Netscape 4.6, receiving message: "Your browser sent a message this server can't understand."

1999-06-13 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Is there any way I can find out which server didn't understand? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern M

printing fails after upgrading to new potato libraries.

1999-07-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
After upgrading to potato's new libc62.1.2 -pre libraries, printing isn't working properly. Although lpq sees nothing in the queue, the printer continues to psew out pages like broken postscript. There have been a few other minor glitches with printing, using lpr. Is this library problem? ALa

installing current disks---old machine

1998-07-29 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have tested the current resc1440-fast.bin rescue disk on a 386 motherboard with no hard drive.(Another garbage can PC for my classroom.)There isn't any hard drive yet in the system, but I thought I'd try to boot the rescue disk. After loading the linux kernel and uncompressing, the dis

X is hosed

1998-09-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs in, the session crashes. Roo

modutils --- why m68k files ?

1998-09-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have been getting streams of messages as follows: Sep 26 18:40:01 mwariker modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 Sep 26 18:40:12 mwariker last message repeated 38 times The only mention of char-major-14 I have found with grep is in /etc/modutils/conf.m68k.atari I cannot find any 6

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #344

1998-05-18 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Look at the linux laptop web site. You may be able to find it through http://www.linux.org, or you may be able to use an altavista type search. I ran two laptops---you wouldn't believe it, the T1800 and the T1850C. Both worked well, with the exception that X wasn't much use. I eventually clea

Re: System.map

1998-05-25 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I accidentally ran across this one when compiling the kernel: make install This isn't documented, AFAIK. It installs the system map, and offers to run lilo or make a disk. Why isn't this documented? Did anyone anwer the question "what is the system map for?" I'd also like to know the an

synchronizing console, xterm and rxvt using bash.

1998-06-27 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A recent blow up with new xtide version not working as I expected led to the revelation (should I have known?) that rxvt is not sourcing /etc/profile. This led to one of the environment variables being set not as usually, and the program acted like it was broken, when it wasn't (a tribute to Dave

which C compiler?

1998-06-27 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I remember a few months ago, a certain compiler and C++ libraries were recommended. Since then there have been some changes. Confusingly, there sre at least two compilers and more than one C++ library in the hamm distribution. Which ones are recommended? Alan Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

MCA support?

1998-07-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Does the upcoming distribution support Micro Channel installations? On the MCA Linux page, at http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/ is made the statement that the next debian "should" include MCA support. Is it? Alan Davis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #637

1998-07-10 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How is it that digest v98 #637, dated 9 July is a digest of messages from 27 June? I don't know to whom attention should be called. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/

Re: HP DeskJets

1999-02-10 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:16:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would also look at installing the gs-aladdin package from the non-free > part of Debian. It has a special HP Deskjet driver compiled into it. > You can specify lots of features such as print quality, color mode, > paper typ

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

Is there a hamm to slink HOWTO?

1999-01-09 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have at last found time to reinstall hamm, and mounting the same /usr/local filesystems with few problems. My system has been out of sync for quite some time. Now I am able to compile C++ ok (wasn't able to for a while). I want to upgrade the packages necessary to compile newer kernels---ca

man doesn't work (slink)---blank pages

1999-01-14 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
After upgrading to slink (using apt-get dist-upgrade from hamm) man displays empty pages. Is there a font problem? Any clue? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adav

SOLVED: man doesn't work (slink)---blank pages]

1999-01-14 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This was caused by a broken installation of X11. Now, amazingly, at least the obvious things all work. Alan Davis > After upgrading to slink (using apt-get dist-upgrade from hamm) man > displays empty pages. Is there a font problem? -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High Schoo

Apt rocks; Gnome rocks.

1999-01-17 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
The following is a copy of email I have sent to a friend who has been working with Debian. I have expressed doubts to him many times concerning the problems I had been having with my own Debian system. I had been having trouble compiling 2.1.X kernels, and in other ways too the system was broken.

af uses nvi as a viewer?

