Re: Joystick

1998-12-11 Thread servis
*- Michael Beattie wrote about "Joystick" > > I've downloaded, compiled and installed the new Joystick drivers, version > 1.2.13. Works fine. I want to try out the joystick in a game, to check it > actually works properly. I have tried quake2, but no matter what I do, I > cannot get quake2 to use

Re: APC Smart-UPS 1000 and Debian

1998-12-11 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:17:07 GMT, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not having any success with debian packaged software for my new APC > Smart-UPS 1000 (listed as Linux compatible). I tried (individually) > apcd, genpower, upsd. I keep getting the error message "can't connect > to ups" or "ca

Re: exmh presort fails

1998-12-11 Thread Jongki Suwandi
I think those "folder" words should be "+". -Jongki > Hi, > > I am trying to setup exmh to presort my email messages when I do an inc. > I have created a .maildelivery file in my home directory, namely: > > X-mailing-listdebian-user folder ? list/deb-user > default

exmh presort fails

1998-12-11 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I am trying to setup exmh to presort my email messages when I do an inc. I have created a .maildelivery file in my home directory, namely: X-mailing-list debian-user folder ? list/deb-user default - folder ? inbox but when I try to do an inc, it fails

Joystick

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Beattie
I've downloaded, compiled and installed the new Joystick drivers, version 1.2.13. Works fine. I want to try out the joystick in a game, to check it actually works properly. I have tried quake2, but no matter what I do, I cannot get quake2 to use the joystick, mainly because I can find no documenta

RE: Exchange Client

1998-12-11 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I would also like to find one of these - Exchange is our mail server of choice (due to it's stability and cost-effectiveness, of course ), and a client that can read it's mail setup would be wonderful! There's a few of us Linux people in here, and we could make a nice toehold into our area if it co

Re: Can't start fetchmail in ip-up.d

1998-12-11 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, You may want to look in the file: more /usr/doc/fetchmail/fetchmail-up #!/bin/sh test -r /etc/fetchmailrc && \ fetchmail --syslog --invisible --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc It's an example you may use. Important thing is location of rc file. Works for me. That directory contains

Re: X is giving me a headache.

1998-12-11 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | X is totally confusing me at the moment. Or rather, how to get it all | working, where are the good window managers, etc. There is a web page dedicated to window managers for X. There you can see most of them in action. I don't have to URL handy, but a search should find it.

Re: Can't start fetchmail in ip-up.d

1998-12-11 Thread Mark Phillips
> In my ip-up, I have a line > run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > > So I put a file called fetchmail with a single line fetchmail. > > I also made it executable. > > But when my link is up, nothing happened. I tried to ps ax the >process. It is not there. I also ch

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

1998-12-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michel Verdier) wrote: > 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 ? That's still a bug - packages may not put a

Re: mutiple isps & proxy

1998-12-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > How do I detect which isp I am using, and automatically export the > correct proxy settings?? > > PS: I am not using pon & poff. I use my own dial up scripts... If you want to do it in an ip-up.d script, check the variable PPP_REMOTE. Perhaps something like: =-=-=-= #!/bin

Re: About X

1998-12-11 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Yeah. My mistake. /etc/X11/window-managers > Hi! > > }-> On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > }-> > }-> > Well I got X too work but how do I load a different window manager? > }-> > }-> Download window manager you want , install it, and > }-> edit /etc/windows-manager so that at the s

I have a problem: kernel panic

1998-12-11 Thread estela valle pendon
Hello: Could you help me? I have a message when I boot my Debian Linux system that says: kernel panic:EXT2-fs panic(device 03:02):ext2_read_inode:group>=group count

Re: rawrite[23] problem on nt 4.0

1998-12-11 Thread BOHICA
Sounds like you are trying to use the "new" 1.743Mb floppy image. Every time I tried it I got the same error since rawrite will try to create a disk image that is bigger than the media, but since it doesn't do any "sanity" checking it errors out when it's own calculation of needed space doesn't

Re: Cannon BJC-4100 printer

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> 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.

