How do I install LMS206 CD-ROM driver?

1997-07-01 Thread Al Z
Installing drivers seemed to work ok from floppy. When I booted linux and tried dselect from CD-ROM or when I tried to mount the CD-ROM directly, I got the message SONY: cdu535...address already in use. I tried loading the driver using MSDOS command line parameters /D:... /V /M:1

I really need some help

1997-07-01 Thread Peter . Yarych . gandolph
Ok I've narrowed my dpkg problem down to the following files I asked before if some would zip up there info directory... and recieved no responces... which is understandable to say the least I was asking a hugh favour But I have gotten it down to the following files So please please please pleas

Re: .gz ??? what, how?

1997-07-01 Thread Rob MacWilliams
> > To access the documentation you really need to be able to access > > the documentation. Then you can determine what is (and isn't) a Debian > > specific issue. Having a system which can hold the newbies' hand till > > they can walk for themselves has probably never been a design goal for > >

Re: determining serial link speed?

1997-07-01 Thread wb2oyc
On 07:06:32 Lawrence wrote: >>Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> Is there any easy way to find out, what speed my modem connected to >> the ISP? (using ppp & chat on Debian Linux m68k Amiga). >> >> I want to be sure that it connected at 28800 baud and not at 14400. >> > If its a Hayes m

Re: 1.3.1 release date.

1997-07-01 Thread Bruce Perens
We have all of the files ready, but (as usual) the FTP archive got messed up and it'll take a day (maybe two days) to get it straightened out. Then it will be available for FTP. It'll take another week or so before I am satisfied with the official CD, and then the CD producers take at least another

Re: "Too many open files": ulimits

1997-07-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 29 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Your `ulimit's are too low. Here's what I do, in "/etc/profile" for > now. This exactly the problem I'm having. The ulimit is set to 24. But I cann't find where to set this... (I know "ulimit -n 256") What I don't get is why on another debian machine t

Re: .gz ??? what, how?

1997-07-01 Thread robert
> > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the > > > > .gz?? > > > > <> > > (Funny how an non-Debian specific question still generates so many > > responses on this list!) > > Not really. What we have here is a

Re: cant load root floppy

1997-07-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Donald L.Wilson Jr. wrote: > ive downloaded all the disks images and used rawrite > to write them to floppys. i have low memory so i have > to use the `lmemroot.bin' disk image. i boot up with > the rescue disk, type `ramdisk0' load the ramdisk and > push enter. then the comput

Re: 1.3.1 release date.

1997-07-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Laurent Bonnaud wrote: > > > I'm waiting for 1.3.1 to order a CD, so what about the release date ? > >something like "probably before august" > > or "certainly not before september" [?] > > This would be nice to kn

Re: determining serial link speed?

1997-07-01 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 2 Jul, Lawrence wrote: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> Is there any easy way to find out, what speed my modem connected to >> the ISP? (using ppp & chat on Debian Linux m68k Amiga). >> >> I want to be sure that it connected at 28800 baud and not at 14400. >> > > pppstat -n 1 wi

Re: irqtune: insmod failed on '/usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune_mod.o'

1997-07-01 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 30 Jun, Hong Huang wrote: > > Got this error on my Debian 1.3 system: > > kernel: 2.0.30 compiled with loadable module support > > hwtools: 0.2-5 > > moduils: 2.1.34-5 > > Any idea what's wrong? Thanks > Yes. This is from a mail I sent some time ago: Apparently hwtools does not contain t

Re: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly

1997-07-01 Thread David B. Teague
> Subj: RE: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly > > W Paul Mills wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote: > > [...] >[...] > > > > I think you need to add S12=0 to your init string. > > > > That's odd, a quick look at my Sportster manual says S12 sets the > 'guard time for the escape