1999-01-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How can I change or disable the frequent startup of nvi by af, perhaps as a viewer? I am using af 2.0-4. This behavior is irritating, as I must quit vi in order to continue reading mail. This only happens on certain messages. May mailbox has many messages about files (the files displayed by nv

Re: DeskJet 870

1999-01-23 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am writing this off the top of my head, without digging up any more specific information. If you want more information, please contact me and I will dig around in the next day or two, and perhaps even go to the trouble of getting the set up right. In the ftp archive, in project/experimental i

mutt trashes mail

1999-01-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am afraid to try mutt again. After a long hiattus, I tried mutt again after some version changes. I lost a large slug of mail. Just gone. I have just been leaving mail in the mail spoon. Mutt has a habit of trashing that file. Can anybody corroborate this behavior? Has this kind of pro

libstdc++2.9: include files not seen

1999-01-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
My system has been updated from hamm to slink, then partly to potato. Trying to compile xtide some files, including the following, are not being seen by imake: stream.h iostream.h iomanip.h I am now going to try to upgrade totally to potato, using apt-get. What's wrong with my c++

Netscape 4.5 mail server messages

1999-02-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This message may better be posted to another list, but I don't know what list. Anyway, I am using netscape 4.5, installed via the installer that came with the tarball.I"m pretty sure this is the glibc version. I keep getting annoying messages about the mailserver, telling me to set a user na

XF86Setup doesn't run (windowmaker?), with "error opening terminal"

1999-02-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Having upgraded xfree to new packages on Potato, I have tried to run XF86Setup from the virtual console, xterm and rxvt. In each case, I get the message. To wit: > electra:/usr/doc/xf86setup# XF86Setup > Error opening terminal: linux. > Error opening terminal: linux. > Error opening terminal: l

X11 upgrade---error using xdm, Xsession?

1999-02-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
After upgrading to potato X11, as root I can startx. But when I run xdm, and log in as a user, I get this: > electra:/etc/X11# less /home/lex/.xsession-errors > :16: invalid preprocessing directive name > :33: invalid preprocessing directive name > /etc/X11/Xsession: [: sh: binary operator exp

[marwin@localbar.com: Re: X woes (potato)]

1999-02-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This is the same message I got. I "fixed" this by using a former version of /etc/X11/Xsession - Forwarded message from Björn Elwhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > /etc/X11/Xsession: [: sh: binary operator expected > What is wrong? That's what I want to know. Alan -- Alan E. Davis

Lost directories.

1999-08-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
In the past three weeks I have lost three directories. Just disappeared. I lost /usr/local/bin and had to start recompiling years's of work. Sure, it's my own fault, but in the several years I have been using Debian GNU/Linux, I have never had this happen. I can't believe I was doing anything

US Robotics/3 Com Upgrade to v90?

1999-08-24 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I purchased a USR Sportster 33.6 about two years ago, at what now looks like a premium. I have tried several times to upgrade to v90, with results leaving a bad after taste. As I informed 3Com, at my salary, I have wasted over 2X the *considerable* cost of the modem trying to flash upgrade. I

PPP speeds; "nice"-ness

1999-08-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Whenever apt-get is scarfing files by ftp, it seems to take much of the "bandwidth" of my 33.6 modem. Fetchmail is often running very slowly, while apt may run at 2K or even 3K, according to it's own reports. This prompts me to ask, is there a concept of "nice"ness for TCP/IP connections? How

Saytime stops saying the time.

1999-09-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Using Potato, keeping up to date. Saytime now says, "the time is" and nothing more. I reinstalled, but no changes. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan,

Mail isn't working

1999-09-25 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
For me this is deja vu, all over again: I had similar problems two years ago, getting mail up. Smail doesn't seem to want to work. This system has just been brought up, using a hamm CD, and upgrading twice by apt, first to slink, then to potato. Hope that provides a clue. This is the kind o

Deleted menu in Wmaker

1999-09-25 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
While trying out the spiffy wm configurator, I seem to have eliminated all the debian menus. How can I get back the menus? Meanwhile I have just inserted my own menu entries for the few programs I use all the time. By the way, since this little flub none of the newly installed packages has b

Re: Deleted menu in Wmaker

1999-09-25 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
>>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alan> While trying out the spiffy wm configurator, I seem to have > Alan> eliminated all the debian menus. How can I get back the menus? > >right-click an

gnome without sound?

