newbie installation problem

2001-07-05 Thread ftrk
Hi all, I was trying to install debian GNU/Linux on a pc previously been running rh6.2 & later rh7.1. I backed up my files and deleted old partitions and trying to make fresh installation using the CD (Potato, kernel 2.2.17 released March 2000) bought from cheapbytes. The problem I ran into is I

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:36:17PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: | On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:03:50PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > I'm a little confused here : In the american public education system | > "K" stands for "Kindergarten" (ie 5-6 year olds) and "10" would be | > 10th grade, or a high-scho

Re: DMA Problem : Re-post

2001-07-05 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:46:04PM -0700, Debian GNU wrote: > Hi all, > In my Potato/2.2.19pre17 I am getting the following > message in the console occationally. > > > hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} > hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE > ide0: unexpected interrupt, status 0x80, count=4 > i

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread Ian Marlier
My 5th grade final project in 1987 was to write a program in BASIC, on an Apple ][e, that would allow basic stock-trading...lot of user input, filesystem read/writes, etc...about 5 of 15 of us managed to get it working in the couple weeks that we had, without much help...so it's not THAT hard.

DMA Problem : Re-post

2001-07-05 Thread Debian GNU
Hi all, In my Potato/2.2.19pre17 I am getting the following message in the console occationally. hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE ide0: unexpected interrupt, status 0x80, count=4 ide0: reset success How can I fix it ? Tnx in advance Deb

Re: IMP webmail

2001-07-05 Thread Debian GNU
Hi, You can install Exim/Sendmail as MTA. For Web interface, you can use mailreader, a nice program which can be downloaded from mailreader.com. You need apache to host the web interface. Good luck, Deb --- Giuliano Cardozo Medalha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am a Debai (2.2 rev 3)

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:03:50PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > I'm a little confused here : In the american public education system > "K" stands for "Kindergarten" (ie 5-6 year olds) and "10" would be > 10th grade, or a high-school sophomore (15-16 year olds). Middle > school is grades 6-8 and high sch

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:26:01PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format > (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on > reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't > get WP fro

question about MTRR and XFree86 4.0

2001-07-05 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
according to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/mtrr.txt... A patch is being written for XFree86 which will make this automatic: in other words the X server will manipulate /proc/mtrr using the ioctl() interface, so users won't have to do anything. does anybody know if this has been done yet? it

Re: X with dvorak

2001-07-05 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:32:00AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I have the dvorak keymap loaded for myy everyday use in consoles, but > after upgrading to X-4 it insists on using a qwerty layout. How do I > set up X to use the dvorak keyboard layout? > > Thanks to all, BTW, for answering previo

Re: cpan / perl q.

2001-07-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:27:43 +0800, "luwim+" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: luwim+> Hi, i forgot the command how to install cpan on my machine, luwim+> thats, .. > perl --cpan? any one know what the command is? CPAN.pm comes with the standard Perl distribution, so if you've got perl, you should h

Re: How do I clear out a list

2001-07-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:30:20PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: | I wanted to remove all the ximian files from my system since they are | giving me a lot of problems. I also wanted to change to Progeny since I | have a vidio card that works better under xfree 4.x then xfree 3.x. So, I | followed t

How do I clear out a list

2001-07-05 Thread Brian Schramm
I wanted to remove all the ximian files from my system since they are giving me a lot of problems. I also wanted to change to Progeny since I have a vidio card that works better under xfree 4.x then xfree 3.x. So, I followed the instructions on how to do this. My problem is that the ximian fil

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:07:11PM -0500, John Hughes wrote: | On Thursday 05 July 2001 13:03, D-Man wrote: | > | > I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent) | > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or | > computers in general) work. I st

cpan / perl q.

2001-07-05 Thread luwim+
Hi, i forgot the command how to install cpan on my machine, thats, .. > perl --cpan? any one know what the command is? ty luwim+

Re: [users] Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Craig Dickson (on Thu, 05 Jul 2001 03:42:50PM -0700): > I don't understand the distinction you're making. Is "illustrator" a word > in German also? The only difference I see in "Illustrator vs. illustrator" > is the capitalization. that's the difference. yes, Illustrator is a german wo

IMP webmail

2001-07-05 Thread Giuliano Cardozo Medalha
Hi I am a Debai (2.2 rev 3) user I am trying to configure a Webmail I am connected to a ftp server to get packages Someone knows how can I do that ? What packages I need what the procedures ? Thanks

