Re: Mouse freezes

1998-11-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AI" == Andrew Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AI> I got a small problem in X: sometimes, when I restart my xserver, AI> mouse stops working, and only reboot fixes it. I saw this just today (ps/2 M$ mouse). I restarted the Xserver, and it worked again. I believe it is gpm interfering somew

No more procmail, now exim..........

1998-11-24 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, Well i still cannot make procmail to filter my emails. But i will give exim a chance it has failed in chance #1: now is exim that is deleting my mails I run fetchmail and it says getting 3 messages or similar. Then i check for mails and i dont have any Here is my .forwar

Re: Netscape confusion

1998-11-24 Thread Ingo Saitz
MoiN On 24 Nov 1998, Gossamer wrote: > I've installed netscape-base-4 and netscape-base-45 and > netscape-java-45 but none of them seem to contain the binary. Nor > does the explanations say what other package they need to complete > it. NOR do theydepend on anything else. > > What'd I miss? >

Re: Netscape confusion

1998-11-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Gossamer wrote: > > I'm trying to install Netscape from the new > don't-need-to-do-separate-downloads trendy thing but I'm thoroughly > confused :(. > > I've installed netscape-base-4 and netscape-base-45 and > netscape-java-45 but none of them seem to contain the binary. Nor > does the explanat

Problem with PPP & ISDN

1998-11-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
I've got a little linux box configured as a dial-on-demand masquerading router for the other machines in my house. It works great. when using a normal modem. I got ISDN, and I've been able to use it without any problems when I use it directly from my Windows98 machine. However, when I try usi

ACE-4.6.4 packages available for testing

1998-11-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I just released some unofficial Debian packages (I'm not an official Debian developer yet) for Doug Schmidt's ACE library. They are available at: ftp://moc.tn.cornell.edu/pub/othman/aceconf/debian Note that the shlibs dependencies file is probably corrupt since I built the packages

Netscape confusion

1998-11-24 Thread Gossamer
I'm trying to install Netscape from the new don't-need-to-do-separate-downloads trendy thing but I'm thoroughly confused :(. I've installed netscape-base-4 and netscape-base-45 and netscape-java-45 but none of them seem to contain the binary. Nor does the explanations say what other package they

Re: SVGATextMode! (was Re: Console mode with >80x24 possible?

1998-11-24 Thread Eric House
> SVGATextMode has more advantages over vga= option: > > * You can choose from dozens of textmodes, for example 100x37 is nice here. > vga= only allows three (I think). > > * You can design your own text modes if you have special needs (for example > visually impaired can choose 40x20. Linux

Re: netscape communicator 4.5 - spell check is disabled

1998-11-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paul Miller wrote: > > The spell check option in netscape communicator 4.5 is greyed out. How > can I enable spell checking? > > Thanks > -Paul > Did you install the spell checker package 'communicator-spellchk-45'. -- Ed C.

Re: Netscape 4.5 in slink (problems)

1998-11-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi Debian users, > I had Netscape installed. Then I upgraded it to Netscape 4.5 that is > in slink. Now, when I run netscape from xterm I got the following error > messages: > grep: /etc/netscape4/config: No such file or directory > eg

icmplogd: destination unreachable from localhost ?

1998-11-24 Thread Michael Grimm
Hello - I recently installed a mail2news gateway for my local INN. Incoming mail is forwarded via procmail to Miquel van Smoorenburg's mail2news perl-script (Cistron) and then posted via rnews to a local newsgroup. This runs smoothly, so far. But I get warnings from icmplogd for every posting, and

Re: IPFW works a little to well...

