Recent upgrade took away Gnome session manager taskbar

2000-03-05 Thread John Foster
I did a recent Potato upgrade and the Gnome session manager task bars that I had set up disappeared. Something reset the desktop and I can not seem to get them back. Any Ideas?? -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We

Kernel panic - init not found. Please help !!

2000-03-05 Thread Mahesh Padmanabhan
Hello All, I am using loadlin to load up a kernel from from Windows 95 partition. Since my BIOS is old and my hard disk is new, I am using the EZ Drive disk manager for my 10 GB hard drive. I have a Pentium 200 CPU with MMX and 32 MB memory. I compiled a custom 2.0.36 before and it worked withou

Kernel panic - init not found. Please help !!

2000-03-05 Thread Mahesh Padmanabhan
Hello All, I am using loadlin to load up a kernel from from Windows 95 partition. Since my BIOS is old and my hard disk is new, I am using the EZ Drive disk manager for my 10 GB hard drive. I have a Pentium 200 CPU with MMX and 32 MB memory. I compiled a custom 2.0.36 before and it worked withou

installing- last try before win98

2000-03-05 Thread smoke
i downloaded the files from the getting started, dos install. i have install, linux drv1440.bin, loadlin.exe, root.bin,resc1440.bin and base2_1.tgz. i run the install bat and get a command to enter kernal name. i tried linux and nothing happens. WHAT IS THE KERNEL out of these files? IS LINUX SUPPO

Merging a set of CD's to a local depository

2000-03-05 Thread Christian Rishøj
DEAR DEBIAN USERS, I have multicd set containing an unofficial release of Debian Potato made a few days ago following the instructions and tools suplied with Debian. Now I would like to make a local depository on my hardrive using the packages on the CDs. I am thinking about just copying each of

Re: Framebuffer settings

2000-03-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:19:22PM +0200, Denis J. Cirulis wrote: > Hello ! > > I have ATI AGP card,debian potato with compiled in atifb module. I read all > the stuff in Framebuffer-HOWTO like : > > /etc/lilo.config > > vga=792 > append="video=matrox:" and so on > > When i'm booting linu

Re: ipchains

2000-03-05 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 10:40:14PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote > Hi. > > This should be easy, but I just can't figure out how to do it. All I > want is to be able to set up a firewall where everything is disabled > except that I can browse the internet and send/receive email. I'm > running some netw

Remote Printing

2000-03-05 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I have the lpd running on both the machines. In fact, after the new entries in my printcap, I have restarted lpd. The results were posted only after these things failed. The HOWTO was not much of a help. sridhar --- Sridhar M.A.

Framebuffer settings

2000-03-05 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
Hello ! I have ATI AGP card,debian potato with compiled in atifb module. I read all the stuff in Framebuffer-HOWTO like : /etc/lilo.config vga=792 append="video=matrox:" and so on When i'm booting linux i see very nice penguin logo but my console is still 640x480-256 , not the mode i men

error in loading shared libraries

2000-03-05 Thread Remco Rijnders
Hello all, Whenever I try to run an application that needs gnome libraries (pan, xmms, gnucash etc.) it always bails out with the following error: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: undefined symbol: gtk_item_factory_add_foreign This happens both when running my curre

Re: partitioning, dual booting(?)

2000-03-05 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Tek wrote: > What will allow me to drop to DOS and go through lilo? I think you mean drop to DOS and go through Loadlin, not lilo. Lilo is not accessed from DOS. It's a boot loader that gets installed in either the MBR, or in a partition boot sector. Loadlin, on the other hand, is a DOS based bo

Maestro sound driver

2000-03-05 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hello I have Micron TransPort Trek 2. I installed potato with the kernel 2.2.12 and everithing is OK except sound. My laptop have ESS Maestro ES1968 sound chip. I read laptop-howto, sound-howto. I tried to install the driver maestro from: http://people.redhat.com/zab/maestro compilation process wa

Can no-one help? Gnome has lost all but the basic icons on desktop

2000-03-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have posted this problem in the Gnome and the Debian users lists, and also on usenet. I have had no respose at all. Surely someone has some idea of what might be the problem? Since it has happens consistently each time I upgrade virgin Slink/Storm installs it must also have happened to others.

NCR53c406a: No available ports found

2000-03-05 Thread MRE
Hello..  I recently received a Debian 2.1 CD with the O Reilly Book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux"   Every time I try to boot and start the initial installation (either from the CDROM, or any of the boot images supplied, including tecra) I recieve the following error: NCR53c406a: No available po

Re: Remote Printing

2000-03-05 Thread mahdi
Hi, Can you verify that your lpd daemon is running on vayu.xrdlab.mysore ? I would check that first. Hi, I am trying to set up my printcap to print on to a laser printer connected to another machine. My /etc/printcap is as follows: #Local haralu.xrdlab.mysore lp|ex1000:\ :lp=/dev

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-03-05 Thread mahdi
Hi again, I tried that and it still gives the same errors... anyway here is the log of my Dialup networking using the same ISP 03-02-2000 15:28:24.99 - Initializing modem. 03-02-2000 15:28:24.99 - Send: ATE0Q0V1 03-02-2000 15:28:24.99 - Recv: ATE0Q0V1 03-02-2000 15:28:25.12 - Recv:

