Re: Sound Board

1999-03-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > > -- > > Subject: Re: Sound Board > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:44:34 +0100 > From: Petru NOTINGHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: LEM /UM 2 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: Newcomer to Linux

1999-03-22 Thread Kent West
At 09:50 AM 3/21/1999 -0800, Bala Iyer wrote: >I am a newcomer to Linux. Wants to learn. Down loaded all the files. Read >everything many times and tried to install several times. Spend about 70 hours >so far but failed to understand where it is going wrong. I will be thankful >for any help. I have

Help on DNS

1999-03-22 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, After I upgraded my libc6 to the one in slink, my dns is no longer working. I can still telnet to an ipaddress, but no longer a name. I have a correct resolv.conf and named.conf. What else do I need to check & do in order to get my dns back... Thanks Shao. -- __

Re: A CVS like server

1999-03-22 Thread Dale E. Martin
Gary Pupurs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for something similar for a web-based document version control > system. I've considered CVS/RCS and Perl as a solution, but havent found > anything pre-existing. Most related products out there are in the $x0,000 > price range; for our needs

Re: Adaptec AIC7770 error during install

1999-03-22 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Looking through /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx, it doesn't appear that the numeric argument-format you're using is valid. Have you tried "aic7xxx=no_reset"? There seems to be some conflicts among the various compiled-in SCSI drivers on the installation diskset, which have prevented su

Minor kernel upgrade trouble

1999-03-22 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I upgraded to slink. No problems...(whew!) Then I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.1 and it works fine except for a couple of messages when I boot. "Can not locate module char-major-14" I did purchase/install OSS with the new kernel, and therefore didn't compile sound support in the kernel as the

Re: sound

1999-03-22 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> In tere anyway to compile your kernel without have to use modules to > enable sound If you have a non-pnp card, yes. For example, I've played with the same card as Doug for a while, and just gave up after a while. Found a different sound card, SB16. It wasnt pnp, and after a quick kernel recompi

Re: glibc-2.1-dev - where is bytesex.h?

1999-03-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
Toens Bueker wrote: > subject says it all. Did bytesex.h move to another package? Or was it just > left behind? :-) You could use instead. But even better, include . HTH, -Remco

Re: A CVS like server

1999-03-22 Thread Gary Pupurs
I'm looking for something similar for a web-based document version control system. I've considered CVS/RCS and Perl as a solution, but havent found anything pre-existing. Most related products out there are in the $x0,000 price range; for our needs, free would be best. :) Let me know if you find

newbie kernel module load problem

1999-03-22 Thread Michael Minnick
I've compiled my first kernel module, and when I try to load it I get the following: # insmod hello.o hello.o: kernel-module version mismatch hello.o was compiled for kernel version 2.0.36 while this kernel is version 2.0.34 How can I either upgrade the kernel to 2.0.36 or compile for 2.0

Re: Floppy install

1999-03-22 Thread Go go Gadget email!
god bless your soul, please email me whatever you can so i can get this infernal contraption up and running :) Thanks, Mike

Re: Floppy install

1999-03-22 Thread Gary Pupurs
I think I can help you. I was trying to install Debian on a Dell 466L, and had the same problem. I'd get 'Booting LInux..." and then a blank screen and a frozen machine. I tried three new disks to no avail. Red Hat install disk worked fine (ugh!), but I kept trying the Debian disks. Also trie

sound

1999-03-22 Thread Craig T. Hancock
In tere anyway to compile your kernel without have to use modules to enable sound I ma using kernel 2.2.3 and I am trying to get a SB16 pnp card to work I believe I have read all of the neccesary documentation but I am still haveing trouble getting it to work this is my /dev/sndstat OSS/Free:3.8s2

glibc-2.1-dev - where is bytesex.h?

