re: sendmail/fetchmail yet again

the .fetchmailrc is, simply, as follows: poll pop.myserver.net protocol pop3 username myusername password mypasswd

Re: Diald Setup

Hi, I set up pppconfig, got pon and poff working successfully, set up diald.options according to Johns instructions then started up diald and went browsing, it connects then hangs up. here's some of /var/log/ppp.log - Apr 28 14:10:50 confluent pppd[418]: not replacing existing default rou

Re: ISA vs PCI Modem

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Greg Scharrer wrote: My experience with PCI modems is that they are likely to be winmodems. My supplier stopped selling the ISA modems in favour of the new PCI modems, but now is restocking ISAs. I had problems with the PCI modems in Win 95&98. Auto-locating the drive

Re: apt-get and apt-cdrom

On 29 Apr 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with apt-get. (Sorry for overlong lines in the > following.) Older apt's had 'issues' with certain CD configurations. Grab the latest version from potato (I think that has all the fixes..) Jason

Trackball setup: Zenith laptop.

I've installed Debian 2.1 on a Zentith Z-Noteflex 486. When trying to configure X in XF86Setup, none of the mouse drivers/settings appear to work with the trackball. Any ideas? Thanks, -Paul ___ Get your free, private email at http://mail.

apt-get and apt-cdrom

Hello, I have a problem with apt-get. (Sorry for overlong lines in the following.) My /etc/apt/sources.list is set up with apt-cdrom, and that part worked correctly: | [...] | Writing new source list | Source List entries for this Disc are: | deb "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main bina

Re: sendmail/fetchmail

add|ct|on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail > from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors > logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages > it just sits there on the first

Installing via network

I need to install Linux on an embedded system with network connection and with no CD. Is it possible to install Linux from my local network. I have NT/95 (no Unix) system with CD driver on the local network? Thanks in advance, Benjamin >

MTA

I have to say I am nearly converted user of qmail.. I installed qmail on my server at home, and I have to admit it is a sweet bit of software. Blows sendmail out of the water. Cheers Iodine (just another qmail user)

New mailing-list created: debian-japanese (was Re: New mailing-list request (debian-japanese))

At Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:58:34 +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you create new mailing-list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] New mailing-list debian-japanese@lists.debian.org has been created. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I said in new mailing-list request message, this list is used to di

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - print solution (?)

Hi, Here is a message found on news://stardivision.com.support.installation (I did not test it yet) Best regards, Bernard - --- Subject: Debian Potato/glibc-2.1 Printing Fix/Workaround Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:11:44 -0400 From: Chris Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: StarDivision Gmb

Re: KDE and .Xdefaults

Ralf Comtesse wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hello Jens, > > On 28-Apr-99 Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Did you make sure that in /etc/X11/config you have the line: > > > > allow-user-resources > > > > This one is set. > > > With regard to your .xinitrc, if you are running kdm then

sendmail/fetchmail

ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages it just sits there on the first one and does nothing. to test my se

Re: deb vs. rpm

Thorsten Manegold wrote: > As I see it after reading the comparison at > > the rpm format is comparible with the dep format feature-wise. > Rpm is even ahead in some (IMHO important) areas like > file-dependencies whereas dep only supports package deps.

ftpd wants pwd_mkdb + apologies

I apologize: I originally sent this mail while logged in as root; reply mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will not be deliverable. >From the ftpd man page (netstd 3.07-7slink.3): ~ftp/etc Make this directory owned by ``root'' and unwritable by anyone (mode 511). The file

Re: dselect has me baffled..

In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > ... or I'm just dense today. > > I am installing slink from the Cheapbytes 4-CD set. The base package > install went smooth. I selected the default dialup packages. However, > when I tried to install it I got a lot of messages scrolling up the > screen that looke

Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 05:00:50PM -0400, Ian Peters wrote: > I have, in the process of upgrading my potato system, broken the > libtiff3g-dev package. dselect gives the following errors while > trying to upgrade the package: > Reading Package Lists... Done > > installation script returned erro

dselect has me baffled..

