Re: Cheapbytes CDs

1999-04-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
William R Pentney wrote: > > This is odd. I used Cheapbytes' Debian 2.0 CD to install Linux (later > upgraded to slink via FTP) and everything worked quite smoothly. I > recommended them to a few friends. Have a lot of you out there had bad > experiences with them? > > - Bill > > On Tue, 13 Apr

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files? Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:14:00PM -0400 In reply to:Luis Villa Quoting Luis Villa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > In reply to:Anthony Campbell > > > > Quoting Anthony Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-14 Thread Steve Lamb
At 12:05 AM 4/14/99 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >I don't know if that's standard for ISPs in the US, but in the UK it is >normal not to have a shell account or FTP space. HTTP is normally >avalible, but something like 10-25MB space seems standard. Which is enough for someone to put in an embedde

Re: Cheapbytes CDs

1999-04-14 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Apr-99 Mark Wagnon wrote: > > I had problems with some hamm discs I got back in august. Frustrated, I > bought replacements from LSL. Reflecting back, I'm not so sure that the > problem didn't originate with me. I'd have try and install them again, > but I don't think I about to do that too

Re: re- cheapbytes cd

1999-04-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > >A friend had a problem installing base2_1.tgz from my >Cheapbytes > >4 CD set (I only upgraded). > > How did you upgrade using the CD? I downloaded the latest apt (0.3x) > from ftp.debian.org as the cd came with 0.1.8. same here. >

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Shao Zhang
Big programs like staroffice and wp8 can handle it with no problem. I havn't got time to try the following one, but it sounds like what you want. ii catdoc 0.33-3 MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Robert King
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be "no", but I wonder whether > there is any way to convert or read a Word 7 file on linux? > > Or do I have to borrow a Windows machine and convert it to txt? I've had good success with mswordview for wo

Re: Cheapbytes CDs

1999-04-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
Pollywog wrote: > > What is LSL? Linux System Labs http://www.lsl.com/ -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v

Re: Force delivery?

1999-04-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Force delivery? Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 03:49:30PM -0700 In reply to:JDK Quoting JDK([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I didn't find this in the FAQ, and haven't had any luck trying some of the > options in the > Exim docs... Can someone tell me how to force delivery of a bunch

Re: mounting floppy disk

1999-04-14 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 06:22:40PM -0500, "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would seem to indicate your kernel lacks floppy drive support!? > What do you get from: 'cat /proc/devices | grep fd'? Nothing. :-( Here is my /proc/devices: ---begin quoted text--- Character de

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

1999-04-14 Thread Stefan Baums
What is your TERM variable set to (I tried rxvt, xterm and xterm-debian), and do you use MFTERM (according to "man mf" not necessary if TERM is set)? What shell do you use ("export" sounds like bash; I use tcsh)? Finally, what sort of output can I expect? A large fat dot, or a tiny one I could easi

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

1999-04-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:25:22AM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote: > What is your TERM variable set to xterm This is hardcoded in the mf binary (do a string -a on it) DISPLAY needs to be set tool Here, MFTERM is not set. DISPLAY is :0.0 I think using setenv in tcsh automatically exports a variable. A

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

1999-04-14 Thread Stefan Baums
Well, it's just not working. No dots in sight. Nils, what version of Debian and teTeX are you using? Does the output appear in the same window where you type the commands, or does another xterm pop up? Puzzled, Stefan pgpUmOHv6V910.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Jan Muszynski
On 13 Apr 99, at 15:34, Wayne Topa wrote about Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files: > > Subject: Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files? > Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 07:11:35PM +0100 > > In reply to:Anthony Campbell > > Quoting Anthony Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On 13 Apr 199

Re: Cheapbyte CDs

1999-04-14 Thread Assad Khan
Debian did install before, but I did get the same error message. It said it couldnt open base2_1.tgz, that shouldnt have happened because my cdrom cannot write to a cd. I kept wondering throughout the night why it installed once and not again. I even tried copying the base2_1.tgz to the har

Re: internet

1999-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Jose writes: > Hello , i am from Argentina and i have a problem here I need to know how > to make available the "dialing assisted by an operator" just like i did > with windows Could you explain exactly what you are trying to do? I don't use Windows, so I have no idea what you mean by "dialing as

Setting up ssh

1999-04-14 Thread Corey Ralph
Does anyone know where I can find a howto on setting up ssh? I have tried running the script to get the hosts using dns, but it doesn't find any hosts. Is there a way to give it an IP address to try, and have it add the host? Thanks in advance.

