Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > What version of netscape, from where? > > > > It works for me and others. > > I am using 4.73 now and I have no problems with RealPlayer now. > Now I have to figure out how to play mp3's from Netscape. It seems plugger > will play them from some websites

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Jul-2000 Joey Hess wrote: > Pollywog wrote: >> When I installed the Debian package that is used to install what I >> downloaded >> from www.real.com, Netscape could not see the plugin, for some reason. >> This was not a problem when I downloaded the rpm from real.com and then >> used >> Alie

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Pollywog wrote: > When I installed the Debian package that is used to install what I downloaded > from www.real.com, Netscape could not see the plugin, for some reason. > This was not a problem when I downloaded the rpm from real.com and then used > Alien to make a deb from it. What version of net

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: > >> Are you using the version of Plugger that installs with Netscape? >> That is what I have. I believe it does not come with Netscape but that it >> is >> part of the Debian installer for Netscape. Does anyone know fo

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: > Are you using the version of Plugger that installs with Netscape? > That is what I have. I believe it does not come with Netscape but that it is > part of the Debian installer for Netscape. Does anyone know for sure? It's a deb package of its own: web/plug

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-Jul-2000 Joey Hess wrote: > > Pollywog wrote: > >> I uninstalled the RealPlayer package I had installed with the Debian > >> install > >> package. I made a new Deb package using Alien and the RPM package I > >> downloaded and it works much better. >

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Jul-2000 Joey Hess wrote: > Pollywog wrote: >> I uninstalled the RealPlayer package I had installed with the Debian >> install >> package. I made a new Deb package using Alien and the RPM package I >> downloaded and it works much better. > > Please degine "much better". As the author of bo

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > >> > Now I am trying to decide how to have Netscape play mp3 files. >> > Plugger doesn't seem to cut it. >> >> Do you have mpg123 installed? Plugger suggests, but does not depend >> on it. It is necessary for play

Re: ReiserFS with Debian (Potato)?

2000-07-23 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all. Hi Morten, > I'm contemplating installing debian on ReiserFS like this: > > 1: Install Debian. > 2: Patch & compile kernel with ReiserFS support. > 3: Backup the partitons [1] one after one and reformat them with >ReiserFS, restore from b

Can't get Voodoo 3 3000 to work on slink!

2000-07-23 Thread jswain
Hey,   I can't seem to figure out how to get my Voodoo 3 3000PCI to work on my Slink.  I got the right packages and installed them off of linux.3dfx.com (Their was a couple listed for slink, you are are supposed to use alien to debian-ize them.  Alien went fine)  When I tried to install the

Re: Planner/PIM/Calendar Packages

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Wagnon
Wow, so many choices! Thanks guys, I guess I'll be fiddling around with these to see which on I like the best. -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((

Compressed mailboxes with mutt

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, Anyone using compressed folders with mutt? My mailboxes are getting out of hand. I have a couple that are fast approaching the 10 meg point. I read a thread on comp.mail.mutt that says one can utilize compressed folders if the source is patched with some special patch. I was wondering if

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Well, too soon to be happy. > cron runs periodically rmmod -a . > Then when I want to use the modem again serial driver is re-loaded: > Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled > tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Pollywog wrote: > I uninstalled the RealPlayer package I had installed with the Debian install > package. I made a new Deb package using Alien and the RPM package I > downloaded and it works much better. Please degine "much better". As the author of both alien and the realplayer installer package

Re: Keyboard fails *only* in X

2000-07-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:13:55PM -0600, Tremaine Lea wrote: > > > >How could installing a new power supply screw up the keyboard, and > >only in X? > > Quite simply, it can't :) You're right. I just switched in another keyboard and it works fine. I had dropped the keyboard during the chang

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread ferret
Tom, Try feeding the IO port and IRQ you see from lspci into setserial. Or try building a 2.4.0-pre4 kernel, which has PCI serial support. I've heard that some PCI hardware DSP modems might not even use an uart, but I've never seen anything specific. On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Tomasz Barszczak wrote:

