running an old windows 98 progam under debain linux

cant seem to get my hands on an old machine that will boot with win 98 or win me. so i would like to know if i can run that program on a AMD 939 machine under Linux debain. lawn is drying out and dying . mirc chat channels list would be nice also. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: HSF Linmodem compile problems

R) $(KERNELSRC)) Simply uncomment the #CC= gcc line and comment the other one out, now everything should work fine. Gordon -- if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this */ -- Larry Wall in eval.c from the perl source code -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Server problems: YPBIND and NFS with Solaris

, so when it croaks, it has a bad knock-on effect to the rest of the system. Re-starting it doesn't seem to help, but reboot does. Anyone else seen this? I never saw any problems on the old server. Very strange. Any help or advice would be appreciated! Thanks, Gordon

Re: Samba 2.0x on Slink

th this? Will it fail? It compiles and installs without a hitch. Just don't try to use it if you have any NT 5 clients as it seems to cause them to BSOD. Gordon

Re: D-Link

code going under Linux then we'll see if these cards make any difference. Gordon

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

7;d have used rsh, dump & restore. Had to use ssh which encrypted everything and ran really really slow. I was not impressed when I found out that the powers that be behind Debian had crippled this very usefull feature. There are worse security holes in systems and I don't think that .rhosts in the /root directroy is one of them. Gordon

DNS Secondaries?

return. Under the circumstances, could you reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as this is my only working email alias at the moment. Thanks in advance, G. - - -- Gordon Russell http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~gor PGP Public Key - http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~gor/pgpkey.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

entry #2 [was: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest!]

future. Cartoonish, stylized GNUs are already taken by the FSF. I think a silhouette would be very elegant, easy to reproduce, and recognizable. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.

Network problems with Vortex Adapter

Hi I'm running Hamm on a Micron Millenia XKU 333 with a 3Com Etherlink 905B PCI installed. The kernel is configured with the correct Vortex driver but the adapter does not connect with or even see the other machines on the network. It has the correct IP address and can 'ping' itself but no other

Re: Network problems with Vortex Adapter

orrect. > /nisse > > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Karl Gordon wrote: > > > Hi > > I'm running Hamm on a Micron Millenia XKU 333 with a 3Com Etherlink 905B > > PCI installed. > > > > The kernel is configured with the correct Vortex driver but the adapter > >

Re: Network problems with Vortex Adapter... outputs

: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:35:56 -0700 (PDT)From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Karl Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: debian-user@lists.debian.orgOn Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Karl Gordon wrote:> Hi> I'm running Hamm on a Micron Millenia XKU 333 wit

Re: Network problems with Vortex Adapter... outputs.... kernel 2.0.34

: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:35:56 -0700 (PDT)From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Karl Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: debian-user@lists.debian.orgOn Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Karl Gordon wrote:> Hi> I'm running Hamm on a Micron Millenia XKU 333 wit

Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

Hello everyone, I am a Linux newbie. I have installed Debian 2.0 successfully. I would like to set up ISDN dial-up to my ISP. My ISP asigns me an IP address AS WELL AS DNS server address , dynamically (In my win95 setup, I didn't need to input any info at all). I read in the Linux tutorial that wh

Re: [SOLVED] dist-upgrade > broken modem

I saw your post about the Ricochet modem - you put me on the right track, and the good news is that I've been in contact with the guys on the linux-usb-devel list. I've suspected for a long time that the Ricochet modem is buggy hardware, and now we've got proof... it turns out that it's flagra

Linux as a 100Mb/sec router?

ux up to that yet - I havn't been following any of the networking or routing lists as of late - still running 1.2.13! Gordon

tk-blt package released

have been less than a KByte of disk space. I have uploaded it to chiark, so with luck it will be with you in a few days. BTW, I have never produced a package with so many files and directories, so don't be too hard on me if you find some mistakes. Enjoy... G

tk-blt

Package: tk-blt Woops, I just found it in unstable as "blt". Please ignore my last posting. Gordon

NFS user/group aliasing

, but this probably would not be a particularly clean solution. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Gordon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sawfish doesn't work

apt-get update > >apt-get upgrade Yup, that would do it. ;-) Our Debian Potato sawfish was broken for a while late last week. It should be fixed now (apt-get update & apt-get upgrade again, of course). -Mark Gordon

...error: "only 1024-char blocks implemented"...?

