Re: Just My 2 Cents

Jens D. Baumgartner writes: > On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Keith Beattie wrote: > > > Well, I disagree. Personally I dislike massively integrated > > applications like Outlook and Explorer. They are too big, too slow > > and too complicated (to use and maintain). And I'm convi

Re: emacs & xemacs

At 10:08 AM 12/9/1998 -0800, you wrote: >Kent West wrote: >> >> Ever since I started with Linux I've wanted a console-based graphical web >> browser, but kept running into a brick wall. Then I read that emacs could > >Uh, isn't "console-based graphical " an oxymoron? How could >your ever expect t

Re: dselect-help!!!!!!!

At 02:19 PM 12/9/1998 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks for this material I understand that the best thing for me is to >have access to the Internet and download all the files i need. It means I >have to make my PCMCIA card work... I have no idea how to do it. I thought >it was done through the install

Re: exim rewriting rules

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:42:50PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > This is no bug in the software. It sends the mail as > [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a valid address in my own > net. Clearly, this is not a valid address, when the mails leaves my > net through my dialup link. > There is no reason

Fwd: Re: running dselect on 4 computers.

I believe this was intended for the list. >Resent-Date: 9 Dec 1998 19:04:11 - >Resent-Cc: "recipient.list.not.shown":; >X-Envelope-Sender: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Path: not-for-mail >From: Ingmar Hartl <

auth port security

Hi! Does anybody know if the auth port has any know security compromises? A user has asked me to turn it on (I have almost everything off) and I'm not sure. In a phrase: should I turn it on, look for a very secure auth server or just deny the petition? TIA! -- p.

Re: exim rewriting rules

Steve Lamb writes: >On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 04:03:37PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: >> >SL> Uhm, who not do that in the MUA? > >> >Because you don't always use a MUA when you send mails. Take the bug >> >package for example, which will help in sending a bug report. Without >> >such a rewrite, it wi

Re: Windows Manager is too Big

In /etc/X11/XF86Config, make the virtual screen resolution equal to the physical resolution. On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy Linux Gurus, > > My windows manager is too big for my screen. I have to move the mouse > down to the bottom of the screen to have it "float" up. I'm

Re: TIOCSER?WILD Boot Error!

Ossama Othman writes: >Hi, > >> Ever since I switched to the dev kernel, I've had the following >> message on boot: >> >> TIOCSER?WILD ioctl obsolete, ignored >> >> I doesn't sound dangerous or anything, but a boot error just doesn't >> look good. So does anyone know how I could fix this? Is it a

RE: Windows Manager is too Big

On 09-Dec-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy Linux Gurus, > > My windows manager is too big for my screen. I have to move the mouse > down to the bottom of the screen to have it "float" up. I'm using > fvwm95. I checked the man pages and it says something about using the > command DeskTopSize

Re: What's the story on Xemacs+GPM?

Matt Garman writes: >On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 06:49:41PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: >> >I run a roll-your-own XEmacs 20.4 that I compiled withOUT gpm >> >support. I do have gpm running. Also, I don't have any trouble with >> >highlighting some text (from the shell, from another virtual terminal,

Continued libc6 problems....

Here's something for those for whom the patched libc6 solved that bad register frame thing -- ian# dir 13026aaalibstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb textsw_shelf /tmp ian# dpkg -i libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb (Reading database ... 24524 files and directories currently

Re: kde v1.0

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Did anyone ever locate the .deb packages for v1.0 of KDE? All I can find is >the 3/98 versions, and it seems they are buggy... ftp://ftp.timsnet.com/pub/kde/pre1.1/19981026 This is pre1.1-1. But kdenetwork is missing from that dir. I mailed the owner of the site about

Re: exim rewriting rules

>> "SL" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SL> Then that is a bug with the software that is submitting the SL> incorrect header to the MTA and should be fixed. This is no bug in the software. It sends the mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a valid address in my own net. Clearly, this is no

Windows Manager is too Big

Howdy Linux Gurus, My windows manager is too big for my screen. I have to move the mouse down to the bottom of the screen to have it "float" up. I'm using fvwm95. I checked the man pages and it says something about using the command DeskTopSize, but when i try to use it it says command not foun

New User with possible BIOS prob

I can boot debian from flopy but no matter what "boot order" I use under the BIOS the Gigabite 586DX dual pent will not start linux I see 1FA: as a prompt these are the BIOS messages Award modular BIOS v4.51 Intel 430HX PCI for dual pentium v3.43 award plug&play BIOS extension v1.0A detects my c