Re: Using Partition Magic with Debian

2000-07-23 Thread ferret
I used partition magic 4 when it first came out. It worked fairly well, but I found that it would corrupt logical partitions made under linux fdisk. Basically it would change the partition type of the extended partition which would hide the logical partitions. And if I recall re-setting the partit

Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)

2000-07-23 Thread ferret
FWIW: Here's /etc/printcap on this machine: lp|esc660|Epson Stylus colour 660:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc660:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: You also want to install ever

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Now I am trying to decide how to have Netscape play mp3 files. > > Plugger doesn't seem to cut it. > > Do you have mpg123 installed? Plugger suggests, but does not depend > on it. It is necessary for playing mp3 files via plugger, however. Yes, the p

large HDD

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Bathie
Hi, I'm sure this question has been posted many times. I am trying to configure my new 17Gig HDD to work with linux/win dual boot. At the present all I want to do is partition the HDD with linux and get linux to recognise these partitions. It seams that no matter how you partition using cfdi

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 11:53:02AM -0700, Tomasz Barszczak wrote > > Having the modem recognize the Hayes AT command language is not a reliable > > indicator. Many winmodem drivers have an AT command interpreter to > > satisfy older programs. > > When I bought the modem I was assured it is not a

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Jul-2000 Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Do you have mpg123 installed? Plugger suggests, but does not depend > on it. It is necessary for playing mp3 files via plugger, however. > I do have it installed. -- Andrew

Keyboard fails *only* in X

2000-07-23 Thread Carl Fink
Greetings. I just installed a new power supply in my box. (The fan in the old one had died.) After reconnecting everything, I have two detectable problems: my floppy disk isn't recognized, which I don't care about in any immediate way, and my keyboard works only in a VT. That is, I can boot u

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 11:44:27PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On 23-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > Oh, I hadn't noticed that there was a deb for installing realplayer. I had > > removed the whole lot, so just now I reinstalled all the 4.73 debs > > including the realplayer, and guess what

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread Tomasz Barszczak
Well, too soon to be happy. cron runs periodically rmmod -a . Then when I want to use the modem again serial driver is re-loaded: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A And the modem is inaccessible

Re: Starting FTP Daemon

2000-07-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:27:51PM -0600, Chris Cameron wrote: > I'm using a rather unheard of FTP server, and I'm trying to get is > started under it's own user that I made for it. Problem is something > is stopping it from opening port 21. The only user that seems to be > able to use port 21 is r

RE: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Oh, I hadn't noticed that there was a deb for installing realplayer. I had > removed the whole lot, so just now I reinstalled all the 4.73 debs > including the realplayer, and guess what -- it works fine now. I don't > know why. I had been installing the r

Starting FTP Daemon

2000-07-23 Thread Chris Cameron
I'm using a rather unheard of FTP server, and I'm trying to get is started under it's own user that I made for it. Problem is something is stopping it from opening port 21. The only user that seems to be able to use port 21 is root. Is their a specific group the ftp program should belong to? If som

RE: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > On 23-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > I can't get netscape 4.73 (tried debs and manual install) to work with > > RealPlayer7. The realplayer works fine on its own, but the plugin causes a > > bus error when netscape starts up (plugins/rpnp.so). 4.7

Re: voodoo3 board not found

2000-07-23 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-07-22 18:05:31 -0700, Aaron Maxwell écrivait : > I've tried to run quake3 and the demo version of descent3 on my > spanking new system, with its Voodo3 3K 16MB accelerator card. Neither > can detect it -- the error message they give is: > > gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/

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2000-07-23 Thread Patrick Howden
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ReiserFS with Debian (Potato)?

2000-07-23 Thread Morten Liebach
Hi all. I'm contemplating installing debian on ReiserFS like this: 1: Install Debian. 2: Patch & compile kernel with ReiserFS support. 3: Backup the partitons [1] one after one and reformat them with ReiserFS, restore from backup. 4: Be very happy! :-) I know that /boot has to be ext2fs, and

nVidia geForce2 support?

