Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
1. go to the source section of your favorite Debian mirror 2. for each package you want to recompile, download the *.orig.tar.gz, *.diff.gz and *.dsc NOTE: Not all source packages have the same name as the binary package they create. E.g. the c-client-dev package comes from imap. A

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 05:22:51PM -0400, Navindra Umanee wrote: > You know, I tried almost exactly this but bailed when one of the > commands wanted root priviledges and then started doing some > unexpected /usr/bin/install's (which failed because my > /usr/bin/install is atypical). I mean, all

Re: mounting floppy disk

1999-04-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This would seem to indicate your kernel lacks floppy drive support!? What do you get from: 'cat /proc/devices | grep fd'? Daniel González Gasull wrote: > Hi all. > I have problems mounting /dev/fd0: > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > mount: the kernel does not recognize

Re: Debian & DHCP for intallation

1999-04-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I would tend to agree with you (strongly) that a dhcp client should come on the install disks. I just wonder if it's possible with all the stuff that has to be crammed onto the things! olivier wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to use DHCP to set up the network layer during > the installation of

Re: urlview always uses Lynx

1999-04-12 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Daniel González Gasull([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > You need a .urlview file in your $HOME: > > > > -begin- > > # > > # ~/.urlview > > # > > > > # regular expression to use to match URLs > > #REGEXP ht|f)tp)|mailto):(//)?[^ >"\t]*|www\

mounting floppy disk

1999-04-12 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi all. I have problems mounting /dev/fd0: # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) Any thoughts? TIA. -- Daniel González Gasull Signature O O"A friend i

Re: your mail

1999-04-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Hi, > > Therefore I start Emacs routinely during login and use it > > for everything that involves editing. It is only a pity that I have up > > to now not been successfull to let Emacs mob my floor or wash my > > dishes. > > Yeah, and "M-x brew-coffe

imwheel does not work

1999-04-12 Thread Oz Dror
Hi I have just installed the deb package of imwheel. It does not work for me. I have imps2 mouse. does it conflict with the 3rd botton option of X11? -Oz -- < NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PRO

Re: Help: serial port/minicom

1999-04-12 Thread Bruce Sass
Try: Checking /etc/modules and commenting out "auto" if it is there. With my box, kerneld doesn't get the serial module loaded up fast enough. If that is not it... any error messages? -- On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Daishi Harada wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently installed 2.1, and I can't seem

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink

1999-04-12 Thread R. L. Kleeberger
Quoting Jim Foltz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am more concerned about my growing dependence on apt and dpkg. In the > past I would have first tried to compile the source myself and install > it. Now I seem to go out of my way to find a .deb package of the software. > > What's happening to me? It see

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-12 Thread Raja R Harinath
James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 01:14:10PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > > > no, dont need to load oss driver, just the es1370 > > > >That's what I thought after reading the kernel es1370 docs; good. Right > > now I've got the driver compiled straight i

LyX 1.0 for slink

1999-04-12 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, Thanks to everyone who offered help. The LyX 1.0.1 from potato will install with no problems on slink. I also downloaded and compiled the source directly from the LyX web site with no surprises. I am more concerned about my growing dependence on apt and dpkg. In the past I would have firs

Help: serial port/minicom

1999-04-12 Thread Daishi Harada
Hi, I recently installed 2.1, and I can't seem to get minicom to talk with the serial port properly. I have redhat installed and working on a separate partition, so I presume that it's not a hardware issue. I've setserial'ed the port and config'ed minicom so that (afaik) everything is the same be

lock and ppp options?

