You have unstable in your sources.list file and unstable is VERY
unstable right now with regards to perl, most likely lots of broken
dependencies. Perl is being transitioned from 5.004 to 5.005 which is
not as small of a change as it may appear from the version numbers. Read
the debian-devel archi
Hi!
Can somebody point me to the place where an standard for
automatically acknowledging/confirming email (that is, I want to know if
my email has been read by the receiver) is -it there exists one-?
I'll be also be very grateful if you point me to software that
supports it and it
ktb wrote:
>
> If you hit the tab key twice in a row it lists all available commands.
> This seems like a useless thing because I see no way of sending the
> output to 'less' and most of the 1917 possibilities scroll off the
> screen. Anyway my problem is I get the same result if I hit the Esc ke
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:36:34AM +, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> I have had tried to install SLINK 4 or 5 times without success.
> I have printouts of more then 30 HOWTO's but it does not help.
> I have had coosen the basic installation for a Workstation but
> they do not work whatever I do.
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 08:08:10AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> I installed it mainly for the gnome stuff which wasn't (isn't?) available for
> slink at that time. I haven't had much problems with it (except for some
There's an aptable area for slink on the GNOME FTP sites. Check the
installa
When I try to sign messages with pgp5 it first told me that
pgp5 could not find my ~/.pgp/pgp.cfg file.
So I created it with vi. It does not contain any text.
Now when I sign files, it pauses and the output says that the signing
applies to another file.
In mutt, the message says that this signa
George Bonser wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Juhani Ilves wrote:
>
> > So, is there any help available or is it better to forget LINUX and my
> > Laptop?
> >
> > MOTTO: If you dont know you self, ask some else who knows!
> >
> > sincerely yours,
> >
> > Juhani Ilves
>
> This speaks loads for th
I installed pgp5 and fixed my .muttrc entry.
Now, when I sign a message it gave me the error that it could not
find ~/.pgp/pgp.cfg. I looked in this directory and did not find the file.
I created it with vi and it is a blank text file.
Now when I sign messages, mutt tells me that the signature
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 12:28:18AM -0700, Brendon Baumgartner wrote:
> So an ISP uses inn, but do they use nntpcache? What does it do exactly? I
> understand it caches, but how, what rules, etc? Well, I'll be setting up
> some kind of news system, not sure what yet
As you're probably about t
In my limited experiance I must say that the ALSA approach worked much
smoother and easier than the OSS eqvivliant. Thats with my Awe 64 ISA PNP
and I even got it working with two soundcards at the same time, thats hard
to do (if not impossible) with the OSS modules.
/nisse
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Bre
Christian Dysthe wrote:
>
> As far as I have been able to find out the best thing to do is to wait until
> the other packages has "caught up" with this Perl upgrade, at least a week or
> so. I tried to find out how to work arond this, but it didn't seem worth
> while, so I will just put upgrades
Ipswitch wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote:
>
> > > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong,
> >
> > You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and
> > inaccurate, mostly because they were written a few years ago and there've
> > been many adv
I'm attempting to compile a program with g++, and when it runs through the
linker, it says there are undefined references to char *crypt.
This same program compiles perfectly under gcc.
any suggestions?
Thanks
Joshua Sedman
I think this is more for you than for me...
Ciao, Hanno
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| Eine gewerbliche Nutzung meiner Email-Adressen ist nicht gestattet! |
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#>>Seufz."
Anyone know what's happened to Ivan's box at snowcrash.tdyc.com? I can't
get to it since sometime yesterday. Has something happened to the server?
--
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In response to a few folks who were much more willing to help than I could
have hoped:
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 at 22:07:11 -0500, Michael Merten wrote:
>
> Is there any way to disable the SCSI adaptor on the MBD?
There _is_ an option in the BIOS Setup to disable it, but the Kernel still
detects it. O
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 08:40:39AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, G. Crimp wrote:
>
> > Ah ha. The kernel log reports the following:
> >
> > kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> >
> > give me any more help with this. I have read the sound HOWTO a
*- On 6 Jul, Attila Csosz wrote about "KDE : why not in Debian?"
