RE: Netscape Communicator v.5 won't run ?

On 30-Dec-98 Mike Rae wrote: > All : > > After installing Navigator 4.5, and attempting to run, I get the > following error messgae > > "./netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4" > > Running a "ldd netscape" tells me that > > "libXpm.so.4 => not found" > "libg++.so.27 => not found" > "libs

Netscape Communicator v.5 won't run ?

All : After installing Navigator 4.5, and attempting to run, I get the following error messgae "./netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4" Running a "ldd netscape" tells me that "libXpm.so.4 => not found" "libg++.so.27 => not found" "libstdc++.so.27 => not found" What am i missing ? BRGDS

Re: linux window manager

hi Ship's Log, Lt. Darko Martic, Stardate 301298.2214: > > Hi ! > > Which window manager is the best? I meen, which one has graphical > configurations, which one users prefer (za one koji znaju hrvatski: koji je > najzastupljeniji) and software is specialy created for, like KPPP, and such > thin

Re: GhostScript and Magicfilter

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 02:59:13PM -0700, John Greer wrote: > I was installing GS and magicfilter last night (Hamm, krnl 2.0.34) so > that I can print from Netscape etc. I renamed my old printcap and > ran magicfilterconfig. The result being that I can print text and but > still not postscript

RE: netscape, locale C

Make sure the locale package is installed. On 30-Dec-98 Rick Venable wrote: > I'm having a lot of trouble installing netscape on a 2.0.34 kernel of > Debian "slink" Linux. I keeping the message > > > netscape: locale `C' not supported. > Perhaps $XNLSPATH env var is not set correctly? >

Re: ip-up & ip-down

>> "j" == john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: j> Just edit poff. It's a pretty simple script. The problem with this j> is that poff isn't the only thing that can cause pppd to take down j> the connection. There is also another problem. When ppp is updated, it will update poff, and all changes wou

Network Neighborhood and IPmasquerading

Hello all, I've got a machine, A, that connects to network N via a ppp link to machine M. I'm planning to masquerade machine B through A (A will have masq installed and run ipfwadm, B will talk to the world through it). If net N has some windows machines, and B is a windows machine, is ther

netscape, locale C

I'm having a lot of trouble installing netscape on a 2.0.34 kernel of Debian "slink" Linux. I keeping the message netscape: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps $XNLSPATH env var is not set correctly? Bus error. The env var XNLSPATH is set, and points to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls Any hints

Oy.. X and STB Systems Velocity 3D & S3 ViRGE/VX

It seems every time I install X I have to get someone else's XF86Config... Every time I try to start the Server, it violently blanks out, where I have to violently mash The Big Red Button. Anyway.. Could anyone who has the above Video Card E-Mail me the file? TIA, -Ryan

partitioning THAT hard drive with W95 on it

hello my name is simon and ive come accross a few problems with partitioning the harddrive with windows95 on it. the problem is: how you you get the biggest amount of space for the linux partition? as the largest amount of space is 60MB (for linus and the swapfile) also is there a way of asimila

Re: linux window manager

Darko Martic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi ! > > Which window manager is the best? Of course, the one I use ;-) > I meen, which one has graphical configurations, which one users > prefer I like Window Maker (wmaker). You should install the newest version in the unstable directory if possi

Re: ip-up & ip-down

Jim Foltz writes: > You could have poff call some program and waits for it to exit before it > takes the link down. I think this technique is called a wrapper. So you > move poff to poff.real and create a new poff that tells your service you > are going offline, then calls poff.real Just edit poff

Re: GhostScript and Magicfilter

I was installing GS and magicfilter last night (Hamm, krnl 2.0.34) so that I can print from Netscape etc. I renamed my old printcap and ran magicfilterconfig. The result being that I can print text and but still not postscript. Is there a howto somewhere that I can read?? The printer I am u

Umax Astra 1220P Scanner

Does anybody know how I'd go about using a UMAX Astra 1220P under Debian? I installed sane, but looking at the docs it seems as though the only Umax scanners it supports are SCSI models; this is a parallel port scanner.

linux window manager

Hi ! Which window manager is the best? I meen, which one has graphical configurations, which one users prefer (za one koji znaju hrvatski: koji je najzastupljeniji) and software is specialy created for, like KPPP, and such things? Thanx !

LILO

Hi ! Could someone tell me how do I install LILO and where, in what files, do I configure it, and of course how ? Thanx !

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

Tongyu Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. > I am using tcsh. The $HOME is already set. > here is the ldd output: > ldd: version 1.9.9 > libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000d000) > libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so

Re: Newsgroups and this mailing list

ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I may be wrong (pls correct me if so) but I believe this mail list > _IS_ linked to the newsgroups. Check out linux.debian.user At least in my region (Germany) the linux.* newsgroups are almost dead. I also had problems with other gated mailing lists (like com

Re: Keyboard policz[D[3~[D

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Dorsch) writes: > I upgraded Debian from 1.3 to 2.0.r3 on a laptop (toshiba Tecra 720 > cdt) some time ago. But I had always problems with the keyboard > mappings. > > Both delete and Backspace have the keysym Keyboard Delete (checked > with xkeycaps). *That* is your p

Xfree86 instalation problems

Pozdrav ! I have some problems during the configuration of Xfree86. I'm guessing that problem is in video card and monitor configuration. I have ATI 3D Xpression+PC2TV 4MB and ADI ProVista E44 15" monitor. I chooseright video card prom the card list and enter the right horizontal and vertical freq

Re: [Can't get full capacity of my disk!]

[snip] The Maxtor software split the new drive into 4 partitions labeled as "D", "E", "F", "G", [snip] Would not recommend using Maxtor software. I had used 'EZ-Drive' by Western Digital on a new WD drive and these softwares uses some propietary IDE schemes. You are better off with fdisk or

Can anyone suggest a dialup terminal emulator?

General question: As part of my job I have to maintain several pieces of older network/switch equipment. To access them I need a VT220 - VT520 emulator that can handle: Zmodem, Ymodem, Xmodem and Ymodem 1K transfer protocols, VT/ASCII graphics, 7 or 8 bit characters, and function key remapping.

Re: SMP & SCSI resets

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : To be honest, It's been a while since I played with that system and I had : forgotten that the 2740 installed uses aic7xxx. I was too quick to call 2740s are notoriously spastic if there are other SCSI drivers linked into the kernel. I'

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

Marc Haber said > On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:56:37 -0500, you wrote: > >The necessary package for telling Debian that you've got a locally > >built mail-transport-agent installed is "equivs". > > Thanks. > > >The "equivs" package only seems to be available from http://www.debian.org > >and not from

RE: Binary-cat Console Junkedness... [(Sort of) OFF-TOPIC]

On 30-Dec-98 Ryan King wrote: > Knowing the answer to this question doesn't matter much, but I am > curious... > > Why does a VC go bonkies when you cat a binary file from it? What doesn't > make sense to me is that only some of the chars display wrong, and that > it's only the display that is r

Re: Binary-cat Console Junkedness... [(Sort of) OFF-TOPIC]

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Ryan King wrote: > Why does a VC go bonkies when you cat a binary file from it? Terminals can be modified in various ways by sending them special command sequences ("control characters"). You can tell the terminal to use boldface, change size, and lots of more arcane things.

Re: ip-up & ip-down

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:11:49PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Martin Bialasinski writes: > > When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to > > make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like "contact the > > dynip service to tell them I am going offline"

Re: login problems

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 07:23:56PM +0100, Paulussen Edmond wrote: > Last week I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 > Everything went (quite) well. I installed Linux, windowmanager, Netscape, > connection with my ISP,... and got it working. > > Since yesterday I am unable to login. After login (with c

Binary-cat Console Junkedness... [(Sort of) OFF-TOPIC]

Knowing the answer to this question doesn't matter much, but I am curious... Why does a VC go bonkies when you cat a binary file from it? What doesn't make sense to me is that only some of the chars display wrong, and that it's only the display that is ruined, but the actual characters are intact

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:56:37 -0500, you wrote: >The necessary package for telling Debian that you've got a locally >built mail-transport-agent installed is "equivs". Thanks. >The "equivs" package only seems to be available from http://www.debian.org >and not from any mirror sites. Or at least t

ls dev_task

Just installed Debian 2.0 on a TI Extensa 570 Partitons: 480 MB Win 95 440 MB Linux 112 MB Linux Swap But after booting, and login root, I get always only rev_task at "ls" At installing from CD-ROM (this notebook has CD _or_ floppy) I copied the install folder to the win 95 partition, started

Re: SMP & SCSI resets

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : > > Setting up LILO isn't going to be a problem...just couldn't remember the > > option... > > i didn't know the option either before your post. > > >> Ps: to

adding network stuff; easy way?