Re: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly

1997-07-01 Thread David B. Teague
> Subj: RE: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly > > I have the same problem with my OEM USR Sportster 28.8! However, I only > > Anybody have any suggestions for us? > > Thanks, > Brian > -- > Mechanical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Purdue University

xemacs20 Dumps Core

1997-07-01 Thread Victor Torrico
Hi, xemacs19 works fine on my i586 machine. Unfortunately after installing xemacs20 & xemacs20-support and then rebooting and running xemacs20 it dumps core. Have the error messages and gdb messages (around 8K) if anyone wants them. Any help sincerely appreciated. Cheers, Victor Torrico --

Re: Wine and xpm

1997-07-01 Thread Will Lowe
On 1 Jul 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: > ... And if you wanna get a more recent version of wine, get the newest source, > use the wine-alpha*.diff to debianize the new source and build the > package. Very simple. Wait - you're saying that creating a new "updated" debian package for wine 1.0

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #413

1997-07-01 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I just ran into this problem a bit ago. Actually, the menus package seems to require that you have libg++27 and libg++272 installed to work. Versions I have are: ii libg++272.7.2.1-9 The GNU C++ libraries (ELF version). ii libg++272 2.7.2.5-1 The GNU C++ libraries (E

1.3.1 release date.

1997-07-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Laurent Bonnaud wrote: > I'm waiting for 1.3.1 to order a CD, so what about the release date ? >something like "probably before august" > or "certainly not before september" [?] This would be nice to know. CDs are cheap, but the time investment we make playing wi

Re: .gz ??? what, how?

1997-07-01 Thread John Foster
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the > > > .gz?? > > <> > (Funny how an non-Debian specific question still generates so many > responses on this list!) Not really. What we have here is a real problem for the n

Re: Dselect replacement?

1997-07-01 Thread Greg Vence
Linux dist. research wrote: > > I saw a reference to a possible future replacement for dselect. Does > anyone know about this? > It's called the 'Diety' project. The last time I asked (about a week ago), the response was "Patience Grasshopper." They are about to announce another major mileston

Re: .gz ??? what, how?

1997-07-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the > > .gz?? > > It is GZipped. you can unzip it with `gunzip', or use `zmore' instead of > `more', or `zless' instead of `less'. Ofcourse, these are all pagers. But > I bet there's some emacs mode to read and write gzipped

update-menus broken with libc6 upgrade

1997-07-01 Thread Seth Vidal
I have been upgrading my debian 1.3 distribution - to some of the files in unstable. After I did this I get errors everytime update-menus runs. It just core dumps. Any ideas on why/how to fix it. Thanks -sv (email responses or post here) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: pon and poff -- need to be updated.... Dean Carpenter when you mail someone include a return address!

1997-07-01 Thread Dave Cinege
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an archive of packages to downgrade to?

1997-07-01 Thread m*
is there such an archive where i can get, let's say a 1.3.3 version netatalk package? thanks, m* -- "The Shining One" -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Wine and xpm

1997-07-01 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > > I'm trying to compile wine ... we don't seem to have a package for it, > > understandable, since it's only in alpha at the moment. > > > > There is (or was don't know if it's still there) a version in >

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #413

1997-07-01 Thread Seth Vidal
I have been upgrading my debian 1.3 distribution - to some of the files in unstable. After I did this I get errors everytime update-menus runs. It just core dumps. Any ideas on why/how to fix it. Thanks -sv (email responses or post here) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Compiling a new kernel

1997-07-01 Thread joost witteveen
> In the instructions that came with the kernel source package, Linus > recommends making symlinks in the include directory to directories in the > usr/src/linux/arch directory. > > I also remember reading that libc5-dev contains a set of headers. > > Someone on the list recommended that the dire

cant load root floppy

1997-07-01 Thread Donald L.Wilson Jr.
ive downloaded all the disks images and used rawrite to write them to floppys. i have low memory so i have to use the `lmemroot.bin' disk image. i boot up with the rescue disk, type `ramdisk0' load the ramdisk and push enter. then the computer says `Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 0

Re: .gz ??? what, how?

1997-07-01 Thread Lawrence
David Miles wrote: > > I need to read information in manual.txt > > when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that > resembled this was Manual.txt.gz > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the > .gz?? > command 'most' will do it. Law

Dselect replacement?

