Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: > And there has to be a way of saying RTFM without being rude. There is. Give a brief answer to the question and follow with something like "for more details, see 'man foo' and the documentation in /usr/doc/foo" the brief answer can be useful in itself or

Re: trilinux

1997-06-09 Thread Paul Wade
In order to sell a really cheap Debian CD-ROM set, I need to sell a lot of them fast or Debian needs to stop improving so fast. This is because I need to run at least 1000 sets, it will be a week or more before I get them from the CD presser, and after a few weeks more the remaining copies are goo

Re: afterstep

1997-06-09 Thread Brad Bell
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, W Paul Mills wrote: > I believe that /usr/X11R6/bin/X needs to be suid root. no, that wasn't the problem. note that there are no problems with any other wm i've tried (fvwm/2/95, olvwm, twm) i should also note that X is killed when i start up afterstep. -brad > On Thu, 5 J

Quota (?)

1997-06-09 Thread Michael Solomani Mifsud
Okay, its been a while since Ive done these, so bear with me. How do I do quotas? I have compiled the kernel for quota support. I have run quotacheck for the required filesystem (/home) Now, if I remember correctly I have to modify the fstab for the /home entry and add a -a (?) to the option li

Re: X server via network.

1997-06-09 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Philippe Troin wrote: > See (1)xauth for details. > You can also use ssh which will do this automagically, and will also encrypt > (and optionally compress (good on slow lines)) the connections. > [ssh is available on the debian-non-US site] I don't know about the Debian-non-Us site. But you

Re: Problem getting German Umlaute

1997-06-09 Thread Stefan Baums
Paul Seelig wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Baums) writes: > > > It works all right for bash (thanks so far), but not for emacs, or > > tcsh (which I'd like to use), where the effect is nil. > > > Make sure to load "de-latin1.map" using the program '

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread John Foster
> Although the creation of a 'Debian-guru' list would have the same > effect as creating a 'Debian-newbie' list. Everybody would ask their > questions on the guru list since > a. All the gurus would be reading it (obviously) > b. None of the gurus would bother reading the regular lis

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Ed Down wrote: > What _I_ would like is a nice concise posting regarding setting up a mail > filter for pine and other mail progs, posted regularly, so that instead of > saying 'I will unsubscribe' and losing possibly important members of the > list, people say 'That mail filter sounds easy to s

list of names on the user list?

1997-06-09 Thread Max Stevens
Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to get the list of email addresses that the user account gets sent out to. I'm interested in this partly because I've had a few people from the list write me and I can't write them back because their email address is bad, and partly because I want to avoid op

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Max Stevens
Although the creation of a 'Debian-guru' list would have the same effect as creating a 'Debian-newbie' list. Everybody would ask their questions on the guru list since a. All the gurus would be reading it (obviously) b. None of the gurus would bother reading the regular list

Re: Debian generic kernal w/umsdos?

1997-06-09 Thread Robin Rowe
Chuck, Thanks for the reply. I guess I have to make my own kernal. The main reason I want to run Debian on a dos partition is so that I can see unix files from the Win95 side (backups and other conveniences). The umsdos faq says that I shouldn't expect any degradation in speed or reliability, onl

Initial installation

1997-06-09 Thread Robert Kerr
Well, I bit the bullet yesterday and started installing Debian 1.3. I'm interested very much in the idea of dpkg-ftp, since I don't have a CD-ROM of Debian and don't want to spend my time copying the package files onto my hard drive. I got my system to where it will boot up into Debia

Tcl/Tk 8.0

1997-06-09 Thread Chris Jason Richards
Does anyone know when there will be a Tcl/Tk 8.0 package available? cjr -- ___ Chris Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas A&M University Project Coordinator| Department of Computer Science http:/

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread John Foster
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: >If it's decided to tighten things up, the powers that be should give > thought to a Debian-specific newbie list if this list isn't going to > support that function. Hmmm... The problem would be that the list would be used by people of limited help to

