efax

1999-05-20 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hello, i've installed efax and try to run it with KsendFax. I've put the following line into the preferences of KsendFax: fax send '@@Phone' '@@FName' I get the following error Can't open pre-lock file /var/lock/LCK../TMP..04391 How can i solve this problem Cuno

debian scsi installation support?

1999-05-20 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, i would like to install debian on a dell poweredge 4300 with a PERC/2 SC raid scsi controller from AMI. as far as i know there is no support during a debian installation for this card. there is support for this from red hat for their installation, however i would prefer to use debian. there

Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port -- Resolved

1999-05-20 Thread jeb
I appreciate the replies from people who offered help. While no single reply hit my problem, the collective effort helped considerably in narrowing my troubleshooting. Thanks. When I re-compiled the kernel to include the parallel port, I didn't realize I'd have to run update-modules to get the

maildirs in pine

1999-05-20 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
I wonder, did anyone manage to make pine support maildir reasnably well ? So that it shows maildirs as just mailboxes and creates new mailboxes by default in maildir format. I've got pine-4.10 from project/experimental. It is capable of reading maildirs, but a) in order to create maildir box foo

Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: >>> No. They have support for SMP systems. Read the documentation. >>> >>> I think you win the award for the most frequent poster! >> >> Sorry, I will refrain from asking so many questions. I did read the > > You don't really need to do that. If people(like m

Re: wvdial, pon ,poff

1999-05-20 Thread John Hasler
Sean writes: > Sounds like you're just typing pon and that's it. You need to give it > the name of a chatscript. If you just type 'pon' it defaults to the name 'provider'. > If you run pppconfig, and then type pon pppconfig> it should work. 'provider' is the default name used by pppconfig, and

Re: Netelligent, still problems

1999-05-20 Thread Jon Middleton
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 11:12:32AM +0200, Markus Wollgarten wrote: > Hi to all, > > Is there something special which has to be setup in the Compaq-Setup/BIOS > and/or with > insmod like "Bus Mastering" or "Bus Priority", Interupts, io-adresses ?? do you know if the bios has "PNP OS installed" is

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SL" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SL> Yup. Personally, I think for developers VMWare is something of a SL> godsend. Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your SL> machine, give it ~16Mb or so, and then run Debian inside Debian. SL> The outer Debian is stable, the inner is

Re: install guide.-- update

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "K" == Koyote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: K> In the release notes page: K> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-installing K> .en.html it points to : K> http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install and that doesn't work, It does for me. I tried Netscape 4.6, lynx, a

Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 May, Pollywog wrote about "Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?" > > On 20-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: >> *- On 20 May, Pollywog wrote about "are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems >> only?" >>> Are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only? I have a PentiumII with only >>> one >>

Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 20 May, Pollywog wrote about "are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems > only?" >> Are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only? I have a PentiumII with only >> one >> processor in it. >> > > No. They have support for SMP systems. Read the documentation. >

Unidentified subject!

1999-05-20 Thread Richard Sevenich
I am trying to develop a module which actually tries to do something. At the stage where I use 'insmod', I get this complaint from insmod: couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for Any hints? TIA, Richard

Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-20 Thread Robert Rati
No. 2.2.x kernels just have better smp support in them. Just turn off symetric multi-processing when you make the kernel. Rob On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only? I have a PentiumII w

Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 May, Pollywog wrote about "are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?" > Are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only? I have a PentiumII with only one > processor in it. > No. They have support for SMP systems. Read the documentation. I think you win the award for the most frequent po

Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-20 Thread Mike Garfias
Pollywog spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > Are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only? I have a PentiumII with only one > processor in it. > > > -- > Andrew No, they also work in single CPU applications. When you compile your kernel uncheck the Symmetric Multi Processing support. Mik

Re: useable hardware

1999-05-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 May, Raymond A. Ingles wrote about "Re: useable hardware" > On Thu, 20 May 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > >> - ELSA Erazer II, 16 mb, Riva TNT chipset >> Is 16 mb enough for a resolution of 1600 x 1280 x 24? > > The Riva TNT chipset is supported (I'm using it) but not at 24bpp. > For

are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
Are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only? I have a PentiumII with only one processor in it. -- Andrew

Hdd install

1999-05-20 Thread Koyote
Sheesh! I'm starting to feel like a pest- Sorry about that install guide thing, it was an easy hack-around. Next step- I have a need to install from ground zero. For the 486 boxes, I was consideing downloading the intallation to a hard drive in this machine, then moving the hard drive to another

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I haven't tried WINE recently. It seemed fine with some games, and I > got quicken to run partially, but wouldn't want to rely on it. I guess > I should give it another try. > Only MS Money runs pretty well on WINE for me, a 16 bit app. Most other apps en

Re: wvdial, pon ,poff

1999-05-20 Thread Sean
Sounds like you're just typing pon and that's it. You need to give it the name of a chatscript. If you run pppconfig, and then type pon it should work. Sean tf wrote: > hey all > > I need to be able to connect. until recently, pon dialed, but left my > connection open (I get the sound like

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Kent West wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions >> on >> their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. >> >> >> -- >> Andrew > > You got enough answers that I really don't need to t

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 05:45:06PM -, Pollywog wrote: >> >> On 20-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: >> > The non-commercial price is discounted to $75 until mid-July and they >> > still offer a 30-day free trial evaluation license. You need to re-run >> > the instal

Re: useable hardware

1999-05-20 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > - ELSA Erazer II, 16 mb, Riva TNT chipset > Is 16 mb enough for a resolution of 1600 x 1280 x 24? The Riva TNT chipset is supported (I'm using it) but not at 24bpp. Fortunately, 16MB is ample for 1600x1280x32, so that's not a problem. (In fact, 7.

Re: wvdial, pon ,poff

1999-05-20 Thread John Hasler
BOMiY.A.JgH.vADR3 writes: > I need to be able to connect. until recently, pon dialed, but left my > connection open (I get the sound like if you leave the phone off the > hook.) Your modem is not responding to or not receiving DTR OFF. Do you have the 'modem' option in /etc/ppp/options? It shou

Re: useable hardware

1999-05-20 Thread Thomas Ruedas
>- hard disk IBM DTTA 351010 If I'm not totally senile yet, it's the same drive I have recently installed in my box; it's the 10.1 GB one, right? Well, It didn't crash yet :-), and everything seems to run quite OK. - I have one 2.1 GB Doze partition and the rest with Linux, so the whole of Linux is

Staroffice 5.1 under slink

1999-05-20 Thread Paul Harris
hi, yeah it works under slink fine... but i'm wondering if that is all they changed... apart from some small user interface diffs in the configuration section, nothing seems to have changed... i still see the little annoyances from 5.0... Paul

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on > their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. > > > -- > Andrew You got enough answers that I really don't need to throw in my $0.02, but here goes. I've got it ru

zxip??

1999-05-20 Thread Person, Roderick
was I in some haze or fog or was it just to late at night, but wasn't there a package called xzip or some type of .zip .tar frontend for x. Does anyone know? I can't seem to find anything in slink. Rod

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 05:45:06PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > On 20-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > > The non-commercial price is discounted to $75 until mid-July and they > > still offer a 30-day free trial evaluation license. You need to re-run > > the install script when upgrading kernels, since i

Re: exim mailer/dhis.org/debian mailing list question

1999-05-20 Thread Remi Lefebvre
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 04:12:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy all. I'm running potato with exim mailer and i am using the > dhis.org dynamic dns service (there happens to be a nice dhis.org client > in unstable, though it would be easy enough to compile it or get > binaries...); it is

useable hardware

1999-05-20 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I'd like to get a new computer. I haven't found some components at the Hardware Compatiblity Howto. Can you tell me wether the listed hardware is supported? Can you even tell me if it is succested to use? - ELSA Erazer II, 16 mb, Riva TNT chipset Is 16 mb enough for a resolution of 16

*.debs for GNOME, apps, Mozilla, KDE...

1999-05-20 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Just started a new job in a telecomms company today and to my surprise found a CD recorder in my desktop workstation. It seems there's no problem with my doing serious downloads so let the search for toys begin! I installed slink, my first working Linux installation, last Wednesday. C

Re: install guide.-- update

1999-05-20 Thread Koyote
Oh, never mind. I worked around it. You might want to fix your pointers to: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html If it's not just a windows bug. Thanks, Koyote

Re: Mystery messages from cron

1999-05-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This is probably your machine is using NIS, right? The cron job is probably just looking up your pwent to get your home dir, etc. Richard Kaszeta wrote: > Okay, on one of my machines I've the following cron job: > > * * * * * root /pressure/pressureget > /dev/null 2>&1 > > (as an aside, it's a pr

Re: install guide.-- update

1999-05-20 Thread Koyote
>>> Hmm, Seems I can not download the installation guide for slink. >K> Seems I can browse through the sparc and alpha guides- it's just the >K> i386 one I can't get to. >If you could give us the URL that fails for you, we could take a look >at it as well. In the release notes page: http://www.de