1998-11-24 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 06:14:57AM -0600, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > Greetings, > Looking for a little help with ipfwadm. Got a good machine running 2.0, > two nics and the system is passing traffic wonderfully. Now I would like > to put in packet filtering. IPFW sounds as though it will fi

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-24 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 12:09:29AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Have ip-up call a setuid program to specifically edit resolv.conf or > > named.conf, if they exist. > > This is the obvious way to do it, but there is a policy question about > messing with these files. Hmm, what about putting

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jonathan Crowe wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > > Question #1: The location /usr/local is reserved (by the Filesystem > > Standard) for packages/programs you the local admin/user installs > > yourself. These programs are not known by the Debian/dpkg system. dpkg > > is not allo

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Question #1: The location /usr/local is reserved (by the Filesystem > >Standard) for packages/programs you the local admin/user installs > >yourself. These programs are not known by the Debian/dpkg system. dpkg > >is not allowed to do

which library has these function? [do_lio,f_open . . .

1998-11-24 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
g77 can find these, but absoft fortran can't. They come indirectly (directly?) from pgplot, and g77 successfully links: f90 bubbles1.f90 -lpgplot -lX11 -L /usr/X11R6/lib -YEXT_SFX=_ -YEXT_NAMES=ASIS -lm -lcpgplot /usr/lib/libpgplot.so: undefined reference to `do_lio' /usr/lib/libpgplot.so: un

Re: PPP problems

1998-11-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > Hi all > > After running pppconfig and running pppd provider (where provider is the > name of the file created by pppconfig), I get the following results (from > tail -f /var/log/messages): > > CONNECT stuff and so > . > expect (ogin: login_name) >

Package available: minfo (GNU Info file browser for X)

1998-11-24 Thread Bo Branten
The program minfo (GNU Info file browser for X) is available as a Debian package. Until it gets included officially it is available from: http://www.ing.umu.se/~bosse/debian new debian package, version 2.0. size 37454 bytes: control archive= 1162 bytes. 860 bytes,22 lines con

Package available: xmeter (rstat display for X)

1998-11-24 Thread Bo Branten
The program xmeter (rstat display for X) is available as a Debian package. Until it gets included officially it is available from: http://www.ing.umu.se/~bosse/debian new debian package, version 2.0. size 19818 bytes: control archive= 815 bytes. 642 bytes,17 lines control

Re: groovy xdm login screen [was: Re: screenshot]

1998-11-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > I think there should be a nicer xdm login screen as standard in Debian > (doesn't need to have much graphics or so, just not these ugly looking > naked defaults). An easy one to make uses the redand white Debian icon as tiled background.

Re: MSDOS, FAT support in custom kernel

1998-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
In the 'filesystems' area, chose 'native language support'. This was deselected by default in 2.0.34, but is selected by default in 2.0.35/36. Bob On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Alex McCool wrote: > > ok. I'm lost. Where is the option to build msdos, and fat into a custom > kernel? > I'm using the "ma

Re: /etc/modules

1998-11-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RR" == Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RR> Does anyone have the default /etc/modules file? Tia. There is no such thing. You most likely need to load other modules then I have to. One thing to do is to just have "auto" in the file. This will enable the kerneld, which will autoload n

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-24 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:10:47 -0600 (EST) Nathan E Norman writes: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > : On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 10:44:59PM +, Gossamer wrote: > : > Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as > : > you have a .procmailrc file in your homedi

groovy xdm login screen [was: Re: screenshot]

1998-11-24 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I made this groovy looking xdm login screen and now I want to make a What about making it available to the public? I have always looked after a nice login screen (I have to admit that I am missing fantasy to make one myself), but the ones I saw

No netconfig tool in debian?

1998-11-24 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, seems to be that Debian is the only Linux distribution which don't have its own network configuration tool. If you didn't configure all correctly at installation time, you have to look at many files, which can be quite ennerving and error prone. Now the installation script exists, and it

Re: How to customize fvwm entries ?

