Re: dependencies

1999-04-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:00:58AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > #!/bin/sh > # findlibpkg: Find the libs that a executable depends on and what > # package they are in. > # > # usage: findlibpkg > > LIST=`ldd $1 | cut -d" " -f3` > for i in $LIST ; do > zgrep "`echo $i | sed -e

Re: makefontsdir?

1999-04-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 01:27:37AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After my upgrading to slink(from hamm), I cannot use makefontsdir now. > > Would someone mind telling me which package that command lies in? thks. mkfontdir is in the xbase-clients package. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: IDEA: Official Debian Support Team?

1999-04-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Adam Linford wrote: > > > I've noticed a lot of vendors jumping on the Linux bandwagon and > >starting to offer support for thier system that run Linux. But, it seems > >that it is only for SUSE, Redhat, Caldera and TurboLinux. WHY NOT DEBIAN? > >Is it because we are not commercial? And if so, I p

Re: LLS: Debian/Redhat Alliance

1999-04-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "LS" == Lyno Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LS> People interested in becoming a volunteer producer, in the free LS> software community, will more likely use the Debian distribution. LS> Debian will become the nexus of the volunteer based, development LS> community. Why should this be th

Re: WOL ethernet

1999-04-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'm sure it could make the magic packet if one knew what was *in* the magic packet. You should be able to use tcpdump to sniff the packet off the ethernet. Then I believe you can use some sort of nit-type device to form your own packet and send one of these. Ian Keith Setford wrote: > Does anyo

Re: linux

1999-04-20 Thread David B.Teague
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Avril Dieno wrote: > Hi, My name is Leland Dieno and I am looking for a program like linux > for my older 286. I really don't know much about computers so if you can > help me that would be great! Avril, Linux does not and cannot run on a 286. You have only a few choices

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Security in Linux

1999-04-20 Thread eferen1
Hi all.  First a THANKS to all who have helped me out in the past.   I am now involved in a research project at SFCC in Spokane, WA for a computer science class, and have taken on the project of security in operating systems.  What I am doing is researching the security problems in Windows N

Re: RPM on Debian

1999-04-20 Thread Christian Lavoie
> Urban Gabor wrote: > > someone has mentioned in these lists that installing alien packages from > > .rpm can be dangerous. I'd like to know more about it, so please write > > some pro's and con's. PRO: - You get access to non-Debian-packaged stuff. CON: - The package isn't configured for a

Re: IDEA:Offical Debian Support Team?

1999-04-20 Thread Christian Lavoie
> I believe that support for Debian is very important and is something that > should be investigated. However, I believe that it may be difficult to > combat an over-commercialized distribution if you start pushing for > professional 24X7 commercial support. The kind of support that corporate > b

RE: IDEA:Offical Debian Support Team?

1999-04-20 Thread kvaughan
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/20/99 at 05:22 PM, "Madel, Kurt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >don't quite cut it for the corporate world. But I don't see any reason why >the HP's or IBM's couldn't include Debian as one of the distributions they >support. It would seem you have hit at least part o

Re: GDB & memory access failure

1999-04-20 Thread Ingvaldur Þ . Sigurjonsson
Hi again, now guess what! I tried another aproach i.e. i tried to enter: 'break main' or 'break someFunctionName' and it worked. And I can in ddd select a functionName (main/whatever) and with the name selected add a breakpoint (by pushing that button...). Well that makes me very happy and I'm

Re: floppy too slow during bootup (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
Thanks, I know I should have tried it myself, I had a feeling it might have been because of this. > > I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get > > sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during > > a boot process?? > > > > It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes > >

Re: [off topic] new apt ?

1999-04-20 Thread Christian Lavoie
> Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Those are very old screenshots of apt (originally named deity). I have no > > > idea if they still resemble the current apt. > > > > More or less. > > Isn't apt a command-line tool though? If not, how does one run it with > a GUI? I made mysel

Re: floppy too slow during bootup

1999-04-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, James Dietrich wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:37:18AM -0500, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > > > > I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get > > sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during > > a boot process?? > > > > It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it

Re: FW: Netscape libXpm.so.4 error

1999-04-20 Thread Richard Harran
Don't think that this is going to work: Firstly, when I type: ldd 'which netscape' it says can't open ...; Secondly, if I type $ which netscape /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape $ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape ldd: /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape is not a.out or ELF This is b

Re: IDEA: Official Debian Support Team?

