Re: routing question

1998-05-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Please do so. You could tell us *what* problems you have. What makes you > "feel" something is wrong? How is the connection "corrupted"? What makes > you think your routes are messed up. I have a "bogus" connection sometimes as already stated. By corrupted I mean that sometimes I be worki

RE: V.90 modem recomendation

1998-05-13 Thread Bob McGowan
I too have some questions re. Linux and modems. Presumably, the concern about "winmodems" has to do with modem cards and not external modems? Though it is "obvious" an external modem should use the latest UART (16550?)? And if I already have an internal modem, will it NOT work with Linux if it is

Re: routing question

1998-05-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> "i" == ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i> I think I am having a routing problem which is responsible for i> "corrupting" my ISDN connection intermittently. I have ISDN with an i> routed directly to the router. My current set-up is working but I feel i> like something is wrong so I though

Netscape problems....

1998-05-13 Thread Matthew D. Myers
I downloaded the debian package for Netscape 3.01 and also downloaded the necessary file from Netscape for Navigator 3.01. dselect reported that the install went fine and the script exited with now errors. But when I click on the netscape button in xwindows nothing happens, and also when I type n

Re: V.90 modem recomendation

1998-05-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 01:05:08PM -0400, K. Claussen wrote: > Personally, depending on how much money you want to drop on it, I would > highly recommend the USRobotics (or is it 3Com now? Not sure) Courier On the other side of the fence, I have been modeming for over eight years and have always f

Afterstep command not found

1998-05-13 Thread Keith
I have just installed and configured AfterStep to the letter, but now when I try startx I get the following message. /root/.xinitrc: afterstep: command not found: Why can't it find afterstep. Should there be something in my PATH statement pointing where AfterStep is installed. AfterStep is instal

Re: problems with stable - gzip, debianutils, kernel

1998-05-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:23:15AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > I heard debian had standardized on the 2.0.32 kernel headers, but I see > .29, .30, and .33 kernels in stable. Is .33 really stable (usable, not > just in the stable directory)? The kernel headers in /usr/include/linux do not have to

routing question

1998-05-13 Thread ian
Yo- I think I am having a routing problem which is responsible for "corrupting" my ISDN connection intermittently. I have ISDN with an Ascend Pipeline 50 router using NAT (network address translation) for a dial-up connection. My desire is to have traffic not destined for the internet to stay o

Re: Paging Software

1998-05-13 Thread Shaleh
Check out "Big Brother". This can page you with the IP address of the machine that is having problems. it also has a web interface that shows the status of whatever you want it to watch. Matthew D. Myers wrote: > > Does anyone know of some software for linux that will send a message to an > alp

Re: Star-Office 4.0

1998-05-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> "MS" == Michael Sickelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I'm new in DEBIAN LINUX. So I still have some problems. One is to MS> install the "STAR-OFFICE 4.0". I have the "DEBIAN 1.3" distribution and MS> the staroffice as a tgz-file. Untar the staroffice file with "tar xfvz name-of-the-fi

Paging Software

1998-05-13 Thread Matthew D. Myers
Does anyone know of some software for linux that will send a message to an alphanumeric pager in the event of an error or other event. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Star-Office 4.0

1998-05-13 Thread Will Lowe
> I'm new in DEBIAN LINUX. So I still have some problems. One is to > install the "STAR-OFFICE 4.0". I have the "DEBIAN 1.3" distribution and > the staroffice as a tgz-file. > Who can help me? There's a staroffice installer package in debian. Download the .deb, put the staroffice .tgz file in /t

Star-Office 4.0

1998-05-13 Thread Michael Sickelmann
Hey, I'm new in DEBIAN LINUX. So I still have some problems. One is to install the "STAR-OFFICE 4.0". I have the "DEBIAN 1.3" distribution and the staroffice as a tgz-file. Who can help me? Thanks Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: how to zmodem via telnet?

1998-05-13 Thread Stephen Carpenter
interesting..sorta hits home... Bob McGowan wrote: > -Original Message- > From: shaul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 12:09 PM > To: Vesa Kaihlavirta > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: how to zmodem via telnet? > > ++ > I'd like to t

XCDroast - Audio

1998-05-13 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, I copied one pure data-cd. This worked fine. Then I tried Audio Tracks. In this case the files of the correct size are created _without_ the CD-Drive running. I tried my second CD-Drive - same shit. My System: Kernel 2.1.101 CD-Writer: Mitsume-2600TE (ATAPI) 2nd CD : Toshiba xxx 12-16 (ATAPI

Re: How to organize NFS server?

1998-05-13 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chris R. Martin wrote: > I have an old 486 with a few hard drives in it that I want to use as a > server. I'd like to store debian-packaged apps such as gcc, x11, xemacs etc > on the server, yet keep some functionality on my local drive so I don't > need the server all the time

RE: how to zmodem via telnet?

1998-05-13 Thread Bob McGowan
-Original Message- From: shaul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 12:09 PM To: Vesa Kaihlavirta Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to zmodem via telnet? ++ > ++ > My ISP has lynx, that contains a `use zmodem to download to the local ++

Re: xv and jpegs...

1998-05-13 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hello, >> >> I'm in the process of installing and configuring 2.0 on a new machine, >> so far everything looks good... >> But xv seems to have a problem with jpegs, when I try to load one I get >> the following message: >> >> "JPEG parameter struct mismatch: library thinks size is 672, caller

Monitor Problems?

1998-05-13 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Matthew, I have experienced strange colors when the X server doesn't know about the RAMDAC chip on the video card. Perhaps you could add the RAMDAC definition to the XF86Config file (or remove it if it is there). Pat P.S. I have been having a most enjoyable email discourse with Zdenek since my

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've found dumpe2fs more useful (in the same package). True, dumpe2fs is generally more useful, but it doesn't explicitly identify superblocks. You have to know that each Group begins with a superblock. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAI

Re: how to zmodem via telnet?

1998-05-13 Thread shaul
> > My ISP has lynx, that contains a `use zmodem to download to the local > terminal'-option. > > I'd like to telnet to my ISP, download a file via lynx, and zmodem it to my > local terminal. Problem is, when I choose that `use zmodem...', I only get > the zmodem handshaking line (with *B and lo

Apache AddHandler Question

1998-05-13 Thread Matthew D. Myers
I have a problem with Apache Web Server. When i use a cgi script with the extension .cgi it works fine, but if I try to use it with the extension .pl it says Method Not Implemented. Now I have added the AddHandler directive for the .pl extension and it still does not work. Can someone help me?

Packaging Software

1998-05-13 Thread Robert Current
Hi, Can one of the Debian developers (or anyone willing to help) please contact Herng-Jeng Jou at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about packaging. It is my understanding that there was an intent to package some of the software he has organized at SAL (Scientific Applications for LINUX at http://SAL.K

Re: Problems with KDE, emacs and xemacs

1998-05-13 Thread Will Lowe
> Yes, I think the same. But I've try with all the fonts from the > fontmanager with no success. What are your settings ? Not the fontmanager. From the K^ in the lower left of the panel: Settings->Desktop->Fonts ect. I've got "General font" set to "helvetica", 12 pt, iso-8859-1 and "Fixed font"

trick in dpkg ; obsolete package

1998-05-13 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I have two questions to ask. One concerns the probelmatic missing package elf-x11r6lib. the package gs-alladin version 4.03-7 depends on this (I know there is a newer version but this is another story ) As the elf-.. package is nowhehre to be found I did the following. I edited the /var/

RE: If it is already fixed, don't fix it again (was RE: XDM doesn't work [SOLVED])

1998-05-13 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Thanks for renewing my faith in the world :-) I had thought it may have been a language translation issue. I have a small knowledge of German, and I pity the person who forces me to use it ;-) The tone of email messages is hard to determine without some indicators such as the smile :-) I'm glad

Re: V.90 modem recomendation

1998-05-13 Thread K. Claussen
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > I need to purchase a modem for a Debian box and I was wondering if anybody > had a suggestion. I know to stay away from "WinModems" but they are > rapidly becoming less conspicuous so I want to be sure I don't get one. Personally, depending on how

Re: V.90 modem recomendation

1998-05-13 Thread Shaleh
I work for an ISP. Have for going on three years. Find out what your provider uses and get one that works with them. US Robotics (all of them) have been a plague for tech support since the day I started. The new X2's were not much better. I personally tell customers to stick to Rockwell modem

getty and hyperterminal to get debian packages from Windows machine?

