CMUCL lisp package

1998-11-17 Thread IBMackey
Does the Debian 2.0 version of CMUCL come with Tk ?? Thanks i.b.

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DW" == David Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DW> ** Reply to message from Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on DW> Tue, 17 Nov 1998 05:35:56 -0800 (PST) >> After watching Monty Python's Flying Circus and Benny Hill >> thoughout my college years, I have gotten used to British humor, it >

Repost: Which Xserver pkg for old Diamond Viper (VLB)

1998-11-17 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
Hmmm. Found xserver-p9000 and tried to install it. Get the same problem as I did with xserver-vga16 and xserver-s3. It asks to go into graphics mode during the install process and goes to a grey screen. There may be text I'm supposed to see, but I can't. The system hangs at that point. What ca

imap server and ssl

1998-11-17 Thread Lee Bradshaw
How do you set up an imap server so that the connections are encrypted with ssl? Netscape has an option to support this on the client side, and I'd like to try setting up a server. The RELNOTES file mentions SASL authentication, but I don't know how to have SASL use SSL (I think that's how it works

Weird behavior with Tcsh

1998-11-17 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I came across some strange behavior with my tcsh and xterm on slink. Here is how I reproduced the behavior: Two xterms both running tcsh, starting out in home directory... xterm-1: mkdir -p test/me xterm-1: cd test/me xterm-1: pwd ---> /export/home/myhomedir/test/me xterm-2: mv test/me

Re: permissions on /dev/dsp /dev/audio

1998-11-17 Thread Jim Foltz
Use the adduser program to add users to the audio group: # adduser user audio On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 03:56:00PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 09:46:48PM +0100, Mark Elissen wrote: > > I've just installed Debian 2.0 after using Slackware for some year of 3. > > I'm very ple

Problem!

1998-11-17 Thread Andreas Rasmussen
Hi!   ...some people still use modems, I do! :-(   A friend of mine downloaded and created the 3 Debian ISO-CD-IMAGES from you're mirrors...   Everything works fine untill I come to the "dSelect" program.. Some packages is on the first cd (BINARY.RAW) and som are on the second cd (CONTRIB.R

Re: Ptolemy in debian?

1998-11-17 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On 17 Nov 1998, Bostjan JERKO wrote: > > Can you tell me if you get any error message with dpkg of Ptolemy packages ? dpkg installs it without any warning/error messages. It fails just after running pigi. Wojtek

Re: permissions on /dev/dsp /dev/audio

1998-11-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 09:46:48PM +0100, Mark Elissen wrote: > I've just installed Debian 2.0 after using Slackware for some year of 3. > I'm very pleased with the "debian" way, but I have 1 minor problem: > Whenever I am using a program that outputs to /dev/audio or /dev/dsp as a > non-root user

permissions on /dev/dsp /dev/audio

1998-11-17 Thread Mark Elissen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I've just installed Debian 2.0 after using Slackware for some year of 3. I'm very pleased with the "debian" way, but I have 1 minor problem: Whenever I am using a program that outputs to /dev/audio or /dev/dsp as a non-root user than the soundprogramm stops with

Re: linux operating system

1998-11-17 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > go to www.gnu.org to see the whole history of the thing. In a > nutshell: Richard M. Stallman had the idea to create a free unix > clone. Others liked the idea and helped him. Linux wrote the > first working kernel. The ESSENCE of the idea is computer code > that is totally open to examin

Re: TCP Wrappers

1998-11-17 Thread Pere Camps
Dana, > ALL: 192. > > ... which should be allowing all internal hosts onto the machine without > having to do reverse resolution. However, it still is. If I add my ip to > the /etc/hosts file, then I get the login prompt IMMEDIATELY on connect. Have you checked your /etc/resolv.conf ? T

Re: where'd my cd go?

1998-11-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Oh, vfat is w95. Nope, these are all older than that :) Some claim w95 compatibility, but they're all for 3.1 or dos. I don't see joliet in the kernel config, either. ISn't it another name for the iso9660? rick --

Re: where'd my cd go?

