Re: Greater than 64 MB memory

1999-02-10 Thread Garrick Chien Welsh
The easiest way is to upgrade to a kernel later than 2.0.36 (2.2.1 would be preferable). Kernels before that don't recognise memory above 64M and and have to be told about it on the lilo configuration file. Like so. image=/bzImage root=/dev/hda5 label=linux append='mem=80M' read-only

Debian 2.0 & Kernel Error ...

1999-02-10 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao, I have the following output while running cron.daily (even immediately after boot): (kernel 2.0.34 or 2.0.36) -- Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c285ffa4 current->tss.cr3 = 01c73000, %cr3 = 01c73000 *pde = 1067 *pte = Oops: 0002 CPU:0 EIP

Re: KDE 1.1 (-19990207-1)

1999-02-10 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Yeah, the whole mess of 'em seems to be invalid... you can't even unpack them manually (using ar) without errors. I emailed their FTP contact yesterday, to make sure they're aware of the problem. I checked back about an hour ago, and they've added a "-2" revision (which unpacks properly) for most

Re: NON-US means?

1999-02-10 Thread homega
Eliezer Figueroa dixit: > Packeges in non-us means that they are not in english? I think it means that they cannot be used in the U.S. since they include some cryptographic code. There are some restriction laws on importing and exporting crypto into/out of the U.S. (shouldn't this apply to other

RE: Easy way to make a packages.gz file?

1999-02-10 Thread Shaleh
On 10-Feb-99 Becher, Andrew wrote: > Assuming I have a directory with many .deb files, is there an easy way to > generate a packages.gz file for this directory? > dpkg-scanpackages -- read its man page.

Re: Easy way to make a packages.gz file?

1999-02-10 Thread Paul Seelig
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Becher, Andrew wrote: > Assuming I have a directory with many .deb files, is there an easy way to > generate a packages.gz file for this directory? > man dpkg-scanpackages

Re: KDE 1.1 don´t install under hamm

1999-02-10 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 12:33:47PM -0400, Pablo Lorenzzoni wrote: > Hi friends! > > This is the first time I write here. Sorry for it is a problem that > bring me to write this one, but... Debian life is Debian life... > I?ve installed Debian 2.0 about a month ago, and I love it.

Easy way to make a packages.gz file?

1999-02-10 Thread Becher, Andrew
Assuming I have a directory with many .deb files, is there an easy way to generate a packages.gz file for this directory?

Re: pppd deamon dies unexpectedly

1999-02-10 Thread Jeff Miller
Make sure you have ppp support either compiled in or loaded as a module for the kernel. >>> "eferen1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2/10/99 4:30:41 PM >>> Okay, I put "Auth" in /etc/ppp/options, but it still quits on connect. Anything else I can try?

RE: how change IP address?

1999-02-10 Thread David Zanetti
You'll need to edit /etc/init.d/network if you're talking about the ethernet IP address. For PPP dialed up to a normal ISP, that's determined by your ISP, not your machine. As an asside to the list, what's the chances of the /etc/init.d/network scripts being replaced with something else? Long ago

Re: pppd deamon dies unexpectedly

1999-02-10 Thread Kirk Hogenson
eferen1 wrote: > > Okay, I put "Auth" in /etc/ppp/options, but it still quits on connect. > Anything else I can try? > I remember that SLIP used to do the exact same thing if you'd forgotten to compile in SLIP support in the kernel, or hadn't inserted the module. PPP might exhibit the same beh

RE: how change IP address?

1999-02-10 Thread Shaleh
On 10-Feb-99 Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > how can I change the IP address? Is there any menu I can use like the > one in the install process? Edit /etc/init.d/network

Re: pppd deamon dies unexpectedly

1999-02-10 Thread eferen1
Okay, I put "Auth" in /etc/ppp/options, but it still quits on connect. Anything else I can try? From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: eferen1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Subject: Re: pppd deamon dies unex

how change IP address?

