apache-ssl & eperl : problems

1999-02-12 Thread Mike Gerber
i tried to configure my apache to filter .phtml-files through eperl. i added to srm.conf: AddType application/x-httpd-eperl .phtml Action application/x-httpd-eperl /cgi-bin/nph-eperl but my apache says "invalid command Action". it works without the lines in srm.conf with the url http://myhost/

Re: Diald "obsolete" error

1999-02-12 Thread Todd J Martin
On 12 Feb, Ted Behling wrote: > I'm trying to run diald to automate my PPP connection. I don't recall the > exact sequence of events when I upgraded from kernel 2.0.34 to 2.2.1, but > it now generates the following lines in /var/log/messages: > > Feb 8 15:36:22 salsa kernel: diald uses obsolete

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-12 Thread robbie
Hi all. Why does debian not include sound modules in the default kernel package? Or maybe a sepperate package with sound modules which depends on the kernel. Regards Rob

psupdate not found?

1999-02-12 Thread Robert Rati
At the end of a make install for my friend's kernel, it reports an error: Added linux * set +e; cd /; umount /dev/fd0; rmdir /tmp/boot825 ...Success. /sbin/installkernel: psupdate: command not found This is in the creation of a boot disk. Anyone know where psupdate can be gotten from? I imagine

Re: slink and libc6

1999-02-12 Thread Kent West
At 12:28 AM 2/12/1999 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >A few days ago I mentioned that I have been having problems installing slink >because libc6 was giving me inconsistencies. I still don't know what the >problem was, but I have a feeling it had something to do with dpkg. When I >switched to th

Re: Losing Linux (Again!)

1999-02-12 Thread Kent West
At 12:53 PM 2/12/1999 +1100, Stephen Lavelle wrote: >Firstly thanks for all the help offered, but I am not much further. I would >like to keep Linux but the person who will be using it can't handle it. >Here's what I've done: >(On a Toshiba T2110CS Satellite) >With Linux still there! >I used cfdisk

Re: Circuit design software?

1999-02-12 Thread Mark Wagnon
Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > Afternoon all. > Is there any circuit design software for Linux? There is a bunch of circuit related files at: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/circuits/ I don't know what they do, but maybe you find what you're looking for there :) HTH --

Circuit design software?

1999-02-12 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Afternoon all. Is there any circuit design software for Linux? I need to find a replacement for the program that my prof. wants me to useand I would hate to go back to windows every time I wnt to work on it, since wine will not do the sim. I am trying to build a dedicated Windows machine, but a

RE: Diald "obsolete" error

1999-02-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Feb-99 Ted Behling wrote: I just tuned in, but what do you have in your PPP options file? Try a blank ppp options file. Some of the normal PPP options are incompatible with diald. -- Andrew

Revert to dos

1999-02-12 Thread Jens Knudsen
fdisk /mbr (in dos) will restore your master boot record to the way Bill Gates wants it. >I had Hamm previously installed on my laptop, which is for the record >a Toshiba T4400C. I want to go back to DOS. I've tried to go back to >DOS by repartitioning in Linux so that I only have 1 partition whi

Diald "obsolete" error

1999-02-12 Thread Ted Behling
I'm trying to run diald to automate my PPP connection. I don't recall the exact sequence of events when I upgraded from kernel 2.0.34 to 2.2.1, but it now generates the following lines in /var/log/messages: Feb 8 15:36:22 salsa kernel: diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET) Feb 8 15:36:23 s

RE: How do I change to a color monitor? (just reboot!)

1999-02-12 Thread simonst
Problem solved when I rebooted (I forgot that I hot-swapped in the color monitor). Now colors are showing up per usual.

Revert to dos

1999-02-12 Thread Nils Lorvick
I had Hamm previously installed on my laptop, which is for the record a Toshiba T4400C. I want to go back to DOS. I've tried to go back to DOS by repartitioning in Linux so that I only have 1 partition which is the C drive...and that's a DOS FAT16 (big) partition. Now when I then go into DOS fdisk

Have you voted for Debian yet?