... or I'm just dense today. I am installing slink from the Cheapbytes 4-CD set. The base package install went smooth. I selected the default dialup packages. However, when I tried to install it I got a lot of messages scrolling up the screen that looked like everything was going ok until I got

starting problem

I'm a contended Debian user but now ,unexpected, I've a problem.with for me unknown reason. When booting all kind of things are started. at; 'starting printer spooler: lpd' nothing happens anymore, even after 15 minutes. I can only switch of the computer. with a rescue-disk i could come in the syst

Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 07:54:08PM +, Lazarus Long wrote: > On Wednesday, April 28, 1999 at 19:39:40 +1200, John Leget wrote: > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > X-UIDL: 87e60a087b692aee4499ddcd6afe260a > > > > , i keep getting lots of the following > > in the attempt of mp3'ing an au

Broken libtiff3g-dev

I have, in the process of upgrading my potato system, broken the libtiff3g-dev package. dselect gives the following errors while trying to upgrade the package: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1

Mozart card buffer problems

Hi my mozart card under a 2.0.36 kernel (static support) doesnt work at all. for example, when trying to play a wave i get the error invalid audio buffer size of 0 although i enabled a 64k audio buffer but mod, midi, it doesnt work 2 /dev/sndstat doesnt exist, but the bootup messages show its a

Contents of base/libc6

Hi there: Thank you for providing Linux as a free distribution. I am looking for the following files: ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libm.so.6 libstdc++.so.2.9 Which the following page ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz seems to point out to be located in: base/libc6 However

Re: Real need for upgrades?

On Wednesday, April 28, 1999 at 13:36:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: a01b3f03096f3ff19c87465729c10d44 > > The same goes for new kernel releases. While I see some using the very > latest Linux kernels (2.2.x), others still use older versions of

Re: Old Unix 'compress' (.Z) utility?

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > I can't seem to find a version of the old Unix 'compress' utility, that > generates .Z files. I know that gzip provides better compression, and > can uncompress .Z files, but it won't work for me. > > I'm exporting some files to Minix, and Minix

IRQ and PS/2

Hi Everybody, Thank you for all your replys, however, I think that I did not describe the situation correctly. I have an older type pentium with AT-style board ( i think it is called that way, it has one 5-pin keyboard connector). I do not recall seeing anything in BIOS related to PS/2 bus (I wil

libpcre.so.1 and libpcre.so.1.01 (was strange sendmail error msgs)

Hello, I've been running a hamm system for a few months and recently installed exim and libpcre1 (upon which exim depends). Since then, I've been getting console msgs: /usr/sbin/sendmail: error in shared libraries libpcre.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I'm guessi

Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

On Wednesday, April 28, 1999 at 19:39:40 +1200, John Leget wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: 87e60a087b692aee4499ddcd6afe260a > > , i keep getting lots of the following > in the attempt of mp3'ing an audio cdrom to my hard drive > > Apr 28 18:58:31 gabriel kernel: hda: irq

Old Unix 'compress' (.Z) utility?

I can't seem to find a version of the old Unix 'compress' utility, that generates .Z files. I know that gzip provides better compression, and can uncompress .Z files, but it won't work for me. I'm exporting some files to Minix, and Minix doesn't have a gzip port for all versions. I seem to reca

Newsx 1.2-2 is it broken

hello , i'm using without problem newsx 0.11-5 in Hamm, since i've upgrade my pc with slink newsx 1.2-2 don't work correctly at home and at work. I can't fetch articles because i've a error message about a path missing in a messages at the remote server. Any idea ??? at this time i've downgrade wi

Re: Missing voices in Festival

Kent West wrote: > Within the last day or so someone asked on this list about a text-to-speech > app and someone else suggested Festival. On a whim, I did an "apt-get > install festival" and everything appeared to install okay. However, when I > type "festival", I get an error message about "no def

Re: strange sendmail error msgs

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:48:13AM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > So, if sendmail is purged (according to dpkg), why does /usr/sbin/sendmail > exist, and why is it sending me this msg? I don't know why it's sending you that message, check the glibc-ness of different things, maybe? As to where it co

Re: KDE and .Xdefaults

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Jens, On 28-Apr-99 Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Did you make sure that in /etc/X11/config you have the line: > > allow-user-resources > This one is set. > With regard to your .xinitrc, if you are running kdm then your > .xinitrc will not be > run. It is

debian-user-digest Digest V99 #763

IRQ and PS/2

You wrote: Hi everybody, I have run out of IRQs. Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable the ps/2 bus. I have a regular serial mouse and AT-type (5-pin) keyboard. The motherboard also