1998-05-13 Thread John_Gay
I am trying to get debian packages to install on my machine by linking from my Linux box to a WindowsNT PC with a null-modem. On the Linux box I issue the following command to try to set-up a connection: getty ttyS0 9600 On the Windows PC, I open hyperterminal on COM1 with the settings 9600 8-n-1 t

Re: xwindows manager

1998-05-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I think I might need a windows manager. I have xwindows installed and > functioning, but when I go into it all I get is shell window. I installed > a couple of small programs but do not know how to start them. I am > assuming that I can start them by typing a command in the shell window, > b

Re: If it is already fixed, don't fix it again (was RE: XDM doesn't work [SOLVED])

1998-05-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I will assume the hostile tone of your reply is due > to translation to English rather than intent. If it > was intent, please step back, take a deep breath and > relax. The lists are for *everyone* to get help and > if you can't suffer the sometimes idiotic questions > and problems people hav

V.90 modem recomendation

1998-05-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I need to purchase a modem for a Debian box and I was wondering if anybody had a suggestion. I know to stay away from "WinModems" but they are rapidly becoming less conspicuous so I want to be sure I don't get one. Any suggestions are appreciated! -Ian _

Re: A few questions -Reply

1998-05-13 Thread Gregory Dickinson
Gregory> 2.) I don't think that this one is possible, but here goes: Gregory> We are using a "real" IP address from the company that we Gregory> work for, and are wondering if there is a way to create a Gregory> "virtual network" using IP Masquerade or some such. For Gregory> example, a

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: > > hmm..is tehre a way to get that info from a working drive? I > > would like to dump it to a text file and throw it on a rescue disk > > There is a program /sbin/findsuper in the e2fsprogs package

Re: Weird file names

1998-05-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There was a thread a while back about deleting weird files. Just for > people interest I had to remove some strange ones today. They were as > follows: > > - -- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ?? > - -- 1 username users

Re: Weird file names

1998-05-13 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:25:03PM +1000, Chris wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > There was a thread a while back about deleting weird files. Just for > people interest I had to remove some strange ones today. They were as > follows: > > - -- 1 username users

Re: Problems with KDE, emacs and xemacs

1998-05-13 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Will Lowe wrote: > > > Can somebody give me a solution: > > 1. to make EMACS work OK with KDE > Play with the default font settings in KDE. Mine did this too, at first, > I changed the fonts around a few times, and now it's working fine. I > think it has to do partially with the difference bet

If it is already fixed, don't fix it again (was RE: XDM doesn't work [SOLVED])

1998-05-13 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I don't like Windows, I suffer through it. As for checking the supported cards list, I did and the card I am using has support in the SVGA server. My comment was that *I* need to figure out the proper mode lines to get it to work. I will assume the hostile tone of your reply is due to translatio

Re: HELP! Netscape & Lyx crash X server in bo - further investigatio

1998-05-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>A few days ago I have reported a strange problems with X server crashing >after segfault when using Lyx or Netscape. Just yesterday I've lost >a few hours of my work, after my wife asked me to find something in the >Internet, when I was writing an article. unless you're using a very old version

Re: Problems with KDE, emacs and xemacs

1998-05-13 Thread Will Lowe
> Can somebody give me a solution: > 1. to make EMACS work OK with KDE Play with the default font settings in KDE. Mine did this too, at first, I changed the fonts around a few times, and now it's working fine. I think it has to do partially with the difference between proportional and non-prop

Checking filesystem info

1998-05-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
Someone was asking how to determine where the superblocks were ... I deleted the original message. At any rate, I use `dumpe2fs'. It'll tell you that, and more. The first block of each group is a superblock, so you can either take the "Blocks per group", multiply by an integer, and add one, or j

Re: Problems with KDE, emacs and xemacs

1998-05-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Why not make a test expression on emacs-version? For example: (if (string-equal emacs-version "20.2.2") (print "hello, 20.2.2 user")) Ionut Borcoman wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I've downloaded the new KDE beta 4. After some struggling, I > was able to start it. But, when I start EMACS, the text i

Re: Static routing through dynamic interface

1998-05-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You probably want to use diald. diald sets up a "dummy" interface with the route. When an interface dies any routes tied to it are perforce removed. diald gets around this by using a loopback interface. You could code something up yourself but it would end up being diald (minus a few features perh

Re: X crashes when switched from console w/ mouse event

1998-05-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Adam Keys wrote: > Kiyan Azarbar wrote: > > > > Hi. I was wondering if anyone else had had this problem. It seems > > really major. If I'm in console mode, then switch back to X with > > alt-f7, and then move the mouse in anticipation of X showing up, it > > very often crashe

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: > hmm..is tehre a way to get that info from a working drive? I > would like to dump it to a text file and throw it on a rescue disk There is a program /sbin/findsuper in the e2fsprogs package that sounds like it might be what you want. Unfortu

Re: ADSL?

