Re: WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-01 Thread Peter Ross
> Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: > > > I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer > > couldn't find libXpm.so.4, I fixed this by linking the library in > > /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib. I installed wp with the text-mode > > install, however, it segfaults when i try to run it. Has a

Re: WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-01 Thread David Blackman
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: this is stupid but ti works, you need basically every xpm package. easiest way, go into dselect, method apt, update, then select, /xpm, and install every xpm package --dave > Hi, > I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer could

Starting debian servers/Samba Newbie - help

1999-09-01 Thread Paul McHale
I need a POP3, FTP, Print and Web server. I would use NT server, but then I have to buy an expensive POP3 server. To save money and have a more reliable server, I would like to use debian. Here are the plans: Goals are: 1. Simple setup 2. Secure 3. Good available documen

Disk Druid

1999-09-01 Thread B. Szyszka
Hello, >From Win98 with Partition Magic, I have resized my partition and made room for a partition I'll use for /var . In Red Hat, I had the option to use Disk Druid, format the partitions I wanted as Linux partitions, and set their mount points. I'm having trouble finding Disk Druid for Debian. I

Re: Machine freezes with xdm but not startx

1999-09-01 Thread ferret
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago I posted to this list a question about the fact that my > machine completely freezes up on a regular basis (with a pretty pattern > of stripes on the screen) when I start X with xdm, but works fine when I > start it with startx. I

Re: WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-01 Thread Aaron Solochek
I had this exact same problem... Still have it actually. If you figure it out, could you cc me the messages? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer couldn't find > libXpm.so.4, I fixed this by linkin

Swap partition

1999-09-01 Thread zdrysdal
Thanx one and all for your help.. it seems that the swap partition is a subject everyone is familiar with :)

Re: hda: lost interrupt

1999-09-01 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Achim Bohnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about: > > |> hda: lost interrupt > |> hda: read_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > ---end quoted text--- This looks to me like the message I get when I use a kernel with DMA enabled with a buggy mobo. Try building a

Re: Swap partition

1999-09-01 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I used to have a 16MB swap partition on hda2 but i deleted it and added a > bigger partition using fdisk which has now become hda5. > > The problem is that when i shut down the system... it comes up with a > prompt deactivating swap...cann

Re: Swap partition

1999-09-01 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Swap partition" > Hi all > > I used to have a 16MB swap partition on hda2 but i deleted it and added a > bigger partition using fdisk which has now become hda5. > > The problem is that when i shut down the system... it comes up with a > prompt deactiva

Re: Swap partition

1999-09-01 Thread Ashley Clark
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used to have a 16MB swap partition on hda2 but i deleted it and added a > bigger partition using fdisk which has now become hda5. > > The problem is that when i shut down the system... it comes up with a > prompt deactivating swap...cannot find hda

ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Olson
I am thinking of using IP chains to tighten security a little on my Debian 2.1 box. Currently, I have it set up as follows: ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.9/255.255.255.255 -j MASQ Below is a much more involved setup I created based on the information in the HOW-TO. T

is malloc() reentrant ?

1999-09-01 Thread Seong Hoon Kim
hi, everyone. i am an ignorant computer lover... working in montreal. i have a question. can you guys help me ? is malloc() reentrant ? how does the algorithm to test whether it is reentrant or not look like ? i was thinking to use setitimer & SIGALRM in the test program... you think it is good

Setting up Soundcard

1999-09-01 Thread B. Szyszka
Hello, I have a Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card and am looking for pointers on what I need to do to set it up on Debian Linux. What programs would I need? I have the latest KDE version (1.1.1 I believe) with the various programs for playing multimedia files, but don't have my soundcard configured y

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Olson
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I was looking at porting a pascal program from dos to linux. Besides > having to write a device driver (as it twiddles the printer port > directly) I would have to fix all references to the Borland runtime lib > stuff. I don't think that dosemu would

Re: hda: lost interrupt

1999-09-01 Thread Jim McCloskey
Achim Bohnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about: |> hda: lost interrupt |> hda: read_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } I've had this error-message repeatedly over the years on a laptop that I first got early in 1995. Then it ran Slackware with a 1.2.0 kernel; now it runs debian (slink)

