Dselect failure

1997-09-22 Thread Darin Johnson
I get the following errors when trying to install files via ftp, after changing to use dists/unstable/...: : Could nt find packages file for dists_unstable_main distribution (re-run Update) : Could nt find packages file for dists_unstable_contrib distribution (re-run Update) : Could nt find pack

Problem starting Netscape

1997-09-22 Thread Jon Forsberg
When I try to start Netscape 3.01 (the one in dselect) i get this msg about a "Buss error'. What is it? What can I do about it? Thanx! -- Jon Forsberg -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: XFree86 3.3 SVGA and S3 Virge/VX

1997-09-22 Thread Will Lowe
On 21 Sep 1997, H Huang wrote: > > Will> Hi. I'm using the XFree86 3.3 SVGA server with my diamond > > Will> Today I downloaded the XF86_SVGA 3.3.1 binary from > > Why no reconfigure X? Because 3.3.1 is a minor revision of 3.3, and doesn't seem to have any different options/configuration t

Re: how many account?

1997-09-22 Thread Ralph Winslow
Jack Holt wrote: > > At 04:43 PM 9/19/97 -0600, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: > >On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > >> At least 30,000 accounts can be supported. I've never heard of anyone > >> actually having that many. > >> > >> Bruce > > > >Just to give an idea it is a little over t

Re: [Q] How to Print in DEBIAN

1997-09-22 Thread Steve Mayer
Vladislav, Even though it says that it has HP 500C emulation, this just means that it will emulate the printer once it has been sucessfully configured by the operating system. This printer uses a Host based Windows printing system. The printer does not function under any operating systems/env

Re: NS Communicator out for Linux

1997-09-22 Thread Ralph Winslow
Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:08:19 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian users > > Subject: NS Communicator out for Linux > > Resent-Date: 22 Sep 1997 14:10:52 - > > Resent-From:

Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

1997-09-22 Thread john
I wrote: > Because they confuse Mr. Grunloh. Bruce Perens writes: > Be nice to the user, please. Yes, precisely. Be nice to the user by taking note of what bothers him, and fixing it. I meant no disrepect for Mr. Grunloh: he has every reason to be confused. When a Debian user is baffled, it is

RE: [Q] How to Print in DEBIAN

1997-09-22 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
The docs say that it has hp 500c emulation -- so I was thinking to get it working based on that -- however I am not sure if can use all the available resolution. Vladislav >-- >From: Steve Mayer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, September 22, 1997 2:55 PM >To:Vladislav Papayan

Boot trama

1997-09-22 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This should be easy but it is turning into a nightmare. I am upgrading my linux box to a new one by moving my drives from one box to the other. Before moving I compiled a new kernel to match the new hardware ran lilo and gave it a try. The new machi

RE: Rogue Wave lib

1997-09-22 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
RogueWave has Tools.h++ which is a library of collection and utility classes. Also they have DBTools.h which encapsulates Database access to different databases (Informix native, Oracle native, Sybase native, and ODBC). There are a lot of libraries that can be used in place of tools.h -- OSE for

Re: debian ftp - why there is no unstable

1997-09-22 Thread Darin Johnson
What's the "passive mode" option for dselect (ftp) anyway? I've never been able to find an explanation of it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Rogue Wave lib

1997-09-22 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Is there any free library that is compatible to the RogueWave library? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NEC America, Inc. ASL 1525 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, TX 75038

Re: how many account?

1997-09-22 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Jack Holt wrote: > Well, Suns (under Solaris) support 32-bit uids, so the limit there could > be much higher. Bruce's answer seems to imply that Debian uses 16-bit > uids. Can someone tell me if that's true or not? Just curious. >From : typedef unsigned short __uid_t; /* Type of user identific

Re: debian ftp - why there is no unstable

1997-09-22 Thread Erv Walter
Darin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The structure of the ftp site changed slightly, making the old method of > > specifying file locations incorrect. Feed dpkg-ftp '/debian' for the > > directory and 'dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/non-free > > dists/unstable/contrib' for the sect

Re: how many account?