1999-03-22 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, subject says it all. Did bytesex.h move to another package? Or was it just left behind? :-) By Töns -- _o) /\\ pgp fingerprint: 9B AC A5 CB C8 CC FC DC 25 B5 26 9A 5D 28 C0 3D _\_V

My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-22 Thread Daniel Mashao
My ip-up.d directory is not executed when pppd wakes up. How can I debug this condition. I have tried putting in simple things like xload in the directory but they do not get executed. I am able to execute the contents of the directory if I run ./ip-up file in the /etc/ppp directory but not when pp

Re: Floppy install

1999-03-22 Thread Go go Gadget email!
Have tried numerous disks, with no luck, thanks for the tip tho, It irritates me that the comp wouldn't recognize a backpack cd player either, perchance i have a machine that's fouled? On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 22 Mar, Go go Gadget email! wrote about "Floppy install"

fvwmrc & Debian menus

1999-03-22 Thread debian
Dear Friends: Could someone point me towards an example of how to include the Debian menus in my .fvwmrc file? The default setup that 'root' has runs mwm and I see how the menus are included in it's configuration file. I tried copying the same !include line into my /home/me/.fvwmrc file & ran the

deb2.1 ftp / fmirror problem... HELP!!!!!

1999-03-22 Thread Chris Brown
Is there a place to tweek with TCP protocol parameters?, time outs etc? are there buffer/mtu settings for ftp? Does ftp do any clever things like slide the mtu for file transfers? I'm have a weird problem with fmirror and ftp on a newly built Debian 2.1 machine. The machine is totally new (hw

Communicator email & security

1999-03-22 Thread debian
Dear Friends: I'm having a variety of problems with Netscape Communicator & Debian. In my Hamm installation I tried installing Netscape both with & without the installer .deb package. In both cases I experienced very flaky outgoing mail performance using mail.earthlink.com as my mailserver. The

RE: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-22 Thread Person, Roderick
I did this with a 486 33 whose BIOS limit was 850Mb. I installed a 6.4GB. DOS could do nothing with it. But linux worked fine. cfdisk detected the whole drive and I never had a problem. Until, I formated a partition using WIN 95 and used it to store data from Win95. Windows really hosed the drive,

Re: Re: Sound

1999-03-22 Thread Doug Dine
At 3/22/99 2:37:00 PM, you wrote: >How did you complie sound did you use modules or did you put it striaght into >the >kernel and what type of sound card do you have pluse what version of the >kernel do >you have. I made sound as a module as the sound driver for my card specified. I have an Ace

Re: Floppy install

1999-03-22 Thread servis
*- On 22 Mar, Go go Gadget email! wrote about "Floppy install" > Greetings, > I've been attempting to install linux onto an IBM Thinkpad 755CE with you > floppy install instructions/software, and everything has been running > smoothly, until i attempt to install the kernel. It asks for the rescue

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-22 Thread ktb
Timothy Hospedales wrote: > Could someone tell me how to read info pages / find out what info > pages > are available? I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't seem to > have > an info command - so does info use a different kind of syntax to man > or is it a special package

Re: [Question] XFREE 3.3.3.1!!!

1999-03-22 Thread Daniel Brosemer
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, strange wrote: > Say Im wondering how one could setup XFREE 3.3.3.1, I currently run > Debian 1.3 and require a special server ( XF86_3DLabs ) in XFREE 3.3.3.1 > to run my video card. I recently tried using "rpm" on some redhat XFREE > 3.3.3.1 package files that I downloaded -

Sound

1999-03-22 Thread Doug Dine
Hi all, Well after numerous attempts I finally have complete sound! Only had to recompile my kernel maybe 15 times but I got it. Now my question is.. is there a audio player for X that will handle all audio formats including midi? Thanks for everyones help. I did it myself and didn't have to

Floppy install

1999-03-22 Thread Go go Gadget email!
Greetings, I've been attempting to install linux onto an IBM Thinkpad 755CE with you floppy install instructions/software, and everything has been running smoothly, until i attempt to install the kernel. It asks for the rescue disk, and once inserted and ok is hit, it refuses to mount the rescue

Re: rc.d files

1999-03-22 Thread servis
*- On 22 Mar, Piotr Legiecki wrote about "rc.d files" > Hi > I'm a former RedHat user and wonder how could I > manage links in rc.d directories? In RedHat there is > chkconfig and ntsysv programs which allows me in easy > way to customize what programs (daemons) to run > during boot time. Are the

