On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> On Mar 16, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Has anyone got Debian running on the $99 i-opener yet? I will be
> > trying to as soon as the 2.5" HD gets here. Should make a nice system
> > when USB is stable.
>
> Check out linux-hacker.net/i-
I built a system in which I put two 20 Gig Maxtor Hard Drives.
When I do
# cfdisk /dev/hda
I can see the full 20 Gigs on the first drive, but when I do
# cfdisk /dev/hdc
I only see 8 Gigs.
I know there is/was a problem with large hard drives. I am using the
Asus P5A motherboard, with its on b
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
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Dear fellow d-users:
I removed the realplayer.deb and netscape works fine. I consulted the message
about the RealPlayer.deb in another message.
Thanks for the suggestions, nevertheless.
Eric K. Wolven
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (rick) writes:
> In article <[EMA
You might try specifying the correct type of your mouse to gpm.
> what packages must be installed to use make menuconfig?
>
Does not that seems to be related to something specific? Can you post more
details?
--
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.
--
Shaul Karl
I'm 'consulting' on a machine that has an ATAPI Zip drive that I can't
manage to get to work. It works under W98. I'd like to use jazip, so
the SCSI emulation would be preferred, but even being able to mount
it as an IDE drive would be an accomplishment. Right now, the kernel
I'm using has the foll
ps afuwx shows that -:0 spawns the X session (window manager, etc.)
and it runs as root, so you have to be root to kill it and then you
will kick yourself out of X.
John
> A new thing I just noticed: the sb live module claims to load correctly upon
> boot (I put it in /etc/modules. I still get no sound, but it IS loading
> correctly.
>
> Question:
>1. How can I check to see if the module is loaded correctly (sb live)? Is
> there a test I can run?
you can
Well I upgraded, finally. And the kernel can't locate all my serial ports
for some reason. I have this (from dmesg):
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00 is my mouse, 01 is my modem and 02 is my Palm Pilot cradle
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:30:21PM +0530, Chirag wrote:
>
> > I've written a cgi script in perl an I would like to know how long
> > (exactly, 10th of second) it takes to execute the script, how can I do
> > this?
> >
> > Ron
> >
> I guess time can do it But not sure. Pls consult the manpage of t
Hi All,
When I try to install Debian 2.1 from the CD, the system hangs with
the following error message:
VFS kernel panic unable to mount root fs on 01:00
I have tried various workarounds including:
linux root=/dev/hdc
which kind of worked but then ended up with unable to load initial
console.
> I've been trying to run the install for Debian potato (frozen) on
> a Dell PowerEdge 4400, but it won't recognize the installed Dell
> PERC2/DC (AMI MegaRAID) controller.
Oddly enough, I've been able to get this to boot from the base slink
install (2.0.36), but am unable to get this to work when
> I have long used gnotepad+ also, but lately, due to the reasons you have
> offered, I have used gxedit. It seems to be about at the point of
> functionality that gnotepad+ used to be when I thought it was so handy.
> You would have to try it yourself to see if it suited you. Gedit seems
> like i
Andy - the IDE Zip works very well as an IDE floppy... No need to go
messing with scsi emulation (unless you want to make it look like the
machine has scsi :)
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
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From: Andy Roosen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 18 March 2000 1:11 PM
To:
Hi,
I'm sure I've just overlooked something stupid, but maybe someone can point
me at what it might be.
I upgraded (apt-get dist-upgrade) a slink installation to potato. Now I'm
having a problem with latex2html. When I run it, I get
Error: No such image type 'png'.
This installation sup
Adam Shand wrote:
>
> hey.
> so ... does anyone else out there know of an alternative? the simpler the
> better so long as it has multiple tabls (or a similar feature) to easily
> switch between files.
I have long used gnotepad+ also, but lately, due to the reasons you have
offered, I have used
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:13:17AM -0900, Adam Shand generated a stream of 1s
and 0s:
>
> 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 edito
It isn't part of lilo - it comes from the "mbr" package. It's applied
when you first install Debian if you choose to install lilo into the
superblock rather than the master boot record, and also answer
affirmatively when prompted to install a boot sector. If you install
lilo into the master boot
Hmmm, IIRC, the "make menuconfig" option depends on the ncurses -dev
packag.
Check the error messages spit out by "make menuconfig",
then look for the missing file via the form at the bottom of:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, David Densmore wrote:
> Tha
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
>
> There's a plethora of editors out there. Ever tried XEmacs? XEmacs has
> pull-down menus, so you don't really have to memorize all the key
> combinations, and most importantly has very nice syntax highlighting
> features.
emacs is way more then i need. all i want is a simple gui based text edi
> nedit would work but it won't allow multiple files to be open within one
> window. gnotepad+ and gedit are exactly what i want but buggy enough to
> not be very annoying to use (and c ain't my forte so i can't "use the
> source" unfortunately :-( ).
VIM is pretty easy to use ... and gVIM, the g
hello,
i am slowly coming along in terms of setting up
x.
i have gotten past the grey screen w/ an x in the
middle, to a purple one with icons in the corner, one w/ a blk/wht moon. another
w/ a computer, and another with some kind of graph. As well as an icon in
the other corner.
my mou
> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sean> On 16-Mar-2000 Joseph A. Martin wrote:
>> Hello, I feel like this should be a simple thing to do, but I
>> haven't been able to figure it out so far. I want XEmacs to my
>> Left Alt key as the Meta key. It works
> VIM is pretty easy to use ... and gVIM, the graphical interface to VIM
> is rather nice looking I think.
yeah ... i can do that, but it's not quite what i had in mind. i did
however just check the gedit homepage and it turns out that the debian
package is quite out of date and that there are a
In xf86config when it asks where your mouse is, default /dev/mouse, try
/dev/psaux. Also tell it youhave a ps/2 mouse when it asks what kind of
mouse you have. you can also do this in XF86Setup.
Erik Ryberg
Beavis wrote:
> hello, i am slowly coming along in terms of setting up x.i have gotten
Recently (last two days or so), fetchmail does nothing if run in daemon
mode. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? It works as expected if
run from the command line like:
$ fetchmail
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| Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.
Okay, I've been munging my system all day, and now have Nethack's
OPTIONS=IBMgraphics font working in color in tty. Not quite sure how I got
there, I was working on something else. The big question is, what exactly is
the font:
/usr/share/consolefonts/default8x16.gz
?? cp437 or cp865?? Somet
> my mouse doesn't move and the tab keys don't do anything either. My pointer
> just sits in the middle of the screen.
> dmesg reads:
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> i am using the /dev/ttyS01 during config. my systems says
> ttyS01 at
If you are using PS/2 mouse, your mouse is located o
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Well, FWIW, have you worked out your printing problem? What are
> you printing to in Netscape -- what's the command you're using? Any
> error messages? Anything turn up in your print queue (lpq)?
>
No. I can print from the command line (using "lp foo"), but not fr
I have been thinking of getting a graphics card with tv-out and was
wondering if there are any supported cards ?
I have heard various rumours that nvidia is going to support this in the
future..
thanks for any help
/Jonas
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:32:50PM -0800, Bart Friederichs wrote:
[]
> solved, but the installation still doesn't go too well. I get a lot of
> Kernel panics/Oopses (whatever they are) and sometimes the systems just
^ bad, very bad.
> hangs. I think that is related to bad RAM.
Dear Friends,
I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 distribution on my 486
machine called "sarasvati.nio.org" with 32MB RAM. This has a local HP
LaserJet 4M+ printer attatched to it over a serial port. The printer name
is "mayem". "Sarasvati" is connected over the LAN. I have the fo
Is anyone using the Promise Ultra66 controller with Linux?