1998-11-24 Thread shaul
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes: > > > My /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook has the following entry for lyx: > > > > [23:36:37 shaul]$ grep lyx /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook > > + "&lyx" Exec/usr/X11R6/bin/lyx > > [23:38:51 shaul] > > > > I want to change it to > > > > + "&lyx" Exec /usr

Re: Xserver

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Does anyone know if there is a working xserver for the RivaTNT chipset? > I just purchased the 16meg Creative Labs graphic blaster with this > chipset, and want to get the latest server for it. I think one > exists, but I can't seem to locate it. Oh, a fellow Linux TnT-

Re: [Debian] max. swap size?

1998-11-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:33:47PM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34 > > I added the append="mem=128M" line to lilo.conf so the system > > realy sees 12

Re: qmail 1.03 package?

1998-11-24 Thread Oliver Thuns
>Is there a qmail 1.03 package? qmail 1.03 has been out for a long >time... I don't think so, but it would be very nice. A checkpasswd package and an up-to-date ezmlm-idx package would also be very nice. -- \|/ \|/ "@'/ .. \`@" /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/

Re: [Fwd: Desktop normalization]

1998-11-24 Thread imrana
>But not all linux installs will use desktops so why make them part of >the standard-base? If you were creating a standard base for an end-user >system your argument would make sense, but take into consideration that >there are alot of servers, enbeded systems, etc. that don't use a >desktop (or ev

Re: Mouse freezes

1998-11-24 Thread Andrew Ivanov
No, my mouse is a device in my kernel. Btw, I'm using Microsoft mouse, plugged into Com1. But it's not an IRQ conflict, my isapnp managed all IRQ numbers. Anymore ideas? Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Iva

Re: MSDOS, FAT support in custom kernel

1998-11-24 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes: | "Alex McCool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | ok. I'm lost. Where is the option to build msdos, and fat into a custom | | kernel? | | I'm using the "make menuconfig" | | Enable native language support (NLS) and you'll see it. Let me rephrase that j

Re: mutt & vim

1998-11-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 15:08:13 +, Dave Swegen asked: > I'm currently using pico as the composer for mutt, but would like to > switch to vim. Problem is that I have vim setup for programming in .vimrc, > and need different settings for mail composition. So how do I go about > telling vim to us

Re: I do not have the X font "fixed" -- where might I find it ?

1998-11-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 09:02:59PM -0500, Darxus wrote: > > I have no fonts on my machine with the string "fixed" (case insensitive) > in them, and I've been running X successfully. I'm currently running > Debian v2.1. please add the following to the system configuration file /etc/vnc.conf

Re: XFree86 mouse button configuration

1998-11-24 Thread servis
*- Paul Miller wrote about "XFree86 mouse button configuration" > > I just got a new logitech 4 button mouse and in X, the buttons are all > screwed up. The middle button doesn't work and the thomb button ask as > the middle button. How can I assign what button does what? > > Thanks > -Paul >

Re: MSDOS, FAT support in custom kernel

1998-11-24 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Alex McCool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | ok. I'm lost. Where is the option to build msdos, and fat into a custom | kernel? | I'm using the "make menuconfig" Enable native language support (NLS) and you'll see it. Gary

MSDOS, FAT support in custom kernel

1998-11-24 Thread Alex McCool
ok. I'm lost. Where is the option to build msdos, and fat into a custom kernel? I'm using the "make menuconfig"

Re: Mouse freezes

1998-11-24 Thread Michele Bini
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 07:38:23PM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:07:50PM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: > > I got a small problem in X: sometimes, when I restart my xserver, mouse > > stops working, and only reboot fixes it. > > Any ideas what is it? > Looks like You have Mou

Re: kernal building

1998-11-24 Thread Joop Stakenborg
> > debian 2.0 > > i try to 'make xconfig' > > the final message is: > make: wish: Command not found. > > in what package can i find the wish command? > You have to install tk8.0. > afa > -- Joop [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mouse freezes

1998-11-24 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:07:50PM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: > I got a small problem in X: sometimes, when I restart my xserver, mouse > stops working, and only reboot fixes it. > Any ideas what is it? Looks like You have Mouse-Support added as module (?), after a time of unussed mouse the modul

