I have two problems. I am running bo on both my desktop computer and my
laptop. I have been very please with both.
Problem #1:
I have recently installed a PCI modem in my desktop and the kernel doesn't
recognize the PCI device. The bios reports it as:
Simple COMM Controller (I assume that this
Upon request, here's the updated script sent to me by Cheap*Bytes:
[For anyone reading this in the archives:
The original Official 2.0 CD-Rom distributed by Cheap*Bytes contained the
cd_autoup.sh file included by Debian with the distribution. The script
was broken at the time the dist. was set-
Quoting Jor-el ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I located the netscape package on the 'extras' cd which came with the
> Cheapbyte distro. I tried installing it, but it gave me some dependency
> problems. The package required the following packages to be installed :
>
> - libc5
> - libg++27
> - xlib6
y0, heres my prob:
i ran pppconfig, and wvdial config when i installed... when i do 'pon'
it dials, connects, and i stay connected, but i try to test the connection
by pinging several hosts, but it always says: 'yahoo.com: unknown host'.
when i try 'wvdial' it connects, but when it trys to star
Hi, y'all,
I get this kind of thing in my xconsole with some frequency (a few times
a month, I guess):
Aug 16 15:59:47 mattyt in.telnetd[431]: connect from
c1-netserver.fibertel.com.ar
Aug 16 15:59:52 mattyt telnetd[431]: ttloop: peer died: Invalid or
incomplete multibyte or wide character
It's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Also, I downloaded communicator 4.05 and tried to install it. Part of the
> > install process required using a program (that comes in the communicator
> > tarball) called 'vreg'. I am unable to execute this.
>
> Did you try the Netscape installer package the is include
I made a new installation on a new harddisk with Debian 2.0
Before I used Debian 1.3.1
I copied my ppp scripts from my old harddisk, and I inserted the ppp
module into the kernel. If I want to fire it up now, it starts, but
network connection doesn't work. After 30 seconds the other side hangs
up.
--- Begin Message ---
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I did have some problems initially with confiuring 'dip' to work. (The
> > ppp install script crashed with an error.
>
> By 'install script' do you mean pppconfig? If so, please try again and
> send me a report. I'm the author of pppconfig.
>
Hello,
I have a recently upgraded 2.0 system (from an bo install).
Today I tried to mount a cd, but with no luck. I tried:
# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
I have also tried several other block
Hi,
I cannot stil find AWE32 support ;(
Well i find ``Additional low level drivers. When i
select it then apears the ``ACI mixer (microPCM12)'', but nothing more.
Here what i see inside sound menu:
| Sound card support
|
| |Ol
anyone know of an animal that watches user processes and will autokill them
if they start to use too much CPU or runaway?
I have had a small problem with this, sometimes on my own programs and
would like a "watchdog" to kill them before they become a problem.
Kent
Quoting Sergey Imennov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> However, there is one thing that I don't like about
> the distribution ( actually, it's kernel... ) --
> pppstats.
>
> - No totals every 20th line
Mine's giving me totals. Maybe your terminal type is set up wrong?
Hi,
I have try to do that. When i run the install script linux said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/awedrv --> ./install.sh
Linux source root directory [/usr/src/linux]
checking the version of installed sound driver..
sound driver is USS
copying source files:
Hi,
I have try to do that. When i run the install script linux said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/awedrv --> ./install.sh
Linux source root directory [/usr/src/linux]
checking the version of installed sound driver..
sound driver is USS
copying source files:
Hi,
When I recently upgraded to Debian 2.0, MATLAB died. I've taken
care of the libraries:
libg++.so.27
libstdc++.so.27
libdl.so.1
When I try to run matlab I get the following message:
Regex Error: Memory exhausted
Aborted
Have any of you run into this? What's the fix? Mathworks is giving me
Hi,
First off, 2.0 is v. good: many more packages, better
configured, etc.
However, there is one thing that I don't like about
the distribution ( actually, it's kernel... ) --
pppstats.
- No totals every 20th line
-
Quoting Jor-el ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Are the HOWTO's available in Hamm as a debian package?
doc-linux-text | doc-linux-html
Mike Stone
Hi,
Are the HOWTO's available in Hamm as a debian package?
Thanks,
Kenneth
Hi,
Read /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian on your systems. That file has
explanations and solutions for your problems with xterm-debian.