Hi all, Just now I have installed debian on another machine copying whole system from my home computer by "cp -ax / /new-disk". As the new system should work at thin ethernet based LAN I have to add (or reconfigure) network stuff to it. How should I do that? Hope it is possible to do without too

login problems

Last week I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 Everything went (quite) well. I installed Linux, windowmanager, Netscape, connection with my ISP,... and got it working. Since yesterday I am unable to login. After login (with correct username & password) I get following error message: "login [128] un

Re: SMP & SCSI resets

On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : > Setting up LILO isn't going to be a problem...just couldn't remember the > option... i didn't know the option either before your post. >> Ps: to find things like that see the kernel sources. >> for example aic7xxx=no_reset (along with all o

Re: modem answering to a different song?

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 01:07:57PM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: : Has anyone been able to get a modem to answer to a distinct phone ring? : My phone company allows one to have up to four numbers on one line each : with a distinct ring and I would like to set up a fax server that answers : only

Re: ip-up & ip-down

Martin Bialasinski writes: > When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to > make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like "contact the > dynip service to tell them I am going offline" doesn't work. A while back someone suggested hacking pppd to run "ip-abou

Re: APM on Linux?

I read the docu on APM. Seems like it is useful for laptop and may not be for desktop? Suppose I can turn the system into standby mode, how can I turn the hard drive spin down? The question boils down to: how can save maximum energy when the computer is idling? I mainly use the computer after work

modem answering to a different song?

Has anyone been able to get a modem to answer to a distinct phone ring? My phone company allows one to have up to four numbers on one line each with a distinct ring and I would like to set up a fax server that answers only on one of these numbers. Any ideas? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa,

Re: SMP & SCSI resets

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : > > I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option > > to turn-off SCSI reset. Unfortunately, I've not been able to locate > > the referenc

Re: LILO hassles

I had similar problem before. My setup is similar to yours: NT on /dev/hda1 and Linux on /dev/hdb1. I use NT boot loader to choose which partition to boot. To solve the problem, I boot from a Linux boot floppy and login as root. Run lilo (this rewrite the boot sector). Reboot to NT and use bootp

[dnelson@emsphone.com: Re: [joey@carelia.infodrom.north.de: [lead@gmx.de: limit of mutt]]]

-- ciao, Marco --- Begin Message --- In the last episode (Dec 29), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > but than, i4ve wanted to view into my debian-devel-mbox mutt ran and > ran -showing "sorting mail" (the swap-space decreased so i4ve added a > swapfile) - after waiting about three hours i killed mutt (th

Re: pkgsel

"Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for >> slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just >> normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little >> README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc

Changing(forcing) Alt-Fn to Ctrl-Alt-Fn

Again Howdy! When using the VT's I'd like to block Alt-Fn from being interpreted as a change to antother VT so that the key sequence would be available to the applications. How would that be done? Specifically, I have some DOS apps that I run locally and remotely (via SSH). When the applicatio

RE: SMP & SCSI resets

On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : > I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option > to turn-off SCSI reset. Unfortunately, I've not been able to locate > the reference. > > Could one of you kind folks either point me in the right direction, > or even (**

Re: Can't get full capacity of my disk!

[ cfdisk reports a 6+ gig drive as 2 gigs ] Two things to check 1) press to get a terminal and type "dmesg" to see all the kernel bootup messages. Scroll up using and look for where the kernel detects hdc to verify it works correct. 2) try fdisk from that terminal ("fdisk /dev/hdc" should work

Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Robert Alexander wrote: > Thank you very much Brandon. > Good to hear there is some hope ... > I tried your .gov site but despite having many 2.1.4 stuff the rescue > are only 2.1.3 ... probably will have to try in some more time ... > > BTW the .gov site is a mirror. I looke

SMP & SCSI resets

Howdy All! I've finally got my SMP machine spinning both CPU's. (Seems that the MB was jumpered wrong...) However, when I boot the system the Adaptec SCSI Controller gets stuck while resetting. I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option to turn-off SCSI reset. Unfortu

netdate/screen blanking

The battery on my laptop seems to be shot so it doesn't keep the time correctly...when I netdate to my ISP, the screen blanks for some reason...any ideas? (I think this is a hamm version, but I'm not sure, I'm not well enough versed in the mysteries of dpkg to find out :) --- The chief cause of pr

Re: OFFTOPIC: How to use strings with libstdc++?

