Re: Green monitor functions

1997-09-01 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On 1 Sep 1997, Gilbert Laycock wrote: > Is there any way to configure this outside of X? > > I know about > setterm blank n > which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen > rather than using the more advanced power saving features. You have to modify /usr/src/linux/dr

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-01 Thread Robert Resendes
Are you linking with gcc or g++? Try g++ for the link phase. Here is the output I get for a simple test program: -- Begin temp.C #include template class ancestor { private: T myvar; public: ancestor(T x) { cout << "ancestor()" << endl; myvar = x; } ~ancestor() { cout << "~

Re: Netscape installation problems

1997-09-01 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Hi > > I am trying to install Netscape 3.01 on my Debian system. The machine > running debian has no connection to the Internet, so to transfer files > to the Debian box, I have to first download them onto my PowerMac, and > then transfer them over my local network. The mac doesn't like the n

Re: Private XF-Mail package available

1997-09-01 Thread Igor Grobman
On Aug 31, Britton wrote > > While on the subject of odd things that I don't begin to understand: since > I fixed my chatscript so my modem hung up when DTR went low (by > initializing the modem with ATZ and AT&D2), my computer occasionally > decides to connect itself to the internet without my do

Re: Linux for sale

1997-09-01 Thread Jim Pick
> I know that Linux is now on the shelf at Fry's Electronics ... that is the > Electronics Supermarket in Silicon Valley ... these are HUGE stores, larger > than the average grocery supermarket. They see thousands of people through > their doors every day. I saw some Linux books (with CDs) at th

Re: Linux for sale

1997-09-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> For curiosity, what were the names of these two "superstores"? I > don't think I have seen Linux being sold in any stores here... (Mass.) I looked at my comp usa ads (from the newspaper) recently and saw an ad for professional linux in it. It was for >$100, but the fact that they have it at al

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-09-01 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote: > On 1 Sep 1997, Gilbert Laycock wrote: > > I know about > > setterm blank n > > which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen > > rather than using the more advanced power saving features. > > Some monitors are smart enough to

Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
I've encountered a condition in GNU C++, where I define the following template function... template class ancestor { private: ... public: ancestor() ~ancestor() }; template ancestor::ancestor() { ... } ... and use it in a main program... main() { ancestor something; something... }

Netscape installation problems

1997-09-01 Thread Dave Neuer
Hi I am trying to install Netscape 3.01 on my Debian system. The machine running debian has no connection to the Internet, so to transfer files to the Debian box, I have to first download them onto my PowerMac, and then transfer them over my local network. The mac doesn't like the name "netscape

Re: Linux for sale

1997-09-01 Thread George Bonser
On 01-Sep-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >For curiosity, what were the names of these two "superstores"? I >don't think I have seen Linux being sold in any stores here... (Mass.) I know that Linux is now on the shelf at Fry's Electronics ... that is the Electronics Supermarket in Silicon Valley .

Re: how do I get sound with xquake?

1997-09-01 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Jaakko Niemi wrote: >> >> > permissions. Btw. what does "cat /dev/sndstat" give ? >> >> $ cat /dev/sndstat >> Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Thu Aug 28 16:53:52 EDT 1997 root, >> Linux speedy 2.0.30 #5 Thu Aug 28 06:02:38 EDT 1997 i586 unknown) >> Kernel: Linux speedy 2.0.30

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Ok :-) when I saw "a small part of us" I was still referring to the Linux community as a whole, not this mailing list :-) Anyway I confess that I hadn't saw on the WEB that 6:1 ratio apples/Linux. Ok, nice that we have guys like Tan Wee Yeh then! Worked out blocks coming...! Nicol

Re: ZIP drive

1997-09-01 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Milos Prudek wrote: > Hi All, > > Could someone help me with the installation of parallel version of > iomega ZIP under Debian Linux? I do not know where to start... > > Thanks a lot! Debian kernels .30 and .29 are alread compiled for zip support, as long as the zip drive is

Re: ZIP drive

1997-09-01 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Magossa'nyi" == Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Magossa'nyi> On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: >> Milos Prudek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Could someone help me with the installation of parallel >> version of > iomega ZIP under Debian Li

Re: ZIP drive

1997-09-01 Thread Michael Harnois
Actually, the best chance for a substantive answer to the question would be to join linux-parport and ask there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is also a parport home page at http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Linux for sale

1997-09-01 Thread shawn . fumo
>> Absolutely. Linux also needs marketing, marketing, and more marketing. >> I can only think of one business need that Linux based systems don't >> support - OCR. Everything else is available. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In terms of marketing, I went into two computer "superstores" the othe

