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From: Murthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Yamaha OPL3 + Debian
Hello,
I am having a strange problem with my recently upgraded BO --> HAMM system. I
have a router (pipeline 50) connected to a very small network (2 machines). I
have noticed that my ISDN line has been active when no one is using the
computers at all.
Is there something in the "standard" (just
David Densmore writes:
> Under 1.3.1 I could initiate a PPP connection by dialing and logging in
> with Minicom, quitting Minicom without resetting the modem and invoking
> pppd manually like this:
>
> /usr/sbin/pppd defaultroute /dev/ttyS0 38400 &
>
> I can't get this to work now. After I excute
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
> Actually, I'm running the install.bat command to begin installation.
> It calls loadlin. The exact command is:
> loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin
> Is there another way to install? I really need to see a log file.
The only meth
Hi all.
I'm feeling rather silly about this question since it seems like it
should be easy. I've installed hamm before by downloading a bunch of
packages but then realised that at the price of the CDs, I might as
well order them.
The first part of the installation went extraordinarily smoothly
hmm, this is the third time i've tried to send this. Even my bcc:
didn't show up last time . . . but a simple "are we alive" came through
in a couple of minutes . . .
I have a second IP adress on the same subnet as my desktop, which I've
given to my laptop.
To dial in, the laptop needs to na
just checking
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hmm, this is the third time i've tried to send this. Even my bcc:
didn't show up last time . . .
I have a second IP adress on the same subnet as my desktop, which I've
given to my laptop.
To dial in, the laptop needs to navigate the modem pool, log in to the
network, and only then can it rea
Hi,
When i login as a user, and put startx in a term, X said that cannot
find the program /home/user/.xinitrc. And that i should make sure
/usr/X11/bin is in the path. What is this? How can i view whats
currently in the path??.
[When i add the user to the root group, all work good]
thakns,
hmm, i tried to do this a few minutes ago, and it never came back . . .
it has occurred to me that i didn't configure the laptop, which dials
in and connects to my desktop, any differently for it's network than
the desktop.
I have second IP adress assigned on the same subnet. I need to use a
On 28 Aug 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> On: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:17:05 +0200 (SAST) Johann Spies writes:
> >
> > Afrikaans is my language and because there are at the moment no
> > hyphenation rules for it, I use a file ~/afkap.tex containing a word
> > list with the correct hyphenation as an in
I've installed hamm on a thinkpad 560e, and the kernel from the tecra boot
disk works, but I can't build my own kernel (reboots after 'loading
linux...')
I understand that this is a known problem, and that thinkpads, tecras, and
some other laptops can't boot from a bzImage.
The kernel I get from
It's occurred to me that some of my problems with ppp may be that it's
not an ISP on the other end. I didn't bring the laptop in today, but I
don't think i configured the network info on the laptop any
differently (save for IP #) than my desktop, which is probably wrong.
I have a second IP on
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 03:37:09PM -0500, Torry Akins wrote:
>Is there a way to autonice a program when it is run? We use matlab
> running on debian linux. When a couple of these memory hogs run, the X
> display gets really choppy? It would be nice if matlab was set to a
> lower priority whe
Hi,
Is there a way to autonice a program when it is run? We use matlab
running on debian linux. When a couple of these memory hogs run, the X
display gets really choppy? It would be nice if matlab was set to a
lower priority when it is loaded.
Torry Akins
Graduate Research Assitant
Remote S
Hi,
Well i will go for changing my installed packages to hold. So i could get
gnome. But
after installing gnome, i will change again all tha option for the installed
packages, so isntr there a way to work only 1 time, and not 2?? (can i save the
configuration of dselect somewhere and after doing
On: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:49:52 +0200 Rafael Cordones Marcos writes:
> To have my linux box set to GMT I first used the date command to set
> the system time and then used "hwclock --utc --systohc" to set the
> hardware clock to the same time as the system.
>
> By the way, (for anybody listening) w
On: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 07:38:39 +0200 Remo Badii writes:
>
> Thank you.
> I had "solved" the mtools problem by enabling rw for /dev/fd0 for
> oug. Is this wrong?
The group floppy allows finer control on who may use the floppy disc.
However, if everyone should be able to write to disk its not a big
On: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:17:05 +0200 (SAST) Johann Spies writes:
>
> Afrikaans is my language and because there are at the moment no
> hyphenation rules for it, I use a file ~/afkap.tex containing a word
> list with the correct hyphenation as an included file in all my
> Afrikaans documents.
>
> A
On: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:19:48 + Phillip Neumann writes:
>
> Hi,
> What sould i do to run an X session, and then changing to another
> console and make another X session, without linux saying me it canot
> do it??
I have written the following shell function to do this automatically:
x() {
On: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:37:37 +0300 (EEST) Ionut Borcoman at lungu writes:
>
> Hi,
> On my old hamm frozen system I used to use stig-paren.el and
> pc-mode.el. Now, I do not find them anymore. Can anybody tell me
> which package they are packed in, please ?
pc-mode.el is part of the emacs_20.2
I am sorry if this appears in the list for the second time. I had some
email problems and probably lost some messages. I did try to check the
August-archive but could not find my previous enquiry there.
1. Since upgrading to Debian 2.0 my compose key (Control-. on a normal
screen and Control-Scr
Hi,
Upon upgrading from Debian 1.3 to Debian 2.0, Motif
window manager gives me a 'segmentation fault' every
time I attempt to start it.
I suspect it has something to do with glibc ( I have
libc5-compat installed ), however, that's all I know.
Any Id
Richard Dansereau writes:
> bsd_decomp0: bad code 0x7f58 oldcode=0x4a48 max_ent=0x7b49 explen=72 seqno=108
> Once I got the message:
> bsd_decomp0: peer should have cleared dictionary on 58
> Any ideas on the problem or how I can fix this?
Have you tried to disable bsdcomp? (give pppd the opti
Frederic Breitwieser writes:
> I do this in NT currently with no issues - but I have a program to do so.
> At the rate I'm going, give me a month to have something that works for
> you guys to lobotomize.
The problem is not so much one of code as it is one of policy. I could
hack out a script tha
The Auc Tex defaults changed between Debian 1.3.1 and 2.0 (the
documentation does not reflect the changes, however). Examples: C-c C-c
to run Latex on the buffer changed to C-c C-p. When running Latex, emacs
now uses temporary files which causes problems for me because it uses the
hostname to cre
I finally got a Debian 2.0 CD, and upgrading has been really easy. However,
why does dselect feel the need to read every package file and say "skipping
deselected file" ?? This really slows down the upgrade on my slower CD-ROM,
since it aparently has to perform an access for every package file whe
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Bingo!
>
> On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> > I'm no expert on this, but I recall that rdate and ntp use different
> > formats.
>
> I've never taken the time, obviously, to look into it. Running bo I was
> happy to just use 'rdate tycho.u
At 02:32 PM 8/29/98 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
>
>> Can anyone help me with loadlin?
>
>Just out of curiosity, why are you using loadlin?
>
Actually, I'm running the install.bat command to begin installation. It
calls loadlin. The exact command i
I've got the initial part of the installation done. The system boots
just fine. When I run dselect, choose access, then ftp, the following
error is returned:
Query/setup script was terminated by a signal:segmentation fault.
I've also chosen a mounted filesystem and received the same err
I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and
isapnp.
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings)
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550
Everything works great. My question is, pnpdump also listed my sound
card. When I
Hi EVeryone,
I was just wondering if someone ever wrote a c-library for a General
Purpouse Interface Bus(GPIB) controller with ethernet interface?
Any pointers are highly appreciated
ZORO
Can anyone help me with loadlin?
At 05:27 PM 8/27/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 (my first Linux experience) and I'm
>having trouble with the install script. Something to do with my
>SCSI devices seems to be causing the install script to loop endlessly.
>The tex
>The multiple isp problem remains an unresolved issue.
Being new to Linux, I haven't learned bash or any of the scripting shells.
One of the things I want to do, is have a timeout in my ppp0 dial up, where
as if it fails on one isp, say 5 times in a row, it dials the second isp
and restarts the sc
Bingo!
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I'm no expert on this, but I recall that rdate and ntp use different
> formats.
I've never taken the time, obviously, to look into it. Running bo I was
happy to just use 'rdate tycho.usno.navy.mil'. That doesn't work in this
new hamm install.
>
System: Hamm, SVGATextMode (Screen set to 112x40) on a STB Velocity 3D, 12
virtual consoles (mingetty).
I've set my Linux box to use 12 virtual consoles and I'm experiencing since a
long time (Debian 1.3, 1.2 and 1.1) some weird behaviours:
1) From tty10 on Midnight Commander behaves as o
I'm no expert on this, but I recall that rdate and ntp use different
formats.
Perhaps the servers you are trying only support NTP. You might try
another one, such as 'rdate time.nist.gov'.
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
> Here's what I get every time I run rdate:
>
> rdate: Co
Hello all!
I'm having an annoying problem now that I've installed Debian 2.0.