I'm trying to install a little utility program suite, that extracts information from Paradox database tables. All goes well when I run 'pxcsvdump' to stdout -- but when I try: pxcsvdump my_file.db > my_file.txt ...linux produces an error like so: 'll_rw error: only 1024-char blocks impleme

...error: "only 1024-char blocks implemented"...?

I'm trying to install a little utility program suite, that extracts information from Paradox database tables. All goes well when I run 'pxcsvdump' to stdout -- but when I try: pxcsvdump my_file.db > my_file.txt ...linux produces an error like so: 'll_rw error: only 1024-char blocks impleme

...Mutt / GnuPG...

Since some recent updates, GPG reports it isn't allowed to handle the already-open temp file Mutt points it to...? Anybody else experiencing this; anyone got an answer to it? -- -- Jeff -- "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to

1024-char block ll_rw error...?

(Forgive me if this is a repost; I subscribed this morning, confirming -after- I'd sent this to the list, and never saw it appear, so...) I'm trying to run a little program, 'pxcsvdump', that extracts the contents of Paradox tables -- but I'm seeing this error: ll_rw error: only 1024-char block

Potato .deb pkg install of apache/php/mod_perl/postgresql or mysql

apt-get source) to get the programs working together (presuming I follow their directions ;-])? Or should one just head for the 'real' source? Thanks. -- Gordon Pedersen info systems design Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Potato .deb pkg install of apache/php/mod_perl/postgresql or mysql

this: extension=pgsql.so Gordon On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:29:08AM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > I have just completed an install based on MySQL, Apache and PHP3. This was > all done using apt-get install (I'm using woody though, on a 2.2.15 > kernel). > > If you pursue this dire

Setting up IP aliasing, cannot find kernel modules

. Or is aliasing handled differently in 2.2 than earlier kernels? Thanks for any help. Gordon Gordon Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

...hangs at "freeing memory", can't boot....

(help...!) I'm trying to move (copy) my existing 'potato' system to a new hard drive in a -different- box. Working box: Compaq Presario 992 w/ P-120 chip No-work box: Compaq Presario 4660 with PII-MMX-300 ("PIIX4", kernel says; also says "not 100% native mode, will poll for irqs later"...?) With

Can't boot -- 'shadow RAM' at fault...?

I'm trying to get 'potato' up-and-running on a box that thought it would have Windoze, a Compaq Presario 4660. CMOS says 2 instances of shadow RAM are present, but doesn't provide a way to turn that 'feature' off. Debian gets as far as the line about "freeing unused kernel memory" and then halts,

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:30:06AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It seems I made a `slight' mistake in dpkg 1.7.0 which broke > update-alternatives. Combined with a perl upgrade that can have some > nasty effects. I fixed this in dpkg 1.7.1, and I strongly advise > everyone to immediately upgrad

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:19:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Gordon Sadler wrote: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. > > 6 packages not fully installed or rem

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

Joey has me running again. Bit of a hectic upgrade session however. Thanks again. On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:54:38PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Manually link /usr/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl-5.6; repeat; > update-alternatives --auto perl; > /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl-5.6-base.postinst confi

Re: apt-get and The_User

ard directories via an environment variable, but it appears to be dead in the water. So you can use apt-get source and perform local build/install, but cannot interact with dpkg without root perms AFAIK. HTH Gordon Sadler

CRASHED MACHINE = FB.overflow:1

After a few minutes on the net my Debian box crashes and I can not work in ANY terminal. I can change between them but they all have the message "FB.overflow:1" I then lift the phone and i still have the usual noises. I use wvdial to connect to the Internet and lynx or w3m to browse. Have

Finding and installing lp.o from 2.2.15

Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in addition to debian-users. Thanks.) -- Gordon Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Finding and installing lp.o from 2.2.15

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 03:07:11AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 02:28:39AM -0600, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > > (Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in addition to debian-users. > > Thanks.) > > > > What are my options? > > If I were you I&#

modules.dep problems

I have just installed the 2.2.18pre21 kernel image and have problems loading the modules. When i boot in to linux this message is shown depmod *** cant open dependencies files in /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep I have played with depmod, update-modules and modules config and got very similar

Re: no wonder...