1999-02-12 Thread Mark Phillips
Have you voted in the slashdot poll for which linux distribution is your favorite? If not, you can do so at: http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=99/02/09/104 Cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\_

Netscape fails to show text files.

1999-02-12 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Hello, Somehow I have got my Netscape so that it fails to show text files. I have tried to change in preferences the application, it is now view (see below what view is on my system), but I have tried less and ae also. $ which view /usr/bin/view [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Work/Debian-doc/Tutorial $ ls

Is my locale wrong?

1999-02-12 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Hello, I keep getting error messages about locale. My locale is set like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Work/Debian-doc/ddp $ set | grep LC LC_CTYPE=finnish.iso88591 MAILCHECK=60 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Work/Debian-doc/ddp $ But I get these errors: $ debiandoc2ps debian-tutorial.sgml perl: warning: Setti

RE: What does netdate want back from udp-37 server?

1999-02-12 Thread simonst
The server 'send' command references the incoming ip-port address, and completes successfully, but no, I'm not exactly sure that the datagram makes it back to the Debian box. Is there a simple way for me to verify that a datagram came back (i/o count or something)? -- From: Jens B. Jorgen

Running xscreensaver all the time

1999-02-12 Thread Jim Crumley
Is there anyway I can get xscreensaver to run all the time? It works fine from my .xsession file, but I can't get it to work from xdm. I want the screensaver to be present at all times,even if no one is logged in (and I don't need screen locking). I tried following the directions in xscreensave

Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread servis
*- On 12 Feb, MacKenzie, Andrew wrote about "kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg" > Newbie question: > > I've compiled my own kernels (I am using a self-compiled 2.0.36) but use > make clean make dep and make xconfig. What is make-kpkg? > > Andrew MacKenzie make-kpkg is

Re: chmod on vfat

1999-02-12 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat >contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on >a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any >work arounds

Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Conrado Badenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >test -f System.map && chmod 644 \ >debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.2.1 >dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.2.1-i586 -Pdebian/tmp-image/ >parsechangelog/debian: error: unable to open substvars file

RE: .bash_profile

1999-02-12 Thread Shaleh
On 12-Feb-99 Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: >> On 12-Feb-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote: >> > Can someone send me his or hers original >> > /root/.bash_profile, file. >> > I messed up mine. >> > And i don't no what was in it. >> > Stuppid eh >> >> Nothing important

mysql password problems

1999-02-12 Thread Graham Ashton
I've just started fiddling with mysql (from the standard .deb files) on my hamm box, and am having problems with permissions/privileges. I can't create databases with mysqladmin. I can't even connect to the mysql privilege tables to alter the permissions, as I don't seem to have the permissions!

RE: SiS 6326 video card

1999-02-12 Thread David B. Teague
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, MacKenzie, Andrew wrote: > I also have an SiS-based card and had a great deal of difficulty making > it work until I used Xfree86 3.3.3. The SVGA server in this package has > support for the SiS card and all works great now. What specific errors > are you getting? Hi Andre

Re: WordPerfect: suddenly ending storing

1999-02-12 Thread Mark Wagnon
Dave Swegen wrote: > > Am I the only one who after exiting WP has a process called wpexc ruuning? > I have to manually kill off the darn thing... > > dave I never noticed it before, but I too have it running. I have the commercial version installed. That's strange. Well I'm off to kill it now. -

RE: .bash_profile

1999-02-12 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > On 12-Feb-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > > Can someone send me his or hers original > > /root/.bash_profile, file. > > I messed up mine. > > And i don't no what was in it. > > Stuppid eh > > Nothing important -- you are not missing anything. /usr/sbin and /sb

Re: .bash_profile

1999-02-12 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Can someone send me his or hers original > /root/.bash_profile, file. > I messed up mine. > And i don't no what was in it. Look at /usr/share/base-files

Re: What does netdate want back from udp-37 server?

1999-02-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Are you sure your server is replying with a correct destination port? The server needs to send a packet back to the same port which the client used. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to write a mainframe (MVS) timserver (udp-37 only). I test it > with a Debian 2.0 cmd "netdate udp ", which

XF86SETUP Help needed...

