On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Micha Feigin wrote:
> I was wondering whether video accelerators work undre linux (such as
> vodoo ( i think 3000 or somethink like that ) which is popular at list
> around here).
I like my AGP Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 Ultra 32MB. You need to do a lot of
fiddling with files
I get n error with several programs under linux (mostly xemacs21
recently) sayying that it can't convert string to type fontstruct. for
example:
Warning: Cannot convert string "-ttf-web hebrew
monospace-medium-r-normal-regular-*-160-75-75-m-*-iso8859-1" to type
FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert st
I've just moved to a site where they use DHCP with W95 clients.
I've managed to configure my (and a colleague's) good ol' Hamm to
insert in the network with dhcpcd 0.70-5 but some problems
remain :
>From To Operation Results
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Linux NT SMTP
I was wondering whether video accelerators work undre linux (such as
vodoo ( i think 3000 or somethink like that ) which is popular at list
around here).
David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Still getting that "X: undefined symbol: __syscall" ?
Yep.
>
> Hmmm, let's see what packages you have on hold --- just a shot in the
> dark. Please do:
>
> sgrep -e '(DEB_PKG containing (DEB_STATUS containing "hold"))' <
> /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep
net-pf-1 maps to unix-domain sockets... trust me, you want that.
You should make sure that either /etc/conf.modules contains the entry
``alias net-pf-1 unix'', or that it's compiled directly into your kernel.
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 02:43:02PM -0700, Michael Perry wrote:
> I recently updated the
I recently updated the kernel sources using the 2.2.12 kernel deb package
and all went well. I have noticed that I get a duplicate request for module
net-pf-1 and if I alias it to off that x does not start up but finally
critically stops without a connection.
What exactly is module net-pf-1? I t
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I ran "apt-get update;apt-get -f dist-upgrade" last night. It only took 12
> hours at 26.4K... Anyway, I've attached an updated listing of installed
> x11 packages. Ohh, and it still doesn't work...
Still getting that "X: undefined symbol: __syscall" ?
Hm
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On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Well, I just did it, and it says:
> lo: Link encap: Local Loopback
> inet address: 127.0.0.1
> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNINGMTU: 3584Metric:1
> Etcetera, with all parameters 0.
>
> Which
Does somebody have their muttrc file set up to move messages from
different mailing lists into respective folders? I tried using mbox-hook,
but it doesn't seem to work (it moves messages unconditionally with the
"." regexp, but nothing else seems to work).
Any suggestions?
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Well, I just did it, and it says:
lo: Link encap: Local Loopback
inet address: 127.0.0.1
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNINGMTU: 3584Metric:1
Etcetera, with all parameters 0.
Which seems to me means it is working.
Laurent Martelli wrote:
> > "Antonio" == Antonio Rodrigu
> "Antonio" == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Antonio> Hi there. You can tell I am new, any way: I have installed
Antonio> and configured my connection trough pppd, but I am unable
Antonio> to connect to my isp with browsers ( I've tried lynx and
Antonio> arena), which I
Hi there. You can tell I am new, any way:
I have installed and configured my connection trough pppd, but I am
unable to connect to my isp with browsers ( I've tried lynx and arena),
which I run after pon-ing. They tell me they are unable to find url, or
to connect. I couldn't find any helpful indic
David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Your version of xserver-common is Version: 3.3.2.3a-11
> while current potato is Version: 3.3.5-1
>
> You *might* want to try upgrading that (and any dependencies it
> has), if you can afford to play with this system. Be sure you
> have a way to get back (I
> Use 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to have apt get along with your dselect
> selections.
I don't use dselect any longer... I use apt-get + console-apt
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You wrote:
> I am in trouble updating perl 5.004 -> 5.005 in debian/potato.
