Re: SV: OT: dual processor question

1999-06-07 Thread gla2
> I can't recall any ps/2 model being able to run a dual processor setup, > definitely not the old ones. What the other socket is for is most likely a > coprocessor, or FPU, which would speed things up a bit when running programs > that have the capability of using an FPU, like CAD/CAM applicatio

Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP]

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jun, rathon wrote about "Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP]" > Brian, > > There is no many of the xservers at this website, which is for the Matrox > Millennium AGP ?? > > Rathon. > > *- On 7 Jun, rathon wrote about "deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium

Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP]

1999-06-07 Thread Johnie Ingram
"rathon" == rathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rathon> deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ rathon> Brian, There is no many of the xservers at this website, rathon> which is for the Matrox Millennium AGP ?? xserver-svga_3.3.3.1-2_i386.deb netgod

Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP]

1999-06-07 Thread rathon
Brian, There is no many of the xservers at this website, which is for the Matrox Millennium AGP ?? Rathon. Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *- On 7 Jun, rathon wrote about "deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP" > Hi, > > Can you point me to the .deb version of the X-serve

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Steve Rennell
[linux via floppy?] > The problem is that I'm downloading on a Win95 machine...I don't think i > can get dpkg to work on this machine... I need to see if I can find a > utility that works on both 95 and linux (yeah right) I downloaded on a (separate) Win95 machine, pulled one of the (non ext) H

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that I'm downloading on a Win95 machine...I don't think i can > get dpkg to work on this machine... I need to see if I can find a utility > that works on both 95 and linux (yeah right) > > Colin Winters well, you _could_ use rar. but it´s shareware, yo

Re: cannot mount CD-ROM! - Pls help

1999-06-07 Thread David Teague
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Will Lowe wrote: > > But, now during boot, it does not detect the CD-ROM drive and as root I > > could not mount the drive either. I tried both these commands: > > > > % mount /dev/hdc /cdrom (I do have /cdrom as the mount point) > > or > > % mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mn

x11amp installation problems

1999-06-07 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
I have been trying to install x11amp for quite sometime now but I keep running into installation problems. I tried it with both the .deb package (from www.debian .org) as well as the source. I get the following error: Libc6 conflicts with apt. FYI: x11amp requires a newer version of libc6 but whe

Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jun, rathon wrote about "deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP" > Hi, > > Can you point me to the .deb version of the X-server for Matrox Millennium > G200 AGP. The Chip type is; MGA-G200 B8 R1 > > There is a version available in the xfree.org site, if a .deb pkg is not > a

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Morgoth3
The problem is that I killed Win95 completely...my system is linux only right now. Colin Winters

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-07 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 07:51:00AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> >> > I just freshly reinstalled ppp on one machine here. My >> > custom script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d does not work; it >> > doesn't appear t

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Morgoth3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is that I'm downloading on a Win95 machine...I don't > think i can get dpkg to work on this machine... I need to see if I > can find a utility that works on both 95 and linux (yeah right) Then try pkzip in Win95 and zip/unzip from the zip/unz

Re: cannot mount CD-ROM! - Pls help

1999-06-07 Thread Will Lowe
> But, now during boot, it does not detect the CD-ROM drive and as root I > could not mount the drive either. I tried both these commands: > > % mount /dev/hdc /cdrom (I do have /cdrom as the mount point) > or > % mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt Try mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc1 /cdrom

Re: Help: EtherNet Mentor

1999-06-07 Thread Gregory Wood
Andy Bottman wrote: > I am trying to set up a small ethernet network. > I am so far failing at step 1? > Trying to get my ethernet card recognized as a device (NE2000 Clone). > > I am looking for someone to guide me thru this process, I don't need my > handheld but need a little direction. I have

cannot mount CD-ROM! - Pls help

1999-06-07 Thread rathon
Hi, This is a second posting and sorry for that. I have installed Debian2.0 on a 486. During installation, it detects my CD-ROM drive as /dev/hdc and the installation went perfect. But, now during boot, it does not detect the CD-ROM drive and as root I could not mount the drive either. I tried b

Re: wterm

1999-06-07 Thread shaleh
> > yes, i'm missing ' WMaker.h' and 'WINGS.h'. where can i find these > libraries ? > Try libwings.

