Re: SoundBlaster AWE 64 and 486DX33?

1999-08-04 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:05:10AM +0100, John Gay wrote: > > I recently came across a deal on a SoundBlaster AWE 64 ISA card and was > wondering what the chances were I could get it to work in a 486DX33 I have set > up as an X-Terminal to a PII 350? The 486 only has ISA slots, so I'm limited > t

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Michael Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It does look like escape sequences, but what key would produce ?[4~ > ... the closest I can find is PgDn which produces ^[[4~. Is there > a table/chart/listing of these somewhere for a linux term? console_codes(4), but I don´t know how the codes men

Re: postscript

1999-08-04 Thread Colin Marquardt
* erasmo perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > does somebody knows some package that enables me to convert from gif, > jpg, tif, etc to Postscript format? You´ll want to be careful with that, as most converters (or things like "open Gimp, load file, save file as EPS") will give you really large EPS

Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system)

1999-08-04 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hi, "All them backup mails, they make my head swim." (almost cited from the Gnus manual) * Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I don't backup system files. I backup kernels, /etc and > /var/lib/dpkg/status* files. I also collect a list of installed > debs I can reinstall from

Re: a quick scsi question

1999-08-04 Thread Paul Miller
Aaron Solochek wrote: > > This is not debian specific, but I figure someone on this list will know > the answer. Now I know you are supposed to terminate the end of each > scsi chain, but whats the difference between any of the plugs on the > chain? its just a ribbon cable, so wouldn't it be ok

Help - IDE tape drive devices?

1999-08-04 Thread Jon Dallara
Hi All, Just installed a new IDE tape drive on my system but I can't figure out how to create the device files for it. Tried MAKEDEV but it didn't help. From dmesg: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf hda: IBM-

Re: CD Image...

1999-08-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >there should be 4 discs.. > >1. Debian Slink Disc 1 [base system + softwares] >2. Debian Slink Disc 2 [contrib] >3. Non-free [qt etc] >4. Non-US [ssh, etc] That's just _wrong_. There are 4 official images: 1. Main binary section 1, bootable where possibl

LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-04 Thread joost witteveen
So I thought I know how to work with LILO. And I *thought* done this many times before (years ago). But... I want to prepare a harddisk (that should later become the root FS) So I put it in my system (it was found as hdc), and mounted it as /mnt I put in the lilo.conf file: boot=/dev/hdc ro

Re: PS printing question

1999-08-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Johan Dewaele wrote: > [snip] > * When trying to print files from gv or gimp or acroread etc, I get or > nothing or on the printer : > > Error: /undefined in FFF > Operand stack: > Execution st

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread David Warnock
Many thanks George. Dave > As the final entry in the section under directors: > > smart: > driver = smartuser > new_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

slink problems

1999-08-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Um, it's quite annoying to be constantly interrupted to interact various programs during the configuration phase of a Debian install. If it's an absolute requirement for configuration scripts to be able to ask questions, then perhaps there could be two categories, ones which never ask questions an

ppp fails "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests"

1999-08-04 Thread Not Again
For the first time I'm having difficulty establishing Linux ppp connections, with a recently opened ISP account. pppconfig has done well enough on my numerous previous setups, with only an occasional script tweak, that I've never had to debug Linux ppp connections before. If I keep trying (without

Re: Installation von Debian

1999-08-04 Thread Egon Schmid
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dieter Müller wrote: > Hallo! > Ich habe die größten Probleme Debian zu installieren, weil mein Rechner > den Kernel weder von der CD-ROM noch von Diskette bootet. > Könnten Sie mir evtl. eine einfache Installationsanleitung und > Fehlerbehebung an folgende Adresse schick

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Merten
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > > I have a file named : > > > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > > > ... in my home directory. > > > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for

PS printing question

1999-08-04 Thread Johan Dewaele
Hello, Being new to Linux , I've got problems printing PS files on a HP Deskjet 400 (color + bw) On my system : Debian GNU Linux slink v2.1 LPRng 3.5.2-1.3 apsfilter 4.9.7-5 gv 3.5.8 gs 5.10 As