1999-02-12 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
I know that this question has been asked before, but since I am a new user of Debian, I need some help on setting yp XF86... Now I started the XF86Setup prg., and went thru each one of the menus, from the mouse, keyboard, which I chose 102, instead of the 101 type, then to my Video card, which

Re: chmod on vfat

1999-02-12 Thread servis
*- On 12 Feb, David Webster wrote about "chmod on vfat" > Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat > contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on > a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any > work arounds to allow someo

RE: .bash_profile

1999-02-12 Thread Shaleh
On 12-Feb-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone send me his or hers original > /root/.bash_profile, file. > I messed up mine. > And i don't no what was in it. > Stuppid eh > Nothing important -- you are not missing anything.

Re: WordPerfect: suddenly ending storing

1999-02-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: > Am I the only one who after exiting WP has a process called wpexc ruuning? > I have to manually kill off the darn thing... I have this also with both WP7 and WP8. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

.bash_profile

1999-02-12 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hello, Can someone send me his or hers original /root/.bash_profile, file. I messed up mine. And i don't no what was in it. Stuppid eh Cuno

Re: chmod on vfat

1999-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote: : Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat : contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on : a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any : work arounds to allow someone other

Re: NCR53C8xx Problem

1999-02-12 Thread Steve Beitzel
I am having a similar problem using this driver with 2.2.1. My system hangs on boot shortly after detecting my SCSI hard drive and my IDE CD-R using SCSI emulation...everything works fine under 2.0.36...is it possible that this driver conflicts with SCSI emulation in some way...? Steve /

chmod on vfat

1999-02-12 Thread David Webster
Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any work arounds to allow someone other than root to write to a vfat partition? The latest NTF

Re: CDDB updates

1999-02-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 06:21:03PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Is there any way to upload a record to a CDDB server (either the cddb one, > or in a local record)? I have a cd in front of me that gcd refuses to play > because cddb doesn't produce a match for that CD id xmcd? That's the program

RE: CDDB updates

1999-02-12 Thread Shaleh
On 12-Feb-99 M.C. Vernon wrote: > Is there any way to upload a record to a CDDB server (either the cddb one, > or in a local record)? I have a cd in front of me that gcd refuses to play > because cddb doesn't produce a match for that CD id > cddb should allow you to include a record in their

Re: WordPerfect: suddenly ending storing

1999-02-12 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: > Am I the only one who after exiting WP has a process called wpexc ruuning? > I have to manually kill off the darn thing... No, you aren't alone. I have the same problem here. And other, e.g., when opening (or trying to) documents via NFS. WP locks! BTW,

RE: How do I change to a color monitor?

1999-02-12 Thread simonst
The "ls --color" displays, and also Lynx screens, are still using underlining & high-intensity, instead of real colors. -- From: Shaleh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: How do I change to a color monitor? Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 10:06AM >On 12-

CDDB updates

1999-02-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
Is there any way to upload a record to a CDDB server (either the cddb one, or in a local record)? I have a cd in front of me that gcd refuses to play because cddb doesn't produce a match for that CD id Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn C

What does netdate want back from udp-37 server?

1999-02-12 Thread simonst
I'm trying to write a mainframe (MVS) timserver (udp-37 only). I test it with a Debian 2.0 cmd "netdate udp ", which sends a 1-byte 0x0A message. My server sends back a 32-bit unsigned number (# of seconds since 1900-01-01, per RFC868), but the Debian netdate command times out. 1. Why doesn't t

RE: How do I change to a color monitor?

1999-02-12 Thread Shaleh
On 12-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I replaced my mono VGA monitor with a color monitor. Now what do I change > in Debian (2.0, from Cheapbytes cd)? > What needs changing?