I put my drive on it, and I get nothing when I boot
the machine. The card shows on the screen with the devices,
but it just flashes the characters
2FA:
on the screen. If I press return, it just repeats the characters. I
disabled my IDE c
Along with my update, I removed wdm; yet I had kdm working after potato...
I rebooted to try a new kernel (see my other message) and now I can's get
kdm working again! I don't like wdm very much...
When I start kdm from init.d... I get something like :
Checking for X setup... unable to check!
a
Does anyone know if there are any drivers for non-laptop touchpads? I
have a Cirque Power Cat touch pad for a Pentium box. Though I also have a
mouse attached to the machine, I would prefer to use the touch pad for
both Winders and Linux, not just Winders (if it matters, Winders is on
one drive
I keep getting a "Suspecious rc file /home/lance/.procmailrc" "Coundn't
read rc file" when I fetchmail -m 'procmail' and get mail from my ISP.
I tried creating a .procmailrc from the dotfile generator but I still
got the same message. Anyone know why this is happening or how to fix the
problem?
Does anyone know how to make the Alt keys generate Meta?
That is I want Alt-F to generate Meta-F (under Emacs, bash, etc).
I've tried setting in my XF86Config:
LeftAlt Meta
RightAltMeta
But that didn't work.
I used to work with "XkbDisable" uncommented (in XF86Config), but
I b
Hello!
I've been trying to set up printing via SMB to an Epson Stylus Color 600
printer (//stephan/stylus600). The smbprint works when I call it with
"smbprint ". So, I wanted that the lpd sends the files to the
filter epson-filter-remote, which filters them with a magicfilter and then
sends them
I have a dial-up account with my IP (dynamic IP address) and I download
mail with fetchmail. The mail gets passed on to exim for local delivery,
using .forward to enable filtering. I have a stand-alone machine running
Potato. I have upgraded Potato only yesterday so all packages are the
latest.
I
Le 2000-03-17 17:31:00 -0600, Hecubus écrivait :
> > I've been trying to run the install for Debian potato (frozen) on
> > a Dell PowerEdge 4400, but it won't recognize the installed Dell
> > PERC2/DC (AMI MegaRAID) controller.
>
> Oddly enough, I've been able to get this to boot from the base sli
Adam Shand wrote:
>
> if neither of these are possible you're other options is to setup sendmail
> 8.10 with the sasl patches to talk smtp auth to their server. this is not a
> trivial solution though and i would recommend agaist it (simply because it's
> complicated) unless there really no other
Brian May hat gesagt: // Brian May wrote:
> Is it possible to use the windows key as meta in XEmacs for text mode
> sessions? I don't like this inconsistency... Some combinations work,
> others don't. Tested:
>
> text mode console: alt --> meta
> gnome-terminal:alt --> meta
> xterm: w
Spadać z mojej strony
www.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:04:54PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > Well, FWIW, have you worked out your printing problem? What are
> > you printing to in Netscape -- what's the command you're using? Any
> > error messages? Anything turn up in your print queue (lpq)?
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 21:32:35 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> but it just flashes the characters
>
> 2FA:
That's from the Master Boot Record program.
> I also tried booting with a floppy with IDE support, but it won't
> detect it either.
The bootfloppies for Slink don't handle UDMA66. You ne
I happened to see this in the www.procmail.org mailing list archives
yesterday. Sorry I don't know the answer off the top of my head, but it's
there.
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 04:17:56PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> I keep getting a "Suspecious rc file /home/lance/.procmailrc" "Coundn't
> read r
Hi all,
Please cc me. I am not subscribing to this list. Thanks :-)
I bought a new harddisk that can do DMA-66 lately(Matrox DiamodMax
17GB). However it doesn't look like I get any merit out of it at
all. I patch the kernel and everything seems to work fine. But hdparm
-t result is a bit slower t
** On Mar 18, Krzysztof Majbuk scribbled:
> Spadać z mojej strony www.
