Many thanks to Steve Mayer for his speedy help with the mouse.
If anyone has an asnwer to my video questions, I'd be grateful.
Thanks, Igor
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Hi,
I ma just setting up hamm on a Dell Dimension XPS D333. I am trying to run
XF86Setup with the vga16 server. Frustratignly, I cannot figure out how to
get the mouse to move. Anyone have an idea as to what port and protocol I
should try?
While I am at it, the Dell has a Dimension Fire GL 1000 P
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Oz Dror wrote:
> >. All you need to do is to get the xfstt package, create a /var/ttfonts
> > directory, copy the fonts you would like to have into it, add
> copy the fonts from where? from windows? from X11?
> Do I need a font dir file, if so how do I make it.
I belie
First off I want to thank you all for all the feedback about X fonts I
will try out
teh True Type font packages soon.
However I know have some bind questions.
I have an internal network hidden behind IP Masq called *.atkinson.int
and I connect
to the outside world with ppp and diald. I also runn
Torsten Hilbrich schrieb am 04 Jun 1998 12:25:49 +0200:
> BTW: I read about a tape filesystem in de.comp.os.linux.misc,
> unfortunately, I'm unable to find this article and the url right
> now. If I find it I will post a followup to this thread.
I have found the location
http://www.fh-
Hello all,
When I try to fire up X, using startx or xdm, I receive the following error:
xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6'
xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6'
The lib file does exist,
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root13 Jun 2 15:27 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 ->
libXmu.so.6.0
-rwxr-xr
Gregory Guthrie wrote:
>
> I an trying to install a new package (NTFS) which requires libc6; so I got
> the libc6 package, and tried to install it. Dselect reports that:
>
> NTFS depends on libc6, libc6 conflicts with lib5, libc5 is required by
>many-many other things, so it wants to uninst
check that your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers look like this:
# /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
#
# This file should contain entries to start the servers on the
# local machine; if you have more than one display (not screen),
# you can add entries to the list (one per line). If you also
# have some X terminals con
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote:
> I recently upgraded my smail to the new version (from 'stable', not the
> deep frozen stuff) and my machine stopped accepting mail. I think I found
> the cause. I found this in /etc/inetd.conf
> # smtpstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcp
i did a fresh install of slink last night (& also tonight) and i possibly
found a bug in smail,when i did the installation,the smailconfig command
used when dselect install thing did not have the same behavior than the
one used in a bo installation (i.e.i choosen the no.4 option,local mail
delivere
I got an old Compaq LTE lite 4/33 on to which I want to load debian. I do not
have a cd rom but will be borrowing a friends external. I tried starting the
installation with the rescue disk I have from my desktop installation and it
is not booting correctly
It just says 'loading root.bin ...bo
In my old bo man-db package I was able to select the manual pages I
get using the LANG variable. For example, after installing
manpages-de and setting LANG=de_DE I was getting the german version if
available.
In the hamm version of man-db (2.3.10-63) this no longer works. Now
it seems that man
Daniel S Barclay schrieb am Tue, 02 Jun 1998 21:17:11 -0400:
> It's an (probably) unnecessary limitation somewhere in the system.
>
> I was able to make a file system on a floppy tape (with mke2fs, I
> believe). When I tried to mount the file system, mount complained
> that the tape wasn't a blo
I an trying to install a new package (NTFS) which requires libc6; so I got
the libc6 package, and tried to install it. Dselect reports that:
NTFS depends on libc6, libc6 conflicts with lib5, libc5 is required by
many-many other things, so it wants to uninstall a huge list of things.
I have s
I bought a lot of things from Comp USA on rebate and they didn't send me
any of them (rebates) until I called them. They told me "their rebate
department had some problems." Anyway that means they lost most of the
rebates, or at least they lost the ones I sent. So you gotta call them
and tell the
Is there a driver available for the Linksys Ether16 ISA card? I
thought I could use the NE2000 driver but it fails?
If you've made this work in your system, how??
Thanks very much for any help.
Ed
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well one day I openned up my mailbox and found a nice surprise, though it
took me awhile to realize that this was a rebate I sent off about 8 months
ago. I think theres a 1-800 number on the rebate form somewhere...but you
already sent that off :)
Alex Withers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
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This message is for users of the Debian smartlist package.
I have detected a little problem which may arise when upgrading smartlist
from bo to hamm. If you are running smartlist_3.1016 from bo, please read
the following before upgrading to hamm.
