Re: STILL Configuring x-windows for EGA- can anyone help with this?

2000-02-22 Thread Eric Hagglund
This isn't for me, it's for some children who don't have a computer and I, like much of the world don't have the luxury of 300 Mhz processors and have to get by as best I can. I don't have the equipment and the worstations are going to have to be standalone. I don't agree with your pronouncement o

Re: your mail

2000-02-22 Thread aphro
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hawk >"very unix" ? A unix kernel, all of the unix commands and utilities, hawk >a unix file system--what more could you possibly ask before calling it hawk >unix??? well, unix is a brand name and nothing can call itself unix without passing all the c

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-22 Thread john s anderson
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: > > The way I did this was jump in with both feet. I did > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade Just to clarify: the above does *NOT* work, as of 1630 MST 02/22/2000. The libc6_2.1.3-4_i

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-22 Thread Mike Werner
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: > Greetings! > > I've been trying to move a system at work from Red Hat to Debian for the > last day or so, without much success. The initial slink install goes okay > (I'm using the CD from the O'Reilly book), and I'm able to selec

slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-22 Thread john s anderson
Greetings! I've been trying to move a system at work from Red Hat to Debian for the last day or so, without much success. The initial slink install goes okay (I'm using the CD from the O'Reilly book), and I'm able to select and install various things. However, I'd like to update the installation

Re: Re[2]: Thank you, Corel, for PPP

2000-02-22 Thread John Hasler
Lane writes: > The attraction of wvdial was that it provides a running report of what > it's doing,... Type 'plog' to see what pon is doing. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

localtime/universal time

2000-02-22 Thread addiction
hello... stupid question, maybe, but is there any way to change to local time after having chosen universal time when installing debian? if so, how do it do it? i'd look in the archives but the site seems to be down at the moment, and i have no clue. i thought perhaps base-config would do this, bu

Re: masquerading & ftp

2000-02-22 Thread Brian May
> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> You need to use passive ftp from behind a masquerading Nathan> box. Nathan> I thought there was a masq module for FTP, but I guess I Nathan> was thinking of the Cisco PIX. You have to examine each Nathan> p

Re: MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)

2000-02-22 Thread Joe Block
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:49:59PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > > > nothing else running on commercial Unix that comes close (I'm not > > > > > counting Mac OS X as it's not based on X Windows and isn't a full Unix > > > > > desp

Unidentified subject!

2000-02-22 Thread hawk
Subject: Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:02:56 PST." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> aphro added, > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Joe Block wrote: > jpb >I'm kind of curious - what makes you say MacOS X isn't a full u

Re: MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)

2000-02-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Aren't you running things together here? Unix does not equal X. > X-Windows is a completely different animal than "Unix". It's a > graphical system that is often associated with Unix, but not > necessarily unique to Unix. Certainly you

Re: URGENT: Gateway problems (again, more information added)

2000-02-22 Thread Pavel Epifanov
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: >=The problem is that there is this server that is being used for >=(main tasks) : gateway, dns-server and samba. >=The gateway calls using ISDN (which works fine), but keeps calling and >=calling when it shouldn't... The first I start thinking is DNS que

OT: Mac OS X

2000-02-22 Thread Allen K. Smith
Is based on on the NeXT variant of BSD running on a Mach kernel. It is Unix. Most any non-x apps should recompile with little work right off (if they run on BSD) and an X server port should be running soon after.

Re: ip masq performance

2000-02-22 Thread Pavel Epifanov
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Stuart Ballard wrote: >=As a first pass at configuring this thing (I don't plan on leaving it >=like this, but I'm at the stage where I just want *something* that >=works) I set it up using: >= >=echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward >=ipchains -P forward MASQ >= Dear Stua

Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?

2000-02-22 Thread aphro
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Joe Block wrote: jpb >> > But on top of the mach core there is a full unix as I understand it, jpb >> > including an Xserver that coexists with the mac display jpb > jpb >I'm kind of curious - what makes you say MacOS X isn't a full unix? I jpb >run OSX Server on a couple mac

Re: video viewer

2000-02-22 Thread aphro
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, pplaw wrote: pplaw >debs, pplaw > pplaw >is there a linux viewer (debian or otherwise) to play video clips in pplaw >mpeg or real player format? www.mpegtv.com has a kickass shareware mpeg1/videocd player www.real.com has betas/releases of real player(plus/g2?) for linux

Re: New netbase, with ifup/ifdown!