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've stated that there is no old good String class in libstdc++. > > Instead I've found the "string" header which defines the "string" > > class. Is it OK to use it in new C++ programs, or it is added only > > for compatibil

Re: Apache, Apache-SSL

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:47:53AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: : Does the non-us SSL version of Apache also require the non-SSL package or : is it a standalone replacement for Apache? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg --print-avail apache-ssl Package: apache-ssl Priority: optional Section: non-us/web

Can't get full capacity of my disk!

Hi, I just buy a new hard drive (Maxtor 6.4G). I want to dedicate this new Maxtor drive to linux. So I leave my old hard drive as a "master" on the first IDE bus (the old drive has DOS/win95), and set my new Maxtor drive as a "master" also on the second IDE bus. OK, here is the proble

Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...

Thank you very much Brandon. Good to hear there is some hope ... I tried your .gov site but despite having many 2.1.4 stuff the rescue are only 2.1.3 ... probably will have to try in some more time ... BTW the .gov site is a mirror. I looked for an Incoming directory on ftp.debian.org but no luck

Apache, Apache-SSL

Here's my silly question for the day. ;-) Does the non-us SSL version of Apache also require the non-SSL package or is it a standalone replacement for Apache? -- Regards, | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . | Randy |

Re: OFFTOPIC: How to use strings with libstdc++?

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've stated that there is no old good String class in libstdc++. > Instead I've found the "string" header which defines the "string" class. > Is it OK to use it in new C++ programs, or it is added only for > compatibility? Why ha

Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Robert J. Alexander wrote: > I cannot boot any Debian (tecra or whatever) rescue disk on my latest > laptop (previous 3 IBM Thinkpads where OK). Try the latest rescue/drivers images in incoming (mirrored at llug.sep.bnl.gov). They use the 2.0.36 kernel and are now zImages so

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 09:32:14PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > /dev/lp1 is for older kernels, /dev/lp0 for newer kernels. Don't ask me > why. It is explained in the kernel sources. It has to do with the order of the port addresses in conjunction with traditional BIOS naming. Now the naming is th

X font "fixed" missing (was: Re: Hey girls and boys)

On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:52:50PM -0600, me wrote: > Hey there! > > I'm new. > > I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on > Intel and Alpha platforms): > > "Fatal server error: > could not open defualt font 'fixed' > " > > I figured it must have been some mis-confi

Free SSH (was Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?)

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 16:33:43 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Yes, but due to the ssh license I'm not allowed to use the ssh for some > purposes without buying a commercial version :-( A free (GPL-ed) implementation of the SSH protocol version 2 is in the works; see http://www.lysator.liu.se

Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?

On 30 Dec 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "WZ" == Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > WZ> Or may be it is possible to ftp files securely using the > WZ> ssltelnet? > > If you have ssh on both hosts, you can use scp, which works basicaly > like cp, but over a secure connecti

Re: Installation problem: HAMM CD structure

>> "PV" == Pieter Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PV> So I downloaded HAMM. To be sure things will go my way, I want to make PV> sure the CD directory structure matches the official CD structure PV> Note that I am building these CD's on my Office NT box so I cant use PV> any Linux CD packa

LILO hassles

Hi LILO gets to 'LI' and then hangs with the IDE disk light on. I have tried the linear option. The partition is 900 something cylinders (below 1024), and on a SCSI disk. I read that LILO wont work if the Linux partition (or for the matter any partition) is not disk0 or disk1. Is this correct.

Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 13:57:56 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > I can't find the sslftp in the debian non-US archives... Why? Because noone packaged it. I looked into it a long time ago, and it looked like it was based on fairly old BSD source. As several security vulnerabilities in ftp and ft

Installation problem: HAMM CD structure

Hi After 5 years of NT only, I decided to have a look at Linux again. My old Slackware disk was way outdated so I downloaded Debian. I downloaded SLINK, made a CD copy of the files, installed, got to the point of installing the packages, and then the install failed with dependency errors. So

Re: mounting W95 partitions

Thanks, that did it. _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/ On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > It sounds like you are trying to mount the extended partition itself > rather than one of the logical partitions which it contains

Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?

>> "WZ" == Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WZ> Or may be it is possible to ftp files securely using the WZ> ssltelnet? If you have ssh on both hosts, you can use scp, which works basicaly like cp, but over a secure connection. Ciao, Martin

Re: Trying to install gide

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:03:20AM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > I'm trying to install gide using apt-get and ocurrs an error: [..] Hi, if You using apt-get for installing, updating or upgrading packages, please try: apt-get update ; apt-get install e.

Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?

I can't find the sslftp in the debian non-US archives... Why? Are there any legal problems with it? Or may be it is possible to ftp files securely using the ssltelnet? TIA Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ip-up & ip-down

>> "j" == john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: j> #!/bin/bash j> dynipclient -k j> ... j> ... j> and put a similar script in ip-up.d. Just a thought: When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like "contact the d

What are the Dpkg perl modules used for?

Hello I was poking around in the perl5 lib directory and noticed 3 Dpkg modules: List.pm, Packages.pm, and Index.pm. What can they be used for? -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...

I cannot boot any Debian (tecra or whatever) rescue disk on my latest laptop (previous 3 IBM Thinkpads where OK). Really need a solution. Here is the description (in the attachment). Thank you very much. Happy 1999. Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Very dear Debian friends, In the past I have

Re: [PB] a quiet sound blaster

debian writes: debian> FYI: You might have a cdrom installed.. But I suspect it is on an IDE debian> channel rather then on the IDE channel on the soundcard? You're right. It's on /dev/hdc. I just remember having connected a wire directly from it to the SB. -- / / _

Re: Trying to install gide

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:03:20 +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: >phantasy:/home/paulo# apt-get install libgtk1.1 >Updating package status cache...done >Checking system integrity...ok >Sorry, libgtk1.1 is already the newest version >0 packages

Trying to install gide

Hi Debian users, I'm trying to install gide using apt-get and ocurrs an error: phantasy:/home/paulo# apt-get install gide Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following NEW packages will be installed: gide

Re: Where are the configuration files for Afterstep?

On 29 Dec 1998q, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > Try /usr/share/afterstep. That is the system-wide "root" for the > afterstep configuration. > > HTH. > > -Ian > > I know those files are there, but they don't do the basic configuration. I finally discovered where it's lurking; it's in /etc/X11/a

Defragging large filesystems

I know this isn't a Debian-specific question but I'm at home for xmas and I don't have access to the newsgroups here, so forgive me this transgression. I have an 8gig hard drive which I made a single ext2 filesystem to hold my mp3s. While ripping and encoding some of my CDs, the fragmentation jump

Re: spreadsheet

I tried the XLite, found in uunet. I just had a look, but it seemed very good. Bye, Giuseppe Stan Brown wrote: > Anyone have a reomendation for a good spreadsheet, under Debian?

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

"D'jinnie" wrote: >> Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, > >If your printer is at lp0 that would certainly explain why you can't >print. However, I have no idea why it would assume lp1, since the default >normally is lp0..

argh, disked again

A simple job, stick a 500mb drive in, make a new partition out of spare space, and tar it over. A few minutes in, garbage appears during tar, which i initially attributed to screwy characters in a dos filename. But it seems that instead, it was on some kind of rampage through the rest of my hard

Mwave Support?

The title pretty much explains this one. But is Mwave at all supported in Linux or is it pretty much in vain to install? Merry Christmas! Nils =O) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You could trouble me for a big glass of shutup!" http://youthrage.base.org

Re: I've got a problem installing a new Graphic Card (ELSA Gloria Synergy)

Hi, Andrea > > This card use the 3DLabs PERMIDIA 2 Chipset and I don't know how > to run an X server from the debian 2 distribution. there is no applicable X server in debian 2. > I know that XFree86 > 3.3.3 provide a new Xserver for 3DLabs Chipsets but where can I find > the Debian Package

Where is libgmodule-1.1.so.3?