1999-04-20 Thread Adam Linford
> I've noticed a lot of vendors jumping on the Linux bandwagon and >starting to offer support for thier system that run Linux. But, it seems >that it is only for SUSE, Redhat, Caldera and TurboLinux. WHY NOT >DEBIAN? Is >it because we are not commercial? And if so, I propose a Debian >support >tea

RE: IDEA:Offical Debian Support Team?

1999-04-20 Thread Madel, Kurt
I believe that support for Debian is very important and is something that should be investigated. However, I believe that it may be difficult to combat an over-commercialized distribution if you start pushing for professional 24X7 commercial support. The kind of support that corporate business re

Re: FW: Netscape libXpm.so.4 error

1999-04-20 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > That's a typical symptom of having a libc5 version of netscape on a libc6 > > system, however that should be the right directory. Do you have the > > libc6 package xpm4g (which contains /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4) > > installed? >

Re: HELP TO INSTALL DEBIAN FROM CD-ROM

1999-04-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, michele bigi wrote: > I have a PC with a IDE CD ROM. When I install DEBIAN 2.03 the dselect > don't read the iso9660 filesystems. The filesystem isn't present on > distribution? > Can you help me? I had the same problem a while ago because I used a boot floppy created on ano

Re: floppy too slow during bootup (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > Did you have the same problem when you built > a custom floppy for your system, or does this > problem only occur when you used the original > boot disk that was included in the distribution? > The boot disk I use was produced by the installation progra

#! (was: Re: Running a script from /etc/ip-up.d)

1999-04-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On 19 Apr 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Jiri writes: > > That should be #! and there shouldn't be a space after it. > > The space doesn't matter. Not as far as executing the script goes, but... Jed picks up on "#!/bin/sh" and starts syntax highlighting, "#! /bin/sh" results in a plain text editing

IDEA:Offical Debian Support Team?

1999-04-20 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey guys, I've noticed a lot of vendors jumping on the Linux bandwagon and and starting to offer support for thier system that run Linux. But, it seems that it is only for SUSE, Redhat, Caldera and TurboLinux. WHY NOT DEBIAN? Is it because we are not commercial? And if so, I propose a Debian suppo

FW: Netscape libXpm.so.4 error

1999-04-20 Thread Brian Morgan
> On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > > > OK, I've been through this at least 2x before, but didn't write it down. > > I'm getting a "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' error when > trying to run my > > newly installed netscape 4.51. If I remember right, I need to > have libc6 > > installed,

monitor problems (a.k.a. CM6P specs)

1999-04-20 Thread Bruce Sass
I've been trying to setup this monitor with XF86Setup... and not having much luck. "Luck" is a good word since I haven't been able to find anything about it via web and usenet searches, or on the XFree86 site and the monitor specific links provided in their FAQ. I did find a site (www.anatekcorp.

Re: floppy too slow during bootup (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
Did you have the same problem when you built a custom floppy for your system, or does this problem only occur when you used the original boot disk that was included in the distribution? On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > > I am wondering why i

GDB & memory access failure

1999-04-20 Thread Ingvaldur Þ . Sigurjonsson
Hi, I am still having problem using the gdb-GNU debugger. The problem is that, that the breakpoints I set in the code, cannot be inserted by the debugger. Here's an output from the gdb: debbie:/home/ingi/misc/c++> gdb pdbg GNU gdb 4.17.19981224.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat ... This GDB was c

Re: floppy too slow during bootup (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get > sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during > a boot process?? > > It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes > just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds > to decompres

sysklogd HACK

1999-04-20 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Here is info I found on the redhat.com system about the sysklogd Hack. Is anyone working on a fix for this? Thanks, Ken Rea -- Package: Sysklogd Updated: 01-Apr-1999 Problem: (01-Apr-1999):Security Fix An overf