1998-05-13 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In an article George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | On Tue, 12 May 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote: | | > | > Coudl someone tell me what ADSL is? | > Thank you | > | > ZORO | | DSL means Digital Subscriber Loop. [snip] That's "Line" not "Loop", and you can find out just about anything you want to kn

Re: xwindows manager

1998-05-13 Thread Greg Vence
Check out http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman/ for a listing of what is available. Each of the images goes to a review. Each review has links to the screen shots. Note that Enlightenment (E) has a completely user definable look called Theme's. This means that Enlightenment, with the right Theme, may l

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Lost access to my system

1998-05-13 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Stephen Carpenter wrote: > Don't be stupid ;)what exactly that means well...ya got me > I have messed up my own system more than once OK, you've got me wrong. How do I avoid this thing with loosing the access. And without a warning !!! About messing the system because of new packages, you're r

Xisp problems

1998-05-13 Thread Darren Renaud
I'm installing Debian on a notebook, and have to connect to several different ISPs in different cities. I would like to use Xisp, but I keep getting xforms not installed when dselect tries to configure it. I can't seem to find anything but xforms0 and xforms-dev. Neither of them seem to satisfy

problems with stable - gzip, debianutils, kernel

1998-05-13 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, I just downloaded the latest package info for stable. The new gzip in base depends on debianutils (>=1.6) and the version in stable is debianutils 1.5. I don't see the correct version of debianutils in bo-unstable or bo-updates. I heard debian had standardized on the 2.0.32 kernel headers, b

Problems with KDE, emacs and xemacs

1998-05-13 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, Yesterday I've downloaded the new KDE beta 4. After some struggling, I was able to start it. But, when I start EMACS, the text is all wrong (I think it uses wrong fonts). The XEMACS works OK with fonts, but doesn't like the .emacs and other lisp files that worked OK with EMACS. Can somebody

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Lost access to my system

1998-05-13 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Ionut Borcoman wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the tips. Now, my system is working again. I've aded the > system users from a backup of the passwd. Mainly the mail, www-user, > etc. I just wonder about several things: good to hear its back up > 1. how do I test that everything is back to normal ? T

xwindows manager

1998-05-13 Thread Keith Alen Vance
I think I might need a windows manager. I have xwindows installed and functioning, but when I go into it all I get is shell window. I installed a couple of small programs but do not know how to start them. I am assuming that I can start them by typing a command in the shell window, but I don't

RE: XDM doesn't work [SOLVED]

1998-05-13 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Everyone can relax on XDM - seems I managed to introduce an error in the setup that caused the problems. I had in my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file a -bpp 16 setting that the server didn't like. Now I need to figure out the proper mode lines and settings to get it to work at 1024x768 -bpp 16. Winblo

RE: !!! URGENT !!! Lost access to my system

1998-05-13 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, Thanks for the tips. Now, my system is working again. I've aded the system users from a backup of the passwd. Mainly the mail, www-user, etc. I just wonder about several things: 1. how do I test that everything is back to normal ? 2. how do I avoid things like this in the future ? 3. it looks

Re: list of kernel error codes

1998-05-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > poppy wrote: > > > >While booting my debian 1.31 box with kernel > >2.0.33, I see a failure to initialize my > >ethernet card with an error code 2 > > > >Where can I find a translation of the > >error codes or does anyone know what an erro

Re: ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-13 Thread Jules Bean
--On Tue, May 12, 1998 9:26 am -0500 "Nathan E Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > > : Hi there... > > [ snip ] > > : Now, on the Pentium, everything runs nicely. On the 486, it can take > : 10-15 *minutes* to complete an ssl-telnet connection. It ge

Weird file names

1998-05-13 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- There was a thread a while back about deleting weird files. Just for people interest I had to remove some strange ones today. They were as follows: - -- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ?? - -- 1 username users 0 May 2

Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?

