Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-21 Thread Keith Beattie
fyi, http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html ksb -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: LPRng & printer Port

1998-07-21 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 01:07:16PM +0100, Babs wrote: > HELP! > > I have read every doc i can get my hands on, news groups, & more. I can > not figure out why my printer port is not opening. > I'm running an X86 based PC, Debian Linux Kernel 2.0.34, I am in the > process of integrating

Re: Gnome & E

1998-07-21 Thread Alexander
Hi... Use dpkg's force-conflicts option. It probably should be harmless; but if either fails, uninstall (--force-depends) the older one (determine its version number first) and install the new one (--force-depends again). Alex On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Michael Ziller wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998

Re: ADDUSER AND >8 Usernames?

1998-07-21 Thread Alexander
Hi... A hack like that may also mess up certain programs that expect a username no longer than 8 characters. It's presumably possible, though. Alex On 19 Jul 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Date: 19 Jul 1998 21:36:32 +0200 > From: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Userslist

Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site

1998-07-21 Thread Alexander
Hi... Thanks for the tip. *snicker* Alex On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 01:10:08 -0700 (PDT) > From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian Userslist > Subject: Re: passwords

Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site

1998-07-21 Thread Alexander
Hi... User: anonymous Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this is standard anonymous ftp; if this is not what you mean disregard this) Alex On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Dave Jones wrote: > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 15:53:22 -0500 > From: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User List > Subject: password

Re: signal 32

1998-07-21 Thread Alexander
Hi... Perhaps _NSIG means No Signal? Alex On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 12:54:03 -0700 (PDT) > From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Greg Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user > Subject: Re: signal 32 > Resent-Da

Re: signal 32

1998-07-21 Thread Alexander
Hi... U, signal 32 doesn't exist! Alex On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Greg Norris wrote: > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 14:45:27 -0500 > From: Greg Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user > Subject: signal 32 > Resent-Date: 18 Jul 1998 19:46:02 - > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Rese

RE: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-21 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17-Jul-98 Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: > > I want to edit a 700MB text file. > > Ehh?? Are you sure it's 700MB?? And are you sure it's a pure plain text file? > And, if so, have you thought about what that corresponds to? How about this po

Re: NAT

1998-07-21 Thread Alexander
Hi... U, that looks interesting. I don't think Linux's IP-masq system supports that. Alex On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 12:16:03 -0700 (PDT) > From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subj

Re: Valid Baud Rate Values

1998-07-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > hi > > i tried downloading hamm files to upgrade from bo. i noticed that the ftp > connection was very slow and found out that i was connected at 9600. i > changed the speed to 115200 in the ppp.options file. is 11520 the fastest > transfer rate th

Re: I lost my window managers!!!!!!!!!!!!

1998-07-21 Thread Deniz Dogan
Mark Panzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PS - windows look kinda neat without a window manager sometimes (except > > > you can move them) > > > > I sorta agree...it is different...hmmm > > could take out fvwm2 sources...strip em down totally... > > take out all the code for most functions...

using NTFS partitions under linux?

1998-07-21 Thread Jens Reinsberger
Hi there, I want to know if there is a kernel module for Debian linux. Any hints/suggestions? Thanx in advance, Jens -- LOAD "WIN95",8,1 RUN $&*!-#/> NO CARRIER -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: netscape and sh/bash

1998-07-21 Thread Greg Norris
You need a newer version of bash. You can find it for bo at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/bo-unstable. I was using it for about 2 months prior to upgrading to hamm without any problems. On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 02:08:14AM -0500, JonesMB wrote: > This has probabyly been discused here before but a se

Re: is the kernel worth it, what about Debian 2.0?