Re: kde

1999-04-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, ktb wrote: > > I haven't been paying much attention to kde/gnome strings as I'm happy > with xdm and fvwm2 but I'm starting to get curious. It wouldn't be > worth it to me to loose the gui setup I have now. Is it possible to > have xdm/fvwm2 and kde coexist? It would be nice

floppy too slow during bootup (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during a boot process?? It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds to decompress it. Are there any parameters that I have to tweak wh

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #706

1999-04-20 Thread Adam Greene
In regards to the Debian / Redhat Alliance proposed by Lyno Sullivan: I hope this does not cause a stir, or that Debian will not actually consider this. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 11:27 AM Subject: debian-user-digest

Unknown Server Lockup - (k)syslog hack!

1999-04-20 Thread Account for Debian group mail
I had 2 different server lock ups in the last week. In a reply to a email on another list someone suggested that this is a "syslog hack exploit". I see nothing in the debian.org pages about this and we do have the lastest version of sysklogd (1.3-31). Has anyone heard about this problem? Is th

Adobe Type1 Fonts in X

1999-04-20 Thread eric a. Farris
I just got some Type1 fonts off of Adobe's TypeOnCall CD. When I run these through type1inst to update the fonts.scale i get "First Byte in Packet not 0x80" from pfbtops and it refuses to go any further. (1) is this fixable? (1a) how? (2) is there a better/different way? i have the afm, pfm, and in

Re: LLS: Debian/Redhat Alliance

1999-04-20 Thread Lyno Sullivan
I seem to be creating some kind of technical problem because of the mail address 'Lyno Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' I am using.  Sorry for any inconvenience I might be causing.  I am trying to sort out what I am doing and how to remedy the situation. Most assuredly this is not any official ini

WOL ethernet

1999-04-20 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Does anyone know if a *nix (Debian) is able to create the so-called "magic packet" that tells a machine with a Wake-on-Lan adapter to power up? The research I've done on the web has been inconclusive. Don Becker's page made no mention of it either. Anyone? TIA. -Ian ___

Re: Debian/Redhat Alliance

1999-04-20 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/20/99 2:20:00 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > As soon as I get a chance I am going to write an article recommending > that Redhat and Debian form an alliance. Redhat becomes the distributor to 1) > commercial operations and 2) people who are only

Re: kde

1999-04-20 Thread ktb
Paul Winkler wrote: > > I recently installed Kde 1.1 on Debian 2.1. I did it this way; > > 1. Install the qt library version 1.42 -2 from the debian site > > 2. Download from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/Incoming/debian , > (or a mirror) , the following fpackages and

Re: Adobe Type1 fonts in X

1999-04-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, eric a. Farris wrote: > I just got some Type1 fonts off of Adobe's TypeOnCall CD. When I run > these through type1inst to update the fonts.scale i get "First Byte in > Packet not 0x80" from pfbtops and it refuses to go any further. (1) is > this fixable? (1a) how? (2) is there

Re: hard drive test

1999-04-20 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 08:33:51PM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: Try Bonnie, and make the test-file size LARGE. > Hi! > > I need a hardware-intesive testing program for hard drives. One of > my drives has just blown, and I want to try to figure out what has > happened. > > Does anyone kno

Re: Debian/Redhat Alliance

1999-04-20 Thread Collins M. Ben
> - Original Message - > From: Lyno Sullivan > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 2:05 PM > Subject: LLS: Debian/Redhat Alliance > > > As soon as I get a chance I am going to write an article recommending that > Redhat and Debian form an allia

Re: Netscape libXpm.so.4 error

1999-04-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > OK, I've been through this at least 2x before, but didn't write it down. > I'm getting a "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' error when trying to run my > newly installed netscape 4.51. If I remember right, I need to have libc6 > installed, but I already c

Re: Debian/Redhat Alliance

1999-04-20 Thread Alec Smith
Debian doesn't need RedHat. We've already got a distribution network -- A number of FTP sites and anyone willing to burn a CD. Those who are interested in Debian are free to get it. Those who arn't can choose RedHat's distro. Although I'm not ready to develop software, I'm interested in Debian for

