r
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> debian:/cdrom#
Did you try to install it as a user or as root?
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Linux Workshop Cologne, we had more Debian
than other users, although some people from this list claim Debian to be
delayed. Seemingly there are more important things than just being
up-to-date with the latest software packages.
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flip and dos2unix available for converting
Mac-ASCII texts?
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You may give it a try.
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has to be
changed to ATD. In the active profile (either in the configuration
scripts or permanently saved with minicom) the ISDN-TA has to be set to
HDLC and the async/sync PPP should be set as requested by the provider.
Best wishes,
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Hi,
is it possible to start mutt remote, but to use a local printer? I am
searching for something similar to the attached-to-ansi printing of
pine.
Best wishes,
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is best to run some hardware
tests. Is it possible to compile a kernel on the machine (this may
indicate RAM-problems)?
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> > try different dye types as well -- my burner
> > works far better with certain "Short Strategy Type" discs, for example.
>
> What does "short strategy type" mean?
You don't have to answer that que
type of dye).
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don't seem to have an effect, the inside of the
burner as well as the caddy show no obvious traces of dust, and this is
a non-smoker household.
Has somebody an idea how to find out what is going on there?
Thanks in advance,
a happy new year,
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Hi,
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, eric k. wolven wrote:
> Dennis:
>
> Try commenting out xdm on its init level...rc2, if I'm not mistaken...
Uninstalling xdm also seems to work.
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Unive
ut somehow
something doesn't work out?
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n server disks.
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packages.debian.org, but neither in stable, nor testing,
nor unstable this wx-config-beast shows up. Was it renamed to something
different or is it non-existent in Debian?
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completely to get one small HFS partition as first one.
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Hi,
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
> actually I think it's a combined english german message, it starts
> with english then drifts into german, here's the same message divided
> into english and german parts (using !):
>
> Re: Outlook, die! Schweinepest des Internets
der (male), d
Hi,
On Mon, 7 May 2001, barsi wrote:
> Q: Can I have Debian/Linux OS installed on my computer while also having MS
> Windows OS installed (god knows I don't want to, but I need it for now). I
> was thinking along the lines of a partitioned disk, where each OS would be
> on it's own disk...? but
Hi,
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> [re-sent with correctly subscribed address; apologies for
> any duplicates]
>
> How can I configure a mouse for use with Debian ?
>
> I've gone through xf86config and chosen /dev/tty0 but to be
> frank, I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to c
Hi,
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Simmons-Davis wrote:
> I would like to know what program you would use to work with rich text
> format in Linux.
Staroffice and Applixware are both reported to work properly in RTF im-
and export. But possibly there are as well some converters around.
Regards,
Kersti
Hi,
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Tom Schuetz wrote:
> I have a PS/2 mouse. My XF86config file is set to /dev/psaux.
> My mouse doesn't do anything upon starting X.
>
> So I tried making a soft link from /dev/psaux to /dev/mouse. Nada.
Do you have gpm installed? If yes, you should set Section pointer
Hi,
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, cls/cs wrote:
> ...guessing here, but if you
>
> mv -gzip foo (foo being some other name not beginning with "-")
>
> and then
>
> rm foo
>
> does that work?
mv has the same problem as rm. It thinks that -g is an option.
But thank you for your prompt
Hi,
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> I tried
> rm "-gzip"
> rm ´-gzip´
> rm \-gzip
>
> None of these worked.
>
> What is the trick? (There must be one ...)
It is quite pleasing, when one finds the solution by oneself.
I just tried to delet
Hi,
this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar
archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD.
Unfortunately I used the following line:
tar -cvvf -gzip /mod/name-of-archive folder-name
Now my home-partition is 100 % full and I don´t know how to delete
Hi,
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> (Where was the link?)
>
> IIRC, Opera is now free-as-in-beer, but it's still not free in the DFSG
> sense, which is a great shame; it would be great if it could go into
> Debian.
>
> Perhaps it could be distributed by Debian in non-free, though. I
Hi,
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Bill Barnes wrote:
> Is anyone able to offer some help in this connection.
Perhaps you specify your problems in more detail?
I've got Applix running on my machine. The install-script worked fine
for Debian, while it did not for RedHat 5.2 (which was installed
before). U
Hi,
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> Look at it this way, maybe if you get this sourcecode you could turn any
> grill in your house into a computer, hehe
Is it possible to collect grills and assemble them to a super-computing
cluster? What if the outcome is with a weird CPU for whic
Hi,
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> Unless we get the sourcode, no thank you :-)
I wouldn´t like to grill my computer, even if I would get the
sourcecode. ;-)
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Hi,
"Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux
>distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian
>rather than something else.
It started with my Atari TT. When I first logged in via 28.8k modem and
VT100 ter
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this?
>
> to encourage you to use a real filesystem instead of that horrible
> msdos thing?
Hmm, :-)
> in general i run superformat --superverify (does double verification
> in addition to
Hi,
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > I guess, there must be something missing. Perhaps DOS formatted
> > superfloppies need an extra treatment in addition?