Re: Canon BJC 4100 printer without color :(

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> 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 with this printer? }-> Have a nice day,

Re: backpack CD on Toshiba laptop

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> Anyone willing to educate me on how to mount a parallel port CD in }-> Linux? }-> }-> All the HOWTO's, FAQ-O-MATIC's and FAQ pages for both Debian and Linux }-> that I can find say things like "after mounting an external CD device }-> through the parallel port..." without ever actually te

Re: About X

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: }-> }-> > Well I got X too work but how do I load a different window manager? }-> }-> Download window manager you want , install it, and }-> edit /etc/windows-manager so that at the start up of X it will run what

Re: nethack

1998-12-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Two things: : : 1) /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack should be chmod-ed 2755, owned by root : and belonging to group games. I suspect this is where your problem lies. : /usr/games/nethack is just a wrapper shell script to execute the nethack : bin

adsl

1998-12-11 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just found out that ADSL service may be available in my area. Does anyone have ADSL internet service and how hard was it to get Linux to use it? I live in south florida and Bellsouth is now offering ADSL for $50-60 a month unlimited ($100 one time installation fee and $200 to buy the modem -

Re: SANE install Catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread Ted Llewellyn
Well, everyone has picked up on the date. Can anyone answer the question? _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/ > On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > BTW: Your clock has the wrong date (1.1.1996) > > > > Alex.

X is giving me a headache.

1998-12-11 Thread MallarJ
In advance, forgive the fact that you probably answer these questions a few times a month, but I'm yet another new Linux user swamped in X - and I'm sinking fast. In fact, I'm beginning to wonder why I'm bothering. Oh yeah, I detest Microsoft/Windows - that's it. It's disheartening, I'm usually

network card

1998-12-11 Thread Sam
How do I set up a new DNS and new network card?

Re: Dial-up problem

1998-12-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
eferen1 wrote: > > This is a follow up to my previous message. > I guess I should have been more specific about this problem. I installed > FreeBSD 3.0 to see if it would connect, but it didn't either. Here are the > details; > > 1. I have MS Network. The local provider provides the IP address. >

Re: Anyone know what this is?? (SPAM?)

1998-12-11 Thread Richard Lyon
-Original Message- From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Robert V. MacQuarrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian-User-Mailing-List ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, 11 December 1998 0:25 Subject: Re: Anyone know what this is?? (SPAM?) >PATRIOTISM A great British

Re: rawrite[23] problem on nt 4.0

1998-12-11 Thread Richard Lyon
Yes I use rawrite2 under winnt 4.0. A couple of things you might try are: 1.Try a preformatted floppy. 2.If you are connected to a network logout and try running in standalone mode. Some of laptop computers should really be called winputers. -Original Message- From: Aaron

wine problem in slink

1998-12-11 Thread ctang
hi, I recently upgraded to slink. But I have problem using wine. Everytime it starts, I see the message wine: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libwine.so.0: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info The lib in the system are libwine0.0.9711 0.0.981018-1wine

APC Smart-UPS 1000 and Debian

1998-12-11 Thread David Stern
Hi, I'm not having any success with debian packaged software for my new APC Smart-UPS 1000 (listed as Linux compatible). I tried (individually) apcd, genpower, upsd. I keep getting the error message "can't connect to ups" or "can't talk to UPS", even though I've correctly configured the soft

Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-12-11 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Thank you for your answers. I was absent for a few days and couldn't follow on this thread that I started. My NFS/SAMBA server is in a lab with no connections to the external world and it is just serving a few Debian development workstations. That's why I don't care about security. Anyway, I t

Re: transferring to sendmail 8.9 while still using hamm

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Michael Stone wrote: > > You will need from slink: (newer versions okay if > > available) > > ldso 1.9.9-5 (libc6 depends on it) > > I don't think so: You're right. I don't know why it was on my sendmail upgrade list, maybe

