Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
C.J.LAWSON wrote: > I wonder about this ... The assumptions are that (1) one has > co-workers/friends/peers that actually use Linux and (2) that these > folk are informed and accessible. > Beyond that, one is left with the question as to whether or not the > common distribution in use is the right

pgplot & absoft fortran

1998-11-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
has anyone remade the pgplot package using absoft fortran? At the moment, I'm stuck using g77. Unfortunately, it's missing many of the matrix features that I need (which is part of why this project is in Fortran in the first place: it's straightforward bashing of numbers into submission, w

Re: unmapping alt-Q on netscape 3

1998-11-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
damon wrote, > "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote: > > About twice a week, I hitt alt-Q rather than alt-W in netscape, > > bringing down the whole netscape. This is version 3 (4 is missing a > > couple of things that I use). Is there any way to disable that key > > sequence? > check out /usr/lib/n

Re: Where can I find KDE debs?

1998-11-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Try ftp://ftp.timsnet.com/kde/pre1.1/19981026/ As well as being more up to date, this will cure the libstdc++ problem slink users are having. Now that the license problems are almost sorted out, hopefully KDE will be back in Debian soon. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 30 Nov 19

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
M.C. Vernon wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > Allmost debian list is about problems of installation. > > > Would it be so difficult to install Debian? > > > > My opinion is the RedHat is easier to install than Debian. Also, it > > may be easier to get help with RedHat

Re: 128 MB RAM

1998-11-30 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Dana G Haugli wrote: > I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB. > I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the > HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? Try: append="mem=128M"

Re: Which package for pkzipped files?

1998-11-30 Thread David McDonald
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Richard Lyon wrote: > I have an archive file created on a windows machine with pkzip. Which debian > package is most suitable for extracting files from this archive? There is no > password protection on the file. Get zip-crypt_*.deb and unzip-crypt_*.deb. You should find t

Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-11-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each > interface in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like > telnet, ftp and NFS only work via the first interface (eth0) and > completely ignore the othe

Newbie Install problems

1998-11-30 Thread Tom Anzalone
To anyone who can help me, I have tried to install Debian 2.0.2 several times but I get the following error when I get to the installation of the kernal: Floppy Error! The attempt to extract the Rescue Floppy failed. The intial parts of the installation work fine ( i.e. setting up swap and boot

Re: unmapping alt-Q on netscape 3

1998-11-30 Thread Damon Buckwalter
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote: > > About twice a week, I hitt alt-Q rather than alt-W in netscape, > bringing down the whole netscape. This is version 3 (4 is missing a > couple of things that I use). Is there any way to disable that key > sequence? check out /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator

Icq-java and jdk1.1-runtime

1998-11-30 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, The icq-java package refuse to install with the jdk1.1-runtime in slink. Any idea? Message envoyé le 30-Nov-98 à 17:58:11 Par Mario Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

pointers to emacs package development...

1998-11-30 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm starting a small project to learn how to build a debian package. I just need a few pointers to the packaging documentation I'd need. It's an emacs package, and I've seen the stuff about the emacs policy on the policy list.. Also, I'd like to find someone I

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
Ed Cogburn wrote: > Yes, this is what I was thinking of. Right now the only way to > 'associate' packages with one another, besides the section name, is to > use a common prefix in the name so they show up together in the same > place in dselect's screen. Imagine a user looking at the huge

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-11-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 03:40:49PM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > The "make zlilo" approach is problematic if you have something else > that depends on a specific kernel version (Read the file > /usr/doc/kernel-package/Rationale.gz for 11 or so reasons you want to > use make-kpkg). All of wh

Re: XF86Config help needed

1998-11-30 Thread Mark Phillips
Have you looked at the "Linux Hitachi Laptop Page"? Perhaps it might help? Anyway, it can be found at: http://www.ert.rwth-aachen.de/~schlaege/Laptop/Laptop.html I hope this helps, cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/

