Freaky keyboard.

1999-03-24 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
My keyboard started doing somthing wierd. Maybe hardware? I dunno. I am using emacs, keyboard macros with searches and moves. Suddenly, the keyboard starts acting up, trashing the file. Moved to the console, and get combinations of characters for each keypress: for "l" I get "lo"; for "k" "ki

curious syslog line

1999-03-24 Thread Ryan Yeske
Mar 23 15:44:01 mustard modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6 this line keeps showing up in my syslog file, has been since somtime moving from Debian hamm-->slink and kernel 2.0.36-->2.2.3. does anyone know what this might be? thanks, rcy

Re: Freaky keyboard.

1999-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 08:00:17PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > Then when I reboot, things are ok. Last night I had this problem. > Then again today, after rebooting. Does it do this on all the local ttys? -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-24 Thread Andrew Hagen
From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I recently had the displeasure of finding out all about limits with disk >size. I purchased a 10.1GB IDE disk. Here's the lowdown, gleaned from > [ ... deleted material ...] >I was never able to get my PC (a 3 year old pentium) to access more than >8.

Debian Menu and Fvwm2--help!

1999-03-24 Thread Curt Daugaard
Is there a way to get a menudefs.hook in the user directories to override what's in the system menudefs.hook for fvwm2? I have parameters I need to pass to programs on the menu, but they keep getting blown away by some auto update of the menus. And any config I put in the user directory (.fvwm2/

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:24:29AM +0100, Holger Schauer wrote: > "MB" == Mark Brown schrieb am 23 Mar 1999 03:32:21 +0100: > MB> ->HTML conversion seems to be the most likely route > MB> for those that want a standard interface at present. > I am strongly against having a _single_ interfac

Re: curious syslog line

1999-03-24 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Ryan Yeske wrote: > Mar 23 15:44:01 mustard modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6 > this line keeps showing up in my syslog file, has been since somtime > moving from Debian hamm-->slink and kernel 2.0.36-->2.2.3. > does anyone know what this might be? Well, according

Re: Netscape mail - multiple "profiles"?

1999-03-24 Thread Julio César Gázquez
Christian Dysthe escribió: > > Hi, > > I am running Netscape 4.5 under Debian (hamm). What I need is to be able is to > open different Messenger "profiles" with different mail folders, different > "From" addresses and different pop/smtp servers. Since Messenger isn't a multi > account email clie

Is Debian's 2.0 FVWM2 broken?

1999-03-24 Thread Julio César Gázquez
Hi! After I installed Debian 2.0 (Hamm) some days ago, I found that X crashes after a few minutes of use. Then I think it was some kind of incompatibility, because my X server isn't from Debian distribution (pretty newer chipset, just included, I think, in XFree 4.0). However, using WindowMaker wo

Linus Torvalds: Linux-2.2.4..

1999-03-24 Thread Johnie Ingram
I've put the source, patch, and debs of this at the usual place (http://netgod.net/). ISDN is compiled in now (I think). netgod --- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:46:33 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTE

Home Page Design

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Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-24 Thread frankie
Matthew Gregan wrote: > > At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: > >> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the > >> root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message > >> "A20 gate not responding!"... I can't answer your question

Re: Is Debian's 2.0 FVWM2 broken?

1999-03-24 Thread Alec Smith
I have used fvwm2 in both Hamm and Slink without incident. I'm on XFree86 3.3.3.1 using the SVGA server though. At 09:55 AM 3/23/99 -0300, Julio César Gázquez wrote: >Hi! > >After I installed Debian 2.0 (Hamm) some days ago, I found that X >crashes after a few minutes of use. Then I think it was

dpkg problem with emacs packages

1999-03-24 Thread Ben Frame
Hi. I've got two packages on my system that are "broken" I think... In deselect they appear like this: C** Std editors emacs19 C** Std editors emacsen-comm It seems I am stuck with these 2 packages. (What happened was that the bulk of the programs files were deleted from the /usr direct

Re: remote X programs

1999-03-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > What do I change in order to prohibit running X programs in any > place except the console? ie: no export DISPLAY=... > > Thanks in advance for your help, `xhost -` Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Home Page Design

1999-03-24 Thread MallarJ
Okay, everyone send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and complain about unsolicited ads on our mailing list. How rude... In a message dated 3/23/99 7:20:26 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

what is "net-pf-19"?