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-22 Thread Dale E. Martin
Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone tell me how to read info pages / find out what info > pages > are available? I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't seem to > have > an info command - so does info use a different kind of syntax to man > or is

Re: Documentation suggestion

1999-03-22 Thread homega
Timothy Hospedales dixit: > Could someone tell me how to read info pages / find out what info > pages > are available? I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't seem to > have > an info command - so does info use a different kind of syntax to man > or is it a special package o

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> > Q2 > My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i have > the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to have, lets say, a 15 gb > hardrive? Yes but 1: You MUST have the bootable partition (say /boot) completely below cylinder 1024. 2: Fdisk and Cfdisk proba

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-22 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Hanish wrote: > If we have a software which directly talks to the HardDisk > controller, then It should be able to curcumvent this problem. However the > boot partition will most probably have to be in the 8.4GB limit as it is the > BIOS that load the initial part of the OS.

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
In a message dated 3/22/99 10:21:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] labs.com writes: > > Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for > > those programs that also have info pages, eh? > > Don't remove the manpages. And don't start an "info vs. man"

Re: when installing the kernel-source

1999-03-22 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I can't get any midi players to work with by SB AWE-32 (not PnP) and > > 2.2.3. > > Of course, I really haven't tried all that hard. > Timidity works for me (SB16, not PnP, not as module). I'll give it a shot. awedrv (which is what I was using with

Re: Network configuration

1999-03-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Read the kernel HOWTO and compile support directly >into the kernel for >ne2kpci. You probably don't want the driver to be >modular, unless you >rarely need to use your nic, and you have limited RAM >resources. There IS a good reason for NOT compiling stuff into the kernel that is ALWAYS used,

Re: File date

1999-03-22 Thread Kirk Hogenson
> How to change the date of a file. > For example, due to an error : > > -rw--- 1 sami sami 9641 Mar 24 1999 inbox > > but my system's date is now : > > Mon Mar 22 20:24:58 CET 1999 Try "touch inbox". Under normal circumstances, that will bring an existing file's timestam

File date

1999-03-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
How to change the date of a file. For example, due to an error : -rw--- 1 sami sami 9641 Mar 24 1999 inbox but my system's date is now : Mon Mar 22 20:24:58 CET 1999 And it causes mutt to think there is always new mail... -- // -oOo- -oOo --

[Question] XFREE 3.3.3.1!!!

1999-03-22 Thread strange
Say Im wondering how one could setup XFREE 3.3.3.1, I currently run Debian 1.3 and require a special server ( XF86_3DLabs ) in XFREE 3.3.3.1 to run my video card. I recently tried using "rpm" on some redhat XFREE 3.3.3.1 package files that I downloaded - but It keeps saying that "filesystem 9 not s

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-22 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Could someone tell me how to read info pages / find out what info pages are available? I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't seem to have an info command - so does info use a different kind of syntax to man or is it a special package or what? Thanks! Tim > [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-22 Thread Joseph F. Dries III
Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:03:47 -0700 (MST), Bruce Sass wrote: > >On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Joseph F. Dries III wrote: > >> I've tried to do a dpkg --remove, --purge, --configure, etc. They all > >> fail, saying there is no /etc/qpage.conf file, it tries to restart, > >> qpage, giv

Re: dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:03:47 -0700 (MST), Bruce Sass wrote: >On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Joseph F. Dries III wrote: >> I've tried to do a dpkg --remove, --purge, --configure, etc. They all >> fail, saying there is no /etc/qpage.conf file, it tries to restart,

cron.daily e-mails for exim and suidmanager

1999-03-22 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I get the following e-mail from the cron.daily exim and suidmanager scripts: /etc/cron.daily/exim: cp: /var/log/exim/rejectlog: No such file or directory cp: /var/log/exim/paniclog: No such file or directory /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: /usr/bin/elm PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.mail 2755 cha

Re: dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-22 Thread Bruce Sass
When all else fails, do it manually. After you have hunted down the files in the package (via /var/lib/dpkg/info/qpage.list, don't forget to check the ../info/qpage.{pre,post}inst scripts for files created or modified), use a text editor and remove the qpage entries in /var/lib/dpkg/{status,avail