1999-04-12 Thread Jayson Baird
Using KDE and it's Kppp dialer, what does it mean when it says that it sees a lock option in /etc/ppp/options? any ideas? thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cyillic only) http://www.concentric.net/~jsbaird IC

Re: chat serial port configuration

1999-04-12 Thread Bruce Sass
Try: cat /etc/minirc.dfl and use the same "port" that minicom is using. -- On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Tomas Petersson wrote: > > Hello, I am trying to set up a PPP connection to my ISP. > Using Minicom I can dial, log in and start PPP, so far so good. > But, how do I specify which COM port

(fwd) Re: silly sound-module question

1999-04-12 Thread Navindra Umanee
Kurt Stallknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I compiled sound as a module and it works fine, but in which file do > I have to put the "insmod sound" so that the module is loaded at > boot-time? Can anybody help? Last I checked all you had to do was put the module name (eg, sound) in /etc/module

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Navindra Umanee
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg-source -x (or unpack yourself). Then cd into the top directory of > the package and say "dpkg-buildpackage". Specifying "-b" will stop a > source package being generated, which will speed things up a bit. "-us" > and "-uc" disable signing of the .dsc

Re: Newbie X problem

1999-04-12 Thread John Galt
You can get a console at boottime by using your resc1440 disk and then nuking/renaming the S99xdm line in /etc/rc2.s. This being done, you can then run XF86Config/setup again until you get it going. On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Small, Bradley wrote: > I just installed the (slink) Debian distribution. I

Re: cfs???

1999-04-12 Thread Andrew Holmes
Thanks Caffeine, There was an rpm with compiled binaries at ftp.replay.com so I got that and used alien to make a deb. I have a bad history with compiling things :-( It's working great now. On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 09:33:06AM +1000, caffeine wrote: > > You can find the CFS source (as well as ot

Re: hayes optima 14400+fax 144

1999-04-12 Thread Kent West
cailo aluma teran wrote: > my hayes optima 1+fax144 have a conection problem because my disk > drives is damaged and my windows 98 no repor this drives.I need > help.Thank for your information.I live IN Colombia . I'm not sure what you're asking. This list is concerned with Debian Linux, and

Re: Document processing? (TeX/SGML?)

1999-04-12 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-04-12 15:17, Jeff Noxon wrote: > I'm looking for the best tool to create a professional-looking document > once, and then render it in the following formats: > > HTML > Postscript > PDF > ASCII DocBook (SGML) + DocBook Stylesheets + Jade and Latex are the only options that I can think of

Re: Howto text/html to man?

1999-04-12 Thread John Galt
I don't know if man2html does reverse parsing, but I'd start there. On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded some man pages in html and text formats which I'd like to use as > man pages. How can I convert them? They do have the "look and feel" of man > pages. > > T

Re: chat serial port configuration

1999-04-12 Thread John Galt
There is a FAQ about PPP-over-minicom at metalabs, IIRC. It involves setting a download method to call up the ppp daemon once you have the connection established. On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Ookhoi wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > > Hello, I am trying to set up a PPP connection to my ISP. > > Using Minicom I

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-12 Thread John Galt
I regarded it as the fact that you were declaring the part that I was dealing with dead. I will continue to do so, unless there's something I can add to the windoze thing--probably once I start playing with wine. On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 12-Apr-99 John Galt wrote: > >

Re: two problems

1999-04-12 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 09:20:22AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > > I recently had to replace my hard disk which meant reloading > everything. I now have two problems. > 1. Although I had no trouble with Word Perfect before, when I > downloaded it again, I could not use it because it can't locate l

Re: Debian & DHCP for intallation

1999-04-12 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 09:59:58PM +0200, olivier wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to use DHCP to set up the network layer during > the installation of Debian ? > > If not, would'nt be a good idea to add a dhcp client in the base > installation > package ? > > Thanks > > Olivier > > > > --

Re: Document processing? (TeX/SGML?)

1999-04-12 Thread R. L. Kleeberger
Quoting Jeff Noxon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What tools can tackle this kind of chore and what are their relative > merits? Should I be looking at TeX or SGML tools? Or should I just stick > with plain HTML? I would look into using LyX. It's a frontend for LaTeX. It's pseudo-WYSIWYG but still giv

Re: comsat error with new pts

1999-04-12 Thread Dpk
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Max wrote: For some reason, comsat doesn't work anymore on remote terminals and writes the following error to auth.log: comsat[15719]: '/' in "/dev/pts/0" Both write and wall also produce errors, so my guess is that none of them have been updated to deal

Re: Document processing? (TeX/SGML?)