2000-02-22 Thread Adam Goode
If you examine /etc/init.d/networking and the package version of /etc/network/interfaces, then you should be able to decipher the workings of it. If you didn't let the package version overwrite your own /etc/network/interfaces, then you probably don't have the nice comments and examples in that fil

Re: printcap help please

2000-02-22 Thread aphro
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Steve Brown wrote: steve >Sorry I can't try printing from Netscape or anything else. I have a steve >base system plus lprng, magicfilter, and gs. That's it. As for steve >restarting lprng, 2 people have advised me to do that, but I'm new steve >enough to Unix/Linux/Debian

Re: My own bootlogo

2000-02-22 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
I've made a boot logo using the glogo plugin for the Gimp. Search for "boot logo" on tune.linux.com. This plugin converts a gif image to the linux_logo.h source file that you copy to your kernel tree and recompile. It worked quite well for me... I couldn't get the plugin to work with Gimp1.1, so

Re: Linuxconf in potato broken?

2000-02-22 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:40:48PM +, "F.P. Groeneveld" wrote: Last I looked, the README.Debian file in the linuxconf package clearly states that linuxconf is still very broken on Debian. However, it DOES at least RUN on my machines? > I get a segfault whenever I quit linuxconf (version 1.1

Re: video viewer

2000-02-22 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello kmself@ix.netcom.com, On 22-Feb-00, you wrote: k> xanim, mpeg, etc. Partial support for some formats. Free. k> realplayer, realplayer format. Proprietary. k> k> Rumor is that Apple is doing a Quicktime port, and that Microsoft is k> doing an MS MediaPlayer port. Both proprietary. I h

Re: STILL Configuring x-windows for EGA- can anyone help with this?

2000-02-22 Thread aphro
even if he could get XF86 setup for EGA(maybe he can...) i dont think it would run worth a shit, its better to leave a machine like that in console mode. if you want X, install vncserver and run X apps from remote. i would avoid X on anything less then 200Mhz 48MB (any system i install now is 350M

Re: MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)

2000-02-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 02:16:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:49:59PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [...] > > > I'm kind of curious - what makes you say MacOS X isn't a full unix? I > > > run OSX Serve

Re: STILL Configuring x-windows for EGA- can anyone help with this?

2000-02-22 Thread kmself
Suggest you try Deja or look at the XFree86 docs. EGA appears to be supported: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-6.html What configuration program are you using? There are several: xconfigurator, XF86Setup (my preferred tool), etc. There are also a number of modelines calculators on

Re: MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)

2000-02-22 Thread hawk
> > I'm kind of curious - what makes you say MacOS X isn't a full unix? I > > run OSX Server on a couple machines and it seems pretty full to me - > > most stuff builds with ./configure;make > Interesting. My understanding was that MacOS X wasn't a full Unix. I'm > often wrong. > Could you prov

Re: STILL Configuring x-windows for EGA- can anyone help with this?

2000-02-22 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Eric, Do you have any details on the video card? especially, how much RAM it has on it? As you are already getting a text display, I think that you are already effectively using a vga resolution and one of the standard vga modes (640x480) should work, but you may be trying to use a greater

Static -vs- dynamic libc

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Kerr
I've got a software project that I'm trying to compile statically. I need to link in libstdc++-libc6.0-1.a.2 rather than the corresponding .so. version, but I keep having problems with it. I've used the -Wl,-Bstatic and -Wl,-Bdynamic flags (I think correctly), but when I think that I have that on

Re: MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)

2000-02-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:49:59PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > > > nothing else running on commercial Unix that comes close (I'm not > > > > > counting Mac OS X as it's not based on X Windows and isn't a full Unix > > > > > desp

Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?

2000-02-22 Thread hawk
Karsten krabbed, > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 07:27:11AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Karsten kried, > > cross application cut and paste. Come to think of it, that's the *only* > > thing I've seen either of these offer that I've seen any use for . . . > > I'm quite happy with xterms, LyX, a

Re: List

2000-02-22 Thread Randy Edwards
> Is there a general linux discussion list which is > active? The majordomo at vger.rutgers.edu hosts a lot of different distribution generic and topic-specific GNU/Linux mailing lists. For a listing of all the lists hosted at vger, a search of any decent mailing list search engine will tur

MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)

2000-02-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:49:59PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > nothing else running on commercial Unix that comes close (I'm not > > > > counting Mac OS X as it's not based on X Windows and isn't a full Unix > > > > despite its Mach core). > > > > > > But on top

Re: URGENT: Gateway problems (again, more information added)

2000-02-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Ron" == Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron> The gateway calls using ISDN (which works fine), but keeps Ron> calling and calling when it shouldn't... Forget about tcpdump, it doesn't work with syncPPP. Instead set "isdnctrl verbose 2" and check the syslog (I think). You get messages

Re: video viewer

2000-02-22 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > xanim, mpeg, etc. Partial support for some formats. Free. > realplayer, realplayer format. Proprietary. > > Rumor is that Apple is doing a Quicktime port, and that Microsoft is > doing an MS MediaPlayer port. Both proprietary. > > On Tue, Fe

Re: IP MASQ

2000-02-22 Thread Kris
At 17:53 22/02/00 +, Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ^^^ Hmmm? > Related question: to my surprise i did not found example rules > in ipmasq package for what i think

SMB and cd-images

2000-02-22 Thread Fish Smith
I have a Windows 95 ethernet network using SMB with a shared CD-ROM drive and one debian box using smbmount. The soft links are not working properly because they are not recognized by windows and become null files--so is there an easy way to make a cd image, transfer it to the debian box and remou

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-22 Thread Adam Shand
> > this doesn't really solve the problem. it means that users cgi's can't > > screw with the server's stuff but it doesn't stop them from messing with > > each others stuff. > > I was unclear, I meant create a second account for each user who wants > her cgis sandboxed. ah, yes. that would be

Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?

2000-02-22 Thread Joe Block
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > nothing else running on commercial Unix that comes close (I'm not > > > counting Mac OS X as it's not based on X Windows and isn't a full Unix > > > despite its Mach core). > > > > But on top of the mach core there is a full unix as I understand it, > > including

Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?

2000-02-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 07:27:11AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Karsten kried, > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 04:00:35PM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > > > I have been playing around with Gnome and KDE and I do not understand > > > what they really are! > > > Crutches for weak-minded lus

Re: GRUB Anyone?

2000-02-22 Thread Parrish M Myers
It took me a couple of reboots and fumbling (mostly due to the drive numbering convention) but I got it. I think I like it! Thanks --- Lars Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marshal Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snippet] > The steps needed for installation are: > > * Create a lin

Re: video viewer

2000-02-22 Thread kmself
xanim, mpeg, etc. Partial support for some formats. Free. realplayer, realplayer format. Proprietary. Rumor is that Apple is doing a Quicktime port, and that Microsoft is doing an MS MediaPlayer port. Both proprietary. On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:14:51PM -0700, pplaw wrote: > debs, > > is th

Re: Re[2]: Thank you, Corel, for PPP

2000-02-22 Thread Lane Lester
On 22 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know it can be turned off generally, but the problem was I want it on > most of the time, and kill -9 doesn\'t kill it. The other thing > I liked about wvdial is its generation of a pretty decent init string. Control-C always killed it for me. -- L

Re: loopback routing - just curious

2000-02-22 Thread James Sasitorn
the 2.2 series kernel implicitly creates the network config (in comparison to the manual creation you have to do in 2.0) james On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, da Bobstopper wrote: > hiya, i've noticed that > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > > doesn't seem to work anymore and, even more curiously, doesn't se

Re: New netbase, with ifup/ifdown!