1997-09-22 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Jack Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> At least 30,000 accounts can be supported. I've never heard of anyone >> actually having that many. > Well, Suns (under Solaris) support 32-bit uids, so the limit there could > be much higher. Bruce's answer seems to imply that Debian uses 16-bit > uids. Ca

Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

1997-09-22 Thread Bruce Perens
> Because they confuse Mr. Grunloh. Be nice to the user, please. I wish they'd just used the Official CD images, or at least the program that generates the Official CD images. They'd have a bootable CD in that case, and you would not need any floppies at all. You should be able to install this w

Re: debian ftp - why there is no unstable

1997-09-22 Thread Lawrence
/mirror/dists and it said that it can't find /mirror/dists/stable/binary-i386 Darin Johnson wrote: > > > The structure of the ftp site changed slightly, making the old method of > > specifying file locations incorrect. Feed dpkg-ftp '/debian' for the > > directory and 'dists/unstable/main dis

Re: debian ftp - why there is no unstable

1997-09-22 Thread Lawrence
when I run dselect, it expects stable/binary-i386 and not stable/main/binary-i386, what version of dselect uses the new ftp layout? Lawrence Scott Ellis wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > > I mirror the debian ftp and find that the symlink unstable/development > > is missing, dsel

Re: dselect question

1997-09-22 Thread hilliard
I open another virtual console and run "du /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian/" at intervals and watch it grow. If a large file is being downloaded, I do "ls -l" on the file /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian//, or on the file_dir itself, in yet another console. Running ifconfig in anothe

Re: debian ftp - why there is no unstable

1997-09-22 Thread Darin Johnson
> The structure of the ftp site changed slightly, making the old method of > specifying file locations incorrect. Feed dpkg-ftp '/debian' for the > directory and 'dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/non-free > dists/unstable/contrib' for the sections. But what do you feed to dselect? -- TO

Re: XFree386 3.3.1

1997-09-22 Thread Bruce Jackson
All you have to do is install X 3.3 and then manually install the server for the Matrox card from 3.3.1. I had to do this in order to use my card (ATI 3D Expression). This worked fine for me. Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote: > I got my system up and running now, except for X - I'm using a > M

Re: debian ftp - why there is no unstable

1997-09-22 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > I mirror the debian ftp and find that the symlink unstable/development > is missing, dselect looks for these symlink and now it won't ask me > whether I want to use the unstable files. Anyone? The structure of the ftp site changed slightly, making the old me

dvips and dvilj: missing fonts

1997-09-22 Thread Johann Spies
Thank you for the reaction on my request for help on using Greek and Hebrew in Latex. I have so far succeeded in creating a .dvi-file using babel's Greek-definition. I have installed Greek fonts from the file greek_fonts.zip using the "fontimport" utility. After that I ran texhash. However, whe

Re: [Q] How to Print in DEBIAN

1997-09-22 Thread Steve Mayer
Vladislav, As far as I know, the Lexmark 7000 will only work under Windows 3.x and Windows 95. It provides a DOS interface only under Windows through a driver. You cannot boot to true DOS and use the printer. It also has no NT or OS/2 drivers. I doubt that out of the box the printer will w

[Q] How to Print in DEBIAN

1997-09-22 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hi , I just bought Lexmark 7000 (1200x1200 dpi) -- I have StarOffice installed -- how do I print? I read print howtos -- but I still do not understand what I have to do to get it work. I installed gs-alladin.deb packages -- I also installed magicfilters. But I have no clue were to specify what p

Re: Compiling TWIN

1997-09-22 Thread Paul Serice
Dale Scheetz wrote: > I built twin a couple of weeks ago and had the same problem you did. I > quickly discovered that the library was failing to be built in earlier > portions of the make. If memory serves, it was failing to find a necessary > library, once I installed that, everything built fine.

what is mingetty and why can't I install it?

