Rawrite2 Permision Denied

1996-12-29 Thread Gregory Vence
Hello, In trying to write to a floppy I'm getting a permission denied error and the tabs are set to allow writing. Any clues? Thanx -- Greg. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mirror up-to-dateness report

1996-12-29 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Labovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here's a perl script i wrote that uses the 'ping' program to find the > 'distance' to a mirror, sorting the sites from closest to farthest. Unfortunately raw ping times are not very well correlated to bandwidth. A better

Missing: resq1200.bin

1996-12-29 Thread Gregory Vence
Hello, Where can I find resq1200.bin ? its not on ftp.debian.org. Thanx -- Greg. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1.1 memory management issue ??

1996-12-29 Thread Guy Maor
"David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What package(s) do I upgrade to fix it? We are running the 2.0.27 kernel. Upgrade libc5. Version 5.4 of libc5 uses dl-malloc, while 5.2 used gnu-malloc. You'll also need to upgrade ldso. Long-running, memory-intensive apps, like X servers, will

Re: quake

1996-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
> This may be related to your problem 1. I frequently see this problem > in the X version of quake (the regular xquake); pressing and releasing > the "look up" key makes it better again. The engine seems to lose > track of key releases from time to time. > > I don't see this (or problem number 1)

Re: quake

1996-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
> I've had some weird things happen in quake under X. Well, I'm the quake maintainer, so maybe I can help. > 1. Keys are sticking. No, its not my keyboard. Fire button stays on > alot, and you must hit fire again to make it stop.. Could this be a conflict of some kind with your window manage

quake

1996-12-29 Thread Daniel Stringfield
I've had some weird things happen in quake under X. 1. Keys are sticking. No, its not my keyboard. Fire button stays on alot, and you must hit fire again to make it stop.. 2. head movement. many times it will let me "look up" but not back down again. 3. Sideways - It will force me to only b

installing Debian-1.2

1996-12-29 Thread HenSiong Tan
Hi, Pardon me if this has been dealt with already but I am having difficulties installing Debian-1.2 on my other hard disk. Basically, my machine hangs when reading either the resq1440.bin or the new-resq1440.bin disk. In the former case, my machine hangs at the line (I think) $Id ..

Re: Succeeded in installing Debian 1.2 on Tecra 720CDT

1996-12-29 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote: > I'm guessing that pcmcia_cs is just too big to be in the base? Yep. :) Just through the pcmcia stuff on an extra diskette. Plus, Not everyone needs pcmcia support from the base disks. -- Daniel Stringfield m

Succeeded in installing Debian 1.2 on Tecra 720CDT

1996-12-29 Thread Robert Nicholson
Well, I had a problem with BIOS revision 5.60 .. The reported bzImage problem. However, I've just noticed no such problem after upgrading to 5.80 which Toshiba made available in December.   If you have a Tecra 700 series notebook do see if an upgraded BIOS fixes this problem.   I would like t

Re: modules 2.1.13

1996-12-29 Thread Shaya Potter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 04:53 PM 12/29/96 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >any sign of a modules 2.1.13 package? It's in unstable Shaya -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMsbJBNnmB2S2D+tlAQFGVQP+LulzW2c4PpigqOgzgGK+HHOGi1Xm2g9A KrnB/E7T8uJD9m0dTIkX5gYBAOga44owvprDSV

Debian 1.2 international?

1996-12-29 Thread Francesco Tapparo
Hi all, I have read in this Mailing List that some packages in Debian 1.2 (e.g. shellutils and fileutils) are internationalized. I have installed the package wg15-locale, and I hav set LANG and LC_ALL to it_IT, but the error messages are in english, and ditto for the date. What is wrong? Thanks i

xconsole problem

1996-12-29 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
Hello! I'm hoping somebody can help me with a problem I'm having with xconsole. I'm running a Debian 1.1 system and have recently upgraded to XFree86 3.2, but I was having the exact same problem before as well. When I run 'xconsole' as a non-root user, I get the following message (inside the xco

Re: 1.1 memory management issue ??

1996-12-29 Thread Rob Browning
Martin Konold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do not get the point! Memory management is the job of the kernel. > How does it depend on the distribution? Actually, it's more complicated than that unless you use sbrk etc. directly. If you use malloc (in C) or new (in C++) then libc plays a role i

syslog problem using 1.2

1996-12-29 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey I get messages like Dec 29 18:34:14 oloon syslog: main: accept. errno = 22Dec 29 18:34:14 oloon syslog: main: accept. errno = 22 in the logfiles, using coming from this line in inetd.conf: ident stream tcp waitnobody /usr/sbin/identd identd -i -l -w Someone any idea wh

Re: Can't type eight-bit characters in tcsh_6.06-9

1996-12-29 Thread Mathieu GUILLAUME
: So, the question is: Is it a bug in tcsh_6.06-9, or do I have to : configure the NLS (Native Language Support) properly to make tcsh_6.06-9 : work? Did anyone experience the same problem I had? Seems to me it's the same kind of problem I'm having. My LANG environment variable is set to fr_FR,

Re: 1.1 memory management issue ??

