Re: mars-nwe

Francois Deppierraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Filename: project/experimental/mars-nwe_0.99pl12-1_i386.deb No wonder I couldn't find it! Thanks very much. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz "With suf

Re: Multiplayer quake problem

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Carey Jones wrote: mcj-de >Given the "Couldn't write" error, I first thought it might be a permissions mcj-de >problem, but it does this as both my userid and root. I'm pretty lost on mcj-de >this one, so any help would be greatly appreciated. if i remember rioght the deb o

Re: Lock file & Debs over NFS

I believe that you are not supposed to delete the lock file. I had this problem at first when I had a shared debs directory between the machines on my local network. I also had a problem with the lock file being on the nfs mounted system and got round the problem by linking it to a lock file o

debian CDs

Hi, Is there anybody out there who managed to create slink CDs using slink_cd-1.13 scripts and is willing to give me some assistance? I used to burn bo and hamm disks for me and my friends now, I'm having problems with slink. I must be getting old :-( Please contact me using privat mail, the lis

Multiplayer quake problem

Hello, I've read all the docs and searched all the mailing lists, but can't find an answer for this one. I just installed the quake2 deb package, as well as the quake2-dm package. I've read the setup instructions for copying the cd data to the hard drive in /etc/quake2deb.conf and done all that.

Re: wav <-> conversion utility

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, byoung wrote: b- >looking for conversion tool(s) between wav format and mp3 format, for b- >linux. any lead? I use XMMS (www.xmms.org) for MP3 -> Wav and not-LAME (optimized binary of LAME, see freshmeat.net) for wav-mp3 l3enc/l3dec work good too although they are sharewar

Re: back to the mouse problem

Kent West wrote: > Since /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config is simply a link to > /etc/X11/XF86Config, you can save yourself some typing by editing the > letter file instead of the symbolic link file. Oops: "latter", not "letter".

Re: back to the mouse problem

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough wrote: nm >I can't figure out how to use it. Anyway I think the problem is nm >that my ethernet card (eth0) is using IRQ 3 and according to the that would be a problem. nm > ttyS0 is at 0x02F8 and using irq3 according to the setserial manp

wav <-> conversion utility

hi, looking for conversion tool(s) between wav format and mp3 format, for linux. any lead? thanx in advance, byoung

RE: Why

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote: pollyw >I don't know whether it is bad or not, but many people who have used it have pollyw >said it is very easy to install. One of the things corel lacks is a text based installer, when i d/l the first real release of it, i went and put it in a machine with

Re[4]: Why

"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may be right, but I hope you are wrong. I think old Linus himself would > get involved over that. Yes, but how? Probably the most anticipated announcement in years will be the one he'll make - when? January? - about Transmeta's plans for its future.

Re: back to the mouse problem

Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who helped me get out of the X loop I was in. > Now I'm back to trying to get my mouse to work. It's a serial > mouse on Com1 (it worked with that setting in Win95) and I've > tried setting the mouse device to ttyS0 in both > /usr/X

Re: How can I change a password from a script?

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:57:51PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote: > How do you prevent people from cracking passwords via your web page? > I'm still looking for a secure way to accept passwords via HTML - even > with SSL, from what I understand the available authentication stuff > isn't suitable for

Considering PAM [Was: How can I change a password from a script?]

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:55:27PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > > Now we have shadow passwords, MD5 hashes, NIS, LDAP, PAM... wow! It's > > fantastic, but I need something that knows how to change passwords on my > > system, because I don't. > Check out chpasswd - you can pass it a list of username:

Re: your mail

On 4 Dec 1999, Ray Woodcock wrote: ray-wo >debian:/usr/src# dir ray-wo >debian:/usr/src# dont panic thats not a problem :) you just dont have the kernel source package(s) installed. ray-wo >In other words, there seems to be nothing in there. Is this normal? Also, ray-wo >when I type ?man? at

Re: I didn't mean to offend

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Brigette Heffner wrote: briget >Ok, this is me...the one who posted "Why"... briget >I didn't mean to offend anyone...(everyone). I really want to use Linux and It's making me nuts. We have it a school and I love it. there you go, there is boudn to be people at school that

RE: What hardware is good for Debian servers?

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Paul McHale wrote: pmchal >Please go to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus. I am not saying they are pmchal >unacceptable. I have an Asus board. I am just saying there are many pmchal >frustrated people. Given Asus popularity, the posters may be an extremely pmchal >small seg

Re: effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list

No, it will install the newest version of whatever it finds. The order of the listings in sources.list only is important if it finds two sources for the *exact* same file. The file then will get installed from the first URI. This is useful if you have a local mirror that may not be up to date wi

Re: effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list

On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > I have seen many examples on this list of people putting entries in > sources.list > for both stable and unstable trees at the same time. How does apt/dselect > handle this? Would an "apt-get upgrade" always pull from stable or un

Re: USB Mouse

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Robert L. Harris wrote: nomad >menuconfig of 2.2.14-pre and couldn't find it. What section is it nomad >under? I have a new HP printer that is USB capable so I was curious about nomad >playing with it. dont get yer hopes up just yet, from what ive seen the USB support in 2

RE: RE[2]: Why

Bob, > > The new Evil Empire is not RedHat. That's a mistake many of us have made. > Debian will rue the day it got in bed with Corel. I predict > Obergruppenfuhrer > Cowpland will mount a full court legal press - and soon - to > break the GPL. > You may be right, but I hope you are wrong. I thi

RE: effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list

Opps, When in doubt, I should read the man pages. Looks like apt will go through sources.list, and will install the package from the first source it finds. if I am reading "man sources.list" correctly :) Bryan On 04-Dec-1999 Pollywog wrote: > > On 04-Dec-1999 Bryan Scaringe wrote: >> I

No. of lines / page in ps output

Hi, When I use the sgml to postscript converter, the number of lines that appear in one postscript page is quite low and not appropriate for an A4 size page. Where is the pagesize specified in sgmltools? Is it in a place which can be controlled by the user? Thanks in advance, Jor-el "Ain

Re: cfdisk table: unusable space??

On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:43:44PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 07:38:02 -0600, Brad dijo: > > On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:16:33AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > But my question was different: when I first partitioned my disk, I > > > left NO space without partiti

RE: effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list

On 04-Dec-1999 Bryan Scaringe wrote: > I have seen many examples on this list of people putting entries in > sources.list > for both stable and unstable trees at the same time. How does apt/dselect > handle this? Would an "apt-get upgrade" always pull from stable or > unstable? > > Thanks in ad

back to the mouse problem

Thanks to everyone who helped me get out of the X loop I was in. Now I'm back to trying to get my mouse to work. It's a serial mouse on Com1 (it worked with that setting in Win95) and I've tried setting the mouse device to ttyS0 in both /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config and /etc/gpm.conf but that hasn'

Re:

Ray Woodcock wrote: > > Making a little progress here. Many thanks to John Pearson for the most > recent increment. > > Next: > > 1. Not sure whether my installation completed. I was looking at someone's > comments about editing a file in /usr/src/linux, so I tried to go there. But > I don?t

effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list

I have seen many examples on this list of people putting entries in sources.list for both stable and unstable trees at the same time. How does apt/dselect handle this? Would an "apt-get upgrade" always pull from stable or unstable? Thanks in advance. Bryan

New Viruses

I got this off http://www.polyester.net and thought it was funny, sorry for the spam :-) ATT VIRUS: Every three minutes it tells you what great service you are getting. MCI VIRUS: Every three minutes it reminds you that you're

Re: trapped in an xdm loop?

*- On 4 Dec, Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough wrote about "trapped in an xdm loop?" > I'm in the process of setting up an old 486 with Debian Linux > (slink) and I seemed to be trapped in X Windows. When I type > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace it just restarts xdm with the login and > Password prompt. Typ

trapped in an xdm loop?

I'm in the process of setting up an old 486 with Debian Linux (slink) and I seemed to be trapped in X Windows. When I type Ctrl+Alt+Backspace it just restarts xdm with the login and Password prompt. Typing a login and password doesn't help because I get a blank blue screen and the mouse doesn't wor

RE: Why

On 04-Dec-1999 Paul McHale wrote: > >> Well, you posted this Friday afternoon and got thirteen replies (including >> braindead recommendations such as "get Corel"), none of which you > > Braindead ? It is based on debian ... Do you really think Corel is a bad > distro ? I haven't used it enou

RE[2]: Why

"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, you posted this Friday afternoon and got thirteen replies (including > > braindead recommendations such as "get Corel"), none of which you > > Braindead ? It is based on debian ... Do you really think Corel is a bad > distro ? I haven't used i

RE: Why

> Well, you posted this Friday afternoon and got thirteen replies (including > braindead recommendations such as "get Corel"), none of which you Braindead ? It is based on debian ... Do you really think Corel is a bad distro ? I haven't used it enough. paul > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s uns

Re: want to download mac vers.