Mystery messages from cron

1999-05-20 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Okay, on one of my machines I've the following cron job: * * * * * root /pressure/pressureget > /dev/null 2>&1 (as an aside, it's a program that queries a pressure transducer on a serial port and dumps it's info to a file, but that's not important here) Every once and a while we get some net fla

Re: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Brad
i noticed that already, and added a note to that effect to the howto. The howto will still be around until June (then it will be unavailable unless someone mirrors it), the technique could still be useful in the future with other programs. http://199.74.95.157/random/StarOffice501_glibc21.gz On T

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > The non-commercial price is discounted to $75 until mid-July and they > still offer a 30-day free trial evaluation license. You need to re-run > the install script when upgrading kernels, since it installs some > modules. I'm running potato/kernel 2.2.9 and am a

Re: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Brian Schramm wrote: > Anyone tryed it on Slink yet?? It ran well under Slink, but I broke my system when I reinstalled it under potato and ran the libc6 script that came with it. Yes I know, I should not have run that script. It was intended for glibc not glibc2. -- Andrew

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: :> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on :> their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. : Just download the tarball and follow the instructions. Worked a treat for : me. : That is, until I decided it w

Re: please help me get sound working

1999-05-20 Thread Seth Golub
The solution turned out to be simple: upgrade the kernel. I'd have thought 2.2.1 would have been sufficient, but upgrading to 2.2.9 made everything just work. Thanks to all who replied, especially Graziano, who came up with the right answer.

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:11:52AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Thu, 20 May 1999 14:02:24 - (UTC), Pollywog wrote: > > >> Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, > >> and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things > >> with it (lik

Re: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Brian Schramm
Anyone tryed it on Slink yet?? On 20-May-99 Christian Lavoie wrote: >> Where are you downloading is from. On www.stardivision.com the >> download area is closed. > >> Sean wrote: > >> > no it's not, I'm downloading SO5.1 right now . . . >> > >> > I'm at 75% -- woo hoo! >> > >> > Sean >> > >> >

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 May, Pollywog wrote about "RE: wmware on Debian" > > On 20-May-99 Steve Lamb wrote: >> Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your machine, give it ~16Mb or >> so, and then run Debian inside Debian. The outer Debian is stable, the >> inner >> is unstable. I won't call it the "perf

Re: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Christian Lavoie
> Where are you downloading is from. On www.stardivision.com the > download area is closed. > Sean wrote: > > no it's not, I'm downloading SO5.1 right now . . . > > > > I'm at 75% -- woo hoo! > > > > Sean > > > > Pollywog wrote: > > > > > On 20-May-99 Bernard de Rubinat wrote: > > > > StarOffice

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Rune Linding Raun
wine is not at all the same as vmware two completely differnt pieces of software On 20-May-99 Pollywog wrote: > On 20-May-99 Rob wrote: >>> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions >>> on >>> their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. >> >> Just dow

Re: wdm and xdm co-exisitng - is this a bug?

1999-05-20 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The thing is, that you could manage :0 with xdm, :1 with wdm and XDMCP > with gdm or such. So the packages don't conflict in a traditional > sense. But looks like all of them try to manage :0 and therefore there > is this mess. Wouldn't this be s

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Steve Lamb wrote: > Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your machine, give it ~16Mb or > so, and then run Debian inside Debian. The outer Debian is stable, the > inner > is unstable. I won't call it the "perfect" sandbox, but for $99 bucks, it > is > a damned good sandbox.

Re: fetchmail

1999-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: fetchmail Date: Thu, May 20, 1999 at 07:21:29AM -0400 In reply to:Carl Mummert Quoting Carl Mummert([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> 1 message for linus159 at mail.server.se (4122 octets). > >> reading message 1 of 1 (4122 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listner > >> doesn't like r

Re: Problem with PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro (i82865)

1999-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Problem with PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro (i82865) Date: Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:35:40AM -0400 In reply to:eric a. Farris Quoting eric a. Farris([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I would appreciate it if someone that is on the kernel list could > forward this. please send all replies

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Mark Tucker
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on > their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. I installed the last beta without any problems. I had NT4 and Win98 working in a box on my X desktop. Performance was

Re: Location of single file (zip) install file for Debian...

