Strange Behaviour with ALS100-based Sound Card Loaded as Module

1997-12-28 Thread Cleto Pescia
Hello, I'm experiencing a strange problem with my ALS100-based SB16-compatible PnP sound card: Although isapnp is detecting and configuring the card correctly, and the sound module loads as expected (i.e. cat /proc/sndstat reports the expected configuration), I can only play MIDI files right after

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery > agent, everything is fine, but otherwise sendmail seems to send itself > into infinite loops trying to deliver

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-28 Thread Carl Fink
> Even though it takes longer, I've gotten to the point where I want to > isolate individual issues whenever possible. This aids me in learning, > maintaining and troubleshooting. Of course, when things are fubar, > that's another story. In principle, I agree. When I'm really, really frustra

Re: hang on bootup

1997-12-28 Thread Jason and Heather
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 10:26:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then > Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! Thanks for the info. I don't have a SCSI card in my computer, so I'm not too surprised it isn't working. > It

Re: Grey Screen After Starting XF86

1997-12-28 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Newbie Question: > > I've configured XF86 (correctly I think) but evertime I try to start it > with the "X" command, I get a grey screen and an X cursor. Nothing > happens after that. Try "startx" command instead of plain "X". Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +-

Re: hang on bootup

1997-12-28 Thread bhmit1
On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! It then continues to boot normally. Perhaps you didn't wait long enough. Or, maybe you have a device that doesn't want to be probed (I solve this by opening the case, unplugging a

Re: Grey Screen After Starting XF86

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Krio wrote: > I've configured XF86 (correctly I think) but evertime I try to start it > with the "X" command, I get a grey screen and an X cursor. Nothing > happens after that. > > What is wrong here? Is it not reading the config file? If so, how do I > tell X where the co

Grey Screen After Starting XF86

1997-12-28 Thread Krio
Newbie Question: I've configured XF86 (correctly I think) but evertime I try to start it with the "X" command, I get a grey screen and an X cursor. Nothing happens after that. I've got the right card and monitor settings. I'm running the VGA16 server. What is wrong here? Is it not reading the

giving up, for now

1997-12-28 Thread Rick
Hi, I am giving up with linux, for now, mainly due to lack of sucess and hd space. I will try again when i get a second hd. (and maybe a book or two!) Thanks to all who have helped in someway. Rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

HELP: TkDesk problem

1997-12-28 Thread Albert Hurd
This fledgling user would like help. I fired up TkDesk in my new install of Debian 1.3.1 and loved it. Then I decided to add one new command to the Command list drop-down menu, following the instructions in configuration. I typed in the new command in Commands config and hit F5 to save and return t

Elm Error

1997-12-28 Thread Aaron Walker
When I start Elm as root is works fine but when I start Elm as my user name, amwalker, is says: What's this? The temp folder already exists?? Then this disappears after a second then it says: Ahhh... I give up. This also works with other users besides root. Another problem... When I open up Elm

Login.defs for SuperUser

1997-12-28 Thread jebstar
I get the following message when I log on as 'su'. configuration error - unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE' (notify administrator) I cleared this out in the login.defs file (per help on this list) for a normal login by setting up a null /etc/issue file. I can login now as a normal user without the mes

Re: Perl & dpkg

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On 25 Dec 1997, William R Ward wrote: > Does anyone have a solution to this? I'd like to install the basic > Perl, and am fine with using .deb files for that, but wish to reserve > the right to upgrade using "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and its nifty > interface. > You could use the equivs package fro

Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > Now, (having booted off the disk), I check my /etc/ppp/ and am > disappointed to find that I have no scripts already there that I can > customize. :(. So, I decited to try a program that was recommended to me by The "standard" way in debian t

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-28 Thread David Stern
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997 21:59:23 EST, wrote: > I can print now. Congratulations. :-) > I am not completely sure what I did to fix the problem -- I reran > magicfilterconfig, I reinstalled gs, and I changed the printer defined > by magicfilter from DeskJet 500C to plain DeskJet 500. Even though it t