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-12 Thread John Hasler
John Bagdanoff writes: > ...a message appears when booting to hamm (thru lilo) that : > SETSERIAL command not found. > Now in 0setserial, I have changed /dev/ttyS2's irq to 3 (thats what my > modem is set to). You changed something else, too. The distributed 0setserial has the line: #${SETSE

Re: WordPerfect: suddenly ending storing

1999-02-12 Thread Dave Swegen
Am I the only one who after exiting WP has a process called wpexc ruuning? I have to manually kill off the darn thing... dave On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 02:11 -0500, Alec Smith wrote: > I've been running WordPerfect on Slink for awhile now... Works great. I > didn't have any problems with installati

How do I change to a color monitor?

1999-02-12 Thread simonst
I replaced my mono VGA monitor with a color monitor. Now what do I change in Debian (2.0, from Cheapbytes cd)?

Re: dselect, dpkg, apt, gnome-apt???

1999-02-12 Thread Roberto Meyer
Hi, I´m new on the list and with Debian, please forgive my english from now on :-) "David Z. Maze" wrote: [snip] > dselect should give you the same list of packages you can find on the > FTP site. IMHO it's marginally easier to use than FTP'ing packages by > hand; YMMV. I'm having trouble to

Re: NCR53C8xx Problem

1999-02-12 Thread Christoph Keller
I have a GA-410 and have problem's to. With the 2.0.36 I only had problem with the Plextor 32x but not with burning. Now with the newest kernel even my scsi disk has problems. Has anybody the GA-410 working with the newes kernel? Christoph

Re: Debian install Error (SCSI HDD on IBM PS/2 (486) not detected)

1999-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Simon Werner wrote: [NON-Text Body part not included] Cool. My mailer hates your email ... The IBM SCSI card was detected, so that's good. It didn't see any devices on the chain, so that's bad. The IBM MCA SCSI adaptor isn't the best HBA ever made, so cabling is VERY i

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #255

1999-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, John Bravacos wrote: : At 07:30 PM 2/11/99 -, you wrote: : : : >The problem is that when I boot (using defualt settings) with the rescue : >disk, it can't detect my SCSI hard disk. I haven't tried to load Debian : >straight from hard disk, and don't I want to. T

Re: NON-US means?

1999-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : John Hasler dixit: : > Horacio writes: : > > There are some restriction laws on importing and : > > exporting crypto into/out of the U.S. : > : > The US has no laws restricting the importation of crypto. : : I believe downloading any of the

Re: Ensoniq ES1370 configuration

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Elenius
David Webster writes: >Went ahead and changed my kernel to remove the OSS stuff and loaded the >es1370 directly into the kernel (no module). The driver loads just fine >and detects the card but does not creat a /dev/dsp device. I have a >simple text base media player (bplay) and, of course it com

FreeWRL and Xswallow?

1999-02-12 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Has anyone successfully swallowed FreeWRL via Xswallow? I can't seem to get it to work. Netscape keeps giving me an error about blib not being found. If anyone has a functional xswallow.conf entry for FreeWRL I'd appreciate a copy of that info. Thanks, Gary

Re: Ensoniq ES1370 configuration

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Elenius
David Webster writes: >Went ahead and changed my kernel to remove the OSS stuff and loaded the >es1370 directly into the kernel (no module). The driver loads just fine >and detects the card but does not creat a /dev/dsp device. I have a >simple text base media player (bplay) and, of course it com

Re: Ensoniq ES1370 configuration

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Elenius
David Webster writes: >One more question, sorry to bother you. No problem. > >When configuring your 2.2.1 kernel in the sound options did you just >select the es1370 card support or do you also need OSS system support >stuff? And if so, what? Nothing but es1370. It's already OSS compatible, so

Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, MacKenzie, Andrew wrote: > Newbie question: > > I've compiled my own kernels (I am using a self-compiled 2.0.36) but use > make clean make dep and make xconfig. What is make-kpkg? It's part of the kernel-package package, which is a set of scripts that make building kernels

Re: Ensoniq ES1370 configuration

1999-02-12 Thread Kevin Doherty
And thus spake David Webster, on Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 09:11:28AM -0600: > I have recompiled my kernel (2.2.1) with the es1370.o module and its > associated soundlow.o, soundcore.o and sound.o modules. Also loaded > OLP2/3 stuff and mpu401. All this stuff loads just fine at boot but I > still get

