Re: Star Office 5/4 in english?

1998-09-16 Thread Harold G. Stevenson
where can you get staroffice 5??? thank you, harold On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: > Can you get star office 5 in english? I used to have star office 4 in > english but it seems all that it is no longer available now that star > office 5 is out. > -jeff > > > -- > Unsubscribe?

Re: fwhois in deb package ?

1998-09-16 Thread Joe Stewart
I downloaded the rpm file from the Redhat site today and ran alien. It installed fine. I don't know the real answer because I couldn't find it either. Joe On 16 Sep 1998, Eric Jacoboni wrote: > Hi, > > I'm searching for the fwhois program... no found in various > directories. Did i miss somet

Re: Getting on the internet LCP timeout sending confige request.

1998-09-16 Thread shaul
1) I think that I had once a problem like the one you describe because the configuration of the mtu/mru numbers didn't fit to the ones that were recieved/transmitted. But I might confusing different issues. 2) I think that sending the relevant lines of the log may help solving any kind of PPP pr

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

1998-09-16 Thread shaul
Adding \q before the password like (\qpassword) in /etc/chatscripts/provider will stopped the password being displayed in the log even if the debug is set. Or did I missed something ? > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > The loginid and password are correct; they're the same ones it uses to >

Re: Getting Lyx up and running with Hamm

1998-09-16 Thread shaul
Lyx for Hamm needs libforms0.88 Package: lyx Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: contrib/text Installed-Size: 4576 Maintainer: Stuart Lamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.12.0.final-0.1 Depends: libc6, libforms0.88, libg++272 (>= 2.7.2.8), xlib6g (>= 3.3-5), xpm4g ( Recommen

Re: Q: Why Midhight Commander stopped working on text console?

1998-09-16 Thread Alvaro Reguly
Date forwarded: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:04:09 -0300 Date forwarded: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:03:39 + Date sent: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:03:08 -0800 Forwarded by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Greg Frye <[

Re: TCPIP stack needs work?

1998-09-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'd be interested to hear about this. Can you give me information more specific than tha freeBSD is better? For instance, is it latency, code path, reliability, what? Tod Detre wrote: > I'm on the quake 2 server mailing list and recently they are complaining about > linux's tcp/ip stack. A few

Re: [Fwd: colors in xwindows]

1998-09-16 Thread D'jinnie
If you haven't messed with config. files, it may well be because it's running in 8-bit mode. Try -bpp 16 or 32... --- Lack of money is the root of all evil. --George Bernard Shaw D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key

unmounting bad floppy

1998-09-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
is there a way to force an unmount of a bad floppy? It failed to mount, and has gotten the idea that something is open. Is there anythign short of rebooting, or can i even try to reboot? rick --

Re: PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try /usr/doc/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini/PLIP.gz (for some reason, the unmaintained tree disappeared in slink, however). Bob On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > Some time ago on this list there was reference to a PLIP -mini-howto with > information on how to connect two linux machines throug

Re: Strange behavior of magicfilter configurator

1998-09-16 Thread John Larkin
> I tried installed magicfilter under debian2.0 > and could not configure it. Namely when I choose > the option to create a configure file (printcap) it asked me for > one printer name,...,filter and then for second, third and so on. > I could not to stop the configuration script and to > create p

Re: Strange behavior of magicfilter configurator

1998-09-16 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
>> I tried installed magicfilter under debian2.0 > and could not configure it. Namely when I choose > the option to create a configure file (printcap) it asked me for > one printer name,...,filter and then for second, third and so on. > I could not to stop the configuration script and to > create

Re: netscape4 mail reader

1998-09-16 Thread Shaleh
Hmmm, try the command alt+2 (that is hold alt and type the number 2). That is the shortcut key. If you do not have a communicator menu along the file menu row in Netscape, then whatever you are using is NOT communicator (4.x). -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today

Re: netscape4 mail reader

1998-09-16 Thread Ralph Winslow
Shaleh wrote: > > 3) click the communicator menu and chose mailbox Thanks for your prompt replies, Shaleh. Unfortunately, I don't seem to have any icons at all in the lower right hand corner nor any communicator menu. I guess I chose the wrong package to pull from netscape or something. > > Ra

