trio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How should i make sure that i'm only downloading stable good
> programs?
Simply avoid telling dselect to use the unstable or frozen
distributions.
Unless you explicitly tell it otherwise it will only install
packages from the 'stable' selection -- these have be
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 04:19:10PM -0600, Joey Hess wrote this:
> David Stern wrote:
> > Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a
> > "decimal"?
>
> This is in base 16, so:
>
Hm...i obvilously didn't even look hard enough at the number given
since i didn't even noti
Hi,
On Wed, 27 Jan, 1999 à 09:17:47PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Having managed a trial install of Debian, I'm trying to get the kinks out.
>
> Original problem: The standard install had problems formatting and
> recognizing my 13.6 Gig disk.
> I assume this is a limitation of cfdisk. I used fd
David Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I mount the cd and use access, then it asks for dir where the files is, and
> gives a suggestion, I try that but its wrong, dont know how to change it or
> how to find out the path
Where did you mount the cdrom?
Which was the suggestion dselect gav
Hello again,
Thanks to all who helped with my cfdisk question.
Now i'm continuing to install the Debian system using the ftp method.
But what am i going to wind up with v2.2.x? v2.0.32? I would like to
install a nice stable system that will only do e-mail, serve web pages
and do dns. I d
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:21:33AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> As someone with several months experience now with Linux, yes. As someone
> who's never seen a UNIX/Linux prompt or heard of dpkg and has a tremendous
> learning curve in front of him, I think the optional installation floppy is
> a bett
*- On 28 Jan, Odin wrote about "Samba and kernel 2.2.0"
>
>
> Any ideas? I have seen a special samba mounter for kernels 2.1.x, is
> there something similar for 2.2.x?
>
You need to install the smbfsx package which has the smbmount compiled
against the 2.1.x(which is now 2.2.x) headers. The c
*- On 28 Jan, Gary L. Hennigan wrote about "Re: kernel 2.2.0"
>
> So if slink is frozen, meaning nothing but bug fixes can be put into
> the distribution, how can putting 2.2.x into it be justified? Please
> don't read this as negative or sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious about
> the process.
>
R
David Wright writes:
> Once ppp is configured, you would select ftp and type in the same options
> as anybody else. The point about ppp is that application software like
> ftp has no idea what sort of datalink layer is carrying the Internet
> Protocol packets.
Except that somebody has to issue a '
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On 28 Jan, Anthony Campbell wrote:
| > On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade
| > 2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg
| > download, it would take a long time and be expensive :(
|
| I'm afraid tha
I have recently compiled kernel 2.2.0 and am having some samba
difficulties now.
This is the sort of thing I get with smbmount
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]# smbmount //alpha/LAAS /mnt
Password:
mount error: Invalid argument
Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons
smbclient will lis
> > *- On 28 Jan, Robert B Geary wrote about "kernel source"
> > > I just installed Debian Linux and can't find the kernel source
> > > code anywhere. There is no /usr/src directory on my system.
> Accodring to other posts here, 2.2.0 will likely be in potato,
> but not slink, because slink
David Stern wrote:
> Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a
> "decimal"?
This is in base 16, so:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>bc
...
ibase=16
11A
282<-- result
quit
--
see shy jo
*- On 28 Jan, Richard Hall wrote about "reading /usr/doc files"
> Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do
> I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more?
>
Install the less package and then stick eval `/usr/bin/lesspipe` in
your system /etc/csh.login or /etc/pro
Brian Morgan wrote:
>
> I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it.
> When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site - v4.5), I get
> the following error:
> "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'"
> How can I fix this?
> I'm running slink, icewm, gnome. Tried finding li
What's the recommended method for upgrading from hamm to slink?
--
Evan Parry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I mount the cd and use access, then it asks for dir where the files is, and
gives a suggestion, I try that but its wrong, dont know how to change it or
how to find out the pathI really need to install all, gimp, kde
xwindows and so on...
David
Had the same problem. I believe I pulled this library out of
stable/oldlibs.
