Re: lilo

1999-02-26 Thread blackie
I have the same problem. Running lilo by hand works just as well as the script doing it. > I am _not_ a lilo expert but I have checked the lilo manual and I can only > come up with two things. 1) wipe out the MBR on hda with DOS fdisk > /MBR and run lilo by hand again. 2) I don't use that

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-26 Thread David Welton
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 05:43:18PM -0500, Johnie Ingram wrote: > We are mere hours away from the largest IRC party Debian has ever > thrown -- bigger than Bo, bigger even than Hamm. :-) > > The release of 2.1 "Slink" will happen: > in America: at 4:00 PM PDT on Monday Mar 1 Given t

Re: hda: unexpected_intr: Error=0x41 { DriveStatusError }

1999-02-26 Thread Richard Lyon
> I have tried several ways of istalling debian, I have formatted my disk > with BIOS, with fdisk, with fips. I am getting an error message that > repeats its self: > > had: unexpected_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: unexpected_intr: status=0x41 { DriveStatusError } >

Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-26 Thread Johnie Ingram
TIME: Slink release - 3 days 1 hours We are mere hours away from the largest IRC party Debian has ever thrown -- bigger than Bo, bigger even than Hamm. :-) The release of 2.1 "Slink" will happen: in Australia: at 11:00 AM ACT on Tuesday Mar 2 in Europe: at 0:00 midnight

Gnome programs crash

1999-02-26 Thread Matthew Cocker
After installing gnome programs from slink, the programs won't run. I get the following error message gnome-session: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libgnome.so.31: undefined symbol: poptHelpOptions Any ideas cheers matt

Re: ppp failure to connect

1999-02-26 Thread John Hasler
kurgan writes: > a series of "magic" numbers, which I assumed meant I was connected and > "talking" with my provider. Please post an exact copy of the log, include the "magic numbers". > I cannot get a ping (it just hangs) Try ping -c10 206.27.215.80 What do you have in /etc/resolv.co

Re: Detailed query from an interested person. (fwd)

1999-02-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Can somebody of you please answer him. Thanks, Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I own the following (I don't actually *UNDERSTAND* most of this stuff, I've > just copied it off the manual and the Acer web site.): > > Acer 1242M desktop system. > The details: > > Processor/System Memo

Re:/etc/hosts on one machine

1999-02-26 Thread Daryl Williams
you can achive this using nis. alternatevely you could create a symlink from /etc/hosts to an nfs mounted parition where you would actually keep the host file. i would however *not* recommend this (second) option. if your network went south you would not have any name resolution, if in fact you on

Re: rc.boot for regular users

1999-02-26 Thread Roberto Rosario
Andreas Rapp wrote: > I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time > as a regular user, not as root > (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to > my account) > > Can regular users also have boot scripts ? > > Andreas > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscri

SMC EtherEZ PCI 10/100 (1211 TX)

1999-02-26 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I have an SMC EtherEZ 10/100 PCI network card and I'm having trouble getting it to work. I've read the Ethernet-HOWTO and Hardware-HOWTO, both of which mention several SMC cards, but none that match this one. It's a brand new card with a single chip marked with: SMC EN5030A 8914

Re: Problem with Netscape browser!

1999-02-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard Harran wrote: > > Netscape 3 may be old, but it works fine. I believe it may also be > smaller and possibly even faster than 4 on an older machine. Apart from > the use of old libs, I can't think of any good reason to upgrade, > although I'm quite willing to listen if anyone thinks other

Re: Problem with Netscape browser!

