help translating docs to Russian

1998-11-10 Thread D'jinnie
Anyone want to help me make a Russian translation for docs? :) (sorry for the cross-post, wasn't sure where this should go) --- I think-therefore I'm single. - -- Lizz Winstead D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP publi

advice installing motif

1998-11-10 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I am about to install motif (2.1.10) from metrolink and I am wondering about the best way to do it. I can use either "tar.gz" or ".rpm" files. If I use the rpm's I can run them through alien to get debs. My concern, if all of this gets installed in /usr (instead of /usr/local), is how to ma

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-10 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 04:51:40PM -0500, Zack Brown wrote: > 5) It would be great to do the following: take the output of "dpkg -l" and > feed it to dselect, so dselect automatically selects all the packages given. Pehaps dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections do what you want.

Configuring dual AT-2450 NIC's

1998-11-10 Thread Scott Brehm
I have a Tyan Trinity, 32MB ram and two AT-2450 controllers that I want to configure as a dual-homed router/firewall. I am trying to install the Linux Router Project which is based on debian. Unfortunately the lance.o driver will not autodetect the cards. The kernel is 2.0.36 and the lance drive

Re: Bay Area debian meeting

1998-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
I forgot to mention, I'd appreciate it if you'd drop me a line too if you're coming. -- see shy jo

Bay Area debian meeting

1998-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Attention, debian users and developers in the California Bay Area -- One week from today, on November 17th, Bay Area Linux Users Group will be holding their monthly meeting. Their speaker will be from Corel, makers of the Netwinder and Word Perfect. I think this meeting would be a great opportuni

Re: USB Mouse

1998-11-10 Thread Mike Wood
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I believe it's at http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/USB/ > > On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 09:20:22AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Where can I find the development tree for USB under Linux? I also house a mirror of the USB project w

Re: USB Mouse

1998-11-10 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I believe it's at http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/USB/ On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 09:20:22AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Where can I find the development tree for USB under Linux?

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-10 Thread Rob Collins
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Zack Brown wrote: > 4) It would be great to have a utility that searched my .dpkg/ tree and > identified any debs for which newer versions have already been downloaded. > That way I could delete the old ones and save space. Are there .lsm's for each .deb in the ftp server? Y

Re: HELP! Rescue disks?

1998-11-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "OK" == Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OK> 1. How to create rescue disk(s)? Use the disk you install Debian from. This one is even called "rescue disk". See ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/install.html#s6 OK> 2. How to boot in order to avoid /e

Re: Help...

1998-11-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MBC" == Michael B Capozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MBC> I was wondering if there was any preset set of packages, that MBC> would give me what I needed without having to go crazy trying to choose MBC> from 1500 or so packages. On the first run, just after installing the boot floppies, you

Re: Changing netcard

1998-11-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "TP" == Tomas Petersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TP> I have to change my netcard. The current card is TP> a NE2000 compatible ISA, but the new card is PCI TP> of (yet) unknown brand. What do I have to reconfigure? Make sure the card can be used in Linux (that is the chipset is good. NE clo

dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-10 Thread Zack Brown
Hi, For what it's worth, here's a wishlist for debian install scripts (in no particular order). 1) There doesn't seem to be any order regarding which packages are downloaded first. I suggest that, by default, dependencies should be downloaded before the files that depend upon them. Likewise, ther

Re: Netscape 4.5 and "locale C not supported"

1998-11-10 Thread Will Lowe
Ah, yes, this helped. Thanks. Also turns out that my locale directory got wiped outby some fishy x packages. Reinstalling xlib6g fixed. On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Douglas Guptill wrote: > >> I downloaded and installed (with the netscape4 installer package) > >> Navigator standalone 4.5 today. Runn

socket destroy delayed

1998-11-10 Thread Max
I keep on seeing the following error message appear over and over in /var/log/syslog: Nov 10 13:21:46 chinook kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=112 w=0) Does anyone have any idea what this might be about? Max

XPW disappointment

1998-11-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I'm trying to get my soundcard set up. It's one that the motherboard can't auto-detect, so I'm trying to read the docs on the CD, which are in RTf format. I can read them with a friends W95 box, but xpw loads them and then just displays a line of random characters. The filenames

Re: Win95/Linux network problem

1998-11-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RM" == Rodrigo Moya writes: RM> I know I am missing the 'interfaces' configuration () but I RM> don't know where should I do it. Please help So you didn't tel the NIC which IP it has? You do this in /etc/init.d/network. This is mine: #!/bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.

