imwheel

1999-11-24 Thread Eric Hagglund
I still am having problems getting my wheel mouse to work in Netscape and other programs. Several weeks ago I downloaded imwheel and added the following code to my ~/.Xdefaults file. This caused the wheel to work like a third button, but it also caused the undesired result of limiting the range of

Re: How do I change which logfiles are rotated when?

1999-11-24 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
HI all, >Look in /etc/cron.daily/ and /etc/cron.weekly/ for the invocation >of syslogd-listfiles, and the rotation frequency. >>Hi, >>The logfile rotation stuff makes use of syslogd-listfiles, which >>claims in its man page to be controlled by /etc/syslog.conf >>Unfortunately, I can't find an

Re: Squid or DNS

1999-11-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I installed DNS and Squid in my server and when a client is browsing the >web, sometimes the following error occurs and the client has to reload the >page two or three times to lo

Re: Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?

1999-11-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Okay, I lied when I said that I have a plain slink system: I compiled >2.2.x kernels myself, and not using a Debian package for this. Shame >on me :-) > >Would the Debian kernel package have removed that link and created >

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-24 Thread Sean Johnson
Go here: ftp://geek.rcc.se/pub/mp3encoder/lame/ Grab the latest one (3.51 as of 11/24/99). Untar-unzip the .tar.gz file cd lame3.51 make (as root) make install You may need to edit the Makefile, but I did not on my system. Sean Stuart Ballard wrote: > > Dumb question - could anyone giv

Removing all SCSI drivers except mine from potato images

1999-11-24 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I've needed to use the modified set of images for slink that are at: http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/ , which have all the SCSI drivers removed except for the one for Adaptec aic7xxx SCSI cards. Is there anyone here who might be able to help me get something similar done wit

Re: pon script

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
pppd will log to /var/log/messages include an excerpt from there when you post, if you need to it should tell u exactly wahts goin on nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: arodri >What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in arodri >tty0, now, some times whe

Re: X server fatal error: can't find fixed font!

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Which probably corresponds to the problem with apt-get reported a while ago. Was it your case? Let me include a copy of the report below * Copy I did apt-get update , apt-get dist-upgrade, after this the Xserver was not working. Complained about fonts not installed, couldn't find them etc.

Re: telnetd can't get ttys

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
i had to to the same to get identd working ..not sure why .. let me know what u find out if its not posted to the list nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Brian White wrote: bcwhit >I installed the new telnetd (v0.14-8) in an upgrade from Slink, but every bcwhit >connection attempt failed until I modif

Re: email forwarding

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Alexander P. Barkey (hypnotic) wrote: a.p.ba >is there any way? echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] >~/.forward where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the addy u want to forward to nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations

Re: pon script

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Sorry, is ttyS0, rushed to write. That is not the problem, remember, it works at times Pollywog wrote: > On 24-Nov-1999 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in > > tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times it does not. I >

Re: X server fatal error: can't find fixed font!

1999-11-24 Thread Peter Schuller
> I upgraded my XFree to 3.35 from slink without having installed the > slink one ( I had had to make a reinstallation because of a mistake > while root). Any way, when I started startx after runnig the xf86config, > it couldn't satrt any server, complained about fonts not found, asked to > run mk

lpd problem after hamm->potato upgrade

1999-11-24 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello! After finally upgrading to hamm->potato, one small problem remains unsolved (the rest I managed to kill :). While printing works fine when I do 'cat > /dev/', lpd seems to think the printer is offline (lpc claims the daemon is waiting for the printer). What could be the cause of such a p

RE: pon script

1999-11-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Nov-1999 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in > tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times it does not. I > didn't think that a chain of instructions could be moody. > Please help. Do you mean ttyS0 ? Could that be th

pon script

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times it does not. I didn't think that a chain of instructions could be moody. Please help.

telnetd can't get ttys

1999-11-24 Thread Brian White
I installed the new telnetd (v0.14-8) in an upgrade from Slink, but every connection attempt failed until I modified /etc/inetd.conf to say "root.root" instead of "telnetd.telnetd". The user and group telnetd exist, and telnetd belongs to the utmp group. Is there something else that needs to be se

apt-get isn't working properly?

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I did apt-get update , apt-get dist-upgrade, after this the Xserver was not working. Complained about fonts not installed, couldn't find them etc. By pure chance I did apt-get install after a while and it fixed the problem. The fonts had not been installed. Wasn't apt-get supposed to handle the ins

Re: Mail Q

1999-11-24 Thread Klaus Drews
I am using exim for sending and fetchmail receiving mail. So its easy to compose mail on my machine and exim delivers it. At the same time (to save money) fetchmail is started, when the link to my ISP is up. To see if you can access your telnet-account-machine try telnet 25. That lets your tel

Re: too many files open

1999-11-24 Thread Bill Stilwell
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:17:43PM -0800, aphro wrote: > i believe this is a hard coded limit in the kernel, edit > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/limits.h and recompile > > nate This is true for 2.0 kernels, but can be adjusted without rebooting or recompiling on 2.2 kernels by adjusting the value

Re: Pentium III and Slink

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
yep, and nope. it supports it fine no tuning is needed. if you want to run an optimized version you should look into stampede or turbolinux.. debian is optimzied for i486 and above i think ? p3 will still fly but it wont go as fast as it can go... nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Howard Mann wrote:

Re: too many files open

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
i believe this is a hard coded limit in the kernel, edit /usr/src/linux/include/linux/limits.h and recompile nate On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zdrysd >Hi zdrysd > zdrysd >is there any way to increase the allowed amount of open files in Debian? zdrysd >Yesterday i tried to telnet

email forwarding

1999-11-24 Thread Alexander P. Barkey \(hypnotic\)
hi i'm looking for a way to forward the email i receive on my linux server to my real email adress...   is there any way?   i hate it to log on everyday to see that there is no mail :)   peace Alexander P. Barkey

Squid or DNS

1999-11-24 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I installed DNS and Squid in my server and when a client is browsing the web, sometimes the following error occurs and the client has to reload the page two or three times to load the page. What is wrong? The requested URL could not be retrieved ---

Re: Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?

1999-11-24 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 7 1999 /dev/console -> tty0 > Then there is a bug in Eterm. Or you are trying to let multiple > programs catch the output of /dev/console - TIOCCONS (the mechanism > that provides "console output cloning to

Re: errors

1999-11-24 Thread Klaus Drews
Late reply, but I had the same problem. Seems like you have unsolved links up there. On my machine, it came through some software, upgrading the libaries, but not the links. All works fine, but I fixed it for a better look.

Re: Mail problems and procmail

1999-11-24 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:29:58 -0800 Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions? The total contents of your .forward under Exim should be: "| /usr/bin/procmail -f-" Even better is to get rid of the .forward and have Exim recognise that you are using procmail as

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-24 Thread Stuart Ballard
Dumb question - could anyone give me an "idiots walk-through" of installing LAME? It's probably somewhere simple, but all the stuff about "LAME won't even compile by itself" on the web page put me off. And of course there's no package for it... Thanks very much in advance, Stuart. Sean Johnson wr

NEC versa install

1999-11-24 Thread Evan Moore
I am about to install debian on my boss's NEC Versa LX notebook, are there any issues that I should be aware of before I kill the machine and he kills me? thanks evan

[no subject]

1999-11-24 Thread Skynet
212.210.122.9 ???

VPN setup

1999-11-24 Thread zdrysdal
Hi we are planning to establish a VPN using cisco routers to do PPTP (GRE). There is a debian firewall at our end which has 3 network cards.. one connects to our isp via isdn, the second is for our DMZ quarantine zone, and the third is for our local network. Where would be the best place to setup

Pentium III and Slink

1999-11-24 Thread Howard Mann
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Howard Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi All, Does Slink/kernel 2.0.36 support the Pentium III processor? Is any special "tuning"/configuration required ? Thanks. Howard Mann. Geocrawler.com - The Knowledge Archive

Re: ICMP error

1999-11-24 Thread Ernest Johanson
I recently had this problem with a misconfigured printer on our network. Turned out that the subnet mask was improperly set. Once that was fixed, the messages stopped. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Colin Watson wrote: > Date: Tue, 23

Mail problems and procmail

1999-11-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
Okay, I checked my /var/log/exim/mainlog file and it turns out that exim (?) doesn't like my .forward file. Here's the log entry: 1999-11-24 11:19:43 11qhx9-FY-00 ** |"IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #mwagnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=userforward T=addr ess_pipe: "IFS=' ' && exe

Graphics Support for I752

1999-11-24 Thread Fraser Campbell
I have a computer with onboard AGP video. Motherboard is a AOpen MX3W-L. The graphics processor is an Intel I752. There is 2 MB video RAM which appears to be borrowed from system RAM ... although the option to modify the amount of video RAM doesn't appear in the BIOS??? The motherboard is an AO

too many files open

1999-11-24 Thread zdrysdal
Hi is there any way to increase the allowed amount of open files in Debian? Yesterday i tried to telnet to my samba server and it disallowed it returning with an error "too many files open". thanx

X server fatal error: can't find fixed font!

