Re: Debianizing tarballs: a Big Deal or a routine skill?

2000-11-21 Thread Jim Crumley
to the non-Debian source that you've downloaded. Anyway, that's the basic idea. Take a look at the documentation for apt-get and debhelper for more details. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |

Re: Strange behavior in X

2000-11-17 Thread Jim Crumley
ined) than the xserver-s3v. Anyway, I have an S3 Virge card, and I've never had any problems with xserver-svga. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |

Re: where is old (3.2) Xfree86?

2000-10-24 Thread Jim Crumley
the latest available before I wiped DOS off that laptop - I'm not sure if you need DOS installed to upgrade the BIOS or not. I'll forward my XF86Config to you directly, David. HTH, Jim -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |

Re: where is old (3.2) Xfree86?

2000-10-23 Thread Jim Crumley
fine on my (also recently inherited) Thinkpad 365x (only difference is I don't have a CD-ROM drive) using a stock potato install, which is XFree 3.3.6, I think. Anyway, I can send you the config file if you want - its just a slightly hacked up version of one that I found on the net somew

IDL crashes, undefined symbol: _xstat

1999-12-02 Thread Jim Crumley
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x406d6000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40775000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40779000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40797000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) Thanks for the help. -- Jim

Re: xbiff for remote mail?

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Crumley
f a telnet > script. But do you have a more general solution? > Take a look at wmmail. Its built for Window Maker, but it doesn't require Window Maker. Its like xbiff, but it also lets you run a command evrytime it polls for mail. So you could have it run fetchmail before it checked for mail. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |

Anonymous NFS

1999-02-22 Thread Jim Crumley
had no luck. NFS works fine for me locally - my home directory is NFS mounted, etc. Also, the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files are the default files ( hosts.allow is empty and hosts.deny has ALL: PARANOID). Thanks. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

1999-02-15 Thread Jim Crumley
Any suggestions? Thanks in > advance!!! > Did you run "apt-get update" after changing the sources list? Unless you do, apt-get doesn't know what packages are available in frozen. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |

Running xscreensaver all the time

1999-02-12 Thread Jim Crumley
thorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0 Obviously this is problem with getting access to the display. How do I get around this? -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread Jim Crumley
; > > > Yes, but I was wondering about the kernel-source and kernel-headers > > packages. How can I make these fromt he kernel source .tar.gz? > > > > Matthew > > The kernel-source is available as debs from ftp://ftp.netgod.bnet/linux/v2.2 . I don't know if they are official packages, but at least they're debs. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |

Re: libc6 or libc5???

1999-02-02 Thread Jim Crumley
a script for doing this upgrade available (autoup.sh) and instructions should be available on the website ( which I can't get to right now) and on the ftp site ( in the directory /pub/mirrors/linux/debian/hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386 on my local mirror). Good luck and if you have other questio

Re: Dial in access

1999-02-02 Thread Jim Crumley
haven't used it myself, but it is supposed to do what you want. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |

Re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread Jim Crumley
2.0 or higher uses glibc2, so you probably already have most of the libraries that netscape requires installed. You could also use the "unsupported"version, but then you have to install some of the libc5 libraries from the "oldlibs" section of the Debian distribution. Anyway, I hope this works for you. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |

Re: printing from netscape

1998-12-16 Thread Jim Crumley
TCP printer port, possibly lpd process '139'" > I think you want the print command to be "lpr". Then if you want to print to a printer other than the default use "lpr -P PRINTERNAME". I could be wrong, though. What do you use to print outsi

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Jim Crumley
-middle mouse button to get a menu that will give a pop-up menu. One of the options is enable scrollbar. Also, take a look at control - right mouse button and control - right mouse button to see more options. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |

Re: Problems switching to debian

1998-11-02 Thread Jim Crumley
llel port (lp?). If it turns out that it is a module problem, edit /etc/modules to reflect the modules you need. I am not sure how the parallel port Zip drive will work with parallel printing, though I am sure someone on this list knows. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |

Re: vi problems?

1998-10-08 Thread Jim Crumley
e. > If it has you'll see the visual bell. > Some good vi resources are listed at www.vim.org ( vim is a variety of vi). Also, if you have another text editor that you prefer that is already installed, you can just use that instead of vi -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Intel 740

1998-10-01 Thread Jim Crumley
> Bonjour, > > Je possède une carte graphique AGP Intel 740 > Est-ce que Debian supporte cette carte ? > > Cordialement, > Laurent HUSSENET : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Je ne sais pas. C'est une list anglaise. Essayez la liste [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon francais

Re: Debian 2.0 & Cheaper Bytes

1998-09-11 Thread Jim Crumley
I'm installing onto a single processor Pentium > system with 64 meg of memory, and 8 gig of disk. It > has run both Slackware and RedHat with no problem. The > CDROM is scsi based and the DebIan distribution does > correctly recognize the controller UF14 so that's not a > problem. Yeah, its not a hardware problem. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Jim Crumley
this list. He also has a link to the Dynamic IP Hacks Mini-HOWTO, which has more suggestions. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |

Re: SHELL: duping stdout and stderr to another file

1998-07-29 Thread Jim Crumley
tee command. Its in the package shellutils. With tee you should be able to redirect stderr to stdout (for whatever shell you are using) and then use tee to copy stdout to a file. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Kernel-source dependence

1998-06-26 Thread Jim Crumley
or bin86 is pointed out there. I am guessing that you (like me) missed those references. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiling kernel

1998-05-05 Thread Jim Crumley
g I > have is 'as' but that doesnt work! > > Christian > I asked the same thing a couple of weeks ago. Basically, you have to install the bin86 package (I am not sure why kernel-package or kernel-source don't depend on bin86). Also, you should read the READMEs that come w

Re: Re-compiling Kernel error

1998-04-21 Thread Jim Crumley
other useful information that I forgot. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re-compiling Kernel error

1998-04-21 Thread Jim Crumley
tory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29' make: *** [stamp-image] Error 2 Any ideas on what is wrong? TIA. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lp devices

1998-03-07 Thread Jim Crumley
IP and PPP. Anyway, thanks for the help. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Jim Crumley
03f8-03ff : serial(set) -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Jim Crumley
can try both of these things. If either of them make a > difference, then it's an interesting data point that would help us > figure out what's wrong. But I really can't think why they'd make a > difference. > > Are you using the default kernel or

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Jim Crumley
it captured the lp1 when I tried loading the lp module with the rescue disk? I never tried printing while using the rescue disk. Should I switch to the shell and try redirecting to lp1 while using the rescue disk? -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- E-mail the word "u

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Jim Crumley
kernel: lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Jim Crumley
> On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 08:37:52PM -0600, Jim Crumley wrote: > > I have have tried echo/cat/more and redirecting to /dev/lp0 > > - /dev/lp4 and I have gotten the error message: > > bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address > > > > I am pretty much out of idea

lp devices

1998-03-05 Thread Jim Crumley
. I have have tried echo/cat/more and redirecting to /dev/lp0 - /dev/lp4 and I have gotten the error message: bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address I am pretty much out of ideas. Any help would be appreciated. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS