Re: XEmacs novice customisation

1998-09-15 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:28:27PM +, David Warnock wrote: > There are some things I really miss and one is the ability to select > text using the shift key combined with any cursor movement. From the > latest FAQ where it talks about windows versions it mentions a package > called pending-dele

XEmacs novice customisation

1998-09-15 Thread David Warnock
Hi, I am attempting to work with XEmacs, so far I can't say I am particularly enjoying the experience ;-) There are some things I really miss and one is the ability to select text using the shift key combined with any cursor movement. From the latest FAQ where it talks about windows versions it m

GGI

1998-09-15 Thread Panajotis Karajannis
Hi I saw in slink many GGI libs with various targets.I wonder if there is a GGI ready kernel witch I can use, because it is impossible to build one myself.I always get errors at compile time. Also I saw hurd binaries and I am very happy about this because the hurd looks very promising (see www.de

Re: XRINGD AGAIN

1998-09-15 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi I have only one line in my xringd.conf R 10-15 R 30 : /usr/bin/pon If I add -m /dev/ttyS1 the xringd starts to complain that the file does not exist By default it should use /dev/modem so I've made dev/ modem point to /dev/ttyS1 but it does not help either... Oh and yes, please send me

Re: Hamm

1998-09-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Dan Hrabarchuk wrote: > I relativley new to Debian. I did my first Debian install a week ago, After > 4 years of slackware, and a brief stint with RedHat Welcome! > > > (I asked three email support questions like, why doesn't g++ wok with full > error messages etc. All ans

Re: Question about videocard

1998-09-15 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 15 Sep 98 08:20:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've got a Diamond Viper 330 AGP running the X window system just fine >on a debian 2.0 box. I don't know about svga, I haven't tried that yet. I have, and it does, if you update to the latest version in slink. Rob Wilderspin -- "But I need

Help with new install

1998-09-15 Thread Ken Archer
Just installed a 8.4 gig hd and set it up for a triple-boot with Suse 5.2, RedHat 5.1 and Debian 2.0. Installed Suse and set up the partitions for the other OS's. Red Hat refuses to go to the partition screen saying something about "not enough resources." I was able to format the partitions for

Weird fonts problem in X

1998-09-15 Thread nebu
My problem has just got massively weird after installing more programs. I get messages that seem to indicate some fonts are missing, but I can't figure out how to fix it. If anyone has a clue please tell me! Here's what Netscape says when it tries to run: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvet

Linux for Disabled -- Contact sought

1998-09-15 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, A few years back there was a guy (in the US) active on some of the Linux lists who was developing linux applications for the disabled. He set up his own list, as I recall, and disappeared from general view. It's some time since I lost track of him and no longer have any pointers. I wou

Re: [Fwd: colors in xwindows]

1998-09-15 Thread Tom Malloy
Dan Hrabarchuk wrote: > > What driver are you using? > xserver-svga 3.3.2.3a-1

dilad still not working

1998-09-15 Thread TheKman
Well I have been following everyone advice and I am pretty close to getting diald to work. What happens now is it dials, gets connected, sits there for about 30 seconds then disconnects. I can connect to the Internet if diald is not loaded by using pon. I have attached my /etc/diald/diald.options

ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-15 Thread Ian Eure
Ok. Interesting thing happened. Accidentally killed my X server remotely with -9. Oops. I come back down to the console and it's all FUBARd. OK. So I try a couple things ssh'ing from another box, like SVGATextMode & such. No dice. I can get X running, but my text console is dead. Anyone have any su

Re: Kernel Strategies

1998-09-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"John" == John Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I'd say "Don't touch them. Ever." is a bit harsh. No, it is the only technically correct thing to do. Unfortunately, it also seems to be something very few people think through, and very often one sees incorrect information

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-15 Thread Daniel Martin
"Paul M. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my case, it isn't a problem, since it is a single user machine on a > network, with my wife running Win95 on the other machine. But I see the > point. So presumably, if someone could write something to /dev/vcsa*, it > would show up on my screen. H