Re: 128 MB RAM

1998-11-30 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Dana G Haugli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB. | I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the | HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? You added a line like: append="

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > The number one rule for a first-time user in picking a distribution is... > Use the one that your friends and co-workers use. Best way to get > good help and feedback. I wonder about this ... The assumptions are that (1) one has co-workers/friends/peer

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > Allmost debian list is about problems of installation. > > Would it be so difficult to install Debian? > > My opinion is the RedHat is easier to install than Debian. Also, it > may be easier to get help with RedHat because it is a more popular > di

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
Cristian Carnutu wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > I can not decide myself what distribution to install: Debian or RedHat ? > I subscribed to both lists. The debian list has a traffic 3 times more than > RedHat. The number one rule for a first-time user in picking a distribution is... Use the one that y

128 MB RAM

1998-11-30 Thread Dana G Haugli
Hi! I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB. I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? Thanks Dana Haugli

Fwd: Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading

1998-11-30 Thread Jay Barbee
Just sharing with the list... --jay >At 11/30/98 02:42 PM -0500, you wrote: >> >>Has anyone gotten ICQ to work over Linux IP Masquerading? Someone said >>something about telling Linux that ICQ uses ports 2000 to 4000, but I don't >>know what to do with them or how. Can anyone help? > >You need to

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-11-30 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:43:32PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: | > : We'll find out shortly. I'm FTPing the sources from | > sunsite. Never did | > : like the Debian way of doing the Kernel. | | > Why not? | | Because I was a Slackware person b

About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-11-30 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each interface in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like telnet, ftp and NFS only work via the first interface (eth0) and completely ignore the other two interfaces. What has to be done to make them work

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-11-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Leandro Dutra wrote: > > > > > The developers of dpkg could do something like add a 'package > > > grouping' > > > > feature that lets newcomers (especially newbies to X11) understand the > > > > relationship between packages. > > > > Is this a documentation issue? Maybe there is a requirement f

Re: Big problem, help !

1998-11-30 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > I guess installing libc6 2.0.7u-5 will do it. But you should update some time > after that "fix"... Where do we get libc6 2.0.7u-5? All of the mirrors I've checked had some really old version or the latest libc6 2.0.7u-6. Thanks, -Ossama ___

Re: expect script with ppp and stty forces reboot

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: > I recently began using an expect script to connect to my office via ppp > and have a problem with how I initialize the modem. I talk with the modem > in the expect script as follows: Uh, why that? > system "stty 38400 -echoe -echo r

Re: Big problem, help !

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 07:28:50AM +0100, Andreas Kremer wrote: > Hi, > > > I have just upgraded my debian, unstable version. Here is the message > > I get when I do virtually anything: > > groumph:/usr/lib# dselect > > dselect: error in loading shared libraries > > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: un

Re: IPX Networking

1998-11-30 Thread maximill
I forgot to add, be sure to restart the IPX driver when you've done the reconfiguration: /etc/init.d/ipx stop /etc/init.d/ipx start -brad On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had the same problem. I think it is caused by the netware server using > different protocols simultaneously

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I can not decide myself what distribution to install: Debian or RedHat ? > I subscribed to both lists. The debian list has a traffic 3 times more than > RedHat. I would recommend debian. Firstly, all the support is done by these mailing lists: debian is a community project, not a for-profit org

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-11-30 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 05:15:31PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. > > It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I > > can't boot from the HD). > > I'm having problems with the

Re: How to customize fvwm entries ?

1998-11-30 Thread shaul
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes: > > > It seems to me that you are wrong, since when new packages are installed, > > update-menus considers the users who run update-menus as well. > > I am saying that on the basis of the following lines (from > > /usr/doc/menu/html/ch5.html): > > [snip] > >

Re: Compress

1998-11-30 Thread shaul
> Anyone know where I can get 'compress' program? Can't answer your question, but: 1) Take a look at the ncompress package (from non-free). 2) Try an Internet search engine. Hope this help.

Re: Where can I find KDE debs?

