Hello:
I am scheduled to have Road Runner service installed next wednesday.
I've gone to the trouble of building a "decoy box" with Windows 95 installed
so that the installer doesn't give me any trouble when he/she's here to install
the service. I live in Topeka, Kansas, and I don't thin
Hi All,
When I print a document from Netscape ( e-mail or webpage) or
Acroreader (.pdf doc) ,the printed fonts are huge and offset to the
right half of the page.Of course, only a small portion of the page is
thus printed.
This does not occur when I print an ASCII page from, say, " kedit." I
use K
Ryan Losh wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I am scheduled to have Road Runner service installed next wednesday.
> I've gone to the trouble of building a "decoy box" with Windows 95 installed
> so that the installer doesn't give me any trouble when he/she's here to
> install
> the service. I live i
According to
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=96512
it is mostly supported by ghostscript with the bjc600 driver.
Bye
Andreas
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 12:09:59PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knew how I could get drivers for a Can
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Carl Greco wrote:
cgreco >[http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware]. It would be helpful to have
cgreco >such a database for Debian to encourage commerical utilization. Is
cgreco >there one that I have overlooked?
linux is linux, with the exception of some 3rd party binary m
> "Christopher" == Christopher S Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christopher> My .bashrc on the work machine has: stty erase ^h in
Christopher> it, if that makes any difference.
Shouldn't you be using:
stty erase ^?
???
This seems to be the Debian standard.
(actually, normall
Hi!
Isn't it possible to run the script which configures the printers in
/etc/printcap (I think it is included in the gs package) a second time
after installing it? I don't want to create all the directories in
/var/spool/lpd manually but I can't find the script.
(I think it must be a script like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 'bash: /root/.profile: line 11: syntax error: unexpected end of file'
i would would view this file with mc, switching to hex-mode and look for
suspicious characters.
--
hafi
I'm encountering a really strange problem on a friend's slink box. We
were trying to fix a few things in his news configuration - rebuilding
suck with perl support and fiddling about with a few configuration files
(like newsfeeds - 'ctlinnd checkfile' is happy, BTW). Suddenly suck
stopped working,
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:34:39AM +0100, Markus Schaub wrote:
>
> Isn't it possible to run the script which configures the printers in
> /etc/printcap (I think it is included in the gs package) a second time
> after installing it?
magicfilterconfig, perhaps?
HTH,
--
Alisdair McDiarmid
On 14-Jan-2000, Chris R. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to upgrade a few networked machines to 2.1r4, and since I have
> only a slow dialup connection to the net, I'd like to only download each
> package I need once. However, I really don't have the space or time for a
> full mirro
Hi all!
I've been trying to get my SB Live soundcard working, and after
installing a precompiled kernel (2.2.13) and dowloading and compiling
the emu10k1 driver code from creative I am at last able to play a cd
on my computer. However, when I run mpg123 it complains about not
being able to open /de
cd /dev/
./MAKEDEV audio
should make those devices for you.
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Fredrik Appelberg wrote:
> Hi all!
> I've been trying to get my SB Live soundcard working, and after
> installing a precompiled kernel (2.2.13) and dowloading and compiling
> the emu10k1 driver code from creative I
For some reason I do not have /dev/st* . I compiled my kernel with scsi
tape support and I thought that would do it. Is there something that I am
missing. Am I looking in the wrong spot for my tape device.
I have a ICP raid card (GDT) which is fully functional and the kernel sees
the tape drive
From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Burt Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ATA/66 hardware detection problems
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 14:15:55 -0800 (PST)
I am not sure if Debian applies the latest IDE patches from:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/k
Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very
strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from
cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the file,
two consecutive bytes are changed to 160 and 192 (240 300 octal).
Moreover, this often repeats
Anyone installed IMHO with roxen?
Can't get it to show up in add module listing.
