Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-08-02 Thread Joey Hess
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 08:56:31PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > I've installed apt-get. It works great . . but. (You knew there was > > a "but" coming, right?) > > > > If I want to upgrade one package, e.g. icewm, to the version in > > unstable, > > Don't upgrade one onl

newbie² in trouble: installation fails

1999-08-02 Thread damiaan
hello there, (please forgive my poor English) I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids... I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk and floppy, or reinstall the system: I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to boot from hard disk, and s

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-08-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Kaa" == Kaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kaa> you don't know about it. My specific problem was solved by Kaa> downloading equivs and installing a fake package for an MTA, but Kaa> that looks and smells like a big kludge. Actually, I do not think so. Creating a dummy MTA package is a very clean

Re: Bad Makedevness

1999-08-02 Thread striker
Ok so now what.. dpkg sticks on the portion of the script "rm -fr /dev.dpkg.tmp" It refused to unlink /dev/pts because it didn't exist. It leaves you with a /dev.dpkg.tmp and /dev which is an executable. It seems that the /dev left by the install was actually the MAKEDEV program. I made a /dev di

Re: [offlist] Re: Defining Virtual Ethernet Interfaces

1999-08-02 Thread Butch Kemper
At 06:15 PM 7/30/99 , you wrote: > I have a problem with adding a virtual interface to the ethernet card. > > I have put an IFCONFIG command in /etc/init.d/network for the virtual > interface: > > ifconfig eth0:1 inet 208.21.250.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 208.

Re: ssh with RSA-key login problem

1999-08-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Fredrik" == Fredrik Jonsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fredrik> ssh client complains that "Server does not allow RSA Fredrik> authentication, or the public key for user "user1" was not Fredrik> accepted. Reverting to password authentication. ssh has a verbose switch. Use it and see why it rej

Re: Matrox Millenium G200LE

1999-08-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andreas> is the Matrox Millenium G200LE supported by the current Andreas> 1) XF86 drivers Andreas> 2) SvgaTextmode Andreas> 3) SvgaLib I have a G200 (don't know what the LE is suppose to be). So for the above items: 1) yes 2) I think no,

Re: Unstable and xmms

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:43:18PM -0400, Kevin Cramer wrote: > I was forced to figure it out when I tried installing the xmms package > from xmms.org and not only didn't it work, but it uninstalled my > x11amp. Since I don't have the x11amp package anymore and it is not > available at Debian's si

Re: text screen shreenshots

1999-08-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Keith" == Keith Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Keith> I'm doing an atricle on installing various OSs and need a way Keith> to take screenshots of the installation process. Any Keith> suggestions on how this can be done under the various Linux Keith> dists? (Debian, RedHat, etc.) I would

Re: QT 2.00 and Slink

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
Is it using gcc or g++ to compile? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Newbie question : kernel-package vs perl5

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:28:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > (I originally posted this message in the debian newsgroup, but > figured a lot of people would read the list and not the group, so I'm > reposting here. Sorry for all of you who read this twice.) > > Using slink, I'm trying

Bad Makedevness

1999-08-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
The new makedev package is erasing people's /dev/ directories. Apparently the maintainer script has a bug that causes /dev/ to become a file which makes dpkg erase /dev/ and replace it with a file.. Bugs all round. Since this is rather serious, I have erased makedev from potato/bianry-all - a cop

QT 2.00 and Slink

1999-08-02 Thread Tadas
Hi, I can't compile QT 2.00 on Slink. When I rum make I see an error message: kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:272: syntax error before `;' kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:273: syntax error before `;' kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:274: syntax error before `;' kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:275: syntax error be

Re: Which package should be fixed (Mosaic or bug or am I wrong) ?

1999-08-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Aug, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: Which package should be fixed (Mosaic or bug or am I wrong) ?" > *- On 2 Aug, shaul wrote about "Which package should be fixed (Mosaic or bug > or am I wrong) ?" >> [06:18:44 shaul]$ dpkg -s Mosaic >> Package: Mosaic >> Status: install ok installed >>

Newbie question : kernel-package vs perl5

1999-08-02 Thread dlesage
(I originally posted this message in the debian newsgroup, but figured a lot of people would read the list and not the group, so I'm reposting here. Sorry for all of you who read this twice.) Using slink, I'm trying to install kernel-package v. 6.21. My problem is that dselect will not let me in

Pine & IMAP over network?