1999-05-20 Thread Marc Mongeon
Does it give you the option to open the file in the browser? That's what you want to do. Otherwise, save it as a file and then choose "File | Open Page | Choose File...". Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431

wvdial, pon ,poff

1999-05-20 Thread tf
hey all I need to be able to connect. until recently, pon dialed, but left my connection open (I get the sound like if you leave the phone off the hook.) wvdial does the same thing. pon no longer works even to the extent that it did, can't find a shared library... wvdial still dials but nev

Re: Sendmail Relay.

1999-05-20 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings Thomas, Thanks for the info, I plugged it in and hopefully it will work. Have about 200+ domains that I am hosting and trying to relay mail for. Just for my understanding, where did you get this information? I would like to understand it a little better for future use. Thanks

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-20 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 16 May 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote: > " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > > On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > > Well I got the old 386 put back together [...] Now it is running > > > Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W. [...] > > > I guess I won't be compiling any kernels on that box ... wel

Re: partition problem

1999-05-20 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Hammy, > I'm having a problem partitioning my hard drive with the install program. > Once I run install.bat, I can setup the colour monitor and the keyboard. The > next step is to partition the hard drive and this is where I am having > problems. > I keep getting the following error: > '

Re: fetchmail

1999-05-20 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: > >> 1 message for linus159 at mail.server.se (4122 octets). > >> reading message 1 of 1 (4122 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listner > >> doesn't like recipient address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > >> fetchmail: can't even send to linus > >> fetchmail: SMTP transaction

Re: Soundblaster PCI : es1371 and IRQ clash ?

1999-05-20 Thread Rene H. Larsen
Gorik De Samblanx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Result : > * /proc/sound does not exist > * /dev/sndstat does not exist > if I create it (using "sh /dev/MAKEDEV audio) it exists alright but does > not support me doing 'cat /dev/sndstat > * 'cat somefile > /dev/dsp' or 'cat somefile > /dev/audi

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 20 May 1999 14:02:24 - (UTC), Pollywog wrote: >> Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, >> and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things >> with it (like my mouse). I might try

Re: install guide.-- update

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "K" == Koyote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hmm, Seems I can not download the installation guide for slink. K> Seems I can browse through the sparc and alpha guides- it's just the K> i386 one I can't get to. If you could give us the URL that fails for you, we could take a look at it as well

Re: wdm and xdm co-exisitng - is this a bug?

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DM" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DM> Is this a bug with either of the packages? If so, which one? xdm DM> and wdm seem to co-exist well as regards to things like depends. The thing is, that you could manage :0 with xdm, :1 with wdm and XDMCP with gdm or such. So the packages

autologout problems...

1999-05-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, in some way on my system is activated a sort of autologout which shut down shells which are idle for >60 min now while this feature is desirable, in some cases it is not i am used to have an xterm open with a ssh connection to my server running on it a mail client (mutt, if that dam

Re: problem with my system includes

1999-05-20 Thread Robert Rati
Ya, that's pretty much what I did I believe and it works fine. There are already dirs of those names in /usr/include, so you'llhave to either delete them or rename them. I recommend renaming them as a precaution. I don't use debian packages for kernels anymore, so symlinking them to /usr/src/lin

problem with my system includes

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
What should I do to fix this? ### Something is wrong with the system include files on ### your machine! The file is for a ### 2.2.5 Linux system but you are running a 2.2.6 ### kernel. This will not work for building the VMware device ### drivers; you must have include files that match the vers

Re: Shortcuts

1999-05-20 Thread Koyote
>Sofar I'm pretty happy with Linux, except for X Window. I haven't found one >window manager which makes it easy for a user to put a shortcut on the >desktop or in the application menu. I talk mainly about shortcuts for >Netscape and WP. >Sofar I've used fvwm95, icewm, qvwm and windowmaker, with

Re: Shortcuts

1999-05-20 Thread Robert Rati
Actuall,y you're not making any mistakes about window-managers at all. Window-manager don't have desktops for the most part. At least none of the ones you are using. Most of the window-managers use configuration files to setup buttons or shortcuts to programs through sime kind of menuing system,

Shortcuts

1999-05-20 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Sofar I'm pretty happy with Linux, except for X Window. I haven't found one window manager which makes it easy for a user to put a shortcut on the desktop or in the application menu. I talk mainly about shortcuts for Netscape and WP. Sofar I've used fvwm95, icewm, qvwm and windowmaker, with the la

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Dan Willard wrote: > Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, and > when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things with it > (like my mouse). I might try again in a month or so ... > Interesting. When VMWare first came out, I was

