Which device for scanner?

1998-10-26 Thread Matt Thompson
Hello, I recently had to re-install because of an 'administrative error'. ;) I am now trying to re-setup my UMAX S-6E using SANE. I remember that I had to 'mknod' a new sga device, but I can't remember what the major and minor numbers were. I've been searching the net and the mailing lists, but

Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-26 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
"Nathan O. Siemers" wrote: > > Have you possibly added any swap files recently? A while ago I > tracked a similar problem to an open swap file that shutdown was not > releasing before it tried to unmount. > > nathan Nope, just changed the kernels. Anyhow, my system is in a shape so bad that it

Re: notebook install fails when formatting ext2 partition

1998-10-26 Thread Jens Ritter
Hi there, Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ First problem: strange hang on initialization of ext2 partition] Still pending. [ Second problem: no memory left ] Well, this was a rather striking: "Shoot yourself in the foot". As mentioned I choose "Do without a swap", so it did. I disab

Strange firewall non-function or nag-ware?

1998-10-26 Thread john
Hi! Last night a friend was showing me the latest and greatest sniffing toy, Ether-Boy", which he was running from behind a Debian Masquerading firewall. The Windows Sniffer thing showed a concerted attack on his LAN thru the firewall. Parotociols being used included lots of Appltalk and ICMP. T

Re: SB32PNP

1998-10-26 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 23:23 -0600, Cristov Russell wrote: > > According to the SB AWE how-to, since I have a PNP card I must load support > as a module. Does this mean I do not have to recompile the kernel; I only > have to build a module for sound or in order to use the module I will need > to

Re: matrox marvel g200

1998-10-26 Thread Max
You (Joachim Trinkwitz) wrote: > Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > S.U.S.E. has a server that supports the Millennium/Mystique G200. It > > may work for the Marvel as well, given that the Marvel is a souped up > > Mystique. Take a look at: > > > > http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html > > > >

Re: adding .tmf files to tex

1998-10-26 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 05:30:18PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: [.tfm files] > But how in the world do I get latex to recognize these? I see a > number of places I can put them, Put them in a subdirectory of /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tfm/ (IIRC) and run texhash as root. Antti

adding .tmf files to tex

1998-10-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
After half a day of stumbling, I've figure out how to produce .tmf files for latex from plain postscript files. But how in the world do I get latex to recognize these? I see a number of places I can put them, and I assume that i need some configuration script or another to make them work. help

Re: matrox marvel g200

1998-10-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JT" == Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ installation of Matrox G200 ] JT> Would you mind to give a step by step instruction for the installation I also use one of these. 1. get the tar.gz from SUSE's site. 2. extract the XFCom_Matrox file and copy it to /usr/local/bin 3.

notebook install fails when formatting ext2 partition

1998-10-26 Thread Jens Ritter
Hallo all, I have got a black and white 486sx notebook with 4 MB of RAM. The Bios is reported as SystemSoft BIOS for 80486/86C388. Version 1.01 ( R1.10 ). For German readers: It is a PAComp notebook (now comtech). I installed using this layout: /dev/hda1 32 MB swap /dev/hda2 ~300 MB

Re: stupid mistake: /usr/info/dir wiped out!

1998-10-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 04:38:29PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > I did something stupid. I accidentally erased all but the *.gz files in > /usr/info. Could someone please tell me how I can bring my /usr/info > directory to a consistent state? I was intending to just erase the > uncompre

stupid mistake: /usr/info/dir wiped out!

