Ok, actually a friend of mine is having this problem. When he boots to
the rescue disk, or uses the install batchfile with loadlin, he gets the
LILO prompt, hits enter, sees a few lines of kernel messages and then his
machine just reboots.
He has an AMD K6 with an Award BIOS, a Western Digital 8
Can anyone point me to a doc that explains how to get sound support from
a Turtle Beach Montego A3dXstream soundcard? I'm assuming a dedicated
driver has yet to make it into the kernel, but I'm hoping I can get _some_
sound from it...Thanks.
SJG
Matthias Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win95 -t vfat
> It seems to be with no problems. But in each win95 is a directory named
> "Program Files". I can't change in this dir, because it's a space in
> the filename.
Have you tried escaping the space in the shell? Eithe
Hi!
> I've read the documentation but I can't find what I'm looking for.
> mailq lists the mail waiting to be sent, but is there a command that says
> "Send all waiting mail NOW!" ?
runq
:-)
-- p.
I mounted on my notebook the win95-partition as shown:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win95 -t vfat
It seems to be with no problems. But in each win95 is a directory named
"Program Files". I can't change in this dir, because it's a space in
the filename. Has it a way to change in this dir - other than mou
When you get proficient you will want Stroustrup's books, Meyers' books, and
perhaps Lakos' book.
Until then, pick whichever introductory book works for you. The Primer is
probably good.
--
SEGVhttp://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/
Hallo all,
I'm not all that well up on how mail works so it's a bit of a mess at
the moment,
but here's my current problem.
I have two user accounts set up on my machine at home, this one for the
Debian
group and my 'normail' login account. It's like this for two reasons, firstly
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> > I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I
> > remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and
> > then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone
> > know of such a program/scr
I've read the documentation but I can't find what I'm looking for.
mailq lists the mail waiting to be sent, but is there a command that says
"Send all waiting mail NOW!" ?
thanks
tb
As far as a book to learn from goes, I would Recommend C++: How to
Program, Deitel/Deitel 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1998. I learned from the
previous edition of this book. It's really good, IMHO.
HTH,
Steve
/\
/ \
/\
/ /\/\ \
/\ Steve Beitzel
/
everybody learns in different ways. that's for sure. so the stroustrup book
may be the one for you.
however, i have had much more success with other books (like the
primer). while he may be a buddha when it comes to writing languages, i don't
think stroustrup is that great of a teacher ... so far
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> otherwise the 'compile as [386/486/Pentium/PentiumPro]' option in kernel
> compilation could change the bogomips rating or not ?
> i compiled it as a 686.
> should i compile it as a 586 ?
>From Configure.help:
- "Pentium" for the AMD K5, K6 and K
Hi Brandon,
> I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I
> remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and
> then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone
> know of such a program/script?
There is a little program called s
Hello,
I need a hand with scripting... ive got a script that 'want' to update cvs
things. But sometimes i get messages like:
"cvs [update aborted]: connect to anoncvs.gnome.org:2401 failed: Connection
refused"
The script goes on ignoring the message and it think, it has update the
module.
On 17-Jan-99, Phillip Deackes took time to write :
>> so my AMD K6-2 at 350Mhz should have 700Bogomips isn't it ?
>
> I think I would be concerned too. I have an AMD K6-2 3D 350 MHz
I am !
> processor, overclocked to 400MHz and I get the following from cat
> /proc/cpuinfo:
>
> processor :
> Hello,
> I'm looking for a web-browser that would handle
> CSS1 tests, provided by w3.org. I tried Mozilla
> ( slink .deb ), and, despite the claims of
> www.mozilla.org, tests were not 'passed'.
> Are there any suitable browsers?
Emacs-W3 also claims CSS1 suppor
pgpHRIl5X7D5L.pgp
Description: PGP message
Hi,
> When the packages was installed, you must have gotten an e-mail from
> maor-installer saying:
>
> | If the override file requires editing, reply to this email. If your
> | upload fixed reported bugs, you should close them now.