2000-07-23 Thread salguod
Hi all -- I just installed 2.1 and would like to find drivers for my Hercules 3D Prophet 2 card, which uses nVidia's geForce2 chipset. Are there drivers for that to run X with, or should I just use the SVGA drivers? Thanks, Steve Chalfant

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Thank you. It worked. I can talk to the modem in minicom now. > For the reference: I got IRQ and address number from Windows. > The magic command was: > setserial -v /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A port 0xD400 irq 5 session_lockout > ^fourport

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Having the modem recognize the Hayes AT command language is not a reliable > > indicator. Many winmodem drivers have an AT command interpreter to > > satisfy older programs. > > When I bought the modem I was assured it is not a winmo

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread Tomasz Barszczak
Thank you. It worked. I can talk to the modem in minicom now. For the reference: I got IRQ and address number from Windows. The magic command was: setserial -v /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A port 0xD400 irq 5 session_lockout ^fourport

RE: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote: > > I can't get netscape 4.73 (tried debs and manual install) to work with > RealPlayer7. The realplayer works fine on its own, but the plugin causes a > bus error when netscape starts up (plugins/rpnp.so). 4.72 also fails. > > I tried deleting those ~/.RealN

Re: editors and browsers

2000-07-23 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 03:28:32PM -0400, Thomas Kirsch wrote: > 1. Are there any "WYSIWYG" email editors available for Linux? Preferentially > any that would run also on Windows? I believe you mean "GUI". WYSIWYG doesn't apply to email, in which you've no control over recipient client interpreta

Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)

2000-07-23 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
> > > I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works > > > well with it. > > > > I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this: > > > > lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\ > > :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\ > > :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:25:16 -0600 (MDT), Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I can't get netscape 4.73 (tried debs and manual install) to work with > RealPlayer7. The realplayer works fine on its own, but the plugin causes a > bus error when netscape starts up (plugins/rpnp.so). 4.72 a

RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
I can't get netscape 4.73 (tried debs and manual install) to work with RealPlayer7. The realplayer works fine on its own, but the plugin causes a bus error when netscape starts up (plugins/rpnp.so). 4.72 also fails. I tried deleting those ~/.RealNetworks* files ( I think somebody mentioned that),

Mass instalation

2000-07-23 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have to install 80 PCs (+/- the same hardware) with Debian. What tools can help me on this? Thanks,Paulo Henrique -- Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support Consultant Linux Solutions - http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br O Linux - O maior e melhor s

Re: g++ and netscape

2000-07-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 08:41:41AM -0700, Nianwei Xing wrote: > > As for the netscape, it still doesn't work. I have > check the status of bookmarks, I have write > permission. > Now I can add bookmarks when I am use the netscape, > however, when I exit my machine and login it again, > all of the

Re: editors and browsers

2000-07-23 Thread Mike Werner
Thomas Kirsch wrote: > 1. Are there any "WYSIWYG" email editors available for Linux? Preferentially > any that would run also on Windows? I really don't know quite what you mean by a WYSIWYG email editor. I know of two email clients that exist for both Linux and Windoze - they are Netscape and pi

editors and browsers

2000-07-23 Thread Thomas Kirsch
1. Are there any "WYSIWYG" email editors available for Linux? Preferentially any that would run also on Windows? 2. Are there any graphics based web browsers available for Linux other than Netscape? If yes, are there "release versions" of these browsers? Thomas Kirsch ___

xfs-xtt - cannot establish any listening sockets

2000-07-23 Thread Brendon B
I'm trying to setup xfs-xtt, and when starting the process as user nobody "xfs-xtt -user nobody" I can a fatal error to the effect it can't establish any listening sockets. When I just run it as root without the -user param. it loads fine. So the question How can it run as nobody and not get t

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread Tomasz Barszczak
> Having the modem recognize the Hayes AT command language is not a reliable > indicator. Many winmodem drivers have an AT command interpreter to > satisfy older programs. When I bought the modem I was assured it is not a winmodem (software modem) but a hardware modem. I also searched the web and

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Tomasz Barszczak wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed slink on my AMD Athlon PC. > I have an internal USR 56K modem model 2977. > It is not a winmodem, it uses Hayes AT language. > Under Windows 98 it is recognized at COM5 and works fine. > > First problem was that in /d

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > I have just installed slink on my AMD Athlon PC. > I have an internal USR 56K modem model 2977. > It is not a winmodem, it uses Hayes AT language. > Under Windows 98 it is recognized at COM5 and works fine. Having the modem rec

Re: voodoo3 board not found

2000-07-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try going to linux.3dfx.com and download the rpm, convert it to deb with rpm and install it. see what happens. (thats what i do, and it works on frozen) nate On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: amaxwe >Hi. Can anyone help me here? amaxwe > amaxwe >I've tried to run quake3 and the demo ve

Re: X crash question (where's the core file?)

2000-07-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:42:21 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > core file should be wherever X started up. Depending on how you start, > this can be in a number of places. I use startx to launch my X session > (think for a few minutes -- what *really* is the function of an X > display manage

Re: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?

2000-07-23 Thread Bruce Stephens
Andreas Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Attempting to print a simple text file with "lpr filename" on my > > > Epson Stylus Color 600 produces a single line: > > > > > > Unknown device: escp2 > > > > > > Then it prints the same sentence on new sheets of paper over and > > >

Re: Debian/Windows compability

2000-07-23 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 06:00:19PM +0200, Fam. Marlies und Hansruedi Hess wrote: > I have windows 98 on my computer right now and I really like it but I would > like to try the Debian OS. Now the question: Is it possible to have two OS's > on the computer? Because my parents are using the computer

cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread Tomasz Barszczak
Hi, I have just installed slink on my AMD Athlon PC. I have an internal USR 56K modem model 2977. It is not a winmodem, it uses Hayes AT language. Under Windows 98 it is recognized at COM5 and works fine. First problem was that in /dev there were only ttyS0-ttyS3 (COM1-COM4) with major number 4 a

Re: X crash question (where's the core file?)

2000-07-23 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 12:50:00PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello, > > X has been crashing (signal 11) here sometimes (once a day, or maybe > once every two days). I believe it's the kernel > (2.4.0-test5-pre4), but it could be something else (I use the CVS > version of f

Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Corry Opdenakker wrote: > Hi people, > > for some dark reason is my rootpassword changed. > > does anyone know how I can reset the password for root? > A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot > disc or cd's. > > I hope I will not have

Re: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
The Printing HOWTO has some links to some sites with information and drivers for many printers. I found the uniprint driver from there but had no idea how to install/use it. -- Andrew

Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)

2000-07-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 06:38:25PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > > I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works > > well with it. > > I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this: > > lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\ > :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/va

Re: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?

2000-07-23 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
> > Attempting to print a simple text file with "lpr filename" on my > > Epson Stylus Color 600 produces a single line: > > > > Unknown device: escp2 > > > > Then it prints the same sentence on new sheets of paper over and > > over again, so that I have to remove the paper to stop the print

Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)

2000-07-23 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
> I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works > well with it. I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this: lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :

Debian/Windows compability

2000-07-23 Thread Fam. Marlies und Hansruedi Hess
I have windows 98 on my computer right now and I really like it but I would like to try the Debian OS. Now the question: Is it possible to have two OS's on the computer? Because my parents are using the computer too and they only know how to work windows.Thankx

X crash question (where's the core file?)

2000-07-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, X has been crashing (signal 11) here sometimes (once a day, or maybe once every two days). I believe it's the kernel (2.4.0-test5-pre4), but it could be something else (I use the CVS version of flwm)... These are the only two relevand things that I have changed recently...

Re: PNP hardware and dual boot machine.

