Yo-
I don't believe that Xfree86 3.3.3 has been packaged yet because the
developer is busy making the Slink version ready for release. If you go
to ftp.xfree86.org and download the *binary* XF86_SVGA server and then
copy it to /usr/bin/X11 and edit /etc/X11/Xserver to match the server
location y
Okay, it's been another month. Are we any closer to a 2.1 release for x86?
Is there a web site where I can more closely track progress?
Will it be out before or after kernel 2.2?
--
SEGVhttp://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:12:11PM +, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote:
> The problem radicates on how to read those messages from, say,
> mutt or pine in my linux box. I guess that these programs have some
> sort of mailbox format to read these files, but I don't know what
> format to choose. I
"Rich Harran." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /dev/hda1 /mnt vfat unmask=0002,gid=101,uid=0,showexec 0 2
> in fstab, (where 101 is dos gid). However, the drive mounts with
> permissions:
> drwxr_xr_x
A silly suggestion: as far as I remember off the top of my head it
should be 'umask', not 'unm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes:
> There is the difficulty that Debian is an organization that is based on
> volunteers, where RH is a registered company. So managements tend to
> see RH as much more solid and stable organization then Debian.
No doubt you are true about that, but I've never com
> I know that you can use alien to convert rpm files to deb files. Are there
> any disadvantages to downloading the rpm files and installing all software
> this way for Debian or is it better to download the deb file for the
> program.
If you have a choice between a deb file and a rpm, always ins
OK, next problem :-)
I am seeing from time to time when running dselect, this warning..
ldconfig: Can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1
What's this about ! I am not aware I am using any aout stuff ??
How do I replace the file ! What package should be installed for this.
Perhaps one of
Ed Cogburn writes:
> I remember also when some folks were talking about this earlier, that
> there was a way to get pppd to output the speed to a file that could then
> be parsed, but I can't remember it very well. 'man pppd' might help.
I don't know any way to get pppd to do that, but you can ge
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:52:21AM -0700, Dan Furtney wrote:
> scripts. On the back of the book it said shell progamming wasn't covered
> because Pearl would be better for the task. I decided to look into Pearl
> instead. Good Luck
Please don't confuse Pearl with perl. Pearl is a different - if a
I haven't found any, but there are some good web-based
programs around if you have a browser. Come to think of
it, you could probably use Lynx (a text-only web browser)
to access one of those.
Frank
--On Saturday, January 16, 1999, 6:43 AM + Pere Camps
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
I'm wondering, where I can find the XFree86-3.3.3 Release for debian. I
have installed the debian 2.0, that does not support my graphiccard:
Matrox Millenium G200 AGP and want to update at least the XFree86
packet.
Thanks for every useful information!
Is there a good tool to split debian-user digests into invidual
articles?
I'm currently using "formail +1 -ds" (formail is from the procmail
package), but it has the following problems:
* It includes the digest boundary line (a line of dashes) in each
message.
* It seems to break MIME message
Moises Quinto Vargas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[LDD Output of a libc5 based netscape without any X11 library]
> checking the mailing list archives i found the following:
> - to run netscape 4.5 must install glibc (libc6). glibc comes with
> 2.0.34, right? then why does not netscape recognize gl
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Gregor Giesen wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Word is that the 7 files method doesn't work - I'd suggest you get the one
> > big
> > file. It worked for me.
>
> The 7 files also work. You must gunzip all files; netscape should do it
> automaticly. Then you must
shaul wrote:
> > I intend to package the html version of the book
> >
> > MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers
>
> Can you add the postscript version to the package ?
What PostScript version?
I _recall_ seeing that but can't find it now...
Peter
"Rich Harran." wrote:
>
> I emailed a problem on the list yesterday, about getting to use X as a
> normal user. The problem was the permissions of /dev/null, which I
> changed to:
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root
> and everything worked. However, when I restarted today, I had the same
> probl
I use plan ol' 'calendar' at school, but apparently it hasn't been ported
to Linux, at least I don't have it installed...it was pretty handy :(
what other planner software is there? I was something like
my monthly planner, just on the screen...
---
Yes, but every time I try to see things your way,
For some reason my mail reader, (Pegasus Mail v2.55), ate some
linefeeds from a previous post, as the original text looked OK when it left the
edit window.
Correction:
On 15 Jan 99 at 23:55, Alfie Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> handle any of these invocations: vl foo vl < foo vl --help vl
Jim Foltz wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 01:57:59AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > Jim Foltz wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is there some program that can log ppp data through-put? I'd really like
> > > to
> > > see what's happening while I am downloading for extended periods, like
> > >
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 12:20:40AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Could you clarify the differences between these two files??
