3d cards

1999-06-27 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody, can any one tell me what a good 3d card to get in a p2 400. i ordered a voodoo banshee. is that ok? paul

Re: xdm doesn't start properly

1998-08-06 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello, first is xdm started, is there an xdm process in the table? If not do as root /etc/init.d/xdm start That should give the logon screen for X. Let me know how things work. also if you suspect xdm errors look at the file /var/log/xdm-errors. Hope this helps On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote

Re: CLUE: [Fwd: WordPerfect 8 for Linux Prerelease]]

1998-08-07 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, you are correct on both accounts the other files are "broken down" of the big one. Hope this helps Paul On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 08:44:44AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > Hopefully they'll come out with Quattro Pro one of these days. > > Doe

X-server problem

1998-08-17 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, well here we are again. I have a new pentium II 300 with a ATI-Xpert-XL 4meg AGP2 with 3D and enhanced MPEG. Ok when I tried to run SuperProbe, SuperProbe did not recognize the card. The message that I got was: Before submitting a report, please make sure that you have the la

Re: Connection Refused

1998-08-19 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello you need the following package: Package: netstd Version: 3.07-2 Priority: standard Section: net Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pre-Depends: netbase (>=3.00), libc6, libreadlineg2 (>= 2.1-4), libstdc++2.8 (>=2.90.26-1), ncurses3.4 Suggests: wu-ftpd, mail-transport-agent Replaces: p

pine installation

1998-08-25 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi everybody, I have downloaded the pine packages and don't know how to install the packages. Please help me. thanks in advance. Paul

Wodperfect 8 to pdf format

1998-09-08 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everybody, is there a program for linux or the debian distribution that wil convert wordperfect 8 documents into the pdf format. If any can help I would very much appreciate it. Thanks for the help in advance. Paul

following symlinks?!?

1998-09-09 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody, and thankyou for all of the assistance to my recent questions. I have yet another question. I am trying to download debian packages from an ftp site with ncftp or wget. I am having a problem in getting files that are symlinked to other places. I cannot for the life of me find o

ppp won't work under new kernel

1998-09-20 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, just compiled the new kernel that is 2.1.122 with ppp, slip and cslip support. I am having some trouble. It works fine the first time I boot up but anytime after that it does not. I searched high and low in the mailing list archives to find the answer. I remember seeing a simila

misc. printer question

1998-09-27 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, thanks to everyone who helped with my ppp questions. I have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother filter) Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to make a filter. Any help would

server up or down?

1998-05-21 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, can anyone read this? :) is the server up or down. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http

changing networks?!?

1998-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
et out. Any help or directions would be much appreciated. If you need more information to help my conversion, please don't hesitate to ask and i shall provide. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 Lond

isapnptools confusion.

1998-06-05 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello my debian friends, I just got a pentium II with an awe64 sound card, and I want to have sound capability. I know I have to recompile the kernel for this to work. I also know that I have to use isapnptools. I am running slink (2.0) kernel version 2.0.33 (from the base disks) I have no

Thank you for all of your help.

1998-06-08 Thread Paul McDermott
I just wanted to say thank you to all of you nice debian users for taking the time to help anybody and everybody who comes on the list. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deb package for Netscape 4.05 installer on Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-06-08 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, just a suggestion the netscape.tar.gz file comes with an install script and does not need the debian package. just run the install script as root and your laughin'. Just a suggestion. Paul On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > > You could download the netscape 4.05 on tar.gz form

procmail woes

1998-06-08 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where I ran into trouble. These are the versions of procmail and smail smail 3.2.0.101-4.3 Electronic mail transport system. procmail3.

Re: Fresh install. Little troubles.