Re: HELP TO INSTALL DEBIAN FROM CD-ROM

1999-04-20 Thread Richard Harran
I think that the correct answer to this was posted on this list on the original thread. You need to select the 'Native language support' in the filesystems menu during installation of the base system. I am not sure if this is enough on its own, or if it will then give you the option of adding iso

floppy too slow during bootup (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during a boot process?? It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds to decompress it. Are there any parameters that I have to tweak wh

Re: Debian/Redhat Alliance

1999-04-20 Thread Harold Hartley
why should debian be forced to send its stuff to a commercial status... I think debian does well for its intent as a free software community with its own ideas and development... debian's intent is to be free to those interested in the project and contribute to it... your idea sounds like you

Re: AHA 2940U2W Support under Debian

1999-04-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Larry Venable wrote: [ this really belongs on -user; moving it there ] : Actually, I'm running the mach 64 x server 3.3.2, on an ATI card, using V : 2.0.34 kernal version. Any help you can give towards the proper boot : parameters for enabling Linux to see the 2940U2W is

Re: LLS: Debian/Redhat Alliance

1999-04-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Lyno Sullivan wrote: > As soon as I get a chance I am going to write an article recommending that > Redhat and Debian form an alliance. Redhat becomes the distributor to 1) > commercial operations and 2) people who are only interested in being free > software consumers. Sorr

Re: Sendmail startup delay

1999-04-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Hi : : I just installed sendmail package and encountered : a strange problem: there's always a delay of two or : three minutes before sendmail'startup process : complete successfully. Check your DNS config. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410

Re: kde

1999-04-20 Thread Paul Winkler
I recently installed Kde 1.1 on Debian 2.1. I did it this way; 1. Install the qt library version 1.42 -2 from the debian site 2. Download from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/Incoming/debian , (or a mirror) , the following fpackages and install them using dpkg

Re: linux

1999-04-20 Thread homega
Avril Dieno dixit: ~> Hi, My name is Leland Dieno and I am looking for a program like linux ~> for my older 286. I really don't know much about computers so if you can ~> help me that would be great! Minix: http://thompson.oit.umass.edu/INFO.html Regards Horacio -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys :

hard drive test

1999-04-20 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I need a hardware-intesive testing program for hard drives. One of my drives has just blown, and I want to try to figure out what has happened. Does anyone know of any program that would do the job? TIA! -- p.

Re: HELP TO INSTALL DEBIAN FROM CD-ROM

1999-04-20 Thread Marlon Urias
I had the exact same problem, I've also met several others with the exact same prob but despite seeing this same problem on this mail list about 4 times no one has been able to find the root of the problem. The way I got around it was to manually add the isofs module. Find it (maybe from another l

General Debian setup question...

1999-04-20 Thread Jonathan J. Lupa
First of all, Thanks to all who helped me get my exim-fetchmail working. I now only need to boot to windows for Quicken. In any event, I'm curious if someone could give me pointers to docs that talk about organizing my system. I started from 2.1 slink CDs that didn't have non_free, contrib, lo

Help on auto mount and sound

1999-04-20 Thread Brian Schramm
I need to know how to change the timeout on the automount system for Slink. It is set WAY TO LONG. I would also like to know how I get my built in sound card to work. I had it working in Redhat just by running the sndconfig command but Debian does not have that so I need to know how to set it up

Re: GTK problems - not compiling

1999-04-20 Thread Steve Haslam
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 07:06:47PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Hi all, > > I grabbed this from the gtk tutorial page, but it won't compile: > it complains that gtk_signal_connect is undefined (I think this is a > linker problem). I'm compiling with > gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (window)

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-20 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > The \label needs to be in a \caption. Or at least AFTER the \caption, because the \caption modifies counters etc. Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GTK problems - not compiling