Re: X server crash

2001-07-05 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:54:56PM -0400, John E Decker wrote: > Hey All, > New to Debian...breaking from tradition and market forces. > Just installed Debian on an older machine and configured X during setup. > Computer = pentium pro 200 > Video = Trident tgui 9680, svga 640x480,8 bpp > Mouse =

RE: X server crash

2001-07-05 Thread KenrickC
>Hey All, > New to Debian...breaking from tradition and market forces. >Just installed Debian on an older machine and configured X during >setup. >Computer = pentium pro 200 >Video = Trident tgui 9680, svga 640x480,8 bpp >Mouse = generic 2-button serial >I keep getting "fatal server error: canno

Re: exim error message question

2001-07-05 Thread Adam Warner
On 05 Jul 2001 20:57:57 +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host 210.55.104.94[210.55.104.94] said: 550 > relaying to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator I discovered that I had to add 210.55.104.94 to local_domains in exim.conf. I'll be unsubscribing from these m

X server crash

2001-07-05 Thread John E Decker
Hey All, New to Debian...breaking from tradition and market forces. Just installed Debian on an older machine and configured X during setup. Computer = pentium pro 200 Video = Trident tgui 9680, svga 640x480,8 bpp Mouse = generic 2-button serial I keep getting "fatal server error: cannot open mou

Re: Bus error on eth0, network card works, but lpr says device or resource busy.

2001-07-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Bus error on eth0, network card works, but lpr says device or resource busy. Date: Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:47:31PM -0600 In reply to:Patrick Klee Quoting Patrick Klee([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > I am trying to install Debian Potato, on my PC. But, when I enable pli

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread John Hughes
On Thursday 05 July 2001 13:03, D-Man wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:45:12AM +0800, Lamer wrote: > | hi, > | > | I appreciate your suggestion, but i don't have access to local college as > | i'm only a middle-school student (eh, in american system, K10) > > I'm a little confused here : In the

Re: X with dvorak

2001-07-05 Thread Bek Oberin
Andrew Agno wrote: > Bek Oberin writes: > > I have the dvorak keymap loaded for myy everyday use in consoles, but > > after upgrading to X-4 it insists on using a qwerty layout. How do I > > set up X to use the dvorak keyboard layout? > http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/unix.html Ohh, thanks. E

dpms and X4

2001-07-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ola. Under XFree86 3.3.6, I could execute the following to turn on dpms. xset +dpms xset dpms 1200 1800 2400 This worked great. Doing this under XFree86 4.0.3 however, it doesn't seem to work. I can execute the commands, and looking at the output from xset q: DPMS (Energy Star):

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread John Hasler
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier writes: > However, Prarie Farms shouldn't be able to go after someone else for > selling KMilk or whatever. They can't, as long as the product in question is milk. If the product in question is software or motor oil, they can. > Could have, but the developer shouldn't *ha

RE:X with dvorak

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Agno
Bek Oberin writes: > I have the dvorak keymap loaded for myy everyday use in consoles, but > after upgrading to X-4 it insists on using a qwerty layout. How do I > set up X to use the dvorak keyboard layout? http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/unix.html

Re: X with dvorak

2001-07-05 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I have the dvorak keymap loaded for myy everyday use in consoles, but > after upgrading to X-4 it insists on using a qwerty layout. How do I > set up X to use the dvorak keyboard layout? > > Thanks to all, BTW, for answering previous silly questions :)

Re: xserver won't listen

2001-07-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
through unix sockets. It doesn't need tcp. * Jeld The Dark Elf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010703 14:38]: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:50:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > You probably do want to disable tcp listening on 6000 and just use > > ssh, for security's sake. > > > Right, and how your ssh is

Re: Install X and Lilo

2001-07-05 Thread Kent West
Thomas Merritt Draney wrote: I did very well I must say for a new user to linux. I got debian installed to the point i am sitting there with a command prompt. But i am now lost. Where is Gnome or how do I start up into it? When I run startx it says something is broken?

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Craig Dickson
der.hans wrote: > Actually, this appears to be the German way in this case :). First it's > in .de. Second, notice that it's a German word, not an English word, e.g. > Illustrator vs. illustrator. He should change it to Killustrator and see > if the .us portion of Adobe comes after him ;-). I don

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, der.hans wrote: > Am 05. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Jan Ulrich Hasecke so: > > > "Eric G. Miller" writes: > > > > > Protest all you like, but I think Adobe probably has a valid claim of > > > trademark infringement. > > > > Today KIllustrator, tomorrow M$ sues KWord and KOffice.