On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:38:35AM -0500, Eric Benoit wrote: > Hi, I would like to ftp debian for mac but can't seem to get in with > out a password and login, if i have to pay I will ... > Huh? Username: anonymous Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Easier to purchase a CD for first inst

Re: debianized mars-nwe?

Bob Billson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm moving a friend's Red Hat Linux box over to Debian. He was > running the NetWare server emulator package 'mars-nwe' on RH. Now I > need to reinstall it on Debian. I can't find mars-nwe as a .deb. Is > it available? If so, where and what is the pac

[no subject]

Making a little progress here. Many thanks to John Pearson for the most recent increment. Next: 1. Not sure whether my installation completed. I was looking at someone's comments about editing a file in /usr/src/linux, so I tried to go there. But I don’t seem to have any such directory. Here

Re: running programs as another user from menu

On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Got a strange question... is there a way to add a program to the menu in > kde but run as another user? I'm considering setting up a portion of my > mailing lists to go to a separate user account on my home computer so that > I can have two pine sessi

running programs as another user from menu

Got a strange question... is there a way to add a program to the menu in kde but run as another user? I'm considering setting up a portion of my mailing lists to go to a separate user account on my home computer so that I can have two pine sessions running at the same time, one for my 'regular' mai

debianized mars-nwe?

hi all... I'm moving a friend's Red Hat Linux box over to Debian. He was running the NetWare server emulator package 'mars-nwe' on RH. Now I need to reinstall it on Debian. I can't find mars-nwe as a .deb. Is it available? If so, where and what is the package name? Thanks for the help.

"Bold" using docbook and other problems

Hi, I am currently using the sgmltools2 package from Debian, and the corresponding latest and greatest docbook packages from Debian Potato. However, I cant seem to get a few basic things to work the way I want it to. My reading of the docbook documentation suggests that the way to

Re: Simple DNS/ppp

To test DNS, instead of ping the domain name, try to ping its ip address. If you fail in pinging ip address also, There must be something worng with pon. Daniel -Original Message- From: Gavin Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 8:44

Re: I didn't mean to offend

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/04/99 at 10:13 AM, "Brigette Heffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Ok, this is me...the one who posted "Why"... >I didn't mean to offend anyone...(everyone). I really want to use Linux and >It's making me nuts. We have it a school and I love it. Hi, Brigette, I

Re: isapnp problems?

You may want to remove the (CHECK) from the end of the lines which configure the IO addresses. If you could send me the error messages, I could tell you for sure. Actually, you're whole isapnp.conf file would be helpful too. Marshal From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: isapnp problems? Date: Sat,

Re: Why

John Hasler wrote: > Have you ever heard of a video hardware manufacturer that stayed in > business more than 15 minutes selling hardware that didn't work perfectly > with Windows? Yes I know. ATI. My friend has Rage 128 graphics card. In Linux it works perfectly (using Suse X server), but in Wind

I didn't mean to offend

Ok, this is me...the one who posted "Why"... I didn't mean to offend anyone...(everyone).  I really want to use Linux and It's making me nuts.  We have it a school and I love it.   I have an ARM laptop with an AMD K6-3 450 Mhz processor, 196 MB RAM, 10 GB Hard Disk, 14.1" TFT XGA , ATI vide

Re: Why

"Brigette Heffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just tell me what to do...or should I buy windows 98 and forget it? > The laptop has no operating system...now. Well, you posted this Friday afternoon and got thirteen replies (including braindead recommendations such as "get Corel"), none of whic

Simple DNS/ppp

This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Gavin Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. I'm very new to Linux, and I have been trying to do a slink install via ftp. Currently I have installed the slink kernel. When I go to connect useing pon, it connects alright and ev

Device drivers on installation

This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Howard Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi, I am going to install Debian from a CD using my ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM. I am switching from Red Hat. In the ``Configure Device Driver Modules'' section of the installation instruction

Re: Modprobe messages

> >> I get the following two messages sometimes in the daemon log: >> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0 >> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-108 >> >after creating char-major-108 in /dev. > >alias ppp ppp_generic >alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async >alias char-major-108 ppp

Re: cfdisk table: unusable space??