Re: man-to-text filter

In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from > man into plain text? [prompt]$ man somesubject |col -b > somesubject.txt -Mitch

Re: man-to-text filter

It's crude, but 'man -t manpage | pstotext' will do this (there are probably better ways using groff, but this comes to mind). Bob On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: > Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from > man into plain text? > > e.g: > $ m

Re: lilo, map and system.map

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: > ~> > ~> The standard procedure is to make a symlink between /System.map and > ~> /boot/System.map-x.y.z (assuming that you're using the x.y.z kernel). > ~> If you have more than one kernel on the system, you're supposed t

Re: man-to-text filter

Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from MM> man into plain text? zcat /usr/man/man1/man.1.gz |nroff -man nroff -man /usr/man/man1/man.1 -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Hey, Doug,

Re: IRQ and PS/2

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:07:36AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have run out of IRQs. > Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. > I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable > the ps/2 bus. Normally this is

RE: man-to-text filter

On 28-Apr-99 Marc Mongeon wrote: > Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from > man into plain text? > > e.g: > $ man man | magic-filter > $ magic-bin /usr/man/man8/man.8 > $ man --magic-switch man > Try this: $ zcat /usr/man/man1/bash.1.gz | nroff -man | col -b or, if the

Re: Netscape: document-specified fonts problem

Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RJK> If I setup netscape to use document-specified fonts, on some RJK> (parts of) pages, the font wil be very ugly and almost impossible RJK> to read. It looks a bit like a picture in netscape that has not RJK> finished loading yet. RJK> RJK> Ple

Re: lilo, map and system.map

[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: ~> ~> The standard procedure is to make a symlink between /System.map and ~> /boot/System.map-x.y.z (assuming that you're using the x.y.z kernel). ~> If you have more than one kernel on the system, you're supposed to ~> have a System.map-x.y.z file in /boot for each kernel

Re: system shutdown from xdm

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:07:16AM +, Dave Whiteley wrote: > In the olden days I worked with a PDP11/44 running Unix. I did not know > a lot about Unix, but I was trusted to shut the system down by logging > is as a special user "shutdown". > I have made the user "shutdown"'s shell a script

Re: IRQ and PS/2

-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aan: Debian User Datum: woensdag 28 april 1999 19:12 Onderwerp: IRQ and PS/2 >Hi everybody, > >I have run out of IRQs. >Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. >I do not have a manual

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

> Could someone give an opinion on turning on "Antivirus" feature in the > motherboard BIOS? I recall hearing once that it should be avoided, but > I can't remember the arguments. > > FWIW, I have an ABIT BX6 MB. > -- > Arcady Genkin Hi Doesnt seem it will work. The virus destorys only Fl

man-to-text filter

Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from man into plain text? e.g: $ man man | magic-filter $ magic-bin /usr/man/man8/man.8 $ man --magic-switch man Thank you. Marc Mongeon

lilo, map and system.map

|> So the question is: |> Is the map file that is mentioned in lilo.conf not the same file |> as the Syetm.map file, and am I supposed to place the System.map |> file in a special location without lilo's knowledge? These are different files with different functions. The /boot/map file is a file

Re: Basic networking info

Hi > > After a long delay I am finally ready to put together a small training > network in my apartment. First I have some basic questions. > There are 3 machines one AMD 586 133 /64 mg (my primary machine) and 2 > Intel 486 66 /8 mg. All have ISA NE2000 cards > > 1. Can I live with 8 m

Re: IRQ and PS/2

*- On 28 Apr, Lazar Fleysher wrote about "IRQ and PS/2" > Hi everybody, > > I have run out of IRQs. > Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. > I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable > the ps/2 bus. I have a regular serial m

Re: DVD?

> > What is the state of DVD in Linux? I've searched our site and nothing > comes up on it? > The dvd uses a new file system, so that is being worked on. The drivers for the hardware are not that much harder than cdrom (if I recall from others). However dvd as a movie media is quite some time

X freezes!