The p
I have installed the Debian Linux base OS on my
IBM Valuepoint 425SX by downloading files from the Debian site and putting them
on floppies (there's no CD drive on the Valuepoint.) Everything went fine. Linux
boots and I have been able to download and install numerous packages (man pages
et
I recently upgraded my smail to the new version (from 'stable', not the
deep frozen stuff) and my machine stopped accepting mail. I think I found
the cause. I found this in /etc/inetd.conf
# smtpstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.smtpd
(will be restored by smail
There was a thread a week or 2 ago where someone asked if there
was a registry editor for linux. In that thread I said that I did
not know of one but had a file whioch described the registry
(written by someone outside of M$ who spent a few sleepless nights
reverse engineering it)
The next few d
I will save the names and addresses of all who reply for possible
preparation of a legal response (maybe Janet Reno's office).
"Russ Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/04/98 02:24:50 PM
To: Kenneth Scharf/PD/CoulterUS, debian-user@lists.debian.org,
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
cc:
Sub
On 3 Jun, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, wrote:
>> I recently chmod / -R 777 my system to try and cure a permission problem I
>> was having, I know - major stupid, This might be the problem.
>
> I think I'd do a reinstall after this - I doubt that it will intr
I too bought 64 MB of ram from Comp-USA, and also am still waiting for a
rebate.
Russ
Russell Cook, Engineering Branch
WSR-88D Operational Support Facility
(405)366-6520 x4237
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> Every time I try to connect to my internet provider I am able to establish
> the connection, but after like 5-10 seconds prog reports something like:
> cannot find ethernet address for system ARP. I have tried everything, but
> can't get it to work. Why is it even looking for ethernet address?
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, wrote:
> The only way I can print is with cat > /dev/lp1
> If I use anything other, I get:
> Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .setdevice
> Operand stack:
> --nostringval--
> followed by lots of hex addresses, offsets, names, permissions and more
>I'm trying to create tar files less than 100Mb to fit on zip disks (by the
>way, my rebate arrived last week, only a year and a half & a class action
suit
>late).
The above comment reminds me.
Has anyone besides me bought some memory from comp-usa within the last 6
months and is STILL waiti
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:40:52AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> As I read the man page and info page,
>
> tar -zcv -f hawktar980603 . -X News -X www -X Office40
>
> should tar the local directory to the new file hawktar980603 save for the
> directories News, www, and Office40
acc
Hi,
The "hosts" command is in the dnsutils package, which you must
not have installed. However, if you were able to contact
ftp.debian.org earlier with the same ISP, it's unlikely to be a
reverse-dns-lookup problem. Trying to contact the mirror at
llug.sep.bnl.gov would be a good test
I've installed Debian 1.3 couple of weeks ago and can't get some things to
work or find answer in docs, so maybe someone in here knows the answer...
:)
Every time I try to connect to my internet provider I am able to establish
the connection, but after like 5-10 seconds prog reports something like
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:38:28AM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote:
> on the fixed fonts question...
> I have the following truetype fixed pitch fonts on nt3.51:
thanx for the list of TT fixed fonts...I should have those somewhere
>
> These all work with emacs on nt...(don't ask, I do the best
>
Grr. grrr. and rg.
I'm trying to create tar files less than 100Mb to fit on zip disks (by the
way, my rebate arrived last week, only a year and a half & a class action suit
late).
As I read the man page and info page,
tar -zcv -f hawktar980603 . -X News -X www -X Office40
should tar the l
On 04-Jun-98 Gregory Dickinson wrote:
> The idea of having a copyright lawyer look it over once it is written sound
> excellent. I work for a large law firm that has a copyright and IP practice
> group,
> an I am sure that (since I work in the OS dept. and they all LOVE me :-])
> that I
> could ta
> > I tried to setup a Debian on a ZIP disk connected to an IBM Thinkpad 750
> > with a PCMCIA ethernet credit card adapter. I have installed the latest
> > PCMCIA cs, and modules (2.0.29) DEB packages.
>
> Thats not the latest. I have 2.0.31 and I'm not sure whether that's the
> newest or not.
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> >
> > > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup
> > > home.netscape.com' but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and
> > > at the '>' prompt type your query. Annoying, isn'
on the fixed fonts question...
I have the following truetype fixed pitch fonts on nt3.51:
Courier New
Courier New CE
Lucida Console
r_ansi
other misc symbol or line draw char sets...
These all work with emacs on nt...(don't ask, I do the best
I can with com
oops, here's the message. And it's always the same LBA & Sector
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataREquest Error}
hda: read+o
hda
h
hda: read_int: error=0x40 {uncorrectableError}, LBAsect=3165227, sector=16424
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05, sector 16424
EXT2=-fs error
Hmm, i seem to have a bad spot on the hard disk. A really bad one :(
I get a message:
I can boot my emergency redhat partition without a problem (other than that it
uses fvwm95, gives me a warped display, and the mail doesn't work :). I have
another 1G partition unused, and so I plan to tra
>> _4._ Big disclaimer, as we are not lawyers. :-)
>This is of course good...and probably necissary (I have often wondered
>if such disclaimers are really needed or just the result of peoples misguided
>paranoia)
It's not *enough* of a disclaimer. It should go on to include that "this is
not
Christian Hudon wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, June 02, Marc Lepage wrote
> > What are some good text to speech packages for Linux? Assume only a
> > SoundBlaster for hardware (ie, no dedicated TTS hardware).
>
> If you're using emacs, I saw a few emacsspeak packages fly by on the
> debian-devel-changes
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 04:06:38PM +, Christian Zander wrote:
> Getting the fonts is up to you.. Have a look at the FAQ or browse the net to
> find a LOT of places that supply you with FREE fonts.
> Of course you could simply take the fonts from ..\windows\fonts (files like
> Verdana.ttf), but
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 07:37:19PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
> I have xfstt now. Have not tried xfsft. And unfortunately fonts like fixed
> don't exist in TT form. Also, netscape can't use fixed width TT fonts with
> xfstt at least.
I lookind into xfsft a while ago...but decided that pa
I notice now, after a review of hard copy of "The Linux Serial HOWTO" that
USR Sportster is listed under the heading (2.5) Unsupported Serial
Hardware. That seems to be my problem, is there a preferred
internal/external modem for use with linux?
G. Kaplan wrote:
> I have a 56k/x2 modem which is
> On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup
> > home.netscape.com' but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and
> > at the '>' prompt type your query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this
> > way as long as I can re
Hello,
Has anyone heard of PCMCIA Silicom Ethernet adapter? I bought one for my
laptop but now cannot find any support under Debian?
Perhaps there is a known equivalent?
Thanks, Frere Roy
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On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 04:34:12PM +, Christian Zander wrote:
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> On Wed, 03 Jun 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> >Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are
> >now?
> >
> >If not does anyone know who to make netscapes fonts bigger
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On Thu, 04 Jun 1998, Oz Dror wrote:
>>. All you need to do is to get the xfstt package, create a /var/ttfonts
>> directory, copy the fonts you would like to have into it, add
>copy the fonts from where? from windows? from X11?
>Do I need a font dir file,
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Tim Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to recompile my kernel to add bridging support. (For IPX)
>
> I'm currently running 2.0.33, it seems to run fine, although I'm wary of
> reports of it being rather unstable.
> I had 2.0.32, but gpm died after two weeks, restarting gpm didn't w
This means that the code to recognize the card in the
kernel is not there. Everything will still work OK as
the driver is there and will load. I used to patch
pci.h before compiling a kernel to get rid of this for
me. With the latest kernel this has been *fixed*.
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Gregory Guthr
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup
> home.netscape.com'
> but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '>' prompt type
> your
> query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this way as long as I can remember b
> > > If I simply type 'nslookup' and hit enter to get the ">" and then type
> > > in my Linux box spits the information I wanted originally.
> > > My resolve.conf has "nameserver 127.0.0.1 ".
> >
> > I have a running DNS, but when I tried to point the nameserver to
> > 127.0.0.1, it also gave
Er...make that IS dept (they have VERY different meanings :-])
>>> Gregory Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/04/98 08:16am >>>
The idea of having a copyright lawyer look it over once it is written sound
excellent. I work for a large law firm that has a copyright and IP practice
group,
an I am s
The idea of having a copyright lawyer look it over once it is written sound
excellent. I work for a large law firm that has a copyright and IP practice
group,
an I am sure that (since I work in the OS dept. and they all LOVE me :-]) that I
could talk one of the lawyers in that group into loking o
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Michael D. Figley wrote:
> Does anyone know if/where Debian keeps
>
> libraries with reentrant version of standard
>
> functions? Example: random_r().
To the best of my knowledge, all major libraries are compiled with
-DREENTRANT, which should have them define the reentrant
Seams to work fine on RH5.0
mark
On 03-Jun-98 Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote:
>
>> > Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into
>> > interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think
>> > it comes in dns-utils.
>>
On 4 Jun 1998, Tim Thomson wrote:
Some silly stuff, since I've now found out that 2.0.34 is out!
-Tim
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libraries with reentrant version of standard
functions? Example: random_r().
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On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote:
smayer> That's funny. I don't have a problem issuing nslookup home.netscape.com
smayer> on my latest hamm machine.
smayer>
smayer> On the other hand, on an up to date bo machine, I get the same problem
smayer> you list (the dropping to the nslookup prompt).
Dear DebianFriends,
I have installed many versions of Debian Linux on many Thinkpads.
After working for the past 8 months with a 1.3.1 brought to libc6 with
many hamm packages I decided to make a clean transition to a hamm
system.
Thinkpads usually have to use the resc1440tecra.bin disks since i
Shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am using Debian 1.3.1.
> Can someone tell me where (on which ftp site) can I find:
> 1) A debian installer for netscape 4.05 (communicator) ?
> 2) The last Linux Gazzete issues ?
Have a look at:
http://badger.alaska.net/debian/
HTH,
Jens
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On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote:
..
sysjyb> If I simply type 'nslookup' and hit enter to get the ">" and then type
in
sysjyb> my Linux box spits the information I wanted originally. My
sysjyb> resolve.conf has "nameserver 127.0.0.1 ".
sysjyb>
sysjyb> Why can I not simply type 'nslooku
Greetings,
yesterday I installed Debian (frozen) on my friend's laptop. The machine is a
Toshiba 780 CDM, and everything worked out pretty good: we have another debian
user :-).
The only problem we got is the suspend/resume with X: if he suspend/resume the
machine with X on the screen, X is unusa
Hi,
I need to recompile my kernel to add bridging support. (For IPX)
I'm currently running 2.0.33, it seems to run fine, although I'm wary of
reports of it being rather unstable.
I had 2.0.32, but gpm died after two weeks, restarting gpm didn't work,
but rebooting did. I have no idea if this was a
>. All you need to do is to get the xfstt package, create a /var/ttfonts
> directory, copy the fonts you would like to have into it, add
copy the fonts from where? from windows? from X11?
Do I need a font dir file, if so how do I make it.
<
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
>
> Hallo all,
>
> as a lot of us developers have to deal with copyright problems, I would
> like to start this (hopefully) littly project.
This sounds like an interesting idea.
> I would like to write a COPYRIGHT HOWTO, which migh
Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've recently upgraded to hamm. The auctex package installed fine,
> but it doesn't seem to start up when I use emacs!
>
> Previously when I loaded a latex document into emacs, it would
> automatically go into auctex mode. Now when I do it, it goes into a
> non
> Subject: Re: How do you connect one computer to another
> Date: 03 Jun 1998 10:49:02 +0200
> From: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian Userslist
>
> >> "SM" == Shanta McBain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> SM> How to I get access to the Win95 tcp/ip
> SM> drives from the linux
hi
Deselect will exit on error that it cannot find the file vmlinuz.old in
the base dir. The file shows on a ls. you can mv to a new name. and back
but you cant cp it or open it with ae.
This effectively stops me from installing most of the packages.
what is wrong here and how can I correct it?
Matthew Myers wrote:
>
> When I try to send mail to this list server using netscape mail, it never
> gets here. I sent this using pine. I have tried this before and after a
> complete Debian re-install and always have the same results. What's the
> deal with netscape mail?
You need to set up N
> Sorry, but what is a "tcp/ip drive"? Maybe you could explain what you want
> to do. If you want to access your linuxbox via the network neighborhood,
> you can use samba for this. This will also allow access the other way
> round.
Sorry for not knowing the terms of reference for Linux I came fro
> I've recently upgraded to hamm, but can't install netscape. Apparently
> it depends on xlib6 which I had to deselect because it conflicted
> with xlib6g. Is there a version of netscape which uses the newer
> library? Or is there a way of installing both?
Yes. Install xlib6 (along with xpm4.
I've recently upgraded to hamm, but can't install netscape. Apparently
it depends on xlib6 which I had to deselect because it conflicted
with xlib6g. Is there a version of netscape which uses the newer
library? Or is there a way of installing both?
I thought that netscape had made the source
> "Tomas" == Tomas Petersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tomas> Hello, how can I convert man pages to DOS-text so I can
Tomas> print them from my NT. If I just pipe to a file I get a
Tomas> lot of unwanted characters, is there a utiliy for this?
There's a nifty utility called 'co
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 04:16:57PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> I am trying to install several programs from source that use the libtool
> program to compile. The compilation goes through without a hitch, however
> the libfoo.so files all say "statically linked" when looked at by ldd. Has
> anyone looke
On 3 Jun 98 17:59:02 GMT, Peter S Galbraith) wrote:
>So Red Hat 5.1 (their second libc6 version) is out before Debian 2.0...
>Not that there's a competition between Debian and Red Hat. Just a
>comment...
>
>(Not that *I'm* doing anything to further Debian progress, so I cannot
>complain! I just
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