RE: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread MacKenzie, Andrew
Thanks for the information, very useful. This begs the question: what packages do I need from Debian to have make-kpkg? Also, what is the difference between Kernel headers and kernel source? Andrew MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From:

Re: Ensoniq ES1370 configuration

1999-02-12 Thread Shaleh
On 12-Feb-99 Daniel Elenius wrote: > David Webster writes: >>OLP2/3 stuff and mpu401. All this stuff loads just fine at boot but I >>still get no /dev/dsp /dev/sndstat devices at all. Is there something >>missing? My system is a Gateway G6-266 and unfortunately Gatweay saw > > /dev/sndstat isn

Incoming share in SAMBA

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Elenius
Thanks to the people who helped me with my samba issues. Now I wonder if there is a way to have a classic "incoming" share in samba, a dir that is writable by all, but not possible to "download" from, the way I have it on my ftp server... -- -~* Daniel Elenius *~-

Re: Ensoniq ES1370 configuration

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Elenius
David Webster writes: >OLP2/3 stuff and mpu401. All this stuff loads just fine at boot but I >still get no /dev/dsp /dev/sndstat devices at all. Is there something >missing? My system is a Gateway G6-266 and unfortunately Gatweay saw /dev/sndstat isn't supported by that driver (do you need it?

kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread MacKenzie, Andrew
Newbie question: I've compiled my own kernels (I am using a self-compiled 2.0.36) but use make clean make dep and make xconfig. What is make-kpkg? Andrew MacKenzie -Original Message- From: Conrado Badenas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread Conrado Badenas
"M.C. Vernon" wrote: > You forgot kernel_headers > > Try > > make-kpkg clean > make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.1. kernel_image kernel_headers I've done it, and after 48 minutes I got the same error message: dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.2.1 -Pdebian/tmp-image/ parsechangelog/debian: error: una

RE: SiS 6326

1999-02-12 Thread MacKenzie, Andrew
I also have an SiS-based card and had a great deal of difficulty making it work until I used Xfree86 3.3.3. The SVGA server in this package has support for the SiS card and all works great now. What specific errors are you getting? Andrew MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Origina

SiS 6326

1999-02-12 Thread David B. Teague
I bought a Tiger Direct PC, K6-2 350, with an SiS 6326 8MB AGP video card. However, with that video card, I cannot get X to work. We found a card specific server on the Xfree ftp site with some support for the SiS 6326. We downloaded both svga and svga16 servers, but cannot get the card to wor

Re: How do you install autofs package ?

1999-02-12 Thread Remco van de Meent
Philippe BARBELET wrote: > What are the steps to install the automounter system under 2.0.34 kernel ? First of all, make sure the kernel-based automounter is enabled in your kernel. Second, install the `autofs' package. Most likely, it'll create an /etc/auto.amnt for you; you can put the filesyste

x

1999-02-12 Thread Jeremy M. Savoy
I'm new to Linux and am having trouble getting the x windows going on my machine. I have downloaded everything needed for the install base I selected at installation time(or at least I think I've got everything), but when XF86Setup runs and exits, it attempts to start the xserver and gives

How do you install autofs package ?

1999-02-12 Thread Philippe BARBELET
What are the steps to install the automounter system under 2.0.34 kernel ? Thanks. -- Philippe BARBELET France

Ensoniq ES1370 configuration

1999-02-12 Thread David Webster
I have recompiled my kernel (2.2.1) with the es1370.o module and its associated soundlow.o, soundcore.o and sound.o modules. Also loaded OLP2/3 stuff and mpu401. All this stuff loads just fine at boot but I still get no /dev/dsp /dev/sndstat devices at all. Is there something missing? My system

Re: KDE

1999-02-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The KDE stuff is available in Debian package format from the KDE mirrors, though. The list of mirrors is available at: http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html You'll need to look around a bit for the packages, depending on what mirror you choose, but they'll be in some

Re: KDE

1999-02-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 16:33:35 +0100, Marant Jerome wrote: > I didn't see kde stuff in the future "slink" distribution ? > (It was present in "hamm") > Is there a good reasons for this ? Yes. http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 If things go the way we hope, this will be fixed soon, when Qt

KDE

1999-02-12 Thread Marant Jerome
I didn't see kde stuff in the future "slink" distribution ? (It was present in "hamm") Is there a good reasons for this ? Jerome Marant.