Re: dselect apt-get method for unstable

1998-09-16 Thread Shaleh
Try a different mirror. I use debian.midco.net. P.S. Again, your mail is bouncing. Appears to be a qmail problem. -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today

Re: netscape4 mail reader

1998-09-16 Thread Shaleh
Ralph, your email address is sending failure notices from tempest.nac.net. Invalid mailbox. I can send the whole message to you if you give me an e-mail address. -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today

dselect apt-get method for unstable

1998-09-16 Thread Ralph Winslow
Since I changed /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable rather than unstable, I get a message during update "E: Line 10989 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/llug.sep.bnl.gov_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages is too long." and am unable to proceed. What to I need to do to get b

WMAKER...Quick how do you make icons.....

1998-09-16 Thread Person, Rod
Hey Again, Quick, someone has to tell me how to make icons for wmaker. My wife and kids, are getting p##$ and don't understand why I sit and "tap and click" for hours and "do nothing." (I did tell them I convert from Windblows to Linux!!). I have read all the doc that load with wmaker (unless I

Strange behavior of magicfilter configurator

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I tried installed magicfilter under debian2.0 and could not configure it. Namely when I choose the option to create a configure file (printcap) it asked me for one printer name,...,filter and then for second, third and so on. I could not to stop the configuration script and to create printcap. So

Re: netscape4 mail reader

1998-09-16 Thread Shaleh
3) click the communicator menu and chose mailbox Ralph Winslow wrote: > > Since upgrading to 4.02 I've noticed two things. The first is that > 4.02 seems to be a lot slower than v3, and the second is that I must > run v3 to read my mail since I still haven't been able to get exmh > to putt mail

Re: netscape4 mail reader

1998-09-16 Thread Shaleh
Netscape Messenger (the mail app) can be invoked in two ways: 1) click the second icon on the lower right hand corner (if you can see it, the icon is of envelopes in a bin) 2) run netscape -mail Ralph Winslow wrote: > > Since upgrading to 4.02 I've noticed two things. The first is that > 4.02 se

fwhois in deb package ?

1998-09-16 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Hi, I'm searching for the fwhois program... no found in various directories. Did i miss something ? (I've the tarball but, for convenience, i would prefer to keep an "all deb" system). Thanks, -- --- Éric Jacoboni « J'ai épu

netscape4 mail reader

1998-09-16 Thread Ralph Winslow
Since upgrading to 4.02 I've noticed two things. The first is that 4.02 seems to be a lot slower than v3, and the second is that I must run v3 to read my mail since I still haven't been able to get exmh to putt mail from my ISP. Could some kind soul tell me which of the 4.02 buttons is concealing

TCPIP stack needs work?

1998-09-16 Thread Tod Detre
I'm on the quake 2 server mailing list and recently they are complaining about linux's tcp/ip stack. A few of them said that free=bsd and ever NT work better than linux. This is for when there is >10 peoplæ connected. What I want to know is this. Is this really something in the tcpip stack or is

being dropped from the list

1998-09-16 Thread Ralph Winslow
It seems that everytime my ISP has the slightest interrruption of e-mail service, I get unsubscribed to this list. Might it be possible to make the list distribution software a little less bitchy (perhaps I should say sensitive) about this? It doesn't happen often, and it takes me a while to fi

Re: IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-16 Thread Pete Harlan
> If some kind soul could help, I'd appreciate it. :-) The HOWTO > instructions don't seem to work correctly (but more than likely, my > lack of understanding is at fault), so I plea for help. :-) You don't say which HOWTO, but the IP-Masquerade mini-HOWTO is excellent. Print that, print the ip

Re: REMOVE!!!

1998-09-16 Thread john
Will Lowe writes: > You didn't send this to the right place. All the bottom of every message > you received was: > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null> Which is utterly useless to someone running Eudora under Windows, as she is. > You need to send a message to [EMA

Re: Debian and two more OS's

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
Adrian wrote: >> The partition table has been altered! >> >> Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. >> Syncing disks. >> Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. >> Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated. > Did you reboot before trying mke2fs /dev/h

Re: can't compile 2.1.121 under Debian Hamm 2.0

1998-09-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 04:21:09PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > > 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: >

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 08:54:22AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote: > 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 s

