Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-24 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Gentleman Loser wrote: > I got a CD with the Debian realease(a cd from the Boot Magazine's > suplementary CD). > > I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive > with linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri > files, my webpage, and rea

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
> floppy. The only thing i can think of is keeping them on the second > drive while the first drive makes the conversion to linux, then im > hoping that in linux i can still access the non-linux second drive, Sure. Linux can read disk drives that have been formatted under Windows, no problem. >

I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-24 Thread Gentleman Loser
I got a CD with the Debian realease(a cd from the Boot Magazine's suplementary CD).   I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive with linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri files, my webpage, and real audio files.  If you could only tell me one thi

Re: Name of "Select and Install Profiles" program?

1999-06-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "KS" == Kevin Septor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KS> program pops up allowing you to choose between tasks or profiles KS> and it then passes that info on to dselct so that you don't have KS> to tool around with 2000+ plus packages on your own. KS> Well I seemed to of blown by that screen (aga

[Offtopic] Potato packages reach critical mass

1999-06-24 Thread The Nose Who Knows
Howdy all, # apt-get update Get:1 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main Packages [666kB] ^^^ Looks like the potato Packages file has just reached critical mass. What otherworldly beasts will spring forth from it? \ `\ _o__) BIGNOSE

Re: Dual CPU

1999-06-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jun-99 Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Then explain why xosview version 1.7.1 on potato > reports the activity of both CPUs. > Because people are always getting better at breaking the rules (-:

Re: Dual CPU

1999-06-24 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Then explain why xosview version 1.7.1 on potato reports the activity of both CPUs. Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 24-Jun-99 Marcus Johansson wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > We have a HP-UX box with dual cpu's, and the 'top' program shows the status > > of > > both cpu's, and even which cpu the pr

RE: Dual CPU

1999-06-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jun-99 Marcus Johansson wrote: > > Hi! > > We have a HP-UX box with dual cpu's, and the 'top' program shows the status > of > both cpu's, and even which cpu the processes are running on. Will the top > (the > GNU variant I guess) distributed with Debian 2.1 show anything like that? If >

Re: X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP

1999-06-24 Thread Seth M. Landsman
According to the attached x.log, you are running the xserver from 3.3.2, which does not support the Matrox G200 AGP card. You need to use the XSVGA server from 3.3.3. -Seth -- "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion"

Can't log in - Help!

1999-06-24 Thread David Densmore
When I try to login to my normal user account I get this message: Unable to cd to "/home/dden" I can still log in as root, but I don't know how to fix the problem. I used the adduser command to create a new account and couldn't get into that one either. Right before this happened I logged in as

X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP

1999-06-24 Thread rathon
Hello, I never got a response for this request. Sorry for re-posting one more time. Rathon. Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 --- Begin Message --- Hi, I installed the Xserver for this Mat

IMAP - Problem creating new folders

1999-06-24 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm getting my mail from a PC running Debian 2.1 and the imap 4.4-4 daemon. In Netscape, my mail reader, the debian PC shows up as a mail server with an Inbox and I have no problems reading my messages. But I want to create some mail folders under the Debian PC (by right-clicking on it and

kppp error

1999-06-24 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hi, I can't connect anymore with kppp I logged out while I was connected and kppp was running. After I logged in kppp didn't work anymore. Sorry can't open modem, kppp say's As root kppp still works, because when I logged out I was user. So I think there must be something changed in my home direc

Sender rejected..

1999-06-24 Thread Attila Csosz
I send my messages directly from my linux box not through a smarthost. So in my mail header appears a string [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Return-Path or Sender header line. My messages from some address are rejected with the following error message: 'Sender rejected' or 'Sender must exist'. I understand

named.local

1999-06-24 Thread Attila Csosz
I'd like to refer to my computer not only as localhost but mycomputer.mydomain.com also. I've installed the bind package because of some reasons. I'd like to solve this with it. I studied it the named.local file seems to be good to do that. How could I do that? Thanks Attila -- -

Re: 3C905B 10/100 card "falls back" to 10MB

1999-06-24 Thread Max
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently had to move a system from a 10MB ethernet segment to a > 100MB segment. I edited "/etc/init.d/network" to re-assign the IP > parameters and that worked just fine, but I can't seem to get the card > (a 3Com 3c905B 10/100) to run at 100MB. During system bo

Name of "Select and Install Profiles" program?