Xconfigurator ans sndconfig

1999-02-12 Thread Marant Jerome
Hi, Are there projects to convert RedHat utilities called Xconfigurator and sndconfig to debs, in the short term ? If not are there similar projects with Debian ? (I think that userfrendliness of the install process should not be a RedHat leitmotiv :)) Could Alien do a good job for conversion ?

Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: > Hi all! > > I am trying to create a kernel-image-2.2.1 package in order to install > the new kernel. I downloaded and installed kernel-source-2.2.1 and > kernel-doc-2.2.1 packages, read all the files > /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/* and /usr/doc/kerne

HDD LED ON continously with Kernel 2.2.1-ac5

1999-02-12 Thread ragOO
Hello: A real quirk has raised its head upon my Debian GNU/Linux box. I have compiled and put the devel. kernel 2.2.1-ac5. When I boot into this test kernel, the HDD LED glows ON and does not get OFF when there is no seek. It remains ON until I shut off the machine. Why is this so ? While com

apt/dpkg/dselect rtfm

1999-02-12 Thread MacKenzie, Andrew
On the subject of how to maintain a Debian system (and thanks to those who responded previously), I am looking for the best source on how to become a power user of apt / dpkg / dselect. Is it the unfinished Admin guide in the DDP or the /usr/doc files or where ...? I am a realative newcomer to De

Going back to RedHat (but only for a while)

1999-02-12 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi Well after using Debian for the last three months I am going back to Redhat, queue flame war ... Well actually this is only going to temporary as I want to track the latest Gnome stuff and this is much easier on RedHat unless you have time to complile all the assoiciated libraries e

Re: Installazione su HD secondario?

1999-02-12 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Yeah, that should be no problem. You can install it and use LILO to get in, or boot from a floppy. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.t

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-12 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Next get into the /usr/src/linux dir and type make xconfig. > Then do each of these: > click on Sound > click y for Sound card support > click y for Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support > scroll down a little ways > click y for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support > click y for MIDI interfa

kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread Conrado Badenas
Hi all! I am trying to create a kernel-image-2.2.1 package in order to install the new kernel. I downloaded and installed kernel-source-2.2.1 and kernel-doc-2.2.1 packages, read all the files /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/* and /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.1/* (except Documentation directory: 919 Kb of

Re: Few ideas

1999-02-12 Thread Christian Lavoie
> > 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

Re: screen setup and vim

1999-02-12 Thread Shao Zhang
Oops, sorry about my lack of knowledge. Could someone explain to me what screen is?? thx.. Shao. On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Rafael Kitover wrote: > I've just started using screen (on everything, since it's so damn cool). > And I have afew questions. > > Is there a way for vim to work reliably under

Re: xterm & rxvt

1999-02-12 Thread Shao Zhang
Yes. I did try the ls option before. And It still does the same thing. On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, oneiros wrote: > >Thus spake Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >>I have one xterm & one rxvt open. But when I typed the command > >> 'w', I have only

Re: is there mutt-i.deb?

1999-02-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 03:21:39 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I just compiled and installed mutt-i.tar.gz from the developer. > Does anyone know if there is a mutt-i.deb? I didn't find one > in any of the non-US sites. There is a "mutt-i" on nonUS for "hamm" (2.0) systems. For slink and potat

Re: NCR53C8xx Problem

1999-02-12 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I'm having exactly the same problems with a ncr810 noname board, tried everithing... with no luck at all... In my case I think it's a hardware problem... please let me know if you make it work Thanks in advance, Ulisses -

is there mutt-i.deb?