Re: finding a package name given a filename

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > I'll produce a .deb in the near future. In the meantime, use the > source. The .deb is now available at . The directory structure is an imitation of the main archive; you'll find the

Re: Just My 2 Cents

"Person, Roderick" wrote: > > Hey All, > > Just venting. > > Recently I check out the Linux apps wish list web page! I though that it was > mighty funny that the software that most people want to see ported to Linux > is made by the big nasty Microsoft clan. Personally, I hate M$ and was glade

Re: Mouse pointer

Hi On mié, 09 dic 1998 16:14:12 Michael Tempsch wrote: > [Unsupported encoding, skipping...] > Ooops, seems elm didn't like your mail, oh well... > mm.. rear... > To set the root pointer I have the following in my .xsession > > # Nifty root cursor > xsetroot -cursor $HOME/.rootcursor $HOME/.ro

RE: Cannon BJC-4100 printer

On mar, 08 dic 1998 10:55:11 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > I have a problem. > I installed lpr and magicfilter from hamm and can't print in > colors with > my printer: Canon BJC-4100. I tried the bjc-600 filter. > Is there anyone wit

kde v1.0

Hey, Did anyone ever locate the .deb packages for v1.0 of KDE? All I can find is the 3/98 versions, and it seems they are buggy... Jay

Re: Word Processor

I have a Debian (2.0.34) machine set up at home that will be used for Internet browsing and word processing. I have installed KDE (very nice) and am working on Netscape. I now would like to install a word processor that is preferably (gui) and free. I have looked at KOffice, WordPerfect, Sta

RE: Debian very slow to get latest releases?

X is getting cleaned up and we are trying to freeze and release. The new X comes at a bad time. X takes quite some time to compile and debug. Hopefully it will be soon. Of course, you can always compile your own -- hope you have a beefy machine.

Re: Pine & Netscape

> Hello everyone, > I've been playing with pine so it'll open a netscape window if I > wish to follow a link from an email. I've read through the 'online' help > in pine and even found a link on the netscape site about the -remote > (http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html) argumen

Debian very slow to get latest releases?

I used to use RedHat and when any software was updated it appeared on the redhat ftp sites very quickly. I notice that already there are rpms of the new XFree release (3.3.3) available. I have scoured the debian ftp site and cannot find similar Debian packages. How long is it likely to be before,

Re: firewall question

Socks5 supports user authentication for traversal. Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Hi debian people, > I have a question about firewall. > We would like to setup an intranet protected by a firewall, but as we travel a > lot, we would also like to access our data from outside the firewall via web. > > Is

problems with X (locales)

Hi all, I've got following problem: when I try to launch Netscape, it won't start complaining about missing locales (C). When I checked into /usr/X11R6/bin/X11/lib/locale the directory was empty. Someone on the list had found previously this to be the problem but I don't have the know-how how

Dial-up problem

I have tried several times to establish a dial-up connection but nothing has worked. MSN is my provider. They have a server assigned IP address. Because of this, I'm sure it does not connect. Anybody else have this problem? Thanx.

RE: Converting TTF fonts to PCF

On 09-Dec-98 Peter Paluch wrote: > Hello friends! > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > I'd like to ask - is there any software for converting TrueType fonts to > PCF or to Type1? I need to convert those fonts for StarOffice - it works > only with PCF or Type1. I have great opportunity to use fonts from > Window

configuring sound (easy?)

I'm running 2.0.36 on i386, and have a SoundBlaster AWE 64 plugged into it, which is unconfigured. I used to use Red Hat, which came with a rather neat little utility called soundconfig (I think) that was capable of automatically helping you install a module for soundblaster compatible cards. It w

Re: Just My 2 Cents

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:12:59PM -0800, Keith Beattie wrote: > I'm getting rather off topic for this thread, but I still think the > future of software engineering is in building components with > applications being the integrations of these components. Exactly > which form that will take, I'm n

kernel 'oops'

I recompiled my kernel (2.0.34...straight from the installation) to add sound support (NOT as a module), and when I boot to that kernel, I see, in the rapidly passing stuff, a phrase resembling 'unable to..(something).. ISOLATE ..(something) and then one 'oops' message in it's entirety. dmesg i

Re: Pine & Netscape

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Peter Kovacs wrote: >On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, I wrote: > >> I've been playing with pine so it'll open a netscape window if I >> wish to follow a link from an email. I've read through the 'online' help > >I didn't even know this was possible. What version of pine are you >runni

Re: Just My 2 Cents

Jens D. Baumgartner wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Keith Beattie wrote: > > > Well, I disagree. Personally I dislike massively integrated > > applications like Outlook and Explorer. They are too big, too slow > > and too complicated (to use and maintain). And I'm convinced

Re: Lynx & Proxy again

Fair Warning Shao: I'm not only a Linux-newbie, but incompetent all-around. However, One thing I AM is curious, so here's my -2 Cents. I saw you linking to: http://proxy2.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/proxy.pac So I wondered what kind of data is in proxy.pac. Upon viewing it, I see these first three lin

Thanks/X11

First I'd like to thank all those who helped me with the base instillation! I would now like to install X11 but when I am in dselect and have highlighted xbase and then try to install I get a message: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile: Permission denied. How do I get past this

Re: exim rewriting rules

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 04:03:37PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > >SL> Uhm, who not do that in the MUA? > >Because you don't always use a MUA when you send mails. Take the bug > >package for example, which will help in sending a bug report. Without > >such a rewrite, it will send the bug, using a

Re: finding a package name given a filename

On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 08:48:09PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > Here is a short perl program that seems to do the same thing. Note that > it doesn't have much error checking. It does, more or less, do the same thing. I didn't know perl had a saner readlink() than C or the shell (in C, I had to d

Re: What's the story on Xemacs+GPM?

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 06:49:41PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > >I run a roll-your-own XEmacs 20.4 that I compiled withOUT gpm > >support. I do have gpm running. Also, I don't have any trouble with > >highlighting some text (from the shell, from another virtual terminal, > >from anywhere), and

Converting TTF fonts to PCF

Hello friends! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I'd like to ask - is there any software for converting TrueType fonts to PCF or to Type1? I need to convert those fonts for StarOffice - it works only with PCF or Type1. I have great opportunity to use fonts from Windows, but I have to convert them. Does anybody of y

SOT: Networking problem with SMC Combo(AUI)

This is almost surely not Debian specific, but there is not USENET feed here in Ireland that I'd have access to, so please bear with me. I am trying to Ethernet-connect two i386, a P133+AsusPT4XE and a K6-2/300+AsusP5A. The former has been tried with Debian 2.0r1,r3 and some slink snapshots, var

SOT: Networking/Inquiry on 3Com 3C905B-TX

Because of all the trouble I had with my ISA SMC's, I am considering the, ahem, "cheap" way out and get me new Ethernet boards. I have been offered twisted-pair (RJ) only PCI boards, 3Com 3C905B-TX, which I map tp 10Base-Tx, Cyclone B revision, aka `Boomerang', aka EtherLink III XL. Anything I s

how? m68k cross compile

Hi, I am trying to get the m68k cross compiler package to work. However, I have never cross-compiled anything before. I installed the gcc-m68k-linux and binutils-m68k packages. Do I need anthing else? I tried compiling a simple C++ program but the cross-compiler doesn't know where any of the h

firewall question

Hi debian people, I have a question about firewall. We would like to setup an intranet protected by a firewall, but as we travel a lot, we would also like to access our data from outside the firewall via web. Is there any kind of firewall able to authenticate users outside and treat them as inside

Re: What's the story on Xemacs+GPM?

Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm aware that Xemacs has problems with GPM (if you put Xemacs to > sleep while GPM is running, things turn ugly). Actually it is GPM (or better the libgpm library code) having problems with glibc2. A patch is being worked on by the GPM maintainers. >

Re: Pine & Netscape

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > I've been playing with pine so it'll open a netscape window if I > wish to follow a link from an email. I've read through the 'online' help I didn't even know this was possible. What version of pine are you running, and where are you config

Re: strange non-trivial routing problem

Rainer Clasen wrote: > > Hi! > > This may be offtopic - its not debian-specific. But I'm not sure where to > ask at all (linux-net is announced as "development" list ...). I appreciate > pointers to the correct forum. > > Ok, first some ASCII-art to confuse the reader ;-) > >

Re: running dselect on 4 computers.