2.1.127 errors

1998-11-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- When I try a make xconfig on .127 I get the following in the xtermI ran it from: ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.127/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_PMAC was not declared! WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_APOLLO was not dec

Re: Linux to NT Server printing

1998-11-10 Thread Jay Barbee
At 11/10/98 08:57 PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello Debian Land, > >I would just like to know if any one has been able >to print from a Linux machine to a printer >attached to a Window NT 4 (sp3) Server based >machine. > >I have been able to print to the printer, a HP >Laserjet 4, directly

Enlightenment problems

1998-11-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I'm using E 0.15 (the CVS debs advertised by brian a few days ago), and am having the follwing problems: 1) .tar.gz ed themes don't work. I have to untar them first, and then they work fine 2) backgrounds don't work. In some themes, I get a coloured background, but not the pict

Re: Multiple IP addresses on one Machine

1998-11-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:58:21PM -0500, Collin Rose wrote: > I am trying to setup Multiple IP addresses on one Machine. CAn anyone tell > me how to do this? I.e. Apache will bind to one IP and the server itself > uses another. You can use IP aliasing to do that. You need to have it enabled in t

Multiple IP addresses on one Machine

1998-11-10 Thread Collin Rose
I am trying to setup Multiple IP addresses on one Machine. CAn anyone tell me how to do this? I.e. Apache will bind to one IP and the server itself uses another. Please cc replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using sound on Debian?

1998-11-10 Thread Rui Zhu
Conrado Badenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Milan Durovic wrote: > > > > I don't remember any choices I had to made during the > > installation that had anything to do with sound. I have SB16 > > ISA card which works OK under Win95. > > > > What have I missed? > > > > Regards, > > Milan > >

Re: Linux to NT Server printing

1998-11-10 Thread Dean Allen Provins
John: > I would just like to know if any one has been able > to print from a Linux machine to a printer > attached to a Window NT 4 (sp3) Server based > machine. ---snip > I am just wondering if there is something > particular with NT server... any clues. > > Appreciate any info

Help: Mach64 configuration problems

1998-11-10 Thread Herbert Haas
Hello everybody! I installed Debian 2.0 and tried to configure X for my ASUS PCI-AV264CT card. I used the graphical tool XF86Setup and choosed the mach64 Xserver. X starts up correctly with good resolution and color-depth BUT: everything is very slow! Scrolling and moving a window is very very sl

Re: Netscape 4.5 and "locale C not supported"

1998-11-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:41:55 -0500 (EST) Will Lowe writes: > > I downloaded and installed (with the netscape4 installer package) > Navigator standalone 4.5 today. Running it gives: > > netscape: locale `C' not supported. > Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly?

Re: "Unable to open an initial console" error

1998-11-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:14:06 +0200 (SAT) Daniel Mashao writes: > > I am trying to transplant a Debian Linux disk to another formerly > Debian machine. Actually it is from a dual pentium to a single > pentium machine. I have been experiencing a lot of crashes with the > dual pentium machine so I no

Re: [SMP] P2 Database Srvr: 1x450 or 2x350 CPUs?

1998-11-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 11:47:18AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > I'm setting up a Debian box for my client as an Oracle server. I'm torn > > between Dual 350's or a single 450 MHz chip. The price is the same. > > The machine will have 256MB of RAM and

RE: The evil Dynamic Drive Overlay..