1999-06-24 Thread Kevin Septor
Hi. When booting to debian for the first time after adding a normal user, shadowing passwords, and removing pcmcia a nice ncurse based program pops up allowing you to choose between tasks or profiles and it then passes that info on to dselect so that you don't have to tool around with 2000+ plus p

Re: Amanda tape definitions

1999-06-24 Thread Max
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My backup saga continues. I'm now trying to use amanda but i'm not sure > that i have de definitions of tape correctly. > > /proc/scsi/scsi says this: > Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.26 > Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 0

Re: What is xpm.h?

1999-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
> I'm trying to compile some WindowMaker applets and they all complain that > they are unable to find X11/xpm.h. Obviously, I'm missing some .deb - which > one? hit http://packages.debian.org and search for "xpm.h" with the "Search the Contents of the Current Release" option.

Re: What is xpm.h?

1999-06-24 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Mark Wright wrote: > > I'm trying to compile some WindowMaker applets and they all complain that > they are unable to find X11/xpm.h. Obviously, I'm missing some .deb - which > one? > > --- > Mark Wright > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL P

What is xpm.h?

1999-06-24 Thread Mark Wright
I'm trying to compile some WindowMaker applets and they all complain that they are unable to find X11/xpm.h. Obviously, I'm missing some .deb - which one? --- Mark Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

syslogd: sendto: Operation not permitted

1999-06-24 Thread Thomas Voss
Hello, I recently discovered some oddness with syslogd when logging entries are to be broadcasted to another syslogd. Sometimes, syslogd just states 'sendto: Operation not permitted', and the following messages are not being broadcasted to the central syslogd. I have the strange feeling that this

Re: MP3 --> WAV

1999-06-24 Thread eric a. Farris
On 24 Jun, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > Does anybody know of an app that decodes MP3 to WAV or AU? All *nixes excel at providing little tools that, when used together, can replace a lot of stand-alone tools on other platforms. if you have mpg123 and sox (both available as debian packages), you

Re: Configuring ppp

1999-06-24 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
I'm sorry. Yes I am running pppd. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_ Isabelle Poueriet \_ \_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \_ \_ http://www.bway.net \_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Q. How many Microsoft Engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A. None. They declare "darkness", the standard. On 24 Jun

Re: StarOffice5.1 and glibc libraries

1999-06-24 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I am using slink. Star Office 5.1 requires libc-2.0.7.so > ( which I find is included in slink ) and libthread-0.7.so > ( glibc-2.0.7-7-7.i386.rpm) which I am unable to find. > Could somebody suggest where I could find the required > .deb? libpt

StarOffice5.1 and glibc libraries

1999-06-24 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I am using slink. Star Office 5.1 requires libc-2.0.7.so ( which I find is included in slink ) and libthread-0.7.so ( glibc-2.0.7-7-7.i386.rpm) which I am unable to find. Could somebody suggest where I could find the required .deb? Thanks. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northe

kernel woes

1999-06-24 Thread jason
I'm trying to get a 2.2.10 kernel going on my slink box.. it's dual proc pent 200's .. the kernel is big all static.. so I bzipped it.. and it just kinda freezes.. anyone on how to get kmod working so that I can cut the size of this kernel down? does kmod use the same configs as kerneld?? or

Re: Configuring ppp

1999-06-24 Thread John Hasler
Isabelle Poueriet writes: > "" ATZ\R ^^^ chat is case sensitive: '\R' does not mean the same thing as '\r'. Besides, you don't need a '\r' here anyway. > nameserer IP address Misspelling 'nameserver' won't keep you from connecting, but it will make it hard to surf the net. Al

Re: oops.... I screwed up wmnet and want it back

1999-06-24 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Aaron Solochek wrote: > > I was messing around trying to get wmnet to load with x, so I put it in > .xinitrc. First of all, is this the place to put things like this? > Even if its not, thats where it went, but instead of of gicing me the > outline for manual placement like it did when loaded man

oops.... I screwed up wmnet and want it back

1999-06-24 Thread Aaron Solochek
I was messing around trying to get wmnet to load with x, so I put it in .xinitrc. First of all, is this the place to put things like this? Even if its not, thats where it went, but instead of of gicing me the outline for manual placement like it did when loaded manually, and then jumping to the lo

Re: updating clock automagically with crontab

1999-06-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
Never mind...I got it ;) BTW, what I posted previously didn't work. -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-24 Thread Greg Starkes
Brad wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Greg Starkes wrote: > > > Will Lowe wrote: > > > > > > > I'll assume you are talking about the app icons. Except modifying the > > > > attributes for every app to not show an app icon, you cannot get rid off > > > > them. Here's what I do to at least make it `

enough already: xaw-wrappers is fixed

1999-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Xaw-wrappers version 1.02 in Incoming fixes the little syntax error that made it failt ot install. I have closed a total of 12 bug reports on this subject. Stop sending them. -- see shy jo

Re: Matrox MGA-G100 and upgrading X ...