1998-06-09 Thread Paul McDermott
hello Julian, first we have to get your base system up. You have to decide if you want libc5 (bo) or libc6 (hamm) It is not a good idea to have half and half. To upgrade to hamm there is a howto that tells you how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. It is on the debian site somewhere. Once you have

Re: procmail woes

1998-06-09 Thread Paul McDermott
that I can use to make procmail, smail and pine work? Thanks again for your suggestion. Paul On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > > > hello my debian user friends, I have just upgrad

Re: procmail woes

1998-06-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hell santiago, [paul:~]$ mail -v paul Subject: test procmailrc test testing tested failed! Cc: write_log:Received FROM:paul PROGRAM:send-mail SIZE:121 director user matched user paul transport local uses driver appendfile appendfile: write to file /var/spool/mail/paul write_log:Delivered TO:paul

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

1998-06-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, you can mount multiple devices by making directories in / ie mnt2 and mnt3 or what ever you want then mount them normally. I hope this answers your question. Paul On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Marc van der Vossen wrote: > Hi, > > A big thanks to all who have responded to my questions. I can now

real audio for slink?

1998-06-15 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian user friends, i got my soundcard to work. It was a pnp awe64. ok, is there an installer for the realaudio player for the slink version. I now there is one for bo and hamm. The one under slink uses old libs ie xlib6, g++27, and lib5 i don't want to put them on unless I have to.

Re: XWindows

1998-06-17 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, you need the following for a mimimum x install. xbase, xbook, xfntbase, xfntbig, xfnt100 xfnt75, xfntcyr, xfntpex, xfntscl, xfntil2, xlib6g, xserver-whatever-your-video-card-is (usually xserver-svga) there is also xmanpages and xext. you can download them via ftp and use dpkg -i to instal

Postgres, php question

1998-06-24 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian user friends, I've installed Postgres.deb, php3.deb, apache.deb and www-pgsql from the slink area. I've done the postgres tutorial and it was great. Now i want to start on makeing a web interface for a database i put together. I read through the documentation, but i am confused.

Re: Missing packages files

1999-01-21 Thread Paul McDermott
here is what i get when doing a dpkg -S ldd [paul:~]$ dpkg -S ldd ldso: /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz ldso: /usr/bin/ldd tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/olddig.mf ldso: /usr/lib/lddstub php3-doc: /usr/doc/php3-doc/html/function.hw-getchilddoccollobj.html debhelper: /usr/man/man1/dh_build

[kirk@braille.uwo.ca: question on keyboard menu choice.] (fwd)

1999-01-22 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian friends, can somebody on this list help me and/or us. Paul -- Forwarded message -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kirk Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: question on keyboard menu choice.] --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Kirk Reis

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why man is not included in the base distribution is the space issue. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/25/99 6:19:30

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
Your new, to these boot disks, I remember when there was only five disks. Now there is seven not including the boot disk you made. the man-db would fit on a floppy, but what language are you going to put on it english? what about everyone else. how hard is it to get the man-db file and the manpage

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, lets start with pcmcia, do you have a laptop? ppp do you want to get more packages then the ones on the base-disks, ie man and manpages. printer support, you can choose it in the modules section of the installation process. ZIP drive, are you going to be installing from this. if yes how do

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, netbase and netstd allow for telnet and ftp access to your machine. the base disks allow for telnet and ftp out but not in. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > PPP is essential if you

Re: your mail

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello ttyS1 is comm2 ttyS0 is comm1. this should take care of the problem hope this helps. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote: Hi , I'm the person whose mail you'd replied to regarding whether I'd have problems with my mouse since it wasn't plugged in at the time of installing L

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
Well think about this? do you need to install all of the pakcages under windows3.x or windows9x to get it to work. games solitaire and mindsweeper. you don't need man-db to get linux running. that is the issue not the convience of the "newbie" to make it easier to install. if you want that try win

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, I do sympathize with lack of knowledge at installation time. We were all there at one time or another. (including myself, I have had to reinstall more then one do to a lack of understanding of linux and the operating system. I would hate to see the boot disks reach 10 disks but I can assume

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello there, here here! This is what I was trying to get accros but I was not able to articulate my answer as well as you just did. Although I did not say the following "Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/26/99 7:34:37 PM Central Standard Time, >