X-Server again

1997-09-01 Thread Volker Bauer
Hi, Still my problem is my X-Server: Several time I tried now to config my X-Server without success. Both XF86Setup and xf86config failed. Always I get Error messages after finishing the conifguration like: Unable to connect to X-Server X11TransSocketUNIXconnect: errno 111 This happend both w

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-09-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On 1 Sep 1997, Gilbert Laycock wrote: > I know about > setterm blank n > which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen > rather than using the more advanced power saving features. Some monitors are smart enough to switch off when they've got no signal (I used to have a C

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > Is there a client that one can use outside the US? There's no ITAR export restriction, since the client decrypts rather than encrypts. Clients are available at rc5.distributed.net. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: xplaycd can't open /dev/hdd, permission denied.

1997-09-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 01-Sep-97 Carey Evans wrote: > >This will also give all those users access to the hard drives, giving >them the possibility to do all sorts of damage, even by accident. > I wholeheartedly agree, but on a private Linux system at home, it doesn't matter... just a bad habbit :) >I would prefer t

Re: integrate X-programms

1997-09-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Volker Bauer wrote: > Hi, > > finally I have now Debian installed after putting a simple "/" to the > question were is my top level located. Now I wonder why the X-Server > doesn't run (3D Virge) although I installed the particiular server, just > it runs in vga16 mode. How c

Re: wu-ftp...libraries for the guests!

1997-09-01 Thread joost witteveen
> Hi, > > I would like to know which libraries i have to copy for the ftp session to > work properly > for users defined as guests. > I have about 200 users for whom i want a restricted access ftp (access to > their home directories but > not to the rest of the hard disk!). > I configured ftpacc

Re: ZIP drive

1997-09-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
There is a zip howto. It may require recompiling the kernel to support these special parallel port devices (sorry, forgot the exact option). HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: > Indeed it does but we have a lot of catching up to do... Apple's > rate is currently 6 time that of ours... pls refer to: > http://rc5stats.distributed.net/emtop100.idc > I'm pumping in 1 alpha500 + 2 PPro 200 + 1 P200mmx. Looks like we probably can'

ppp connection

1997-09-01 Thread Paul Miller
I have a cable modem that goes down once and awhile and I want to be able to dialup when it is down. I have a ppp-on script setup and I can connect (ppp0 is listing when I type ifconfig).. unfortchantly I can't do anything through that interface -- not even ping; I guess it is only using eth0.. Ho

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-09-01 Thread Gilbert Laycock
> Remco Blaakmeer writes: [How do you use the monitor's energy saving features?] > > In fact, you can configure the whole thing in /etc/XF86Config. > > Some lines from mine are: > > Section "Screen" > > Driver "accel" > > Device "S3_868" > > BlankTime 15 > > SuspendTime 20 > > Of

wu-ftp...libraries for the guests!

1997-09-01 Thread Stephanie Coriat
Hi, I would like to know which libraries i have to copy for the ftp session to work properly for users defined as guests. I have about 200 users for whom i want a restricted access ftp (access to their home directories but not to the rest of the hard disk!). I configured ftpaccess and /etc/passw

Re: ZIP drive

1997-09-01 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: > Milos Prudek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could someone help me with the installation of parallel version of > > iomega ZIP under Debian Linux? I do not know where to start... > > Can you do it from a stock Debian kernel? I'm not sure. I'm doing

Re: AUC TeX: is it safe?

1997-09-01 Thread joost witteveen
> > There was a posting that the AUC TeX in the debian package crashes > emacs. Is it now safe to install the AUC TeX on the FTP sites? I've been using tex/auctex_9.7n-2.deb for quite some time now, and have never experienced problems with it. I'm using Emacs + Latex + auctex quite a lot, thoug

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Is there a client that one can use outside the US? Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL P

Re: manpath.conf?

1997-09-01 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Jens Thordarson wrote: : Hmm.why does man say it cant open manpath.config? Are you sure you do have a file /etc/manpath.config ? And is it containing the correct info? Remco -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwent

AUC TeX: is it safe?

1997-09-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
There was a posting that the AUC TeX in the debian package crashes emacs. Is it now safe to install the AUC TeX on the FTP sites? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ZIP drive

1997-09-01 Thread Michael Harnois
Milos Prudek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone help me with the installation of parallel version of > iomega ZIP under Debian Linux? I do not know where to start... Can you do it from a stock Debian kernel? I'm not sure. I'm doing it under 2.1.51 and it's easy from there ... -- Micha

xlib6g Package?

