On Sun, 24 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:14:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Here is why a lot of people are looking at SLP and liking it.
> > tar xzf blah.slp
>
> If this is a design feature, why not just run Slackware?
>
> I think that .deb packages are extr
On Sat, 9 May 1998, Pete Harlan wrote:
> >Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large
> > hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track
>
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do
> the following, if you don't want to spl
On Mon, 4 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > a lot of users (note, users not only developers) have done this already
> > and are very happy with the results.
>
> I am one of them, except for the fact GV doesn't work :[ I have had no
What
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> > > Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little -- like it was made of
> > > jelly and someone's shaking in just the slightest bit. Is this a
> > > monito
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, James Dietrich wrote:
> This one has me stumped:
>
> I have been experimenting with the latest kernels--versions 2.1.92 and
> now 2.1.94. However, I have had difficulties configuring my soundcard
> and parallel printer to work with the new kernels. After reading the
OK. I
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Olivier Abad wrote:
> Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
> >
> > However, when I boot up, it appears that only the awe_wave modules is
> > being correctly installed.
>
> I had the same problems. I made the following modifications to my
> modul
I'm having a little trouble setting up my AWE64. I've followed
Brinkmann's AWE 32/64 HOWTO and I think I'm close to getting it to work.
I have set up isapnp.conf as suggested, and verified all of the
numbers against those in my win95 drivers.
However, when I boot up, it appears that only the awe
When I try to post an article using tin, I'm getting the message:
Error: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding (must not be us-ascii)
Anyone know why that is? What can I change us-ascii to that will make
this work?
I need to be able to post to c.o.l.m again. :)
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On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, RUSSELL COOK wrote:
> Hello All,
> I just got a new video card, the Matrox Mystique 220.
[can't get it to work, help, etc.]
I've got one too. Xfree 3.3 from hamm works just fine for me! You'll
need the SVGA server of course. I just used XF86Setup and it works fine.
I
Thanks to all of the people who suggested that this line:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
was missing from the end of my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. That was
indeed the problem. Is there a bug report out on this?
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I'd like to use xdm on my box. I've tried editing /etx/X11/config to
change
no-start-xdm
no-xdm-start-server
into
start-xdm
xdm-start-server
abd then I rebooted. It said "starting xdm" but there's no X login
screen. Whats up? (I tried putting xdm-start-server before start-xdm
too...)
I'm
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
> Hi, here I am, again..., I can login as anonymous to my box, but I can
> not see anything in the /home/ftp directory..., I can cd to pub and
> everything under it, I can get files, and put files in incoming, the
[cut]
Yeah, it seems that the wrong libr
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
>
> > That was annoying...so I removed that package. I think that inetd should
> > be reinstated at this point, but the package doesn't do that. So now I'm
>
(this is an all hamm system)
Ok, I've got some problems. Namely, inetd is no longer started at boot
time, whats up with that?
Here's what happened. I decided to install xinetd because I thought that
might fix some of the other random net problems I was having. (finger
connections from the out
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
[summary: ls doesn't show anything in anonymous ftp]
> This is definately a library problem. The listing I gave was for a libc5
> ls, but I think it would be similar for libc6
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > What I get is - I can ftp to the box from itself or over the network
> > and log in as anonymous. Then I can put files to the directory and
> > they get transferred all right, and I can get files if
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote:
> A friend of mine has a hard-disk of 1.2Gb with 2 partions: /dev/hda1,
> /dev/hda2.
>
> On /dev/hda1 he has Win'95. Is there any problems with booting if I help
> him to insatll Debian 1.3.1 on /dev/hda2 and try to boot it with loadlin.
Should be fi
I'm trying to compile amp, and I get this error:
rtbuf.c: In function `block_fancy_audio':
rtbuf.c:434: storage size of `wmask' isn't known
make: *** [rtbuf.o] Error 1
Could it be that I'm missing a necessary dev package? Anyone know which
package? (I'm running an entirely hamm system.)
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Yeah I noticed that too. :)
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Matt Thompson wrote:
> OK, so what happened to xload now? I just upgraded my hamm system and
> xload has disappeared. Don't we go through this every once in a while?
>
> Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
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> > Mystique
>
> Mystique 220 is not good for X :)
I'm interested to know why you say that? I have a Matrox Mystique 220
with 4megs of ram and I haven't yet had a problem with X.
The support for the Matrox cards is still in the early stage
I'm trying to compile the 2.0.32 kernel and I'm getting this at the end of
the "make-kpkg clean" and "make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image":
make: *** Warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete.
What exactly does this error mean?
I'm running a completely hamm distribut
Just tried zgv thats in hamm. I get this:
red# zgv
svgalib: FATAL internal error:
Set MAX_REGS at least to 405 in src/driver.h and recompile everything.
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Ok. I just completely reinstalled Debian. Pretty smooth.
I let dselect install all the basic pre-selected packages. All good.
Then I followed the libc5 to libc6 howto to the letter.
I installed the necessary libraries by hand for perl.
Then I ran dselect and pointed the ftp to the hamm dist
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
>
> > I am trying to follow Scott Ellis' Libc5/6 upgrade
> > mini-HOWTO to the letter (fearing for my system if I do not).
> > It says that, in order to upgrade bash to 2.01, I must first
> > install ncurses3.0
Ahh...hate to worry people...but I just broke my linux box.
I tried to upgrade and its all screwed up, I could use some help.
First of all, Perl broke...but I've got libgdbm1 and libgdbmg1, so I don't
know whats up with that.
But that's not my immediate concern.
I can't log in any more. To be
Ok, I'd like to upgrade to hamm, because there are some things there that
I need. I'm following the libc5 to libc6 howto, but I've got a couple
questions/comments.
