Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-16 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to potato?? If so, did you install from sources or from a kernel image? I updated from slink to potato on my laptop at the weekend and had no real problems with the upgrade. However, I did make sure that I had all the packages I needed in

PHP4 packages will be soon uploaded

1999-11-16 Thread Gergely Madarasz
Hello, There were lots of questions about php4 and when it will be packaged. 4.0b3 was released today, I'm now testing how it compiles and works with shared modules, I will package it this week. Expect an upload on Sunday. For now there will only be an apache module with separate modules for mysql

Re: Alsa problem - can't locate module sound-slot-0

1999-11-16 Thread Brian Boonstra
> Anyone know a fix > to this and/or how this module gets generated? Whacks with a clue-bat would > be appreciated, TIA. This is what eventually worked for me, with a different card: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/alsa-pci128.html it's part of a whole collection of ALSA driver docs at

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 16, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I see... Sure enough, I'm using the nfs-server package, which is a user- >space nfs server. Is there a deb of a kernel-space nfsd? And why is the It's in the very last 2.2.x kernels. >user-space nfsd the (apparent) Debian standard, part

One for you Fetchmail experts out there

1999-11-16 Thread Kent West
Configuration #1 -- On the Windows platform (and presumably Mac, but I don't know first-hand), I can configure Eudora Pro Email to leave the mail on the server whenever I check mail. This gives me two copies of the mail messages; one on the server, and one on my local client. This is no pr

Fw: Multiple IP Addressing

1999-11-16 Thread Jason
- Original Message - From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stephen A. Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 5:43 PM Subject: Re: Multiple IP Addressing > I have found that FAQ on virtual interfaces but I am going to have two > physical interfaces, my question is basical

Re: Multiple IP Addressing

1999-11-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jason Taylor wrote: > My apologies, as I was not as clear as I should have been. Load balancing is > not what I meant, I would merely like to assign two IP addresses that are on > the same subnet to each NIC in the server. To be honest whether or not 1 NIC > can handle the loa

Alsa problem - can't locate module sound-slot-0

1999-11-16 Thread Randy Edwards
I've changed my sound around to Alsa and since I use a custom kernel I went the Alsa source route. I followed the instructions in the debian/README file religiously and generated my Alsa modules. However, upon running them I get the message that "modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0".

Re: Multiple IP Addressing

1999-11-16 Thread Charles Lewis
> My apologies, as I was not as clear as I should have been. Load balancing is > not what I meant, I would merely like to assign two IP addresses that are on > the same subnet to each NIC in the server. To be honest whether or not 1 NIC > can handle the load is not my concern, I want to see if it i

Re: Multiple IP Addressing

1999-11-16 Thread Charles Lewis
> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jason Taylor wrote: > > > I am new to the Debian world and am working on a new in house system that > > has 2 3com 10/100 PCI NIC's in it. I got the system to find the NIC's okay > > now I am wondering how I configure /etc/init.d/network file to load balance > > between the N

Re: Multiple IP Addressing

1999-11-16 Thread Jason Taylor
My apologies, as I was not as clear as I should have been. Load balancing is not what I meant, I would merely like to assign two IP addresses that are on the same subnet to each NIC in the server. To be honest whether or not 1 NIC can handle the load is not my concern, I want to see if it is possib

Re: Multiple IP Addressing

1999-11-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jason Taylor wrote: > I am new to the Debian world and am working on a new in house system that > has 2 3com 10/100 PCI NIC's in it. I got the system to find the NIC's okay > now I am wondering how I configure /etc/init.d/network file to load balance > between the NIC's. I add

Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-16 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I'm having major problems upgrading from slink to potato (stable to unstable apt sources). After one of the packages is being setup, I get a whole list of stuff like this: depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root Then after something related to PCMCIA gets installed

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: boonst >So I reckon these are the 3 lines being thrown away. I do wonder, boonst >though, if I have a bitdepth problem. I reckoned the server would default to boonst >depth 24 since that is the first "Display" listed, but if it is default