Re: Kppp as normal user

1998-09-15 Thread Sergio Orsatti
> After reading the howtos, faqs, I still can't dialup to my ISP with > Kppp as a normal user. When I am root, it works fine. > > I have Debian 2.0 and KDE 1.0 installed and if I use pon to dialup > to my ISP, it works fine (root or normal user). > > When using Kppp as normal user, it connects

Hamm

1998-09-15 Thread Dan Hrabarchuk
I relativley new to Debian. I did my first Debian install a week ago, After 4 years of slackware, and a brief stint with RedHat (I asked three email support questions like, why doesn't g++ wok with full error messages etc. All answers "this is not an installation issue". g++ not installling is no

Re: XF86_SVGA suddenly refuses to detect Matrox Millenium

1998-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I have had problems with the current server on two different machines. One (gateway 7600) got the bliniies after install, and the other (K6 with wierd diamand 2500) went thoroughly unstable. I installed the bo xbase, xsvga, and vga16 on the K6, and it works fine now (save xdm won't go). prev

RE: [Fwd: colors in xwindows]

1998-09-15 Thread Dan Hrabarchuk
What driver are you using? -Mensaje original- De: Tom Malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org Fecha: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 3:19 PM Asunto: [Fwd: colors in xwindows] >This has not appeared in five hours, so I am resending it >Tom Malloy wrote: >> >> Many of m

Re: g++/gcc system errors

1998-09-15 Thread John Larkin
> While working on some C++ code for a programming assignment, I got the > following error: > > /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined reference to `main' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > And that is simply after typing "g++ .cc" First, make sure you have a function called main (and it'

Re: Kernel Strategies

1998-09-15 Thread John Larkin
> > Chad> .deb-installed headers from the /usr/include directory. > > > > Ans rightly so. Don't touch them. Ever. > ^ > My question is what if one wants to upgrade the kernel > from non-debian sources? Do we still use the old kernel > headers from t

Define printer

1998-09-15 Thread Ruud de Bruin
How do I install a printer under Debian 2.0? I have an Epson Stylus COLOR 200 and have setup "magicfilterconfig". Is there anything else I have to do? Regards, Ruud.

RE: XF86_SVGA suddenly refuses to detect Matrox Millenium

1998-09-15 Thread Eric Fain
I have tried numerous permutations of the XF86Setup routine, with and without the original config as a starting point, but to no avail. Are there other config files used by XF86_SVGA, besides XF86Config? __ Eric Fain D

RE:Newbie questions

1998-09-15 Thread Kent West
At 10:48 AM 9/15/1998 -0600, you wrote: >I just install Debian off of the ftp site. I downloaded and installed off of the DOS >partition on my home machine (486/100Mhz 600MB HD). THe whole >procedure went relatively well but there are two problems that I have. The first >problem is that I was

Re: Kernel Strategies

1998-09-15 Thread Mohan Kannapareddy
On 15 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Chad" == Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chad> No, I haven't R-all-TFM's out there, but I'm getting burnt out > Chad> on 'em. So, I'd like to hear a little about what some of you > Chad> do personally to keep track of things.

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-15 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Daniel Martin wrote: > "Paul M. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Debs: > > > Two questions: > > > > 1) Is this a dangerous thing (I know of no other Linux editors that > > access the terminal this way)? > Accessing the terminal in this way? In itself no; in fact

Re: can't compile 2.1.121 under Debian Hamm 2.0

1998-09-15 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Using a typical installation of Debian Hamm 2.0, I am having trouble | compiling the current development kernel. Can anyone give me a clue | on the following error message: [snip] I seem to remember something about the development kernels requiring

RE: XF86_SVGA suddenly refuses to detect Matrox Millenium

1998-09-15 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
Try running XF86Setup - also, even though you may have uninstalled the xbase package, the configuration files were probably left behind. use 'dpkg --purge package_name' to remove the configuration files as well. Make sure you install the package xserver-svga - though it sounds like you already di

g++/gcc system errors

1998-09-15 Thread Matt Garman
While working on some C++ code for a programming assignment, I got the following error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status And that is simply after typing "g++ .cc" The other error is as follows: If I mistakenly type "gcc .cc" : gc