1998-07-21 Thread Shaleh
Debian 2.0pre CD's can be had from cheapbytes.com. The release of 2.0 has been stalled by a recent change in X. This should be fixed in short time and we should have a release REALLY SOON. 2.0.35 has various updates for non-Intel CPU's. Other little fixes. I would recommend at least going to 2

Re: newbie alien question

1998-07-21 Thread Shaleh
All the libs in bo are out of date. So if you want to use E on bo, you have to compile ALL of the libs yourself. The rpms are libc6 (like Hamm is). So they won't work. Take the plunge. If you need help, ask. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Valid Baud Rate Values

1998-07-21 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
hi i tried downloading hamm files to upgrade from bo. i noticed that the ftp connection was very slow and found out that i was connected at 9600. i changed the speed to 115200 in the ppp.options file. is 11520 the fastest transfer rate that ppp can support or are there greater values? i have a

Re: is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?

1998-07-21 Thread Shaleh
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Do I need to do some special to get the keys working? Make sure numlock is off. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: netscape-help!!

1998-07-21 Thread Phil
Well I don't have any exact error, but I'm having some strange occurances now. I thought I had the problem fixed by downgrading, but then it started up again. Here are my observations. Fetchmail has been able to download most messages if netscape "freezes" The freeze seems to a stall the download

is the kernel worth it, what about Debian 2.0?

1998-07-21 Thread Keith
Is is worth it get the 2.0.35 kernel? Are there any advantaged to getting it? What about Debian 2.0? WHen is that going to come out and what are the advantages to using that. The reason I ask is because my system works fine now and i don't want to mess with it just for the sake of messing with it

Re: is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?

1998-07-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 02:07:04PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > E is where you were told to find it. It will appear in slink within the > next week or so. There are some Redhat'isms to clean up. Apparently it > writes to your .xinit files and some such. Also the new Imlib (1.7) has > problems, so Iml

Re: newbie alien question

1998-07-21 Thread Jorge Sousa
-Original Message- From: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jorge Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Terça-feira, 21 de Julho de 1998 21:41 Subject: Re: newbie alien question >I know nothing of RPM and avoid it like the plague. You do NOT need >it. I personal

Re: LPRng & printer Port

1998-07-21 Thread Shaleh
Jorge Sousa wrote: > Sorry to jump in but, > I'm glad you raised that issue, how can we know what's in the kernel?? Hmmm. Good question. The default kernel w/ Debian includes everything. Otherwise, compile your own. Then you know what is and is not included. Besides, compiling your own kernel

Re: LPRng & printer Port

1998-07-21 Thread Jorge Sousa
-Original Message- From: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Babs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Terça-feira, 21 de Julho de 1998 21:09 Subject: Re: LPRng & printer Port >Not to ask the simple question but. Does your kernel have lpt >support in it? > > >-- >Un

Re: newbie alien question

1998-07-21 Thread Shaleh
I know nothing of RPM and avoid it like the plague. You do NOT need it. I personally have made a package of Enlightenment and all needed libs are either in my home dir or in Debian. www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you are still a Bo user, now is the time to upgrade to Hamm.

Re: newbie alien question

1998-07-21 Thread Jorge Sousa
hi Shaleh, >Not to take away from your question BUT, why use the rpm? We have zlib >in Debian. > I know, I'm trying to install Enlightenment window manager, and a lot of packages are needed so as some of them are only in rpm format, I've downloaded all the required rpms and thought alien would

Re: LPRng & printer Port

1998-07-21 Thread Shaleh
Not to ask the simple question but. Does your kernel have lpt support in it? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

LPRng & printer Port

1998-07-21 Thread Babs
HELP! I have read every doc i can get my hands on, news groups, & more. I can not figure out why my printer port is not opening. I'm running an X86 based PC, Debian Linux Kernel 2.0.34, I am in the process of integrating the internal network at our office. I'm still fairly new to l

Re: Mouse movement weirdness with latest X packages

1998-07-21 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, someone wrote: > > What brand and model of mouse are you using? > Its a Dexxa three-button serial mouse, the relevant XF86Config lines are: Section "Pointer" Protocol"Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse" --ken __ Ken

