Custom compiled stuff.

1999-03-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a way that Debian can, in some fashion or another, emulate FreeBSD's ports tree? IE, allow the person to download source and compile from that source while retaining the packaging from dpkg? - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm you

Re: fetchmail and ssh

1999-03-15 Thread Jens Ritter
This can besolved by using expect and/or the preconnect option. It is described in a thread on debian-devel. So please search in the mailing list archive of debian-devel for "fetchmail". TIA, Jens Phil Nitschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi fetchmail/ssh guru's, > > I connect to work with

Re: Kernel 2.2.1 question.

1999-03-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Kernel 2.2.1 question. Date: Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 12:56:23PM -0500 In reply to:Person, Roderick Quoting Person, Roderick([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I compiled this kernel and I noticed that the vmlinuz image was not set as > executable. So I chmod so it would be and I got a k

Re: Debian on IBM thinkpad 380XD

1999-03-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Check the www.debian.org mailing list page. I believe there has been a new mailing list started just to handle laptops. HTH Subject: Debian on IBM thinkpad 380XD Date: Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:35:45PM -0600 In reply to:Brian Morgan Quoting Brian Morgan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > A

Re: accepting talk from only some users

1999-03-15 Thread Jens Ritter
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I'd like to accept only talk from a list of users I specify... > something like: if you're not on the list the "your party is refusing > messages" pop-up shows up, and if you're on the list the as usual. > > Does anybody know how to ma

Re: can't use RAM > 64 MB with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-03-15 Thread Werner Reisberger
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:44:38AM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > I looks like bash might be barfing on this for some reason. Have you tried to > substitute a different default shell instead? Or maybe a different version of > bash? I would try to Korn shell and see what happens. I replaced the bas

Re: Sound solution

1999-03-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I may be wrong, but from my experience with OSS you don't have to use isapnp at all. Thats the reason OSS is out on the market: It replaces isapnp, in a more efficient way. You still need to compile kernel, though. Just read the README file that comes with OSS. I think they describe it all there. A

Re: boot floppy

1999-03-15 Thread Kent West
At 09:02 AM 3/15/1999 +, Derek wrote: >I have the Debuanlinux cd but I can't install or make a boot floppy no >(OS) is there any way to get a boot floppy so I can install Debian in my >computer. >Thank you, >Derel If your computer's CMOS will allow you to boot from CD-ROM, set it to do so and

use the serialport from perl

1999-03-15 Thread badpixel
Hi! I'm trying to read callerid data from my modem with a perlscript. I open the serialport with: open (SERIALPORT, $device) or die "arrrg! $!"; and this works fine just after a reboot. But! If i connect to the Internet for a couple of minutes with pppd, disconnects again and start my script, it

Re: Sound solution

1999-03-15 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I have an Ensoniq AudioPCI. I don't know how to get my sound working. What is the answer? Please advise. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Richard Kaszeta wrote: > Doug Dine writes ("Sound sol

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/15/99 4:45:39 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Just curious - is there a doc that lists comparisons between GNOME and KDE? > > Just to to dejanews and do a search under 'flame'. ;-) > LOL - Okay. I've picked myself up off the floor now. ;) > S

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Just curious - is there a doc that lists comparisons between GNOME and KDE? Just to to dejanews and do a search under 'flame'. ;-) Seriously, I don't know of any document that does that exactly, but you can read one author's opinions at http://linux.miningco.com/

GtkICQ chat not working.

1999-03-15 Thread Mark Phillips
I have finally registered okay with ICQ using GtkICQ. I can send and receive messages okay, but chat doesn't seem to work. When my friend sent a chat request, apparently it complained that: "the other partner is using a basic version of the ICQ and this function is not supported!" Any idea

Re: Debian on IBM thinkpad 380XD

1999-03-15 Thread Greg Starkes
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > Anyone have info on installing Debian on an IBM thinkpad 380XD? I'm > installing the latest 2.1 version, and not having much luck with the rescue > disk. It comes to the "boot:" screen. I press enter, and then it reboots > the system. Repeats with dif

map file

1999-03-15 Thread Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF
Is this something that needs attention every time you compile a kernel or change kernel versions ? __ Geoffrey Deasey/ /__ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / ( ) \ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / __ _

Xfree86 3.3.3.1 debs?