1998-11-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Phillip Deackes wrote: > This question may have been asked before - if so please excuse me. > > I want to install KDE on my system but am finding that there are no > debian packages of KDE available anywhere - ftp.kde.org appears to have > some libc5 binaries available in con

[Jonathan Hankins ] Re: webmin

1998-11-30 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
--- Begin Message --- Joachim, Sorry for the direct reply -- I only get the digested debian-user list, so I couldn't reply to your question. You might pass this info to the list if anyone else asks about webmin. I installed it under a Debian 2.0 system and it seems to work fine -- haven't really

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. > It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I > can't boot from the HD). > I'm having problems with the FTP. The modem connects fine to my ISP > (i'm using ppp) but when I try

help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread Cristian Carnutu
Dear Sirs, I can not decide myself what distribution to install: Debian or RedHat ? I subscribed to both lists. The debian list has a traffic 3 times more than RedHat. Allmost debian list is about problems of installation. Would it be so difficult to install Debian? Looking from outside, as I

Re: IPX Networking

1998-11-30 Thread maximill
I had the same problem. I think it is caused by the netware server using different protocols simultaneously. You only want your computer to pay attention to one of them. So, you have to manually configure the ipx package. Here's how I did it: type in "cat /proc/net/ipx_interface". That shows you

[Fwd: libstdc++2.9 2.91.58-5 broken??]

1998-11-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mitch Blevins has solved the problem you are seeing about '__register_frame_info'. -- Ed C.--- Begin Message --- Stefan Baums wrote: > Hi all! > > I just tried to upgrade my system to the packages in slink, and now my > libstdc++2.9 (2.91.58-5) seems to be broken. Whenever I try to do

Monitor vs X servers

1998-11-30 Thread maor
After installing Debian 2.0 on my 100MHz Pentium system and then installing Netscape 4.52, I'm getting nowhere trying to figure out if I can get a colour depth of 8 out of my current card/monitor combination. Montior is a 1990 Mitsubishi XC-1429C, with specs of: Active display 240x180 dot pitch

headers

1998-11-30 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I've compiled my own kernel package and now I have istalled the kernel-source, the kernel-image and the kernel-docs. I haven't installed the headers. Now, the question. Are my headers all right? Should /usr/include/linux point to anywhere? TIA

Where can I find KDE debs?

1998-11-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
This question may have been asked before - if so please excuse me. I want to install KDE on my system but am finding that there are no debian packages of KDE available anywhere - ftp.kde.org appears to have some libc5 binaries available in contrib, but nothing for glibc6 - the directory appears to

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-11-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:43:32PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : We'll find out shortly. I'm FTPing the sources from sunsite. Never > did > : like the Debian way of doing the Kernel. > Why not? Because I was a Slackware person before I was a Debian person. I don't like how the h

Re: slink upgrade

1998-11-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "TH" == Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TH> On: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 16:16:10 +0200 Yosef B writes: >> >> Still trying to install slink. >> Somebody on the list suggested that I install hamm and then upgrade to >> slink as the 1743 resue disk won't work on my system. >> >> I cannot

Re: Fwd: [postgres and php problem]

1998-11-30 Thread Egon Schmid
Sorry, I don't get your original posting into pine. But which version of PHP are you using. The pg_fetch_*() family was introduced on Fri Jun 1998 in Version php3 RC5. I think you must have a older Version. Today you can get 3.0.5 -Egon On 30 Nov 1998, James Ryan wrote: > > >

Fwd: [postgres and php problem]

1998-11-30 Thread James Ryan
Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 --- Begin Message --- I have been trying to get PHP to work with Postgres for a little while now. I am able to access the database using psql (not pgacce

Fwd: [toshiba laptop kernel]

1998-11-30 Thread James Ryan
Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 --- Begin Message --- I have a toshiba satellite pro 440CDT laptop. In order to install debian, I had to use the boot image designed for toshiba laptops,