1999-09-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I haven't got a sound card working right. Is it possible to start up gnome panel without sound, and it works? Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A non-viscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent."---Lord Raleigh

Printing restart (lpr)

1999-09-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
My printer is an HP DJ870. I use lpr, have not made the change to lprng. When I have a long queue, as well as perhaps for other reasons, the output stream goes garbage, perhaps skips some bytes. I have tried turning off the printer, deleting jobs, but cannot get back normal output from the printe

runq messages

1999-10-03 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows: > runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted > r

new mail not visible in mail readers

1999-04-09 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have been having a problem that when I fetch my mail using fetchmail, the new messages do not always appear, at least immediately. Sometimes, I have to run fetchmail a second time, then a few messages appear, and as I delete messages, new messages begin showing at the tail end of the buffer.

Re: new mail not visible in mail readers

1999-04-10 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
d a similar problem. Try adding the > line 'smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0' (no quotes) in the "MAIN > CONFIGURATION SETTINGS" section of your exim.conf file. (This solution > courtesy of another reader on this list.) > > HTH > > On Sun, Apr 11, 1999

Lock file and .seq problems after apt-get upgrade

1999-04-24 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have now been unable to run apt-get update as (su) root. I receive these messages: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory /var/lib/dpkg/, are you root? - Open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)

Re.: Lock file and .seq problems after apt-get upgrade SOLVED

1999-04-24 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This was my own problem, now solved. I found that apt-get had not finished the installations. Once I got through that, printing is also normal. I am sorry to bother anyone who tried to solve my problems. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Departmen

GNOME not working anymore

1999-05-22 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have lost gnome. It was really working well, and I like it alot. I have been upgrading weekly with apt-get, and somewhere a couple of weeks ago, gnome started losing it. FIrst, I am getting messages, /bin/sh: esd: command not found Then, soon after the panel comes up, when I

How to find and install Gnome .debs?

1999-05-29 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I had Gnome working pretty nicely (installed using apt). I have been using apt-get to upgrade my system regularly; one upgrade broke Gnome, and I couldn't figure out which. So I have purged all Gnome packages. Are step my step instructions available somewhere for getting and installing Gnome

xpdf doesn't work for me---fonts

1999-10-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
xpdf. The dpkg blurb says that xpdf uses X fonts. But xpdf needs t1lib0, which is a type 1 font rasterizer. When I installed xpdf, I can't see anything, so perhaps the type2 fonts are not working? (I have had trouble too with xtide giving empty windows. I don't understand this.) The file

Data Aquisition Cards?

1999-10-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A shot in the dark. What are people using with temperature sensors, oxygen probes, etc., on linux systems? Where can I find an IEEE488 card, cheap? I have been thinking about these things for years, and I have a couple hundred bucks to buy some hardware to enhance my science classroom, but haven'

acroread broken? (potato)

1999-10-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Having just received a very amazing CD, enjoying it on a Mac and a Windoze machine, I thought acroread would probably work with it. I get messages about compressed pdf from other pdf readers. There is some problem with graphics rendering on the potato system, and when I try to follow links, I get

Termcap vs. Terminfo---Redhat vs. Debian

1998-10-24 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I found an old friend on a Red Hat CD---ephem, predecessor and sibling to xephem. It was time to try alien. Interesting. Installed the package. The binary doesn't work---termcap libraries are missing. Can I overcome this problem? (I like xephem LOTS better. My machine at school is running a

Mutt and exmh not talking?

1998-11-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am losing mail. I have the following installed. ii mh 6.8.4-25 Rand mail handling system. ii mutt0.93.2-1 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME and th ii exmh2.0.2-2An X user interface for MH mail. Recently I have been losing mail.

mutt trashes mail

1998-11-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I upgraded mutt to v 0.93.2-1. Now all mail that has been read is deleted from my inbox. Is there a configuration issue? alan davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem installing packages that use install-info

1998-11-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am having trouble installing packages that use install-info in their installation scripts. Now I have some cruft building up on my system due to the impossibility of purging or removing certain packages including now shellutils_1.26-6.3.deb. I have not been able to cleanly remove lg* packages

reinstallation of system with full complement ...

