Re: Official 2.0 CD's available Friday??

1998-07-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Young, Ed writes: > > I received an email from one of the CD vendors on the "Debian distribution > network" (www.netgod.net) that the Official 2.0 CD's will ship Friday, July > 23rd. Friday is July, 24th Thursday is July, 23rd > Is this correct? Does this mean that Hamm (2.0) has gone from beta

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-23 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 02:12:44AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: > > > fyi, > > > > > > http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html > > > > If that's the one I'v

Re: How to change IRQ on NIC?

1998-07-23 Thread Kent West
Excellent! That did it. FYI, I couldn't just change the config; I had to remove the module and then add it right back in, changing the parameters at that point. One more question; after making a change like that, can you get the system to see the change without rebooting? I suspect you can, but I

Re: How to change IRQ on NIC?

1998-07-23 Thread Ehren Wilson
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Kent West wrote: > I'm sure this is SOMEWHERE in the documentation, but I'm not finding it. > How do I change the IRQ on my network card in hamm? I've just installed it > on a laptop/docking station, and forgot to check my IRQ first, so I guessed > at 10 during the install. Th

Update on X & NeoMagic (was Re: X with a NeoMagic card)

1998-07-23 Thread Seth M. Landsman
Folks, So I just got my laptop (a Gateway Solo 2300SE) yesterday. This machine has a NeoMagic video card (128XD card, I believe. NM2160 chipset). So far Linux has gone fairly painlessly. PCMCIA was a pain, as the modules installed by the Debian 1.3.1 CD were different than the ones the ke

How to change IRQ on NIC?

1998-07-23 Thread Kent West
I'm sure this is SOMEWHERE in the documentation, but I'm not finding it. How do I change the IRQ on my network card in hamm? I've just installed it on a laptop/docking station, and forgot to check my IRQ first, so I guessed at 10 during the install. That was wrong; I need to change it to 15. How do

Fvwm2 and Debian menu

1998-07-23 Thread Curt Daugaard
I like the design of the Debian menu package, and I'm trying to follow the docs to get auto-updating of menus under X, but I seem to have hit a roadblock. I use Fvwm2, and according to the comments in system.fvwm2rc and the Fvwm2 docs--in the Debian package, compliant with the menu package--FvwmBu

failure notice (fwd)Documenatation

1998-07-23 Thread joseph evan porter
> I'm trying to figure out how to set up the on-line documentation. I have > Apache set up on my installation, but when dhelp starts the Web browser, I > only get some general info., and some cryptic information about doc-base > and install-docs. It seems that there is a relatively easy way to in

Re: Sound Support

1998-07-23 Thread d1temp
On 23 Jul, Curt E. Spann wrote: > Does linux support Beach™ A3D 64-Voice Sound Cards? I have a TB Montego A3D card and haven't been able to get it to work (if anyone has, please speak up! :-) I checked with OSS about a month ago and they had a timetable of late July/August for a driver for that

How to set up network print quotas?

1998-07-23 Thread Daniel Mashao
I know about disk quotas but can one set up printing quotas? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.e

Sound Support

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
Does linux support Beach™ A3D 64-Voice Sound Cards? curt -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

xserver-s3 install problem

1998-07-23 Thread Patrick Meidl
I just installed debian 2.0 on my machine but can't setup X to work properly. when I run dselect for the first time I mainly installed the packages that dselect proposed. some of them didn't install, two of which were the xserver-s3 and xserver-vga16 packages. since I would like to use the xser

Re: Mouse

1998-07-23 Thread vaidhy
Did you do 'make modules;make modules_install'? Did you also run depmod-a?. If yes, then looks to me like you never loaded the module. You can do it at boot or whenever you wish. Try typing insmod module name(eg:ppp.o for ppp). Regards, Vaidhy > When i compile the kernel with the mouse sup

Re: DVD support for linux

1998-07-23 Thread Maarten Boekhold
> PCI supported, or AWE 64 ISA? Also is there really a big difference between > 66Mhz bus and 100Mhz bus. I heard that it is just for the memory? Also AGP > info on that? *just* for the memory? Do you know how much time a modern processor is waiting on data from main memory? This is called the

Mouse

1998-07-23 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, When i compile the kernel with the mouse support as a module, X doesnt want to start ("cannot find mouse port" or something). What does this mean?? 1) To use a mouse under X, it should be installed NOT as a module. 2) I have to do more configuring stuff, to make the modules work. 3) None

Re: 2.0 beta --> final; how different?

1998-07-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 03:07:04PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Probably the biggest change is the Xfree and some libs. Of course we > install changelogs in /usr/doc/ for a reason (-: Yep, and I would love to see the latest changelog entry in dselect (I get the *-changes lists, but I need the info whe

Re: 2.0 beta --> final; how different?

1998-07-23 Thread Shaleh
Lots of little minor things. Just let dselect update for you. I find that my CD's rapidly outdate my system anyway. I use them to install, then update my packages from ftp. Probably the biggest change is the Xfree and some libs. Of course we install changelogs in /usr/doc/ for a reason (-: Gr

2.0 beta --> final; how different?

1998-07-23 Thread Gregory Guthrie
How does Debian 2.0 Beta, and the 2.0 release differ. I just got my Beta CD 2 days ago; should I order the final release also? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: DVD support for linux

1998-07-23 Thread Shaleh
Buy a system that you chose all the parts for. Do *NOT* buy a Compaq, Gateway, whatever. You will get whatever they feel like giving you. I have found that the pre-built Linux boxes are over priced. Remember, a capitalist society is the purest form of democracy. You vote with your money. Do y

Re: DVD support for linux

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
Also if I am gonna buy a computer to use mostly for linux but also use win98 just play some games...Not many but some. What manufacter should I get the system from, Micron, Gateway, Dell, or one that make PC just for Linux? -Original Message- From: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Curt

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jack A Walker wrote: > Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple > way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would do this:ls | awk '{ system("mv " $0 " " tolower($0)) }' (But ju

Re: DVD support for linux

1998-07-23 Thread Shaleh
Fun Fun Fun Curt E. Spann wrote: > > Hello, > I getting ready to purchase a new system but before I do I need to know > some stuff. First does Linux support dvd drives. Probably not yet. And since the DVD videos will also likely be useless ther is not much point. DVD is nice for TV's, wa

DVD support for linux

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
Hello, I getting ready to purchase a new system but before I do I need to know some stuff. First does Linux support dvd drives. What video card should I get? If I have a choice between SCSI and Ultra ATA system which should I get? SCSI is a little more expensive but is it really worth it?

Re: Year 2000 compliance

1998-07-23 Thread servis
*-Rick Fadler (23 Jul) | | Does anyone have any information on this? | http://www.debian.org/news#19980104 -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubsc

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread servis
*-Jack A Walker (23 Jul) | Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple | way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would | like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be | lowercase letters only. I know this seems lik

RE: Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Jul-98 Jack A Walker wrote: > Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple > way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would > like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be > lowercase letters only. I know this

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Shaleh
Richard L. Alhama wrote: > Thanks for the help. Package E15 again! E .15 rrrggg -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Sheesh. I packaged this thing to AVOID this mess (-: > > E and all needed libs are now in Incoming on their way into slink. If > you can wait three days or so, all should be cleaned up by dselect. > > Thank you and enjoy your new window manager (-: It's zli

cd_autoup.sh and hamm upgrade problems.

1998-07-23 Thread Clemmitt Sigler
Hi, I'm not subscribed to debian-user any more because of the volume, but please feel free to respond to me directly via e-mail if you have any questions, comments, etc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I helped a friend upgrade from bo to hamm yesterday over the phone. This is not easy in and of itself :^) B

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread Michel LESPINASSE
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jack A Walker wrote: > Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple > way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would > like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be > lowercase letters only. I k

Year 2000 compliance

1998-07-23 Thread Rick Fadler
Hi, I'm assuming with all the year 2000 compliance hype that there must be a document somewhere describing the year 2000 issues related to specific Debian releases of linux. Specifically, we have built an embedded system using Debian version 1.3. Being an embedded system, we've stripped out most

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread aqy6633
> Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple > way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would > like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be > lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it woul

UMSDOS on Debian

1998-07-23 Thread Salvador Bosque i Puy
I would like to install Debian without partitioning a disk. Is it possible to install Debian on a UMSDOS filesystem? Has anybody some hints or can post any pointer regarding this issue? Thanks Salvador Bosque -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: autoup.sh v0.28 released

1998-07-23 Thread JonesMB
Now you tell me about the autoup.sh v0.28 upgrade :-) Yesterday I did some more hunting and found the 2 packages that autoup.sh v0.27 expected to be in libs - I found them in base. I downloaded them and autoup'ed again. It installed everything but it still complained about some conflicts. Af

Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread Jack A Walker
Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it would simpli

xterm-debian and pine problem

1998-07-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I just added the xterm-debian terminfo file in the appropriate Solaris 2.6 location on our Solaris machine, in accordance with what /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian says. When I start up an xterm on our Solaris machine remotely using SSH on our hamm system (Solaris xterm displayed on hamm system

Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Jul-98 Will Lowe wrote: > There is an ascii-linux-logo program floating around someplace (no > clue where), or you could design an ascii-logo and just dump it to the > screen at some point early in the boot scripts. I think it's floating around in a lot of places. Here's a copy of my

(fwd) New boot logo patch, testers wanted

1998-07-23 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-- forwarded message -- Path: news.uv.es!news.rediris.es!news-ge.switch.ch!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news.fh-hannover.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!not-for-mail From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.developme

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Shaleh
Sheesh. I packaged this thing to AVOID this mess (-: E and all needed libs are now in Incoming on their way into slink. If you can wait three days or so, all should be cleaned up by dselect. You do *NOT* need the -dev files of any lib that is on your sytem to use E or any other app. The -dev p

Official 2.0 CD's available Friday??

1998-07-23 Thread Young, Ed
I received an email from one of the CD vendors on the "Debian distribution network" (www.netgod.net) that the Official 2.0 CD's will ship Friday, July 23rd. Is this correct? Does this mean that Hamm (2.0) has gone from beta to full release? I've been folowing this list and the announce list an

Re: Mirror after release

1998-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 23 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > I keep a mirror of the frozen distribution (rooted at > /debian/dists/frozen) of Debian and was wondering how the directory > structure will change on ftp.debian.org after the release tonight. Do > they just rename/relin

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: > > > > I'm getting errors on the e14 package. Seems like my imlib is broken > > > > Error message when I start E14 > > enlightenment: error in loading sh

System timer resolution

1998-07-23 Thread Juan Pedro Lara Mendiola
¡Hello friends! I need to know how I can improve the system timer resolution. I think that I have to change a system variable named HZ. That variable establishes the timer interrupt frequency (defined 100 Hz). I need to use timers with resolution less than miliseconds. What do I have to do? Thank.

Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread servis
*-Curt E. Spann (23 Jul) | Hello, | I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like to make one. Is it even possib

Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread Marsh Ray
From: Curt E. Spann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. > So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be > a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like > to make one. Is it even p

Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Curt E. Spann wrote: > I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like > in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion > it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one > I would like to make one. Is it

Mirror after release

1998-07-23 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I keep a mirror of the frozen distribution (rooted at /debian/dists/frozen) of Debian and was wondering how the directory structure will change on ftp.debian.org after the release tonight. Do they just rename/relink frozen -> stable? I just want to know how to adjust my mirror configuration file an

Re: cd rom drives

1998-07-23 Thread Will Lowe
> newbie alert. Greetings. > now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug > and pray, is there any complication to installing a cd-rom drive and new > modem? do i have to invoke prayers to any particular UNIX gods? or do i > get to shove the new stuff into their pro

Re: cd rom drives

1998-07-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug > and pray, is there any complication to installing a cd-rom drive and new > modem? do i have to invoke prayers to any particular UNIX gods? or do i > get to shove the new stuff into their proper bays and boot up? Y

Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
Hello,     I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95.  So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like to make one.  Is it even possibly to make it?  Will I h

Re: Now I've done it! [root re-partitioning mess]

1998-07-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Perhaps you do have those libs (in name, anyway). I know that much is trimmed from libc to make everything fit on the boot floppy. Jeff Schreiber wrote: > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Ah, a familiar story. So much for rescue by the rescue disk. Dig the shared > >lib(s)

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is > > > uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have > > > ANY probelms, please let me k

Re: Burning my own CD under Windows

1998-07-23 Thread servis
*-Curt E. Spann (23 Jul) | Hello, | I want to burn a cd with Debian 2.0 beta. I know you can download the images and use a linux program to make a cd. But I want to burn it under Windows. I just need to know the directory where every thing is just like it is on the cd. | | |

Re: your or redhat?

1998-07-23 Thread Kent West
I tried to install Redhat on an older non-name-brand 486, but it wouldn't see one of my hard drives, so I tried Debian, and have stuck with it. The impression I've gotton from reading mail archives, etc, is that Redhat is easier to get up and running for the newbie, but only because it is more limi

cd rom drives

1998-07-23 Thread David Parmet
newbie alert. since my 1.3 box, which i'm upgrading asap, doesn't have a cd-rom drive and has only a 14.4 modem, i was thinking of upgrading both before upgrading to 2.0. now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug and pray, is there any complication to installing

Re: Debian & Std C++?

1998-07-23 Thread Hannu Koivisto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | egcs 1.0.3 still does not understand namespaces fully yet, but its C++ | support is a big improvement over 2.7.2.3's . The original poster might want to try latest egcs snapshots from egcs.cygnus.com. They work better for me than 1.0.3 in general and they include bette

Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > Yo- > > >From the oceans of code emerges Debian 2.0! And it is good! Come forward > my brothers (and sisters) and embrace this glorious gift. Take forth this > gift and sow it's seed for it will reign eternal. Ahhh... yes Brother! CD images! and

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi, > > > Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is > > uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have > > ANY probelms, please let me know. Otherwise I a day or so I will upload > > this to the m

Re: samba printing problems

1998-07-23 Thread servis
*-Patrick Olson (22 Jul) | | The output of lpq is sure interesting! | | The junk below is all from ONE print job from ONE Win3.1 computer. Think | this could be part of the problem? Note that I had to take the printer | offline to get all the pieces to be in the queue together. | | server2# lp

Re: autoup.sh fails when upgrading bo -> hamm

1998-07-23 Thread Kent West
I got the same message when I tried to run autoup.sh. However, I was trying to run it on a hamm system instead of trying to do an upgrade from bo. This is because I'm a newbie and don't know what I'm doing yet. Nonetheless, thought I'd let everyone know I saw the error also. At 07:43 PM 7/23/1998

RE: Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Frock
Yes, it's official alrighty ;) check http://www.netgod.net/ for more info. /Frock > -Original Message- > From: Curt E. Spann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23. juli 1998 15:33 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today! > > > WaitIs this of

Re: Debian & Std C++?

1998-07-23 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 09:35:51AM -0400, SEGV wrote: > What is the state of Standard C++ (as adopted by ISO/ANSI) on GNU/Linux? Debian 2.0 will ship with the egcs C++ compiler (http://egcs.cygnus.com/) version 1.0.3 . > For instance, browsing my system I see that c++ is gcc version 2.7.2.3. It >

Re: Debian & Std C++?

1998-07-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, g++ 2.7.2.3 is fairly out of date with respect to C++ standards. Use egcs C++ 1.x instead. Egcs is the Experimental GNU Compiler System. It is somewhat equivalent to gcc/g++ 2.9x.x, sort of :). Anyway, the egcs version of g++ conforms much more closely to the latest C++ standard. However,

Re: Burning my own CD under Windows

1998-07-23 Thread Kevin Traas
Curt, you will not be able to burn a Debian CD under Windows (properly, anyway). Your only option will be to retrieve the "Official D2 CD" ISO images and then burn them directly to the CD from your Winbloze box. That, or use a Linux system to mirror the FTP site and build the CD from Linux from y

Debian & Std C++?

1998-07-23 Thread SEGV
This maybe isn't the most perfect forum for these questions, but it's one I read... What is the state of Standard C++ (as adopted by ISO/ANSI) on GNU/Linux? I'm starting to use more true-blue C++ constructs at work, and it would be nice to have them at home as well. For instance, browsing my sys

Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
WaitIs this officalIs Debian 2.0 going to be released today??? I need to know before I start Downloading the beta CD Image Thanks, Curt -Original Message- From: Ian Keith Setford <

Re: sound problems

1998-07-23 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: > I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is > because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is > initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). I have a SB/WSS card on my > motherboard, and got the IRQ and IO sett

Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- >From the oceans of code emerges Debian 2.0! And it is good! Come forward my brothers (and sisters) and embrace this glorious gift. Take forth this gift and sow it's seed for it will reign eternal. Brother Ian. (p.s. Can you tell I'm excited?) _

Debian Beta 2.0 CD listings

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
Hello,     Can somebody with the Debain 2.0 beta CD do a dir on it and send me the listing.  I need the root dir of the cd at least.  A dir of the whole CD would be better.         Curt  

Re: Beta Test and e2fsprogs

1998-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Paul Serice wrote: > I can't seem to upgrade one of the base packages. > > My current setup is > > ii e2fslibsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system shared libs. > ii e2fsprogsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system utilities. >

Re: Now I've done it! [root re-partitioning mess]

1998-07-23 Thread Jeff Schreiber
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Ah, a familiar story. So much for rescue by the rescue disk. Dig the shared >lib(s) you're missing and copy them into /lib/ after you boot the rescue >disk, then run restore. My bo machine shows: All those libs seemed to be located in my /l

XF86Config mode settings for Number 9 FX Motion 771

1998-07-23 Thread Chris Evans
/dev/lp1 and printing sorted out! Now trouble is that I cannot get my combination of a number 9 FX Motion 771 card (it's an approved S3 card, fairly sure it has 4Mb RAM) to run X in 1024X768. I know it will do this as it ran NT at that resolution. I think I successfully (but not usably) ran

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-23 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote: > > > At 10:44 PM 7/19/1998 -0700, you wrote: > > >It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something > > >other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try > > >to use 0x300 (sound car

Re: XFree 86 on CL 7548?

1998-07-23 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Matthew Ando wrote: > > Hello, > > I've upgraded to Hamm beta from Red Hat 4.1. > I had X working with RH 3 and RH 4.1; 4.1's version of X is 3.2.x > > I have a laptop (Samsung sens 810) with a Cirrus Logic 7548 chip. > > After installing XFree 86 3.3 from Hamm, I get th

Re: Check deb-Paket?

1998-07-23 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 11:31:35AM +0200, Michael Taeschner wrote: > Wie ueberpruefe ich auf der Kommandozeile die Integritaet von > .deb-Paketen? > > Die man-pages (uralt) sagen, dass es keine Checksumme gaebe... That is correct: the packages themselves do not contain checksums. > Dann frage i

Burning my own CD under Windows

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
Hello,     I want to burn a cd with Debian 2.0 beta.  I know you can download the images and use a linux program to make a cd.  But I want to burn it under Windows.  I just need to know the directory where every thing is just like it is on the cd.        

Re: Portuguese Keyboard

1998-07-23 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Ana Graca Silva wrote: > > Thanks all Debian useres for the answers to my question! > I've solved my problem making a substituition of the file default.map in > /usr/linb/kbd/keytables by pt.map ... > It was so simple ... For further information, take a look at http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~

Re: where did cvs-pcl go?

1998-07-23 Thread Jens Ritter
Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know why the cvs-pcl package went away? Will it be coming back > soon? It has an important bug against it (see bug tracking system: #22577), because of which the install procedure for emacsen fail. It has been removed from hamm because it prevent

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-23 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using one or >> more >> scripts, such as >> >> find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string >> >> looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. >> >> The systems seem stable, otherwise. Only common hardware are ultra-

Re: your or redhat?

1998-07-23 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Ken Gray wrote: > > 1 easy installation (i.e. auto recognition) No auto recognition for ISA in Linux yet... Linus haven't yet seen a good implementation of Prug'n'Pray. PCI works regardless of distribution. RedHat installation is more beautiful, Debian is more informativ

Re: sound problems

1998-07-23 Thread Jens Ritter
Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is > because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is > initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). I have a SB/WSS card on my > motherboard, and got the IRQ and IO sett

Re: Mouse movement weirdness with latest X packages

1998-07-23 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
FYI: I just upgraged to the rev 3.3.2.2-3 X11 packages and the mouse movement sluggishness and jerkiness seems to have gone away, and it seems that the random "button pressing" behavior has disappeared. I'm guessing this is what affected me, although I'm using xserver-s3, not the SVGA server (fro

Re: where did cvs-pcl go?

1998-07-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Hsieh writes: > > Anyone know why the cvs-pcl package went away? Will it be coming back > soon? It should be around in slink. It may be removed from hamm due to showstop errors during its installation. Regards, Joey -- *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows], repartitioning Disk f

Re: My Date is always 3 hrs off

1998-07-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Keith writes: > I am having some trouble getting my time correct > on my Debian 1.3 system. I am in the Eastern time > zone. I type: > > date 0722233098 > > To change the date to July 22 1998 11:30pm. It > changes the date, until I reboot. If I check > my cmos clock it is right. So I am assuming

Re: rvplayer 5.0 with deb pkg

1998-07-23 Thread Jens Ritter
"Mark H. Mabry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed rvplayer-5.0 with the Debian package and it still > does not seem to work correctly. (I have also tried it by hand and > still no luck.) When I click on a link with RealAudio, I get a "Save > As" dialog box rather than having the pla

Re: magicfilter does ps?

1998-07-23 Thread Martin Schulze
the lone gunman writes: > On my old Slackware system, I manually installed APSfilter, and had my > printer setup correctly. I could print text files without the > staircase effect, and simply type "lp somefile.ps" and postscript > files would print out automatically. > > On Debian, now, I have ma

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote: > At 10:44 PM 7/19/1998 -0700, you wrote: > >It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something > >other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try > >to use 0x300 (sound cards, primarily). > > Theres a sound card in the machine

Re: sound problems

1998-07-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 08:04:33PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is > because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is > initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). You have to compile sound as a kernel module. Ans

Re: your or redhat?

1998-07-23 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Few days ago I had a chance to compare redhat against debian. I had installed Debian 1.3 from CD on tiny configuration: ROM=4M, HD=120M, Monochroom Hercules, Cyrix 486DX, 50Mh. A friend of mine tried to do the same job with RH5.1 but was unable to install due to the lack of disk space, ROM size .

Re: X with a NeoMagic card

1998-07-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Ok.. I found the key, I tried that and I also hooked up an external monitor >to see if I could see something and it turned of the monitor like Win95 does >when in the wrong video mode. What's in your /etc/X11/XF86Config? --

autoup.sh v0.28 released

1998-07-23 Thread Craig Sanders
v0.28: 1998-07-23 (Craig Sanders) - libstdc++2.8 has moved from libs/ to base/ - libnet-perl has moved from interpreters/ to base/ as usual, it is available from http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ (primary site) ftp://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ and http://taz.net.au/

Re: autoup.sh fails when upgrading bo -> hamm

1998-07-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, JonesMB wrote: > I am trying to upgrade from bo to hamm so I can run the new bash and > try wine. > > I run autoup.sh and it ftp'ed the files needed for the upgrade. It > failed to get me the file libstdc++2.8_*.deb > > [...deleted...] autoup.sh is expecting to find it in li

Check deb-Paket?

1998-07-23 Thread Michael Taeschner
Hallo, Wie ueberpruefe ich auf der Kommandozeile die Integritaet von .deb-Paketen? Die man-pages (uralt) sagen, dass es keine Checksumme gaebe... Dann frage ich mich aber, wie dselect nach ftp die heruntergeladenen Pakete prueft bzw. wie Maintainer ihren ftp-Mirror checken? Danke im Voraus, Mi

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Damon Muller
Hi, > Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is > uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have > ANY probelms, please let me know. Otherwise I a day or so I will upload > this to the main Debian archive. Got this, installed it - it's aws

Re: Debian 1.3 & libc6

1998-07-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shaleh wrote: >>We have done all the work needed to support libc6 for you. Please do > >This stuff always seems odd to me. Has autoup stopped killing >people's systems? Yup, I've upgraded lots o

Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Johnie Ingram
We are mere hours away from the largest IRC party Debian has ever thrown, as the release of 2.0 "hamm" will happen: in Austrailia: at 10:00 AM ACT on Friday Jul 24 in Europe: at 0:00 midnight UTC on Friday Jul 24 in America: at 8:00 PM EDT on Thursday Jul 23

Re: elm signature file

1998-07-23 Thread fantomas
-> I think I am having some trouble setting up a ~/.signature file in -> Elm. If this message has my name at the bottom than everything is -> working, if not I need help. I just want to put a signature on all -> my email. hmmm edit your ~/.elm/elmrc and define # local ".signature" file to append

Beta Test and e2fsprogs

1998-07-23 Thread Paul Serice
I can't seem to upgrade one of the base packages. My current setup is ii e2fslibsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system shared libs. ii e2fsprogsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system utilities. When I type "dpkg --install e2fsprogs_1.10-17.deb", I get the following: dpkg: consideri

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-23 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Thanks alot Matt regards Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, the lone gunman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 1

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-23 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Thanks Gary, Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 22 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

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