1999-02-26 Thread Richard Harran
Netscape 3 may be old, but it works fine. I believe it may also be smaller and possibly even faster than 4 on an older machine. Apart from the use of old libs, I can't think of any good reason to upgrade, although I'm quite willing to listen if anyone thinks otherwise. Just my opinion (I'm runnin

Re: Compiling my kernel - but it's not working as I planned

1999-02-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/26/99 2:29:24 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > 1) I'd LOVE to have the .config file used to create the distribution > version > > of kernel-image.2.0.36. I can't imagine this is hard to obtain. Can > someone > > tell me where to get it? > > >

RE: Compiling my kernel - but it's not working as I planned

1999-02-26 Thread Shaleh
On 26-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have some kernel compliling issues: > > * I'm using kernel-package (and boy does it make life easier!) > * I'm running slink, compilng kernel 2.0.36 > * I'm using menuconfig > > Questions: > > 1) I'd LOVE to have the .config file used to create the dis

web based mail

1999-02-26 Thread CAA
hi all, i was wondering if there's anyone here who gives web based mail services to their customers. if so, what package/application can you suggest w/c, based on ur experiences is proven to work in a nice and stable way. (and also those w/c will allow u to sort ur email in diff folders ju

Re: Problem with Netscape browser!

1999-02-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear friends, > I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to > launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to do... > Any help??? thanx > giulio > ps: I run Debian 2.0R3 I highly reccomend going back to ftp.n

Compiling my kernel - but it's not working as I planned

1999-02-26 Thread MallarJ
I have some kernel compliling issues: * I'm using kernel-package (and boy does it make life easier!) * I'm running slink, compilng kernel 2.0.36 * I'm using menuconfig Questions: 1) I'd LOVE to have the .config file used to create the distribution version of kernel-image.2.0.36. I can't imagin

Re: Dependency problem with libc6

1999-02-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
crp wrote: > > I must say that does seem a little drastic. > Should I use dpkg to force the downgrade of libc6 > from the t version to the u version and then rerun > apt-get upgrade? > Will it break the packages that depend on > libc6_2.0.7u only temporarily? > Or are there other options? >

Fwd: Where to find the files?

1999-02-26 Thread Kent West
Forwarded to the list, so please include Gustavo in your reply. >X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Originating-IP: [209.198.228.5] >From: "Gustavo Valdes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Where to find the files? >Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:04:53 PST >Delivered-To: [EMAIL

Re: Creative Labs DVD Encore Dxr2 and Linux video problems

1999-02-26 Thread Cliff W. Draper
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Steve Rothanburg wrote: > Christopher Fury wrote: > > > But X windows is horrible. Colors bleed and shimmer all over the place and > > the video > > is offset. If I disconnect the video pass through and connect the monitor > > straight to my video card the problem goes away

Re: StarOffice 5

1999-02-26 Thread Brett Wuth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olafur Jens Sigurdsson) writes: > On 25. February 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > > > I've installed it simply following the setup provided by StarOffice (part of > > the download), following the instructions in their README. It worked > > flawlessly. > > I tried to install it s

Re: /etc/hosts on one machine

1999-02-26 Thread Will Lowe
> Is it possible to have /etc/hosts on only one machine > on the lan and have the other machines use it? Either make that one host a DNS server and point all the other machines to it, or make it a YP server and ypbind them to it. Will ---

ppp failure to connect

1999-02-26 Thread kurgan
I am having trouble connecting to my provider. I have configured the chatscript and the /etc/ppp/peers/provider files correctly, and if I run plog I see communication. the "gist" of the communication is: sent [LCPConf Req id=0x1... (IP addresses are assigned) cannot determine ethernet address

Re: Problem with Netscape browser!

1999-02-26 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear friends, > I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to > launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to do... > Any help??? thanx > giulio > ps: I run Debian 2.0R3 It seems to be the case that

RE: Problem with Netscape browser!

1999-02-26 Thread Shaleh
On 26-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear friends, > I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to > launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to > do... > Any help??? thanx > giulio > ps: I run Debian 2.0R3 > Install xpm4 from oldlibs.

Problem with Netscape browser!

1999-02-26 Thread silon1
Dear friends, I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to do... Any help??? thanx giulio ps: I run Debian 2.0R3

Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.