-Ossama
Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've re-built 2.0.34 to support sound and installed bplay
> and splay and installed rvplayer. When I
> bplay /usr/lib/exmh/clink.au
> it responds with
> bplay: /dev/dsp: Device not configured
> ls -l /dev/dsp
> 83698 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio14
Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just upgraded to 2.0, I was running an old pre-2.0. Now when I ssh to a
> remote server I get complaints about the lack of a terminfo entry for
> xterm-debian.
>
> Isn't there a way to add a terminfo entry in my remote home directory?
> How? Or is t
Thanks to all who helped on this one!!
Indeed, it was /lib that was missing during boot. I repartitioned the
disk putting /etc, /bin and /lib back on the / partition, and everything is
hunky dorry. I am now set to enjoy the freedom acquired by moving from
a 115 MB drive to a 6.1 GB drive.
Ta,
Does anyone have a clue as how to format a file with mkfs.msdos?
--
Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my
http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my
ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opin
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:46:19 +0800, "Richard L. Alhama" wrote:
> How do you guys sort all this mail?
>
> This list is actually the first discussion-list that I've subscribed to.
> I'm at my wits end trying to sort all this incoming mail.
>
> I need to be able to put all the emails from debian-use
Marcus,
Thanks for your reply. I havent yet acted on all your suggestions as
I am still
digesting the info. But I do have some preliminary comments (see below).
Kenneth
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 01:30:01PM -0500, Jor-el wrote:
> > I did my first successful instal
Cool. Thanks.
How would I hook this in to run whenever I come out of X?
Thanks,
Hank
Using VFP: MS's OOP Production Tool
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/fayhj
-Original Message-
From: D'jinnie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 1998 2:01 PM
To: debian-user
S
On: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:59:37 +0800 (HKT) jc writes:
>
> Hi,
> I have just installed hamm and StarOffice 3.1 but I cannot get
> 'setup' running as normal user.
>
> It told me Segmentation fault.
>
> I have installed libc5 in /lib and I have the environment variable
> 'LD_LIBRA
On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 01:30:01PM -0500, Jor-el wrote:
> I did my first successful install of Debian 2.0 from a Cheapbytes
> cd. It wasnt quite as slick as I would have liked it to be, but I did
> get it working.
Every suggetsion for improvement is welcome! (Not that we have the time and
manp
Tried it and got:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~nicholas/convert.cgi on this
server
Nicholas J. Leon wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> # On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, John wrote:
> #
> # > If nobody else wants to do this, I will. Except users will have
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:42:52 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>I didn't knew that. I use exim and fetchmail+procmail. Would you recommend
>fetchmail+exim+exim's filter instead?
>Do you have an example configuration for the Debian lists?
Nope. I don't have any mail going to my personal machine
On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 11:38:11AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:46:19 +0800 (PHT), Richard L. Alhama wrote:
>
> >How do you guys sort all this mail?
>
> Well, with Pine I'd recommend Procmail. However, if you're using Exim it
> has filtering capabilities of its own.
I d
Hi,
I did my first successful install of Debian 2.0 from a Cheapbytes
cd. It wasnt quite as slick as I would have liked it to be, but I did
get it working.
I did have some problems initially with confiuring 'dip' to work.
(The ppp install script crashed with an error. Unfortunately, I did
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:46:19 +0800 (PHT), Richard L. Alhama wrote:
>How do you guys sort all this mail?
Well, with Pine I'd recommend Procmail. However, if you're using Exim it
has filtering capabilities of its own.
--
Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are
How do you guys sort all this mail?
This list is actually the first discussion-list that I've subscribed to.
I'm at my wits end trying to sort all this incoming mail.
I need to be able to put all the emails from debian-users to a
folder (file?). I'm using pine as my MUA. What packages do I need
Hi
As of about a week ago, I have stopped getting any new messages
from the Debian-user digest, to which I have been subscribed for
over a year now. I sorely miss my daily fix of information and
interesting odds and ends. I tried to resubscribe a couple days
ago, but so far I am still not gettin
Hi
A couple days ago I sent a cry for help because my Netscape had suddenly
stopped working. I got a number of helpful replies, for which I thank
the writers. But I solved it myself.
In case anyone else is having a similar problem, here's what I found:
Some weks ago I had put a link in /u
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
# On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, John wrote:
#
# > If nobody else wants to do this, I will. Except users will have to upload
# > the text (i have a lame java applet that lets you upload from your
# > browser) then it would Have the switches and a Okay button. I
Don't know where I got this little script - but it usually fixes most
console problems for me...
#!/bin/sh
# fixvt 1.00
# Fixes console corruption from vt bombs and the like
#(c) 1994 Brian Stoler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#Freely redistributable under the GPL 2
#Mail me any chang
> will NS Communicator 4.06 work with netscape4.deb or can I just mv the NS
> tarball to NS Communicator 4.05?
>
> Thanks all!
>
It will work just fine (Just did the upgrade myself)
--
--
+ Peter Granroth + Micros
Michael Stenner wrote:
> >My problem is that I can only get X running in 320x200 mode. I
> >configured the XF86Config file using XF86Setup. My video card is an
> OEM
> >from Gateway - it's meant to be an STB Nitro DVD. I heard somewhere
> that
> >it has a riva128 chipset, and I know that it has 4
Adrian writes:
> It's wierder than that as someone at IBM pointed out - "host 127.0.0.1"
> _does_ read /etc/hosts, but "host localhost" doesn't. Strange.
>From the man page:
host [-v] [-a] [-t querytype] [options] name [server]
...
...
host looks for information about
Hi all I have the mud compiling and running fine, however... the
minute someone who is not from localhost tries to log on it segments and
dies it works fine when logging on from localhost.
WTF is going on here? Is there anything that might be misconfigured to
cause this?
Dave
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, John wrote:
> If nobody else wants to do this, I will. Except users will have to upload
> the text (i have a lame java applet that lets you upload from your
> browser) then it would Have the switches and a Okay button. I see no need
> for password though. If you want it pass
Hi, I just recently installed debian 2.0 on my pc at home and I just
noticed something odd as I booted. Since I have started using debian it
shows 249.04 bogomips whereas when I used to run slackware,redhat,suse it
would show 332.60 bogomips. I know this probably isnt such a big deal but
it struck
Quota only displays user quotas. Edquota edits quotas, but only with a
editor. It doesn't not accept command line arguments for soft/hard/etc.
limits.
-Paul
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, John wrote:
> man quota
>
> ...
>
will NS Communicator 4.06 work with netscape4.deb or can I just mv the NS
tarball to NS Communicator 4.05?
Thanks all!
Admiral Charah
Tech Support, Cyberspace Laoag, ISP
http://www2.csi.com.ph/~keyoz
"Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood" --The Jargon File V4.0.0
man quota
...
(0 0)
ooo--v--ooo
Windows 95 packs with solitare (ooohhh!), Linux packs with DOOM.
You can have your deck of c
Did you run the install.sh script from the awedrv package? I believe
it's located in /usr/src/awedrv (assuming that awedrv is installed, of
course). You'll need to do that prior to configuring your new kernel
settings, to apply the AWExx patches.
On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 10:56:31PM -0700, phillip
This is a repost of an earlier cry for help, but embellished with more
information. My machine has two partitions, one for Win95 and one for
Debian 2.0. I use a modem and ppp for Internet access.
>From the debian side there are certain remote sites to which I cannot login,
the connection gets clo
Where can I get the program (dos mode) that encodes files to the .bin
format.
Collin
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> >
> > I'm having problems with some man pages. The warnings about "bad symlink
> > or ROFF `.so' request" sometimes show up when typing "man somecommand".
> > Is there a way to get rid of these warnings? Here are some of the
> > relev
> "jason" == jason and jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
jason> Imagine my suprise when I came home this evening to find
jason> email from Cheapbytes with a fixed script. Someone from
jason> Cheapbytes had seen my list post on a usenet mirror, took a
jason> look at the s
Hi,
I solved the same problem I had with TERM=rxvt by copying the rxvt
entry from Linux to /usr/share/lib/terminfo/r directory in Solaris.
Another way to do this is to use TERMINFO variable and set it to e.g.
$HOME/.terminfo and put your xterm-debian entry in that directory.
However, I have no
Since I upgraded to Hamm on both my machine and my local server, when I
send mail from my client (Netscape) the server for delivery, the client
waits until the email address is verified before proceeding.
This is sometimes painful because the server uses diald and it takes a
while.
How do I resto
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 01:40:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> Quoting Robert J. Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > The debugging I and a friend in IBM have been doing seem to pinpoint the
> > resolver problems I had to the release of libc6 we just both upgraded
> > to:
> > Version: 2.0.7t-1
> >
Hi,
I just upgraded to 2.0, I was running an old pre-2.0. Now when I ssh to a
remote server I get complaints about the lack of a terminfo entry for
xterm-debian.
Isn't there a way to add a terminfo entry in my remote home directory?
How? Or is there a better solution?
Thanks,
Havoc Pennington =
Your assumption was right. My main mistake was to think that "rout add
default" means as much as "everything should go here", where in fact it
means "everything not already going elsewhere should go here", and
"elsewhere" is defined by any "route add -net" lines. The solution I
chose was to restore
George Bonser wrote:
I recall that there were task profiles ranging from 25M (base system) to
over 500M (scientific workstation). There also was something like a
"custom profile" in which you could select individual components. My
guess is that emacs will be installed in all larger profiles, since
Hi,
I hope this is the right place to report this issue.
I have a Quantum IDE HD wich works fine,
After installing the Debian system onto it and rebooting the system it
only shows a message reporting
'invalid partition table' although i use the boot:
option 'linux hd=1056,16,63' to make Linux det
> On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 10:59:44PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got (at least) one photo taken while the camera was moving.
>
> Only one? :)
Well, one that I care about. Much more, actually.
>
> > I'd really like to get rid of the vageness caused by this motion.
>
> Mm
On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 03:34:22AM -0400, jason and jill wrote:
>
> I bought the $1.99 2.0 CD-ROM from Cheapbytes to do the hamm upgrade to my
> system.
hello,
a great story, thank you for the reading!
> Script worked great.
Wonderful. I'm happy that Cheap*Byte is there. They are cheap, and I h
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 10:59:44PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got (at least) one photo taken while the camera was moving.
Only one? :)
> I'd really like to get rid of the vageness caused by this motion.
Mmmh. I doubt that this is possible... but I'd like to be proofed wrong.
A
Hello Paul:
I use the edquota command. Its pretty easy to use just read the man page.
You should note that quota must be turned on in the kernel and the target
file system must be mounted with quotas on -- i.e. in /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
I need a command line program to set user quotas. Does one exist?
Thanks
-Paul
I've got Hamm installed on this machine on the /dev/hda3 (using
hda2 for swap). All seems to have gone fine for the basic install
judging from copying the linux image from the boot floppy to a
directory on /dev/hda1 and loading it with loadlin. I've even followed
the pointers from a month or s
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> How can i make the option ``AWE32 support'' appear in the kernel
> configuration?? (It's supposted to apear when installing awe-midi
> isnit??)
Unfortunately, no... you need to compile a new kernel with AWE support.
For that, you need th
Hi All!
I just had to run some DO$ software on my Linux Box (exactly: the monitor
for DSP56002EVM evaluation module and DSP56002 assembler). I have decided
to install the dosemu. To keep my box M$-free I wanted to use the FreeDOS
(included in dosemu package). And here my problem begins:
I was unab
Hi,
I'm using hamm since a April now on both a "normal" PC and
a laptop. Upgrading from bo was relatively easy and I'm
very happy w/ hamm. But: Now I built up a new PC w/ a new,
clean harddisk, a network card, but w/o a CD-ROM. I like
to install hamm via NFS, but I don't get the clue. I boot
t
Hi Franz:
Send a trace of the PPP negotiation (via the debug option)
and we can tell you why.
Peter
-Original Message-
From: Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sunday, August 16, 1998 6:23 AM
Subject: pppd
>Hi !
>
>Does anyone know, why the pppd disconne
Hi.
The OS course here is going to become more OS specific.
If professors didn't decide yet whether they want it to be Linux or NT
(blahh...) specific.
If I can find some course material about Linux, they'll probably take it
(and make the course Linux specific.) Do you know where I can find such
Hi !
Does anyone know, why the pppd disconnects after the handshake with the
provider modem?
The script is ok, under suse 5.2 it worked without any problem.
Franz
Yes, setfont does work, fixing all consoles (all are affected) at once. Now
I'm trying to learn how to make setfont run on my way out of X. If I don't
learn that, I can try what you have below, but that seems to be one-VC
oriented.