Ole J. Tetlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I heard that it's now possible to do installation of packages on > | several nodes > Have you considered 'dpkg --get-selections' and 'dpkg > --set-selections'? I have a similar problem: We use have at our institute about 10 nodes running with debian-

Re: Just My 2 Cents

On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Keith Beattie wrote: > Well, I disagree. Personally I dislike massively integrated > applications like Outlook and Explorer. They are too big, too slow > and too complicated (to use and maintain). And I'm convinced that my [...] > Create small pro

Pine & Netscape

Hello everyone, I've been playing with pine so it'll open a netscape window if I wish to follow a link from an email. I've read through the 'online' help in pine and even found a link on the netscape site about the -remote (http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html) argument to co

Re: Mouse pointer

*-Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | How do i change the mouse pointer in X? Two ways: * Ask your window manager politely. * xsetroot. | I dont like that X cursor Captain Blueeye is much better... -- Eschew obfuscation(go on; look them both up)

Re: TIOCSER?WILD Boot Error!

Hi, > Ever since I switched to the dev kernel, I've had the following > message on boot: > > TIOCSER?WILD ioctl obsolete, ignored > > I doesn't sound dangerous or anything, but a boot error just doesn't > look good. So does anyone know how I could fix this? Is it a bug, just > like the SIOCADDR

Re: emacs & xemacs

On Wed Dec 9, 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > Ever since I started with Linux I've wanted a console-based graphical web > > browser, but kept running into a brick wall. Then I read that emacs could > > Uh, isn't "console-based graphical " an oxymoron? How could > your ever

Re: writing man page

Eric writes: > Is there any tool available to write man pages (with all the standard > sections) and keep a nicely readable source? Just use an existing man page as a template. The page for man itself is a good choice. > I am now writing the thing directly in nroff, but the source is looking > p

Re: Rover fetch!

Rino Mardo writes: > I finally was able to setup my Linux box to work with the NE2000 card. > Now the next question is: should I use fetchmail or smail to send/receive > emails from my POP account? You use fetchmail to fetch mail from your POP account and smail to send mail. Sending mail does not

Re: Still clueless

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, John Stevenson wrote: > If this is relevant to your problem but you still have no > success, let me know. Well, Installation failed. Darn. 8:o( Baloo

TIOCSER?WILD Boot Error!

Ever since I switched to the dev kernel, I've had the following message on boot: TIOCSER?WILD ioctl obsolete, ignored I doesn't sound dangerous or anything, but a boot error just doesn't look good. So does anyone know how I could fix this? Is it a bug, just like the SIOCADDR thingy?

Mouse pointer

Hello, How do i change the mouse pointer in X? I dont like that X cursor thanks, __ / / / Phillip Neumann / /

Re: Still clueless

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Paul "Baloo" Johnson wrote: > > > Ok, if someone would kindly write up a step by step procedure for > > configuring a Intel EtherExpress in newbie terms and make it as simply > > worded as possible, it would help very much on my project a

Re: emacs & xemacs

Kent West wrote: > > Ever since I started with Linux I've wanted a console-based graphical web > browser, but kept running into a brick wall. Then I read that emacs could Uh, isn't "console-based graphical " an oxymoron? How could your ever expect to see graphics on a text-only display? (Unless

Re: What's the story on Xemacs+GPM?

Matt Garman writes: >On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 09:08:50PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: >> I'm aware that Xemacs has problems with GPM (if you put Xemacs to >> sleep while GPM is running, things turn ugly). But is it possible to >> use GPM to paste text into Xemacs from a different VC? And the other >

XFree86 performance tuning

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all. I was recently logged in to a DEC Unix machine in my school's lab, and I noticed that the X server was run with a negative nice value. This got me wondering what I might be able to do to get better performance out of X. I seem to recall seeing a HOWTO

Re: Frame Buffer

Hi! Jeff Beley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've just upgraded to 2.1.130 and am expirementing the frame buffer that's > built into the kernel. I've been able to use the fbset utility to set the > resolution and suchhowever X is very fuzzy(for lack of a better > term)...I read in the documentation

Re: XFCom_Matrox and Backspace

Hi! Alexander Kushnirenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I got Matrox Millenium G200 Card and installed XFCom_Matrox from SUSE. For > some reason Backspace is not working (there is a little beeping sound). If I > Any suggestions how to fix that? I use XKEYBOARD extensions SUSE's server use a diffe

strange non-trivial routing problem

Hi! This may be offtopic - its not debian-specific. But I'm not sure where to ask at all (linux-net is announced as "development" list ...). I appreciate pointers to the correct forum. Ok, first some ASCII-art to confuse the reader ;-) 10base2 |

Re: Rover fetch!

*-"Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | [1 ] | | [1.1 ] | I finally was able to setup my Linux box to work with the NE2000 card. Now the next question is: should I use fetchmail or smail to send/receive emails from my POP account? You should probably use fetchmail to receive and smail to se

Re: wmmail problems

Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 8 Dec 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | > Is anyone else using wmmail with WindowMaker under slink? I'm having | > problems getting the NewMailExecute configuration option to function | > properly. In my ~/.wmmailrc file I have the following line: | >

Re: Debian installation hangs

> The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the Linux kernel, and during the > long series of hardware detection messages, successfully detects all the IDE > devices and then hangs on the line. > > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I have almost the same problem on my similar machine: W

Sound problems

Hi, I need some help figuring out sound on games with debian. I have a SB 16 on hamm/slink system. Sound is configured in the kernel (2.0.33). I can cat sound.au > /dev/audio and it works. CD audio also works. I am running wmaker .20.x.x with wmsound from frozen. The thing is, I have never real

Re: terminal window

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, shaul wrote: >1) I never used pppconfig but I think it strange that username/password is all >it can handle. >2) Perhaps configure the chatscript by hand ? >3) xisp has the ability to open a terminal. But then again, I never needed >this terminal. > >> hello >> I need to ope

Re: very weird problem with PPP (server+client)

Torsten, > This looks REALLY weird! Either your modem is broken or your server does not > answer in a reasonable time. Suggestion: Try to connect without ppp using e.g. > minicom. Report if this works and try binary file transfers using rz/sz. It was my PAM server which wasn't answering i

Re: Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you find a Debian package that has a config in /usr, it's a bug, because > FSSTND compliance is mandated by the Policy. What about /usr/local/etc ? -- o-o [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michel Verdier) http://www.chez.com/mverdier

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

"Alexander N. Benner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/hdb1 63885 2864231944 47% / > /dev/hdb9 761184 142804 579045 20% /var > /dev/hdb52270179 210241050415 98%

Re: writing man page

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 02:25:35PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > Is there any tool available to write man pages (with all the standard > sections) and keep a nicely readable source? I am now writing the > thing directly in nroff, but the source is looking pretty awful. yodl -- your man pann

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > What do the following errors mean: > > > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763, > > sector=103023 > > 0 > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230 > > hda: dma_intr

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, John Stevenson wrote: > I have been experiencing the same problem with my hard drive. I > believe the problem is that is is simply reaching the end of its > life as I have had it running solid for the last year and have > had it for 3 years before that. > > Daniel Mashao wrot

Re: fetchmail & daemon mode

*- Shao Zhang wrote about "fetchmail & daemon mode" > Hi all, > If I comment out the line "set daemon 300" in the file > ~/.fetchmailrc. Then my fetchmail works fine... > > If I run fetchmail with the above line, then id doesn't work. The > process just sits there and doing nothing...

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

I have been experiencing the same problem with my hard drive. I believe the problem is that is is simply reaching the end of its life as I have had it running solid for the last year and have had it for 3 years before that. If anyone can give me a more optomistic diagnosis, I would be very happy.

Help with Hard drive error messages

What do the following errors mean: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763, sector=103023 0 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230 hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma

SAMSUNG CD-ROM SCR-3231, ATAPI CDROM drive

Hi! I've got the re: and I get the following: hdd: status error: status=0x58 hdd: drive not ready for command hdd: ATAPI reset complete hdd: cdrom_read_intr: Bad transfer size 65534 This drive is not supported by this version of the driver end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40, sector 43988

Re: exim rewriting rules

>SL> Uhm, who not do that in the MUA? > >Because you don't always use a MUA when you send mails. Take the bug >package for example, which will help in sending a bug report. Without >such a rewrite, it will send the bug, using a bogus from-address, and >the maintainer can't contact the submitter for

Re: wine

Gregory Vandenbrouck wrote: > Hi, > > The .deb of libwine under the unstable dist seems corrupted. Someone > knows where I could find a working package? > > TIA > > Follows the erros message I got: > > Unpacking libwine0.0.971116 (from > debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/otherosfs/libwine0

Re: emacs & xemacs

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > By the way, can I use emacs to display the image(i.e. like > netscape, not lynx)?? > > > Thanks... > > Shao Ever since I started with Linux I've wanted a console-based graphical web browser, but kept running into a brick wall. Th