1999-04-12 Thread Thomas Ruedas
I have no experience with SGML, but I can strongly recommend you to use TeX, or more precisely, TeX together with its macro package LaTeX. It gives you the most ample control about layout, it is platform-independent, output is dvi which is routinely converted to ps or pdf; conversion to ASCII and H

dselect error

1999-04-12 Thread Rick Smith
Hi All I have the following error when I run Access,Install or Update on dselect dselect: unable to access method script '/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/http/setup': no such file or directory any ideas? this just started happening! Thanks in advance Rick Smith newbie

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 12 Apr, Vincent Murphy wrote about "Re: Emacs" > On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 03:09:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In a message dated 4/12/99 2:05:32 PM Central Daylight Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > xemacs does colored syntax highlighting on a terminal. >> >> Hate to sound li

Document processing? (TeX/SGML?)

1999-04-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm looking for the best tool to create a professional-looking document once, and then render it in the following formats: HTML Postscript PDF ASCII I'm not concerned so much about a learning curve as I am about flexibility and results. Microsoft Word and other GUI-based products drive me nuts b

hayes optima 14400+fax 144

1999-04-12 Thread cailo aluma teran
my hayes optima 1+fax144 have a conection problem because my disk drives is damaged and my windows 98 no repor this drives.I need help.Thank for your information.I live IN Colombia .

system load

1999-04-12 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Can anybody explain me how the system load is measured? For example, for this statistic, is it the same to have 3 processes wanting 100% of the CPU with a 0 priority than having 3 with, let's say, 10, 15 and 20 priority? If there's a FAQ or README please point me to i

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 03:09:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 4/12/99 2:05:32 PM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > xemacs does colored syntax highlighting on a terminal. > > Hate to sound like a broken record here, but so does emacs... at least unde

Debian & DHCP for intallation

1999-04-12 Thread olivier
Hello, Is it possible to use DHCP to set up the network layer during the installation of Debian ? If not, would'nt be a good idea to add a dhcp client in the base installation package ? Thanks Olivier

libglib and libgtk 1.2

1999-04-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I have tried to upgrade to these libraries on Debian 2.1, but instead of upgrading 1.12 dselect installed both versions, and now 1.2 appear at the top of the dselect's window under --- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section libs --- *** Opt libs libglib1.2 1.2.1-1

Re: jdk & glib 2.1 (potato)

1999-04-12 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-04-12 12:38, John Storey wrote: > In a fit of rashness (and a desire to check out a newer release of > Gnome) I upgraded to potato from slink. Now I find that glib 2.1 > will not work with any blackdown jdks. A quick fix for jdk1.2 is to use green threads. That is edit your wrapper scrip

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-12 Thread James Mastros
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:11:34PM +0200, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote: > Hello James, > > Umm, perhaps I'm missing somthing, but I once had to do a similar thing. I > > simply mounted the new partition in /hdd2, and created symlinks > > /home->/hdd2/home, /usr/local->/hdd2/usr/local. Nested symlinks

jdk & glib 2.1 (potato)

1999-04-12 Thread John Storey
In a fit of rashness (and a desire to check out a newer release of Gnome) I upgraded to potato from slink. Now I find that glib 2.1 will not work with any blackdown jdks. I need this to continue some work I have been doing. There doesn't appear to be an easy way to get glib 2.0 back on my system w

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread James Mastros
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 06:05:01PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > that page knows IIC (not 2C but that's the same...) > however my installed xserver-mach64 doesn't know it :( > > (--) Mach64: PCI: unknown ATI (0x4756) rev 58, Aperture @ 0x8000, Block > I/O @ 0x3000 > > hmmm would be eno

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread Dr . Mordas
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think this is one of the cards you have to force the ChipID into. Try adding > ChipID 0x4755 > into your "Device" section for your card in /etc/X11/XF86Config . > Thats right, add ChipID 0x4755 and also ChipRev 0x01 Martin

