Re: PAP - Shadow passwords may also make a difference

> I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix > was > to add the following to pap-secrets: > > # magic fix > * * "" * > > Someone on one of the linux mailing lists suggested it; it seems to be > > otherwise undocumented, although certainly not unimportant. >

SVGATextMode - thanks for help

a short review for other beginners: SVGATextMode can resize the console screen on the fly, e.g. SVGATextMode 116x43x9_12 - use dselect to install SVGATextMode - if XF86Config exists, you should know what to do otherwise read the man pages and docs carefully - un-comment the lines in /etc/rc.bo

Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced

ok - was not a too good but apparently common idea to ask this question. ;-) __ IT -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Announce: Simple End-User Linux (SEUL) Project

Matthew Majka wrote: > Michael Stutz wrote: > >On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > > > I think it might be a better idea to concentrate resources on the one > > > currently available completely free Linux distribution and improve it > > > rather than further fragment the community with

Re: Help w/ PPP

jhillma2 wrote: > Also, my ISP does PAP, so do I even need to use ppp.chatscript? Is > there an easier way? The ppp-howto and net2-howto are, IMO, vague at > best and do not necessarily coincide with the debian install (i.e., some for the same reason I'm still using W95 as my internet connectio

divide the list in beginners and advanced

Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced? It's a mess to get 70 to 120 mesages every day, more than 90 percent out of interest. Here in Europe we have to pay for our Internet-connections, means beside the phone bill there is an online charging as well. Regards __ IT htt

svgatextmode - how to use

I've installed svgatextmode with dselect but can't find any file or .conf. How can I use this utility? Thanks in advance __ IT -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed

What is wrong wih my debian configuration since I get the error: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed when I try startx? XF86Setup works well but wants to write to /etc/X11/XF86Config and copying (not moving) the XF86Config from /etc to /usr/X11R6/bin/ doesn't help. I'm stuck at this point