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I upgraded my XFree to 3.35 from slink without having installed the slink one ( I had had to make a reinstallation because of a mistake while root). Any way, when I started startx after runnig the xf86config, it couldn't satrt any server, complained about fonts not found, asked to run mkfontdir, w

Re: Help with a Dell Latitude CPia

1999-11-24 Thread Joe Block
Chris Larson wrote: > > I have installed corel linux onto my laptop. Everything looks great and runs > fine except for three things. > > 1. My ethernet card is not working. I can ping myself but I cannont ping > anything else. Coincidentally enough, I installed Corel on a friend's Latitude this

Re: xterminal out of old 386?

1999-11-24 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have an old 386 running slink and want to install X. The system only > has a 100MB drive and I've got slink + xserver-common and xserver-svga > installed. Right now there is about 38MB free space. I would like to > get X running and ru

ppp _won't_ _authenticate_ with mschap anymore

1999-11-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Man, don't you hate it when you misspell the Subject line! I wrote: Subject: ppp work autheticate with mschap anymore

Re: two questions (about X and PGp)

1999-11-24 Thread David Z. Maze
Pablo De Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PDN> I'm running a debian system where I have an X server. I want to PDN> conect to a unix SCO System V host , and conect some X clients PDN> running on that host to the X server on my debian host. Right. Various techniques for doing this are in the Rem

Re: RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...

1999-11-24 Thread Jinsong Zhao
I tried XF86 3.3.5 deb. The XF86_SVGA does not support Riva128 yet. So I was still using the one downloaded from nVidia, which is 3.3.3. No clue ... Jinsong > Yeah, I've run into that, too. I don't use emacs at home all that > often, so I'm using the simple workaround of running emacs in "no >

Help with a Dell Latitude CPia

1999-11-24 Thread Chris Larson
I have installed corel linux onto my laptop. Everything looks great and runs fine except for three things. 1. My ethernet card is not working. I can ping myself but I cannont ping anything else. 2. I have no sound. sndconfig cannot detect a sound card. I think these laptops use some Neomagic soun

xterminal out of old 386?

1999-11-24 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all; I have an old 386 running slink and want to install X. The system only has a 100MB drive and I've got slink + xserver-common and xserver-svga installed. Right now there is about 38MB free space. I would like to get X running and run apps on my much faster Alpha running potato over the

Re: Kernel

1999-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
In addition to the other fine suggestions made here, you should also see the Kernel-HOWTO, which is in the doc-linux-text package or available from metalab.unc.edu. Bob On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 10:49:51AM +0100, Neil D. Roberts wrote: > Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel'

Re: console keyboard remaped (newbie)

1999-11-24 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, 23 Nov, 1999 à 10:35:52AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > Yesterday I just installed potato. Today I was adding programs using dselect > and apt. After finishing dselect, my console keyboard was remaped (e.g., ";" > is now "m", "q" and "a" are switched). The keyboard is fine under X (even

[Re: ICMP error]

1999-11-24 Thread Vicente Torres
Colin Watson wrote: > > Vicente Torres wrote: > >I receive hundreds of times pro day > >the following message on my text screens: > > > >193.152.56.57 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast > > > >¿Can I do anything to avoid receiving this message? > > I had the same problem, due to an appare

Re: kdm hanging on return from console screen

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
i had that problem to, and i attributed it to the hardware not liking switching in and out of video modes when the driver is still active. (on the other hand EXITING out of X and restarting it always worked fine) my solution was to just not change consoles anymore :) or change vga cards that bett

Re: Kernel

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Neil D. Roberts wrote: koala >Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? The README file that comes with the kernel was sufficient guide to teach me how to compile the first time around. the hardest part is deciding what you need and what you dont..just

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
make sure your running 2.1r3 of slink and you should have -no- trouble, anything earlier *might* be missing a package. some things like lsof i had to recompile for myself. nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, andreas [iso-8859-1] p?lsson wrote: andrea >Hello. andrea > andrea >I have a Slink system which