2000-02-22 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-02-22 12:11:48, Adam Goode wrote: > Also, there is a problem with ifdown and dhclient. Looks like the script > tries to kill dhclient, but doesn't kill dhclient-2.2.x like it should be. > Then lots of dhclients are left lying around... Bummer... Does the up line run before/concurrently/a

Re: balsa locks cause crashes

2000-02-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 03:47:24 +0800, da Bobstopper wrote: > why does balsa try to "lock" mailboxes To prevent corruption caused by multiple processes working on them simultaneously. This is necessary with unix mbox format mailboxes and MMDF mailboxes. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-22 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy Edwards) wrote: > > But how do I, for example, install a newer version of windowmaker > > or netscape? There are several .deb packages, and I don't know > > which of them to use. > >Just use dselect, browse through the various descriptions of the > *.deb files. But ho

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-22 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hilliard) wrote: > Another option is to get a CD of the unstable distribution. > While no commercial distributors offer silver CDs of unstable, there > are a number of Debian developers (some listed on the web page) who > will burn gold CDs to order. This will cost mor

balsa locks cause crashes

2000-02-22 Thread da Bobstopper
heya why does balsa try to "lock" mailboxes, and why does it always seem to crash when i do it? here's the error i get when i run it from a terminal: Locking mailbox ** WARNING **: fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) Unlocking mailbox Locking mailbox Sentbox Unlocking mailbox and then it di

loopback routing - just curious

2000-02-22 Thread da Bobstopper
hiya, i've noticed that route add -net 127.0.0.0 doesn't seem to work anymore and, even more curiously, doesn't seem to be needed. i can still ping 127.0.0.1 but the 127.0.0.0 route isn't evident in my route -n output. i gather that this is kernel related, not debian related since it only happe

Re: Re[2]: Thank you, Corel, for PPP

2000-02-22 Thread fred1
Quoting \"TaoX { Brian Hinson; }\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > the redial is a feature and can be turned off... look for the wvdial config > file... > I know it can be turned off generally, but the problem was I want it on most of the time, and kill -9 doesn\'t kill it. The other thing I liked about

video viewer

2000-02-22 Thread pplaw
debs, is there a linux viewer (debian or otherwise) to play video clips in mpeg or real player format? ia, t. bentley taylor. //

Re: default options

2000-02-22 Thread Kent West
Grendel wrote: > ** On Feb 22, Kent West scribbled: > > > > > I'd like to know if there is a way to find out what were > > > > the options built in to the default debian/potato kernel > > > > 2.2.14? > > > less /boot/config-2.2.14 > > > > > > marek > > > > I have no such file. > I assumed yo

Frontpage & Apache

2000-02-22 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, here are my experiences with the compilation of the Apache webserver and the Frontpage Server Extension module. If you have any suggestions that I should add please reply. Please reply if you have any comments. Bye, Sven -- +-

Re: Exim: frustrations configuring a satellite system (Solution)

2000-02-22 Thread Jean Orloff
Hi, I finally cooked up something, that should maybe be added by eximconfig. To recap my problem: I have a machine (call it debsat) that sort of sits behind a firewall, gets mail from an imap server (clrmail.in2p3.fr) and sends mail via smtp through the same. This is the situation of 95% of peop

Re: printcap help please

2000-02-22 Thread Steve Brown
> steve >I ended up with the following in /etc/printcap > steve > > steve >lp|hpdj|HP Deskjet540:\ > steve > :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj:\ > steve > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > steve > :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj500-filter:\ > steve > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/l

Re: New netbase, with ifup/ifdown!

2000-02-22 Thread Radim Gelner
I've installed the new netbase right now. One question: in /etc/rc.S there's still one link pointing to /etc/init.d/network. Can I delete it? Radim On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Adam Goode wrote: > Looks like woody and potato got the new netbase, adding use to the > /etc/network/interfaces file (and tak

Re: Re[2]: Thank you, Corel, for PPP

2000-02-22 Thread TaoX { Brian Hinson; }
the redial is a feature and can be turned off... look for the wvdial config file... TaoX -- www.muhri.net/TaoX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: '61511769' AOL IM: 'TaoX 0x1' - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian Users" Sent: Tuesday, Februar

Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-22 Thread Bart Szyszka
> How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after the > installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only > because I see some syslinux related files. Hmm... I haven't seen this mentioned yet: /usr/sbin/mkboot /vmlinuz Would that work? I do it whe

Re: Linux and PS/2

2000-02-22 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi Kent! > <..> Debian 2.0 was based on the Linux kernel 2.0.36, and I believe > Debian 2.1 is > likely to be based on the Linux kernel 2.4, but I don't keep up with that so > I'm not > for sure. Now I'ld really like potato comming with kernel 2.4 but I doubt that they change such a critica

STILL Configuring x-windows for EGA- can anyone help with this?