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Rob wrote: >> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions >> on >> their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. > > Just download the tarball and follow the instructions. Worked a treat for > me. > > That is, until I decided it was crap an

partition problem

1999-05-20 Thread Hammy
Hello, I'm having a problem partitioning my hard drive with the install program. Once I run install.bat, I can setup the colour monitor and the keyboard. The next step is to partition the hard drive and this is where I am having problems. I keep getting the following error:     'Fatal error:

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Willard
Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things with it (like my mouse). I might try again in a month or so ... --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Pollywog [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Rob
> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on > their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. Just download the tarball and follow the instructions. Worked a treat for me. That is, until I decided it was crap and removed it ;) Rob.

wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. -- Andrew

Sound cards that support a3d

1999-05-20 Thread Dave Swegen
Does anyone know if any of the a3d capable soundcards out there have got drivers available under linux (I would go for a SB Live, but since the drivers are bin only it's out of the question)? The linux drivers don't have to support a3d (I'm one of those people who dual-boots to winders just to play

Re: gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses

1999-05-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[ cross-posting is not welcomed, btw ] On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 04:05:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running potato and till recently was running XDM with login.app to > give the login screen a nice clean look. Then GDM (Gnome Display > Manager) showed up in unstable so i grabbed it.

Re: modem speakerphone commands

1999-05-20 Thread eric a. Farris
On 20 May, Rob wrote: > Umm, isn't this the Debian list? Or did I miss the release of Visual Basic > for Linux? > oh, PLEASE say i missed it too. ;) one of the very few worthwhile microsoft products. -- eric Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Microcomputer Support Specialist

Problem with PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro (i82865)

1999-05-20 Thread eric a. Farris
I would appreciate it if someone that is on the kernel list could forward this. please send all replies to my address as well as the list. I cannot get any kernel to utilize my Intel EtherExpress Pro card. it is a PCI 10/100 card, and i am using the 2.2.x kernels in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1. When the

Re: Q: cc1plus

1999-05-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 13:49:58 +0200, Thomas Ruedas wrote: > I tried to compile a C++ program and got the following error message: gcc: > install problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory > > I have gcc, g++ and cc installed (at least the which command tells me > that they are),

Re: Re[2]: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

1999-05-20 Thread Rob
> so when you try "rm -r *" from / it expands the -i too and asks you for > permission. Note that this doesn't protect you from "rm -r /" Or even better, add an alias into your root .bashrc (or .cshrc or whatever) such as alias rm 'rm -i' its saved my life many a time :) Rob.

wdm and xdm co-exisitng - is this a bug?

1999-05-20 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, I recently installed the kde 1.1.1 debs on my slink system. Only catch was they required xdm being present, and I think wdm is much nicer (and more useful) than xdm. But, I wanted to upgrade my kde, so I installed xdm, and then went and installed kde. Now, that was a while ago, but I ha

CFS has died

1999-05-20 Thread Damon Muller
Hi all, I recently noticed a problem with CFS (the cryptographic file system) on my machine. It no longer mounts the /crypt directory, and as a result, I can't use it (even tho cfsd is running). I don't know exactly when this happened, but it was sometime after I went from a 2.0.36 to a 2.2.5 ker

RE: Failed boot from rescue floppy

1999-05-20 Thread Andrew Chittenden
I get the same problem on a Dell Optiplex DGX 5133 trying to install the slink release. Fortunately, I still have an earlier rescue disk for Debian 2.0.21 which I used to boot with and then used slink's base floppies to install from. Seemed to work ok. > -Original Message- > From: dormat [

Re: gtk-themes problems

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GA" == Graham Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GA> but GIMP still refuses to respond to the GTK themes - do I need to GA> recompile GIMP to make it work? Check dpkg -s gimp. Themes don't work for programms compiled for libgtk1.0 or libgtk1.1 earlier than 1.1.16 or such. Ciao, Mart

Re: Microtek scanner help

1999-05-20 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
try : cat /proc/scsi/scsi if you see something like : Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: UMAX Model: Astra 1220S Rev: V1.3 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id:

Q: cc1plus

1999-05-20 Thread Thomas Ruedas
I tried to compile a C++ program and got the following error message: gcc: install problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory I have gcc, g++ and cc installed (at least the which command tells me that they are), so I don't know what's wrong. What is cc1plus resp. what is it part fro

Re: Re[2]: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

1999-05-20 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Phillip" == Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My box has even survived an incredible big mistake I just made. >> I was running as root, in /usr >> Instead of typing rm -r gimp* I typed rm -r * >> Thank goodness star off

dosemu.help!!!