1998-11-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
My system is pretty richly endowed with installed software, but is in need of some rejuvenation---a reinstall from scratch. Two or three possibilities have occurred to me. 1. Install a new debian right over the old one, letting the chips fall where they may. 2.

fetchmail doesn't work for me either

1998-03-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I upgraded fetchmail, smail, and some other packages at once, and immediately begin having trouble with fetchmail. The problem is exactly as discussed by A. D. Y. Chang. I'm at a loss, with all the discussion of smail on this list. Fetchpop works ok, and with fetchpop -ar, I get a running list

exim for intermittent ppp connection? Also fetchmail bombs out.

1998-03-31 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I'm wondering if exim can solve my problem with mail. I am having some trouble with fetchmail. I posted to this list previously, But am uncertain that my message got through. I installed sendmail, and am uncertain I have it right. Smail worked will for quite a long time. After a recent upgrade

exim 1.90-2: eximconfig doesn't work.

1998-04-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I had to back out of exim 1.90-2 because the eximconfig script bombed. I don't know why, but when I installed 1.89.1-1, the script ran perfectly. This is by leaps and bounds the easiest mail transport agent I have yet to install. I don't know yet whether it works: I'm encouraged. Eximon re

Netscape and Mozilla both choke on bookmark operations

1998-04-14 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have a large netscape bookmark file of several hundred bookmarks. Manipulating these has become a pain. Whenever I edit bookmarks---in either Netscape 4.03 or a Mozilla package from a couple weeks ago---and try to change to sort by last access, Netscape goes berzerk. The graphics on the net

MCA Debian questions

1998-04-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This is not a question of the mainstream debian distribution, but it involves a MCA debian boot disk, so perhaps this is the best place to go. It's a good one, anyway. I have just tested a debian boot disk off the MCA linux web site. It works on this machine---an IBM MOdel 65SX donated to our

STARTING UP EMACS

1998-05-02 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
If you contact me I will send some more information. I have me .emacs stuff all byte compiled. When I edit .emacs.el, the compiled file is .emacs.elc. There are two ways to have this loaded. I used to just link .emacs to .emacs.elc. That doesn't sit well with some things that emacs20 does (

Problems compiling gnuplot---Followup

1997-03-18 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I reported that in recent beta gnuplots, a core dump occured in response to "set locale ...". After installing the debian package locale-bin, the problem has apparently been solved. Even if I use the configure switch '--with-linux-vga', ./configure doesn't see -lvga. Alan Davis

DEITY TEAM -- Response to call for comments

1997-04-17 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I will try to address your call for comments, though it will be a matter of several responses, and not one. My machine is minute (though I hope to replace it fairly soon). I have been running a Debian system for well over a year. All my maintainance has been done using FTP to get the packages.

compiling C source for HP850C ghostscript driver from OS/2 or DOS on Linux

1997-04-18 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
delete all "^M" chars and all backslashes at the ends of lines. Even this wasn't enough. Thanks for any clude. Any. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AA

uuencode/uudecode?

1997-09-09 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am disappointed at the state of uuencode in recent Debian distributions. The man page for uuencode was extremely helpful in former packages---showing an explicit command line for mailing any file in uuencoded format. Where can I find that package? Or how would I do it now? The command I am t

Re.: RE: uuencode/uudecode?

1997-09-09 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Thanks for the pointer. Looks like I overlooked at least one package. Also, thanks for the lesson in shell syntax. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

DONE: Re.: Re: Emacs dumps core after some major upgrades on system

1997-09-14 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Once more. I actually did the change you indicated (to /usr/bin/emacs), in the midst of debugging this situation. It turned out, I think, that the weird messages were from an editing error I made in editing the config file, tex-site.el, for auctex, which I had been running for only one day. No

X Fonts and Emacs

1997-09-25 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Does emacs know about all the fonts available on the system? Are there other fonts "around"? there's a gulf of difference bwe excuse me... there's a gulf of difference between 9x15 and 10x20, but I don't see any fonts in between them. Just wondering. I apologize, as this is undoubtedly not a

umount: /cdrom: devide is busy.

1997-10-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This happens to me quite often: a floppy or a cd isn't being accessed, but I cannot unmount it: umount gives the error I have indicated. Is there any way to find out what process or which xterm might be accessing or sitting on a certain device? Thank you to all who have made my computing journey

Re.: Re: umount: /cdrom: devide is busy.

1997-10-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
> pwd > /cdrom/* > > In other words, if you are IN the directory in question, it is busy. > > Happens to me all the time as well. Same with any mounts, or if you try > to rmdir a directory you are in. > > cd /;umount /cdrom > > should work > > -dh > &

Fvwm95 new version---is it a bug?

1997-10-05 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Is it a bug? I spent a couple of hours the other day learning how to edit the config files for fvwm95, and got some nice features working, when... Lo and behold, I found a NEW version of fvwm95 in hamm... When I installed it, it stomped on my newly edited config files. It didn't ask. The s

Compose key? (Can a windoze keyboard be configured to...)

1997-10-05 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Can a windoze keyboard be configured, so those three extra keys can do something interesting? Like act as a compose key? a meta key? Alan Davis -- "I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share itMarianas High School

plip and other modules give error messages.

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
or more modules have "unresolved references". One of these is plip.o. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Looks like my library upgrade broke those modules. I need/want plip to network this machine with the planned new one. Can I repair this short of recompiling the kernel? Alan -- Alan Eu

updating existing partially hosed but working system.

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
You might just say that I am clueless. It's one more level of kludges I don't need to deal with. Thanks for the many times I have received helpful advice on this list. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECT

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
advise whether there is some file that may have become corrupted during such an incident, that would make smail lose its cool? This system has been working reliably for over six months. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
advise whether there is some file that may have become corrupted during such an incident, that would make smail lose its cool? This system has been working reliably for over six months. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
advise whether there is some file that may have become corrupted during such an incident, that would make smail lose its cool? This system has been working reliably for over six months. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
advise whether there is some file that may have become corrupted during such an incident, that would make smail lose its cool? This system has been working reliably for over six months. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [

dosemu without dos being installed?

1997-07-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Setting up mail.

1997-07-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have given it another shot. Mail escapes me. I now have to ask for help on this. Mail must be my nemesis, as it took six months to get it right on my now defunct former system (as some readers may remember?). I have run the smail setup script, a couple of times, and think I have more or less

Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic

1997-07-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not show on the X screen. If I start netscape a second time, I get a message that it is already running. If I start it as "netscape -iconic&" it establishes an icon, and I can now open. Does this ring any bells? Alan Davis [EMAIL

Re.: Re: Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic

1997-07-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Thank you for your response. It is this: Netscape 3.01/export, 20-Oct-96; (c) 1995,1996 Netscape Communications Corp. Alan Brian White writes: > Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > > > Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not > > show on the

Icons disappeared on fvwm2 menu, netscape doesn't display.

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I recently posted that netscape 3.01 doesn't display, and I will take the advice to upgrade. Meanwhile, it occurs to me that this problem may be concurrent with a problem with fvwm2: the icons diappeared from the menu. Does this will suggest something? Meanwhile, thanks again for the advic

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Possibly the need for "Debian Lite" would be lessened with completion of a friendly dselect or replacement for dselect, that would present some reasonable options. My biggest worry is the multiplication of packages. Perhaps it is an inevitable situation with the kind of distribution that Deb

Some teTeX PrOblEms

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I don't understand why latex of teTeX can't see any files I have placed into /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. Also, there seems to be no provision for placing new files in /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. If this is true, this is a major weakness. Also I am having a similar problem as with

sourcing /etc/profile for xterm shells?

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How can I go about having the defaults from /etc/profile, or even the user's bash config file, sourced when an xterm is brought up? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

netscape wont show up on X window

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Netscape 3.01 won't start. It ran fine for a week or so, then it started balking. The disk lights up for a few seconds, but the window never opens. The PID is still there, and a second effort results in a message window informing the user that there is a lock file in ~/.netscape. Previously,

Can you give a clue how to get this realaudio for linux?

1997-08-16 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have not seen this real audio for linux. Where and how can this be found? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Star Office segmentation faults, and other failures

1997-08-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I was able to install Star Office. I was able to print a WinWord 2 document, and happily it looked much as it would originally. However, when trying the Thesaurus, and worse, when trying to convert the Winword file to any other format, a segmentation fault was experienced. There has been some

AUC TeX: is it safe?