Re: Rights on shared directories

1999-06-07 Thread Gregory Wood
Brian Schramm wrote: > I am running Debian 2.1. > > I would like to set up a directory for all users logging into the Linux > box to have full rights to. I would like to have it set up so that all > the users can rw and when they save the file it will have the same group > permissions assign to i

deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP

1999-06-07 Thread rathon
Hi, Can you point me to the .deb version of the X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP. The Chip type is; MGA-G200 B8 R1 There is a version available in the xfree.org site, if a .deb pkg is not available, how do I install the oe from xfree.org ? Thanks, Syed. __

Re: wterm

1999-06-07 Thread Pedro M . A . Bastos
On Mon, 07 Jun 1999, Graham Ashton wrote: > > not sure, but it compiled fine for me on slink. what were the errors > (don't reply to me, I might not understand it, post it to the list). > > you're probably just missing some header files, or something. > > -- > Graham > > yes, i'm missing '

FWD: [svlug] Linus Torvalds at BALUG Debian Benefit on 6/15, RSVP ASAP.

1999-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
- Forwarded message from "Arthur F. Tyde III - Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:17:45 -0700 From: "Arthur F. Tyde III - Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Linuxcare Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.3.4 i586) To: svlug <[EMAIL PR

Re: Help: EtherNet Mentor

1999-06-07 Thread Robert Rati
Well, probably the easiest way is to check with the manufacturer. How old is the card? You can try doing a pnpdumpo and see if your card is detected. If not, it's probably not PNP. Another way to tell is to try doing a modprobe, but that would involve you compiling a kernel probably. I'm going

Re: Help: EtherNet Mentor

1999-06-07 Thread Andy Bottman
Thanks It is an ISA card. I do not know if it is PNP, is there a simple way to tell? >What type of card do you have? Is it PCI or ISA? If it's ISA, is it >PNP? We can probably get your card going. I am undertaking the same >project with a few more complications. Namely a PS/2 and MCA

Re: Netscape.ad ... solved

1999-06-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Hartmut Figge wrote: > > > ... should allow to customize communicator/netscape. > > > > a quick test in one of mine parallel-linuxes: > > "Open Page..." -> "Open the Page..." (search and replace, 2 occurences) > > gives the expected change in the F

vim printing stuff on startup

1999-06-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
every time i load vim (5.3, the latest .deb package) some of the contents of the /usr/share/vim/syntax/ directory are printed to stdout: SpecialKey term=bold ctermfg=9 guifg=Cyan NonTextterm=bold ctermfg=9 gui=bold guifg=Blue Directory term=bold ctermfg=11 guifg=Cyan ErrorM

Installing Bo Debian on a 386 2 meg RAM?

1999-06-07 Thread Francois-Nicola Demers
Hi, I have tried to install the Debian Bo distribution on my 386 with only 2 megs of RAM without success. Some people told me that they have been able to install it even if the machine does not have the 4 meg of RAM required. I have not been able to boot because the installation stopped saying t

Re: Fetchmail

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jun, Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote about "Fetchmail" > Hi, > > I am trying to create a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that will run fetchmail > to download my mail automatically. I can run it manually using me > .fetchmailrc > file but the I can't seem to get the script working corre

RE: A couple of questions.

1999-06-07 Thread Person, Roderick
WMPrefs has a sections that allows you to modifiy the key bindings Rod > -Original Message- > From: Monte Copeland [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 3:02 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: A couple of questions. > > 2. When using Netscape Com

Re: A couple of questions.

1999-06-07 Thread Brad
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Monte Copeland wrote: > I have a couple of unrelated questions to ask about X11. > > 1. What is the name of the program that allows one to take a snapshot of > your desk top. I have used it before but I can not remember the name. I am > trying to > convince a potential con

Re: Help: EtherNet Mentor

1999-06-07 Thread Robert Rati
What type of card do you have? Is it PCI or ISA? If it's ISA, is it PNP? We can probably get your card going. I am undertaking the same project with a few more complications. Namely a PS/2 and MCA bus. Rob On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, An

Re: Help: EtherNet Mentor

1999-06-07 Thread Will Lowe
> I am so far failing at step 1? > Trying to get my ethernet card recognized as a device (NE2000 Clone). Well, what hasn't worked? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: exim receives mail, but won't send it to smarthost

1999-06-07 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 01:46:00AM -0600, David Karlin wrote > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of George Bonser > > Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 12:13 PM > > To: David Karlin > > Cc: Debian User > > Subject: Re: exim receives mail, b

Help: EtherNet Mentor

1999-06-07 Thread Andy Bottman
I am trying to set up a small ethernet network. I am so far failing at step 1? Trying to get my ethernet card recognized as a device (NE2000 Clone). I am looking for someone to guide me thru this process, I don't need my handheld but need a little direction. I have been putzin around with the how

A couple of questions.

1999-06-07 Thread Monte Copeland
I have a couple of unrelated questions to ask about X11. 1. What is the name of the program that allows one to take a snapshot of your desk top. I have used it before but I can not remember the name. I am trying to convince a potential convert to switch from windoze, but I need some jpeg pics

Unidentified subject!

1999-06-07 Thread peterjm
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Re: OT: dual processor question

1999-06-07 Thread Rene H. Larsen
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got three old IBM PS/2 #70s. There looks to be an extra socket for > a processor on the motherboard. I don't know if it would really help to > speed up the system or not as they only have 4 MB of RAM, or even if it > would work. I was thinking about trying

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Rights on shared directories

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Schramm
I am running Debian 2.1. I would like to set up a directory for all users logging into the Linux box to have full rights to. I would like to have it set up so that all the users can rw and when they save the file it will have the same group permissions assign to it as it did when I first created

PCMCIA and NFS

1999-06-07 Thread Alec Smith
Is there a way to go about making NFS connections (automatically) after the card manager is started for PCMCIA network adapters? I'd like to avoid having to do a mount -a as root before I can start working. Configuration is basically a complete Potato install.

Re: Fetchmail

1999-06-07 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 05:01:49PM +0100, Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that will run fetchmail > to download my mail automatically. I can run it manually using me > .fetchmailrc > file but the I can't seem to get the script wo

Problem with RAID

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Schramm
I would like to know how I can install Debian on this machine: DEC HX 6000 server 128 Meg ram Adaptec 2940 running the CD-ROM Mylex DAC960 Raid controller with all the hard drives on it DEC 21x4 network card single CPU I have tried Redhat, Caldera and Debian on this system to no avail. Any i

Fetchmail

1999-06-07 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329
Hi, I am trying to create a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that will run fetchmail to download my mail automatically. I can run it manually using me .fetchmailrc file but the I can't seem to get the script working correctly. Any ideas. Also as I have more than on email address but they all end up i

Re: pack/compress?

1999-06-07 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Jun 7, 1999, Jonathan P Tomer wrote: > it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the > pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly > obsoleted by gzip, especially as gunzip will read .z and .Z files, they > still are mildly useful. am i

Re: wterm

1999-06-07 Thread Graham Ashton
On Monday 07 June, Pedro Bastos wrote: > hello everybody :) where can i find wterm in .deb format ? > cause i tried to install it in .tar.gz format, and the compile process > just failed. not sure, but it compiled fine for me on slink. what were the errors (don't reply to me, I might not under

Re: pack/compress?

1999-06-07 Thread Will Lowe
> it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the > pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly I think lzw is still under copyright, which means that it's illegal to distribute them without a copyright license.