1999-03-24 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I upgraded to poptato yesterday, and since then I've been getting the message "modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-19" whenever the ifconfig command is used. Does anyone know what module that corresponds to? I've looked in all the usual places, and haven't been able to scrape up a clue. Since i

installation with an initio scsi controller

1999-03-24 Thread Jerry Gregoire
I am trying to install Debian for the first time on this machine and I have hit a snag. I have my hard drive connected to an Initio SCSI UW controller card. The problem is that the hard drive is not found when I boot off of the CD to install the system. Any help? Thanks, JTG

Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: RE: Problems installing Debian on a 486 Date: Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:43:47AM +1200 In reply to:Matthew Gregan Quoting Matthew Gregan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: > >> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts

Apache-SSL 1.3.4

1999-03-24 Thread Bill
Hello, Is the Debian package for Apache-SSL 1.3.4 out there? Thanks -- Bill

Epson Stylus Color 740

1999-03-24 Thread Mono
I'm having major problems with my printer. Parport detects it at startup and does nothing. I've tried putting it's address in the lilo command line with no luck. It's listed under /proc at port 0 with no information after probing. Is the 700 series simply incompatible with linux?

Re: Find contents of inode

1999-03-24 Thread Steve Mayer
Bob, If you know the device you can run debugfs against the device and use the ncheck option within debugfs. Steve Bob Hilliard wrote: > > Is there any command that does the opposite of `ls-i'? That is > take an inode as argument and return the file name. > > Bob > -- >_ > |_) _

gnome installation

1999-03-24 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, Thanks for the help on the gnome installation. I guess I just had to restart the system. When I did so, everything seemed to have worked fine. Shawn

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-24 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 23 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Daniel Mashao writes: > > Is there any way to send the output of pppd to a file so I can debug what > > is happenning. > > Sure. Put this in your script: > > echo Running > /etc/ppp/running > > and the string 'Running' will appear in the file /etc/ppp

Re: Debian Menu and Fvwm2--help!

1999-03-24 Thread Richard Harran
You can use the ~/.fvwm2/menudefs.hook menus to override the system-wide ones. What you also need to do is to provide a ~/.fvwm2rc user config. file. Do this by copying the /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc file to ~/.fvwm2rc. You then need to edit out the line: Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.

resolv.conf

1999-03-24 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have installed linux on many computers including both redhat & debian. Sometimes, the dns works ok and sometimes it does not. On my debian box, I didn't do anything special, after installing bind and dns is working. But on some other computers, the dns just won't work without a resol

Can't install the Network card driver

1999-03-24 Thread Ilan Kasan
Hi All: I am a new comer in Linux. I managed to install the Linux. My problem is that I do not know how to configure the Network Card. I have a Pentium 2, 64MB RAM and the Network card is Novell NE 2000. I used modconf and selected the ne or the ne2k-pci drivers. I got the following error message:

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-24 Thread John Leget
HI, I ran into similar problems fortunately i had had some trouble with junkbuster ( one way of looking at it ) and remembered seeing the following in the "/etc/init.d/junkbuster" startup script "su nobody -c " so i tried this "su myself -c " and found it complained about not knowing where th

bitchx - ircrc syntax-change?

1999-03-24 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, since I did an upgrade to 75p1 bitchx seems to ignore my .ircrc. Is this a known problem? What can I do? By Töns -- _o) /\\ pgp fingerprint: 9B AC A5 CB C8 CC FC DC 25 B5 26 9A 5D 28 C0 3D _\_V

Re: out of ptys

1999-03-24 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
pty (pseudo terminal?) are linux devices defined in some quantity compiling the kernel. If you find this a problem then you do have to recompile the kernel increasing this amount. They are used when a program needs a device where to write to and read from, but this shoudn't be a real terminal. A r

Staging Areas.