Czy ty sie czlowieku dobrze czujesz?? Nie rob z siebie pajaca i nie wysylaj
takich listow na liste dyskusyjna... Tym bardziej, ze neiwielu ludzi na niej
mowi po polsku - i cale szczescie...
What do you mean with "apt-setup"? Should that be a command in
the bash? If yes, I don't have such a comand ("command not
found").
By the way I have a multi-CD-set (Debian 2.0 German distribution).
As acces-method I already tried "cd-rom" and "multi-cd", but after
update I don't get the swat-p
Anyone know why this email to the debian-user list was forwarded to the
M$ piracy list? Not important - just puzzled.
- Forwarded message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:15:26 -0700
Subject: Re: AIC7xxx-based SCSI cards and slink (KMM49055C0KM)
I recently set up sendmail and a few mailing lists. I was wondering if
there was a way, or a howto on the topic, of doing things like having
the default "reply to" address be list, and the original sender cc'd or
something similar. Right now its sort of a pain to have to reply all,
then remove th
I want to try out xfmail on my mixed slink/potato system. Apt-get
installed it without any problems but running it results in:
---
$xfmail
XFMail 1.4.4 - X11 e-mail client for Linux
(C) 1995-1998 Gennady B. Sorokopud
Compiled at Wed Dec 8 14:13:45 C
Hi I don't like the installs as it installs stuff I don't need. Does anyone
know the minimum requirements that I need to install X-Windows? On another
note does anyone know the minimum requirements I need to compile and install
programs? I think that one is gcc, g++, and make?
Thanks
Is there any way of knowing which packages from the frozen portion are
already bug-free and completely ready to be included in the next release
2.2? The reason is that I plan to prepare my own CDs next time, so I
thought could be a good idea to start collecting packages so that when I
run the rsync
I believe that you should be able to use the touchpad as a mouse - just tell
linux where it is. You won't get any of the benefits of 'Winders' driver like
the edge scrolling and such, but it should work like any other mouse. I have a
Cirque Touchpad (can't remember the exact model, but it is
This isn't a solution to your particular problem, but I had similar
difficulties setting up SMB, until I found SWAT. I try to run a secure box, so
I have to start swat only when I need it, but once you figure swat out (easier)
then smb is simple to configure. It is a Debian package.
On Sat,
It has been my experience that the
2FA:
prompt usually occurs when I have screwed up and have more than one partition
flagged as bootable. Does this seem to be the case for more people. or is the
2FA: prompt a kind of 'panic' message from the MBR?
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 02:34:16PM +0100, J
- Original Message -
From: dkphoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: empty .ssh directory
Hi,
Why your subject and content are unrelated?
I donot know anything about touchpad. I recently tried prerelease
version of XFree86. 4.0. In the samp
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 9:59 AM
Subject: support for tv-out cards ?
Hi
Before I bought a color vga monitor I was using my SiS 6326 card
with TV out. The consoles, svgalib with Vesa bios driver, Dosemu
graphics and XFree86_FBDev
I installed the Debian/GNU Linux package. It seems to be working
(XWindows, Mozilla, PPP). But I can't get the printer to work.
I have a HP LaserJet 1100. What are the steps for installing it or
getting it to work?
Thanks,
Sandy Shapiro
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From: Brett Fowlkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 11:16 PM
Subject: minimum X-window requirements?
Hi
Take a look at www.xfree86.org From there you will be lead to
an ftp site where from you will download, after reading the README
in the dir
> From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 6:34 AM
>
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 21:32:35 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > but it just flashes the characters
> >
> > 2FA:
>
> That's from the Master Boot Record program.
>
> > I also tried booting with a flop
Hello!
Thanks for your answer!
Isn't SWAT a setup tool for samba? I managed to configure samba correctly
without any tool, because my network configuration is not very difficult (2
machines). I think the problem is mainly a difficulty with the scripts for
th lp printing.
Kind Regards,
Stephan H
Hello!
Are you really sure you're measuring the maximal bus speed?