1999-02-10 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
how can I change the IP address? Is there any menu I can use like the one in the install process? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: NON-US means?

1999-02-10 Thread John Hasler
Eliezer Figueroa writes: > Packeges in non-us means that they are not in english? No. It means the they cannot be distributed from sites in the US for legal reasons. Non-us contains mostly cryptographic software that it is illegal to export from the US (yes, I know this makes no sense) and packa

Re: NON-US means?

1999-02-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
It means that the server is not located in the US, excepting it from US encryption laws. -Ian On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > Packeges in non-us means that they are not in english? > > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http:

Re: NON-US means?

1999-02-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > Packeges in non-us means that they are not in english? > No, it means that export restrictions prevent them from being made available for download from a site in the USA. For example, there are laws in the US sta

help Leafnode again

1999-02-10 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Thanks to Frank and Dave for setting me straight on the /etc/host.allow entries, I thought I had Leafnode working properly. I was using leafnode version 1.4-10 and have now upgraded to version 1.6.2-2. I can access leafnode from netscape on the workstation, but it can't find the group information

NON-US means?

1999-02-10 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
Packeges in non-us means that they are not in english? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: 2.2.1 and /dev/sound

1999-02-10 Thread robbie
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 10:36:10AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I've finally convinced 2.2.1 to run X and my network. I still haven't > figured out why kerneld doesn't start anymore and do this automatically. > > But the sound doesn't work now. the basic > > cat /usr/lib/exmh/c

2.2.X && Printing

1999-02-10 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having problems getting my printer to work with the 2.2.x kernels. I've added the parport stuff into the kernel and my lilo.conf, but still no go. Here is what I've done so far: Kernel config: CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y CONFIG_PRINTER=y CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y Lilo.conf: ... app

Re: Greater than 64 MB memory

1999-02-10 Thread Alec Smith
Or you could download 2.0.36/2.2.1 kernel source, which should recognize the memory. At 11:29 AM 2/10/99 -0800, Mike Garfias wrote: >Sebastian Canagaratna spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: >> I have just installed 80 MB memory ( old was 16, and I added >> 64 MB ). I am using Debian linux

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: > Other than better help screens in the existing base install, the help > screens in the pppconfig setup could be improved also. Could you make specific suggestions? preferably by filing a bug report against pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Hors

Re: pppd deamon dies unexpectedly

1999-02-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Feb 1999q, eferen1 wrote: > I have tried setting up an internet connection with no success. > > Every time I try connecting, I get the message "pppd daemon died > unexpectedly". > > It does dial, I hear the initial connection made, and then it quits. > > I've used the terminal window to se

Re: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Feb 1999q, Colin Telmer wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I guess I overlooked the fact that I upgraded pine recently. However, > in my understanding, these are only required if you pop or imap which I > don't do. If I am correct, those messages are used to keep tr

Re: 2.2.1

1999-02-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Feb 1999q, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > > > I'm now using > >2.2.1 on hamm, also with no problems apart from the >need to change the > >port > >on /etc/printcap. > What software did you upgrade before going to 2.2.1? Are you running > anything as modules, and if so how did you configure th

No such site (UUCP-News)

1999-02-10 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, I'm getting Email and News via UUCP, email works (can read and send), I get news, can also write, but they don't get sent :-( When I do uupoll downtown I get "no such site" and only receive news. I use uucp, exim, inn and pine, all from the original Debian distribution CD 2.0 (Kern

Re: Greater than 64 MB memory

1999-02-10 Thread Mike Garfias
Sebastian Canagaratna spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > I have just installed 80 MB memory ( old was 16, and I added > 64 MB ). I am using Debian linux 2.0.2. When the machine > boots up it does not recognize the whole memory ( I believe > it recognizes only about 64 MB. I did man lilo.con