1999-02-26 Thread John Hasler
Jens K. Olsen writes: > Oh, I am sorry. I am not sending the string HOSTNAME. I edited the copies > of my /var/log/ppp.log and /etc/chatscripts/provider. I substituted the > actual phone number, host name, login, and password with PHONENUMBER, > HOSTNAME, LOGIN, and PASSWORD. I don't want to put th

Log messages

1999-02-26 Thread Carlos Marcos Kakihara
Hi, all! I'm using iplogger in my box, and I'm getting the following messages: Thu Feb 25 19:15:37 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:17:38 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:19:38 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:21:39 desti

Re: Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter

1999-02-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: > I recently begun to receive messages with information like this: > > X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="=_920025339==_" > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:35:

Re: Pine 4.10

1999-02-26 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, [iso-8859-1] Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > > > > Is it my imagination or does pine 4.10 seem a lot faster than 4.05? > > > Faster in terms of navigating mail folders and suc

RE: Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter

1999-02-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Feb-99 Conrado Badenas wrote: > I recently begun to receive messages with information like this: > > Dear Conrado: > Here you have the file requested. I'm sorry but I wrote it with MSWord. > > Your mom > > --=_920025339==_ > Content-Type: application/msword; name="File.

RE: /etc/hosts on one machine

1999-02-26 Thread Shaleh
On 26-Feb-99 Clyde Wilson wrote: > Is it possible to have /etc/hosts on only one machine > on the lan and have the other machines use it? > It's called NIS. Give it a peek.

Re: rc.boot for regular users

1999-02-26 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time > > as a regular user, not as root > > (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to > > my account) > > > > Can regular users also have boot scripts ? Why not

Re: Pine 4.10

1999-02-26 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, [iso-8859-1] M?rio Ol?mpio de Menezes wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > > Is it my imagination or does pine 4.10 seem a lot faster than 4.05? > > Faster in terms of navigating mail folders and such. > > > > Hi, > I'm having the exactly opposite

/etc/hosts on one machine

1999-02-26 Thread Clyde Wilson
Is it possible to have /etc/hosts on only one machine on the lan and have the other machines use it?

NFS client.

1999-02-26 Thread Odin
I have a debian box at work mounting a few (well, I guess a lot) of NFS shares on various Solaris machines. It was working just fine until yesterday (two months solid uptime) when all of a sudden, I started getting many errors like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~/naetwt2]$ ls ls: 800pts: Stale NFS file ha

Re: X11 and potential monitor problem

1999-02-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi Matt, I didn't know that. Thanks, I'll look for it this evening. Mark -Original Message- From: Matt Folwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 8:58 AM Subject: Re: X11 and potential monitor problem > >XF86Setup ha

Re: lilo

1999-02-26 Thread wtopa
Subject: lilo Date: Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 01:34:55AM -0500 In reply to:Robert Rati Quoting Robert Rati([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I had lilo working just fine on my machine, but because of a stupid move > on my part, I had to repartition and reformat all my drives. To avoid > re-in

Re: X11 and potential monitor problem

1999-02-26 Thread Matt Folwell
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 09:53:21PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I can't XF86Setup anywhere. > > I had spent 10+ hours upgrading my hamm installation to slink. XF86Setup has been split off into its own package. Have you installed that? -- Matt Folwell, P2 Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambri

slink iso images

1999-02-26 Thread Lawrence Walton
Are there any out there? *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-26 Thread servis
*- On 25 Feb, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Re: lpr and text formatting" > Guenter Schmidt wrote: >> >> If you use an HP printer, you may use PCL commands at the end of the >> magicfilter-script. mine looks like that: >> >> # Original default entry >> #defaultcat \eE\e&k2G\

Problem with booting from hard disk

1999-02-26 Thread Ólafur Freyr Hjálmsson
Hello I installed Debian 2.0 the other day. I had a problem in the beginning because I had to give the physical dimensions of the hard disk as a parameter to the installation kernel. Anyway, it is now installed but I'm not able to boot from the hard disk. I chose not to install lilo in the mas

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-26 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5 Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 08:26:58PM +0100 In reply to:Anthony GGP Quoting Anthony GGP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > This has been answered over a dozen times in the last two months. > > Could I suggest that you c

Re: Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...

