Re: SoundBlaster PCI64

1999-05-28 Thread robbie
Hi I think you will either need to upgrade your kernel to 2.2.x, or use alsa with the pci 64. The reason pnpdump doesn't say anything about it is that it is not an isa card. You need either the es1370, or es1371 driver. Check /proc/pci to find out wich. Regards -- Rob Murray

Re: MPEG-3

1999-05-28 Thread Damien Love
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 05:25:33AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > way, 'make', 'make install', and oops 'chmod +s x11amp'. Great this > works! (Bob's interview is worth the work to hear) X11amp is a playback > only though? What software is available for recording mp3's? Now I'd > like to compil

Re: java

1999-05-28 Thread Shao Zhang
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 12:40:17AM +0200, moron wrote: > >On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 07:37:40PM +0200, moron wrote: > >>I presume I would need some Debian program (jdk1.1-dev?) to >>install the > JDK. I didn't find anything linux-specific on the javasoft >>site. Would > I have to upgrade (from ham

re: java

1999-05-28 Thread moron
>On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 07:37:40PM +0200, moron wrote: >>I presume I would need some Debian program (jdk1.1-dev?) to >>install the JDK. I didn't find anything linux-specific on the javasoft >>site. Would I have to upgrade (from hamm) to slink for this? (I >>seem to be years away from getting

Potato system can't export NFS file systems

1999-05-28 Thread David Gaudine
My Slink systems can export NFS file systems to each other and to my Potato system, and can mount remote file systems from each other. My Potato system can mount remote NFS file systems from my Slink systems. But, my Potato system can't seem to export a file system. On the Potato system, I edited

Re: HELP! apt stops working!

1999-05-28 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I don't know why. Maybe, apt handles ftp protocol and http protocol quite differently, or maybe the cisco cache engine handles them differently. All I know is this cisco thing is *very* expensive :) In the mean time, I guess we can just bare with the ftp protocol. However, for some site, s

Re: Debian hardware vendors

1999-05-28 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 12:23 (-0400), Judith Elaine Bush wrote: > Does anyone know of a list of hardware vendors who are experienced in > installing Debian into the systems they package? Has anyone had good > experience they'd like to share? My recent experience has been so-so, http://www.Kachin

RE: XCDRoast and HP7200

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
Hallo Bryan, Thanks for your reply. I think I found the problem today: the hp7200i-writer is faulty. I took it to my friend who has one on his Windows 98 system. He connected it and could not successfully write to the CD-RW-disc (the one that came with the writer and the same one he formatted

Re: Lexmark is less than helpful : -

1999-05-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 May 1999 15:53:23 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >An effective (although not completely honest :) ) way to do it is: > >Instead of saying: > "I just bought your printer -- do you have linux drivers" > >Say: > "I'm thinking about buying your printer -- do you have linux drivers?" I routinely

Re: Lexmark is less than helpful :

1999-05-28 Thread Kent West
John Gay wrote: > > This is a reply I received in response to a request for Linux drivers for the > Colour Inkjet 3200 printer from Lexmark. I guess I should have checked printer > compatibility a bit better before I bought it : ( > > In reference to your e-mail of 25/05/99, unfortunatly at prese

Re: netscape46 probs

1999-05-28 Thread Kent West
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > You don't set any environment variable! You have probably not installed xpm > (X Pixmap libraries for libc6 - runtime. Install xpm with dselect (search > with /xpm, next search with \). Whoohoo! That's it! It's a "\", not a "/". (And I thought people were nuts for w

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 28 May 1999 09:06:58 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of >> my knowledge this one doesn't use any "acceleration," like e.g. the S3 >> server. >> >According to xfree86.org Matrox cards are the best-acceler

Re: HELP! apt stops working!