2000-07-23 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 22-Jul-2000 adam b. wrote: > isapnptools works okay, probably. > > I have gotten cards to recognize and load drivers, but I have never gotten > them actually working before giving up. > > Be prepared to edit long config files from pnpdump and also you must know > free IRQs, IO hexes, and Memo

Re: g++ and netscape

2000-07-23 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, Ragga: Thanks for your information! I have make the g++ work for I forget to give the directory ./ As for the netscape, it still doesn't work. I have check the status of bookmarks, I have write permission. Now I can add bookmarks when I am use the netscape, however, when I exit my machine and l

Re: A strange little kppp error

2000-07-23 Thread John Hasler
Barry Samuels writes: > I had assumed some permissions problem. Is that what you are saying... Yes. > ...and if so can you suggest where I might look? At something other than kppp. It's broken by design. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: g++ and netscape

2000-07-23 Thread Ragga Muffin
Nianwei Xing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Debians: > I have two problem with my new debian. > 1. Afte I compile and link my c++ code with g++ , it > generate a.out but I can not execute it. should I need > to install some packages? Do you get some error message ? I can imagine 2 possibilitie

RE: Does Debian Support DSL?

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Jul-2000 Pollywog wrote: > > On 22-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am going to install Debian Linux, but don't know if it will suport the >> DSL >> modem I am using, the Intel Pro/DSL 2100. Anybody know if it will work? >> >> Thanks, > > I don't know if Debian supports DSL, but I

Re: Does Debian Support DSL?

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Jul-2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: > > Your best bet would be to see if you can get an external DSL 'modem' that > has ethernet output - those are platform agnostic. The Cisco 675 DSL > 'modem' (it's really a router) is an example of what you need. You should > be able to get one from them pre

Re: DHCP and 2 cards

2000-07-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, I have just set my cable modem up under linux and am trying to get > a firewall up and running. My local network traffic is handled on > eth0 and the cable modem traffic is using eth1. Is there any way I > can stop DHCP from assign

g++ and netscape

2000-07-23 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, Debians: I have two problem with my new debian. 1. Afte I compile and link my c++ code with g++ , it generate a.out but I can not execute it. should I need to install some packages? 2. I can not use "add bookmark" in my netscape, however, there is the file bookmark.html exist under the director

Re: grep crashes machine

2000-07-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just stumbled upon the following. If I do > ># cd / ># grep -r * stuff > >it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The >last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning d

Re: A strange little kppp error

2000-07-23 Thread Barry Samuels
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, John Hasler wrote: > > That doesn't explain why the same error message is *not* displayed when > > running kppp as root. > > The message originates with pppd. When it is unable to access the > resources it needs it jumps to the erroneous conclusion that there is no > ppp sup

Re: Does Debian Support DSL?

2000-07-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am going to install Debian Linux, but don't know if it will suport > the DSL modem I am using, the Intel Pro/DSL 2100. Anybody know if it > will work? This DSL 'modem' fits inside a PCI slot - *it* *will* *not* *work* without Win9x/N

RE: Does Debian Support DSL?

2000-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am going to install Debian Linux, but don't know if it will suport the DSL > modem I am using, the Intel Pro/DSL 2100. Anybody know if it will work? > > Thanks, I don't know if Debian supports DSL, but I use DSL with my Debian system. The software rec

Re: grep crashes machine

2000-07-23 Thread Frodo Baggins
Christian Pernegger scripsit: >Hallo! > >I just stumbled upon the following. If I do > ># cd / ># grep -r * stuff > >it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The >last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device >files, but maybe it's just me...

Unthinkable routing problem

2000-07-23 Thread Nagarjuna G.
Hi , This is regarding a routing problem that has cropped up since yesterday (using potato). The setup is as follows There are 3 entities involved in the configuration of the network a)The Router which connects to the internet b)The gateway which routes the packets for the entire network to the rou

My first ever incursion into sound isn't very successful

2000-07-23 Thread Barry Samuels
Debian Potato (frozen) with Slink KDE I have just bought my first ever soundcard, a SoundBlaster Live 1024 Player, and my attempts to setup sound have been only partially successful. I first tried the latest (2721) Creative Emu driver. Downloaded, compiled the source and installed the module

Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Gerhard Schromm
* Corry Opdenakker writes: > does anyone know how I can reset the password for root? > A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot > disc or cd's. Reboot the computer and enter at the LILO-Prompt ' init=/bin/bash' ist the name of the Kernel you want to boot. The

Debain om DVD ?

