Re: Error using FAT32 in install

1998-08-10 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 10:53:22AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > To anyone else, does the install kernel for Debian 2.0 have FAT32 > support, or does that only show up in kernel-source 2.0.33/34? > I recently tried to install hamm by downloading the driver disk and the base tarball to a FAT32

Re: Latex Postscript

1998-08-10 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Josh Stern wrote: Thanks a million Josh, Unfortunately, that is not always the case ... but over the past few hours I have been busy. I found an obscure shell script called 'aimaker.shar' which does the conversion pretty well...I include a tared 'n gziped version here

Lilo is not behaving itself...

1998-08-10 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hi. I'm trying to install lilo on a friend's computer (after doing it 100s of times at work), and get te following error: Warning: device 0x0302 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1093 > 1023) That computer bios has the ability to "see" over the 1024th cylinde

bootpd

1998-08-10 Thread Wakko Warner
Is there a way to keep bootpd from replying to computers when using multiple network boards? I'm going to be setting up 2 diskless machines (floppy boot actually) to get a random IP address. The machine I'll be running bootpd has 2 nics. One of them is the corporate's network, the other is my wo

Matrox G200

1998-08-10 Thread Max
I understand that this card is not yet supported by XFree86, but the FAQ was less than inspiring. I'm referring to the section where it talks about what to do if your chipset is not supported. All I want to do is be able to run this card at 1024x768 with more than 256 colors. Is it possible with

Re: apt - priorities?

1998-08-10 Thread B. Bell
On 10 Aug 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: > B Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BB> and either way, for all of the packages which are in both hamm and slink, > BB> dselect wants to upgrade to the slink versions... > > slink tends to have newer versions of things than hamm, so APT tries > to download t

Re: Latex Postscript

1998-08-10 Thread Josh Stern
>Sorry to trouble you with this question but, I am besides myself with this >one. > Does anyone know of any program/method to convert M$ PowerPoint >slides to decent ps or eps files I've had decent results with the technique of setting the Windows printer to a standard postscript printer,

Re: Scilab 2.4 x WindowMaker

1998-08-10 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Marcelo E. Magallon writes: >> Today I´ve compiled the scilab 2.4 math package >> (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/) in my Debian 2.0 machine. Compiling >> was smooth. >> >> But I got a weird surprise after that. Every time scilab tries to open a >> graphic window, the window maker (Windo

Re: [latex2html] Where is html.sty ?

1998-08-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Cormac" == Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Cormac> Debian does not appear to warn about disk space necessary Cormac> when installing packages anymore ( as it used to) at least as Cormac> far as I could tell... Am I wrong ? Well, this is not as simple as it appears

Thinkpad, ppp, asymetric line balancing, etc.

1998-08-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I would have sworn that I'd sent this earlier, but it hasn't shown up in my digests . . . I picked up a thinkpad 755c, 486/50, 30/340 to use at home in the evenings. I need to accomplish a pair of ways to connect to the machine on my desk. a) by serial port to the machine on my desk by ppp.

help w/ virtual domains and linux

1998-08-10 Thread Shaleh
first, thank you netgod for trying to help. The phone kept ringing at work and I could not pay close enough attention. I am in the process of moving from BSDi to Debian at work. We typically have from 5 to 25 domains on a web server. I know how to config apache, sendmail, etc. However the ifco

Re: Wintel CD burner apps to create Debian CDs?

1998-08-10 Thread Jens Ritter
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the reply Sorry for the delay in response here, but > I've been _very_ busy... Well, I have Adaptec Easy CD Pro which can > write ISO image files to CD, but I thought _that_ wouldn't work > either because it doesn't support the Rock Rid

Re: can I use my scanner on Linux

1998-08-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Keith Vance wrote: > I have a Mustek scanner that is hooked up to my computer with an > Advansys scsi card. How do I setup a scanner and what software do I > need? Your best bet is to check out the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) (don't blame me, I didn't make up the name) web

setlogmask

1998-08-10 Thread shaul
I am trying to run the example programs that accompany the book "Beginning Linux Programming". I don't undestand what is wrong with this one (it produces Aug 10 02:42:38 rakefet logmask[13691]: debug message, should not appear , although it is not execpected to): bash-2.00$ cat logmask.c

Re: [latex2html] Where is html.sty ?

1998-08-10 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi there, thanks for the help ! "Originally from Manoj Srivastava" > Hi, > >>"Cormac" == Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Cormac> Hi, I am running Debian 2.0 (hamm) and have all tetex > Cormac> packages and latex2html installed However, when I try to > Cormac> refer to a

xdm and window size

1998-08-10 Thread D'jinnie
I have recently started running xdm instead of starting/stopping X and I was wondering if there is any way to make the login prompt centered on the screen (right now it's in the lower right corner) without disabling virtual screen? --- If love is blind, then why do they make lingerie? D'jinnie/Ji

Re: apt - priorities?

1998-08-10 Thread David Z. Maze
B Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BB> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: JG> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: RvdM> When you point apt's config file, sources.list, to more than one Debian RvdM> archive, is it possible make sure it uses a specific site when the same Rvd

Re: apt - priorities?

1998-08-10 Thread B. Bell
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > > When you point apt's config file, sources.list, to more than one Debian > > archive, is it possible make sure it uses a specific site when the same > > version of a package is found on more than one site?

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-10 Thread Nuno Oliveira
Try adding the following line to /etc/X11/Xmodmap keycode 22 = BackSpace and restart X. This might help if you are not using the XKEYBOARD extension. Nuno. > At around Sun, 9 Aug 1998 22:19:22 +1000, > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > > > On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 11:48

Troubles: x11amp, eplus, searching libs, SLab.........

1998-08-10 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, I discover that when i want to here some music with x11amp, i must boot my system with the "default" kernel image. I cannot play any mp3 with x11amp when i boot using my custom image. In the kenrel options of sound i have: Sound card support (Module) SB support /dev/d

Which Video Card?

1998-08-10 Thread Rick Smorawski
I am buying a new pc, and have the choice between 2 cards. 1. Real3d Starfighter i740 based video card w/ 8megs ram 3. and S3 based video card w/ 4megs ram. both are AGP I know there is currently no i740 server available. My question is, should I go for the card w/ the more memory, or one that

Re: another good book

1998-08-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 10-Aug-98 D'jinnie wrote: > "Unix in a Nutshell" is a must-have reference...there are quite a few > good O'Reilly books. I also like "Unix for the Impatient" but don't recall > the author or ISBN... Paul W. Abrahams & Bruce A. Larsen "UNIX forthe Impatient" 2nd Edn 1995, Addison Wesley ISBN 0

a thinkpad, ppp, slirp, asynchronous line balancing, and the like

1998-08-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I found a nice deal on an old thinkpad 755C while on vacation. 486/50, 20M/340M, active matrix, and a 14.4 modem tossed in. It came with the gates virus, which I'm currently removing. ANd of course, the only people with the keys to the room with the pcmia network cards are not here, so I"m l

Re: Apache Problem

1998-08-10 Thread vaidhy
> Hope this isn't much of a trivial question but I would like to ask what > causes this error in the debianized apache. It works on my box which is a > debian 1.3 upgraded to 2.0 box. > > I get this errors when I try a fresh install on a friend's 486. He > wishes to use it as a standalone web de

apt-get to get stable-updates?

1998-08-10 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, Can I use apt-get to go after the packages in the stable-updates directory at ftp.debian.org? If so, how? I could not find anything mentioned on the web pages or the apt docs. thanks, Stuart

Re: Scilab 2.4 x WindowMaker

1998-08-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 04:01:25PM -0300, Paulo José da Silva e Silva wrote: > Today I´ve compiled the scilab 2.4 math package > (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/) in my Debian 2.0 machine. Compiling > was smooth. > > But I got a weird surprise after that. Every time scilab tries to open a >

Re: another good book

1998-08-10 Thread D'jinnie
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, David Parmet wrote: :Can anyone recommend some good reading on basic programming? I have no :knowledge aside from knowing a bash shell from a hole in the ground and :I'd like to learn some basic skill so I can figure out how this thing :works? "Unix in a Nutshell" is a must-h

Problems with Libc6 upgrade?

1998-08-10 Thread nimennor
Hi, I'm about to received Debian 2.0, and I was wondering what effect upgrade will have on programs that I currently use. Besides the usual GNU programs, I also have WordPerfect, Maple, and etc. Will these programs work with Libc6, or are there pat

Re: Wintel CD burner apps to create Debian CDs?

1998-08-10 Thread Kevin Traas
>Thanks for the reply Sorry for the delay in response here, but >I've been _very_ busy... Well, I have Adaptec Easy CD Pro which can >write ISO image files to CD, but I thought _that_ wouldn't work >either because it doesn't support the Rock Ridge Extensions (read >from a previous post to deb

Re: [latex2html] Where is html.sty ?

1998-08-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Cormac" == Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Cormac> Hi, I am running Debian 2.0 (hamm) and have all tetex Cormac> packages and latex2html installed However, when I try to Cormac> refer to a website in a latex document I need to use the Cormac> latex style file "html.sty

Generating Background Images

1998-08-10 Thread Michael Laing
I want to find or generate some subtle but complex light gray-scale background images that are letter paper sized. I will use latex to draw text over them. I am trying to create the effect of watermarking on plain white paper. Fractal design would be nice. Thanks, Michael Laing

Re: passwd vs. yppasswd under nis setup question

1998-08-10 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Stuart Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 confused as to how it should be set > up. currently /bin/passwd isn't linked to yppasswd on installation and I think t

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

1998-08-10 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Jameson Burt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 am not concerned about this problem; I do not seek a solution since I have >

Apache Problem

1998-08-10 Thread Richard L. Alhama
Hope this isn't much of a trivial question but I would like to ask what causes this error in the debianized apache. It works on my box which is a debian 1.3 upgraded to 2.0 box. I get this errors when I try a fresh install on a friend's 486. He wishes to use it as a standalone web development bo

Re: New to Debian; emacs20 broken after fresh install of Hamm.

1998-08-10 Thread Kent West
Several of us on this list had trouble installing emacs20. Someone mentioned that it should the installation of tm seems to cause problems. I went and purged tm, then my emacs20 configuration worked. On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Ruud Janssen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Debian (not to Linux though; I'v

Abit TX5 and AMD K6-200 OK for Linux?

1998-08-10 Thread simonst
Any negative or positive feedback on running Linux on an Abit TX5 main board with an AMD K6-200 cpu? I have the chance to upgrade my work PC (Win95) , and I will be adding a Linux partition.

Re: Wintel CD burner apps to create Debian CDs?

1998-08-10 Thread Kendrick Myatt
Thanks for the reply Sorry for the delay in response here, but I've been _very_ busy... Well, I have Adaptec Easy CD Pro which can write ISO image files to CD, but I thought _that_ wouldn't work either because it doesn't support the Rock Ridge Extensions (read from a previous post to debian-u

Re: Libc5 and libc6 conflict

1998-08-10 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 03:05:26PM +0200, Yves Van de Weyer wrote: > Hello, > > I installed Debian Linux 2.0.29 and wanted to add support for ppp. 2.0.29 is NOT a "debian version" it is the version of the Linux kernel itself. However...if your kernel version is 2.0.29 and you havn't upgraded it o

Re: Vesa

1998-08-10 Thread Ed Cogburn
Luiken, Arijan wrote: > > Hi is there an x-server who supports vesa ? > > Greets, > Arijan > If you are talking about VESA graphics protocal, this isn't useful with X, since Xservers are written to interface directly with the graphics hardware on the video card. VESA was meant to prov

What include is get_time defined in?

1998-08-10 Thread servis
What libc6 include file defines the symbol get_time? I searched the includes in /usr/include and /usr/include/sys and couldn't find any reference to it? I have libc6-dev installed. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering

Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-10 Thread Ed Cogburn
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > That did the trick! > > Thanks, > > Doug > > P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this was > moved into > its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right place. I'm not sure if this is what you are asking for, but 'd

Re: another good book

1998-08-10 Thread David B. Teague
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, David Parmet wrote: > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:07:27 -0400 (EDT) > From: David Parmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: another good book > > Can anyone recommend some good reading on basic programming? I have no > knowledge aside from knowing a bash shell from a hole in the g

Linux Driver for WD7193,WD7197,WD7296 SCSI Controllers

1998-08-10 Thread Andreas Dreyer
Hi!I hava a Western Digital WD7193 SCSI Controller and it is not compatible to the WD7000 Driver.If I don't get a driver for WD7193,WD7197,WD7296 or compatible SCSI Controllers I willnever be able to use Linux because my harddrives and CDRom drives are conntected to it.And there is not driv

Re: Error using FAT32 in install

1998-08-10 Thread Ed Cogburn
Chan Min Wai wrote: > > I had install win85 and change FAT to FAT32 and I found that I > cannot install the Kernal and Drive , and the Base from Harddisk. > Why? > Where should I put all the files in my drive(Fat32) > You should probably put the kernel,driver, and base files on

Latex Postscript

1998-08-10 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Sorry to trouble you with this question but, I am besides myself with this one. I drew a few 10's of pictures in M$ PowerPoint a while ago and now I want to incorporate them into my Latex document ... What could be simpler? I then printed the slides (one at a time) to files, used the M$-N

XSetup for MMII AGP

1998-08-10 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I've installed the Debian 2.0 system and went through the XF86Setup sequence to setup the X server. But when I run startx the system will not start the SVGA server (starts the VGA server). When I return to the XF86Setup program, my video card selection is nolonger shown and I have to set it up agai

another good book

1998-08-10 Thread David Parmet
ok.. I got 2.0 installed and running. Can anyone recommend some good reading on basic programming? I have no knowledge aside from knowing a bash shell from a hole in the ground and I'd like to learn some basic skill so I can figure out how this thing works? thanks.

Re: Netscape: Can't open display

1998-08-10 Thread vaidhy
> I'm running X; however, I'm running it as root. When I try running > Netscape in an xterm window, it tells me I can't run Netscape as root. So > I try logging in as a normal user and I get the "can't open display" > message. If I try "netscape &" like you suggest above, I get a message > like

Re: Netscape: "Can't open display"

1998-08-10 Thread jason and jill
> > -- > > > I'm running X; however, I'm running it as root. When I try running > Netscape in an xterm window, it tells me I can't run Netscape as root. So > I try logging in as a normal user and I get the "can't open display" > message. If I try "netscape &" like you suggest above, I get a mes

Libc5 and libc6 conflict

1998-08-10 Thread Yves Van de Weyer
Hello, I installed Debian Linux 2.0.29 and wanted to add support for ppp. I ran deselect and it refused to install the necessary libc6 library because it was in conflict with the required libc5 library. How can I nevertheless install ppp support. Thank you, Yves Van de Weyer.

Re: Changing number of colors of XServer

1998-08-10 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: I just read my reply and found out I had a mistake... > On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > > Thanks for the information, > > > > How does the XServer know WHICH Screen section to use? I notice that my > > file has > > several sections lab

IPFW Questions

1998-08-10 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, I am in the process of installing the IP firewall tool kit. One of the things I can't seem to figure out is how the enable return replies. It seems like it would be pretty obvious, but I can't seem to find a reference in the info pages. Also, how about an SQL*NET proxy?

Re: Help: M$-intellimouse and Debian GNU/Linux 2.0

1998-08-10 Thread Max Lawson
Greg, Liran I thank you for your answers and tips :-). I'll try again in a few hours. [..] > > BTW: I hope that you do have a mouse support compiled into the kernel. > I hope so. I remember having added the ps2 support automatically. And tried some other drivers randomly ... Hmmm >

Re: Help: M$-intellimouse and Debian GNU/Linux 2.0

1998-08-10 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Max Lawson wrote: > Hi, Hi. > > All went fine, except that we can't use its M$-mouse: > gpm's not working and I'm unable to configure the Xserver. :( > Could someone points me to the port the mouse is > associated to and which driver should I install ? Every mouse i

Re: Changing number of colors of XServer

1998-08-10 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > 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 > The default is 256 colors, you can change that by running X as: sta

Re: Help: M$-intellimouse and Debian GNU/Linux 2.0

1998-08-10 Thread Greg Starkes
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Max Lawson wrote: > All went fine, except that we can't use its M$-mouse: > gpm's not working and I'm unable to configure the Xserver. > Could someone points me to the port the mouse is > associated to and which driver should I install ? Read the man page for XF86Config. I

Re: Vesa

1998-08-10 Thread fantomas
-> Hi is there an x-server who supports vesa ? you mean VL bus ? Xsewrvers support cards not busses... -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz

Re: How to get XDM up?

1998-08-10 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 08:31:30AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Goto /etc/X11/config and change the line "no-start-xdm" to "start-xdm". Thanks to all who replayed. I got it workng now! =o) I tried the above sollution earlier but to no avail. It appears that something was broken in earlier xba

Re: Vesa

1998-08-10 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Luiken: Vesa and X have nothing to do with each other. If you have a vesa graphics card, I'm sure the appropriate drive will take full advantage of it. If you have a Vesa bus on your PC just make certain that the card you have is defined in the xf86config setup program. i.e. - ATI MACH 32 P

Xserver: a bug or a feature ?

1998-08-10 Thread Max Lawson
Hi, There's sthg strange w/ the Xserver config. Some applications need to connect to the Xserver. The connection get refused till I add the box/host name to the xhost list! Is this normal ? Regards, Max

Help: M$-intellimouse and Debian GNU/Linux 2.0

1998-08-10 Thread Max Lawson
Hi, I'm running into trouble while trying to install the 2.0 on a friend box. All went fine, except that we can't use its M$-mouse: gpm's not working and I'm unable to configure the Xserver. Could someone points me to the port the mouse is associated to and which driver should I insta

Re: [OFF TOPIC] How to obtain molecules' pictures when using LaTeX ?

1998-08-10 Thread Max Lawson
Hello, Just a few words, to thank people who answered to my question :-) Max

Re: Good book

1998-08-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Howard wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book for new Linux users? All the books in my > local bookstore are Red Hat specific--I would like a good Debian or general > Linux book. Thank you. A practical guide to Linux, by Mark Sobell. It's good, and pretty non-dist specif

[latex2html] Where is html.sty ?

1998-08-10 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi, I am running Debian 2.0 (hamm) and have all tetex packages and latex2html installed However, when I try to refer to a website in a latex document I need to use the latex style file "html.sty". This is in the raw latex2html-98.1p1.tar.gz on the ctan archive sites and should be in /usr/lib

Vesa

1998-08-10 Thread Luiken, Arijan
Hi is there an x-server who supports vesa ? Greets, Arijan

New to Debian; emacs20 broken after fresh install of Hamm.

1998-08-10 Thread Ruud Janssen
Hi, I'm new to Debian (not to Linux though; I've used RedHat for some time now). I did a fresh FTP install of Hamm yesterday, choosing the "Sci. Workstation" profile to avoid/postpone a manual package selection using dselect. All went okay, except for the emacs20 package. It won't get installed

Re: Internet for Linux through Win95

1998-08-10 Thread joost
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, David Irwin wrote: > Run down on the problem: > I installed in my home a LAN which connected three windows machines > together I then installed Linux on one of them. The machine doesn't > have a modem and I'm having trouble connecting it through the network > to the interne

problem with hostname resolving

1998-08-10 Thread Benoit.Joly
hi, i recently changed my internet connection from ethernet to dialup. i got ppp work and i can resolv any host i want, ie using netscape, irc, ping other server. but i cant ping my hostname, so i think something is wrong in /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf. What should i put in there to confi

Re: Good book

1998-08-10 Thread Allan Bart
Hi, I think you might find the Linux Press debian manual to be of value. I bought it,however, I understand it is available online. You might also want to look at the Sobell book, he does write about caldera but his books are well done ---the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, A

Re: Hard drive sriping

1998-08-10 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi all, > I have an old 486 I am using to learn Linux (unix) on. I had a 250 Meg > drive in it but it didn't have enough room for all the stuff I wanted. I > put an old 240 Meg drive that was just laying around in it, but I don't > know how to set them up to work as one drive. I saw somethin

diff & patch

1998-08-10 Thread Greisberger Christophe
Hi! I'm trying to make patch files for binary files, but if it's possible, I didn't found how. I tried: diff -a Binary.1 Binary.2 >Binary_1-2.patch patch Binary.1 Binary_1-2.patch with all possible diff formats, but it didn't work... Did I something wrong, or is it not possible wi

Re: Netscape: "Can't open display"

1998-08-10 Thread Maarten Boekhold
> I'm running X; however, I'm running it as root. When I try running > Netscape in an xterm window, it tells me I can't run Netscape as root. So > I try logging in as a normal user and I get the "can't open display" > message. If I try "netscape &" like you suggest above, I get a message > like

Re: Debian in NTLoader?

1998-08-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MM" == Mikhali Mifsud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> Win98, Winnt4 Japanese and BeOS. I will be adding debian sometime MM> later today. How do I add Debian to the NT bootloader? Thanks. There is a doc about this somewhere in /usr/doc/HOWTO Ciao, Martin

Problens with Hylafax and dynamic ISDN Dialup

1998-08-10 Thread Martin Derzbach
Hi, i changed from SuSE to DEbian and now i have 2 Problems and hope , sombody could help me : 1. Hylafax is configuerd and works fine for some hours. then, i don´t know why, it starts to say, that the Modem is wedged and stops the faxgetty. Does somebody know whats wrong. I can send you the config

Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-10 Thread jdassen
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 10:14:17PM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this > was moved into its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right > place. /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.gz HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human

Re: Debian in NTLoader

1998-08-10 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
> > I have the following setup, > > Win98, Winnt4 Japanese and BeOS. I will be adding debian sometime > later today. How do I add Debian to the NT bootloader? Thanks. I have nearly the same setup and this worked for me: - install lilo in the linux root partition (/dev/hda9 in my case) You c

Re: kernel image size...

1998-08-10 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, 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? pass :) > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Aug 8

Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-10 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
That did the trick! Thanks, Doug P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this was moved into its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right place. Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > > > /home/src/interpreter.c:851:

Re: Netscape: "Can't open display"

1998-08-10 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > Whenever I try to run Netscape it returns an error to the effect of > > "Can't open display" Any clues? (Please be as specific as you can because > > I don't know what I'm doing.) > > > > Thanks. > > Kent West > > [EMAIL PROTEC

kde missing icons

1998-08-10 Thread BG Lim
I just installed kde-1.0 from ftp.kde.org. I believe that it is the same release 1.0-1 version found in slink. My problem is that the toolbar icons in kfm and other progs that use those icons don't show up. Instead, you get fuzzy pics where the icons are supposed to be. However the buttons themsel

Re: Netscape: "Can't open display"

1998-08-10 Thread Kent West
Yes. It took me about two weeks to get X running properly on this laptop (video problems), but I finally have a good-looking screen (640x480). I'd like to get a better resolution (800x600), but I'm happy with this for a day or two. On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Are you running

Re: Netscape: "Can't open display"

1998-08-10 Thread LUK ShunTim
Kent West wrote: > > Whenever I try to run Netscape it returns an error to the effect of > "Can't open display" Any clues? (Please be as specific as you can because > I don't know what I'm doing.) > > Thanks. > Kent West > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTE

Netscape: "Can't open display"

1998-08-10 Thread Kent West
Whenever I try to run Netscape it returns an error to the effect of "Can't open display" Any clues? (Please be as specific as you can because I don't know what I'm doing.) Thanks. Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: annoying Win95 workaround

1998-08-10 Thread Christopher Barry
I to use and love System Commander. If both of these partitions you created are primary partitions, you may have System Commander set up to hide one of your primary partitions when the other is active. This is a very useful feature to be able to set primary partition visibility for each OS selectio

Re: Proportional fonts in Kde?

1998-08-10 Thread Edward J Young
Thanx for the tip. That fixed the problem in Emacs, I believe, or atleast is a workaround. Strangely, Xemacs now has reverse video and hard to read fonts. I've never been able to try xemacs because of this problem. I'll check into this problem. Thanx again, Ed On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Noah L

Error using FAT32 in install

1998-08-10 Thread Chan Min Wai
I had install win85 and change FAT to FAT32 and I found that I cannot install the Kernal and Drive , and the Base from Harddisk. Why? Where should I put all the files in my drive(Fat32)

Debian in NTLoader?

1998-08-10 Thread Mikhali Mifsud
I have the following setup, Win98, Winnt4 Japanese and BeOS. I will be adding debian sometime later today. How do I add Debian to the NT bootloader? Thanks. == Im trying to stop an epidemic, while your driving the monkey to the airport. _

Re: Starting Over

1998-08-10 Thread Ed Cogburn
Marcus Johnson wrote: > >[snip] > > Well I really wanted to start over at this point. I just wanted to > wipe the partition clean and start over. So I rebooted and tried to > reinitialize my Linux root partition. That worked. I mounted it as > root. Then I tried to reinstall the kernel and bas

Re: Missing toolbar icons on KDE for Debian Linux

1998-08-10 Thread LUK ShunTim
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote: > > > I installed KDE 1.0 on my Debian Linux 2.0 with the .deb packages from > > ftp.us.kde.org and it worked find; except one thing: I get blurred > > images instead of nice looking icons

Re: Good book

1998-08-10 Thread the lone gunman
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 08:16:59PM -0400, Howard wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book for new Linux users? All the books in my > local bookstore are Red Hat specific--I would like a good Debian or general > Linux book. Thank you. _Running_Linux_ by Matt Welsh, published by O'Reilly. It's

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

1998-08-10 Thread Shaleh
esd is the culprit. This app takes over your /dev/audio -- try using realplayer in X with E running -- it dies too. The correct thing to do is simply run 'esdctl off' to disable sound and then 'esdctl on' to enable esd agin. esd is a daemon process (not a well written one but it is getting there

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-10 Thread sen_ml
At around Sun, 9 Aug 1998 22:19:22 +1000, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > 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: > > > > >

Re: emacs 20 wont install after upgrading...

1998-08-10 Thread Kent West
I thought I had kept the message that had the solution to this, but apparently I tossed it. At any rate, someone replied and suggested installing emacs without tm. That worked. I went into dselect/select and searched for tm (/tm twice) and marked tm to be purged. Then at dselect's main screen

Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HP" == Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HP> I think crypt is in a separate library, so you need -lcrypt on the link HP> line. No idea whether this changed between bo and hamm though. This is new in libc6 IIRC. Ciao, Martin

modifying incoming mail headers

1998-08-10 Thread Paul Miller
I want to make a script to add a "[ANNOUNCEMENT] " string in front of every message delieved to a certain address, then forward the message to another address. I am using QMail's maildirs also, so should work closely with QMail -- two commands in .qmail, etc. Can anyone help me? Thanks -Paul

anyone have suEXEC working?

1998-08-10 Thread Paul Miller
Do you currently have suEXEC working with the lastest version of Apache? With the lastest version of apache, I have been unable to get suexec working. I know I compiled suexec correctly, and set it to mode 4711. suexec is currently located in the /usr/lib/apache/ directory. What else is there t

Good book

1998-08-10 Thread Howard
Can anyone recommend a good book for new Linux users? All the books in my local bookstore are Red Hat specific--I would like a good Debian or general Linux book. Thank you.