1998-10-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I did something stupid. I accidentally erased all but the *.gz files in /usr/info. Could someone please tell me how I can bring my /usr/info directory to a consistent state? I was intending to just erase the uncompressed info files but forgot about the 'dir' file. Thanks, -Ossama

Re: matrox marvel g200

1998-10-26 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > S.U.S.E. has a server that supports the Millennium/Mystique G200. It > may work for the Marvel as well, given that the Marvel is a souped up > Mystique. Take a look at: > > http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html > > I've been using it with no problems for a cou

Re: [Debian]: Re: NumLock

1998-10-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Sorry, wrong list. fsck. I have to filter debian-user-de into a folder of its own... Ciao, Martin

installing non-debian software :O

1998-10-26 Thread Andrew
Well, I tried to install some non-debian software in the weekend (:O! The two heretical pieces were tkgoodstuff, and the blackbox wm. My understanding is that non-debian stuff should go in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib, is that right? I had to edit the Makefiles to do this. Also, the blackbo

Experience with IBM Thinkpad 300CSE

1998-10-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Does anyone have experience installing Debian (Hamm/Slink) on an IBM Thinkpad 300CSE? My father got me an early xmas present. 486-50(?), 20Mb RAM, 350Mb HD. It has Win95 on it now. I don't really need X, just curious as to how well Linux will like such a beast. -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net

1998-10-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "c" == chadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: c> i checked the site out, so why did they call it Debian GNU/Linux c> anyway, what does the GNU mean ? ... isnt that an acronym or c> something ? GNU means "GNU's Not Unix". Checkout http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-2.html#ss2.1 and http://w

Re: Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net

1998-10-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PHBdO" == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PHBdO> Or know why the page is down? stu loast netgod at the ALS. Ask him at #debian on irc.debian.org, why he has not found him yet :-) Ciao, Martin

Re: [Debian]: Re: NumLock

1998-10-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "EF" == Elmar Fasel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EF> Unter X konnte ich zudem feststellen, daß bei aktivertem NumLock das EF> aktuelle Fenster den Focus behält und kein anderes Fenster per Mausklick EF> den Focus erhalten kann (außer durch Taskbar-klick), scheint also mit EF> fvwm-95 zusammenzu

Re: Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net

1998-10-26 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 03:29:03AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i checked the site out, so why did they call it Debian GNU/Linux > anyway, what does the GNU mean ? ... isnt that an acronym or > something ? Ordinarily, a gnu is a large animal, also known as a wildebeest, AFAIK. In computeres

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 09:38:46PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > The point Kenneth is making is true. However: > > > You can't have two (or more) mail clients installed at the same > > time, > ... > > There are at least

Re: what is "invalid ICMP error" ?

1998-10-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 04:59:30AM +, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: > Hi, > > My kernel is reporting: > > borco-ei kernel: 133.87.240.13 sent an invalid ICMP error to a > broadcast. > > What and how bad is this ? A machine has told your machine a different route to go through, but it isn't allowe

SIS5591 Bootproblems, help

1998-10-26 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi folks, I am still trying to boot a linux installation kernel. My system uses two SCSI disks attached on a Adaptec 2940UW. My IDE-Atapi cdrom is connected to my onboard IDE controller (chipset SIS5591). My problem is that I can only boot one of my kernels I have on floppy disks or cdroms, when

where can I find previous versions of vim and apt?

1998-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
While experimenting with dselect I inadvertently deleted vim and apt, which I had previously obtained from slink. I fetched the current versions but both have dependency problems. Is there anywhere I can find the earlier versions in slink (vim_5.3-7.deb and I can't remember which version of apt) o

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: The point Kenneth is making is true. However: > You can't have two (or more) mail clients installed at the same > time, ... > There are at least half a dozen window managers in X for example, > you can only use one. Here though all

Re: Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net

1998-10-26 Thread chadi
i checked the site out, so why did they call it Debian GNU/Linux anyway, what does the GNU mean ? ... isnt that an acronym or something ? >It is not a cow it is a gnu. > >From: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm > >Main Entry: gnu >Pronunciation: 'nü also 'nyü >Function: noun >Inflected Form(s): p

Re: Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net

1998-10-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > I'm trying to access http://www.netgod.net to keep a picture of cow and > = > penguim of GNU and Linux to put in a work but the page is down. > Anyone have this picture? > Or know why the page is down? >