1997-09-22 Thread Shaleh
What is mingetty useful/used for? How do you install it? I have tried; dselect and dpkg will not let me remove or exchange agetty. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

dselect question

1997-09-22 Thread Shaleh
Is there a way for dselect's ftp mode to be more verbose? I would like some type of download counter so I know I am downloading something and not locked up or dumped off. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: communicator/installer

1997-09-22 Thread Matthew Tebbens
If you give up on which one to use, try the readme file it comes with. Its really easy to install by hand. Matthew On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know which installer (if any) should I use to install > the netscape/communicator professional edition. > >

Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

1997-09-22 Thread john
David Wright writes: > For some reason, some people object to the user of these codenames (don't > ask me why; every project in real life has a codename)... Because they confuse Mr. Grunloh. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do

fetchmail

1997-09-22 Thread kestrel
I have the stable version of fetcmail running as a bootup daemon and it runs fine. Everytime I've tried a new unstable release of fetchmail it gets the mail but doesn't put it in my local spool account, anyone run into this problem and know how to fix it? I use an rc file that grabs four email acco

XFree386 3.3.1

1997-09-22 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
I got my system up and running now, except for X - I'm using a Mystique 220 and therefore need to install 3.3.1. I can find this at the XFree site, but does debian.org also keep this type of updated around (in .deb format)? I went through ftp.debian.org/debian and couldn't find anything looking p

Re: c/c++ to LaTeX?

1997-09-22 Thread David B. Teague
Paul Healey asked about C++/C to LaTeX ... The Debian package vgrind works. It generates several outputs from a code file, and understands several languages. The default here is to generate postscript. I don't know all its features, but you might try it. --David

communicator/installer

1997-09-22 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I'd like to know which installer (if any) should I use to install the netscape/communicator professional edition. From looking in the professional_edition directory, there are 3 files: HOD3270_unix, autoadmin-v403 communicator-v403 would the installer install all the

Re: NS Communicator out for Linux

1997-09-22 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Tebbens) writes: > Looks like Communicator 4.03 is out for Linux, has anyone > installed/tested it with Debian ? > Yes and i deinstalled it shortly afterwards because it is IMHO unbearable to run on a P90 with 24MB of RAM. While it seems to have improved quite a bit in

gifmerge source

1997-09-22 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Anyone here know where to get the 'gifmerge' source? Or is there any other tool to merge the gif files to a an animation gif? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NEC America, Inc. ASL ---

Re: NS Communicator out for Linux (fwd)

1997-09-22 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Make that, Corel. Try http://www.sdcorp.com/wplinux.htm On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > WordPerfect? who is selling it? > > Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > > > Great, I read on this list before about some other Netscape packages > > locking up, don't remember which ones. I'll probably in

Re: NS Communicator out for Linux

1997-09-22 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Coral. Try http://www.sdcorp.com/wplinux.htm On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > WordPerfect? who is selling it? > > Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > > > Great, I read on this list before about some other Netscape packages > > locking up, don't remember which ones. I'll probably install this >

Re: NS Communicator out for Linux

1997-09-22 Thread bhaal
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > Looks like Communicator 4.03 is out for Linux, has anyone installed/tested > it with Debian ? > Yes.. Crashes a little but not to many problems, about the same amount as with the older versions. Have fun.. -- Living is

Re: NS Communicator out for Linux

1997-09-22 Thread Lawrence
WordPerfect? who is selling it? Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > Great, I read on this list before about some other Netscape packages > locking up, don't remember which ones. I'll probably install this > version and check it out. > > I also installed the demo for WordPerfect 7 which is really nice >

debian ftp - why there is no unstable

1997-09-22 Thread Lawrence
I mirror the debian ftp and find that the symlink unstable/development is missing, dselect looks for these symlink and now it won't ask me whether I want to use the unstable files. Anyone? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

1997-09-22 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Robert Grunloh wrote: > But before I can do this, I have to ask: I've read the Debian FAQ on the > web page, the part that explains the directory tree at the ftp sites; but > what it should explain but doesn't is, what is hamm and bo? I see mention > of these terms in announce

Re: NS Communicator out for Linux

1997-09-22 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Great, I read on this list before about some other Netscape packages locking up, don't remember which ones. I'll probably install this version and check it out. I also installed the demo for WordPerfect 7 which is really nice and works good on Debian... Matthew On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Daniel Dor

Re: How many modems ?

1997-09-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Sep 22, 1997 at 03:05:35AM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: : >Do yourself a favor, if you want a terminal server, buy a terminal server. : > : >If you need a good number of modems, pick up a used Livingston PM2 or : >PM2e. If you need to support a large userbase, consider a PM3 : >or an Ascend M

Re: how many account?