Re: base is still obsolete

1997-06-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
Paul Rightley wrote: > > I have been using Debian on my machine at work for quite some time. > When the box was upgraded to Debian 1.2, it was left with one > "obsolete" package - base. Just as a matter of compulsive > cleanliness - will we ever be able to purge base or will there > always be one

base is still obsolete

1997-06-09 Thread Paul Rightley
I have been using Debian on my machine at work for quite some time. When the box was upgraded to Debian 1.2, it was left with one "obsolete" package - base. Just as a matter of compulsive cleanliness - will we ever be able to purge base or will there always be one obsolete package popping up in de

Re: pcmcia modem/fax problem

1997-06-09 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Giuseppe Vacanti ) > > Howdy, > > I have a no-name modem/fax combo oon my laptop that is not correctly > configured. It is apparently detected, but I then get: > > cs: overrun in get_next_tuple for socket 1 (5 times) > serial_cs: GetFirstTuple: No More items > > I'm running

pcmcia modem/fax problem

1997-06-09 Thread Giuseppe Vacanti
Howdy, I have a no-name modem/fax combo oon my laptop that is not correctly configured. It is apparently detected, but I then get: cs: overrun in get_next_tuple for socket 1 (5 times) serial_cs: GetFirstTuple: No More items I'm running a 2.0.30 kernel with 2.9.5 pcmcia-cs/modules. Could some

Re: NFS mount permission.

1997-06-09 Thread Philippe Troin
On 09 Jun 1997 14:59:17 CDT Chris Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a machine that is set up with an NFS and I was able to > mount it's drive one time on my ethernet at home but not after that. > The host.allow and host.deny are set up and the exports file has an > entry somethin

Debian generic kernal w/umsdos?

1997-06-09 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. I want to install Debian on a system without an ext2 partition. I can boot the install program using loadlin, but can't mount my umsdos partition because the generic kernal doesn't support umsdos. My intention, perhaps wrongly, is to 'mount -t umsdos /dev/hdc2 /target'. I have Debian installed

Re: X server via network.

1997-06-09 Thread Philippe Troin
On 09 Jun 1997 14:43:36 CDT Chris Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to > monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to > run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v never run any > applications on X via

Re: Newbie upgrading

1997-06-09 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 16:43:14 +0200 "Miguel A. Arranz" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am a happy user of Debian-linux 1.2. So far I have regularly updated my > system via dselect by ftp. However, I am not sure about how to upgrade to > 1.3. I have two questions about it. > > 1. From the announce

Re: netscape 4.0

1997-06-09 Thread Lawrence Chim
Greg Vence wrote: > > Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > > Randy Edwards wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > > > > > Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5? > > > > It does not work for me. I found a symlink > > /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --> > > > > .../../lib/net

Re: netscape 4.0

1997-06-09 Thread Greg Vence
Lawrence Chim wrote: > > Randy Edwards wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > > > Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5? > > > It does not work for me. I found a symlink > /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --> > > > .../../lib/netscape, but there is no such file/directo

Re: INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

1997-06-09 Thread Bruce Perens
Nope, that message is not normal. It points to a problem in /etc/inittab, I think. The file probably got truncated or something. Try booting with the command line flag "single". If the root is not mounted read-write, get it so by "mount -o remount /". Find the base/sysvinit package, and reinstall i

Re: X server via network.

1997-06-09 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi Chris, you could /etc/X11/Xserver. and see if this helps. Paul On 9 Jun 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > > The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to > monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to > run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v n

Re: X server via network.

1997-06-09 Thread Rob Browning
Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this one and I'm not even sure where to look. Can someone point me > in the right direction. Absolutely. Check out "man xauth", and go from there. (You can also use xhost, but xauth should be preferred). -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

NFS mount permission.

1997-06-09 Thread Chris Brown
I have a machine that is set up with an NFS and I was able to mount it's drive one time on my ethernet at home but not after that. The host.allow and host.deny are set up and the exports file has an entry something like this: /mnt (ro,insecure,no_root_squash) but it returns an error

Re: netscape 4.0

1997-06-09 Thread Lawrence Chim
Randy Edwards wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5? > > It does not work for me. I found a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --> > > .../../lib/netscape, but there is no such file/directory. > >Well it mostly works. It

X server via network.