1999-03-15 Thread Jim Harritt
Is there a source for Xfree86 3.3.3.1 debian packages? -- Jim Harritt - HP Corvallis Operations - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, David Densmore wrote: > 1. Is Gnome a window manager for X, or is it a replacement for X? >(or it it something else?) It is something else. Gnome stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. It is (or will be when completed) a complete desktop based on the GTK+ toolk

Re: Sound solution

1999-03-15 Thread Doug Dine
At 3/15/99 2:18:00 PM, you wrote: >Yeah. That solution is well-known, but the trick here is to get the sound >working WITHOUT having to pay. >As far as I am concerned, that OSS alone would cost me twice of what I had >to pay for hamm cds. With delivery. Also, OSS can cause some problems. At >leas

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/15/99 4:05:04 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Something else. You can use your existing WM with gnome. > Gnome just provides libraries for applications and also several > utility apps. The gnome-panel is an example of a utility app. > Also, the gnome

Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!

1999-03-15 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Marshall Savage wrote: >Filtering gets the email messages from the listserver into >the correct separate email box. However it does nothing >for the overwhelming volumn problem which threading would >considerably help. Both web based discussion managers & >news reader pr

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread Florian Steffen
1. Gnome is not a replacement for X, nor a Window Manager. You need both X and a window manager (any one will work, but some, like WindowMaker or Enlightenment, provides additional functionalities to work seamlessly with gnome). Gnome is a desktop environment, that means that it provides an integra

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > 1. Is Gnome a window manager for X, or is it a replacement for X? >(or it it something else?) Something else. You can use your existing WM with gnome. Gnome just provides libraries for applications and also several utility apps. The gnome-panel is an example

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/15/99 3:26:24 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 1. Is Gnome a window manager for X, or is it a replacement for X? > (or it it something else?) > Gnome is more of an object handling system than anything. I suppose you could consider it a desktop envi

unable to open /dev/mixer

1999-03-15 Thread Graham Ashton
I've just got sound going under 2.2.3, SoundBlaster 64 [OEM] (how happy am I?!!) My little mixer controller complained that it couldn't access /dev/mixer, the permissions on which were 660. It's owned root,audio. I put myself in the audio group, but it didn't fix it. If I do "newgrp audio" I'm ask

Re: Slink and Kernel-Source.

1999-03-15 Thread John Maheu
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > i've just upgrade one server to slink at work and i'm confuse > when i've see that kernel-source are in the tgz form after > the installation. > > I think it's necessary to use the 'old method' without problem : > > * unpack the package > * create a

Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread David Densmore
1. Is Gnome a window manager for X, or is it a replacement for X? (or it it something else?) 2. What is the advantage of using a kernel source package in .deb format as opposed to a generic kernel source in tar.gz format?

Re: Sound solution

1999-03-15 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Doug Dine writes ("Sound solution"): >If anyone has had the problems with getting sound in Linux as I >have then go to: > >http://www.opensound.com > >They have sound drivers for almost any card. You will be out >$20.00 US. They have evaluation versions to download. > >I had sound in 5 minutes wit

Slink and Kernel-Source.

1999-03-15 Thread Tony Schonfeld
i've just upgrade one server to slink at work and i'm confuse when i've see that kernel-source are in the tgz form after the installation. I think it's necessary to use the 'old method' without problem : * unpack the package * create a symlink from kernel-source-x.x.x to linux * make-kpkg kerne

Ghostscript gave up the ghost

1999-03-15 Thread Helge Hafting
I have an odd problem with ghostscript on my work machine. Both home machine and work machine run kernal 2.2.3 and debian 2.1 Work machine has 48M RAM, home machine 32M. Both has 64M swap. Ghostscript work fine on my home machine, producing nice output on my deskjet 310. Ghostscript used to wor

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:30:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 15 Mar, Mike Merten wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> As long as you were removing xdm with --purge or( _ in dselect). The > > >

Re: pseudo ttys

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 12:56:34PM -0500, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:42:48AM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running a 2.2.2 kernel with support for the /dev/pty filesystem > > (UNIX98 pty support) enabled. My question is this... does this > > obsolete

Re: /bin/sh

1999-03-15 Thread matthew neil garman
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 03:01:48PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > OK, I am sure this has been discussed to death at some point, but I just > have to ask: Is it really a good idea to have /bin/sh a symlink to bash? > I know bash is a nicer shell to use, an

^Z in slink

1999-03-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
Anyone having problems backgrounding apps with ^z after upgrading to slink? Both vi (nvi) and pine are giving me problems - I can't background vi at all, and pine sometimes will, sometimes won't. It's weird. This problem also cropped up during the bo --> hamm upgrade, iirc. -- Nathan Norman Mid

Re: HELP! [homega@vlc.servicom.es: unexpected inconsistency!]

1999-03-15 Thread Richard Lyon
> Now, after two days > it has happened yet again ... this time while editing various files on > three different consoles: all of a sudden I got a message (don't remember > which one), and couldn't do anything else, not even ^C. I had to reset the > machine (^AltDel wouldn't work either) and the

Re: Sound solution

1999-03-15 Thread Doug Dine
At 3/15/99 2:18:00 PM, you wrote: >Yeah. That solution is well-known, but the trick here is to get the sound >working WITHOUT having to pay. >As far as I am concerned, that OSS alone would cost me twice of what I had >to pay for hamm cds. With delivery. Also, OSS can cause some problems. At >least

kernel panic, no init found

1999-03-15 Thread Jianming YOU
Hi, Experts, I just upgraded my box from 2.0.34 to 2.2.1 and I got "kernel panic, no init found..." when I tried to boot with the new kernel. The problem have been reported by several people. However, I still don't know how to recover the system after reading those replies, :(. I'd appreciate if

Re: OT: CD-R suggestions

1999-03-15 Thread matthew neil garman
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 12:46:13PM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > I'm looking for input on what kind of CD-R to buy. It will be a SCSI > version with a 4x-6x write rate. It can have RW ability but I don't plan > on using that. What brands should I strive for and which ones should I > stay

Re: Sound solution

1999-03-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Yeah. That solution is well-known, but the trick here is to get the sound working WITHOUT having to pay. As far as I am concerned, that OSS alone would cost me twice of what I had to pay for hamm cds. With delivery. Also, OSS can cause some problems. At least on my machine the demo was very screwed

Cdir problems

1999-03-15 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, I use cdadd to create a record for a CD, and then run cdir, it still displays "unknown cd". Strace shows that it is opening the ~/.cdtooldb file fine, but beyond that I can't tell. Any ideas? Please Cc replies to me. Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-15 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, buns wrote: > " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > > > The address seem to indicate that the intruder originates from Malaysia. > > > > As does yours. > > Rest assured that mine does. BTW, I meant to put a smiley after that "As does yours" part, sorry. > I sincerely think that t

Re: Installing Linux

1999-03-15 Thread Kent West
At 07:16 PM 3/14/1999 -0400, Maria Helena Albornoz Vasquez wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a Linux beginner and I want to install Linux in my computer but I > experienced some problem. > > I have a Pentium 133 Mhz, 32 Mb RAM with a 1.6Gb hard disk with Win95 > installed. > The hard disk is yet parti

Re: Too many subdirectories

1999-03-15 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I made a c program : > > #include > main() > { > int nbr=0; > while(1) > { > printf("%d\n",nbr+=1); > mkdir ("x"); > chdir ("x"); > } > exit(0); > } I hate to ask, but... why??? I duplicated this for the sake of making s

Sound solution

1999-03-15 Thread Doug Dine
If anyone has had the problems with getting sound in Linux as I have then go to: http://www.opensound.com They have sound drivers for almost any card. You will be out $20.00 US. They have evaluation versions to download. I had sound in 5 minutes without having to recompile my kernel. Doug Din

/bin/sh

1999-03-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- OK, I am sure this has been discussed to death at some point, but I just have to ask: Is it really a good idea to have /bin/sh a symlink to bash? I know bash is a nicer shell to use, and provides a superset of the traditional sh's functionality, but I think that

Sound solution

1999-03-15 Thread Doug Dine
If anyone has had the problems with getting sound in Linux as I have then go to: http://www.opensound.com They have sound drivers for almost any card. You will be out $20.00 US. I had sound in 5 minutes without having to recompile my kernel. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.c

RE: smbfs & automount

1999-03-15 Thread servis
On 15-Mar-99 Patrick wrote: > > does someone has succeeded in mounting remote smb shares with automount ? > > i have a debian 2.1 with smbfsx and samba > but when trying i have in my log only: > automount[25275]: cannot find mount method for filesystem smbfs > > what am i missing ? > > thanks f

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-15 Thread buns
" Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, buns wrote: > > > This is a bit off-topic. > > > > " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: > > > > > > > Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a > > > > user > > > > account for

Debian on IBM thinkpad 380XD

1999-03-15 Thread Brian Morgan
Anyone have info on installing Debian on an IBM thinkpad 380XD? I'm installing the latest 2.1 version, and not having much luck with the rescue disk. It comes to the "boot:" screen. I press enter, and then it reboots the system. Repeats with different rescue disks on different thinkpads (all 38

RE: smbfs & automount

1999-03-15 Thread Russell Rademacher
Hello Patrick. As I remembered... the automount do not work with the smb shares. However...what I did is that I edited my script on the startup so it mounts them automatically and you can remount it or unmount them with this script which I hacked. It is located at /etc/init.d/samba file

Re: WheelMouse under Linux

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 15 Mar, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: WheelMouse under Linux" > *- On 15 Mar, Matthew Myers wrote about "WheelMouse under Linux" >> Does anyone know where to find info on how to get the wheel of a >> wheelmouse to work under Linux? >> >> > http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-whee

Bootup path?

1999-03-15 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I was looking in my Hamm Dist. for the file which has all the path to look for executable program when it bootup. Can anyone help me? Also, when I tried to install Netscape it told me to install motifnls which I did but afterward it said that I have to set my XNLSPATH environment

OT: CD-R suggestions

1999-03-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I'm looking for input on what kind of CD-R to buy. It will be a SCSI version with a 4x-6x write rate. It can have RW ability but I don't plan on using that. What brands should I strive for and which ones should I stay away from? It is going into a data-bank so an internal model is fine. TIA.

Re: WheelMouse under Linux

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 15 Mar, Matthew Myers wrote about "WheelMouse under Linux" > Does anyone know where to find info on how to get the wheel of a > wheelmouse to work under Linux? > > http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ and the imwheel program(not yet available under Debian) http://www.freshme

Re: Connect script failed

1999-03-15 Thread John Hasler
Anthony Campbell writes: > Mar 15 17:12:57 achc chat[1139]: expect (ogin:achc) ^ This looks like /etc/chatscripts/provider is garbled. Could you send me a copy of that file? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EM

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 15 Mar, Mike Merten wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> *- On 15 Mar, Richard Harran wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" >> > After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll >> > o

Re: Too many subdirectories

1999-03-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I made a c program : > > #include > main() > { > int nbr=3D0; > while(1) > { > printf("%d\n",nbr+=3D1); > mkdir ("x"); > c

Too many subdirectories

1999-03-15 Thread Sami Dalouche
I made a c program : #include main() { int nbr=0; while(1) { printf("%d\n",nbr+=1); mkdir ("x"); chdir ("x"); } exit(0); } My problem is that there is now too many subdirectories (10,000) and rm said " Memory exhausted " when I type rm -rf x Does anyone k

Kernel 2.2.1 question.