Newbie needs help

1998-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I can't boot from the HD). I'm having problems with the FTP. The modem connects fine to my ISP (i'm using ppp) but when I try to open a site I get "unable to lo

Re: slink upgrade

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 16:16:10 +0200 Yosef B writes: > > Still trying to install slink. > Somebody on the list suggested that I install hamm and then upgrade to > slink as the 1743 resue disk won't work on my system. > > I cannot seem to find any instructions or FAQ to show how to > "upgrade" to s

Re: unavailable dependencies: libgtop1 and libguile4

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 02:38:14 -0500 (EST) Zack Brown writes: > > These packages are needed by some gnome packages, but they don't seem to be > available. dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/libgtop1_0.26.2-3.deb dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/libguile4_1.3-6.deb unstable means potato.

num lock in x

1998-11-30 Thread Matt Garman
I use the "setleds" utility to automatically turn on my num-lock when I login to the console. Whenever I start X, though, num lock is turned off. Also, if I quit X, when I'm thrown into xdm, num lock is also turned off. How can I make num-lock default to on in X? Thanks! -- Matt Garman, [EMA

Re: More dselect wishes

1998-11-30 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, bekj wrote: > Is there a "suggestion box" anywhere? Should there be? I understand it's called "bug report, Priority: wishlist". HTH Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

IPX Networking

1998-11-30 Thread richard
Hallo again. I want to try and get my machine to access the local Windows 95 network and the Novell server. Now I assume that I'm going to need samba to access the shared Win95 drives but that can wait. Firstly I need to get access to the Novell server. I assume that this is going to

UNO NUEVO EN LINUX

1998-11-30 Thread dha
me gustaria intalar el LINUX en mi ordenador, y queria saber donde lo puedo obtener, como intalarlo, si lo puedo intalar con w98 y que haya alguna manera de arrancar LINUX o w98, en fin todo o casi todo lo que deba hacer para instalar LINUX, teniendo en cuenta que nunca lo he probado, ni se co

ICQ over IP Masquerading

1998-11-30 Thread Paul Miller
Has anyone gotten ICQ to work over Linux IP Masquerading? Someone said something about telling Linux that ICQ uses ports 2000 to 4000, but I don't know what to do with them or how. Can anyone help? Thanks -Paul

Debian Timezones

1998-11-30 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
What's wrong with the Debian timezones? I never had any problems with bo (that I remember), but when I upgraded to hamm, then slink, and now potato, something's wrong with the timezone. I have my system set up so that the system time is GMT, but the local time is Central. /etc/timezone contains one

RE: PPP options for different providers - how ? (LONG Re:)

1998-11-30 Thread David Lutz
Sorry for being so late in getting this response out, but I was quite busy and away from my machine last week, so here it is for anyone wants it. In my situation I connect to two different ISP's. pppconfig works great for setting up the connection, but fails to handle /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.

Problems with ftp and exporting filesystems.

1998-11-30 Thread Familien Bolding
Hi Today I upgraded to netstd ver. 3.07-7 at work with the result that you can't ftp to my machine and people can not mount my exported filesystems. I did a dpkg -S /etc/inetd.conf and the only thing I got was netbase: /usr/man/man5/inetd.conf.5.gz so I guess inetd uses and old version of /etc/i

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-11-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: : On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 10:22:24AM +0100, Egon Schmid wrote: : > Oh sorry, I have never tried to build a kernel the Debian way. So I have : > to symlink the header files according the README. Could it be that there : > is something wrong? : : We'

Re: HELP! 2.0 (hamm) base install impass

1998-11-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I have installed 5 1.4MB base floppies without any problem. Then I have > browsed the dselect to familiarize myself with it, and quit it and went > to bad happy. :) > This was three nights ago. > > Since then I am trying to continue from where I left to connect to a > mirror site and finish

HELP! 2.0 (hamm) base install impass

1998-11-30 Thread Yavuz Onder
Hi, I have installed 5 1.4MB base floppies without any problem. Then I have browsed the dselect to familiarize myself with it, and quit it and went to bad happy. This was three nights ago. Since then I am trying to continue from where I left to connect to a mirror site and finish up my installat

?what version of glibc?

