A friend of mine would like to install Linux; he has a board by creative
that has both sound and modem on it.
Might linux have a problem with this - Is there any reason why it
mightn't work properly with a single board for music & modem?
(It's not one of the IBM DSP things).
Or better yet, has anyo
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Looking at the mgetty man page (I suspect you use mgetty and this is where
> you
> see this prompt) I see:
Nope; this is what I see:
dpkg -l "*getty*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have a Matrox mystique 220 videoboard.
> I have used the xbase, xserver-svga ant the fonts from the bo-updates
> directory
> on the installation CD.
> I have only installed the standard components in dselect (exept for the X11
> stuff).
>
> Has anyone experienced t
hi
where do i tell Xemacs about my mail and news server node names??
xemacs-options does not seem to be the spot.
thanx
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Dave Mallery, K5EN
po box 520; ramah nm 87321
505-783-4784
running Debian GNU/Linux."Free at last"
winNT: from the p
Hi. I have a(nother) problem. As implied by the subject line, my mouse
is completely frozen in X-Windows, rendering it very close to useless...
Also, though less major, I can't work out how to set permisions for my
non-root access. It would be nice to be able to dial out to PPP and to
play games t
Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> > Ah yes. Welcome to the magic of telnetd/login and getty/login. The first
> > login: prompt is supplied by your getty/telnetd. When you type in your
> > login and hit enter, the getty/telnetd execs /bin/login, passing the
>
I'm sorry if this thread has come up before (which I'm sure it
has), but I can't seem to find debian-relevent help anywhere. I have an MS
Intellipoint mouse, and would like to get the wheel to at least fuction as
a third button, hopefully even use it to scroll.
If you are runni
Hi debian users,
Problem: I am "autologin-ed" as root
everytime I start Debian.
It doesn´t seems that I have a valued
"root-account" because of that...
This files do I have
attached:
/etc/inittab
ls outputs of:
/etc/init.d
/etc/rc1.d
/etc/rc2.d
/etc/rc3.d
/etc/rc4.d
hope someone ca
I'm sorry if this thread has come up before (which I'm sure it
has), but I can't seem to find debian-relevent help anywhere. I have an MS
Intellipoint mouse, and would like to get the wheel to at least fuction as
a third button, hopefully even use it to scroll.
So far the only thin
I got it to work with info from
http://www.suse.de/~rj/english/tosh440CDX.html
which is a link from a more general laptop page:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
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I wrote:
> I'm having trouble configuring X for this notebook PC.
> XF86Setup appears to work, but the
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Ah yes. Welcome to the magic of telnetd/login and getty/login. The first
> login: prompt is supplied by your getty/telnetd. When you type in your
> login and hit enter, the getty/telnetd execs /bin/login, passing the
> username you typed in. If you e
A simpler way may be to use linload95 - it's a package I downloaded that
allows you to boot Win95, then click an icon and load Linux. I used Alta
Vista to search for Linux Load Win95 and found it on sunsite.unc.edu...
Works well! (And leaves your PC config alone...)
> --
> From: [E
Just wondering whether anything has changed recently with the xpm 4.7
package.
I used to be able to run scilab under twm, but I decided to change to
olvwm and so needed to install xpm but now scilab is messed up giving
BadPixmap!
Has anyone seen this?
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I wonder if anybody has experienced a similar problem: while trying to
install the kernel onto a new machine, the kernel starts booting, it
arrives to the following:
> checking hlt instruction: ok
> ...
Then the machine is suddenly reset and the familiar BIOS screen is shown
aga
Ah yes. Welcome to the magic of telnetd/login and getty/login. The first
login: prompt is supplied by your getty/telnetd. When you type in your
login and hit enter, the getty/telnetd execs /bin/login, passing the
username you typed in. If you enter an incorrect login, control does not
pass back to
I'm having trouble configuring X for this notebook PC.
XF86Setup appears to work, but the resultant /etc/XF86Config doesn't
work well at all.
If anyone has a working 800x600 XF86Config file for this notebook, please
send it to me!
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Hi,
For quite a while now I've been looking at this and I don't quite know
where even to look to fix it.
This is what happens:
--begin---
Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (unstable) pc47 tty2
pc47 login: kooij
Password:
Login incorrect
Debian GNU/\s 2.0 (unstable) \n \l
pc47 login:
Debian GNU/Linux 2.0
Try /usr/sbin/pppstats, from the ppp package.
Bob
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, "Ian Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I would like to know if there is a way where I can monitor the number of
> ppp0 packets transmitted and received as a continuous update on the screen.