1997-09-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
There was a posting that the AUC TeX in the debian package crashes emacs. Is it now safe to install the AUC TeX on the FTP sites? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

MPEG doesn't work from any gr browser; Netscape probs.

1997-09-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have installed both the ucbmpeg player and mtv player, and set up netscape for each. I have consistently not been able to view mpegs. Each time an mpeg file comes over the line, this message is displayed in a dialog box, from Netscape as well as from Mosaic: Using private color-map Bad M

syslogd appears to be greedy

1996-10-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
According to top, syslogd is using over 80% of cputime. When I run another memory-hungry application, this immediately drops. This was never noted until recently. I now note syslogd, which was to have been replaced by the sysklogd package, is still installed. Using sysklogd 1.3-11; don't remem

Some notes on Debian experiences

1996-12-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
evelopers. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene DavisMarianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950

Good cheap source of hardware?

1997-01-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
parts; and (2) advice on the numerous existing motherboards. Thank you for any advice. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene DavisMarianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E

Good cheap source of hardware?

1997-01-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
parts; and (2) advice on the numerous existing motherboards. Thank you for any advice. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene DavisMarianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E

PPP: won't disconnect.

1997-01-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
persists until the internet service provider issues a max idle time disconnect. This troubles me, because I have a 5 minute max idle time disconnect on my end, but I am getting billed for 45 minute max idle time disconnects from the ISP's side. Any suggestions? Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene

PPP: won't disconnect.

1997-01-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
The system log, "messages", can fill up to 3 to 5 megabytes in a session. Yet when I delete it, the space does not show up, at least not consistently, when I issue a "df". Any suggestions? Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene DavisMarianas High School 15

dpkg help screen: may I suggest?

1996-05-02 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
For your interest, I would suggest that a help screen along the lines of the following would be more helpful, at least to myself, and perhaps others. This file is to be considered bogus, however, unless someone corrects and extends it. Mainly, I don't understand most of these parameters; in parti

Two X questions

1996-05-17 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
There has been some helpful discussion of the setting up of X11. Perhaps this is a good time to ask some of mine. 1. How can I get the command C-g in emacs to work under X11 the same as it does in a console? Several times my machine or screen seemed to lock up when I used this command three tim

dselect is uncontrollable

1996-05-19 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
ncurses-base wouldn't install, because of a fairly knotty series of depends and conflicts with ncurses-term and ncurses-runtime, and I didn't know what, really, to do about it. I decided to see what dselect would do. I got lost, couldn't restrict the activities of dselect to the business at hand

more on dselect.

1996-05-20 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
On Sun, 19 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote: > I got a message from dpkg when installing cron: > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: This exact message was given by dselect when it stomped all over my system. I figured --force should __NOT__ be enabled by default. Al

Suddenly: "Can't locate module net-pf-4"

1996-10-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
ddenly has developed a need for it, or suddenly gotten verbose about it. I have been installing and uninstalling some mail software, and perhaps some net software, but I cannot get a fix on this. Does this mean something to anyone? A clue for the clueless? -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas H

Suddenly: "Can't locate module net-pf-4" revisited.

1996-10-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
t net-pf-4. I therefore installed the package maintainer's new configuration file. But the message persists. I will try again after rebooting (obviously). -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196

apsfilter prints multiple copies

2001-02-19 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How can I prevent apsfilter from printing multiple copies of everything? I like this filter alot. Magicfilter doesn't even come close, in being easy to use. My HP870 has been a problem I lived with for years; now I am able to get decent color printing with little pain. I never had such a pro

Gimp1.1 and xsane*

2000-12-27 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
When upgrading to Gimp1.1 1.1.32-1 (Woody), apt-get removes xsane-gimp1.1. However, xsane is also removed. Is there any way to get them to coexist? Right now I am alternatively installing whichever program I am using. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-6

gs-aladdin 6.0 debs? rpms?

2000-02-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
If there are no debs for the newly released gs-aladdin 6.0, would the rpms install cleanly with the help of alien? TIA Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent."---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt),

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