1997-09-01 Thread Victor Torrico
Where is xlib6g package available for downloading? -- Victor Torrico -- Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
GREAT! I wish *I* had that power to pump in too :-) (and to play with, myself). Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Please use <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lis

ZIP drive

1997-09-01 Thread Milos Prudek
Hi All, Could someone help me with the installation of parallel version of iomega ZIP under Debian Linux? I do not know where to start... Thanks a lot! -- Milos Prudek [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://www.bva.czn.cz/pgp/prudek.asc WWWPager: http://www.mirabilis.com/2141501 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Upgrading Netscape Installer

1997-09-01 Thread David Morris
I really like the netscape installer package and used it many months ago to get netscape working. I have 3.01-1 currently installed. So far, when dselect tells me there is an update available on the netscape package, I've placed it on hold. However, I was wondering if it is safe/needed/possible

manpath.conf?

1997-09-01 Thread Jens Thordarson
Hmm.why does man say it cant open manpath.config? Thanks, Jens -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Private XF-Mail package available

1997-09-01 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Britton wrote: > Aug 31 17:15:04 Beleriand syslogd 1.3-0#11: restart. > Aug 31 17:15:04 Beleriand kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg > started. > Aug 31 17:15:04 Beleriand syslogd 1.3-0#11: restart. > Aug 31 17:15:04 Beleriand syslogd: select: Bad file number > Aug 3

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Nicola Bernardelli wrote, : Just a P90 here, dial in PPP 2-6 times a day. It has been doing that :only task this night (and so will in the next ones) and in about 7 hours :it seems it has done 12 blocks and 50% of another. : In these days I have to read tons of docs, debian and PostgreSQL,

Re: How can I check package integrity?

1997-09-01 Thread Clint Adams
> /usr/local/bin/skipdouble is a shell script that filters out double lines > from stdin and echoes the rest on stdout. Obviously, it only works well > when its input is sorted. uniq should give you the same effect. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAI

Re: kernel source?

1997-09-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > everything's been going well. Here's my one problem. I selected to install > the kernel-source for 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 from my new 1.3.1 cd using dselect. > Afterwards, it shows that it was installed, but my /usr/src directory is > still empty. > > #1 Wh

Re: swap-free weirdness (Was: fsck from cron)

1997-09-01 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > swap-free: weirdness > free_one_pmd: bad directory entry 01000 The latter message is mentioned on the signal 11 web page at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>. I assume either your memory or swap disk got corrupted, probably because of hardware problems. -- C

Re: Problem with module after recompile

1997-09-01 Thread Carey Evans
"Michael Legart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > What were the errors? If they were about signal 11 and/or 6, that's > > usually a sign of bad memory (cache in your case); it happens often > > with kernel compiles. > > Yep... signal 11. Does that mean, that there's something wrong with

Re: integrate X-programms

1997-09-01 Thread Volker Bauer
Thanks for all your suggestion. I try..., okay, not so easy for a beginner. I have installed the S3virge server but if I try to use it, I always get error messages back after starting x. It just works with the vga16 server. Let's see... best wishes and thanks again Volker -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: R.I.P

1997-09-01 Thread Kevin Scott
John, Did you by any chance defragment the win95 partition? We have a machine where doing this seems to upset the linux partition - best guess was that the win95 defragmenter had a record of the disk partitioning, but hadn't noticed that FIPS had shrunk the linux partition. We couldn't quite

Re: Where can I find gs-aladdin 5.03?

1997-09-01 Thread joost witteveen
> Hello everyone, > I'm a newbie to Debian. I hope everyone can forgive my rudeness. > I uses my printer a lot. I used aps-filter + gs-aladdin 5.03 in my slackware > times. Are you sure that was 5.03, on slackware? Really? I'd say it was 4.03. Anyway, chances are, that anyone who sells Slac

Re: xplaycd can't open /dev/hdd, permission denied.

1997-09-01 Thread Carey Evans
"Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > You have two options, as root do: > > chmod o+rw /dev/hdd > > Which will give everyone read/write access to /dev/hdd, or > alternatively you can add all users that are to have access to > the cdrom as members of the group 'disk'. This w

Re: kernel source?

1997-09-01 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! > #1 Where is this source? Its in /usr/src/ > #2 Do I still compile using the make config like before? You can stil configure you kernel just as before. Bu for compiling it's much more elegant to use the 'make-kpkg' program. With one command you can build a Debian package for instal

RE: Where can I find gs-aladdin 5.03?

1997-09-01 Thread Travis Cole
Take a look at the non-free section of your local debian mirror. You will find it there. On 01-Sep-97 Jack Chung wrote: >Hello everyone, > I'm a newbie to Debian. I hope everyone can forgive my rudeness. >I uses my printer a lot. I used aps-filter + gs-aladdin 5.03 in my slackware >times.