Tv grabbers

1998-12-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I have just gotten a wintv card, and it appears to be working fine. However, I can't seem to find a screen grabber for it. I'm looking for one that can be ran from the command line, and grab what ever is on the device without requiring any user interface. Does anyone know if a program like th

ftp install with funky NIC

1998-12-11 Thread Henry Kingman
Hey all, I'm attempting to install Debian via ftp on a Micron PII-267 but I can't seem to get ethernet working. The machine's motherboard is a PD440FX, and the NIC is an Intel 82557C-based Ethernet PCI 10/100. I think that's one of those ones that's right on the motherboard and thus part of Intel'

Re: Network cards.

1998-12-11 Thread Gary Singleton
Just make sure you don't buy a WinNIC! - just kidding, couldn't resist, sorry. http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html will tell you what (not) to get. HTH, G.S. ---Brent McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll be setting up a network between my linux box and 2 other > ma

Monitor Troubles.

1998-12-11 Thread Anders
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this (probably not) but I am having a problem getting my monitor (A Sony Multiscan 200sf) to display in 1152 x 864 mode correctly...it is always too small to fit the screen and I cannot make it big enough in the horizontal axis to cover the w

movemail for slink communicator

1998-12-11 Thread Paul Reavis
What happened to movemail in the netscape communicator packages under slink? The installer advises against the chmod recommended by the program, but the external movemail application isn't there as it was in the hamm installer. I plugged in the xemacs one, and that worked, but I was curious as to

Re: transferring to sendmail 8.9 while still using hamm

1998-12-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Chris Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I want to move my sendmail on my two working machines up to 8.9 > > for the improved and built-in antispamming facilities there. > > > > That looks as if it will require a move to a more recent libc6, > > netbase and libdb (an

RE: Funky mouse.

1998-12-11 Thread Shaleh
On 11-Dec-98 Brent McMillan wrote: > I recently picked up an old (circa 1986) Digital, DEC VSXXX-AA mouse. I > picked it up because it didn't use a track ball, but rather an horizontal > and vertical roller on the underside. It look kinda like it had a PS/2 > connection, but it doesn't. What

Re: transferring to sendmail 8.9 while still using hamm

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Chris Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I want to move my sendmail on my two working machines up to 8.9 > for the improved and built-in antispamming facilities there. > > That looks as if it will require a move to a more recent libc6, > netbase and libdb (and I haven't yet worked out what the

RE: Network cards.

1998-12-11 Thread Shaleh
On 11-Dec-98 Brent McMillan wrote: > I'll be setting up a network between my linux box and 2 other > machines for a cable modem. I hear that there are some network cards > that just don't work for linux. Crazy I know, but that's the rumour. > Does any one know off any cards I should av

Re: Network cards.

1998-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
3c501 cards should not be used anywhere, of course. I've heard some bad things about ne2000 clones, but have used several from different manufacturers and never had a problem. Performance isn't great, but considering the price, they aren't all that bad for a small network. Of course, if you

Re: Staroffice

1998-12-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a couple of quick questions for those of you using Star Office, and I > couldn't find answers on their website: > > 1) I'm really only interested in pieces of the package, Star Writer, for > example. Do you have to install the full package or can you install ju

Funky mouse.

1998-12-11 Thread Brent McMillan
I recently picked up an old (circa 1986) Digital, DEC VSXXX-AA mouse. I picked it up because it didn't use a track ball, but rather an horizontal and vertical roller on the underside. It look kinda like it had a PS/2 connection, but it doesn't. What are the odds I could get this to work on m

Network cards.

1998-12-11 Thread Brent McMillan
I'll be setting up a network between my linux box and 2 other machines for a cable modem. I hear that there are some network cards that just don't work for linux. Crazy I know, but that's the rumour. Does any one know off any cards I should avoid or any they would recomend? Thanks.