1997-07-01 Thread Linux dist. research
I saw a reference to a possible future replacement for dselect. Does anyone know about this? Chip - Chip Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Xi Graphics[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Denver, CO (303)298-7478 (work) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

1997-07-01 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: >I have just tried to get two APC Smart UPS v/s 650s up and running in my >department but unfortunately, genpower does not support the cable, >2) I have found another non-debian package called apcupsd which does > su

Re: XFree86: "bad inconsistent state" of xserver-vga?

1997-07-01 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
> "Bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> Bruce> The 1.3 CD has X 3.2, wait for the 1.3.1 if you want 3.3, or use FTP. The XFree 3.3 packages appeared in bo-updates, but they are not there anymore and were not moved into bo (as some other packages). I asked myself if they

Re: .gz ??? what, how?

1997-07-01 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
Try: zless file.name.gz (may not need the .gz) or lynx file.name.gz (not sure here either) On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, David Miles wrote: > > I need to read information in manual.txt > > when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that > resembled this was Manual.txt.gz >

RE: determining serial link speed?

1997-07-01 Thread Peter . Yarych . gandolph
On 01-Jul-97 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >Hi! > >Is there any easy way to find out, what speed my modem connected to >the ISP? (using ppp & chat on Debian Linux m68k Amiga). > >I want to be sure that it connected at 28800 baud and not at 14400. /var/log/ppp.log should tell what the connect speed

Re: .gz ??? what, how?

1997-07-01 Thread dpk
.gz -- gzip extension. gzip is a program used to compress files, comparable to .zip files in dos/windows. To un-gzip a file the command is gzip -d filename.gz or gunzip filename.gz, same thing. Then you can read it as a regular text file. I prefer using: zcat filename.gz |less. zcat uncompress

Re: .gz ??? what, how?

1997-07-01 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, David Miles wrote: > I need to read information in manual.txt > > when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that > resembled this was Manual.txt.gz > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the > .gz?? It is GZipped.

.gz ??? what, how?

1997-07-01 Thread David Miles
I need to read information in manual.txt when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that resembled this was Manual.txt.gz This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the .gz?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Debian Amiga...

1997-07-01 Thread Dave Cinege
On 1 Jul 97 18:44:13 +, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >Hi! > >Is there any easy way to find out, what speed my modem connected to >the ISP? (using ppp & chat on Debian Linux m68k Amiga). How is Debian Linux running on your Amiga? I have two 3000's here that I've been having a hard time selling

Re: dselect CDROM method - Room for improvement?

1997-07-01 Thread Joey Hess
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen: > I think this is quite slow(goes through all packets every time), so I > use the following instead: > > * mount /cdrom/ > * use the FTP method, which effectively copies the file to a directory > on hard disk, and installs from there. Much faster, but a bit too > compl

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 11:00:22AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > > "BN" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > BN> Two possibilities come to mind: > > > > BN> FIPS (at ftp.debian.org in /debian/tools), [...] > > > > BN> Part

Re: pon and poff -- need to be updated....

1997-07-01 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:10:43 -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: >> >On Jun 30, Dave Cinege wrote >> >> Shouldn't pon/poff contain the following instead of full scripts? >> > >> >What about those of us who don't start PPP at boot? >> >> /etc/init.d/ppp works fine either way. Take a look at it. > >No, it does

Re: Matlab for Debian?

1997-07-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > You might also see if Octave will satisfy your needs (it's a free package). > There's also something called "scilab" that was once in non-free, I don't Yes! Scilab is in non-free. I would give it a chance. []s, Mario O.de Menezesmailto

Re: determining serial link speed?

1997-07-01 Thread Bruce Perens
Oh, mine _connects_ at 33.6, but then it renegociates and falls back to 21.x in one direction and 24.x in the other. So telling what it connects at isn't necessarily useful. I know what is going on because I have one of the external Supras on the other end of the connection and it reports the spee

Re: XFree86: "bad inconsistent state" of xserver-vga?