Re: installation problem

1998-07-21 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Problem is that nothing I am doing is getting me an XF86Config file >> anywhere. Use the textbased xf86config instead of XF86Setup. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: newbie alien question

1998-07-21 Thread Shaleh
Not to take away from your question BUT, why use the rpm? We have zlib in Debian. Jorge Sousa wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use alien to install a rpm (zlib-1.1.2.i386.rpm) file and I > get the following error: > > Data type 9 not supported > error querying rpm file. > > I've Tried >

newbie alien question

1998-07-21 Thread Jorge Sousa
Hi all, I'm trying to use alien to install a rpm (zlib-1.1.2.i386.rpm) file and I get the following error: Data type 9 not supported error querying rpm file. I've Tried > alien -n file > rpm -i file but got the same result. Is there any work around? What am I missing?? Thanks in advance.

Re: New ncurses breaks dialog

1998-07-21 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: > Dialog segfaults & dumps core after I upgraded ncurses. > Versions: > > ncurses-base1.9.9g-8.8 > ncurses-bin 1.9.9g-8.8 > ncurses-term1.9.9g-8.8 > ncurses3.0 1.9.9e-2.1 > ncurses3.4 1.9.

Re: init file structures; changed in hamm?

1998-07-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I upgraded (bo--> hamm) and accidently selected teh sysvinit; and now my >init packaging and strucutre is different; ppp setup names, etc.. ppp setup and sysvinit don't have much to do with each other. What do you mean ex

Re: dselect questions, suggestion..

1998-07-21 Thread David Z. Maze
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GG> When running dselect (updating bo --> hamm), I get some items with GG> a status of GG>installed_version available_version GG>--- xxx xxx GG> GG> Why is there an installed version indicated, when it shows

Re: X display problem

1998-07-21 Thread Matthew Myers
Yes XBF_NeoMagic is an X server -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

init file structures; changed in hamm?

1998-07-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I upgraded (bo--> hamm) and accidently selected teh sysvinit; and now my init packaging and strucutre is different; ppp setup names, etc.. I tried to unselect it and go back, but was told that cron, and a buch of other things required sysV init setup. I had cron installed before. Was ther a chan

dselect questions, suggestion..

1998-07-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
When running dselect (updating bo --> hamm), I get some items with a status of installed_version available_version - - - xxx xxx Why is there an installed version indicated, when it shows as not installed? -- It would be nice if 1) dselect

Re: Mouse movement weirdness with latest X packages

1998-07-21 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting George Bonser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It works both ways, last time I looked Debian had no entry for dtterm > either and this is rather a bummer since all commercial Unix that I am > aware of ship with CDE now. It's in there now. ncurses-term-1.9.9g-8.8. I'd have to say that debian (and fr

Re: Apt & Slink

1998-07-21 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
> "DZM" == David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DZM> DZM> Relevant lines from my sources.list: DZM> DZM> deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian frozen main contrib non-free DZM> deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian unstable main contrib non-free DZM> DZM> APT just Does The Right Thing (TM).

[hartr@redhat.com: People using Linux in test/measurement applications]

1998-07-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
This comes from another mailing list. It says RH, but I'd guess it's alright for some Debian users to jump in. Marcelo--- Begin Message --- Hi Red Hat has been approached by a UK test and measurement magazine for information about people using Linux in tes

Re: Questions from a new user [forwarded]

1998-07-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Second: I recently did a clean install of Debian 2.0.34 (not an upgrade), > mistakenly believing this to be the current stable release. I've since > become convinced that Deb2.x ("hamm") is still the unstable version. > Nevertheless, I'd like to stick with it, since the comments I've read on

Re: I lost my window managers!!!!!!!!!!!!