> Similar to the way the tail
My PII-300 system, which has an Intel AL440LX motherboard runs the
benchmark thus:
joanna% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/specs
gcc version 2.7.2.3
joanna% gcc -O2 flops.c -o flops
joanna% ./flops
-5.4193e-130.1407 99.5369
joanna% ./flops
-5.4193
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Hello.
I have a doubt. Let's see:
Let's imagine that I have 2 hard disks in my computer, each one of 1GB
of capacity.
Let's also imagine that I want to install Linux & Windoze 95, but I want
the windows partition to be 1,5GB (that is to say, one d
Please reply to me aswell as I'm currently not on this list
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I have the cgiwrap running greatly. It was fun getting it to work for the
chroot environment part of my server uses aswell as the permissions. I
still have a few questions and interested in what others think.
Has anyo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, RUSSELL COOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>The following script shows my attempts to read my mail using mailx. =
>Results are the same for mail. Is the command 'p' used to print the =
>message to the terminal, as the man page states? I have been utterly =
>unsuccess
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote:
> at some point around Tue, 17 Feb 98 20:07:11 -0600
> Asher Haig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned:
>
> > If you set up LILO when you install it, and then tell LILO how to find
> > the Windows partition, you can easily do a dual boot. Superior to doing
>
At the risk of apearing to be knit-picking, I ask
(1) How much mempry do you consider as a lot ... from what I can remember
16Mb was sufficient to do away with the swap file (probably except if
you are runnig X ..)
(2) would a seperate drive be faster than a swap file on the same disk?
... This ha
What variable are you planning to look at,
mib-2.transmission.dot3.dot3CollTable?
The version of the snmp agent I've got doesn't have this part of the mib. Maybe
newer versions than I've got have it.
Anthony Landreneau wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have a situation where I would like to SNMP m
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On 18 Feb 1998, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi Manoj, thanks for make-kpkg I like it a lot. Especially the fact
> that your own kernel a full fledged package.
>
> >
> >Disadvantages of using make-kpkg
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Mohamed Ishan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded my redhat to debian 1.3.1, but for some odd reason (is
> this cause of a package I've installed?) I seem to get the following
> error when I tried to run dselect again (for ftp installation).
>
> ***
> Can't locate loa
Dear experts,
I'd really like to switch from gcc to pgcc from the Pentium Compiler
Group. (I used their pre-compiled gzip and it's really better than the
'standard one'...) As I have no experience with libraries and there
seems to be no Debian package around for pgcc (please give me a hint
if I'm
Greetings,
I have a situation where I would like to SNMP monitor the IPX traffic on
several floors of an office complex. Each floor has it's own collision
domain. I could put a DEBIAN PC on each floor and run the systems SNMP
agent, which should give me the information I will be looking for
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Igor Grobman wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 17 Feb 98, "IW" == IAN WATKINS wrote:
>
> IW> On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For
> IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem to come
> into
try
dpkg --help |& less
while true
do
grep ppp0 /proc/net/dev
sleep 1
done
Ian Perry wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a way where I can monitor the number of
> ppp0 packets transmitted and received as a continuous update on the screen.
> Similar to the way the tail command will show the last entries in a f
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Manoj, thanks for make-kpkg I like it a lot. Especially the fact
that your own kernel a full fledged package.
>
> Disadvantages of using make-kpkg
> - -- - -
>
> i) This is a cookie
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:03:30 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>Was wondering if anyone has had experience with this card on Debian
>systems. I've (kinda-sorta) got the SuSE X server running, but things
>seem to be a bit weird and I was wondering if anyone on the list had
>already got it working perfectly,
Ian Perry hat gesagt: // Ian Perry wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a way where I can monitor the number of
> ppp0 packets transmitted and received as a continuous update on the screen.
> Similar to the way the tail command will show the last entries in a file
> as they happen. I know I
C.J.LAWSON wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Mike Barker wrote:
>
> > would suggest using a sperate partion or drive for Linux, you'll need
> > one for swap anyway. I have win95, 2 versions of NT (workstaion 4 and
> Is that absolutely neccessary ... one for swap??
A separate drive certainly isn't
Joakim Burman wrote:
>
> Hi debian-users,
>
> I have some problem after I by a mistake downgraded ldso 1.9.x-->1.8.x
> The hole system breaked and I was forced to do a new installation with the
> rescue-floppy. I leaved the old filesystem unchanged and installed the
> base-system and made a boot-
K.Y.Lo wrote:
>
> Where do I get Netscape for Debian Linux?