Re: quota on /var/spool/mail

1999-02-10 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Juergen Nagler wrote: > > I think your logic has a slight flaw. It checks to see if the mailbox IS > > CURRENTLY over quota, not if it WILL BE over quota AFTER the mail is > > delivered. > > > > In other words, mail comes in, the mailbox is checked to see if it is over > > q

RE: Greater than 64 MB memory

1999-02-10 Thread Shaleh
On 10-Feb-99 Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I have just installed 80 MB memory ( old was 16, and I added > 64 MB ). I am using Debian linux 2.0.2. When the machine > boots up it does not recognize the whole memory ( I believe > it recognizes only about 64 MB. I did man lilo.conf but this > did not

pppd deamon dies unexpectedly

1999-02-10 Thread eferen1
I have tried setting up an internet connection with no success. Every time I try connecting, I get the message "pppd daemon died unexpectedly". It does dial, I hear the initial connection made, and then it quits. I've used the terminal window to see what the problem is, but it doesn't show anyth

Greater than 64 MB memory

1999-02-10 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I have just installed 80 MB memory ( old was 16, and I added 64 MB ). I am using Debian linux 2.0.2. When the machine boots up it does not recognize the whole memory ( I believe it recognizes only about 64 MB. I did man lilo.conf but this did not have any way of getting it to recognize the extra me

Re: apt-get segfaults

1999-02-10 Thread Peter Berlau
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 11:09:34AM +0100, Martin Recktenwald wrote: > Hi, > > I have a serious problem with apt-get (and therefore with dselect): > running "apt-get install something" gives me a segmentation fault, for > example: > > test1:~# apt-get install xntp3 > Updating package status cache

Re: Few ideas

1999-02-10 Thread Helge Hafting
> I've been pondering on Debian's future more and more, and I've > wondered if: > > 1) The package system could switch on something more source-based. I > mean, there have been a few discussions on optimizing packages. > (Debian-i686) On a compile it yourself, the package can hardly be more >

Re: 2.2.1 and /dev/sound

1999-02-10 Thread Helge Hafting
> I've finally convinced 2.2.1 to run X and my network. I still haven't > figured out why kerneld doesn't start anymore and do this automatically. Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes Kerneld isn't needed any more. The kernel will auto-load modules for you anyway - if /etc/conf.

Samba question: file out of sync.

1999-02-10 Thread Jian Gong
Hello, I have a linux box on which Samba is installed and share A is output to the network. I also work in my other PC running on Windows 98, which uses files in the share. The problem is if I edit a file on the Linux box, I can not see the change on my Windows box. It seems Windows has a local

Re: Slink, xbase-common and xdm...

1999-02-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:39:53AM -0900, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: > Interesting problem - I've upgraded to slink as part of kernel 2.2.1 on > two different PC's, and I think I goofed on one. When the new X stuff went > in and asked if I should use my current config files, the PC at work was > to

Re: slink install and libc6

1999-02-10 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/10/99 10:58:23 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > First off, let me apologize if I misunderstood you. I'm in digest mode, and > so I can't see mail threads. I didn't see the posts that started this > thread. Your message sounded like you were experiencing

RE: Enlightenment and xearth

1999-02-10 Thread Shaleh
On 10-Feb-99 Colin Telmer wrote: > Is there anyway that I can convince enlightenment to not touch the > background when I login so that xearth remains visible (which was already > running under xdm). Currently, enlightenment displays its default > background until xearth updates itself again a few

Re: What Debian means?

1999-02-10 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > I want to know why our linux is called DEBIAN. Hey, I'm sure I'm not the first to answer but: Debian comes from "Deb" and "Ian" as in Debra and Ian Murdock who were co-founders of the project AFAIK. Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: 2.2.1 and /dev/sound

1999-02-10 Thread wtopa
Subject: 2.2.1 and /dev/sound Date: Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 10:36:10AM -0600 In reply to:Richard E. Hawkins Esq. Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq.([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I've finally convinced 2.2.1 to run X and my network. I still haven't > figured out why kerneld doesn't star

