>
> I once saw someone (running Red Hat) who had an X session going on one
> console, and text sessions (or if he wanted, he could run additional X
> sessions) on the others. He switched using Ctrl-Alt-F (1<=n<=6).
>
Is doing this detrimental to the monitor?
For the most part I prefer to use t
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Michael Stutz wrote:
> > Is a UPS good protection or is it "fluff"?
>
> It's well worth it. My UPS has saved my system at least four times in the
> past year.
Good stuff. I know no worse feeling than a powered-off-in-10ms Linux
server.
> > like to find out which models have
I have a problem with mc not running on my bo box, but the exact same
program runs fine on all my other debian boxes.
gum# mc
mc: can't resolve symbol 'log'
mc: can't resolve symbol 'sqrt'
mc: can't resolve symbol 'cos'
mc: can't resolve symbol 'sin'
mc: can't resolve symbol 'pow'
mc: can't res
On Thu, 01 Jan 1998 14:14:13 EST, LKloss wrote:
> [..proper pre-install procedure snipped..]
>
> Now, first problem. I take the boot-rescue disk, put it in the disk drive,
> reboot the system, get a message from debian giving me various help screens,
> and then the boot: prompt. So I press return a
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a fairly urgent need for load balancing two modems, but eql just
> > does not work for me. All the bits are in place but all traffic goes via
> > ppp1.
> >
> > There are quite a few steps in
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 02:50:12PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> > The problem was, that I am using NAS to network'ize my soundcard, and that
> > meant doom couldn't acquire the card. Whenever I move the cursor in the
> > menu,
> > there is a sound, which is why it broke.
> >
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I recently purchased Dale Scheetz's book "The Debian Linux User's Guide"
>and installed Debian Linux 1.3 on my 486. I have been unable to get
>XWindows working inspite of several days of effort.
>
>Hardware:
>i486 w/ 16 meg
>Linux 1.3 booting using a dual b
Until I upgraded to hamm, I could use /sbin/clock to set and view the
CMOS clock. That program is gone now! Did something else replace it?
--Bill.
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Ahh, thanks! That works! Now what if I go to F2 and run another X
session. The original one will still be on 7, and the new one on 8??
--Bill.
Greg Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> X uses the lowest-numbered unattached VT (i.e. no getty running on it).
> Assuming you havn't changed debian
Hi, everybody --
I know this type of question must have been asked before but I can't
find a real answer:
I've installed WinNT4.0 on /dev/sda (first, 540Mb SCSI drive) and Debian
Linux 1.3.1 on /dev/sdb (sdb5 for root thru sdb9 for home fs) in that
order. At the moment I use a floppy to boot linux
Hi,
I was trying to feed the HTML declaration that comes with the
HTML 4.0 recommendation to nsgmls (sp version 1.1.1-4.1), but it
complains a lot. When I do:
$ nsgmls -e -g -s -u HTML4.dec
nsgmls:HTML4.decl:23:32:E: this system requires that characters in the
document character set not
Had the same problem with a BusLogic BT-948 SCSI controller on an
Intel Motherboard. Tried hard termination on the cable, using async
instead of sync transfers, dropping the transfer speed from 20Mb/sec
to 10Mb/sec, all with little to no effect. Then tried the 2.0.32
kernel (was using the defaul
Þann 01-Jan-98 skrifar Joey Hess:
>
> You can edit your ~/.doomrc, and there is a line in there that lets you
> configure the path to the sndserver.
>
yeah, I took a peak at the source and found the M_LoadDefaults routine, and
some of the keywords. The 'key_fire' is especially interresting, s
No idea about the filter (sorry), but the kernel is easy. Grab
kernel-source and kernel-package packages, cd /usr/src/linux, 'make
menuconfig', make your choices (best to make everything you can but root
filesystem driver (ext2fs) and storage subsystem driver (scsi or ide)
in to modules. Then run
Probably a problem with the tcp wrappers and the dns entries for your
win95 box. By default on a Debian system, the wrappers look up the
hostname of incoming connections from the IP address, the lookup the
hostname to check that it matches the original IP (not much of a security
measure really). I
Create a file called elmheaders in your .elm directory. In this file
put a line like this:
From: "Your name"
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X uses the lowest-numbered unattached VT (i.e. no getty running on it).