>
> I'm not sure which packages you're trying, but you should
Hi Ossama,
you wrote on: 16 Jan 99 at 22:13 (received 17.01.99)
about : _Re: xconfig, menuconfig_
>There are no such packages. They are Makefile targets. Go into your
>Linux source directory and do "make xconfig" or "make menuconfig."
Thank you very much for your information, I will try
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Colin Boyd wrote:
>
> Sorry to ask this again, but I realized that I wasn't subscribed to the
> list from this account last time, therefore if anyone replied I couldn't
> see it.
>
> I recently convinced my boss to buy me an ethernet card fo my linux box.
> I successfuly
I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I
remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and
then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone
know of such a program/script?
Thanks,
Brandon
+---
On 17-Jan-99, Marcus Brinkmann took time to write :
> On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 03:34:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> besides the fact it seems outdated (1997-12-13), it says like me:
>> AMD K5/K6 clock * (2.00 plusminus 0.010) 11.1
>>
>> and it lists K6 at 166Mhz havi
Sorry to ask this again, but I realized that I wasn't subscribed to the
list from this account last time, therefore if anyone replied I couldn't
see it.
I recently convinced my boss to buy me an ethernet card fo my linux box.
I successfuly recompiled the kernel using the tulip driver and it al
Hi
I am looking for a cheap way of capturing still images from my Hi8
camcorder. Looking around, Snappy ($100), seems to fit the bill.
Is there anyway this will run under linux or linux/wine?
Does anyone have any other recommendations?
TIA
Richard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederick Page) writes:
[necessary Packages are installed, ld.so.conf is fine]
> The first missing libs (did not check all of them) are located in
> /usr/ X11R6/lib. Since I am a linux-newbie, I may have messed with
> the system in earlier tries to get netscape running. I copie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> besides the fact it seems outdated (1997-12-13), it says like me:
> AMD K5/K6 clock * (2.00 plusminus 0.010) 11.1
>
> and it lists K6 at 166Mhz having already ~330Bogomips !
>
> so my AMD K6-2 at 350Mhz should have 700Bogomips isn't it ?
>
> so nex
> > >I was wondering... (And this probably already has been mentioned
but
> > >anyway), why wouldn't DPKG/APT/DSELECT use a real database server
like
> > >mySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL/... to keep it's own database?
> >
> > Because a database has to be set up, as well as taking a significant
> > am
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) et.al. write:
> > Also the
> > "setup-dosemu" program appears to be missing, does anyone know if there is a
> > deb with it in or do I need to get it from the sources.
> >
>
> I do not know about it.
>
It's part of the dosemu package, but it's located at a unconvenient
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 06:02:25PM -0500, SEGV wrote:
> Okay, it's been another month. Are we any closer to a 2.1 release for x86?
Hopefully. It's still slated for release this month.
> Is there a web site where I can more closely track progress?
There is a list of release-critical bugs avalib
Thanks to everyone who helped me sort out the proper mounting of my dos
drives so that the group 'dos' could access them rwx. As many of you
suspected, it was my inability to distinguish between
umask and unmask
which was causing my problem (I have the same problem with umount: I read
an
On 17-Jan-99 Nidge Jones wrote:
> I have asked this before, but I still can't get to the bottom of it ?
>
> When I telnet into Debian 2.0 from a Terminal on the Ethernet, the CR
> key becomes broken in a few things and doesn't fucntion right.
>
> [snip]
>
> At the Linux prompt all is well, nothi
James Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Simple question: Where did it go?
>
> I'm running the latest from potato. util-linux 2.9g-3
>
> /usr/man/man8/clock.8.gz -> hwclock.8.gz
> ls: /usr/man/man8/hwclock.8.gz: No such file or directory
>
> /var/catman/cat8/hwclock.8.gz does exist, so it
Thanks to all who replied. I did a e2fsck on the drive, then reinstalled
the GCC package and have had no problem since. Life is good :)
SJG
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 03:34:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> besides the fact it seems outdated (1997-12-13), it says like me:
> AMD K5/K6 clock * (2.00 plusminus 0.010) 11.1
>
> and it lists K6 at 166Mhz having already ~330Bogomips !