Re: First attempt

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Alan Tam wrote: > Hi Kent; > > I add these lines to the rc file at /etc/init.d > = > # I add the following for NumLock ON by default > INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8] > for tty in $INITTY > do > setleds -D +num <$tty >

wine

Hi, The .deb of libwine under the unstable dist seems corrupted. Someone knows where I could find a working package? TIA Follows the erros message I got: Unpacking libwine0.0.971116 (from debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/otherosfs/libwine0.0.971116_0.0.981018-1.deb) ... gzip: stdout: Bro

Re: Help - X meets my OLD monitor

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey guys... I'm outta ideas on this one, so I'm posting here with the hopes > someone can help me out. > > I'm trying to configure X on my system - it has an old Mitsuba monitor that I > can't seem to get specs on. Here's what I DO know: > > * Model

Re: ctx monitors

On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I know this is /way/ off topic, sorry if it offends anyone in advance. > > I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19", [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what are > people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in p

Re: ACER extensa 390

:> The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing :> that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by :> Xfree 3.3.2. :> :> The Neo magic card is supported by Xfree 3.3.3 but that is not generally :> avaiable in distributions. : :

Re: Still clueless

Hello, I may have missed the initial thread on this, but if you want to install a Network card based on Intel Ethernet chipset. If this is the case then do the following: * Login as root * On the command line type the command: modconf * Use the arrow keys to scroll down to the net section, then

Rover fetch!

I finally was able to setup my Linux box to work with the NE2000 card.  Now  the next question is:  should I use fetchmail or smail to send/receive emails from my POP account?   I ran smailconfig and selected the 1 option.  Then I created my .fetchmailrc with the ff:   poll pop-server proto

Re: lilo problem - linux on each of two drives

Hi Stephen, I worked it out. :-) I really did not understand what was required which was why I needed help. It worked when I used rdev on the kernel *and* copied the kernel to be used with the Linux on hdb to /boot on hda. A friend had arrived with two computers with three drives between them

writing man page

Hi all, Is there any tool available to write man pages (with all the standard sections) and keep a nicely readable source? I am now writing the thing directly in nroff, but the source is looking pretty awful. Thanks, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 247218

Re: eth0: unknown interface

Ethernet dirvers are not included in default kernel (as far as I am aware) so unless you have re-compiled your kernel then you shouldn't have any in. If you want to check, well I guess you could just look at the screen output during boot time and see if there is any repeated info about setting up

Re: xemacs/emacs cannot find the package

Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > In xemacs, when I choose the option browse the web from the menu > bar, it returned "Cannot open load file: w3-el/w3". > > But I checked the file and it is in /usr/lib/xemacs20.4/lisp/w3... Yes it's a bug (I think) from 20.2 to 20.4.

Re: Matlab 5.2 and Hamm

A couple of weeks ago, I first posted a problem with installing matlab. The problem is, as Mark Phillips (below) correctly guessed, with libc5 compatibility. The list of linked libraries appeared OK, but further checking revealed that libg++.so.27 was there and expected to be linked to /usr/lib/l

Re: KDE: krdb missing! Help!

David Natkins writes: >If it helps, I install kdebase out of slink last weekend. Couldn't find >krdb either. I also used the locate command after doing updatedb. >Nothing. >From slink? But KDE is not in slink! And did you get it to work without errors / error messages? I got this reply from the

Re: fetchmail & daemon mode

On 9 Dec, Shao Zhang wrote: > If I comment out the line "set daemon 300" in the file > ~/.fetchmailrc. Then my fetchmail works fine... > > If I run fetchmail with the above line, then id doesn't work. The > process just sits there and doing nothing... are you sure that it's not doing

Re: "shutdown -r" instead of "reboot"? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >>Besides, it is good practice to use "shutdown -r now" instead >>of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls >>the command "shutdow

Re: Toshiba Satellite - X problem

On 09 Dec 1998q, Francois GELIS wrote: > > > Francois Gelis > Laboratoire de physique theorique LAPTH > BP 110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'm trying to get X to work on my Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT. > > > > I'

Re: Problems with make menuconfig

> i can't start make menuconfig. > I get the errormessages: > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory > make[1] *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 > make[1] Leaving directory > '/usr/scr/kernel-source-2.0.34/scripts/lxdialog' > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 > Does anybody knows the solutions for

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