1999-03-24 Thread Michael Beattie
In an attempt to reduce volume on -devel, I will ask here. Can the developers subscribed please tell me/us where the various staging areas are? I keep losing the various posts that have the urls (stupid me). (i.e. gnome, apt, whatever) And if possible, an apt sources.list line too.

[DEBIAN] network install?

1999-03-24 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, is there any way to automaticaly install debian over the network? I don't mean installing the base with a number of floppies and then installing the rest by ftp. I'd prefer something like Kickstart (or what's the name for it) from Redhat where everything is done automaticaly. That would ma

NIC SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX

1999-03-24 Thread Supervisor
Hello debian-user@lists.debian.org I have network interface card "SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX". And I want to put it in my linux (debian 2.0) box. But I have not any idea where to get drivers for it. Do you have one? --- Supervisor Timothy

Re: lyx and fonts

1999-03-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Allo all, anyone know of a way to get lyx to use ttf fonts? One solution working okay her is this: Install a true type fontserver. I use xfstt but on the lyx mailing list someone recommended the freetype based font server whose name

prioritizing packets

1999-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Does anyone have any good ipfwadm rules for prioritising different services? I want telnet and ssh connections to take priority over everything. I couldn't find a HOWTO that covered it and ipfwadm(8) is a bit sparse. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: /var/lib/dpkg on diskless linux

1999-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:12:20AM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > However i was wondering about /var/lib/dpkg. Normally, in a diskless cluster, > every client gets its own copy of /etc, /dev and /var, while /bin, /sbin, /lib > and /usr are there only once. > /var/lib/dpkg, however, which is NOT sp

Re: Staging Areas.

1999-03-24 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 02:45:12PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > Can the developers subscribed please tell me/us where the various staging > areas are? I keep losing the various posts that have the urls (stupid me). > (i.e. gnome, apt, whatever) And if possible, an apt sources.list line too. lo

gnome cd player attempts infinite size window

1999-03-24 Thread John Leget
Well the title says all, Im running 2.2.3 , potato with gnome from http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ Anyway i just now thought id have a look at the CD player under multimedia in the gnome panel menu and the darn thing nearly brings the house down (im ru

Re: Home Page Design

1999-03-24 Thread Ulrik Haugen
> Okay, everyone send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and complain about unsolicited > ads on our mailing list. Please don't! Try to get trough to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something similar and urge them to remove salesjohn's access. Please note that I haven't tried to find out if usa.net is a proper dom

Re: Home Page Design

1999-03-24 Thread Egon Schmid
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Ulrik Haugen wrote: > > Okay, everyone send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and complain about > > unsolicited > > ads on our mailing list. > Please don't! > > Try to get trough to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something similar and urge them to > remove salesjohn's access. > > Please

Re: Home Page Design

1999-03-24 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: > Okay, everyone send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and complain about unsolicited > ads on our mailing list. > > How rude... Sure, so they may add everyone's address to their list and send them also on a personal basis. Regards, Horacio. -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys :

Re: prioritizing packets

1999-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 10:42:02AM +, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > > The firewalling rules are 'matched' from top to bottom. Put you > higher priotity rules nearer the top. Check out ipchains too as it is > more versatile. There is an ipfwadm wrapper availble I believe, to > help get you starte

Re: [Fwd: Network driver problem]

1999-03-24 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 05:25:25PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Right I was not using root, but when I used root I got the following > error message: > ne.c: No PCI Cards found. Use "io=0xNNN" Value(s) of ISA cards > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: init_modules > Device or resource busy You need the ne

Faxing from Debian - success, but is there a GUI?

