upgrade or not upgrade, that is the question

1999-08-25 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
Hi all, I wonder if I'm gonna upgrade my firewall from 2.0.36 to 2.2.10 kernel version. The helpz in menuconfig seems to say there's a lot of makenode, ipchains instead of ipfwadm... to do. But I read somewhere that 2.0.36 has security failures, so do you think I should upgrade or not? My net is

Re: Postgresql 6.5 - compiling errors

1999-08-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > My effort to create a .deb package from the postresql-source failed with > the following error message: > > dh_perl -p libpgperl > make: dh_perl: Command not found > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 127 > > > How can I

Re: debian/rules fails to form .deb packages

1999-08-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > Previously I used dpkg-source -x .dsc and debian/rules to create > .deb packages from files in potato/main/source for my slink system. > > The last few times however it failed and I had to do dpkg-buildpackage to > ge

ftp install base system?

1999-08-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
Is it possible to install the base system via ftp? I'm trying to install on a system without a CD-ROM drive (and each one I've tried to install won't work for some reason), and floppies aren't cutting it. I would think that it would be possible since the installer is prompted to set up the network

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:14:06AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > > 1. hdc has been a CD-ROM since the second I booted the Debian install CD. > > Will anything bad happen if hdc is suddenly a hard disk and hdd is now

Re: AWE64 Problems

1999-08-25 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Did you compile sound support directly into the kernel, or as a module. pnptools needs to initialize the card before the driver kernel grabs it, which means that you need to compile it as a module. On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:25:20AM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > I have a Creative Labs AWE64 (ISA

Re: module aliases

1999-08-25 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Thanx for everyone's help on this! As you pointed out, the message relates to supporting a second sound card, which isn't present on my system. So I just need to alias it off. I appreciate the info!

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Gareth
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 > SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) >the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on >the screen is... Downloadi

Re: spam

1999-08-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi my first cut guess... add his ip# or domain name into /etc/hosts.deny and restart inetd if you are using smail w/ -bd option and restart smail on your mail server: /etc/hosts.deny rsmtp: FakeSpamTest.your_domain.com # rsmtp: spammer.com

Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?

1999-08-25 Thread Nathan Duehr
Typically when people refer to using "DSL" for ISP access, they're talking about ADSL or RADSL which is an analog signal and requires that you be within 12,000 - 18,000 cable feet of the service Central Office. This depends on a number of other items including cable gauge and the presence of gauge

RE: apt-get KDE?

1999-08-25 Thread B. Szyszka
> Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list (or replace slink with > potato if that's what your using): > deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty When I did that and ran apt-get update, it couldn't connect to that server. Are there any other apt sources I can use? Also, how come

I don't seem to have gotten fonts with my tetex

1999-08-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
This is one I've never seen before. I don't seem to have gotten fonts with my tetex. Here's the really simple file: %% This LaTeX-file was created by Wed Aug 25 16:58:29 1999 %% LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1999 by Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team %% Do not edit this file unless you know what you are d

Compiling servlets for Apache JServ

1999-08-25 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
Hi! I probably missed something obvious, but I can't figure out how to compile servlets for Apache JServ. I have a file called `ServletTest.java' and that imports the javax.servlet.* packages. When I type `javac ServletTest.java', it complains that it cannot find the javax.servlet.* packages. I'm

Re: fvwm2 configuration

1999-08-25 Thread John Carline
Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 25 Aug, John Carline wrote about "Re: fvwm2 configuration" > > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I use fvwm2 as a window manager in slink. In > >> /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc, the FvwmPager module is started with one > >> desk, after .fvwm2/post.

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread William Park
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 10:55:59AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:47:48AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > > > boot, 'Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.' > > Yes, I see this on bootup and the mouse does work with gpm so I think the > problem is related to X only. > > > Protoc

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 09:18:11AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: > Hi all, > > Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what > I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. > > gpm works fine with it. X does not. I have tried every mou

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:14:06AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > 1. hdc has been a CD-ROM since the second I booted the Debian install CD. > Will anything bad happen if hdc is suddenly a hard disk and hdd is now the > CD-ROM? I haven't actually used the CD-ROM since I finished installing, > so t

Re: network firewalling situation

1999-08-25 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 03:43:10PM -0400, Dan DeMond wrote: > Hi all, > I'm setting up a machine here to take over the job of our firewall > temporarily. Both machines have the same network cards in the same > configuration. The current firewall is a debian 2.0 machine running > kernel 2.0.

debian/rules fails to form .deb packages

1999-08-25 Thread Johann Spies
Previously I used dpkg-source -x .dsc and debian/rules to create .deb packages from files in potato/main/source for my slink system. The last few times however it failed and I had to do dpkg-buildpackage to get .deb's. Why would that be? I was the case with postgresql_6.5, pine, cdrecord-1.8a23

Postgresql 6.5 - compiling errors

1999-08-25 Thread Johann Spies
My effort to create a .deb package from the postresql-source failed with the following error message: dh_perl -p libpgperl make: dh_perl: Command not found make: *** [binary-arch] Error 127 How can I correct that? Johann

spam

1999-08-25 Thread zdrysdal
i am running Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2 on Debian 1.3 with kernal 2.0.33 and i would like to find a way to stop a single spammer who is reeking havoc on our system. Is there an attribute or a file i can set up to block out this particular spammer in smail?? thanx.

Re: Another Partition spacing... - mine -

1999-08-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/hda1 20M 17M 1.8M 90% / > /dev/hda3 581M 179M 372M 33% /var > /dev/hda5 1.6G 274M 1.3G 18% /usr > /dev/hda6 1.2

Re: diald and debian..

1999-08-25 Thread Tony Tang
Try to make it one as the last step during bootup. On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:53:59 -0500, you wrote: >Michael Fox wrote: >> >> hiya >> >> Anyone experienced problems with diald and debian.. is it possible that the >> paranoid stuff ran at system startup and the icmplogd will cause issues with >>

Re: ftp trouble - cannot chroot

1999-08-25 Thread Andreas Piesk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- on Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I am having some trouble to chroot all the users when they ftp. > > Using the standard in.ftpd from netstd package, I created a file > /etc/ftpchroot with one line: shao. > > But when I ftp as

Re: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-25 Thread Andreas Piesk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- on Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I've decided to play around with KDE a little, but I've run into > a problem. In adding programs to the panel, the icon I select is > ignored and replaced with the plain ol KDE cog. > > I'm running potato, BTW. > > A sear

Re: apt-get KDE?

1999-08-25 Thread Tom Allard
Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list (or replace slink with potato if that's what your using): deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me.

Re: installation hang up at SCSI card

1999-08-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jinghua Liu wrote: : I couldn't install Debian because the boot kernel hangs up at the : SCSI card(2940). There are thousands of bug reports about this. : : Are the debian people still working? Why didn't they try to do anything : about it? They're all playing Unreal?

Re: diald and debian..

1999-08-25 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Michael Fox wrote: > > hiya > > Anyone experienced problems with diald and debian.. is it possible that the > paranoid stuff ran at system startup and the icmplogd will cause issues with > diald? > I am having a problem with diald causing my system to lock up at boot time; don't know if that's r

installation hang up at SCSI card

1999-08-25 Thread Jinghua Liu
I couldn't install Debian because the boot kernel hangs up at the SCSI card(2940). There are thousands of bug reports about this. Are the debian people still working? Why didn't they try to do anything about it? Is there anyone know the solution? Thanks.

Midi sound fonts: where?

1999-08-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I have an AWE32 sound card with midi support. I'm using 2.2.11 and I couldn't find the sbk files (e.g. synthgm.sbk). Where should I look for these files? (I tried the sound blaster cdrom for win95). Any suggestion? Thanks, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a

network firewalling situation

1999-08-25 Thread Dan DeMond
Hi all, I'm setting up a machine here to take over the job of our firewall temporarily. Both machines have the same network cards in the same configuration. The current firewall is a debian 2.0 machine running kernel 2.0.29 on an i486. The temp machine is an i386, debian 2.1, kernel 2.2.