1999-08-02 Thread Nathan Duehr
I think I missed something here... I was under the impression that PINE would connect to a remote machine via IMAP and retrieve mail messages, however I can't find anything resembling that in the docs or in the Setup section of the program itself. I currently have PINE working on the machine wher

Re: Which package should be fixed (Mosaic or bug or am I wrong) ?

1999-08-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Aug, shaul wrote about "Which package should be fixed (Mosaic or bug or am I wrong) ?" > [06:18:44 shaul]$ dpkg -s Mosaic > Package: Mosaic > Status: install ok installed > Installed-Size: 1718 > Maintainer: Gene McCulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Version: 2.7b5-8 > Depends: lesstifg (>= 0.81

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

1999-08-02 Thread shaul
Mosaic is in non free. Seems to me a nice browser. Am I missing something ? > > On 31 Jul, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I have been following the threads about the instability of Netscape with > > great interest. I too suffer the same symptoms - the ones where Netscape > > disappears when a certain

Which package should be fixed (Mosaic or bug or am I wrong) ?

1999-08-02 Thread shaul
[06:18:44 shaul]$ dpkg -s Mosaic Package: Mosaic Status: install ok installed Installed-Size: 1718 Maintainer: Gene McCulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 2.7b5-8 Depends: lesstifg (>= 0.81-0.1), libc6, libjpegg6a, libpng0g, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5), xpm4g (>= 3.4j-0), zlib1g Description: Graphical WWW br

text screen shreenshots

1999-08-02 Thread Keith Beattie
Hi all, I'm doing an atricle on installing various OSs and need a way to take screenshots of the installation process. Any suggestions on how this can be done under the various Linux dists? (Debian, RedHat, etc.) Thanks, Keith

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Aug 1999, virtanen wrote: > [description of problem snipped] > I wanted to be able sometimes use the zip drive and sometimes > to use the printer. Do I have to install the system newly without the > zip-driver or is there some better solution available? > > -hv > One way is to use mod

Re: Extra serial ports

1999-08-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: > for a test setup I need a PC with 4 serial ports (ppp server). > Can I simply plugin any PCI board with 2 serial ports or will > I need any hardware specific drivers? I believe this used to work > fine with an ISA board with 2 serial ports but I have ne

Re: Mozilla Segfaulting OR Making debs from src and diffs

1999-08-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
Scratch that. I found some info in the Debian FAQ. It sure is taking a LONG time to compile though! -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creative TNT-1 card

1999-08-02 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On 30 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using a Creative Nvidia TNT-1 display card in one of my servers. It > consistentently goes dark on reboot - I have to power-clear to see the display > again. Does anyone know why? These video cards can draw a lot of power (which some motherboards can

Re: proftpd vs wu-ftpd

1999-08-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Ali" == Ali Onur UYAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ali> I am planning to enable anonymous ftp to my linux box. I am Ali> aware of two alternatives: proftpd and wu-ftpd. Any advantages Ali> of one over another? proftpd is actively maintained by the author, and is easier to configure IMHO. Cia

Re: How to make a boot disk?

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:54:34AM +0800, Liu Chung Him wrote: > Dear All, > > I have forgotten to make a boot disk during installation. > Is there any method to create it again ? > Try liloconfig -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Problem getting EtherLink card to work

1999-08-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed a new 3com EtherLink III card and I am unable to ping > another machine. > > First, a quick overview: I am trying to connect my linux box (with the new > card) to a mac with a null cable. I've never used the ethernet on the mac > before so I can't be cer

Re: XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
Kinda offtopic suggestion, but rebuild your kernel with the "magic SysReq" key option, then Alt-SysRq-K will kill all prorams on the current VC. Running xscreensaver in the gdb debugger will let you find out where it crashed and what might have caused the crash. Try this: 1. Use "apt-get source xs