1999-06-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "pa" == per adua32 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pa> I thought I'd install the X window server today, but it seems that pa> the version of X that came with my debian cd does not support my pa> videocard (Matrox MGA-G100). You can get a newer version from ftp.netgod.net/x Ciao, Martin

Re: crystal sound on dell

1999-06-24 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I have a Dell with crystal sound running OK. I used pnpdump -c to create the /etc/isapnp.conf file but when running isapnp the system complained about not finding an IRQ for the MPU. I then changed the line in isapnp.conf reading (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING

Re: hostname lookup failure

1999-06-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
tf wrote: > > hey all > > running eximconfig, and also startx, results in a hostname lookup failure. > Can someone give me a hint? > -t > First place I'd look is the /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts files. They should have something along these lines: /etc/hostname: myhostname /etc/hosts: 127.0

Re: Configuring ppp

1999-06-24 Thread John Hasler
Marc Mongeon writes: > My experience has been that modems usually ship with a factory default of > 57600. In my experience all modems autodetect the speed of the pc-modem link. > it's pointless, considering you'll never get that kind of end-to-end > throughput anyway. 56k modems often achieve ef

Name of "Select and Install Profiles" program?

1999-06-24 Thread Kevin Septor
Hi. When booting to debian for the first time after adding a normal user, shadowing passwords, and removing pcmcia a nice ncurse based program pops up allowing you to choose between tasks or profiles and it then passes that info on to dselct so that you don't have to tool around with 2000+ plus pa

Re: Support/Help software database

1999-06-24 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 10:05:22AM -0500, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > Good day :-) > Some of the fellow techs I'm working with at an ISP have been working on a > support/help document. They basically wish to put together a rather large > document and then perhaps put it on a CD with their regular

Re: MP3 --> WAV

1999-06-24 Thread Remco van 't Veer
The following will create "a.wav" from "a.mp3". mpg123 -s a.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -w -s -c 2 - a.wav On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 20:50, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > Does anybody know of an app that decodes MP3 to WAV or AU? -- Echelon Saddam Hussein RAF stealth Rule Psix Clinton RSA Zimm

Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0700, did George Bonser write: >> Your EHLO is broken. That host probably requires a fully qualified domain >> name. www. >> >> Just www will probably not work. This is LIKELY due to your /etc/hosts >> being incorrect. >> "SC" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <

Re: POP3 server

1999-06-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Varga Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >don't use qpopper version <2.51 since it has security holes in it. > >there is a qpopper 2.3 debian package in stable, contact the maintainer to >know whether it has fixes to close the sechole, if it is not fixed, then >try t

Dual CPU

1999-06-24 Thread Marcus Johansson
Hi! We have a HP-UX box with dual cpu's, and the 'top' program shows the status of both cpu's, and even which cpu the processes are running on. Will the top (the GNU variant I guess) distributed with Debian 2.1 show anything like that? If I have dual cpu's that is... Or could I recompile top w

Re: Plug-n-Play Modem

1999-06-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Has anyone successfully gotten a PNP modem to work with Debian? I installed > an older Hayes 33.6 PNP modem in my Linux machine. I have it set up to where > it dials and connects but then it just sits there. I have all the info for > the initialization > string and it worked well under Window

knews - can't post

1999-06-24 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I installed the knews package on my potato box. I am not able to create posts though. When I try I get this error message: "ex/vi: "Vi's standard input and output must be a terrminal" What can I do to fix this? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL

Re: Flushing the slink question cache

1999-06-24 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 10:27:41PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello! > > I've come up with a bunch of practical questions around the Debian Slink > distribution: Hello, I'll try to answer a few of them: > 2) /cdrom isn't given an entry in /etc/passwd after a fresh install, > even if it ha

MP3 --> WAV

1999-06-24 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Does anybody know of an app that decodes MP3 to WAV or AU?