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 07:23:35PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > As it happens, I found the answer in the Linux Gazette - they have an > excellent article on Setting up Exim for a home network > (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/stumpel.html I use a different approach, with fetchmail's multi

Re: CDRW 8100i help

1999-08-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Wed, 25 Aug, 1999 à 02:16:46AM -0500, Geocrawler.com wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > Be sure to reply to that address. > > Hi all, [...] > I am wondering if anyone could give me some > ideas if something is wrong with my CDRW

Att: IMport ; Export Director

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Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 > SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) > the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on the >

Re: fvwm2 configuration

1999-08-25 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello E.L., On 24-Aug-99, you wrote: EM\} Hi all, EM\} EM\} I use fvwm2 as a window manager in slink. In EM\} /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc, the FvwmPager module is started with EM\} one desk, after .fvwm2/post.hook is read. I like to start FvwmPager EM\} with three desks, and do that in my post

Installing Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2300 problem

1999-08-25 Thread Krzysztof Adamski
I'm trying to install debian on the dell, the second scsi controller is detected (it has only a cdrom drive) but the first one is not. Do I need a different rescue disk or just different parameters to the kernel. There is already RedHat on the system, but the kernel that comes with it does not wo

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phillip, > > Its seems to me that you havent read the manpage. Specifically, > the sections about the '-m', the '-u', and the user authentication. It seems to me you didn't read my original query. I did read the manpage, -m appears to refer to the mail de

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You could try to fetch it via fetchmail like you already do and then > sort > it according the To:-header in the recipient´s mailbox via procmail > (try > ´man procmail´ and ´man procmailrc´ for documentation). Thanks, Jerry (and others who responded). Your suggestion

Re: teTeX and DWWW

1999-08-25 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Marc Haber wrote: > When I use DWWW to access the teTeX-Documentation, I can get through > fine to > http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc > /texmf > while torres.gf1.internal is my Debian box. However, none of the links > on that page work (Example: > http

Multiple EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA cards?

1999-08-25 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to add a second Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA NIC card to a system and have had no luck so far. I've read the Ethernet HOWTO and Multiple Ethernet Card Mini-HOWTO but the advice in there hasn't helped so far. First I installed the second NIC and configured it using 'softset2' to NOT P

terminal to serial device on startup?

1999-08-25 Thread Dan DeMond
Hi all, I'm trying to get a terminal console session to my serial devices on startup. I've looked around for different terminal emulators and found one called "screen". I added the line "10:23:respawn:/usr/local/bin/screen /dev/ttyS0" to my /etc/inittab, but screen seems to take

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread vw
Sorry, forgot to put debian in the adress-field. It's getting late here in denmark... Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: Wichmann, Viggo > Sendt:25. august 1999 20:11 > Til: 'Patrick Olson' > Emne: Re: more RAM = more spee

Re: module aliases

1999-08-25 Thread Mike
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Periodically I get the following messages in my logfiles: > > modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-1 > modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-1-0 > Something is trying to access a second sound card. As you only have one soundcar

apt-get KDE?

1999-08-25 Thread B. Szyszka
Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to apt-get KDE. I'm having trouble finding that. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Configuring printer (HP 870Cxi)

1999-08-25 Thread
Hi to all I'm using Debian Potato and, I must say, it's wonderful, even if it's unstable (sometimes WindowMaker 0.6 freezes, and sometimes the entire system crashes with strange errors). However a big problem I'm having is about printing. I'm using an HP Deskjet 870Cxi  printer, I configured /etc

Re: strange bug in useradd in potato ?!?

1999-08-25 Thread Ashley Clark
Quoting Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, All > > i'm running potato and just tried to upgrated telnetd to 0.14-1 > and this is what i got: > > Setting up telnetd (0.14-1) ... > adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists. > Adding system user telnetd... > Adding new group

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-08-25 Thread joost witteveen
If I put in my configure.in: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(foo(a), bar a) then in the created config.h (or on the gcc commandline) I get: #define foo (a) bar a ^space This doesn't work, I need to have: #define foo(a) bar a At the moment I `solve' this by doing: sed -e 's/ *(/(/' < config.

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > Heh, netscape is a bit of a memory hog. After running it for a few days, I > have seen it eating more than 60megs -- even with only one window open. I > understand that calls to free the memory don't always make the OS actually > reclaim it -- which make

smail delays messages

1999-08-25 Thread Debian Mail
I use apt-get to keep my system up to date. Suddenly, smail shows an annoying behaviour: When mail for local users arrives, it is stored in /var/spool/smail/input and only delivered to /var/spool/mail the next time smail runs through the queue (about 10 to 15 minutes later). Any idea why smail doe

hardware...

1999-08-25 Thread Don Custer
To the good folks at Debian... I have two short questions which I hope can be answered with two short answers. I failed to find pertaining answers in the FAQs. 1. I am going to buy a new computer (to replace my 1991 dinosaur). I want it to be powered by Debian Linux. Are there any particular

Re: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How did you install KDE? I grabed the sources from a mirror of ftp.kde.org > and compiled them myself, and I can add icons to my panel without problems. > I am using slink, though. I installed from debs I picked up from http://kde.tdyc.com. I figured out a way to get i

Re: fvwm2 configuration

1999-08-25 Thread d1temp
On 25 Aug, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:37:35PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> *- On 25 Aug, John Carline wrote about "Re: fvwm2 configuration" >> > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: >> > > [ problems to get a pager with multiple desks in fvwm2 ] > Yup, I did not want to b

RE: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Hans van den Boogert
>The crackling sound sounds like the scan that updates your find dB. When you >do a find on your computer it checks this dB for locations of things(to be >simple). Anyway I think you Linux parts are too big, hence it seems as if it >locking up. I had this problem. I would split /dev/hda7 and /dev/

Re: Another Partition spacing...

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Vence
Thanx I think I'll do: root 256M swap 256M var 1G usr 3G home 3.5G Thanx again -- Greg. " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:19:02AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: > > > What about: > > >root 1.5GB > > >v

Re: Hewlett Packard Colorado 5Gb TAPE

1999-08-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
It should work if you enable the following in your kernel: Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE) [Y/n/?] Include IDE/ATAPI TAPE support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE) [N/y/?] On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 04:16:58PM +0300, Nikolay Hristov wrote: > hi there > > is the

Re: ipconfig eth0:1 down doesnt do what i think it would

1999-08-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Looks like it's a bug. You can use the method suggested in this article which was posted to comp.os.linux.networking: Deja.com: Re: ?:Kernel V2.2.-IP Alias-eth0:0 Is Invisible To 'ifconfig"? Just do: ifconfig eth0:1 0.0.0.0 Hopefully this won't cause and adverse behavior. OTOH perhaps the "ri

Re: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-25 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone managed to get programs added to their panel > sucessfully (with their specified icons)? If so, please share, > and I'll pass it along to the other two unfortunate souls and the > KDE list. How did you install KDE? I grabed the sources from a m

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How can I ensure that mail for another user on my system gets into the > correct mailbox? You could try to fetch it via fetchmail like you already do and then sort it according the To:-header in the recipient´s mailbox via procmail (try ´man procma

Re: Another Partition spacing...

1999-08-25 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:19:02AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: > > What about: > >root 1.5GB > >var 2 > >usr 2 > >home 2.256 > >swap .256 (128 MB ram) > > root is MUCH too big. /var is kind of big as well, unless you're planning on

Re: Another Partition spacing...

1999-08-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:39:49AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: > But root would contain what is not in var, usr, and home. would 500MB > be enough for that? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 20M 17M 1.8M 90% /

strange bug in useradd in potato ?!?

1999-08-25 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All i'm running potato and just tried to upgrated telnetd to 0.14-1 and this is what i got: Setting up telnetd (0.14-1) ... adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists. Adding system user telnetd... Adding new group telnetd (101). Adding new user telnetd (101) with group telne

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 09:18:11AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: > Hi all, > > Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what > I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. I've been using MouseMan MousePort Version with ps/2 protocol wi

Re: Another Partition spacing...

1999-08-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:19:02AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: > What about: >root 1.5GB >var 2 >usr 2 >home 2.256 >swap .256 (128 MB ram) root is MUCH too big. It should be as small as possible (unless the only partition is the rootpart.) so that it will be hard to crash (the p

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1460

1999-08-25 Thread graham . lillico
Well mine work but I have a 2940-AU wether that makes a difference i don't know. Regards Graham >I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:10:09AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Do you have gpm and X running at the same time? That's known to cause > problems... > you might try disabling gpm Nope, as I said in my original email, gpm works correctly with any of the PS/2 mouses I have tried. X does not work c

Another Partition spacing...

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Vence
What about: root 1.5GB var 2 usr 2 home 2.256 swap .256 (128 MB ram) ? TIA -- Greg.

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec > AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from > the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI > adapter. The last message on the screen is... Downloadi

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
Thanks for the reply. > In your case of course, more memory would show *huge* speed increases. It > looks like another 32 megs would stop the immediate swapping problem. If you > want to run StarOffice, I imagine another 16 to 32 megs above that is > required. I don't have star office installed m

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Fraser Campbell wrote: > Tried that and everything else I could find. Someone suggested I try > MouseManPlusPS/2 but this had the same effect ... mouse jitters around the > screen and ends in top left corner. > > As an experiment I plugged on a Microsoft PS/2 mouse and this does the same as > the

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
Thanks for the other info on RAM, it will be very useful. > Add a second hard drive on the second ide channel(hdc) It is good to > have a swap partition on a different controller channel with each > partition having equal priority. The kernel will use the partition > which will provide the best p

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:47:48AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > boot, 'Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.' Yes, I see this on bootup and the mouse does work with gpm so I think the problem is related to X only. > Protocol "MouseMan" Tried that and everything else I could find. Someone suggest

Hewlett Packard Colorado 5Gb TAPE

1999-08-25 Thread Nikolay Hristov
hi there is there any hope to run Hewlett Packard Colorado 5Gb TAPE under Debian ?

Re: Netscape

1999-08-25 Thread Kent West
Greg Starkes wrote: > > Ryan Chouinard wrote: > > > > I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had > > that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in > > Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. > > What's the deal? > > I ne

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Kent West
> Andrew Hodgson wrote: > > I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA > 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the > rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The > last message on the screen is... Downloading sequencer inst

Re: Netscape

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Starkes
Ryan Chouinard wrote: > > I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had > that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in > Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. > What's the deal? I never had a problem either, until I deci

Re: fixing lpr printed margins

1999-08-25 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 06:13:03PM -0700, NatePuri wrote: > How can I change the margins for text documents that are printed via lpr. > > Right now I can only print 1/4 in margins. I would like the traditional > 1' in margin. I would like to keep the 12pt font that it currently prints > to. >

Re: Toshiba T1910

1999-08-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Aug 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: alex aitkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Toshiba T1910 > Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:30:37 +1000 > > s9404086> Problem - I have 123M of HDD to work with on my Toshiba 486 laptop- > s9404086> I was just going to install Linux on it, but my T1910 use

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Aug, Fraser Campbell wrote about "Logitech Mouseman / X" > Hi all, > > Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what > I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. > > gpm works fine with it. X does not. I have tried every mo

Re: Netscape

1999-08-25 Thread vw
Seems to me, the deal is you're lucky... Be Cool Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: Ryan Chouinard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt:24. august 1999 22:49 > Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Fraser, > Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what > I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. which mouse-type did you choose for gpm? I assume you chose "ps2". The same protocol should work with X11. Do not choose the "Mo

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote: [ your line wrap doesn't ] : I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on t

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Fraser Campbell wrote: > Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what > I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. > > gpm works fine with it. X does not. I have tried every

Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi all, Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. gpm works fine with it. X does not. I have tried every mouse type with it and the mouse cursor simply jumps to the top left corner of t

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Aug, Phillip Deackes wrote about "Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?" > I use currently use fetchmail to collect mail from my IP's POP server. > There are three users on this system. My IP allows email addresses in > the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] uk, therefore allowing each user

Re: AWE64 Problems

1999-08-25 Thread Ashley Clark
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > > I have re-compiled my kernal (2.0.36) to include the appropriate sound > support, and I have also set up the pnptools (via pnpdump) to initialise the > card at boot. You really should use modules for sound cards (especially plug and play ones). > Th

RE: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Person, Roderick
>From looking at this I and what the sound is I take a stab at this: The crackling sound sounds like the scan that updates your find dB. When you do a find on your computer it checks this dB for locations of things(to be simple). Anyway I think you Linux parts are too big, hence it seems as if it

Re: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > /dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M) > /dev/hda5 logical Fat32 (900M) > /dev/hda6 logical Fat32 (800M) > /dev/hda7 logical Linux (1000M) > /dev/hda4 primary Linux ext2 (840M) > /dev/hda3 primary Linux swap (100M) Seems ok, but you dont need 100M swap with 96M of Ram that you have already, unless y

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Andrew, On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > Anyone know if this SCSI adapter works with Debian? I am using an Adaptec 2940 U2W without any problems. The machine is running Slink and humming right along. There are some special 2940-boot disks around, since your p

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Jor-el
Phillip, Its seems to me that you havent read the manpage. Specifically, the sections about the '-m', the '-u', and the user authentication. Regards, Jor-el On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I use currently use fetchmail to collect mail from my IP's POP server. > There are t

Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Hans van den Boogert
My Acer Travelmate 512T laptop (Celeron 366, 96 MB RAM), has a 4.6 GB IBM hard drive in it. I partitioned it as follows... /dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M) /dev/hda5 logical Fat32 (900M) /dev/hda6 logical Fat32 (800M) /dev/hda7 logical Linux (1000M) /dev/hda4 primary Linux ext2 (840M) /dev/hda3 pri

Re: teTeX and DWWW

1999-08-25 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: > Hi! > > When I use DWWW to access the teTeX-Documentation, I can get through > fine to > http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf > while torres.gf1.internal is my Debian box. However, none of the links > on that

Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Andrew Hodgson
I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on the screen is... Downloading sequencer instructions... 419 instruction

Timed?

1999-08-25 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, I'm looking for timed in a debian package. Nothing is to be found by the search engine on the debian web site. So there seems to be none. Is there another way to get the time from a local machine that runs timed? Thanks for any hints -- Peter -- ---

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread ICON ICON
Hi Patrick, Well two things might be causing your computer to run slow: 1- Applications like netscape and Staroffice need at least 64MB of RAM to minimize swap use and to speed up processing 2- Your processor is slow, and it is pentium I. Pentuim II has special ways of increasing its throughput

Re: AWE64 Problems

1999-08-25 Thread Marcin Kurc
You dont need to use isapnp to initialize AWE64. Just turn off pnp support in BIOS, and if you compile the support for it into kernel use values: <*> OSS sound modules (NEW) [...] <*> 100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support (NEW) (5) Sound Blaster IRQ Check from manual of

AWE64 Problems

1999-08-25 Thread Andrew Hodgson
I have a Creative Labs AWE64 (ISA PnP) card, and I'm having a bit of troublegetting it configured in Debian.I have re-compiled my kernal (2.0.36) to include the appropriate soundsupport, and I have also set up the pnptools (via pnpdump) to initialise thecard at boot.The problem seems to be

Re: T1910 Toshiba laptop

1999-08-25 Thread Seth R Arnold
I would be awful suprised if dosemu would work. *maybe* the DEXE support in the newer kernels supports what you want, but I can't say. I would be suprised if it did work. I would think you need to keep a DOS partition around that you can boot to play with your bios. (or.. if you like to be daring.

Re: Still Having .forward problems with EXIM

1999-08-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
"Kent Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know why exim still deivers localy when a .forward file is in > place > and a valid email address is in it? Do you have a line like this in your /etc/exim.conf? local_domains = scgf.gmx.net:localhost Once this has been set, the implication is t

Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
I use currently use fetchmail to collect mail from my IP's POP server. There are three users on this system. My IP allows email addresses in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] uk, therefore allowing each user on my system to have their own email address. To log on and collect mail, the 'hostname' is given

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