Thanks much,
Hank
-Original Message-
From: David B. T
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Hank Fay and others wrote:
> Well you could also try typing
>
> setfont default8x16
>
> This is the only thing that would sort out an old Avance card that I
> have when i exitted from X to a VC. But I'm not optimistic, as my
> problem affected *all* VCs.
[..]
> Yup; it affe
I bought the $1.99 2.0 CD-ROM from Cheapbytes to do the hamm upgrade to my
system.
Got it in the mail Friday, brought it home, took my wife to see Saving
Private Ryan, we got home at 1am, she fell asleep instantly, I couldn't so
I tried doing the upgrade. The upgrade script on the CD was broken
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>I am trying to find out the driver that the SMC card known as EtherCard
>Plus Elite 16T (8013wc) uses.. I'm using Debian and I thought that it
>would use the NE2000 driver because I've used this before with another but
>different SMC card.
>Can anybody help?
I ha
Hello, this may sound a bit wierd, but is there a way to get gpm to
copy/paste extended ascii chars? On my old slackware system, it would... Was
just wondering if anyone had any ideas for me =] Thanks
--
-Josh
Co-Admin of California.ZUH.net (Azog)
..and always remember..."arf is god spelled funny
Installing Hamm from images I have FTPed from one of the debian mirrors.
Trying to install on a 486DX/33 Gateway 200 (donated to our Science
Department by a local engineering firm). This machine is destined, with
luck and whatever else, to be the Internet gateway machine for our Science
Department
Michael B. Taylor wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 08:55:13PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to successfully configure X to run with an ATI Rage 3D
> > Pro AGP?
> >
> > When I try to run X it seems to start okay, but the screen is divided into
> > thirds vertically, and in ea
>
> When I connect to certain hosts via telnet (similar via ftp), I'll get a
> messgae like this:
>
> Connected to site.whatever.edu
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> which is as usual
>
> then followed by:
>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Assume for the moment that it is not an ISP
Richard Sevenich wrote:
> Connected to site.whatever.edu
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> which is as usual
>
> then followed by:
>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Assume for the moment that it is not an ISP problem, is there anything
> specific to my machine that is causing this?
Prob
Hi,
How can i make the option ``AWE32 support'' appear in the kernel
configuration?? (It's supposted to apear when installing awe-midi
isnit??)
Thats all. Thanks
Phillip Neumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
__
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://ww
On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 11:48:16PM -0400, Noel Yap wrote:
> The xfstt package that comes with hamm is very minimalistic in terms of
> documentation and user setup.
yes it is...thats one of the main reasons I took over maintenance of it
> You might be better off installing the
> more up-to-date
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When I connect to certain hosts via telnet (similar via ftp), I'll get a
messgae like this:
Connected to site.whatever.edu
Escape character is '^]'.
which is as usual
then followed by:
Connection closed by foreign host.
Assume for the moment that it is not an ISP problem, is there anything
s
The xfstt package that comes with hamm is very minimalistic in terms of
documentation and user setup. You might be better off installing the
more up-to-date package in slink, which more-or-less takes care of
everything for you. Anyway, here's a brief description of what you need
to do:
1. Put a
On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 08:55:13PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote:
> Does anyone know how to successfully configure X to run with an ATI Rage 3D
> Pro AGP?
>
> When I try to run X it seems to start okay, but the screen is divided into
> thirds vertically, and in each section I can only see the far rig
If nobody else wants to do this, I will. Except users will have to upload
the text (i have a lame java applet that lets you upload from your
browser) then it would Have the switches and a Okay button. I see no need
for password though. If you want it password protected just stick a
.htaccess file
I just installed Debian 2.0 but there is no driver for the
Intel EtherExpress 10+ ISA card. Does anyone know
where to get one?
--Greg
Anyone have a cgi script for the dos2unix and unix2dos commands?
I'm not talented in html or cgi scripts, so I can't exactly make one.
Here's how I thought it might work:
1) web page:
2 radio switches, 1st=dos2unix, 2nd=unix2dos
2 small text fields
"ok" button at the bottom of pag
Does anyone know how to successfully configure X to run with an ATI Rage 3D
Pro AGP?
When I try to run X it seems to start okay, but the screen is divided into
thirds vertically, and in each section I can only see the far right third of
the screen. it scrolls, but show the same thing in each thir
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