Re: Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net

1998-10-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > I'm trying to access http://www.netgod.net to keep a picture of cow and > penguim of GNU and Linux to put in a work but the page is down. > Anyone have this picture? > Or know why the page is down? > Have

conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Simple answer... You CANNOT install everything on the CD. But this is not a bug. Debian provides you with at least two ways (maybe more) of doing everything. Many of these packages cannot co-exist. You can't have two (or more) mail clients installed at the same time, kaos would result! But d

Re: Staroffice 4.0

1998-10-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Is there an installer for StarOffice 4.0? no :) ANd there's not likely to be one. A few have started work on it, but there's somehting tricky about it. And 5.0 is just around the corner, so why bother? But i've had no problems using it's own installer; just tell it you want to use /usr/loca

long LAN

1998-10-26 Thread chadi
Hello, I know you are the guys who has the real experience about these kinds of things and I was just wondering if you can give me suggestions as to how I may go about with this something that i just thought of. What do you think is the best way (or any other way you can think of) for us to

Re: Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net

1998-10-26 Thread servis
*- Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote about "Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net" | Hi Debian users, | I'm trying to access http://www.netgod.net to keep a picture of cow and penguim of GNU and Linux to put in a work but the page is down. | Anyone have this

Re: Configuring a mail client

1998-10-26 Thread Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife
Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife wrote: > > > I´m having a problem in configuring a mail client, that we can > resume > > this way: in a client machine i have to configure the mail client to > > access the mail server, so what are the files to

Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net

1998-10-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I'm trying to access http://www.netgod.net to keep a picture of cow and penguim of GNU and Linux to put in a work but the page is down. Anyone have this picture? Or know why the page is down? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Corrupted links in rcXXX.d in Debian2.0

1998-10-26 Thread MarioGiammarco
Hello to everyone, I have corrupted by mistake links in /etc/rcXXX.d. How can I reconstruct the right links to reflect my actual setup? Thank You in advance for your replies Mario Giammarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Via Calamandrei, 5 -48022 Lugo (RA) 0545/22965-ITALY

Re: Help with E-Mail

1998-10-26 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"James Robert Lunsford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I'm lost here. I've read the docs that came with smail and fetchmail but am | totally confused. My first piece of advice is to replace smail with exim. Not everyone will agree with me, but I think it is better. | If someone could give me some poi

Staroffice 4.0

1998-10-26 Thread Robert Rati
Is there an installer for StarOffice 4.0? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage:

Re: XDM and XDMCP

1998-10-26 Thread Steve Rothanburg
In the XDM manpages(in the chooser section), it says you can set up XDM to use chooser to give a list of hosts you can connect to. I haven't really had time to look at it, but it says it'll use the chooser for indirect XDMCP connections. But it sounds like what you really want is something that

RE: StarOffice

1998-10-26 Thread Christian Lavoie
> I'm not sure what you mean by 'Linux part'. What will > hopefully happen > is someone building a .deb installer for it, like with Netscape. Actually, it was more or less what I had in mind.

Re: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory

1998-10-26 Thread Pere Camps
Torsten, > I usually write a little c program which allocate some MB of memory, > afterward there is usually enough memory for DMA available. A fellow debianiter has told me to use 'swapout' from the ftape package. So far it works! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Rati

Re: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory

1998-10-26 Thread Pere Camps
Kenneth, > 1: 86 your floppy and get an LS120 drive. If your computer has it's > IDE interface on the PCI side it will have access to all of memory > space. Don't have the money. > 2: 86 your ISA sound card and buy a PCI sound card. Same story as > above. Don't have the money.

Re: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory

1998-10-26 Thread Pere Camps
Ray, > The PC architecture cannot do DMA above 16MB. It's just not possible. > Since the PC was designed to run in less than 640KB, no one ever expected > it to be a problem. You have over 90MB of RAM, so now it's a problem for > you. Thank you very much for your message. It was very des

Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:31:20AM -0600, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > Ok Kenneth, >I must be missing something here, other than my mind of course. This is > the requirment: > I have a tape with a tar file on it, lets call it thefile.tar . I need to > make two copies of that file, back on two

lprng and disabling network printer

1998-10-26 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! How do you disable the 'printer' port for remote connections if you're using lprng? Thanks! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal

Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??