Re: kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, ktb wrote: xyf >Sorry for the post I see there are a million messages about this in the xyf >archives. I just panicked. I am using a brand new IDE Western Digital xyf >HD (6.4 gig one) if anyone has any specific info about this HD and the i had that on ibm and maxtor drives

ppp work autheticate with mschap anymore

1999-11-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
After slightly breaking my home system attempting to downgrade from glibc2.1 back to full slink, I lost the use of bash and _fixed_ my system by manually unpacking base again and fugding with the status file. But now ppp won't work anymore, I originally got it to work by simply replying to pppco

Re: presentation graphics

1999-11-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I put the resulting PostScript file from my gri example on http://www.debian.org/~psg/bar.ps Peter

Re: kernel

1999-11-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > |> Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? > > For good clear Debian-specific information, you can read Dale Scheetz' > book `The Debian Linux User's Guide' on-line at > www.linuxpress.com. Around p.170, I think. Also packaged for Debian:

Base slink without pcmcia-cs

1999-11-24 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, I just noticed that the place I probably downloaded the base install disks for Debian slink have the pcmcia-cs package which appears to be the one causing my problems instead of the modutils package. Are there any Debian images without that package included or is there a way for me to prev

Re: presentation graphics

1999-11-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Russell Coker wrote: > I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between > different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just > nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). Ok, here's my shoot at it using `gri' http:

A student

1999-11-24 Thread 952618ae
HELLO I wanted to ask if there was an adress where i could find the man pages as tekst and other info about how to use the commands like sort,cut,etc.

two questions (about X and PGp)

1999-11-24 Thread Pablo De Napoli
> > > > Hello! > > > > I want to ask a question. > > > > I'm running a debian system where I have an X server. I want to conect to > > a unix SCO System V host , and conect some X clients running on that host > > to the X server on my debian host. > > > > Who can I make that ? (I have read the

Re: kernel

1999-11-24 Thread mcclosk
|> Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? For good clear Debian-specific information, you can read Dale Scheetz' book `The Debian Linux User's Guide' on-line at www.linuxpress.com. Around p.170, I think. Jim

Re: presentation graphics

1999-11-24 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Russell Coker wrote: > I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between > different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just > nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). > > Is there a good progra

Re: MPX EN5038, dual nic cards

1999-11-24 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 05:53:29AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > If I configure a machine with dual nic's do they have to be the same type, > or can I just load two drivers into the kernel for say one ne2000 card, > and one 3-com card? Both will work. Different cards and as modules is nicer actual

Controlling access to PPP - server

1999-11-24 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all I'm trying to organize "private" ppp - server on debian mashine. I've installed 3 modems on ttyS0 - ttyS2, mgetty with AutoPPP configured and pppd (ver 2.3.5-2). I've created 3 option files (/etc/ppp/options.ttyS0, ...,S2) with lines like xxx.xxx.xxx.8:xxx.xxx.xxx.9 in options.ttyS0 xxx.x

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have a Slink system which runs very fine with the 2.0.38 kernel. No > problems or shutdowns at all. Ok. > > Now I want to use the 2.2.x kernel because of some features, but I want > to know first if it is possible to run v2.2.x kern

RE: RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...

1999-11-24 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Jinsong Zhao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > I mail-ordered a XFree86-supported video card, yet I received a Jaton > Video-68AGP card that uses RIVA128ZX chip. [...] Now this card is > working, [...] Except, to my surprise, that the emacs cursor does not > show up! Yeah, I've run into

eterm 0810 and backgrounds

1999-11-24 Thread Michael Perry
I notice that there is a new eterm in the unstable tree but when I run apt-get install against it it wants to remove the eterm-backgrounds. I dont see a new eterm-backgrounds in the tree to upgrade to and the size of the replacement eterm does not seem large enough to hold the several mbs of image

MPX EN5038, dual nic cards

1999-11-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I found a source for 10/100 baset enet cards that use either realtek 8139 or mpx en5038 chipsets. I know that the 8139 IS supported under linux, but I am not sure about the mpx en5038 (a grep on the net sources in 2.0.38 turned up nothing). Does anyone know if this chipset is supported? Maybe I

RE: presentation graphics

1999-11-24 Thread Ted Harding
On 24-Nov-99 joost witteveen wrote: >> I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference >> between different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do >> what I want (just nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and >> descriptions at the bottom). > >> Is there a good progra

kdm hanging on return from console screen

1999-11-24 Thread alice
Hi, I'm seeing a strange behavior on my computer. If I ctrl-alt-fX to any of the console screens while in kdm I can move around among console screens all I like, but if I try to go back to kdm it just sits there on a login prompt and won't go back to any other screens... it will respond to a ct

Re: How do I change which logfiles are rotated when?