Re: ??? seeing color (bpp) mode while in X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Rich Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Is there any program or way to look at your video setting while in X | - for instance to see what color mode (bpp) you're in (I guess | xvidtune doesn't do that...) I'm running an ATI 3d rage II card, but | can only seem to use 8 bpp without getting these

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread wtopa
Is the list catching up on OLD mail or has someone forgotten to set their clock up? Subject: SANE install catch-22 Date: Mon, Jan 01, 1996 at 08:12:48PM + In reply to:Ted Llewellyn Quoting Ted Llewellyn([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Well, this is very pretty.I'm running De

Re: Staroffice

1998-12-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> 1) I'm really only interested in pieces of the package, Star Writer, for > example. Do you have to install the full package or can you install just the > parts you want? It's a single program; there aren't packages. And it has it's own yuckky windows-like "desktop", and is confined to a sin

Re: Stupid Telnet question.

1998-12-11 Thread stick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I don't think this is it. > > I've tried telnetting to other ports on this server from the workstation > > in question. Ports w/ a listener connect, ports w/o a listener say > > Connection refused. Telnet's port says no route to host. > > Ha

Re: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
At 10:49 AM 12/11/1998 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Or, > >You can hit CTRL-ALT-DEL - this calls the shutdown routine on my box. I've got >hamm installed, and this feature came as a default. > >-Jay But be aware that not all systems are so set up (although I believe this is the default in Debi

Re: ??? seeing color (bpp) mode while in X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
At 03:34 PM 12/11/1998 +0100, Kirston Akos wrote: >Hi! > >Switch to the text console where you started X and you can read one of the >line what the X server write to the console. > >Best > > krisah > >On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Rich Hartman wrote: > >> Is there any program or way to look at your vi

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Hi Ship's Log, Lt. Ted Llewellyn, Stardate 010196.2012: > Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 20:12:48 + WOW .. a 2 Year old Email ... :-) did this mail get lost or is your date set a bit wrong ? greetings -- Alexander N. Benner - The Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper: -7- A Promise Keeper is co

xserver-svga 3.3.2.3 messes virtual terminals

1998-12-11 Thread Jean Orloff
Hi! I just switched X11 server from s3v to svga (the staroffice install freezes otherwise). Now I get the rather annoying problem: whenever I start X, all the virtual terminals get scrambled. I tried the allmighty "reset" inside one of the terminals with no success. I also tried "stty sane < /dev

Staroffice

1998-12-11 Thread MallarJ
I have a couple of quick questions for those of you using Star Office, and I couldn't find answers on their website: 1) I'm really only interested in pieces of the package, Star Writer, for example. Do you have to install the full package or can you install just the parts you want? 2) If you c

Re: Configuring X

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
At 09:15 AM 12/11/1998 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >Ok, I'm very frustrated with X right now. Could someone who is going to >be online for awhile email me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and lend a hand with >setting things up. Thanks. > >Tom I may not be much help, but what're the issues?

Re: ??? XF86Setup while running X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
At 08:30 AM 12/11/1998 +, Rich Hartman wrote: >Howdy everybody, > >I'm trying to tweak my X setup by running XF86Setup while in X... > >However, I get the message: > >xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server >couldn't connect to display "

Re: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread MallarJ
Or, You can hit CTRL-ALT-DEL - this calls the shutdown routine on my box. I've got hamm installed, and this feature came as a default. -Jay

Re: Dial-up problem (fwd)

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
I thought I sent this last night, but apparently it didn't go through. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 23:28:06 -0600 (CST) From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: eferen1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, "recipient.list.not.shown": ; Subject: R

Re: Install Problems from CDROM

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
At 05:59 AM 12/11/1998 -0700, bill piasecki wrote: > > I have Debian 2.0 binary CD. I fdisked my machine and formatted C. I do not > have a dos disk but did a rawwrite of boot1440.bin from CD to floppy (on > another computer) I put this floppy into the A drive and rebootted. I now > have boot: pro

Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-11 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Sean P. Mason wrote: > > I was wondering. . . I have a bunch of old machines, and I was wondering > > if it was possible to link them all together to act as a single machine > > under Linux. I can't seem to find any information elsewhere thus far. > > I

Re: Debian Hamm used for a Linux Cluster and nobody noticed?