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:41:56PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > 1. Nothing's difficult about selecting things from a menu. It's when those > selections > bring up other screens wanting to add/delete other things, which affect other > things, > which makes the user want to get out, and none of the k

...free Usenet...?

Have free Usenet sites disappeared? Every one I've tried in the past coupla hours wants authentication and apparently thinks I'm not authentic enough. :-) Do I need to set up an account of some sort, or does the authentication want my momentary dial-up hostname, or...? -- -- Jeff --

...diald.fifo -- can I use this...?

When 'diald' runs, it creates /var/run/diald.fifo and diald.pid. The accompanying X monitoring/control program, 'dctrl', evidently gets its information by way of diald.fifo. Is there some way I can engage in conversation (or eavesdropping) with diald.fifo, so that I can see on a designated tty sc

Re: (eh?) Perl library shifted...?

On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 03:29:09 +0100, "Paul J. Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Net::POP3 is also part of libnet-perl. I would make sure you have > the -2 version, if it's still a problem, post the exact error msg. > > I ran > > perl -MNet::POP3 -e 'Net::POP3->new()' > > without any proble

USB Support and SiS 6326 built in video

System Celeron 333 96 MB RAM 2.1 GB Samsung HD SiS 5595 Chipset (66/100 MHz bus) I am planning to buy a USB modem shortly. Are there any plans to write drivers for Linux any time soon? I also cannot get the built-in SIS 6326 video to work properly in X-Windows. Any ideas on this? I'm using Ha

trouble with slink

I recently went to the ftp.us.debian.org and downloaded all the binary-i386 file and the files necessary to make the (Slink) rescue disk etc. I put all the files on a CD-R and the fist stage of the installation went well but when I get to the part with dselect there are problems. is there another

...no Masquerade...?

Hi -- (I'm very much a newbie, though I've just gone through a month-long trial-by-trashed-partitions to get here. :-) Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being able to reach the 'Net. Should we be

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:46:19PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Most likely you are trying to use the old ipfwadm stuff and you need to > use ipchains. Either way, "modprobe ipchains" should get you there. Hmm; well, 'ipchains' answers to its name but 'modprobe ipchains' says it knows of no such m

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:51:19PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > 2.Also, consider using kernel-package. > If you can do Prolog and Perl, you can compile a kernel. The code for > masquerading is in the kernel, but it needs to be turned on, so you will > need to compile a kernel for yourse

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 02:31:32PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > No trouble. The other fellow's responses about ipchains &c. may also be > true. I don't know whether the stock kernel comes with masquerading turned > on. Your remarks about what responds to modprobe, though, suggest that you >

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

Hi, John -- > Um.. in spite of what Andrew said, they're not modules. > ipfwadm is an IP packet firewall/masquerading setup > utility that works with kernel 2.0.x; ipchains is similar, > but for kernel 2.2.x. (Okay.) > # ipchains -L input > for kernel 2.2.x. > > This should list the default p

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:12:42AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > Are you using a "stock" Debian kernel, or one which you built > yourself? The stock kernels usually include masquerading > support. Yes--stock 'potato' 2.2.14 is the one telling me "IP Masquerading is not enabled in the kernel." > I

"line monitor" for Linux...?

Under OS/2, a nifty utility called Poor Man's LIne Monitor (PMLM) was included with Ray Gwinn's SIO com ports drivers. PMLM allowed one to watch was passing through the serial port during online conversations -- very useful for debugging connections and for retrieving forgotten encrypted passwords,

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:48:52AM -0800, brian moore wrote: > > Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact > > which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being > > able to reach the 'Net. > > Tell him he got kicked off for downloading too much pr0n

'line monitor': solved

This worked: tcpdump -a -i ppp0 -l -vvv -w dat.file Later: snort -dv -r dat.file (More info than I needed arrived in dat.file, but it did include the specific info I was seeking. I expect 'sniffit' would've worked, but apparently it needs for a particular SysV switch to have been include

(eh?) Perl library shifted...?