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brad wrote: lists >Make sure to check the Linux Modem Compatibility Knowledge Base before you lists >buy, so you don't end up with a modem that won't work with Linux. lists > i have yet to find a standard modem that does not work wi

Re: [Fwd: Debian specific Partition problme]

1999-11-16 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I'm guessing it's that the boot disks from Debian are from the kernel 2.0.x series. It may report different values to fdisk. Actually, it seems that the debian 2.1 fdisk (kernel 2.0.x) are reporting physical disk geometry, while the other distros (probably using kernel 2.2.x series) report transl

Re: Beginners How-To use Debian as a LAN

1999-11-16 Thread Charles Lewis
I don't think there is any question that linux could do what you want and do it well, but from my beginner's perspective (about 3 months experience with Linux). I personally would not convert your entire lab in one shot, but work with a server and desktop computer on the side until you feel comfort

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I did what you suggested but it doesn't work across X sessions (I mean login out and in again) for the gnome-panel which I'm calling from my .xsession file. The suggestion by alisdair works fine though. Thank you, -- Pedro Harlan Crystal wrote: > > I've never used gnome panel, but I use enlight

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

1999-11-16 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 06:12:36PM +1100, Brian May wrote > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 05:12:41AM +, John Hasler wrote: > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > Over a 28.8 dialup? ROTFL. > > I do it over 14.4 kbs... > > (sorry I couldn't resist). > > Of course, it would be nice if transfer rates w

RE: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Harlan Crystal
I've never used gnome panel, but I use enlightenment all the time. To make a window in enlightenment show up on all desktops, make it "stick." To make a window stick, hold down "alt" and right click on the window (the panel) and a menu will pop up from which you can choose "stick." if you want

Re: Problems with PostScript fonts in tetex in debian slink

1999-11-16 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [310] [111] [211] [311] [411] [13]/usr/bin/makempx: Command failed: dvitomp > mpxerr.dvi manfig.mpx > DVItoMP warning: Checksum mismatch for psyr > DVItoMP warning: Checksum mismatch for ptmri8r > DVItoMP warning: Checksum mismatch for ptmr8r >

Re: Stupid dselect/dpkg question

1999-11-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 12:47:28PM +0200, Iwan Vosloo wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to debian (coming from RH) and have a stupid question I can't > find the answer to (probably because I'm looking in the wrong > places...). > > I have installed slink and spent hours to choose packages... I would > li

Multiple IP Addressing

1999-11-16 Thread Jason Taylor
I am new to the Debian world and am working on a new in house system that has 2 3com 10/100 PCI NIC's in it. I got the system to find the NIC's okay now I am wondering how I configure /etc/init.d/network file to load balance between the NIC's. I added a seperate script in /etc/init.d/network for et

[Fwd: Debian specific Partition problme]

1999-11-16 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Please respond directly to Nagarjuna Thanks. S. Original Message Subject: Debian specific Partition problme Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:18:06 +0530 (IST) From: "Nagarjuna G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Manoj/S

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-16 Thread Brian Boonstra
nate wrote: > keys are here > > (**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting. > (**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting. > (**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting. Hi Thanks, Nate. I worried about those messages, too, but decided it was not the prob

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

1999-11-16 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > id also suggest an upgrade to a faster modem :) a good 56k pci/isa > modem can be had for about $35 ..even if your lines dont support 56k > you can at least do 28.8/33.6 Make sure to check the Linux Modem Compatibility Knowle

Stupid dselect/dpkg question

1999-11-16 Thread Iwan Vosloo
Hi, I'm new to debian (coming from RH) and have a stupid question I can't find the answer to (probably because I'm looking in the wrong places...). I have installed slink and spent hours to choose packages... I would like to re-install from scratch, but would like to save my package selection so

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Thank you, This effectively solves the problem. -- Pedro Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:15:31PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > > > I have two virtual desktops defined in enlightenment but when I launch > > the gnome panel it only shows up on one of them. How do I get

