On Dec 12, A. M. Varon wrote
> Hi,
>
> I have heard of some problems with AMD K6 Anyone to comment?
>
> The reason is because I have a K6 200 right beside me. :)
There are problems with certain runs of the K6 and linux with
more than 32 MB RAM. It's documented on their web page, along
with h
> To:"Lightning Firestormer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc:debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: A question regarding hardware
> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 13 Dec 1997 10:20:01 -0500
>(B) If no
> Dear Linuxoids,
Hmm...
> - If I want to install magicfilter and it needs dvips does it mean I have
> to install tetex (tetex-bin, tetex-base, tetex-extra ...)?
You may install no tetex at all but then you won't be able to print
.dvi files. To have this ability, install tetex-base and tetex-bi
The 2.1.72 and more recent kernels support your card explicitly. It's an
"experimental" kernel, so you get to build it on your own and suffer
its bugs. You can get it from ftp.kernel.org .
Bruce
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On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, cheng tang wrote:
> Does anyone have experience in configuring yamaha
> OPL3-SA3 card? It is 3D sound, 16bit full duplex
> pnp card. After compiling a new kernel and reboot,
> I did not see any message about sound module in
> startup. Use 'cat /dev/sndstat', it shows like this
Dear Linuxoids,
I have several questions on printing
- If I want to install magicfilter and it needs dvips does it mean I have
to install tetex (tetex-bin, tetex-base, tetex-extra ...)?
- Could someone tell me how to set up a remote printer. I can print text
files, but how to make it use a filte
Hi,
I am looking for a way to allow my computer to dial a pager and send the
number ... I was wondering if anyone had a way to do this via a shell
script or maybe there is a pager program ?... Debian Package?
-Kevin, kc5vxy
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Hi,
I am currently working on the port of DCE 1.2.2 to Linux,
based on the work of Jim Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. This is not yet a
working cncern. We are working with The open Group (the new name for
OSF now they have merged with X/Open), and as far as I am aware [and
I should be awar
I got irritated enough at the assorted problems from my dirty, inherited
installation to wipe the disk and do a clean install.
Installing hamm with X and a few more packages required about 10 (at least)
passess through install/configure in deselect, and even so, i had to manually
install perl
Does anyone have experience in configuring yamaha
OPL3-SA3 card? It is 3D sound, 16bit full duplex
pnp card. After compiling a new kernel and reboot,
I did not see any message about sound module in
startup. Use 'cat /dev/sndstat', it shows like this
cat: /dev/sndstat: Operation not supported by d
Sorry for asking stupid questions on the list but I was unable/too lazy
to figure this out:
I mirror debian site at school (lets call it site A). I also mirror it at
home(site B).
Sometimes I point my home mirror to school site(A), sometimes to official
mirrors(O). Very often then the mirror at h
hi,
does anyone out there on this list know what this is telling me?
allan
Drive C: has 1 Error
4,096 Bytes Per Clusters
2,504 (9Mb) Available Clusters
0 (0Mb) Bad Clusters
303 (1Mb) Clusters in 222 Directories
5,529 ( 21Mb)
tmalloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
t> It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access
t> partitions which use the lilo boot system.
Why not? The only rule I'm aware of is that you can't use DOSEMU
directly on a mounted filesystem -- though IIRC you can use lredir to
gain access to
Has anyone successfully setup a PnP Cable-Modem in Linux?
I'm guessing I will have to use isapnptools to set it up.
If you have been successfull at this, please help.
Thanks for your time.
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George Bonser wrote:
>
>When will Debian learn about dtterms? I am now using a SPARC-IPC running
>Solaris and CDE as my desktop. I use it to connect to four different
>Debian systems. It is getting to be a pain to keep setting my $TERM to
>xterm (I do not know if this is even correct ..
" lex Maneu" wrote:
>-I want to put a picture as the background of X-Windows, or simply
>change the background color. Where is it specified? Which files must
>I edit?
Look at `man xsetroot'. xv also has the capability, opnce you have installed
it.