El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 07:38:02 -0600, Brad dijo: > On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:16:33AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > > Thanks, but I already knew all that. In fact, /dev/hda2 is empty and is > > not being used at all, so I could use that one. > > Note that that will still leave cyle

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 23:05:21 +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Yes. > Can the PDF be understood by commonly available PDF readers? Yes. See http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jdassen/talks/ortec/ for an example (PDF slides (including graphics and PDF thumb

Re: USB Mouse

Felix Guerrero wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any drivers or packages to make an USB mouse work with the > Debian distribution? > > Thanks. > > Felix. > President and CEO of MAD... > && > ITS Visiting Scientist (Experimental Support for IT) > >

Re: ppp hangups...

On 3 Dec, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:15:35PM -0500, Tom Allard wrote: >>=20 >> According to the Changes file, (usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes),=20 >> kerne

Re: cfdisk table: unusable space??

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote > > Looking at the cfsdisk table, I've just seen this (just look at the last > line of the table): > > hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 78.45 > hda2 Primary Linux ext2 78.45 > hda5

Re: mkfs.msdos?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, luis wrote: > in which debian package can i found the mkfs.msdos file system builder ? dosfstools - -- Where do you want to go today? - As far from Redmond as possible! For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: mbr ?

On 4/12/99 luis wrote: how can i install a sort of mbr that runs before lilo ? because after having instaled debian i need to install a dos partition, but as hda1 is the swap, hda2 linux and hda3 is dos, lilo can not load the last partition (far beyong the 1024 kbytes limit) if LILO won't boo

RE: What hardware is good for Debian servers?

> > We use Asus motherboards on virtually all of the multiprocessor systems > we build. The reasons are simple. Excellent quality, reliability, > flexibility, and customer service. Please go to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus. I am not saying they are unacceptable. I have an Asus board. I a

isapnp problems?

Sorry for the legth of this one. I`m using potato and a 2.2.13 kernel. I`ve had a working modem for ages under slink, but a floppy and an ethernet card that refused to work because of irq and io errors so last night I tried to sort it out finally. It seems that pnpdump --config had grabbed the f

mbr ?

hello how can i install a sort of mbr that runs before lilo ? because after having instaled debian i need to install a dos partition, but as hda1 is the swap, hda2 linux and hda3 is dos, lilo can not load the last partition (far beyong the 1024 kbytes limit) so, is possible to boot the dos parti

Small problems from recent Potato upgrade

I just upgraded a very stable pure Slink system to Potato and I have a few legacy problems ( I think)! Emacs is stuck--won't install or be purged-no dependencies unaccounted for. Sound (OSS commercial) is installed but none of the Gnome sound effects work. Players, mixers, etc all OK. For some

Re: mkfs.msdos?

On 4/12/99 luis wrote: in which debian package can i found the mkfs.msdos file system builder ? thanks a lot apt-get install dosfstools -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/

Re: Why

> Brigette Heffner wrote: > > Why is it so hard to get anywhere with Linux? Using Linux is like any new venture, there is a learning curve, that is essential. If you are unwilling to spend some time developing skills, you will not be successful > In plain English...how do I get help with the ins

mkfs.msdos?

hello in which debian package can i found the mkfs.msdos file system builder ? thanks a lot

Re: Nile VIA VT86C916 NIC

First I should point out that I am not absolutely sure that my NIC has the VIA VT86C916 Nile chip. I am attaching fet916.c, which is on the diskette that I got with my NIC. Although I couldn't get the attached fet916.c to work (not even to compile), I managed to get the NIC to work with the ne mo

Re: What hardware is good for Debian servers?

We use Asus motherboards on virtually all of the multiprocessor systems we build. The reasons are simple. Excellent quality, reliability, flexibility, and customer service. -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We

Switch /hdb for /hda?

I have been having problems with my hard drive with Slink on it putting out the following errors and hanging: Dec 3 22:14:14 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Dec 3 22:14:14 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success Dec 3 22:14:24 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } De

want to download mac vers.