Re: PPP to ISP -Freeserve UK == cack

1999-11-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Nov 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My Debian box is now connected - and surprise, surprise , there was > nothing wrong with it. > > The problem was with Freeserve (UK) - who don't seem to accomodate > Linux at all. Couldn't ping, nslookup didn't work, mozilla didn't > work. Only question

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:15:31PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > I have two virtual desktops defined in enlightenment but when I launch > the gnome panel it only shows up on one of them. How do I get the panel > to show up in every virtual desktop? Presuming you're running panel from .xsession

RE: Encounter with Satan

1999-11-16 Thread Glen S Mehn
Call me silly, but it's right there in the dpkg list when you install. Try apt-get install satan and see what happens. Regards, glen Subject: Encounter with Satan Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:44:11 +0700 (JAVT) From: Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: d

Re: is your diald (potato) crashing too?

1999-11-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-Nov-1999 Bob Nielsen wrote: > I found that after a recent potato update, diald only works the first > time and I had to restart. I posted a question on this to the list > several weeks ago and got a response that it does that with 2.0.x > kernels, but not with 2.2.x kernels. I am running k

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

1999-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 12 Nov, Adam C Powell IV wrote about "Re: stopping x from starting > automatically" > > > > Is there some reason xdm and gdm are linked from /etc/rc.2 and > > /etc/rc.3? I thought only runlevel 5 was supposed to start X by > > default. I remove these links myself, bu

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
keys are here (**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting. (**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting. (**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting. so, 3 modeliens that you have defined are invalid. which 3 is another thing. im not sure if the modelines listed are

Re: Beginners How-To use Debian as a LAN

1999-11-16 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi Brian, Brian Burnes wrote: > > Hello: > > I am a microbiology laboratory manager with limited computer literacy, but I am also a *biology student specialising in Bioinformatics!! > I am interested in the capabilities of Debian. Endless capabilities, with proper setup. I primarily use debian

apt is unable to resolv zlib1g->libc6 dependecy

1999-11-16 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, in preparation for an "apt-get disp-upgrade" I will be making soon, I did an "apt-get -s disp-upgrade", because I wanted to see what it would do. However, it complained about a few dependency problems, which I fixed, except for one thing. It says zlib1g depends on libc6. This is a hamm sys

Re: Auto blanking of xscreensaver

1999-11-16 Thread Clyde Wilson
Many, many thanks to Nate, Paul, Kevin and Raghavendra! I ended up using xset s 0 0. Works just great. Thanks again all. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have xscreensaver and xlock installed on Slink. When I lock > my screen, everything works fine for about 10 minute

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Nov, Bernhard Rieder wrote about "Re: X11 virtual display size" > Brian Servis wrote: >> Hmmm, don't know who to do this with X itself. But, many window >> managers provide this functionality. Fvwm(the one I am familiar with) >> provides control of this with the EdgeScroll, EdgeResistanc

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-16 Thread Brian Boonstra
OK, using startx >& X.log I get the following: XFree86 Version 3.3.5 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: August 23 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a

Beginners How-To use Debian as a LAN

1999-11-16 Thread Brian Burnes
Hello: I am a microbiology laboratory manager with limited computer literacy, but I am interested in the capabilities of Debian. I need to create a laboratory computer system that is multiuser (with terminals?) and multitasking capable (sounds like Linux) with a GUI (for computerphobes) and word

Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 9:03:16 AM, Roland wrote: > Next one? > Stationmir (if I ever buy an Alpha workstation). Nah. I vote vote that "Stationmir" be the name given to the Windows box, as in "always falling apart and kept together with spit, chickenwire and a whole lotta prayers." --

Re: is your diald (potato) crashing too?