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brian Morgan wrote:
> I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it.
> When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site - v4.5), I get
> the following error:
> "can't lo
hi all
not very debian-related, but maybe someone can help me.
i need some help to configure a small irc network. where i work there's a
head office and two branch offices. they need to use irc and want to set up
a network like this
head office = irc hub
branch office1 = irc leaf1
branch office2 =
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> *- On 28 Jan, Robert B Geary wrote about "kernel source"
> > I just installed Debian Linux and can't find the kernel source
> > code anywhere. There is no /usr/src directory on my system.
> > What package do I need to install? Thanks,
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
>
> The ker
Richard Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do
> I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more?
The packages that come with documentation in formats supported by
browsing tools such as info or man install it in the proper place
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Richard Hall wrote:
: Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do
: I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more?
I like less. Just put this line in your .bash_profile (or /etc/profile)
eval $(lesspipe)
and less will have no trouble
In a message dated 1/28/99 3:28:57 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do
> I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more?
>
You can use zmore (or zless) to do the same thing in one step. But that's the
b
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 16:21 (-0500), Richard Hall wrote:
> Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do
> I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more?
I think both mc and lynx handle that task fairly well.
--
your man pann
Thanks to the two posters. It was the revision. I tried it once but
make-kpkg kept failing. I kept forgetting to use --revision instead of
-revision. No problems now.
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> : On Wed, 27 Jan 1
David Wright wrote:
>
> Quoting acop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> [much snipped]
> > Jan 27 15:47:17 HQ pppd[209]: local IP address 134.99.138.64
> > Jan 27 15:47:17 HQ pppd[209]: remote IP address 195.158.131.195
> > Jan 27 15:48:19 HQ pppd[209]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> > Jan 27 15:48:19 HQ pppd[209]: Modem
Richard Hall wrote:
>
> Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc,
> or do I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more?
You can use "zmore":
zmore whatever.gz
There is also zless and zcat.
Kirk
Netscape needs:
xlib6
libg++27
xpm4.7
motifnls
to run. I think xlib6 might be your problem.
Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it.
> When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site - v4.
trio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>So, how do i get to a prompt to just do the cfdisk manually?
Just hit alt-F2 to switch to another virtual console and log in there
(there may already be a shell running in vc#2 when booting from the
installation disk, I don't remember it precisely).
--
Henn
I always grab the source from ftp.kernel.org or one of its mirrors, then
Untar into /usr/src. Always works for me.
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Robert B Geary wrote:
> I just installed Debian Linux and can't find the kernel source code anywhere.
> There is no /usr/src directory on my system. What pack
Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do
I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more?
Richard Hall
Network Services
University of Tennessee
Hi,
When trying to install certain packages, such as
dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libgtkxmhtml0_0.30.1-5.deb
dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libgnome0_0.30.1-5.deb
dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/interpreters/python-gdk-imlib_0.5.3-2.deb
dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/interpreters
Rich Hartman wrote:
>
> Hello all -
>
> I just did a fresh install of slink on my machine, and now want to
> slap netscape on there for web-browsing and e-mail My question is
> which of the seemingly dozens of Netscape packages do I need to
> install?
>
> Thanks!
>
The netscape-xx
As I mentioned before, my mouse wasn't working when I installed a S3
Virge card with 4 megs on my debian box. After trying everything I could
come up with, I decided to try again with the old card. Ta-Dah! the mouse is
working fine now.
So it is obviously a conflict between the S3 and my s
In a message dated 1/28/99 3:04:55 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> The kde debs are at: ftp://ftp.timsnet.com/pub/kde/ (latest date is latest
> snapshot).
>
I only saw the 1.1 pre 1 versions...
I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it.
When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site - v4.5), I get
the following error:
"can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'"
How can I fix this?
I'm running slink, icewm, gnome. Tried finding libXpm.so.4 using dselect in
the froz
Hello,
I'm installing Debian Linux onto a completely clean system. I know the
hardware works because i had Linux working on it before. In the meantime
i have used MS-DOS fdisk to remove all partitions.