I am a brand newbie to Linux. I followed Debian's slink 2.1 standard installation and used dselect afterwards to add X server and clients. Linux sits on my first hd in partitions hda3 (linux) and hda4 (swap), the first two partitions are Dos16-big and host win 95. I successfully configured LILO so

strange sendmail error msgs

Hello, On my hamm system, I've been getting strange error msgs since installing exim. Strange, because they are sendmail msgs: /usr/sbin/sendmail: error in loading shared libraries libpcre.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I did dpkg -s sendmail, and found that it i

DVD?

What is the state of DVD in Linux? I've searched our site and nothing comes up on it? TIA -- Greg.

Why does ppp stall for no reason on 2.2.x kernels?

Ever since I have upgraded to the 2.2.x kernel on my slink, and bits of potato, system ppp is very flaky over a dialup 56k line. Often I am downloading a package or other large file and the download stalls. I can stop and restart the download and it will continue for a bit longer and the stall a

Basic networking info

After a long delay I am finally ready to put together a small training network in my apartment. First I have some basic questions. There are 3 machines one AMD 586 133 /64 mg (my primary machine) and 2 Intel 486 66 /8 mg. All have ISA NE2000 cards 1. Can I live with 8 mg in the 486s?

Re: IRQ and PS/2

> > Hi everybody, > > I have run out of IRQs. > Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. > I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable > the ps/2 bus. I have a regular serial mouse and AT-type (5-pin) keyboard. > The motherboard

Netscape: document-specified fonts problem

Hello, If I setup netscape to use document-specified fonts, on some (parts of) pages, the font wil be very ugly and almost impossible to read. It looks a bit like a picture in netscape that has not finished loading yet. Please help. TIA, Robert-Jan

strange sendmail error msgs

Hello, On my hamm system, I've been getting strange error msgs since installing exim. Strange, because they are sendmail msgs: /usr/sbin/sendmail: error in loading shared libraries libpcre.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I did dpkg -s sendmail, and found that it i

compiling with vfat option

Thanks for all the feedback about the LILO - System.map question that I had. But its not over yet !!, now I'm firing up another one ;) It turns out my initial kernel that came with the distribution had vfat as a module, this is reconfirmed by the fact that I have a line which says "vfat" in my /e

Re: Network newbie

the net3 howto is not lacking, believe me ... it can work u miracles if ull read and really understand it ... did ur kernel detect ur lan card ? or if u included the module to autumatically be loaded unpon bootup (/etc/modules), did u see the message that looks something like eth0: 3c509 at 0

Unable to boot from Sec.Slave IDE drive - Help!

Hi, I am using Debian2.0 on /dev/hdc(Secondary Master)without any problems. Recently I added a new 4.2G HD and wanted to add Linux to this new /dev/hdd(Secondary Slave). I get to the point of the installation process where it says 'Make Linux Bootable Directly from Hard Drive', I select 'Yes' an

IRQ and PS/2

Hi everybody, I have run out of IRQs. Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable the ps/2 bus. I have a regular serial mouse and AT-type (5-pin) keyboard. The motherboard also has somethi

Re: Network newbie

Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, is there any walk-through written on how to configure my home > network? I've got two machines, with NE2000-compatible network cards. > I've recompiled my kernel to give me module support of them, but now I'm > stuck. Can anyone point me in the rig

Re: Network newbie

But have you read the Ethernet-HOWTO? It should fill in a few of the blanks. On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:44:20AM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > Okay, is there any walk-through written on how to configure my home > network? I've got two machines, with NE2000-compatible network cards. > I've recompile

Re: Testing sub directories using perl AGAIN

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 01:42:48PM +, Shao Zhang wrote: > But it is still not exactly what I want. All the answers used the > idea to compare the string, but what about > the following case: > > dir1 = "/www/info/world"; > dir2 = "/www/info/world/usa/../../../." > > Now, clearly dir1 is a

Network newbie

Okay, is there any walk-through written on how to configure my home network? I've got two machines, with NE2000-compatible network cards. I've recompiled my kernel to give me module support of them, but now I'm stuck. Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can find the instructions? (

Re: LILO - System.map conflict

"Fethi A. Okyar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm sorry for not being able to provide an in-depth answer, but I also compile kernels by hand, and also have several images referenced from lilo.conf. However, I _never_ worried about system maps. All I need to do is copy the new kernel image to wher