1999-05-28 Thread Shao Zhang
This is probably a bug in apt. I have already filled a bug report against it... I guess your isp, or your internet connection is running a cisco web caching engine. I soon discovered that apt still works with my other isp. I then investigated each isp. One isp is not running proxy at all, the o

Re: Lexmark is less than helpful :

1999-05-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 May 1999 13:11:12 -0400, you wrote: >I had a conversation with a dealer, and he assured me >that Lexmark supports Linux... I am sure that Lexmark's PostScript printers work with Linux :-/ Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -

Re: KDE mail client problems

1999-05-28 Thread Ulrich Echterling
Chris, I had the same problem with KDE-mail (beta4 when I used it), so I supposed it was a bug in KDE-mail. Never bothered to find out what exactly went wrong considdering KDE still in beta (about 1,5 years ago) and I don't know about the final product now but to me it looks like the same problem:

Re: upgrade problem

1999-05-28 Thread add|ct|on
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > I have upgraded from slink to potato. > But something happend. I could not start X > after the upgrade. So I decided to config > XF86Config again. When I type XF86Setup I have > got following error : _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect- > Can't co

Re: trouble with fetchmail - Urgent help required

1999-05-28 Thread Doug Weimer
The best method I can think of is to use procmail to sort the mail for you. For a good discription of procmails capability the procmail and procmailrc man pages are fairly well done. Simply setup procmail to sort via the TO: field for example... that will let each user recieve mail which was dire

Re: Lexmark is less than helpful : -

1999-05-28 Thread Michael Stenner
An effective (although not completely honest :) ) way to do it is: Instead of saying: "I just bought your printer -- do you have linux drivers" Say: "I'm thinking about buying your printer -- do you have linux drivers?" -Michael On Fri, 28 May 1999, J

RE: XCDRoast and HP7200

1999-05-28 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Hmm, I know this sounds like a pain-in-the-ass, but could you do a "dmesg" and send it to me? I want to make sure that, indeed, both cd drives are being assinged those scdX identities. Here's a quick run-down of what I did: I have kernel 2.2.7. According to the lastest (VERY new) version of

trouble with fetchmail - Urgent help required

1999-05-28 Thread aadish
I need to collect mail from an ISP for my network which has lots of user. The ISP has a single node and all the mails for all the users R dumped there. Fetchmail fetches mail from ISP but delievers all the mails as a single mail to postmaster. I want the mail to be delivered to respective users in

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-28 Thread John Hasler
Brian Boonstra writes: > You can copy something from (say) a word processor using the mouse > selection and Alt-C. And then you can paste it as shown above. So > unless a script language knows how to access the Display Postscript > clipboard, I assume there would have to be some nontrivial C in t

Modem/ISDN question

1999-05-28 Thread Rene Feenstra
Hello I got my analog modem working a few weeks ago but now i', trying to setup my isdn modem = Teles 16.3 I got it included in the kernel and i can see it installing well but when I try to call out with it with pon isdn ( my pon config for the card since i use pon for the analog modem) I get t

Re: Lexmark is less than helpful : -

1999-05-28 Thread John Gay
I just found the link, it is: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=Lexmark This will give you a list of ALL Lexmark printers. The 1000 is listed as 'paperweight' i.e. does NOT work with Linux : ( a number of other Lexmark printer do work, though. Like I said, the best thing

hamm debs

1999-05-28 Thread richard newton
Where are the hamm .deb's kept nowadays? All I can find are slink and potato and the 'old' bo ones. Is there a way to determine a sources dependancies before trying to compile it up? Specifically I'm referring to mysql and netpbm-nonfree but I'd like a way of finding this out for an general case.

How should I start a daemon?

1999-05-28 Thread Mark Wright
I'm installing a new version of Postgresql. The .deb available is only v6.3, and I wan't to install the beta version, so I need to install it myself. I'm a little confused by how to perform automatic startup/shutdown of the 'postmaster' daemon when the pc starts up or shuts down. The Postgresql

RE: java

1999-05-28 Thread Person, Roderick
There are linux .tar of JDK, but as Shao said I would use .debs until you get familiar with debian. I'm attempting to use JDK2 myself from the Solaris .tar, but it has been as easy as I thought it would be. But, JDK1.1 run fine either as the .deb or the .tar. Be sure to check out blackdown, there

Re: java

1999-05-28 Thread Shao Zhang
For the java info specific to linux, you might have a look at http://www.blackdown.org/ If you are running debian hamm, then you will need to get the jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev package from the debian ftp site. The link is: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/devel/ Y

Re: Sony Vaio

1999-05-28 Thread David Welton
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 11:56:27PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > > Hi, looking for information on getting Debian going on a Sony > > Vaio. Any information would be helpful. A friend managed to do > > it, but it was rather tricky... > a) debian-laptop > > b) I own a 505f, install was painless, what do