1997-06-09 Thread Chris Brown
The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v never run any applications on X via a network connection befor so I thought this would be interesting. After

Re: netscape 4.0

1997-06-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
Lawrence Chim wrote: > > Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5? The final release started coming out today. (win/95/nt) Hopefully the UNIX versions will be out right away too. And hopefully they'll be better than beta5! -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-m

Re: netscape 4.0

1997-06-09 Thread Randy Edwards
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5? > It does not work for me. I found a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --> > .../../lib/netscape, but there is no such file/directory. Well it mostly works. It installs netscape properly into /usr/l

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-09 Thread stick
> > Anyone want to give a comparison with Applixware? > I'm considering buying Applixware because it is only $100 AUD > student price, which is pretty good (MS Office 97 is $200 > for students I think, regularly nearly $500). > I tried Staroffice quite some time ago and couldn't get it to run rel

netscape 4.0

1997-06-09 Thread Lawrence Chim
Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5? It does not work for me. I found a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --> ../../lib/netscape, but there is no such file/directory. Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: trilinux

1997-06-09 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > I have a question about this tri-linux CD: > How on earth do you fit three distributions on one CD? The official > debian CD release will now be 2 CD's. Does leaving out the source > distribution really makes such a difference? They leave out a lot

DLINK-220 (was Re: rogers wave cable access....)

1997-06-09 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > 2) What ethernet driver should I use for a D-LINK 220? NE-2000? > > D-Link 220's are PnP NE-2000 clones. If you get isapnptools you should be > able to configure the card in linux and then use the ne driver. I have tried to do this without success.

Re: WPLINUX Beta Testing (fwd)

1997-06-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Regarding the beta version of Corel WordPerfect for Linux, I asked them what's requiered to become a beta tester. I got this from sdcorp. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 08:10:25 -0600 From: Brad Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: WPLINUX Beta Testing We have

SMC 9332BDT help request

1997-06-09 Thread Linux dist. research
Greetings, I am having trouble getting some network cards that we just bought to work with Debian linux. Previously, the SMC 9332DST cards worked just fine. However, the new batch that we purchased, SMC 9332BDT (note the DST vs. BDT) don't work. Has anyone gotten these to work? I only need 10Mb

X server resolution problem

1997-06-09 Thread Alberto Ruiz
I trying to set my default settings to 16bpp and 1024x768 but I get the folowing errors: SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 31.5 Mhz SVGA: Clock mode for "1024x768" is too high for the configured hardware Limit is 31.5 Mhz Do I have the clock mode limited because I didn't specify any clocks

Re: INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

1997-06-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
Simply Hao wrote: > Oh, yeah, during installation I kept seeing messages about an open > tray and some I/O error--I can't tell you the exact wording because > it flies by too fast. Maybe just my imagination. I saw that too, but the install disks have been updated at least once since then, so I c

INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

1997-06-09 Thread Simply Hao
Hi, I installed Debian with no problems (and no special drivers--maybe I should have) on my 166mhz Pentium with 16MB RAM, U.S. Robotics 36.6, 8x CD-ROM (I forget which brand--I'm at work), no network connection as yet. When I try to boot, everything seems okay, but then I get stuck here: Start

Re: rlogin breaks terminal console

1997-06-09 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > > I'v got a strange phenomenon: sometimes when I close the rlogin > > connection started from console (not xterm), the console appeared to be > > broken - all the output is confined in the last line of the screen. > > reset fixes it, but does anyone

Re: rlogin breaks terminal console

1997-06-09 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > I'v got a strange phenomenon: sometimes when I close the rlogin > connection started from console (not xterm), the console appeared to be > broken - all the output is confined in the last line of the screen. > reset fixes it, but does anyone have reasona

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Max Stevens
As long as we're talking about this list and filters, I just joined this list and I made sure I had a mailfilter going *before I even joined*. I mean come on people, there's always going to be noise on a mailing list. Filtering it is better then complaining about it. I recommend (highly highly h

SOLVED: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine

1997-06-09 Thread Brian K Servis
Brian K Servis writes: > >For those of you following this here is an update. > >It appears to be some sort of name lookup failure. I can't figure it >out. When I try and print with lpr it fails with the error given in >the subject. This turns out is just an indicator of something else. I >have a

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
I saw in a recent message here that StarWriter had a filter for WordPerfect. I don't see that on the list when retrieving a file. Is it hidden somewhere? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Brian K Servis
Ed Down writes: > >What _I_ would like is a nice concise posting regarding setting up a mail >filter for pine and other mail progs, posted regularly, so that instead of >saying 'I will unsubscribe' and losing possibly important members of the >list, people say 'That mail filter sounds easy to set u

Unidentified subject!