2000-07-23 Thread Rolf S Edlund
Don't know if this has been discussed before, but is it possible to get Debian (2.2) on a DVD disk ? As I now could with SuSE. Rolf

Re: compiling teTeX-src-1.0.7

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:42:36AM -0700, Sherab Puntsok wrote: >Where do I get the xlib.h, intrinsic.h, and stringdefs.h files ? >Please help. >Thanks in advance. $ dpkg -S X11/Xlib.h Intrinsic.h StringDefs.h xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X1

Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:51:51PM +0200, Corry Opdenakker wrote: > yes, but there is one additional problem: Currently I'm not logged on as > root. Boot specifying "init=/bin/bash" on the kernel command line. If you have LILO, then say "linux init=/bin/bash" where linux is the name of the LILO

RE: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Lukasz Walewski
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Corry Opdenakker wrote: > yes, but there is one additional problem: Currently I'm not logged on as > root. If you can boot from install CD, there should be a shell session on some virtual console ( probably second ) with root's privileges. You can mount your root device under

RE: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Corry Opdenakker
yes, but there is one additional problem: Currently I'm not logged on as root. So the door is closed, And I have key anymore to open it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Brown Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 13:38 To: 'debian-user@lists.debi

compiling teTeX-src-1.0.7

2000-07-23 Thread Sherab Puntsok
Hi, I am building my own linux based on Debian 2.1 Now I come across to install gpm-1.19.0. Gpm requires tex, so I get the teTeX-src-1.0.7.tar.gz and teTeX-texmf-1.0.2.tar.gz. The ./configure goes ok but errors in make world as follows: make[2]: Entering directory `/home/download/src/te

Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Corry Opdenakker wrote: > does anyone know how I can reset the password for root? > A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot > disc or cd's. Delete the second field from root's entry in /etc/passwd (/etc/shadow if you'

howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Corry Opdenakker
Hi people, for some dark reason is my rootpassword changed. does anyone know how I can reset the password for root? A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot disc or cd's. I hope I will not have to reinstall my machine. All help and tips are welcome! kind rega

Does Debian Support DSL?

2000-07-23 Thread dmagnuss
I am going to install Debian Linux, but don't know if it will suport the DSL modem I am using, the Intel Pro/DSL 2100.  Anybody know if it will work?   Thanks,   Dan

DHCP and 2 cards

2000-07-23 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, I have just set my cable modem up under linux and am trying to get a firewall up and running. My local network traffic is handled on eth0 and the cable modem traffic is using eth1. Is there any way I can stop DHCP from assigning an IP address to both cards? I only want to get an IP address f

Re: ip-up problem under X

2000-07-23 Thread Kai Weber
+ John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If a watch the log on /dev/tty10 the output continues but not in a > > xterminal with tail. Any ideas? > > Post the script. Oh no! False alarm! My fault! Hit me, hit me! I just realized I changed the syslog.conf so that output to /dev/tty10 and /var/log/me

Re: staroffice

2000-07-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Ed Cogburn, > > The registration is a PITA, and they provide no help when an > > internet connection goes bad, you have to start the download all over > > again. They don't allow ftp access which would have allowed me to > > "resume" the download. The

"no DRQ after issuing WRITE"

2000-07-23 Thread jpglutting
Hi Everyone, I have just installed Potato on an old P233. I put it on a new 17GB UDMA drive (Seagate), which the bios does not recognize correctly. It works fine with kernel 2.2.17, but I get the folloing message from time to time: hda: status timeout: state=0xd0 { Busy } hda: no DRQ after iss

xdvi weird stuff

2000-07-23 Thread David Purton
Hi, While using slink, I found that xdvi didn't display lines (table lines or lines in maths functions such as fractions). The dvi files printed fine with dvi2ps, just the display was up the creek. I got round the problem by using a different dvi viewer (dvilx). I recently rebuilt a system from

Re: grep crashes machine

2000-07-23 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:17:18AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > Hallo! > > I just stumbled upon the following. If I do > > # cd / > # grep -r * stuff > > it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The > last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever s