Re: .emacs file please

2000-01-02 Thread Chris Baker
Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I'm just coming to grips with emacs and discovered that most people have a > .emacs file with default settings that they can use. > > Could someone send me this default file please? You don't need a .emacs if you're just going to use the d

Re: rdate fails Y2K

2000-01-02 Thread Nate Duehr
That's pretty funny, if you think about it. The National Institute of Standards is either breaking a standard themselves, or isn't Y2K compliant. HA! That's great! On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 10:50:02AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I get exactly the same error from time.nist.gov, but: > >

Re: Kermit works in DOS with exact same settings but not Debian.

2000-01-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Christopher R. Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I think I need help from a serial port guru. Sorry, I'm not that. > Under Linux I do the exact same thing except I specify /dev/ttyS0 > instead of COM1 for the first serial port. When I try to transfer a > file it goes to the transfer screen

Re: Kermit works in DOS with exact same settings but not Debian.

2000-01-02 Thread aphro
I'm not a serial port expert but have you tried turning the FIFO buffers OFF ? there is an option in setserial to do it. nate On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Christopher R. Barry wrote: cbarry >I need to connect to an HP49G calculator. cbarry >X-Face: $DD[\LKdx&F)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:I8![L"O*X#'|ctq-w]1aoQD8x1

How do I install additional modules?

2000-01-02 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hello I was wondering on how can I install additional modules to my linux system. (serial-to make my modem work?) and also audio(for sound to work?) and also How do I set my XNLSPATH environment variable to "usr/X11r6/lib/X11/NLS" in order for some motif applications to work. Thank you for

Re: vi linewrap question

2000-01-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Very nice! See an old emacs guy can still learn a few tricks. :) On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:24:34AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > egm2@jps.net (Eric G . Miller) wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 02:54:24PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > >> Okay, I'm fairly new to vi after living in a uMacs/Emacs worl

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Jan, Colin Watson wrote about "Re: Y2K problem with slrn?" > Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time: >> >>NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT >> >>Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be. > > See: > > http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=

Re: alt key in jed under X

2000-01-02 Thread ferret
Try using your `meta' key instead. That's the left window key if you have them. It turns out most X apps don't agree on metashift (meta, alt, hyper, super) behaviour. FI E uses (the key that sets mod_1) for ALT, while xterm uses (the key that sets mod_4).. if I recall correctly. and Lucid (X) ema

.emacs file please

2000-01-02 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I'm just coming to grips with emacs and discovered that most people have a .emacs file with default settings that they can use. Could someone send me this default file please? Thanks. Patrick

Re: /bin/sh and ash, bash

2000-01-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Jan, Ben Collins wrote about "Re: /bin/sh and ash, bash" > On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:34:51PM -0600, matt garman wrote: >> >> I noticed that Debian makes /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash by default. >> I'd rather have /bin/sh link to /bin/ash. I tried this quite a while >> ago, and it seem

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time: > >NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT > >Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be. See: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53811 I imagine there'll be a new release of slrn out soon that solves this proble

Problem with my keyboard

2000-01-02 Thread Di Prétoro Emmanuel
Hi, I have a problem with my keyboard, it's a belgian keyboard, and there's two choices. It tested both, but without any results to have the following symbol : ` It's not a quote, it's a ??? But even it isn't a very used symbol, I use it with the following command gcc xxx -o xxx `gtk-config --cfla

Setting windows "Computer Names" via DHCP

2000-01-02 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Is it possible to have windows "Computer Names" set on the fly via DHCP (or samba)? I'm working on a whole bunch of cloned workstations, and the only thing left that is causing problems is that I have to come up with unique names for each box. I'm setting this up for someone else, with a boot dis

Re: /bin/sh and ash, bash

2000-01-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:34:51PM -0600, matt garman wrote: > > I noticed that Debian makes /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash by default. > I'd rather have /bin/sh link to /bin/ash. I tried this quite a while > ago, and it seems as though some Debian-specific scripts rely on /bin/sh > actually bein