1997-06-09 Thread Francesca Nicolai
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Re: Wierd Modem Problem

1997-06-09 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Britton wrote: > I can't get Debian 1.2 to see my modem. My mouse works, so it isn't just > the serial ports. The modem works somewhat under win95, but every two > minutes it hangs for about two miutes, and sometimes you need to hold a > key down for a while to get it to regi

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Randy Edwards
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, DANIEL STRINGFIELD wrote: > I'm not personally thrilled with the high volume, but I wouldn't wan't to > make things not specific to debian (other than things like how to on > Redhat or something) to stop being supported. I think the list serves > well as a LINUX mailing list,

Re: Problem getting German Umlaute

1997-06-09 Thread Stefan Baums
Christian Meder wrote: > > On Jun 8, Stefan Baums wrote > > > I recently installed Debian ... I seem to fail in the > > task of getting it to display German Umlaute ("a, "o, "u, sz (if > > your mailer can handle them, they should look like this: ä, ö, ü, ß)) > > ... > > Hi Stefan, > > I haven't c

Newbie upgrading

1997-06-09 Thread Miguel A. Arranz
Hi ! I am a happy user of Debian-linux 1.2. So far I have regularly updated my system via dselect by ftp. However, I am not sure about how to upgrade to 1.3. I have two questions about it. 1. From the announcement notes it seems that I should upgrade first libc5 5.4.20-1 -> 5.4.23-6 ldso 1.10-1

rlogin breaks terminal console

1997-06-09 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hello, guys. I'v got a strange phenomenon: sometimes when I close the rlogin connection started from console (not xterm), the console appeared to be broken - all the output is confined in the last line of the screen. reset fixes it, but does anyone have reasonable explanation? Thanks. Alex Y.

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, DANIEL STRINGFIELD wrote: > > I'm not personally thrilled with the high volume, but I wouldn't wan't to > make things not specific to debian (other than things like how to on > Redhat or something) to stop being supported. I think the list serves > well as a LINUX mailing list

Re: xfree86 3.3

1997-06-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 09, 1997 at 01:18:26PM +, Paul Seelig wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Romosan) writes: > > > i also tried to reconfigure my x settings with XF86Setup, but if i try > > to use the old XF86Config it tells me it can't read it, and if i try > >

Re: Starwiter

1997-06-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 10:50:19PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > > > StarOffice looks like quite a piece of work, althou a bit slow since > > I am using the static linked libraries. > > Why would this make it slower? The only thing I can think of is if

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread DANIEL STRINGFIELD
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are > non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong > to other forums. > > Am I the only one which finds the amount of general PC/Linux/Unix > questio

Installation fails to make hard drive bootable (1FA:)

1997-06-09 Thread Gilbert Laycock
I've noticed that the installation disks (for 1.3, although I think the problem existed with 1.2 as well; its a long time ago, but I seem to remember that 1.1 was OK) fail to make the hard drive bootable without booting from a floppy as an intermediate step. Since the machines concerned are now w

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-09 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > Here is an error message received when I do dpkg installs on certain > Debian packages such as xemacs for instance. Everything seems to work > OK. > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: >

Re: ethernet problems

1997-06-09 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote: > Hi, > > I've just put a 3c900 card in my linux machine and it's giving me > problems. Kernel version is 2.0.30. From what I could ascertain, the new > version of 3c59x.c is a plug-in replacement for the old one without 3c900 > support. Accordingly, I rep

Nope this didn't work either

1997-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
I think I had already tried this, but for the record, it doesn't work. > > dpkg --remove lesstif-bin > > > > (Reading database ... 11943 files and directories currently installed.) > > Removing lesstif-bin ... > > dpkg: error processing lesstif-bin (--remove): > > subprocess pre-removal script r