Not sure, but it looks like a recent Potato update must've rewritten a variable holding the location of Perl libraries -- at least, I've got a little program running here, that can no longer locate a needed module. Anybody know where to reach in and change the values Perl sees as '@INC' ...? --

fresh compile, "unresolved symbols" complaints

So I did my very first kernel compile, and all appears to have gone well -- except, I'm seeing a long list of messages during boot (that don't seem to be logged anywhere and are gone from the screen before I can copy 'em down), each line mentioning "unresolved symbol" and naming a lib file. The sy

Re: Can't mount SyQuest EZFlyer 230 MB!!!

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:51:21AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I can't mount my syquest ezflyer zip-type drive. The kernel detects it, > but when I try to mount it, it gives me an error that says "wrong fs > type, bad superblock, or too many mounted filesystems." I trying to > mount it as v

Mahogany / thwarted by dselect

On Potato, I've downloaded and tried to install the (slink) deb package of mail client Mahogany, which apparently has a dependency on libstdc++2.9. "libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1" is in the listings in dselect -- but dselect/dpkg/apt don't see this as the correct item. dselect [I]nstall leads to an appea

Re: ipmasq and howto

Hi, Matt -- On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:38:05 -0600, matt garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. I just want to get IP Masquerading > working on my Linux box. So I read the IP Masquerading howto. But I > believe some steps outlined in the howto would be redundant g

Re: (eh?) Perl library shifted...?

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 19:02:46 +0100, "Paul J. Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Anybody know where to reach in and change the values Perl sees as >> > '@INC' ...? > The standard @INC is compiled into the binary. You can see the value > for your perl by doing "perl -V". (Thanks, Paul.) The

Re: ipmasq and howto

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:47:20 -0600, matt garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the help! But unfortunately it's not working. You're probably really, really close to succeeding. :-) It -sounds- like all the bits are working, but 'forwarding' is not fully activated; that your room

RE: (jg) Re: ipmasq and howto

On 01-Apr-2000 matt garman wrote: > But still when I do "ipchains -M -L" I don't get anything. > > Any ideas? I'm now experiencing the same thing. :-) But as long as I can see the MASQ entry in the output from "ipchains -L", things appear to be working. (Now I'm trying to figure out what's ma

Re: ipmasq and howto

From: Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> (Now I'm trying to figure out what's made the difference -- why it is >> that previously I was seeing specific entries with 'ipchains -M -L' >> and now I'm not...possibly something's been updated, dunno; as long >> as things keep working, I'm planni

Re: fresh compile, "unresolved symbols" complaints

> - message from George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > How did you install your kernel? Did you use make-kpkg to make a > kernel-image package and install that or did you try to install it by > hand? "make mrproper", "make menuconfig"... like that. > If you installed by hand, is the n

Re: ipmasq and howto

- Forwarded message from Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > a connection is something open, it needs (at least) two (active) ends. > otherwise it is only a route. a masq rule is (kind of) a route. >>> Thank you for helping clarify the distinction. > no problem. sorry for the ha

...second sound/CD card...?

I'm running potato on a P-120 Compaq Presario 992 box that has an on-board sound card. Under OS/2 I could never persuade the system to understand and accept the addition of a second slightly better sound card/CD controller. I'm guessing linux is smart enough to figure this out, though -- how co

Re: fresh compile, "unresolved symbols" complaints

On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:58:44PM +0100, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > Debian packagers can make more informed decisions about the filesystem > arrangement than the kernel developers and this will always be the case, > so use the "smart" tools provided with debian to ease the brain strain. > > Unless

how to email distribution lists...?

What's the normal/usual method for sending one email to 100 folks who are not local users of the system? Is this commonly handled by a mail reader program or by a separate program on the system? (Not talking about "an interactive mail list", here, but just a one-way "distribution list".) -- -

redirect hidden output to screen...?

I have a li'l program I wrote, Mail-Penguin, that retrieves mail for us from our POP box on the web -- it's a home-brewed 'fetchmail', sort of. Normally it sends informational messages to the screen -- but now I have it being launched by diald's ip-up script (which I guess is sending output to its

Re: how to email distribution lists...?