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
hello there, to get a ppp connection running. use pppconfig. the package doumentation is store in /usr/doc/ directory. if you need more help i or some one can help you. another good modem package is minicomm is very much like dos's telix. do a dpkg --help. I love dpkg and the flags it uses to f

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-28 Thread Paul McDermott
sp. I hope this helps you. Paul Let me know if you need specific information and i maybe able to help you. If I can't some else on this list probably could. On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: At 11:46 AM 1/27/1999 -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: >hello, I do sympathize with lack of

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-29 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, why don't you turn that option off in the bios? It will make life a whole lot simpler. just a suggestion. don't let windows dictate what you do with your computer. Paul On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Continuin

Re: reading /usr/doc files

1999-02-04 Thread Paul McDermott
hello there, if these are in text format you could use zless or zmore. Paul On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, This might be an ideal solution for you.. 2.2. Script to view those compressed HOWTOs. Didier Juges, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From a newbie to another, here is a short

PPPoE Client?

1999-08-17 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello, my internet service provider is switching from a dhcp connection to a PPPoE connection. We as customers have to install the PPPoE client. I have the client in source code. but unclear how to change my routing, ethernet connection and so. can some please give me step by step instructions on h

playing music with scsi emulation

1999-05-06 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I just noticed a problem playing audio cd's on my cdrom. I have two hardrives on the primary interface. I have an hp7200i cdrw on the secondary master and a liteon 32x cdrom. I have kernel version 2.2.7 compiled and installed from source. I have configured and compiled (successfully

kernel manpages?

1998-10-12 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, does anyone know where the kernel manpages are. they are the ninth section. debian only supports the following: This package contains the Linux man pages for these sections: * 4 = Devices (e.g. hd, sd). * 5 = File formats and protocols, syntaxis of several system files (e.

Re: Install question (fwd)

1998-10-22 Thread Paul McDermott
-- Forwarded message -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Install question hello, i just did a nt, linux install. read the howto of nt-linux. Install Nt first then win98 then linux. use nt's boot loader to boot 98 and lin

Kernel question

1998-10-29 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello my debian friends, I was wondering if anyone here could point me into the direction of getting the .config file of the default kernel that is on the boot disks. I looked on the debian site and could not find the maintainer of the bootdisks. If anyone could help me out I would really appreci

emacs where is it?

1998-11-04 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian friends. I used dftp to upgrade my system this week and it upgraded emacs20-el to version emacs20-el_20.3-4.1.deb the emacs corresponding to this is only emacs20_20.3-4.deb. What's going on. I tried to install emacs20_2-7.deb from hamm and the corresponding emacs20-el package. I g

Yet another lilo question!!!

1998-11-06 Thread Paul McDermott
What I want to do is very simple. Yet i can't find a solution to the problem. Here is the situation. (I am asking for someone else i may not have all the correct informatiofn) partion my drive with the following hda1win98 4gig hda2/ 100megs hda2swap 64mgegs hda3/usr 2gi

compile error with a source package

1998-11-13 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello there, I got a source package for my hp scanjet scanner and tried to compile it. I'm new at programming or fixing code. I was wondering if you could give me some pointers where to look to fix the error, I am also going to give you the lsm of the package that I am trying to compile. Thanks

kernel 2.1.128 & sound

1998-11-15 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this error message: [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au > /dev/audio bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device tail of /var/log/kern.log

Slink broke after upgrade

1998-11-16 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi all, after upgrade to the latest version of slink using dftp. Wdm is broken it gives me the following error. wdmLogin warning: could not load font set -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed. wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font! wdmLogin warning: could not load fon

Bells, whistles & Other noise makers

1998-12-05 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I fixed my sound problem recently. To bring everyone up to date, I had a pnp sound card that I could not get sound working. I needed to load the soundlow module for it to work. Now that said. I have a question on making a sound with the <^G>. I am trying to insert the bell char

wtmp upgrade problems

1998-03-03 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, I am having problems with some programs after the bo to hamm upgrade. when I use last or any other commands that use the file wtmp. I have some problems, ie last does give me garbage for people logged in. The other problem is that wtmp does not update the anonymous ftp account.

lynx play sound files

1998-03-03 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie .wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a .mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

web interface

1998-03-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody, I was wondering if anyone new of a good web interface for the postgres database project. It does not look like Debian has one. Any one have any ideas. Paul -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL P

viewing binary files

1998-03-12 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone

grabbing root window images.