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Ed Down
> >Am I the only one which finds the amount of general PC/Linux/Unix > >questions unbearable (in that case, I will unsubscribe) or is it time to > >plea for more discipline, such as "Please use only this list for > >Debian-specific stuff (like dpkg, dselect, discussions of the upgrade > >path

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Dirk Herr-Hoyman
At 02:07 PM 6/9/97 +0200, you wrote: > >This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are >non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong >to other forums. > >Am I the only one which finds the amount of general PC/Li

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Paul McDermott
If you want to unsubscribe be my guest. Paul On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are > non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong > to other forums.

[META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong to other forums. Am I the only one which finds the amount of general PC/Linux/Unix questions unbearable (in that ca

Staroffice

1997-06-09 Thread G. Kapetanios
Sorry for the e-mail which is not strictly on a debain matter, I am looking for the non-commercial version of staroffice. The stardivision www page says that it is available from ftp.gwdg.de However I can't get through. I also checked sunsite and couldn't get it. Anybody know a mirror that has

Re: crossover install?

1997-06-09 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I currently am using RedHat and would like to try out debian 1.3. My > problem is that I currently have no working floppy. I grabbed the base > packages from ftp.debian.org(not the disk images). How should I go about > this? I have a formatted ext2 partition already prepared, can I run dpkg > wi

Re: What is the best way to install packages from their source?

1997-06-09 Thread Kari Davidsson
Mark Boyns wrote: > > I'm happy using binary packages most of the time, but certain packages > like ssh and pgp I feel more comfortable compiling myself. > > So far I see that dpkg-source is used to create the patched source > tree, but after that it only seems possible build a .deb file and > in

Re: Problems with g++

1997-06-09 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 9, Sebastien Phelep wrote > gcc is 2.7.2.2-4; libg++ is 2.7.2.1-9 / 2.7.2.5-1 > > I guess it's because I've used "unstable" packages, but I'm note sure. > Does anybody knows what's the problem is ? Debian's gcc 2.7.2.2 packages by default use with libc6; for libc6 you need the "libg++272"

Problems with g++

1997-06-09 Thread Sebastien Phelep
Hello. I'm having problems with g++: when I launch a program I've compiled with it, I have a segmentation fault; I first thought that it was my program that was bad, but even if I make a *very* simple program (a Point class, with a main that just adds a new point and deletes it immediately after

Re: What is the best way to install packages from their source?

1997-06-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Mark Boyns writes: > I'm happy using binary packages most of the time, but certain packages > like ssh and pgp I feel more comfortable compiling myself. > > So far I see that dpkg-source is used to create the patched source > tree, but after that it only seems possible build a .deb file and > inst

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-09 Thread Christian Lynbech
> "Ralph" == Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralph> One of these days I'm going to have to reverse engineer a Word Ralph> to troff perl. You could start from catdoc.c, which will convert word* to text or TeX. catdoc.c Description: Binary data ---+

Re: What is the best way to install packages from their source?

1997-06-09 Thread Rob Browning
Mark Boyns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So far I see that dpkg-source is used to create the patched source > tree, but after that it only seems possible build a .deb file and > install from that. Is this the "best" way? Yes. > Also, should I be running `debian/rules binary' directly or is ther

What is the best way to install packages from their source?

1997-06-09 Thread Mark Boyns
I'm happy using binary packages most of the time, but certain packages like ssh and pgp I feel more comfortable compiling myself. So far I see that dpkg-source is used to create the patched source tree, but after that it only seems possible build a .deb file and install from that. Is this the "be

xfree86 3.3

1997-06-09 Thread Alex Romosan
i've just installed the new xfree86 version 3.3 packages from Incoming, but now i am having problems restarting the x server. if i try to restart it using startx, i get the following error: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash,

Re: trouble with MH

1997-06-09 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Thanks Oliver, I installed the sendmail package and my troubles disappeared. --ken > Oliver Elphick writes: > I think that mh is compiled to use sendmail. I did strings on every > mh executable and got sendmail but not smail. Perhaps you need to get > the source and reconfigure it to use smai

crossover install?