1999-05-20 Thread Gancho Tenev Tenev
Hi debian user! I have installed dosemu 0.66.7-13 (DOS-emulator) from .deb packet comes with hamm (Debian 2.0). I start dosemu "dos" : #dos and under dos emulator i went to floppy a: C:>a: and start cyrillic.com - this is TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) program that make me able to type

Re: Help setting up mail...sending/recieving

1999-05-20 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 06:13:41PM -0400, Allen B. Riddell wrote: > > > Are there any instructions on how to set up mail for a "standard" > home-desktop user? I.E.: I send my mail via smtp and recieve via pop3? > > I got fetchmail working -- but it seems that all my messages are "frozen" > --

Re: Upgraded mother board and now...

1999-05-20 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Jim Harsh wrote: > floppy, the boot process hangs when trying to setup the SCSI controller. The > controller is an Adaptec AHA-2940. message all look correct/normal until it > gets to Downloading sequencer code... 406 instructions downloaded > then the boot just stops. I've noticed this > before w

Re: Re[2]: Separate list for newbies

1999-05-20 Thread Gilbert Laycock
> As for the volume of the list my solution is simple: I archive in > gz files every single post to the list, and I have over a year's > worth of such archives. There's nothing new under the sun and > chances are I am not the first person to ask a question. This is > something simple anyone co

Problems compiling gtk+ applications.

1999-05-20 Thread Blouze
My name's Blaise, coming out of Paris France. I'm trying to compile and install gtk+ applications with an update of the gtk library. I complete the installation of new glib and new gtk+ lib. I heard that gtk lib is in fact composed of glib, gtk and imlib. So, I have a new glib and a new gtk on my /

Re: fetchmail

1999-05-20 Thread Carl Mummert
>> 1 message for linus159 at mail.server.se (4122 octets). >> reading message 1 of 1 (4122 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listner >> doesn't like recipient address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >> fetchmail: can't even send to linus >> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.server.se >> fetchma

Re: gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses

1999-05-20 Thread Steve Haslam
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 04:05:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it gave me the gnome login screen and my mouse works, but for some odd > reason it disables my keyboard. The kb works through bootup but once Did you remember to disable xdm? > this. Is it simply a bug in GDM? I suppose i'll

fetchmail

1999-05-20 Thread Johan Pettersson
Hello! 1) Have installed fetchmail but when I type man fetchmail it does not exist ? 2) Have looked at others .fetchmailrc but it does not work so well =) .fetchmailrc poll mail.server.se proto pop3 user linus159 pass $ fetchmail > 1 message for linus159 at mail.server.se (4122

exim mailer/dhis.org/debian mailing list question

1999-05-20 Thread solomon
Howdy all. I'm running potato with exim mailer and i am using the dhis.org dynamic dns service (there happens to be a nice dhis.org client in unstable, though it would be easy enough to compile it or get binaries...); it is set up so that mail sent to me while i'm offline is held by dhis.org and t

Netelligent, still problems

1999-05-20 Thread Markus Wollgarten
Hi to all, unfortunately, I still can't get this netelligent card working. I installed the base system from the base-floppies and also found a 2.0.34-based tlan.o (now in my /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ directory). But on issuing the command insmod tlan nothing happens afterwards (also error messages

gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses

1999-05-20 Thread solomon
I'm running potato and till recently was running XDM with login.app to give the login screen a nice clean look. Then GDM (Gnome Display Manager) showed up in unstable so i grabbed it. Next time i rebooted, it gave me the gnome login screen and my mouse works, but for some odd reason it disables m

Re: gtk-themes problems

1999-05-20 Thread Graham Ashton
On Wednesday 19 May, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > GA> I've installed gtk-themes-0.5 from source, but can't get it to > GA> work properly. > > Try the gtk-engines-* packages available at > > deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable > main brilliant - it works a

Re: ESDI PS/2 MCA

1999-05-20 Thread D.L.Whiteley \(Dave\)
>> I am trying to re-use some old PS/2s that have become available. I am >> trying to install slink on them. As the PS/2 does not have a CD I >> need to do the initial installation from floppies. > Have you tried just booting with the 2.1 rescue's default kernel? Yes, No go. I replaced the ker

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-20 Thread Tommy Malloy
Thanks to everyone for such informative responses. This list is like a school for System Administration. I hope that one day I able to pass on the knowledge I have gained here. Thanks again

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