Re: dpkg

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 07:45:25PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > IS there a dpkg option to list all the installed packages? I looked in > the > man pages but didn't see anything that [obviously] did that If not, > since it keeps track of what is installed, I presume there must be s

Re: XF86

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 07:41:12PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > I asked about this before, but I don't think it got through because I > didn't receive the message from the list... What command line options > would I use to start X with 24bit color, 1024X size desktop, 75hz refresh > rate,

dpkg

1997-12-28 Thread Timothy Hospedales
IS there a dpkg option to list all the installed packages? I looked in the man pages but didn't see anything that [obviously] did that If not, since it keeps track of what is installed, I presume there must be some file somewhere which has them listed in it, anyone happen to know whic

XF86

1997-12-28 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I asked about this before, but I don't think it got through because I didn't receive the message from the list... What command line options would I use to start X with 24bit color, 1024X size desktop, 75hz refresh rate, and open look window manager? thanx, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

dselect ftp

1997-12-28 Thread Rob
Hi all. A brief question, which I suspect may require a verbose answer... Is there a way to install debain using ftp on a dial-up connection? I suspect one may have to install ppp support from an alternate console before dselect will work, but is there a recognised way of doing this? Thanks in

Re: Fetchmail and Exim config problem

1997-12-28 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Gerald Belton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm very close to have all of my net functions working. I can ftp, > ping, and browse the web with Netscape. I can get mail from my ISP > with netscape, but I really don't want to be stuck with that as my > mail reader. > > I'm trying to configur

Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1997-12-28 Thread emaziuk
On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 06:34:02PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 > Dec 25 > 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: Using interface ppp0 > Dec 25 17:59:23 jade > pppd[192]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 > Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: > sen

Re: hang on bootup

1997-12-28 Thread Jason and Heather
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 01:18:41AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:15:38AM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging > > hard right after the line: > > > > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 > > > > I've f

debian install not recognizing cdrom

1997-12-28 Thread RHS Linux User
Thanks to all who replied about this. I haven't tried out the suggestions yet because my cdrom drive seems to be packing up :( I'll have a go when I've replaced it. Anthony -- ** Anthony Campbell* Using RedHat Linu

libc6-dev problems

1997-12-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey Very often, when compiling programs, I get errors with redefines, like this: In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:12, from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:73, from pthread.h:26, from pthread.c:24: /usr/include/linux/wait.h:4: warning: `W

Re: hang on bootup

1997-12-28 Thread Zach Wilkes
mine does this too but onmine if I wait about 5 minutes and let it sit there, sooner or later it will skip past that portion and go on into linux.. ---Jason and Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging > hard right after the line:

Unidentified subject!

1997-12-28 Thread jaclyn stillman
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Re: hang on bootup

1997-12-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:15:38AM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging > hard right after the line: > > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 > > I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers > to the probl

Re: Installing Debian and setting up PCMCIA E-net

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 02:00:57PM -0600, Asher Haig wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian after having Redhat installed on my system. > I've gone through the install, but I'm confused as to how I can make my > ethernet card work. The card is a PCMCIA 3-com 3c589a. It doesn't seem as > if there

hang on bootup

1997-12-28 Thread Jason and Heather
I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging hard right after the line: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers to the problem... jason -- "The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expect

Re: Setserial problems.

1997-12-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 12:14:54AM -0800, Dean Somji wrote: > I tried running setserial on ttys1 (my modem on com2), but I get a I/O Error > message all the time. I have checked permissions, but don't know what else > to do. Please help. (BTW: I have checked various faq's and how-to's with > lit

New maintainer request

1997-12-28 Thread Adam Heath
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- My name is Adam Heath. I am currently attempting to add Linux support for the H.323 video conferencing protocol, both as masquerading, and a proxy. I have also rewritten redir, to support ip-aliasing, and to make it function as a load balancer. However, I have

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 09:30:56PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to > > reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER > > ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. > >Well, although nearly fatal, I

remote backup

1997-12-28 Thread mfrattola
Hi, and happy holidays season to all. I'm trying to remote backup a debian machine and I'm having some trouble, so I'm looking for advice. Usually I backup using tob, i.e. afio. What I want now is that for the machine with tape to share it with other machines on the same lan, at least allowing them

Setserial problems.