Re: mutt & vim

1998-11-24 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 03:08:13PM +, Dave Swegen wrote: > I'm currently using pico as the composer for mutt, but would like to > switch to vim. Problem is that I have vim setup for programming in .vimrc, > and need different settings for mail composition. So how do I go about > telling vim to

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
HI Daniel : > > Well, nothing in the HOWTO works! > There is bizarre situation, on my computer the del and backspace key are working correctly. Perhaps the TERM environment variable is not correctly set. That variable must be "linux" : )n bash do :

Re: Desktop normalization

1998-11-24 Thread Marcin Krol
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Davide Bolcioni wrote: > Marcin Krol wrote: > > > > On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Greg S. Hayes wrote: > > > > > Desktops are a value added product > > > > Not at all. It's not seventies anymore. Now desktop (widely understood) is > > de facto part of OS. > > > > Marcin Krol > In

Re: RIP on Debian?

1998-11-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote: : On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote: : : > On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > : > Hello, Is the routing protocol RIP available as part of a debian : > package? If so, which package? Thank you, : > Pedro I. San

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-24 Thread Joel Maher
> If the lsb committies decide to add standards like desktop enviroments > to linux we should probably create several levels of lsb compliance. One > for the basics (the minimal linux) and others extending from there. If > we don't do this we could rule out some linux machines from being > conside

mutt & vim

1998-11-24 Thread Dave Swegen
I'm currently using pico as the composer for mutt, but would like to switch to vim. Problem is that I have vim setup for programming in .vimrc, and need different settings for mail composition. So how do I go about telling vim to use a different vimrc when called from mutt? Cheers Dave --

xplaycd probs

1998-11-24 Thread Dave Swegen
Since it seems that xplaycd is so bug-ridden (at least it has anumber of problems on my system) I was hoping someone might recommend a good cd-player, preferably one that doesn't use YABL (yet another bloody library ;) ie lesstif or gtk1.1, and that has as nice and clean a frontend as xplaycd... A

Adaptec aha1740 errors

1998-11-24 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello, I have a Dell EISA server box with a Adaptec AHA1740 controller that has been working well for some time now. Lately I get messages on the console "aha1740[xx]_mbxout wait!" ,the xx is a random number, but the system seems to be functioning properly. Is this something that I should be conc

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-24 Thread Jonathan Crowe
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Question #1: The location /usr/local is reserved (by the Filesystem > Standard) for packages/programs you the local admin/user installs > yourself. These programs are not known by the Debian/dpkg system. dpkg > is not allowed to do anything in /usr/local, thus it

Mouse freezes

1998-11-24 Thread Andrew Ivanov
I got a small problem in X: sometimes, when I restart my xserver, mouse stops working, and only reboot fixes it. Any ideas what is it? Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code.

Re: XFree86 mouse button configuration

1998-11-24 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi I just got a new logitech 4 button mouse and in X, the buttons are all screwed up. The middle button doesn't work and the thomb button ask as the middle button. How can I assign what button does what? maybe it helps http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ Thanks

Re: How to calculate the proper modeline? (DCF?

1998-11-24 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, *-Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I am reading "XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO" and I would like to | compute DCF/HSF but I do not know what DCF (dot clock frequency) | is ? I mean I do not know where it comes from? It's the number of pixels that the video card will send to

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-24 Thread Greg S. Hayes
If the lsb committies decide to add standards like desktop enviroments to linux we should probably create several levels of lsb compliance. One for the basics (the minimal linux) and others extending from there. If we don't do this we could rule out some linux machines from being considered linux (

Re: [Perl-AI] distributed intelligence

1998-11-24 Thread Zack Brown
> Hands up who thinks we can build a global web mind with what we've got > right now. It's a pretty vague question. Do you mean a mind on a level with human powers? I say no. Do you mean a mind that is very interesting? We can do that on our desktops. Can you be more specific about the capabilitie

Re: RIP on Debian?