X with dvorak

2001-07-05 Thread Bek Oberin
I have the dvorak keymap loaded for myy everyday use in consoles, but after upgrading to X-4 it insists on using a qwerty layout. How do I set up X to use the dvorak keyboard layout? Thanks to all, BTW, for answering previous silly questions :) I am learning lots. bekj -- : Usual state: (e

Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-05 Thread Christian Jaeger
Thanks; At 14:24 Uhr -0700 5.7.2001, Craig Dickson wrote: Christian Jaeger wrote: - Are there no problems making /var (and /var/cache) and /tmp symlinks to another partition? Don't make them symlinks; just make them mount points. I always set up separate filesystems for /var and /tmp. Th

Re: Birth of KDE

2001-07-05 Thread csj
On Friday 06 July 2001 02:30, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > While digging thru a google queryresult on Mailclients i stumbled > across this archived mail . . . the birth of KDE ? It's pretty old > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:19:00 +0100 (MET) > > http://www.via.ecp.fr/lyx/archive/9610/msg00368.html > > An

Re: stable word processor and spreadsheet with graphs

2001-07-05 Thread Greg Madden
joe golden wrote: > > Hope I'm not pestering the list too much, but I think there are and will be > others in my situation. > > I administer a small network of 10 machines for our small school. > > I convinced the board to let me switch the OS from windows NT to Linux. > (cheers in background) >

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, John Bacalle wrote: > Sh_t, man! I like to find the hardest door jam I can typically get a > hold of and bang my head on it for a long while before I ask someone on > the other side to let me in. But, in this case I should've hollered much > earlier. ;+) 'reset' did the trick!

Re: stable word processor and spreadsheet with graphs

2001-07-05 Thread David Orman
Koffice is treating me fairly well, and the KDE2 user interface is nice and easy. http://www.kde.org http://www.koffice.org/ Hope that helps some, David On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:28:42PM +, joe golden wrote: > Hope I'm not pestering the list too much, but I think there are and will be

stable word processor and spreadsheet with graphs

2001-07-05 Thread joe golden
Hope I'm not pestering the list too much, but I think there are and will be others in my situation. I administer a small network of 10 machines for our small school. I convinced the board to let me switch the OS from windows NT to Linux. (cheers in background) I need a stable word processor

Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-05 Thread Craig Dickson
Christian Jaeger wrote: > - Are there no problems making /var (and /var/cache) and /tmp > symlinks to another partition? Don't make them symlinks; just make them mount points. I always set up separate filesystems for /var and /tmp. > - Getting it right for the boot process (should I make / reis

Re: Install X and Lilo

2001-07-05 Thread Joris Lambrecht
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:25:29PM -0700, Thomas Merritt Draney wrote: > I did very well I must say for a new user to linux. I got debian installed > to the point i am sitting there with a command prompt. > Congratulations ;) > But i am now lost. Where is Gnome or how do I start up in

Re: Win2K/ linux dual-boot

2001-07-05 Thread Kent West
Nelson PC wrote: hey all. /total/ newbie here never touched linux. i am looking to remedy that by installing some flavour of linux/ unix on my Windows 2000 box. There is lots of documentation out there about installations w/ 98. Can't find anything about Win2K. Who has this set-up, a

Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-05 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I would like the hard drive to spin down (on a small server overnight, on a powerbook, etc), but want to use reiserfs. Reiserfs prevents noflushd from working since it bypasses the filesystem buffer for writing it's log. So what can I do? I'm imaging this: if I manage to use ext2 for j

wine question

2001-07-05 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, as i understand it, wine comes with its own libraries which implement the win32 API. i also understand that if we somehow have access to a windows CD, all legal issues aside, we can use files off windows to make wine work even better. how can i do this? is there a debian specific way

Bus error on eth0, network card works, but lpr says device or resource busy.

2001-07-05 Thread Patrick Klee
Hi, I am trying to install Debian Potato, on my PC. But, when I enable plip (parallel port support), I get an error with lpr saying device or resource busy. Now what's weird, is the night before, I was on IRC, and I got a bus error on eth0 but the network card works fine. That happened on re

Re: [users] Re: How to create a local archive of debian ftp ?