1999-11-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
I found that after a recent potato update, diald only works the first time and I had to restart. I posted a question on this to the list several weeks ago and got a response that it does that with 2.0.x kernels, but not with 2.2.x kernels. Bob On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 03:14:40AM -, Pollywog w

Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-16 Thread Roland Mas
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just built 2 machines to test a VPN and i named em kirk & spock :/ If you come to series... Casimir (first one, 486 - broken at the moment) Clodomir (P200) Minimir (Vaio laptop) Faramir & Boromir (Not mine actually - at work last year) Cachemir (At work now)

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Brian Servis wrote: > Hmmm, don't know who to do this with X itself. But, many window > managers provide this functionality. Fvwm(the one I am familiar with) > provides control of this with the EdgeScroll, EdgeResistance and > EdgeThickness. > > Mainly if you set 'EdgeScroll 0 0' then the pointe

Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 8:32:25 AM, Rob wrote: > Of course we do! Remember way far back ago in the intial install, one > of the questions was, "what is the name of this system?" > This one is peon. My server is teleute. morpheus is my workstation (like you couldn't guess that from my em

re:Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: schark > schark >>Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has schark >>named their Linux schark >>systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've schark >>shortened it to Debby. schark > schark >The linux box in my office is named 'Penguin', th

Re: Capture sound/video under linux

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: jybarb >Sorry to disturb you again Nate, no prob :) jybarb >I'm under slink, kernel 2.2.13, donwloaded xawtv-3.0.1, bttv-0.7.3 jybarb >and lm-sensor-2.4.3, as the html page said. jybarb >I successfully made and aplyied the lm-sensorpatch to the ker

Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-16 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 09:48:16PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > ps: just kidding folks. don't take me seriously on this one. Tux (my > > server) is safe. > > Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux > systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've shortened it

netscape locale problem... this was just covered

1999-11-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
I know I just saw a thread on this list about the message from netscape "locale 'C' not supported. Maybe $XNLSPATH environment varible is not set correctly?" Or something along those lines anyways. To anyone who participated in this thead, could you please email me with whatever the solution was

Re: Netscape error

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: alex >But suddenly it stop works. When I try to start messenger it shows error alex >window alex >saing that memory is low and hangs. (The hole communicator with browser and alex >etc) when that happens are you out of swap? addd more swap .. should ha

Re: Printing Problems

1999-11-16 Thread Josh Duncan
Well, a couple of things could be going wrong. for starters, if you did steps 1 & 2 by hand, then rebooted, your hand made changes may be lost... this is highly likely if it didn't work initially on boot. what id recommend doing instead of rebooting.. is this: 0. cold boot the computer (this ste

Installation problems...

1999-11-16 Thread Carlo Contavalli
Hi All! I'm trying to install debian on a dual Pentium machine with a SCSI controller, but after the prompt and after "Loading", without printing any dot, it stops and prints "Boot failed". "Loading Boot failed". The computer has two pentium 166, 36 Mb of Ram, an adaptec AHA1542b controller,

Sane / Scanner problem

1999-11-16 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>I have scsi generic support, and aha152x support >compiled in the kernel >(potato >with 2.2.13) and have sane installed. The scsi card is >Adaptec 1505. >The kernel >recognizes the card fine. I didn't have the sg devices >in my /dev >directory, so >I did a MAKEDEV sg to make them. I made the sym.

Printing Problems

1999-11-16 Thread Sean McIlwain
I am still attempting to print to my serial printer using lpr. I tried to following: 1)root# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 2)root# route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo 3)reboot and made sure that the lpd started up correctly. 4)root# lpr test.txt I still get the same result as before >transfer

Re: test

1999-11-16 Thread Joe Block
Paul McHale wrote: > > test > > Sorry for the test message, ISP problems ... Sorry doesn't cut it. If you need to send test mail outside of your local lan, create a hotmail account and mail there, don't spam a list with many subscribers. Some people have to pay for every bit of traffic (like

Re: problems with .sawmillrc

1999-11-16 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Herbert Ho wrote: > have you tried restarting sawmill after you've gotten this messages? > you can do this by clicking mouse button 3 on the root window. It happens, when I start my xsession, so your suggestion should make no difference. M

Re: problems with .sawmillrc

1999-11-16 Thread Herbert Ho
=) seems you already have posted to the sawmill mailing list...nm. *grin* herbert On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:38:54AM -0600, Herbert Ho wrote: > have you tried restarting sawmill after you've gotten this messages? > you can do this by clicking mouse button 3 on the root window. > > if this doe

Re: problems with .sawmillrc

1999-11-16 Thread Herbert Ho
have you tried restarting sawmill after you've gotten this messages? you can do this by clicking mouse button 3 on the root window. if this doesn't work, i'd suggest reposting this question on the sawmill mailing list...which will probable get you more reponse. =) [EMAIL PROTECTED] hope that hel

Re: modem firmware update: cu, seyon, minicom?