1998-11-24 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, Is the routing protocol RIP available as part of a debian > package? If so, which package? Thank you, > Pedro I. Sanchez > > > > Yes: yes. ~$ dpkg -S ripd ipxripd: /usr/doc/ipxripd/buildin

Re: RIP on Debian?

1998-11-24 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Is the routing protocol RIP available as part of a debian package? If so, > which package? > > Thank you, > > -- > Pedro I. Sanchez > Yes: dpkg -S routed libc6-dev: /usr/include/protocols/routed.h netstd:/usr/man/man8/routed.

netscape communicator 4.5 - spell check is disabled

1998-11-24 Thread Paul Miller
The spell check option in netscape communicator 4.5 is greyed out. How can I enable spell checking? Thanks -Paul

XFree86 mouse button configuration

1998-11-24 Thread Paul Miller
I just got a new logitech 4 button mouse and in X, the buttons are all screwed up. The middle button doesn't work and the thomb button ask as the middle button. How can I assign what button does what? Thanks -Paul

qmail 1.03 package?

1998-11-24 Thread Paul Miller
Is there a qmail 1.03 package? qmail 1.03 has been out for a long time... Thanks -Paul

Re: Typing software [OFF TOPIC}

1998-11-24 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
eric enlightened, > There is a debian package called ... typist! It works OK, though it > has some bugs in some of the lessons: sometimes part of the previous > page remains on the screen. It was good enough for me to get the gist > of touch typing, I suppose the rest will be a matter of pract

Re: diald time restriction

1998-11-24 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Peter Bartosch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? It's easy to say "diald is allowed to bring up the line from 3:00 till 4:00" either by "restrict" options in the configuration file or by sending block/unblock commands to the control

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but xemacs in X works fine, it's when I run it in the console > that I get this problem. Is there a similar setting for the console > somewhere? Just to be specific: Are we talking about XEmacs running on a true linux console (i.e. terminal type i

Re: technical problems with kde and debian (loading of libs fail)

1998-11-24 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Mikael Suomela wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got following problem: when I try to launch kde it fails > complaining about missing libraries. I've installed kde using .debs from > ftp.kde.org and qt 1.41 from a .deb from ftp.funet.fi (a mirror of > ftp.debian.org). Any kde users

Re: How to calculate the proper modeline? (DCF?

1998-11-24 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I am reading "XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO" and I would like to | compute DCF/HSF but I do not know what DCF (dot clock frequency) | is ? I mean I do not know where it comes from? It's the number of pixels that the video card will send to the monitor each second.

Re: Lilo and MBR

1998-11-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > Following up to my prevous mail is the lilo or mbr shipped with Debian 2 > faulty > ? When trying to boot from hda3 (hda1 is win98, hda2 is swap) it just says > loading Linux the reboots. It never gets to vmli

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-24 Thread Rahul Dave
I got this from you: > > > > All that is needed other than that is a standard way to interface to "add > > > this to rootmenu/toolbar" that can be used to update _all_ window manager > > > data from fvwm to enlightenment as well as kde/gnome. > > > > That's what I mean. *All* of them. What users

Problems with Exim with ISP-dialupping

1998-11-24 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
I'm using an ISP to connect to the net. Exim's autoconfiguration makes a working configuration, except that I cannot mail @kolumbus.fi. Those addresses are considered local, and so if I try to mail some @kolumbus.fi, I get a return receipt: " ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown local-part "x" in dom

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-24 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
There seems to be an awful lot of fuss over someone's simple suggestion of some way of standardizing the desktop. I think that everyone has taken it out of context, saying that defining a desktop standard is out of the scope of LSB, and that it would take away the customizability that we have. I sa

Re: Desktop normalization

1998-11-24 Thread Joel Maher
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Marcin Krol wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Greg S. Hayes wrote: > > > > Desktops are a value added product > > Not at all. It's not seventies anymore. Now desktop (widely understood) is > de facto part of OS. > I think Greg has a good point. I would be nice to include