Assuming you havn't changed debian's defaults, that will be #7, so try
Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to your X session.
At 01:52 PM 1/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>I once saw someone (running Red Hat) who had an X session going on one
Hi there
I have been trying to telnet from win 95 system to a linux system, but no luck.
In win 95 I've started the telnet program and clicked connect and then typed in the IP address for the linux system, but I receive a error msg saying Connection to host lost.
Any suggestions on this
Than
good afternoon!
i have been lurking here for about a month and find this an amazing list.
i brought up bo on a P83/40mb gateway box with vlb. i am not in a hurry
and want to really learn un*x this time. at this point, the machine runs
the base system and can print. it has a bus mouse, so i ne
On 1 Jan 1998, William R Ward wrote:
>
> I once saw someone (running Red Hat) who had an X session going on one
> console, and text sessions (or if he wanted, he could run additional X
> sessions) on the others. He switched using Ctrl-Alt-F (1<=n<=6).
>
> When I try this, I can switch just fine
Steve Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
> > I am looking to buy a used Sparc and I know that there are important
> > differences between older models. What are the models to stay away from
> > and which ones are ideal? How do I tell them apart?
>
>
I once saw someone (running Red Hat) who had an X session going on one
console, and text sessions (or if he wanted, he could run additional X
sessions) on the others. He switched using Ctrl-Alt-F (1<=n<=6).
When I try this, I can switch just fine from X to text, but not back
again. If I run X o
> available on a name-brand workstation, such as a SPARC. Assuming you're
> using Linux, do commercial SPARC software packages work with Linux?
Well, sunos ones appear to; on my SS1+ here, which is booting
sparc-linux off of a zip disk, but still mounts the original SunOS
4.1.3 disks under /sd/
Do you have 1.3.0? I understand that there was a problem with xdm and
shadow passwords. If that's what you're experiencing, it should be fixed
by issuing "shadowconfig off" followed by "shadowconfig on" as root.
At 02:46 PM 1/1/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I recently purchased Dale Scheetz's book "The
I recently purchased Dale Scheetz's book "The Debian Linux User's Guide"
and installed Debian Linux 1.3 on my 486. I have been unable to get
XWindows working inspite of several days of effort.
Hardware:
i486 w/ 16 meg
Linux 1.3 booting using a dual boot system and loadlin
24speed ide CDROM
Diamo
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Let me be a bit more specific ...
I no longer have NT on the machine. I formatted the whole disk in disgust. So
lets just assume that currently I have nothing on the machine.
I made the debian 1.3 floppies on a machine with a CD-Rom drive and DOS
comman
I was wondering if anyone could help me with my email configuration
(hopefully, I haven't missed anything TOO obvious). I'm running a
standalone machine with a dialup PPP account to my ISP, using
smail/fetchmail to handle mail-delivery, and elm-me+ for my mail-reader.
Local mail works great (not m
Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> The problem was, that I am using NAS to network'ize my soundcard, and that
> meant doom couldn't acquire the card. Whenever I move the cursor in the menu,
> there is a sound, which is why it broke.
>
> There is a sndserver for NAS, and I compiled it. It seems to work o
Þann 01-Jan-98 skrifar Joey Hess:
>
> What version of doom are you using? Do you have doom-musserver installed,
> and if so, what version? Do you have a sound card?
>
The problem was, that I am using NAS to network'ize my soundcard, and that
meant doom couldn't acquire the card. Whenever I m
Okay - I bet this has been asked before and, if so, my apologies...