Odd X problem (Slink)

1999-04-14 Thread Matthew Myers Davis
I installed Slink this morning; debian seems to be up and running just fine. X, however, is another matter. xdm tries to find an xserver, and can't find a /etc/X11/XF86Config file. It just isn't there. Startx also can't start x, but it doesn't even tell me why, so I'm going with xdm's explanati

Re: Odd X problem (Slink)

1999-04-14 Thread Ajit Krishnan
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Matthew Myers Davis wrote: > I installed Slink this morning; debian seems to be up and running just > fine. X, however, is another matter. > > xdm tries to find an xserver, and can't find a /etc/X11/XF86Config file. > It just isn't there. Startx also can't start x, but it do

Re: scroll bar resource?

1999-04-14 Thread John
Thanks Robbie, but it doesn't appear that editres is the answer. I can change the color or turn it on/off, but unless I'm missing something I can't seem to change the type of scroll bar. I like your idea about editing Netscape though. I'll try it later. John > From: Robbie Huffman > <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Odd X problem (Slink)

1999-04-14 Thread surak
> I installed Slink this morning; debian seems to be up and running just > fine. X, however, is another matter. > > xdm tries to find an xserver, and can't find a /etc/X11/XF86Config file. > It just isn't there. Startx also can't start x, but it doesn't even tell > me why, so I'm going with xdm'

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Gary Singleton
FWIW I tried catdoc and in my opinion it's not very good. I just tried it to get some old docs readable plain text. It works OK and it gets the text out but for me it sometimes repeated paragraphs and things like that. G.S. --- Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Big programs like starof

HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

1999-04-14 Thread David B.Teague
All: This is a Second Request. I really need an answer. I have the following kernel related packages installed, according to dpkg -l ii kernel-headers- 2.0.32-5 Linux kernel headers. ii kernel-image-2. custon.1.0 Linux kernel binary image. ii kernel-package 4.11 Debian L

Re: scroll bar resource? (half solved)

1999-04-14 Thread John
Chris, Thanks, you were right about the Xaw3d package. Once I installed it several of the slink applications regained the same scroll bar look as on my hamm disk. Xterm, however, remained the same. Still just a plain bar with no arrows. Is xterm in slink different than xterm in hamm? Or di

Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

1999-04-14 Thread ktb
"David B.Teague" wrote: > > All: > > This is a Second Request. I really need an answer. > > I have the following kernel related packages installed, > according to dpkg -l > > ii kernel-headers- 2.0.32-5 Linux kernel headers. > ii kernel-image-2. custon.1.0 Linux kernel binary image.

Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

1999-04-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, ktb wrote: [ snip ] : > How do I force cause the kernel's make config to offer : > me an iso9660 file system? Or how do I hack the .config to get : > that fs? : : If your looking for iso9660 I think you enable that under "File : systems." At least in 'make xconfig'

how to reset the console?

1999-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
I feel pretty silly about this ... I was playing around with some of the programs in the games directory and one (lincity) gave me some complaint about svga permissions. I said Hmmm and tried it with sudo, and it got about halfway through changing the video stuff and died. Now I'm stuck with a h

Can't Find URL

1999-04-14 Thread Greg Scharrer
I have pon finding my modem and making a connection. I have "noauth" set in /etc/ppp/options. However, Netscape3 and Mozilla both say they cannot find any URL I type in. I always get a message "DNS server not found". Yes, I wait for the connection to be made before trying to open URLs. My plog outp