1998-10-26 Thread Rick Younie
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Rick Younie wrote: > > If the file was corrupted by being transferred in ascii mode > > instead of binary, you can fix it. There's a program in the > > window's world called NOCRLF that will do it. Or if you have a > > language or a good hex editor, re

X window problem

1998-10-26 Thread Smith, Brian N.
Hello all I have a Dell Optiplex Gxa that I am attempting to install X windows on. I can get XF86Setup to run , can setup the mouse properly, than comes the chipset. I believe I have an ATI Rage Pro , closest to it are at the bottom of the ATI section of the list. When I install these and try

Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-26 Thread Rob Collins
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > Ok Kenneth, >I must be missing something here, other than my mind of course. This is > the requirment: > I have a tape with a tar file on it, lets call it thefile.tar . I need to > make two copies of that file, back on two other tapes. So I w

Re: StarOffice

1998-10-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> What I mean by the Linux part is that there IS a version freely available. I > agree there's no real "part" of linux in StarOffice. > Copyright laws applies when things are free? Yep, absolutely. The author has the absolute right to determine the terms under which it is made freely available

RE: Still having Printer Problems

1998-10-26 Thread Kent West
At 06:18 AM 10/26/1998 -0600, you wrote: >OK, this is how my printcap looks. I still get the insidious message >'transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed' >What could be causing this? OR, what can I change in my printcap that >mught get my printer working. >It is an HP660C but I would think I could st

Re: Installation

1998-10-26 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>No - make a linux boot disk - you need the rescue disk, drivers disks and >base system disks - the images for these are on the CDROM, along with >rawrite to write them to floppies, > Sorry again (I'm so busy today that I've got no time to think about what I am writing), but I've tried everything:

RE: Crash

1998-10-26 Thread Person, Rod
Whenever I shutdown my home machine it says. System has halted and if I reboot it says system is rebooting. Crash doesn't sound to good to me either Rod Person "Humanity is the biggest cancer ever to be seen!" -Alx Hellid Contempt > -- > From: Andreas Kahari[SMTP:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Installation

1998-10-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > >On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > >> >Hmm... it might seem silly, but try putting a CDROM in the drive - my > >> >system took _ages_ until I did this - looking at the logs showed it was > >> >trying in vain to find a FS on the CD drive... >

Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
---Anthony Landreneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok Kenneth, >I must be missing something here, other than my mind of course. This is > the requirment: > I have a tape with a tar file on it, lets call it thefile.tar . I need to > make two copies of that file, back on two other tapes.

Re: Installation

1998-10-26 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > >> >Hmm... it might seem silly, but try putting a CDROM in the drive - my >> >system took _ages_ until I did this - looking at the logs showed it was >> >trying in vain to find a FS on the CD drive... >> > >> >Matthew >> > >> I am booting linux from cd-r

Re: Configuring a mail client

1998-10-26 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife wrote: > I´m having a problem in configuring a mail client, that we can resume > this way: in a client machine i have to configure the mail client to > access the mail server, so what are the files to check it out?? which Client? it make all the di

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lance Arsenault) writes: > I just would like to know if Debian 2.0 has conflicting software > in it like Debian 1.3.1 . > > Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software > in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a > lot of time

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[ about conflicts when installing everything in debian ] Jack Nutting wrote: > That being said, perhaps there should be a predefined > installation selection (among the listed configurations you get > when you run dselect on a new installation) where something as > close as possible to "everything

Re: Installation

1998-10-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > >Hmm... it might seem silly, but try putting a CDROM in the drive - my > >system took _ages_ until I did this - looking at the logs showed it was > >trying in vain to find a FS on the CD drive... > > > >Matthew > > > I am booting linux from cd-rom Ah...