[Fwd: colors in xwindows]

1998-09-15 Thread Tom Malloy
This has not appeared in five hours, so I am resending it Tom Malloy wrote: > > Many of my applications say that they are unable to allocate colors in > xwindows. This includes xcolorsel. Yet many apps do have color and I > have used this hardware before without difficulty. So what should I be >

Re: Getting Lyx up and running with Hamm

1998-09-15 Thread Stefan . Ehlen
Hi, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> After upgrading to Hamm, Lyx doesn't work any more, complaining that it >> "can't load library 'libforms.so.0.81' ". This is reported as bug #18477. >> >> Is there any work-around for this? > >D

Re: I can,t seem to get out to the internet.

1998-09-15 Thread shaul
Can you ping to an IP address (as opposed to a URL address) ? > Yes, I an new to Linux 2.0 something. I have had it installed for a few > months now. I have read the help files and ppp-howto stuff and even > bought a book. > I have my connect script working. > I connect to my isp using pppd cal

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

1998-09-15 Thread shaul
> According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > After upgrading to Hamm, (actually, after upgrading to 2.0.34) I noticed > > that the advanced extensions to the parallel port (SPP and such) can be > > recognized. Perhaps these extensions are the source of your problem ? > > Ah, that sounds like a very go

Re: Installation Help

1998-09-15 Thread shaul
> Where can I find help on installing Debian? > I thought this was the list but no one has replied. > > When installing Debian I get this error part way though the instation: > > "No ... msdos ... partitions that had not already been mounted were > detected." > > What could cause this error? I

Re: Kernel Strategies

1998-09-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Chad" == Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chad> No, I haven't R-all-TFM's out there, but I'm getting burnt out Chad> on 'em. So, I'd like to hear a little about what some of you Chad> do personally to keep track of things. What you like to do to Chad> back up old kernels, etc

Re: kernel

1998-09-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Mikael" == Mikael W Asp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mikael> Anyway. I have tried the usual way Mikael> make dep; make clean; make zImage/zdisk/zlilo; make modules; make Mikael> modules_install. Mikael> This usually works just fine in SuSE but something is wrong in debian. Mikael> I g

can't compile 2.1.121 under Debian Hamm 2.0

1998-09-15 Thread James D. Freels
Using a typical installation of Debian Hamm 2.0, I am having trouble compiling the current development kernel. Can anyone give me a clue on the following error message: _ make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.12

Re: cron error e-mail

1998-09-15 Thread Eric Jensen
I've been getting the same error messages in the mail from cron. I believe it's got something to do with missing manpages. Try running "mandb -c". That's the commandline that cron.weekly runs, so it should show you what the problems are. I have a plethora of dangling symlinks and generally bad

Re: Getting Lyx up and running with Hamm

1998-09-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After upgrading to Hamm, Lyx doesn't work any more, complaining that it > "can't load library 'libforms.so.0.81' ". This is reported as bug #18477. > > Is there any work-around for this? Did you install libforms? I have installed libforms-0.88.1-

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Joey Hess
Horacio M.G. wrote: > Do you mean you converted it to a .deb package just by: > alien -d scriptum...tgz ??? I've done it yet again and it happened > all over again: no .deb package, and a tree directory right in / ( > /scriptum...). I couldn't use dpkg since there was no .deb to use > with.

xconsole doesn't tell me anything

1998-09-15 Thread Eric Jensen
I don't understand this problem at all. I remember back when I ran bo that the xconsole started automatically when I started X and it reported things like remote logins and stuff. Now, it doesn't start automatically (which is fine, but I thought it should since there is a "run-xconsole" line in m

POSIX arguments

1998-09-15 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Is there any electronic information available that describes what a getopt library (no, not another one in C :-) must allow and disallow to be POSIX compliant? -- .elOle.