1998-05-13 Thread Kenneth Sims
Will, I think Mr. Moffatt is on the right track. Won't `tty` actually be ttyp# if you are connected via ethernet? Similarly, I think it will be different when you are connected via serial port. I've used: x = `tty | grep 'tty[012345]'` to do exactly what you are asking about. Ken At 01:17 AM

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Lost access to my system

1998-05-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:48:12AM +0300, Ionut Borcoman wrote: > My system boot with loadlin and is hamm (frozen). Lilo doesn't want to work > as > my first primary partition is a vfat2 of 2Gb. What's that got to do with anything? So is mine. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMA

Microsoft Mouse

1998-05-13 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to get a micrsoft mouse (the on with the wheel) to act as a 3 button mouse? As under windows 95/nt the wheel can also be used as a third button. Regards Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: SCSI time out error

1998-05-13 Thread Marco Frattola
> Did you enable SCSI tape drive support in the kernel? I'm not sure if the > Debian kernel image has support for this compiled in or not. Usually it's a loadable module, st -- |||| ||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, Italy

Re: .ra audio files

1998-05-13 Thread jdassen
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 10:18:15AM +0200, Jens Lisner wrote: > is there an audio player supporting .ra (real audio) files? > neither sox nor nas knows this format. There's an installer package for the (non-free) Real Video player, which handles real audio. Package: rvplayer Priority: optional Sec

.ra audio files

1998-05-13 Thread Jens Lisner
is there an audio player supporting .ra (real audio) files? neither sox nor nas knows this format. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: !!! URGENT !!! Lost access to my system

1998-05-13 Thread Ionut Borcoman
OK, this worked. So I typed at LILO: linux init=/bin/sh and the system booted as single user without asking for a password. After this I've gave the command: # mount -n -o,remount / I have insued a passwd for the root and one for my regular user. It was ok, so I have rebooted (ctrl-alt-del).

Login Screens Disappear On All TTYs

1998-05-13 Thread Art Lemasters
Randomly, at times, my login screens fail to reappear on any console after logging out on one console. All I have found that works to make login screens appear is to reboot. I am running a hamm system. When the login screens fail to reappear, consoles do not appear to do commands at all

HELP! Netscape & Lyx crash X server in bo - further investigation

1998-05-13 Thread Wojciech Marek Zabolotny
Hello all! A few days ago I have reported a strange problems with X server crashing after segfault when using Lyx or Netscape. Just yesterday I've lost a few hours of my work, after my wife asked me to find something in the Internet, when I was writing an article. Therefore I've decided to solve f

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Lost access to my system

1998-05-13 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:57:51AM +0300, Ionut Borcoman wrote: > How do I do this ? When I boot from the rescue disk, it mount by default the > root partition and get the same messages. Somebody suggested to type the > init=/bin/sh > > when get the prompt boot: from lilo. Lilo doesn't accept thi

RE: !!! URGENT !!! Lost access to my system

1998-05-13 Thread Ionut Borcoman
How do I do this ? When I boot from the rescue disk, it mount by default the root partition and get the same messages. Somebody suggested to type the init=/bin/sh when get the prompt boot: from lilo. Lilo doesn't accept this. So, please be more specific ! Thanks, Ionutz On Wednesday, May 13,

!!! URGENT !!! Lost access to my system

1998-05-13 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi guys, Today I have wanted to log in my system and I have received the message: "Your account has expired. Talk with your system administrator". Or something like this. I've try to log as root, and received the same message. As I'm the system administrator, where should I go now ? My system

Re: ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Jules Bean wrote: > Now, I can understand that a 486/100 is not the fastest machine around. > But I can't see why there should be a difference of about 2 orders of > magnitude between a 486/100 and a Pentium 133. Also - and tellingly - > in.telnetd is not taking up CPU time on the machine during t

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread sjc
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 04:22:12PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:18:04PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > > I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets > > an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting > > that he run "e2fsck -

Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-13 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Jeff Garey wrote: > Bravo! Couldn't have said it better myself! I seem to have the > same experience...several years experience with computers, and a > little programming, and a technical background in communications. > Unfortunately, Linux is not my full time job. Document

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:18:04PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets > an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting > that he run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1". I know that mke2fs makes > several backup copies of

xv and jpegs...

1998-05-13 Thread Michael Tempsch
Hello, I'm in the process of installing and configuring 2.0 on a new machine, so far everything looks good... But xv seems to have a problem with jpegs, when I try to load one I get the following message: "JPEG parameter struct mismatch: library thinks size is 672, caller expects 456" Anyone wit

Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?

