Re: Weird problem with Netscape and X

2000-03-17 Thread Chirag
- Original Message - From: Joseph A. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Mailing List Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 7:21 PM Subject: Weird problem with Netscape and X Hi > Hello, > I am running an up to date Potato system. I am using the GNOME > desktop and a locally installed cop

Re: How to make SCSI only bootup

2000-03-17 Thread Chirag
- Original Message - From: Gregory T. Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 5:08 PM Subject: Re: How to make SCSI only bootup Hi > The "2FA:" prompt is generated by mbr... it looks like it doesn't know > which partition to boot (you haven't

Re: xwindows

2000-03-17 Thread Chirag
Hi, The grey screen with mouse cursor, you termed it as X should stay put If the system returns to the console, It indicates that there are some errors Try X -probeonly -verbose 3 > x.log 2>& 1 and examine the x.log file you should be able to find what is causing the error. Consult man page of

Re: make menuconfig

2000-03-17 Thread Jacob Jovelou
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, David Densmore wrote: > what packages must be installed to use make menuconfig? Install make, automake, autoconf, gcc, g++, ncurses3.4 with all depends. // Jajo > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >

Re: SMTP password

2000-03-17 Thread Adam Shand
> > I have a problem: my ISP ask me for username and password to send e-mail > > by smtp. With Netscape is easy to configure it, but I don't know how to > > do that with smail or sendmail. Can somebody help me? > > the problem is: smtp has NO password at all (AFAIK). the point is, you > have to do

Re: no such device as /dev/lpt1

2000-03-17 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
At 10:40 PM 3/16/00 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Thanks Jim, for the response. That helps clear up a couple of things. So >now, when I do an "insmod lp", I get this: > >/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol >parport_ieee1284_nibble_mode_ok >/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol p

Re: Free Internet connection

2000-03-17 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
At 08:10 PM 3/16/00 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: >Does anybody know how to connect to the free ISP-s from Debian boxes? I >want to drop my AT&T account, but I am not sure that it will work, since >most of the free ISP say in their requirements windows. I have been >considering BlueLight (yahoo)

Re: delete a mail from mail queue (exim)?

2000-03-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 06:34:38PM +0100, Attila Csosz wrote: > How could I delete a mail from the exim mail queue? exim -Mrm -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Bruce Stephens
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And thanks again, Colin, Bruce & Sean. I still can't get XFree86 > 3.3.6 to do the right thing, but I now have XFree86 4.0 running > successfully at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 32bpp. It will run 1600x1200 at > 32bpp but my monitor starts to get wierd. Ho

Re: make menuconfig

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:38:35PM +, David Wright wrote: > Quoting David Densmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > what packages must be installed to use make menuconfig? > > A kernel-source package, its dependencies, recommendations, and > suggestions apart from kernel-package, which I'd heartily >

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Stephen Zander
> "John" == John Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> ps. You shuld get 8bpp, 16bpp and 24bpp resolutions no prob! Thanks for the response, John. When I tried 3.3.x I just got a blnk screen and then vt corruption when I quit the Xserver. I'll live with 4.0. -- Stephen "Farcical aqu

Re: lilo as boot manager possible ?

2000-03-17 Thread Carl Fink
> But after that I notice I could not choose to boot DOS/Win98 partion anymore. > I > have to use fdisk to set that partion to "active" in order to boot Win98 > partition. Did you "man lilo"? What you're asking for is a standard way to use the program. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECT

Kernel change

2000-03-17 Thread Timothy Bedding
Okay - I have solved the xdm problem. I needed to link PS/2 mouse support into the kernel. I found this out by looking at the output of xdm. I have now configured ipchains as I want including running it automatically on reboot. Thanks for the help.

possible pppd bug

2000-03-17 Thread Timothy Bedding
Sometimes when I dial into my ISP, there seems to be a problem getting fully connected. Is this a known pppd bug? The symptom is that the dialup seems to be working but one part of the process just hangs. Any ideas on this?

Segmentation faults in dpkg

2000-03-17 Thread Bart Friederichs
Hi, Here another one from the guy that can't get Debian installed due to a bad PC (I think). When I run dselect and it starts installing all goes well until one of the packages gets a segfault (dpkg does actually) and then my whole PC crashes. I tried again and it crashed on the same package (m4 o

Re: make menuconfig

2000-03-17 Thread Linux Information
You also need ncurses for menuconfig, I think. I can't run it with a pretty standard install (I use xconfig). -Benjamin On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:38:35PM +, David Wright wrote: > Quoting David Densmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > what packages must be installed to use make menuconfig? > > A

Re: Communicator 4.72

2000-03-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, The netscape-base-4 requires libc5 stuff. Colin Watson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean 'Shaleh' Perry) wrote: > >On 16-Mar-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: > >> Since there wasn't any deb package(s) that would install > >> Communicator 4.72 without required libc5 stuff. I am > >> goin

alternatives to gnotepad+

2000-03-17 Thread Adam Shand
hey. i've been a loyal user of gnotepad+ for quite a while but it seems to be getting buggier and buggier (and more and more features that i don't need). what i like about it is that it's one editor program with a bunch of tabs for multiple open documents so you can switch between them. i typic

Re: make menuconfig

2000-03-17 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
You need one of the ncurses-dev libraries. I guess the one that matches which ever ncurses you have installed right now. Marshal > "David" == David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, but I meant what packages are needed for make menuconfig > to function, as in when I ente

Re: delete a mail from mail queue (exim)?

2000-03-17 Thread Lars Weber
Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How could I delete a mail from the exim mail queue? /usr/sbin/exim -Mrm (use mailq to get the message-id of your mail) See exim(8) for more info. Regards, Lars -- ".. Like I always say -- nothing can beat the BRATWURST here in DUSSELDORF!!"

Re: Debian V2.1

2000-03-17 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello, BC> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:46:51PM +0200, Leanne Gibson wrote: BC>> I have a client running Debian V2.1 via a dial up modem for e-mail. BC>> They were hit by virus the other day and are looking for anti-virus BC>> software for the above version. Please could you come back to me BC>> asa

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