> Why not the KDE in the Debian distribution? It distributed with its source
> code and licensed with GPL( as I read in the KDE FAQ )
>
> Attila
>
>
Read http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008. With the recent release
of Qt 2.0
Hi,
My father has a Wacom pen partner
tablet. Does anyone know if he can use it
in linux ?
--
Cheers,
Colin Tree
Basically, X has an additional layer of abstraction; apps aren't talking
directly to the hardware or even using a relatively low-level interface;
instead they have to talk to X via a special protocol. This means that X
applications can be run over the network ("network transparent").
Another cont
Well I think I have fixed stuff. It now signs things.
However, Mutt tells me that it cannot find ~/.pgp/pgp.cfg. I do not
have this file. The pgpk -g script did not create it.
Do I have to create this manually? Thanks
--
_
NatePuri ("natedawg") o
> Jesse-- Actually, I am installing entirely from the Debian 2.1 CD-ROM. I
Where'd you get the CDROM? Sounds like the copy of base2_1.tgz on the CD
is busted.
> installation procedure onto Linux hardrive partitions hda2 (root), hda3
> (swap), and hda5. Everything works fine until I get to the "
Probably because Debian doesn't want to force KDE on people who like GNOME.
Is there a page that discusses the merits of each system? I've only used
GNOME so far, and I've found it to be rather slow.
Colin Winters
>OK, you can say that it's the admin task but it would be more clean to do
>this and the admin can't do everything. For example, if the dpkg
>database would be like an email spool, owned by a group called pkg for
>example, root could give the package management to a specific user.
>For now, ev
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 20:58:37 +0200, Attila Csosz wrote:
> Why not the KDE in the Debian distribution? It distributed with its source
> code and licensed with GPL( as I read in the KDE FAQ )
See http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 . Basically, KDE's license (the
GPL) interacts with the lic
try:dd man
dd is interesting, but dangerous!!
something like: dd if=/dev/hda /of=bootsec.bla bs=512 count=1
Ciao,
Kotya
>
> Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to
> /dev/hda?
>
> Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want
> to alt
>> "Hans" == Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hans> So what about sending mail then? Using 'smail' sounds obvious,
Hans> but how does the route from MUA to the SMTP server go.
The MTA you install receives the mails you send using your MUA and
sends them to the destination. Either
Hi
I seem to have some incompatible dependencies in trying to obtain
Netscape version 4.6 from the .debs. My problem is that, according to the
dependency resolution screens (I copy and paste from various conflict
readouts here):
navigator-smotif-461 depends on netscape-base-4 (
>> "Hans" == Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hans> After you install the base system, put the first CD-ROM of the
Hans> Debian distribution in the tray, fire up dselect and run
Hans> 'update.'
Hans> Then take out the first CD-ROM, put in the second CD-ROM and do
Hans> an 'update
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:
> I was trying to compile the binaries into a .deb.
> There error was : exit error 1
There should be something else leading up to this, which is causing the
error.
> I have come to find that .debs are created from the source most of the time.
> I have
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:31:01AM -0400, Ipswitch wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote:
>
> > > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong,
> >
> > You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and
> > inaccurate, mostly because they were written
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:28:57AM -0400, Ipswitch wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, John Galt wrote:
>
> > > come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS! It
> > > won't drive your printer, it won't detect your modem, the documentation
> > > is incomplete, out of date, or sim
I have purchased several "hub kits" at 100Mb that sold for the same
price as 10Mb kits (same number of ports/same brand). I suspect that
from a manufacturing standpoint that the 10Meg stuff is "obsolete".
OTOH I still agree with you in that there is no point in paying a
premium for a 100Meg hub
I had difficulty with WP8 printing m'self. The way I forced it to work
was by using Passthrough Postscript to the postscript driver for the
network's HP LaserJet 4000N. This is my preferred method since almost
anything will happily print Postscript.