1997-09-22 Thread Jack Holt
At 04:43 PM 9/19/97 -0600, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: >On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > >> At least 30,000 accounts can be supported. I've never heard of anyone >> actually having that many. >> >> Bruce > >Just to give an idea it is a little over that .. at last check the >university

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Dear sir/madam, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

Re: NS Communicator out for Linux

1997-09-22 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:08:19 -0400 (EDT) > From: Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian users > Subject: NS Communicator out for Linux > Resent-Date: 22 Sep 1997 14:10:52 - > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: reci

Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

1997-09-22 Thread Robert Grunloh
Hi, I've tried several times in the past year or so to install debian, typically it installs ok from the 5 base floppies I make, but the kernel hangs upon booting after the install. I suspect my odd NCR scsi card (an ASUS SC-200) is confusing it, in combination with some other probing. Anyway, I

Re: Compiling TWIN

1997-09-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > Has anyone compiled TWIN successfully on a Debian system? > > I've followed the instructions (I'm pretty sure), but I > keep getting errors that ldconfig couldn't find libtwin > during the make process because it is trying to link with > the library. How

NS Communicator out for Linux

1997-09-22 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Looks like Communicator 4.03 is out for Linux, has anyone installed/tested it with Debian ? Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mo money, mo problems

1997-09-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 22 Sep 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > justin honold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1 realaudio > > I'm not sure about RealAudio as a plugin, but I've used RealAudio > Player successfully. I just dropped it in /usr/local/bin/ and > /usr/local/lib/raplayer. He's got the /bin/sh bug from a bugg

Sony GDM 1950

1997-09-22 Thread Jens Kerle
hi, i got a Sony GDM 1950 fixed frequency monitor. But i can't find any informations on sony's page about the monitor's horizontal and vertical frequency. Where can i find them ? May i connect it to my linux box ? (Maybe someone with a nice XF86Config file and working modelines ?) tnx,

Re: Xdm serving network from my machine!

1997-09-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
There's not much of a difference between this and them getting a telnet prompt. Sure they can look at your front door, but they don't get anywhere unless they have a key. If this is still a big problem, look into /etc/host.deny, or see what port it is on and try /etc/services. Found it in /etc/s

Re: X connections refused between hosts (foo/unix:0 syntax)

1997-09-22 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > > I've obviously missed something in the explanations of .Xauthority files > > and MIT cookies. I have two Debian 1.3 machines, foo and bar with > > essentially identical configurations, with few changes from how things > >

Re: SCSI support

1997-09-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Mon, Sep 22, 1997 at 01:05:50PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know if there is support for: > Initio PCI 9100U Ultra Fast SCSI Host Adapter Kit > within the standard debian kernel-source packages? Or any linux support > for this card at all? What are the major c

Java's Dumping Core

1997-09-22 Thread Paul Serice
I've been doing some upgrading, and managed to break Java support. It dumps core even if you just ask it to print the version. The packages I've installed lately are pgcc, xlib6g, xquake, and a few others I don't seem to have written down. I have also just finished installing the latest Java pack

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Dear sir/madam, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

Re: Xdm serving network from my machine!

1997-09-22 Thread Carey Evans
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > How can I configure xdm so that it will -only- serve local servers? `man xdm' under "XDMCP ACCESS CONTROL" describes the file Xaccess, which on Debian is /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess. You could also use ipfwadm and a kernel with firewalling enabled and

Re: mo money, mo problems

1997-09-22 Thread Carey Evans
justin honold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1 realaudio I'm not sure about RealAudio as a plugin, but I've used RealAudio Player successfully. I just dropped it in /usr/local/bin/ and /usr/local/lib/raplayer. > 2 icmp firewalling > i used slackware ipfwadm with the -D parameter to deny incomin

Re: c/c++ to LaTeX?