Re: Docbook

1998-09-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 08:54:33PM +0200, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > Hi > > I have some sgml-docs written in DocBook. They have the header: > > The Makefile (written by RH-user) uses db2html for formatting. > Since I have no such thing I tried sgml2something, but I always > got the complaint: > > /

Re: kernel

1998-09-15 Thread Steve Tremblett
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Mikael W Asp wrote: > I get this messages: > > ppp can't find module ppp > serial can't find module serial > > and so on with vfat and a couple of more. When I do 'uname -a' I see > that the kernel is 5 days older then the kernel I just compiled. The problem with the modules

Re: CDE for Debian

1998-09-15 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 01:03:44PM -0500, Matthew A. Reklau wrote: > > Is there a version of CDE available for Debian releases and if so where > > and cost please. > > Has anyone here tried RedHat's CDE on Debian? I havn't (can't > afford it...we

Weird SB32PNP problems.

1998-09-15 Thread Ian Eure
Ok. Just upgraded my trusty old PAS16 to a SB32PNP. After stuffing around for a bit so it didn't kill my eth0, things seem to almost be working. Only problem is that MP3 files do not play properly. When using mpg123, I get a nasty skipping. This does not happen when playing .mods with mikmod. Perha

Re: Softmodems and Debian

1998-09-15 Thread Ares
I once had one of these modems. there is a program for linux which can be used to download the code natively. Its called smdl and can be found at sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/serialcomm/modem. you didn't specify which model you use. Supposedly, this only works on a connection modem. Regards, J

Docbook

1998-09-15 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Hi I have some sgml-docs written in DocBook. They have the header:

Re: /etc/named.conf

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> You could also just edit /var/named/boot.{zones,options} as before and then > use the command named-bootconf to automatically convert them to the new > syntax. Yep, that did the trick :-) Muchas gracias Stef

smail: mailinglists

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
How can I configure smail, not to send an email to someone being on an mailinglist, if that someone is the sender of the mail. In other words: someone sends email to list, where he is also included, and I don't want him to receive the mail he sent. Stef

Re: /etc/named.conf

1998-09-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 01:12:31PM +0100, Oliver Thuns wrote: > >I made a new install. Debian 1.3.1 is running on another machine. > > Dann ist alles klar :-) > > >I ran bindconfig, which created a new /etc/named.conf file, but also a > >new /var/named/boot.options file without all the zones name

No EXPN and VRFY in smail?

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Is there a way, like in sendmail, to dissalow EXPN and VRFY in smail via the configuration files? Stef

Re: CDE for Debian

1998-09-15 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 01:03:44PM -0500, Matthew A. Reklau wrote: > Is there a version of CDE available for Debian releases and if so where > and cost please. Well The Debian Project is devoted to Free software and CDE is not free so it is not part of debian. ALso...There is no version which is e

Q: mail2news, uucp, cnews

1998-09-15 Thread Thomas Adams
I run Debian 2.0 versions of cnews and uucp and want to gate my mailing lists to local newsgroups. So I fetched the mail2news.pl script and tried my luck. First, I left the INEWS variable set to rnews and changed one of my procmail recipes to put a "test" group into a local newsgroup which someh

Re: Fax over ISDN

1998-09-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "FA" == Florian Attenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FA> Is there a software to send faxes over isdn/isdn4linux No. This is only possible with a realtime linux. But there is a alpha version of a modified hylafax (IIRC) for active ISDN cards. You can check de.alt.comm.isdn4linux

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread john
Paul M. Foster writes: > I suspect there *is* a legal issue here. If you buy MS Windows, you > install the device drivers on your system as part of the software. He's talking about drivers that come with hardware, not with Windows. > I haven't checked MS's license, but they may have a license lik

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread john
Geoffrey L. Brimhall writes: > The first question is the basic licensing of the driver - I don't think > this is an issues because I would think the license is attached with the > hardware installed on the machine. So I wouldn't think it matters if the > device driver is being used on Linux or Wind

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #947

1998-09-15 Thread Barry
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 12:37:37PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: >> Does anybody knows about any free Smalltalk for Linux (preferrably >> as Debian package :-) )? > >ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gst115.tgz GNU smalltalk isn't very good. The best free sm

Anybody using securelevel here?