Because the bus speed (UDMA33=33MB/sec; UDMA66=66MB/sec) is only the maximum
data rate which can be transferred. However, the magnetic disk can never be
that fast, so that data rates of 16MB/sec are quite normal and not bad.
25MB/
Can someone help this gentleman out?
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From: Gavin Burris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DGA support
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:32:13 +
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Lin
Somewhat oblique response. I have a similar configuration -- dialup,
dynamic ISP, fetchmail & exim deliver. I'm given to understand that
many MTA-based spam traps work better if you're not ferrying mail from
another caching point, such as a POP3 server. In my case, my ISP
(Mindscape) runs a serv
Swat handles samba setup, shares, printers, users, everything about samba. It
is a very appreciated (by me) package.
-Percival
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 09:15:02PM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Thanks for your answer!
>
> Isn't SWAT a setup tool for samba? I managed to configure
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 10:38:53AM -0500, Sandy Shapiro wrote:
>I installed the Debian/GNU Linux package. It seems to be working
>(XWindows, Mozilla, PPP). But I can't get the printer to work.
>
>I have a HP LaserJet 1100. What are the steps for installing it or
>getting it to work?
As user root
hello,
i am trying to set up blackbox for my
x-windows
i get a config error:
blackbox requires the X Window System libraries and
headers
which packages do u think it is referring
to?
thankx beavis
I imaging that most of the current TV-Out video cards will work with X if you
set X to the correct resolution and refresh - color depth should have little to
with it. I know that NTSC is 60Hz, so [EMAIL PROTECTED] might work, but I
suspect that you may need to find exact horizontal and vertica
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:58:29PM -0800, Beavis wrote:
> hello,
>
> i am trying to set up blackbox for my x-windows
> i get a config error:
> blackbox requires the X Window System libraries and headers
>
> which packages do u think it is referring to?
Judging from this:
HAL9000:~# grep-availab
Hi,
I was wondering if i could get a zip drive for linux. could
anybody throw some light on this as to where i could get this ...
thanx
Arun
Hello!
Yeah, I finally managed to set it up!!! I threw the magicfilter into the
trashcan and tried apsfilter. Not the .deb, but the newest (5.2 I think)
version from the author's homepage. And that can automatically be configured
to print via smbclient! It was so easy. I recommend it to all of you
What can I put in my sendmail.mc file on my Debian box to have all
mail sorted (i.e., send [EMAIL PROTECTED] to "user"'s mbox) I have tried
virtusertable in the .mc file but that just seems to bounce everyting
to root's mbox. Any help or direction would be helpful.
Jason Laster
Does ~./xsession behave differently for startx and xdm ?. because i never
had a problem login in
as user via xdm and if ~./xsession was holding startx up i would have
thought the same would happen in xdm.
Im aware of how to run stuff through ~./xsession ( i think :)
i have
/usr/local/bin/chbg &
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Jason Laster wrote:
> What can I put in my sendmail.mc file on my Debian box to have all
> mail sorted (i.e., send [EMAIL PROTECTED] to "user"'s mbox) I have tried
> virtusertable in the .mc file but that just seems to bounce everyting
> to root's mbox. Any help or direction
i want to change my environ. var. to use the
new netscape version.
where is my .bashrc?
i ma using slink 2.2.14
this is the next step...
It is
recommended that you make use of the MOZILLA_HOME environmentvariable in
your .cshrc, .profile, or equivalent.
MOZILLA_HOME shouldbe set to th
got it to work, most of the apps don't
pico works only in wmaker
pine does work at all
mozilla is buggy, i hit return to enter an address and it does't respond,
have to open a page manually file+open
xterm is fine
my screen seems to scroll alot, how can i get rid of that and have
everything on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antonio Rodriguez) wrote:
>Is there any way of knowing which packages from the frozen portion are
>already bug-free and completely ready to be included in the next release
>2.2?
You can't be sure, but you can probably get a fairly good idea from
looking for the packages that are
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