1999-11-16 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jameson Burt wrote: > I wish to both interactively type commands to my modem and send files to it > via > xmodem or zmodem. > (I do not want to dial some phone number as I communicate with my modem) > I didn't see how to really do this with "cu"; > seyon and minicom want to d

test

1999-11-16 Thread Paul McHale
test Sorry for the test message, ISP problems ... - Double E Solutions Attn: Paul McHale 4912 Effingham Dayton, Ohio 45431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: 937-253-7610 Mobile: 937-371-2828 Fax:413-215-3232 Home: 937-25

Re: halt at: Configuring packages ... <>

1999-11-16 Thread jack
I manually installed several packages by apt-get install and found it halt when configuring acct package.

scsi boot install: similar problems...

1999-11-16 Thread Josh Duncan
Hello all, I am new to this list, so please bear with me if this has been said/asked before (I tried searching the web archives of the list but found virtually no relevant info) I seem to be having similar install problems to Marek Andricik here.. in that I can't install debian on a system that

Re: fetchmail and deleting read mail

1999-11-16 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
hi, Yes there is! Add this option in your .fetchmailrc file -K, --nokeep delete new messages after retrieval -gnana Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Is there any way to make fetchmail delete each mail at source as soon as > it's fetched?

Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

1999-11-16 Thread Bryan Scaringe
thanks too all who replied. I think that for now, I will do something like what is suggested below, except to run it AFTER the networking is up, since the scripts depend on me knowing my IP Address, which I get through DHCP (so networking has to be up). Shouldn't leave me volnerable for more than

ttys

1999-11-16 Thread Ethan Benson
hi what are the permissions on /dev/console supposed to be? what about /dev/tty0? also i am getting a sh: device /dev/tty not configured twice at at bootup and shutdown but I am not sure what script is doing it (or why), i appears right between ssh and openssl. thanks Best Regards, Etha

Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I have two virtual desktops defined in enlightenment but when I launch the gnome panel it only shows up on one of them. How do I get the panel to show up in every virtual desktop? I'm running the latest from potato. Thank you, -- Pedro

Apache-SSL: Can't get XBitHack to work.

1999-11-16 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am trying to enable SSI using the XbitHack option. However, it won't work either from adding "XbitHack on" to config files or to add it in a ..htaccess file. I have another box running "standard" Apache. No such problems there. I am running Apache-SSL on a Debian Slink box. Any ideas what

Re: NIS

1999-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Marcin Kurc wrote: > I was a little bored today so I looked into the new NIS package. > It works fine if you change a small thing :) > Check out your /var/yp/Makefile, you probably have an entry like this: > > # Should we merge the passwd file with the shadow file ? > # MERGE_PASSWD=true|false > M

PowerPC potato

1999-11-16 Thread Marcin Kurc
Anyone have PowerPC Installation docs? I'm getting 404 for the links at debian.org. Never installed any linux distro on PowerPC so I probably will need the docs :) -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Re: New release over due

1999-11-16 Thread John Hasler
Fabien Ninoles writes: > That's why I download by night [which cost nothing here]. We have only one phone line, which I cannot tie up for hours at a time, even at night. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Danc

Sane / Scanner problem

1999-11-16 Thread mheyes
I have scsi generic support, and aha152x support compiled in the kernel (potato with 2.2.13) and have sane installed. The scsi card is Adaptec 1505. The kernel recognizes the card fine. I didn't have the sg devices in my /dev directory, so I did a MAKEDEV sg to make them. I made the sym. link fro

Re: scsi boot install

1999-11-16 Thread Marek Andricik
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:38:23AM +0100, Onno wrote: > > Strange, did you try the specific install disks for the > Adaptec SCSI controller??? No, I built new kernel for me to be able to install. But potato disks should work and it was stated in previous email. And they did not work for on my PC..