Re: Debian and two more OS's

1998-09-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:29:24PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: [snip] NT needs read access to /dev/hda1 IIRC - so it must be FAT/NTFS > Using fdisk (linux) I got the following partition table: > [snip] > Unfortunately after the command 'w' > > Command (m for help): w > > I got the message: >

Re: are there (X)emacs20-no-mule debian packages

1998-09-16 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Oops. I thing that there is xmeacs20-no-mule debian package but I | > prefer to use emacs20-no-mule. | | There is no such thing as Emacs 20.* no mule. Mule isn't a compile | option with Emacs. | | With Emacs 2

Re: are there (X)emacs20-no-mule debian packages

1998-09-16 Thread Richard Hoskins
Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oops. I thing that there is xmeacs20-no-mule debian package but I > prefer to use emacs20-no-mule. There is no such thing as Emacs 20.* no mule. Mule isn't a compile option with Emacs. With Emacs 20.3, however, you can set an enviornmental variable `EMACS

Bounce-queues with LPRng

1998-09-16 Thread Mika S . Marjamäki
Hi! Does anyone here have a filtered bounce queue for remote printer set up with LPRng? I have my HP LaserJet 5L connected to my "home-server", and want to print to it from my workstation using magicfilter through LAN, but haven't got it to work... I'd be glad to see some working configuration f

RE: debian 2.0 install

1998-09-16 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 16 Sep, Shane S. wrote: > > Thanks for the response. > > So do you think I should forget about recompiling the kernel > and just install it as if there is 1 processor? > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September

are there (X)emacs20-no-mule debian packages

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I have problem using emacs20-mule and Xemacs20-mule with using polish (latin-2) signs. Are there just emacs20 and Xemacs20 debian packages (I would prefer them) or I just have to install them manually? Oops. I thing that there is xmeacs20-no-mule debian package but I prefer to use emacs20-no-mu

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread John Larkin
> > I don't think that's too unreasonable. A while ago, the X server for > > my video card was quite unstable (ATI Mach64 w/chrontel ramdac), and I > > ended up needing to kill the xserver remotely about once every 2 or 3 > > days (the xserver would take over the console and refuse to operate > >

Re: scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
>On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 03:46:51PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: >> $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: >> X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) >> Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) >> Resource id in failed request: 0x0 >> Serial number of failed

RE: debian 2.0 install

1998-09-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Shane S. wrote: : : Thanks for the response. : : So do you think I should forget about recompiling the kernel : and just install it as if there is 1 processor? I don't know anything about Wyse hardware, but you could always try it. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South

RE: debian 2.0 install

1998-09-16 Thread Shane S.
Thanks for the response. So do you think I should forget about recompiling the kernel and just install it as if there is 1 processor? -Original Message- From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 11:31 AM To: Shane S. Cc: 'debian-user@lists.d

Re: debian 2.0 install

1998-09-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Shane S. wrote: : : : : I just downloaded debian 2.0 linux and I want to install it : on a SMP Wyse7000i machine. This machine has 2 486 processor. : After reading the documentation, I have a question. : After downloading, do I install debian 2.0 first, and : then r

debian 2.0 install

1998-09-16 Thread Shane S.
I just downloaded debian 2.0 linux and I want to install it on a SMP Wyse7000i machine. This machine has 2 486 processor. After reading the documentation, I have a question. After downloading, do I install debian 2.0 first, and then re-compile the kernel to take advantage of the SMP, or should I

Re: Emacs20-mule and problem using latin2 under X Window

1998-09-16 Thread kip
Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone please explain how to get the > latin-2-alt-postfix input method? latin-alt.el is part of the leim library. I don't know if it is part of Debian. It is a compile time option. I recomend that you upgrade to Emacs 20.3, anyway. A lot of bugs

ssl-telnet vs ssh

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi any comment will be greatly appreciated, regards, Ulisses Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!! http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.whorlinux.htm -

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread Ian Eure
I use KDM, the KDE xdm variant. It does not manage my local display. X is not the problem. X works fine. I just can't get my text console back. On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 02:44:22PM +0100, IH McKeag wrote: > Sorry, I have missed your earlier correspondence but have you tried > > /etc/init.d/x

[ippd] Unsupported protocol ....