Re: VMware, and acceleratedX

2000-03-05 Thread kmself
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 11:47:10PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Has anyone used this combination before? I would like to be able to use > full screen, or atleast be able to make the window larger than it > currently seems to allow. Also, I'm using vmware to access a windows98 > partition on a d

Remote Printing

2000-03-05 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I am trying to set up my printcap to print on to a laser printer connected to another machine. My /etc/printcap is as follows: #Local haralu.xrdlab.mysore lp|ex1000:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ex1000:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/epsonlq-

Re: VMware, and acceleratedX

2000-03-05 Thread Robert L. Harris
You need to use "Hardware Profiles" to prevent it from finding hardware etc at every boot. I couldn't get VMWare to work right with AccelX. It never detected the video right. Thus spake Aaron Solochek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Has anyone used this combination before? I would like to be able

Re: ipchains

2000-03-05 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
Here is a web page with info about most port numbers, which can be quite helpful when setting up firewalls: http://www.con.wesleyan.edu/~triemer/network/docservs.html This site tries to have helpful guides that make more sense to non-geeks: http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/ Here is a webpage for g

Re: 2.1 Installation and Backpack CD-Rom

2000-03-05 Thread kmself
The Backpack, AFAIK, requires parellel port device support, plus additional kernel module support, under the "paride" (PARallel IDE) configuration options. I'm not sure that typical installation kernels have this support built in. If they aren't, you would probably have to build your own installa

VMware, and acceleratedX

2000-03-05 Thread Aaron Solochek
Has anyone used this combination before? I would like to be able to use full screen, or atleast be able to make the window larger than it currently seems to allow. Also, I'm using vmware to access a windows98 partition on a dual boot system. Right now windows finds all this new hardware, is ther

Re: Restricting Users

2000-03-05 Thread Ben Collins
> > users from receiving emails (exim) > users from login in via telnet (whcih unfortunatly still has to run) > users from login in via local console (tty1, tty2) > users from using rexec, rsh, rlogin > > Any hints and pointers would be very appriciated ! > I would strongly suggest check the

ipchains

2000-03-05 Thread Chris Gray
Hi. This should be easy, but I just can't figure out how to do it. All I want is to be able to set up a firewall where everything is disabled except that I can browse the internet and send/receive email. I'm running some network stuff, but it does not need to be seen by anyone else but me. I th

Restricting Users

2000-03-05 Thread Markus Fischer
Hello list, I'm trying to build a user database (textfile) which specifies the individual rights of system users. e.g. user1 nossh noftp nomail noroam user2 noroam means: user1 cannot ssh to this machine, cannot ftp to it, cannot receive mail and cant access netscape roaming user2 can to eve

Re: Linux Scripts

2000-03-05 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 05:59:19PM -0700, Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting closer to getting my dialog script to work, but I don't know > enough about linux scripts ( like the -ge -ne operators). So I was > wondering if anyone knew where I could find a website on scripting. First

Re: How to change Netscape Menu fonts?

2000-03-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > I want to make Netscape use a smaller font for it's menus and buttons. > However, when I played around with setting something like: > > *font: -adobe-helvetica-*-r-normal-*-*-110-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 > > in ~/.Xresources, netscape complains about not being able to crea

Re: exim to sendmail help

2000-03-05 Thread Adam Shand
> 1. how do i tell sendmail to relay email for a group of IPs ? > something like this in exim : > sender_net_accept_relay = 192.168.1.0/24:192.168.2.0/24 make sure you have the access file feature enabled and add the ip addresses to the /etc/mail/access file and then run makemap on i

groff version error

2000-03-05 Thread John Dalbec
I just apt-get upgraded from potato groff to slink groff! 1.15-3 < 1.15.1.11a.7.Y2K-1 John

Re: URGENT! Linux won't load

2000-03-05 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 05:51:06PM -0700, Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I totally screwed up my friend's Linux. I got the kernel source 2.2.1 > and when I configured it I set the CPU as Pentium, but the computer is > actually a 486. Now Linux won't boot and I really don't want to > reinstall. _Ple

Re: URGENT! Linux won't load

2000-03-05 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/04/00 at 05:27 PM, Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I totally screwed up my friend's Linux. I got the kernel source 2.2.1 and >when I configured it I set the CPU as Pentium, but the computer is actually >a 486. Now Linux won't boot and I really don't want to

Linux Scripts

2000-03-05 Thread Matheson
Hey, I'm getting closer to getting my dialog script to work, but I don't know enough about linux scripts ( like the -ge -ne operators). So I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find a website on scripting. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

URGENT! Linux won't load

2000-03-05 Thread Matheson
Hey, I totally screwed up my friend's Linux. I got the kernel source 2.2.1 and when I configured it I set the CPU as Pentium, but the computer is actually a 486. Now Linux won't boot and I really don't want to reinstall. _Please_ help me. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Mounting PCMCIA Compact Flash card

2000-03-05 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I would like to be able to read/write my CF Card which stores photo's from a digital camera. I have a CF -> PCMCIA adapter, and my card is identified by the system. The output of the 'cardctl ident' command is: Socket 0: product info: "3Com Corporation", "3C589", "TP/BNC LAN Card Ver. 2a",