1999-03-24 Thread Phillip Deackes
I am very excited at the ease with which efax installed on my system. Debian proved itself yet again in configuring my system so that I can, for the first time, send faxes from my Debian system. I *never* achieved this with RedHat. Anyway, what I would like to do is to be able to print directly fr

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-24 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > I thought the following comment from Linus was interesting. It comes from > an article he wrote at www.linuxworld.com > > ... > The importance of compilers was one reason I chose to license Linux > under the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL was the

Re: Debian Menu and Fvwm2--help!--SOLVED

1999-03-24 Thread Curt Daugaard
Thanks, Richard. It worked perfectly. Curt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 06:58:36AM +, Richard Harran wrote: > You can use the ~/.fvwm2/menudefs.hook menus to override the system-wide > ones. What you also need to do is to provide a ~/.fvwm2rc user config. > file. Do this by co

Printer config: still not there

1999-03-24 Thread Carl Fink
So, I installed Debian 2.0 back when it was new. I've been using it without problems for a while. Today I decided to go ahead and install LPRng. (No, I don't print very often.) Installation apparently worked okay, but of course /etc/printcap refers to the generic dot matrix printer and printing

Re: Device detection?

1999-03-24 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I'm not sure I see why checkpointing every test should be particularly > slow. Michele Bini writes: > Because you have to wait after every test for the checkpoint to > be written to disk and the disk to be flushed A few milliseconds, according to my measurements. How many tests do we

Re: broken /etc/apt/sources.list

1999-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 07:12:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was using dselect and trying to add ftp://ftp.rising.com.au as a > location to get non-US packages from & have apparently distroyed my > /etc/apt/sources.list. Could someone point out the errors in the > following? (Or send me a

Re: NIC SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX

1999-03-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Supervisor wrote: > Hello debian-user@lists.debian.org > >I have network interface card "SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX". And I want >to put it in my linux (debian 2.0) box. But I have not any idea >where to get drivers for it. Do you have one? AFAIK there is SMC EtherEZ c

Booting Linux from extended partition

1999-03-24 Thread stcroixt
There is a way to boot from a logical partition using lilo...it's one special case, and I did it at one time. I installed linux on hda5 and told lilo to look for it on hda4. Worked fine. Tim >To boot, as a general rule, your operating system must be on one >of your hard disk's primary partitio

Re: what is "net-pf-19"?

1999-03-24 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Since it doesn't seem to be hurting anything, I've disabled it for now > by adding "alias net-pf-19 off" to /etc/modutils/aliases... still, I'm > curious about what it was trying to load. According to /usr/src/linux/include/linux/socket.h, something

Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt. It downloaded a whole lot of package files to do this (but dselect, I think, has now deleted them). Now I have a laptop which needs to be upgraded to Slink. It would appear that I'm going to have to download all these files again! What would be ni

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-24 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, David B. Teague wrote: > > The importance of compilers was one reason I chose to license Linux > > under the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL was the license for the > > GCC compiler. I think that all the other projects from the GNU group > > are for Linux insignificant in co

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-24 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with | CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals | or do everything under X. |

Re: Faxing from Debian - success, but is there a GUI?

1999-03-24 Thread Johann Spies
You can fax from Lyx using efax. On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Anyway, what I would like to do is to be able to print directly from an > application like Applix. Failing that, even printing to a .ps file and > faxing that with a GUI would be useful. > Johann --

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-24 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On 24 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the > | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with > | CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtu

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Charles C. Fu
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt Now I have a > laptop which needs to be upgraded to Slink. It would appear that > I'm going to have to download all these files again! The simplest way to avoid multiple downloads is to use a caching p

Emacs Trouble (was Re: The GNU thing)

1999-03-24 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 24 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | > Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the | > | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with | > | CN

Recommendations C++ compiler and IDE.