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-28 Thread Shao Zhang
There are very comprehensive docs in /usr/doc/apt. You need the latest apt in potato though... On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:29:21AM +, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 1999 14:52:04 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: > >On Thu, 27 May 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: > >> (1) Is the required format for such t

TkAweMidi won't work

1999-05-28 Thread Kathy Miles
Any time I try to play a midi file in TkAweMidi, I get an error which state that "can't open sequencer device." All of my other sound programs work, for .wav, .mp3 etc. This is the only one which won't. Please help. Thanks Kathy

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Shao Zhang
I have the AGP one, and it works very well... On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 11:33:48PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > The PCI version ought to work... I would venture to guess the AGP version > might work too. If you already have the card, why not give it a try? > > Get the latest XFree86 3.3.3.1 debs for

Re: re-add deleted extended logical partitions?

1999-05-28 Thread Colin Marquardt
* David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Help! I inadvertently deleted (using fdisk) two ext2 partitions that are > in an Extended primary partition (i.e. they were /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8). [...] > If not, how can I find and update the extended partition table > without modifying the partitions

Re: java

1999-05-28 Thread moron
Thanks for your help. I'm not short of JDKs (on CDs and on the Win95 half of my hard drive), but I don't know my way around Debian yet. I presume I would need some Debian program (jdk1.1-dev?) to install the JDK. I didn't find anything linux-specific on the javasoft site. Would I have to upgrad

Re: Lexmark is less than helpful :

1999-05-28 Thread Bob Brown
I had the same conversation with Lexmark about a year ago. However, I recall reading a post in this list re: someone who had hacked a driver. My solution was to give the printer to my kids (win-machine) and buy a Canon BJC-610 - that I found was compatible via the supported hardware page. Let the

Confused CD-ROM

1999-05-28 Thread Patrick Rauls
Hi... When I bootup the computer, I get this: CDROM_PC_INTR: The drive appears confused ireason = 0x1 This has happened on all of the 2.2.X kernels that I have put on. Any suggestions/answers Thankx, Pat

Re: Debian hardware vendors

1999-05-28 Thread Brian Boonstra
Two vendors I've been happy with are http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ and http://swt.com/ Both are quite Linux-aware. - Brian

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of > my knowledge this one doesn't use any "acceleration," like e.g. the S3 > server. The SVGA server automatically detects supported cards and does have acceleration. A new

Debian hardware vendors

1999-05-28 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Does anyone know of a list of hardware vendors who are experienced in installing Debian into the systems they package? Has anyone had good experience they'd like to share? My recent experience has been so-so, (although the complications aren't entirely due to the vendor's lack of familiarity with

Official CDROM images

1999-05-28 Thread Charlie Hedlin
I wanted to download the i386 and Alpha cdrom images, but do not seem to be able to connect to cdimage.debian.org (either http nor ftp). These images don't seem to be on the standard ftp mirrors either. I have previously done installs via ftp, but I need to take these with me on the road, and I d

Re: apt-0.3.x on slink: unable to parse package file

1999-05-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Try this APT version: http://wakko.deltatee.com/~jgg/apt_0.3.6.1_i386.deb It is a bug.. Jason

apt-0.3.x on slink: unable to parse package file

1999-05-28 Thread Andreas Loew
Hello Debian folks,anybody out there who can help me with apt being "unable to parse package file":I am trying to use apt-0.3.x for a series of slink CDs I wrote at the officein order to install slink on my private PC at home. For the two officialslink CDs, everything works fine: first "apt-

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread ferret
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 1999 23:50:11 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Oh the other hand.. Is the matrox card supported for 3D acceleration? > > I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of > my knowledge this one

closed bugs

1999-05-28 Thread Nick Cabatoff
Is there any way of getting complete bug reports (including those that have been closed) for a particular packages? I think I've found a bug in librx1g/regexec(), and was hoping to verify that.

Re: re-add deleted extended logical partitions?

1999-05-28 Thread David Coe
Thanks, that worked beautifully and all is well again. I highly recommend gpart -- it did an admirable job of telling me where those deleted partitions actually were. I'll see if I can debianize it if someone isn't already doing that... Begin3 Title: gpart Version:0.1c Entered-d

Re: ipmasq package

1999-05-28 Thread Jack Versfeld
> > Subject: ipmasq package > Date: Fri, May 28, 1999 at 11:42:32AM +0200 > > In reply to:Ries van Twisk > > Quoting Ries van Twisk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hai, > > > > I have installed the IPMASQ package, and now I can ping myself. > > > > I now that this has something to do with

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Alec" == Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alec> The PCI version ought to work... I would venture to guess the Alec> AGP version might work too. Hm. (--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G200 AGP rev 1, Memory @ 0xe800, 0xe400 (--) SVGA: detected an SGRAM card (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution s

Re: How to reset a printer from debian?

1999-05-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stephan Engelke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 04:43:57PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > > > I have a small problem with my server. It serves as a netware printer (with > > mars nwe and HP-DJ670C). Sometimes it happens, that one of users sends > > a print job in the w

Re: pdf: printing multiple pages on a single sheet - how?

1999-05-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: pdf: printing multiple pages on a single sheet - how? Date: Fri, May 28, 1999 at 12:59:00PM +0930 In reply to:Mark Phillips Quoting Mark Phillips([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > To reduce the amount of printing I must do, I want to print two A4 > pages of a pdf document o

Re: ipmasq package

1999-05-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: ipmasq package Date: Fri, May 28, 1999 at 11:42:32AM +0200 In reply to:Ries van Twisk Quoting Ries van Twisk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hai, > > I have installed the IPMASQ package, and now I can ping myself. > > I now that this has something to do with the firewall rules,

Re: How to reset a printer from debian?

1999-05-28 Thread Jim Foltz
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 03:57:32PM +0200, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Hi Wojciech, > > On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 04:43:57PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > I have a small problem with my server. It serves as a netware printer (with > > mars nwe and HP-DJ670C). Sometimes it happ

cdrecord - and VideoCDs ?(and/or .bin/.cue CDs)

1999-05-28 Thread nate
anyone know if its possible(and if so, how?) to record a videoCD (mode2) with cdrecord, or any other burning software in linux? I tried converting a .bin/.cue using binchunker to .iso and tried to burn it, burned fine..no errors..but when i went to access it (in win9x) the cd was blank. I was us

Re: desk jet 710C - drivers

1999-05-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:28:05AM +0200, IS ZG wrote: > Hi, > My name is Margaret. I'm writing from Poland. > Help me!!! > My printer Desk Jet 710C doesn't print in DOS 6.22. I need this. > Where can I find these drivers? > Thank you very much This lis

Re: How to reset a printer from debian?

1999-05-28 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Wojciech, On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 04:43:57PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a small problem with my server. It serves as a netware printer (with > mars nwe and HP-DJ670C). Sometimes it happens, that one of users sends > a print job in the wrong format (e.g. binary data

Re: Lexmark is less than helpful :

1999-05-28 Thread Marc Mongeon
John: Check the printer manual to see whether your printer emulates any of the HP Laserjet models (or, even better, Postscript-- but this isn't likely). If it does, you can set up filters (using ghostscript, most likely) to print anything you want. I don't know the details about your specific pr

Problem with a sound card OPL3-SAx

1999-05-28 Thread Raphael Alla
Hi, I am using debian slink 2.1 A few days ago, I decided to compile the new 2.2.9 kernel. Everything is fine, except for my sound card. I have a OPL3-SAx card, for which a driver exists in linux 2.2. But for some reason, when I use my sound card, the computer freezes and I have no other choice b

How to reset a printer from debian?