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread John Hasler
Bruno Boettcher writes: > I never looked into vt-controls through perl, is there a way to make this > nice blue&red fullscreen windows with perl? whiptail. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Hors

Re: Complicated GTK situation

1999-02-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Daniel Elenius wrote: > I'm trying to install x11amp 0.9 (i.e. compile it myself). > This requires, among other things, GTK and GLIB >= 1.1.12. > So, I installed libgtk1.1.13 and libglib1.1.13 from potato. > But then ldconfig complains: I j

Instability of GTK programs

1999-02-10 Thread Daniel Elenius
I am the only one having problems with virtually ALL gtk-based programs segfaulting etc. ? Usually on a mouse-click. -- -~* Daniel Elenius *~-

Re: Find

1999-02-10 Thread Michael Stenner
This is an application specific thing - three things pop to mind: 1) grep - you know what that's useful for 2) less - hit the "/" key and then type the thing your looking for (and hit return) hit "n" to find the next occurance. "?" searches in reverse. 3) emacs - "ctrl-s" and type

RE: slashdot poll [Suggestions for improving the installation process]

1999-02-10 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > What do people like about RH? Is it worth trying to nick parts of their > install? I found it a pain - It wouldn't let me just install individual > packages, though I wonder whether some of the modconf stuff could be left > out for the initial install.

wp8 and files over nfs

1999-02-10 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having troubles when opening files over nfs. WP locks every time, no matter what kind of file is being opened. Does someone else have such problems too? BTW, cp'ing the files to local HD solves the problems. Some libc5 x libc6 conflict? []s, Mario

RE: PCI Linksys card in Hamm

1999-02-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
one more thing ...I think the module name was ne2kpci.o ---Cristov Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Kenneth > > Thanks for the reply. Which driver is the NE2000 PCII? I don't recall > seeing anything described as that. Thanks. > > Cristov > > > -Original Message- > From:

Re: Controlling Volume on an Audio CD?

1999-02-10 Thread Mark Wagnon
"M.C. Vernon" wrote: > > Aumix is the best IMHO Thanks. I'd have to agree :) -- __ _ Mark Wagnon -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\

RE: PCI Linksys card in Hamm

1999-02-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The ne2000 driver was split (sometime after 2.0.33 I think) into two, one for isa cards and one for pci. Before that a single driver handled both. There should be a selection in the kernel config scripts (make menuconfig or make xconfig) for a pci ne2000 card. That's what I am using now. The is

Complicated GTK situation

1999-02-10 Thread Daniel Elenius
I'm trying to install x11amp 0.9 (i.e. compile it myself). This requires, among other things, GTK and GLIB >= 1.1.12. So, I installed libgtk1.1.13 and libglib1.1.13 from potato. But then ldconfig complains: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libglib.so (No such file or directory), skipping ld

RE: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > Debian's harder to install. One guy mentionned he could install Red Hat in > > > less than 15 minutes. Hard to have something fully up at that speed with > > > Debian. > > > > > Right. I've recently tried Redhat and SuSE on a separate partition > >

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread wtopa
Subject: RE: slashdot poll Date: Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 12:13:30AM + In reply to:M.C. Vernon Quoting M.C. Vernon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > Debian's harder to install. One guy mentionned he could install Red Hat in > > > less than 15 minutes. Hard to have something fully u

Re: slink install and libc6

1999-02-10 Thread Morgan Fletcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Thanks a bunch for the reply - but not sure if I understood you. I > downloaded the libc6 package from slink - it gave me version > 2.0.7.981211-2. The version in hamm is 2.0.7t. Are you saying I should > use the hamm version instead of the slink version? First off,

RE: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Colin Telmer wrote: > I guess I overlooked the fact that I upgraded pine recently. However, > in my understanding, these are only required if you pop or imap which I > don't do. If I am correct, those messages are used to keep track of items > like which mail has been pop'd so

2.2.1 and /dev/sound

1999-02-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've finally convinced 2.2.1 to run X and my network. I still haven't figured out why kerneld doesn't start anymore and do this automatically. But the sound doesn't work now. the basic cat /usr/lib/exmh/clink.au > /dev/audio yields bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device As ne

Re: Compiling a new kernel.