Hi, I would like to ftp debian for mac but can't seem to get in with out a password and login, if i have to pay I will ...

Re: Looking for right ISP

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:39:50PM -0600, Daniel Yang wrote: > Eventually, I made my web server and my own domain > (www.mydomain.com) running, but my ISP, mindspring told me > that I am not allowed to run a web server through a dialup > account and they can't do anything for me if I want to run m

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

> "Keith" == Keith G Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Keith> I just checked out Outlook98, by sending and replying to Keith> messages to myself, and apparently it does not provide Keith> "References" headers. It does do threading of a sort, Keith> apparently by the subject l

RE: How do I start Debian?

On 04-Dec-1999 simon_robertson wrote: > Hi, > > After I installed a Debian package, I rebooted. Now every time I reboot it > ask to login, but when I do it goes to a command line (DEBIAN#). What do I > type in here to get the X server working, or whatever to see the Desktop > page of Debian???

swap usage in 2.2.13

Hi, List, I know I saw a discussion of this somewhere; maybe even here. Why does 2.2.13 allocate so darn much swap? I'd been gone for a week, came home, unlocked xlock, and the silly thing swapped for at least 30 seconds (it felt like a lt longer, but I didn't time it, so I'll try not to ex

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

Bart Szyszka wrote: > IMO, [Outlook 2000 is] significantly better (as is the Office > 2k suite entirely, IMO) in performance and features. > Except that Office 2000's setup installs IE and Outlook [Express] even if you don't want them. You can do a minimal install of them, and you can even uninst

Finding old potato packages (downgrading libpng2)

I need to downgrade libpng2 from the current 1.0.5 in potato to the older 1.0.3 (which I believe will fix a problem with pdflatex in tetex-bin - Debian bug #49834). Where do I find old version of deb packages? Cheers, Graham

Re: How do I start Debian?

You probably didn't configure your X. run XF86Setup and configure it. you have to execute the following command before you do it: killall xdm On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 02:56:00PM +1000, simon_robertson wrote: > Hi, > > After I installed a Debian package, I rebooted. Now every time I reboot it

Re: USB Mouse

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Out of curiosity I went looking for USB configuration under the > menuconfig of 2.2.14-pre and couldn't find it. What section is it > under? I have a new HP printer that is USB capable so I was curious > about playing with it. You n

Re: How to block access from specific sites.

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 05:08:33PM -0700, Raphael Clancy wrote: > Is there a quick way (on a debian 2.0 system) to block specific > adresses from making inetd style connections (ie. ftp, telnet > etc?) my instincts tell me that is has to do with the > /etc/hosts.deny file. unfortunately I can't fin

Re: Atari ST as Dumb Terminal

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, John Miskinis wrote: > Hello David, > > >I wish to connect my old Atari ST to my linux box running slink with a > >serial > >cable and use it basically as a dumb terminal. > > > >Could someone please point me in the direction of some useful documentation > >as > >to how to d

How do I start Debian?

Hi,   After I installed a Debian package, I rebooted.  Now every time I reboot it ask to login, but when I do it goes to a command line (DEBIAN#).  What do I type in here to get the X server working, or whatever to see the Desktop page of Debian   Thankyou   Simon

Re: minicom

minicom followed by at the prompt. But you were probably tried that. What reports do you get? --- Begin Message --- How do you start minicom? --- End Message ---

Re: USB Mouse

> Your best option for a USB mouse under Linux is to use a current > development kernel (2.3.x) - they have the best support for USB. Just be > aware that at the moment 2.3.x seems to be compile-error and crash > prone. > > The current stable series (2.2.x) has experimental support for USB; mice

Re: USB Mouse

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > Are there any drivers or packages to make an USB mouse work with the > Debian distribution? Packages: I doubt it. The drivers simply don't exist in the currently available Debian (it uses a 2.0.x kernel), and will never be ava

Re: Why

Bart Szyszka writes: > Now what makes Windows so incapable of having these same problems? I've > never heard of anyone having trouble running the Win95 installer on a > system that just had DOS because of video hardware. Have you ever heard of a video hardware manufacturer that stayed in business

Re: Mounting partition as /var/spool/mail

Patrick Kirk said: > Is what I am trying to do possible and if so how have I > messed up permissions, assuming that is what I've messed up? Oh, it's definitely possible... From my fstab: genma:/var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail nfs hard,intr,nosuid,noexec 0 0 Granted, that exact line won't w