1999-05-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I have a small problem with my server. It serves as a netware printer (with mars nwe and HP-DJ670C). Sometimes it happens, that one of users sends a print job in the wrong format (e.g. binary data for HP-LJ). In this case, I as a supervisor have to log in, clean up the print queue and rese

Re: [ILUG] Lexmark is less than helpful :

1999-05-28 Thread Vincent Cunniffe
> I especially like the 'Best regards,' bit. Rather Ironic, I think. On a > related > note, does any one have any experience with attempting to get this printer to > work from Linux? I'd have thought that 'a printer was a printer, was a > printer' In theory, they should be... sadly, a lot of har

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-28 Thread Brian Boonstra
John Hasler wrote: > Brian Boonstra writes: > > For what it's worth, my OpenStep machine at work has command line > > directives "copy" and "paste", so you can do things like > > > paste | wc > > > or > > >cat myfile.txt | copy > > A fairly simple script, if I understand you correctly. I'

Lexmark is less than helpful :

1999-05-28 Thread John Gay
This is a reply I received in response to a request for Linux drivers for the Colour Inkjet 3200 printer from Lexmark. I guess I should have checked printer compatibility a bit better before I bought it : ( In reference to your e-mail of 25/05/99, unfortunatly at present we do not have the driv

Re: Did I destroy my CD-RW-disc?

1999-05-28 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Q: How well are CD-RW-Writers supported? A: You can write on CD-RW's exactly like on a CD-Recordable. X-CD-Roast does not handle these any differently. To erase a CD-RW you have to call cdrecord manually (see the X-CD-Roast logfile where to find cdrecord and what your scsi-device is).

Re: re-add deleted extended logical partitions?

1999-05-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yes, if you have the exact partition geometries you can just add them back as long as you haven't created anything else on top of them since. David Coe wrote: > Help! I inadvertently deleted (using fdisk) two ext2 partitions that are > in an Extended primary partition (i.e. they were /dev/hda7

HELP: can't access serial port???

1999-05-28 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am still trying to get my Xircom CEM-28 pcmica-card modem to work, without success at the moment, and the problem is really strange: cat /var/run/stab Socket 0: Xircom CEM28 Ethernet/Modem 0 network xirc2ps_cs 0 eth0 0 serial serial_cs 0 ttyS3 4

RE: upgrade problem

1999-05-28 Thread Person, Roderick
I'm not a potato user, but it should as if you have a font path in your xf86config that does not exist anymore, or possible has moved from it slink placement to it potato placement. This happened to me with truetype fonts placement from hamm to slink. Check on that. Hope it helps. Rod... > -

cd burning with memorex 1622, audio tools

1999-05-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just got a Memorex model cdr1622 cdrw drive. I havn't actually tried to burn any cd's yet, but I have so far rebuilt my kernel to use scsi emulation as required by xcdroast. Has anyone out there used this model drive, and how has it worked out? Anything I should know? I am reading the xcdro

upgrade problem

1999-05-28 Thread johpe
Hello! I have upgraded from slink to potato. But something happend. I could not start X after the upgrade. So I decided to config XF86Config again. When I type XF86Setup I have got following error : _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect- Can't connect : errno = 111. So I tried xf86config but when I type sta

emacs confused about alt and meta

1999-05-28 Thread Michael Stenner
emacs seems to want to interpret ALT as META and ignore META altogether. I found no mention of this in the emacs docs. I'm pretty convinced that it's an emacs issue: I've used xev to confirm that it's getting the appropriate keysyms, so when I say it interprets ALT as META, what I mean is: It g

SoundBlaster PCI64

1999-05-28 Thread p
Hi (sorry about the last incomplete message) I have bought (I had to) a new computer: It has a SoundBlaster PCI64 card, but ... pnpdump does not see any card, I alreday had compiled a new kernel (2.0.34) with (module) sound support and with the awe32 patch, and inded I have the drivers (cat

SoundBlaster PCI64

1999-05-28 Thread p
Hi I have a new computer (the old one had commited suicide :)

Re: did windows kill my linux?

1999-05-28 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Send in the output of "fdisk -l" Brandon Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ: 30631197

Re: Debian Logo Vote & Debian Keyring?