My problem: i've downloqded the floppies needed to install a new
configuration and the
The kde debs are at: ftp://ftp.timsnet.com/pub/kde/ (latest date is latest
snapshot).
--
Rafael Kitover
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
pgpy00XiVgpVK.pgp
Description: PGP signature
*- On 28 Jan, Robert B Geary wrote about "kernel source"
> I just installed Debian Linux and can't find the kernel source code anywhere.
> There is no /usr/src directory on my system. What package do I need to
> install? Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
>
The kernel-source- packages. I think there are 2
Thanks... (Looking at it) Close - I'l have to check the exact VGA etc, but I
think those configs will do it.
One concern was if I install 1.3 will it see the Backpack, and even if so
upgrading to /dists/frozen will still be a huge download, so I may just
build a set of floppies and let it run for
Gregory Vandenbrouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have made a setenv LANG=fr on my system. Which means some programs
> are displayed in French. It works fine but for perl which prints the
> following message:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check th
I just installed Debian Linux and can't find the kernel source code anywhere.
There is no /usr/src directory on my system. What package do I need to
install? Thanks,
Rob
Thanks for the correction:
0x is hex, 0 is octal.
>
> OK, hex numbers are radix 16, octal radix 8, decimal radix 1.
No, decimal is radix 10 (base 10). Binary is base 2.
> I guess I'll have to determine when to use each based on context.
In written language the base is used as a subsript to the
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:17:34 CST, Andrew Ivanov wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a
> > "decimal"?
>
> 0x11A is in hex, and to convert it to dec is
> 1*16^2 + 1*16^1 +10*16^0
> (A=10,B=11, C=12, D=13, E=14, F=15)
I should never have asked
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 07:01:48PM +0100, Björn Elwhagen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:23:46AM -0600, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote this:
> >
> >As I said in my original message, I think it's a hardware problem. I only
> > shut down my computer, installed a card, and rebooted. And the mouse w
*- On 28 Jan, Jay Barbee wrote about "2.2 with IPmasq and LP"
> IPMasq... It is simply not setup the same. ipfwadm does not work anymore
> and I needed to use ipchains. also adding the 'echo "1" >
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' was something new as well.
>
I discovered the ipmasq package whi
Björn Elwhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 0x0123 is if i don't reccall wrong the way to represent an octal
> number.
No. 0x "always" means that a hexadecimal number follows.
Ocal is "traditionally" indicated by having a leading zero but
no x. Outside contexts where one KNOWS that this convent
> Howdy,
>
> Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a
> "decimal"?
0x11A is in hex, and to convert it to dec is
1*16^2 + 1*16^1 +10*16^0
(A=10,B=11, C=12, D=13, E=14, F=15)
I may be wrong, but I think octal is in x0# format, so that
0x0300 would be an octal number.
To
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:57:54AM -0600, David Stern wrote this:
> Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a
> "decimal"?
0x0123 is if i don't reccall wrong the way to represent an octal number.
In that case you get it's decimal number this way.
123 base 8 is (3*8^0 + 2*
Hi,
I bet this question was answered many times, sorry to bug you again... Usual
situation when I start program using fvwm2 menu or some button, then not all
environment variables are set ($PRINTER in particular). I usually define
environment for all users in /etc/profile and for "xterm" fix
Hey all,
been spending time upgrading hardway. I aquired a 33.6 3Com external modem.
Quite a boost from my old 14.4...I quess If I did get so many F#$ CRC
errors.
I've tried what the manual syas to do
load AT&F1 no luck, different phone line. Lower the port rate no luck.
I use minico
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> Hey all. KDE 1.1pre2 was released the other day, and I have begun
> constructing Debian packages of it. If anybody out there is interested, I
> will make them available for download. I have constructed packages for
> the basic KD
Howdy,
Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a
"decimal"?
I think there are a few common formats of numbers and I'd like to be
able to recognize them and transpose them, but I don't know where to
look.