1999-11-24 Thread Marc Mongeon
Look in /etc/cron.daily/ and /etc/cron.weekly/ for the invocation of syslogd-listfiles, and the rotation frequency. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -

Re: Kernel

1999-11-24 Thread M. Tavasti
"Neil D. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? Get started with /usr/src/linux/README, and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ (They come with kernel sources) -- Tavasti

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: good book to learn perl Date: Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 08:36:49AM -0600 In reply to:Dave Sherohman Quoting Dave Sherohman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| Wayne Topa said: >| > I sure have found it that way. 99% of my books are ordered from >| > bookpool. >| >| I've had Very Bad

Re: char-major-5

1999-11-24 Thread Colin Watson
Michael Heyes wrote: >I checked to make sure, and I did have "standard/generic (dump) serial support" >compiled into the kernel, but it was compiled in and not a module. I tried >compiling it as a module, which generated the serial.o file you mentioned below >in /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc, and the me

Re: 3dfx banshee with slink + 1/2

1999-11-24 Thread Nun Yobiznez
--- "David N. Welton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have the 'slink and a half' distribution, and I'm > wondering if there > is any way to wedge a driver for the 3dfx banshee > card that I have in. > I tried downloading one from 3dfxgamers.com (only > rpm's... lame), but > there were some mis

Re: char-major-5

1999-11-24 Thread mheyes
I checked to make sure, and I did have "standard/generic (dump) serial support" compiled into the kernel, but it was compiled in and not a module. I tried compiling it as a module, which generated the serial.o file you mentioned below in /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc, and the message/problem went away

presentation graphics

1999-11-24 Thread joost witteveen
> I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between > different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just > nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). > Is there a good program to do this easily? Preferrably something I

presentation graphics

1999-11-24 Thread joost witteveen
> I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between > different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just > nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). > Is there a good program to do this easily? Preferrably something I

ppp problem 2

1999-11-24 Thread rnewton3
Hi all, I've recently upgraded to slink from hamm and now I'm having a problem with ppp. The networking works much better than hamm which is good and I've configured my ISP's using pppconfig and before so I assumed everything was. I can use Netscape just fine, and lynx mostly works. My prob

Re: Newbie question floppy format

1999-11-24 Thread Armin Wegner
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 06:47:16PM +, julie wright wrote: > Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink? > Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not > work. Returned error - command not found. > Thanks for any help in advance. >

presentation graphics

1999-11-24 Thread Russell Coker
I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). Is there a good program to do this easily? Preferrably something I can run

RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...

1999-11-24 Thread Jinsong Zhao
I mail-ordered a XFree86-supported video card, yet I received a Jaton Video-68AGP card that uses RIVA128ZX chip. To my chagrin, I spent several hours figuring out that I have to download from nVidia a special XF86_SVGA and do some setups. Now this card is working, and to my surprise, the video qu

ppp problem

1999-11-24 Thread rnewton3
Hi all, I've recently upgraded to slink from hamm and now I'm having a problem with ppp. The networking works much better than hamm which is good and I've configured my ISP's using pppconfig and before so I assumed everything was. I can use Netscape just fine, and lynx mostly works. My prob

Re: Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?

1999-11-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >recently, I wanted to use an Eterm as a substitute for >xconsole. Eterm -C lets it listen to /dev/console. >On Debian systems, however, /dev/console is linked to /dev/tty0: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 7 1999 /d

Kernel

1999-11-24 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? -- * Neil David John Roberts - Lander World Communications Server S.L. Calle Rufino Gonzalez, N°15 - 4° Planta - Madrid, Spain - 28037 Telf : 91 789 77 10 ; Fax :

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread Brian May
> "andreas" == andreas pålsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: andreas> The other option is to run Potato, since I just need the andreas> base and enough tools to compile the 2.2 kernel. But andreas> this system _must_ be stable and I fear Potato ain't andreas> really there yet.

Re: quickie.