Re: problem with libgnomeui32 1.0.9-3

1999-06-07 Thread Luis M. Garcia
""Raphaël\"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: > > I have d/l gnome-apt with apt-get and it of course has d/l and installed > some others package like libgnomeui32. But now, every gnome application > tells me: > gnp: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: undefin

Re: PPP problem

1999-06-07 Thread John Hasler
ktb writes: > I'm thinking the modem is just bad. Sounds likely. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not sen

pack/compress?

1999-06-07 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
(please cc: replies to me, i am not on this list) it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly obsoleted by gzip, especially as gunzip will read .z and .Z files, they still are mildly useful. am i bl

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-07 Thread Marc Mongeon
> > I just freshly reinstalled ppp on one machine here. My > custom script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d does not work; it > doesn't appear to run. I tested it form the command > line with the named parameters and it worked. Here it is: > > #!/bin/sh > # This script is called with the following arguments: >

Re: X fonts.

1999-06-07 Thread Angus Claydon
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: Can anyone tell me how to make > the Chinese fonts available in X? I have the following fonts in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc > etl14-sisheng.pcf.gz AFAIK alias.dir and alias.fonts are updated automatically by intlfonts* but I'm pretty sure emacs

Re: PPP problem

1999-06-07 Thread Keith G. Murphy
ktb wrote: > > I've installed Hamm on an old 486 via floppy and I'm trying to get a > connection to the net. I installed a new modem Zoom 56k model 2819A. I > ran pppconfig. When I try to dial out this is what /var/log/ppp.log > says: > > Jun 6 09:40:50 www pppd[222]: pppd 2.3.5 started by ro

re: Efax: can't rename lockfile ...

1999-06-07 Thread Bill Wilson
> efax: 01:09 Warning: local ID (0331-461310) has non-standard characters > efax: 01:09 removed stale lock /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1 from pid 1249 > efax: 01:09 Error: can't rename lock file TMP..01274 to : No such file or I believe there is a bug in efax. After I discovered this, I got sidetracted an

sshd stops working upon using 2.2 kernel

1999-06-07 Thread Chris Frost
I just upgarded a sparc running slink to a 2.2.9 kernel (with pty's enabled) and now sshd has stopped working. When you try to ssh from another box to it you simply sit there. ssh'ing from the box back to itself yields the warning "Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty." (

Re: ssh1.27-1 won't forward X11

1999-06-07 Thread Brad
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Since I upgraded ssh from 1.26 to 1.27-1 on potato, ssh won't forward > X11 connection anymore!! I have to downgraded back to 1.26 > > I think this is a problem with the package. I'm using ssh version 1.2.27-1.1 (haven't seen version 1.27-1 around a

wterm

1999-06-07 Thread Pedro Bastos
hello everybody :) where can i find wterm in .deb format ? cause i tried to install it in .tar.gz format, and the compile process just failed. thank you'

SV: OT: dual processor question

1999-06-07 Thread vw
Hi. I can't recall any ps/2 model being able to run a dual processor setup, definitely not the old ones. What the other socket is for is most likely a coprocessor, or FPU, which would speed things up a bit when running programs that have the capability of using an FPU, like CAD/CAM applications, so

Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as "root"

1999-06-07 Thread Marc Mongeon
Add the user to one or more of these groups: dialout, cdrom, floppy, sudo, (et cetera, see /etc/group). It won't make the user exactly root-like, but it's a start. Better to add more privileges as you see the need, rather than give blanket root privileges to another account, which kind of defeat

Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as "root"

1999-06-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How do I change from user to root when Linux by default asks for my "user" >password on startup? root is another username, that happens to have special privileges. To log in as root, use the name `root' when you are asked to log in, and then give the password that yo

Re: PCMCIA modules & kernel compiles

1999-06-07 Thread shaleh
> > I installed slink on my laptop, and compiled my kernel with > everything I need. Now when I try loading my PCMCIA netcard, I > get some unresolved symbols. I compiled the ne.o net driver as a > module, and that reduced the number of symbols not found, but are > still complaining about 2 fu