Re: DPMS problem

2000-01-02 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 12:16:15AM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: > OK, the problem didn't go away. > What happens is this: > When I first log in to X, starting xhexagons and clicking on it blanks the > screen. If I start Netscape (R)(TM)(C) first (apologies to RMS) > (my homepage is www.debian.org) a

Re: Lilo

2000-01-02 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Rik Burt wrote: > Does anyone have any idea why Matt Welsh in his book "Running Linux" > suggests not putting Lilo on the master partition of the boot disk? A brief look at my German translation of the book this is not the case. He talks about not putting in the MBR in certain situations but not i

/bin/sh and ash, bash

2000-01-02 Thread matt garman
I noticed that Debian makes /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash by default. I'd rather have /bin/sh link to /bin/ash. I tried this quite a while ago, and it seems as though some Debian-specific scripts rely on /bin/sh actually being bash. In other words, last time I linked /bin/sh to /bin/ash, a few

alt key in jed under X

2000-01-02 Thread matt garman
Hello: I use jed with emacs keybindings as my editor. Often, I need to use the Alt key, but it doesn't take when I'm in X. I know I can use the Esc key to get the same functionality, but I'd rather not (then I might as well use vi if I have to reach for the Esc key all the time :). The Alt key

Re: apt cache

2000-01-02 Thread Sven Gaerner
"Robert Marlow (2)" wrote: > heya > > i've downloaded a few hundred potato debs while upgrading my workstation to > potato. now i'm starting to think it would be conveniant to organise all > the debs that apt has downloaded by placing them in directories corresponding > to each deb's section (just

Re: apt cache

2000-01-02 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:06:00AM +0800, Robert Marlow wrote: > heya > > i've downloaded a few hundred potato debs while upgrading my workstation to > potato. now i'm starting to think it would be conveniant to organise all > the debs that apt has downloaded by placing them in directories corresp

Re: su and chsh never work

2000-01-02 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 07:33:42PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 30/12/99 matt garman wrote: > > >Would it be a bad idea to just do a > >tar xzvpf base2_2.tgz > >from my root directory? > > > >I assume all the files will be put in the correct places, but will this > >throw off or otherwise i

apt cache

2000-01-02 Thread 2
heya i've downloaded a few hundred potato debs while upgrading my workstation to potato. now i'm starting to think it would be conveniant to organise all the debs that apt has downloaded by placing them in directories corresponding to each deb's section (just like the download site would have them

Re: xawtv says it's my fault.

2000-01-02 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 12:25:18AM +0100, Hans wrote: > I bought a Miro Studio PCTV Pro card and try to get this working with a > fresh Slink running a 2.2.10 kernel. I compiled V4L into the kernel and at > boot up it recognizes the BT8xx card. So far so good. > > >From the Slink CD I got xawtv, b

Where is the mixer module?

2000-01-02 Thread Hans
Running Slink with a 2.2.13 kernel. Compiled in sound for my SB64AWE ISA card as follows: Soundcard support Y OSS Sound Modules M 100% SB compatible support M I don't want any midi support, only sound from CD, line-in etc. When I insmod all the modules (sound, uart401 and sb with proper se

High samplerate soundcard

2000-01-02 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Does anyone know of a good sound card that does sample rates higher than 48kHz (like 128kHz), and possibly more that 16-bit sound? -- "If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable." -- Windows 95 BSOD Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me wh

Re: LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-02 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
> I am quite a new user to Linux and thus I was looking to install a > dual-boot system. I have figured out this much so far... > I have two hard disks. My Linux disk is on the primary master. It > contains the following partitions: hda1, hda2, . I also have a Windows > 98 disk

Re: Lilo

2000-01-02 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 11:07:36AM -0700, Rik Burt wrote: > Does anyone have any idea why Matt Welsh in his book "Running Linux" > suggests not putting Lilo on the master partition of the boot disk? Note that I don't really know. I think it's because everything (Win* [setup|?fdisk?], and some oth

Re: Kermit works in DOS with exact same settings but not Debian.

2000-01-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Did you try playing with the character size setting ? cs7 and cs8 are the most typical. You can change this with stty. -- Regards, Paul

Re: need XF86Config for ThinkPad 560

2000-01-02 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, Thanks for sending my the config. It worked after I went into XF86Config and set the default color depth to 8 bpp. I am getting a small amount of flicker, but I don't know how to fix that. I had not seen any flicker before I reinstalled Linux on this machine. I will make sure I copy th

Kermit works in DOS with exact same settings but not Debian.

2000-01-02 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I need to connect to an HP49G calculator. X-Face: $DD[\LKdx&F)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:I8![L"O*X#'|ctq-w]1aoQD8x1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher R. Barry) Date: 02 Jan 2000 11:08:15 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 44 I think I need help from a serial port guru. I am

Re: Dialout group

2000-01-02 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 07:59:10PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Dwayne C . Litzenberger writes: > > Personally, I use sudo for pon. That way, I can not only control who can > > control my PPP interface, but I can control what they can do with them. > > (ie. cli parameters) > > Do you know that man

Re: Segmentation Fault

2000-01-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Jan, Rik Burt wrote about "Segmentation Fault" > I have the slink version of debian installed an a second hard drive and it > was working quite well. At the start of December I recompiled the kernel as > I had added a SCSI device to my system and as the kernel was compiling I got > an err

Re: permanently turning on gcc Pentium optimization

2000-01-02 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 03:45:30AM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > I accidently deleted the previous mails in the thread, > so I'm hoping the original poster get's this ! > > To permanently turn on pentium optimizations, change > your /usr/lib/gcc-lib/2.92.2/specs (or similar) from > > *cc1: > %(c

Quake is choppy (potato)

2000-01-02 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Quake is suddenly choppy on my potato system. I had this problem a long time ago, then it went away, and now it came back. Note that it happens: - In both QuakeWorld and Normal Quake (both X11 and svgalib versions) - Even with the -nosound option. - Intermittently

Re: local mirror of potato?

2000-01-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... mirror sucks for any number of reasons. > > 1) It's slow. > > 2) It beats the hell out of the client. > > 3) It beats the hell out of the server. > > 4) It doesn't always do the right thing (it makes mistakes). What kind of errors are you tal

Re: CTRL-C Doesn't work??!! ....

2000-01-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > I've got a system here that I've been building from scratch - just to > ***learn*** how Debian / Linux works from the ground up (right from > building my own boot disk - initrd, etc.). I've got everything working > great; however Hitting CTRL-

Lilo

2000-01-02 Thread Rik Burt
Does anyone have any idea why Matt Welsh in his book "Running Linux" suggests not putting Lilo on the master partition of the boot disk?

Segmentation Fault

2000-01-02 Thread Rik Burt
I have the slink version of debian installed an a second hard drive and it was working quite well. At the start of December I recompiled the kernel as I had added a SCSI device to my system and as the kernel was compiling I got an error "Segmentation Fault." These messages are becoming increasing

Re: need XF86Config for ThinkPad 560

2000-01-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Jan-2000 John Miskinis wrote: > Hi, > > Attached is my latest config file for the dual scan 560. Note > the comments with the JM. It will work as is without flicker, > but FVWM2 will not work correctly. Feel free to switch to > the other modeline to use fvwm but with flicker. > > Enjoy

Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-02 Thread Pann McCuaig
Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time: NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann

Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep

2000-01-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about "Wrong timestamp on modules.dep" > My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy. > /etc/rcS.d has > S20modutils > S50hwclock.sh > (among others) > so modules.dep is timestamped as though the Hardware Clock were set to GMT. > I have kernel 2.2

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

2000-01-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct?? Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you can also recompile the package, instead of

Re: icewm

2000-01-02 Thread Sven Gaerner
Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using gnome-session to run gnome and enlightenment. > I wanted to try icewm-gnome. > How can i switch to this jsut for one specific user and not make it global. > I tried copying the Xsession file to my home directory and renaming it > .Xsession but it seem

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

2000-01-02 Thread John Foster
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John> Depends: mc-common (= 4.5.40-2.slink.0), libc6, libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), > John> slang1 (<< 1.3), slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0) > > John> This has me really perplexed. I can find no reason why the mouse > John> is not