Re: Latest Acct package broken?

1999-11-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/11/99 Todd Suess wrote: I just did my nightly apt-get dist-upgrade, and it downloaded about 26 packages, one of which was acct 6.3.5-16. After downloading all the packages, apt went right into configuring packages. and it stopped. and sat. and sat. I let it sit about a half hour wit

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Nov, Bernhard Rieder wrote about "Re: X11 virtual display size" > > Maybe I re-formulate my Question: > Is there something (a Key combination) that locks > the physical display to a fixed position on the > virtual display (=prevents scrolling). > Hmmm, don't know who to do this with X i

re:Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-16 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has >named their Linux >systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've >shortened it to Debby. The linux box in my office is named 'Penguin', there is also a motororla power stack running PPC linux called 'MotoPenguin'. My box at home was 'Dop

Re: Capture sound/video under linux

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:14:15PM -0800, aphro wrote: > For all of those of you that have been(like me) dreaming for the day of > being able to capture FMV with audio under linux there is now a > stable(appears) program available. > > XawTV 3.01 (Nov 14) Sorry to disturb you again Nate, I'm unde

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 11:48:52AM +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > Maybe I re-formulate my Question: > Is there something (a Key combination) that locks > the physical display to a fixed position on the > virtual display (=prevents scrolling). Sorry Bernhard, I don't know it it exists. JY -- Jea

AST fourport card

1999-11-16 Thread Patrick
Hi all, I have an AST fourport card (or compatible one, don't really know, on it it's written : AST 4061 VER2.0 FCC ID:H9MSUN6304) and I don't manage to make it function on an Debian slink box (kernel 2.2.13) even with all the comments present in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial specifically for AST cards.

Re: Checking quotas and the bootup process

1999-11-16 Thread Russell Coker
>Currently /etc/init.d/quota runs at position 20 in runlevel 2 (default >installation) and this tends to take a very long time to run at bootup on >one particular server, and because a lot of the other services tend to >startup afterwards, either for alphabetic reasons within position 20, or >they

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > Is there a way to prevent X11 from scrolling > > when you have a virtual display size larger than > > the physical display size ? > > I think the answer is contained in the question ;) > If you set a virtual screen larger than the resolution you use, > it is to have...

Re: Getting modelines for my monitor

1999-11-16 Thread Brian Servis
Try the modeline generator at http://www.inria.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines. It will give you lots of choices that will be a good start. You can use xvidtune to fine tune the one you want. *- On 15 Nov, Arcady Genkin wrote about "Getting modelines for my monitor" > > I have just bought a View

Netscape error

1999-11-16 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all I've problems with Netscape communicator messanger with IMAP protocol. I've used this for about 2 months without any problems. But suddenly it stop works. When I try to start messenger it shows error window saing that memory is low and hangs. (The hole communicator with browser and etc) I

Re: Getting modelines for my monitor

1999-11-16 Thread Klaus Drews
--- Begin Message --- |>From root Wed Nov 17 06:46:56 1999 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mail.ngi.de by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.3) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Wed, 17 Nov 1999 06:46:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debia

Re: modem firmware update: cu, seyon, minicom?

1999-11-16 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Theoretically you should be able to use minicom to perform the xmodem transfer... unfortunately I was never able to make this work when I needed to flash my modem (also a V.everything). In the end I installed Win95 into what had formerly been my swap partition, and performed the update from there.

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:19:56AM +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to prevent X11 from scrolling > when you have a virtual display size larger than > the physical display size ? I think the answer is contained in the question ;) If you set a virtual screen larger than the r

SAMBA probs

1999-11-16 Thread Rune Linding
Hi i cant see files like these from windows workstations via samba: ls Run Folder-99:2f11:2f11 13.15 we can see the dir but if we go down, we cant see these: A11SampleABK-HO-6 A7SampleABK-HO-4.Seq just ordinary files with -rw-r--r-- i dont get it -- Best Regards :) Rune Li

problems with .sawmillrc

1999-11-16 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi guys, I have the following problem with sawmill 0.15: When ever the ~/.sawmillrc file is present (empty or contaning the sample lines from the FAQ: (bind-keys global-keymap "C-M-ESC" '(system "xterm &")) ), I get the message from the Desktop Pager Applet

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

1999-11-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > > ..you might try different INIT strings too ..the one i use for my 56k > modem is about 50 characters long :/ i programmed it into the ROM now tho > so when i hit ATZ it uses that string. could you share some info on init strings with me? I'm trying to do si

Re: fetchmail and deleting read mail

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 06:49:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Is there any way to make fetchmail delete each mail at source as soon as > it's fetched? I have nearly a thousand mails to fetch and I keep > getting errors and having to start again from scratch. > > Please mail answers to me at

fetchmail and deleting read mail

1999-11-16 Thread Martyn Pearce
Anthony Campbell writes: | Is there any way to make fetchmail delete each mail at source as soon as | it's fetched? I have nearly a thousand mails to fetch and I keep | getting errors and having to start again from scratch. | | Please mail answers to me at a.campbell.doctors.org.uk as well as t

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-16 Thread Jens Guenther
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:13:55PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > aphro wrote: > > > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote: > > > > jpb >In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license > > jpb >the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who > > jpb >are t

X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Hi, Is there a way to prevent X11 from scrolling when you have a virtual display size larger than the physical display size ? Bernhard

Project stuff

1999-11-16 Thread Urban Gabor
Does anybody know project management tools for linux. I would like to have something similar to M$ Project. :-)) Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a cat to play with the mouse.

Re: scsi boot install

1999-11-16 Thread Onno
Strange, did you try the specific install disks for the Adaptec SCSI controller??? Onno At 08:39 AM 11/16/99 +0100, Marek Andricik wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:26:14AM +0100, Onno wrote: > > This is an old slink bug, there are install disks for the > Adaptec SCSI controller you have, look

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 09:58:36PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:36:26PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:11:34PM -0500, Ian Stirling wrote: > > > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: > > > > > > > I think it is a bad idea to call it `debian gimp'. If you d

Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

1999-11-16 Thread Onno
BEWARE: Follow the instructions in IPCHAINS HOWTO... BUT the HOWTO contains SEVERE flaws!!! Create a script to setup ipchains and run it early in the bootup procedure. I have a script called 'ipchains' in /etc/init.d and made a symbolic link called 'S39ipchains' to '/etc/init.d/ipchains' in the

Problems with PostScript fonts in tetex in debian slink

1999-11-16 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, When I use the "pslatex" package in latex documents in debian-slink, I get the following errors: == dvips: Checksum mismatch in ptmri8r dvips: Checksum mismatch in ptmri8r dvips: Checksum mismatch in psyr == I ignore

Re: modem firmware update: cu, seyon, minicom?

1999-11-16 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> I want to do the following for my USRobotics V.everything courier modem, >AT~X! #starts an xmodem or zmodem session. >send a file to the modem, replacing its firmware. > WHAT SOFTWARE MIGHT I USE FOR THIS DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH THE MODEM? You may use minicom with X modem file tra

Latest Acct package broken?

1999-11-16 Thread Todd Suess
I just did my nightly apt-get dist-upgrade, and it downloaded about 26 packages, one of which was acct 6.3.5-16. After downloading all the packages, apt went right into configuring packages. and it stopped. and sat. and sat. I let it sit about a half hour with no hard drive activity, before I

Adding Styles to Blackbox window manager

1999-11-16 Thread David J. Kanter
After untarring a downloaded Style for Blackbox into my home directory, how can I get it to appear as a menu entry? Do I have to manually create a new menu item (e.g., My Styles) for it? If so, then can I [include] the entire Debian menu tree in my definition and just have the tail end be the entri

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