1999-03-24 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, I need recommendations for a C++ compiler and IDE. I am an app developer for a health insurance company, pretty small in size. 3 peopl in the IS shop. So far I have been unsuccesful in my attempts to get the higher ups to switch for a NT network to Debian. So, I like to be able to work a

CD writing (slink)

1999-03-24 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
Hi, I have a debian system here at work which I just upgraded to slink. We recently purchased an ATAPI CD-RW (Phillips PCA362) and I'd like to record some CD's. I have a few questions on how to proceed (I've never used a CD writer before). Which kernel should I use? (I'm currently

Re: Faxing from Debian - success, but is there a GUI?

1999-03-24 Thread Phillip Deackes
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can fax from Lyx using efax. > > Cheers, Johann. I had considered LyX, and indeed used to use it as my Word Processor. But now things have moved along and I need more of a DTP-type word processor. Lyx is indeed great for text production, but it is so

Re: Loading packages from zip drive

1999-03-24 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Chris Reay wrote: > I have an old-ish Toshiba laptop (486, 200 mb, no CD) onto which I have > loaded the Debian v2.0 base system from the dos partition. I now want to add > a few console editing, development (mostly Python and C), and utility > packages; to this end I've copie

Re: prioritizing packets

1999-03-24 Thread loafhead
> I mean that I want to have those packets be higher priority on the PPP > link, not just higher in the matching order. I think what you are looking for is probably found in the IPchains HOWTO. (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/) It discusses Type of Service bits. This of course assumes that you

Re: prioritizing packets

1999-03-24 Thread loafhead
> I mean that I want to have those packets be higher priority on the PPP > link, not just higher in the matching order. I think what you are looking for is probably found in the IPchains HOWTO. (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/) It discusses Type of Service bits. This of course assumes that you

Hello

1999-03-24 Thread Pat Neumann
Hello All I am still quite new to X and Linux. I have a couple of questions which I require help with. I installed a package for netscape and after I installed it my mouse pointer under X is now a large block, about 2, 2" in size. I have been unable to figure out how to restore it to normal siz

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-24 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Mar, Jonathan Guthrie wrote about "Re: The GNU thing" > > Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the > editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with > CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals > or do everythi

OFFICEJET + MAGIC FILTER

1999-03-24 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hi. I'm looking for a Linux driver for HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C. Apparently, magicfilter does not support it. Can anybody help me ? Thanks.

SCSI aic7xxx problem

1999-03-24 Thread Csejtey Gabor Zoltan
I have Debian 2.1 and kernel 2.0.36-3 version. I have problem with the SCSI disk, I can read it but cannot write on it. If I attempt than I got messages like this: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 184) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. At the boot I got these mess

Re: Printer config: still not there

1999-03-24 Thread Ulrik Haugen
Hi! I'm having similar problems (ok, perhaps the similarities are just that I to am having printing problems). * Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > /etc/printcap refers to the generic dot matrix printer and printing > stairsteps off the edge of the page in two lines. No problem -- I I guess I'll

Re: Hello

1999-03-24 Thread Richard Harran
For the backspace key: try adding keycode 0x16=BackSpace to your /etc/X11/Xmodmap file. For Netscape: The icon colour just doesn't work properly at 24 bit colour. It isn't much of a problem, it just means Netscape looks a bit funny, and I think that it is fine at 8,16 or 32 bit colour. H

Scanner -> printer problems.

1999-03-24 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
I've been trying for a while to get my scanner and printer to cooperate and act like a copy machine. I've got a small script that I've hacked in various ways, but no matter what I try, I can't get the scale quite right. I've got a Mustek scanner that I use with SANE (at 300dpi, lineart mode) an

Re: Home Page Design

1999-03-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Mar-99 Ulrik Haugen wrote: >> Okay, everyone send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and complain about >> unsolicited >> ads on our mailing list. > Please don't! > > Try to get trough to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something similar and urge them to > remove salesjohn's access. > > Please note that I h

Re: downloading

1999-03-24 Thread Shanta McBain
Bob Nielsen wrote: > bind is not required. /etc/resolv.conf should contain the ip addresses of This may be true but there is no instructions for the newbie to do that. I had to get bind working before my system would log onto my provider. The bind setup takes care of it for you. > > nameser

XFree86 with Neomagic

1999-03-24 Thread MGCANTONI
I am currently running Linux on a Compaq laptop with a Neomagic NM-2160 video card. I would like to use Debian 2.1. Could I use XFree86 3.3.1 with Debian 2.1, even though the distribution supports an older version. Thanks for any help.

