I have found that the XF86Setup utility doesn't work with some monitors,
especially with
multi-sync type monitors. It is much better the setup up the config file
manually with a text
editor. To do this you will need to know the exact specifications for your
monitor, including
horizontal and ve
I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support,
and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg:
Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01
however, a device is not assigned to t
I would like to know the meaning of the Execl Throughput Test
in the linux benchmark test (http://www.linuxnow.com/bench.html).
Fernando
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Does anyone know where I can find the binaries of gdk-imlibg and
gdk-imlibg-dev?
I downloaded the Enlightenment .13 binary and imlib1g from a Japanese
site during a severe net dredge for Enlightenment. Everything is
working fine right now, but to install imlibg, I had to remove the
old imlib1,
Hello,
I somehow messed up one of my long-stable hamm systems during an upgrade.
On boot-up, even a single-user boot, the boot process fails with the
message in the subject line above.
What may have caused this is that I ran out of space on my /usr partition
during the upgrade. Things have been
I have a quantum fireball ST, 3.2 gig. It sounds quite nice and fast
in Windows, but under Linux it thrashes around quite a bit. I hear
much much more disk activity than in Windows, and sometimes it sounds
unhealthy (I can hear the drive rattling around). This doesn't give me
warm fuzzies since th
Torsten Hilbrich writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes:
>> I am using the "emacs" package (19.34) and am finding that
>> increasingly there are more and more packages (e.g. pcl-cvs) that
>> depend on either "emacs19 or emacs20" and for some reason the
>> "emacs" package doesn't prov
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To Philip Jensen, the Maintainers of the Debian installation software
%
> During the install when asked if I want to boot off the hard drive,
> and I respond [Yes] i
Hi all, in a recent attempt to mirror hamm from the CDROM.COM web site
(http://www.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/dists/hamm) I received errors
when validating the MD5 checksums on the following files. I don't
know if they are bad on the debian.org site, since only FTP is
supported there and I find H
Hi
I have managed to install Debian v1.3 (I think) onto my Thinkpad760E. But I
have a couple of problems
During the install when asked if I want to boot off the hard drive, and I
respond [Yes] it asks which drive (/dev/hda) which is correct, then wants to
boot /dev/hda2, not /dev/hda7 which is
I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian
on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream,
and so far I have performed the basic installation.
Severall problems have appeared :
1- in the section of the configuration called Configure device driver I was
not able to find the inte
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > root's initialization files, or into the system-wide path. (I should
> > qualify this with the statement that I don't completely understand why
> > this is a security hole when it's done as the
"Marc van der Vossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> > font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*" doesn't exist
> >>
> >> So there is a font missing, where should it be and how should I install
> it.
> >
> >You should install either the xfnt75 or xfnt100 package. I'll try to
> >remember to have the
Accelerator : Alliance Semiconductor's 128-bit ProMotion AT25 PC
RAMDAC : 190 Mhz
Where can I find a driver for this card ?
There is a driver for AT25-based cards in the newest XFree86 3.3.2
SVGA server. If you are running bo, then upgrading to hamm will let
you use this ca
>hello i was wondering if anyone knew how to cross compile from
>linux for dos/win95. i wrote a lot of c code using the curses.h
>library and it does not port to borland or turbo c. is there
>some way i can tell gcc to compile it for a different
>operating system??
The README and INSTALL fil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes:
> I am using the "emacs" package (19.34) and am finding that
> increasingly there are more and more packages (e.g. pcl-cvs) that
> depend on either "emacs19 or emacs20" and for some reason the
> "emacs" package doesn't provide "emacs19" as I would expect
Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I should point out that it is considered a bad security idea to put
> "." (or in fact any directory name that doesn't begin with "/") in
> root's PATH. If you're just wanting to do something one time, it
> might be ok to do 'PATH=$PATH:.' as abo
>Did you setup the file 'XF86Config' ?. Your problem look likely come
>from the setup. If you did not setup that, use 'XF86Setup'
>command.
>
>Jongmook
>
>for me xwindows took several tries to get it installed correctly. the key i
>think
>was finding out exactly what kind of monitor and monitor
In order to configure a graphic card under Debian 1.3.1 it doesn't appear in
the drivers
installation list.
These are my technical specifications :
Manufacturer : California Graphics
Model : 3D Emotion
Chipset : Hawk Real 3 D
Graphic chipset : 3Dfx V
I'm looking for advice on what flat-bed SCSI scanner to
buy; something in the $200 - $400 price range, if
possible. I've got Debian 1.3.1 on a Cyrix-166 machine
currently, but I'll soon be upgrading to a dual PII-300.
Advice on what scanners to avoid would also be most welcome.
Thanks!
Don Ber
Do I need to include the HiSax driver to the kernel if I want to make my
ISDN card (AVM ISDN A1) work with Debian? If so, I'm stumped since the
Debian installation program whines that the device is busy...
- Yorka
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Hello,
I have been trying to fix my smail program to be able to receive mail
from
others using my static ip/monolith address. These questions are based on my
home machine and I have read over DNS/SMAIL/NETWORK, etc. manpages and
HOWTO's. I came accross some messages between George Bonser
Hi,
I have a microsoft ps/2 mouse with the wheel and I was wondering if the wheel
could be used as a third button under X? as it can be under Win95. If so what
do I set the mouse up as? I have tried saying that the mouse is three buttons
but It doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
Regards
Graham
On 8 Apr, Kenneth L. Summers wrote in reply to
> David B. Wilson
>> Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
>> (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.)
>>
>
> The method I tell folks around here to use is to go to a virtual console,
> pre
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, David B Wilson wrote:
> Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
> (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.)
David,
You can do a clean shutdown as a non-root user if you have planned
for it as root. You can set Control-
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Rohit Mehta wrote:
>
> hello i was wondering if anyone knew how to cross compile from
> linux for dos/win95. i wrote a lot of c code using the curses.h
> library and it does not port to borland or turbo c. is there
> some way i can tell gcc to compile it for a different
Matt Kennedy wrote:
> library files needed to run KDE on Debian (I think it takes care of
> libgif2). You also need to get QT version 1.3 or better. KDE's site has a
> link to Troll Tech who makes QT where you can get the current version 1.33.
I found that KDE required QT1, but the package from
> Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
> (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.)
>
The method I tell folks around here to use is to go to a virtual console,
press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and watch for the bios screen. Then shut it off.
If the
Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
Ctrl+Alt+Del works. If you want to restrict normal users from doing
CAD, then put the allowed users in /etc/shutdown.allow.
Of course, over the network, this doesn't work. You could use the
sudo or super packages, though.
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Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
(Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.)
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>Hi,
>
>When I install Debian packages (from diskette) using dselect, I am asked
>for the packages.gz. Where can I get this file?
>
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Chee Seng
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>
>
Just type 'scan' when it asks you for it, and it will add all the files
on the disk instead of using a package.
>> >> There are kdelibs and kdesupport Debian packages on your site; is there
>> >> a kdebase one on the way too?
>>
>> Check out www.kde.org there ftp site contains .deb packages for the latest
>> release, and I think the files you are after are there to from what I can
>> remember.
>>
>> Regard
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Martin Oldfield wrote:
>
> Has anyone any experience of using a CD-R, or preferably a CD-RW drive
> with Linux ? I'm particularly interested in SCSI based drives.
I have recently started working with a Sony CDU924S (CD-R) with
a Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller using cdrecord.
>> Hi,
>>
>> > >> As a thought, if Linux couldn't handle large filesystems I don't anyone
>> > >> would have bothered implementing RAID for Linux. :)
>> >
>> > It's already done. I'm running here with 2 0.5GB scsi disks as RAID-0
>> > with /var mounted there. Also something like 20+20mb swap
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hey,
: No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium,
: Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II?
Works more or less the same as a PPro. The major difference between a
PPro and a PII, iirc, the L1 and L2 cache location an
On 7 Apr, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Last I heard, P-II sould be set up as PPro but I will double check it.
>From what I have heard(read?) the PII's are just PPro's w/ MMX and
different cache. So compile kernel w/ PPro option.
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Hello !
I'd like to set up inside firewall Netscape communicators to get to the Net.
I set up Squid proxy on port 3128 to cache http and ftp queries and on the same
machine a dual homed socks5 proxy (port 1080) (Debian Linux).
Socks is only for mail/irc purposes (Mail server is out there on the N
Hi all,
Sorry if this question is a bit simple, but I'm just starting to learn
Linux.
