Re: KDE Beta-4 with bo?

1998-04-27 Thread Heiko R. Selber
"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -+ On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Heiko R. Selber wrote: -+ > -+ > I heard that the new KDE Beta-4 was released. Unfortunately, it seems -+ that -+ > the .deb packages exist only in hamm. Is that true, or did

KDE Beta-4 with bo?

1998-04-22 Thread Heiko R. Selber
I heard that the new KDE Beta-4 was released. Unfortunately, it seems that the .deb packages exist only in hamm. Is that true, or did someone make new KDE packages for bo? If so, where can I get them? TIA, Heiko PS: Cetero censeo Debian-2.0 publicandam esse. ---

Re: man hangs with less and more

1997-06-11 Thread Heiko R. Selber
> You probably have 'set -a' in /etc/profile or some of your bash startup > files. > For some reason 'set -a' causes this problem. It's also reported as bug #8390. > The only cure I have is to remove 'set -a' from the startup files and > logout/login again. > Mark Boyns wrote: > > > > When I r

Special chars disappear

1997-05-04 Thread Heiko R. Selber
Hi, I use Umlauts and other special characters quite frequently. Those characters which are not directly available on my german keyboard can be produced under X11 by typing AltGr (right Alt key) and a letter, like AltGr-q for `@', AltGr-a for `æ' of AltGr-m for `µ' (I assume you can read these MI

Re: Cosole Beep

1996-12-20 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Fabien Ninoles wrote: -+-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -+ -+On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Vithar wrote: -+ -+> -+> Okay, I realize that this is not neccessarily a Debian problem, but -+> since I am using Debian, I figured I'd ask this here anyway. -+> -+> Is there any way, s

Re: NE 2000 cards

1996-12-19 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the Debian Linux 1.2 instaled on my PC and I want to > know how ca n I configure it for a NE2000 network card. Which > program may I use? Oi Rogerio, You simply need to configure the kernel and recompile it. As root, cd to '/usr/src/linux/'

Re: No dependancy information for modules with kernel 2.0.27

1996-12-18 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Heiko R. Selber wrote: > > CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y > ^^ > Its generally a good idea _not_ to enable modversions. There > should be more info on it in the readme stuff with the kernel >

No dependancy information for modules with kernel 2.0.27

1996-12-17 Thread Heiko R. Selber
Hello, I installed debian 1.2 the other day and compiled a new kernel (2.0.27) The new kernel was unable to load any modules during bootup. It just said: 'Can't find dependancy information for module mcd.o' and the like. What went wrong? Is it because I have kerneld 2.0.0? Where would I get a k

Re: apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-06 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote: > > Hello, > > > > when looking for manpages with apropos I always get an error message and > > the wildcard search fails for X related (and some other) man pages.

apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-05 Thread Heiko R. Selber
Hello, when looking for manpages with apropos I always get an error message and the wildcard search fails for X related (and some other) man pages. (I use Debian 1.1.4) Look at this: BEGIN pretty good example rudi:~$ apropos -w XDraw* apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis

Re: pine and MIME

1996-11-05 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Marco Mariani wrote: > > It seems that PINE likes to reply to a message using the QUOTED-PRINTABLE > > encoding whenever it sees strange characters in the message I'm replying > > to. Can I prevent this behaviour? I'd like to send out pl

Re: Upgrade/downgrade cycles

1996-11-03 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On 2 Nov 1996, Tony Robinson wrote: > Can someone tell me why dselect (via NFS) does things like this: [dselect installs the same packages over and over] I had exactly the same problem with Debian-1.1.13. I.E. I had the same behaviour but with with entirely different packages, so it's not the

Re: X11 problems

1996-11-03 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Vaibhav Goel wrote: > Recently, I downloaded and installed Debian Rex. This was about 4 days ago. > The installation seems to go Ok. Whenever I try to start X using "startx" > it seems to start ok but the mouse pointer for some reason always moves > to the lower left hand c

Re: tail -f /var/adm/messages

1996-11-03 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Johann Spies wrote: > What did I do to get the following output from "tail -f /var/adm/messages"? > > Nov 3 12:44:01 Johann last message repeated 65817 times > At the moment the above output is all that I get. What does the last line before all this in '/var/adm/messages'

Re: Can domain names have a dash (-)?

1996-08-22 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: > might want to change it to 'opti-med.com'. Does anyone know if it is > legal to have a dash (-) in a domain name? If it is legal, could any > problems arise from it's use (like confusing mail readers)? There are bazillions of them, like my old one: 't

User-friendliness (was: Re: dselect returns error code)

1996-08-16 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Heiko R. Selber wrote: > > > [ Problems with dselect ] > > I am slowly approaching the point where I expect a > > "general protection violation(TM)" from Debian. > > I consider this a bad

Re: dselect returns error code

1996-08-15 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Heiko R. Selber wrote: > : I started dselect in order to install various packages after I had the base > : system running. > : > : When I tried it once more I got the cryptic message: > : > : internal error at -e line

Re: telnet acces for root ?

1996-08-15 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, David J. Evans wrote: > I've set up a test PC with Debian 1.1 and want to > administer it remotely but am refused a telnet connection > as root ... is there a way around this ? Do I have to give > root privs. to a named user or can I enable telnet > connections as root ?

dselect returns error code

1996-08-15 Thread Heiko R. Selber
Hi Net, (thanks for the help with nfs.o) here is the next problem: I started dselect in order to install various packages after I had the base system running. I reached the nfs server, selected gcc-2.7.2 amongst others, resolved the occasional conflict, and started install... But the first p

NFS module insertion failed

1996-08-14 Thread Heiko R. Selber
Hi there, I have just tried to install Debian-1.1.5 which I got via ftp from ftp.inka.de. I used the disk set 1996-07-14 to make the base installation. The problem is that I can't insert the nfs module into the kernel. Which of course is the end of the story so far because I want to install vi