1999-03-15 Thread Person, Roderick
I compiled this kernel and I noticed that the vmlinuz image was not set as executable. So I chmod so it would be and I got a kernel panic. I compile again and tried to boot, leaveing it as not executable and got module load errors that left me only able to reboot to my old kernel. I use loadlin to

Re: pseudo ttys

1999-03-15 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:42:48AM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a 2.2.2 kernel with support for the /dev/pty filesystem > (UNIX98 pty support) enabled. My question is this... does this > obsolete the 64 or so /dev/ptyxx devices, or are they still used > for something? As far

WheelMouse under Linux

1999-03-15 Thread Matthew Myers
Does anyone know where to find info on how to get the wheel of a wheelmouse to work under Linux?

Re: fmirror/mirror/lftp ?

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:32:46AM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > I would like to mirror the unstable tree at work. I have tried to > accomplish this with several tools (fmirror/mirror/lftp) but I can't > figure out how to get exactly what I want. > > When I use fmirror (which I like), most

Free clone of MS-Project?

1999-03-15 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Does anyone know of 'free' version (ie: GPL'ed or similar) program similar to Microsoft Project? Thanks for any ideas. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHO

Connect script failed

1999-03-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to get my laptop to connect to my ISP using a Courier external modem. I can connect manually using minicom but cannot get ppp running. I've set up chat using pppconfig but pon gives the following error (plog) Mar 15 17:12:57 achc chat[1139]: send (^M) Mar 15 17:12:57 achc chat[1139]:

svgalib + quake2 puzzle

1999-03-15 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>>>. Has anyone else had this problem?-- I upgraded to slink and compiled kernel 2.2.3 this weekend, no problems. Then, as root--it's a standalone box--I fired up quake2. The screen went blank and--first time I've seen this since escaping from MS--the keyboard went dead. Completely

Re: searching for files on cdrom

1999-03-15 Thread Holger Mense
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, James Dietrich wrote: > > P.S.: Or can someone tell me, in which package "msgfmt" is? :) > > zgrep msgfmt Contents-i386.gz Hmm... of course you can do it the easy way :) In german I would say: "Er sieht den Wald vor lauter Baeumen nicht" - ("He doesn't see the forest because

Re: printcap entry to use smbclient with lprng

1999-03-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:35:01AM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: [...] > Could you send me a sample lprng printcap entry that accesses a > Windows network printer via smbclient and also uses magicfilter. [...] I use modyfied file /usr/doc/samba-doc/examples/examples/printing/smbprint. (diff attach

Re: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:44:51PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 04:57:05PM -0800, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > The solution is to downgrade the ldso package to the one in slink, or > > actually take the plunge to glibc 2.1. > > so what's likely to break if i upgrade to glibc

boot floppy

1999-03-15 Thread Derek
I have the Debuanlinux cd but I can't install or make a boot floppy no (OS) is there any way to get a boot floppy so I can install Debian in my computer. Thank you, Derel

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 15 Mar, Richard Harran wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll > > own up, I didn't rtfm, and it caused me a problem upgrading > > hamm->slink).

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:37:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 07:32:59PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > > Well, maybe I should READ those package descriptions :) > > I should make this the offical motto of the Debian X packages. > > I don't know how I am supposed to

pseudo ttys

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I'm running a 2.2.2 kernel with support for the /dev/pty filesystem (UNIX98 pty support) enabled. My question is this... does this obsolete the 64 or so /dev/ptyxx devices, or are they still used for something? Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

KDE: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual

1999-03-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
I get this error when trying to execute certain KDE programs from an xterm in KDE. /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual When I execute these programs from the KDE menus, nothing happens at all. I'm running KDE 1.1-19990207-2 on my slink system. timshel:~$ ls -al /usr

Re: Memory Help

1999-03-15 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Jesse Lee wrote: > > > > Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my > > swap space fine but when I look in dmesg It says it only found 64 megs > > RAM. > > you need to put the line: > >append="mem=128M" > > in your lilo.