I just finished my upgrade to hamm and have a few pkgs that will not
configure due to dependance on libc6-dev which refuses to configure due
to dependance on the kernel-headers (or kernel-source) package version
2.0.32-2 that do
On Thu, 01 Jan 1998 04:35:24 EST, LKloss wrote:
> I recently bought the debian 1.3 cd's and an IBM thinkpad 760xl. The IBM came
> with windows NT preinstalled. I have a 2.1Gig HD which I repartitioned into
> two gig partitions using fips.exe. That worked fine.
>
> My NT partition was booting fine (
Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> Has anyone gotten DOOM to work? Here, the program starts, but when I try to
> move the cursor, or press any ke, after the Menu comes up the program stops
> with the message 'broken pipe'. Any ideas?
What version of doom are you using? Do you have doom-musserver installed
Hi,
I thought I'd post this to debian-user, since Anthony thought this was
worth sharing. I've deleted the attachment with the HACKs in it -- you
can find this at http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ca/email/check.html
The message details how to implement relay controls and use of the MAPS
RBL on
Has anyone gotten DOOM to work? Here, the program starts, but when I try to
move the cursor, or press any ke, after the Menu comes up the program stops
with the message 'broken pipe'. Any ideas?
Orn Einar Hansen
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> I am looking to buy a used Sparc and I know that there are important
> differences between older models. What are the models to stay away from
> and which ones are ideal? How do I tell them apart?
>
> Appreciate any information or dire
On 31-Dec-97 Kevin J Poorman wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would Like to set up My computer to be able to send and recive mail
>(with a twist)... I would like to be able to upload and download mail
>only once a day ... (around 2 in the morning) so my mail would proably
>have to be up/downloaded to a local mail
Happy New Year.
After moving my Adaptec AHA-2940U/PCI and my CDROM and Tape drive to a
new motherboard
(Triton III SIS chipset with Cyrix PR-200MX processor and 48 Megs
memory), I am now having some kind of timeout problem when I do long
accesses to the CDROM and/or
other devices. At some point
Thanks, that works well.
Paul Serice
Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Paul Serice wrote:
> > I don't know if anyone else who uses xdm to manage multiple Servers
> > has run across the problem whereby starting all the servers
> > simultaneously can cause all sorts of problems, e.g., some of the
> > servers
On 1 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The lady down the hall here at Pixar wrote biff, and she says that Biff
> the Dog, after which it was named, wasn't very good at spelling. Any
> inarticulate sound will do.
I don't suppose there's any surviving audio recording of Biff, is there? I
can't th
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Gerald Wann wrote:
: I'm trying to install the pash shell pkg & it complains about
: needing libstdc++.so.27. However, i can't seem to locate
: this package. Any directions much appreciated!
It's in the 'libg++27' package.
Package: libg++27
Status: install ok installed
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I recently bought the debian 1.3 cd's and an IBM thinkpad 760xl. The IBM came
with windows NT preinstalled. I have a 2.1Gig HD which I repartitioned into
two gig partitions using fips.exe. That worked fine.
My NT partition was booting fine (first partition) until I tried to install
linux. I made t
Hi all,
After I upgraded to hamm and new kernel, the mirror program stop working.
I got the following error message,
eea213# mirror-master /etc/mirror/mm/ftp.debian.org &
[1] 1101
eea213# chat:/usr/bin/../lib/mirror/lchat.pl:44 Caught a SIGSEGV shutting
down at /usr/bin/mirror line 3621.
[1]+
G. Crimp wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 10:04:41AM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> >
> > lesstif provides libXm.so.0. libXm.so.2 is from Motif.
> >
> > I see that there is a package gimp-dmotif (which conflicts with gimp). If
> > that
> > is what you installed, it requires Motif. Install gi
Paul Serice wrote:
> I don't know if anyone else who uses xdm to manage multiple Servers
> has run across the problem whereby starting all the servers
> simultaneously can cause all sorts of problems, e.g., some of the
> servers don't start because they are waiting to be told of an
> available scre
The lady down the hall here at Pixar wrote biff, and she says that Biff
the Dog, after which it was named, wasn't very good at spelling. Any
inarticulate sound will do.
Bruce
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On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 10:26:45PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> Make sure that your linux box is sending the email with EXACTLY the same
> address as you subscribed to the list with.