1998-12-11 Thread joost
Hi, On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > CLOWN - The CLuster Of Working Nodes Projekt built a Cluster of more than > 512 Computers (IMHO 536). They used a Mini-Distribution derived from > Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 aka hamm :-) Great publicity! > Seems that nobody has noticed here :-) No, I

Building package

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I want to build a hamm source package under bo. After saying ./debian/rules binary I get the following: test -f src/smail.h test root = "`whoami`" rm -rf debian/tmp install -g root -o root -m 755 -d debian/tmp/DEBIAN \ debian/tmp/etc/{smail,cron.daily} debian/tmp/var/log{,/smail} \ debian/tmp/u

Re: Any one using voice modems (mailbox) on Debian with US Robotics Modem

1998-12-11 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 12:45:27PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I am looking for tips of how to get US Robotics Sportster Voice modem to > work as a voicemail system. I have to software to get it work in Windows > but I do not want to go that route. vgetty -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTE

less still shows fortune...

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> > When I take out the three lines from /etc/csh.cshrc, I still get this > > lesspipe.sh: Command not found. error message, but after that the > > contents of the file are displayed. > > > > What could that be? > ( -> man less ) > less tries to run lesspipe.sh. just remove the environment variabl

Re: ??? playing cd's in cdplayer ???

1998-12-11 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Rich Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I just got my cdrom setup by modifying my fstab file (thanks for the | help!) so that it is user-mountable... Now I can mount it and read a | data-type cd... However, when I try to mount it when an audio cd is | in, it says it's not a proper filesyste

Re: RAID with Debian ?

1998-12-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Andreas Rapp wrote: : We are using a Debian system at our company : as eMail and Internet Gateway. To make it : more reliable I would like to add RAID. : : Has anyone experience with RAID controllers : or software solutions ? The DPT RAID controllers are excellent pe

Strange PPP server problem

1998-12-11 Thread Gopal Narayanan
Dear Fellow Debianites, Thanks in advance for any help with this strange problem I am having. I am trying to set up a PPP server at work. It is a Debian machine running hamm with ppp version 2.3.5-2. Same setup at my home-machine as well. I am setting this up in the server with mgetty and AutoPPP.

Re: ??? playing cd's in cdplayer ???

1998-12-11 Thread John Stevenson
IN order to use audio CD's with debian you need to add yourself to two groups. First the audio group to get access to /dev/dsp etc so you can hear sound. Secondly you need to be part of the disk group to get access to disks other than the linux partions. So as root, use the following commands:

Re: ??? XF86Setup while running X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Rich Hartman wrote: > > xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server > couldn't connect to display ":0.0" > > I also tried running as su root same thing. > Login as a root, and then run setup. Su won't do ANdrew _

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread joseph evan porter
> > I had to change the SCSI controller on my home Debian machine > (had to cannibalise the Dawicontrol NCR chip card to use it on > another machine urgently). I found I couldn't get the same and put > in an Adaptec 2940U. The Adaptec shows me all the devices on > the chain correctly. I've

New mailing list: debian-hams

1998-12-11 Thread Joop Stakenborg
We have a new mailing list: debian-hams. It is supposed to be for debian ham developers and users. Some things I can think of which can be discussed on the list: - Make more hamradio software DFSG free. - Supply debian with a ham-ready kernel. - Give hams better support for debian packages. HAM

Re: Converting TTF fonts to PCF

1998-12-11 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, 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 >