1998-03-18 Thread Paul McDermott
vance. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: grabbing root window images.

1998-03-18 Thread Paul McDermott
hello and thank you for replying to my message. Can you explain to me on how to use it. thanks again. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email

2 questions

1998-03-23 Thread Paul McDermott
overlayed onto the quickcam window image. My question is. Can I? and How do I do it in html. I've looked through the html help files in lynx and I can't seem to find the answer. I hope this is understable to you and you have some suggestions. Thanks for your help. -

Re: 2 questions

1998-03-25 Thread Paul McDermott
-- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Adam Edwards

Re: Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Paul McDermott
/xdm-error file. email me if you need more info. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.c

upgrading from libc5 to libc6?

1997-12-17 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everybody is there a howto on upgrading from libc5 to libc6. When I do a dpkg -i of libc6.deb it tells me that it conflicts with libc5. Any suggestions? Where is the howto? I've been looking in the archives but could not see any reference to it. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

Xvfb package for stable

1997-12-17 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody is there an Xvfb package for stable. I can find one for unstable but not for stable. I don't want to upgrade totaly to unstable just yet. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED

ms exploer anyone?

1998-01-06 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everyone, happy belated holidays. Has anyone got the new micro$oft internet explorer to work yet. Does anyone want to? I was just asking. Please don't flame me. I hate micro$oft and especially that bill guy who runs it about as much as the next debian user. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

netscape3.04 installer

1998-01-21 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everybody, i was wondering if there was a deb installer for netscape3.04 file. if there is can somebody point me to the right place. Thanks in advance. paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [E

old version of dpkg

1998-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone is there an old version of dpkg before 1.0.8 or something like that. If someone could point me to an ftpsite. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

error with dpkg

1998-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everyone, i was updating serveral 486's over the weekend and I get the following error. [root:/home/paul/tmp:]$dpkg -i gcc_2.7.2.1-9.deb Selecting previously deselected package gcc. (Reading database ... 6871 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gcc 2.7.2.1-4 (using

upgrading from libc5 to libc6

1998-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, I have a bo system and want a hamm system. I got the howto to do the upgrade, but i can't find libc6_2.0.5c-0.1 that it says you need. It does not say anywhere where to get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, i am currently following the mini howto on how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. Everything is going smoothly, up to this point. In part 3 under development it says to purge libc5 *--dev* I know how to use dpkg, and there is an option --purge. My question is how do you perge all

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, my experience with the upgrade howto from debian proved to be an invaluable asset. U had to dpkg --purge the development packages manually using dpkg. That was ok. I downloaded the entire hamm distribution and I have installed the base, admin and am starting on the lib and develo

mac & linux

1998-02-04 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, I have installed debian on 486, 586. was wondering if you can install debian or any linux for that matter on a mac ii si? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mac & linux

1998-02-05 Thread Paul McDermott
hello eric and everyone else. I looked at the web-page but could not find a way to make bootdisks and then use them. Any more help woud be greatly appreciated. I subscribed to the 68k mailing list (that is debian's) but have not heard of anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul [EM

modconf & whiptail

1998-02-19 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I am trying to install modconf but it depends on whiptail. Whiptail is not a package. I installed newt0.20 (gave me /usr/bin/whiptail) but that did not help. There has been discussion abot this topic but no one really knows what to do about this situation. There was a possible re

Re: X-Windows Question

1998-02-20 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, what does your xdm-error file in /var/log say? Paul On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Hubert Fauque wrote: Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > I get the dread: > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X > try xhost in your .