1999-11-24 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:16:26AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > sure someone will know the answer to this. whoever does, could you please > reply to me off the list. > i'm planning on building a new server. i want to raid 5 the hard drives for > security, reliability etc. > can i mount a scs

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread andreas pålsson
Hello. Nice see that it is possible and thanks for the tip. Looking at the URL you gave me and the installed versions of my packages I only saw that "Util-linux" was 2.9g but 2.9t was required. Seems like no big deal. I have no problem in compiling and installing programs, but I would like to st

Can not bind to /dev/ttyS2 with Kernel 2.2.13

1999-11-24 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I'm getting the above message when I try to use my Palm Pilot on the new kernel. It works fine with 2.0.36, but doesn't like the higher ones. It DOES recognize them at boot, however, which confuses me. The permissions are identical, and the devices look fine. I have three serial ports, in ttySx

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
andreas pЕlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Slink system which runs very fine with the 2.0.38 kernel. No > problems or shutdowns at all. > Now I want to use the 2.2.x kernel because of some features, but I want > to know first if it is possible to run v2.2.x kernel on a Slink system. >

Re: looking for prog to synchronize files via ftp

1999-11-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
Tomas Cernaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm desperately looking for a program that synchronizes files on > different computers via ftp (or possibly other methods?), whenever you > call it by hand. > It should work like omirr (but not online...), that is, without > something like a master direct

Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread andreas pålsson
Hello. I have a Slink system which runs very fine with the 2.0.38 kernel. No problems or shutdowns at all. Now I want to use the 2.2.x kernel because of some features, but I want to know first if it is possible to run v2.2.x kernel on a Slink system. And second, which steps do I have to take to

strange /etc/menu-methods errors, how to fix?

1999-11-24 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, Ever since I installed enlightment (really cool), I get these errors whenever I install anything... Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) debian:/home/miskinis# In file "/etc/menu-methods//enlightenment" at line 12: onlyrunasroot=true ^ Unknown identifier /etc/menu-met

3dfx banshee with slink + 1/2

1999-11-24 Thread David N. Welton
I have the 'slink and a half' distribution, and I'm wondering if there is any way to wedge a driver for the 3dfx banshee card that I have in. I tried downloading one from 3dfxgamers.com (only rpm's... lame), but there were some missing symbols in the binary, so it didn't work. Any other ideas? T

Re: Questions about using mrtg

1999-11-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, John Foster wrote: > Does anyone know if mrtg can be used as a traffice analyser for a web > site that is hosted via an ADSL connection. I want to have info > regarding the usage of my site and want more detail than is provided by > webalizer. I am particularly interested in

Questions about using mrtg

1999-11-24 Thread John Foster
Does anyone know if mrtg can be used as a traffice analyser for a web site that is hosted via an ADSL connection. I want to have info regarding the usage of my site and want more detail than is provided by webalizer. I am particularly interested in monitoring connection speeds. Any thoughts?? -- A

.bin files

1999-11-24 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Is there any way to merge (cat) all the .bin files of the floppy distribution to a file? Well, cat can be used, but is it the way how to do it? If it isn't, can each .bin be mounted using -loop option? What is the filesystem on the image file? Oki

Re: kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout

1999-11-24 Thread ktb
Sorry for the post I see there are a million messages about this in the archives. I just panicked. I am using a brand new IDE Western Digital HD (6.4 gig one) if anyone has any specific info about this HD and the error please let me know. Thanks, kent ktb wrote: > > I'm getting these errors l

kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout

1999-11-24 Thread ktb
I'm getting these errors listed below. When these errors show up on my xconsole my screen is frozen for some time and then recovers. My X environment is acting like Windows does sometimes:( I hate this. Anyway I was wondering if anyone knew what is going on here and how I can fix this? I just

Re: pppconfig and multiple AT commands for modem initialization

1999-11-24 Thread David Karlin
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 07:09:01PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > I have in /etc/chatscript/provider > > > "" ATZ > OK ATLO > OK ATDTxxx > CONNECT \d\c Thanks, this is exactly what I need. -- David Karlin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

Re: potato and 2 processors

1999-11-24 Thread claw
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:43:18 -0200 (EDT) Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How good is potato, mainly 2.2.x (x>= 13), in SMP? I means: how > stable is it? (kernel and potato) with this config. I have 3 MP machines running potato as servers currently, down from a previous h

Re: VPN without CisCO or Red CreeK

1999-11-24 Thread claw
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:02:10 +0200 Denis J Cirulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there ! I have to make VPN like : > [ LAN-A ] ---> Linux router/VPN gateway -> leased line <- Linux > router/VPN gateway <- [ LAN B ] Is here poeple who had made such a > VPN using only Linux without special VPN

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-24 Thread Sean Johnson
I used to compress @ 224 or 256 kbps with bladeenc, but now that I've been using lame instead, I encode at 128 kbps and end up with files that are quite a bit smaller and sound just as good. Lame also allows for variable rate encoding which for many songs lets me drop the bitrate down to 112 kbps a

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