My ppp connection now works for 1-15 minutes and then just dies
on me. I've never had a problem before with other versions of
Linux or with Debian 0.99 - Debian 1.3 with this same hardware.
It seems that the connection
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Sergey Imennov wrote:
: I have Junkbuster and Squid installed on Debian 2.0 box. All of the
: outbound traffic goes through this machine.
:
: Since I'd like to have some idea of web usage, and total bytes
: transferred, etc., I'd like to make it
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
: It's rumored that this has been packaged for debian, but I don't see it
: when I run dselect (I'm using apt, stable (hamm), main - contrib -
: non-free - nonUS). Can anyone provide a clue? TIA
Yup, it's in unstable (called slink):
dists/slink/m
Hi,
I am trying to install hamm on my laptop at work which is on a network.
I have installed it to the point where I am using dselect to choose ftp for
my method of installation.
I can connect to the ftp site but seconds later it says ftp disconnect and
then it just sits there.
I can ftp into ftp.d
Hi George,
I had the same problem. In my case I have noticed that the slave device on
the primary channel was detectes twice duriong boot-up. So I connected the
cd-rom to the secondary channel and everything works fine. You can check
with dmesg what it probes. Again, in my case it was and STILL IS
marcus wrote,
> > It didn't sync the disks, so we got to wait while it e2fsck'd a pair of
> > 4G drives (*sigh* at least the third disk had been disconnected. I
> > need to poke around and figure out how to get it to do the two scsi
> > drives simultaneously . . .).
> Syncing the disks is no
Quoting Lazar Fleysher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Could someone tell me how to tell Linux to switch the monitor in
> stand-by/power-off mode after some idle period?
Take a look at xset. Mine is:
xset +dpms dpms 600 900 1200 s noblank
I have mine in my .xsession. I also seem to remember a program t
> There is a neat utility called pppconfig, which allows for multiple ISP
> configs.
pppconfig sets multiple ppp connections. Unfortunately, it does not deal
with:
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/hosts
/etc/smail/routers
/etc/smail/config
The multiple isp problem remains an unresolved issue.
--
John Has
David Densmore writes:
> With minicom I do the entire login manually including the last step of
> entering ppp. My ISP tells me that I have established a connection and
> dislays my IP address. Then I see this stuff:
> ~~y}#.!}!V} }4}"}&} }*} } }%}&.}+.a}'}"}(}"aY~~y}#.!}!W} }4}"}&} }*} } }
>
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 11:15:30AM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> It didn't sync the disks, so we got to wait while it e2fsck'd a pair of
> 4G drives (*sigh* at least the third disk had been disconnected. I
> need to poke around and figure out how to get it to do the two scsi
> dri
*-"DMDP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Is this possible? I have g++ installed.
|
| I am using Debian 2.0. I have both EMACS and XEMACS installed.
I don't understand what you want to do. Do you want emacs to format
C++-code nicely or perhaps compile code from within emacs?
Please explain!
--
.elOle
Hello,
I am using Debian to develop and add software modules to a larger program
for a software company. Recently, I successfully updated my Debian 1.3 to 2.0,
using autoup.sh and then dselect to get the latest packages. So far, all
works fairly well, until I start compiling the software of the
Could someone be so kind to email me the .deb files for window maker in
slink I think it's version .17 of window maker. I don't have an internet
connection so I have no way of getting them.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanx,
Brian
_
You
For me,
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/libc5-compat; /usr/games/quake2
helps to resolve this problem.
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 10:09:26PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > >> After my fun experience upgrading to hamm, everything has been goin well,
> > >> but I have had one problem. After upgradi
Here's what I get every time I run rdate:
rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused
I'm thinking the socket in question is one on this machine, yes? I've
tried a number of ntp servers (tycho, bigben) and always the same output.
I see I have this xntp thing on this machine, so I ran /
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 07:32:42AM +, Phillip Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im with hamm, and want some packages from slink like gnome. What is the
> recomended way to obtain this packages? If i select the unstable dir of
> a debian ftp in the apt configuration, apt said it will dowload the
> selec
David Wright wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote:
>
> > Thanks. I got it. This is what I observed.
> >
> > I change the "Display" subsection of my XF86Config to this:
> >
> > Subsection "Display"
> > Depth 8
> > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>
Hello!
Iam in intallation menu (access, update, install), then I press
intall, after 5min. decompressing Debian report like that:
install error 1, then i press ENTER and Linux return in first place
(install menu).
Why is that? What I press wrong or what I select to much?
Is this possible? I have g++ installed.
I am using Debian 2.0. I have both EMACS and XEMACS installed.