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread David Warnock
George and everyone else. Thanks for the help. We are now relay free according to all the tests I can do. I have put exim on the firewall and am currently directly accessing it via pop3 (qpopper). Now I would like to instead relay from exim on the firewall to exim inside the firewall. How do I d

Installation von Debian

1999-08-04 Thread Dieter Müller
Hallo! Ich habe die größten Probleme Debian zu installieren, weil mein Rechner den Kernel weder von der CD-ROM noch von Diskette bootet. Könnten Sie mir evtl. eine einfache Installationsanleitung und Fehlerbehebung an folgende Adresse schicken, da ich vom Computer meines Vaters schreibe und selb

problem with sbpcd module

1999-08-04 Thread damiaan
hi, when i try to install the sbpcd-module in the installation program i get following message: eval:1:syntax error: eof in backquote substitution script:cd /dev && rm -f cdrom && ln -s sbpcd0 cdrom eval:1:syntax error: eof in backquote substitution installation succeeded i hav

unpredictable gcc behavior (not signal 11) with recent slink system

1999-08-04 Thread Timothy Burt
Hello All, I just last week installed slink 2.1_r2 on a new machine and am now having trouble with gcc during large compiles (the kernel, for example). So far, gcc has never reported signal 11, only signal 6. The problem is unpredictable in the sense that the compile always fails but rarely in

Fetchmail and Exim - 554 SMTP service not available

1999-08-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
I can collect mail via smtp from Demon Internet, I can also collect mail from Demon and other IPs using fetchmail and Procmail. I can't seem to get Fetchmail to hand mail on to Exim for local delivery. My .fetcmailrc looks like this: poll mail.btinternet.com protocol pop3 password xxx When I

Re: need help about video card and Win98

1999-08-04 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Alfredo Pacaon wrote: > 2.) Dual boot was successful but when I went into > Win98 and opened explorer, my computer hanged. (I > think it was trying to access the linux partition...) That's rigth ! It already happened to me some months ago(year !?). I resolve it adding to the config.sys the fo

RE: sudo

1999-08-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Aug-99 jason wrote: > The trusted users aren't bright enough to user vipw..actually if you know > of a > passwd command that i can script to would be great too.. thanks though > Please let me know if you find a solution, because someone on IRC was asking the same question this morning. th

Re: How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP

1999-08-04 Thread Pawel Mazur
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Sorry to reply to my own post but I manged to sort it out. > Believe it or not, I simply ram pppconfig and opted for PAP > and Debian configured everything for me. I was about to tell you about configuring ppp connection with pppconfig but I assumed th

a quick scsi question

1999-08-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
This is not debian specific, but I figure someone on this list will know the answer. Now I know you are supposed to terminate the end of each scsi chain, but whats the difference between any of the plugs on the chain? its just a ribbon cable, so wouldn't it be ok if you terminate _any_ device on

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-08-04 Thread Richard A Nelson
On 2 Aug 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > You tell me. I have glibc 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2pre installations here with > both NIS servers and clients on them, and for me it all simply works. > Alas I cannot reproduce the problems that other people are having with > NIS, and I am really trying. So, I

Re: How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP

1999-08-04 Thread Ian Winter
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:26:54AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use > ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is to > compile ppp with ma-chap support. > I don't think they do. I dial up and connect usin

Re: postscript

1999-08-04 Thread Greg Baker
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, erasmo perez wrote: > does somebody knows some package that enables me to convert from gif, > jpg, tif, etc to Postscript format? Have a look at either netpbm or imagemagick packages. Netpbm might do what you want; Imagemagick does. You'll probably need to install gs to do Po

Re: How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP

1999-08-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use > ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is > to > compile ppp with ms-chap support. Sorry to reply to my own post but I manged to sort it out. I did recompil

Re: Anyone using an S3 Trio3D/2X graphic card ?