1998-11-30 Thread Daryl Williams
i am running debian linux 2.0.34 and i need to determine what version of glibc and libthread are installed on the system. i did a strings on libc that yielded the following information: GNU C Library production release version 2.0.7, by Roland McGrath et al. but running strings on libpthread yiel

What does the # of supported visuals depend on?

1998-11-30 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I am currently porting my program from an SGI to a DEC Ultrix and a PC Linux system. The biggest problem (besides byte swapping stuff) is the number of supported visuals. On the SGI I can chooes between lots of different truecolor, directcolor and pseudocolor visuals. The same on the DEC (wi

ld can't find -lstdc++

1998-11-30 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I too am a "victim" of the __register_frame_info fiasco. :) I used the fix that Mitch suggested which seemed to correct the problems. Unfortunately, I can't compile C++ programs now. I get link errors like: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory collect

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-11-30 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | [1 ] | On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 01:39:25PM +1100, Richard Lyon wrote: | > > We'll find out shortly. I'm FTPing the sources from sunsite. Never | > > did like the Debian way of doing the Kernel. | > > | | > GULP This seems a bit drastic, "make zlilo

Re: xdm at startup?

1998-11-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 30 Nov 1998, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And to change the default xdm background, install Xbanner. > > Not neccessarilly. If you only want a simple background (e.g. a solid > bacground in any color) you only need to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession_0 > to

compiling xfree 3.3.3?

1998-11-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Given some of the strange quirks on my machine, and that xfree 3.3.3 won't make it into slink, I'm toying with compiling it myself. But aren't there a couple of oddities about xfree & debian that I need to know about? Or can i just compile it? or swap the tarball with the 3.3.2 source and d

Re: xdm at startup?

1998-11-30 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And to change the default xdm background, install Xbanner. Not neccessarilly. If you only want a simple background (e.g. a solid bacground in any color) you only need to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession_0 to include a call to xsetroot. peloy.-

X won't start - error 111

1998-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
I just downgraded my X packages to 3.3.2.2-1 to see if that would get rid of a bug in some commercial software. X now refuses to start on my console: _FontTransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to set default font path 'tcp/localhost:7100,tcp/localhost:7101' (I can give t

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-11-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 01:39:25PM +1100, Richard Lyon wrote: > > We'll find out shortly. I'm FTPing the sources from sunsite. Never > > did like the Debian way of doing the Kernel. > > > GULP This seems a bit drastic, "make zlilo" works for me with 2.0.34. > It almost seems like you ha

Re: Can someone give me some pointers

1998-11-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > Hi > > Today i made an update on my system, the onluy problem is that I forgot that > unstable now means unstable... :( > > After the upgrade I didn't notice anything bad but now i was going to run > dselect and : > > dselect: error in loading shared l

unmapping alt-Q on netscape 3

1998-11-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
About twice a week, I hitt alt-Q rather than alt-W in netscape, bringing down the whole netscape. This is version 3 (4 is missing a couple of things that I use). Is there any way to disable that key sequence? rick --

includes?

1998-11-30 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
I am pretty sure that I have seen this discussed in the past, but I can't seem to find it in the mailing list archives. What is the deal with the include directories? My specific problem is that I am trying to install the 2.0.36 kernel, with a Pentium performance counter patch from the Beowulf p

libjpeg62

1998-11-30 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all! Installing one of the GNOME packages from slink (I don't remember which one right one, maybe gnome-gxsnmp) I got a dependency problem, saying that libjpeg62 was needed. Now, I have been looking around the slink distribution but have found libjpeg6...2 libjpeg6..1, installed them but the pr

pb SCSI card Tekram with rescue disk

1998-11-30 Thread Francois chevrollier
I can't boot with the rescue disk because it can't initialise my scsi card (it's a tekram DC-390), so I can't install DEBIAN 2. I downloaded the files 'linux' 'root.bin' 'resc1440.bin' 'drv1440.bin'  from debian.org in order to boot from floppies or hard disk, but it didn't work thanks for helping