1998-11-10 Thread Adam Greene
If the BIOS supports the Disk (via LBA) then just run : fdisk /mbr and it will replace the boot sector. -Original Message- From: W. Paul Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 09, 1998 9:32 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: The evil Dymanic Drive Overlay..

Linux to NT Server printing

1998-11-10 Thread John
Hello Debian Land, I would just like to know if any one has been able to print from a Linux machine to a printer attached to a Window NT 4 (sp3) Server based machine. I have been able to print to the printer, a HP Laserjet 4, directly from linux using Debian 2.0 using lprng. I have also been abl

Problems with transfig

1998-11-10 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I'm running debian 2.0 and when trying to export a xfig file in GIF format a get an empty file. I tried the command fig2dev (which is actually used by xfig) and this is what I get: $ fig2dev -Lgif my_fig.fig my_fig.gif $ ls -l my_fig.fig -rw-rw-r-- 0 Nov 10 13:27 IPMux_lab.gif I

RealPlayer and Netscape

1998-11-10 Thread Terry Carney
Hi. I'm having difficulty solving a problem with the Debianized Netscape (browser component only) and RealPlayer. I am currently using the Debian 2.0 Realplayer package and the Netscape packages from Slink. Everything SEEMS to behave normally when I select a link to a *.ram file except that the p

Re: Linux program = dos debug ?

1998-11-10 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Linux program = dos debug ? Date: Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 12:10:43PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sun, 8 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I was asked a question today that I am not able to find the a

[wtopa@ix.netcom.com: Re: [FVWM95] Taskbar plugins]

1998-11-10 Thread wtopa
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thought that someone here might find this message useful. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FVWM95] Taskbar plugins Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 10 Nov 1998 10:43:38 -0500 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XE

Re: Microphone always on!

1998-11-10 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Microphone always on! Date: Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 06:07:05PM +0100 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gossamer) writes: > > > I'm perplexed. > > > > My microphone seems to have grown a direct connectio

[SMP] P2 Database Srvr: 1x450 or 2x350 CPUs?

1998-11-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm setting up a Debian box for my client as an Oracle server. I'm torn between Dual 350's or a single 450 MHz chip. The price is the same. The machine will have 256MB of RAM and a 16MB RAID-5 controller (either Mylex or AMI), and four Cheetah 9GB drives. Linux kernel will probably be 2.0.36pre,

Re: Exim as default mailer

1998-11-10 Thread Bobby Donnell
I decided to move to exim recently for my MTA, however i found that the debian package does not set it up correctly for local delivery. The exim manual says that the exim binary must be setuid to root but I, as of yet, have to figure out where i should set it since it uses inetd to run. It can eit

Where do I put my IP addresse?

1998-11-10 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, I requested from my provider a IP address for my account and I don't know where to place it. I know that in the first installation process there is a field for that, should I repeat pppconfig? Thanks -- Mario Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux program = dos debug ?

1998-11-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was asked a question today that I am not able to find the answer > for. What is the linux equivilent of the dos debug program? I looked > tru the package files and all I can find are program debuggers. Could > someone point out what I am missing

Re: Netscape 4.5 and "locale C not supported"

1998-11-10 Thread ferret
Oooh, reminding me.. I recently hosed part of my /usr tree right after restoring ICQ from a backup. (Silly me. I restored to /tmp and copied the restored files back over, then typed 'rm -r /usr' instead of 'rm -r usr' in /tmp when removing the restore. Fortunately caught it in a couple seconds) An

FW: netscape3: Bus error

1998-11-10 Thread Christophe Broult
Hello, Is there anybody out there that can help with the following problem? I can add that I had the bad idea to make an update of that system last Thursday. Netscape 3 was working before and is no longer working after that. Thank you, Chris --- Begin Message --- Package: netscape3 Version:

RE: USB Mouse

1998-11-10 Thread ferret
Where can I find the development tree for USB under Linux? On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote: > USB is not supported in Linux *YET*. It is under development. The new > Macintoshes use USB as do new PC's, so expect the desire to go up. And as > desire for code increases, so does its chance of

Re: Statistica

1998-11-10 Thread Jens Ritter
Kriston Akos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Is their any package which can make statistical evaulation of any > process? gcc and egcs for instance. (with a little help from your statistical knowledge). ;-)) Please specify: "any process". "R" (GNU's statistical programming language ---

Re: Microphone always on!