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-08-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> People think that the NIS package does far more than it actually does; >> the only thing it does is keeping an eye on the current nis server (ypbind). >> All NIS

Unstable and xmms

1999-08-02 Thread Kevin Cramer
I know that other people are having problems installing xmms so I thought I would post how I got it working on my stable slink system. I was forced to figure it out when I tried installing the xmms package from xmms.org and not only didn't it work, but it uninstalled my x11amp. Since I don't hav

Mozilla Segfaulting OR Making debs from src and diffs

1999-08-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
Is there a howto/faq that goes into how to apply the diff.tgz file to the orig.tar.gz file to get a deb? I completely forgot about Mozilla and after the above discussion on browsers, I decided to give it a try. Unfortunately it segfaulted on me. I thought that I might try compiling it myself, but

Re: Where to get pine package ?

1999-08-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:53:56PM -, Pollywog wrote: > Are there instructions for creating Debian packages somewhere? I did find > some information about it but not very specific and it left me confused. There's some tutorials linked from http://www.debian.org/devel/ and also the various he

How to make a boot disk?

1999-08-02 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear All, I have forgotten to make a boot disk during installation. Is there any method to create it again ? Thank you very much ! Wilson

Re: Where to get pine package ?

1999-08-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Aug-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > The pine license doesn't allow the distribution of modified binaries, so > you must get pine396-src and pine396-diff and create the .deb yourself. > After installing these two packages, read the file /usr/src/pine/README > for details. This is an easy way to lear

Re: fvwm2 debs

1999-08-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Aug, Robert Jones wrote about "fvwm2 debs" > Does anyone know of a location for getting slink debs of fvwm2 version 2.2? I > managed to find 'em for potato, but they require a long chain of dependencies > which I don't feel the need to do at this time. > > The fvwm 2.2.2-2 package in p

[no subject]

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
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Re: Where to get pine package ?

1999-08-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
The pine license doesn't allow the distribution of modified binaries, so you must get pine396-src and pine396-diff and create the .deb yourself. After installing these two packages, read the file /usr/src/pine/README for details. This is an easy way to learn how to create Debian packages, by the w

Re: Where to get pine package ?

1999-08-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Aug, Liu Chung Him wrote about "Where to get pine package ?" > Dear All, > > Is there anyone know where to download pine ? I cannot find this in my > archive. > The current pine license does not aggree with the Debian Free Software Guidlines and thus binaries can not be distributed. Th

Re: wmcdplay and tray-locking

1999-08-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Marc Meier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As much as I like the wmcdplay-programm, the locking of the drivetray > sometimes is a real nightmare. IMO it makes no sense to lock the tray > even when the drive is empty or a data CD is insert. > > Is there a patch available to remove this "missbehavior

Re: ssh with RSA-key login problem

1999-08-02 Thread Fredrik Jonsson
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 99-08-01 22.55 wrote> >>root login works without a problem but when I try to login as user1 my >>ssh client complains that "Server does not allow RSA authentication, or >>the public key for user "user1" was not accepted. Reverting to password >>authentication."

fvwm2 debs

1999-08-02 Thread Robert Jones
Does anyone know of a location for getting slink debs of fvwm2 version 2.2? I managed to find 'em for potato, but they require a long chain of dependencies which I don't feel the need to do at this time.

Re: StarOffice 5.1 segfaults

1999-08-02 Thread Morgan Collett
Dave Dash wrote: > > > Yes the last libc upgrade; it seems to of killed > > Star Office 5.1 for me. :< > > Luckily I have old libc6 and libc6-dev debs (you might > be able to dig them up in your > /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory). > > I'll just keep these in a safe folder just in case > this

Solved: IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed

1999-08-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I should read all Postgresql FAQ's. The answer is right there. For some reason (probably a mistake), I disable IPC in the kernel. Rebuilding it, fixed the problem. Thanks for the suggestion Eric. []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's

Re: "Powered by Debian" logo

1999-08-02 Thread Pawel Mazur
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Robert Varga wrote: > > Where I can get a "Powered by Debian" logo for my WWW server ? > > Have you looked at /usr/share/apache/icons/jhe061.gif ? AFAIR there is some project called "Debian logo" but I'm not sure about it. Check www.debian.org. But you can always take Linux l

Extra serial ports

1999-08-02 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, for a test setup I need a PC with 4 serial ports (ppp server). Can I simply plugin any PCI board with 2 serial ports or will I need any hardware specific drivers? I believe this used to work fine with an ISA board with 2 serial ports but I have never tried a PCI version and I can only fin

Re: Where to get pine package ?

1999-08-02 Thread Pawel Mazur
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Liu Chung Him wrote: > Is there anyone know where to download pine ? I cannot find this in my > archive. Pine .deb package could be downloaded from ftp.debian.org or its national mirror (ftp.xx.debian.org, where xx stands for country code) Newest version should be located in po

Re: icewm-problems after upgrading to gnome 1.0

1999-08-02 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Johann Spies wrote: > > After apt-get upgrade icewm and icewm-gnome I do no longer have 4 > workspaces and I get the following error message when I run startx > (although X11 and gnome is working otherwise): > > Bad option: ShowXButton > Bad option: WindowListFontName > Bad option: AddWorkspace >

Re: icewm-problems after upgrading to gnome 1.0

1999-08-02 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > After apt-get upgrade icewm and icewm-gnome I do no longer have 4 > workspaces and I get the following error message when I run startx > (although X11 and gnome is working otherwise): > > Bad option: ShowXButton > Bad option: WindowListFontName > Bad opti

Re: "Powered by Debian" logo

1999-08-02 Thread Robert Varga
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, [windows-1251] Äìèòðèé Ñèäîðîâ wrote: > Hello. > Where I can get a "Powered by Debian" logo for my WWW server ? > All servers that powered by FreeBSD or RedHat have "Powered by..." logos but > I can't find "Powered by Debian". The world must know it's heroes ! > Sorry for my

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

1999-08-02 Thread Marek Habersack
* Bill said: > Hello, > Actually its http://www.operasoftware.com or http://opera.nta.no and the > project for > opera for linux is under project magic Opera is an excellent browser, but has one (important IMO) disadvantage - it doesn't fully support HTML 4.0 (or rather it didn't support it the la

Re: kernel read/write

1999-08-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael Edward Christman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am modifying a current driver inoder to control it by using read/writes. > I am trying to implement the memcpy_tofs/memcpy_fromfs. My question is > how do I find the pointer to the user space. My previous reply assumed that you knew that a

.muttrc: pgp_autoencrypt + send-hook problem

1999-08-02 Thread K. Arun
Hi, I'm using Mutt 0.93.2i on a stock slink box, and the PGP version on the system is pgp-i 2.6.3a. I need to encrypt every message sent to one particular address. Referring to the mutt manual, I tried making use of the send-hook + pgp_autoencrypt feature. It just doesn't work. I'

Re: ProFTPd feature kept me from logging in

1999-08-02 Thread Johnie Ingram
"bruce" == bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bruce> I'd suggest it prompt for the login and password and then bruce> dump you with a message as soon as you succeed in logging in. I've asked the proftpd authors to do tihs. netgod * Asterix commits heinous errors of grammar j

Where to get pine package ?

1999-08-02 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear All, Is there anyone know where to download pine ? I cannot find this in my archive. Thank you very much ! Wilson

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-08-02 Thread \[ Kaa \]
Heh. My simple question about mutt grew into a whole philosophical discussion of mail and dependency issues... I'd like to remind people that my original problem was that I did have an MTA installed, but that MTA happened be qmail which I built myself in /usr/local. So from the point of view o

Re: How to access different trays of a printer

1999-08-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Aug, Andreas Tille wrote about "How to access different trays of a printer" > Hello, > > I'm using magicfilter from potato. The target printer is a > compaq Pagemarq 20. This printer has three different trays > (loaded with two different kinds of A4 paper and the third with > A3. Ther

Re: fax/efax 6100 segmentation fault

1999-08-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to get the fax/efax program working. I used the command > "fax test > debug.out" suggested by the man page, and note that at the > bottom of the resulting file is a note: "/usr/bin/fax: line 1129: 6100 > Segmentation fault" (this seems t

icewm-problems after upgrading to gnome 1.0

1999-08-02 Thread Johann Spies
After apt-get upgrade icewm and icewm-gnome I do no longer have 4 workspaces and I get the following error message when I run startx (although X11 and gnome is working otherwise): Bad option: ShowXButton Bad option: WindowListFontName Bad option: AddWorkspace Bad option: AddWorkspace Bad option: A

Re: ascii -> tiff

1999-08-02 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo Erasmo, > where can i get a converter, that takes ascii (text written in vi) and > gives tiff (for sending as fax)? I never use efix directly. Use fax - a front end script to efix and efax. If you want to send an ascii-file as a fax, why don't you just do fax make ascii.txt and you wil

Re: Apt faster with FTP or HTTP?

1999-08-02 Thread Dpk
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Andreas Tille wrote: Hello, I'm sitting behind a quite slow modem. Coudl I gain a little more speed with http or ftp addresses if I have the choice. I have heard that people get slightly better performance with http, hence the addition of the debian mirror bei

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

1999-08-02 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 06:33 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > On 2 Aug, Hartmut Figge wrote: > > Christian Dysthe wrote: > > > >> Opera will be ready for Linux soon. But Opera is not free. I work for > > ^^ > > could you be a bit more precisely? > > > Ummm...

Apt faster with FTP or HTTP?

1999-08-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I'm sitting behind a quite slow modem. Coudl I gain a little more speed with http or ftp addresses if I have the choice. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Networking help needed

1999-08-02 Thread Patrik Magnusson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Antony Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > etc etc And I dont have a clue. can anyone tell me what I need to do to > my linux box and my win95 box to get them talking! or at least point me > in the right direction of the HOWTOS that tell the slow on

"Powered by Debian" logo

1999-08-02 Thread Дмитрий Сидоров
Hello. Where I can get a "Powered by Debian" logo for my WWW server ? All servers that powered by FreeBSD or RedHat have "Powered by..." logos but I can't find "Powered by Debian". The world must know it's heroes ! Sorry for my bad english. Bye.

XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-02 Thread Dan Everton
Just came back from watching TV to note that my X session had locked up and was unresponsive. The last thing on screen was the graphics displayed by the "penetrate" screensaver when it changes levels. Went to a friends machine connected on the same network to ping mine and try and telnet in to kil

Re: monitor whining

1999-08-02 Thread Dean
Thanks Andrei, xvidtune did verify monitor was being run in the proper specs. However, I had inadvertantly started a couple of processes that were eating up cpu processing capacity. So I'm guessing this caused the noise. But xvidtune was a excellant program thanks again Dean Andrei Ivanov w

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

1999-08-02 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 2 Aug, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Christian Dysthe wrote: > >> Opera will be ready for Linux soon. But Opera is not free. I work for > ^^ > could you be a bit more precisely? > > -- > hafi > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /d

installing linux reboots

1999-08-02 Thread jvinyas
dear linuxers, I'm triying again to install linux on a VXPRO P166. Now without any card (except PCI video card). Every time machine reboots when installing. Finally changing things i optained follw message (about. very fast reboot) Kernel - Netconfig failed allocate buffer hash table. Inswap

Trying Java

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am trying to learn Java and the linux system seemed a good environment. So I got hold of a tutorial that showed how to test javac and java programs. I installed, via apt, jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev. Everytime I run javac I get no error messages and nothing works. I trioed to see what javac was and w

Wangtek 5150EQ tape streamer

1999-08-02 Thread J.M. \"Jersey\" Miszczyk
Hello All, I am trying (unsuccesfully) to configure Wangtek 5150EQ tape streamer with propriatery Wangtek controller. The assembly works with no problems with SCO XENIX and UNIX. Any suggestion will be much appreciated. Best regards J.M. "Jersey" Miszczyk

perl5 again

1999-08-02 Thread Robert Varga
I have the perl packages from the normal slink distribution installed: ii perl5.004.04-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ii perl-base 5.004.04-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii perl-suid 5.004.04-7 Runs setuid Perl scripts. I woul

Using a DPT SmartRAID V controller under Linux

1999-08-02 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, Has anyone out there tried to get a DPT SmartRAID V card working under Debian (slink)? The DPT site has installation boot disks for Red Hat, and from what I can determine, kernel source modifications for 2.2.5, but I'm having dramas getting it working. The documentation that DPT provides is pr

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-02 Thread Patrik Magnusson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (virtanen) writes: > 2) > The screen is impossible to use, because only the panel buttons of fvwm > become so big that there is no room for anything else and almost the all > of the information is 'outside' of the screen. In the manpage f

Re: [Kernel 2.2.10] Mount complains about msdos-drive

1999-08-02 Thread Tor Slettnes
Perhaps the "form factory" kernel-image-2.2.10 does not contain 'msdos' support? If so, you can probably use the 'vfat' filesystem (which is backwards compatible) instead. Or, yes, build your own image (the best way to do that would be via 'make-kpkg'). As for going back to an older kernel-imag

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-02 Thread Marshal Wong
I suggest that you use xf86config. I find that this sets up the /etc/X11/XF86Config file quite well. (I haven't used XF85Setup.) You'll need to know your monitors scan rates and stuff, though. You may have to fiddle with the /etc/X11/XF86Config after though to tweek it optimally. Marshal On Su

proftpd vs wu-ftpd

1999-08-02 Thread Ali Onur UYAR
I am planning to enable anonymous ftp to my linux box. I am aware of two alternatives: proftpd and wu-ftpd. Any advantages of one over another? TIA

Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,

1999-08-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote: > On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies on the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't have a "XkbDisable" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. HTH, Ra

Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)

1999-08-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Salman" == Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, let's see what is still left open. Salman> (3) I noticed that when I was running apt-get from a virtual Salman> console (to upgrade to XF86-3.3.3.1), during the download the Salman> other virtual consoles were 'locked' out. I couldn't swi

Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)

1999-08-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Salman" == Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Salman> At 09:25 PM 7/31/99 , you wrote: >> clear > /tmp/clear.txt # clear is in ncurses-bin >> cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue > /etc/issue.clear >> mv /etc/issue /etc/issue.noclear >> mv /etc/issue.clear /etc/issue Salman> Ok. Just cur

Re: [Kernel 2.2.10] Mount complains about msdos-drive

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jonas Steverud wrote: > Used OS/2's fdisk and boot manager if that matters. Fair enough. I don't know anything about OS/2's fdisk. Your /dev/hda2 may be different. Matthew

Matrox Millenium G200LE

1999-08-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, is the Matrox Millenium G200LE supported by the current 1) XF86 drivers 2) SvgaTextmode 3) SvgaLib My company has brought some new boxes and I wonder if I should take one from the new boxes in favour of my good working one (with Matrox Millenium II). Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-02 Thread Cheshire
I would suggest downloading a new svga xserver if you haven't already. The one off the 2.1 cd was a little outdated when I tried it with a v550 and a fresh one off of ftp.xfree86.org was the solution. Until the accelerated ones from nvidia came out :) |cheshire| virtanen wrote: > > 1) > Managed

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-02 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > The monitor is HL 7870S Hyundai 17". > > What kind of configurations you mean? What you need to do is this: > Get the docs for monitor (or find some info on the net) about vsync/hsync > rates on it. Thats the only info you need. Then, based on input t

Re: Update-menus hanging during dselect / apt-get

1999-08-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Joost, After receiving your request to run your test program to try to catch the update-menu's bug, and having the symptom happen again to me here this evening, here's some more information about the update-menu's bug for your reference. Summary: - Had the symptom happen again. - Was

equivs problem with kdelibs

1999-08-02 Thread Pollywog
I installed the deb package for kcrontab, and my system won't install the source version because it requires include files that were part of an older KDE version. I installed a fake kdelibs package, using equivs and that has worked well until now. I installed the kcrontab package with the --ignor

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> 1) > Managed to get debian slink running in a pention II box. Managed to get > even x running in a way. But. Cool. Lucky you, got P2 :) > > 3) > During XF86Setup (I used that to configure X) I have tried various > possible configurations for the monitor. They make no effect at all. The > card i

Re: How to print with Epson Stylus Color 800

1999-08-02 Thread Brad
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Chip Grandits wrote: > I wish to use an Epson Stylus Color 800 for printing from my Linux > System. You should be able to use this printer with Linux. i use a STC600 with few problems, none serious. AFAIK, Epson Stylys Color printers are among the best-supported non-PostScript

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-02 Thread Gerhard Häring
Hi! No, this is Linux, you don't have to reinstall :-) Well, I have just recently switched to Debian and haven't yet set up all my hardware to work with it (including printer) - SUSE was much friendlier in this respect. My solution for switching from parallel zip drive to printer under SUSE (no re

.Xauthority

1999-08-02 Thread Balasubramanian S
Hello Remco, I am Balu, I am working as a Software Engineer in Digital Equibment India Ltd, Bangalore. I need some calrifications regarding .Xauthority. I have changed my hostname to more than 31 characters, but the uname limitation is 32 character only. I changed the hostname in /e

Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-02 Thread virtanen
1) Managed to get debian slink running in a pention II box. Managed to get even x running in a way. But. 2) The screen is impossible to use, because only the panel buttons of fvwm become so big that there is no room for anything else and almost the all of the information is 'outside' of the scree

Re: smail doesn't read ~/.forward file

1999-08-02 Thread Gene Schafhauser
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 08:52:58AM +0200, you wrote: > Hi, > I am using smail on my debian slink box with 2.2.10 kernel. > I set up my ~/.forward file in order to sort my mail through procmail > ("|/usr/bin/procmail") but it didn't work. > Trying various .forward files, I figured out that this file

(Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-02 Thread virtanen
1) I managed to install Iomega parallel Zip drive on my debian machine just by selecting during the installation process a driver for that. It seems to be working perfectly. 2) Now I just purchased a cheap printer, which according to the documentation of Ghostscript should be working with debian

How to access different trays of a printer

1999-08-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I'm using magicfilter from potato. The target printer is a compaq Pagemarq 20. This printer has three different trays (loaded with two different kinds of A4 paper and the third with A3. There is no special driver contained in magicfilter (ghostscript). So I'm using hplj4m as postscript

Re: potato NIS

1999-08-02 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
It seems that I potato nis package is still working fine for me. Chanop On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 01:03:59PM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: > Marcin Kurc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have upgraded to potato with NIS 3.4-1. Everything worked fine with slink > > NIS package but now I cannot conn

Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,

1999-08-02 Thread Oz Dror
Actually it works fine in xterm, but it is converted to the DELETE character in applications that use ncurses -Oz Robert Pintarelli wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:39:17PM -0700, Oz Dror wrote: > > On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character > > > > the backspace chara

Using emusic on slink

1999-08-02 Thread Mark Brown
I'm having great trouble using emusic on my slink box with GNOME-1.0 updates. When I try to start it up normally it just prints the banner messages and then hangs. With the version in slink, it suspends itself and never returns. When I tried building 0.9-3 from potato it instead gets stuck in

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-08-02 Thread Hartmut Figge
Brian Servis wrote: > If you want something that is only available in the unstable tree you > can always build the source archive against your current setup, it is > fairly straight forward with the Debian source archives. but there are problems with some packages, e.g. postfix-0.0.19990627 refus

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

1999-08-02 Thread Hartmut Figge
Christian Dysthe wrote: > Opera will be ready for Linux soon. But Opera is not free. I work for ^^ could you be a bit more precisely? -- hafi

Three networking questions

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
I've got a P-150 that is running Potato and kernel 2.2.10. It acts as a IP-Masquerading router, a Samba server, an NFS server, and serves other misc roles. I've been having some problems with it lately: 1. I get the message "eth1: Something Wicked Happened! 2008" printed on the console. This also

Multiple FC-10/20 cards (QIC Tape drives)?

1999-08-02 Thread Paul Miller
Is it possible to have multiple FC-10/20 (jumperless) cards in one machine? I'd like to put 3 of them in the same machine for simultaneous opperation. I'm using kernel 2.2.11pre4 with ftape and zftape compiled as modules. Thanks -Paul

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