I have a problem with Tkdesk, I've installed it and when I try to run it I
get the following message:
> font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*" doesn't exist
So there is a font missing, where should it be and how
Does anyone have experience with philips 3610 ?
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> How are all you guys handling the subject threading deal?
I use newsgate to forward various mailing lists to stri
Yeah. I burned ~ 5 CDs in Linux. My overall record with the Ricoh and
Yamaha is still ~ 30 successful vs 0 misburns. Only the Yamaha worked, not the
Ricoh1060, in Linux. I use cdrecord ver 1.6alpha 14 with mkisofs. (It comes
with mkisofs). I did not try the RW discs on it yet but
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 10:47:04PM -0400, Dan Winkler wrote:
> Ah okay, when I try using gpmconfig it tells me "gpm: /dev/psaux: No such
> device". So what does that mean? There is a file /dev/psaux which looks
> right, but I can't get "cat < /dev/psaux" to work either. Any thoughts?
That means
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Hi all,
I'm novice to RAID, and I want to try with it. I would like to know if
hamm provices in its installation the tools to setup a RAID0 (stripping)
installation. Also I would like to know if the menu for installation has
RAID0 configuration options
Thanks in advance,
Ulisses
PD: Doe
Hi,
I would like to thank everyone who answered my post
Regards,
Ulisses
PD: It works perfectly (of course ;-)
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Has anyone any experience of using a CD-R, or preferably a CD-RW drive
with Linux ? I'm particularly interested in SCSI based drives.
Cheers,
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>> There are kdelibs and kdesupport Debian packages on your site; is there
>> a kdebase one on the way too?
Check out www.kde.org there ftp site contains .deb packages for the latest
release, and I think the files you are after are there to from what I can
remember.
Regards
Graham
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Hello to the Debian users list.
I have hade good luck so far in setting up my system with Debian 1.3.1
(kernal 2.0.29) from the FTP site. I had installed the Xwindows and it
came up at boot time but was a complete mess so I deinstalled and
started over. I thought the installation went proper thi
sohel wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am new to this list. I just installed a base debian linux on my
>machine. Now i would like to add different softwares/packages. What
>would be procedure to go about it??
Become root; then use dselect. Take time to read the help screens -
the interface is not int
This is what i did - setting up my PII as a PPro.
Never had any problems. But some Kernel-Makefiles
showed a Pentium (only) config *after* i tried to
configure as PPro. I manually reset this to PPro -
no problems. My machine is running continously with
two to three Users logged in localy.
BTW compi
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey,
> No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium,
> Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II?
PII is 386-compatible (IOW, it will run code compiled for a/on an i386);
ergo, PII will work.
m.
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It should work. My friend runs Red Hat 5.0 with a Pentium II.
Carroll Kong
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey,
> No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium,
> Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II?
>
>
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No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium,
Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II?
It works fine on Pentium IIs.
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Hi,
I am new to this list. I just installed a base debian linux on my
machine. Now i would like to add different softwares/packages. What
would be procedure to go about it?? Also how can i mount my cdrom so
that i can copy these packages? The mount command only shows /dev/hdb1
and proc. Debian is
Hey,
No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium,
Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II?
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On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, pirusta wrote:
> me sale el error
> hdd:irq timeout:status 0x50 cuatro veces, luego hdd:ATAPI reset
> complete, y
> despues de salir otras cuarto veces el otro, me sale end_request:I/O
> error,dev 16:40,sector 0.
> En principio parece ser problema del CD(hdd), pero no se porqu
Ah okay, when I try using gpmconfig it tells me "gpm: /dev/psaux: No such
device". So what does that mean? There is a file /dev/psaux which looks
right, but I can't get "cat < /dev/psaux" to work either. Any thoughts?
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From: Robert Wilderspin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Da
Hi,
recently I upgraded my cvs client, and started having problems trying
to add directories in a remote server, connected through ssh.
Here is a debug of it:
$ mkdir testremote
$ cvs -t add testremote
-> Starting server: ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -l zorzella cvs server
-> Create_Admin (testremot
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Edward Christopher Kern wrote:
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: The details: IBM 486/50 8 MB RAM, 212 MB SCSI HDD. Currently DOS,
: attempting debian.
Not to be a smartass, but I suspect you've left out a few details. For
example, is this an MCA or ISA machine? If it's MCA, you'll nee
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