1998-11-10 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gossamer) writes: > I'm perplexed. > > My microphone seems to have grown a direct connection to the > speakers, even though I'm not running (AFAIK) any mic-using > apps! It's great for impromptu kareoke but really ... > > It's a SB16 card, I have the usual kernel drivers and

Re: "Unable to open an initial console" error

1998-11-10 Thread Jens Ritter
Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to transplant a Debian Linux disk to another formerly Debian > machine. Actually it is from a dual pentium to a single pentium machine. I > have been experiencing a lot of crashes with the dual pentium machine so I > now decided it is time I

Re: [Off topic] Mutt wrong from

1998-11-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Worked! Thank you very much,Paulo Henrique Quoting Dale Harrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:23:28PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > Hi Debian users, > > I have a little problem with mutt that I can't figure how to fix. > >

Mirror Debian (HOWTO)

1998-11-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira

[Off topic] Mutt wrong from

1998-11-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I have a little problem with mutt that I can't figure how to fix. In elm or pine, when I send an e-mail the from header is right (only cos.ufrj.br) and when in mutt it appends my hostname too (jaca.cos.ufrj.br). The result is that many people that reply to

Need help with ppp conection.

1998-11-10 Thread Lloyd Burris
When ever I hook up to the internet from linux I seem to have trouble connecting to websights, ftp, and news servers. Can anyone tell me how to tune up Linux for a faster connection. When I am in windows my system flys but in linux I am lucky to get a webpage to come up.

Re: Electric Eyes..

1998-11-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Evan Van Dyke hat gesagt: // Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Hrrm, I just installed ee from slink, and have the following problem... > when I load ee things seem fine, but when I attempt to open a file, > the open dialog flashes on the screen for an instant, then ee dies. > if I've invoked ee from an xterm

Re: xboard and kde

1998-11-10 Thread Paul Serice
> Does anybody knows why xboard does not work properly with kde? > I mean, the menu bar does not react to the mouse clicks. This *** might *** have something to do with the way KDE plays around with your resources. Try commenting out "krdb &" in /usr/X11R6/bin/kde. Paul Serice

Re: The evil Dymanic Drive Overlay..

1998-11-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 01:01:41AM -0500, Dale E. Martin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: > > I would try a couple of thing. Try a dos fdisk. Call Ontrack and ask > > for an upgrade. I did this a year or so ago for a client that had > > lost their original disk. Cost was about $25

Re: RE: Null Modem SLIP Connection

1998-11-10 Thread Jeff Miller
If you want to use RS-422, you can buy a RS-232 <=> RS-422 converter from companies like Jameco or Black Box. You can probably learn more about it by finding a book on serial communications. You'll be able to use RS-232 for your application without problem. RS-422 is used for very long distan

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-10 Thread joseph evan porter
> I recently installed Linux on drive D: of a two-disk NT box. At > first, I used a custom boot disk when I wanted to run Linux. > Over the past weekend, though, I figured out how to add Linux to > the NT loader list and at first I had the same symptom as you: a > blan

Re: The evil Dymanic Drive Overlay..