1998-05-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 01:17:25AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Anybody got any way for a script to tell if > > > 1) I'm logged onto the console > > > > Well, if `tty` matches /tty\d/ is probably best. > > Well, yes, except that I might be on from

Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-13 Thread Jeff Garey
Bravo! Couldn't have said it better myself! I seem to have the same experience...several years experience with computers, and a little programming, and a technical background in communications. Unfortunately, Linux is not my full time job. Documentation geared towards the novice user would be of

Problem with update-menus & RXVT-XPM

1998-05-13 Thread Kiyan Azarbar
I'm trying to start an rxvt with an xpm background Everything's cool, except that I have to run rxvt-xpm instead of rxvt (when did this happen, BTW? It used to be different) However, I can't get a -scale option to work. The best I can do is: rxvt-xpm -pixmap /path/to/pixmap\;100x100 Which scales

Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?

1998-05-13 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Anybody got any way for a script to tell if > > 1) I'm logged onto the console > > Well, if `tty` matches /tty\d/ is probably best. Well, yes, except that I might be on from the console on /dev/tty3 ... all I really care about is that I'm sitting

Re: errors running startx

1998-05-13 Thread Noel Yap
Keith wrote: > > I have been battling xwindows for a few days now. Everyone has been very > helpful, but I am still not running. Stick with it! This is the hardest part of installation for everyone. > I downloaded xlib6_3.3-4.deb and installed it using dpkg -i > xlib6_3.3-4.deb. I got an error

Re: IPX and Soundcard - loadable modules?

1998-05-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Mario" == Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mario> shouldn't the command line be: make-kpkg --revision 2 --zimage Mario> kernel-{image,source} ^ the target seems to Mario> be missing in the above and it isn't optional, is it? Actually, it is.

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo > I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets > an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting > that he run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1". I know that mke2fs makes > several backup copies of the superblock, but I'm unsure of where these > are placed.

errors running startx

1998-05-13 Thread Keith
I have been battling xwindows for a few days now. Everyone has been very helpful, but I am still not running. I downloaded xlib6_3.3-4.deb and installed it using dpkg -i xlib6_3.3-4.deb. I got an error when I did this, it is as follows. ldconfig: warning can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (no

RE: A few questions

1998-05-13 Thread Gregory Green
M.C., You can mount all three drives at a single mount point if you use software raid. For instance, you would just put sda sdb sdc all under md0, md0 then is seen as one drive. The only problem is that you will lose about 1/3 of disk space under RAID5. The good thing is that your data is re

Re: Color map in X

1998-05-13 Thread David Z. Maze
R Chris Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RCR> I regularly get an error message in my xterm that says that an RCR> application can't allocate the color map if, say, Netscape is RCR> already running. Also xcolorsel won't run because it says that RCR> there are only 233 colors available where there

Color map in X

1998-05-13 Thread R. Chris Ross
I regularly get an error message in my xterm that says that an application can't allocate the color map if, say, Netscape is already running. Also xcolorsel won't run because it says that there are only 233 colors available where there should be 12000 or some other large number. This is an

do I need EQL for a multi-modem connection?

1998-05-13 Thread Daniel Warren
Greetings, I want to set up a small network using IP Masquarade over 2-4 phone lines, do I NEED eql, or can I set this up as two seperate PPP connections and just let the machine route them independantly? Does this cause any problems, or does it simply cause a less optimal use of the lines

ADSL?

1998-05-13 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Coudl someone tell me what ADSL is? Thank you ZORO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Static routing through dynamic interface

1998-05-13 Thread Pete Templin
Good evening, I'm having some stressful difficulties with some routing issues. I've got a modem server with 16 modems on a Cyclades serial port box. I'm trying to statically route six Ip addresses (204.186.230.8/255.255.255.248) "down" one of those modems. I can do so, but anytime the m

backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Randy Edwards
I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting that he run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1". I know that mke2fs makes several backup copies of the superblock, but I'm unsure of where these are placed. Are they pla

Re: Help with com port config

1998-05-13 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Shaleh wrote: > I am trying to enable 3 com ports -- two on board, the other is a modem. > onboard: com 1 irq 4 >com 2 irq 3 > modem: com 3 irq ??, with completely jumper options > > The motherboard will only enable a com port, not let me change irq. I > have a so

Debian 2 frozen problems

1998-05-13 Thread Eddie Seymour
Being a raw debian novice the following have tripped me: When booting I get "Unable to load charset 437". Where do I find it and put it to quiet this error. I tried to mount a partition as "vfat" in fstab and get an error message. After login, I can "mount" the vfat without problems. fstab require