1998-07-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
By any chance had you upgraded to xbase 3.3.2.2-2 just before this happens. In that upgrade, the link from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to /etc/X11/Xsession is broken. The fix is to either add the link or upgrade to 3.3.2.2-3. Bob On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: > Here's what happened, > >

Questions from a new user [forwarded]

1998-07-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
I have given Kent more information about the mailing lists and web pages; please consider his other questions. --- Forwarded Message Date:Tue, 21 Jul 1998 10:48:58 -0500 From:Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Meta & Newbie FAQ (Debian) Hi! I assume I'

installation problem

1998-07-21 Thread Chris Evans
I'm having a lot of problems installing Bo. I have been sent three CDROMs, one marked 1.3 binaries, one marked source and one marked "Custom+extras". The one marked binaries and the "custom" one both seem to have the necessary to install Debian. Are there known differences? Am I right to us

problem

1998-07-21 Thread edisan
hi, I'm Edith and have a problem whit something. I want to know how I can read mesages as root, because somebody users cant't read yours e-mail. Probably the mesages are bad and I want to read one by one. thanks. My english is bad sorry. bye. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PR

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:46:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *-Lawrence (22 Jul) > | E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > | > > what would happen if I use a number bigger than your, e.g. 67108865 or > | > > even 7000? > | > > | > Swapping. This will happen already if you use an amount as big a

Floppy Setup

1998-07-21 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I recently installed Debian Linux from floppies. Now when the system loads, I directly boots into DOS. I have to use the "Custom Boot Disk" to boot the system into Linux. Is this the bootup mechanism with floopy based installations? I don't even get the LILO propmpt to enter the OS name. T

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread servis
*-Lawrence (22 Jul) | E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: | > > what would happen if I use a number bigger than your, e.g. 67108865 or | > > even 7000? | > | > Swapping. This will happen already if you use an amount as big as your | > memory, because it is quite likely that you use at least some part o

Re: I lost my window managers!!!!!!!!!!!!

1998-07-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:47:15AM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:03:23AM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: > > > Here's what happened, > > > > > > I guess I was a little jumpy and I started typing in one of the X-terms > > > that opens by defau

Re: X display problem

1998-07-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
What do you mean "driver"? With XFree86, there are a series of X server programs, each for a different class of device support. is XBF_NeoMagic an X server? Matthew D. Myers wrote: > I found a driver to support NeoMagic chipsets. it is XBF_NeoMagic. > And the site I got it from listed my laptop

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > what would happen if I use a number bigger than your, e.g. 67108865 or > > > even 7000? > > > > Swapping. This will happen already if you use an amount as big as your > > memory, because it is quite likely that you use at least some part of > > your physic

Re: I lost my window managers!!!!!!!!!!!!

1998-07-21 Thread Mark Harrison
Mark Panzer wrote: > > Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:03:23AM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: > > > Here's what happened, > > > > > > I guess I was a little jumpy and I started typing in one of the X-terms > > > that opens by default before window-maker started. Then it

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Lawrence
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > what would happen if I use a number bigger than your, e.g. 67108865 or > > even 7000? > > Swapping. This will happen already if you use an amount as big as your > memory, because it is quite likely that you use at least some part of > your physical memory. If yo

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | > | > Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone | > | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? | > | > Oops! Right after I sent that first

Re: X display problem

1998-07-21 Thread Matthew D. Myers
I found a driver to support NeoMagic chipsets. it is XBF_NeoMagic. And the site I got it from listed my laptop as one it has been succussfully run on. However I can't seem to get it to work properly. -Original Message- From: Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthew Myers <[EMAIL

Re: X display problem

1998-07-21 Thread Customer Support
I found a driver to support NeoMagic chipsets. it is XBF_NeoMagic. And the site I got it from listed my laptop as one it has been succussfully run on. However I can't seem to get it to work properly. -Original Message- From: Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthew Myers <[EMAIL

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > > > Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone > > | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? > > > > Oops! Right after I sent that first reply I noticed my error. I used >

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Lawrence
Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone > | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? > > Oops! Right after I sent that first reply I noticed my error. I used > bytes instead of