1999-02-26 Thread wtopa
Subject: Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts... Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 05:29:44PM -0600 In reply to:rich Quoting rich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Howdy all, > > I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my > TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's l

Configuring Exim

1999-02-26 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I have installed Exim but I am not able to configure it. I have read a lot of documentation files on Exim, but since I don't know a lot about mail and mailing, I don't realy understand most of it. I just want to configure Exim to sent mail to my ISP's smtp server (smtp.kabelfoon.nl) and to get mai

hda: unexpected_intr: Error=0x41 { DriveStatusError }

1999-02-26 Thread Sky Goodhew
Hi again! I have tried several ways of istalling debian, I have formatted my disk with BIOS, with fdisk, with fips. I am getting an error message that repeats its self: had: unexpected_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: unexpected_intr: status=0x41 { DriveStatusError } Can

Re: Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT

1999-02-26 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 09:16:13AM -0500, Dale E. Martin wrote: > It's version 3.3.3, and I _think_ that it just appeared in potato. If not, > just grab the SVGA server binary from www.xfree86.org and install it over > your current server binary. you may also find it informative to have a look

Re: Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT

1999-02-26 Thread Dale E. Martin
Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you need to upgrade to the latest version of XFree86 (3.3.2?). It's version 3.3.3, and I _think_ that it just appeared in potato. If not, just grab the SVGA server binary from www.xfree86.org and install it over your current server binary. Later,

Re: Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter

1999-02-26 Thread hpv
> I recently begun to receive messages with information like this: > > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="=_920025339==_" [...] > Content-Type: application/msword; name="File.doc"; > x-mac-type="42494E41"; x-mac-creator="4D535744" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: b

Debian clusters

1999-02-26 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm looking for info/experiences of how to make a Debian cluster for mission critical web/DB/... server? Are someone doing/using this? Should be difficult to do this with Debian? I'm not a expert in this subject, so a brief report of success and/or some steps in the

Re: Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT

1999-02-26 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 05:16:53AM -0800, Brant Wells wrote: > >What graphic server should I use in order to make my riva TNT work with > >X? you need to upgrade to the latest version of XFree86 (3.3.2?). i'm not sure what the latest version is, but AFAIK the version that's packaged in hamm doe

Debianized cdrecord-1.6.1? (for HP7200e)

1999-02-26 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi! Is there debianized cdrecord-1.6.1 available, or it is necessary to download the tar.gz, compile it and put in /usr/local. The 1.6.1 supports the parallel port CD-R's ... TIA Wojtek Zabolotny

Re: StarOffice 5

1999-02-26 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > On 25. February 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > > > I've installed it simply following the setup provided by StarOffice (part of > > the download), following the instructions in their README. It worked > > flawlessly. > > I tried to install it

Re: Creative Labs DVD Encore Dxr2 and Linux video problems

1999-02-26 Thread Steve Rothanburg
Christopher Fury wrote: > But X windows is horrible. Colors bleed and shimmer all over the place and > the video > is offset. If I disconnect the video pass through and connect the monitor > straight to my video card the problem goes away. There you have it. The bypass cables that come with tha

Re: Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT

1999-02-26 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Leonardo Have you tried setting the default resolution using the XF86Setup? See what happens... You may have to toy around with the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to fine tune it... HTH, BrantW "RAM... Rarely Adequate Memory..." >From: "Leonardo Bermudez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian

Re: Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

1999-02-26 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Kevin Traas wrote: > My big thing is that I want/need Dial- & Bandwidth-on-Demand support - > very big requirements. I don't think these little ISDN routers > provide the level of control that I want. (If you know different, > please let me know.) All of the "little ISDN ro

Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT

1999-02-26 Thread Leonardo Bermudez
What graphic server should I use in order to make my riva TNT work with X? The problem is that X only starts in 320 x 200 resolution, even with the SVGA server. Thanks __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

tex package installation

1999-02-26 Thread Nikolaus Neumaier
Hi I'm trying to install a new tex package (ppchtex). After downloading the package from ftp.dante.de I copied all files in /usr/local/lib/texfm. To find the new packages / macros I did run the program texhash. Unfortunately using \usepackage{package} (m-pictex and m-ch-en) the files won't be fou