>-XV: I've been looking for this progr
Ben Pfaff wrote:
>Aren't the problems with having the newsgroups that cluless people
>send stupid messages and spam to the lists? So if we just allow
>people to *read* the lists on newsgroups, but require them to send
>submissions to the e-mail address, then we've got the best of both
>w
Is anybody using Supermount v6 for the 2.0.32 kernel? I recently
added the supermount patches to my 2.0.32 kernel and when I do a
system shutdown I get an occasional kernel panic when the
/etc/init.d/halt script is at the 'umount -a' line. The system
hangs at that point and I have to hit the res
For sound support you will have to recompile your kernel with Sound Blaster
support. You will also need cdtools or xmcd to listen to audio CDs.
There is a sound HOWTO:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html
If you are new to linux, and compiling kernels, be forwarned... everything
It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions
which use the lilo boot system. This seems to indicate that the boot
partition, normally dev/hda1, cannot be DOS on a dual boot system if you
intend to use dosemu from linux. Two solutions are suggested by this. One
repartion
(A) Will the current release of Debian, by default, detect the card?
I don't think so. Maybe.
(B) If not, is there anything that can be done to get it to detect?
Yes. There is a compile-time kernel option to switch on support for
Promise IDE interface cards. You could turn this on and r
Why do you want to do that?
On 13 Dec 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the
spam
>and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
>
> I think that we need to make the newsgroups read-only. Any
> submissions to
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 01:39:05AM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
[snip - BIOS and large HDs]
> Take your pick. What many people seem to be confused about is that
> many, if not most, decisions concerning this stuff are driven by
> market forces requiring backward com
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:54:06AM +0100, @lex Maneu wrote:
>
> -I want to put a picture as the background of X-Windows, or simply
> change the background color. Where is it specified? Which files must
> I edit?
>
I can only answer this question. :) You need to edit .xsession or .xinitrc
file, use
Wintermute writes:
> New problem.
>
> When I attempt to install the Perl 5.004.04-3 file, it breaks at the
> post-installation phase.
> As such, other updates that require Perl will not configure themselves.
>
> I have even fetched the file manually and used dpkg (with most all of
> the d
Greetings.
I've wanted to install some version of *nix for quite some time now,
and I recently acquired enough hard disk space to do so. However,
when attempting to install both FreeBSD 2.2.5 and Slackware Linux
3.4, I discovered that neither OS was able to detect my controller
card. The car
Hi to everybody.
I still have some questions about Linux, I think they'll be easy
for you to answer.
-I want to put a picture as the background of X-Windows, or simply
change the background color. Where is it specified? Which files
must
I edit?
-XV: I've been looking for this program, but I don'
smorrill wrote:
> I have a ViewSonic 15G monitor and an older "JAX 8241" video card
> with an S3 805 chipset. I've got the boot magazine disk version of
> Debian installed on my 586 and so far everything's working great, except
> for
>
>I'm trying to get XFree86 up and running and am
What is Active / Passive Hub? I thought all hub the same, now, I have
to changed my mind.
Lawrence
Oz Dror wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am going to rewire all the phone lines in my home using grade 5 UTP wires.
> I am also going to have a star configuration for phone and ethernet
> wires. I have a Linux
Hi,
My isp is complaining about my "sender:" header lines in my emails:
> Please don't send email until you have your system set up properly.
> Your return address is still wrong and undeliverable:
>
>David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> You are not on "mailhost1.cac.washington.edu".
In
Hello.
there are problems with my private mail address. Whats wrong with
it, how could I proceed?
Thank you.
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When I try to run a python script that uses Tk, I get:
### BEGIN INCLUDE
_kruto[p4]:~% grail&
[1] 25187
_kruto[p4]:~% python: can't resolve symbol 'XpmCreateXpmImageFromData']
python: can't resolve symbol '_IO_putc'
python: can't resolve symbol 'XpmFreeX
Hi,
I am going to rewire all the phone lines in my home using grade 5 UTP wires.
I am also going to have a star configuration for phone and ethernet
wires. I have a Linux server and 2 or 3 NT clients. Even though I have three
or four computers. I will have 12 points in the network. One computer (la
I have twice tried upgrading to ppp 2.3, but the provided
options file contains the dns-addr lines but pppd complains
about unrecognise options. How do I fix this? Other
people seem to be using it successfully. There are a number
of outstanding bugs with ppp which do not look too difficult
to fix.