A question about an exim filter rule...

1999-03-24 Thread Dale E. Martin
I've converted my procmail rules to exim filter rules - very nice! There's one I can't figure out how to do though, and I don't really like the idea of calling procmail from an exim filter :-) Here's the procmail rule: MAILDIR=$HOME/.mailspool ARCHIVE=mail-`date +%Y-%b`.spool :0 c: $ARCHIVE S

VMware again

1999-03-24 Thread Matthew Cocker
The install script for vmware installs a /etc/rc.d/init.d directory with a vmware init script for setting up and loading the required modules. When I reboot my box the vmware moddules did not load. My guess is if I make a link from /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware to /etc/init.d/vmware things should start a

Re: Epson Stylus Color 740

1999-03-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Epson Stylus Color 740 Date: Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 08:22:17PM -0800 In reply to:Mono Quoting Mono([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm having major problems with my printer. Parport detects it at startup > and does nothing. I've tried putting it's address in the lilo command > lin

KDEDIR and mime problem

1999-03-24 Thread Pollywog
I installed KDE from deb packages, except for KDELIBS, since I had to compile this package with --enable-new-stuff (or similar option). I have installed a few packages, including kexplorer from source, however. Not all of kexplorer's functionality is present, suggesting a problem with mime types.

Re: VMware again

1999-03-24 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Mar, Matthew Cocker wrote about "VMware again" > The install script for vmware installs a /etc/rc.d/init.d directory with > a vmware init script for setting up and loading the required modules. > When I reboot my box the vmware moddules did not load. My guess is if I > make a link from /et

X11 installation

1999-03-24 Thread Favreau, Vincent F.
Hi, I installed your latest 2.1 version from floppies adn it works fine. I am configuring the drivers and mounting them. But I can't find any windows manager on the HD... Did I missed something in Dselect process ? = > Why don't I have any X11 files ? How can I install X11 and motif ? Thanks.

Re: VMware again

1999-03-24 Thread Collins M. Ben
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:24:08AM -0500, Matthew Cocker wrote: > The install script for vmware installs a /etc/rc.d/init.d directory with > a vmware init script for setting up and loading the required modules. > When I reboot my box the vmware moddules did not load. My guess is if I > make a link

udp packets

1999-03-24 Thread brad gray
i am having problems getting udp packets through my firewall ( required for some on-line gaming like diablo ).. i have experimented with commands like ipfwadm and had no success... any suggestions? could someone point me to some relevant documentation? thanks brad

Re: NIC SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX

1999-03-24 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:56:25PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Supervisor wrote: > > Hello debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > >I have network interface card "SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX". And I want > >to put it in my linux (debian 2.0) box. But I have not any idea >

Re: newbie unable to install Slink

1999-03-24 Thread Markus M. Schneider
Hi Olivier > I am trying to install slink for CDs (I' ve just burned them). > During the boot process, I got the following (after indentification of > cd and hard drive) > > (scsi0) found at PCI 11/0 > (scsi0) Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs > (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code ... 419 inst

http://www.debian.org/contact seeking help

1999-03-24 Thread HEMAL.BHANJI.DEDHIA
Respected Sir, I am hardik Oza calling u from India. I have a shell type of terminal dial up a/c here and am searching the net on softwares which can download graphics after dialling my isp's terminal. I had previously heard about software named shell soft,but could not locate it.It sort of conver

Compaq ESS1887 sound and Linux?