Re: "mirror" regets whole Debian archive

1997-09-01 Thread Rob Browning
You could have avoided the transfer with a "mirror -T". Whenever I see it going haywire (usually because I did something stupid to my clock), I stop it and try that first. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail t

Where can I find gs-aladdin 5.03?

1997-09-01 Thread Jack Chung
Hello everyone, I'm a newbie to Debian. I hope everyone can forgive my rudeness. I uses my printer a lot. I used aps-filter + gs-aladdin 5.03 in my slackware times. I now uses Debian instead. I used dselect and painlessly installed aps-filter, but I can't find gs-alddin. The only "gs" on t

Re: kernel source?

1997-09-01 Thread Jack Chung
> kernel with my eyes closed. I've decided to give Debian a try, and > everything's been going well. Here's my one problem. I selected to install > the kernel-source for 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 from my new 1.3.1 cd using dselect. well.. I only installed kernel-source for 2.0.30... maybe you forgot to ac

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Just a P90 here, dial in PPP 2-6 times a day. It has been doing that only task this night (and so will in the next ones) and in about 7 hours it seems it has done 12 blocks and 50% of another. In these days I have to read tons of docs, debian and PostgreSQL, and do a very few things compu

"mirror" regets whole Debian archive

1997-09-01 Thread Jameson Burt
I had for 6 months used "mirror" to mirror the Debian distribution through the site uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu. On August 30, 1997, MY MIRRORING PROCEEDED TO GET THE WHOLE MIRROR, REPLACING FORMER IDENTICAL FILES. I did not change mirror sites, I did not change my mirror.defaults file, though I did

Re: How can I check package integrity?

1997-09-01 Thread Bob Clark
Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Having recovered from a corrupt filesystem due to power failure - thanks > to those who assisted - I still have a lot of files in lost+found. > > Some of them obviously belong to packages like tetex, but I can't identify > others. I would like to run through the list of

Linux for sale

1997-09-01 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > Absolutely. Linux also needs marketing, marketing, and more marketing. > I can only think of one business need that Linux based systems don't > support - OCR. Everything else is available. In terms of marketing, I went into two computer "superstores" the other

kernel source?

1997-09-01 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Hello: Forive me if this a newbie question, but I can't seem to find my question documented anywhere. I'm a long-time slackware user, and compile a new kernel with my eyes closed. I've decided to give Debian a try, and everything's been going well. Here's my one problem. I selected to install the

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

1997-09-01 Thread Clare Johnstone
> Please can anyone tell me what might have sparked the message: > lpr: unable to get official name for local machine Sorry folks, I have found how I caused this - it was by deleting a line n.n.n.n bay from /etc/hosts. ( I got the lpr source to find that out, I find if I put the same IP numbers as

Re: Private XF-Mail package available

1997-09-01 Thread Britton
I thought rc5 was responsible for this, but I guess I had just never looked very closely before. With nothing running but the ordinary Debian stuff (I don't have any deamons running other than the base ones) syslogd uses as much processor time as it can get (60% with rc5 running for example, ~98%

Private XF-Mail package available

1997-09-01 Thread George Bonser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ok, folks, I have taken a stab at making a debian package and I will admit that I cheated a bit :) I have been using the XF-Mail GUI email package and really like it. I like it so much that I wanted to share it so I grabbed the .rpm and built a .deb from it.

Re: how do I get sound with xquake?

1997-09-01 Thread Frank Swasey
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > permissions. Btw. what does "cat /dev/sndstat" give ? $ cat /dev/sndstat Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Thu Aug 28 16:53:52 EDT 1997 root, Linux speedy 2.0.30 #5 Thu Aug 28 06:02:38 EDT 1997 i586 unknown) Kernel: Linux speedy 2.0.30 #6 Thu Aug 28 16:54:51 E

Re: Netscape ?

1997-09-01 Thread John Goerzen
"Michael Legart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi ! > > > Please use the netscape installer package from Debian. It will integrate > > netscape in your Debian GNU/Linux Box. > > Erhm... where do I get that package ? As far as I can see, isn't it > uncludet in the distribution. Yes it is. Type

Re: integrate X-programms

1997-09-01 Thread John Goerzen
"Darin D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > finally I have now Debian installed after putting a simple "/" to the > > question were is my top level located. Now I wonder why the X-Server > > doesn't run (3D Virge) although I installed the particiular server, just > > it runs in vga16 mode. How can

Re: integrate X-programms

1997-09-01 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Volker Bauer wrote: > finally I have now Debian installed after putting a simple "/" to the > question were is my top level located. Now I wonder why the X-Server > doesn't run (3D Virge) although I installed the particiular server, just > it runs in vga16 mode. How can I conf