Re: StarOffice

1998-10-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Lavoie wrote: > > > StarOffice is probably non-free, thus no one besides the company who > > created it can legally redistribute it. > > There a few side-solutions then: > > - Debian community asks StarDiv the permission > - StarDiv does it on its own > - There's a script used to

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Jack Nutting
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Lance Arsenault wrote: > > > Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software > > in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a > > lot of time, and hard drive space is cheeper than time. > > > > I have used D

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Lance Arsenault wrote: > Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software > in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a > lot of time, and hard drive space is cheeper than time. > > I have used

Configuring a mail client

1998-10-26 Thread Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife
Hi everybody, I´m having a problem in configuring a mail client, that we can resume this way: in a client machine i have to configure the mail client to access the mail server, so what are the files to check it out?? And what to do if i have to configure several mail accounts in this same client

Re: Installation

1998-10-26 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>Hmm... it might seem silly, but try putting a CDROM in the drive - my >system took _ages_ until I did this - looking at the logs showed it was >trying in vain to find a FS on the CD drive... > >Matthew > I am booting linux from cd-rom

conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Lance Arsenault
I just would like to know if Debian 2.0 has conflicting software in it like Debian 1.3.1 . Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a lot of time, and hard drive space is cheeper than time. I have u

Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-26 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Ok Kenneth, I must be missing something here, other than my mind of course. This is the requirment: I have a tape with a tar file on it, lets call it thefile.tar . I need to make two copies of that file, back on two other tapes. So I will have three tapes with three identical copies of this t

Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 05:34:44AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Close, but no cigar. > > syntax is: > > tar -cvf /dev/tapedevice /usr/thedirectory. > > To make a full backup I did: > > tar -cvf /dev/st0 / --exclude /dev --exclude /proc > > (my tape drive is a scsi rdat on /dev/st0) This co

Re: Installation

1998-10-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hmm... it might seem silly, but try putting a CDROM in the drive - my > system took _ages_ until I did this - looking at the logs showed it was > trying in vain to find a FS on the CD drive... > Go to /etc, edit the file fstab, and add the option `noauto' to the line that describes your cdr

tar and the braindead man

1998-10-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Close, but no cigar. syntax is: tar -cvf /dev/tapedevice /usr/thedirectory. To make a full backup I did: tar -cvf /dev/st0 / --exclude /dev --exclude /proc (my tape drive is a scsi rdat on /dev/st0) This command backed up everything, except the dev and proc directories. (I had some BAD thin

Re: Installation

1998-10-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > >I am new to debian linux (not new to linux in general), and still trying to > >install debian 2.0. > > > >All kernels I tried to boot on my machine, hang after they found my CD-ROM > >drive (FreeBSD boots clearly) > > > >My setup is: > >ASUS SP98AGP-X >

dselect Woes

1998-10-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Dselect is indeed not a begineer's best friend. (Been there, done that!) There are several ways to tackle using it (or not) in installing debian. What worked for me was to enter allow the install script to drop me into dselect after the reboot and let it install the basic packages. The first phas

Re: ISDN Adapter or Eth Router or Serial

1998-10-26 Thread Gregory Green
I have had great luck with the Netgear RT328. It is cheap ($280) and it is a fully functional router. This one has one ethernet interface and the next model up has a four port hub built in. No messing around with kernel tweaking, or installing an internal card, you just configure it over your

RE: Still having Printer Problems

1998-10-26 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
OK, this is how my printcap looks. I still get the insidious message 'transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed' What could be causing this? OR, what can I change in my printcap that mught get my printer working. It is an HP660C but I would think I could still get garbage out of it by typing 'lp test'?

Re: dos2unix?

1998-10-26 Thread Remo Badii
Look for fromtodos or from2dos or sysutils. ___ | Dr. Remo |__ _ Debian User | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Badii | / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ | CH-5232 Villigen| | Nonlinear | / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / |

kernel compile error

1998-10-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, A colleague of mine managed to get the following error while compiling the kernel on his machine at home (I have no access to it from here). It is a fresh hamm system. I don't understand how this error comes about. The kernel was being compiled with make-kpkg. Any suggestions? Thanks,

rescue-disk kernel

1998-10-26 Thread Greg Norris
I was wondering if anyone can point me to some information on what drivers are compiled-in (i.e. not modules) to the kernel on hamm's rescue-disk image? I'm trying to generate an alternate rescue-disk containing the latest version of the aic7xxx SCSI driver, and I'd prefer to otherwise mimic the "

RE: lilo problem

1998-10-26 Thread Richardson,Anthony
The boot should be /dev/sda. The LI is a symptom of a geometry mismatch that adding "linear" to lilo.conf usually fixes. The message about the disk not being the first disk is just a warning as some BIOSes don't provide support for booting from other than the first disk. Tony On Friday, Octobe

Re: Help with E-Mail

1998-10-26 Thread Martin Waller
If your just trying to download email from your ISP, couldn't you just install netscape and use the POP mail on that? That's what I do, and it's virtually idiot proof (has to be for me...). Martin >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "James Robert Lunsford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: >Subjec

Fw: creating preselected configurations for DSELECT

1998-10-26 Thread Juergen Fornoff
> I am interested in creating predefined selections of packages, similar > to those that appear when you first install Debian (the ones with names > like "scientific workstation", "Games machine", "Network server", > "Developer", "Standard", etc. I was interested in that too, so I did: * install

Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-26 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Have you possibly added any swap files recently? A while ago I tracked a similar problem to an open swap file that shutdown was not releasing before it tried to unmount. nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional Profiling, Bioinformatics - Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers Squ

Re: installing debian

1998-10-26 Thread Anton J . Gamel
Hi all ! >On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 12:18:25PM +1100, Corbishley Family wrote: >> [Debian via] floppy to an old 386 with 4MB ram and 120MB hard disk. >> ... partitioned hard disk into Linux, Linux swap, Minux/Linux). >> ... "Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition"... > > ... a bug in the low memor

Re: lilo (linux -> dos) problem

1998-10-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
> Yet I know I can boot dos off of that disk. I've been > doing so for years. Until now I've been switching between > OS's by going into the bios and selecting a boot sequence > that boots off of the disk with the OS I want (my bios > supports a lot of boot sequence options). DOS/Win9X will no

Windows only printers?

1998-10-26 Thread James Robert Lunsford
I can't get my Panasonic KX-P6100 laser printer to work with linux.  Anybody else have one of these?       -=<<\  SkyRocker >\<<(<>)}X%X%X%X]O    >/ 

Help with E-Mail

1998-10-26 Thread James Robert Lunsford
I need help setting up mail on my debian system. I've been running it for about a month now. I've got the x-windows system up and running but this mail thing has me stumped. I've learned DOS inside and out, same for OS/2, and ran an 8 line BBS for 2 years, and didn't have this much trouble. I t

Re: Installation

1998-10-26 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>I am new to debian linux (not new to linux in general), and still trying to >install debian 2.0. > >All kernels I tried to boot on my machine, hang after they found my CD-ROM >drive (FreeBSD boots clearly) > >My setup is: >ASUS SP98AGP-X >K6-233 >Adaptec 2940UW (rev 1.32) >2 x SCSI hardisks >IDE-C

libs missing

1998-10-26 Thread Jens Lisner
Hi all! I want to install dumb (with alien, its rpm), which need the libs libppm.so.1 libpgm.so.1 libpbm.so.1 the only lib i can find in the netstat package (the dumb homepage suggest this) is libnetppm. where can i find the missing libs?? many thanx, Jens

Re: ISDN Adapter or Eth Router or Serial

1998-10-26 Thread Dimitri P.
Ok... ok... Here is my $0.02 ...( two cents for non american speaking users, meaning "a piece of my mind" -in liberal paraphrase.) ISDN router is my vote. This way it's not "tied" to any specific machine.Linux, unix, win 95 and NT as long as they have ethernet they'll use it. Can I recommend on

Re: GPL-like office suite package?

1998-10-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Alexander Gieg hat gesagt: // Alexander Gieg wrote: > Today many users like to use StarOffice and/or other graphical WYSIWYG > office suites. Is there any project to make a GPL package with all the > "userlikeness" of these packages, with the same resources (and less > bugs ;-)) that MS-Office

Re: Can you do hard drive caching? How?

1998-10-26 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/24/98 at 11:55 AM, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Joey Hess wrote: >> Mark Phillips wrote: >> > I run latex a lot and every time I run it, it has to load in library files >> > from disk, which takes time. I could try to buy a fast

Re: RTF reader

1998-10-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
M.C. Vernon hat gesagt: // M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a good package for viewing .rtfs? My soundcard CD has > > > it's doc's in this format, and I need to read them in the hopes that it > > > will contain the IRQ and DMA values for my card... Try "Pathetic Writer" from the Siag

Re: ISDN Adapter or Eth Router or Serial

1998-10-26 Thread Don MacDonald
If you choose the ISDN router take a look at the Symplex RO-1: www.symplex.com Works well for me on Debian, Redhat & SuSE boxes. All are networked through an ethernet switch and connected to the outside world via the Symplex RO-1 (even have a couple of WindowsNT boxes on the network using

Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?

1998-10-26 Thread Craig M. Kimmer
There is also a program that is out there by the name of "flip". It will add or remove the ^M depending on what you need. It exists for linux and MSDOS. If you can not find it on the net, let me know at the following addresses and I will see about getting it to you. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISDN Adapter or Eth Router or Serial

1998-10-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 20:11:44 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: >We have had good luck at work with Ascend ISDN equipment. If you are on >metered ISDN (as opposed to Centrex ISDN) make sure you program that thing Could you please explain to a German user what the difference between metered ISDN a

Re: KDE Questions

1998-10-26 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Cristov Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I have two questions concerning KDE that I have as yet been unable to find | an answer in the documentation. | | 1 - Is it possible to switch to another window manager while in KDE? Can | KDE be started from other window mangers? Yes and yes. Kill kwm

Re: dos2unix?

1998-10-26 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: | | > I always thought there was a package called "dos2unix" to convert dos | > text files to unix text files. But I can't find it anywhere. Is there | > such a package somewhere out there? And if yes, what's its name?

Re: GPL-like office suite package?

1998-10-26 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Alexander Gieg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hello! | | Today many users like to use StarOffice and/or other graphical WYSIWYG | office suites. Is there any project to make a GPL package with all the | "userlikeness" of these packages, with the same resources (and less | bugs ;-)) that MS-Office

Re: Problem with XF86_S3V server

1998-10-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > from:Rajan Senthil > > Video Card: S3Virge/Dx/375/385 > Monior: Compaq presario 1525 > Computer: Compaq 200Mhz MMX > > X server starts only with XF86_S3V server (XF86_SVGA does't work!). > The display is fine in 1024x768 resolution but it supports o

PS: Printcap doesn't run filter script

1998-10-26 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: > I've got an /etc/printcap (permissions = -rw-r--r-- root root) that looks > like: > > beeper:\ > :if=/home/westk/beeper-filter:\ > :lp=/dev/null:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/beeper: > > (permissions on /var/spool/lpd/beeper = -drwxrwxr-x

Re: KDE Questions

1998-10-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > I have two questions concerning KDE that I have as yet been unable to find > an answer in the documentation. > > 1 - Is it possible to switch to another window manager while in KDE? Can > KDE be started from other window mangers? Don't know sorry.

Printcap doesn't run filter script

1998-10-26 Thread Kent West
I've got an /etc/printcap (permissions = -rw-r--r-- root root) that looks like: beeper:\ :if=/home/westk/beeper-filter:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/beeper: (permissions on /var/spool/lpd/beeper = -drwxrwxr-x lp lp) and a /home/westk/beeper-filter (permissions =

Re: Printing Problems

1998-10-26 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I have been trying to follow the Printing-HOWTO instructions, but to no > avail. > > In my printcap I have > > lp > :sd:/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > :mx#0\ > :lp=/dev/lp1:\ > :sh: > I'm no expert, but it looks to me like you have several typos. I bel

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