Denis
There is a neat utility called pppconfig, which allows for multiple ISP
configs.
Just use: pon to start it.
Denis
-Original Message-
From: Gary L. Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 6:33 PM
Subject: Xisp and mutiple ISPs
>I'v
Hi,
Im with hamm, and want some packages from slink like gnome. What is the
recomended way to obtain this packages? If i select the unstable dir of
a debian ftp in the apt configuration, apt said it will dowload the
selected packages (gnome) plus upgrade the `old' packages of hamm to the
unstable
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
>
> I would suggest simply creating a swap partition of about 128MB and put
> the rest as one partition to start with. Play with Linux for about 6
> months, then look to see how much space you are using in /var and /usr
> then back the system up, repartit
John Hasler writes:
>>Aug 28 11:32:44 linux chat[3247]: send (ppp^M)
>
>This (ppp^M) is what is telling the other end to start ppp. Are you
>sending it when you use minicom?
Yes. Absolutely. With minicom I do the entire login manually including
the last step of entering ppp. My ISP tells me t
Just ordered the Debian 2.0 CD's today and have very little knowledge of
Linux.
Would like some recommendations on disk partitioning with the present
system.
PII 300 w/128mb and 8gb . The present setup is dualboot to DOS and
NT4WS.
I am going to do a clean install of both before installing Linux.
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Zheng Wang wrote:
>
> Is there a published book about debian linux, or online material? Thanks.
>
There is an unfinished one at
http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html/
Havoc
On 28-Aug-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 28 Aug, Brian Morgan wrote:
>> Running debian 2.0 / 2.0.34 (stable) and having trouble getting my sound
>> card to work. I can get the cd rom player in X to run, but not through
>> the sound card. I didn't see anything in the device drivers setup when
>
You may want to try turning off the PNP bios setting for that PCI slot. I did
that
with the the Intel PR440FX and was able to load the module.
Also look at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
Gary
David Khoury wrote:
> Just installed Debian Hamm on a machine with an Inte
David Densmore writes:
> Aug 28 11:32:44 linux chat[3247]: send (ppp^M)
This (ppp^M) is what is telling the other end to start ppp. Are you
sending it when you use minicom?
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
Hello everyone,
Could someone tell me how to tell Linux to switch the monitor in
stand-by/power-off mode after some idle period?
Thank you
ZORO
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> If anyone knows how to fix this little problem, please let me know.
The package that needs upgrading is lesstifg. I found that
lesstifg_0.85.3-1.deb did the trick.
---
Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I.
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: >
: > : >
: > : > ourdomain:
: > : > domains=ourdomain.com,
: > : > transport=smtp,
: >
: > Exim doesn't like this line. Do I nee
Still playing with my firewall project, and having a lot of fun.
Here is what I've done so far. When ppp0 dials into the internet, it makes
a connection, and runs ip-up script, which I've added the following commands:
# allow internal boxes out through the 3c509b card, all ports.
ipchains -A inp
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Zheng Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a published book about debian linux, or online material? Thanks.
http://www.linuxpress.com/
Brandon
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PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PR
> "Ionut" == Ionut Borcoman at lungu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ionut> Because of my previous experience with exim, I have chosed
Ionut> it as our MTA. However, it failed to accept any SMTP
Ionut> connection from outside.
Ionut> Any ideea ?
As a diagnostic tool, you can:
StEve,
Your post is completely inappropriate to the debian mailing list. I fail
to see what this issue has to do with computers, the GNU/Linux operating
system, or the debian distribution thereof.
I do not own a gun, nor do I live in California, or for that matter in
the USA. In these respec
Try ./hello instead of hello (at the bash promt)
> I am having difficulties getting g++ to compile properly.
>
> I am just testing it with a simple "hello" program.
>
> When I type ...
>
> g++ -g -Wall -ohello hello.cc
>
> The file - hello - is created. When I type, hello to execute the progra
Hi,
Is there a published book about debian linux, or online material? Thanks.
Zheng Wang, Ph. D
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
University of California, Santa Barbara
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/~zwang
AB2560 just passed in the California Senate and is headed for the
Governors Desk. He can veto.
As I understand it this bill modifies California's current AW ban
to
include (among other things) detachable mags with >19 rounds (i.e.
a
10-22 with a 25 round mag is an assau
does anybody know if there are any good .rtf file viewers out there?
also, offhand, anyone know a good way to access a FoxPro DB from UNIX?
thanks,
-brad
Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
>
> > I had this problem too a couple of times... smail's post-rm script removes
> > /etc/aliases. George, You use exim, is this alias file non-generation a
> > bug??? Isn't there a script or someth
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