Problema con dselect

1999-02-26 Thread Jean-Georges Carbonnier
Hola, cuando instalo la ultima version de linux (debian) desde CDROM todo va bien hasta que llego a la parte de instalacion de los paquetes software. El programa dselect me pide la fuente, le digo CDROM, luego me pide el "block device type" y es cuando no consigo continuar. He probado varias opc

Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter

1999-02-26 Thread Conrado Badenas
I recently begun to receive messages with information like this: X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_920025339==_" Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:35:39 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Re: DHCP client for 2.2.x/token-ring???

1999-02-26 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Does a DHCP client exist which can handle token-ring on 2.2.x kernels? > Neither dhcpcd not dhclient (ISC's client) can deal with it. Try using dhcpcd v1.3, earlier versions (not remember which versions exactly) d

Re: Pine 4.10

1999-02-26 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > Is it my imagination or does pine 4.10 seem a lot faster than 4.05? > Faster in terms of navigating mail folders and such. > Hi, I'm having the exactly opposite feeling. Pine 4.10 is very slow in opening mail folders; it's stay Busy far more

Re: rc.boot for regular users

1999-02-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time > as a regular user, not as root > (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to > my account) > > Can regular users also have boot scripts ? I don't think so, but you could use the `setuid' command to run fetch

rc.boot for regular users

1999-02-26 Thread Andreas Rapp
I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time as a regular user, not as root (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to my account) Can regular users also have boot scripts ? Andreas

custom kernel install floppy problem

1999-02-26 Thread Helge Hafting
I am helping a friend installing debain on a laptop with a backpack cdrom, and have some trouble. (A compaq thing, 486/75 with 16M ram & 500 or so of harddisk) The 2.0 install floppy was used for partitioning the disk, but it couldn't see the backpack cdrom. So I compiled a 2.2.2 kernel. This o

Re: StarOffice 5

1999-02-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
On 25. February 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > I've installed it simply following the setup provided by StarOffice (part of > the download), following the instructions in their README. It worked > flawlessly. I tried to install it some days ago and it frose my X. I havnt tried to fiddle about with

acroread-colours

1999-02-26 Thread Johann Spies
I have a greyscale screen in combination with a S3 graphics card. Acroread's menus are all black to me and I cannot read them. The rest of the colours seems OK. I have looked at the .acrorc-file, but cannot figure out how to correct the problem. Help will be appreciated. Johann -

Install bombs on Swap disk initialization

1999-02-26 Thread Ray Parrish
Hello, I'm tired of looking at the blinking cursor while the swap disk is being "initialized"... It just sits there doing nothing for as long as I care to leave it there. Sooo, I tried creating the swap partition again, and this time I told it to check for bad sectors [which I had already done wi

Disk-Disk

1999-02-26 Thread joop . vson
Are both disks IDE ? Are they both on the same controller ? Which disk is the master, which disk is the slave ? You can only boot from a master disk. Set the jumpers right (I hope you still have the documentation for the disks) Success, Joop

Where to find the files?

1999-02-26 Thread Gustavo Valdes
Hello: I'd really apreciate if you could tell me what files are required to install the Debian Linux OS. I have been in the FTP sites you're site links to, but I haven't been able to find some README file that exactly tells the directories from wich I must download the files.

Re: xcdroast

1999-02-26 Thread Daniel Faller
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Robert Rati wrote: >Error: Some or all Generic-SCSI-Devices are missing. >Please create first the devices. Run "./MAKEDEVICES.sh" >in the xcdroast-0.96e directory. A few days ago I had the same problem. You find MAKEDEVICES.sh in the source code of xcdroast, just untar xcdro

xcdroast

1999-02-26 Thread Robert Rati
I just got an external SCSI CD-R for my box. After some doing, I got it working in windows, but would realy like to burn in Linux. I had xcdroast running at one point in time, but now I get this error: ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" ERROR at text.tcl line 45

lilo

1999-02-26 Thread Robert Rati
I had lilo working just fine on my machine, but because of a stupid move on my part, I had to repartition and reformat all my drives. To avoid re-installing and re-setting up everything on my box, I simply copied my Debian partitions to a drive I didn't have to format. I've copied it back over an

Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.