Thanks,
--
David
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Matt Garman wrote:
>
> Before upgrading to kernel 2.2.0, I had sound working perfectly. I
> have a SoundBlaster AWE 32 plug'n'play (ISA). With my 2.0.x kernels,
> I used isapnp, then loaded sound as a module (automatically by
> kerneld).
>
> With the 2.2.0 kernel, I've tri
Michelle Coelho wrote:
> I have connected an external 56k modem to com1 (ttyS0). I ran pppconfig and
> filled in the info to the best of my knowledge. Then I ran pon. Then I did a
> 'plog' and got the following diagnostics:
>
> pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/provider : unrecognized option '/dev
Was told to look in projects/experimental
Getting ready to load this up - it's a 486/100, 16mb, 800mb drive. Has a
Backpack CD-ROM (parallel port). The Debian CD's I have are 1.3. Is there
any special concerns for this, and anyone have any tips on the best way to
load it? The modem is a 28.8, so the way I was going to do it (install disks
Rafael Kitover wrote:
>
> Just guessing here, but sounds like some sort of printer language (like
> PCL is the printer language for hewlett packard *jets). You might want
> to
> install magicfilter and ghostscript and see if they support it.
OK I installed magicfilter, and looked through the "F
On 28 Jan, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade
> 2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg
> download, it would take a long time and be expensive :(
>
>
> Anthony
>
>
I'm afraid that enough has cha
My initial install of the kernel 2.2.0 was not too good. I have to admit,
I do not keep up with the development kernels, only the stable ones... so I
felt very newbie-ish upon the problems.
IPMasq... It is simply not setup the same. ipfwadm does not work anymore
and I needed to use ipchains. al
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> I found the documentation on getting PPP to run - but again, this info isn't
> available the first time you run dselect - that is when it's needed. I
> haven't even tried it, so this may be a moot point, but when you run dselect
> the first time,
On 28 Jan 1999 11:35:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale E. Martin) said:
>
> As far as I know, there are no Debian packages for Quake II 3.20 yet.
> [...] I've cced the maintainer to see if they've got any comment if
> new packages are coming.
Thanks, I hadn't realized it was out. (I don't actual
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I upgrade my debian packages to 3.2
>
> Should the maintainer do this?
As far as I know, there are no Debian packages for Quake II 3.20 yet. I
uninstalled the Debian packages and installed 3.20 by hand. I think that
the two could coexist, actu
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:47:14AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> I believe there's a gpmconfig tool that may help, but if there's an IRQ
> conflict it won't. IRQ issues are the biggest pain other than shoddy
> software (can you say "Microsloth"?). Getting it straight depends on your
gpm-mouse-test
In a message dated 1/28/99 9:57:17 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
> file. and do some other stuff with the root.bin It is my understanding
> that you use a program called floppy-split to split the base2_0.tgz into
> the base disks. You would be adding one more disk
At 11:38 AM 1/27/1999 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, eric scroger wrote:
>>
>> > I need a program that can read Excel xls spreadsheet and possibly export
>> >
>> > data to a text file. Anyone know of such a beast?
>I
hello, I don't think you can add optional disks to the boot disks. I
maybe wrong but I just made a set of custom boot disks to include a speech
synthisizer into the kernel. That was not the hard part, what was hard
was that I had to put a different default.map file into the base2_0.tgz
file. and
Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Continuing on would have
> gotten me the man reader, but alas, my modem wouldn't work, so I couldn't
> download any further packages. I can zcat the doc files, but because
> there's garbage in the output of that (ctrl characters, etc), it's not easy
> to
At 10:10 AM 1/27/1999 -0800, Nuno Donato wrote:
>I have a problem starting X.
>I have tried all the monitor and card options but I receive
>the same error message all the time.