1998-09-15 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again! I would like to use securelevel in 2.0 kernels in order to disallow changing the IMMUTABLE and APPEND flags of ext2... I have no idea how to set it up... If I set the global variable securelevel= 1 root fs cannot be mounted... Any comment or sug

XF86_SVGA suddenly refuses to detect Matrox Millenium

1998-09-15 Thread Eric Fain
So I had a box going with a Matrox Millenium PCI card, up for a year without problems. I upgraded to hamm, and there were no apparent problems with X either. Then one day I rebooted, and XF86_SVGA refuses to detect the video chipset. XF86Config hasn't changed, either. Nevertheless, I tried to f

CDE for Debian

1998-09-15 Thread Matthew A. Reklau
Is there a version of CDE available for Debian releases and if so where and cost please. Thanks, Matthew A. Reklau Computer Engineering, Penn State University

Fax over ISDN

1998-09-15 Thread Florian Attenberger
HI, Is there a software to send faxes over isdn/isdn4linux thanx florian attenberger

Re: PNP sound card lack of knowledge (or stupidity )

1998-09-15 Thread Ian Eure
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 09:38:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have a pnp SoundBlaster16, which was not in my computer when I installed > Debian originally. > trying to configure it I have read through the isapnpconfig stuff. > What I now know is that to get it to work, I must configure the

Re: XRINGD AGAIN

1998-09-15 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Just curious if anyone had succeded in configuring and using xringd. | | It does not work on my machine | | I have an external modem on /dev/ttyS1 and even when I tell | #xringd -m /dev/ttyS1 | | it can not find it . | | tryed to make /dev/mode

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-15 Thread Greg Frye
I also just found the URL to a good article on Linux and PostgreSQL (http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/018.html) (the link is on the PostgreSQL.org 'news flash' page). Greg Frye wrote: > > I understand the frustration. I am there, also. But don't give up, it > will pay off. I

XRINGD AGAIN

1998-09-15 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Just curious if anyone had succeded in configuring and using xringd. It does not work on my machine I have an external modem on /dev/ttyS1 and even when I tell #xringd -m /dev/ttyS1 it can not find it . tryed to make /dev/modem as sim-link to /dev/ttyS1 but it does not help What els

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-15 Thread Ian Eure
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 08:30:53AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 02:18:40AM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote: > > I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and > > whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work... > > went through

Re: is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-15 Thread Richard Hoskins
John Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This will create a file called TAGS which contains lots of > information about your code. In emacs, you can use M-x, and look for > all commands starting with "tags-". There are also a few keymappings > to the tag functions: play with "M-." and "M-,".

kernel

1998-09-15 Thread Mikael W Asp
Hi there! I'm trying to compile a kernel in my quite newly installed Debian-system. I have SuSE and Debian istalled and lilo on the master boot. The lilo is the one in SuSE but loads the debian-system as well. Anyway. I have tried the usual way make dep; make clean; make zImage/zdisk/zlilo; make

XConfig for STB Velcoity 128 with 8 meg of ram.

1998-09-15 Thread Mrpeabody
When I startx is always defaults to 8-bit mod. I would like to be able to run 24bit or 32 bit color. I've tried to run the xconfig from xwindows, but it won't work so I have been using the text based Xconfig program. Also when it loads I have a 21 inch moniter and the x background doesn't cover

RE:Newbie questions

1998-09-15 Thread jgreer
I just install Debian off of the ftp site. I downloaded and installed off of the DOS partition on my home machine (486/100Mhz 600MB HD). THe whole procedure went relatively well but there are two problems that I have. The first problem is that I was unable to configure the mouse to work. I

Re: Softmodems and Debian

1998-09-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Person, Rod wrote: > Hey again, > > I FINALLY got Debian up and running to my liking with the help of a few > if not more of you guys thanks. > > But here is something that hit me on the way to work today. I have a > Digicom Softmodem. I have to load an

Re: Softmodems and Debian

1998-09-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Person, Rod wrote: > I FINALLY got Debian up and running to my liking with the help of a few > if not more of you guys thanks. > > But here is something that hit me on the way to work today. I have a > Digicom Softmodem. I have to load an algorithm before

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-15 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:59:11PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > I can't remember if sync actually wait on the harddrive but I'm think > not. Then a doubel-sync and a quick power-off could ruin your hard > drive. > > The thing about syncing twice (I heard 3 times) is something with > sitting on a

Dselect wants to delete everything?