1999-02-26 Thread Jens K. Olsen
John Hasler wrote: > > It looks to me as if it gets stuck on the Host Name. When it gets the > > UserID promt it sends the Host Name again > > No. That is the other end echoing the "HOSTNAME^M" you sent. It is > hanging waiting for "ser ID:" Try telling it to expect just "ID:" . Thank you

Re: X11 and potential monitor problem

1999-02-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
-Original Message- From: Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >i do not believe X will use video mode which is out of >monitor specs. You can run "xvidtune" and check >what horizontal and vertical frequencies are > >OK > I didn't think so. But it sure is weird. I seemed to have messed u

Re: X11 and potential monitor problem

1999-02-26 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:56:20 -0800 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org From: Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-

Re: size of kernel too big?

1999-02-26 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hello everybody, hi I recently compiled kernel 2.2.1 (my 1st attempt), and everything seems to be going smoothly (except for playing .wav files, but that's another story...) Anyway, did not put anything into "modules" (is that bad?)... Now, when I look at my /var/log/messages, I s

Re: APT - Uninstall Leftovers

1999-02-26 Thread wax_man
On 25 Feb, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: > >> This is because Apt knows all, and you are a mere user. ;-) It knows that >> xrn requires cnews/inews, and cnews/inews conflict with leafnode. Thus you >> want an impossible situation, and it will not give it to yo

X11 and potential monitor problem

1999-02-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I purchased a Sony CPD-200ES monitor a couple weeks ago and have been using it with Debian without any sort of problem. When I bought I re-ran XF86Setup and configured for my new monitor. Today when I came home from school, I noticed that my monitor was brighter than normal. I checked the

Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.

1999-02-26 Thread John Hasler
dyer writes: > Have you tried using 'pppconfig' command? Pppconfig is really just a special-purpose editor. It's great for ordinary ISPs, but given Compuserv's whacky special requirements he is better off just editing /etc/chatscripts/provider by hand as he has done. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTE

Mail and finger problems

1999-02-26 Thread Chuck Peters
I received a disturbing report that the mail port is intermitingly working. Is this a serious bug or what? jh 17:08:37 ~ $ ifconfig ep0; telnet linux.axs.org smtp ep0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 205.216.162.143 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 205.216.162.255 ether 00:20:af:db:d7:9a T

Re: Weird: Name resoultion for root only?!

1999-02-26 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Please help! > >I have already posted about this weird thing to comp.os.linux.network, >but nobody seems to be able to help me, maybe one of you Debian >specialists will have a clue... > >Here is my problem: My newly installed Debian 2.0 box (I'm new to >D

Re: APT - Uninstall Leftovers

1999-02-26 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having problems with apt and it's removal of packages. I tried to > install xrn (the x news reader) and it installed cnews and inews > removing my leafnode. I then had it reinstall leafnode, since it was > properly configured and working. Of co

Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.

1999-02-26 Thread John Hasler
> It looks to me as if it gets stuck on the Host Name. When it gets the > UserID promt it sends the Host Name again No. That is the other end echoing the "HOSTNAME^M" you sent. It is hanging waiting for "ser ID:" Try telling it to expect just "ID:" . Are you sure you are supposed to send

ppp help

1999-02-26 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
Hello, I'm a 1.5 debian-year old, and I'm on my second round of debian installs. I recently acquired a PII-266 motherboard, and built it into a second machine. Naturally, withing a couple of weeks, I had to network my two machines, and thanks to a kind, knowledgeable friend, I have my own LAN. Ho

semop() SEMMSL constant gone?