>
> so my AMD K6-2 at 350Mhz shou
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 05:05:48AM +0100, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote:
> >
> >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++,
>
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Jonathan Burley wrote:
> Does Debian support DHCP/BOOTP IP addressing?
Yes, I'm using DHCP via the dhcpcd program now. I've heard of others
using bootp. There is a new dhcpcd program that you will need to use for
the 2.2 kernels, but I forgot it's name.
HTH,
Brandon
+---
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
> Hello!
> I have compiled my kernel with IDE-SCSI emmulation to try and burn CDs.
> However, I can no longer mount my CDROM drives using /dev/hd[x]. Can someone
> point me to the new devices they are being seen as, and|or the relevant
> manpages? /de
I have installed the popularity-contest package and the mail
it generates is not sent, but rather frozen. This is what the
first file in /var/spool/exim/input/ says:
101qNi-0005l7-00-D
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be deliver
Does Debian support DHCP/BOOTP IP addressing?
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 03:27:55PM +, Rich Harran. wrote:
> rwx for group), but this doesn't work, and I can't even chmod the
> permissions as root. If I type
>
> chmod --verbose g+w /mnt
> it claims to have changed the permissions, but doesn't actually.
the vfat filesystem doesn't s
On 17-Jan-99, Marcus Brinkmann took time to write :
>> One is a 350MHz and it gives me ~350 Bogomips
>> the other is a 400MHz and it gives me ~800 Bogomips
>>
>> I think there is a problem. What do you think ?
>
> No.
i think there is, see below
>> What should i check first ?
>
> Read the Bog
> Does your /etc/fstab entry for those filesystems have the fsck-pass entry
> defined?
No.
I never actually read the docs on fstab and didn't realize what that
field meant.
Thank you very much.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Science and Technology Programming, I-Con 18
April 9-11,
Previously Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> The problem is that there is no one-to-one mapping of hamm to slink
> in some packages. One hamm package is found in four or more slink
> files.
We are going to address this issue though. For X there will very likely
be an upgrade path that does not suffer f
Joey Hess Writes..
> Unfortunatly, joe has a very odd, messed up little termcap library all its
> own. It doesn't seem to work very well when used from things like windows
> telnet.
It has worked 100% excellent here for months, from my DOS/NCSA terminals
to my Debian 1.3.1 server. The problem on
I have compiled a new kernel, I run "make zdisk" to make a boot-disk
and that works just fine. But I can't make my hard-drive boot-able.
When init is about to start I get an oops, 'unable to handle kernel
paging request...'. I have also tried make-kpkg but I get the same
error.
lilo.conf points to
If you been following this topic, you will know I upgraded two 1.3.1
machines here to 2.0. And both were having similar kernel compile problems?
In my last mail I explained how I had solved the Kernel compile problem,
by purging and re-installing the libc6-dev package... Following a suggestion
a
Hi there,
I hope this won't be too much of an off-topic.
I recently had to change my video card (S3 Trio64V+, 2MB) for a new one
(from SuperProbe:
Chipset:
S3 VIRGE/DX (PCI probed)
Memory:
2048 Kbytes
RAMDAC
Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in
6-bit mode))
No
>
>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
>s
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 12:14:59PM +0100, Peter Horatsche wrote:
> Mein Name ist Peter Horatschek.
> Ich habe mir das CHIP LINUX-Spezial mit DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 gekauft.
> Aber jedesmal wenn ich das installierte Linux starte stürzt es ab.
> (Es reagiert auf keinen TAstendruck mehr). Was kann ich
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 11:13:41AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One is a 350MHz and it gives me ~350 Bogomips
> the other is a 400MHz and it gives me ~800 Bogomips
>
> I think there is a problem. What do you think ?
No.
> What should i check first ?
Read the Bogomips mini-Howto.
/usr/doc/
Hi,
I think i have a problem with one of my new K6-2 box.
I have two boxes : same motherboard (ASUS P5A) , same amount of memory
(128Mo).
Same output of /proc/cpuinfo for both
*except* for bogomips.
One is a 350MHz and it gives me ~350 Bogomips
the other is a 400MHz and it gives me ~800 Bogomip
Michael Hammann wrote:
> Hallo,
> bitte macht bei diesem vielleicht lebenswichtigen Schneeball-
> eMail mit :-)
> >Julian Weddige schrieb:
> >Subject:Bitte weitersenden! B I T T E
Denk Dir schon mal eine sehr gute Ausrede aus, die könnte für Dich
lebenswichtig werden!
Raphael
P.S. Bitt
Mein Name ist Peter Horatschek.
Ich habe mir das CHIP LINUX-Spezial mit DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 gekauft.
Aber jedesmal wenn ich das installierte Linux starte stürzt es ab.
(Es reagiert auf keinen TAstendruck mehr). Was kann ich tun?
Hilfe bitte an: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Danke.
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 04:35:12PM -0800, Sam Franc wrote:
> I have been lurking on this group.
> What text do I need to get to interpret what all this language means,
> such as:
> " /dev/hda1 /dos vfat defaults,umask=002,uid=0,gid=35 0 0"
> I am a complete novice and want to install Linu
Nidge Jones wrote:
> At the Linux prompt all is well, nothing appears to be wrong. However start
> something like JOE (editor) up and the CR doesn't insert when you hit it,
> it just wraps to the next line. For example, if you are half way through a
> line of text, and you hit CR, the second half o
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 09:42:13AM -0500, Roger Pittman wrote:
> Per the source code, the "standard" (oversimplified) sequence is:
Ahhh, yes, what you describe is how it works usually. It's fine if you're
sitting at a leased line or pay a flat fee for your phone call to your ISP.
But what we
I have asked this before, but I still can't get to the bottom of it ?
When I telnet into Debian 2.0 from a Terminal on the Ethernet, the CR key
becomes broken in a few things and doesn't fucntion right.
The terminals are DOS based machines running NCSA telnet clients, and worked
just fine to Deb
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Sam Franc wrote:
> I have been lurking on this group.
> What text do I need to get to interpret what all this language means,
> such as:
Learning a new language isn't necessary to get a linux box running, and
use it effectively. Sure, there are some new concepts (uptimes >1 d
>> "RB" == Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RB> I want to replace getty with mingetty as it uses minimal
RB> resources. I tried changing getty to mingetty in /etc/inittab but
RB> it did not work.
This is what I have:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:234:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tt
Hi
> automatically runs e2fsck on the root partition. However, I mount
> several other partitions automatically via fstab, and on those I will
> after foo number of mounts get a warning that the drive should be
> checked. However, it's a pain to switch to runlevel 1 and manually
> check all thos
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The system I'm typing this on gets rebooted daily. (Yes, yes, I know
that's bad, but my landlord doesn't like my leaving the system on when
I'm not home.) After foo number of mounts, the boot process
automatically runs e2fsck on the root partition. However, I mount
several other partitions autom
Hi,
There are no such packages. They are Makefile targets. Go into your
Linux source directory and do "make xconfig" or "make menuconfig."
Have fun!
-Ossama
__
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3
Hello:
I want to replace getty with mingetty as it uses minimal resources. I tried
changing getty to mingetty in /etc/inittab but it did not work. How do I go
about it on a Debian 2.0 box. Why is Debian using getty as the default
instead of mingetty which is the default in a Red Hat box ?
ragOO,
Hi *.*
I'm linux newbie and guess this is kind of a dumb question, but I cannot
find menuconfig or xconfig (trying to "make" the config-files in order to
compile my kernel). (Running hamm, 2.0.34)
Which package do I need to install?
RTFM-answer welcome, but please name the man or howto :-)
The following is a copy of email I have sent to a friend who has been
working with Debian. I have expressed doubts to him many times
concerning the problems I had been having with my own Debian system.
I had been having trouble compiling 2.1.X kernels, and in other ways
too the system was broken.
Hi Torsten,
you wrote on: 16 Jan 99 at 09:28 (received 17.01.99)
about : _Re: Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries_
I also have serious trouble with Netscape 4.5 (from ftp.netscape.com, only
version available for Linux). I run the kernel 2.0.34
>First try installing the xlib6 and xpm4.7 pac
Hi, I have been working on this problem for a while. I can't get my
number lock to default in the on position while in X. This is what I
have done:
In the /etc/init.d/rc file I placed:
---
# I add the following for NumLock ON by default
INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
for
Hello!
I have compiled my kernel with IDE-SCSI emmulation to try and burn CDs.
However, I can no longer mount my CDROM drives using /dev/hd[x]. Can someone
point me to the new devices they are being seen as, and|or the relevant
manpages? /dev/sd[x], /dev/sg[x], /dev/scd[x] don't seem to work. :(.
Has anyone built the sound driver with Soundman Wave support?
I've tried under 2.0.34, 2.0.35, and 2.0.36 (I'm scared to inflict 2.1.125
on my unsuspecting hamm system), but always with the same result.
Following is stderr of 'make zImage':
soundcard.c:387: warning: `debugmem' defined but not use
Here's a sample page to try out with lynx (I'm on a winbloze box at the
moment and can't see how it works with lynx):
http://www.extropia.com/cgi/Calendar/4.0/calendar.cgi
The distribution is on the same site.
When I was looking for web groupware calendaring programs a year or so ago,
a search t
Kudos to the developer who fixed lowmem.bin!!! Recall that it would not do
the required swap partition tricks. The new lowmem.bin dated Dec 98 and
carried in the slink directory worked like a charm. It had hamm installed in
about an hour smooth as silk. Quite a treat after three months of
pu
Thank you Paolo, this is what I needed. In fact, gnuplot was on my list
to experiment with to see if I could make it plot the data from pppstats.
--
Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ACORN techie
AOL/IM: jim foltz
Sam Franc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> " /dev/hda1 /dos vfat defaults,umask=002,uid=0,gid=35 0 0"
> I am a complete novice and want to install Linux, but I see I need to
> learn a new language before I start.
The precise line you're quoting is an entry in a table. Knowing the
column he
Paolo,
> calendar
> gcal
I've checked them, and I need more powerful programs.
Thanks anyway!
-- p.
Frank,
> 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.
Do you recall the name of those programs / CGIs? I am very used to
lynx...
Ciao Jim,
On Saturday 16 January 1999, alle 01:31:54 -0500, 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.
I use this:
/usr/sbin/pppstats -w 10 >> /v
Shao Zhang wrote:
> 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??
It's not linked to from the debian homepage yet, being only 3 weeks old. The
url to it is http://www.debian.org/~joeyh
>
> 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
A registered company maintains legal liability. A profit making company also is
insured, which makes it feasible to sue if they decide to break a contract, etc.
Sean
Henning Makholm wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes:
>
> > There is the difficulty that Debian is an organization that is b
Ciao Rich,
On Saturday 16 January 1999, alle 15:27:55 +, Rich Harran. wrote:
> 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
> permissions:
>
> drwxr_xr_x
h
Ciao Pere,
On Saturday 16 January 1999, alle 06:43:04 +, Pere Camps wrote:
> 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?
look for:
c
I have been lurking on this group.
What text do I need to get to interpret what all this language means,
such as:
" /dev/hda1 /dos vfat defaults,umask=002,uid=0,gid=35 0 0"
I am a complete novice and want to install Linux, but I see I need to
learn a new language before I start.
TIA
Sam
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 03:27:55PM +, Rich Harran. wrote:
> 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
>
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