1997-07-01 Thread Bruce Perens
The 1.3 CD has X 3.2, wait for the 1.3.1 if you want 3.3, or use FTP. You still might have to go through some contortions with dpkg to get out of your current wedged state - I'll let people who know that better tell you how to do it. Don't wait for 2.0 with the dselect replacement, although the te

Re: determining serial link speed?

1997-07-01 Thread Shaya Potter
besides checking what speed you set in your ppp.options file, run pppstats -i 1. This should show you how much data is being transfered per second. you should have it somewhere in the high 2000's. run an ftp session from a closs machine to test it. Shaya On 1 Jul 1997, Martin Steigerwald wrot

Re: Matlab for Debian?

1997-07-01 Thread Bruce Perens
You might also see if Octave will satisfy your needs (it's a free package). There's also something called "scilab" that was once in non-free, I don't know if it is still there. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP p

Re: determining serial link speed?

1997-07-01 Thread Lawrence
Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hi! > > Is there any easy way to find out, what speed my modem connected to > the ISP? (using ppp & chat on Debian Linux m68k Amiga). > > I want to be sure that it connected at 28800 baud and not at 14400. > pppstat -n 1 will display the throughout (in/out) in byt

determining serial link speed?

1997-07-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! Is there any easy way to find out, what speed my modem connected to the ISP? (using ppp & chat on Debian Linux m68k Amiga). I want to be sure that it connected at 28800 baud and not at 14400. -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios -- TO UNSUBSCRI

Re: Wine and xpm

1997-07-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > I'm trying to compile wine ... we don't seem to have a package for it, > understandable, since it's only in alpha at the moment. > > Anyway, I put the source in /usr/local/src/wine, run the config scripts > and then run make, but it complains that it can

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

1997-07-01 Thread System Account
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Rob, > > I have the same problem. Could you email me any answers that you get by > personal email? Would greatly appreciate it. I am on the mailing > list. So I would get to see the emails that come to the mailing list. > > Sudhakar He

Re: X Free 3.3-3, bug??

1997-07-01 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Dale Scheetz, you wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > > > I have just installed all the X packages (xbase, xserver-svga etc) on my > > Thinkpad laptop 755CX. I was having troubles and assumed it was my > > inexperience with X that was doing it :) > > > > I no

Re: DuhDraw/libcurses.so.1

1997-07-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
When you recompile, make one small change to the Makefile. Change any instances of -lcurses to -lncurses. That should do the trick. (Note you will have to have the ncurses-dev package installed.) You may also be able to link libcurses.so.1 to libncurses.so.3.0 but I think recompiling may be a

Re: kernel 2.0.30 causes masquerading problems

1997-07-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I think the problem isn't related with 2.0.30, since I use it with > IP masq. enabled without any problem for two subnets of win3.x, Linux, and > win95. > You are right! > >From your script, the main difference I can see

Re: Wine and xpm

1997-07-01 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Should I install xpm source? And if so, where does it go? Install the debian xpm#.#-dev package. dpkg will put it where it should go. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies,

debian for amiga?

1997-07-01 Thread Jens R.
hello, i`m a new amiga-user in this list. here my question: is there any amiga package of debian available? thanks for replies Und Tschüss Jens Reimer -- EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailer: Thor 2.4 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: Wine and xpm

1997-07-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > I'm trying to compile wine ... we don't seem to have a package for it, > understandable, since it's only in alpha at the moment. > There is (or was don't know if it's still there) a version in experimental. If there isn't will you debianise it? I've alw

Wine and xpm

1997-07-01 Thread Will Lowe
I'm trying to compile wine ... we don't seem to have a package for it, understandable, since it's only in alpha at the moment. Anyway, I put the source in /usr/local/src/wine, run the config scripts and then run make, but it complains that it can't find /X11/xpm.h ... I _do_ have xpm installed

Re: X Free 3.3-3, bug??