anonymous ftp permissions

1998-02-24 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, I have an anonymous ftp site up and running. I want to add some debian stuff to it. The debian is on another drive. There was talk about mounting the drive under the anonymous directory tree. I can't use hardlinks on different drives and/or partitions or filesystems. I was won

Re: turning off computer

1997-03-06 Thread Paul McDermott
ight after the password field (I think it is called the group field to 0 which is root access) step #3 - edit the .bash_profile to execute the shutdown command (ie in /sbin/shutdown -h now) I hope this helps. Paul McDermott On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote: > I

test

1997-03-09 Thread Paul McDermott
test

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RE: Mail list problems??

1997-03-02 Thread Paul McDermott
I am having the same problem as well. Maybe if enough of us say something, something may be done about it. Paul McDermott On Sat, 1 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 19:29:46 Scott Stanley wrote: > >>Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 err

Re: My clock doesn't know how to tell time.

1997-03-02 Thread Paul McDermott
this maybe a silly question, but do you have your clock set to gmt when you installed debian. if you do you will have to change something in your boot file in /etc/init.d. I hope this helps. Paul McDermott Ps. Remember no question is stupid unless is isn't ask. On Sun, 2 Mar 1997,

Re: BO

1997-04-02 Thread Paul McDermott
You are partly right. There could be bugs in the base installation problem. I had a similar problem trying to install the stable 2.0.27 kernal. I was getting command errors related to my hard drive. Linux could not get past the partition check. I thought it was the hardware that I was using

Re: Xdm Problem

1997-04-02 Thread Paul McDermott
. Paul McDermott On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Dennis Young wrote: > Am in the process of getting a new box up & running. Am wondering if > there is a "simple" (relatively so) x manager that I can use. I plan to > be at the clinic 3rd sat this month with the new unit and -hopefully

Re: afterstep...

1997-04-03 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello you can get a package called afterstep_0.98a16-2.deb in the ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/X11 directory. I hope this will help, if does not I am sorry. Paul On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Magic wrote: > me have only one - maybe dumb ;) - question... Where is > AfterStep-1.0pre6 ??? > Thx! >

Re: Configuring Xfree86 for X display

1997-04-07 Thread Paul McDermott
you the various settings you need to set to get it working. I hope this helps but if it doesn't don't blame me. The usual disclamer. Paul McDermott | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Computer Braille Facility | Phone Number: (519) 661-3061 University

Re: NE2000 card

1997-04-09 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, what is exactly is your problem? If any? I could not get my linux box to recognise my kingston ethernet card (which emulates a ne2000 card) When I installed the base system I had to choose a DEC-2*** I can't remember the rest of the name. I hope this is of some use to you. Paul McDe

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Paul McDermott
t is try to load previous lilo configurations. I hope this helps. Paul McDermott | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Computer Braille Facility | Phone Number: (519) 661-3061 University OF Western Ontario | Fax Number: (519) 661-3949 University Comm

boot problems

1997-04-15 Thread Paul McDermott
you in advance and help Paul McDermott | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Computer Braille Facility | Phone Number: (519) 661-3061 University OF Western Ontario | Fax Number: (519) 661-3949 University Community Centre - Rm. #215 | Web Address

basket weaving looks better every day! (fwd)

1997-04-22 Thread Paul McDermott
I thought I would post a different perspective on my current boot problem. I hope somebody out there in debian land can help me. Paul McDermott | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Computer Braille Facility | Phone Number: (519) 661-3061 University OF Western

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-28 Thread Paul McDermott
yes there is. There is a file called status in /var/lib/dpkg. the file status will tell you what programs are installed and i think but don't quote me programs that are not installed. At any rate take a look at this file and see if it helps you Paul Ps. Good luck. I hope this helps and let me

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Paul McDermott
similar problem. Here is the email that I sent to the list: So after reading this email please get all the material about this problem and email through the list or directly. Paul >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 6 15:24:59 1997 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:57:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul McDermott <