Re: need XF86Config for ThinkPad 560

2000-01-02 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, Attached is my latest config file for the dual scan 560. Note the comments with the JM. It will work as is without flicker, but FVWM2 will not work correctly. Feel free to switch to the other modeline to use fvwm but with flicker. Enjoy and post results, John Miskinis ___

Wrong timestamp on modules.dep

2000-01-02 Thread John Dalbec
My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy. /etc/rcS.d has S20modutils S50hwclock.sh (among others) so modules.dep is timestamped as though the Hardware Clock were set to GMT. I have kernel 2.2.13 and "RTC stores time in GMT" set to "no" under APM. Did I forget to set "thip cri

Re: permanently turning on gcc Pentium optimization

2000-01-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
I accidently deleted the previous mails in the thread, so I'm hoping the original poster get's this ! To permanently turn on pentium optimizations, change your /usr/lib/gcc-lib/2.92.2/specs (or similar) from *cc1: %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-p} *cc1: %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-p} -march=i586 As others hav

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Edward Kear
At 06:40 AM 1/2/00 -0800, Fish Smith wrote: >hi freaks, Who's a freak?? >1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get the >standard kernel-image >and >pcmcia-modules which overwrites my own compiled >versions. How can I >exclude >this packages from being upgraded? I would backup the compiled o

Re: Info sources for Programming

2000-01-02 Thread Cliff Rice
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 07:56:41PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I don't know what clear_input() is, but yylex() is a lexical analysis > function which should have been generated for that particular program by > some derivative of the program 'lex', normally 'flex'. Install the flex > package and

Re: LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-02 Thread Tom Pfeifer
And one more time to make it a hat trick... I just noticed in your original post that /dev/hdd is identified as BIOS device 0x82, not 0x83 - Boot other: /dev/hdd1, on /dev/hdd, loader /boot/chain.b Caching device /dev/fd/6 (0x1641)

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Fish Smith
>hi freaks, Who's a freak?? >1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get the >standard kernel-image >and >pcmcia-modules which overwrites my own compiled >versions. How can I >exclude >this packages from being upgraded? I would backup the compiled ones, then put a script into your shutdown sequ

Re: LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-02 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Those comment lines screwed things up a little in the posted message. Here's that section of lilo.conf the way I intended it to look: #Win98 other=/dev/hdd1 label=Win98 table=/dev/hdd map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x83 map-drive = 0x83 to = 0x8

Re: CTRL-C Doesn't work??!! ....

2000-01-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 06:28:53PM +, Kevin Traas wrote: > Greetings, > Any ideas would be ***greatly*** appreciated. > > i.e. What manages Job Control in a Linux system? The kernel? The > shell? Init? (I've rolled my own init, btw.) And, why might Job > Control be disabled? > >

Re: icewm

2000-01-02 Thread Lars Erik Kolden
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using gnome-session to run gnome and enlightenment. > I wanted to try icewm-gnome. > How can i switch to this jsut for one specific user and not make it global. > I tried copying the Xsession file to my home directory and renaming it >

icewm

2000-01-02 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I have been using gnome-session to run gnome and enlightenment. I wanted to try icewm-gnome. How can i switch to this jsut for one specific user and not make it global. I tried copying the Xsession file to my home directory and renaming it .Xsession but it seems to ignore this. I am using xdm

Re: LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-02 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I believe you need to use the "map-drive" option in the lilo.conf file to tell Lilo that you want to swap the drives when you boot Windows. I seldom do this myself, as it's more straight forward to just have Windows on the primary/master drive to begin with. Here's what I think the Win98 section

Re: webmin alternative?

