Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>> The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will >>it work on a >> computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? >Nope. Really? I thought that the ONLY difference between SDRAM for 66mhz and PC100 SDRAM for 100mhz was the access time (8ns vs 10ns). If they are both 72pin dimms, SDRAM (NOT ECC), and

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
THREAD: -- On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a > > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? > > Nope. I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would still

building gzilla, need libjpeg

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I downloaded the latest gzilla sources and tried to build them. I got an error, file libjpeg.h not found. What package includes this??? === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .

RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Debian does seem to lack some of the 'luster' that redhat 6.0 now has (BTW Red Hat has just filed for IPO, the proposed stock symbol will be RHAT), but this will change in potatoe with the new GNOME stuff. I hope that the install scripts will make GNOME standard, or at least have a menu item to in

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Hmmm, I got my discs from cheapbytes and they boot >fine. In fact all of >my cheapbytes discs boot okay. Actually that's a bit >misleading since I >only have three sets ;) Cheap bytes had got a bad rap when they blew the dependancies and simlinks on debian 2.0 and included a bad upgrad script. (

8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?

1999-06-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Date: >I have a PCI Matrox Millenium 2 MB video card (2 years >old) and >now I find I really want 32 bit colour. I tried to >find a Matrox >Millenium G200 PCI 8 MB card, but only AGP ones are >available >(PCI is in back-order). >Any suggestions for an 8MB card well-supported by >XFree PCI that >

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>I cannot install Debian from my Cheapbytes Slink CD >without the base >floppies, >but I believe I can do it from the Hamm CD, also from >Cheapbytes. With >the >Slink CD, the installation stops because of an error >with the ncurses >package. Hmmm I did not have this problem installing on my other

SVGAlib and Riva TNT card?

1999-06-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> If I force VGA-only, everything's fine, but the >resolutions and colors >are, um, limited. If I force NV3 (Riva) mode, I get a >blank screen. It >still responds to keypresses and I can telnet in, but >until I >CNTRL-ALT-DEL the screen is hosed. This sounds familiar, the same thing happens to m

grep "\" ... how

1999-06-11 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/', but how can I get grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it assumes it to be line continue character, at least from the sh prompt)? this is to port a windows program to linux. === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mz

Re: grep "\" ... how

1999-06-11 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/', > but how can I get > > grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it > assumes it to be line > > continue character, at least from the sh prompt)? > > Come to think of it, if you're trying to _replace_ > charca

Re: grep "\" ... how

1999-06-11 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I this case the '\'s that appear in #include statements are the ONLY ones that need to be changed, so I can look for #include. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If backslashes will only appear in file paths, > you > > > are set. If they > > > appear in some other contents where they need to > be

Re: grep "\" ... how

1999-06-11 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Yeah I guess I really need to order a copy of the 'camel' book from amazon. --- Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > I need to write a script to replace '\'s with > '/', > >> > but how can I get grep to accept '\' as a > regular > >> > expression (it a

Re: grep "\" ... how

1999-06-11 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Yup this works, though you can't save the output to the original file (it blanks it). So I first copy the original to a backup, and then run the backup through sed and overwrite the original (then delete the copy). I can wrap all this in a batch script to fix the entire directory. I have a book

Re: UPS anyone?

1999-06-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> > - Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says the > debian upsd package > works quite well with their ups's in dumb mode. > However he uses an > older Back-ups 400 (not sold anymore) and I > think he made his own > cable (?). Do we have to ma

acroread 4

1999-06-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> >Hi, >I just downloaded acrobat reader 4.0 from the >adobe website. >It coredumps in my slink system. Do I need at >least potato to run >this program?? > >Thanks. > >Shao. I also downloaded acroread 4 and installed it. It runs fine on my slink system. Try ldd and

pkarc

1999-06-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Does anyone remember the old pkarc compression program? I have several floppies full of programs that have been compressed with pkarc and would like to recover them, but I seem to have lost the archiver. Is there a debian package that can read pkarc's? (I know that the thing is copyrighted so a co

Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just got a new HD (17.2 gb) in preparation for upgrading my system to potatoe when it is released. (I am also going to get a new DUAL PII mb now that REAL smp is in the kernel). My question is how to partition the disk. I probably need to dual boot with windows 95 or NT (probably will use NT d