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:59:04PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Have a look at bulkmail: Thanks, Joachim -- I was skipping right over that one because of its name; sounded like something more "industrial-strength" than I was looking for -- but it does appear simple and straightforward enough

Re: Unknown problem connecting

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:11:16AM -0400, J. Hartzelbuck wrote: > Using Debian, I've installed wvdial and can connect very nicely, but > commands issued don't do anything! Ping doesn't respond, lynx doesn't > respond. I'm new to all this, so don't know where I might be going > wrong. Can anyone gi

Re: No masquerading in stock kernel-image?

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Forgive me if this is a faq > > It seems like masquerading is not turned on in the stock kernel-image > packages. Is this true or am I forgetting to load a module somewhere? If > it's true, does anybody know why that decision was

Re: pronunciation of daemon

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Re: Problem

On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 10:25:11PM +0100, Abdejlil Chaabaoui wrote: > Ich habe debian in meinen PC installiert. > und habe ich eine alte Betriebsystem als win98. > Jetzt kann ich nicht win98 öffnen. > > ich habe diese config gemacht aber geht nicht. > > Other=/dev/hda3 > im

Kmail problems - please reply offlist

e of the messages I download: every so often, a couple of carriage returns appear to be inserted, which is annoying for most messages and plain anti-productive when it interferes with filters. If you have any idea what might be wrong, please mail me. Thanks. Gordon

Re: Uptime

for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes. > > What exactly does the 'load averages' mean? Is it the CPU time? It's the average number of processes ready to run in the last 1,5,15 minutes Gordon -- Gordon Fraser "Never make any mistaeks." (Anonymous,

Re: crontab $MAILTO question

like so: MAILTO=whoever * * * * * whoever dothisandthat > /dev/null That way you will only get an email when there is output to STDERR. Hth, Gordon -- Gordon Fraser We come to bury DOS, not to praise it. [EMAIL PROTECTED](Paul Vojta, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Making my HaM modem work in Debian.

www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html you might be lucky using this driver: http://developer.intel.com/design/modems/products/md563x.htm Try the package matching your kernel version (2.2 I guess with Potato), there's Debian notes in the readme-file. Hth, Gordon -- Gordon Fraser

Re: How to use the Linux Progress Patch (Splash Screen)?

packages [2] with a Debian-like design. They're still preliminary, but work with 2.4.17. If you don't like the design, apply the patch and exchange the linux_logo.h with a new one you can create with fblogo [3] (view README and README.Debian in the patch-packages for further information, there

Re: RAM economy tips

> after a few months I am using Debian at home I keep > wandering whether it uses too much RAM. Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike.. Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it better for it to be unused? you paid for it! ;) So it is used to speed things up, c

Re: RAM economy tips

> > out of memory you should take it with a pinch of salt (and > > maybe wonder why the other 10% isn't made to do something > > useful too) > > In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like > that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents and

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

> > > i don't see any point to using upgrade instead of dist-upgrade. > > > > But surelly upgrade has some use, I mean, there's probably some > > situation in which you would prefer to use upgrade in place of > > dist-upgrade, could someone please shed some light in this isue? > > I'm going back to

Re: getting mutt, procmail or whoever to filter mail

> I just subscribed to the list, I'd really need some help for > separating mail from lists, as you might easily guess. > This is my cfg: mutt/exim/potato > Any help (and receipe better yet!) will be higly appreciated Have a look at www.procmail.org and in particular (the ones that made it click

Re: mp3 encoder Deb

> There ain't none. mp3 encoders are all patent encumbered, so Debian > distributes none. It's been an ongoing discussion on -legal for years > now. My suggestion is to go ogg/vorbis or build lame from source. www.debianplanet.org has a few unofficial apt sources, and I am pretty sure there is

Re: Problems Configuring X w/ GForce 2

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:50:04AM -0700, John and Kristy Woodill wrote: > I have just bought a GForce 2 graphics card and now i can't seem to get x to > configure and load correctly. I just get a black and white screen all > scrambled up. I have a Riva TNT 2 before and had zero problems with t

Re: startx asking for a password

> >$ startx xterm > > > > ...and report if it still prompts for a password. > > still the problem persists. > I also tried as root, no results. try editing the startx script and add set +x at the start of it, it should echo the commands it runs as it does so , might give you a clue as to whi