1998-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've managed to install most of what I want with dselect but for some reason it has marked lots of files for removal, including many of those supposed to be "required". When I cccidentally chose "remove" it actually started removing these files! Why does it do this and what should I do about it?

Re: LILO, 2 scsi disks, 2 OS config problem

1998-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
i'm hardly a lilo expert, but . . . > I have been trying to install debian 2.0 for a couple of days and I cannot > get LILO to work. > > My setup is : > Intel CPU > SCSI disk 1 (sda) dedicated to Windows 95 > SCSI disk 2 (sdb) dedicated to linux, debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.34 installed > from CDR

Softmodems and Debian

1998-09-15 Thread Person, Rod
Hey again, I FINALLY got Debian up and running to my liking with the help of a few if not more of you guys thanks. But here is something that hit me on the way to work today. I have a Digicom Softmodem. I have to load an algorithm before I can use it. In DOS it was quite simple. path=c:

Re: jdk1.1-dev problems..

1998-09-15 Thread Dale E. Martin
Mrpeabody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to install jdk1.1-dev but it says it depends on jdk1.1, but I > > already have jdk1.1 installed. So it won't let me install the > jdk1.1-dev. I'm trying to use the newest java stuff on linux so I'm > using slink and jdk1.16v2-1 and trying to in

Re: mod_throttle

1998-09-15 Thread Oliver Thuns
Okay, it works for me. I have to test it in production :-) >> : I don't understand the configuration. Is it possible to throttle >> : virtual servers? >> >>As far as my knowledge about mod_throttle goes, that isn't possible. You can >>just limit the amount of traffic users on a complete system (in

Re: PS: moving in mutt.

1998-09-15 Thread Paul Slootman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I just installed Debian 2.0 via ftp. >> I cannot move up and down in mutt to select individual mails using the >> arrow keys (is that the right expression?) in my keyboard. It just >> tells me: Key is not bound. A bug or a feature? Under Slackware I > >I just realised,

Re: Mail reflector how to?

1998-09-15 Thread Paul Slootman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Does anybody know of a mail reflector how to for Debian and could recommend >a mail package to use as such? What exactly do you mean with a "mail reflector" ? Won't a simple alias with any MTA do the trick? Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTE

SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-15 Thread Chris Whitworth
It doesn't work basically! It seems that the Mach64 libvga drivers as supplied on the Debian 2.0 CD-Rom don't actually work (it crashes out with a segmentation fault when it attempts to initialise the display) If I select the default VGA drivers, then I can get some stuff to work, but certain

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-15 Thread Greg Frye
I understand the frustration. I am there, also. But don't give up, it will pay off. I have learned more about Linux and the software for it in the past year than I have about NT and it's software in the past 4 years (as far as what makes it tick). Start at the PostgreSQL home (http://www.postgr

Re: is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-15 Thread John Larkin
> I would like to know if there is some kind of "source navigator" mode to > browse C/C++ under emacs. > > I'm Looking something like Microsoft VC++ browsing or Linux Source Code > Navigator (Linux's kernel source with full hyperlink references to be used > with a WWW browser) A pretty simple (no

Kernel Strategies

1998-09-15 Thread Chad Walstrom
I've read and successfully followed the guidelines for creating new kernels using the the kernel-headers-2.0.34.deb, kernel-source-2.0.34.deb, and kernel-package.deb packages. I've read the manuals and some of the HOWTO's, but some things still elude me. I'd like to know some of the personal stra

jdk1.1-dev problems..