1999-05-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 10:43:21 -0500, John Foster wrote: > I just read the Debian news section on the Web Site and came across the > vote posting for the Debian Logo. My question is: Is this vote for > Developers only? The vote system in general is for developers only. > The requirements for ba

X and nice values

1999-05-28 Thread Matthew Gregan
Greetings. I was reading somewhere recently that you should run X with a nice value of -10... I can't remember which document I saw this in now, I think it was one of the X setup HOWTOs. Well, I have a couple of questions: 1) Is this changing of the nice value considered a good idea? 2) If I

KDE uses another PATH

1999-05-28 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
I'm using KDE 1.1 on a debian slink. When I login in KDE I have another PATH then when I login in a console or another WindowManager. I don't know where to set the PATH that uses KDE. Any idea would be apreciated Lorenz > >

ipmasq package

1999-05-28 Thread Ries van Twisk
Hai, I have installed the IPMASQ package, and now I can ping myself. I now that this has something to do with the firewall rules, but I can find any documentation on how to use the IPMASQ package. I did do a man ipmasq, and looked in the /use/doc/ipmasq directory but I can't find any good examp

Re: xscreensaver and gnome

1999-05-28 Thread upp105
Dan Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently removed my xscreensaver 2.xx that comes with slink and installed > 3.12 from sources (I wanted sonar). Now, when I run 'xscreensaver-demo' and You seems to want xscreensaver_3.10-1_i386.deb (potato only maybe?); I can see sonar in my GNOME c

Re: Changed CDROM hdd to hdb

1999-05-28 Thread Barry Kauler
-> I changed the IDE cables in my PC and now the CDROM drive -> is at hdb (primary ide slave), and previously it was hdd -> (secondary IDE slave). -> I did this when I was messing around getting Win95 to install -> properly. -> -> Now, what file do I change in Debian Linux (Slink) to get Linux -

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 May 1999 14:52:04 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: >On Thu, 27 May 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: >> (1) Is the required format for such targets defined, exemplified, or >> documented anywhere? > >man sources.list ? There are several examples at the bottom and the exact >line syntax is given in th

[OT] Playing sound file over the modem

1999-05-28 Thread Philippe Andersson
Hi, Sorry for this off-topic post. Does any of you have an idea how I could implement the following scenario under Linux ? - have the modem dial some (voice) number - keep the line open even when answered by a human - then play some sound file (pre-recorded alert messages) over the modem line - e

Re: Making Makefiles

1999-05-28 Thread Martin Waller
This is good: ftp://ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu/pub/elef/autotools/toolsmanual.html I recommend it as it has a top introduction to autoconf (i.e. the configure.in stuff you're concerned about) It also covers plain makefile writing if you want to do it that way. Martin From: Dennis Schoen <[EMAIL

Re: please help - hdd activity control

1999-05-28 Thread L. Besselink
you could try looking at this new site: http://www.nl.linux.org/linuxperf/ this is where they mention what could be interresting to you: http://www.nl.linux.org/linuxperf/general/poa.html hope this helps. On Thu, 27 May 1999, Jarek Lewinski wrote: > > I am putting this message once again, si

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Mark Nellemann
Hi ! I have a G200 AGP that works fine with XFree 3.3.3, not as fast as with AccelX but still fine. It's not supported in XFree 3.3.2, so you have to use Potato or upgrade the XFree in slink as Alec wrote. Alec Smith wrote: > The PCI version ought to work... I would venture to guess the AGP v

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 28 May 1999 13:25:45 +1000 (EST), Tadeusz Bak wrote: >Sorry, its not Debian specific but I am a Debian user :-). I have found >that Matrox Millenium G200 is supported by latest XFree86 but I am not >sure what version -- AGP or PCI? Or maybe both? Any experience? Both versions are supporte

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 27 May 1999 23:50:11 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Oh the other hand.. Is the matrox card supported for 3D acceleration? I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of my knowledge this one doesn't use any "acceleration," like e.g. the S3 server.

desk jet 710C - drivers

1999-05-28 Thread IS ZG
Hi, My name is Margaret. I'm writing from Poland. Help me!!! My printer Desk Jet 710C doesn't print in DOS 6.22. I need this. Where can I find these drivers? Thank you very much

Re: netscape46 probs

1999-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You don't set any environment variable! You have probably not installed xpm (X Pixmap libraries for libc6 - runtime. Install xpm with dselect (search with /xpm, next search with \). Have you installed Netscape with the netscape4_4.0-15.deb (unstable version)? NOTE: You need to install glibc2.1 as

Re: What's the latest standalone Netscape w/128 encryption?

1999-05-28 Thread Brad
On Thu, 27 May 1999, John Foster wrote: > Brad wrote: > > > > Check out the fortify packages in non-US. Or, if they're not up to date > ___ > the fortify pkg in Slink does not work with ver 4.6; havent checked the > potato files yet. Did you read the line

Re: pdf: printing multiple pages on a single sheet - how?