Swap partition

1999-09-01 Thread zdrysdal
Hi all I used to have a 16MB swap partition on hda2 but i deleted it and added a bigger partition using fdisk which has now become hda5. The problem is that when i shut down the system... it comes up with a prompt deactivating swap...cannot find hda2. So basically i think that the system is stil

Re: Delay under X

1999-09-01 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > It happens a very strange thing in my Debian distribution (now, it's > 2.1/potato mixed) that I haven't noticed under others as RedHat, OpenLinux > or FreeBSD. The problem is that when I 'startx' it appe

WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-01 Thread Marius Aamodt Eriksen
Hi, I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer couldn't find libXpm.so.4, I fixed this by linking the library in /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib. I installed wp with the text-mode install, however, it segfaults when i try to run it. Has anybody here experienced this before? Any id

GNOME menus

1999-09-01 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, is it possible to use the gnome menus under WindowMaker ? (usign menu package). In enlightenment, there is a Gnome menu, and inside it, there is the debian menu. I would like to do this in WindowMaker. Bye. Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: perl leap year function?

1999-09-01 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > I need an algorithm that can match a number of days with any month. For > this to be useful, I need a function that can tell me if it's a leap year > this year. Just throwing one more subroutine onto the fir

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The fonts included with the freefont package are not TrueType fonts, they're Postscript Type 1 fonts. These fonts can be used directly by the X server without the intercession of xfstt (which is only for TrueType fonts). "Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > hi, > > i've got tired of the tiny fonts in ne

Re: moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread kaynjay
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:54:31PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 01-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > > Question is... which is likely best? Or should I go into mtab and mount th > > new partition at /var/cache/apt/archives/ (if that's possible)? > > > > *slap* > > mtab is a run t

Re: Netscape (Bus error again) with xswallow

1999-09-01 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi, I had similar problems. On my machine the new libc5 version of netscape would also immediately crash with a bus error. I solved this on seeing your mail by moving my ~/.netscape to some other directory. However, I do not use xswallow, so it is problably some more general problem with netscape

Re: Forgotten root password HELP

1999-09-01 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:31:07PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote > Thanks one and all. I tried two approaches: > - at LILO prompt I typed linux init=/bin/bash. This failed because the / > partition mounted read-only > - used Toms Rescue Disk. This allowed me to edit /etc/passwd and > /etc/shadow.

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, September 01, 1999, 12:42:19 PM, Kenneth wrote: > I was looking at porting a pascal program from dos to linux. Besides > having to write a device driver (as it twiddles the printer port > directly) I would have to fix all references to the Borland runtime lib > stuff. Take a look

Yamaha sound

1999-09-01 Thread Sebastien Delafond
Hi, i got a Yamaha sound card but I can't manage to load sound as a module, because i don't know exactly which card it is... Is there a way to get the irq, dma, and such things it uses ? I also run NT but I neither can find these informations there... Thanks,

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-01 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Aaron M. Stromas wrote: > > hi, > > i've got tired of the tiny fonts in netscape and installed the xfstt and > the freefont package. when i ran the 'xfstt --sync' it complained about > not finding any *.ttf files. i looked at what is in the freefont package > and discovered t

Re: xterm-menus not working

1999-09-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote: > Change >XTerm*geometry: 80x24 >XTerm.VT100*geometry: 80x24 > to >XTerm.vt100.geometry: 80x24 > Let me know if that doesn't work; > it works fine for me (although actually I use 80x63). > I did that but that did not change the behaviour of x

Re: moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi, : : I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know : that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another : partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new : partition, or

RE: moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know > that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another > partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new > partition, or move /var ov

Re: moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Question is... which is likely best? Or should I go into mtab and mount the > new partition at /var/cache/apt/archives/ (if that's possible)? You're on the right track. The correct solution is: mount -text2 /dev/whatever /var/cache/apt/archives Yo

mounting

1999-09-01 Thread sparc
how do i mount an external disk? i have two computers, and i'd like to mount one disk on my other puter.. do i have to support nfs, and set itup? or is there another way of doing it?

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>> I have Pascal for Dos, but my OS (Sistema >>Operacional) is Linux, and >>I >> like how install in linux. >Debian has a Pascal compiler. Look for the package >gpc (and gpc-doc >for >the doc's). > >Alternatively, if you really want to run your DOS >Pascal, you might try >dosemu. I was looking

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have put redhat on a system here several times, and each time had some minor problems with it. 5.0 and 5.1 had the ftp daemon broken, I couldn't ftp to the box. 6.0 has the nfs daemon broken, I can't seem to mount any filesystem of the box on another box (running debian slink). I can mount th

Re: light spreadsheet for stable?