1997-12-28 Thread Dean Somji
Please bear with me, I'm plodding through the installation of a linux system... I tried running setserial on ttys1 (my modem on com2), but I get a I/O Error message all the time. I have checked permissions, but don't know what else to do. Please help. (BTW: I have checked various faq's and how-

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-28 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR175) host retry file locked > And if I do "rm /var/spool/smail/retry/smtp/localhost", I get these in > the msglogs. > Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR148) transport smtp: connect: > Connection refused O

Fetchmail and Exim config problem

1997-12-28 Thread Gerald Belton
I'm very close to have all of my net functions working. I can ftp, ping, and browse the web with Netscape. I can get mail from my ISP with netscape, but I really don't want to be stuck with that as my mail reader. I'm trying to configure exim and fetchmail. I've read all the documentation a

smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-28 Thread Will Lowe
usually I have an ethernet link at school, and I use fetchmail to fetch mail from our pop server. At the moment, I'm at home, and I have ppp running fine (also did "ifconfig eth0 down" to get rid of the ethernet link). But now smail is giving me all sorts of problems -- fetchmail is fetching m

Printing problem solved

1997-12-28 Thread Carl Fink
I can print now. I am not completely sure what I did to fix the problem -- I reran magicfilterconfig, I reinstalled gs, and I changed the printer defined by magicfilter from DeskJet 500C to plain DeskJet 500. I still maintain that the docs for *nix printing are among the worst I've ever seen . .

Re: changing domain name

1997-12-28 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: > How would I go about changing my domain name? Thanks for your help. Assuming you mean just convincing your machine that it's on a different domain (rather than trying to convince teh rest of the net), you could try cd /etc fgrep "oldhostname" * and the

Re: can4t use FIPS on windows 95

1997-12-28 Thread G John Lapeyre
I did get fipsb to work. However , I now keep getting an error like "vfbackup cannot load vfd.vxd", when I try to boot the toy OS . There are quite a few messages about this in email archives from windows users. It seems to be quite sticky. The toy OS company has a page on fixing the p

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-28 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: > reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and was surprised at how > many things it broke. It broke things "real good." :-) Since I did Yup. :) > have a spare partition on this machine I went ahead and used an old copy > of Debian 1.2 and installed

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-28 Thread Randy Edwards
Scott K. Ellis wrote: > Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to > reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER > ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Well, although nearly fatal, I didn't have to do a complete reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 a

Intrasystem mail and Assosiations..

1997-12-28 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi, Is there a How-to on how to set up a mail system for intra system use only? I want to be able to send myself reminders and soforth ... I also want to do some experimenting with allowing my system to send me mail about system events...? I was also wondering if there was a way to link a data fi

Unidentified subject!

1997-12-28 Thread tak
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PCMCIA E-Net Errors.... More Again

1997-12-28 Thread Asher Haig
Hey once again... For anyone who's looked at my last two mails, I'm still having the same problem setting up a 3c589a pcmcia ethernet card. I'm using a debian distrib and have pcmcia services installed and working. The problem is that I'm not real sure how to go about setting up the card for et

Re: Mail!

1997-12-28 Thread Rob S. Wolfram
Will Lowe wrote: > If you want a simple, powerful email/news client, I recommend pine. > It's nonfree because you can't redistribute it for profit, but works > good, and runs really well in an xterm ... I use it because it's what we > use at school, and I can run it without X across a dialup l

changing domain name

1997-12-28 Thread Aaron Walker
How would I go about changing my domain name? Thanks for your help. -- `` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTEC