian 2.1 (slink): > > I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose: > Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file: > > XTerm*background: black > XTerm*foreground: yellow > XTerm

Re: diald question

1999-03-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Mar-99 John Hasler wrote: > Pollywog writes: >> Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options? > > "diald.conf"? I don't have one, nor does the diald man page mention it. > >> I am using only diald.options and cannot seem to get disconnect-timeout 0 >> to work when I put in in diald.o

Re: searching for files on cdrom

1999-03-14 Thread James Dietrich
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 07:42:14PM +, Holger Mense wrote: > Hi... > > I have a problem: sometimes I need some special files for a Linux > Installation (actually its msgfmt :) , but I don't know in which > .deb-package it is. > > Does someone know how to search the whole cd-rom for a special f

reltek rtl8029 pci network card installation

1999-03-14 Thread eli azolay
 

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
John Leget wrote: > > Hi, > > "depmod -a" > > check out "man depmod" > > cheers Thanks, I'll check that out. -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \

Re: searching for files on cdrom

1999-03-14 Thread Holger Mense
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Holger Mense wrote: > Does someone know how to search the whole cd-rom for a special file, or, > is their a possibility to list recursivly with "dpkg --contents" the > contents of all(!) .deb-files on the cd-rom? I got it myself with help from a friend... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~

dosemu troubles: permissions & a missing cursor

1999-03-14 Thread Curt Daugaard
I've run into two problems running dosemu. (1) I can't start dosemu in an X-window or use the modem unless I'm running as root, this despite the fact I have "all c_all" permissions in the user config file. (Before upgrading to v. 98.1 I could run in X, but I'm not sure about the modem.) (2) Whe

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > This is done by 'depmod -a'. In my system (slink) I have modutils package I did that and received a bunch of strange messages for my effort. I took a look at the Changes file that comes with the kernel sources. I a have versions of some packages that are older than what

Re: Creating a vfat file system

1999-03-14 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 01:17:06PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: > [Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't > usually have the time to keep up with this list.] There is nothing special about VFAT filesystem. You can just create regular FAT16 partition with mkdosfs form dosfst

Re: Turtle Beach Montego

1999-03-14 Thread Matthew Sachs
I called the OSS people recently, and they said they would have a driver by May or June. Anyone know a good, very cheap soundcard I could use until then? On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: > > >I'd love for someone to prove otherwise, but as far as I know there is > still no d

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