--
Marcin Kurc
Indiana Institute of Technology
System Administrator
http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu
Hello all;
I just added a DEC TZ87 tape drive to my Debian system (potato) and
would like to use it for creating backups. Checking /var/log/messages
reports:
Jan 14 19:34:46 mustang kernel: Detected scsi generic sgd at scsi0,
channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Jan 14 19:34:46 mustang kernel: Vendor: DEC
After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-*
packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good
idea. While I was at it, I upgraded modutils as well. Now I'm
running:
pcmcia-cs_3.1.8-4.deb
pcmcia-source_3.1.8-4.deb
modutils_2.3.9-2.deb
I didn't even start to mess wi
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 05:55:59PM -0800, Paul McAvoy wrote:
> I am having a problem in that I am using qmail on my system, and the apt/dpkg
> system does not recognize that it fills the dependency of a
> mail-transport-agent. So, by default everytime I want to install something
> like a mail read
I just installed navigator 4.5-1 (navigator-smotif-45) and there is no
place to set proxies. Is there some reason proxies are not allowed in
this version?
Are proxies only available after registration?
When I installed navigator I saved the registration information to a
file to send it by email
> "D" == Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
D> Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very
D> strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from
D> cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the file,
D> two consecutive bytes ar
> "lehman" == lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
lehman> After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-*
lehman> packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good
lehman> idea. While I was at it, I upgraded modutils as well. Now I'm
lehman> running
Hi Brian May; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with
> the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a
> hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the
> card after bootup seems to be OK thoug
You can create the tape devices with `/dev/MAKEDEV', for example...
Try `/dev/MAKEDEV -v st0' for creating `/dev/st0' and `/dev/nst0'
Jozef Skvarcek _
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hunter College, City Un
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:26:45AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You missed a few letters the command is '/sbin/telinit q'.
>
> At 17:12 15.1.2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >> and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think*
> >> you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that
What is lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid?
In slink, when I run install after apt-get, etc., I
get the following message:
"update-menus -
cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid"
I can't find any reference to this file. This has
just started to appear.
What is a lockfile anyway? How is
On Fri, Feb 22, 2036 at 04:30:32AM -0800, Steve Winston wrote:
> What is lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid?
> In slink, when I run install after apt-get, etc., I
> get the following message:
> "update-menus -
> cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid"
>I can't find any reference to th
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:44:27PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> yes it would see the new CPU, i have read nightmare tales about people
> having to reinstall NT after adding a second cpu if they were not using
Misinformation. NT will install the single processor kernel during
installation if you only have
well i read from multiple sources that their UP->SMP upgrade tool worked
about 20% of the time..compaq came up with a tool that was 99-100%
successful *if* you had compaq hardware..
there are many many files that had to be changed to give NT SMP support
not just the kernel.
nate
On Sun, 16 Jan 2
Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having
trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and
"deity" (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect
and dpkg are; dselect acts as a frontend (or used to) for dpkg. How does
apt and
I'm not an extremely long-term Debian user, but in the sake of getting
you a quick response:
Apt is a method of getting the files from the servers mostly, but it has
added features now to frontend dpkg also. In dselect, you can use the
"apt" method of getting files, which by default uses the mai
I also forgot to mention that there's currently quite a bit of work
going on to get Debian more user friendly at installation-time. One of
the big initiatives is "debconf" which allows packages to have a common
front-end to ask the user questions about their configuration settings
during package i
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Chris R. Martin wrote:
> Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having
> trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and
> "deity" (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect
deity is APT's development co
I do not have mc installed. I used the -x switch on the f
ile ("od -x .profile", this also allows files to be viewed
in hex).
I didn't see anything suspicious. Does anyone have any
other ideas?
If I was to install midnight commander what instruction
would I have to give to view files in hex?
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:59:26PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> Sorry- isdnPPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date.
> Maybe ippp0 has no 'syncppp' encapsulation.
> ippp0: SyncPPP support not configured
> ippp0: Invalid argument
The kernel hasn't enabled ISDN PPP support. Build another one
whi
Hi,
I finally took the plunge and started upgrading some packages to potato. I
am now suffering from the much talked about problem of dhelp complaining
about documentation in /usr/doc
Here is an example from running apt-get install libcgi-perl
Setting up libcgi-perl (2.76-13) ...
cannot open dhe
On 16/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do not have mc installed. I used the -x switch on the f
ile ("od -x .profile", this also allows files to be viewed
in hex).
I didn't see anything suspicious. Does anyone have any
other ideas?
If I was to install midnight commander what instruction
would
* "Damon" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Damon> This is what I did myself and it worked well. This is off the
Damon> top of my head, so you may have to play around a bit, but
Damon> basically that's what equivs is for.