Re: X display problem

1998-07-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
XFree86 doesn't support NeoMagic chipsets, except with the VGA16 server which supports, you guessed it, only 16 colors and crappy resolution (up to 640x480?). There are two commercial linux X servers which support the chipset, and they are not cheap. Write an email to NeoMagic registering your di

Re: New ncurses breaks dialog

1998-07-21 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 07:43:10PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > I had this problem only yesterday and it turned out that I had mismatched > versions of ncurses3.4 and ncurses3.4-dev. > > Can we see the output of >dpkg -l ncurses* ? > > Here is mine:- ---snip--- mschmitz# dpkg -l ncurs

Re: Mouse movement weirdness with latest X packages

1998-07-21 Thread servis
*-George Bonser (20 Jul) | On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: | > | > | > Also, on a related note, what is the purpose of changing the TERM variable | > to "xterm-debian" ? I'm planning on changing it back on

Re: I lost my window managers!!!!!!!!!!!!

1998-07-21 Thread Mark Panzer
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:03:23AM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: > > Here's what happened, > > > > I guess I was a little jumpy and I started typing in one of the X-terms > > that opens by default before window-maker started. Then it [X-win] > > decided not to load a

Re: Having problems compiling a kernel

1998-07-21 Thread Matthew D. Myers
I had the same problem last night when I tried to compile on my laptop. You need to install one of the -dev libraries. For example look above the error. The library I was missing was ncurses-dev. This should fix your problem for make menuconfig, and maybe the other. -Original Message--

Re: Having problems compiling a kernel

1998-07-21 Thread Customer Support
I had the same problem last night when I tried to compile on my laptop. You need to install one of the -dev libraries. For example look above the error. The library I was missing was ncurses-dev. This should fix your problem for make menuconfig, and maybe the other. -Original Message--

Re: I lost my window managers!!!!!!!!!!!!

1998-07-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:03:23AM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: > Here's what happened, > > I guess I was a little jumpy and I started typing in one of the X-terms > that opens by default before window-maker started. Then it [X-win] > decided not to load a window-manager. No problem I thought, I r

Re: Netscape 4.05

1998-07-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
Russ Cook wrote: > > I am running Netscape 4.05 (not 4.5) on my Hamm system. Certain web sites > consistently > trigger a bus fault from Netscape. Is this a known problem, or do I have a > config/library problem? This might be the problem where Netscape's libnullplugin.so fails when it hits a p

Re: Portuguese Keyboard

1998-07-21 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> >> Hello Debian Community! >> >> I was wondering if someone could save me some time on finding information >> about how to configure Debian to map portuguese keys and use the >> portuguese keyboard layout. Take a look at kbd - package and kbdconfig util it includes. This worked at least wit

Re: fetchmail error

1998-07-21 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hello all, >> >> I have problems with fetchmail. Everytime I execute fetchmail -a -F to >> download emails from my ISP server POP3 protocol, it justs hang there. But >> if >> I use netscape mail to download email using POP3 protocal, there is no >> problem. >> Can someone tell me what's wro

I lost my window managers!!!!!!!!!!!!

1998-07-21 Thread Mark Panzer
Here's what happened, I guess I was a little jumpy and I started typing in one of the X-terms that opens by default before window-maker started. Then it [X-win] decided not to load a window-manager. No problem I thought, I rebooted and tried again, still no window-manager. I looked in my windo

Re: Having problems compiling a kernel

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Nico Fritschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I am using Debian 1.3.1 with the 2.0.30 kernel. My version of gcc is | 2.7.1 . I wanted to compile a kernel. The first problem was that i | wasn't able to use "make menuconfig" (error was: make error 1) and "make | xconfig" so i used "make config". After

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? Oops! Right after I sent that first reply I noticed my error. I used bytes instead of bits. That calculation should've been:

Re: netscape and sh/bash

1998-07-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, JonesMB wrote: > This has probabyly been discused here before but a search in the archives > produced no results. > I am running a Debian 1.3.1 system with a 2.0.33 kernel and v4.05 of > Netscape. > I have my helper apps setup in Netscape but when I click on a link that is

Re: I've hozed my root login.

1998-07-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:24:09AM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > As root I ran chsh and accidentally entered an > > invalid shell path. chsh didn't detect this mistake > > like it does for a regular user! > > I wasn't aware of my blunder till next time I tried to > > login as root. > >

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? Yeah, memtest takes "words" as arguments. That's 32 bits on 386/486/Pentium so (256*1024^2)/32 = 8388608 memtest 8388608

Re: netscape and sh/bash

1998-07-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 02:08:14AM -0500, JonesMB wrote: > This has probabyly been discused here before but a search in the archives > produced no results. > I am running a Debian 1.3.1 system with a 2.0.33 kernel and v4.05 of > Netscape. > I have my helper apps setup in Netscape but when I cli

Netscape 4.05

1998-07-21 Thread Russ Cook
I am running Netscape 4.05 (not 4.5) on my Hamm system. Certain web sites consistently trigger a bus fault from Netscape. Is this a known problem, or do I have a config/library problem? Thanks, Russ Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (405)366-6520 x423

Re: Mouse movement weirdness with latest X packages

1998-07-21 Thread paul
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > > > > > Any suggestions or clues would be quite appreciated. > > > > What brand and model of mouse are you using? > > > > >

sendmail configuration

1998-07-21 Thread Hans Stigter
Hi debian users: I have a problem with my sendmail configuration which I don't understand. 1. I can send email to any address (local and non-local) 2. I can receive _local_ email, but 3. I can _not_ receive mail from outside my domain (agr.kuleuven.ac.be) that was sent from an outside computer to

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-21 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 10:35:43AM -0500, Tomt wrote: > At 10:02 PM 7/20/1998 -0400, you wrote: > I have no gateway defined on either machine do I need one? route add -net...eth0 is sufficient to tell the Debian box to look for any machine on your local network through eth0. You also need some ki

Having problems compiling a kernel

1998-07-21 Thread Nico Fritschi
Hello, I am using Debian 1.3.1 with the 2.0.30 kernel. My version of gcc is 2.7.1 . I wanted to compile a kernel. The first problem was that i wasn't able to use "make menuconfig" (error was: make error 1) and "make xconfig" so i used "make config". After having all set up I made a "make dep" and

Re: Custom Rescue Disk kernel

1998-07-21 Thread dpk
And how can I build my own boot or root or whatever disk, that can start the installation with my own kernel? The original has problem with the aic7xxx driver if the controller is VLB based, and mobo's hasn't PCI bios... I wouldn't know off hand,.. maybe a developer will catch this

Re: Pine not building from source

1998-07-21 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Keith wrote: > I have tried about three time to build a debian package from the Pine 3.96L > files that I downloaded from the debian server. I have all three files it > runs through the whole thing, but all I get is a tech-notes package. >

Re: I've hozed my root login.

1998-07-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > As root I ran chsh and accidentally entered an > invalid shell path. chsh didn't detect this mistake > like it does for a regular user! > I wasn't aware of my blunder till next time I tried to > login as root. > I tried booting from the rescue floppy and then mounting > my linux drive so that

netscape and sh/bash

1998-07-21 Thread JonesMB
This has probabyly been discused here before but a search in the archives produced no results. I am running a Debian 1.3.1 system with a 2.0.33 kernel and v4.05 of Netscape. I have my helper apps setup in Netscape but when I click on a link that is supposed to launch an application, I always ge

RE: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-21 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Ted Harding wrote: > On 20-Jul-98 Stuart Marshall wrote: > > Is there some way to run more than one X session on my debian PC? > > > > Ideally I would do something like run an 8-bit depth xdm session > > that logged me into a remote sun computer and a second X session > > tha

X display problem

1998-07-21 Thread Matthew Myers
I have recently installed debian on a laptop. It has the NeoMagic chipset, and I have read all the files and tried numerous configurations. My problem is, the screen comes up blank. X is running, because when I click with the mouse it runs the hd. When I exit X, I can see all the server message

Re: fetchmail error

1998-07-21 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Cheng Dien Yiu Anthony wrote: > Hello all, > > I have problems with fetchmail. Everytime I execute fetchmail -a -F to > download emails from my ISP server POP3 protocol, it justs hang there. But if > I use netscape mail to download email using POP3 protocal, there is no > p

I've hozed my root login.

1998-07-21 Thread Marlon Urias
As root I ran chsh and accidentally entered an invalid shell path. chsh didn't detect this mistake like it does for a regular user! I wasn't aware of my blunder till next time I tried to login as root. I tried booting from the rescue floppy and then mounting my linux drive so that I might edit /et

Re: Configuring GNOME v.20?

1998-07-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Maarten Boekhold wrote: > > Ok, I've got a .xinitrc file that starts a window-manager et. al. > > However, X's startup sequence seems to be dysfunctional; it no longer > > reads /etc/X11/Xresources automatically. I have to include an xrdb line > > in .xinitrc to force it to read Xresourc

E package, round two

1998-07-21 Thread Shaleh
A new version of my E package can be had from www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. I am working on new Imlib and Fnlib packages. There is a known bug w/ Imlib 1.6 and E. It is a rather obscure one and should not affect anyone. It is also a mostly cosmetic one. E should no longer try

Mouse movement weirdness with latest X packages

1998-07-21 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello, I just recently updated the X11 packages on my Hamm system from rev 3.3.2.1-1 to 3.3.2.2-1 and then to 3.3.2.2-2. Ever since, simple X-Y mouse movements cause the window manager to act as if the mouse buttons are being randomly pressed. This of course causes all sorts of annoying things

Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-21 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, Sorry to reply to my own post but it looks like the reason the second session failed was because I am running the extra font server that is using the socket. When the second session tries to open it it fails. I won't know until tomorrow. Stuart Quoting Stuart Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-21 Thread Tomt
At 10:02 PM 7/20/1998 -0400, you wrote: >I assume you have tcp/ip installed on the NT machine. It doesnt come that >way out of the box. I think you have to install tcp/ip to even assign an ip >address. Make sure you reran SP3 after installing tcp/ip from the NT cd. Been there, done that. >My Deb

memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Lawrence
I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? Lawrence -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

cvs doesn't seem to work for me

1998-07-21 Thread Benjamin White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello all, I am trying to get cvs to help me download the Gnome source tree via the anonymous cvs service they offer. I was doing this under 1.3 and it worked fine, but now I get a Seg Fault when executing 'cvs login.' Example: whitehouse$ export CVSROOT=':ps

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-21 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I have a Debian<-->NTsp3 network working. I am certianly no expert, but I will be glad to work with you on this. I assume you have tcp/ip installed on the NT machine. It doesnt come that way out of the box. I think you have to install tcp/ip to even assign an ip address. Make sure you reran

Debian-M68K install problems

1998-07-21 Thread Hans-Olov Knutsson
Hi! This is my first post to the list and I hope someone out there can help me? (Tell me if i should send this to the m68k-list instead.) I boot Debian with "root.bin" which automagically runs the installer. After I've entered the path to were my archives are and the file "resc1440.bin" I get thi

Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-21 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, Thanks for the help but it does not quite work. I did just what you said but when I start the second X session it fails. The output of "startx -- :1 -bpp " is appended below. It looks like a problem with the first X session locking things up. Could it be the default security (xauth) stuff

hdparm results

1998-07-21 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Can anybody tell me is these results are good? TIA! /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 4.38 seconds = 3.65 MB/sec /dev/hdb: Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 2.19 seconds = 7.31 MB/sec /dev/hdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 1.77 seconds = 9.04 MB/sec

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