Problem with tape backup

I have Bleeding Edge 2.0.34 installed, and I wish to use taper to back up. But when I tried, I received a message saying "Operation not supported by device." I tried "cat /dev/ftape" and received the same message. Any ideas? - thanks, Bill

Re: GNOME: what is port 35091 ?

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Serge Gavrilov wrote: You need to install the Enlightened Sound Daemon (esound). Then, in your .xinitrc, you need to run it before gnome-session, as in: & esd & gnome-session If you wish for other apps to use the sound as well, use "esd -as 2" instead. > Hello all! > > I

Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

(I'm new to this mailing list, so if I am sending this message to the wrong place, please accept my apologies.) I have installed Debian 2.0 alongisde Windows 95 by splitting the Windows partition, and it was relatively headache free (phew!). I didn't leave as much room on the Linux partition as

Re: Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

Thanks to those who answered my question about MS-DOS partitions. My question now is this: I can split my MS-DOS partition a second time to get Debian some more space. What would be the best way to add this partition? Should I just have it mount it on bootup? - thanks, Bill

Help! StarOffice 5.0 problems

This problem should probably be directed at StarDivision, only they don't seem to have a tech support e-mail on their site. Perhaps someone else knows what's going on. I have Debian 2.0 and every time I install StarOffice 5.0, it runs fine until I have browsed the Web for a few minutes, at which p

Re: star office

On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote: Good - it's not just me! I have a P5 133 w/80 MB RAM and it does the same thing. I can use it as root just fine, but when I try to use it as anyone else it works fine, but then hangs and then when I boot it up again it either (1) does nothing at all, or (2)

Re: star office

On 31 Mar 1999, Bud Rogers wrote: > Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2. (The simplest) Define a variable in your start-up files eg. .tcshrc of > > .bashrc. > > > > setenv SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50 true > > > > or > > > > export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true > > > > and everything

Re: [Fwd: star office]

I feel your pain. I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to get StarOffice to work on my machine with an S3 card, with no success. It doesn't just crash when I read mail; usually if I have it on for about five minutes, it will freeze and won't boot up again. (It also then causes problems when I try t

Aagh! A little problem with Corel WP8

A (hopefully) small problem ... When I run WordPerfect 8 it says "Can't load file libXt.so.6" and quits. Problem is, I have this file. It's part of libc5, no? The libc5 data is in usr/X11R6/lib and WP8 is in ~/WP8/bin. Any suggestions? Thanks again - Bill

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > As an example of how much control over websites the evil empire actually > has: http://www.userfriendly.org/ has bit the dust, leading to a new > "gray ribbon" campaign . > > Unless the whole thing is related to th

GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already have 0.30 installed and would rather upgrade it the "correct" way if indeed possible. - Bill

Re: GNOME query

On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > >What's the best window manager to use to? I installed enlightment > >(never used this before either!) and all I get from it is a bar up the > >top. No default configuration? Strange. > > Personally, I prefer icewm-gnome. YMMV, however. Enlightenment

Weird behavior with GNOME

My GNOME 1.0 runs all right, except that it takes an unusually long time to load, and the Control Center/Midnight Commander panels are slow to load. I thought little of this, until I noticed several recurring lines on my xconsole, including: Priority 50: Registering ID = <...> Unable to connect t

Re: Weird behavior with GNOME - Solved my own weird problem..

On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > my Dell Laptop (Pentium II 233, 80Mb, 64MB Swap). > SOLVED PROBLEM: I managed to change back the permissions on the > /tmp directory and surprisingly enough things start to work > agian, Nice. I do wonder what screwed /tmp up in the first > place thou

One more little GNOME question ...

Where can I find the latest copy of the user's guide in a Debian package? I installed from http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink, but I am still missing the user's guide. - thanks, Bill

Changing root password for sudo?

I have changed my root password, and su takes notice, but sudo still uses the old password. How can I change the sudo root password? Do I edit etc/sudoers? - Bill

Current kernel configuration?

I have not compiled my kernel yet, but I want to, and I want to see how it is currently configured. Is there any easy way to do this? Furthermore, do I really need to? I just want to add SoundBlaster support. Instead of upgrading the kernel, could I not just get the source for the current version

Re: Cheapbytes CDs

This is odd. I used Cheapbytes' Debian 2.0 CD to install Linux (later upgraded to slink via FTP) and everything worked quite smoothly. I recommended them to a few friends. Have a lot of you out there had bad experiences with them? - Bill On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Assad Khan wrote: > I got Debian 2.1

Question about recompiling kernel ...