1997-06-09 Thread foo
I currently am using RedHat and would like to try out debian 1.3. My problem is that I currently have no working floppy. I grabbed the base packages from ftp.debian.org(not the disk images). How should I go about this? I have a formatted ext2 partition already prepared, can I run dpkg with a false

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-09 Thread branden
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > > Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly. > > > > Then my modem isn't set up properly. I got a private email mentioning > > somethi

Re: PPP & Compression: Useful or Useless?

1997-06-09 Thread Bruce Perens
> I see a flag to disable VJ compression, but not one to enable it. In general if there is a "-something" flag to disable something in pppd, if you give "something" on the command line without the minus, that enables it. The two PPP daemons will negociate about the feature, and it won't be used un

Re: Starwiter

1997-06-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > StarOffice looks like quite a piece of work, althou a bit slow since > I am using the static linked libraries. Why would this make it slower? The only thing I can think of is if you're running more than one of the StarOffice programs and you're short of

Re: Problem getting German Umlaute

1997-06-09 Thread Christian Meder
On Jun 8, Stefan Baums wrote > Hello, > > I recently installed Debian 1.2 on my notebook and everything went fine. > Almost everything. While I am duly impressed by Debian's complex package > management system and wide range of packages, I seem to fail in the > simple task of getting it to display

Re: Starwiter

1997-06-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 11:50:25AM -0600, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: > I get that too once and a while with the StarOffice stuff as well. And I > figured out what it was with me ... and it may be the same for you. > > If I would get the error, I would do an 'su - your ' and then > try swriter3 aga

Re: PPP & Compression: Useful or Useless?

1997-06-09 Thread Adam Shand
>>turn off (some) modem compression? This is because I've heard that >>the protocols in the modem may actually slow things down when handling >>already compressed data. > >This is true for MNP5 compression. V.42bis compression disables itself when >data can't be compressed further. At least it is

3c900 problems

1997-06-09 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, The problem with my 3c900 card's been solved. For some reason, the driver I was using (1996-1997 version of 3c59x.c called 3c900.c) wasn't working properly. The 1995 version of 3c59x.c with 3c900 support seems to work fine. Strange. J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: Kernel Module & Virtual Hosts

1997-06-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: : :Is anyone here running Virtual Hosts for web access on Debian; : :I understand you have to have a special kernel module :for this. Is this module installed by default ? :If not, what steps would I take to install the module ? Read /usr/src/linux/Docu

Wierd Modem Problem

1997-06-09 Thread Britton
I can't get Debian 1.2 to see my modem. My mouse works, so it isn't just the serial ports. The modem works somewhat under win95, but every two minutes it hangs for about two miutes, and sometimes you need to hold a key down for a while to get it to register one press of that key. It isn't my un

Re: X problems

1997-06-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Anyway, the only modeline in my XF86Config is 640x480, but the server > insists on running in it's "builtin 320x200" mode. Needless to say, > this is unusable ... why would it do this? I've tried hitting CTRL-ALT-+ > to "cycle" up one mode, but nothi

Re: PPP & Compression: Useful or Useless?

1997-06-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > Note that most modems these days make V.42 compression, which is LZW. > BSD compression would be redundant. > > Van Jacobsen compression is, however, good to use on a V.42 connection. > It takes advantage of the redundancy of frame information in a point-

X problems

1997-06-09 Thread Will Lowe
I have a Diamond Stealth 3d 3400 (it's got 4 megs of ram) and I'm using an old 14" Tatung monitor which can only do 640x480 (I know it can handle this resolution fine because I'm running win95 on it sometimes). I've been using the SVGA server from XF3.2 because the Virge/VX chip isna't all tha

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-09 Thread Rick Jones
at&c1&d2 fixes these problems which isn't the factory default. The &d2 tells it to hangup, with autoanswer inhibited, when DTR is droped. On Sun, 8 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly.

Kernel Module & Virtual Hosts

1997-06-09 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Is anyone here running Virtual Hosts for web access on Debian; I understand you have to have a special kernel module for this. Is this module installed by default ? If not, what steps would I take to install the module ? Also, I see no documentation on what modules can be loaded while the system