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-22 Thread Hanish
The Memory RAM problem may not be solvable by software as this seems to be associated with Hardware on the MotherBoard. But the Harddisk problem is a BIOS problem , I think it as to do with LBA limits. If we have a software which directly talks to the HardDisk controller, then It should be able to

Some debian/gnome strangeness

1999-03-22 Thread Alan Bailward
First of all, thanks to Ben and Ed for getting me the right apt-get sources.list lines to find the hidden-super-secret gnome 1.0 .debs. I've installed them and things are kinda working ok. The main thing that's getting to me is the GNOME control center (gnomecc) and the panel apps. gnomecc runs,

dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-22 Thread Joseph F. Dries III
Hello All- I've just switched over to Debian 2.1 from many years of running RedHat, SlackWare, or SLS distributions. I've got an issue where one of the deb packages (qpage) was unpacked, but not configured, and therefore the installation will not complete. It's listed as a broken package, both in

Re: DEBIAN 2.0 and old 386 machines

1999-03-22 Thread Bruce Sass
I am running a 4M RAM/40M HDD i386 setup with DGL 2.1, and do not use dselect because it segfaults way too much - using dpkg alone works just fine if I don't try to do too much in one run. (try adding this to your /etc/profile: alias dpkg='dpkg --smallmem'). Have you tried to get a handle on how

Re: newbie unable to install Slink

1999-03-22 Thread Jeff Katcher
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 > (scsi0) Downl

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:07:58AM -0800, Jeff Katcher wrote: > > Q2 > > My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i have > > the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to have, lets say, a 15 gb > > hardrive? > > > A2 > No Yes. It's a pure BIOS limit, and as soon as

Re: /usr/include/linux -> eh?

1999-03-22 Thread Graham Ashton
On Friday 19 March, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm trying to compile vmware (virtual machine under linux), having > > updated my kernel to 2.2.3. > > When I did it I just moved the /usr/include/{linux,asm} directories out > of the way and then made symlinks to the appropriate kernel headers an

Re: when installing the kernel-source

1999-03-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > P.S. Some programs I've tried since going to the 2.2 kernel no > > longer have working sound. Sound in the mirrormagic game is now > > broken, for example, but things like GNOME and emusic still work.

Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad

1999-03-22 Thread Sarel Botha
> Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since > that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well, > this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing > would run once the kernel finished starting. Couldn't log in, rescue > disk d

Re: Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi John, you wrote on Sun, Mar 21 1999: >Sounds likely, but any modem that does so is defective. The modem should >ignore "+++" unless it is preceded and followed by a pause. It normally does, but IMHO the pause is not required. Anyway, the default value (US-Robotics/3Com) in Register S02 is 04

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-22 Thread Jeff Katcher
Per-Olof Widstrom wrote: > > I have seen that people get the advise to add a line in lilo.conf that > tells how much RAM the system have, if they have more then 64 mb, and that > it is possible to have a larger harddirve then the BIOS can handle. I just > would like to ask two simple questons a

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bob Nielsen dixit: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > Of course, no US-based vendor is going to ship non-US to Rainer who's > > > > > domain is .de; that's the whole point of non-US. > > > > > > you sure? I thought they

net-pf-19

1999-03-22 Thread Mike Merten
Which module does net-pf-19 refer to? Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: 'Can't open initial console', 'Kernel panic: Free list corrupted'

1999-03-22 Thread Jeff Katcher
Martin Waller wrote: > > I've put together an old 486 from bits, and am trying to install Debian > (hamm) on it. > > If I use the boot diskette (doesn't support CD bootup), the bootup stops > with 'Can't open initial console', and if I try the rescue disk, it just > says: > Kernel panic: Free l

Re: DEBIAN 2.0 and old 386 machines

1999-03-22 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Hartmut Schmude wrote: > Recently I tried to install DEBIAN 2.0 -kernel 2.0.34 - on an > old 386 machine with the following configuration: > > mainbord 386 with CT 82C206 / 301 / 302 Chipset > no copro > ISA bus only > 8 Meg memory > Adaptec 1542 C > 2 SCSI Disks with 240 M a