I'm currently compiling the 2.2 kernel for my slink system (it's relatively stable, right?), and I used "make bzImage" to create it. The README says to copy zImage to the current kernel image, but should I copy bzImage instead? (I just want to be sure before I do it ... the documentation's a littl

man problem

When I run man on certain topics, it will now just twiddle its thumbs until I Ctrl-C it, at which point it says "can't remove /tmp/: No such file or directory." Anything I can do about this? - Bill

Re: man problem (NEVER MIND)

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: Never mind, it's working - it just took a long time. I feel sufficiently stupid now. :-) > When I run man on certain topics, it will now just twiddle its thumbs > until I Ctrl-C it, at which point it says "can't remove /tmp/ tem

Help! Kernel woes.

I have tried recompiling a 2.2 kernel, and now I have two problems: 1) The new kernel isn't recognizing my network card. I used the "PCI NE2000" option; it worked before on a 2.0.34 kernel I compiled on a floppy. Might I be missing an important option? 2) I still can't use sound. I have a SoundB

Re: Help! Kernel woes.

On 15 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have tried recompiling a 2.2 kernel, and now I have two problems: > > > > 1) The new kernel isn't recognizing my network card. I used the "PCI > > NE2000&

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Nelson wrote: > At one point it complains it doesn't find libm.so.5. This doesn't appear > to be installed, it doesn't apparently form part of the debian > distribution (no entry for it in the dselect packages list), and > WordPerfect says nothing about some extra needed

Re: PS/AUX

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, John Foster wrote: > Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I > > dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile? > > > --- > YEP! probably a go

Re: Looking for trouble.

> 3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to > run, or the system says "command not found." Example: > > #! /bin/bash > # > echo The time and date is.. > date > > Saved as "telltime," then mode changed with chmod -v u+x telltime. With cat > I can still see the content

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Carl Fink wrote: > > You don't see that as a terrible indictment of dselect? What kind of > installation system makes you select your options in *increments*? > > Especially when, without apt, it makes you sit around for twenty > minutes on each cycle while pointlessly listi

Re: Star Office 5.0

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > Has anyone gotten Star Office 5.0 to install on Debian 2.1? Everytime I > try to ru nthe setup program, An error message pops up about the window > manager not setting the window size and it defaults to the default size, > then the windows start to come u

Self-extracting compressed binaries in Linux?

Is there any program that can create compressed self-extracting executables a la PKLite in Linux? Anyone know of any? Just curious. - thanks, Bill

Re: configuración de redes

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Me gustaría obtener ayuda sobre: > ¿Cómo puedo instalar una red con linux? > > Lo necesito urgentemente > > Gracias [basically: How do I install a network with Linux?] Sugero balsa. Es un colleccion de programas que usa el protocolo SMB. Suger

Manual & dselect problems

Two problems: 1) When installing qt1g, I get the following message: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libglib.so (No such file or directory), skipping and it is then repeated for libgthread.so, libgmodule.so, libgdk.so, and libgtk.so. Is this something that ought be fixed? 2) Sometimes wh

Re: Manual & dselect problems

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: Ah, wait a minute - I found the source of problem (1). libglib.so is a symbolic link to libglib.so.0.0.1, which does not exist. Similar situation for the others. I do have a libglib.a, however. How did this happen? How might I fix it? - Bill >

Help!!!

Okay, much worse problem now. man doesn't work, period. Ask it "man anything", and it will say "No manual entry for anything." What do I do? - thanks, Bill

Re: Manual & dselect problems

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: It's quite possible that this happened. I removed and installed the staging-area GNOME a couple of times. Hmmm ... I have a libglib.so.0.0.0. Do you think linking it to that might work? - Bill > On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: &

Wine 990328 - can I still get it anywhere?

Ack! I lost Wine 990328 trying to upgrade to the latest version, which, unfortunately requires glibc2.1. Is there anywhere I can the previous one as a Debian package? - Bill

KDE/Qt .deb package problems

I get the following error when I attempt to run kmedia in KDE: libkfile.so.2:undefined symbol: __pure_virtual According to the kde-user list archives, this is the fault of the Debian package, which apparently does not support any version of Qt other than that in the 1.42-1 .deb package.(I have 1

Re: who does something about the advertising ?

On Sat, 1 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would hope that : 1) the proper complaints are made - is someone reading the headers and complaining to the right people? 2) the advertising policy is enforced. It'd be difficult, but it might scare the bilker scum into leaving us alone. - Bil

Re: finding and using applications

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Tommy Malloy wrote: I agree with this one. Now and then I will install a package in which none of the binaries have the same name as the package, and there is no manpage available, so I have to hunt for the application's _name_. It makes one feel very silly, and can be quite fr

X sudo?

At times I find myself wishing for a root login in X without using a terminal, such as when run wine on my mounted DOS partition, or edit the KDE menus. Does anyone know of a good sudo/su type program with an X/KDE/GNOME interface? (I switch to GNOME now and then ...) - thanks, Bill

Dead symlinks - where are they coming from?

When I installed the gtk 1.2 packages from the GNOME slink staging area, I got the following message: cannot open libgmodule.so: No such file or directory and likewise for libgtop and libgthread. These are symlinks which point to nonexistent libraries. There are new versions of the libraries the

Re: 8 Newbie Questions

On 8 May 1999, Peter Makholm wrote: > > 3) Why does debian say 'only the root can do that' when I type the line > > below: > > $ mount /dev/fd0 (or any other floppy drive) > > I can't cd /dev/fd0 nor can I figure out how to access it. > > Because only root may mount devices as default. > > Ed

Re: bash functions

On Sat, 8 May 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote: Ctrl-Z isn't really a pause feature, actually. What it does is suspend a process. You can use the "more" command in bash, too: cat filename | more(replace filename with file) man subject | more (replace subject with manual page) However,

Re: 8 Newbie Questions

> Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation > of linux and have never seen it nor any unix operating system before now. > I've been using pc's since they came out (70's onward). The funny thing is, > I'm a pc tech support person working for a multi-billion fortune 2

Newer version of GNOME on slink?

Is there any way I can get a newer version of GNOME than the 1.0.3 in the slink staging area without upgrading to potato? Do the newer GNOME packages really use glibc2.1? And if so, is there any chance that it will ever be in a deb? Also, is there any way I can reduce the amount of memory used b

Re: ICQ Woes

On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: What happened? Did you get an error message, and if so, what was it? I had to change the shell script that loaded it up a bit when I installed it - had to add "classes.zip" in my JDK diretory to the class library parameter. - bill > THe Java Portion O

PPP woes

A couple of questions. 1) I have not yet recompiled my Debian kernel. (no lectures, please ...) Is PPP built into the default kernel? 2) I am having problems getting chat to speak to my modem. It simply isn't recognizing it. Is there some configuration I must perform before chat will work? Any id

Can one "fake" a Debian package?

I have QT 1.42 installed from the source tarball. Unfortunately, my KDE installation was in the form of Debian packages, and now I get "kde-whatever depends on qt-142" errors from dselect and apt-get. How can I convince my system that QT is installed? Is there a file I can edit? - thanks, Bill

Re: Can one "fake" a Debian package?

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > It is my belief that I am better off installing Qt and KDE from source, > because some newer apps won't run from the deb installations. Still, if I try > to install a deb package for Debian, the package usually complains that it > does not find debian packag

Agggh! can't start new GNOME for slink

Just downloaded the new GNOME from the slink staging area ... but when I try to run it, all I get is the following error: GImLib ERROR: Cannot find file : /etc/im/im_palette.pal gdk_imlib : Cannot find Palette. A Palette file is required for this mode What is the problem? Is there a package I nee

Re: Agggh! can't start new GNOME for slink

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Ossama Othman wrote: Okay ... but my ~/.imrc file is nonexistent. How do I edit it properly? - thanks again, Bill > You don't need a new package. The palette file was moved to > `/etc/imlib/im_pallete.pal'. Check that your `~/.imrc' file reflects > the new location. > > O

(OT?) Enlightenment memory hogging

Is there any way that I can reduce the amount of memory used by Enlightenment? Currently,with GNOME on top of it, it occupies about 95% of my memory wny programs loaded up. Any tips on making it use memory more efficiently would be appreciated. - Bill

Enlightenment pager won't go away

I cannot figure out how to get rid of that blasted Enlightenment pager. I read a FAQ that said to try the following: eesh -e "pager off" but this didn't work - I just got an error. The documentation doesn't mention it anywhere it all (wonderful!). I saw a similar message in the mailing list earli