2001-07-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
I use fmirror with careful rules set. It is light on client (not using PERL, but C). Also, it is light on CPU on server. Yes, it may be heavy on Bandwidth :-( Osamu On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:37:56PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > i don't think i quite followed the thread, but depending on

Install X and Lilo

2001-07-05 Thread Thomas Merritt Draney
I did very well I must say for a new user to linux. I got debian installed to the point i am sitting there with a command prompt. But i am now lost. Where is Gnome or how do I start up into it? When I run startx it says something is broken? I need to dual boot Win

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread der.hans
Am 05. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Jan Ulrich Hasecke so: > "Eric G. Miller" writes: > > > Protest all you like, but I think Adobe probably has a valid claim of > > trademark infringement. > > Today KIllustrator, tomorrow M$ sues KWord and KOffice. Every project > can be sued this way, it only a quest

Re: Win2K/ linux dual-boot

2001-07-05 Thread aparra
Nelson PC wrote: hey all. total newbie here never touched linux. i am looking to remedy that by installing some flavour of linux/ unix on my Windows 2000 box. There is lots of documentation out there about installations w/ 98. Can't find anything about Win2K. Who has this set-up, a

Re: process w/o attached tty?

2001-07-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
This seems to be (nice) Eterm-specific stuff. I don't think the same type of tricks will work for xterms and gnome-terminals. There's another trick, though, in case you have already started a process in the background and didn't use screen or nohup. Excerpted from bash(1): disown [-ar] [-h]

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot---kernel ethernet developers have changed

2001-07-05 Thread Sebastiaan
> > > > So I agree, the network is where you need to look. > > Donald Becker, ethernet expert, apparently still works in the arena of the > older (legacy) kernel 2.2.* . > Jeff Garzik, who now does much of the ethernet kernel work, has made many > changes. > Jeff is very active, making many chang

Win2K/ linux dual-boot

2001-07-05 Thread Nelson PC
hey all. total newbie here never touched linux.  i am looking to remedy that by installing some flavour of linux/ unix on my Windows 2000 box.  There is lots of documentation out there about installations w/ 98.  Can't find anything about Win2K.  Who has this set-up, and is there anythi

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread Lamer
> I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent) > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or > computers in general) work. I started out with DOS 3.3 in 7th grade, > and to tell the truth I didn't learn anything other than windows until > I star

/etc/modules vs. kmod/modules.conf

2001-07-05 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hey all, just a general question... i usually build my kernels with modules for everything, just like the debian kernel. it's still one kernel per machine, and the few modules i compile are still always loaded, so i don't know why i do so, but i guess it doesn't really matter. however, i have a qu

Re: no sound, but driver loads

2001-07-05 Thread Lamer
make node /dev/dsp with major 14 and minor 3 (man mknod for details) hth lamer -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. - Original Message - From: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMA

Re: no sound, but driver loads

2001-07-05 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Lamer (on Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:59:07AM +0800): > make node /dev/dsp with major 14 and minor 3 the file exists already. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- did you know that if you play a wind

Re: pcmcia nic confuddelment.

2001-07-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:30:43PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I had two machines running Debian, not well, but working together and I > was learning as I went. For all sorts or reasons I had to give my wife > one of the desktop machines and she gave me her laptop. > > I partitioned a great ch

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer

2001-07-05 Thread Paul Huygen
Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adobe lawyers ask > developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name that abuses > their trade mark illustrator. This reminds me of a similar case in the Netherlands, about ten years ago. About one hundred years ago some enthousiastic bicycle rid

Re: Sylpheed

2001-07-05 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > Anyone knows of a good sources.list entry to get hold of sylpheed > and any required additional libraries it needs ? > deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian stable/ unofficial deb's, however! []s Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans

Re: Help with ipchains please

2001-07-05 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 12:14 p.m. 05/07/01 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:06:25PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > Hi, > I've seached the net and read the howto but I still don't get to realize > what I need to do for something as simple as ip/port redirection. Here'e goes > I want

Re: rescue disk install

2001-07-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
As I see kernel configuration of recent 2.2.19, most of USB staffs are compiled as modules. That means you may eed to add those module names to /etc/modules or manually do insmod/modprobe those modules to enable USB functionality Good luck :-) (I do not have such a fancy PC so above are just spe

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread USM Bish
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:43:37PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in > > WordPerfect format ( seems to be the default for some > > people in my department). Any advice on reading them? > > StarO

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> Today KIllustrator, tomorrow M$ sues KWord and KOffice. Every project > can be sued this way, it only a question of ill fantasy. In the end > you can only use numbers for your projects. > > If we do not defend our rights, who should? The american way of buying > words out of our languages must b

Re: Help with ipchains please

2001-07-05 Thread mark
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:06:25PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > Hi, > I've seached the net and read the howto but I still don't get to > realize > what I need to do for something as simple as ip/port redirection. Here'e goes > I want to accept any incoming connection on 1.2.3.4:81 and redi

Re: Sylpheed

2001-07-05 Thread Craig Dickson
Lambrecht Joris wrote: > Anyone knows of a good sources.list entry to get hold of sylpheed and > any required additional libraries it needs ? It's in Debian unstable, but presumably you aren't using unstable or you wouldn't be asking. Other than that, the only thing I can suggest is that you buil

Re: Install "testing" from scratch?