> Currently perl 5.004 is installed together with _fake_ perl and
> perl-base,
> needed to allow upgrading to 5.005:
>
> ii perl5.004.05-2 Fake package used for a smooth
> upgrade
> ii perl-5.004 5.0
*- On 9 Oct, Ben Collins wrote about "Re: crontab reports: "
> On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 11:54:41AM -0500, Dave Baker wrote:
>> > > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
>> > > /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to
>> > > root.root
>> > 4755
>> > >
>> >
>> > this may soun
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 12:11:57PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
> How is it that, sometimes, during a 'apt-get dist-upgrade', apt wants to
> remove packages that I have selected to install, and *not* said that I want
> to remove?
Use 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to have apt get along with your dsel
Peter,
I had this same thing happen to me, so I dug into it a bit and this
is what I found. Lynx-ssl depends on the slang1 library being below
versin 1.3.1 I believe, and since dist-upgrade trys to intelligently
handle dependancies, etc, since you installed a version of slang1 that
was higher tha
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 11:54:41AM -0500, Dave Baker wrote:
> > > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
> > > /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to
> > > root.root
> > 4755
> > >
> >
> > this may sound stupid... but was does this error message means?
> >
>
> This means tha
> > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to
> > root.root
> 4755
> >
>
> this may sound stupid... but was does this error message means?
>
This means that suidmanager found a problem with the sendmail executable
and fixed it.
Having
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 08:33:44PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
> I hope that it does not violate custom for me to thank
> those who solved my problem today.
It is, normally, punished by a $12.95 fine...
BUT for this time, we'll forget it :)
JY
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On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:46:00PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings:
> .
> Is there a trick to getting the framebuffer console working in Debian?
> I followed the instructions in the Framebuffer-HOWTO but at boot time, I
> get a message saying something like:
> vga=792
Hi!
I h
I have a dialup PPP provider. Everytime I open up Knews it wants to go to my
provider and retrieve the entire news
file (or at least I guess this is what it does). I already have a
.newsrc-new1.ibm.net file in my home directory that
Netscape and GNUS uses. Is there a way to have Knews use th
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 06:18:56PM -0400, Jim Penny wrote:
> Has anyone been able to get the lotus notes binary to run
> undeer Debian?
Hi,
I believe Lotus has released Domino R5 server under linux, and that you
can download it for free. We use Notes at work, and I had thought about
setting up D
Take a look at /etc/modules, if it includes an entry for ipx it'll be
loaded at bootup.
> /sbin/lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> ppp19416 2 (autoclean)
> slhc4128 1 (autoclean) [ppp]
> ipx12488 1
> smbfs
I am upgrading to potato a few pieces at a time. I just tried to update
netatalk (with apt-get install netatalk) and it seemed to update it ok
but the daemons won't start now. Here is the problem:
Starting AppleTalk daemons (this will take a while):AppleTalk not up! Child died
.
atalkdbind: Canno
Dan Hugo wrote:
>
> Greetings--
>
> I have been using ssh Version 1.2.26 from slink for a while to connect
> to my isp, and it has worked just fine for me. My isp us using ssh
> version 1.2.26a.
>
> Lately, however, I have noticed the following two things happening, and
> I don't remember them
Wouter,
My setup is similar. Is that the only video line in your lilo.conf?
Also, where did you put it? (in case it matters).
-- Mark
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:10:00PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have a matrox g400 ca
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 04:07:53PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote:
> How can I set my linux to display a banner before it prompts for login?
> I can do it in solaris by editing /etc/default/telnetd
>
The local banner is /etc/issue ; the remote banner is /etc/issue.net.
I think that yo
I am still having problems with the "equivs" package. I tried to do an
upgrade and got this:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
aktion: Depends: libqt1g (>= 1:1.44-6.3) but it is not installable
geheimnis: Depends: libqt1g (>= 1:1.44-6.3) but it is not installable
kp
NFS server: Linux dwarf 2.2.12 #2 Fri Oct 8 20:52:57 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
ii nfs-common 1.4.7-2Common NFS Tools
ii nfs-server 2.2beta46-2User space NFS server.