1998-09-15 Thread Mrpeabody
I'm trying to install jdk1.1-dev but it says it depends on jdk1.1, but I already have jdk1.1 installed. So it won't let me install the jdk1.1-dev. I'm trying to use the newest java stuff on linux so I'm using slink and jdk1.16v2-1 and trying to install the corresponding jdk1.1-dev. [EMAIL PR

colors in xwindows

1998-09-15 Thread Tom Malloy
Many of my applications say that they are unable to allocate colors in xwindows. This includes xcolorsel. Yet many apps do have color and I have used this hardware before without difficulty. So what should I be looking at to fix this problem? Thank you Tom

Re: cable-modem woes (TCI/@HOME)

1998-09-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Stuart Marshall wrote: : Hi, : : I am having trouble getting my cable-modem working and I am wondering : if somebody out there knows the right way. Here is the info: : : - works in win98 : - looks like a subnet of a class A network (this could be my problem) : - ip

question about linux-hardware (fwd)

1998-09-15 Thread treacy
The following was sent to webmaster. Could someone on the list answer it? Jay Treacy P.S. Please remove me from any replies. - Forwarded message from pascale - >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 15 09:53:08 1998 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EM

Re: mod_throttle

1998-09-15 Thread Oliver Thuns
> : I don't understand the configuration. Is it possible to throttle > : virtual servers? > >As far as my knowledge about mod_throttle goes, that isn't possible. You can >just limit the amount of traffic users on a complete system (including all >the virtual hosts) are allowed to generate. Does mo

Getting Lyx up and running with Hamm

1998-09-15 Thread Stefan . Ehlen
Hi! After upgrading to Hamm, Lyx doesn't work any more, complaining that it "can't load library 'libforms.so.0.81' ". This is reported as bug #18477. Is there any work-around for this? thanks Stefan

Re: hard joke ? ....

1998-09-15 Thread swoop
http://www.denounce.com Recent Denouncements Recognized around the world as the best source for completely fictional news and information. When you're not looking for a reliable, accurate website for computer industry new

Re: into the breach^h^h^h^h^h ppp once more

1998-09-15 Thread Mark Harrison
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > The loginid and password are correct; they're the same ones it uses to login. > what can possibly be going wrong here? and why is the password nakedly > displayed like that in the log? > > rick I found (after several phone calls) that turning off the debug optio

backuping partition tables

1998-09-15 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all Looking at /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz I understand that from 446 byte offset (starting at 0) to 509 (including them) there is stored the partition table wich holds primary and extended partitions (all in 64 bytes) but the question is where are located

hard joke ? ....

1998-09-15 Thread swoop
http://www.denounce.com/linux.html http://www.denounce.com/fbi.html Yeah , bad bad day on inet or something else ... PS. No flames, FUD or whatever .. maybe smomeone coould explain. ;)

Re: Installation Help (Base Install)

1998-09-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Cameron Taggart wrote: : >I'm totally unclear as to whether you've already made it through the : >base install, or if you've completed that step, rebooted, and are now : >staring at dselect. : : I am trying to get the base install to work. I am running Win95 OSR B and I

Unable to create a boot disk for hamm install

1998-09-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm forwarding this for a friend. You can reply directly to me or to the list. I already told him how to boot from the rescue disk and the CD-ROM, but I've never seen this problem before and we would appreciate some insight. Thanks! Jeff --- I got stuck on my installation last night. I can't

is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-15 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I would like to know if there is some kind of "source navigator" mode to browse C/C++ under emacs. I'm Looking something like Microsoft VC++ browsing or Linux Source Code Navigator (Linux's kernel source with full hyperlink references to be used with a

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-15 Thread Daniel Martin
"Paul M. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debs: > Two questions: > > 1) Is this a dangerous thing (I know of no other Linux editors that > access the terminal this way)? Accessing the terminal in this way? In itself no; in fact, if all access is done through /dev/vcsa*, there's not the cha

RE: Modem statistics.

1998-09-15 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Did you try pppload ? Franck >--- >Hello, and thanks in advance. > >I'm looking for a program to extract modem statistics from my dial-up >conection to the >internet. I use the ppp log, but my boss wants this information in a >more graphical form, >and I don't know such a program for doin

Re: PNP sound card lack of knowledge (or stupidity )

1998-09-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 09:38:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have a pnp SoundBlaster16, which was not in my computer when I installed > Debian originally. > trying to configure it I have read through the isapnpconfig stuff. > What I now know is that to get it to work, I must configure the

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