Re: new logo on debian.org

1999-07-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> > I saw the new logo on www.debian.org and I'm curious.. > Exactly what is it supposed to symbolize? > > I don't have much of an artistic mind, but to me it looks like a pigs > tail. - -- >I do not care for it either. maybe there is more to >the logo (as a >symbol) t

infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Check out www.infomagic.com. The reason they no longer put Debian on their linux toolkit cd's (they say) is that at 4 cd's it is now too large. So they now have a SEPARATE debian 4 cd set. The latest (2.1r0x) will be out in August at $15 (plus postage). You can subscribe for updates at $10 a p

Re: infomagic

1999-07-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> You know, I don't mean to rain on your parade too > much, but I've read 2 > messages from you on different subjects talking > about Potato being > released "soon"... > > Let me start by saying whoever told you this was > POSSIBLE is on crack. > Why can we not release "soon"? > > * Our boot

kernel package

1998-08-31 Thread Kenneth Scharf
When I installed debian 2.0 from CD I was asked what modules I wanted configured into the kernel. These modules are called out in /etc/modules. I have rebuilt the kernel using the kernel package utility. This created a debian kernel-image package which I installed, thus upgrading my kernel. (ne

Modules

1998-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
|Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules. |I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I |manually |give: | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0 | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11 |I get the message that the ne modules has b

re: help with x

1998-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
use this will get you a non-X login screen. You can then log in as root an fix the problem. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they seem pretty MS-Windows oriented. I'm guessing many of you have had a similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the lists.) Netscape 4.06 with 12

OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they seem pretty MS-Windows oriented. I'm guessing many of you have had a similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the lists.) Netscape 4.06 with 12

XDM on 2.0

1998-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
When I start X with XDM and log in the 'debian banner' stays in the background of my desktop. I have to drag the xterm window around to erase it. This did not happen in 1.3.1. (the banner was cleared before the window manager started). It does not seem to matter which window manager I use (tried

RE: machine hangs at boot

1998-09-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hello. After a recent reboot, lilo didn't load. It went through the memory check, and then said: "Verifying DMI Pool Data .." and hung. I booted from a floppy, re-ran lilo, and it still does the same thing. Just hangs. Any ideas on what might be the cause of this? Tkanks --

fdisk

1998-09-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
i'm trying to eliminate one partition (accidentally i made two swap partitions.. i'm a newbie). ran fdisk, edited fstab so far so good. rebooted ok. so far so good. i typed df and the freed up space (25 megs) still doesn't show up. any suggestions in fdisk? basically i deleted the partiti

dselect contrib packages on CD

1998-09-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have the cheapbytes CD set. Contrib is on a separate CD from base (all debian 2.0 cd's are like that). If I use the CD access method in deselect I'll have to answer 'none' for the main selections since I won't have that cd mounted (only one drive). If I do this and then use UPDATE, won't this

chatscript permissions

1998-09-04 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it back? thanx, Phil Dyer --

Where's my mouse?

1998-09-04 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I change out my serial mouse for a ps2 mouse, and now my mouse can't be found. What do I do now? - In 'X': re-run XF86Setup and select /dev/psaux for your mouse port. also set up a sym link between /dev/mouse->/dev/psaux

Debian and Reh Hat Questions

1998-09-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > Couple of questions concerning Debian Linux: > > 1. How can I install .deb packages in RehHat? Not likely. There is a prog called alien that can install a rpm package on Debian, but it doesn't work all the time. I don't know if there is an equivalent for t

setting lib path

1998-09-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I think you might have to add /usr/local/lib to your shell path variable. I just installed a program that has a dynamically linked library. I placed the lib in /usr/local/lib and added "/usr/local/lib/" to /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig as roo

X windows

1998-09-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
As X usually starts in the HIGHEST supported resolution, it appears that your config is broken for anything better than 320x240. This usually happens when the server thinks that it does not have access to enough video memory, or the proper clock rates. Run superprobe and see what it finds. You m

How to setup NE-2000 PCI Ethernet Card

1998-09-08 Thread Kenneth Scharf
My LAN card was NE-2000 PCI (Realtek RTL-8029) How to set up the Command Line Argument on ne2k_pci module? Does anybody has this card too, would you please share your experie

netscape4 mail reader

1998-09-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Are you using the netscape communicator or the navigator package? Starting with version 4 the navigator package does NOT include the mail reader, ONLY the browser. The communicator package includes the browser, mail reader (icon is a little envelope at the lower right of screen), and a composer (