1999-05-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 09:40:13PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 28 May 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > To reduce the amount of printing I must do, I want to print two A4 > > pages of a pdf document on a single A4 sheet --- or even better, reduce 4 > > A4 pages down so t

Re: XF86Setup segmentation fault

1999-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Extract from the text below (John Foster's comment): >I ran into the same problem except I got the main configuration console >screen but it does not work properly. I tried to make the selections for >my system and the buttons did not indicate which ones were selected. I >went thru the motions and

xscreensaver and gnome

1999-05-28 Thread Dan Brosemer
Hi, I hope I'm not asking a silly question that could be found out by reading the docs, but I have a weird situation. I recently removed my xscreensaver 2.xx that comes with slink and installed 3.12 from sources (I wanted sonar). Now, when I run 'xscreensaver-demo' and select a particular screens

Re: Replacing NT/Netware with Linux (LONG)

1999-05-28 Thread Adam Shand
> this is a machine that we would need to grow, obviously. what i want to > do is just bring one or two of the smaller labs up with it for testing. > With only two drives, i won't be able to RAID5 the thing as i was > hoping, but i thought i saw someplace where RAID5 isn't Linux's Very > Good Frie

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread ferret
I haven't had any problems with the 3.3.3.1 server with my G200 AGP, although Windows 98 had problems with it on the same hardware with Matrox's latest drivers. :> Oh the other hand.. Is the matrox card supported for 3D acceleration? And does anyone know of current 3D acceleration efforts in gene

Re: CD Burner

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On 27 May 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > "Christopher J. Morrone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Just to add to everybody's whining, I should say that I haven't been > > > able to get my CDR (Panasonic 7502 SCSI) working for about 6 weeks > > > now. Yes, Me Too (tm), I have to boot into Window

Cut & paste with gpm stopped working

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
The subject line says it all. I have recently upgraded my kernel to 2.2.7 and installed libncurses4. How can I get it to work again. Maybe it is related: when I try do do menuconfig in my kernel source tree, it fails complaining about some include files that is missing. That started happening a

Re: Did I destroy my CD-RW-disc?

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Could I please see the actual command you typed to blank the cd? > cdrecord speed=4 -dev=0,0 -v /f/image1.raw -multi Johann -- | Johann Spies Win

Re: Xfig: no Indicator Panel?

1999-05-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 May 1999, Lance Heller wrote: > I've used xfig under various linux releases and have not had the problem > you describe. However, if xfig is used on a small screen or with low > resolution, it will size itself to the screen and some bits of it may be > hidden. If this is what you're seeing,

netscape46 probs

1999-05-28 Thread Mark Bathie
Upon running netscape46 I get the error ./netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' ? what environment variable do i set ? Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.com

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Would it be posslbe to make apt recognize a complete, unplitted url, so long > as the .deb's and Packages file are all in a directory together and the > Filename: lines in the Packages file doesn't have a directory component? This just changes the problem,

dselect wants to remove everything! Stop!

1999-05-28 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Anyone know why, everything in dselect is set to uninstall? How do i reset the damn thing? I think debs are great, but having to use dsleect is just a nightmare. Thanks for any help! Brendon

Re: dist-upgrade not working...

1999-05-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Eric Bass wrote: > I don't know if I screwed something up or what, but the apt-get dist-upgrade > isn't working. Grab the latest APT (0.3.x) and use apt-get --ignore-hold dist-upgrade Jason

dist-upgrade not working...

1999-05-28 Thread Eric Bass
I don't know if I screwed something up or what, but the apt-get dist-upgrade isn't working. I believe I'm currently on 2.0 (still shows 2.0 on the login screen) Is there a better way of Checking your current dist? Wanting to upgrade to slink, or possible potatoe... Run apt-get update, then apt-ge

Re: What's the latest standalone Netscape w/128 encryption?

1999-05-28 Thread John Foster
Brad wrote: > > On 27 May 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > > > Subj? Was at netscape's site and it looks like 4.6 is only available > > with 56-bit encryption as a standalone browser. > > Check out the fortify packages in non-US. Or, if they're not up to date

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