Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > /home/src/interpreter.c:851: undefined reference to `crypt' > I think crypt is in a separate library, so you need -lcrypt on the link line. No idea whether this changed between bo and hamm though. HTH, Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~h

passwd vs. yppasswd under nis setup question

1998-08-09 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I have a small network of machines with one of them acting as the nis master. Currently it looks like using the "passwd" program on the master will change the password file but not update the nis map. I seem to recall long ago that the nis installation made passwd call yppasswd? I am confu

Re: ISDN script problem - final !

1998-08-09 Thread Nuno Carvalho
I would like to thank to all who help me to make my ISDN connection work ! :))) Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho

Re: xfstt not working

1998-08-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 06:58:16AM -0400, Keith Vance wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > xfstt 0.9.7 is the version in hamm. That was before I became maintainer. > > ONLY version sprior to 0.9.9-3 (or so) need to be on port 7101. > > > > I am running xfstt 0.9.7. I thought so :) > > xf

Re: Changing number of colors of XServer

1998-08-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the information, How does the XServer know WHICH Screen section to use? I notice that my file has several sections labled like this. Thanks, Doug (Ted Harding) wrote: > On 08-Aug-98 Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > My XServer is currently configured to sue 256 colors. (8 bits). I

GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello all, Well, I seem to be having more problems then I expected after upgrading to hamm. This is probably someting simple except I can't seem to figure out where to start looking. I have a MUD which I have successfully compiled on my pre-upgraded bo system as well as some redhat & erven other

Recommended SCSI cards

1998-08-09 Thread Mark Mickan
I'm going to buy a SCSI card soon, and I'm interested in peoples opinions and experiences. In particular, I've seen IWill 2935UW cards for a reasonable price, Adaptec 2940UW cards for nearly twice the price of the IWill, and the cheapest DPT card for a little more than the Adaptec 2940UW. I'm open

Re: Strange floppy

1998-08-09 Thread Shiraz Sayani
[Maybe off-topic alert] [Maybe repeat alert - I sent this before, but didn't see it] I have a floppy disk I am trying to make a copy of as a backup. It's a Yamaha disklavier disk and fits in a standard 1.44MB floppy drive, but Windows doesn't think its formatted. I thought I'd try copying it on m

Re: emacs 20 wont install after upgrading...

1998-08-09 Thread Peter Granroth
> i get this error as well as a lot of errors during the compile(?) > complaining about references to free variables. > > i also get errors about a symlink that is supposed to be slave link or > non-existent > > as Kent said (below) i also have put this on the back burner but would love > to see

Re: Official Debian 2.0 from LSL?

1998-08-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > I have ordered the Official Debian 2.0 from LSL after Debian 2.0 became > official. At the same time I ordered the Non-Free and Contrib CD's. > > I received the parcel in South Africa without the official Debian 2.0. It > was invoiced, however and I had

Re: patch 2.5-2 problem

1998-08-09 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 07:03:08AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Bjoern Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | while setting up a small network from scratch with hamm, I found that > | /usr/bin/patch ( patch_2.5-2 ) fails to locate files in directories > | deeper than one (eg. *** drivers/sound

Re: ISDN script problem !

1998-08-09 Thread Thomas Adams
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 12:23:44AM +, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > I would consider to give the new config a try. It is really > > nice. Start isdnconfig as root. > I didn't understood, yet, isdnconfig ! :(( What should I write !? Just enter the command "isdnconfig". It will ask you some questio

Adaptec 2940UW failure with current rescue disks; Buslogic BT958 succeeds

1998-08-09 Thread Jameson Burt
Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 years. Now, none of the rescue disks in .../dists/hamm/disks-i386 work with my Adaptec 2940UW. I have tried all four .../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21/resc1440* and I have tried .../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.

Re: What dist is vararg.h in?

1998-08-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thats sys/varargs.h Would varargs.h move between the two version of bo to hamm? This is source code to a mud that compiled fine under bo but now its having fits under hamm. I was expecting that all I would have to do is re-compile it without modifications. Thanks for the info. Doug Gary L. He

Re: Adaptec 2940UW failure with current rescue disks; Buslogic BT-958 succeeds.

1998-08-09 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jameson Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 | years. [snip] | I happen to still have a bo rescue disk from 11/17/97: it works with | my Adaptec 2940UW. | | I got my Adaptec 2940UW two years ago with a new Dell computer. A | sticke

Re: ISDN script problem !

1998-08-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "NC" == Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NC> I didn't understood, yet, isdnconfig ! :(( What should I write !? isdnconfig. At the prompt. As root. Some things are really mysterious, aren't they ;-) NC> ipppd: peer authentication required but no authenthication file accessible NC>

Re: help

1998-08-09 Thread Liran Zvibel
You should e-mail this mesage to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Assuming you want the answer from the majordom service) Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Dave Fleming wrote: > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >

Starting Over

1998-08-09 Thread Marcus Johnson
For those of you interested in studying how the installation process can be improved to help newbies, I offer myself as a case study . Now I'm stuck and I need your help . On this,( my first ever installation of Linux) I installed stable Hamm using LSL's version of the official 2.0 release. Ever

help

1998-08-09 Thread Dave Fleming

Re: xfstt not working

1998-08-09 Thread Keith Vance
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 02:41:51PM -0400, Keith Vance wrote: > > Prior to installing Debian 2.0 my xfstt font server worked fine. I > > understand that I need to load xfstt with port 7101, but it still > > doesn't work. > > hmmm what version of xfstt are you instal

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread stick
Hamish Moffatt said > On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 11:48:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:40:22PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: > > [backspace problem in X] > > > Here is my setup: > > > > > > Debian 1.3.1 > > > > Please consider upgrading to Debian 2.0 . In 2.0, consi

WD7193, WD7197, WD7296 Linux driver

1998-08-09 Thread Andreas Dreyer
Hi! I need a driver for the Western Digital SCSI Controller WD7193 (WD7197,WD7296 schould work, too). The WD7000 does not work (can't mount root fs) and without such a driver I will never be able to use Linux because my harddrives and cdroms are connectet to the WD7193 controller. Please hel

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread jdassen
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 10:19:22PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.0 on my Toshiba notebook on Friday, and > backspace doesn't work in xterm! Perhaps it is just the keyboard on the > thing [I chose standard 102 key keyboard in the setup]; I have to use C-h > though. Suggest

Has Anyone used Axene office suite?

1998-08-09 Thread Allan Bart
Hello, I have found a new unix office suite from a company called AXENE. I think they are a French Co,,however, they do have a representative in Jersey city NJ in the USA. I have also checked out the GIMP and it looks like it might be competitive with Corel Draw 7 or Micrografx Graphics Suite

Re: How to get XDM up?

1998-08-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Robert Ramiega wrote: > > HI! > I have just about one problem with Debian 2.0 While I was installing this > thing i answered "no" when dselect asked if i want to use xdm. Now i would > like to use xdm but i was unable to do so. Can anyone help me ? > TIA > -- > Robert Ramiega | [EMAI

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 11:48:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:40:22PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: > [backspace problem in X] > > Here is my setup: > > > > Debian 1.3.1 > > Please consider upgrading to Debian 2.0 . In 2.0, consistent handling of > backspace and de

Re: kernel image size...

1998-08-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 01:00:46AM -0700, Alan Su wrote: > just out of curiousity, if i do 'make clean ; make zImage' in > /usr/src/linux repeatedly and compare the size of > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, should i expect to get the same > size image? > > i'm currently burning in a computer

Re: Iomega DittoMax (7 GB)

1998-08-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Rene Mayrhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RM> Has anybody tried the Iomega DittoMax (7 GB compressed) under RM> Debian 2.0 ? It works (more or less) with the current betas of the ftape drivers. See http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/, and look under "development". (To be fair

Iomega DittoMax (7 GB)

1998-08-09 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Has anybody tried the Iomega DittoMax (7 GB compressed) under Debian 2.0 ? thanks in advance Rene Mayrhofer

Re: 16bpp XFree86 on IBM Thinkpad 760XL

1998-08-09 Thread Robert J. Alexander
John Kloss wrote: > > > I'm sending you my XF86Config file. I have the same computer running at > 16bpp. I used the DefaultColorDisplay 16 flag in the config file to set > things at 16bpp. Thank you very much John. Meanwhile I had managed to tweak a parallel XF86Config from info I got within IBM

Re: X menus : cannot find first entry

1998-08-09 Thread Robert J. Alexander
You assumed just right. Worked wonderfully ... thank you. Thank you also to Ed Cogburn, but no the problem wasn't my .xsession [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm assuming fvwm95 uses the same system as fvmw2: > > /etc/X11/fvwm95/main-menu-pre.hook > -- --

RE: Changing number of colors of XServer

1998-08-09 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Aug-98 Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > My XServer is currently configured to sue 256 colors. (8 bits). I have > noticed that when I start netscape I get messages telling me it can't allocate > a larger color map. I figured that if I increased the number of colors, this > problem would go away.

Re: gcc and egcs

1998-08-09 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 05:58:27PM -0230, Greg Starkes wrote: > On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > > The problem is that gcc is an ANSI C compiler, and you wanted to compile > > a C++ program. I think that If you have just changed gcc to g++ ( the > > GNU C++ compiler) everything would have

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:40:22PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: [backspace problem in X] > Here is my setup: > > Debian 1.3.1 Please consider upgrading to Debian 2.0 . In 2.0, consistent handling of backspace and delete under X has been implemented. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer

XBanner trouble

1998-08-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, I wrote about this to the xbanner maintainer a while back, but I either didn't get an answer, or it was a "I don't know", don't remember: I'm having trouble with xbanner 1.31-13 after I upgraded the rest of my system to hamm. I already had libc6 by then, and a devel-environment for libc6,

kernel image size...

1998-08-09 Thread Alan Su
just out of curiousity, if i do 'make clean ; make zImage' in /usr/src/linux repeatedly and compare the size of /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, should i expect to get the same size image? i'm currently burning in a computer by sticking it in such a loop, and i'm saving the images, just to ta

Re: annoying Win95 workaround

1998-08-09 Thread Charles Perry
I need to run my Win95 programs for work related reasons...not because I like microsoft. With that said, I install Debian a few months ago and loved it. That is until it kept causing Win 95 to lose partitions. I would set up everything I needed in Win 95 (2 partitions so that the linux kernel can

Re: xfstt not working

1998-08-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 02:41:51PM -0400, Keith Vance wrote: > Prior to installing Debian 2.0 my xfstt font server worked fine. I > understand that I need to load xfstt with port 7101, but it still > doesn't work. hmmm what version of xfstt are you installing? did you get i tfrom Debian 2.0 (hamm

XKB revisited with Hamm

1998-08-09 Thread BG Lim
Just recently I wrote to the lists about my problems with the XKB extension. I got some help but I didn't know how to solve the problem. So, I decided to upgrade to Hamm release version. Now XKB bindings seem to work alright, but I get an error message right after the xserver output. Its goes like

Adaptec 2940UW failure with current rescue disks; Buslogic BT-958 succeeds.

1998-08-09 Thread Jameson Burt
Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 years. Now, none of the rescue disks in .../dists/hamm/disks-i386 work with my Adaptec 2940UW. I have tried all four .../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21/resc1440* and I have tried .../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.

Re: How to connect?; install packages?

1998-08-09 Thread Akop Pogosian
> Derek Saw wrote: > > I've finished installed the core component of Debian. > > I've downloaded many packages from Internet using Win95 and save it > > all the files in the directory D:\DEBIAN (no subdirectories) > > > > By using DSELECT, > > how can I set the ACCESS to use all the files in that

Re: Sound (with E)................

1998-08-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 02:53:09PM -0700, phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > I have my soundcard configured as a module. When i start X, with E, all > the sound go good. If i want to here the time, i put saytime in a term > and linux said: > > opening /dev/audio: Device or resource busy This is

Re: Sound (with E)................

1998-08-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
phillip Neumann hat gesagt: // phillip Neumann wrote: > > I have my soundcard configured as a module. When i start X, with E, all > the sound go good. If i want to here the time, i put saytime in a term > and linux said: > > opening /dev/audio: Device or resource busy > > even if i stop using

Re: fvwm95 after hamm upgrade

1998-08-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I upgraded my bo system to hamm last night. Everything went pretty > well, though I did have the run the "install" portion of dselect > several times for it to get through without errors... Well, I'm impressed - I made a slight error

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Matthew Myers wrote: > >> I am having trouble with my backspace key in X. It acts as the delete >> key rather than the backspace, deleting characters after the cursor >> rather than backspacing over them. > >Hi, > >edit /etc/X11/Xmodm

Re: kde installation

1998-08-09 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 02:19:32AM +0200, Christoph Stein wrote: > dear Debians, > I tried to install the KDE Desktop in my Linux Debian System and got the > message, that a libery is missing: Its called: libgif2. Where can I find > this ? Go to www.debian.org and than to "packages" section. There

kde installation

1998-08-09 Thread Christoph Stein
dear Debians, I tried to install the KDE Desktop in my Linux Debian System and got the message, that a libery is missing: Its called: libgif2. Where can I find this ? Christoph Stein

Re: Colors

1998-08-09 Thread Christopher Barry
Kinda a late reply, but I got around to checking out that bash themes page today. Did you actually get them to look right in the console? I got them to look right in xterm's and rxvt's by loading non-default fonts but are these usable for the basic console? Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "LA" =