Re: problem with new DIMM

1999-03-22 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: > I recently bought a 64 Mb DIMM and installed it on my Intel i430VW > motherboard. [...] Well, one thing you can try is booting with a "mem=64M" option. With LILO, you hit shift to get the prompt, then do "linux mem=64M" (replace linux with whatever you

Re: Inquiry informations

1999-03-22 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Well... since you ask in debian-user then the best linux distribution is the Debian 2.1 "slink" that you can find in Italy at ftp.unina.it, most of the the documentation about linux is in the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP For the graphical interface you just have

Help installing X-windows

1999-03-22 Thread Jayson Baird
Ok, I know how to use Debain packages, but which ones are needed for a semi full install that will allow use of either KDE or GNOME? If someone can point to a walkthrough of installation for Debain, or just some advice, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-22 Thread homega
Bob Nielsen dixit: > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Of course, no US-based vendor is going to ship non-US to Rainer who's > > > > domain is .de; that's the whole point of non-US. > > > > you sure? I thought they wouldn't ship non-US to someone whose domain is a > > US bas

Re: Couldn't open /dev/fb0

1999-03-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 15:12:32 +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: > That's it. How to compile framebuffer support in the kernel? Where to get > the sources? It's included in the regular linux 2.2.x sources, just be sure to say yes to the question whether you want to be prompted about experimental driver

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread Dale E. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've no intention of starting a flame war - but the fact remains, if the man > pages are no longer being supported by developers, there's no sense including > them in the man pages package. It just adds to the confusion. Not true. If the manpage says "this manpage is

A CVS like server

1999-03-22 Thread Lawrence Walton
Is there a CVS like server for only binary files? It could be much simpler all I realy need is a secure way of checking in and out binary documents over the net, and version control. :> -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~la

Re: network

1999-03-22 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Mans Joling wrote: > Hi, > I have installed a 3c905b network card using modconf. > After linux starting up I see that he found him. > I have edit the host file and added the 2 ip adresses and look like > this > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 192.168.1.9 myhost > 192.168.1.8 other > reboot > When I do a pi

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/22/99 10:21:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] labs.com writes: > > Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for > > those programs that also have info pages, eh? > > Don't remove the manpages. And don't start an "info vs. man" wa

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread Dale E. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for > those programs that also have info pages, eh? Don't remove the manpages. And don't start an "info vs. man" war, either, please! -- +- pgp key available -

Network driver problem

1999-03-22 Thread Ilan Kasan
Hi All: I am a new comer in Linux. I managed to install the Linux. My problem is that I do not know how to configure the Network Card. I have a Pentium 2, 64MB RAM and the Network card is Novell NE 2000. I used modconf and selected the ne or the ne2k-pci drivers. I got the following error message

Re: Slink Questions apt and /dev.

1999-03-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > I just completely upgraded to slink. I decided to use the apt method of > installation from dselect since ftp is no longer there. It seemd to work > well. Chose the packages and download while I slept, answered some config > questions before work this

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread MallarJ
I also agree with the idea of having a single starting point for documentation. And something I kind of wonder about - why are there always so many documents for a given program? Can't they be combined into one document devided into sections? With info pages, you can get to any specific section

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Of course, no US-based vendor is going to ship non-US to Rainer who's > > > domain is .de; that's the whole point of non-US. > > you sure? I thought they wouldn't ship non-US to someone whose domain is a > US based one. For instance, pgp, from

Re: Memory above 64M and slink

1999-03-22 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I think 2.0.36 was the first stable kernel to recognize more than 64M automatically. Try it without the append= line. My systems recognizes 256M without the append= line in lilo.conf. Here are the first few lines from dmesg: >>Memory: sized by int13 0e801h Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Con

network

1999-03-22 Thread Mans Joling
Hi, I have installed a 3c905b network card using modconf. After linux starting up I see that he found him. I have edit the host file and added the 2 ip adresses and look like this 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.9 myhost 192.168.1.8 other reboot When I do a ping command "ping other" he still says