Go to the netscape site and download either of:
netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
-or-
communicator-v403-us.x86-unknown-linux.2.0.tar.gz
Move (or copy) your chosen package to /tmp and make it be
owned by root.
Then i
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Mike Barker wrote:
> would suggest using a sperate partion or drive for Linux, you'll need
> one for swap anyway. I have win95, 2 versions of NT (workstaion 4 and
Is that absolutely neccessary ... one for swap??
J.
> Michael Barker
> Technician
> ATL Systems
>
> > -
You are probably using a plug and play network card. So you will have to
boot into DOS and the warmboot into Linux using Loadlin, or you will have
to use something called isapnptools. Pl see www.debian.org for details.
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Dai Jian Jun wrote:
> >Hi,
>
> >I am a newer of Linux
Hi debian-users,
I have some problem after I by a mistake downgraded ldso 1.9.x-->1.8.x
The hole system breaked and I was forced to do a new installation with the
rescue-floppy. I leaved the old filesystem unchanged and installed the
base-system and made a boot-floppy. Then after reboot, when I
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:06:26PM -0800, tony mollica wrote:
> When the system boots, is there a ttyS2 entry with the associated
> interrupt listed?
>
> cat /proc/interrupts won't display an interrupt that is not currently in
> use.
> The modem would have to be working before you can get it to s
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 09:12:57AM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote:
> I may be wrong here, but with your source mask set at
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32, the only packets that will make it through are
> broadcast packets. What happens if you change the source address to
> xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24. Someone enlighten me
Where do I get Netscape for Debian Linux?
i know about FTP
thank you
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I seek a CD ROM drivers (pioneer x10)for debian
>do you know where I can find it?
>have you got some address web?
>
CD-ROM drivers are part of the Linux kernel. Most modern drives are either
IDE or SCSI; in both cases the drivers are included in the kernel source
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I seek a CD ROM drivers (pioneer x10)for debian
What kind of CD-ROM is the Pioneer? If it's an ATAPI (IDE) CD-ROM,
plug it into the motherboard's IDE interface and it should be seen
automatically, like with my Mitsumi:
% dmesg | less
[...]
hda: WDC AC22000L, 1907MB
BRIAN SCHRAMM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just 'inherited' an IBM Laserprinter E. I have no manual for it and
> tried to find out about it on the IBM web site to no avail. Does
> anyone know what GS settings I would use to drive this printer? I
> would love to set it up
Niccolo Rigacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I installed Debian 1.3.1 from the Official CD. I installed the packages
> that dselect suggests.
>
> I found that the man program don't understand some tags. For example in
> the /usr/man/man4/console_codes.4.gz file I see the following that is
> s
On 17-Feb-98 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On 16 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>> Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it
>> on my PII/233 for comparison if you want.
>
> and Alex Yukhimets:
>
>> Same here, only with PII/300.
>
> You can find the source code here:
>
Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sorry, but my original message was a bit corrupted. Heres what it
should have said:
> I'm trying to install debian from the Official 1.3.1 distribution,
> unfortunately the setup routines cannot mount my cdrom.
>
> The CDROM is detected (as /dev/hdd) but when it
I seek a CD ROM drivers (pioneer x10)for debian
do you know where I can find it?
have you got some address web?
thank you.
best regards,
Pascal.
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I've been getting the following during the bootup for a while now,
just got around to ask what this actually means.
-
aha152x: processing commandline: ok
aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
aha152x0: vital data:
MI> Can't locate loadable object for module IO in @INC (@INC contains:
MI> /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5
MI> /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at
MI> /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Handle.pm line 241
MI> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Socke
Ian Perry wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a way where I can monitor the number of
> ppp0 packets transmitted and received as a continuous update on the screen.
> Similar to the way the tail command will show the last entries in a file
> as they happen. I know I can use ifconfig to show
Julian Morcinek wrote:
>
>[Julian Morcinek] I took a interest in this post as I will be belatedly upg
>rading my current Debian 1.1 installation (a dream - trouble free for ov
>er 2 years!). Just three questions:
>
>1. Are they any major reasons why the new libc version in r
II> IW> Is this correct behaviour or am I missing something? AFAICT al
II> IW> other packages I have done a | less on to get the help have wo
II> IW> expected.
II> Dpkg --help prints on stderr, not on stdout as most others do. This
II> expected behavior, and a bug is already filed.
Right.
Hello,
I've tried to run X on my newly installed Debian system, but the computer
crashes befor X starts. I get the error message:
xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): unexpected signal 1
waiting for X server to shutdown...
I have a Matrox mystique 220 videoboard.