Re: Debian not talking to network

1999-06-24 Thread Marc Mongeon
Robert: ping the debian box's IP address from the debian box to verify that the Ethernet interface is working. If it is, look at routing: "netstat -r". You should have a static route for the local network and a default route to the router. If it is not, use "ifconfig", to see whether the inter

Re: WindowMaker and GNOME

1999-06-24 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Thanks for the suggestion. I installed libwraster2, but I still can't switch to WindowMaker within GNOME. When I try, the following shows up in my .xsession-errors file: in capplet_widget_state_changed changing state X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). 111858

Re: Configuring ppp

1999-06-24 Thread Marc Mongeon
Isabelle: For modem speed, use the speed that the modem uses to talk to the computer, not the speed it uses to talk to another modem. My understanding is that for old modems, this was the same thing, but with new ones (anything since 14.4Kbps became standard, probably), the PC-modem speeds remains

silly printer problem

1999-06-24 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi, I have a printer problem which must be absolutely simple but have tried everything I can think - this is now desperation! I'm using magicfilter etc. My printer (a laserjet 4) works fine - except that it doesn't flush the last page of a set, so that the next thing I print gets its first page p

Re: netscape fonts

1999-06-24 Thread Didi Damian
Joel Keating wrote: > > Ok i changed the lines in font server to use 100 dpi and i start the > xserver with the --dpi 100 switch. I've dloaded the .deb of xfstt and > it is running. I copied all my .ttf fonts from windows to my ttffonts > dir in linux. What is the line i need to add to XF86Conf

Re: info su linux per ppc

1999-06-24 Thread Peter Makholm
"Salvatore Comito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sono molto interessato a Linux. Posseggo un apple Performa 6400 (ppc 603e) e > vorrei sapere se esiste una vostra distribuzione per questo computer ed Please use: debian-italian@lists.debian.org You probally also want to read: http://www.debian

Re: crystal sound on dell

1999-06-24 Thread scratch
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Joel Keating wrote: > I have a del xps R400 system that has onboard crystal sound system. > I have not sucessfully installed a driver that works with my sound > card. Does anyone have any success with the sound system and any > kernel? Thanks for any help. I'm using a cr

Instalacion de Debian 2.0

1999-06-24 Thread Alberto Pesquera Martin
La Distribucion es Debian 2.0 de la Revista Linux Actual Mi Problema es el Siguiente: Ejecuto el Programa de Instalacion y cuando voy ha instalar el Nucleo del Kernel me pide el Soporte desde donde lo instalo. Le señalo el CD-ROM y (como tengo una Tarjeta Controladora propia de este) le dig

Instalacion de Debian 2.0

1999-06-24 Thread Alberto Pesquera Martin
La Distribucion es Debian 2.0 de la Revista Linux Actual Mi Problema es el Siguiente: Ejecuto el Programa de Instalacion y cuando voy ha instalar el Nucleo del Kernel me pide el Soporte desde donde lo instalo. Le señalo el CD-ROM y (como tengo una Tarjeta Controladora propia de este) le dig

Re: netscape fonts

1999-06-24 Thread scratch
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Joel Keating wrote: > Ok i changed the lines in font server to use 100 dpi and i start the > xserver with the --dpi 100 switch. I've dloaded the .deb of xfstt and > it is running. I copied all my .ttf fonts from windows to my ttffonts > dir in linux. What is the line i need

NIS requests overwhelm portmapper

1999-06-24 Thread Max
I am having a rather strange problem. It seems that any sort of NIS request (ypcat, yppoll, ypmatch, etc.) starts an intense round of ypserv activity (as shown by top), which is then followed by the following error: chinook:/etc/init.d# rpcinfo -p localhost rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC:

Re: Accidentally deleted mouse! Please help!

1999-06-24 Thread Revenant
I've now tried this and it didn't work. The drivers reappear, but when I configure the mouse in XF86Setup the pointer refuses to respond. Does it make a difference that it is a PS/2 mouse? Thank you. Robert Pintarelli wrote: > in /dev type ./MAKEDEV busmice (as root). > and then ln -s psaux mou

oftopic : c programing Q - wierd behvior?

1999-06-24 Thread Micha Feigin
Firstly, I want to thank anyone who is willing to contribute their knowledge and time. I got a programing exersize. Among other things we had to emplement a new string class which supports certain functions. One of them was to allow append on a string which dinamicly allocates the new space requi

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Brad hat gesagt: // Brad wrote: > i think the original proposal was that /etc/environment would only contain > name=value pairs. Each shell would parse this file (via a script in > /etc/profile or whatever default) to insert all those pairs into the > shell's environment. This way, /etc/environme

Driver for Yamaha 740 chip

1999-06-24 Thread Steinhauer Juergen
Hello! Does anybody know if there is a driver for the Yamaha YMF 740 chip. According to SuSe's components database it is supported, but I only found the commercial OSS driver. The Chip is also capable to emulate the good old SB, but I had no luck in getting it running under linux. Has anybody a s

Re: crystal sound on dell

1999-06-24 Thread Bastiaan/2
At 08:52 PM 6/23/99 -0500, you wrote: I have a del xps R400 system that has onboard crystal sound system. I have not sucessfully installed a driver that works with my sound card. Does anyone have any success with the sound system and any kernel? Thanks for any help. -- -- Joel Keating

Re: Accidentally deleted mouse! Please help!

1999-06-24 Thread Revenant
I've now tried this and it didn't work. The drivers reappear, but when I configure the mouse in XF86Setup the pointer refuses to respond. Does it make a difference that it is a PS/2 mouse? Thank you. Robert Pintarelli wrote: > in /dev type ./MAKEDEV busmice (as root). > and then ln -s psaux mou

Re: libc5-compat

1999-06-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 17:59:13 +0200, Nikolaus A Siegfried wrote: > libg++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 (0x40125000) This is from the libg++272 package; for use with libc6. Install the libg++27 package which has this library for use with libc5. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-

xemacs problem

1999-06-24 Thread Debian Mail
apt-get does stop every time I want to run it while it is processing xemacs20-support. I wanted to do dpkg --remove xemacs20-support on which xemacs20-nomule depends, so I said dpkg --remove xemacs20-nomule this gives: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of xemacs20-nomule: calc depends

Re: Plug-n-Play Modem

1999-06-24 Thread Marshal Wong
Hi Doug, If you're dialing and connecting, it may not be the modem. What does your plog say, assuming you're using ppp? Marshal Doug Dine wrote: > Hi All, > > Has anyone successfully gotten a PNP modem to work with Debian? I installed > an older Hayes 33.6 PNP modem in my Linux machine. I hav

Re: problems with 2.2.8 kernel

1999-06-24 Thread Mike Brownlow
The kernel automatically sets the route to the interfaces in kernels >= 2.1.(one of them). So you can comment out the route lines in /etc/init.d/network AFAICT, that shouldn't have anything to do with why it can't talk on the network though. Does ifconfig show the device? Also, you should use th

Re: apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?

1999-06-24 Thread Brad
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Brian Greenfield wrote: > I've just installed apt 0.3.7slink0 from netgod.net and I > can no longer use the apt method of dselect. Update and > Select work OK, and Install will fetch the required files > but won't configure them. The error message given is: > > >/usr/lib/dpkg

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-24 Thread Brad
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Greg Starkes wrote: > Will Lowe wrote: > > > > > I'll assume you are talking about the app icons. Except modifying the > > > attributes for every app to not show an app icon, you cannot get rid off > > > them. Here's what I do to at least make it `look' like the aren't there:

problems with 2.2.8 kernel

1999-06-24 Thread Joel Keating
I finally have gotten just about everything in my kernel working except for support for my network card.  I am running 2.2.8 kernel and have a LinkSys EtherPCI Lan II card.  In my old 2.0.36 kernel i used NE2k driver and it works fine.  When i try to load this driver in the 2.2.8 kernel i get the

Re: Plug-n-Play Modem

1999-06-24 Thread Robert Rati
Ya, I have a Boca 33.6 running in Linux currently. What do you use to dial with the modem? What are you trying to dial into? An isp? Rob On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug Dine wrote: > Hi All, > > Has anyone successfully gotten a PNP mo

Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-24 Thread Brad
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 02:57:09PM -0500, did Brad write: > > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > > * Sendmail acting as the MTA. Any mail to the vsnl.net.in domain is > > > bouncing. > > > > > > www:~ $ echo "testing.

Plug-n-Play Modem

1999-06-24 Thread Doug Dine
Hi All, Has anyone successfully gotten a PNP modem to work with Debian? I installed an older Hayes 33.6 PNP modem in my Linux machine. I have it set up to where it dials and connects but then it just sits there. I have all the info for the initialization string and it worked well under Windows. A

Drivers for Orchid NuSound 3D?

1999-06-24 Thread Revenant
Does anyone know what if any Linux Sound Drivers will work with the Orchid NuSound 3D card? Thank you. -- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak." - author Rob

Plug-n-Play Modem

1999-06-24 Thread Doug Dine
Hi All, Has anyone successfully gotten a PNP modem to work with Debian? I installed an older Hayes 33.6 PNP modem in my Linux machine. I have it set up to where it dials and connects but then it just sits there. I have all the info for the initialization string and it worked well under Windows. A

Re: SVGA/NVidia patches (Re: Text cursor disappears in Emacs)

1999-06-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% " Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rai> I still want to use the nVidia patches to do some 3D stuff. So, as a rai> workaround, I've been doing rai> rxvt -e "emacs -nw" rai> and emacs in nw (no window) mode seems to work. Well, sure, if you run it in an xterm then you'

Configuring ppp

1999-06-24 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Thanks to all who have responded to my question. I made more attempts with no success. Here is more info about my configuration: This is not a permissions problem. I'm running all these commands as root. First I create the following files: /etc/ppp/options: debug /dev/ttyS2#my modem is i

updating clock automagically with crontab

1999-06-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi For some reason, my system clock has gone screwy. I lose varying amounts of time during the day. I read these from an earlier post, and it works great, however, it's beginning to be come a pain to su to root and run them every couple of hours. So, I was perusing my Unix System V: A Practical

Re: netscape fonts

1999-06-24 Thread Joel Keating
Ok i changed the lines in font server to use 100 dpi and i start the xserver with the --dpi 100 switch.  I've dloaded the .deb of xfstt and it is running.  I copied all my .ttf fonts from windows to my ttffonts dir in linux.  What is the line i need to add to XF86Config under debian to get X to s

hostname lookup failure

1999-06-24 Thread tf
hey all running eximconfig, and also startx, results in a hostname lookup failure. Can someone give me a hint? -t

pkarc

1999-06-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Does anyone remember the old pkarc compression program? I have several floppies full of programs that have been compressed with pkarc and would like to recover them, but I seem to have lost the archiver. Is there a debian package that can read pkarc's? (I know that the thing is copyrighted so a co

Re: netscape fonts

1999-06-24 Thread Didi Damian
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > Joel Keating wrote: > > > > My netscape fonts seem to be way too small. Most of the pages i go to > > i can hardly read. I'm using communicator 4.5 and kde. Any help > > would be great. > > go to > > http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html > > hafi > >

Re: netscape fonts

1999-06-24 Thread Didi Damian
Joel Keating wrote: > > My netscape fonts seem to be way too small. Most of the pages i go to > i can hardly read. I'm using communicator 4.5 and kde. Any help > would be great. > -- -- > Joel Keating > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.execpc.com/~jkeating > You will benefit a lot from installi

Re: netscape fonts

1999-06-24 Thread Hartmut Figge
Joel Keating wrote: > > My netscape fonts seem to be way too small. Most of the pages i go to > i can hardly read. I'm using communicator 4.5 and kde. Any help > would be great. go to http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html hafi

Re: crystal sound on dell

1999-06-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > I have a del xps R400 system that has onboard crystal sound system. > I have not sucessfully installed a driver that works with my sound > card. Does anyone have any success with the sound system and any > kernel? Thanks for any help. > -- -- > Joel Keating > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ww

crystal sound on dell

1999-06-24 Thread Joel Keating
I have a del xps R400 system that has onboard crystal sound system.  I have not sucessfully installed a driver that works with my sound card.   Does anyone have   any success with the sound system and any kernel?  Thanks for any help. -- -- Joel Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.execpc.com/~jk

netscape fonts

1999-06-24 Thread Joel Keating
My netscape fonts seem to be way too small.  Most of the pages i go to i can hardly read.  I'm using communicator 4.5 and kde.  Any help would be great. -- -- Joel Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.execpc.com/~jkeating  

Installation-dselect

1999-06-24 Thread Phil Wu
Hi all, I have instaledl debian on my PC. After the standard debian installed, I would like to install other packages such as X window. So I tried to use 'dselect' to install the packages. However, I have idea how to use 'dselect' tool. I typed 'dselect' to enter the program. then is provided 7 me

Re: New Install -- No Operation System found

1999-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:24:07PM +, Jeremy Gunter wrote: > Hello, > I have just installed slink onto a new 4GB hard disk (the 2GB that was > in > it failed last week). Lilo does not seem to write the boot sector to the > disk, however. When I try to boot from the disk it says that th