Re: More dselect wishes

1998-11-30 Thread john
bekj writes: > Is there a "suggestion box" anywhere? Yes. The bug tracking system. File a 'wishlist' bug. You could also post your suggestion to debian-devel or email it to the maintainer. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

RE: ascd

1998-11-30 Thread Robert Rati
Well, I have asmixer running and the volume is at full blast, but I still don't hear anything from the speakers. Have any other ideas? Rob On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Leandro Dutra wrote: > > I use Afterstep as my window manager and I hav

XF86Config help needed

1998-11-30 Thread Scott Thomas
I am trying to do a new install on a Hitachi M-Series laptop. I have the base installation loaded, but can't get the X server to run. Hitatchi says the V Freq for all resolutions is 60 Hz, and provides no additional information. The card is a Cirrus CL-GD7543, which is detected as having dotclocks

Re: /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

1998-11-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: > /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: > __register_frame_info > > Why is this not fixed now?!? :-( > > There are fixed libs, but they are not on the debian ftp server. Should > not to hard to upload the fixed libs to the ftp server.

Can someone give me some pointers

1998-11-30 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Today i made an update on my system, the onluy problem is that I forgot that unstable now means unstable... :( After the upgrade I didn't notice anything bad but now i was going to run dselect and : dselect: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined symbol: __regi

auto dependency

1998-11-30 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, Just wandering about the frozen distribution, I looked at plotutils_2.1.6-1.deb. With dpkg --info, I get new debian package, version 2.0. size 797944 bytes: control archive= 686 bytes. 517 bytes,13 lines control 250 bytes,14 lines * postinst

Re: Kernel compile problem

1998-11-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 05:05:24 -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 07:06:29PM +, Roger Franz wrote: > > gcc: Internal compiler error: Program cc1 got fatal signal 11. > > Ohh, nasty. AFAIR this means you have some bad mem or cpu (more likely > memory). Not necessar

RE: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-11-30 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Leandro Dutra wrote: > > > > The developers of dpkg could do something like add a 'package > > > grouping' > > > > feature that lets newcomers (especially newbies to X11) understand the > > > > relationship between packages. > > > > Is this a documentation issue? Mayb

About cdrom

1998-11-30 Thread Kenneth Scharf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Is debian supposed to have a /dev/cdrom Because when I install debian I do mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom and I get /dev/cdrom file or Dir not found I thought you can only mount a cdrom drive with /dev/cdrom -- /dev/c

Re: Kernel compile problem

1998-11-30 Thread Kenneth Scharf
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 07:06:29PM +, Roger Franz wrote: > > gcc: Internal compiler error: Program cc1 got fatal signal 11. Ohh, nasty. AFAIR this means you have some bad mem or cpu (more likely memory). I could be wrong. --- I once g

RE: Modules and the kernel

1998-11-30 Thread Leandro Dutra
> > AFAIK the only modules which need such stuff are the sound modules > > In fact, the do not really *need* it. They (OSS makers) inserted the check > just to avoid problems like "your module kills my kernel" - because they > sell it, so they have responcibility even when user messes it up. B

FW: Modules and the kernel -- SORRY

1998-11-30 Thread Leandro Dutra
Wrong mailing list, sorry! > > AFAIK the only modules which need such stuff are the sound modules > > In fact, the do not really *need* it. They (OSS makers) inserted the check > just to avoid problems like "your module kills my kernel" - because they > sell it, so they have responcibility ev

RE: Modules and the kernel

1998-11-30 Thread Leandro Dutra
> > AFAIK the only modules which need such stuff are the sound modules > > In fact, the do not really *need* it. They (OSS makers) inserted the check > just to avoid problems like "your module kills my kernel" - because they > sell it, so they have responcibility even when user messes it up. B

Re: xdm at startup?