1999-02-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JRL" == James R Lunsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JRL> /usr/src/linux is linked to the 2.0.34 directory. Am I correct JRL> in assuming that I have to relink /usr/src/linux to the 2.0.35 JRL> directory? Yes. JRL> Anyway, can someone give me a down and dirty way to do this? Also, what JR

Re: Controlling Volume on an Audio CD?

1999-02-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I finally bought a cable to connect my sound card and cd-rom drive. I > started up workbone and it sounds great! Is there a keypress or other > utility that will allow me to control the volume though? I'm using a > hamm system. Aumix is the best IMHO Mat

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > As someone who has recently come to use Debian from a year or two of > RedHat experience, I can say that the non-X-based nature of dselect can > be a distinct advantage when you're trying to configure a server machine and if the dselect process shuts d

Re: Converting Docbook .sgml to .html?

1999-02-10 Thread Remco van de Meent
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > I'm trying to convert a Docbook document to HTML. upon executing > 'sgml2html libgii-api.sgml' I recieve > > > Processing file libgii-api.sgml > /usr/bin/sgmlsasp: can't open /usr/lib/sgml-tools/dist/book/html/mapping': > No such file or directory Of cour

Debian FTP Security Update

1999-02-10 Thread Johnie Ingram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A security problem has been found in proftpd and wu-ftpd-academ. It allows, once logged in, to potentially execute commands as root. This is the Palmetto bug reported by Netect, and should be fixed as soon as possible. (http://www.netect.com/advisory_0209.htm

Re: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 10:35:46AM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Did you read the message? The one which is planted locally here states: > > > > == > > > > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:38:57 +0

Enlightenment and xearth

1999-02-10 Thread Colin Telmer
Is there anyway that I can convince enlightenment to not touch the background when I login so that xearth remains visible (which was already running under xdm). Currently, enlightenment displays its default background until xearth updates itself again a few minutes later. Any help is gratefully app

Re: Controlling Volume on an Audio CD?

1999-02-10 Thread Colin Telmer
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I finally bought a cable to connect my sound card and cd-rom drive. I > started up workbone and it sounds great! Is there a keypress or other > utility that will allow me to control the volume though? I'm using a > hamm system. An audio mixer such as gom

Re: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Colin Telmer
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Matt Garman wrote: > I could be mistaken, but... I believe Netscape uses imap or pop, > sorta like fetchmail. That message is a "place" holder for these > protocols, if I remember correctly. I believe you're just supposed to > ignore it... In a previous reply I just post

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Actually it's not that Debian is built to be hard to use. > It's just that many of the 'pretty' system control and configure > applications supplied by RH are not in Debian. (Besides they only work > in X) As someone who has recently come to use Debian from a year or two

Re: Redirecting display output to multiple monitors

1999-02-10 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Thank you for your suggestions. VNC seems to be the coolest thing to try. Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Ben Messinger wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > > Several people have told me that as newbies (first time install) they got > > RedHat up and on the net in 15 minutes, but I don't believe any of them. > > > > -- > > Andrew > > I recently installed RH just to see what the big dea

Re: HP LaserJet IIIp configuration

1999-02-10 Thread Armin Wegner
> > I've got a HP LaserJet IIIp and chosen hpjet3 in magicfilterconfig. > > But when printing my LaTeX files with dvips the left margin is greater than > > I told to. > > Can you help me. > > I don't use magicfilter myself, but could it be that it is configured > for letter paper whereas you are s

RE: PCI Linksys card in Hamm

1999-02-10 Thread Cristov Russell
Hi Kenneth Thanks for the reply. Which driver is the NE2000 PCII? I don't recall seeing anything described as that. Thanks. Cristov -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 6:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL

Converting Docbook .sgml to .html?