1998-09-16 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm using an ISDN connection and everytime that i'm connected I stop from receiving packets! So, to resolve it, I need to hangup ippp0 device and restart again! :( On my syslog file there are the following lines that appears to be something wrong but I don't know how to resolve it: Sep

Re: colors in xwindows

1998-09-16 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Tom! If I got this right it could be that you have not enough memory on Video Card. I have 1Mb card and if I start netscape every program I start later will complain about colors. For this reason I usually start netscape last. I beleive if you start X with less colors it may help too. S

Re: gimp &/or xv resize function?

1998-09-16 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "gimp &/or xv resize function?" | Hi everybody, I just installed gimp and was trying to resize an image | from 640x480 to 1024x768. I can't seem to do it. In gimp if you use | the resize the image it resizes the window and leaves the image at | 640x480. Do you ha

full reset of a SCSI bus

1998-09-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! How do I reset completely a SCSI bus without having to reboot? TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/

Re: REMOVE!!!

1998-09-16 Thread Will Lowe
You didn't send this to the right place. All the bottom of every message you received was: >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null> You need to send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject. You sent them to debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Linux for Disabled -- Contact sought

1998-09-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. Is he one of the people mentioned in the Access-HOWTO? http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Access-H

changed hostname, hosed smail

1998-09-16 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, I changed my hostname recently but forgot to change my smail config file before using fetchmail to get my email from a pop3 server. Now, About 60 message show up when I run mailq. How can I get smail to re-deliver these messages? -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:13:40 +0200 (CEST) Ulisses Alonso Camaro writes: > > Hi all, > > I would like to know if there is some kind of "source navigator" > mode to browse C/C++ under emacs. You might want to take a look at speedbar. Not exactly what you have in mind, but you should give it a tr

Re: Locale in Emacs and Perl

1998-09-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:44:30 -0400 (EDT) Sebastian Canagaratna writes: > > I using Debian 1.31 and I ahve the following problem. > Whenever I use emacs under X I get the warning: > > locale not supported by C library, locale not changed > > I am under the impression, though I may be wrong and t

Automatic login from MAC to Linux machine??????

1998-09-16 Thread Bruce Jackson
Anyone had any experience doing this? I will have to set this up this weekend. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-16 Thread Eric Jensen
Ya, I can't get the uid/gid to work either. I too copied over group. However, I can't find what they're talking about in the manpage for in.ftpd in regards to the password database. What is pw_mkdb and where can I find it? _ _ | |(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | ICQ

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 09:33:52AM -0600, John Larkin wrote: > > No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X > > server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X > > desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, > > it restores the

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread IH McKeag
Sorry, I have missed your earlier correspondence but have you tried /etc/init.d/xdm start as super-user? Ian. On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Ian Eure wrote: > Don't think a "reset" will do it, as that just manipulates the terminal > behaviours... I'll give it a shot anyways in a minute though.

REMOVE!!!

1998-09-16 Thread Eve
At 10:41 PM 9/15/98 -, you wrote: >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 952 > >Today's Topics: > Hamm [ "Dan Hrabarchuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Re: Kppp as normal user [ "Sergio Orsatti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] >

REMOVE!!!

1998-09-16 Thread Eve
At 12:04 AM 9/16/98 -, you wrote: >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 953 > >Today's Topics: > dilad still not working [ TheKman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: [Fwd: colors in xwindows] [ Tom Malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Linux for Di

REMOVE!!!

1998-09-16 Thread Eve
At 09:38 AM 9/16/98 -, you wrote: >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 955 > >Today's Topics: > Re: Audio [ Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > RE: Modem statistics. [ Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] >

REMOVE!!!

1998-09-16 Thread Eve
At 03:52 AM 9/16/98 -, you wrote: >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 954 > >Today's Topics: > Hamm post-install blues - wvdial vs [ Ken Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: Linux for Disabled -- Contact so [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Re: debian-user-di

REMOVE!!!

1998-09-16 Thread Eve
At 12:54 PM 9/16/98 -, you wrote: >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 956 > >Today's Topics: > Adaptec AIC-7890 and kernel 2.1.121 [ Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: Apple diskettes OK[ Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Re: ACK! Hel

REMOVE!!!