Re: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread john
wb2oyc writes: > Several pppd versions back there was an option (-u) that specifies such > parameters. I believe it is now deprecated, but it does still work! :) hasler//usr/local/src/ppp/ppp-2.3.5/pppd pppd -u pppd: unrecognized option '-u' pppd version 2.3 patch level 5

Re: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread john
Michael Beattie writes: > This can be put in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets as this (I think its correct) > * > then in each /etc/ppp/peers/* file, have an option, "user " pppconfig does this automatically if you chose PAP authentication. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Ho

Re: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread john
Chang, FKK writes: > Problem is, for each one I have different "options", such as > dns xxx.yyy.zzz.uuu pppd doesn't support this. Just pick the best set of dns servers and put them in /etc/resolv.conf. > name "myname" > auth pppconfig should have put these in the provider files. You don't ne

Re: PPP problems

1998-11-24 Thread john
Rodrigo Moya writes: > After running pppconfig... Ok... > ...and running pppd provider... Don't you mean 'pppd call provider'? Why not just run 'pon'? > ...from tail -f /var/log/messages 'plog -f' does 'tail -f /var/log/ppp.log'. > ... > ... > What am I doing wrong? At a guess, you put quot

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-24 Thread Alan Cox
> > All that is needed other than that is a standard way to interface to "add > > this to rootmenu/toolbar" that can be used to update _all_ window manager > > data from fvwm to enlightenment as well as kde/gnome. > > That's what I mean. *All* of them. What users (I think) would love to see > is t

Lilo and MBR

1998-11-24 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi Following up to my prevous mail is the lilo or mbr shipped with Debian 2 faulty ? When trying to boot from hda3 (hda1 is win98, hda2 is swap) it just says loading Linux the reboots. It never gets to vmlinuz. This is like what happens when it cant find vmlinuz when you forget to

Re: 3Com card

1998-11-24 Thread joseph evan porter
Do you have a multi-processor motherboard? I know my 3com card had a hardware conflict with the dual processor stuff. I'm now using kernel 2.1.120 with the 3Com driver downgraded to 0.99E. That config seems to work with the SMP switch. If you're not using SMP, I don't know what to tell you. Y

RIP on Debian?

1998-11-24 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, Is the routing protocol RIP available as part of a debian package? If so, which package? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

Re: Typing software [OFF TOPIC}

1998-11-24 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi, > Please does anyone know of where I can get hold of software which > could teach me to type The typist package. And then lots of practice ;-) HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn Coll

Re: NeoMagic 2160 (Dell Latitude CP)

1998-11-24 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 10:11:11PM +0900, Information wrote: > > > When will X windows come up with drivers for NeoMagic 2160 chipset. I can't > seem to get X Server to run fine without it being a zoomed in version for X. > Weird. The XFCom-neomagic x server runs wonderfully on my Ga

Netscape 4.5 in slink (problems)

1998-11-24 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I had Netscape installed. Then I upgraded it to Netscape 4.5 that is in slink. Now, when I run netscape from xterm I got the following error messages: grep: /etc/netscape4/config: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/netscape4/config: No such file or directory

Re: Suggestions for Webmail

1998-11-24 Thread Adam Shand
> I would like to install some webmail interface like the various > freemail providers use. Did not find anything in the Debian package > archive, so I wonder is someone has a recommendation on this matter. I > am not an expert, so I am looking for a relative simple setup. by far the best i have

Re: DNS configuration

1998-11-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: [ snip ] : Instead you can get real, official addresses from the local ISP, or : even use the reserved numbers for internal, disconnected networks (do : not remember them, should be at any HowTo), so that any IPmasq will b

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
Well, nothing in the HOWTO works!

Suggestions for Webmail

1998-11-24 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I would like to install some webmail interface like the various freemail providers use. Did not find anything in the Debian package archive, so I wonder is someone has a recommendation on this matter. I am not an expert, so I am looking for a relative simple setup. Any pointers much appreciated!