1999-03-24 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Am getting ready to reinstall onto my shiny empty 6G drive in a Compaq Presario 4840, and would like to avoid the only problem I had last time - the sound wouldn't work. No playing CD's :-( It auto-recognized the ATI Rage Pro AGP, the Compaq DVD, everything, but the sound didn't function at all, on

Re: Less DEB Package

1999-03-24 Thread Bruce Sass
What would be really nice is if there was such a thing as addendum packages for stuff that doesn't really deserve to have a package to itself, but would result in package bloat if they were incorporated into the base packages. e.g., All the little python-* packages. Instead of having a separate

cannot compile v 2.2.4 of kernel with standard Debian 2.1

1999-03-24 Thread James D. Freels
Today, I patched my v 2.2.3 source (which compiled fine) with the new v 2.2.4 kernel source. However, it compiled with error as shown below. I issued make mrproper make oldconfig (no changes were present) make menuconfig (just to confirm) make dep make clean make bzImage Has anyone else exp

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:12:37PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt. It downloaded a whole > lot of package files to do this (but dselect, I think, has now deleted > them). > > Now I have a laptop which needs to be upgraded to Slink. It would > appear

Re: X11 installation

1999-03-24 Thread Kent West
"Favreau, Vincent F." wrote: > Hi, > I installed your latest 2.1 version from floppies adn it works fine. > I am configuring the drivers and mounting them. > But I can't find any windows manager on the HD... Did I missed something in > Dselect process ? > > = > Why don't I have any X11 files ? How

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > My second best option is to use nfs to symlink the laptop's > /var/cache/apt/archives to the desktop's. This might work --- the > only problem here is that dselect-apt decides to delete all the files > in the cache! How can I turn this off??? This ac

C question

1999-03-24 Thread richard
I know this is the wrong place to ask, so I've got two questions now. What is a good unix/C newsgroup? I think I'm gonna need some help. Now my real question. I've got a perl script that checks the permissions and creates directories. Now I want to rewrite the script in C. I know nothing abou

Re: cannot compile v 2.2.4 of kernel with standard Debian 2.1

1999-03-24 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Mar, James D. Freels wrote about "cannot compile v 2.2.4 of kernel with standard Debian 2.1" > > Today, I patched my v 2.2.3 source (which compiled fine) with > the new v 2.2.4 kernel source. However, it compiled with error as > shown below. I issued > > make mrproper > make oldconfig

rpm to deb

1999-03-24 Thread Doug Dine
Hi all, I got tired of downloading so I went to my RedHat CD and converted Netscape to a Debian package with Alien. The conversion was a success. Question is that when your convert a package is there a way to find the dependencies with DPKG or Dselect? Do RedHat packages have this info in them or

X11

1999-03-24 Thread Kevin Lee
I have just installed Debian Linux 2.1 from scratch. Everything is working properly except X11. I am currently using a Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM graphics adapter. My problem is as follows: When Linux boots up xdm is automatically started (which is fine). The GUI login screen appears. Whe

who's shooting me out (idle = 37 min)

1999-03-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I having some annoying system logout even if not idle at all. Who is shooting me out? I couldn't find nothing in login.defs. idled isn't installed, man login doesn't help, ... Any help? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Meneze

Re: udp packets

1999-03-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: udp packets Date: Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:20:58PM -0500 In reply to:brad gray Quoting brad gray([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i am having problems getting udp packets through my firewall ( required > for some on-line gaming like > > diablo ).. i have experimented with comm

Re: C question

1999-03-24 Thread Richard Harran
Try the comp.lang.c newsgroup for C questions. For creating directories, try #include int mkdir(const char *path, mode_t mode); For removing directories, #include int rmdir(const char *path); Also see man 3 ... opendir closedir telldir

some doubts

1999-03-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I did a mistake and some files of my system were rm'ed. I found what files were missing and reinstalled the respective packages. But, for my surprise, if a file is missing the new installed version didn't correct the problem, even if is a crucial file. Should I --force

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