Two different names for the same thing.
> I just found out that I don't have .Xresources file in my home
> directory... is this a problem??
Either mv $HOME/.Xdef
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Word is that the 7 files method doesn't work - I'd suggest you get the one big
> file. It worked for me.
The 7 files also work. You must gunzip all files; netscape should do it
automaticly.
Then you must untar the first one "gui00" and you get the Runme -script. All
Mark Brown wrote:
> Last time I checked, the scripts provided by suck should replace the
> file. They copy the outgoing file away, and then flush it (which closes
> the old outgoing and creates a new one). Here's the relevant bit of
> script:
>
> if [ ! -s ${OUTGOINGNEW} ]; then
> mv ${OUTGOI
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:22:37AM -0700, Scott J. Geertgens wrote:
>
> I recently posted a message about GCC not being able to compile due to
> dma_intr and/or read_intr errors. After receiving a response here and
> scouring the net I've realized that the problem lies on the drive itself
> (bad
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:28:10PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> Any ideas how to decompress them?
Try using Wine. I managed to decompress self-extracting Windows
archives using it.
-Michele
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 02:21:57PM +0100, Alexander N. Benner wrote:
> So I wondered if MD5_CRYPT is defined.
It is.
> How to check comp. options in general?
I'm not sure about that one, other than d/l the source and debian diffs
to see.
--
--- - - --- - -
Hi
Going through my /etc/login.defs I found this passage:
#
# Only works if compiled with MD5_CRYPT defined:
# If set to "yes", new passwords will be encrypted using the MD5-based
# algorithm compatible with the one used by recent releases of FreeBSD.
# It supports passwords of unlimited length a
Word is that the 7 files method doesn't work - I'd suggest you get the one big
file. It worked for me.
-Jay
I have downloaded the 7 GUI??.GZ-files, put them into a directory,
unzipped and untarred them and ran Runme.
I did answer 'y' on the question 'Did you unzip and untar the files you
downloaded?' and then got the message: Error: nothing new to install.
What am I missing?
Johann
--
The main advantage to using Debian made packages is that a Debian develpoer
made them and you can be sure they follow Debian policy and standards.
Installing a new version of a package from an rpm may wipe out a conf file or
change the directory it looks for data.
In general a Debian package is a
Hallo,
I am forwarding the question below to this list because I am not sure
about the answer. Some experts on this list should be able to answer it
and inform readers of the GLUG-list in South Africa of whom a very few are
debian user's about debian.
Johann
-- Forwarded message -
I've been trying to get a dos partition mounted in group 'dos', with
read-write permissions for those in this group. I found an old thread on
this, and now have:
/dev/hda1 /mnt vfat unmask=0002,gid=101,uid=0,showexec 0 2
in fstab, (where 101 is dos gid). However, the drive mounts with
permissi
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:55:00AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:32:57AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
>
> > Don't all news-servers provide for this, and all news-readers
> > implement it? The news reader in NS Communicator does the above.
>
> I'm sure every news server
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, shaul wrote:
> > or is it possible to use my linux-partitions?
> >
>
> I guess not, but I never tried it.
>
Of course it is! Just use the "emufs.sys" driver.
Have a:
device=c:\emufs.sys /your/linux/directory
line in your DOS's config.sys (or a few such lines)
There is how
Hi All!
I'm looking for a proper way of installing the Xwindows to support the
Polish locales. Well, I have configured my system in this way that I can
get Polish characters in my windows but it is done in a very "dirty" way
(the xkb switched off, NLS set to C, the keyboard sends Polish characters
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 12:20:13AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Is it possible to get more details about the follwing:
>
> [12:15am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/xdm start
> Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration...error in configuration file.
> Not starting X display manager.
> [12
On 16-Jan-99 Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone tried out the Xi graphics video server??
>
> Is it really much better that XF86??
>
Depends on the card, monitor, etc. However it does not interface nicely with
the Debian X packages. Personally I would suggest supporting Xfree. H
Hi all,
I found this great link from LWN.
But, then I went back to the debian home page, and coundn't find
it...
Am I missing something??
PS: There are also some great links in Debian Weekly News which I cannot
find them in the debian home page...
Thx...
Shao.
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:49:54AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote:
> Strange, on my hamm box installing xfstt was a pretty eventful job. First,
> there is no FAQ.gz. Maybe it is in the slink but I can't install that to a
> hamm box, can I? Then there is a problem with starting xfstt. It looks like
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 12:47:27PM +0200, Tapio Väättänen wrote:
> I use get-news script provided by Suck pakage. When
> I have written new articles get-news will send them
> out next time I run the script. Now, I don't know is
> problem with suck or inn, but after the articles are
> sended out, t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Writes..