1997-07-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > I have just installed all the X packages (xbase, xserver-svga etc) on my > Thinkpad laptop 755CX. I was having troubles and assumed it was my > inexperience with X that was doing it :) > > I now have a friend here who is familiar with X and now that we are

DuhDraw/libcurses.so.1

1997-07-01 Thread Randy Edwards
I wanted to play around with DuhDraw, an ANSI editor, and got the complaint that it wanted the library libcurses.so.1 which isn't on my system. Looking on sunsite and different places I'm unable to locate that library. Recompiling duhdraw just gives me a segmentation fault and a core dump.

Re: pon and poff -- need to be updated....

1997-07-01 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 01:20:24 -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: >On Jun 30, Dave Cinege wrote >> Shouldn't pon/poff contain the following instead of full scripts? > >What about those of us who don't start PPP at boot? /etc/init.d/ppp works fine either way. Take a look at it. I edited pon and poff on my rou

Re: kernel 2.0.30 causes masquerading problems

1997-07-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I think the problem isn't related with 2.0.30, since I use it with IP masq. enabled without any problem for two subnets of win3.x, Linux, and win95. >From your script, the main difference I can see is that I firstly deny access: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S ${NETWORK1}/24 -D 0.0.0

Re: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

1997-07-01 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Rolf Obrecht wrote: : Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result, : the machine didn't boot anymore since it was "unable to open an initial : console". Booting from rescue disk, mounting the harddrive to /target and : extracting the previously (on

New Install of1.3.0 and old AHA-1510A SCSI Card

1997-07-01 Thread Andrew Harmon
I'm doing a new install of Debian 1.3.0 and when I get to the device drivers section, None of the 4 options for SCSI controllers worked. Does anyone have any ideas ? The AHA-15110A is fairly ancient and has no boot ROM and has jumpers for resource settings. The boot drive is an IDE, so it's not cr

Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

1997-07-01 Thread Rolf Obrecht
Hello, Due to my impatience, I purged the old "base"-package after upgrading to 1.3 (it was listed as "obsolete" in dselect) without looking at it's contents first :-( Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result, the machine didn't boot anymore since it was "unable to ope

Compiling a new kernel

1997-07-01 Thread BG Lim
In the instructions that came with the kernel source package, Linus recommends making symlinks in the include directory to directories in the usr/src/linux/arch directory. I also remember reading that libc5-dev contains a set of headers. Someone on the list recommended that the directories in the

rxvt sporadic problem

1997-07-01 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> rxvt Peter> rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty rxvt: aborting This could be a problem of running out of pseudo tty's which is a limited ressource. However, I do not remember seeing such a thing on any singleuser computer (ie. in most ordi

ppp-off not stopping dialup-connection

1997-07-01 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
When I was using pppd, I also had a little script, which basically just did what the init.d script was doing, ie. something like: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon --$action --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/pppd -- connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript$long" with $action being `start' or `st

RE: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Matthew
Partition Magic 3 does claim to have support for ext2fs. It does a very good job on moving, resizing, converting partitions from NTFS - FAT - FAT32 - HPFS. I've never actually tried doing anything to an ext2fs partition yet. I need to get a better backup device first :). It's a tool I just keep goi

dselect CDROM method - Room for improvement?

1997-07-01 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
I think this is quite slow(goes through all packets every time), so I use the following instead: * mount /cdrom/ * use the FTP method, which effectively copies the file to a directory on hard disk, and installs from there. Much faster, but a bit too complicated, perhaps. Could these maybe c

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HM> Partition Magic 2 at least won't move or do anything to ext2fs. Oh, my fault, I'll specify I have a FAT partition at the end of a large disk, and to be able to boot from that partition (at least from NT), it has to be at the star

Re: Sound

1997-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 30, 1997 at 10:09:00AM -0400, dpk wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Darren Renaud wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:31:01 -0400 > > From: Darren Renaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Sound > > Resent-Date: 30 Jun 1997 14:21:04 - > > Resent-Fr

Re: Is there anything more unstable than Netscape??

1997-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 30, 1997 at 01:18:09AM -0400, jim wrote: > Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a > day, when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that > Netscape for linux is the most unstable but working application > I've ever seen. > > Is anyone out there running netsca

Re: dosemu comes w/o conf file

1997-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 29, 1997 at 01:30:37PM -0600, Paul Rightley wrote: > The solution to this problem is simply to purge dosemu and then > reinstall it. Thank you Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler. > > The problem is that dselect only removes packages - > it does not purge them. This means that one cannot use dsele

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 11:00:22AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > "BN" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BN> Two possibilities come to mind: > > BN> FIPS (at ftp.debian.org in /debian/tools), [...] > > BN> Partition Magic, a commercial program which [...] > > Does bot

Re: LILO--Dual Booting Two Linux Systems

1997-07-01 Thread Carey Evans
"Civ Kevin F. Havener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wnat to run a side by side comparison of two linux distributions--Debian > and one other. I plan to install them on the same IDE drive under separate > (monolithic) partitions. What does LILO need to recognize this set up? > > mbr on hda

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "BN" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BN> Two possibilities come to mind: BN> FIPS (at ftp.debian.org in /debian/tools), [...] BN> Partition Magic, a commercial program which [...] Does both of these also support moving a partition, not just resizing? -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck

hdparm HOWTO ??

1997-07-01 Thread Hong Huang
I'm running Linux on a used 486DX2 66 (got it for less than $250) and really want to get the most out of it... Just looked into hdparm tonight. It seems the -u1, -m xx options are good choices. However there are several warnings of possible filesystem corruption regarding these options. The packa

Re: kernel compile error

1997-07-01 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 23:27:30 EDT dpk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [stuff about SIGSEGV w/compiling kernel] > I have gotten this once before. I just did a 'make clean; make dep; make > zImage' and it compiled okay... as to why this happens I don't know. These kinds of unreproducible errors when c

Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....

1997-07-01 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Tony, ok, let's see. If I get you right, the installation of the base system works correctly. You can boot your Debian GNU/Linux system from harddisk, you have got a network connection. Fine. Now to the problems. You start dselect, choose ftp as access method, do an update (This works?), selec

X Free 3.3-3, bug??

1997-07-01 Thread Adam Shand
I have just installed all the X packages (xbase, xserver-svga etc) on my Thinkpad laptop 755CX. I was having troubles and assumed it was my inexperience with X that was doing it :) I now have a friend here who is familiar with X and now that we are playing properly with it we have found that it d

Re: Matlab for Debian?

1997-07-01 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > Can you get Matlab for Debian? Someone told me that Matlab is > > only supported by RedHat. Does anyone know? > > Matlab is supported only my The Mathworks (I think that's the name of the > compan

Way to set up a MacFiles virtual drive?

1997-07-01 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
Way back when I was working at one of my older jobs we used Macs and UNIX stations. Our unix accounts had a MacFiles directory that allowed a mac to connect to it like it was a regular mac drive. Now at my new job I am using Mac and Linux systems. Is there a way I can add MacFiles support to my

Re: kernel 2.0.30 causes masquerading problems

1997-07-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
This sounds like a completely different problem to me. Are those libraries listed in /etc/ld.so.conf? Have you tried running ldconfig -v as root? -- Jaldhar On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Britton wrote: > > I have been having trouble with X not being able to load the libraries it > needs. In particul

Re: kernel 2.0.30 causes masquerading problems

1997-07-01 Thread Britton
I have been having trouble with X not being able to load the libraries it needs. In particular, 9wm complains about not being able to load libXaw.so.6 and xmix about libXext.so.6. I know these files are in /usr/X11R6/lib (I pasted them from there) with read and execute permission for everyone.

Re: kernel compile error

1997-07-01 Thread dpk
I have gotten this once before. I just did a 'make clean; make dep; make zImage' and it compiled okay... as to why this happens I don't know. Dennis On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:09:44 CDT > From: Kevin J Poorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@li

kernel compile error

1997-07-01 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi. I just upgraded to Debian 1.3 (which went with out a hitch) but now I want to compile my kernel so I have Sound Suport and other things I went and grabed the source and tryed to compile it ... and this is what I got Begin Screen Dump. gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.

XFree86: "bad inconsistent state" of xserver-vga?