1999-09-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 01:18:41PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > out of the question, an gnumeric seems to want gnome, which suggest > that it too will suck resources. Give it a go - I've used it on a 16MB system before, and the resource usage isn't unreasonable. It depends on what you co

Davicom 9102 NIC w/ 2.1.12 kernel

1999-09-01 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, I recently purchased a MB that has pretty much everything integrated onto it, including the NIC and sound card. The manufacturer of the NIC was kind enough to actually write up a linux driver which must be compiled and added to the kernel as a module. Prior to my switching (or attempting

Re: light spreadsheet for stable?

1999-09-01 Thread Sean
You might want to look at either Abs or Abacus . Abacus has a deb package (meaning you can install it by typing apt-get install abacus), and is only around 400k large after installation. Abs hasn't been debianized AFAIK, and can be found here: http://www.ping.be/bertin/abs.shtml .. it weighs

hda: lost interrupt

1999-09-01 Thread Achim Bohnet
Hello, on my laptop with one IBM-DADA-26480, running potato and 2.2.10 kernel I get hda: lost interrupt hda: read_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Every lost intrrupt mean a IO gets suspended for ~ 5 secs. I've checked the mail archives and suses and redhats (shame on me :) support

Re: Video For Linux

1999-09-01 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Matt Kopishke wrote: I was using bttv last week with 2.2.4... but I had the <> idea to reinstall debian... and... also upgraded to 2.2.12. Well, all is ok, but when I do "modprobe bttv card=6" the system crashes completly. Any ideas? ->Well, read the docs. You must pass the ca

moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread kaynjay
Hi, I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new partition, or move /var over (it's on it's own part. now). Question is... wh

Re: Forgotten root password HELP

1999-09-01 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:31:07PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > - at LILO prompt I typed linux init=/bin/bash. This failed because the / > partition mounted read-only just a thought: mount -o remount,rw / or did I miss something? -- Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfr

Re: Netscape Communicator

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Olson
> I allready did get the xpm4.7 installed it correctly *I think*, still no > success > with the communicator libc5 version, then I did as you suggest and > downloaded > the libc2 and is working very fine at the moment. But.. I'm glad you got it working, but I can't understand why the libc5 versio

Re: Assembly Compiler

1999-09-01 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Cory Rudder wrote: > Does any one know if there is an assembly lang. compiler available for > Debian? You have nasm and as86 included in bcc. I prefer nasm. Bye > > Thanks > Cory > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >

Re: problems with 2.2.11 and serial port (pilot, camera)

1999-09-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 14:31:06 -0400, Mark Buda wrote: > Is anybody else trying to use pilot-manager under a 2.2 kernel? > Does it work for you? Yes (2x). Potato system running kernel 2.2.12. HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROT

Re: Listing floppy drive correctly in fstab - Need help

1999-09-01 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 1 Sep, Christian Dysthe wrote about "Listing floppy drive correctly in fstab - Need help" > Hi, > > I have a "stupid" question, but I have been trying to figure this out > now for too long by trial, error and some reading, so I ask: > > I want my floppy drive mounted in /etc/fstab so that

Re: Assembly Compiler

1999-09-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 13:54:57 -0400, Cory Rudder wrote: > Does any one know if there is an assembly lang. compiler available for > Debian? As an asside, the term "compiler" is typically used for programs that translate from high-level languages. "assembler" is the standard term for something t

gtk-config problem...

1999-09-01 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, I decided to install a gtk-based IRC client (to get help in #linux ironically enough), and I encountered some problems with the "configure" script. I've installed all of the gtk and glib libs, and also the dev files, so that gtk-config exists (though I can't find glib-config), and I'm sure

Re: Assembly Compiler

1999-09-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 01:54:57PM -0400, Cory Rudder wrote: > Does any one know if there is an assembly lang. compiler available for > Debian? > > Thanks > Cory In binutils, you have the GNU as, and there is also the nasm package. Ben

problems with 2.2.11 and serial port (pilot, camera)