Re: Adding stuff to init

1999-04-14 Thread James Mastros
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:14:08PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I've got to admit that I'm a bit intimidated by the Debian's startup > scripts. I read through update-rc.d's man page, but the format of > skelton scares me - I don't understand it yet. For somthing that dosn't run as a daemon, you si

RE: Laptop clock skews after suspend

1999-04-14 Thread Shaleh
On 13-Apr-99 Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > After I bring my laptop out of suspend or (sometimes) when I reboot my > laptop either the clock or the date will skew. > > How do I fix this? Right now is skewed two hours. I'm not sure if the > skew is always the same. I haven't been keeping tally. Tha

RE: looking for correct 'insmod de4x5' args

1999-04-14 Thread Shaleh
On 13-Apr-99 MJ Watson wrote: > Been working a while on getting a DEC 21142 card up on a 2.0 install > but apparently haven't hit on the right parms. The system is a DEC > Celebris 6200, Intel 233. > > The network is 10Mb, half-duplex. Attempts have included: > > insmod de4x5 > insmod de4x5 a

RE: Can't Find URL

1999-04-14 Thread Shaleh
On 14-Apr-99 Greg Scharrer wrote: > I have pon finding my modem and making a connection. I have "noauth" set in > /etc/ppp/options. However, Netscape3 and Mozilla both say they cannot find > any URL I type in. I always get a message "DNS server not found". Yes, I > wait for the connection to be ma

APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
So I looked at the master lists suggested earlier in this thread and tried to restore the non-US settings that got fubared earlier in my setup. I couldn't get it to work. Here's what I've tried: 1) using dselect, I choose apt as my access method. 2) After retyping the sites that work (note to a

Install problem

1999-04-14 Thread budlorch
I am installing Debian GNU/Linux for Intel 486 from floppies, since the old computer I'm experimenting with doesn't have a CD-ROM drive. I downloaded the following files so far: resc1440.bin resc1440tecra.bin drv1440.bin drv1440tecra.bin base14-1.bin to base14-7.bin rawrite2.exe I can find no ref

invalid preprocessing directive name upon startx

1999-04-14 Thread Ian Peters
I'm using the latest stuff from unstable. I noticed that I've started getting the following errors at the end of the crap startx dumps to the VC upon X startup: :17: invalid preprocessing directive name :18: invalid preprocessing directive name :19: invalid preprocessing directive name (repeated

RE: Install problem

1999-04-14 Thread Shaleh
On 14-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am installing Debian GNU/Linux for Intel 486 from floppies, since the old > computer I'm experimenting with doesn't have a CD-ROM drive. > > I downloaded the following files so far: > resc1440.bin > resc1440tecra.bin > drv1440.bin > drv1440tecra.bin > bas

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > So I looked at the master lists suggested earlier in this thread and tried > to restore the non-US settings that got fubared earlier in my setup. I > couldn't get it to work. Here's what I've tried: > > 1) using dselect, I choose apt as my access method. > > 2)

man problem

1999-04-14 Thread William R Pentney
When I run man on certain topics, it will now just twiddle its thumbs until I Ctrl-C it, at which point it says "can't remove /tmp/: No such file or directory." Anything I can do about this? - Bill

Re: man problem (NEVER MIND)

1999-04-14 Thread William R Pentney
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: Never mind, it's working - it just took a long time. I feel sufficiently stupid now. :-) > When I run man on certain topics, it will now just twiddle its thumbs > until I Ctrl-C it, at which point it says "can't remove /tmp/ temp file>: No such file o

Re: Current kernel configuration?

1999-04-14 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:43:10PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > The only way I know of to get a SoundBlaster working 'with-out' > compiling it into the kernel is to purchase the OSS commercial > Sound package for $20. That has it's advantages. It is the way > I run my sound blaster. How about

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a component? Is this historical or what? Thanks again- Lui

on bytes-per-inode Q

1999-04-14 Thread Chadi
Hello List, May I know at how many bytes-per-inode is the default debian (slink) install at ? Or, in my already working debian system, how do i know how many bytes/inode is it presently set at ? I am about to add a new hd as my /home and i want to make sure I make2fs them in uniform. TIA,

MP3 encoder?

1999-04-14 Thread Andrei Ivanov
DOes anyone know of mp3 encoder for Linux? If yes, where would I be able to find one? TIA, Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.co

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, > though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a > component?

KDE

1999-04-14 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I am trying to install KDE but running into problem. What's happening is that when I run make it says it can't find the command g++ to compile. This is during the Qt compilation. I tried to install g++ but I'm getting a weird conflict a sort of catch 22 if you will. Apparently g++

PDC-prolog available for Linux

1999-04-14 Thread Johann Spies
In my Dos-days I tried out PDC-prolog and since then I regularly received newsletters from them. Today I received a newsletter with a CD with Visiual Prolog 5.1 Personal edition on it for MS-Windows 3.x/95/98, NT, OS/2, SCO Unix and Linux. It is free for non-commercial use. Check out htttp://ww

OCR for linux (fwd)

1999-04-14 Thread Johann Spies
I saw the following message on another mailing list: -- Forwarded message -- To: glug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Dr M Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: GLUG: OCR for linux Hi there I have found OCR for linux ( commercial ) URL:http://www.vividata.com/ocrshop.html however the pric

Re: on bytes-per-inode Q

1999-04-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Hello List, > May I know at how many bytes-per-inode is the default debian (slink) > install at ? > Or, in my already working debian system, how do i know how many bytes/inode > is it presently set at ? > I am about to add a new hd as my /home and i want to

Re: Install problem

1999-04-14 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am installing Debian GNU/Linux for Intel 486 from floppies, since the old > computer I'm experimenting with doesn't have a CD-ROM drive. > > I downloaded the following files so far: > resc1440.bin > resc1440tecra.bin > drv1440.bin > drv1440tecra.bin > base14-1.bin t

input tk_Brief into Debian?

1999-04-14 Thread Ralf Mueller
Hello, Do you want to put tk_Brief (http://krisralf.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/tk_Brief/) into the Debian-Distribution? It is a GUI for easily writing letters with LaTeX. Can anyone help me making a .deb-package? Thank you very much. Please write also to my email because I did not subscribe the

Re: cfs???

1999-04-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 04:19:40PM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote: > Thanks for the advice, I have found the source for TCFS but it seems to want > to patch everything, does anyone know where the source code for cfs is? I'd > like to be able to use a cfs without having to change other parts of the > sy

Re: cfs???

1999-04-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 04:19:40PM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote: > Thanks for the advice, I have found the source for TCFS but it seems to want > to patch everything, does anyone know where the source code for cfs is? I'd > like to be able to use a cfs without having to change other parts of the > sy

printing ansi strings

1999-04-14 Thread scratch
Hi everybody, I have a small but annoying problem. I want to display ansi strings (escaped sequences) on the console. For example, when I do cat /usr/doc/bitchx/bx.ans This gives a the right colors, but wrong characters. Normally, I would get nice shaded blocks (the ones in your ascii table), b

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-14 Thread Matus fantomas Uhlar
-> > i did the same (d/l mach64 Xserver from xfree86.org) -> > but the Xserver eats lot of my memory, top says it's 50% (i have 32 megs of -> > RAM) -> > -> > probably something's wrong... -> -> My Xserver (XF86_SVGA) eats 17388kb mem. I believe that is normal. i wouldn't say that :) my SVGA et

Re: mounting floppy disk

1999-04-14 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Gonz_lez Gasull: > > > I have problems mounting /dev/fd0: > > > > > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device > > >(maybe `insmod driver'?) > > Je

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be "no", but I wonder > whether there is any way to convert or read a Word 7 file on linux? Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all who replied about this. A lot of you suggested WP

Re: Switching pine to mutt - but...

1999-04-14 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. I have three mail folders. Instead of typing the location of each > folder, can I configure a shortcut key to go to each folder? You can type "+foo" instead of "/path/to/foo", if the folder "foo" is in your mail directory (usally $HOME/Mail/ or $HO

Re: rm'ing directories

1999-04-14 Thread Peter Weiss
> On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:50:04 -0600, "John Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: John> I was installing a few programs on my system (hamm) and now that I John> have tried them out I don't really want them I tried to rm them off of John> the system rm -rd directory but it will not remove them. I t

Re: Library update failure continues...

1999-04-14 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Curt Howland: > My bug report got no action, since the suggested package to "solve" the > library problem will not install without the missing file. I don't know where the file comes from (my system has libdb.so.2), but if you need a file out of a package, you can always "ar x" and "tar x

Re: vmware and kernel header mismatches...

1999-04-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:23:51PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:01:46PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > it appears that i've got some default debian headers which aren't updated > > when i compile my kernel. what is the approved way for me to fix this so > > i won't break any

Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

1999-04-14 Thread Jeremy
On 12 Apr 1999, John Hasler wrote: > > Now, only root can run pon, even though my users are in the dip group. > > What are the permissions on /etc/chatscripts, /etc/chatscripts/provider, > /etc/ppp, and /etc/ppp/peers? drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 1024 Apr 12 08:17 /etc/chatscripts -rw-r

RE: Laptop clock skews after suspend

1999-04-14 Thread David Nelson
My laptop has a little DOS program to load on booting, with another for the mouse. Maybe yours does too. I haven't done it, but how about running dosemu and running that utility in the background? Or is there something under Linux that could do the same thing? David -Message d'origine

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Apr 1999, Daniel González Gasull wrote: > There is a debian package of MSWordView. I think the last is > mswordview_0.4.4-1.deb > > This one didn't work well for me, nor did strings. However, I found that catdoc, also available as a .deb file, worked perfectly. Anthony -- Anthony Campb

Printing formfeeds

1999-04-14 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi Here on our office we have a HP Laserjet 4000 connected to a printserver. I'm trying to configure my machine to print to that printer. When i print saomething with lpr zzz the printer says it received the data but doesn't do any output. If i do enscript zzz then it prints. It looks like the pri

nobody's homedir [WAS: junkbuster]

1999-04-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
Wayne Topa hat gesagt: // Wayne Topa wrote: > Quoting Frank Barknecht([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Bruce Sass hat gesagt: // Bruce Sass wrote: > > > > > nobody's home dir is /home on my slink box. > > > > But not on mine: > > $ grep nobody /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist > > /etc/passwd:nobody:x:

Re: No DBD perl module for Postgresql?

1999-04-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
Keith G. Murphy hat gesagt: // Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I've noticed that there doesn't seem to be a DBD perl module for > Postgresql in the online distributions. There is libpgperl, which is > not DBI/DBD, therefore (I assume) won't work with Apache::DBI to afford > me handle persistence. Am I

start-stop-daemon on Debian

1999-04-14 Thread Brock Rozen
Hi, I'm working on some scripts that will allow various daemons to be start/stopped/reloaded from other machines, automatically. One solution I've come up with is to use something of the sort: ssh remotehost /etc/init.d/daemon reload Assume I'm running as root and have made the changes to let i

Re: ALSA, OSS and kernel drivers - all about sound

1999-04-14 Thread Frank Rosendahl
Piotr Domagalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I've asked many times about installing YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 (it's still actual, > so if anyone did that please give me some info about doing this) but this > mail is about something else. What's the difference between ALSA, OSS > (comercial) , OSS/

Re: YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 - ohh ... the last time !

1999-04-14 Thread Frank Rosendahl
Piotr Domagalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi again ! > > Ok I'm posting letter about that card the last time but I want to know a > few things : > > I have 2.0.36 and don't want to upgrade to any other till potato will be > stable. I want to use OPL3SA3. My distribution is Slink. > How can

Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

1999-04-14 Thread David B.Teague
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Tony Crawford wrote: > David B.Teague wrote (on 13 Apr 99, at 21:58): > > > > ... how do I hack the .config to get [the iso9660] fs? > > If you wanna go that last route, open /usr/src/linux/.config and > find: > # > # Filesystems > # > CONFIG_QUOTA=y > CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y [sni

Cdrom Problems

1999-04-14 Thread W.S. van Oijen
Hello,   I want to install Debian from my CD-Rom (the Base system I already installed from floppy's), but Debian does not want me to: it does not recognize my CD-Rom. I have an unknown brand - Megabitz, model 8000 AT - which says to be "PIN-Compatible" with the Sony CDU31a. So, I tried all

Re: MP3 encoder?