BTW: Anyone should use the equivs from potato. It is better than t
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 08:28:09PM -0500, Jim B wrote:
> cd /dev/
> ./MAKEDEV audio
>
> should make those devices for you.
Thanks, man. Everything works like a charm now.
--Fredrik
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:01:51PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to
> potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this
> recently? Any issues?
I did the upgrade last friday on my laptop. no real
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> > Isn't it possible to run the script which configures the printers in
> > /etc/printcap (I think it is included in the gs package) a second time
> > after installing it?
>
> magicfilterconfig, perhaps?
No, I use apsfilter. Sorry, I forgot to write it.
Markus
My aim was to build a custom kernel, so I installed the kernel-source
package for 2.0.38 kernel version. I propably should have also installed
the headers package as well, but I did not notice it since it is located
in the base section, not the development.
It was after this that the problems occ
rtfia8EuSh5Ba.rtf
Description: filename="text1.rtf"
Hi,
yesterday I ran 'apt-get upgrade' on my potato machine. By running the
installation scripts I get the following error.
Global symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at
/usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173.
Global symbol "$groupname" requires explicit package name at
/usr/sbin/suidun
On 16-Jan-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yesterday I ran 'apt-get upgrade' on my potato machine. By running the
> installation scripts I get the following error.
> Global symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at
> /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173.
> Global symbol "$groupname" req
Hi,
Using the latest XFree packages from Potato, I'm having problems with
xcolorsel not being able to grab a color. It craps out saying:
tea:/usr/home/antipode$ xcolorsel
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 91 (X_
hypnos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I started sshd with the -d (debug) option to try to
> figure this out, and I think I have my answer, but I
> want to make sure.
>
> Am I correct in assuming that the encryption between
> client/server is started before any exchange of data
> takes place? Spec
John Pearson wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:37:36PM -0600, John Foster wrote
> > I need an application or plugin for netscape to decode or convert these
> > type of files. I "THINK" they are some type of Microsoft proprietary
> > file format. Netscape, WordPerfect, Gnotepad,Lyx, StarOffice,
Hello,
I have a problem with FTP-based installation of Debian Linux for which I
could find no information on debian.org or in the howto's. I have:
architecture: i386
model: Dell Dimension XPS266, PII
memory:192Mb
scsi: none
cd-rom:Toshiba, ATAPI
network card:
I'm writing some macros for a latex package which uses M4 to preprocess them
before heading into Perl. This is a first time for me in scripting such
things, and I'm learning by example and the info page on M4 how to decide
various things.
My question relates to managing the following scenario:
> A big guess, but are you guys sure you have no interrupt or similar
> conflicts? I have a problem with Xircom modem which sounds similar to
> the ones described in pcmcia-howto in relation to the interrupt conflict
> even though my /proc/interrupt doesn't show one.
I have the same problem whene
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:55:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> 0 S Jan 14 Adam Klein Uploaded suidmanager 0.42 (source all) to master
>
> That'll fix it.
It worked. THANK YOU!!!
I had been struggling with the same problem for a couple of days.
That kind of timely advice is what m
Hello
I need help with a partially configured ppp server. I have dial in
working, but I can't get ppp to start.
Currently, I can login to the proposed ppp server (via the modem from
another linux computer using minicom) and get a shell. However, when I
try to
login as the ppp user, I get a per
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:55:09PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I asked the question a little while back about how I can set my window
> manager. So far I have been advised to edit, in different messages from
> different people:
>
> /etc/X11/window-managers
> ~/xinitrc
> ~/.xsession
I've got this machine set up to have my mail/diald server handle all mail for
local users. Getting this set up required some heavy digging through
documentation because the eximconfig 'satellite' setup uses bydns in the
smarthost route_list and my server's not listed in DNS. Bad assumption on
the
Scott Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "D" == Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> D> Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very
> D> strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from
> D> cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a ran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-*
> packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good
> idea.
[...]
> this broke
> my ppp setup somehow. I have a 56K pcmcia modem, running as
> ttyS2 (pppd uses /dev/modem which is a symlink po
I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard
autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms
as it was before.
I've no idea which package this can be configured in. I've fixed the
problem in X by editing my XF86Config file (added AutoRepeat 300 5 in
the Key
Yay! I have X again.