1998-11-10 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Thanks so much for your insight, What I did was go to Western Digital's site and downloaded their disk diag. Ran it, safely low leveled the drive, installed Debian, life is good. The disk is healthy to come to find out, one of the advantages of using that software. Again thanks for

Re: LILO question

1998-11-10 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Jeff Miller wrote: > I have two hard drives. Disk0 has Windoze98 and Disk1 has Linux. I can > boot to Linux with a floppy. Without the Linux boot floppy Windoze > boots up. > What do I have to do to have a prompt come up at boot time to select one > operating system or an

LILO question

1998-11-10 Thread Jeff Miller
Hello, I have two hard drives. Disk0 has Windoze98 and Disk1 has Linux. I can boot to Linux with a floppy. Without the Linux boot floppy Windoze boots up. What do I have to do to have a prompt come up at boot time to select one operating system or another? Please be specific as possible so

Re: Mail to News

1998-11-10 Thread Andreas Neukoetter
Hi Paul, >Hi, >Does anybody know of any mail-to-news software I could use to gateway >the traffic from the mailing lists I subscribe to into a news server? >I'd need to be able to transfer incoming list mail into a local >newsgroup and direct local postings to the group out to the mailing >list.

ulimit -d

1998-11-10 Thread Michel Juillard
Regular users on my system (2.0.34) have a data seg size limited to 20480KB (as shown in ulimit -a). Only root can change the setting of its own shell to larger. Where can I change the system-wide setting? Where does 20480 comes from? (it's not in /etc/login.defs) Thanks Michel -

I want to merge two Linux installations into one

1998-11-10 Thread webmaster
This is my situation: /dev/hda1 200 mb for Winblows (required because Linux does not support my SCSI card SYM 53c416) /dev/hda2 32 mb swap /dev/hda3 800 mb Debian 2.0 (new install) /dev/hda4 1 gb RH 5.1 I would like to have just Linux Debian 2.0 installed, preserving my RH

RE: Null Modem SLIP Connection

1998-11-10 Thread David Karlin
George, First of all, thanks for the extremely speedy response. Secondly, the connection is for two machines in different rooms of the same apartment. (I'm loading up my new room-mates 'puter with a second HDD for Debian.) The distance between the machines will be, at most, 60-70 feet. Thirdly,

Re: PPP Problems cont.

1998-11-10 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi Guys: This is what I do. I don't log in. Loging in implies V.120. V.120 sucks. When I get the "CONNECT" is just start ppp negotiation. This approach seem to work with several ISPs. I'm using a Zyxel ISDN modem at 128 so don't be confused with the init or dialing strings. Below is my provider f

Re: dconfig for GNUbies

1998-11-10 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Daniel: Joseph Hartmann wrote: > > > 1) I chose 'access method CD-ROM' and it properly found the 'main' > and > 'contrib' packages and binaries. Where do I find the 'local' > packages? It > says, "this directory is named 'local/binary' on the distribution > si

Re: Mail to News

1998-11-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:14:07AM -, Moore, Paul wrote: > Does anybody know of any mail-to-news software I could use to gateway the > traffic from the mailing lists I subscribe to into a news server? Filename: dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/news/newsgate_1.6-10.deb Description: Mail to New

Null Modem SLIP Connection

1998-11-10 Thread David Karlin
Hello, What is the practical limit for distance between two computers connected via null-modem slip? How about plip? TIA --David

Exim as default mailer

1998-11-10 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, There seems to be a lot of talk about moving to Exim as the default mailer for Debian. While I feel like I should support Exim (as I used to go to Cambridge, whwre it was developed :-) I was concerned when I initially looked at it by the statement in the (version 2) manual (section 39, "Intermi

Mail to News

1998-11-10 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, Does anybody know of any mail-to-news software I could use to gateway the traffic from the mailing lists I subscribe to into a news server? I'd need to be able to transfer incoming list mail into a local newsgroup and direct local postings to the group out to the mailing list. Is there anythin

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-10 Thread Rino Mardo
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Re: Using sound on Debian?

1998-11-10 Thread Conrado Badenas
Milan Durovic wrote: > > This may sound as a stupid question, but I cannot figure out > how to use sound on debian 2.0 system. I never used debian > before and I installed it only recently. > > When I run 'saytime', logged in as root, I get error > message: > > opening /dev/audio: Operation not

Re: Win95/Linux network problem

1998-11-10 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 01:22:18PM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I've got a Win95 machine and a linux machine connected via ethernet cards >> (Realtek in both) but cannot 'ping' from one to another. This is the >> configuration I've got: >> > >Are you pinging by hostname or IP? Unle

smail, runq and gmx .... :(

1998-11-10 Thread Andreas Neukoetter
Hello, i've got a little problem with my (local - dialup) mailserver. When I send some Mails to one of my friends via gmx ... the gmx-mailhost tells that the "flood protection" doesn't allow me to send more mails to this user ... and that i should try 1500 secs. later ... smail keeps sending ...

hamm->slink ?

1998-11-10 Thread fantomas
Hello, probably I missed; when I ghave hamm installed how can I upgrade to slink ? -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz

Re: Using sound on Debian?

1998-11-10 Thread Helge Hafting
> This may sound as a stupid question, but I cannot figure out > how to use sound on debian 2.0 system. I never used debian > before and I installed it only recently. > > When I run 'saytime', logged in as root, I get error > message: > > opening /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device > >

some email troubles

1998-11-10 Thread Helge Hafting
I use smail for sending, fetchmail for getting mail, and nmh+exmh for reading/writing. This works, but there are two small problems: 1. I want the "from" address on the mail I send to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferably without changing to a longer username.

Re: Can I make modules w/o remaking the entire kernel?

1998-11-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Yes you can. Patch/change wathever you need to fix, then do a "make modules modules_install" You won't even need to reboot, at least not if sound wasn't compiled-in before this. Use insmod/rmmod for loading/unloading modules. Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Loading ppa thru kerneld

1998-11-10 Thread Damon Muller
Hi All, I've recently set up my parallel zip dive on my linux box, which seems to work nicely, with one small (almost insignificant) problem. I've compiled the ppa module for the kernel. I use kerneld to load all the other modules on my system, but it doesn't seem to like the ppa module (or know

Re: PPP Problems cont.

1998-11-10 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Chris Hoover wrote: > I still can not get my linux box to connect to my isp (bellsouth.net), > and am looking for ideas and help. > > Attached is a copy of my /etc/ppp/peers/provider, > /etc/chatscripts/provider, and /var/log/ppp.log. > > Can someone tell me what is going o

Re: dconfig for GNUbies

1998-11-10 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Resent-Date: 9 Nov 1998 18:34:40 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:33:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Daniel R. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Daniel R. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: The evil Dymanic Drive Overlay..

1998-11-10 Thread Kent West
On 9 Nov 1998, W. Paul Mills wrote: > Anthony Landreneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Greetings, > > Have an old machine I am looking to load up with Debian, problem is the > > original DOS drive had Ontrack's Dymanic Drive Overlay installed on it. I > > do not have the original Ontra

RE: One more convinced Linux newbie.

1998-11-10 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Robert Cloud wrote: > Kent ... THANK YOU!!! This particular fact seems > to be missing from the install guide (or maybe > I just missed it). > > Anyway, I've made some progress! I actually > have made the partitions. Excellent! > If you don't mind I've got another problem.

Re: The evil Dymanic Drive Overlay..

1998-11-10 Thread Dale E. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: > I would try a couple of thing. Try a dos fdisk. Call Ontrack and ask > for an upgrade. I did this a year or so ago for a client that had > lost their original disk. Cost was about $25.00 (US) plus shipping. > > Try (800) 752-1333. Linux should work OK

Re: Win95/Linux network problem

1998-11-10 Thread tko
Rodrigo Moya writes: > Hi all! > > I've got a Win95 machine and a linux machine connected via ethernet cards > (Realtek in both) but cannot 'ping' from one to another. This is the > configuration I've got: > > Windows->hostname: windows.cyllan.com > IP address: 192.168.1.2

Re: Internet connection thru cable tv

1998-11-10 Thread Bobby Donnell
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:41:05PM -0500, Richard Davis wrote: > I have an internet connection thru a local cable tv company. It is > connected up to my computer through a D-Link DE-530CT+PCI Ethernet > Adapter. > I was wondering if debian supports this kind of connection to the > internet and if s

PPP Problems cont.

1998-11-10 Thread Chris Hoover
I still can not get my linux box to connect to my isp (bellsouth.net), and am looking for ideas and help. Attached is a copy of my /etc/ppp/peers/provider, /etc/chatscripts/provider, and /var/log/ppp.log. Can someone tell me what is going on here? I've used pppconfig to set it all up, and it dia

gs & color inkjet printers - which one?

1998-11-10 Thread Brian May
Hello, If this is an inapproriate question for this mailing list, can someone please tell me where I should ask? Please refer me to any up-to-date FAQs on the topic. I am investigating the purchase of a color printer (in Australia), but am unfamiliar with good ghostscript (Linux) compatibility

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-10 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 10:29 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Immanuel Yap wrote: >On Sun Nov 8, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: >> Someone pointed out correctly that I had to run ldconfig. What I figured >> out for myself was that I had to add /usr/openwin/lib to the conf file >> first. >> >> However, now I have a new problem: >

Internet connection thru cable tv

1998-11-10 Thread Richard Davis
I have an internet connection thru a local cable tv company. It is connected up to my computer through a D-Link DE-530CT+PCI Ethernet Adapter. I was wondering if debian supports this kind of connection to the internet and if so , how on earth do you go about setting it up? Thanks for any help, Ric

Electric Eyes..

1998-11-10 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Hrrm, I just installed ee from slink, and have the following problem... when I load ee things seem fine, but when I attempt to open a file, the open dialog flashes on the screen for an instant, then ee dies. if I've invoked ee from an xterm, I get the following error: Gdk-Message: ** ERROR **: sig

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-10 Thread jpjevans
Damir, Did you make your Linux partition bootable? I recently installed Linux on drive D: of a two-disk NT box. At first, I used a custom boot disk when I wanted to run Linux. Over the past weekend, though, I figured out how to add Linux to the NT loader li

smail aliases

1998-11-10 Thread Azog
Hi, I have a rather large set of .qmail files in ~alias, and I just recently moved to smail... I was wondering how smail handles files similar to this. ex, ~alias/.qmail-ppl is a list of addresses of my friends and it allows me to send mail to all of them at once, how can I do this with smail? Or w

In search for a alternative to kermit

1998-11-10 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, I'm not familiar with that but I would like to have a small mirror (only the deb binary) on my computer in order to offer the distribution to some friends who don't have access to internet. But I don't know how to setup my computer to receive calls from other computer. I have heird about Kermi

Repost: Smail config problems....

1998-11-10 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
When I try to send mail from one user to another on my local machine, the mail fails to get to the destination and does not return an error message to the originator of the mail. When I checked /var/spool/smail/error I find that smail can't identify the users. I've tried several forms of addresse

Re: The evil Dymanic Drive Overlay..

1998-11-10 Thread W. Paul Mills
Anthony Landreneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > Have an old machine I am looking to load up with Debian, problem is the > original DOS drive had Ontrack's Dymanic Drive Overlay installed on it. I > do not have the original Ontrack disk. Tried re-partioning the disk with > Lin

Re: Mozilla segfaults

1998-11-10 Thread Peter Granroth
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all, > > I'm using E0.15. I've just installed mozilla (I have netscape > intalled...), and it segfaults. No error, no nothing. Just a segfault. > > An strace produces tons of output, but the last few lines before the > segfault aren't anythi

Re: Win95/Linux network problem

1998-11-10 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Hey there... You wrote... > I've got a Win95 machine and a linux machine connected via ethernet cards > (Realtek in both) but cannot 'ping' from one to another. This is the I had much the same problem. Very recently too. What driver are you using under Linux (and W95 too) for the network card? Is