1999-04-14 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 12:30:11AM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > DOes anyone know of mp3 encoder for Linux? If yes, where would I be able > to find one? > TIA, > Andrew I don't think there are Deb packages for these, but you can definately install them in /usr/local. 8hz-mp3, www.8hz.com bladeen

video .mov player for linux ?

1999-04-14 Thread Conrado Badenas
Hi! Does anyone know of a player of .mov video files for GNU/Linux into a Debian package? I don't want to return to Windows 3.1 -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Va

Re: Setting up ssh

1999-04-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
Corey Ralph wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find a howto on setting up ssh? > > I have tried running the script to get the hosts using dns, but it doesn't > find any hosts. Is there a way to give it an IP address to try, and have it > add the host? > I don't know if I understand you corre

Re: apache

1999-04-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > I have a little problem with apache when I try to run cgi scripts : I get > the following message : > > [Tue Apr 13 18:53:12 1999] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of > /usr/lib/cgi-bin/plan.cgi failed > [Tue Apr 13 18:53:13 1999] [error] [client 162.38.204.15] Premature

Re: Library update failure continues...

1999-04-14 Thread Curt Howland
I had thought I copied the list. A fine individual named Ulf yesterday said "just delete the failed symlink." I did, and it's all working fine now. Many thanks, though. That would at least had gotten deselect and the other failing software working, but the package dependencies would still have

printing problem

1999-04-14 Thread Mans Joling
Hi I have use magicfilerconfig --force . I fillin everything for a hp deskjet500 say done and enter. When I run : lpr file the printer is being initialize and further nothing happens. My printerport is /dev/lp1. echo "test" > /dev/lp1 works. Any idea.

Re: how to reset the console?

1999-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 09:02:12PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > > > Typing "reset" doesn't help. the man page for the console says that > > it can be reset by echoing ESC c to it, but either that's not doing > > anything either or I'm not doing that right (I'm blind typing "echo -e > > \\033c

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

1999-04-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:10:57PM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote: > I first tried it with tetex-bin 0.9.981113-2 (the slink/stable > version), then got tetex-bin 0.9.990406-1 (from > potato/unstable): no difference. > > /home/stefan> echo $DISPLAY $TERM $MFTERM > :0.0 rxvt rxvt > > I?m f

More X windows problems

1999-04-14 Thread Small, Bradley
Ok here goes: After getting logged back into the system, and removing the xdm and xfs from my RC's I now have additional problems. I am using a Microsoft Intellimouse with the wheel thingie. So when run xf86config that is what I chose. Also, I ran gpm-mouse-test and it says that it is on /dev/psa

Re: PPP/Modem prob

1999-04-14 Thread ferret
Speaking of modem problems... Has anyone had trouble running an external modem on a Slink/2.2.x system? The main symptom with the modem connection is that is accepts/passes UDP but not TCP packets. An internal non-PnP 56k modem in one machine the external modem was tested in works great, and the

X-Windows: how do I configure it to use the generic VGA driver?

1999-04-14 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi, folks -- I have spent the past several days struggling to get my X-windows configured. I am noticing that the XF86Config program runs just fine, so I've got to believe that running X is possible. Any attempt to make X-windows more specific to my configuration has ended in failure at every tu

WWW Browsers bus erroring

1999-04-14 Thread Joshua I. Remus
This is rather strange, but any time I load up Netscape under KDE 1.1, or even Arena or some other graphical browser, they work fine for a time and then just drop out all together. When this happens, netscape gives me a bus error, but Arena and the like give me no error at all. I've rea

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

1999-04-14 Thread Stefan Baums
I�m using wmaker-gnome. Just now tried twm: no difference in behaviour. I�m not using xdm. I don�t get any error messages from startx though. No errors in .xsession-errors. I first tried it with tetex-bin 0.9.981113-2 (the slink/stable version), then got tetex-bin 0.9.990406-1 (from potato/unsta

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
of course, when all else fails, there's threatening violence against the person who sent the file :) [some claim this should be the first step . . .] --

Re: AGP video for Linux?