How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
1: the documentation for ppp is in the man pages, which you probably have not installed? 2: the correct way to start ppp is 'pon connect-name' where connect-name is the name of the service you gave when you ran pppconfig. 3. I seem to have a similar problem. The mystery became clear when I start

ftape

1998-09-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The latest ftape package (I'm not sure but I think the debian ftape package NOT THE DRIVER IN THE KERNEL supports the ditto 2g drive.) DO NOT ENABLE FTAPE IN THE KERNEL CONFIG AND TRY TO BUILD IT IN. ENABLE IT AS A MODULE BUT DON'T BUILD THE KERNEL MODULE. USE THE FTAPE PACKAGE. I read the sour

Re: Dselect Freeking ...

1998-09-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
How big is your /tmp partition? (or is it /var/tmp?) - At 09:12 PM 9/17/1998 -0300, you wrote: >Hi there .. > >I got a dselect freek (don't know where that came from) last week, >I was trying to upgrade (proposed upgrades), when I got to

gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
just try tar -xzvf filename.gz this will take care of everything at once. Hey All, I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these programs bu

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Not only that, but I don't think that you can low level format a zip drive, as you can with a floppy. You MUST buy preformatted zips, which is why they come in PC and Mac flavors. --- On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:56:49AM -0700, mjv wrote: > Also, I

new monitor-need new video card

1998-09-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just bought a new 19" monitor to replace my old 15". Now I can use better than 1024x768 and be able to read it! But my 2m s3 card probably has maxed out. I can get a pci s3v card with 4m for $40, anyone have an idea which server will play, and what max res it will give me? The monitor will sy

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 21:56:57 -0300 Ok let me correct myself. What you did was to highlevel format the zip drive to work with a dos or mac file system (like doing a mkfs). But you CANNOT lowlevel format a zip drive to increase it's capacity as you can for a floppy. You have no control

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-21 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I certainly wish to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to completely seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss the Fat16 format these disks have in favor of the far superior ext2. --- You c

Re: chown for the floppy group

1998-09-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with options to set to user access without mounting the disk. That way anyone may mount a floppy. - > > I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot write > to the floppy d

fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

1998-09-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You need to load the isofs module. Add the line 'isofs' (without ''s) to /etc/modules. Make sure that usr/lib/modules/fs actually has this module file in there! (It should, it comes with the default setup). I installed Debian 2.0 from a

Re: printer advice

1998-09-27 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I am using an HP laser jet III that I got from a used computer store for $225. It was a reconditioned unit. Works great with ghostscript and magicfilter. For about $100 more I could have got the IIID version which prints on both sides of the paper (too bad, I wish I got a IIID before the last ba

Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-09-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Stupid answer try moving the monitor and see if anything changes. You can get a video cable extension cord if necessary. Try plugging the monitor into a different outlet, could be a power problem (like having the monitor on the same line as a motorized appliance for example). If there is a d

RE: X server problems

1998-10-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have always been able to get a virtural terminal by typing once the xdm process started. --- Braden N. McDaniel writes: > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > sequence has completed. I *think* this is b

LS-120

1998-10-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Are there any utilities for formatting 1.44m floppies in an LS-120 (on /dev/hdd)? Also I have a custom kernel, how can I create a boot diskette which will boot in the LS-120 drive? (my bios WILL boot a floppy in the LS-120 drive, the debian 2.0 boot/rescue disks do work in the LS-120...but how wer

scsi emulation

1998-10-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have a scsi controler card in my computer (adaptec 2920 aka future-data) already compiled into the kernel (module actually). It is connected to my scsi 4mm dat tape drive (works great, but slw tape). Can I enable scsi emulation as well to drive an IDE CD-ROM burner? Or will the REAL scsi dr

cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You have comcast right? I am also on comcast, but they just took over jones intercable and have yet to 'upgrade their system' sometime next year before they will offer us the service. Anyway I looked on the comcast web site and found out some details on the service. There was a line that sai

Unidentified subject!