Re: Debian firewall questions

1999-04-12 Thread Charles
The 2.2.3 kernel has some problems with the tcp/ip stack upgrade to 2.2.5 if you plan to use 2.2.x. And read the IPCHAINS howto Charles Verge The Verge Internet Services http://www.theverge.com The place for your site ! On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Fraser Campbell wrote: > I recently set up a firewal

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/12/99 2:05:32 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > xemacs does colored syntax highlighting on a terminal. > > Hate to sound like a broken record here, but so does emacs... at least under X it does... -Jay

comsat error with new pts

1999-04-12 Thread Max
For some reason, comsat doesn't work anymore on remote terminals and writes the following error to auth.log: comsat[15719]: '/' in "/dev/pts/0" Both write and wall also produce errors, so my guess is that none of them have been updated to deal with the new terminal entries. Does anyone have a fi

Re: where is linux-utils?

1999-04-12 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Quoting Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't seem to have a "linux-utils" package installed and it is not listed on > the Debian website. Is it called "debianutils"? I have that. AFAIK you have to look out for the "util-linux" package. so long Helmut

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:55:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just > > compile it myself. > > You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb > from them. Now I real

Hard disk errors after installing on VP I486 laptop from First International Computers, Taiwan

1999-04-12 Thread David Nelson
Hullo there, After installing Linux (slink), I'm having hard disk errors such as: "EXT2-fs error (device 03:03) ext2-find-entry: bad entry across blocks - offset = 1316, inode 2852811149, rec_len = 60588 name-len = 4073". Please read below for a rather lengthy explanation of exactly what happened

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 12 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: Emacs" > Are there any advantages or disadvantages to using xemacs on a terminal? > xemacs does colored syntax highlighting on a terminal. -- Brian - "Never criticize anybody

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread Richard Harran
Thanks to all. I got the win emacs from the washington ftp site (below), and it seems to work nicely (after I read the README!) Cheers Rich > Richard Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you mean that you can run emacs in (MS) Windows. If so, could you > > please tell me where to find t

Re: POP3 Server in LAN?

1999-04-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Tony Crawford wrote: > Hi people! > > I ran this question end of last week and got no bites; here again > with slightly changed Subject line. > > > Anyone got a tip for me? I'd like to use Debian as a POP server in > > the LAN, but so far it doesn't want to play along. Her

Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Apr-99 Richard A Nelson wrote: > Unfortunately, I think this phenomenon is only going to get worse, > I wouldn't be surprised to start seeing ISPs start firewalling port 25 > ;-{ This would be bad for me, since my ISP's mail server is slow as molasses in liquid nitrogen. -- Andrew [PGP5.0

Re:RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-12 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Apr-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: >> >> sender_host_reject_relay = * > Bingo!! > > unset that guy. I have it set, but like this: relay_domains = *.shadypond.com:pollywog.sunset.net -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: Netscape bookmark management

1999-04-12 Thread Clyde Wilson
At the end of each Netscape session I copy bookmarks.html to bookmark.htm which is located on a dos mounted disk. mkdir /mnt/dos mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/dos At the start of each session I copy bookmark.htm to bookmarks.html. I keep the disk with me...it works on Linux and Windows.

Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-12 Thread Richard A Nelson
Unfortunately, I think this phenomenon is only going to get worse, I wouldn't be surprised to start seeing ISPs start firewalling port 25 ;-{ This action really bites those of us who *must* use more than one ISP, and/or send mail from multiple sites and would like to decide where followups go...

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread Hartmut Schmude
>From hschmude Mon Apr 12 19:47:49 1999 Subject: Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:47:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] Hi, I had the same problem when I bought an ATI 3D Charger with the RAGE II C chip. It was solved when I upgraded to xmach64-3.3.3.1. I got

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:55:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb > from them. Now I really wish I could figure out the damn details as > to how to do this. Any one care to explain? I'm lost in a maze of > manpages all alike.