Re: booting from an ext2 HD when Linux is on a second HD

Matthew Denson said: >Do I just change /etc/lilo.conf? Or, do I change it and then run lilo? Is >lilo automatically run because the /etc/lilo.conf file is modified? Nope, there's no process watching lilo.conf and running lilo whenever it gets changed. Any time you edit lilo.conf, you _always_ hav

Re: init not working

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:34:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:33:14AM +, Tom Goulet wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> My /sbin/init is not respawning processes (like gettys), and not >> acknowledging /sbin/init q or similar things. >> >> Many processes are defunct and

USB Mouse

Hi, Are there any drivers or packages to make an USB mouse work with the Debian distribution? Thanks. Felix. President and CEO of MAD... && ITS Visiting Scientist (Experimental Support for IT) _

Re: init not working

On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:33:14AM +, Tom Goulet wrote: > Greetings all, > > My /sbin/init is not respawning processes (like gettys), and not > acknowledging /sbin/init q or similar things. > > Many processes are defunct and zombied but not actually closing. > > Also, this has happened befo

Re: Why

On 3/12/99 Bart Szyszka wrote: Now what makes Windows so incapable of having these same problems? I've never heard of anyone having trouble running the Win95 installer on a system that just had DOS because of video hardware. perhaps because win95 has a bazillion drivers? the generic X serv

init not working

Greetings all, My /sbin/init is not respawning processes (like gettys), and not acknowledging /sbin/init q or similar things. Many processes are defunct and zombied but not actually closing. Also, this has happened before but I dismissed it because of something else I was screwing around with

Sound and Corel

I am using the Corel distro (which is very nice, by the way), which was built on top of debian (not the best way to phrase it, but you get what I mean). But for some reason, I can't get sound to work. I run sndconfig and it detects my card and gives me the following: DKG-LINUX:/home/greedavk2# sn

Re: Why

> LinuxPPC uses the same installer Redhat uses, recently they made a X > based installer but it was quite broken to begin with and fails far > to often. (X based installers will always be unreliable IMO just > because of the wildly differing video hardware) Now what makes Windows so incapable

Mule for emacs20

Could anybody help me on getting mule to work for emacs20. I want to be able to read and write chinese characters, but everytime I get a BIG5 encoded e-mail, all the chinese characters come out as square boxes (under X). It works under Xemacs, but I would like to stay GNU. Any suggestions? I ha

Re: Why

On 3/12/99 Evan Moore wrote: if your ever look at buying a new computer to put linux on you may look at buying an apple. the LinuxPPC group has declared their distribution to be the easiest to install version of linux. I installed it on my PowerMac 8600 with no problems. I would have to disagr

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:05:21PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis was heard to state: > Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood > by commonly available PDF readers? I run TeXLive, up to date, so My > Milage May VaryTM). I cannot get anywhere. I have waited for a > library

Re: What hardware is good for Debian servers?

if you go bp6 make sure to run a good amount of stress tests, my bp6 crashes constantly even with both cpus under 30C. a good stress test i find for a system is run between 8 and 10 copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for at least 24 hours. my box crashes after a few minutes. (even with ultra wide scsi

Troubleshooting X

I just blew away my box and re-installed. All went rather well, but when I try to start X, I get this: ... ... (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1" (--) SVGA: PCI: ATI Rage128 RF rev 0, Memory @ 0xe000, 0xde80, I/O @ 0xd80

Modprobe messages

I get the following two messages sometimes in the daemon log: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-108 Potato/2.2.13 current updates system. Think I saw a reference to char-major-108 in an earlier post but could not find in archives. PPP

Linux Advocacy (dealing with 3com) (was: Re: Macromedia products for linux)

I'm dealing with much the same thing with 3com right now. I'm attempting to flash upgrade one of their 56k Sportster modems without having to go out and purchase a license for Windows 98. Unfortunately, I've gotten three different support people in their support department for four different email

Re: ppp hangups...

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:15:35PM -0500, Tom Allard wrote: > > According to the Changes file, (usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes), > kernels after 2.2.11 needs a newer version of pppd: > Yoink! Missed that! (I also noticed that it isn't in the known 2.2 problems on the web page). Oh well.

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