1999-08-04 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:54:08PM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > > > Just take a look at very new XFree86 3.3.4 - as I remember it has support > > for S3 Trio3D. Just take server (SVGA or S3 or S3V?) from address: > > > > ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3

Re: kernel read/write

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Edward Christman
I am trying to implement ioctls with a network driver. However I am confused as to where the driver is. In order to find the file descriptor of a character devices one simply uses file =fopen("dev/foo","r"); fd=fileno(file); and ioctl(fd,cmd,arg); but the network interface doesn't appear

problem with sbpcd-module

1999-08-04 Thread damiaan
hi, when i try to install the sbpcd-module in the installation program i get following message: eval:1:syntax error: eof in backquote substitution script:cd /dev && rm -f cdrom && ln -s sbpcd0 cdrom eval:1:syntax error: eof in backquote substitution installation succeeded i have

postscript

1999-08-04 Thread erasmo perez
hallo does somebody knows some package that enables me to convert from gif, jpg, tif, etc to Postscript format? thanks

re clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-08-04 Thread Christopher Clark
Don't know the answer to the problem but, my NIS client couldn't bind to my NIS server (itself) until one day I set up a DNS server (another computer) for my Intranet. Then NIS started working. Both computers are in /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf says try hosts first. I'm confused.

qt-doc (slink)

1999-08-04 Thread Christian Surchi
I've installed qt-doc package of slink. Now I see a file /variable in the root. kgb:~# dpkg -S /variables qt-doc: /variables This file is empty. I think it's strange, isn't it? :o PLEASE SEND ME A CC BECAUSE I'M NOT SUBSCRIBED TO THIS LIST. TIA. -- Christian Surchi | www.

Re: need help about video card and Win98

1999-08-04 Thread Robert Rati
> 1.) I couldn't run the X Windows GUI because I > couldn't setup my video card(RivaTNT) which had 16Mb > memory. There are now drivers for the RivaTNT, so you should be alright there. > 2.) Dual boot was successful but when I went into > Win98 and opened explorer, my computer hanged. (I > thi

Shell will not start for root and ppp broke

1999-08-04 Thread Bill
Hi, Last night I had some bizzare things happen with my system. First, I can't seem to use ppp anymore. Last night I started ppp with sudo and everything began to work normally with my modem dialing and begginning to negotiate a connection with my isp. But, then I heard my modem click off and I s

Re: [Systalk] FileMaker Pro and Linux/UNIX/Whatever

1999-08-04 Thread David L. Nicol
Jack Wilkinson wrote: > > does anyone know of a way to open FileMaker Pro files (.fp3) in any kind > of UNIX derivative? Linux is preferable, but not necessary... Tell FileMaker to export them as comma delimited.

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Ares wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: [...] > SCSI sounds fun :) > > > Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that > > there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end

RE: sudo

1999-08-04 Thread jason
The trusted users aren't bright enough to user vipw..actually if you know of a passwd command that i can script to would be great too.. thanks though -j On Wed, 04 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: > On 04-Aug-99 jason wrote: > > I need sudo to allow others to change passwords for users? How do i set >

need help about video card and Win98

1999-08-04 Thread Alfredo Pacaon
Hi there! I tried installing Linux(Red Hat 5.0) about a month ago and I encountered the following problems. 1.) I couldn't run the X Windows GUI because I couldn't setup my video card(RivaTNT) which had 16Mb memory. 2.) Dual boot was successful but when I went into Win98 and opened explorer, m

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Bruce Walzer
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:25:28PM -0500, x x wrote: > Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to > use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, > "applications", and data). [...] > I have thought about trying to use a CD-RW device,

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Ares wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: > > > One cause of confusion is that the manual doesn't actually say what the 25 > > pin port on the scanner is for, it only shows the cable being plugged into > > the 50 pin port. Is it safe to assume that t

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > > The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics > > port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable > > that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. > > Most likely, the 25 pin p

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-04 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: > > > Exactly. The power goes off while booting. It has something to do with > > BIOS settings, I think, (not linux) (PnP BIOS) All the 'Advanced power > > management...' and so on are 'disabled'. No 'power-saving features are > > compiled in'. It seems to

RE: sudo

1999-08-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Aug-99 jason wrote: > I need sudo to allow others to change passwords for users? How do i set > this > up? I added passwd to the admins profiles in my sudoers file yet whenever > i try > to run this as on of the admins it says that they aren't allowed to > change > passwd for this user?? any

sudo

1999-08-04 Thread jason
I need sudo to allow others to change passwords for users? How do i set this up? I added passwd to the admins profiles in my sudoers file yet whenever i try to run this as on of the admins it says that they aren't allowed to change passwd for this user?? any help would be appreciated .. thanks. -j

Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 12:49:04PM +0200, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > After my system (kernel 2.2.5) is running for more than a few days, > I can't play sounds anymore and get these syslog messages: > > Aug 4 12:37:40 eule kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer You might try flushing DMA

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The very idea of all one's system software in a set of homogeneous > > .deb files is probably foreign to most unix administrators. > > Only those with "home brew" systems. In institutional settings it's > also a matter of w

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-04 Thread Patrick Olson
> Exactly. The power goes off while booting. It has something to do with > BIOS settings, I think, (not linux) (PnP BIOS) All the 'Advanced power > management...' and so on are 'disabled'. No 'power-saving features are > compiled in'. It seems to be the case that if I shut down the machine > compl

Re: ext2 spec

1999-08-04 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:45:49AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Where can I find info on the ext2 file system? I'm writing an OS and will > probably need ext2 support... > You're writing an OS ???!! Very ambitious ! What kind of OS ? Why ? Linux isn't great ? Why not adding functions

FileMaker Pro and Linux/UNIX/Whatever

1999-08-04 Thread Jack Wilkinson
does anyone know of a way to open FileMaker Pro files (.fp3) in any kind of UNIX derivative? Linux is preferable, but not necessary... -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- M. Jackson Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: 215-491-0801 Voicemail: 877-832-9021

Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
Ahh... I stand corrected. I really should avoid answering mail relaying questions in hte middle of the night! Just as a side-note, it is a silly option anyway, isn't it? I've not used it for anything useful... yet. On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote:

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, George Bonser wrote: > There is one MAJOR flaw with tar. If there is an error anywhere in the > archive, ALL files after the error are lost. Better to use afio instead of > tar. At most you will loose only the file where the error is. Use the option: --ignore-failed-read. (th

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
This worked. I feel silly... that was TOO simple. Thanks Shao. p.s. Using single-quotes didn't work, unless I misread and it was supposed to be single-backquotes? On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > have you tried > > rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > > On Wed, Au

Weird trouble

1999-08-04 Thread Rick Smith
Hello All I have a Cable Modem and I allow certain people to Dial in to my box to get net access, since 5 days ago they have not been able to get in some windows message like the host has diconected you! Well I am happy to say I DID NOT TOUCH A THING in a long time its been running like a ch

Re: Mutt

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Mine looks like this: my_hdr From: \"$realname\" \<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There are some wonderfull .muttrc files at www.mutt.org On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 06:15:08PM +0200, Jocke wrote: > Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. > Could anyone help me out? > > I am using Mutt and I run it fro

Re: printer help

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Just had a quick look of the stylus_color_720dpi-filter. The first couple of lines look like: # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dSpotSize='{2.6 2.4 2.6 2}' -sOutputFile=- - 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Ares
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: > One cause of confusion is that the manual doesn't actually say what the 25 > pin port on the scanner is for, it only shows the cable being plugged into > the 50 pin port. Is it safe to assume that the 25 pin port is also for > SCSI? > > Would it be enough

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Robert Rati
> The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics > port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable > that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. Most likely, the 25 pin plug is also SCSI. 25-pin and 50-pin Cent were both out about the

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Gary L. Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I guess I don't see the logic here. If one of the binaries on your > > backup has a Trojan that, presumably, means that before you did the > > backup you were running a system that had a Trojan. I would ass

SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
I just bought a 2nd hand SCSI scanner (it should work with linux), but since I've never used SCSI devices in my life I'm not quite sure what I need. The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that came

Re: modem reporting a lot of errors

1999-08-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:40:50AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > I am getting a lot of errors for my ppp0 interface. > ifconfig shows: > > ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > inet addr:129.94.16.27 P-t-P:129.94.15.6 > Mask:255.255.255.255 >

Re: Formating a HD into VFAT

1999-08-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:01:52AM -0700, Gregory Vandenbrouck wrote: > I need a tool to format my hard drive into vfat under linux. Superformat > (and old fdformat) only deal with floppies. Do you know if what I am looking > for exists ? Format for FAT or VFAT ist the same. It's mkdosfs and it's

Lockups

1999-08-04 Thread Benjamin Suto
We recently upgraded to a mroe recent version of unstable, and we're getting errors on the console "lost mailbox lock", going up the screen. After a day or two, we get those messages coming really quickly, and the system is locked. These messages only show up on console, and not in any of the lo

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-04 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post > this but anyway... > > I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately > when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen > pops back. When I start X b

Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Look at the May 1999 archives for this list, with the subject > > Can't allocate DMA buffer > > (as opposed to Couldn't!) for a clearer explanation than I could give. > Hm, now I check the whole archive of 1999 and can't find it. Could > it have been on a different list maybe? No, it is there

Re: Video Card

1999-08-04 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Dave Swegen wrote: > If you have an AMD CPU or a not particularly high spec CPU Voodoo3 is by > all accounts the best choice, since it isn't as dependent on the host CPU. > According to Darryll Strauss (the developer of the linux version of Glide > and the X sever) voodoo3 has probably the best 2d

dpkg problem (rather serious)

1999-08-04 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, Yesterday I was trying to run apt-get to update my gmc package when somethig weird happened and it had a major lock (I think it locked when running dpkg)... Now, dpkg refuses to run because, when reading the database, it finds a problem in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.list file... The init

Apache crash shot entire machine

1999-08-04 Thread Alexander List
Hi! I had a serious problem today with Apache, it took the whole machine to nirvana. Did anyone experience similar problems? Aug 4 10:44:58 debian kernel: Warning: possible SYN flood from 194.177.131.33 on 195.202.146.60:53. Sending cookies. Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: Unable to handle ker

modem reporting a lot of errors

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am getting a lot of errors for my ppp0 interface. ifconfig shows: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:129.94.16.27 P-t-P:129.94.15.6 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metr

Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi David, thanks a lot for your fast reply! > > Unloading the sound kernel modules doesn't help either. > No, that should make things worse. Really? Interesting. > Look at the May 1999 archives for this list, with the subject > Can't allocate DMA buffer > (as opposed to Couldn't!) for a clearer

Re: Mutt

1999-08-04 Thread Marcin Kurc
my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] should work. On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 06:15:08PM +0200, Jocke wrote: > Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. > Could anyone help me out? > > I am using Mutt and I run it from an > account with user "josv" > > My internet provider email is > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom

1999-08-04 Thread Walter Logeman
Jocke Nice to get the encouragment... > dselect works just fine if you just have 2.1 cds. I do and I must have installed the basics on the HDD, but still stuck there. > enter the [A]ccess and choose multi_cd Done > then run [U]pdate for each cd (actually the last one) > if you

Mutt

1999-08-04 Thread Jocke
Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. Could anyone help me out? I am using Mutt and I run it from an account with user "josv" My internet provider email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] How should I set up Mutt to have all my outgoing mail show: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of From: Jocke <[E

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-04 Thread Raphael clancy
I had the same problem, and I found that there were a couple of things that could be behind it first it could be a bad xsession file, or it could be an issue with the window manager, either it's not correctly installed, or the /etc/X11/window-managers file is trying to start a windowmanager

Formating a HD into VFAT

1999-08-04 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, I need a tool to format my hard drive into vfat under linux. Superformat (and old fdformat) only deal with floppies. Do you know if what I am looking for exists ? Please, include me in the reply since I am not on this mailing list. Thanks for any help, and have a nice day :o)

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gary L. Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, x x wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software > > > combination to use to make frequent FULL backups > > > of a Debian system > > > (op

printer help

1999-08-04 Thread Jocke
Hi all, I can't get lpr to work properly. I guess I am just unexperienced so some hints and advice would be appreciated. I have a pretty slim potato setup. gs-aladdin lprng magicfilter - printcap file: lp|epson|EPSON STYLUS color 740:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\

Re: Insmod ppa errors

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Wendell Buckner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When I use Insmod ppa (to connect my zip 100 iomega drive via parrallel > port), I get the following error: > > ver 1.42 > probing port 03bc > probing port 0278 > 0 hosts > /lib/modules/2.0.36./scsi/ppa.0 device or resource busy > > Does any one hav

Re: slink not updating ?

1999-08-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 4 August 1999, at 14 h 53, the keyboard of "Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ? > I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports, > security warnings etc... http://s

Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: > >If you have the "relay-domains-include-local-MX = true" in your > >/etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists > >your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I thin

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Re: Freeserve CD workaround?

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 18:38 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 05:38:40PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > DoeS aNyBody have the method for installing freeserve without using the CD > > handy, please? or a URL? > > Go to the website using some existing network connection and f

Soundcard volume problems

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
I've had an annoying problem with the volume on my soundcard for some time now, and it is really annoying me now. Since I use headphones I don't want the volume to be set very high, so I use aumix to set the volume when I log in. However, a number of programs insist on setting it to a much higher l

Re: Video Card

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:26 -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > > " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > > > ...from what I've gathered 2D support is a little immature, and it's > > > really hard to render into a window... > > > > Actually, the Voodoo3 drivers

Re: slink not updating ?

1999-08-04 Thread Peter Makholm
"Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ? > I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports, > security warnings etc... Look at security.debian.org for security updates. -- I congrat

Re: Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom

1999-08-04 Thread Walter Logeman
Jocke, Thanks for the reply... > in /etc/apt/sources.list add the following lines > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US I forgot to mention that I am not yet connected with ppp, so i presume this won't

slink not updating ?

1999-08-04 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
Hello, does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ? I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports, security warnings etc... -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk

Re: CD Image...

1999-08-04 Thread ¯»¥Ö - Å]¤l¤p©j - [Agent 1.5 v32\ ]
there should be 4 discs.. 1. Debian Slink Disc 1 [base system + softwares] 2. Debian Slink Disc 2 [contrib] 3. Non-free [qt etc] 4. Non-US [ssh, etc] ¦b Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:12:42 +0800 (SST), »Õ¤U¼g¹D... >Hi... there are 2 CD images in the cdimage directory... does disk 2 >contains contrib or t

Insmod ppa errors

1999-08-04 Thread Wendell Buckner
When I use Insmod ppa (to connect my zip 100 iomega drive via parrallel port), I get the following error:   ver 1.42 probing port 03bc probing port 0278 0 hosts /lib/modules/2.0.36./scsi/ppa.0 device or resource busy   Does any one have any ideas about this one?   By the way, I tested the z

Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom

1999-08-04 Thread Walter Logeman
I am in the process of installing Debian 2.1 for the first time. I have gone through the process where my machine now boots into Linux from the floppy and I can flounder around enough to see that I have heaps of directories and files and am playing around with commands, learning as i go. I wonder

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: >If you have the "relay-domains-include-local-MX = true" in your >/etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists >your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was >the original question. This is eit

Re: Magicfilter and printing (Epson stylus 400)

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > When switching to slink I purchased a cheap Epson Stylus color 400 and > installed 'magicfilter'. > > As being new to 'magicfilter' it took some time to find out that I > have to run 'magicfilterconfig' to get it working at all. > > Now I managed to g

Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Andy Spiegl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi! > > After my system (kernel 2.2.5) is running for more than a few days, > I can't play sounds anymore and get these syslog messages: > > Aug 4 12:37:40 eule kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer > > Unloading the sound kernel modules d

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Eberhard Burr
Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a file named : > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > ... in my home directory. > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in > bash. bash will properly escape it if you use file-name completion. Thus if yo

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alex Shnitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > > I have a file named : > > > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > > > ... in my home directory. > > > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > I have a file named : > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > ... in my home directory. > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in > bash. Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but

Re: How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP

1999-08-04 Thread Pawel Mazur
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use > ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is to > compile ppp with ma-chap support. > I have never compiled an essential app like ppp before - I am concerned >

Apachectl can't find pid

1999-08-04 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, I have a small problem with restarting apache after it's initial start at boot time. It send me something like: /init.d/apache restart apachetcl can't find pid 12345 apache failed In the error.log there is also a warning [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown

Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! After my system (kernel 2.2.5) is running for more than a few days, I can't play sounds anymore and get these syslog messages: Aug 4 12:37:40 eule kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer Unloading the sound kernel modules doesn't help either. I have no idea what is causing this.

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