Re: Help

1999-03-15 Thread Kent West
At 07:45 PM 3/13/1999 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: ># Default Modem (you better replace this with /dev/ttySx!) >/dev/modem >^ >|This is where the problem might reside. >What you need to is: >a. Make a link to the COM port where your modem is and call it /dev/modem >b. Put down the ac

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-15 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, buns wrote: > This is a bit off-topic. > > " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: > > > > > Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user > > > account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and

Re: new user unable to install Slink

1999-03-15 Thread Kent West
At 09:00 PM 3/13/1999 +0100, Olivier Ripoll wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I am trying to install slink for CDs (I' ve just burned them). >During the boot process, I got the following (after indentification of >cd and hard drive) > >(scsi0) found at PCI 11/0 >(scsi0) Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs

Re: Help - a very little problem with latex

1999-03-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > I did a lot of research on this, but still cannot find the > solution. I want to print a >, or a < in latex. But when I view them in ps > format, it displays the strange symbol(a question mark upside down). From > what I read from the books, the

Re: Bug#34594: Problems with Enlightenment

1999-03-15 Thread Brian Almeida
[ I'm Cc'ing this to all the places I posted, so that this won't happen again ] On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:09:37PM +0200, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > Packages: enlightenment-conf enlightenment-nosound dox enlightenment > > I have Debian Slink with many not-so-system-critical packages from Potato.

Re: Xterm not showing Xresources changes

1999-03-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/14/99 8:31:41 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Translation overrides look like this: > > *VT100.Translations: #override ~Meta BackSpace: string("\177")\n\ > Delete: string("\033[3~")\n\ > H

Re: hylafax???

1999-03-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
Hylafax keeps pretty good (although long) log files in /var/log/hylafax. You should probably look at them and it may give some hints. What does faxstat report? Bob On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I ran faxsetup and faxaddmodem, but when I use sendfax or tkhylafax to > send faxes

Re: Xterm not showing Xresources changes

1999-03-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/14/99 6:21:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose: > > Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file: > > > > XTerm*background: black > > XTerm*foreground: yellow > > XTerm*geomet

Re: can't use RAM > 64 MB with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-03-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> There could be several of such messages during the boot stage. The worst >> happens if I shutdown the system. After the line >> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel This is interesting. A Red Hat 5.1 system I am working on for a frie

Re: which graphic card and processor

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 15 Mar, Armin Wegner wrote about "which graphic card and processor" > Hi, > > Can I use the ELSA ERAZOR II and the ATI EXPERT 98 graphic card with > X Window? Are there drivers? http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html ELSA ERAZOR II . XF86_SVGA ATI

Re: printcap, filtering, etc

1999-03-15 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi Rich, There is a program called ATP(ascii to postscript) which I use to format ascii documents when printing them, it supports lanscape, portrait and different numbers of columns. As well as differernt fonts and sizes, etc. Give it a go. You'll need to have a working postscript filter for your

svgalib + quake2 puzzle

1999-03-15 Thread Don Berkich
Has anyone else had this problem?-- I upgraded to slink and compiled kernel 2.2.3 this weekend, no problems. Then, as root--it's a standalone box--I fired up quake2. The screen went blank and--first time I've seen this since escaping from MS--the keyboard went dead. Completely. Even numlock/ca

Re: can't use RAM > 64 MB with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-03-15 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I looks like bash might be barfing on this for some reason. Have you tried to substitute a different default shell instead? Or maybe a different version of bash? I would try to Korn shell and see what happens. wayne On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 00:46