>It says 'no screens found'
>
>When I start XF86Setup I choose evrything and I save my
>configuration with no problems,
At 01:58 PM 1/27/1999 -0500, Michelle Coelho wrote:
>
> I have connected an external 56k modem to com1 (ttyS0). I ran pppconfig and
> filled in the info to the best of my knowledge. Then I ran pon. Then I did a
> 'plog' and got the following diagnostics:
>
> .
> .
> pppd: Exit
> .
> .
> .
> pp
At 11:37 AM 1/28/1999 +, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote:
>Hi!
> Yesterday, I bought a S3 card for my debian box. I installed it, and
>after some tinkering about, I got it working. However, as a result of this,
>I had to change some BIOS settings (I think I did, anyway, as nothing was
>working for a
*- On 28 Jan, Jyrki Malinen wrote about "Kernel 2.2.xx"
> When Kernel 2.2.xx will be included to Debian/GNU Linux release, and to
> what release version, potato?
>
The default kernel image for slink will still be 2.0.36 but a source
package for 2.2.0 will be included in slink. Slink is not 100%
On 27 Jan, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Take a look at /etc/apache/httpd.conf - you'll notice a whole section on
> modules. Uncomment the lines you want.
smashing, thanks. It's still not working, but I suspect I need to
revisit the manual to work that one out...
--
Graham
Hi, Looks like you have a PCI sound card (Ensoniq, now
owned by Creative Labs). I have one of these cards at
work myself.
This is what I did to get it to work (Under kernel 2.2.0)
Kernel Compile options:
Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370)
Creative Ensoniq Aidio PCI (ES 1371)
I selected both since I
At 05:45 PM 1/27/1999 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> * I, and I am positive I'm not alone, would be willing to download
>> an extra (optional) disk at install time so I could get a basic man
>> set, with the full package being available as it is now - just so I
>> wou
When Kernel 2.2.xx will be included to Debian/GNU Linux release, and to
what release version, potato?
--
Jyrki "rootti"
*ei vastaa kirotusviheistä*
one of the project HALI leaders
At 11:46 AM 1/27/1999 -0500, Paul McDermott wrote:
>hello, I do sympathize with lack of knowledge at installation time. We
>were all there at one time or another. (including myself, I have had to
>reinstall more then one do to a lack of understanding of linux and the
>operating system. I would hat
Quoting acop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[much snipped]
> Jan 27 15:47:17 HQ pppd[209]: local IP address 134.99.138.64
> Jan 27 15:47:17 HQ pppd[209]: remote IP address 195.158.131.195
> Jan 27 15:48:19 HQ pppd[209]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Jan 27 15:48:19 HQ pppd[209]: Modem hangup
> Jan 27 15:48:19 HQ pp
Yeah, I got this too. As root, just do:
ln -s /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6a.0.0 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6
And it will work.
Robert King wrote:
> With KDE, lots of things don't work and it seems to be because kfm is not
> running. Trying to start kfm from the command line in an xterm gives the
> error -
>
> I used those floppies and they didn't work.
> I tried with slink version and it has failed at the same point.
> I can't boot Debian because the start-up process doesn't detect the SCSI
> hard drive unless all seemed to be right.
> I'm looking in the list for someone who had had a similar problem
Hello all -
I just did a fresh install of slink on my machine, and now want to
slap netscape on there for web-browsing and e-mail My question is
which of the seemingly dozens of Netscape packages do I need to
install?
Thanks!
Hi all,
I have upgraded to the 2.2.0 kernel and am getting lots of these
messages from the kernel:
this guy talks to ff01a8c0 from loopback
Anybody have a clue what this is about?
Thanks,
--
Brian
-
"Never criticize anybody u
On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade
2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg
download, it would take a long time and be expensive :(
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ac
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 05:18:01PM -0600, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote this:
> Hey all. KDE 1.1pre2 was released the other day, and I have begun
> constructing Debian packages of it. If anybody out there is interested, I
> will make them available for download. I have constructed packages for
> the b
Using gnome (latest version) with slink and icewm, having trouble using menu
items. Most (90%) will not activate anything. Only a few buttons actually
activate the appropriate application. Other buttons don't do anything. I
can get to many of the applications through the standard icewm menus, b
> Hallo
>
> my name is Ingo.