1998-09-16 Thread Eve
At 02:49 PM 9/16/98 -, you wrote: >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 957 > >Today's Topics: > Re: pine & debian v1.3[ dsb3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: PLIP-howto? [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Kern) ] > Re: Gateway moni

PON dials out, but PPP connection dropped

1998-09-16 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I've been messing around with Debian for about 2-3 months now. I recently installed hamm on a 386 box built from recycled parts. The modem seems to be configured properly, however, when I do "pon" it waits about 1/2 a minute, dials my ISP's phone number, and disconnects in about 1/2 a minu

Re: PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> See /usr/doc/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini/PLIP.gz And the latest version is always available (in HTML format) at Andrea Controzzi's home-page: http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~controzz/intro.html Jim

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Oliver Thuns
>> Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development? > >No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find >it at www.debian.org -> packages -> search I think it's in the non-US >section I know, but I'm looking for mod_ssl :-)

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Oliver Thuns
>> No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find >> it at www.debian.org -> packages -> search I think it's in the non-US >> section > >Does anyone know why it's such an old version of Apache? There should be 1.3.1/SSL in unstable (slink).

Re: Q: Why Midhight Commander stopped working on text console?

1998-09-16 Thread Greg Frye
I'm having the same basic problem except I don't have X to get to Midnight Commander and I don't get any characters after starting MC. I have to go to another virtual console find the PID with ps and then kill it. I have to reboot to get MC to start working again. I can't correlate MC failing to

Re: gimp &/or xv resize function?

1998-09-16 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 16 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody, I just installed gimp and was trying to resize an image > from 640x480 to 1024x768. I can't seem to do it. In gimp if you use > the resize the image it resizes the window and leaves the image at > 640x480. Do you have any suggestions. I can't

Re: gimp &/or xv resize function?

1998-09-16 Thread Andrius Sabanas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi everybody, I just installed gimp and was trying to resize an image > from 640x480 to 1024x768. I can't seem to do it. In gimp if you use > the resize the image it resizes the window and leaves the image at > 640x480. Do you have any suggestions. I can't seem to

libpng2 troubles

1998-09-16 Thread joseph evan porter
I installed the latest WindowMaker at home, and upgraded the libraries as discussed in previous posts to this list. I have 0.19.2 working fine at work, and it seems that my two setups are identical (except for hardware and kernel, of course). When I type startx with wmaker as the default window m

Re: Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PAP authentication failure

1998-09-16 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 12:51:46PM +, Ken Westerback wrote: > I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or > wmppp as evidenced by the console messages: [logs and config files snipped] > Can anyone tell me what the problem might be? Sounds like you need to add the

RE: Debian on HP 9000

1998-09-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, That box is very similar to the hp9k-835. It's a hppa 1.0 chip set. I don't think I have ever seen any binaries for that one. That system also has i/o cards that are, well, different from the workstations. The 635 was never produced in large numbers so finding drivers for the i/o system wou

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread John Larkin
> No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X > server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X > desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, > it restores the previous mode, eg a graphical mode instead of a text > console. When

gimp &/or xv resize function?

1998-09-16 Thread paul
Hi everybody, I just installed gimp and was trying to resize an image from 640x480 to 1024x768. I can't seem to do it. In gimp if you use the resize the image it resizes the window and leaves the image at 640x480. Do you have any suggestions. I can't seem to get this task done. There are no fe

Re: Dos partition not mounted after new kernel boot

1998-09-16 Thread Jack Kern
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 04:09:23PM +0200, Remo Badii wrote: > Dear Debianers, > > I just compiled a new kernel in Debian 2.0 (excluding PCI, SCSI, ..., > from the default Debian 2.0.34 kernel, and adding ISDN, APM) using > kernel-package (thanks to Manoj Srivastava for the excellent work). > After

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

1998-09-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 pr

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 04:11:28PM +0200, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: > > Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development? > > No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find > it at www.debian.org -> packages -> search

Re: Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PAP authentication failure

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
Ken Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or > wmppp as evidenced by the console messages: > When I try to enable diald by filling out the diald.options files as > follows: > > fifo /etc/diald/diald.ctl > mode ppp > connect "/u

Debian on HP 9000

1998-09-16 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Just got my hands on a previously owned HP 9000 635. The system has HP-UX loaded on it currently, but there are some file system troubles and I was going to reload it regardless. I have about a dozen boxes that are running Debian now (Intel platform) and thought it would be fun to

Star Office 5/4 in english?