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hi Daniel : > Yes, but xemacs in X works fine, it's when I run it in the console > that I get this problem. Is there a similar setting for the console > somewhere? Thats is diferent,I am thinking always in X. There is a Howto that explain that troube :

Re: NeoMagic 2160 (Dell Latitude CP)

1998-11-24 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
The next version will have the NeoMagic card support. For now..go to: http://www.precisioninsight.com they are the ppl who developed the xserver for that card set. works great as I am using it right on. On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Information wrote: > > > When will X windows come up with drivers

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
Yes, but xemacs in X works fine, it's when I run it in the console that I get this problem. Is there a similar setting for the console somewhere? (thanks for your patience with me)

ipfwadm/ipchains

1998-11-24 Thread Michael Laing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am helping our local school district set up linux servers as POPS so people can dial in using PPP and access some specific servers in our WAN. I've got PPP working fine and now need to add firewall rules to limit access to only a short list of servers. It's n

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hi Daniel : > > No, sorry but it still doesn't work. Xemacs doesn't seem to recognize > my backspace for what it is ..!? > Perhaps your keyboard are not correctly configurated. My current key configuracion is : LNQRNMR2:~> xmodmap -pke | grep Back keycode 22 = BackSpace LNQRN

NeoMagic 2160 (Dell Latitude CP)

1998-11-24 Thread Information
When will X windows come up with drivers for NeoMagic 2160 chipset. I can't seem to get X Server to run fine without it being a zoomed in version for X. Weird. Daniel

Re: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread servis
*- Chang, FKK wrote about "PPP options for different providers - how ?" > Hello all, > > I hope someone can help me with the following problem. > > I have three providers, with different names, so that i can > use "pon " etc. The scripts are made with pppconfig and > they work. > > Problem is,

Re: Typing software [OFF TOPIC}

1998-11-24 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > Please does anyone know of where I can get hold of software which > could teach me to type > There is a debian package called ... typist! It works OK, though it has some bugs in some of the lessons: sometimes part of the previous page remains on the screen. It was good enough

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
No, sorry but it still doesn't work. Xemacs doesn't seem to recognize my backspace for what it is ..!?

Re: 2.0 install troubles

1998-11-24 Thread Richard Lyon
I just installed Debian on a similar hardware setup. Some things you might like to check: Did you download the files over the internet? Are they corrupted? Check sizes with the originals. Have you gone through bios disabling shadow memory? What other hardware is installed in the machine? I ass

Typing software [OFF TOPIC}

1998-11-24 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Please does anyone know of where I can get hold of software which could teach me to type Regards --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. U

Re: kernal building

1998-11-24 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Arve, > the final message is: > make: wish: Command not found. You need to install the tk packages (possibly even the tk-dev one, too). So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee not found: Operato

Re: Mouse speed in X

1998-11-24 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > How do I change the mouse speed in X? > xset [ []] see man xset. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 245

Re: Mouse speed in X

1998-11-24 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hi Daniel : > > How do I change the mouse speed in X? > Treat man xset. the option "m". e.g. : "Very Fast" xset m 7 10 & "Normal(Fast)"xset m 3 10 & "System Default" xset m default & "Glacial" xset m 0 10 &

Re: PPP problems

1998-11-24 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>I suspect it is your expect line for the login prompt. are you expecting >"ogin: your_login_name" or just "ogin:" ?? you cant expect the former, >your ISP expects you to enter your login. like so: > I wrote down 'login_name' but in this line appears my REAL login name >ogin: your_login_name

2.0 install troubles

1998-11-24 Thread Steve Freeman
Wondering if someone could help a newbie:   I have been attempting to install Debian 2.0.  However, just after I get the "Uncompressing Linux" message, I get a page of hardware info for a fraction of a second, and then my system reboots.   I have tried to install from a DOS partition and a

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