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:00:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think my recommendation as far as xemacs vs emacs goes is that, for > a new emacs user, xemacs offers that one advantage of GUIs -- little > pull down menus that help you use the editor before you learn all the GNU Emacs offer

Re: Slink PPP with no defaultroute

1999-04-12 Thread Jay Barbee
At 4/12/99 09:43 AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: >Jay Barbee writes: >> I have never used pppconfig before, but I did not. I got the connection >> setup and it it authenticated without a problem. But it would not setup >> the defaultroute?!?! > >Do you have an ethernet card installed? pppd won't ov

Hard disk errors after installing on VP I486 laptop from First International Computers, Taiwan

1999-04-12 Thread David Nelson
Hullo there, After installing Linux (slink), I'm having hard disk errors such as: "EXT2-fs error (device 03:03) ext2-find-entry: bad entry across blocks - offset = 1316, inode 2852811149, rec_len = 60588 name-len = 4073". Please read below for a rather lengthy explanation of exactly what happen

RE: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread David Nelson
If I was looking for a good word processor to run on a small laptop system that has to contain Linux, X and all within 320 Meg, would you recommend emacs or is there something better? David -Message d'origine- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: lundi 12 avril 1999

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have a _very_ similar chip in my work computer. It is an ATI II+DVD I believe. It works in X with the Mach64 server. Mine only has 2meg because it is integrated into this POS Gateway motherboard. I don't really like the chip but it does work in Linux. HTH. -Ian

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/12/99 11:39:36 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I think my recommendation as far as xemacs vs emacs goes is that, for > > a new emacs user, xemacs offers that one advantage of GUIs -- little > > pull down menus that help you use the editor before you

Re: chat serial port configuration

1999-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Ookhoi writes: > Maybe you want to try pppd? I believe this works... > /usr/sbin/pppd 115200 /dev/ttyS3 connect chat "" ATZ OK ATDT > CONNECT "" No. You must quote the entire argument to the connect option. Otherwise pppd will get passed everything after 'chat'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Slink PPP with no defaultroute

1999-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Jay Barbee writes: > I have never used pppconfig before, but I did not. I got the connection > setup and it it authenticated without a problem. But it would not setup > the defaultroute?!?! Do you have an ethernet card installed? pppd won't override an existing default route. -- John Hasler

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread Paul Huygen
Richard Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you mean that you can run emacs in (MS) Windows. If so, could you > please tell me where to find the windows version. Maybe it is a shame to discuss this on a Linux list. However: I have emacs running on Win95. The package that contains the distribu

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread efarris
I think this is one of the cards you have to force the ChipID into. Try adding ChipID 0x4755 into your "Device" section for your card in /etc/X11/XF86Config . HTH, e > >On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > >> -> > I tried to set up XFree for given card. >> -> > I even don't kno

Re: Newbie X problem

1999-04-12 Thread Luis Villa
You don't actually even need to boot to single-user mode- hitting ctl-alt-f2 will get you a text-mode login prompt. If you are scarce for cycles once you've logged in, as root you can run ps to find xdm's PID and kill it. NOTE: killing your X server is not enough- xdm will merely bring up anoth

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 03:10:50PM +, Richard Harran wrote: > Do you mean that you can run emacs in (MS) Windows. If so, could you > please tell me where to find the windows version. i'm not sure, but www.delorie.com would be a good bet. -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC |

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread robbie
Hi On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:00:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think my recommendation as far as xemacs vs emacs goes is that, for > a new emacs user, xemacs offers that one advantage of GUIs -- little > pull down menus that help you use the editor before you learn all the > esoteric

Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Prof. Feedlebom wrote: > > First of all, why are you sending this to the Debian list? *shrug* It > seems a bit off-topic. > How and/or why did Branden's original message get to the list in the first place? Here's the E-mail header I have from what I assume is the original message: Return-Path

Re: Newbie X problem

1999-04-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Apr-99 Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > logged in you can remove whatever boot file is starting xdm (I'm not sure > what it > would be since you're not using the standard debian package). > /etc/init.d/xdm? I developed this same problem after upgrading to slink and I was unable to locate the caus