1996-12-29 Thread Martin Konold
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, David B. Teague wrote: Hi there, > > Thank heavens! 1.1 had terrible memory management. 1.2 (REX) is _much_ > > better. > > The memory management issue mentioned here with 1.1 may explain some > slowness with my (1.1) machines. I do not get the point! Memory management i

Re: Compile time errors in include files...

1996-12-29 Thread James Martino
Richard, It is likely that an error in your own code, like a missing semi-colon at the end of a line, occurring before the #include statement is causing the problem. The error might not be recognized by the compiler until it gets to the header, even though the header itself is fine. Happ

1.1 memory management issue ??

1996-12-29 Thread David B. Teague
Hi folks: > Bruce Perens writes: > > > > Buzz went to Infinity, and Beyond! > > > Thank heavens! 1.1 had terrible memory management. 1.2 (REX) is _much_ > better. The memory management issue mentioned here with 1.1 may explain some slowness with my (1.1) machines. What package(s) do I upgra

Re: Debian on a dual PPro PC

1996-12-29 Thread Gregory Vence
Marek Duszynski wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to decide on a motherboard for a dual > PPro PC to run Debian Linux. > > Could anybody running (or thinking about running) > such system share their experiance with me and > possibly advice me on the motherboard to go for > please ? > > -- > >

Re: Compile time errors in include files...

1996-12-29 Thread David B. Teague
Richard Usually when you get an error inside a system #include file, you look at your code, as you can easily cause your includes to generate errors. I do it all the time ;) I would need the code in an.cc you sent the compiler to guess at what you did to generate that error. Can you isolate the

Icoonect www address fo 1.2 upgrade?

1996-12-29 Thread Stan Brown
I geuss it's time to upgrade to 1.2 (I'm running 1.1) 1.1 disapearing of the ftp sites means that i can longer grab new packages that I miht want with having dependency problems which would require addingat lest peices of 1.2 I was waiting for the problems w

Debian on a dual PPro PC

1996-12-29 Thread Marek Duszynski
Hello, I am trying to decide on a motherboard for a dual PPro PC to run Debian Linux. Could anybody running (or thinking about running) such system share their experiance with me and possibly advice me on the motherboard to go for please ? -- Marek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Debian 1.2: mc dependency problem

1996-12-29 Thread H . Manas
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote: >Alexander LIST ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >: I just upgraded my Debian system from 1.1 to 1.2. When installing mc, >: I found that mc "suggests" gpm, but there's no dependency on libgpm1. >: Without libgpm1, mc won't run. > >This is not generally true. It

Re: Buzz (Lightyear) Where Are You?

1996-12-29 Thread tomk
Bruce Perens writes: > > Buzz went to Infinity, and Beyond! > Thank heavens! 1.1 had terrible memory management. 1.2 (REX) is _much_ better. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Unidentified subject!

1996-12-29 Thread George Bonser
Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Path: not-for-mail From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: It happened again. Date: 29 Dec 1996 07:18:19 GMT References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Organization: Oriole: A South Bay Network site. Lines: 66 Message-ID: <

modules 2.1.13

1996-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
any sign of a modules 2.1.13 package? hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compile time errors in include files...

1996-12-29 Thread Guy Maor
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hiya, I'm using g++ under Debian 1.2 and have the following compile error: The problem is almost assuredly with an.cc, or some header of your own. This compiles fine, for example: -- #include -- Try to cut lines out of an.cc until the problem goes a

Compile time errors in include files...

1996-12-29 Thread Richard Jones
Hiya, I'm using g++ under Debian 1.2 and have the following compile error: g++ -O -I ./lib-c an.cc -o an.o In file included from /usr/include/features.h:134, from /usr/include/stdio.h:31, from an.cc:22: /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:118: parse error before `typede

Re: New X11 installation

1996-12-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Simon Martin wrote: > Hi all, > > Only me. I have now got a limping X11 installation. A few > questions/observations: > > 1) I installed xserver_svga from Debian-1.2. When I run xbase-configure it >complains at the end of the installation that there is no XF86_S3 (I hav