Weird CDROM error message

1999-03-15 Thread Ian Ehrenwald
Hi, I just upgraded to kernel 2.2.3. Everything went fine, no real problems at all. Except when I boot I see a brief message after mounting the partitions about SIOCTRLCDROM or something to that effect. It doesn't seem to be affecting anything, as the CDROM is mounted and all that nice s

Re: Help - a very little problem with latex

1999-03-15 Thread Armin Wegner
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:17:18AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I did a lot of research on this, but still cannot find the > solution. I want to print a >, or a < in latex. But when I view them in ps > format, it displays the strange symbol(a question mark upside down). From > what I read

Re: printcap, filtering, etc

1999-03-15 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Richard Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # Magic filter setup file for HP DeskJet 500 series color > # printers with only CMY cartridge installed. > and my printer has black & CMY cartridges. Is the filter using the > colour cartridge to make black, Probably not. The printer is i

fmirror/mirror/lftp ?

1999-03-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I would like to mirror the unstable tree at work. I have tried to accomplish this with several tools (fmirror/mirror/lftp) but I can't figure out how to get exactly what I want. When I use fmirror (which I like), most of what is downloaded are symbolic links to "slink" which are not useful to me

which graphic card and processor

1999-03-15 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, Can I use the ELSA ERAZOR II and the ATI EXPERT 98 graphic card with X Window? Are there drivers? Can I use the AMD K6 processor with debian? What graphic card and processor do you recommend? Thanks a lot, Armin

LPR gives suidmanager errors

1999-03-15 Thread Jay Barbee
I updated my Hamm's LPR and now I am getting a cron error when suid manager runs. Below is the actual cron error. How is this corrected? --Jay Barbee >Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:46:30 -0500 (EST) >From: root (Cron Daemon) >To: root >Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts --report /etc/cron.

Re: remote printing permissions [solved]

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
To solve my problem of remote printing, it was very simple (once I found out what I was doing). Edit the /etc/lpd.perms so that it allows remote print job requests: Find these following lines in the file: # reject remote prints from arbitrary hosts REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER Replace them wi

Re: new user unable to install Slink

1999-03-15 Thread Steve Rothanburg
I had the same problem with one of our systems here. I had to remove the SCSI card (only using it for the scanner right now) and compile a kernel without all the extra stuff I don't need. I do know that it'll boot fine with the boot disks from RedHat and SUSE. Check http://www.debian.org/fom/193

Help - a very little problem with latex

1999-03-15 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I did a lot of research on this, but still cannot find the solution. I want to print a >, or a < in latex. But when I view them in ps format, it displays the strange symbol(a question mark upside down). From what I read from the books, there is no need to do anything special. W

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 14 Mar, George Bonser wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > >> As a developer, I track the debian-devel-changes mailing list. I freely >> admit that this is not something we can reasonably expect our users to do. >> >> As a user, thou

HELP! [homega@vlc.servicom.es: unexpected inconsistency!]

1999-03-15 Thread homega
I posted this a few days ago, and I got no responses. Now, after two days it has happened yet again ... this time while editing various files on three different consoles: all of a sudden I got a message (don't remember which one), and couldn't do anything else, not even ^C. I had to reset the ma

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 15 Mar, Richard Harran wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll > own up, I didn't rtfm, and it caused me a problem upgrading > hamm->slink). However, I dpkg warnings: > while removeing xdm, directory /var/sta

Re: printcap, filtering, etc

1999-03-15 Thread Richard Harran
Cheers Got it going, and you answered one of the qu's in my next post. Thanks a lot Rich Conrado Badenas wrote: > > Richard Harran wrote: > > am having a bit of trouble setting up printcap properly. Could someone > > who uses the cdj500 gs filters please tell me what to put in > > /etc/printcap

RE: strange log messages/behavior

1999-03-15 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Kris Van Heghe wrote: > * Sometimes, after playing around for a while on the machine, if some > command gives me an error, subsequent commands (whatever it is) produce > only one output: 'Segmentation fault'. From that moment, there is only one > solution: restarting the

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