Re: problem with libgnomeui32 1.0.9-3

1999-06-07 Thread Dennis Schoen
""Raphaël\"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: > > I have d/l gnome-apt with apt-get and it of course has d/l and installed > some others package like libgnomeui32. But now, every gnome application > tells me: > gnp: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: undefine

PCMCIA modules & kernel compiles

1999-06-07 Thread Jack Versfeld
I installed slink on my laptop, and compiled my kernel with everything I need. Now when I try loading my PCMCIA netcard, I get some unresolved symbols. I compiled the ne.o net driver as a module, and that reduced the number of symbols not found, but are still complaining about 2 functions it ca

Using disks > 8GB

1999-06-07 Thread Lance Heller
I've recently installed a Maxtor 90845D4 8.4GB EIDE disk as the second disk in an old standby intel slink system I use. I've run into 2 problems: 1. The system does not see past 8GB. This is not a big deal but it would be nice to access the complete disk. How can this be done?? 2.

Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as "root"

1999-06-07 Thread ktb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Debians > I'm a newbie; just managed to boot my 486/66 (28 ram, 540 WD HD) onto Linux > late last night, and all seems to be well and good, only I can't install > anything. Dselect won't let me choose the access method to use (I'm > installing from the dos-partition

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Morgoth3
In a message dated 6/7/99 9:11:44 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This may or may not help you but I just ran across it in "debian-faq-8" > > > dpkg-split > > This program splits large package into smaller files (e.g., for writing > onto a set of floppy disks), an

Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as "root"

1999-06-07 Thread Arcady Genkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How do I change from user to root when Linux by default asks for my "user" > password on startup? You enter "root" for user, and root's password. Or, once you're logged in as a regular user, type "su" and you'll be prompted for the root password. -- Arcady Genkin ".

Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as "root"

1999-06-07 Thread Morgoth3
When you first set up your computer, you had to put in a password. To access this account, type "su". Then just type the password. This will give you full access to everything. Alternatively, you can log in as "root" and your password. Hope this helps Colin Winters

Re: OT: dual processor question

1999-06-07 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Is it true that two Pentium II 400 have to have a same number of some kind they should have the same stepping and that is Intel recomendation... to use them in dual mode. I'd intended to buy a dual board and add a new proc. to my 400 but someone told me that wouldn't work OK

Re: problem booting linux

1999-06-07 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Arjen wrote: > > I have some problems booting linux (Redhat 5.2). > Every time i boot Linux, that hda5 wasn't unmounted cleanly. > I believe he scans the harddisk than, but that gives a error, after which i > must give my root-password, or press Ctrl-d. > When i press Ctrl-d he shuts down, and if

smail problem

1999-06-07 Thread Administrator
I've a linux server with debian 1.3 and smail 3.2-3, when I'm trying to put in smail config the parameter: smtp_remote_allow=[IP range] the server respond that the comand smtp_remote_allow is unknown. Help Me!!!

Re: OT: dual processor question

1999-06-07 Thread ktb
I've got three old IBM PS/2 #70s. There looks to be an extra socket for a processor on the motherboard. I don't know if it would really help to speed up the system or not as they only have 4 MB of RAM, or even if it would work. I was thinking about trying to add a processor to one of the compute

Re: ssh1.27-1 won't forward X11

1999-06-07 Thread Paul
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 10:04:03PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan produced the following: > Since I upgraded ssh from 1.26 to 1.27-1 on potato, ssh won't forward > X11 connection anymore!! I have to downgraded back to 1.26 > > I think this is a problem with the package. Try to compile it from the sour

Newbie trouble: How to log on as "root"

1999-06-07 Thread vw
Hi Debians I'm a newbie; just managed to boot my 486/66 (28 ram, 540 WD HD) onto Linux late last night, and all seems to be well and good, only I can't install anything. Dselect won't let me choose the access method to use (I'm installing from the dos-partition, because the computer isn't connected

Re: International Business Opportunities

1999-06-07 Thread Brad
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > > > i certainly hope it is! You'd have to ask the mailing list maintainer to > > find out for sure... > > What's the maintainer's address? After about 10 seconds of looking on the Debian website, i found this on