2000-02-22 Thread Eric Hagglund
Can anyone help with this or at least tell me if it's not feasible? --- Eric Hagglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 07:40:20 -0800 (PST) > From: Eric Hagglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Configuring x-windows for EGA > To: Debian User Lists User Lists > > > I'm trying to

Re: Re[2]: Thank you, Corel, for PPP

2000-02-22 Thread fred1
Quoting Lane Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The attraction of wvdial was that it > provides a running report of what it\'s doing, so I thought it would be > better for diagosis. wvdial has worked well under Corel Linux, too. > I agree with Lane on this. The attraction of wvdial is that right o

ip masq performance

2000-02-22 Thread Stuart Ballard
I just successfully got ip masquerading set up on my home network (two computers, one debian, one win98... debian box does the masquerading, of course). As a first pass at configuring this thing (I don't plan on leaving it like this, but I'm at the stage where I just want *something* that works) I

Re: default options

2000-02-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'd like to know if there is a way to find out what were > the options built in to the default debian/potato kernel > 2.2.14? AIUI you have to know/guess the version of the kernel-image deb that was used to build the boot-floppies. If you then d

Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-22 Thread Sven Gaerner
Have a look at the Bootdisk HowTo Sven Attila Csosz wrote: > How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after the > installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only > because I see some syslinux related files. > > Thanks > Attila > > > > -- > -

Re: IP MASQ

2000-02-22 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > Hi, > > Could someone show me where can I get information on > how to build the IP MASQ into the kernel (potato 2.2.14)? > > TIA! > > --- > tcp > install ipmasq package and check the docs inside - there is IP MASQ url with info. Related

Re: default options

2000-02-22 Thread Grendel
** On Feb 22, Kent West scribbled: > > > I'd like to know if there is a way to find out what were > > > the options built in to the default debian/potato kernel > > > 2.2.14? > > less /boot/config-2.2.14 > > > > marek > > I have no such file. I assumed you have the 2.2.14 deb installed. It

New netbase, with ifup/ifdown!

2000-02-22 Thread Adam Goode
Looks like woody and potato got the new netbase, adding use to the /etc/network/interfaces file (and taking away the need for /etc/init.d/network). Looks to me like /etc/init.d/pump and /etc/init.d/dhcp-client should be going as well. Any comments on this? Are updates to pump and dhclient going to

Re[2]: Thank you, Corel, for PPP

2000-02-22 Thread Lane Lester
Keith wrote: > I have seen several postings on this list about your problem, but never > any response when asked (by John Hasler) for details. Maybe you go > offline with "gurus" with your problem, but I suspect you'd be better > served, if you are sincerely interested in getting Debian to do this

Re: default options

2000-02-22 Thread Kent West
Grendel wrote: > ** On Feb 22, Timothy C. Phan scribbled: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to know if there is a way to find out what were > > the options built in to the default debian/potato kernel > > 2.2.14? > less /boot/config-2.2.14 > > marek I have no such file.

IP MASQ

2000-02-22 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Could someone show me where can I get information on how to build the IP MASQ into the kernel (potato 2.2.14)? TIA! --- tcp

Re: default options

2000-02-22 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Grendel, I could not find it in /boot/config-2.2.14. However, I found /usr/share/kernel-package/Config directory that has various flavors of the config. Thanks! Grendel wrote: > > ** On Feb 22, Timothy C. Phan scribbled: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to know if there is a way to find

Re: Netscape 4.72 Where to get?