> For me the problem was solved very easily---I installed libc6-dev from
> the Debian 2.0 CD. This completely reorganized /usr/include/ and the
> kernel-compilation problems then disappeared.
OK I already had this installed on both Debian 2.0 machines here. But I
decide
Hi ...
This week I compiled a new kernel going from 2.0.34 to 2.0.36. With the
change to higher kernel I also had to update my isdnutils to 3.0-8. I got
all new packages from slink and got no problems compiling the kernel. Before
the change to newer kernel, my isdn connection to the ISP worked fin
I emailed a problem on the list yesterday, about getting to use X as a
normal user. The problem was the permissions of /dev/null, which I
changed to:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root
and everything worked. However, when I restarted today, I had the same
problem, and found that the permission
Is it possible to get more details about the follwing:
[12:15am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/xdm start
Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration...error in configuration file.
Not starting X display manager.
[12:15am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
I grabbed a compiled XF86_FBDev off a website.
Hi all,
Could you clarify the differences between these two files??
I just found out that I don't have .Xresources file in my home
directory... is this a problem??
Thx.
Shao.
All gtk-based programs that I run on my box mysteriously die, always
on a mouse-click somewhere on their window, with this message on the
xterm that I start it from:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Gdk-Message:
** ERROR **: sigsegv caught
I have these packages installed (from slink, but I had the same
prob
Hi!
Here is a new release of the debcat program. It is an html index generator
for Debian package tree. It is also an example of handling the newly
proposed Purpose: lines.
This version includes support for loading file of user defined category
descriptions. Such file has the very same format as
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 00:32:39 +0200, shaul wrote:
> How about the 3rd edition of Stroustrup's book ?
In my opinion (mainly formed by the 2nd edition, though I've looked at the
3rd too) Stroustrup's book is bad, both for beginning, intermediate and
advanced users. For beginning and intermediate
> i am a beginner on debian linux ... i have installed a debian box in my
> office and it is connected to my LAN, i have installed telnetd on my linux
> and it is running fine. now i wanna install sendmail/exim on my debian to
> let it be my mail server ,,, i have downloaded this software from
>
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:49:54AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:35:30AM -0700, Dave Thayer wrote:
>
> > It was a pretty uneventful installation, but read /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz.
>
> Strange, on my hamm box installing xfstt was a pretty eventful job. First,
> there is
Hi,
Has anyone tried out the Xi graphics video server??
Is it really much better that XF86??
Thx.
Shao.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Writes..
> I had a similar problem when I upgraded from 1.3 to 2.0. In my case (I
> don't know if this is your problem), it became clear that the problem
> arose because the organization and contents of /usr/include/ were
> quite different in 1.3 and 2.0. There has been a long di
Bob Nielsen Writes..
> 2.0.36 should compile without problems on a hamm system.
Well it doesn't here.
I have spent years compiling kernels, and never really had a problem before,
until now. I posted the Errors here, but no-one suggested what may be wrong.
> I don't have a clue as to why you ar
Jim Foltz wrote:
> Is there some program that can log ppp data through-put? I'd really like to
> see what's happening while I am downloading for extended periods, like
> when I upgrade Debian.
Procmeter is a program similar to xload, but it can display many other
graphs as well, ppp load amoung th
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 01:57:59AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Jim Foltz wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there some program that can log ppp data through-put? I'd really like to
> > see what's happening while I am downloading for extended periods, like
> > when I upgrade Debian.
>
>
> Wel
Jim Foltz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there some program that can log ppp data through-put? I'd really like to
> see what's happening while I am downloading for extended periods, like
> when I upgrade Debian.
Well, the apt 'method' in dselect (install apt and it'll show up
in dselect's lis
>
> --Message-Boundary-7696
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
> Content-description: Mail message body
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone help me how I have to interpret the output of the
> (Matrox) X-server. I start but crashes. but how to interpret all the
>
Hi!
I'm looking for a telnet accesible (ie: terminal) program that
will allow to set some schedules: meetings, appointments, date limits,
etc.
Does anybody know any package that does that?
TIA!
-- p.
Hello,
Is there some program that can log ppp data through-put? I'd really like to
see what's happening while I am downloading for extended periods, like
when I upgrade Debian.
--
Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ACORN techie
AOL/IM: jim foltz
Wasnt anything serious, just the changes I made to afterstep, or tried to
make, caused it to fail at startup when in user mode.
Andrew
Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov
someone else understand your code.