1998-05-19 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I have installed debian 1.3.1 r6 on my computer and (following the directions from att worldnet for using linux with their ISP service) attempted to get my modem to dial out. I compiled support into the kernel for both slp and ppp. During the boot phase the messages which scroll past the screen (

still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to connect to the modem I created a symbolic link from /dev/modem->/dev/ttys1. Now when logged in as root I issue pon I still get the message this kernel does not hav

Diagnostic tool recommendations?

1998-05-22 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>First, kudos to the Debian and Linux developers. I was given a >PS/2 Model 80 (386 - Microchannel (MCA) machine) with an >MCA IDE controller. I added a 2 GB IDE drive and an ATAPI >CDROM. The debian installation went flawlessly!!! Both the >hard disk and CDROM were recognized and usable. >I'm

ppp

1998-05-22 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm sure my problem was the /dev/ttys1 instead of /dev/ttyS1. I'll try this tonight. I'd like to connect my modem to the linux machine and then have my two windows computers access the internet via a local network to the linux box using IP - Masquerading. Current

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-26 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>> If you downloaded it not in .deb form, the patch for FAT32 support is not >> included... The .deb version does... I had to figure that out about 3 >> weeks ago.. >> >I would really suggest not using .deb kernels. The reason they have FAT32 >support is because they are just the standard default

ppp, chat finaly works but....

1998-05-26 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I finally got pon to start pppd and chat to connect to the internet via modem. The first time I typed pon it dialed out, but this was after playing with the commands manually from the command line. The next time I booted the system and tried it again nothing happened. I typed ps and saw that bo

X-windows and PPPD

1998-05-26 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>From memory I think that ttyS0 (com1) and ttyS3 (com 4) share the same interrupt. That could be your problem. Go into your bios setup and insure that these comm ports do NOT share interrupts. Usually interrupt 5 or 7 can be used for the third comm port. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

re DDS2 -tape backup

1998-05-26 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I may have the same tape drive as you. I find an IBM (made my archive corp) DDS2 scsi tape drive at a ham radio flea market for $10. It works fine thou it is slower than a QIC drive (but holds lots more). I am using tar. To put more than one backup on a tape use the /dev/nst0 device (no rewind

ppp, chat slow connect

1998-05-27 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I finally got pon to start pppd and chat to connect to the internet via modem. The first time I typed pon it dialed out, but this was after playing with the commands manually from the command line. The next time I booted the system and tried it again nothing happened. I typed ps and saw that bo

Re: File-system on tape

1998-05-28 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
> On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 10:15:58PM -0600, Lazar Fleysher wrote: >> Is it possible to create a file system on a tape drive ( like on >> mainframes) and use it as a disk? I know it is very slow, but is it >> possible? > > That is really very sick and twisted to even think of such a thing... > hmm I

Re: can't start netscape

1998-05-28 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>Richard Sevenich wrote: >> >> I just installed Hamm and am using kde as the desktop environment. Attempting >> to start netscape yields error message: >> can't load library 'libXt.so.6' >> The netscape version is one I used earlier under bo (netscape 4.05). >> The library in the error mes

pon - When am I connected?

1998-05-29 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
ifconfig will show a connection to ppp0 when the connection is established. You could write a script that runs ifconfig every second or so using grep to look for 'ppp0' and report when the link is up, then stop itself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

"LI" when booting

1998-05-29 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>I know this topic is hardly fresh, but I can't find the solution >anywhere. You know the case -- installing to a large disk -- reboot and >freeze at "LI". What how-to do I read to find the fix? > >Any suggestions would be great. > >Thanks, > >Michael Eithor your bios does not support disks over

LS-120

1998-06-01 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
A while ago I tried to boot slackware a compaq deskpro here at work and found that it would not boot using the standard boot disk. The problem, of course, is that the machine does NOT have a floppy drive, it uses an LS-120 drive. Now I know that this drive is supported under linux as a removable

Can't recognize com port

1998-06-01 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>ANy suggestions on how I can get PPP to recognize my com port? I just installed linux on my >system. I set pgm to tty1 (com2) (it was orignally on tty0) which is where my mouse is. It >it working. Neither PPP nor minicom will recognize cua2, Com3. I was screwing this up in sort of the same wa

Re: Can't recognize com port

1998-06-02 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I created /dev/cua1 using the command mknod -m 660 /dev/cua1 c 5 65 chown root.dialout /dev/cua1 which I got out of a book on Linux networking. Previously I was using /dev/ttyS1 for outgoing connections. Is there any reason to use the cua devices? --

Re: slackware from Re: Can't recognize com port

1998-06-03 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 08:16:26PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > It seems Slackware is often slow to adapt to new things... > (e.g. FHS!) Well, we are not even running the FHS yet so that's a bit unfair. hamish ___ ___

PPC linux

1998-06-03 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
There are five PPC subarchitectures of Linux: * CHRP-compliant PowerPC machines * PCI-based Power Macs * PReP-compliant PowerPC machines * Amigas with PowerPC upgrade cards * 8xx embedded systems PowerPCs ---

comp usa rebates?

1998-06-04 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>I'm trying to create tar files less than 100Mb to fit on zip disks (by the >way, my rebate arrived last week, only a year and a half & a class action suit >late). The above comment reminds me. Has anyone besides me bought some memory from comp-usa within the last 6 months and is STILL waiti

Re: comp usa rebates?

1998-06-04 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I will save the names and addresses of all who reply for possible preparation of a legal response (maybe Janet Reno's office). "Russ Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/04/98 02:24:50 PM To: Kenneth Scharf/PD/CoulterUS, debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-deve

Re: cgi-bin scripts for ppp dial-up

1998-06-05 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 10:37:09AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > hi, I wonder whether any body can help. i am trying to get my system (halve > bo, halve hamm) to dial-up the internet. yes it works, but only by running > pon as root. i want to have a cgi-script so that all my users on win95 boxes > c

Re: cd writers & linux

1998-06-09 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
Paul Miller wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > They make permanant pits iinto the disk and can not be erased (well ok... > > they can be erased...just dip them in some acetone... but they can not > > be erased AND re-used) > > After looking around on the net, I think that

Realtek rtl8029 PCI Network card installation

1998-06-09 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
The RTL8029 card is supported by the ne2000 driver in linux. You need to re-compile your kernel. Invoke make menuconfig and under the network options select the ne2000 driver. In the pre-2.0.34 kernels this is under the ISA network card drivers since the ne2000 pci card uses the same driver. Y

LyX

1998-06-10 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I have an old version of LyX on my bo system that I know I loaded off the official 1.3.1 CD. I wanted to get the source package for LyX off the hamm directory on the ftp site but I can't find it. If fact LyX doesn't seem to be listed in the packages file for hamm, slink, or even bo! What happene

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

1998-06-11 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
Come to think of it Redhat did put mount points under /mnt/ Being lazy I usually mount everything (cd, floppies) under mount. But I did make mount points of /A, /B, /CD, and now /bernie. The latter is for my bernoulli drive, the first two for the floppys. I don't remember if /A: was legal. Dos

what's 32 bpp?

1999-02-08 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I see that X servers can be set to run at 8,16,24, or 32 BPP. (also 2 and 4 but that's yuck!). I know that the 8 bpp mode uses a map table to select 256 out of 2**16 or 2**18 colors, assuming that the card has 3 6 bit dac's, one for each color. In 16 or 15 bit mode the access to the dac's is dir

upgrading to 2.0.35 or 2.0.36 under Hamm

1999-02-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- >One step at a time: anyone else moved to 2.0.35/36 >while >retaining the rest of Hamm? I don't really want to >make the move >to slink until a while after it moves to be "stable" >but I do need to >make this move. ---

PCI Linksys card in Hamm

1999-02-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
It uses the NE2000 driver which requires the IO and IRQ parameters to be specified. From Windoze I've verified the IRQ is 9 and the IO is 6C00. After entering the values (io=0x6C00 irq=9) the system hangs. I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing wrong this time. Any suggestions? --

2.2.1

1999-02-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> I'm now using >2.2.1 on hamm, also with no problems apart from the >need to change the >port >on /etc/printcap. What software did you upgrade before going to 2.2.1? Are you running anything as modules, and if so how did you configure this? I downloaded 2.2.1 and tried to install it. My ethe

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Paul Seelig wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > RH is a commercially-based distro, so they can spend loads of cash on > > advertising etc, so they are the most popular, despite Debian's inherantly > > "free-er" nature, and techincal superiority > > > Redhat is a distribution

RE: PCI Linksys card in Hamm

1999-02-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
t; Cristov > > > -Original Message- > From: Kenneth Scharf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 6:57 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PCI Linksys card in Hamm > > > >>>> > It uses the

RE: PCI Linksys card in Hamm

1999-02-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
; > -----Original Message- > From: Kenneth Scharf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 6:57 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PCI Linksys card in Hamm > > > >>>> > It uses the NE2000

XF86 Setup

1999-02-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I upgraded my video card from an S3Virge to a Matrox Millenium with 8meg. After running SF86Setup and vidtune I couldn't get a full width display. After some head scratching I copied the mode line from my old config file to the new one and was back in business. I guess the setup program attempts

RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card >since it is not >directly supported? ne2k-pci.o Find under pci ethernet devices in make config. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _

IRC

1999-02-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I would like to give the on line irc at debian a try. What software package would I use, and how to set it up to access the debian channel? == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .

Re: link err with #include

1999-02-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Yup, that did it. I'm used to borland and ms c on dos and windows that seem to pull in these lib's automagicly. I KNEW there was a linker command to do this but couldn't find it. Where is this documented, and what other lib's do I need to look out for? Thanks for the help. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to mount my bernouli rw for world on samba

1999-03-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I moved my bernouli drive out of my windows nt desktop to make room for a larger HD (only two drive bays). So I shoved it into the linux machine sitting under the table. The linux machine is running smb so I can have it share it's disk space and printer with the nt box (so far this has worked fin

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
But TECO was the greatest, most programmable, powerful editor ever. If only it had run on a *NIX OS :-( - I remember when working at DEC being told that teco was more than an editor, it was a language. Infact someone had written a StarTre

Re: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive.

1999-03-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Windows and Linux can co-exist on the same disk drive without problems. I have windows 95 and debian on different partitions of the same disk. Windows / dos will ignore partition types 81, 82 ,83 etc. What you need to do is to first partition the virgin disk under windows (leaving room for linux

re: Cheap pnp ne2000 Lan cards

1999-03-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>>. I bought some cheap PNP ide ne2000 compatible crds to setup a small net work. My bios does not seeem to recognise the cards, but it does see my pnp sound card. Is there anything I can do via debian to use these cards? The cards are made by LanStar. They were only $12 each so it

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>>> And some guy at MIT wrote a text editor in TECO... -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI - Opps, yeah that's right. The ORIGINAL Emacs was written in Teco. RMS must be more talented that I thought. Tec

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century- re: Edison

1999-03-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> I can think of no single individual that had as great an impact on the daily life of the entire world. Whatever we were to become in the 20th century, we would get there in the company of Edison. --- Although we may owe a lot to Edison, most of us choose to ignore

svgalib + quake2 puzzle

1999-03-15 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>>>. Has anyone else had this problem?-- I upgraded to slink and compiled kernel 2.2.3 this weekend, no problems. Then, as root--it's a standalone box--I fired up quake2. The screen went blank and--first time I've seen this since escaping from MS--the keyboard went dead. Completely

Free clone of MS-Project?

1999-03-15 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Does anyone know of 'free' version (ie: GPL'ed or similar) program similar to Microsoft Project? Thanks for any ideas. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHO

Why not Debian? (real-time proto with linux!)

1999-03-16 Thread Kenneth Scharf
My supervisor walked into my qube and started asking questions about the computer in my office running linux. He asked which version of Linux it was running (debian? whats that?) Seems that there is some interest here in trying to use linux at least in a prototype here because NT is to fragging b

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> Mmmh. www.seul.org comes to mind, but I am not sure if it relates to Debian at all. They seem to use RH 5.2 as a base. The guy doing Geda is running debian > ps. I wonder about your .sig - is there a meaning to this ? > >`Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' >> S

Re: Network configuration

1999-03-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Read the kernel HOWTO and compile support directly >into the kernel for >ne2kpci. You probably don't want the driver to be >modular, unless you >rarely need to use your nic, and you have limited RAM >resources. There IS a good reason for NOT compiling stuff into the kernel that is ALWAYS used,

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
In a message dated 3/22/99 10:21:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] labs.com writes: > > Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for > > those programs that also have info pages, eh? > > Don't remove the manpages. And don't start an "info vs. man"

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