2000-02-22 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, aphro wrote: > 4.7/128bit. its not available on FTP because of export controls(maybe its > changed since that new law passed..) im running 4.7/128bit for glibc and > it works pretty good. 4.72 for win* i think has bee out for a while but > havent seen it for linux > > nate >

My own bootlogo

2000-02-22 Thread Lars Weber
Greetings, Has anyone here ever succeeded in installing their own bootlogo? I've tried to do this for some time now, but somehow I don't get it. I use ppm2logo from the logo-select kernel patch[1]. The problem is that it segfaults every time after printing out half of the converted file. I don

Re: Sierra Screamin' 3-D (Rendition Verite 1000)

2000-02-22 Thread Mark Small
> I have installed various versions of linux on my old system and I have never > been > able to run X in anything other than 640X480 with this video card. > Has anyone > worked with this card and overcome this problem? The monitor is > a Compaq Presario > 140. Make sure that you are running a

Re: default options

2000-02-22 Thread Grendel
** On Feb 22, Timothy C. Phan scribbled: > Hi, > > I'd like to know if there is a way to find out what were > the options built in to the default debian/potato kernel > 2.2.14? less /boot/config-2.2.14 marek pgp9H95YaljAm.pgp Description: PGP signature

default options

2000-02-22 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know if there is a way to find out what were the options built in to the default debian/potato kernel 2.2.14? Thanks! --- tcp

Re: Netscape Installation, how?

2000-02-22 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, I have only installed netscape 4.5 , on slink, and never had to download it by hand. I used apt-get as follows: apt-get install communicator-smotif-45 apt-get install netscape-java-45 You will only need the second package if you wish to run java. My sources.list in case I have someth

Re: Linux and PS/2

2000-02-22 Thread Kent West
Brendan O'Brien wrote: > Phil-- > > Thanks for the note. Indeed I did try your suggestion and received the > error message: > > "can't locate module psaux" > > If indeed the PS/2 port is not enabled how do I go about doing this? Also, > how does one determine which kernel of Debian I'm using? W

Re: oracle8i 8.1.5

2000-02-22 Thread Vincent Murphy
= Remco van 't Veer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2222 1532]: > My guess: add /usr/local/jre/lib/classes.zip (be sure it exists) to > the -cp argument and try again. I got it to install but don't > remember how.. classes.zip doesn't exist in /usr/local/jre/lib/classes.z

after slink re-install, "undefined RGetXImage" (wmaker problems)

2000-02-22 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, Well, I managed to get slink re-installed, but I can't a newer wmaker to work. The old version on the slink CD works OK, but I have tried various newer versions that used to work and they all fail when loading sharable libraries, and spit out an undefined symbol RGetXImage. (I used apt-ge

Re: oracle8i 8.1.5

2000-02-22 Thread Remco van 't Veer
runInst.sh reads: /usr/local/jre/bin/jre -ss4m -oss4m -ms32m -mx64m -Doracle.installer.nlsEnabled=TRUE -Doracle.installer.startup_location=. -Doracle.installer.library_loc=../../stage/Components/oracle/swd/oui/1.6.0.7.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/bin/linux -cp ../../stage/Components/oracle/swd/oui

Re: Thank you, Corel, for PPP

2000-02-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
GECOS wrote: > > The meaning of the Subject is that, of three different distributions of > Linux on my system, only Corel Linux gets me to the Internet. > > My pleasure with CL's ease of install, but my frustration with its > nonstandard configuration, > led me to buy McCarty's Learning Debian bo

Re: Netscape 4.72 Where to get?

2000-02-22 Thread aphro
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, John Foster wrote: jfoste >It may be for windows, but it did say that it was for Linux: jfoste >See This: http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/upgrade.cgi must've been a typo or some automated script that did it. the netscape i have on this machine is 56bit only and it says 4.72 d

Wordperfect segmentation fault

2000-02-22 Thread Johann Spies
I use Wordperfect from time to time and suddenly today I get a segmentation fault every time try it. I worked a few days ago. I have during the past weeks upgraded some packages on my slink system to potato. How can I find out what is causing the problem? Maybe one of the new packages has remov

Re: Netscape Installation, how?

2000-02-22 Thread Kent West
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > Hi, > > i can't install Netscape .deb package on my debian 2.1. > What is the correct procedure? > Where to find info? > > Fab Because of licensing issues, Debian doesn't have the Netscape binary; it does have a .deb installer that will install the Netscape binary an

Re: GRUB Anyone?

2000-02-22 Thread Lars Weber
Marshal Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't believe that installing the package makes grub as your > boot-loader. At least, that was when I tried quite a few months ago. It still does not do so. To get yourself started you should read /usr/share/doc/grub/README.debian and the grub info-f

Re: Netscape 4.72 Where to get?