The first conflict arose when I tried to install the second package,
libc6_2.0.5c-0.1 . It conflicted with the pthreads package. N
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Britton wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote:
> In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95
> first, and when it gets itselft all screwed up you can't reinstall it
> without scrapping your master boot record again, which I'm sure is a
On 3 Nov 1997, Dale Martin wrote:
> Christopher Jason Morrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > There appears to be a problem in the X3.3 packages. I have a #9 Motion
> > 771. I can run XF86Setup, and I can enter all of the setup info. But
> > then when I clic
There appears to be a problem in the X3.3 packages. I have a #9 Motion
771. I can run XF86Setup, and I can enter all of the setup info. But
then when I click "Done" and it tries to start the server for my card, it
dies.
It says "starting server", the screen blanks, it flickers a couple times,
I'm trying to install net-fu, and it seems that I am missing Xvfb. Anyone
know what package it comes in?
I just upgraded from X 3.2 to 3.3...I was hoping that Xvfb would be in
there, but I guess I missed the package for that.
Upgrading was certainly a bad idea. X doesn't work now. When I try
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Egon Schmid wrote:
> Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
> >
> > > I have Netscape 4.03 (non-beta, full release) and it comes with it's own
> > > installer. Just download the file from:
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
> I have Netscape 4.03 (non-beta, full release) and it comes with it's own
> installer. Just download the file from:
[cut]
Yeah, I guess I'll just break down and do that.
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I'm trying to get the netscape 4 beta installer, but its doesn't seem to
be going well...
In dselect I did an Update, and cleared everything. So my list is up to
date. I selected the netscape beta package. Went to Install, and
then...nothing.
It won't find it during the install page. Doesn't
Whenever update-menu runs, it says:
Unknown identifier "" in script
-f: Aborting.
This is completely messing up my menus everywhere. Can anyone help me
with this?
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A friend of mine just installed Linux, newest Debian dist off of the ftp
sites.
Having a little trouble with X. He'd like to play Maelstrom, but it keeps
locking up just as he starts the second level. (We can kill the server
with ctrl-alt-backspace still.)
He's running the newest X3.3, and the
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote:
>
> > My understanding is that samba allows Win95 to print to Linux, it you
> > want to go the other way, (linux to Win95 resources) you need a program
> > called rumba. You can locate it on most of the NExT f
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Riku Saikkonen wrote:
[cut]
> What I'm trying to say is that ICQ for Linux would be no better than
> fingerd+talkd+... for Win95. ICQ has nothing new; it's just MS's proprietary
> implementation of things that finger, talk, IRC, and friends have done for
> years.
>
> And ICQ i
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote:
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> I would love to have this as in a free and open form but now the only option I
> can see is ICQ or AOL's AIM and right now AIM is the only one working for more
> than Windows.
Hehe, I just checked this out...I'll try it for a while because my family
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote:
[cut]
> >What you really need to do is to encourage their programming team to
> >finish up the Java version of their program which would allow you to run
> >ICQ under Linux and every other platform available. Just my thoughts.
> >
>
> The thing about Java i
On 30 Jul 1997, Stephen Witt wrote:
[cut]
> So, I would hate to see the continuation of a proprietary solution to
> a particular problem by the free software development population of
> the general public. It goes against nearly every basic part of the
> Linux/Unix/IP philosopy and in the end den
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
[cut]
> ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public
> license or source code available. The problem with IRC is that it simply
[cut]
AND I don't believe that it will remain free once it gets out of the beta
testing phase...give it
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> I hope this is an appropriate posting for this list.
>
> I have used the ICQ program from Mirabilis LTD http://www.mirabilis.com
> In Windows 95 and I would love to be able to use this great software with
> Linux.
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Bob Clark wrote:
[cut]
> Would someone be so kind as to post (re-post?) some possible
> solutions. I thought a downgrade to 3.2 would do the trick
> but it seems the 3.2 pakages are gone.
They're there, I just downgraded myself. Look in rex-fixed or something
like that.
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
[cut]
> Secondly, I don't have a CD drive for the 486. Is it possible
> that I could get enough of base and nfs installed via floppy to do an nfs
> install from the pentium? Or is it hopeless, and should I just move my
> CD drive to the 486 long enou
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
[cut]
> I found my keyboard/screen, and possibly the whole thing (don't
> remember) would lock up when I had an S3, but adding the "nolinear"
> option fixed the problem. This was with the older version, i.e. it
> happened with 3.1 or 3.2. However, othe
I think that Sun and such are using the old talk port. (I have no idea if
the protocols differ...) If you check your /etc/services file, you'll
probably see:
talk517/udp
ntalk 518/udp
And in the /etc/inetd.conf:
talk dgram udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd/usr
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:
>
> > Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
> > >
>
> [ Problems, "help!" ]
>
> > >
> >
> > This also reflects my experience exactly. HELP
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, H Huang wrote:
[cut]
> I think the problem has something to do with certain newly added features of
> XFree86-3.3, some of which actually are still in beta test stage.
Possible, but should beta options be enabled in a stable package by
default?
>
> I've got a clgd 5428 card.
Thanks for the suggestion, but thats not the problem. I should make it
clear that X worked perfectly fine before the upgrade. I have a pretty
much stock Debian system also.
Someone also suggested that I do a:
X -probeonly >out 2>&1
Its a good idea, but it doesn't show any errors that I can se
I've seen other messages about XF86 3.3 not working. I am also
experiencing problems. I upgraded from 3.2 using the 3.3-3 packages, and
now when I try to startx, the screen flickers and goes black, and the
keyboard locks up. Nothing else.
Unfortunately, because of the screen blanking, I really
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