1999-04-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
Personally, I don't even know what AGP video is, so I am forwarding this to the debian-user mailing list. Bob Erik Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was wondering if AGP video is supported by Linux yet. I did not see it on > the list of compatable devices/bus archetectures but was j

NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
My IT manager just EMailed me this article (CC'ed to a bunch of Directors, of course): http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as a File Server and 3.7 times faster as a Web Server. I'm sure I could dig up opposing

Re: MP3 encoder?

1999-04-14 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
DOes anyone know of mp3 encoder for Linux? If yes, where would I be able to find one? TIA, Andrew http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625/ --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] U

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mitch Blevins wrote: > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, > > though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt

tek 440 and printcap

1999-04-14 Thread harsh
Hi, I'm having difficulties setting up my /etc/printcap file to print to a Tek Phaser 440. The printer is on the network and I can print to it from any of the Win* OSs, but not from Linux/Debian. My printcap entry is : lp1|Phaser 440 hallway:\ :lf=/var/log/lpperrs:\ :df=/et

Re: Cdrom Problems

1999-04-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'm guessing when you set up support for the device you didn't pass parameters for it. Unfortunately for this device this is necessary since the driver can't/won't autoprobe for the device. Here's the snippet from the CDROM-Howto: 4.3.3. Cdu31a Driver Principal author: Corey Minyard

Re: vmware and kernel header mismatches...

1999-04-14 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Adam Shand wrote: > i'm trying to install vmware which looks really cool > (http://www.vmware.com) but running into this problem. because it > doesn't have a module for my kernel already setup it wants to build one > but claims that: What I did was: 1. mv /usr/include

RE: printing problem

1999-04-14 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
> > Hi > I have use magicfilerconfig --force . > I fillin everything for a hp deskjet500 say done and enter. > When I run : lpr file the printer is being initialize and further > nothing happens. > My printerport is /dev/lp1. > echo "test" > /dev/lp1 works. > Any idea. If you are using lprng, try

Re: Slink mirroring weirdness

1999-04-14 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: > I have started to mirror slink and I am noticing something a bit odd. It > seems that when I use ftp.us.debian.org I end up replacing quite a bit of > the slink files every time. This should only happen when files are changed > and I thought slink has be

Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

1999-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Jeremy writes: > drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 1024 Apr 12 08:17 /etc/chatscripts > ... > Hasn't been modified since I installed. I don't think this is relevant. Set group ID on execution on a directory does nothing useful that I know of. The group needs execute permission to search the d

Can not mail to myself

1999-04-14 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I can't send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (that's my login). That's not good, because fetchmail likes to do so. What must I do to bring this in order? Armin

Re: printing problem

1999-04-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Type 'lpq' and see what it says. Also, do 'tail /var/log/daemon.log' and see if there are any messages in there pertaining to lpd. Mans Joling wrote: > Hi > I have use magicfilerconfig --force . > I fillin everything for a hp deskjet500 say done and enter. > When I run : lpr file the printer is

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, > > > though: why is

Re: how to reset the console?

1999-04-14 Thread ivan
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:49:43PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > I feel pretty silly about this ... > > I was playing around with some of the programs in the games directory > and one (lincity) gave me some complaint about svga permissions. I > said Hmmm and tried it with sudo, and it got about hal

Re: YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 - ohh ... the last time !

1999-04-14 Thread Allan M. Wind
> > checking for kernel version... expr: syntax error > > expr: syntax error > > expr: syntax error > > failed (probably missing /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h) > > make: *** [config] Error 1 I actually just ran into that yesterday. You need to run ./configure in your alsa directory befor

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