Re: LILO - System.map conflict

Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > [...] > Now I moved the new kernel to /boot as bzImage.x.y.z and I also > moved the new System.map to /boot/map.x.y.z. I edited my > /etc/lilo.conf file so that it has the entries such as > > ... > boot=/boot/map.x.y.z > ... > linux=/boot/bzImagex.y.z > ... > > but what h

Re: Scanner

> So why is it that parallel port scanners don't tend to be supported, but > their SCSI cousins are. I wouldn't think that there would be that much > difference between the hardware on a SCSI scanner vs a parallel port > scanner. No, the difference is all in the interface. If your scsi adapter i

Re: Real need for upgrades?

> As I see it, releasing new versions can take place more than twice a > year. While ppl are waiting for the next official release, they keep > gradually upgrading their systems from the ftp server, so by the time > the new release is official, they already have their systems greatly > upgraded b

Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

I just had a server lock up with the same messages on a slink (2.0.36 kernel) machine. Well, ok just the first 2 messages. I came in this morning and the last two messages on the console were: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } hda: DMA disabled I could still ping it, but that's all I could

updated X problems

Ok... I fixed the termcap problem I was having in loading Xsetup. But now whenever I type Xsetup, I get a segmentation fault. This is no good. What could be wrong? This happens on two systems, both of which are basically simple slink floppy installs -> potato via dselect. Nothing else has reall

Re: Print spooling, SMB browsing, communism and other mishaps

> 1. Printing. i've got a Canon BJC-4200. I'm using kernel 2.2.5. > I can echo "Hello" > /dev/lp0 and get it on paper. i cant get lpr to = > actually do anything even after i checked the printcap file (it was lp1 = > but changing it didnt solve the problem).=20 > After changing printcap, did you r

LILO - System.map conflict

I admit that I am crating a lot of trouble myself, just poking in things and compiling new kernels, but thats the beauty of it, and as long as there's this kind of support, it really helped me well. Ok, I had some problems during installing a new kernel, and here's the symptoms:: I compiled a ker

Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible

Resolution: Thanks to all. This problem is now resolved. What was necessary was to switch the BIOS to disk type USER and enter the c/h/s figures off the drive, because the updated BIOS still didn't auto-detect these. (I had assumed that these were limited by bitcount and hadn't tried to exceed

KAFFE?

Hi, I remember reading some e-mails about Kaffe and potato. Is there a Kaffe Deb available. I can't find one, I've look in experimental and potato. If not, can someone give me pointers on compiling the .tar. I have that, but can get it working. Thanks Rod

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

In a message dated 4/28/99 10:25:05 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > It deletes your BIOS after writing over the disk ... not just the > > > partition table. > > Could someone give an opinion on turning on "Antivirus" feature in the > motherboard BIOS? I recall hear

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It deletes your BIOS after writing over the disk ... not just the > > partition table. Could someone give an opinion on turning on "Antivirus" feature in the motherboard BIOS? I recall hearing once that it should be avoided, but I can't remember the argume

Re: network card problem

"Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jonathan P Tomer wrote: > > > > i'm installing two new pcs at work, one with solaris x86 and one with debian > > so that i can show my employer how much nicer debian is. unfortunately > > there is one major problem: the hamm cd i have is not success

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > raymond rote, > [snip] > > 2. If you're going to run Windows, get at least decent freeware > > antivirus software. > > This is what pentiums are for. Safe computing dictates that you should > draw one around your computer before loading windows or otherwi

Re: serial port problems

Are you sure setserial sets the IRQs for the ports correctly? setserial can only guess the IRQ for a given port but if it isn't the 'standard' value then it will not be correct and you won't pass data. Mark Ewing wrote: > I am a new Debian user and am having problems getting my modem to work. >

Re: Dialup question

rob wrote: > > Hi > Does anyone know how to setup debian to be a dialup server? > If so, please tell me how! > Check out mgetty and return here after you've read the documentation, tried it, and have further questions...