1998-11-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Isn't the mount parameters usually: > > mount -t filetype device mntpoint? I think the -t can go before or after the locations. I get the same response either way: eyry:/home/hawk# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wro

Re: linux operating system

1998-11-17 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Resent-Date: 16 Nov 1998 07:24:28 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 23:26:54 -0800 (PST) From: wendy yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/pla

Is the aladdin ghostscript 5.50 available as debian package?

1998-11-17 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi! I've just tested the aladdin ghostscript 5.50, and stated that it has fixed some annoying bugs in pdfwrite driver. I'm just wondering if it is available somewhere as the debian package? TIA Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem installing jdk1.1.6

1998-11-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 16 Nov 1998 12:59:30 +0100 Joachim Trinkwitz writes: [...] >> update-alternatives: slave link name /usr/man/man1/java.1.gz duplicated >> dpkg: error processing jdk1.1 (--install): >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 >> Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: where'd my cd go?

1998-11-17 Thread Dana M. Epp
Isn't the mount parameters usually: mount -t filetype device mntpoint? In any case, if you have a whole bunch of windows cds, perhaps they are joliet cds? Have you tried just mounting it WITHOUT a file type, or using vfat? mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /cdrom "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote: > > U

where'd my cd go?

1998-11-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Unless my memory has faded even more, a possibility I won't rule out, I used to be able to mount cd's with mount /dev/hdc /cdrom -t iso9660 I now get, mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,

Re: downloading kernel image

1998-11-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Mark wrote: > I downloaded all the files necessary (from debian homepage) to install > Linux on my computer, but when I tried to download the Linux kernel > image it first opens the file, which looks like machine code, then I did > a save as and my only choices are html or txt

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, ivan wrote: > Hello, > > The reason I ask is because Linux reports: > Quantam Fireball SE2.1A, 2014MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63 > > which indicates a 2GB drive. CFDisk agrees and will let me partition to 2GB. > > DOS & BIOS on the other hand report only a 504MB H/D and

Re: Netscape 4.5 and "locale C not supported" (thank's it' working!)

1998-11-17 Thread Mario Bertrand
On 09-Nov-98 Stuart Marshall wrote: > Hi, > > I found a temporary work around. > > There were some messages in the archives about the problem that > indicated that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale got wiped out by some > X package. A "dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale" indicated that > it should have

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes: [snip] | | Can anybody explain? | [snip] | | Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by | xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you | have to have that key. | | RedHat and SuSE probably don't enable

Re: Can't start windowmaker

1998-11-17 Thread Mario Bertrand
On 14-Nov-98 Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > On: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:24:36 -0500 Mario Bertrand writes: >> >> Hi, >> I can't start windowmaker from login with startx command, it open a >> few seconds and then it crash. All other WM are ok. Is there >> something missing? > > You should start a plain X1

partition table on dos zip disks

1998-11-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
this may seem like an odd question, but could someone send me the partition table for a dos zip, as shipped by iomega? my backup of windows & dos for my laptop was on one when my zip drive died, killing the partition table. Now it seems that the ibm audio stuff doesn't like drdos, so i need

Re: leased line problem again

1998-11-17 Thread Carey Evans
Matus "fantomas" Uhlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Getting PPP working] > why does my machine at work send "no network protocols running" ? Presumably -ip disables TCP/IP over the PPP link. If you don't have IP networking going, there's not actually any way to send data over the link (well, yo

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-17 Thread Carey Evans
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the other hand, Linux doesn't need the BIOS information at all (I > have a few machines where the BIOS has no idea I've even got IDE drives, > but Linux knows). If you're only running Linux you're ok. Not quite. If you're using LILO to boot off t

TCP Wrappers

1998-11-17 Thread Dana M. Epp
Can anyone tell me how to get around the following problem: I have tcp wrappers set up in inetd.conf. When I try to telnet to the server, it takes quite a long time before I get the prompt. In hosts.allow I have set up ... ALL: 192. ... which should be allowing all internal hosts onto the mach

Re: How to manually install minimal system

1998-11-17 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Subject: Re: How to manually install minimal system > Date: Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:31:22PM + > > In reply to:Robert Wilderspin > > Quoting Robert Wilderspin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > On 16 Nov 98 21:40:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED

xbase (debain linux 2.0)

1998-11-17 Thread Stephan Böni
Hi   When I like to install KDE under Debian Linux 2.0 the package xlibs6g needs xbase >> 3.3.2.3a-1. Why that? On the Debain HomePage they say it's not needed. However, there is only the package xbase 3.3.2.3-2 available. How can I install KDE properly?   Stephan  

Re: The Future of Linux: 'real' Locale support from X libs or no?

1998-11-17 Thread Christopher Hassell
Okay, I just got a bit more info from our main locale-issues developer (Jon Trulson): The multi-byte functions *are* there in glibc. He knows they are there. They just are not reliable enough, powerful enough, to stick with in our new products. (i.e. setlocale() doesn't apparently do

leased line problem again

1998-11-17 Thread fantomas
Hello, I have leased line to my home. I was connected to cisco (at work) now i try to cvhange it to debian; at home and at work are both debian2.0 config at home: asyncmap 0 crtscts lock modem mru 296 passive -detach -pap -chap kdebug 0 mtu 296 noipx persist defaultroute - works OK with cisco; c

Re: downloading kernel image

1998-11-17 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 06:09:10AM -0800, Mark wrote: > I downloaded all the files necessary (from debian homepage) to install > Linux on my computer, but when I tried to download the Linux kernel > image it first opens the file, which looks like machine code, then I did > a save as and my only cho

Re: Pre beginner

1998-11-17 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Rombalski, Emmanuel wrote: > I am trying to install Debian Linux on a PC clone with a genuine Intel > 166MMX processor, 64MB SDRAM, a Western Digital 2.5GB IDE hard drive, a > Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro PCI video card, and a generic NE2000 compatible > NIC. I created a 400 M

Re: lsof problem

1998-11-17 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Groumph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > lsof does not work on my system: > > groumph:~# lsof /dev/audio > lsof: WARNING: compiled for Linux release 2.0.35; this is 2.1.125. ^^^ Of course it doesnt't! Take a look at /usr/doc/lsof*/00FAQ.

Re: keyboard switchers

1998-11-17 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Chris Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyone know if Linux/Debian (Hamm) gets irritated if it finds no > keyboard where one was a few minutes/hours before? Uhhm, I don't think so. I'm playing the dangerous game of hot-plugging keyboards for some years. I use one keyboard with 7 boxes. One of th

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-17 Thread David Warnock
** Reply to message from Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 17 Nov 1998 05:35:56 -0800 (PST) > After watching Monty Python's Flying Circus and Benny Hill thoughout > my college years, I have gotten used to British humor, it even makes > sense now. It's good that you started with our most

Re: How to manually install minimal system

1998-11-17 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I've spent the last couple of days searching the web for this, but no | luck. | | Does anyone know where I can find info to manually build a linux system | (software, not hw) from scratch? I want to do this for the learning, not | for usability. I think you'll f

Re: The Future of Linux: 'real' Locale support from X libs or no?

1998-11-17 Thread Christopher Hassell
At the risk of reviving a very quickly-quiet thread... I've still an interest and have acquired some opinions around our software house. On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 01:37:05PM +, Alan Cox wrote: ]>Glibc is good, but what about wide char, unicode etc.. etc.. etc.. ad biggum. ] Glibc does wide ch

1743K rescue disk from slink.

1998-11-17 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, I sent this to the boot-floppies maintainer, but thought I might also get a response here. I'm trying to install slink from scratch on a machine here but rawrite and rawrite2 will not write the resc1743.bin disk image (Controller Failure, they say). I tried to make the disk on another

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-17 Thread john
Marc Haber writes: > The canonical way would be to pass them to /etc/ppp/ip-up. Yes, of course. The questions is what to do with it after that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-17 Thread john
Carey Evans writes: > It's probably RFC 1877, "PPP IPCP Extensions for Name Server > Addresses", which was written by someone at Microsoft. Thanks. I don't know when I'll find time to do anything with the information, though. > Once you've got the addresses, what do you plan to do with them? In

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-17 Thread Peter Rabenecker
Kenneth Scharf schrieb: > > Maybe you should call Microsoft and see if they're >porting > >InternetExplorer > >to Linux anytime soon! > > > HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA > > >Gee thanks. > > >Dave > > >PS I am British and I am always sarcastic, I have been >warned that US > >citizens > >are

Xconsole

1998-11-17 Thread alex_schwartz
After I upgraded to slink, my xconsole doesn't start automatically any more (and doesn't appear on the xdm login either) The only "trace" I found is the line "run-xconsole" in /etc/X11/config I would like to my xconsole back -- so how do I do it? Thanks, Alex. -- Alexander Schwartz ([EMAIL PROT

Re: GTK problems

1998-11-17 Thread aqy6633
> I have installed the Debian libgtk1.1 package and all is fine. Almost. > When trying to compile gtk dependent sources where a configure script is > given, I always get the following error message on running configure: > > *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found Install l

Re: How to manually install minimal system

1998-11-17 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: How to manually install minimal system Date: Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:31:22PM + In reply to:Robert Wilderspin Quoting Robert Wilderspin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On 16 Nov 98 21:40:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent West) wrote: > > >Actually, that's not true. I want

Re: Xemacs

1998-11-17 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hi bob : > > Hi all, > I am running Xemacs 20.4 and I can't figure out how to get my Alt key to > act as the meta key. Any ideas? > I'm using hamm on a PC. > > -bob > 1) create the file ~/.xmodmaprc containg the lines : remove mod3 = Alt_L keycode 113 = Alt_L add mod4= Meta_L add mod1

Xemacs

1998-11-17 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, I am running Xemacs 20.4 and I can't figure out how to get my Alt key to act as the meta key. Any ideas? I'm using hamm on a PC. -bob UNIX _IS_ user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are. ** * Robert Kerr,

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Moore, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] | >| Imagine my horror to find I have an invalid magic cookie! Do I | >| really have to | >| use xhost in order | >| to use an xwindows session started by another user? | > | >Yes, or you can use the authority file. Personally, what I do in this |

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, ivan wrote: : Hello, : : The reason I ask is because Linux reports: : Quantam Fireball SE2.1A, 2014MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63 linux is almost always right. But to check, just head over to the Quantum web site and look up the part number. : DOS & BIOS on the other

Re: 2nd question of the day: Xsecurity

1998-11-17 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello Chris, ... > like very secure access for any work I have to do on it. I'd like to > use Emacs from within X on my home machine when I do have to > telnet in for work but I'm getting a refusal to give Emacs X client > access to the server on the remote machine (if I've got the > server/c

RE: [Fwd: H E L P !!!!]

1998-11-17 Thread Leandro Dutra
> Mr. Joey Hess suggested I get on this mailing list !! Send "subscribe" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm not too familiar with mailing list protocol First thing: never send attachments to mailing lists! Quote the message instead, deleting all irrelevant lin

Re: Matlab 5.2 and Hamm

1998-11-17 Thread joseph evan porter
>I saw your e-mail on the list. I'm having problems with installing. > I'm getting the error message > Regex Error: Memory exhausted > Abort > (which isn't particularly informative) > > so if you get things working, I'd appreciate hearing what you did. > > > I want to install matlab 5.2 on

Re: downloading kernel image

1998-11-17 Thread joseph evan porter
This happens sometimes when Netscape doesn't recognize the extension of the file your trying to get. At the link (the one you clicked to get the machine-code-like text), right click and choose Save Link As... This can also be accomplished by holding shift when you choose the link. The default f

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-17 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Resent-Date: 16 Nov 1998 11:07:17 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:08:27 +1200 From: Alan Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-

Re: Install KDE

1998-11-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, [iso-8859-1] Stephan B?ni wrote: > I like to install KDE under Debian Linux 2.0, but after Installation, when I > like to start KDE, the system will not find files like libmediatoo.so.0 and > libkdeui.so.0. All these files are on the system

Re: in which directory does lynx.cfg belong?

1998-11-17 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Resent-Date: 16 Nov 1998 09:58:02 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "David Karlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 02:55:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plai

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-17 Thread ivan
>Did you put a 2 GB drive in your computer? Most likely it's a 2GB but >DOS is so horribly broken that it only sees the first 504 MB of the >drive. Just be glad Linux isn't and use the whole 2 gigs. (No, you >don't need to upgrade your bios, unless it's giving you boot errors, >but there should

downloading kernel image

1998-11-17 Thread Mark
I downloaded all the files necessary (from debian homepage) to install Linux on my computer, but when I tried to download the Linux kernel image it first opens the file, which looks like machine code, then I did a save as and my only choices are html or txt. How do I save the kernel image? I'm usin

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-17 Thread Peter Kovacs
On 17 Nov, ivan wrote: > The reason I ask is because Linux reports: > Quantam Fireball SE2.1A, 2014MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63 > > which indicates a 2GB drive. CFDisk agrees and will let me partition to 2GB. > > DOS & BIOS on the other hand report only a 504MB H/D and so does the > Raneesh

Re: GTK problems

1998-11-17 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 02:32:11PM +0100, Klas Lindberg wrote: : I have installed the Debian libgtk1.1 package and all is fine. Almost. : When trying to compile gtk dependent sources where a configure script is : given, I always get the following error message on running configure: : : ***

How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-17 Thread ivan
Hello, The reason I ask is because Linux reports: Quantam Fireball SE2.1A, 2014MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63 which indicates a 2GB drive. CFDisk agrees and will let me partition to 2GB. DOS & BIOS on the other hand report only a 504MB H/D and so does the Raneesh Partition Manager. The machin

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> Maybe you should call Microsoft and see if they're >porting >InternetExplorer >to Linux anytime soon! > HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA >Gee thanks. >Dave >PS I am British and I am always sarcastic, I have been >warned that US >citizens >are unable to recognise sarcasm - I guess thats wh

Re: SB Vibra PnP Sound Card

1998-11-17 Thread Christophe Broult
Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to be able to use my Creative Labs ViBRA PnP Sound Card with > hamm. How do I use isapnptools to install it? Redhat 5.0 detected it first > time last year. > You should: 1 install the isapnptools package, 2 run the pnpdump command and s

Problem with X

1998-11-17 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
Since yesterday, I can't run X anymore : the graphical screen and mouse appear for one second, then X stops with the message : waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. I can't remember of anything I did between the las

WG: Install KDE

1998-11-17 Thread Stephan Böni
Hi   I like to install KDE under Debian Linux 2.0, but after Installation, when I like to start KDE, the system will not find files like libmediatoo.so.0 and libkdeui.so.0. All these files are on the system in the directory /usr/X11R6/lib, but with the extension ...so.1. What's wrong?   St

GTK problems

1998-11-17 Thread Klas Lindberg
I have installed the Debian libgtk1.1 package and all is fine. Almost. When trying to compile gtk dependent sources where a configure script is given, I always get the following error message on running configure: *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found Actually, this very

Re: Console mode with >80x24 possible?

1998-11-17 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi eric! > > On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Eric House wrote: > > > Can I rebuild the kernal to use my entire display? > you do not need to do that: > > prior booting with lilo press shitft, so lilo will prompt what > image/options you want to use, use then [TAB] to show the

Install KDE

1998-11-17 Thread Stephan Böni
Hi   I like to install KDE under Debian Linux 2.0, but after Installation, when I like to start KDE, the system will not find files like libmediatoo.so.0 and libkdeui.so.0. All these files are on the system in the directory /usr/X11R6/lib, but with the extension ...so.1. What's wrong?   St

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-17 Thread Harald Weidner
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone/everyone have problems with Netscape communicator? I have had the >same problem with 4.06, 4.07, 4.08 and the latest beta of 4.5 > >After I have been browsing for a while it just suddenly crashes - no error >me

Re: Console mode with >80x24 possible?

1998-11-17 Thread ulisses
Hi eric! On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Eric House wrote: > Can I rebuild the kernal to use my entire display? you do not need to do that: prior booting with lilo press shitft, so lilo will prompt what image/options you want to use, use then [TAB] to show the available images, then enter the following scr

Re: how to create new console fonts?

1998-11-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 13:52:06 +0100, I wrote: [difficult approaches to create console fonts] I just looked in the available packages list, and found Package: fonter Section: editors Description: The new generation of font manipulation Fonter is an interactive console font (.fnt) manipulation t

Install KDE

1998-11-17 Thread Stephan Böni
Hi   I like to install KDE under Debian Linux 2.0, but after Installation, when I like to start KDE, the system will not find files like libmediatoo.so.0 and libkdeui.so.0. All these files are on the system in the directory /usr/X11R6/lib, but with the extension ...so.1. What's wrong?   St

Re: Ptolemy in debian?

1998-11-17 Thread Bostjan JERKO
On 12.11.98 11:42:00 PM wzab wrote: >I have downloaded it a few days ago, so I suppose it was the second >version. >After running pigi I get something like this: >PI initialization error (I don't remember the exact message, because I've >purged the deb package and started to experiment with rebui

Re: how to create new console fonts?

1998-11-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 15:47:06 +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > I need new fonts for console but I do not know how it is possible to > create them. According to /usr/doc/kbd/README.consolefonts : A DOS-hosted PSF font editor is available on eecs.nwu.edu. [no further details of it are provided]

how to create new console fonts?

1998-11-17 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all, I need new fonts for console but I do not know how it is possible to create them. I was unlucky and did not find any source of information concerning this staff.My native language (Armenian) only supported under X which is not enough for me. Unfortunatly I did not found any tips in the deb

Re: Slink broke after upgrade (Thank's it's working!)

1998-11-17 Thread Trevor Glen
Hi Zack, On 17-Nov-98 Zack Brown wrote: > Lucky you! I still have made no headway getting X to even start. I still get > these errors: > > xauth: error in loading shared libraries > libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > xauth: error in loading shared libraries >

Re: Slink broke after upgrade (Thank's it's working!)

1998-11-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Zack Brown wrote: >Lucky you! I still have made no headway getting X to even start. ... >My packages are all uptodate as of this email, but I suspect a lot of >dependencies are broken, so I may be missing some packages that should be >installed. Currently, my installed .deb files (and md5su

Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-17 Thread Eric G. Stern
This sounds like what happened to me when my X setup and gpm where competing for the mouse. If I switched between X and console and I bumped the mouse, then bad things would happen. I fixed this by using the repeater option on gpm -R to write to /dev/gpmdata and set up X to use that instead of /d

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-17 Thread Marc Haber
On 17 Nov 1998 22:45:37 +1300, you wrote: >Once you've got the addresses, what do you plan to do with them? The canonical way would be to pass them to /etc/ppp/ip-up. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questi

Re: wmmail

1998-11-17 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Debian-User wrote: > I'm trying to get wmmail to work correctly but it doesn't seem to be > recognizing the commands > i put in .wmmailrc. The Execute tkmail works, but the NewMailExecute and the > AlwaysNewMailExecute > don't work. Anyone help? > > Update 1 > Execute "t

Re: How to manually install minimal system

1998-11-17 Thread Carey Evans
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I want to do is basically have the same level of knowledge about the > Linux boot process. The best way I know to do this is to do it manually. > I've already fdisk'd and mkefs'd my hard drive (after booting off a > floppy). Now I need to copy the Linux

Re: Matlab 5.2 and Hamm

1998-11-17 Thread Robert King
Hello, I saw your e-mail on the list. I'm having problems with installing. I'm getting the error message Regex Error: Memory exhausted Abort (which isn't particularly informative) so if you get things working, I'd appreciate hearing what you did. Thanks, Robert King. On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Ma

Re: Registries and such ..

1998-11-17 Thread Michael H. Voase
Greetings again from down unda ... The segestion of the perl based Windows style registry was interesting but I think you have missed my point a little . The idea that Im trying to get across isnt related to the individual configurations of each package . That is , the individual config

Re: keyboard switchers

1998-11-17 Thread Hubert-jan Schaminee
-- > Van: Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Aan: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Onderwerp: keyboard switchers > Datum: maandag 16 november 1998 12:30 > > I have to run both an NT and my Debian box for some time at least > yet. I'd like to use a switchboard switcher so I only have to ha

Re: And what processor type for CeleronA ? was: AMD K6-2 kernel compile ?

1998-11-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HH" == Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HH> As far as I know, the celeron is a pentium II with no cache. The HH> celeronAis a pentium II with some cache. So compile for pentium HH> II if that is an option, or pentium pro if not. OK, thanks. IIRC there is just Pentium Pro, so I sti

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-17 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I see no reason why it couldn't be implemented. I don't know if this part > of the IPCP negotiation is documented anywhere, [snip] It's probably RFC 1877, "PPP IPCP Extensions for Name Server Addresses", which was written by someone at Microsoft. Once you've got the

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-17 Thread Davide Bolcioni
Christopher Hassell wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 10:11:31AM +0100, Davide Bolcioni wrote: > ] > ] > ... > ] > This is so that every app doesnt install their own version of python > ] > "just in case". That could be extended to all interpreters and some > ] > libraries probably and a farmed o

RE: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-17 Thread Moore, Paul
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Chip Grandits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >| As has been strongly encouraged, I spend most of my time on my linux box as >a >| mortal user. >| Every once in a while I need to go 'root-in' around some system >| files to set up >| a new application >| t

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-17 Thread Davide Bolcioni
Bruce Stephens wrote: > > Davide Bolcioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If we say a library is a collection of functions which have a > > signature and an implementation, the notion of change becomes: 1 - > > an implementation change which preserves the signature; 2 - a > > signature change (

Retract stupid question about linux-java - a permission issue

1998-11-17 Thread Chip Grandits
A.P. Bell wrote: > Don't know much about Java. You should temporarily change the permissions on > /dev/audio and /dev/dsp to 666 and run your applet -- to ensure that your > setuid > trick has worked. Also, a method such as play() is likely overriden and so an > alternative method like play(,..

Re: And what processor type for CeleronA ? was: AMD K6-2 kernel compile ?

1998-11-17 Thread Helge Hafting
As far as I know, the celeron is a pentium II with no cache. The celeronAis a pentium II with some cache. So compile for pentium II if that is an option, or pentium pro if not. Helge Hafting

Re: StarOffice 5 - S3 fix available

1998-11-17 Thread Adam Shand
> Has anyone sucessfully gotten this patch? If you visit the website, > click "Support" and then "Download", you get a link for the patch to > http://www.stardivision.com/download/support/patch1_01.tar.gz nope i'm getting the same problem. even tried their ftp site to no avail. if anyone has th

Re: Which Xserver pkg for old Diamond Viper (VLB)

1998-11-17 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
Hmmm. Found xserver-p9000 and tried to install it. Get the same problem as I did with xserver-vga16 and xserver-s3. It asks to go into graphics mode and goes to a grey screen. There may be text I'm supposed to see, but I can't. The system hangs at that point. What can I try next? -Jerry At

Re: Which Xserver pkg for old Diamond Viper (VLB)

1998-11-17 Thread Jason Lunz
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:15PM -0800, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > Which Xserver package do I need to use for this old graphics card? It > has a Weitec P9000 accelerator chip. xserver-p9000 is what you want. (I've got the exact same graphics card). When you select resolutions using xf86setup, it

Which Xserver pkg for old Diamond Viper (VLB)

1998-11-17 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
Which Xserver package do I need to use for this old graphics card? It has a Weitec P9000 accelerator chip. Thanks, Jerry Certus Consulting Group | Specializing in Integrated Circuit Antioch, CA 94509

Re: A nebulous system registry ...

1998-11-17 Thread Csaba Csoma - sysadm
> Greetings from down unda ... > > I am aware that this message sort of veers away from the current > thread of discussion but Ive got an itch I have to share > > One of the things I noted earlier in this list is the lack of a > standard registry . It was pointed > out that the job o

wmmail

1998-11-17 Thread Debian-User
I'm trying to get wmmail to work correctly but it doesn't seem to be recognizing the commands i put in .wmmailrc. The Execute tkmail works, but the NewMailExecute and the AlwaysNewMailExecute don't work. Anyone help? Update 1 Execute "tkmail" NewMailExecute "cat /usr/local/sounds/testsound.au

Re: Slink broke after upgrade (Thank's it's working!)

1998-11-17 Thread Zack Brown
> Thanks Ed, > > I have an almost working slink. At least I have Xwindows working > properly for the moment :-). Let's have a bit of sleep now... Lucky you! I still have made no headway getting X to even start. I still get these errors: xauth: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cann

Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-17 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Rob Collins wrote: > > > > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > > > > what version of Netscape were you using ? The latest 4.5 or the older 4.0. > > > > > > I recently installed the 4.5 on my SMP system and have been having system > > > fr

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