1997-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
I'm trying to install XFree86 3.2 from the Cheap*Bytes disk for Debian 1.2. I can't. The first time, I was able to partially install. That is, dselect worked flawlessly, but XF86Setup couldn't configure properly and everything locked. I decided to try to install version 3.3. I downloaded the .

kernel 2.0.30 causes masquerading problems

1997-07-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
After compiling a new kernel for my debian 1.3 system, I've run into a little problem. At least I think the new kernel is to blame as this is the only thing to have changed recently. First, I use IP masquerading so my networked NT 4.0 box can access the internet. I've made a little rc.d script

Re: Boot linux from two linux partition

1997-07-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I saw an answer to this a while back. I need to do it myself sometime, so I saved the message: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:31:06 +0100 From: Nuno Filipe Rocha Candido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some time ago, I had Debian and Slackware (

Re: Help! kernel compile problem

1997-07-01 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:11:32 CDT Zachary DeAquila ([EMAIL PROTECTED] .org) wrote: > I thought I'd build a nice slim 'n trim kernel for one of my > machines... so I went and did a make config, then did 'make zImage' > and got: [snip] And you probably forgot to make clean and make dep in the ac

Re: Loopback/Hosts trouble

1997-07-01 Thread Philippe Troin
> $>route > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > localnet * 255.0.0.0 U 0 02 You probably want to add a route to your machine like route add -net 192.168.1.0 Phil. -

Re: irqtune: insmod failed on '/usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune_mod.o'

1997-07-01 Thread Lindsay Allen
irqtune is a bit non standard, in that it has a module but it is not preloaded. Just run irqtune and it loads the module itself. If you installed hwtools, edit /etc/rc.boot/hwtools and uncomment the irqtune line. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= L

Re: libreadlineg2 and upgrade to unstable

1997-07-01 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater wrote: > 1. Can anybody tell me how to satisfy the dependencies etc. to install >libreadlineg2 (ftp'd from master.debian.org). Using dpkg -r on >libreadline doesn't work as it's needed by other packages. Get and install the newest libread

Loopback/Hosts trouble

1997-07-01 Thread Rob MacWilliams
Hi all I am setting up a new machine to be used as a gateway/IpMasqurade server. It's going well except for one problem. If I ping it, presumably using loopback because it's not connected to anything, I recieve a network unreachable error. This is only happening when I use it's na

Re: xlib6 dependency problems

1997-07-01 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:25:05 PDT Adam Klein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm running a Debian 1.3 system on a fairly small hard drive, so I don't want > to install X. However, many console-based programs require that xlib6 be > installed. What should I do? You'll have to install xlib6. You can

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Stephen Witt
fips works fine with Win95. Last September I had a new Dell with a 3 GB disk and Win95 installed and defragmented the disk with some Norton utility program and then resized the partion down to 1 GB and then created three more partitions for Linux (/root, swap, and /usr) and it worked just fi

pon and poff -- need to be updated....

1997-07-01 Thread Dave Cinege
Shouldn't pon/poff contain the following instead of full scripts? pon- /etc/init.d/ppp start poff- /etc/init.d/ppp stop Seems strange to duplicate what /etc/init.d/ppp (using start-stop-daemon) does. -- Elite MicroComputers 908-

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Eliezer Figueroa") writes: > I need to know where to find a program that could be use to split a > windows 95 partition without deleting the information in it. I need that > in order to install linux in my computer. > Try "http://www.student.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~schae

Help! kernel compile problem

1997-07-01 Thread Zachary DeAquila
I thought I'd build a nice slim 'n trim kernel for one of my machines... so I went and did a make config, then did 'make zImage' and got: ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x10 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Britton
I think the program you are looking for is called fips. I don't know quite where to find it. It could be touchy to use Win95 doesn't get along well with other systems, and I don't know how it would react to having it's partition resized. On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > > > I

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > > > I need to know where to find a program that could be use to split a > windows 95 partition without deleting the information in it. I need that > in order to install linux in my computer. Two possibilities come to mind: FIPS (at ftp.debian.o

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