I don't think the list server actually checks this. I regularly
send to the list from whatever account I happen to
Can anyone tell me how to, (or just where to start looking in order to):
1. Turn up my mouse sensitivity so it moves faster.
2. Change the font used in xterms and x apps so it's bigger.
3. Make my mouse emmulate 3 buttons.
Oh yeah... has anyone tried Linux Explorer succesfully, it claims it needs
I have to write all my messages from my old NT system, because for some
reason whenever I send mail from my new Linux/X - Netscape, it doesn't seem
to get through to the list. Everywhere else I send mail to is fine.
Any ideas why its doing this?
Thanx,
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> ?? I thought that lesstif was supposed to do the same things Motif does.
> Could I make a symbolic link from libXm.so.2 --> libXm.so.0 ?
Hi.
Well, of course you can make this link, but it won't work anyway :)
Lesstif is _FAR_ from being drop-in replacement for Motif.
The most you can do with Le
Hi -
I'm trying to install the pash shell pkg & it complains about
needing libstdc++.so.27. However, i can't seem to locate
this package. Any directions much appreciated!
TIA
Jerry
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On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 09:16:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
[snip]
> > By the same,
> > Does someone know where can i get a 'Windows or Dos to Linux' Manual, it
> > can be very helpfull.
>
> I agree that it would be useful for the beginner, but haven't seen one.
>
Try the Linux Documentat
On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 10:04:41AM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> lesstif provides libXm.so.0. libXm.so.2 is from Motif.
>
> I see that there is a package gimp-dmotif (which conflicts with gimp). If
> that
> is what you installed, it requires Motif. Install gimp instead.
>
>
?? I thought
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 12:40:26PM +1100, Tim Bell wrote:
> Quoting Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Can any .AU users recommend any other debian mirrors in AU?
> > ftp.usyd.edu.au:/linux/debian was excellent but currently
> > contains only the indices subdirectory. Before that I found
> >
Quoting Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Can any .AU users recommend any other debian mirrors in AU?
> ftp.usyd.edu.au:/linux/debian was excellent but currently
> contains only the indices subdirectory. Before that I found
> www.unimelb.edu.au good but they ran out of disk space.
> They recomm
> > Is there a HOWTO or similar? I have /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/README.eql
> > and I got hold of eql-1.2.tar.gz which has the source for eql_enslave.
>
> It's in the NET-3 Howto.
>
> 6.6. EQL - multiple line traffic equaliser
Thanks - I missed that. But I don't think the writer has act
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would Like to set up My computer to be able to send and recive mail
> (with a twist)... I would like to be able to upload and download mail
> only once a day ... (around 2 in the morning) so my mail would proably
> have to be up/downloaded t
Hi,
I would Like to set up My computer to be able to send and recive mail
(with a twist)... I would like to be able to upload and download mail
only once a day ... (around 2 in the morning) so my mail would proably
have to be up/downloaded to a local mail spool ? .. Is this Even
Possible? ... I kn
Thanks everyone for the 'startx' tip.
I need to buy a book I think.
I got Linux of the Boot magazine CD and since I had read about it here and
there I decided to try it. It looks great but it takes a while to get the
hang of some of the commands, even the concepts. You can see, however,
how m
> Is there a HOWTO or similar? I have /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/README.eql
> and I got hold of eql-1.2.tar.gz which has the source for eql_enslave.
It's in the NET-3 Howto.
6.6. EQL - multiple line traffic equaliser
> The application is for a school which needs 64K bandwidth but ISDN is too
On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 04:47:31PM -0500, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> > From: "Albert Hurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I believe there is only one underscore in the file name. Try
> "xisp_2.1-1.deb"
Yes, I find that Netscape 4 loves to change all-but-one of the dots
in
I have a fairly urgent need for load balancing two modems, but eql just
does not work for me. All the bits are in place but all traffic goes via
ppp1.
There are quite a few steps in setting things up and I am wondering if
these things have to be done in a specific order.
How do I go about debug
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