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-07 Thread Paul McDermott
if you are getting hda errors. What kind of hardrive do you have. give me your hardware specs. I can't help you if you don't give me any useful information. Reply soon. Paul Ps. read your mail. On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > Would that include the SB16 software configureable ca

Re: X configuration

1997-05-09 Thread Paul McDermott
hi, the problem seems to be your XF86Config file is not configured properly. email me the file (XF86Config) and I will take a look at it. do you have the horizontal and vertical sinc rates set properly? check those settings they are in the monitor manual. If you have any more questions email

bus mouse not working under X

1997-05-14 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi folk, I have a bus mouse installed. It does not want to work under X. In my XF86Config file I have protocal "BusMouse" and the device having "msmouse" my choice are atimouse,jmouse, logimouse, msmouse, psmouse. I have tried all of these to no avail. I catted each of the devices the only

Re: Lyx: Where is Xforms?

1997-05-14 Thread Paul McDermott
hi xforms forms0 library in a graphical user interface toolkit based on the xlib for the X window system. It does provide and replace xforms. I hope this helps you. You can find it in the Contrib directory tree at debian. Bye for now. Paul On Wed, 14 May 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > Hell

Re: Lyx: Where is Xforms?

1997-05-14 Thread Paul McDermott
yes lyx depends on xforms0 On Wed, 14 May 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install LyX version 0.10.7-2 but it fails because the > Xforms package is not installed. However the only package which seems to > be available is xforms0 (which I installed succesfully). > > So,

Re: bus mouse not working under X

1997-05-14 Thread Paul McDermott
same thing. On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 1997, Paul McDermott wrote: > > > Hi folk, I have a bus mouse installed. It does not want to work under > > X. In my XF86Config file I have protocal "BusMouse" and the device > > havin

Re: Lyx: Where is Xforms?

1997-05-14 Thread Paul McDermott
aid in my original message, I already installed > Xforms0 but Lyx insists in having Xforms. > > Given that Xforms0 is already installed, is there a way to force dpkg to > configure Lyx? (I tried --force-configure-any but it didn't work). > > Paul McDermott wrote: > &

Re: Xwindows packages which one???

1997-05-14 Thread Paul McDermott
I'm sorry buddy but I know you are wrong. xbase depends on xlib, cpp, libc5. It recommands xserver-vga16 | xserver. It provides X11R6. Read the Packages file if you don't believe me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mai

Re: Xwindows packages which one???

1997-05-14 Thread Paul McDermott
hi, remove all of X and start again (hopefully you have all the packages on your computer) use dpkg -i package-name to install them. I did this about 20 different time and it works. I don't use dselect, it is a waste of time. If you have trouble or don't have the files on your computer then

Re: bus mouse not working under X

1997-05-14 Thread Paul McDermott
yes I have tried the ati mouse driver and it didn't work. any other suggestions. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Xwindows packages which one??

1997-05-14 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, there is a million and one ways to do computing. People do things differently. No one way is right or wrong just different. there is a file in /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config. You can run that and it will step you through the configuration of the xserver. Make sure you have the monitor verti

Re: dpkg install problem

1997-05-15 Thread Paul McDermott
Why don't you try dpkg -r gzip. Then dpkg -i gzip_1.2.4-15.deb and see what happens. I hope this helps. Paul On Thu, 15 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > Hello, > > OK you dpkg experts, what is the best way out of this one: > > gecko# dpkg -i gzip_1.2.4-15.deb > (Reading database

Re: How do I change my settings to use a different monitor?

1997-05-15 Thread Paul McDermott
I hope you are using xdm. If not then this won't help you. You have to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. There is a section in it called Screen. There you should have the settings for your current monitor. You can edit that section with the new monitor settings. I hope this helps. Make su

Re: How do I kill jobs?

1997-05-15 Thread Paul McDermott
to kill a process you must be root if it is not run by you. the command is kill -9 (pid). To see the pid do a ps -aux. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > Hi, > > How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists > everything, but I don't think is the same i

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