I have used the xb
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Linux really isn't right for gutless corporate weasles with little knowledge
> about what they are doing and impatient closed-minded bosses.
Auteur! Auteur!
(This gets the Golden Rhetoric Award for this year! Wonderful! Yay!)
Cheers,
-
I know this is getting a fair way off the topic, but I am looking for help
with linux support for apples.
Basically I am trying to find a way for our apples computers to print via
our server. At the moment we are using papd (part of the netatalk
package), but this does not pass the name of the u
I would like to know if there is a way where I can monitor the number of
ppp0 packets transmitted and received as a continuous update on the screen.
Similar to the way the tail command will show the last entries in a file
as they happen. I know I can use ifconfig to show the number at an
instant,
at some point around Tue, 17 Feb 98 20:07:11 -0600
Asher Haig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned:
> If you set up LILO when you install it, and then tell LILO how to find
> the Windows partition, you can easily do a dual boot. Superior to doing
If you have NT, you can use a utility such as "bootpart" to add a line
to the boot.ini which lets you boot to linux from the NT boot loader. I
would suggest using a sperate partion or drive for Linux, you'll need
one for swap anyway. I have win95, 2 versions of NT (workstaion 4 and
server 5), and
Hi,
Was wondering if anyone has had experience with this card on Debian
systems. I've (kinda-sorta) got the SuSE X server running, but things
seem to be a bit weird and I was wondering if anyone on the list had
already got it working perfectly, before I try and do all the legwork
myself.
TIA,
T
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Shaleh wrote:
> Can someone point me towards docs on how cd changers function under
> 2.0.x kernels. I would appreciate it.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd
[begin quote]
- There is now rudimentary support for cdrom changers which comply
with the ATAPI 2.6 draf
On 17 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
> pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am a Linux fanatic living in India.
> >
> > I currently use Slackware 3.3.
> >
> > I wish to keep my system Microsoft-free. I have the follwing problem.
> >
> > (1) It is almost impossible to get non pnp
On 17 Feb 1998, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : I'm having trouble with smbfs etc when I try to use smbmount to mount
> : a win95 drive, I get the following errors:
> :
> : $ smbmount //[service]/c /mnt -n
> : smb_get_length: Invalid NBT packet
> : smb_
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2/17/98 7:47 PM
>I know Linux can be installed ontop of a dos partition. Can it be
>installed on top of Win 95 or NT. I need to know this because although I
>run linux at home my office is NT and 95. I would like to be able to boot
>to linux in the office
I feel so bad, i make a foolish thing to my girlfriend, and all is going
down all the relation ship, i want to fix it but i can talk to her i
don4t know whats happen.
Disfruta la vida con alegria,vive con intensidad,
sientela como si hoy fuera tu ultimo dia aqui en la tierra,
si quieres ha algui
Try pkzip/pkunzip (probably get it off the web) if that fails, there is a
dos version of tar .. I think you can get them from one of the simtel
archives (or find one using one of the archie sites )
For the nearest simtel site to you go to
http://www.coast.net/SimTel/msdos/filedocs/downl
I know Linux can be installed ontop of a dos partition. Can it be
installed on top of Win 95 or NT. I need to know this because although I
run linux at home my office is NT and 95. I would like to be able to boot
to linux in the office in order to work on some of my personal projects
when I have
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 02:22:38PM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had several problems with timezones, and for many weeks my clock was
> wrong because of daylight savings (even though it said it changed the
> clock at that time, looks like it lost this information at the firs
Is there any debian package for DJGPP (gcc port to dos)?
Of course, the cross compiler that runs under linux...
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On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:18:06PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It seems to me that the man package does not create the required data base
> immediately after its installation. Rather, it let a cron job to this work
> when it is schedualed to.
> I think this approch is wrong, since the insta
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 11:14:34AM -0500, David Gaudine wrote:
> > Unpacking samba (from .../net/samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/
> >samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb (--install):
> > trying to o
[Re-posting. Line died on previous post. Apologies for any duplicates.]
[Julian Morcinek] I took a interest in this post as I will be belatedly
upgrading my current Debian 1.1 installation (a dream - trouble free for over 2
years!). Just three questions:
1. Are they any major reasons wh
ok, htis one is wierd. As of late last week, searching in netscape (3.01)
yields nothing when going forwards, even if wrapped. Searching backwards
works fine.
has anyone seen this? and is there a solution?
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When the system boots, is there a ttyS2 entry with the associated
interrupt listed?
cat /proc/interrupts won't display an interrupt that is not currently in
use.
The modem would have to be working before you can get it to show up in
the list.
Have you tried dialing out using any other programs,
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