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Nidge Jones wrote:
> Pann McCuaig Writes..
>
> > 2.0.34 works fine on our hamm boxes and I won't be upgrading kernels
> > until slink is released and we (eventually) upgrade our boxes to slink.
> > If you need features in 2.0.36 then you'll have to figure this out.
2.0.36 sh
On 12 Jan 99 at 16:56, E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...The problem is that the script gets its
> standard input from the pipe, and vi needs input from a tty. Your
> current tty is /dev/tty. This works:
>
> #! /bin/bash
> # mymore
>
> $TMPFILE=/tmp/mymore.$$.tmp
>
> while
On 13 Jan 99 at 11:27, E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Um, yeah, it looks neater :) I was just mindlessly copying the original
> poster's script. Anyway, you actually still have one superfluous
> character there :)
>
> cat > $TMPFILE
>
> is enough, so that the entire script
This just started happening tonight:
I was running X, and needed to restart the Afterstep, so I did. Instead of
restarting Afterstep Xdm restarted. And would not let me login as a user
anymore ( I can login as root and run everything fine).
So I took xdm out of startup.
Now I can login into shell a
> On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any
> > good documentation to read??
> >
> > Thx.
> >
> > Shao.
> >
>
> I would recommend O'Reilly "Learning the bash Shell".
> (http://www.ora.com) and
Hi Yi-ping Chang; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> Hi, guys:
>
> I got an HP DeskJet 520 from a friend of mine moments ago. I tried it
> out, using 'dj500-filter' of magicfilter package. It seemed to function
> well (paper is loaded correctly, the printing head is moving), but
> nothing pri
Moises Quinto Vargas wrote:
>
> ...new to linux, runing 2.0.34,
> my problem is that netscape 4.5 does not know where the libraries are:
> 1) ldd netscape gives me the following:
>
> libXt.so.6 => not found
> libSM.so.6 => not found
> libICE.so.6 => not found
> libXmu.so.6 => not found
> lib
hi there,
i am a beginner on debian linux ... i have installed a debian box in my
office and it is connected to my LAN, i have installed telnetd on my linux
and it is running fine. now i wanna install sendmail/exim on my debian to
let it be my mail server ,,, i have downloaded this software from
Hi, guys:
I got an HP DeskJet 520 from a friend of mine moments ago. I tried it
out, using 'dj500-filter' of magicfilter package. It seemed to function
well (paper is loaded correctly, the printing head is moving), but
nothing printed out. I am not sure if I chose the wrong filter, or just
the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've installed the Debian 2.0.10 from a CD using Dselect.
> The configuration had a few failures - among them a missing file: initrc,
> so the windowmaker couldn't be configured.
> After the installation I used XF86Setup to adjust videocard and
> monitorsettings. OK.
>
Person, Roderick wrote:
> I'm using windowmaker 0.20.3 and some apps that I run Maxwell,
> xmaddressbook, amaya and xpaint are larger then my virtual screen. When this
> happens I can get either to the title bar to Kill the app or to the bottom
^^^ do you mean can't?
> of the app to res
Dan Furtney wrote:
>
> I know repartitioning with fdisk/cfdisk is destructive. Is ADDING a
> partition destructive? I have a 10 gig drive: 4gb(Win), 2gb(RH) and the
> rest unpartitioned. It seems that partitioning the remaining space
> wouldn't hurt the existing partitions but I'm not sure. (came
Use FIPS (on the CD or the FTP site in /tools or utilities or
somesuch). It does exactly what you're looking for -- but READ THE DOCS
CAREFULLY.
==
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
==
Pann McCuaig Writes..
> 2.0.34 works fine on our hamm boxes and I won't be upgrading kernels
> until slink is released and we (eventually) upgrade our boxes to slink.
> If you need features in 2.0.36 then you'll have to figure this out.
OK fair enough. Least I am a little wiser.
However, will so
<>
Precisely. Such as the various Linux distributors (lsl.com, etc), but on
a larger scale in terms of marketing. -- Or like what VA Research is
doing.
==
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
==
I know repartitioning with fdisk/cfdisk is destructive. Is ADDING a
partition destructive? I have a 10 gig drive: 4gb(Win), 2gb(RH) and the
rest unpartitioned. It seems that partitioning the remaining space
wouldn't hurt the existing partitions but I'm not sure. (came so close to
trying it anyway
I think that it is worth considering skipping the Pascal stage and
going straight to C, or equivalent languages. Taking this approach a bit
further, I think it is even worth considering going straight to C++,
perhaps
by talking first about the procedural aspects of C++ and only then, as a
sec
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