1997-09-22 Thread Carey Evans
"A. Paul Heely Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some where I once saw a c/c++ to LaTex tool that would > take as input a source file and produce a .tex file. > > If I remember right it would do some pretty formatting of the > syntax. It's called lgrind. I started packaging it but got disco

Re: Compiling TWIN

1997-09-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >Martin Str|mberg wrote: >> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Serice wrote: >> : Has anyone compiled TWIN successfully on a Debian system? >> >> Well, I don't know anything about twin, but usually you do an "ar" and >> "ranlib" as the las

Re: Setting up X

1997-09-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Farhad Manjoo hat gesagt: // Farhad Manjoo wrote: > Hi. > > I'm new to Linux/Debian. Everything was going well until it came time to > set up X windows. The trouble is I can't get X to install my mouse. > > I know that it's a ps/2 mouse and that there's something called gpm also > ru

Re: IP address and ipfwadm

1997-09-22 Thread Carey Evans
Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using dialup PPP and need to run ipfwadm everytime I connect to my > ISP. I know that I can put ipfwadm into /etc/rc file. What is the > best/easy way to get the IP address other than using ifconfig or route > (they are not good because the output is m

Re: Compiling TWIN

1997-09-22 Thread Paul Serice
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > > > Has anyone compiled TWIN successfully on a Debian system? > > > > I've followed the instructions (I'm pretty sure), but I > > keep getting errors that ldconfig couldn't find libtwin > > during the make process because it

Re: Compiling TWIN

1997-09-22 Thread Paul Serice
Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Serice wrote: > : Has anyone compiled TWIN successfully on a Debian system? > : > : I've followed the instructions (I'm pretty sure), but I > : keep getting errors that ldconfig couldn't find libtwin > : during the make process becaus

mo money, mo problems

1997-09-22 Thread justin honold
here's another laundry list of problems - please help if you've got the time! 1 realaudio i can't get realaudio to work... even if i file/open it from netscape, i get the same error (mentions missing ) in argument about a temp file)...the same error i got with every mimetype i set up manually (a

Re: dpkg error while purging latex

1997-09-22 Thread Carey Evans
Ralf Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Executing "dpkg --purge latex" caused an error message as follows: [snip] > So at the moment I can't install auctex, because some packages of another > Tex-Distribution are installed and won't go. (The same problem occurs > while executung "dpkg --purge

Re: debian-disent

1997-09-22 Thread Dr. Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > According to Arthur Jerijian: > > Er...I immediately unsubscribed from that list because of all the negative > > energy that it conveyed. Although I can't recommend it, you can try > > sending subscription requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or if that >

Re: Urgent!!!

1997-09-22 Thread dpk
Leslie, Above and beyond what Anthony stated "etiquette", you will also find that Linux is about exhausting your resources for possible solutions to problems. Your first response should not be to email the group... I first like to check online documentation relating to my issue, as I find many

Re: How many modems ?

1997-09-22 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:30:27 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: >On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 02:09:29AM +0200, dada wrote: >: How many modems can attach to my computer controlled by linux? > >I don't know about a theoretical maximum, however, I've seen people >comfortably use 16 or 32, using multiport se

Re: debian-disent

1997-09-22 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 18:45:44 +0200, Martin Str|mberg wrote: >I remember a message saying that a new list debian-disent had been >formed. Is that list archived somewhere, like the other debian lists >at ? http://www.psychosis.com/listarch/debian-dissent

Re: Urgent!!!

1997-09-22 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello Leslie, First of all, (as a Chinese myself), I would like to remind you that re-posting the same few messages many times to many people doesn't work. Don't be so impatient, it takes time for people to sit down, read and reply to your e-mail, and it often take up to a few days before anyone c

Re: XFree86 3.3 SVGA and S3 Virge/VX

1997-09-22 Thread H Huang
Will> Hi. I'm using the XFree86 3.3 SVGA server with my diamond Will> 3D3000 video card with 4 megs of VRAM, and I can only "startx" Will> once. That is, if I exit X, and type "startx" again on the Will> console, the screen goes black and the machine hangs. Will> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and the

Re: Compiling TWIN

1997-09-22 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > Has anyone compiled TWIN successfully on a Debian system? > > I've followed the instructions (I'm pretty sure), but I > keep getting errors that ldconfig couldn't find libtwin > during the make process because it is trying to link with > the library. How

Xdm serving network from my machine!