RE: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread Biciunas, Paul John
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html > -Original Message- > From: Richard Harran [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 11:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Debian User Group > Subject: Re: Emacs > > Do you mean that you can run emacs in (MS)

two problems

1999-04-12 Thread Sidney Brooks
I recently had to replace my hard disk which meant reloading everything. I now have two problems. 1. Although I had no trouble with Word Perfect before, when I downloaded it again, I could not use it because it can't locate libX.. . I had this trouble with netscape originally, but the problem was

Re: laptop filesystem panic

1999-04-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The filesystem having the problem is the one whose device is major number 3, minor number 3 (dev 03:03). This happens to be /dev/hda3. (You can see this with 'ls -l /dev/hda3'.) This looks like a pretty nasty message but perhaps not. I guess it could be because Windoze wasn't cleanly shut down.

Re: silly sound-module question

1999-04-12 Thread Ajit Krishnan
Thank you, I have now read the appropriate man pages...I didn't realize that update-modules existed. the updates-modules script does not know the io address, irq, dma of my soundcard, or the io of my parallel port (all of which i have compiled as modules). I have now created another file /etc/

Re: laptop filesystem panic

1999-04-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: laptop filesystem panic Date: Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:21:52AM + In reply to:Chris Brown Quoting Chris Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > > I just finished installing slink on my compaq armada with a 6.4 gig > drive, its partitioned with one 2.1g dos primary, one

Re: Newbie X problem

1999-04-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You don't need to reinstall. You system hangs because xdm is being run as part of the boot up. You need to boot into 'single user mode' to fix this problem. At the lilo prompt you'll need to type 'Linux single' where "Linux" is whatever label you used in your lilo.conf. This will bring you to a

Re: Setup questions -- HELP!!

1999-04-12 Thread Kent West
Jim Campbell wrote: > Hello, everyone -- Getting to know Debian Linux has been fun, but I > haven't gotten as far as I would have liked with setup. Here are my > issues. Can someone help? - Can't run X-windows I successfully ran > the XF86Setup utility, and got it to display and recognize my mo

Re: adding a module to a kernel

1999-04-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Apr-99 Jiri Baum wrote: > Pollywog (about kernel compiling): >> Sort of. I wanted to know if I could skip over the part where I have to >> answer all the questions. I did not mind having to do the remainder of >> the steps. > > Yes, you can skip the "make config" step, but wouldn't you no

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread Matus fantomas Uhlar
-> > -> > I tried to set up XFree for given card. -> > -> > I even don't know what card should I define, the given card was not in any -> > -> > list in docs... can some1 help me ? -> > -> > -> > -> > I think It's Mach64 chipset, true ? -> > -> -> > -> What does /usr/X11R6/bin/SuperProbe says? T

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Pollywog writes: > > For instance, could I tar (recursively) /local/mail and copy all the > > files to a floppy with the directory structure intact? > > Yes. Just like tape. Note, however, that one bad sector will make the tar > unreadable. If you are

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> > I tried to set up XFree for given card. > -> > I even don't know what card should I define, the given card was not in > any > -> > list in docs... can some1 help me ? > -> > > -> > I think It's Mach64 chipset, true ? > -> > -> Yes, a Mach

Hard disk errors after installing on VP I486 laptop from First International Computers, Taiwan

1999-04-12 Thread David Nelson
Hullo there, After installing Linux (slink), I'm having hard disk errors such as: "EXT2-fs error (device 03:03) ext2-find-entry: bad entry across blocks - offset = 1316, inode 2852811149, rec_len = 60588 name-len = 4073". Please read below for a rather lengthy explanation of exactly what happen

Re: Invalid MIT-VALID-COOKIE-1 key? X trouble!

1999-04-12 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/12/99 10:34:17 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 'Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-VALID-COOKIE-1 key > Can't connect to X server :0.0' > Check the list archives - this was answered just a few days ago.. Basically, you

Re: Apache

1999-04-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Apache Date: Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:52:45PM +0200 In reply to:Petru NOTINGHER Quoting Petru NOTINGHER([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello. > > I tried to configure apache. Apparently, everything is OK (at boot time, > it appears to start), but > in fact it doesnt'run. > I get

X11 installation/config problem

1999-04-12 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Yesterday I installed Debian Linux for the first time and ran into a problem. I have Debian Linux 2.0.34, using the CD distributed by Heiko Schlittermann (if that is of importance). For some reason I couldn't fix, the xinitrc has not been installed or was not found while installing the packages wit

dselect or dpkg bug?