2000-02-22 Thread John Foster
aphro wrote: > where exactly did you see this? when i went to their site the latest is > 4.7/128bit. its not available on FTP because of export controls(maybe its > changed since that new law passed..) im running 4.7/128bit for glibc and > it works pretty good. 4.72 for win* i think has bee out fo

Linux Router Project

2000-02-22 Thread Louis Byrne
Hi folks! My name is Louis Byrne and I am the network administrator for a company in Toronto, Canada. I am working on a project that will use the Linux Router. As a feedback, the Linux Router Project started back in 1997 as an open source variant of the Debian distro and intended to fit into a sin

ISDN question

2000-02-22 Thread Ron Rademaker
I know that you can configure diald in a way that requests on certain ports cannot cause a connection to open or to remain open, but does anybody know how I can use this with ISDN (I guess ISDN uses ipppd to dial, not sure). Ron

Re: please help with new samba

2000-02-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Chris R. Martin wrote: > thanks for the file.. unfortunately it didn't solve my problem. > > The big thing I want to get rid of is the password to connect to "IPC$".. I > don't understand why Win98 keeps prompting for that. Also I want the shares > to be "publically" browsa

URGENT: Gateway problems (again, more information added)

2000-02-22 Thread Ron Rademaker
Some time ago I've send a mail about this to this mailinglist but no one gave any reaction, so here it is again with more info: The problem is that there is this server that is being used for (main tasks) : gateway, dns-server and samba. The gateway calls using ISDN (which works fine), but keeps c

Re: your mail

2000-02-22 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try: apt-get install netscape That 'll give you a list of netscapes you can install. Or use dselect with apt (or ftp) access and select the needed netscape packages (dselect will tell you what they are.) Ron On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > i can't install Netscape .deb p

Re: tpqic02 question

2000-02-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting steve doerr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anyone know how I can prevent the kernel from doing this device > search? I can't seem to find where to turn it off in the kernel > configuration. I take it you're running an installation kernel, and they're all stuffed with drivers that people migh

Re: samba reexported ncpfs and WinNT

2000-02-22 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Change kernel to 2.0.38 solves the problem. That contain some ncp patches. > > I have samba 2.0.5a server on slink, kernel 2.0.36 and ncfs 2.2.0.9. > With ncfsmount I mount o netware 4.1 volume, and with samba > I re-export some directories from that. > Now everything is fine from Win9x clients. >

Thank you, Corel, for PPP

2000-02-22 Thread GECOS
The meaning of the Subject is that, of three different distributions of Linux on my system, only Corel Linux gets me to the Internet. My pleasure with CL's ease of install, but my frustration with its nonstandard configuration, led me to buy McCarty's Learning Debian book. It came with a Debian CD

Re: your mail

2000-02-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:35:43AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > i can't install Netscape .deb package on my debian 2.1. > What is the correct procedure? > Where to find info? > > Fab What are you doing (what specific commands)? What error message(s) are you getting? If you have th

SOLVED: mouse with gpm and X

2000-02-22 Thread Armin Wegner
I have set repeat_type= in /etc/gpm.conf. The equal sign is the last character of that line. I now have a working mouse on the console and in X. Thank you. Armin

SOLVED: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-22 Thread Armin Wegner
It is fine now. My /etc/init.d/network looks like this #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 lo I added the netmask to avoid the SIOCADDRT: invalid argument message at boot time. This has been a last years subject. Thank you. Armin

Netscape Installation, how?

2000-02-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, i can't install Netscape .deb package on my debian 2.1. What is the correct procedure? Where to find info? Fab

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-22 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Michael Symalla wrote: > Hi Nils-Erik, > > the Tip using ALSA was great, now it works more or less. But two > problems remain, perhaps someone can help me solving these: > > 1. I can't use programms like gmix anymore, even the volume-control in > xmms doesn't work. Before yo

Re: Oreiley.net on Linux.com compares Linux distributions

2000-02-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 02/22/00 09:19AM, Jean-Philippe Guérard wrote: > The O'Reilley.net part of the Linux.com site includes > a comparaison of the Linux distributions (including Debian) > you might want to have a look at. > > http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/q/linux_dist > Interesting. From the page on Debian: De

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