1999-02-12 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I just compiled and installed mutt-i.tar.gz from the developer. Does anyone know if there is a mutt-i.deb? I didn't find one in any of the non-US sites. Does anyone use this. I'm a PGP NEWBIE. I'm experimenting with this. I would like to know how to make this work. Alternatively, does anyone

Unable to load any usable fontset

1999-02-12 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
Hi, Every time I start gvim I get the above warning. Things seems to work despite the msg. But, what means this? This begun after an update of my slink system. []s Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose

Re: Help: how to set the default X server???

1999-02-12 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 12:39:23PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > regularly when updates of the X system are made, my Laptop looses his X > server, > because a strange little Program replaces the link i am used to set on it > (/usr/X11R6/bin/X is, as an old Slackware user a link to th

Help: how to set the default X server???

1999-02-12 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, regularly when updates of the X system are made, my Laptop looses his X server, because a strange little Program replaces the link i am used to set on it (/usr/X11R6/bin/X is, as an old Slackware user a link to the right server), furher i use a server that comes from the redhat distribution

Re: Installazione su HD secondario?

1999-02-12 Thread claydona
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Daniele Rossi wrote: > Vorrei sapere se è possibile installare Linux su un HD secondary master con I would like to know if it is possible to install linux on a secondary master hard disk with > WIN98 sul primary master e realizzare una configurazione dual boot. WIN98 as

RE:PCMCIA cd-rewriter. Help!!

1999-02-12 Thread Mark Collier
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Booting problems

1999-02-12 Thread Robert Rati
A friend of mine is having problems booting for some reason. He makes a kernel and uses a boot disk to boot Linux, and we just tried compiling the 2.2.1 kernels on his machine. Now the boto disks says "Loading Linux" and just stops. We've tried compiling the 2.0.34 kernels, which is what he was

NIS and ippl

1999-02-12 Thread Max
Has anyone noticed any problems using the latest version of ippl in potato together with NIS? I have figured out that the extra network traffic seems to be due to the interaction between the two programs. Any ideas? Please reply via e-mail. Max

Re: Removeing N lines from a file

1999-02-12 Thread William Park
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > How can I use gawk or some other program to remove a number of lines > from a text file. Initially, I only need to delete the top 10 lines > from a file but it might be useful to know how to delete lines from any > part of the file. The top 10 line

Re: Voice Answering Machine

1999-02-12 Thread Joerg Friedrich
take a look at mgetty-voice package in section 'comm' On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > Hi, > > It's only available, at the moment, software (vbox) and "drivers > support" for doing a Voice Answering Machine with HiSax > ISDN card !? > > Thanks. > > Best regards, >Nuno

Re: WordPerfect: suddenly ending storing

1999-02-12 Thread Alec Smith
I've been running WordPerfect on Slink for awhile now... Works great. I didn't have any problems with installation, or running afterwards. My one complaint about WP? The extra dialog for closing the program, setting preferences, etc. They ought to be rolled together like the Winblows version -- Wi

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-12 Thread Mark Wagnon
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm looking for someone who would help walk me through the process of > installing > my sound card on my 2.0.33 kernel system. I have read the howto's and such > and > I am totally confused! My attempt to generate a kernel resulted in a 1.6MB > monstr

Installing Sound Card

1999-02-12 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I'm looking for someone who would help walk me through the process of installing my sound card on my 2.0.33 kernel system. I have read the howto's and such and I am totally confused! My attempt to generate a kernel resulted in a 1.6MB monstrosity that is to big to run... I have been play

WordPerfect: suddenly ending storing

1999-02-12 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Just to add some noise to the various WordPerfect threads, these are the error messages, I get when I try to install it. ./install.wp: line 11: 764 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/wpinstg color grey >/dev/null 2>/dev/null ./install.wp: line 13: 765 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/

RE: /dev/radio

1999-02-12 Thread Shaleh
On 09-Feb-99 Nuno Carvalho wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using kernel 2.2.1 with v4l support for AIMSLAB RadioTrack II. > Meanwhile i'm not able to control my radio card from wmtune neitheir > xradiotrack or whatever ... > I think the main problem is I need a /dev/radio device and I just > don't hav

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