I don't know if this has ever been discussed but I ran into a little problem wit
h fdformat and thought I would share my solution just in case others have the sa
me problem.
I'm one of these people who have 1000s of junk 1.44 floppies laying around that
I usually end up formatting and re-using th
I don't have an answer to Caleb's questioning about mirroring hamm,
but I do have a related question.
There are symbolic links in the hamm tree which point to the
corresponding bo file for files which have not yet been upgraded to
hamm. I would like to mirror all of hamm, and only that part of bo
I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam
and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
I think that we need to make the newsgroups read-only. Any
submissions to the list should be required to come via e-mail.
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This sounds like you havn't specified your dns. You need to do that
as a numeric, that is, in my case, 204.123.37.23 - try adding the line:
nameserver111.111.111.11
to your /etc/resolv.conf file where 111.111.111.11 is the proper
string for your dns. HTH
On 13-Dec-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr
> bruce writes:
> I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can
> tolerate the spam and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
Agreed.
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I just got a Sanyo 20x ide/atapi cdrom drive and my kernel detects it but I
can't seem to mount it to /cdrom, what /dev/... file is the sanyo cd linked
to? every one I found I tried got the following message:
the kernel doesn't recognize ... as a block device
G'razel the shifty kit
On Fri, Dec 12, 1997 at 09:00:38PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I installed and configured minicom but I'm still have a few problems. I
> ran minicom and entered the prefix and phone number, the modem dialed-up
> and connected to my isp. I then entered my user id and passwd and it
> when int
I installed and configured minicom but I'm still have a few problems. I
ran minicom and entered the prefix and phone number, the modem dialed-up
and connected to my isp. I then entered my user id and passwd and it
when into ppp data or something to that effect and started sending data
(aka junk a
Hi,
This is probably a silly question, but I thought I'd ask anyway:
How does one set up procmail as the default mail delivery program when
using smail as MTA?
I have set up procmail on a per-user basis (using a proper ~/.forward and
~/.procmailrc) and it works, but I would like procmail to hand
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> > Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Your misinformation was that:
> >
> > - BIOS imposes the current partitioning scheme opon us, and limits the
> > number of primary parti
On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam
> and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
Ummm, I guess we could:
- shut down the news gateway, and restrict posts to debian-user to those
who are subscribed to it, and make
On 12 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote:
> Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Yes, by using exec to launch a command from a script, the process
> associated with the script (/bin/sh) is replaced by the process
> associated with the command. This saves a few system resources, since
> the
At 08:50 AM 12/12/97 +0100, Sten Anderson wrote:
>Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> whoops, this should have gone to the list too.
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>>
> [ I said: ]
>> > > >It is NOT necessary for the la
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> >
> > BTW, the version of PERL I'm trying to install is 5.004.04-2.
> >
> There is a perl 5.004.04-3 at
> ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/DONE/
>
> Maybe it will solve your problems.
New problem.
When I attempt to install the Perl 5.004.04-3 file, it bre
Zula wrote:
>
> I'm using the Debian linux and have that same problem with the sony
> cdu31a x2 speed. I'm at the installing OS and device drivers, It
> can'r pick prorietary cdrom. I made the device drivers {rawrite2 -f
> drv1440.bin -d a:). Is there something i miss? I tried the
> cdu31a=0x3
After switching my servers(2) around I now get the following message
when I try to talk with anyone:
[Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99).
Why ? What can I do to fix it
I'm sure it just a configuration error as I didn't change anything else.
Thanks,
Matthe
I'll put up with some of the spam, and as for misdirected mail, welll...
being a complete Linux newbie, I've probably submitted my share. But
I've learned a lot from the folks on this list. I'd sure hate to see it
go
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>> - BIOS imposes the current partitioning scheme opon us, and limits the
>> number of primary partitions to four (not true - BIOS knows nothing
>> about partitions and doesn't care either).
> It does have the "1024 cylinders" problem though.
Only because of backwa
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