1998-09-16 Thread Mrpeabody
Can you get star office 5 in english? I used to have star office 4 in english but it seems all that it is no longer available now that star office 5 is out. -jeff

Re: X-modes other than the defaults.

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
Mrpeabody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My X-windows automatically loads in 8dpp mode and I have a card that is > capable of much better how do I tell x to try other modes instead. > -jeff Two ways: If you're starting X with startx, you can do: startx -- -bpp 16 (or 15, 24, or 32) If you're s

Re: Choice of database

1998-09-16 Thread aqy6633
> I would like to consolidate some of the data in our office into a > database. Our office staff uses Windows NT with the usual MS Office > tools. I see they have MS Access available on a menu but I have no > experience with it. From the Linux side I would prefer to use an > SQL-aware relational

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
(I'm copying so much text because the original didn't make it to debian-user) Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/15/98 >at 10:08 AM, Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >"Paul M. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > >> 2) Is there

Dos partition not mounted after new kernel boot

1998-09-16 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debianers, I just compiled a new kernel in Debian 2.0 (excluding PCI, SCSI, ..., from the default Debian 2.0.34 kernel, and adding ISDN, APM) using kernel-package (thanks to Manoj Srivastava for the excellent work). After rebooting (both the diskette and the HD boots work), I noticed that my

Re: scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread Pierre Blanchet
> > I have installed scilab-2.4 (binaries form ftp.inria.fr) > and when I start it, it works but when I choose from menu > demos scilab crashes with the following messages: > > [1] 410 > $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: > X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter

Re: IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-16 Thread Dale E. Martin
The missing link for me was that if you're using "standard" linux firewalling, which is packet filtering, you _need_ ip forwarding enabled. (The HOWTO says don't enable it, but that's for TIS proxying firewalls - not what we're talking about here.) Also, for ipchains at least, order counts. You

X-modes other than the defaults.

1998-09-16 Thread Mrpeabody
My X-windows automatically loads in 8dpp mode and I have a card that is capable of much better how do I tell x to try other modes instead. -jeff

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: > Hello! > > Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development? No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find it at www.debian.org -> packages -> search I think it's in the non-US sect

Re: PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread servis
*- Johann Spies wrote about "PLIP-howto?" | Some time ago on this list there was reference to a PLIP -mini-howto with | information on how to connect two linux machines through a parallel cable. | | After upgrading to Debian 2.0 it no longer in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. | | Does anybody know which oth

Re: scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 03:46:51PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: > $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: > X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) > Resource id in failed request: 0x0 > Serial number of failed reque

scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed scilab-2.4 (binaries form ftp.inria.fr) and when I start it, it works but when I choose from menu demos scilab crashes with the following messages: [1] 410 $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) Major opcode

Re: Adaptec AIC-7890 and kernel 2.1.121

1998-09-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Has anyone been able to get the latest development kernel (2.1.121) | working with an Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I compiled the | kernel with AIC-7xxx support built in, but it refuses to recognize the | SCSI interface at boot time. I'm currently running 2.

Re: core dump user + memory map

1998-09-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I understand that it should be possible to feed core to an editor | that will clear it up (remove lines of nulls for example), and will show | the hex characters and ascii equivalents. In addition the c compiler | should I think be able to produce a

Emacs20-mule and problem using latin2 under X Window

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed debian2.0. I would like to use emacs20.2-mule under X Window and polish (latin-2) signs (e.g. ogonek) typing them using right-alt+sign but I have the following problem (on the console without X Window I have polish signs in emacs, pine,...; under X Window so far only I can see and

Choice of database

1998-09-16 Thread Douglas Bates
I would like to consolidate some of the data in our office into a database. Our office staff uses Windows NT with the usual MS Office tools. I see they have MS Access available on a menu but I have no experience with it. From the Linux side I would prefer to use an SQL-aware relational database

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "PN" == Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PN> I need urgently be able to use ICQ. I think gtkicq is the better choice, > PN> isnit ? > > Better than what? There are four or five ICQ free distributables. You can check starting from LDP site. Ciao,

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 06:30:27AM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Is was a dep problem. I found a directory inside another directory called > .deps. I remove it and the compilation went ok. Why is this problem? The > conculson of this is that the maker of this program used redhat > .?

Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Oliver Thuns
Hello! Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development?

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