You might try avoiding the WP8 specific driver
Do we must be connected to ineternet to use it or can we simply use it with
a LAN ?
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 04:49:49PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:06:04 -0500 (CDT)
> jacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Anyone know of something like PGPfone but for Linux?
>
> There
I've searched a lot but can't find why is windows faster concerning the
graphics.
First, I'm sure, it's for the drivers : windows has optimised drivers and
my ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4MB under Linux isn't as good as a poor old S3v 1 or
2 Mb.
BTW, if anyone has found how to configure X so that the
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 08:51:12PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I try to telnet into my newly installed debian server, I get a message
> "Connection to host lost".
>
> Same message when I do so on the machine itself.
>
> I can ping the machine so the NIC is working. Is there so
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 12:53:41PM +0100, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote:
> Hi, I have a Diamond Stealth 2500 series graphics card and I'm having a
> problem during X many time a fatal error occurs and I'm not able to get
> back to it. Only restarting linux. I think I've read on this mailing list
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:13:16 -0500 Jesse Jacobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>On 07/05/99 at 20:55:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote concerning "Re:
>Thanks":
>> Jesse-- Thanks for the reply. Yes, the modem does run on Windows
>(Com2,
>> IRQ 3), and setserial -a informed me that ttyS1 is set up with
There is about a hundred of devices in /dev
(ls /dev/* | wc -l returns me 1016) and debian provides only 40 groups.
It shows that an admin doesn't have a fine control of distributing tasks to
some other users w/o giving too much power.
For example, to give access to a SCSI HD to a particular use
Why not the KDE in the Debian distribution? It distributed with its source
code and licensed with GPL( as I read in the KDE FAQ )
Attila
--
---
- Debian 2.1 Linux / 2.2.9 / qmail -
- Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]-
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to
> /dev/hda?
>
> Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want
> to alter the partition table.
>
> Send me version info as well.
Unless it is a freedos mbr
i am trying to install Debian on an older Gateway system that boots from
an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card. the boot floppy i built from slink is fine
until it reaches that card and stops between "instructions downloaded"
and the recognition of the SCSI devices. i found where adding
"aic7xxx=no_probe" to t
>> "Bob" == Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> NOW, as I say some months later (it can't have been that long
Bob> though) I come to notice I have an empty /etc/rc.boot dir.
/etc/rc.boot is depreciated.
The scripts are nowe in /etc/init.d and have a link in /etc/rcS.d
which contains
>> "Nico" == Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nico> That's exactly why I wanted to upgrade the whole system in stead
Nico> of just the ppp package. I considered downloading the source
Nico> and compiling it myself but that would make it difficult to
Nico> upgrade later on.
Actually, h
>> "Dan" == Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dan> I know... but xdm has a loop that never exits. If you go to "Quit
Dan> X-windows" when you right click, it just restarts xdm. Thank you
Dan> for reminding me of the name though.
Then switch to a virtual console by pressing ctrl+strg+f1, log in as
>> "Kristopher" == Kristopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kristopher> What is the correct way to switch between different
Kristopher> "alternatives"? For example, currently my /usr/bin/vi
Kristopher> points to nvi. What is the right way to change it to
Kristopher> point to vim or elvis?
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 09:12:27 -0400, Person, Roderick wrote:
> I'm trying to package a .deb.
debian-mentors may be a more suitable list for discussing packaging.
> I have read and followed the docs and the HOWTOs. I must be missing
> something. I get a error 1 when running rules script.
That'
> On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 11:24:55AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Last question for the night. Running slink, can I use kde 1.1.1 from the
> > > binary debs without running into library problems?
> >
> > You will need to upgrade to qt1.44 (package qt1g from unstable). Everything
I was trying to compile the binaries into a .deb.
There error was : exit error 1
I have come to find that .debs are created from the source most of the time.
I have been told it is hard to compile binaries into .deb. It can be done
but everyone is telling me it's easier to go from the source. I gu
Use apt.
deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty
-Brad
--
Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in mission
critical applications, and - due to it's open source code - has a long
term credibility which exceeds many other competitive OS's.