Memory above 64M and slink

1999-03-22 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: , I was under the impression that going from Hamm to slink would enable me to use all my 80M of memory. I am using kernel 2.0.36, with, in the /etc/lilo.conf the first line append="mem=80M" but only about 63 odd M are recognized? Is it possible to overcome this? Sebas

Re: Sound Board

1999-03-22 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
--- Begin Message --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What sound driver are you using? OSS (comes with kernel) or ALSA? I'm using OSS. What's ALSA ? Is that the manufacturer's driver ? > Also, do > you have sound compiled in, or as module? Kernel version would help too. I tried both, but none work

Re: when installing the kernel-source

1999-03-22 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > P.S. Some programs I've tried since going to the 2.2 kernel no > longer have working sound. Sound in the mirrormagic game is now > broken, for example, but things like GNOME and emusic still work. I can't get any midi players to work with by SB AWE-

Sound Board

1999-03-22 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hello. I'm trying to make an ALS 100 Sound Device to work on a Linux machine. Apparently, the card is recognized as a full-compatible SoundBlaster 16 card at the boot time, and that is what it is. The proc/dma and /proc/interrupts show it, but the /dev/sndstat and the/dev/tkmixer are not created

Slink Questions apt and /dev.

1999-03-22 Thread Person, Roderick
I just completely upgraded to slink. I decided to use the apt method of installation from dselect since ftp is no longer there. It seemd to work well. Chose the packages and download while I slept, answered some config questions before work this morning. My question is with the old ftp it aked wher

rc.d files

1999-03-22 Thread Piotr Legiecki
Hi I'm a former RedHat user and wonder how could I manage links in rc.d directories? In RedHat there is chkconfig and ntsysv programs which allows me in easy way to customize what programs (daemons) to run during boot time. Are there any simmiliar tools for Debian? Piotr Legiecki

Re: help -- missing shared library libncurses.so.4

1999-03-22 Thread Sarel Botha
> I've been running Debian 2.0 happily until earlier this evening, when I > ran dselect to upgrade my current packages. After retrieving and > attempting to install the upgraded packages, however, something royally > screwed up and now I get a "can't open libncurses.so.4 - no such file or > direct

Re: KDE problems

1999-03-22 Thread Sarel Botha
> (Reading database ... 55600 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing kdebase ... > dpkg - warning: while removing kdebase, directory `/etc/kde' not empty so > not removed. > chmod: /etc/menu-methods/kde: No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing kdebase (--remove): > subpr

Re: libg++.so.27 where?

1999-03-22 Thread Sarel Botha
> Just a quick one, I am trying to get netscape 4.5 going on slink, it seems > to need libg++ 2.7, the old libs version on slink is 2.8. If you ever need a specific file, usually a lib like that, use the bottom search engine at www.debian.org/distrib/packages. I find it VERY useful and I have no i

Re: Couldn't open /dev/fb0

1999-03-22 Thread Armin Wegner
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 01:35:28PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 12:13:52 +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: > > display-fbdev: Couldn't open framebuffer device /dev/fb0: Operation not > > supported by device > > > > What does this mean? > > Most likely that you don't run a 2.2.x

Re: ANNOUNCE: new documentation, "Installing Debian on a Compaq Pre sario Laptop"

1999-03-22 Thread servis
*- On 22 Mar, Mick Jagger wrote about "ANNOUNCE: new documentation, "Installing Debian on a Compaq Presario Laptop"" > Greetings, > > This is an annoucement of the first draft of a new piece of > documentation entitled "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 on a Compaq > Presario 1210 laptop." (Unweil

Adaptec AIC7770 error during install

1999-03-22 Thread Timothy Stetson
Hi, Just chiming in w/ a newbie question. I have an Intergraph TD-3 (90Mhz) with 56Mb RAM and 2 \1Gb SCSI-2 drives on an Adaptec AIC 7770 onboard. I'm trying to install Linux on it and have only been able to install w/ Caldera 1.2 so far but would like instead Debian 2.1 (or 2.2). This is the

More info (was Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad)

1999-03-22 Thread Dan Hugo
Here is the error that was occurring when I attempted to reboot, as I describe below: /bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: rl_ignore_some_completions_function Dan wrote: > > Greetings-- > > I just made an attempt at upgrading my installed libc6 using > libc6_2.0.