Ok for those also having similar trouble (Hi Steve :) I'm going to try and
set down what I did in the hopes that this will help till Vincent can get
back to someone :) (_anyone_ :)
I had gone into /var/cache/apt/packages and dpkg -i'd everything
xfree86'ish that I had 3.3.5 p
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, John Davis wrote:
> Hello
>
> I need help with a partially configured ppp server. I have dial in
> working, but I can't get ppp to start.
>
> Currently, I can login to the proposed ppp server (via the modem from
> another linux computer using minicom) and get a shell. Howe
On 16-Jan-2000 Joe Bouchard wrote:
>
> I had been struggling with the same problem for a couple of days.
>
> That kind of timely advice is what makes this list so great.
I think it sets Debian apart from some of the other Linux distributions, too.
--
Andrew
I'm running a machine for the lab at school and I want
it to automatically login to a default user account.
(i.e. instead of asking for login and password, it
assumes login is "user", user account having null
password) How do I do this? The only accounts on the
machine being root and user. (Par
Hi all,
Just one small quwstion.
I would like my modem connection to hang up
as soon as I get an incomming phonecall.
Any idea how to handle that ?
I use pon/poff
Best regards
Joakim Svensson
After a bit of fiddling, I finally have Fvwm working on my Potato system.
It seems that a symlink needed to be made from /etc/X11/fvwm to
/etc/X11/fvwm2 (if I recall).
However, I still have one glitch that needs to be worked out. When I
launch a program, I always get an outline of the window and h
when i try to do :
ipfwadm -A -f
The answer is :
ipfwadm : setsockopt failed:
Protocol not available
Does anyone can help me ?
Thank didier
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard
> autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms
> as it was before.
>
> I've fixed the problem in X by editing my XF86Config file (added
> A
Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to set a small lab where one machine will be a server and
> 3 or 4 others clients. These clients will mount /home from server and I
> would like to have a central authentication. All machines already run
> potato.
I did this for
Paul McAvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I submitted this question a while ago, and didn't get much of a response.
[... Problems with home made qmail as MTA ...]
At least I responded (and you never raised any objections to my
solution):
|| You'd better install the debian package qmail-src, whi
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> sounds like the JDK bug with newer kernels, see the linux-kernel mailing
> list or the archives of this list, the solution is usually downgrade the
> kernel or upgrade your JDK.
I had the same problem on my potato box since kernel 2.2.12, and
indeed it vanished
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
>I'm encountering a really strange problem on a friend's slink box. We
>were trying to fix a few things in his news configuration - rebuilding
>suck with perl support and fiddling about with a few configuration files
>(like newsfeeds - 'ctlinnd checkfile' is
First time I`ve had to come back for a while!
I`m trying to set up minicom but I can`t access the modem. Here`s the relevant
info:
bash-2.03$ minicom
minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS2: Permission denied
bash-2.03$ ls -l /dev/ttyS2
crw-r-1 root dialout4, 66 Jan 16 19:23 /dev/ttyS2
I just downloaded the source to licq 0.75.1 and compiled it fine, no
problems. However, I'm trying to build the qt-gui that it comes with and
am getting an error and I might need some help figuring out just what is
wrong with my setup. I am pretty certain it doesn't have anything to do
with qt, b
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 16:42:54 -0500, Jim B wrote:
> libstdc++, and libstdc++-dev. I had been downloading the .debs and using
> dpkg -i to install, and some of them were dependent upon *each other* so
> it was impossible to install that way.
No it's not. Mutually dependent packages can be insta
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> No it's not. Mutually dependent packages can be installed with dpkg -i if
> they're both provided in the same commandline.
Aha! I thought it was odd to have been dumped into such a quandary. :)
Thanks, I'm sure that will prevent much future fr
i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to
share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions..
what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it
from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to be working.. i have
communicator 4.7
any clues.
The permissions for my serial ports are all:
crw-rw
^
You need to be able to write to the serial port.
--
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> First time I`ve had to come back for a while!
> I`m trying to set up minicom but I can`t access the modem. Here`s the
> relevant info:
I'm using Windowmaker 0.20.3-5 under Slink and 2.0.36 and
wmsound-0.9.4. When I start wmsound I get "Error on Play Event".
When I run strace on it I get:
open("/home/dsj/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds/NatureStartup.wav",
O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096,
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, jason wrote:
>i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to
>share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions..
>
>what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it
>>from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to be worki
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