2001-07-05 Thread Paul Mackinney
After having apt install dist-update totally bonk a system (afterward neither apt nor dselect would run without generating errors, and dselect finally removed enough of the base config that it wouldn't boot), I nuked, paved, and did pretty much what Steve suggested, except that I had a Potato CD. D

Re: Help with ipchains please

2001-07-05 Thread Lamer
have a look on ipmasqadm's autofw -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. - Original Message - From: "Miguel Griffa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:0

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:45:12AM +0800, Lamer wrote: | hi, | | I appreciate your suggestion, but i don't have access to local college as | i'm only a middle-school student (eh, in american system, K10) I'm a little confused here : In the american public education system "K" stands for "Kinderg

Help with ipchains please

2001-07-05 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi, I've seached the net and read the howto but I still don't get to realize what I need to do for something as simple as ip/port redirection. Here'e goes I want to accept any incoming connection on 1.2.3.4:81 and redirect it to (internal server) 192.168.1.20:80 could any one tell me what param

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Unfortunately the abiword I've got at least doesn't do anything with WP files (version 0.7.7). LaTeX is, of course, the Right Way To Do It (tm) but the chances of my convincing my colleagues of that in time to stop getting their attachments are essentialy nil! ap

Sylpheed

2001-07-05 Thread Lambrecht Joris
Anyone knows of a good sources.list entry to get hold of sylpheed and any required additional libraries it needs ? Thanks, Joris

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-05 Thread Lamer
A good way of wasting the entropy in your system is cat /dev/random :) -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. - Original Message - From: "Eric G. Miller" To: "Debian Users

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread Lamer
hi, I appreciate your suggestion, but i don't have access to local college as i'm only a middle-school student (eh, in american system, K10) -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned.

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for the tips (and from a fellow sociologist too). As it turned out, I had to load two old libraries to get WP to work: oldlibs/xlib6 oldlibs/xpm4.7 ran ldconfig and it works fine now. (Except that now I have this nasty commercial software on my machine, but that's a different story)

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Brian Stults
Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format > (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on > reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't > get WP from Corel to run on my system (Debian 2.2

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:26:01PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: | Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format | (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on | reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't | get WP fro

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format > (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on > reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't > get WP from Corel to run on m

Re: changing the keybord-installation

2001-07-05 Thread Philippe Clérié

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot

2001-07-05 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I have just found out that kernel 2.4.6 won't boot on my pentium 200 MMX > machine. The same has allready happened with kernel 2.4.6-pre8, but I thought > it will be fixed later when stable release comes out. The same kernel boots > just ok on

Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't get WP from Corel to run on my system (Debian 2.2r3): hm269-26876:/usr/local/wp/

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-05 Thread DvB
Paul Wright wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 21:39:38 BST, Saqib wrote: fair enough, don't understand ms either. why does it contain chinese characters by the way? saqib So persons who read Chinese can find the link. IMHO, Not using native characters for the language links would be insensitiv

Re: calculating with TeX/LaTeX

2001-07-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MFK> how can you {add,multiply,negate,divide} two scalars in TeX/LaTeX? MFK> MFK> in a new command that i am writing (it places a \picture), i want to MFK> use one of the two arguments (width) and \linewidth or \textwidth to MFK> calculate the remaining

RE:calculating with TeX/LaTeX

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Agno
Martin F. Krafft writes: > how can you {add,multiply,negate,divide} two scalars in TeX/LaTeX? Look at the calc package--it makes life a little easier (with infix op's). There's probably other stuff on ctan.org, as well. Andrew.

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot---kernel ethernet developers have changed

2001-07-05 Thread Jameson C . Burt
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 19:38:50 Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot > Date: Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:58:37AM +0200 > > In reply to:Viktor Rosenfeld > > Quoting Viktor Rosenfeld([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Bostjan Muller wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have just

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot---kernel ethernet developers have changed

2001-07-05 Thread Jameson C . Burt
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 19:38:50 Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot > Date: Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:58:37AM +0200 > > In reply to:Viktor Rosenfeld > > Quoting Viktor Rosenfeld([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Bostjan Muller wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have just

Re: Install "testing" from scratch?