1999-09-01 Thread Mark Buda
Is anybody else trying to use pilot-manager under a 2.2 kernel? Does it work for you? Under 2.2.11, I am having persistent problems with pilot-manager that vanish when I boot 2.0.36. Also, I am having similar problems with kdcpi, a perl script that can talk to my Kodak digital camera - works fine

Re: script command question

1999-09-01 Thread Marc Mongeon
I'm trying to improve my shell programming skills anyway, so I made a first pass at a program that will strip backspaces from an input file. I stopped short of making it robust enough to handle edits that cross a newline; for example, the following backspaces will be left in the output: Here come

Re: more info on dhcpcd problem

1999-09-01 Thread Seth R Arnold
Heh, thanks for the reality check. I wil;l give the dynip and forwarding a shot -- can't hurt :) as for the cables and card, cable is known good, and one of the network cards is known good. And, I thought of the firewall rules in the wee hours of the morning -- they seemed fine, but setting all to

light spreadsheet for stable?

1999-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I need to find as light as possible a spreadsheet that still works reasonably will for stable. I'll recall Thumper's daddy's advice, and not say anything at all about oleo and siag. Staroffice 5 in 16mb is out of the question, an gnumeric seems to want gnome, which suggest that it too will s

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Bradley Bell
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Hasso Tepper wrote: > > Agree. I moved from Redhat to Debian 2 months ago and only app I'm missing > is printtool. ...Which works fine using alien... -Brad

Re: more info on dhcpcd problem

1999-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > that having been said, there is something flaky about the dhcp/dhclient setup > on > debian; i cannot understand why it works and then, when the cable co that I > connect > to has changed my ip or other features, i cannot connect; the purpose of dhcp > is to > be dynamic, is it not? > dhcp w

Listing floppy drive correctly in fstab - Need help

1999-09-01 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have a "stupid" question, but I have been trying to figure this out now for too long by trial, error and some reading, so I ask: I want my floppy drive mounted in /etc/fstab so that I can use and app like wmmount to mount it. It all works fine with my HD and CD-Rom drive, but I can not fin

Assembly Compiler

1999-09-01 Thread Cory Rudder
Does any one know if there is an assembly lang. compiler available for Debian? Thanks Cory

Re: Please reply to this email

1999-09-01 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Hello, I have just subscribed to this mailling list and I would be very > grateful if you could reply to this message. That way I could confirm > that the subscription has been properly made. OK. here is a reply. If you got two, one directly to y

Re: kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-01 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:04:21PM +0200, Andreas Piesk wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > on Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Ernest Johanson wrote: > > I just upgraded a potato system to 2.2.12 due to the 2.2.11 memory leak. > > The release notes say that the .12 kernel won't compile with gcc 2.95

Re: Print error after lprng update (potato)

1999-09-01 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 06:02:16PM -0300, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > I had my potato system working smoothly until yesterday when I updated the > system with apt. After that I haven't been able to print. The lpr command > displays the following message: > >Status Information: > > sending

Re: failed network stuff

1999-09-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hey Jim, Did you boot Windoze since last power cycling? Win98 somehow disables the card. But you probably know that, having read the same web sites I have about the Z505S. Just wanted to say hi. :-) Zeen, -Adam P.

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, September 01, 1999, 10:19:35 AM, Patrick wrote: > Debian has a Pascal compiler. Look for the package gpc (and gpc-doc for > the doc's). There's also fpc which is my preference since it is built from itself while gpc uses, IIRC, parts of gcc. > Alternatively, if you really want to

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Godric
Duggan Dieterly wrote: > > i'm thinking about switching from debian to red hat. is there any compelling > reason why debian is better than red hat? > -- Yes, Debian is technically superior (IMHO) - plus the official Debs is free software and upholds the principles of free software (see the GNU w

Re: Please reply to this email

1999-09-01 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Welcome Manuel!!! -- Marcelo Ramos Estudiante de la Licenciatura en Matematica Centro de Matematica Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay Usuario Linux Registrado #118109 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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1999-09-01 Thread Marc King
fdgdf Marc•••Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.••Zen Mondo••

Print error after lprng update (potato)

1999-09-01 Thread Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
I had my potato system working smoothly until yesterday when I updated the system with apt. After that I haven't been able to print. The lpr command displays the following message: >Status Information: > sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 >

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Olson
> I have Pascal for Dos, but my OS (Sistema Operacional) is Linux, and I > like how install in linux. Debian has a Pascal compiler. Look for the package gpc (and gpc-doc for the doc's). Alternatively, if you really want to run your DOS Pascal, you might try dosemu. Hope this helps, Patrick

Re: Netscape Communicator

1999-09-01 Thread Ari Sigurðsson
- Original Message - From: Patrick Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ari Sigurðsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian user list Sent: 1. september 1999 16:38 Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator > > > Hi, I downloaded and installed Netscape Communicator > > 'communicator-v461-export.x86-unknown

RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread B. Szyszka
> try and decide for yourself. I use Debian because its so easy to keep it > stable, because I think apt-get is way way easier than rpm and because the > support offered by this list is great. I agree with the former two reasons, but from my experiences, Red Hat's list was much better. Not to put

Please reply to this email

1999-09-01 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I have just subscribed to this mailling list and I would be very grateful if you could reply to this message. That way I could confirm that the subscription has been properly made. Thank you very mauch in advance. I hope I can learn a lot from all of you and I can help you even though my kn

This is only to verify subscription

1999-09-01 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Do not read. This is only to verify subscription.

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > True package management, including installation scripts. And a process > > in place to keep packages out of the main distribution that don't follow a > > standard for file locations, and other stuff. > > But the biggest single reason: this list.

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-01 Thread Armin Wegner
> [...] i've seen some > suggestions to use fonts off the m$ site. after a while i tried it but > all i see are .exe files. can somebody explain the business with > freefont and also point me to the source of .ttf? please, cc me as i'm > temporary unsubscribed. tia, > Windows stores the truetype

Re: Netscape Communicator

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Olson
> Hi, I downloaded and installed Netscape Communicator > 'communicator-v461-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz' > > Now I get the error that it can't load libXpm.so.4 > but that file is in /usr/X11R6/lib > can anyone help me? For that flavor of Netscape, you probably need to install the package

TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-01 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
  hi, i've got tired of the tiny fonts in netscape and installed the xfstt and the freefont package. when i ran the 'xfstt --sync' it complained about not finding any *.ttf files. i looked at what is in the freefont package and discovered that the fonts are  in .pbf format. so,  xfstt is not mean

failed network stuff

1999-09-01 Thread Jim Warren
Greetings, I seem to have broken my ethernet networking on my Vaio Z505S running Debian kernal version 2.2.10 It was working fine including ethernet networking, and I had taken it home and got ppp working fine using a modem. Recently I recompiled the kernel (to turn sound support off). I mentio

Re: [Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)

1999-09-01 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > > Jean-Philippe Guirard wrote: > > > > > > On Linux, you will only be able to use the 3Dfx 3D accelaration with > > > the applications specially designed to use it (Quake 2 is the only one > > > I know of) from a VGA console. > > > > Or have an

Re: [Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)

1999-09-01 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > > On Linux, you will only be able to use the 3Dfx 3D accelaration with > > > the applications specially designed to use it (Quake 2 is the only one > > > I know of) from a VGA console. > > > > Or have an accelerated Server...

Re: Hi all and a question

1999-09-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Hi all and a question Date: Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 11:52:40PM +0200 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > > I'm new at this list and I want to ask something: > Is there any program to check which libraries are unused on a

Re: SCSI Tape Drive

1999-09-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: SCSI Tape Drive Date: Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:34:44AM -0500 In reply to:Anthony Landreneau Quoting Anthony Landreneau([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Greetings, [snip] > > So the OS is "seeing" the hardware. However when I try to tar or write to > /dev/st0 I get an error saying

Re: cfdisk doesn't work with Windows 98 Long Disk Support?!

1999-09-01 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Duggan Dieterly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > at this point, i'm considering installing red hat. i have to buddies who > have very similar machines, and they installed red hat with no problem. You could try to use Redhat's fdisk to partition your disk, then install debian. I had similar probl

Re: Fw: Cron run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Kirk
Many thanks!

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Hi all ! Hi, Alex > Please tell me (a new linux/Unix user) where to start learning > about possble text processing apps under linux. > > I've heard such words as "TeX", "LaTeX", "TeTeX", "Emacs" that should > deal with subj. But where can i find some

WMSound

1999-09-01 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I've installed with apt-get the latest window-maker and I can't install wmsound. I don't know which is the problem; it says that there are conflicting versions. Any ideas ? Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jmmv.cjb.net --

Re: [Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)

1999-09-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Jean-Philippe Guirard wrote: > > > > On Linux, you will only be able to use the 3Dfx 3D accelaration with > > the applications specially designed to use it (Quake 2 is the only one > > I know of) from a VGA console. > > Or have an accelerated Server... don't know how acceler

PPPoE (RFC 2516) servers and client under Linux

1999-09-01 Thread P R Eknath
I need the PPPoE client and server under Linux to create usage a/c of users through the RADIUS. Any one aware of this activity ? Thanks. P.R.Eknath [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jed keybinding

1999-09-01 Thread peter karlsson
> Would be very nice to be able to do that... And... It would be nice to be able to use the Delete key to remove to the right (now it just beeps me)... -- \\// peter - please Cc: replies to me

jed keybinding

1999-09-01 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I'm using jed with WordStar keybindings; how can I get it to honour the Home and End keys so that I can get to the beginning/end of the line with them? Would be very nice to be able to do that... -- \\// peter - please Cc: all replies to me

Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm having bizarre troubles with the base 2.1 system (2.0.36-scsimod) on an Abit BP6 dual-celeron system with Triton IDE DMA chipset and twin 3C905 ethernet cards. After my first net access (via eth0), be it ping or apt-get update or whatever, the next disk access causes an IRQ problem

pascal for linux

1999-09-01 Thread cordoba
I have Pascal for Dos, but my OS (Sistema Operacional) is Linux, and I like how install in linux.

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> (Lyx is based on Tex Actually, it isn't :) It used to describe itself as a front end for latex, but it went beyond that a couple of years ago. Therehad been plans for 1.2 to use latex as its file format, but that was dropped. It imports almost all latex with reLyX, and still outputs by

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
nathan nattered, > True package management, including installation scripts. And a process > in place to keep packages out of the main distribution that don't follow a > standard for file locations, and other stuff. But the biggest single reason: this list. Most problems get resolved in a matte

Re: XML conversion

1999-09-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 18:28:01 -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: >I got the Havoc Gnome book from Gnome-CVS, but it's in XML. What tool in >Potato I can use to change it to .html or .txt or .ps or something readble? Quoting Havoc's page http://www106.pair.com/rhp/gnome-app-devel

Re: Fw: Cron run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

1999-09-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:30:12AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone know how I can stop getting these messages? Thanks in advance. > > - Original Message - > From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 6:26 AM > Sub

Re: No cut/paste on lynx

1999-09-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 08:46:15AM -0500, Bruce Walzer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 12:26:55PM +0200, Debian Mail wrote: > > [...] > > > > Hold down the SHIFT key when you select text in lynx. Works for me > > > either in a text console (gpm) or X. > > > > Yep, that works. Thanks! > > Still

Re: perl leap year function?

1999-09-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:55:41AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Just a question - > > I need an algorithm that can match a number of days with any month. For > this to be useful, I need a function that can tell me if it's a leap year > this year. > > Is there one available in any of t

Re: SCSI Tape Drive

1999-09-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:34:44AM -0500, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > Greetings, > I have recently installed a SONY SCSI tape drive onto my linux box. I > would like to use the Taper program to back up my hard drive to tape. But > I seem to be having a problem with getting the tape drive to

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Hasso Tepper wrote: > Agree. I moved from Redhat to Debian 2 months ago and only app I'm missing > is printtool. I like printool of redhat. So I used alien to debianized that thing. I installed and it works(gui), but have not tested it yet. Anyway, to comment on the original

Video For Linux

1999-09-01 Thread Matt Kopishke
Does any one have any experence with video4linux, or really what I am looking for is bttv. I have a ADS Tech Channel surfer (w/o the radio), it has a BT848 chip set. I tried the drivers in the 2.2.12 kernel with out any luck (I am using xawtv out of potato), I then grabed the latest source from t

[NeilB@earthling.net: Re: Please help a poor gaijin!]

1999-09-01 Thread Neil Booth
Miles Bader wrote:- > > Thing's are quite a bit simpler if you just use emacs-20's built-in > input methods -- they basically just work out of the box (as long as > your emacs was compiled with the leim support enabled). Just do: > > (set-language-environment "Japanese") > > Then type C-\ (to

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