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-07 Thread shaleh
> > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I just freshly reinstalled ppp on one machine here. My > > custom script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d does not work; it > > doesn't appear to run. I tested it form the command > > Isn't your filename wrong? > No, ip-up.d is a directory where you can p

X server for SiS

1999-06-07 Thread Jack Versfeld
I've got a SiS on-board video card using shared memory. When I try to run the X servers, everything starts to go wrong. I've tried running both the XFree86-SVGA and the XFree86-VGA16 servers, but neither works at all. The computer crashes entirely when I start up the SVGA server, but the VGA16

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-07 Thread shaleh
> > I just freshly reinstalled ppp on one machine here. My > custom script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d does not work; it > doesn't appear to run. I tested it form the command > line with the named parameters and it worked. Here it is: > Trying adding some echo >> file lines to see if and where it dies.

Re: OT: dual processor question

1999-06-07 Thread Robert Rati
Yes this is true, to some extent. YOu have to have two processors with the same stepping and revision in order to dual-proc them. I have heard though, that you can have two processors of different stepping and revision numbers and still multi-proc them, but your performance may suffer a little.

off topic

1999-06-07 Thread Bob Bernstein
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99jun/xuf000725.gif -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA --==++*++==-- "RMS's "curmudgeon-like" griping that he didn't like the term "Open Source" looked silly to many last year; it's not lookin

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 07:51:00AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I just freshly reinstalled ppp on one machine here. My > > custom script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d does not work; it > > doesn't appear to run. I tested it form the command > > Isn't your f

Re: Bigbrother question

1999-06-07 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hey Christian, I'm sure that you will find some BB users here, but if you send Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message line "subscribe bb (your e-mail address)" without the quotes you will be added to the bb mailing list and get all kinds of info on setting up Big Brother. You may also want t

KDE packages for slink

1999-06-07 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Last week, I was able to download slink KDE packages via this /etc/apt/sources.list line: deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian slink rkrusty However, snowcrash.tdyc.com no longer seems to be responding. And I tried downloading the .deb's from one of the KDE FTP mirrors, but dpkg gave me error mes

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I just freshly reinstalled ppp on one machine here. My > custom script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d does not work; it > doesn't appear to run. I tested it form the command Isn't your filename wrong? /etc/ppp/ip-up A program or scri

Re: Configuring Zip Drive

1999-06-07 Thread Adilson dos Santos Dantas
> On 06 Jun 1999, Adilson dos Santos Dantas wrote: > > Hi! > > > > How can I give Zip Drive support in Linux 2.2.9. When I used monkey > > (kernel 2.0.30), I can load the Zip Drive module using a script that > > unload the printer , load Zip and mount it and another that umount the > > Zip and res

my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I just freshly reinstalled ppp on one machine here. My custom script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d does not work; it doesn't appear to run. I tested it form the command line with the named parameters and it worked. Here it is: #!/bin/sh # This script is called with the following arguments: #Arg Name

communicator/mailfilter/imapserver

1999-06-07 Thread Gerhard Kroder
need some help with not propperly working mailfilters... i' using netscapes for quite a while. since i recieve a lot of email i've set up some mailfilters in netscapes (currently 4.6 messenger, static motif), which used to work quite well on previus used pop-server. recently i switched from an pop

ssh1.27-1 won't forward X11

1999-06-07 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Since I upgraded ssh from 1.26 to 1.27-1 on potato, ssh won't forward X11 connection anymore!! I have to downgraded back to 1.26 I think this is a problem with the package. Chanop

Re: Trying to configure PPP

1999-06-07 Thread John Hasler
Christensen writes: > I wonder if I have a modem that's not supported by Linux. After > configuring PPP Did you use pppconfig? > /usr/sbin/pppd: in file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option > '/dev/modem' > "Couldn't establish connection" As distributed the ppp package includes a dumm

Re: PPP problem

1999-06-07 Thread ktb
John Hasler wrote: > > ktb writes: > > Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: _K^M > > ... > > : C^?NNECT 115200^M > > : _e|c^?^?e t^? I~ter~ut ^ubra^?^?a^M > > What UART does this machine have on the modem port? If it is not a 16550 > you should not accept pppconfig's default speed of 1

OT: dual processor question

1999-06-07 Thread Christian Pernegger
Is it true that two Pentium II 400 have to have a same number of some kind to use them in dual mode. I'd intended to buy a dual board and add a new proc. to my 400 but someone told me that wouldn't work Comments appreciated tia Christian > -Original Message- > From: D'jinnie [mailt

Mouse without gpmconfig?

1999-06-07 Thread ktb
I've been looking in the archives and can't find an answer. I have Hamm base installed on an old 486 with only an 80 MB HD. I would like to get the mouse working but don't know if I can without gpm. This is a console only machine. The mouse I have is a 9 pin serial. It has three buttons and ha

Re: Mirroring the distributions

1999-06-07 Thread eric a. Farris
An excellent discussion of mirroring, along with several scripts, can be found at http://www.debian.org/mirror/ . On 7 Jun, Paul Sargent wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to set up a site mirror (i.e. one to be used just on this site) of > the stable and unstable distributions. Does anybody have any

apt problem

1999-06-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a potato system here at school that I cant upgrade anymore. When I use apt+dselect and go to install option dselect stops at line: Correcting dependencies... and dont go away. What is wrong? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Mirroring the distributions

1999-06-07 Thread Paul Sargent
Hi all, I want to set up a site mirror (i.e. one to be used just on this site) of the stable and unstable distributions. Does anybody have any suggestions on a nice way of doing this. Does apt have any options for doing this type of task? Is it practical to have it mirroring from several sites, so

Re: Configuring Zip Drive

1999-06-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Jun 1999, Adilson dos Santos Dantas wrote: > Hi! > > How can I give Zip Drive support in Linux 2.2.9. When I used monkey > (kernel 2.0.30), I can load the Zip Drive module using a script that > unload the printer , load Zip and mount it and another that umount the > Zip and restoure the prin

Re: International Business Opportunities

1999-06-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > i certainly hope it is! You'd have to ask the mailing list maintainer to > find out for sure... What's the maintainer's address? Sincerely, Ray Ingles(248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technically, Windows is an operating system, which means

Re: Module screwups after kernel build

1999-06-07 Thread Andreas Voegele
Installing a new kernel is much easier if your are using the "kernel-package". Example: $ su # cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig # make-kpkg clean # make-kpkg --revision `hostname`.1 kernel_image # dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.0.36_`hostname`.1_i386.deb

RE: exim receives mail, but won't send it to smarthost

1999-06-07 Thread David Karlin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of George Bonser > Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 12:13 PM > To: David Karlin > Cc: Debian User > Subject: Re: exim receives mail, but won't send it to smarthost > > > > You are going to have to provide the reas

linux boot troubles

1999-06-07 Thread Ming Hsu
Hi all, have some problems with Linux boot up. It all started when I was having major problems in Windows and had to reinstall Windows. Afterwards, windows kind of took over lilo and wouldn't show the lilo prompt after I hold down the key anymore. This has happened before, and I would just boot

Linux on SUN IPX

1999-06-07 Thread Michel DUPIOL
I would like you to use Debian Linux 2.1 on my old SUN IPX. If somebody know if it is possible. Thank's to let me know. Friendly. Michel DUPIOL.

Linux on SUN IPX

1999-06-07 Thread Michel DUPIOL
I would like you to use Debian Linux 2.1 on my old SUN IPX. If somebody know if it is possible. Thank's to let me know. Friendly. Michel DUPIOL.

Re: fetchmail won't work in slink

1999-06-07 Thread Konstantin Kivi
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 06:39:50PM -0500, Jason Loll wrote: > reading message 1 of 5 (1922 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like > recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > fetchmail: can't even send to postmaster! > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.cpinternet.com >

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