1999-04-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, I grabbed this from the gtk tutorial page, but it won't compile: it complains that gtk_signal_connect is undefined (I think this is a linker problem). I'm compiling with gcc helloworld.c -o hellowword `gtk-config --cflags --libs` Any ideas? (please Cc) Source is: #include voi

LLS: Debian/Redhat Alliance

1999-04-20 Thread Lyno Sullivan
As soon as I get a chance I am going to write an article recommending that Redhat and Debian form an alliance.  Redhat becomes the distributor to 1) commercial operations and 2) people who are only interested in being free software consumers. People interested in becoming a volunteer producer, in

RE: kde

1999-04-20 Thread Brian Morgan
> Brian Morgan writes: > It's been a while since I've tried a kde install. I'm running > Debian 2.1 stable and would like the most current working version of kde. > What's the best way to get it (are there deb files?) and what > configuration do I need to do once I get it? I can't remember, is it

Re: Netscape libXpm.so.4 error

1999-04-20 Thread Richard Harran
The glibc2 in the netscape path suggest that it is libc6, no -5. However, libXpm comes from xpm4g, not from libc6. Check that you have this installed. If I'm wrong about the library version, you'll need xpm4.7 from oldlibs as the libc5 equivalent. HTH Rich Brian Morgan wrote: > > OK, I've b

Re: Sendmail - aliases problem

1999-04-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
These timeouts are likely due to sendmail trying to resolve domain names (specifically, names which can't be resolved). Trying making a 'fake' domain for yourself and setting the host mapping in /etc/hosts, ie. 1.2.3.4kuifj.mydomain.nl kuifj "Robert-Jan (ICQ#35262711)" wrote: > Hi, > > I h

Re: Sendmail startup delay

1999-04-20 Thread Richard A Nelson
The common problem wrt startup delay is that your /etc/hosts isn't quite upto snuff. 1) make sure you have 127.0.0.1 localhost (preferably as 1st line) 2) make sure every interface (tr, eth, ppp, etc.) has an entry -- Rick Nelson C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL

Netscape libXpm.so.4 error

1999-04-20 Thread Brian Morgan
OK, I've been through this at least 2x before, but didn't write it down. I'm getting a "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' error when trying to run my newly installed netscape 4.51. If I remember right, I need to have libc6 installed, but I already checked that. It's installed just fine. Do I perh

S.M.A.R.T Support?

1999-04-20 Thread fancyboy007
Hi! My harddisk has the S.M.A.R.T feature, Would someone mind telling me whether or not linux harddisk driver support it? My kernel version is 2.0.36.

makefontsdir?

1999-04-20 Thread fancyboy007
After my upgrading to slink(from hamm), I cannot use makefontsdir now. Would someone mind telling me which package that command lies in? thks.

Sendmail startup delay

1999-04-20 Thread fancyboy007
Hi I just installed sendmail package and encountered a strange problem: there's always a delay of two or three minutes before sendmail'startup process complete successfully. Any hints? Tks!!

Re: floppy too slow during bootup

1999-04-20 Thread James Dietrich
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:37:18AM -0500, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > > I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get > sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during > a boot process?? > > It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes > just reading the kernel image and then bang!!

makefontsdir?

1999-04-20 Thread fancyboy007
After my upgrading to slink(from hamm), I cannot use makefontsdir now. Would someone mind telling me which package that command lies in? thks.

Sendmail startup delay

1999-04-20 Thread fancyboy007
Hi I just installed sendmail package and encountered a strange problem: there's always a delay of two or three minutes before sendmail'startup process complete successfully. Any hints? Tks!!

S.M.A.R.T Support?

1999-04-20 Thread fancyboy007
Hi! My harddisk has the S.M.A.R.T feature, Would someone mind telling me whether or not linux harddisk driver support it? My kernel version is 2.0.36.

CD/R disks for backup?

1999-04-20 Thread Bill White
Does anyone use CD/R disks for backup? I have some questions. 1.) How do you make sure that mkisofs doesn't make a file system which is bigger than the disk? 2.) If your partition is 1000Mb and it is mostly full, you have to partition the partition. How do you do that without much manual

Re: PARIDE almost working (but not quite).