NFS client: Linux jekyll 2.2.12 #5 Sat Sep 4 11:28:01 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
ii nfs-common 1.4.7-2
*- On 9 Oct, Jim wrote about "modules in use"
> Hi, is there any way to tell exactly what process, etc. may be using a
> particular module?
>
> I keep seeing these messages in /var/log/messages:
>
> kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3
> kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3
>
Thes
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:10:00PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a matrox g400 card and I have tried both the matrox mode and the
> vesa mode. I am running kernel 2.2.12.
[snip]
> append = "video=matrox:vesa:440"
I have a mystique, and because I didn't like the refreshrate and
res
I am resending in a more readable format
thank you again
Pol
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Hi,
WINE uses the libgl1 package. Can't find it anywhere.
How can I get this package?
Best regards,
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Hi Jim,
I haven't done this and take it that you mean the client app.
I did hear of someone using Notes under Wine but it may have been an older
version than the current one.
The other alternative that springs to mind is vmware.
You may have more luck asking on a news group or perhaps there is
How is it that, sometimes, during a 'apt-get dist-upgrade', apt wants to
remove packages that I have selected to install, and *not* said that I want
to remove?
# apt-get -s dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ae gimp lynx-ssl
I am in trouble updating perl 5.004 -> 5.005 in
debian/potato.
Currently perl 5.004 is installed together with _fake_
perl and perl-base,
needed to allow upgrading to 5.005:
ii perl5.004.05-2 Fake package used
for a smooth upgrade
ii perl-5.004 5.004.05-3 Larry Wall's
P
On 09-Oct-99 Bruno Van de Casteele wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 6:35 AM
> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
>
>
>> /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
>> /
Greetings--
I have been using ssh Version 1.2.26 from slink for a while to connect
to my isp, and it has worked just fine for me. My isp us using ssh
version 1.2.26a.
Lately, however, I have noticed the following two things happening, and
I don't remember them happening before (and I haven't cha
Hi,
I convert my .dvi files to Postscript (dvips) and print them under
Windows with GSview (which itself uses Ghostscript for
rendering). GSview supports many printers via the Ghostscript drivers
(which are the same as those of the Linux Ghostscript), but also has a
printer driver called ms*2 (I
- Original Message -
From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 6:35 AM
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
> /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
> /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 chan
Look-up GSView. It's ghostscript/ghostview for windows. Not sure if
it has a driver for that printer though.
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Steve George wrote:
>You can use something called port forwarding to allow access to the web server
on the LAN >from the Internet. I cannot stress too heavily what a bad idea this
is since if the
steve, i am planning to use STATIC NAT instead ... any experiences on this ?
>To be honest if you h
Hi all,
I'm using LaTeX in my Debian System to compose a document but I don't
know how to print it...
The printer is an Epson Stylus Color 800 installed in another PC with
Windows'98. There is no network. So, what can I do to print it ? It's
possible to print the document to a file with gs using
Hi, is there any way to tell exactly what process, etc. may be using a
particular module?
I keep seeing these messages in /var/log/messages:
kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3
kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3
AFAIK this has only been occuring since I went to kernel 2.2.12 (fro
I wouldn't be sure the problem's with kernel-package either.
The same sort of error messages came to me (when I made 2.1.132)
when my system lacked a _package_ (program) that was needed to
do the make. ...hope this helps, and maybe someone else will
shed more light on this topic for us.
Art
Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ...not sure, because I began running xdm for potato, but
> did you copy and config an .xinitrc to the user home directory
> X is running in? You might check the X docs on this.
Art,
Actually, xinit doesn't need an .xinitrc; it defaults to using
Sorry, but I did not know Xinit would work globally, and I
stand corrected on that, but you do need to put your window manager
entry into the Xinit or .xinitrc before it will start your window
manager, unless something has changed on this recently (with slink
or potato, if so?).
Art
On Sat,
...not sure, because I began running xdm for potato, but
did you copy and config an .xinitrc to the user home directory
X is running in? You might check the X docs on this.
Art
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:56:47PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote:
> David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > Well, as
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Okay, I logged in as root and typed 'xinit' and it went to vt7 and just
> sits there with a blank screen. Switching back to the vt that I started
> with, it has the error I previously posted about connection broken.
OK, that error,
X: error in loa
I hope that it does not violate custom for me to thank
those who solved my problem today.
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David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Well, as a starting point, try just this:
>
> 1) exit to be sure we start clean
> 2) login (as root or a normal user, doesn't really matter for this test,
> maybe even try both to see if there are differences).
> 3) at the shell prompt just type 'xinit' and
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[...]
> > And, if you really feel like it, try manually performing each
> > piece of startx at the bash prompt ('which startx' will tell you
> > where startx is), and see if you can find the point of failure.
>
> I
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Tiago Alves Macambira wrote:
> It seems that 3Dfx has a somewhat beta X server supporting
> Banshee and Voodoo3 chipsets but, from what I saw, they are distributing
> it only in RPM format. Ok, I know I can use Alien and convert it to
Carl Fink wrote:
> I know that as a policy, Debian doesn't have release dates, but can we
> get a *hint*? Is potato even frozen yet? I mean, I heard *months*
> ago that the only problem remaining was a problem with Perl
> installation, and surely that's fixed by now.
>
> Sorry if you're seeing t
Just updated and upgraded this evening, and tried to make a kernel image:
astra:/usr/src/kernels/kernel-source-2.2.12# make-kpkg --revision=custom.
a.2 kernel_image
/usr/share/kernel-package/rules:488: *** unterminated call to function
`shell': missing `)'. Stop.
astra:/usr/src/kernels/kernel-sou
I know that as a policy, Debian doesn't have release dates, but can we
get a *hint*? Is potato even frozen yet? I mean, I heard *months*
ago that the only problem remaining was a problem with Perl
installation, and surely that's fixed by now.
Sorry if you're seeing this twice: I sent a similar
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> > in your user directory:
> > .xinitrc
> > .xserverrc
> > .xsession
>
> I could not find any of these files in my users home or /root!?! Is this
> part of the problem?
No! They could be contributing to the problem if they were there,
but thei
Greetings:
Is there a trick to getting the framebuffer console working in Debian?
I followed the instructions in the Framebuffer-HOWTO but at boot time, I
get a message saying something like:
"You passed an invalid mode, press to see the valid modes"
Of course, it shows only vga text modes in t
David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> OK, I'm going to digest that for a while... to see if there are
> any obvious problems (missing pieces, bad versions).
Okay..
>
> Meanwhile, please tell me also what's in each of (if they exist):
>
> in /etc/X11/:
> window-managers
> Xsession.options
Those are threads. If your SO died and won't restart, try cleaning out
the /tmp directory.
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Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've attached a file named "log_x11.txt" which is the output of the
> command you gave me (it was too long to try and type).
OK, I'm going to digest that for a while... to see if there are
any obvious problems (missing pieces, bad versions).
Meanwhile, pl
Will not gv or ghostview due the job? gv does a nice job with ps and
pdf files. You don't get the pdf menus though...
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I believe if you:
$ kill -HUP `cat /var/run/apache.pid`
apache will reload it's configuration without interruption.
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David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> The output from that will at least give me enough to start asking
> other questions ;-).
I've attached a file named "log_x11.txt" which is the output of the
command you gave me (it was too long to try and type).
>
> Thanks for your patience and persistence
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Thanks William, but my access provider has given me the option
> of going either way, so the decision has yet to be made. I have
Interesting.
In that case, it probably doesn't make a lot of difference which you use.
Things will probably be simpler
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> The only thing in '/root/.xsession-errors' is:
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
[...]
> # dpkg --print-avail xserver*
> Package 'xserver' is not available.
>
> WTF? Did I do something wrong in the command?
Yeah th
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