1999-02-26 Thread Britton
I'm trying to compile a SEMOP intensive program and am wondering what happened to this constant if anything, or if it's just me. Mayby I'm leaving out a critical header? Here are the ones I'm using. #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #inclu

Re: Totally OFFTOPIC: tournament scheduler program

1999-02-26 Thread Britton
Hmm, mayby octave. Sounds like it could be getting to be an interesting combinatorical problem :) __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to bug you with this, it is totally off topic. I'm looking fo

X news reader

1999-02-26 Thread wax_man
I'm looking for a good X based news reader that will work with leafnode (since I already have it installed and running). Any ideas on one. I tried xrn, but it installed cnews and removed leafnode. Thanks, Chris

APT - Uninstall Leftovers

1999-02-26 Thread wax_man
I'm having problems with apt and it's removal of packages. I tried to install xrn (the x news reader) and it installed cnews and inews removing my leafnode. I then had it reinstall leafnode, since it was properly configured and working. Of course this removed what I had just installed. Anyway,

Creative Labs DVD Encore Dxr2 and Linux video problems

1999-02-26 Thread Christopher Fury
I just bought a Creative Labs Encore DVD-ROM with the Dxr2 mpeg board, and I'm having horrible video problems running X windows. The video bleeds all over the place. I see a little problem in winbloze (the reason I bought the stupid DVD-ROM drive is because a) I needed to install windows and b) w

DHCP client for 2.2.x/token-ring???

1999-02-26 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Does a DHCP client exist which can handle token-ring on 2.2.x kernels? Neither dhcpcd not dhclient (ISC's client) can deal with it. Thanx!

Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.

1999-02-26 Thread dyer
"Jens K. Olsen" wrote: > I have been trying to connect to my ISP for some time but without any > luck. When I use Windows I can connect without problems. Following is > the script that works in Windows: > > ; This is a script file that demonstrates how > ; to establish a PPP connection with Compus

HELP. My chat script doesn't work.

1999-02-26 Thread Jens K. Olsen
I have been trying to connect to my ISP for some time but without any luck. When I use Windows I can connect without problems. Following is the script that works in Windows: ; This is a script file that demonstrates how ; to establish a PPP connection with Compuserve, ; which requires changing the

Weird: Name resoultion for root only?!

1999-02-26 Thread O. Niepolt
Please help! I have already posted about this weird thing to comp.os.linux.network, but nobody seems to be able to help me, maybe one of you Debian specialists will have a clue... Here is my problem: My newly installed Debian 2.0 box (I'm new to Debian, but not to Linux in general) can see IP add

Re: Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...

1999-02-26 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my >TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's loaded during boot-up), but when I do >a "xlsfonts | grep ttf" I get nothing... I've also done "ln -s >/dos_c/windows/fonts /usr

Re: StarOffice 5

1999-02-26 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Micha Feigin; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote: > > > Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian? > > > > there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (like there is for > > SO3)? > > If its like staroffice 4, > Then use the s

Obsidian's OCS web-based utilities

1999-02-26 Thread Randy Edwards
While perusing Freshmeat today I ran across Obsidian's OCS web-based set of "intranet" utilities. These include a e-mail, calendar/scheduling, chat, and other modules which fit nicely into an integrated web-based system. They're licensed under the GPL and appear to be highly polished and I was su

initialization scripts question

1999-02-26 Thread Pollywog
Are the initialization scripts used in Debian similar to those in RedHat or Slackware? I can't find information that is specific to Debian. thanks -- Andrew

Re: Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

1999-02-26 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Dimitri Patakidis wrote: >> I want to connect an external ISDN to my system using the MB's >> standard serial ports. However, everything's telling me I can only >> push 115K through these serial ports - far less than the theoretical >> max of an ISDN TA that does V.42bis. >>

Re: Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...

1999-02-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I'm hardly an expert on this, but I can tell you what I did to get it working. First of all, check the xfstt man page, especially the --sync option. When I set this up a few weeks ago, I also had no luck until I ran xfstt with the --sync option. What this apparently did was generate two files in

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