Re: Implications of using kernel 2.4

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:32:28PM -0400, Cheng wrote: As you first say this .. > Second, I'd like to install the 2.4 kernel due to some of the advantages I've > heard about it, such as Athlon optimization, more efficient threads, and > memory detection. then .. > To me stability is more im

Re: cant get grip to rip (SOLVED)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:14:56AM -0700, Charles Lewis wrote: > Apparently it was a permissions problem with /dev/sg0. > Not sure what that device is used for, because my cd is on /dev/scd0, but > after I fixed permissions, grip worked just fine. sg0 refers to the sg.o kernel module which provide

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

of thing I'd > > do in windoze... congratulations, Debian! > > Oh, cool! Where can I get chmod and chattr for Windows? That would > actually be really handy. > :P Try RMB on a file and change attributes/modes from the properties. IIRC the chattr command does exist in some versions on the command line as well. -- Gordon Sadler

Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)

-get is the milestone 18 (!) release, so I've been installing the recent builds by hand. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Gordon

Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

andards. They recommended replacing it, perhaps with webwasher, though it looks like webwasher is restrictively licensed. Gordon

Re: framebuffer-konsole

g/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html Hth, Gordon -- Gordon Fraser Just don't create a file called [EMAIL PROTECTED]-rf. :-) -- Larry Wall in http://www.freakzone.net<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpFc4J4i7yih.pgp Description: PGP signature

KMail question: launching URLs with Mozilla, not Konq

Is it possible to have KMail use Mozilla to launch URLs instead of Konqueror? This seems like a fairly simple thing to do, but I can't find out just how. (If it matters, I run woody, and use WindowMaker day-to-day with some KDE apps.) Thanks, Gordon

Re: LILO splash screen

Hi, Walter Hofmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does > anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps? I have created a Debian-Splash-Screen for lilo, you can find it at http://freakzone.net/gordon/ together with a short expla

Re: nslookup

Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Which package provides nslookup? dnsutils nslookup is considered deprecated and the use of dig, which is also in dnsutils, is preferred. Gordon PS: Try http://packages.debian.org - it offers a search by file in all packages -- Gordon Fra

Re: how to install rpm packages?

pReJkEr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i have a rpm package and i dont know how to install it? > is there a tool that converts rpm packages to deb format? > alien ...alien converts rpm<->tgz<->deb Gordon -- Gordon Fraser Linux: Where Don't W

Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

ome fonts back - even if this worked fully, I cannot figure out how to change the font on buttons in Mozilla or Netscape. The 100 dpi fonts all appear to be present and correct (the package is okay). Any help appreciated. Gordon

Apache and mod_auth_mysql -- what happended?

I am using without problems, but it seems to have been removed from the apache-common package, which is where it used to be, according to a page I found with Google. Am I looking in the wrong place, or has something happended to it? Thanks, Gordon

Re: graphical lilo

ed bmp-timer = [tx],[ty];[t-fg],[t-bg],[t-sh] I've put a small example on http://freakzone.net/gordon/ ...also, apt-get install lilo-doc gives you an example and documentation :) Hth, Gordon -- Gordon Fraser "Unix is simple, but it takes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: graphical lilo

/boot/map >install=/boot/boot.b ^^ You still need to set: install=/boot/boot-bmp.b Gordon -- Gordon Fraser Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be [EMAIL PROTECTED] restarted for the change to take effect. http://www.freakzone.net Reboot now? [ OK

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

ading to woody (aka "testing"). > Before you leap in ... X4.0.2 is ok IIRC, but X4.0.3-1 is not. You would need X4.0.3-2 to be safe with X. Also if you are using libqt from kde.tdyc.com for potato, IIRC that won't work as Ivan isn't backporting X for potato -). You'll need libqt from woody/sid. Gordon Sadler

Re: help

> hello, I am a graduate student in molecular biology and I AM SICK OF MS > WINDOWS! I am installing your debian Linux os on my IBM 600x laptop, but I > still need a couple statistical packages currently only available for MS '> Q: Can I have Debian/Linux OS installed on my computer while also ha

Re: X broken ???

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:43:52PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Having upgraded my woody box this evening, I am not able to run X > anymore. It will complain that it does not find the 'fixed' > font. Anyone having the same problem ? What can I do ? Do you still have the xfonts-base package i

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