Hi.
> I have installed the GNU/Debian version 2.0.
> Now i have a problem with the X-windows system.
Which card and monitor do you have? 640x480 seems like either a pretty old
ISA card, or a very old monitor, or both.
Make sure you have the right settingsif you
> Hi I'm having trouble Starting X
> I installed the version that came on 2.0 cdrom uder hamm
> I have used X setup and I'm running a S3 Virge DX and have it configured and
> a Monitor running
> at 800x600
What seems to be the problem? Does it not start, does it start and die,
what error messages
Thu, 28 Jan skrev Matt Garman:
>
> Before upgrading to kernel 2.2.0, I had sound working perfectly. I
> have a SoundBlaster AWE 32 plug'n'play (ISA). With my 2.0.x kernels,
> I used isapnp, then loaded sound as a module (automatically by
> kerneld).
>
I also have problems with sound after upg
Kim Breedlove wrote:
>
> I have just got X running although only using VGA_16 server, but hope to
> get SVGA server later. Now, I have annoying problem that when I exit X
> my command mode display is garbled. Example: "command not found" is
> displayed as "cmmad nt funnd" and "startx" is "sarrt".
Hallo
my name is Ingo.
I have installed the GNU/Debian version 2.0.
Now i have a problem with the X-windows system.
I have running the x-server but X didn´t start.
There is only an error message on the textmode that call :
no valid mode "480x640" installed
But I have config the XF86Setup and I
*- On 26 Jan, Ben Messinger wrote about "lurker's printer problem solved!"
> Debian is a delight, and the Linux
> community's best kept secret!
But please don't keep it a secret! Tell your friends, family,
co-workers, etc.!
--
Brian
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Andrew Ivanov wrote:
>I got a 14" monitor, and even with 1024x764 Wharf buttons in AfterStep do
>look kinda big. WHich file holds the size of buttons in AS?
>I realize that .xpm's will neen to be replaced as well to indicate new
>size or button, but it will not be a problem.
I
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm,
> 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart.
> I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with "From"
> in the text, procmail sorts everything before "From" in the
Hi I'm having trouble Starting X
I installed the version that came on 2.0 cdrom uder hamm
I have used X setup and I'm running a S3 Virge DX and have it configured and
a Monitor running
at 800x600
I've had X working under these settings in redhat 5.2 but this is eluding
me in debian.
Help would be
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:03:57AM +, Pere Camps wrote:
> Does anybody know if there's a patch for being able to access
> vfat32 formated partitions?
the patch-2.0.36.gz will do:-)
Seriously: The official 2.0.36 and 2.2.0 kernel will support fat32. This
means that the normal msdos fs the
Hi!
Yesterday, I bought a S3 card for my debian box. I installed it, and
after some tinkering about, I got it working. However, as a result of this,
I had to change some BIOS settings (I think I did, anyway, as nothing was
working for a time!). As a result of this, the mouse isn't responding any
>> "OK" == Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OK> I haven't completed the migration (what's holding me back is Slackware's
OK> pine version which is newer than Debian's),
There is a pine 4 Version in projects/experimental on the mirrors.
OK> else is replaced by Debian equivalents. "devs" ma
This is what I hope to be the final test build of XFree86 3.3.2.3a-9; if
there are no significant problems it will be released with that version
number. This test build addresses all four release-critical bugs currently
outstanding against XFree86.
There are exactly 5 things I want to do for -10,
Hi!
Does anybody know if there's a patch for being able to access
vfat32 formated partitions?
Thanks!
-- p.
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 04:21:10AM -0600, Heikki Vatiainen wrote this:
> > root = /dev/hda2
> > vga = normal
> > block
> ^
> Block? I did not find any references to block keyword in
> lilo.conf manual page. If you take it out, does it work then?
H...Tnx...i have no idea how i could have
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