Netscape 4.5 non-free package

1999-03-22 Thread Csejtey Gabor Zoltan
I installed netscape 4.5 using the debian package. When I start I got this message: netscape ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so: undefined symbol: FE_GetToplevelWidget Cant load plugin /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored. ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/pl

Network configuration

1999-03-22 Thread Ilan Kasan
Hi All: I am a new comer in Linux. I managed to install the Linux. My problem is that I do not know how to configure the Network Card. I have a Pentium 2, 64MB RAM and the Network card is Novell NE 2000. I used modconf and selected the ne or the ne2k-pci drivers. I got the following error message:

Re: SMBMOUNT Problems...

1999-03-22 Thread Graham Ashton
On Sunday 21 March, Michael Beattie wrote: > > ShadowGate:/root# smbmount //dahouse/c_on_dahouse /dahouse -U BW07442 -P > > shadowgate.com -I 192.168.0.10 > > mount error: Operation not supported by device Please look at > > smbmount's manual page for possible reasons > > > > I

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread Olaf Rogalsky
> > I have to admit, there is a bit of truth to this, alot of people just don't > > have the time to read 18 different documents in 18 different locations. Man > > pages, info pages, FAQs, HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, READMEs, INSTALL docs, package > > descriptions... it is a bit daunting. I do feel tha

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Re: One more possibly-dumb question...

1999-03-22 Thread Dan Hugo
Just found it: In /etc/inittab # This line is special for the Debian installation system. # This file will be replaced when installation completes. 1:2345:respawn:/bin/login root /dev/tty1 2>&1 # 1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 Since I fudged the install process, this didn't get changed! -

Re: Couldn't open /dev/fb0

1999-03-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 12:13:52 +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: > display-fbdev: Couldn't open framebuffer device /dev/fb0: Operation not > supported by device > > What does this mean? Most likely that you don't run a 2.2.x kernel, or run a 2.2.x kernel without framebuffer support compiled in. HTH,

Re: One more possibly-dumb question...

1999-03-22 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Greetings- > > In a previous message, I described my recent libc6 drama and how I > backed out of it. > > I notice now that when I boot up my machine, that root is logged in (as > in, sitting in /root logged in and everything) right before xdm runs. > > I have never noticed this before... t

One more possibly-dumb question...

1999-03-22 Thread Dan Hugo
Greetings- In a previous message, I described my recent libc6 drama and how I backed out of it. I notice now that when I boot up my machine, that root is logged in (as in, sitting in /root logged in and everything) right before xdm runs. I have never noticed this before... this does not seem rig

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-22 Thread Armin Wegner
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 12:45:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Of course, no US-based vendor is going to ship non-US to Rainer who's > > > domain is .de; that's the whole point of non-US. > > you sure? I thought they wouldn't ship non-US to someone whose domain is a > US based one. For

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-22 Thread homega
> > Of course, no US-based vendor is going to ship non-US to Rainer who's > > domain is .de; that's the whole point of non-US. you sure? I thought they wouldn't ship non-US to someone whose domain is a US based one. For instance, pgp, from outside the US we need to get it as pgp-i from non-US, w

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-22 Thread Armin Wegner
> > > I am looking for somebody selling Debian CD sets containing beside the > > > official images the non-free (the part which is freely redirstributable) > > > and > > > especially nonUS. Cheapbytes announced the nonfree section, but they do > > > not > > > ship nonUS. > > > > try www.linuxm

Couldn't open /dev/fb0

1999-03-22 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I have installed 'ggiheretic' and 'vgaheretic'. When I first started one of both on the console I have been told that /dev/fb0 was missing. I have created it with 'MAKEDEV framebuffer'. Now I get the message display-fbdev: Couldn't open framebuffer device /dev/fb0: Operation not supported by

Re: Aliases

1999-03-22 Thread homega
Mans Joling dixit: > Hi > I have add several aliases to my .bashrc file ,but the file would not > be consulted while starting up. > What I am doing wrong > Regards > Mans Joling I went through that recently; if you put them in .bashrc, then that's the configuration for bash as an "interactive sh

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