1999-04-20 Thread Michele Bini
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 10:06:53PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > Somebody already pointed out to me that under the 2.0.36 version Linux > kernel you can not load two modules for the same parallel port and that > maybe there is already a printer module installed. Is this so? How do I > check

Adobe Type1 fonts in X

1999-04-20 Thread eric a. Farris
I just got some Type1 fonts off of Adobe's TypeOnCall CD. When I run these through type1inst to update the fonts.scale i get "First Byte in Packet not 0x80" from pfbtops and it refuses to go any further. (1) is this fixable? (1a) how? (2) is there a better/different way? i have the afm, pfm, and in

linux

1999-04-20 Thread Avril Dieno
Hi, My name is Leland Dieno and I am looking for a program like linux for my older 286. I really don't know much about computers so if you can help me that would be great! please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] thank you

How to determine module parameters after insertion?

1999-04-20 Thread Brian Servis
Is there a way to determine what parameters were passed to a kernel module when it was inserted? Maybe some /proc file? As an example if I insert the joy-analog module with 'joy-analog js_an=0x201,0x8f3,0x00' is there anyway after the module is installed to determine that it was passed the optio

Adobe Type1 Fonts in X

1999-04-20 Thread eric a. Farris
I just got some Type1 fonts off of Adobe's TypeOnCall CD. When I run these through type1inst to update the fonts.scale i get "First Byte in Packet not 0x80" from pfbtops and it refuses to go any further. (1) is this fixable? (1a) how? (2) is there a better/different way? i have the afm, pfm, and in

Re: Obsolete/local packages after update to slink

1999-04-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Apr, Brad wrote about "Re: Obsolete/local packages after update to slink" >> were truly local packages (.rpm's that I ran though alien, Netscape >> being one). > > There're quite a few Netscape packages available in Debian. Wrappers for > installing 3 and 4 from the tar gzips off of net

WOL ethernet

1999-04-20 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Does anyone know if a *nix (Debian) is able to create the so-called "magic packet" that tells a machine with a Wake-on-Lan adapter to power up? The research I've done on the web has been inconclusive. Don Becker's page made no mention of it either. Anyone? TIA. -Ian ___

RE: kde

1999-04-20 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Brian Morgan writes: > It's been a while since I've tried a kde install. I'm running Debian 2.1 > stable and would like the most current working version of kde. What's the > best way to get it (are there deb files?) and what configuration do I need > to do once I get it? I can't remember, is

Re: input tk_Brief into Debian?

1999-04-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 08:14:13AM +0200, Ralf Mueller wrote: > Hello, Hi Ralf, > Do you want to put tk_Brief > (http://krisralf.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/tk_Brief/) into the > Debian-Distribution? Why not :) What is the license? > It is a GUI for easily writing letters with LaTeX. Cool! > Ca

Re: ddd's segfaulting tradition

1999-04-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 09:42:43 -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Last time I looked there was even a Debian package for a statically > linked copy. "ddd-smotif", in the "contrib" section. Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: 2.2.x boot floppy. (was: I'm not giving up: backpack CD-ROM drive).

1999-04-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: [ snip ] : Next step: who knows where to find a boot floppy using a 2.2.x kernel? http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls

Re: Obsolete/local packages after update to slink

1999-04-20 Thread Brad
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > The list of > packages shows many "obsolete/local" packges with no replacements > available. I am sure SOME of these were hamm packages which have no > slink equivelents. The same thing happened to me when slink went to stable and hamm wasn't being loo

index.bt being left all over the place

1999-04-20 Thread Andrew Waltman
Hi folks, I'm having a minor problem with man. It leaves a file index.bt in the current directory. If I remove the file and then run man again it is replaced with a new file that diff says is different than the first (even if the man file I read is the same). If I leave the file alone, then modifi

Re: 2.2.x boot floppy. (was: I'm not giving up: backpack CD-ROM drive).