1997-09-22 Thread Buddha Buck
Greetings, I run Debian "unstable" connected to a dorm network at my school. Recently, people have started experimenting with Win95-based X servers, which apparantly broadcast messages across the network looking for XDMCP servers willing to use their display. I found about this by reading

Re: Help......................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1997-09-22 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Leslie Chan wrote: > Somebody help. > > I really headache with downloading linux files. I download then rawrite to a > diskette, then I try to boot. My systems prompt me a message "Fail Hmm. Well, the appropriate "howto" page is http://www.ssc.co

Disk spindown: what is the best setting for 'update'?

1997-09-22 Thread Olaf Weber
While trying to achive a spindown of the disk on my laptop (with 1.3.1 installed) I noted that the disk was accessed every 5 seconds. This turned out to be due to the 'update' process, which flushes the filesystem buffers periodically. The "solution" to this problem was to increase the interval f

Re: Mouse? (fwd)

1997-09-22 Thread G. Crimp
On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I think I have to clarify the question I have. > > I have 2 mice which I tried > > One is 3-button Microsoft mouse. I use ms option in gpm. It works ALL > RIGHT in text mode: all three buttons. Under X-windows left and right

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Dear sir/madam, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Dear sir/madam, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Dear sir/madam, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Dear sir/madam, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Dear sir/madam, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Hi there, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Dear sir/madam, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Dear sir/madam, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

HOST ADAPTER

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Hi there, I have a problem on installing Linux. Can you help me? My problem is, when I start installing Linux, I use a boot disk to load Linux and uncompress it. Is it correct? But when it is loading, it stop at "HOST ADAPTER ERROR CODE=236". Do you know what is the error and what should I do t

CD-ROM?

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Dear sir/madam, I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments ] [

HOST ADAPTER

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Hi there, I have a problem on installing Linux. Can you help me? My problem is, when I start installing Linux, I use a boot disk to load Linux and uncompress it. Is it correct? But when it is loading, it stop at "HOST ADAPTER ERROR CODE=236". Do you know what is the error and what should I do t

HOST ADAPTER

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Hi there, I have a problem on installing Linux. Can you help me? My problem is, when I start installing Linux, I use a boot disk to load Linux and uncompress it. Is it correct? But when it is loading, it stop at "HOST ADAPTER ERROR CODE=236". Do you know what is the error and what should I do t

Help......................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Somebody help. I really headache with downloading linux files. I download then rawrite to a diskette, then I try to boot. My systems prompt me a message "Fail loading, please change disk and press enter". What this means? Another thing, I send every mail to ask abou

Help......................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1997-09-22 Thread Leslie Chan
Somebody help. I really headache with downloading linux files. I download then rawrite to a diskette, then I try to boot. My systems prompt me a message "Fail loading, please change disk and press enter". What this means? Another thing, I send every mail to ask abou

Re: dpkg-source error ?

1997-09-22 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marc Fleureck wrote: : Hi, : I ran dpkg-source (dpkg-dev 1.4.0.8) on 3 files: *.diff.gz, *.dsc and : *.orig.tar.gz, as you described in the readme (dpkg-source -x *.dsc). : : Its says: : : "Can't locate POSIX.pm in @INC at /usr/bin/dpkg-source line 8. : " BEGIN f

sfio anyone?

1997-09-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
I was thinking about jumping into the role of package maintainer... I just compiled a new version of perl (5.004_03) on my Sparc 10 last week, and noticed that there's support in Perl for what's known as the PerlIO abstraction layer. It lets you plug in IO mechanisms other than stdio, and the def

SCSI support

1997-09-22 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Hi, does anyone know if there is support for: Initio PCI 9100U Ultra Fast SCSI Host Adapter Kit within the standard debian kernel-source packages? Or any linux support for this card at all? TIA... 8<--->8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8<---

Help. I'm dead in the water. Bad file number for /dev/ttyx

1997-09-22 Thread Darin Johnson
Ack, I can't boot, and I can't figure out the problem. Any help is appreciated; even if you don't want to read to the end of the message, at least some hints on where to find docs will help (no, I can't read linux man pages). Symptom is that when I boot, I get something like (I had to write it do

Mouse? (fwd)

1997-09-22 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello everybody, I think I have to clarify the question I have. I have 2 mice which I tried One is 3-button Microsoft mouse. I use ms option in gpm. It works ALL RIGHT in text mode: all three buttons. Under X-windows left and right buttons are O.K., but middle one does not work at all. I try