1998-11-30 Thread Martin Waller
And to change the default xdm background, install Xbanner. Martin >Subject: Re: xdm at startup? > >Edit your /etc/X11/config file and change the no-start-xdm to start-xdm. > >On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Matt Garman wrote: > >> >> I installed xdm on my system. Everything is fine, but at install-tim

RE: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-30 Thread Chang, FKK
Thanks to all who suggested that I toss away my /etc/ppp/options file and reinstall using pppconfig. It now works. Felix

Re: X11 hangs after moving mouse

1998-11-30 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Peter Berlau wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 04:52:56AM +0100, Ben Jorgensen wrote: > hi ben, > > After starting X11 the computer hangs (stone-dead) after a few seconds. > > Sometimes it just hangs right away.. I think it may have something to do > > with the mouse but I'm no

Re: About cdrom

1998-11-30 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Is debian supposed to have a /dev/cdrom > > Because when I install debian I do > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom and I get > > /dev/cdrom file or Dir not found > > I thought you can only mount a cdrom drive with /dev/cdrom > > Nope. You can moun

Re: linuxconf

1998-11-30 Thread Pere Camps
Joachim, > Has someone tried out webmin on a Debian 2 system? (I am for much a > newbie in system administration to try it out more than installing it > and looking at it's great looking web interface.) Just tried it yesterday I prefer the interface to linuxconf. Can't do as many things a

Xserver extension missing

1998-11-30 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, I get this message when working on my project: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "139.124.51.69:0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "139.124.51.69:0.0". Is there a way to add this extension to my x server ? I use: ii xbase 3.3.2.3a-8.1 X Window System (XFr

Re: About cdrom

1998-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
"M.C. Vernon" wrote: >Nope. You can mount a cdrom on anywhere (even /bin if you really want), >but /dev/cdrom isn't created by default. > >mkdir /dev/cdrom > >should do the trick. Absolutely NOT! /dev/cdrom should be a symbolic link to a real device, not a directory! ln -s /dev/hdc /

/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

1998-11-30 Thread Oliver Thuns
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info Why is this not fixed now?!? :-( There are fixed libs, but they are not on the debian ftp server. Should not to hard to upload the fixed libs to the ftp server. -- \|/ \|/ "@'/ .. \`@" /_| \__/ |_\

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-30 Thread Brian May
>Hmmm. I was told that 'int func(void)' means it takes no parameters, >while 'int func()' means it could take any. As silly as it seems, I think this is part of the ANSI C standard (to allow for older programming styles). Otherwise, there would never have been any need for 'int func(void)'. I thi

Re: Which package for pkzipped files?

1998-11-30 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Richard Lyon wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an archive file created on a windows machine with pkzip. Which debian > package is most suitable for extracting files from this archive? There is no > password protection on the file. > > Regards ... > Go into dselect and type '/' and then 'zip'. This

RE: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-11-30 Thread Leandro Dutra
> > > The developers of dpkg could do something like add a 'package > > grouping' > > > feature that lets newcomers (especially newbies to X11) understand the > > > relationship between packages. > > Is this a documentation issue? Maybe there is a requirement for a document explaining the genera

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-11-30 Thread Richard Lyon
> > The developers of dpkg could do something like add a 'package > grouping' > > feature that lets newcomers (especially newbies to X11) understand the > > relationship between packages. > > Do anyone knows what the dpkg developers think about the issue? Is this a documentation issue?

Re: Installing Debian 2.0 (Intel) for first time

1998-11-30 Thread Richard Lyon
See comments below: > I am new to Linux & Debian, Also I am not a programmer. I have > tried to install Debian 2.0 (Intel)from CD. I have Win98 on my 4.3GB > hard drive so I cleared 2.4G and managed to create a 200Mg root > partition dev/hda3, a 96MG ((is this much necessary? )swap partition >

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