I broke down and upgraded from slink to potato and am now paying for my lack of will. I get 'error loading shared libraries' when I try to run gnome-session. 'Dpkg -S' is no help, I haven't a clue as to what .deb holds this lib, although its got to be gnome related. Any help? TIA --

Re: pkgsel

> With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for > slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just > normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little > README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/ . > > Is this the plan? How about another thought on how t

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

D'jinnie wrote: > > > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, > > > > You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this > > is setup this way, do you have more than one parallel device? > > Hmm. I look at my printcap, and by default it's set to l

Re: installing on cdrom-less box

ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ Your cd will probably have a similar directory. Instructions are in the directory. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.ho

Re: pkgsel

With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/ . Is this the plan? I'll try to be sure and document how to explo

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

/dev/lp1 is for older kernels, /dev/lp0 for newer kernels. Don't ask me why. On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, D'jinnie wrote: > > > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, > > > > You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this > > is setup this way, d

installing on cdrom-less box

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to install debian on a box which lacks a cdrom; I can export the debian cd's via nfs, ftp, whatever. I had heard that you could install debian with floppies and nfs, but haven't been able to find the floppy image(s) to do so. thanks, Chris <-

Re: Logitech TrackMan Maple+

> Martin Schulze wrote: > Hmm... my Trackman Marble is a PS/2 device: > > > Section "Pointer" >Protocol"PS/2" >Device "/dev/mouse" > EndSection > > ...and... > > device=/dev/psaux > responsiveness= > type=ps2 > append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" >

Re: Web-based email for Debian

I am working (and about ready to upload) on a web based IMAP mail program called IMP. I have a .deb up for download along with an example of what it looks like and how it works. http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/Debian It's still in beta but works really well. I use it when I'm at work and have h

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

> > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, > > You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this > is setup this way, do you have more than one parallel device? Hmm. I look at my printcap, and by default it's set to lp1. I shall include it for

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

> % lpq > Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson ESCP2' > Queue: 1 printable job > Server: pid 378 active > Unspooler: pid 379 active > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, If your printer is at lp0 that would certainly explain why

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 03:39:27AM +, Monte Copeland wrote: > > % echo "print something!" > /dev/lp0 > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this is setup this way, do you have more than one pa

Trying to compile a new kernel.

This is my first attempt at compiling a new kernel. I downloaded the latest Linux kernel 2.1.132 in hopes that one day I will be able to get my SoundblasterPCI128 sound card to make some noise like music CDs , midi, Real Audio/Video , etc... But that will have to wait because at this time I

Re: Logo

When I started using Debian a little over 2 years ago I thought the capital "DEBIAN" that was multi-color looked really sharp. It would make a cool sticker, t-shirt, CD-cover or anything actually. Kudos to whoever designed it. It appeared on the web page 'back in the day and looked great! Keep

molim pomoc

Pozdrav ! Posto iz subjecta mozete zakljuciti o cemu se radi, prijeci cu odmah na stvar. Evo upravo sam vec treci put pokusao instalirati taj OS sa VIDI CDa iz broja 29/30 no sve prodje ok osim instalacije X Window systema. Naime podesim u xbase-configure sve kako i je, sto se tice graficke kartic

Nevermind... sorry Re: Acroread & Hamm ???

I did not have the old Xt and X libraries that where compiled against libc5 installed and that was the problem. I can wait for this libc5 legacy stuff to go away. Thanks for the help. On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:12:45 +0100 > From: Stephan Engelke <[E

Re: Acroread & Hamm ???

I am totally confused by this here is my ldd acroread output. libreadcore.so => wc_deb:/usr/local/opt/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin->ldd acroread libreadcore.so => /usr/local/opt/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/lib/libreadcore.so (0x4000a000) libpfs.so => /usr/local/opt/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/

Re: ip-up & ip-down

Frederic Breitwieser writes: > In the ip-up and up-down scripts, I had to switch directories in order > for the program to see its config file in the same directory - it doesn't > use any path or environment variables ! This documented in the pppd man page. It is done for security reasons. The st

Hey girls and boys

Hey there! I'm new. I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on Intel and Alpha platforms): "Fatal server error: could not open defualt font 'fixed' " I figured it must have been some mis-configuration on my part, but I can't find any mismatched dependencies. Oh: Inte

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