2001-07-05 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:31:22AM -0600, Gary Hennigan uttered: > I suppose I can install a bare-bones potato and dist-upgrade to > testing but that's an additional step I would rather avoid if > possible. > Install a base potato syetem, and when you reboot, ask to edit sources.list manually and

Re: Install "testing" from scratch?

2001-07-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:31:22AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: | The problem is that the new workstations will be installed from | scratch and the other two systems I run "testing" on were | dist-upgraded via apt. I built the "testing" rescue, root and driver-x | floppies but I can't find a base

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade problem

2001-07-05 Thread Anthony Fox
Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > This morning I tried to do my routine apt-get upgrade && apt-get > dist-upgrade. The dist-upgrade blew up on some kde packages. I found the solution on bugs.debian.org: dpkg --purge kdelibs3-crypto then apt-get -f install. -Anthony.

Re: calculating with TeX/LaTeX

2001-07-05 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Andrew Perrin (on Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:34:25AM -0500): > Just glancing through the geometry.sty file, it looks like it's done with > lots of \addtolength and \setlength commands. that's where i am looking right now. that, and then there is \divide and \multiply, although i can't figure

Re: compiling Kernel

2001-07-05 Thread Paul Wright
On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 03:43:31 PDT, Dan wrote: > when I #make menuconfig, or make config, I get the fallowing error; > > make: *** No rule to make target 'config' . Stop. > > Also from the articles I've read about compiling the Kernel the = > /usr/linux directory is referenced, however I don't hav

Re: calculating with TeX/LaTeX

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Just glancing through the geometry.sty file, it looks like it's done with lots of \addtolength and \setlength commands. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of N

Install "testing" from scratch?

2001-07-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
I've got a few new Dell systems that I'd like to install Debian on. They're pretty generic systems, e.g, AIC-7892 SCSI, 2 SCSI disks, IDE CD/RW, etc., but they are dual processor and so I want a 2.4.x kernel installed and thought I'd jump right in with the "testing" distribution. I've been running

Re: passing "mem=???" to the kernel

2001-07-05 Thread Noah Meyerhans
Well, as it turns out, the problem is actually with the hardware. I am not sure exactly what the problem is, as both 128 MB DIMMs are fine (according to a couple hours each under memtest86). But if they're both in the machine at once then it won't even boot reliably. I found that out on about th

Re: compiling Kernel

2001-07-05 Thread David Z. Maze
For compiling kernels on Debian systems, I highly recommend using the kernel-package package, which will build Debian packages out of kernel source fairly painlessly. It's also the standard way to build add-on modules such as ALSA, OpenAFS, or lm-sensors that are distributed as separate packages.

calculating with TeX/LaTeX

2001-07-05 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hi, how can you {add,multiply,negate,divide} two scalars in TeX/LaTeX? in a new command that i am writing (it places a \picture), i want to use one of the two arguments (width) and \linewidth or \textwidth to calculate the remaining horizontal space i have (for another picture). i know i can conv

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Maybe I'm misremembering, but... The real problem isn't even being mentioned in this thread. The developer of Killustrator is willing to change the name; the problem is that the lawyers in Germany (possibly quite independently of Adobe) are demanding lots of money from one of the developers, to "

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:23:29PM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Today KIllustrator, tomorrow M$ sues KWord and KOffice. Every project > can be sued this way, it only a question of ill fantasy. In the end > you can only use numbers for your projects. I think there is a distinction here. Whi

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > > I would believe the ethical way to deal with an opensource developer, > > who doesn't profit from his products is to contact him first, rather > > than throw a bunch of law dogs at him. A

Re: lilypond fails (error: latex: command exited with value 256)

2001-07-05 Thread Joel Mayes
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 06:36:41PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > (debian unstable, 2.4.3 kernel) > > I tried the example from info lilypond tutorial: > > \score { > \notes { c'4 e' g' } > } > > then ran command: > > ly2dvi -P test.ly > > and here's what

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Dixon
"der.hans" wrote: > > Am 04. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Balbir Thomas so: > > > Yet another case of open source developers being harassed. Adobe lawyers > > ask developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name that abuses > > their trade mark illustrator. Go read about it at slashdot , and then >

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