2000-01-02 Thread Sven Gaerner
"Robert Marlow (2)" wrote: > Linuxconf is available in potato with console (text) and X11 gui > > Sven > > So there's no web frontend for it available in debian as yet? what i'm really > looking for is something to make remote user configuration simple and > graphical > for clients > rather than

apt-get URLs proposal

2000-01-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
The question about the URLs for apt-get seems to be a never ending one, especially if we consider that some times the person in charge of some specific package makes the update available through a specific URL through apt-get. So, it seems to me that we should put somewhere in the site instructions

Re: please help a newbie

2000-01-02 Thread Tom Pfeifer
On the sound card, it will be easier for someone to respond with helpful information if you repost with the make/model of your sound card. Someone else who has the same/similiar card will most likely respond with plenty of help. In general, the kernel has to be configured and compiled with sound su

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Jan, Oliver Elphick wrote about "Re: 2 questions on apt-get " > Ulrich Hansmair wrote: > >2.apt-get upgrade gives the following message: > > > >... > >The following packages have been kept back: > >dpkg-dev kernel-package perl perl-base > >... > > > >I wanna this packages b

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ulrich Hansmair wrote: >1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get the standard kernel-image and >pcmcia-modules which overwrites my own compiled versions. How can I exclude >this packages from being upgraded? Read the docs for kernel package and use --revision=... when building your own k

2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Ulrich Hansmair
hi freaks, recently I´m using apt-get to install my potato. I think this way of distributing debian is a great step into future and perfectly combines the abilities of the internet and free software. Debian should go this way. Now to the questions. 1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get t

Re: alien not y2k compliant?

2000-01-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 1 Jan, Robert L. Harris wrote about "alien not y2k compliant?" > > Ok... > I'm trying to scan myself and build a nice little security tool. This > is the first thing I've run into but still > > > > > {0}:wally:/usr/src/Util-System/nmap>alien -d nmap-2.3BETA12*rpm > -- Examining n

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

2000-01-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John> Depends: mc-common (= 4.5.40-2.slink.0), libc6, libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), John> slang1 (<< 1.3), slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0) John> This has me really perplexed. I can find no reason why the mouse John> is not working. It does not depend on libgpmg1.

Re: Same dates between Debian and Windows

2000-01-02 Thread John Hasler
Bart writes: > I have Debian and Windows installed on the system and for the life of me > I can't seem to be able to get their dates to match up. You probably told the install that your hardware clock was set to UTC (GMT) when you installed. Windows requires that it be set to local time. Edit /e

Re: a couple of questions

2000-01-02 Thread hypnos
>Try launching it as non-root. I installed Netscape 4.07 from the tar format >on RedHat and it wouldn't let me run Netscape as root. Its possible your >encountering the same security issue. Supposedly, there is a way to allow >root to run Netscape but I don't recall where that setting is made. Ru

Re: How to make all build using --cpu=pentium?

2000-01-02 Thread aphro
Very little is gained by recompiling *everything* when optmized for pentium. Firstly the pentium optmization does not optimize for Pentium II or Pentium III or pentium pro or k6 or k6-2 or k6-3 or athlon. Also very few applications show a noticable performance boost when compiling with pentium o

Re: please help a newbie

2000-01-02 Thread aphro
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, john smith wrote: inquir >Hello inquir > inquir > 1. I just installed a compatible soundcard and I want to know how to make inquir >debian recognise it. As far as i know there is no real easy way to do this, depending on the chipset the soundcard uses cd to /lib/modules/`un

Re: Lost Interupt and Dead HD

2000-01-02 Thread aphro
advice i can give .. 1) it is possible the controller is faulty. i had a BRAND new drive die within hours/days when connected to a faulty controller. 2) get a diagnostics program for the drive/controller, unfortunately such programs do not come cheap, i suggest Microscope, availlable at www.micr

How to make all build using --cpu=pentium?

2000-01-02 Thread What name
Are there any globle settings to set a 'make' using gcc with --cpu=pentium? I don't want to change every Makefile when I try to have my system optimized with pentium cpu. Maybe some setting for 'gcc' or 'make'? Thanks.

alien not y2k compliant?

2000-01-02 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok... I'm trying to scan myself and build a nice little security tool. This is the first thing I've run into but still {0}:wally:/usr/src/Util-System/nmap>alien -d nmap-2.3BETA12*rpm -- Examining nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm -- Unpacking nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm 1222 blocks -- Automatic p

please help a newbie

2000-01-02 Thread john smith
Hello 1. I just installed a compatible soundcard and I want to know how to make debian recognise it. 2. I just recently installed a new browser netscape 407 but when I try to launch it in gnome nothing happens. I do not know whats wrong can somebody please help? 3. is there a command to

Re: Same dates between Debian and Windows

2000-01-02 Thread Brian May
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> I'm not sure if Windows can deal with the hardware clock Kent> being set to GMT time, so you might want to set the hardware Kent> clock to local time. What do you mean? If Windows could deal properly with the hardware clock b

Re: a couple of questions

2000-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hagen Finley) wrote: > 2. I just recently installed a new browser Netscape 407 but >when I try to >launch it nothing happens. I even tried installing mosaic too >but mosaic is >not visible in my gnome desktop environment. I do not know >what's wrong can >somebody please advice?

Lost Interupt and Dead HD

2000-01-02 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, and happy new year! We have seen people posting about the kernel error message of Lost_Interupt (or something similar) reasonably regularly, and then people usually post back saying 'your HD is about to die, replace it', and everyone then goes back on with their lives. I too have had th

Re: Same dates between Debian and Windows

2000-01-02 Thread Kent West
Oops, left out a step. Kent West wrote: > is specified in "/etc/default/rcS". So edit this file, and there's a > "GMT=" line and a comment above that line that explains how the "GMT=" > line should be set. Assuming you've set the hardware clock to local > time, just leave the line as GMT=""; if

Re: Same dates between Debian and Windows

2000-01-02 Thread Kent West
Bart Szyszka wrote: > > Hello, > > I have Debian and Windows installed on the system and for the > life of me I can't seem to be able to get their dates to match up. > I've tried various programs that do things with NTP servers and > have tried to configure them with/without GMT offsets and I've

RE: a couple of questions

2000-01-02 Thread Hagen Finley
2. I just recently installed a new browser Netscape 407 but when I try to launch it nothing happens. I even tried installing mosaic too but mosaic is not visible in my gnome desktop environment. I do not know what's wrong can somebody please advice? Try launching it as non-root. I installed Net

Same dates between Debian and Windows

2000-01-02 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, I have Debian and Windows installed on the system and for the life of me I can't seem to be able to get their dates to match up. I've tried various programs that do things with NTP servers and have tried to configure them with/without GMT offsets and I've also played around with linuxconf (

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

2000-01-02 Thread John Foster
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > I believe icewm-gnome "knows" when it's running under gnome session > management and automatically hides the taskbar. It's assumed that you'd > be using "panel". You can disable this behaviour in > ~/.icewm/preferences but when I did so, the side effects were > undes

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

2000-01-02 Thread John Foster
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Does dpkg -s mc show a dependancy on libgpm* ? - output from dpkg -s mc: Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 667 Maintainer: Michael Bramer & Martin Bialasinski <[E

Re: On-line help

2000-01-02 Thread Howard Mann
Don Cavaiani wrote: > > Hello, > > I just had X windows working and was reading some of the Debian on-line > help. I don't what I did, but now I can't get the help to load up > again?? Maybe I damaged it when I ended the help session ? Pass > > new subject: does anyone know if I can get the

Re: On-line help

2000-01-02 Thread Mike Werner
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:06:51AM -0600, Don Cavaiani wrote: > > new subject: does anyone know if I can get the Zoom 56K PCI faxmodem - > > model 2925L to work under Linux? If so, is there a special trick? > > Buy a new modem! (PCI modem == Winmodem) Not necessarily

Re: need XF86Config for ThinkPad 560

2000-01-02 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > > > I can't seem to cook up a working XF86Config for my ThinkPad 560 this time > > around. > > > > On prior installs, the Debian install seemed to do this for me but it did > > not > > happen this time and without the specs, I can't s

Re: On-line help

2000-01-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:06:51AM -0600, Don Cavaiani wrote: > Hello, > > I just had X windows working and was reading some of the Debian on-line > help. I don't what I did, but now I can't get the help to load up > again?? Maybe I damaged it when I ended the help session ? What means ``Debian

Re: Yahoo messenger

2000-01-02 Thread Mike Werner
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Is there any other instant messenger such as ICQ, or ATT I am here for > Linux? There are many ICQ clients for Linux. For more info see: http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq/ There are Debian packages for some of them. I know that for potato there is at least licq, micq,

Re: rdate fails Y2K?

2000-01-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
It's working now: # rdate time.nist.gov Sat Jan 1 20:12:01 2000 On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 05:06:59PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > On 01-Jan-2000 Pann McCuaig wrote: > ># ping time.nist.gov > > PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): 56 data bytes > > 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=

Re: a couple of questions

2000-01-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 02:36:33AM +, =: !! wrote: > Hi! I just wanted to ask a couple of questions: > > 1. I just installed a compatible soundcard and I want to know how to make > debian recognize it. I don't think the stock Debian kernel has sound support built in. You may need to compil

On-line help

2000-01-02 Thread Don Cavaiani
Hello, I just had X windows working and was reading some of the Debian on-line help. I don't what I did, but now I can't get the help to load up again?? Maybe I damaged it when I ended the help session ? new subject: does anyone know if I can get the Zoom 56K PCI faxmodem - model 2925L to wor

Re: local mirror of potato?

2000-01-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 1 Jan 2000, Francois Deppierraz wrote: : Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : > care if I mirror certain things. Where, how would I mirror a potato : > site so I can tar the files up, put em on a few zip disks to take : > home and un-tar to do an dist-upgrade? Anyone doing t

a couple of questions

2000-01-02 Thread =: !!
Hi! I just wanted to ask a couple of questions: 1. I just installed a compatible soundcard and I want to know how to make debian recognize it. 2. I just recently installed a new browser netscape 407 but when I try to launch it nothing happens. I even tried installing mosaic too but mosaic

Re: can someone pls. provide me a list of URI's for apt to work properly

2000-01-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: : Happy New Year to All!!! : :Can someone please provide me a list of URI's to add to my sources.list : for apt to work properly for slink/stable (main, contrib,non-free and : non-us) because I am always having malformed errors whenever I

LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-02 Thread S Law
Hello, I am quite a new user to Linux and thus I was looking to install a dual-boot system. I have figured out this much so far... I have two hard disks. My Linux disk is on the primary master. It contains the following partitions: hda1, hda2, . I also have a Windows 98 dis

Re: Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem on Debian

2000-01-02 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
I have it working (sort of) with slink on a no brand laptop. It took me a while to configure it. The problem is I cannot use the ethernet and the modem at the same time. E-mail what you do and where it fails so we can give you more concise replyies. *QUESTION*: Everybody using a Xircom Ethernet/M

Re: Yahoo messenger

2000-01-02 Thread hypnos
> > Does anybody know if yahoo messenger (java version) works fine in UNIX? > > Is there any other instant messenger such as ICQ, or ATT I am here for > > Linux? > The Java version of Yahoo Messenger works for me. Debian slink, Kernel > 2.0.36, Netscape Navigator 4.5. and for me, running debian

Re: Yahoo messenger

2000-01-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Jan-2000 Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 19:16, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >> Does anybody know if yahoo messenger (java version) works fine in UNIX? >> Is there any other instant messenger such as ICQ, or ATT I am here for >> Linux? > > The Java version of Yahoo Messenger wo

Re: Yahoo messenger

2000-01-02 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 19:16, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does anybody know if yahoo messenger (java version) works fine in UNIX? > Is there any other instant messenger such as ICQ, or ATT I am here for > Linux? The Java version of Yahoo Messenger works for me. Debian slink, Kernel 2.0.36, Netsca

Help with broken lpd

2000-01-02 Thread Benjamin T. White
Hello all, I have had a Debian 2.1 setup running for several months as an AppleTalk printer server. It has worked quite well until the last few days. Now whenever I try to print from one of the Mac's on the network (or from a linux machine through the AppleTalk network with 'pap'). I can still

Yahoo messenger

2000-01-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does anybody know if yahoo messenger (java version) works fine in UNIX? Is there any other instant messenger such as ICQ, or ATT I am here for Linux? Thanks, Antonio.

Re: Login to X Windows System

2000-01-02 Thread aphro
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DRBLON >However when I'm in X and choose the exit option I just get an X-Windows DRBLON >log-in prompt again and the only way of re-booting is then as far as I can If what your trying to do is go to the console, because of the way XDM operates(its l

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