1999-02-10 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hello all -- I'm trying to convert a Docbook document to HTML. upon executing 'sgml2html libgii-api.sgml' I recieve Processing file libgii-api.sgml /usr/bin/sgmlsasp: can't open /usr/lib/sgml-tools/dist/book/html/mapping': No such file or directory I've known in the past how to do th

Controlling Volume on an Audio CD?

1999-02-10 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hey All I finally bought a cable to connect my sound card and cd-rom drive. I started up workbone and it sounds great! Is there a keypress or other utility that will allow me to control the volume though? I'm using a hamm system. Thanks, -- __ _ Mark Wagnon

Re: dumb WordPerfect question

1999-02-10 Thread Mark Wagnon
"James R. Lunsford" wrote: > > I had the large 27(?) meg file. I put it in /usr/local and untarred it, then > installed it. > It seemed to go well but the 2 times I tried it, no xwp file. Do you mean that you could not find xwp, or do you mean that you typed xwp and nothing happened? If the form

Re: alsa drivers and slab

1999-02-10 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:27:59AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > Has anyone been sucessful using the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture > (ALSA) drivers in FULL DUPLEX mode with the program slab? > > I have a SB AWE 32, wich is currently working great with the stock OSS > kernel drivers (and isapn

RE: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Colin Telmer
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did you read the message? The one which is planted locally here states: > > == > > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:38:57 + (GMT) > Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA > X-I

[Q] LILO will not install

1999-02-10 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
Hello, I have problems installing LILO, namely I don't know how to specify the disk geometry in the /etc/lilo.conf. Here is my situation: I have one UDMA disk connected to Promise Ultra33 controler, the controler shows up as ide2, the disk as /dev/hde. The log output from the boot message is bell

Re: Telnet Server?

1999-02-10 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 05:16:26AM -0800, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > > Any recomendations about a good telnet server. Expecialy if is an Debian > > Pack. I suggest you to use ssl-telnet wich provides encryption

Re: 2.2.1

1999-02-10 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 05:03:06AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > I'm now using > >2.2.1 on hamm, also with no problems apart from the >need to change the > >port > >on /etc/printcap. > What software did you upgrade before going to 2.2.1? Are you running > anything as modules, and if so how did

Re: Find

1999-02-10 Thread Lawrence Walton
I rather like rgrep *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Has

RE: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 10-Feb-99 Colin Telmer wrote: > I keep getting this message placed into my various mailboxes and can't > figure out what is doing it. Pine 4.05 can't see them but when I log in > I always "have mail" and it bugs me:) I partially understand what the > message is for (something to do with pop or i

Re: HP DeskJets

1999-02-10 Thread servis
*- On 10 Feb, Alan Eugene Davis wrote about "Re: HP DeskJets" > On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:16:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I would also look at installing the gs-aladdin package from the non-free >> part of Debian. It has a special HP Deskjet driver compiled into it. >> You can spe

Re: Kernel 2.2.1 and Samba

1999-02-10 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:27:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > smbmount //bodiam/courses /mnt/bodiam/courses > -U ahus1 -f 700 -d 700 -u 1003 > > but that doesn't seem to work any more. > > What can I do? Install smbfsx, Kernel 2.2 needs a completely different smbmount with a different s

Re: Telnet Server?

1999-02-10 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 05:16:26AM -0800, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > Any recomendations about a good telnet server. Expecialy if is an Debian > Pack. ??? what about the telnetd package? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" al

Re: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 09:27:19AM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: > I keep getting this message placed into my various mailboxes and can't > figure out what is doing it. Pine 4.05 can't see them but when I log in I > always "have mail" and it bugs me:) I partially understand what the > message is for (

KDE 1.1 don´t install under hamm

1999-02-10 Thread Pablo Lorenzzoni
Hi friends! This is the first time I write here. Sorry for it is a problem that bring me to write this one, but... Debian life is Debian life... I´ve installed Debian 2.0 about a month ago, and I love it. It is very much better than Slackware that I ran before, or RH that I trie

MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Colin Telmer
I keep getting this message placed into my various mailboxes and can't figure out what is doing it. Pine 4.05 can't see them but when I log in I always "have mail" and it bugs me:) I partially understand what the message is for (something to do with pop or imap) but I can't figure out what keeps cr

[Fwd: HELP FOR A POOR FRENCH STUDENT WHICH TRY TO INSTALL LINUX]

1999-02-10 Thread THIBAULT GROISIL
--- Begin Message --- First I'd like to tell you that I'm a french student who use a "minitel" so I apologize for the bad page setting and for all the english mistakes I could make ; because I use a "minitel" please d'ont send me joined files with E-mail : I wouldn't be able to read them ! So I

Re: minor problems

1999-02-10 Thread Markus Stausberg
>[snip] > there. The screen refresh rate is set lower than I normally have it in > winblows, and if I try to increase it xvidtune tells me that my hardware > doesn't support the mode I've chosen. However, it runs fine with lower >[snip] Q: What lets xvidtune know what the hardware limits are ? A:

Re: VM problem

1999-02-10 Thread Daniel Elenius
BTW, are there VM variables that one can set to tell it where to look for/place spool/crash files respectively? -- -~* Daniel Elenius *~-

Sane Mustek configuration.

1999-02-10 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi all, I have a Mustek CG-6000 hand held color scanner ( it's perfectly fine for what I do), anyway I can't seem to get it to be acknowledged by sane. When I find-scanner, it doesn't find it. I think the problem is the scanner is connected to a card no a serial or parallel port. Although, I know

Re: What Debian means?

1999-02-10 Thread ivan
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-2.html At 05:14 AM 2/10/99 PST, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: >I want to know why our linux is called DEBIAN. > >__ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsub

Re: VM problem

1999-02-10 Thread Daniel Elenius
Petter Adsen writes: >Daniel Elenius writes: >| OK, thanks for the advice, I get the general idea, but I'm afraid I've >| broken my .vm now. VM says "Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context" >| when I try to start it w/ M-x vm. I'll attach my .vm and my .forward >| with my exim filter here... >|

Kernel 2.2.1 and Samba

1999-02-10 Thread alexander.schwartz
Hi, I am running Debian-slink and I've downloaded the new kernel from potato, everything works find except that I can't mount any samba shares. I used to call smbmount //bodiam/courses /mnt/bodiam/courses -U ahus1 -f 700 -d 700 -u 1003 but that doesn't seem to work any more. What can I do?

Re: Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy.

1999-02-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "FP" == Frederick Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FP> I dunno where apt stores those files, but there's a way to find FP> out :-) /var/cache/apt/archives Ciao, Martin

Re: ICQ???

1999-02-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "c" == cooking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: c> Hi to all ! can someone tell me what and where a goo d ICQ for my c> Deb box would be :-) Thankyou I would use gtkicq from unstable. Ciao, Martin

Telnet Server?

1999-02-10 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
Any recomendations about a good telnet server. Expecialy if is an Debian Pack. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

how to make SAMBA (hamm) join an NT domain?

1999-02-10 Thread Thomas Adams
I want to make the SAMBA package from hamm join an NT domain. Do I see it right that this is not possible and that I have to manually compile a SAMBA >=2.x?

What Debian means?

1999-02-10 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I want to know why our linux is called DEBIAN. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Paul Seelig wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > RH is a commercially-based distro, so they can spend loads of cash on > > advertising etc, so they are the most popular, despite Debian's inherantly > > "free-er" nature, and techincal superiority > > > Redhat is a distribution

2.2.1

1999-02-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> I'm now using >2.2.1 on hamm, also with no problems apart from the >need to change the >port >on /etc/printcap. What software did you upgrade before going to 2.2.1? Are you running anything as modules, and if so how did you configure this? I downloaded 2.2.1 and tried to install it. My ethe

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