1999-04-20 Thread Robert Pintarelli
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 11:13:11PM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > > > > Next step: who knows where to find a boot floppy using a 2.2.x kernel? > > > > i know i saw this somewhere someplace, i just cant locate it anymore. where > do i get info on how to make my own custom boot floppy ? > > chad

Re: ddd's segfaulting tradition

1999-04-20 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: | > I wonder, does anyone use ddd in a serious way with C++? Everytime a | > new debian release arrives I give it a try, and everytime it manages to | > segfault within a few minutes. I suppose ddd sh

floppy too slow during bootup

1999-04-20 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during a boot process?? It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds to decompress it. Are there any parameters that I have to tweak whe

kde

1999-04-20 Thread Brian Morgan
It's been a while since I've tried a kde install. I'm running Debian 2.1 stable and would like the most current working version of kde. What's the best way to get it (are there deb files?) and what configuration do I need to do once I get it? I can't remember, is it like gnome such that it requi

Re: ddd's segfaulting tradition

1999-04-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > I wonder, does anyone use ddd in a serious way with C++? Everytime a > new debian release arrives I give it a try, and everytime it manages to > segfault within a few minutes. I suppose ddd should be nice for C+

Re: Obsolete/local packages after update to slink

1999-04-20 Thread Brad
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > The list of > packages shows many "obsolete/local" packges with no replacements > available. I am sure SOME of these were hamm packages which have no > slink equivelents. The same thing happened to me when slink went to stable and hamm wasn't being loo

Re: 2.2.x boot floppy. (was: I'm not giving up: backpack CD-ROM drive).

1999-04-20 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
> > Next step: who knows where to find a boot floppy using a 2.2.x kernel? > i know i saw this somewhere someplace, i just cant locate it anymore. where do i get info on how to make my own custom boot floppy ? chad

Re: OPTi 925 (PnP)

1999-04-20 Thread Brad
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Basically, get the settings from windows, use those settings in kernel > config and isapnp.conf, i have a SoundBlaster 16PnP, which also seems to require isapnp. i found "pnpdump --config > test.conf" quite useful, it ended up giving me the exact settin

Re: dependencies

1999-04-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Apr, ktb wrote about "dependencies" > A few weeks ago someone posted a command that showed the dependencies of > a program. I must have inadvertently deleted it and can't find it in > the archives. Anyway I would like to know how to reveal what libs a > program uses or needs and once I f

Linear option in lilo.conf

1999-04-20 Thread Brian Morgan
How do I add the linear option to lilo.conf? A seperate line? An option on one of the other lines? Here's how my lilo.conf file looks as is: boot=/dev/hda1 root-/dev/hda1 install=boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only Where does that linear option go?

2.2.x boot floppy. (was: I'm not giving up: backpack CD-ROM drive).

1999-04-20 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Thanks Jarek, >> Q1: how can you check if which module is controlling what? (the startup >> messages don't give me a clue). > >Type `lsmod` to see which modules are currently loaded. > >> Q2: how can you disable modules that you don't need? > >`rmmod ` will remove the module. > >You might also wan

found a cheap ($20) pcmcia modem

1999-04-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I wouldn't normally send this, but I stumbled across a cheap 28k pcmcia modem from what seems to be a nice place. I called after stumbling over another modem listing that turned out to be for a cellular modem. He looked up this one, and when i told him it was more than i wanted to pay, he of

talkd doesn't work

1999-04-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, I just updated things to potato, and now talkd doesn't work - I runnign in.talkd and in.ntalkd doesn't stop me getting "no talk daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk" errors. Where should the talk daemons be started? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolki

Re: why should email v's ftp? (was Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???)

1999-04-20 Thread ivan
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 11:40:44PM +1000, Chris Leishman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 08:42:11PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Don't we still have the spooling problem unless you can co-ordinate sender > > and receiver to be on line in different time zones in different parts of >

Re: X-Windows xf86config setup for Gloria Synergy monitor

1999-04-20 Thread Jim Campbell
Jim Campbell wrote: > I can see from http://www.xfree86.org that for the ELSA Gloria Synergy > monitor, they've recommended the use of the X3DL server. I was able to > download this. However, I am still stuck getting my xf86Config file set up. > Can anyone give me some information about this? I

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