1999-04-12 Thread Thomas Ruedas
When installing emacs/xemacs v.19 and 20 (wanted to try both versions) dselect installation of emacs20 modules exited repeatedly with the message that something had not been configured yet, but when trying to configure it, the problem remained. Finally, I wanted to remove all of the emacs/xemacs20

Re: Apache

1999-04-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 16:52:45 +0200, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > [emerg] httpd: Your kernel was built without CONFIG_SYSVIPC > I recompiled the kernel, but I don't know to what option "CONFIG_SYSVIPC > " corresponds. Answer Yes to "System V IPC" in "General Setup". HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A fo

Re: MTA installed from tarball

1999-04-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: MTA installed from tarball Date: Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 06:32:34PM +0400 In reply to:Alex toropov Quoting Alex toropov([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > I've installed qmail package using source tar.gz. > > Everything concerning mail works fine, but when I try to add/remove,

Re: MTA installed from tarball

1999-04-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 18:32:34 +0400, Alex toropov wrote: > So is there any way to tell dselect/dpkg system, that I already have MTA > installed on my system? Use the "equivs" package. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations i

Re: Apache

1999-04-12 Thread Ookhoi
> I tried to configure apache. Apparently, everything is OK (at boot time, > it appears to start), but > in fact it doesnt'run. > I get the following message in /var/log/apache/error.log: > > [emerg] httpd: Your kernel was built without CONFIG_SYSVIPC > [emerg] (38) Function not implemented : coul

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread Ookhoi
> -> > I tried to set up XFree for given card. > -> > I even don't know what card should I define, the given card was not in > any > -> > list in docs... can some1 help me ? > -> > > -> > I think It's Mach64 chipset, true ? > -> > -> What does /usr/X11R6/bin/SuperProbe says? The output from Supe

Invalid MIT-VALID-COOKIE-1 key? X trouble!

1999-04-12 Thread Marcus Claren
Hi! I'm having trouble starting some programs under X, amongst them wine and uae. I've got a fully functional X setup but for some programs it just doesn't work. I'm using Ice WM. This is the output X gives me: 'Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-VALID-COOKIE-1 key C

laptop filesystem panic

1999-04-12 Thread Chris Brown
Hi all, I just finished installing slink on my compaq armada with a 6.4 gig drive, its partitioned with one 2.1g dos primary, one 2.1 gig dos extended, and the balance (approx 2 gig) for linux. Every now and then I get a string of console messages, as shown below. How serious is this probem an

Re: Where to enable MTRR's?

1999-04-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Where to enable MTRR's? Date: Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 06:12:41PM -0400 In reply to:Ian Peters Quoting Ian Peters([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am using potato, a 2.2 kernel on a dual PII box. I would like to > enable the memory type range registers to be write-combining for my >

Re: silly sound-module question

1999-04-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: silly sound-module question Date: Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 05:40:22AM -0400 In reply to:Ajit Krishnan Quoting Ajit Krishnan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Kurt Stallknecht wrote: > > > I compiled sound as a module and it works fine, but in which file do

Re: Emacs

1999-04-12 Thread Richard Harran
Do you mean that you can run emacs in (MS) Windows. If so, could you please tell me where to find the windows version. Cheers Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think my recommendation as far as xemacs vs emacs goes is that, for > a new emacs user, xemacs offers that one advantage of GUIs -- l

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-12 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 09-Apr-99 Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >| I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim | >| filters | >| and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited to 8.3 | >| type | >| na

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Jiri Baum wrote: > > Hello, > > John Galt: > > > Most crypto is based on a similar setup to email, > > Umm, no, cryptography is the art of writing messages that can only be > decoded by the intended recipient. Very little to do with e-mail. > > If you have messages that MUST not get into hostil

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