Re: KDE and .Xdefaults

Did you make sure that in /etc/X11/config you have the line: allow-user-resources With regard to your .xinitrc, if you are running kdm then your .xinitrc will not be run. It is only run if you use startx or xinit to start X. If you want things to be run when the kde is starting up, you need to

Re: network card problem

Jonathan P Tomer wrote: > > i'm installing two new pcs at work, one with solaris x86 and one with debian > so that i can show my employer how much nicer debian is. unfortunately > there is one major problem: the hamm cd i have is not successfully detecting > the ne2k (well, encore enl832tx, which

Keeping my distribution current

I recently installed Debian Linux 2.1 (slink?) and would like to automate the task of monitoring changes to installed packages. My plan was to set up a weekly cron job that runs something like: apt-get update apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade I figured I'd get an e-mail every week describing

Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible

David B.Teague wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Ray wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > > > > > Is there software like MaxBlast or EZBios that comes with the disk? > > > Debian 2.0 is working well for me with a disk with EZBios on it. > > [snip] >

Re: lost sound after changing video card

> Having just gotten an SB16 to work yep. > Irq 7 > io 220 > dma 1 > dma 5 > There are also io's for 320? and 388. (I think, I had to change mine around > alot, so I might be wrong with these two). > I had to recomple the module using the values I needed before the card would > work. And activat

X problems

I'm running 2.2.6, potato, and attempting to run either accelerated X 4.2, or 5, neither are working. I had 4.2 working under slink. The problem is some terminal issue, I'm guessing a termcap thing, but I don't know anything about that. The error when I attempt to load Xsetup is "Unsupport $TERM

exim: time-out error

I have a dialup connection on to my ISP from a single machine using pine, exim, fetchmail and procmail. My machine's name is Johann and alpha.futurenet.co.za (alternatively futurenet.co.za) is my ISP. I cannot remember receiving this message before. It happened twice today: I was trying to send

RE: lost sound after changing video card

Having just gotten an SB16 to work yep. Irq 7 io 220 dma 1 dma 5 There are also io's for 320? and 388. (I think, I had to change mine around alot, so I might be wrong with these two). I had to recomple the module using the values I needed before the card would work. And activate the thing using

Re: atx and fan (noise) control

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Ray wrote: > As for turning the fans on & off, about the only ones you have much hope to > control are the cpu and case fans. [...] > There is a Linux hardware monitor project dealing with this but I don't have > the link handy at the moment. If noone else comes up with the l

Missing voices in Festival

Within the last day or so someone asked on this list about a text-to-speech app and someone else suggested Festival. On a whim, I did an "apt-get install festival" and everything appeared to install okay. However, when I type "festival", I get an error message about "no default voice found in ('/us

Re: lost sound after changing video card

Allen added, > On 1999-04-27 16:23, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > The only obviuos thing that I think think of is IRQ, DMA or IO > conflict which would prevent the (sound) driver to prosper. The > device busy is normal though - at least, I've seen that with working > cards as well. eyryt

Sender domain not compliant....

I am a newbie and just installed a basic Debian from CD's on my stand-alone dialup system. I am attempting to get mail working first. I installed Fetchmail, Mutt and Smail (recommended by Debian?), removed Exim, and I can pickup mail but when I try to send mail to mindspring, I get: 'Sender doma

Re: adding new libs (.a) to debian (gnome xml)

> > I tried to add the gnome_xml libs to debian. > Due to the fact that i couldnt find a .deb I compiled the package, did > make install which copied the said libs to /usr/local/libs. > I then added the directory to /etc/ld.so.conf (i hope i'm not getting > the file name wrong) and then ran ldconf

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SOLVED! Re: Mutt - one more problem

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:15:20AM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All! > I'm on my way from pine to mutt. Last time I discovered however a big > problem. When I send the letter with non-ASCII characters in the subject > and body of the letter (I use ISO-8859-2 encoding) and attach a file, >

Problems playing mp3's under potato

Hello, I have a potato system that I update regularly. Recently I put in a custom 2.2.5 kernel to support my soundblaster 16. This is whats is causing me problems. If I cat foo.au >/dev/audio it works correctly. However once if I try to use x11amp or splay or anyone of the other mp3 players

Re: Writing CRON job to null.

Jim Jackson: > > In all Unices I've used, cron uses sh/bash to run the jobs - not sure if > that can be changed, I haven't delved. Actually cron set the Variable SHELL to /bin/sh. That means if you really (what for) want to change this, you can either link it to a different shell then bash or sta

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