Re: less shows fortune

1998-12-11 Thread Florian Kalb
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 02:45:26PM +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > lesspipe.sh: Command not found. > > > When I take out the three lines from /etc/csh.cshrc, I still get this > lesspipe.sh: Command not found. error message, but after that the > contents of the file are displayed. > > Wha

Re: ??? seeing color (bpp) mode while in X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Kirston Akos
Hi! Switch to the text console where you started X and you can read one of the line what the X server write to the console. Best krisah On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Rich Hartman wrote: > Is there any program or way to look at your video setting while in X > - for instance to see what color mo

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-11 Thread Blazej Sawionek
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > Take a look at MagicPoint (the "mgp" package). Where can I find it? Dselect (in hamm) asked for `Magic' finds only `libmagick4g'. Blazej

Re: Piping unpipable output.

1998-12-11 Thread tko
Christian Lavoie writes: [problem with capturing error messages from X server] Christain, invoke 'script' before running 'startx'. When you get back to the command line prompt (from startx), invoke 'exit' and everything which appeared on your screen will be captured in a text file called 'typescr

??? seeing color (bpp) mode while in X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Rich Hartman
Is there any program or way to look at your video setting while in X - for instance to see what color mode (bpp) you're in (I guess xvidtune doesn't do that...) I'm running an ATI 3d rage II card, but can only seem to use 8 bpp without getting these annoying vertical "lines" of sketchiness on t

??? playing cd's in cdplayer ???

1998-12-11 Thread Rich Hartman
Hello everybody, I just got my cdrom setup by modifying my fstab file (thanks for the help!) so that it is user-mountable... Now I can mount it and read a data-type cd... However, when I try to mount it when an audio cd is in, it says it's not a proper filesystem (which I guess it's not...) bu

Re: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:00:20AM -0800, Michael Wahl wrote: Hi Michael > Hello out there, > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch of the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a che

??? XF86Setup while running X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Rich Hartman
Howdy everybody, I'm trying to tweak my X setup by running XF86Setup while in X... However, I get the message: xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server couldn't connect to display ":0.0" I also tried running as su root same thing. Any

Re: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hello out there, > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch of the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some stuff. > Is this right? Or have I not correctly finished i

Re: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:00:20AM -0800, Michael Wahl wrote: > Hello out there, > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch of the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some

Configuring X

1998-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Ok, I'm very frustrated with X right now. Could someone who is going to be online for awhile email me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and lend a hand with setting things up. Thanks. Tom

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 01:35:52PM -, Chris Evans wrote: Hi Chris [..] > Now booting shows lilo getting through "LI" but then nothing. I > assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not > sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it. I found > one repor

RE: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread Chang, FKK
> Never turn off the computer just like that. (It's just like Win 95 :)) > > Log in as root and issue a 'shutdown' command. The system > has to do some administrative tasks before shutting down, the most > important of which is to flush the filesystem buffers. > Be careful, you might lose data an

Install Problems from CDROM

1998-12-11 Thread bill piasecki
I have Debian 2.0 binary CD. I fdisked my machine and formatted C. I do not have a dos disk but did a rawwrite of boot1440.bin from CD to floppy (on another computer) I put this floppy into the A drive and rebootted. I now have boot: prompt. I put CD  in cd drive and push enter hopeing the

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Now booting shows lilo getting through "LI" but then nothing. I > assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not > sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it. I found > one report of something similar in the archives but no answer there. In the lilo ma

switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Wahl
Hello out there, After all I finally installed DEBIAN. And, what else, I have a question: When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch of the computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some stuff. Is this right? Or have I not correctly finished it? Please help a

less shows fortune

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Since I put these lines echo "\n" fortune -a echo "" in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc, less gives me a fortune and the newlines instead of the contents of a file: sos:~> less ei The two party system ... is a triumph of the dialectic. It showed that two could be one and one could be two and

LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread Chris Evans
I had to change the SCSI controller on my home Debian machine (had to cannibalise the Dawicontrol NCR chip card to use it on another machine urgently). I found I couldn't get the same and put in an Adaptec 2940U. The Adaptec shows me all the devices on the chain correctly. I've told its bios

transferring to sendmail 8.9 while still using hamm

1998-12-11 Thread Chris Evans
I'm using Hamm happily (well, almost, see "LI but no LO" if you're on the debian-user list!) I want to move my sendmail on my two working machines up to 8.9 for the improved and built-in antispamming facilities there. That looks as if it will require a move to a more recent libc6, netbase and

re UPS recommendation

1998-12-11 Thread Kenneth Scharf
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I am in the market for a UPS to use with my PC that will provide power just enough power to get a shutdown finished in case of total power lost. I have looked at the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO and the UPS HOWTO but I wanted to first hand experience fro

xterm key mapping problem?

1998-12-11 Thread Ted Llewellyn
I did something stupid in dselect. I'm going to treat that as a learning experience and try to fix it on my own, but I'd like a hint on one thing. Both backspace and delete do nothing but beep in xterm windows now. I thought I'd removed the kbd stuff while I was thrashing around so I put it ba

Re: KDE

1998-12-11 Thread Jeff Miller
>Those .debs are old. I believe they're from the beta 4 release of KDE. >The 1.0 version was released with version 980710. Unfortunately, those >.deb files seem to have completely vanished! Nobody seems to be able to >find them! I You can find the KDE 1.0 (980710) deb files at: ftp.kde.org/pub

Re: two smarthosts in exim?

1998-12-11 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 07:55:55PM +1100, Jiri Baum wrote: > I use two ISPs alternately, and I need to use the correct smarthost for > each (anti-relaying measure). If the wrong one gets used by mistake, mail > returns to sender as rejected. Personally, I'd look to see if Exim could use an inc

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation]

1998-12-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
Joe Emenaker wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > Of course you can change these scripts to do anything you want. If you > > want to tweak the polling timing, you must recompile from source. > > However, I think the default scripts/values are reasonable and will suit > > most

Re: XFree86 3.3.3

1998-12-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi > To change my main PC at work from RedHat 5.1 ro Debian 2.0 I need > to be able to run XFree86 3.3.3 as I have a Matrox G200 graphics > card (currently I am running the SUSE special xserver for this > card). Are there and debs available f

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-11 Thread Randy Edwards
> One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated > packages. For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be > integrated into the 2.0 release or are the packages in this release frozen > except for bug fixes? Hamm (Debian 2.0) is presently "stable" it will

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-11 Thread Randy Edwards
> i need to make a presentation, and i'd like to do it with my laptop "a la" > Powerpoint. (ie video output of laptop plugged on LCD retroprojector) Go to ftp://narnia.mit.edu (or http://www.stardivision.com) and download a copy of StarOffice5. The StarOffice office suite has a presentation gr

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

1998-12-11 Thread Frank Gerhardt
Dear Patrick! On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:00:46 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > if you cdrom is on the secondary controller first drive you should mount > /dev/hdc > first controller = hda, hdb (first, second drive) > second controller = hdc, hdd (first, second drive) That worked ;-) > they

Re: K6-2 and debian ?

1998-12-11 Thread ray
I just set up a Debian system with one of theses CPUs and I'm not getting any such error. One thing that strikes me as odd is that most of the k6-2 chips use a 2.2V core voltage and most of the HX based motherboards can't go that low so I'd double check that your motherboard and cpu really are com

kdm - no keyboard

1998-12-11 Thread Tamas Nyitrai
Hi there! I have just upgraded a system to the latest binaries from slink (xbase, xlib, xdm, libc, etc...). This is a workstation where kdm starts at boot time (from the 9803sthng debian package) and that enables users to login to the box. After upgrading the following occured: Kdm starts, the lo

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