- Microsoft internal m
Well, what's the error?
If the program you're trying to debianise has compilation instructions,
try to follow those first, using "configure", "make", etc. and then when
you're successful with that part, use dh_make and debuild.
-Brad
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I'
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 11:24:55AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Last question for the night. Running slink, can I use kde 1.1.1 from the
> > binary debs without running into library problems?
>
> You will need to upgrade to qt1.44 (package qt1g from unstable). Everything
> else shou
The format is:
server:/dir/subdir
So, for example, if the server theserver.net exports the NFS filesystem
/debian-install, you would specify the filesystem like this:
theserver.net:/debian-install
or use the IP address, if you have not set up DNS:
192.9.200.1:/debian-install
You understand th
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
> What is the correct way to switch between different "alternatives"? For
> example, currently my /usr/bin/vi points to nvi. What is the right way
> to change it to point to vim or elvis? I know how to use 'ln -s' to
> create/change links, but I sus
On 06-Jul-99 Jef Elliott wrote:
>
> Just joined the list - looks to be a good resource. Hope
> someone can offer some insight or advice.
>
>
> Are there any known concerns with the PIII chip and Linux?
>
>
Nope, other than it runs really fast (-:
> We run Debian on
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi Debian users,
> I installed Debian at my friend's lab and he wants to install
> everything
> in /usr under /usr/local to remote mount.
> What is the safesty way to copy /usr to /usr/local?
Why not just exp
The DOS MBR will only be valid for you from a hard drive with the exact
same paramaters and exact same partition table. (i.e. no one has one you
can use).
What you can do (I have done this before with success) is: (But beware,
this is not guaranteed to work--I have also done this and failed)
1.
Thorsten Manegold wrote:
> As someone already asked about problems with dpkg after dataloss...
>
> Is there a way to rebuild the dpkg database if it gets corrupted?
> With rpm there was a way to rebuild if you had some data still
> intact.
This is not necessary with debian, the database is a pla
I've searched through the archives, and can't find a solution to my
particular problem. I am running Debian potato updated everyday. I am
printing to a network printer (HP Laserjet IIIsi) through an IP address
using lpr and magicfilter. Netscape and others print fine, but WP8
doesn't. I am usin
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:45:48PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Matthew Dalton wrote:
> >
> > Me neither. It's a pain in the arse to have to go back to a Windows box
> > and use the feature-void dos command shell.
> >
>
> Whenever I have to navigate around in DOS, I'm always hitting tab try to
>
Well, what do you need it for? Do you need 56k connectivity? Is 33.6
fast enough? How many modems do you need now? How many will you need in
the future?
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote:
> hi,
> can someone please suggest to me a nice modempool ? or am i better
> off using exter
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:25:56PM -0700, Nate wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I've had some problems reading pgp keys when the sender uses pgp5.
>
> When I upgraded to pgp5i and added the following lines to my .muttrc file
> "set pgp_v5=/usr/bin/pgp5 ;; set pgp_v5_language=mutt ;; set pgp_v5_pubring=
>
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:30:21PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 01:22:59AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
[Leafnode]
> 1. Support for multiple servers is done through the suplement= setting.
> In my situation, I have a primary news server that is going to get me the
> standard
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=> one of the things that most impressed me about Debian was that
=> once I'd done the install, pretty much all the services I'd installed
=> support for were set up and working. With previous distributions,
=> I'd
=> always had to spend far too much time figu
Problem solved; telnet wasn't installed! In now and works nicely. Just
need to learn how to set up squid and all done for now.
Sorry for the waste of time.
Patrick
> -Original Message-
> From: Patrick Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 July 1999 7:55
> To: Debian User
>
iOn Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:
>
>
> Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to
> /dev/hda?
>
> Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want
> to alter the partition table.
I'm also interested in this, since I have a HD with the
>> "Kristian" == Kristian Kvhntopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kristian> I am searching for information on unattended installation of
Kristian> Linux distributions on Intel machines.
Kristian> I already have installation about how to do this with
Kristian> RedHat, but I am still looking on infor
*- On 6 Jul, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote about "DOS MBR"
>
> Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to
> /dev/hda?
>
> Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want
> to alter the partition table.
>
> Send me version info as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
Subject: Re: dselect and vi
Date: Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 12:58:36AM +
In reply to:Dan
Quoting Dan([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> First of all, thank you for your concern. I don't have apt installed
> apparently. I am running slink. I am convinced it has something to do with
> my scree
Just joined the list - looks to be a good resource. Hope
someone can offer some insight or advice.
Are there any known concerns with the PIII chip and Linux?
We run Debian on several Dell PowerEdge servers (2 6300s, 1
4300,and 3 2300s). Some run Debian 2.0,
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 06:50:48PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote
> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote:
>
> >[snip]
> > A quick look at the kernel source shows some LinkSys cards use the Tulip
> > driver (likely not yours, as I thought these were all PCI cards) and some
> > use the Lance driver; ha
My xemacs gives me this statement in the bottom window.
Can't instantiate image (probably cached) : [xbm :mask-file
"/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/left_ptrmsk" ...
this happens when the cursor goes over the button bar at the top.
Any ideas?
Thanks
--
-bob
The difference between Mechanical Engineers
I tried to get apt-find but it tells me that I need libapt2.5. I can seem to
find it anywhere although I have found libapt.0.3-dev. Does anyone know
where libapt2.5 is.
Roderick P. Person
Programmer I
CCBH (412)454-2616
"We're not that good. Everyone else just sucks!"
- anon. Navy Seal
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jack Wilkinson wrote:
> I'm having the same problem... just figured it was a limitation of the
> standard IP masquerading setup... I can recieve dcc's, but can't send... is
> anyone actually able to dcc send from behind a masq?
>
> - Original Message -
> From:
Hi!
with rpm there is a tool rpm2html to make the database readable via a
browser (espec. the depenancies and files). Is there something like
that for debs as well?
TIA
Thorsten Manegold
Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to
/dev/hda?
Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want
to alter the partition table.
Send me version info as well.
Thanks.
--
__
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi!
As someone already asked about problems with dpkg after dataloss...
Is there a way to rebuild the dpkg database if it gets corrupted?
With rpm there was a way to rebuild if you had some data still
intact.
TIA
Thorsten
Michael Merten wrote:
>
[cut]
> Hmmm.. is my sig trying to tell me something?
>
> Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
> -- Publilius Syrus
> --
> This signature was automatically generated with Signify v1.05.
> For this and other cool products, check out http://www.deb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> To All-- Thanks for the feedback, and my sincere congratulations to those
> of you who've mastered the intricacies of Debian. For years I've been
> hoping to find an OS that would get me out of Windows, and I had high
> hopes Linux might be it, but all I have to show
hi,
can someone please suggest to me a nice modempool ? or am i better off using
external modems? if so can u also suggest modems that are guaranteed to work
happily and w/ less hassles as a dial-in modem for an isp ?
if u have any modem pool brands in mind, please exclude livingston (their
I don't really know why people think it is difficult to install Debian from
the 2 CD set. I admit, it took my a while to before I figured it out and
this is a real minus, but I think dselect rocks.
FROM A NEWBIE TO OTHER NEWBIES:
After you install the base system, put the first CD-ROM of the Debi
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 11:24:55AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Last question for the night. Running slink, can I use kde 1.1.1 from the
> > binary debs without running into library problems?
>
> You will need to upgrade to qt1.44 (package qt1g from unstable). Everything
> else shou
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On Tue, 06 Jul 1999 13:43:35 +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
>If you don't like it, use a different shell. Zsh has command completion
>as well, but pressing does nothing. I think the equivalent
>for zsh is ctrl-d. I don't know about any of the other she
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Mike Schmitz wrote:
> A while back, my system crashed, but I was able to bring up a crippled
> system that I can limp along with. I lost mostly just data, and what
> programs I lost, I have been able to replace by reinstalling them. One
> that is becoming a sore spot, though,
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Larry Huffman wrote:
> steps taken:
>
> dpkg-source -x pine_v.dsc
> cd pine
> debian/rules binary (as root)
>
> error message received:
>
> test -f pine/pine.c -a -f debian/rules
> debian/rules binaryPine
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/pine/pine-v'
> test -f pine/p
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:34:51PM +0900, Kai Martens wrote:
> The external floppy drive that came with the laptop is connected to a USB
> connector on the box via a special SONY cable...
>
> Any ideas how to cure this or how to work around it? (No more windoze
> anywhere on my disk :-) ...
You n
Thank you Peter Iaranelli!
I followed your suggestion, but i still can't
start X11.
I've changed a few monitor definitions, and the
best i now get when i run startx is
Fatal server error: Could not open default
font 'fixed'.
Before the error message it self, the screen is
filled with 3F 3F
On 07/05/99 at 20:55:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote concerning "Re: Thanks":
> Jesse-- Thanks for the reply. Yes, the modem does run on Windows (Com2,
> IRQ 3), and setserial -a informed me that ttyS1 is set up with IRQ 3, as
> well, and UART 16450. When I ran wvdial.conf, it told me no modem is
> d
*- On 30 Jun, richard wrote about "debian-user split"
[DOUBLE SPACE TEXT CLEANED TO SINGLE SPACE]
> I had this thought the other day when I was looking over some archived
> deban-user stuff. Two thoughts actually. I know that there are an awful
> lot of questions that crop up time and time again.
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ...
> > Then again, can you name an OS with better documentation...
> VMS.
I have USED VMS, extensively, and for many years. VMS documentation
is FILLED with buggy examples that leave out details that make thing
wo
Is there a M$ Exchange replacement available for Linux, I would like to run
Linux/Samba, but I need a mail server that works with Outlook so that I can
share schedules, I know that Domino/Notes will be available later from IBM,
but I need a solution right now...
Thanxs.
Hey All,
I'm trying to package a .deb. I have read and followed the docs and the
HOWTOs. I must be missing something. I get a error 1 when running rules
script. Can someone point me to a nice tutorial on the web or give me some
helpful hints? Is there a generic way to build .debs?
Roderick P. Per
Well a lot anyways. I wanted to tryout xdm, so I dselected it, ran it
manually, and it worked. I purged it, installed gdm to check that out,
it didn't work (somthing about no display configured, I didn't feel like
messing with it). I purged gdm to try wdm, that "ran" but obviously
wasn't affect
Hi,
I did dselect upgrades on my potato system yesterday. After that ps
outputs looks like crap. To much space between each data field so that one
entry takes up several lines.
tkps (and other process tools) now needs a 3 feet wide window to show
proecesses! ;)
Help needed. TIA
Dear John:
Thanks for the reply. It would seem indeed that you have had some
unfortunate experiences with windows. I too am in the process of weaning
myself from windows, but as I noted before, there are still too
many programs that have not made the transition to the linux environment.
I
Hi,
the two entries keeps showing up in my syslog (the last one also in debug.
log) lately after I have rebooted.
Jul 6 07:43:24 oddbird /usr/sbin/rpc.statd[345]: open (/var/lib/nfs/state): No
such file or directory
Jul 6 07:44:24 oddbird kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64
I'm having the same problem... just figured it was a limitation of the
standard IP masquerading setup... I can recieve dcc's, but can't send... is
anyone actually able to dcc send from behind a masq?
- Original Message -
From:
The Buht Man
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
What is the correct way to switch between different "alternatives"? For
example, currently my /usr/bin/vi points to nvi. What is the right way
to change it to point to vim or elvis? I know how to use 'ln -s' to
create/change links, but I suspect that I should really use
'update-alternatives' or
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, John Galt wrote:
> > come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS! It
> > won't drive your printer, it won't detect your modem, the documentation
> > is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and the installation
> > procedure has more bugs than a South
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