>
> yes, read the mkdosfs man page and you find this gem:
Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this?
>
Hi,
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote:
> > I tried it now the same way with mkdosfs and it refuses to do so. What
> > is the trick? With partitions on the MOD, the drive designations of the
> > OS/2 system, with which the data have to be exchanged, will be messed
> > up.
>
> I'm just sh
Hi,
this question might sound quite stupid, but: How to format an MOD of
640MB as superfloppy with dos filesystem?
Until now I only needed ext2fs. I used fdisk (fdisk -b2048 /dev/sdc),
deleted the partition, wrote the new data to the disk and could
lateron install an ext2fs with "ext2fs -b2048
Hi,
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> For someone who is educated with a Ph.D. you apparently can't read
> or follow directions. You have posted several emails to this list
> -|_
> -|James K. Kroger, Ph.D.
> -|Center for t
Hi,
until yet I could not find docs describing this procedure on an already
installed system. Where are changes necessary? I know that an entry in
/etc/default/rcS can be changed and afterwards settings have to be done
with hwclock, but is this all it needs? Besides that, I have no idea to
what t
Hi,
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote:
> Do You have a serial or a PS/2 mouse? Some poeple told me that X mouse
> driver with gpm is not possible by using a PS/2 mouse. Or be they all
> mistaken?
It is possible to use a PS/2 mouse in X11 without stopping gpm. You just
have to modify the
Hi,
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Mark A. Bialik wrote:
> Fetch magic-filter and configure it for your printer.
I use Mozilla and cannot print either, although my printer
otherwise is working fine. It is a postscript printer, so I do not have
magic-filter configured. I use a2ps for printing ASCII text a
Hi,
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> But I am unable to print plaintext files with:
>
> $ lpr file.txt
You can use a2ps for this. It converts ASCII text to formatted
postscript.
> My current printcap (created with magicfilter) is:
>
> lp|hplj5mp|HP LJ 5MP:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:
Hi,
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:15:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:03:49AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > > If you really do have to buy a new modem, any modem which supports DOS, or
Hi,
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, me wrote:
> 3) If the reviewer had been a newbie, the complaints might have
> been forgivable. Deb is not (yet) for newbies. It's getting there,
> though.
If the newbie is a fiddler, he or she can manage with a little help from
(Debian) friends. When I started inst
Hi,
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Bill Ramsey wrote:
> The instructions assume rpm. There is an install.bsh script but it
> doesn't work. Support sent me a different script and that doesn't work
> either.
>
> Has anyone else installed applix 5.0 from CD ??
I had a similar problem with Applixware 4 und
Hi,
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I believe it's possible (and generally recommended) *not* to go about
> using dselect to install packages on installation. My generally
> suggested MO is to get the minimal install set (the default), and then
> start adding packages afterwar
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> Is it just me or has every message posted to this Debain
> list been posted 3-4 times today? I've had 150+ emails
> and they were just duplicates of previous postings over
> and over !!
You are not the only one. I had 330 messages in my mailbo
Hi,
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote:
> However, when I was installing the OS via floppies only, shouldn't the
> installation have installed "man" for me ? Or do you still have to install
> "man" after you install the system ?
If you installed from floppies only with no install from CD aft
Hi,
is something wrong with ftp.de.debian.org? I tried an apt-get update
yesterday and it was not accessible. Today it still does not work.
Regards,
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Hi,
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote:
> A friend of mine runs Applixware 4.4.1 on his Debian system (mixture of
> potato and woody). But he says that it's quite buggy and looks
> outdated. But otherwise it performs quite well. For the installation he
> took the RPMs and alienated them to
Hi,
since my printer is a HP Laserjet 5 MP, it has its own postscript
interpreter. But to be able to view ps and pdf files, I installed gs 5.1
and gv 3.5.8. My first attempt to print out a pdf file failed in that
the fonts are larger and the left margin is shifted to the right,
resulting in a cut
Hi,
On 21 Jul 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> I had these problems too, but now the combination of X *and* gpm works
> flawlessly with a logitech 3-button mouse with the following gpm.conf:
>
>device=/dev/psaux
>responsiveness=
>type=ps2
>append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\33
Hi,
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, voy1d wrote:
> I'm getting the following problem when starting X.
>
> X: Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting:
>
> Someone suggested reinstalling the system, but does anyone else have any
> other ideas?
I had this message after an apt-get upgrade
Hi,
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Pete Chudykowski wrote:
> 1. For some reason the package didn't contain ftpd. Where can I find a
> .deb binary?
This one I cannot check out right now.
> 2. Is there a way to make debian understand rpm's? If so, where can I
> find info on how to do it?
Have a look a
Hi,
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, sido wrote:
> The mouse is a 3-button mouse, manufacturer Digital.
>
> ls -l /dev/mouse
>
> /dev/mouse-> ttyS0
>
> That doesn't seem right to me but I can't figure out how to change it
> either.
The following informations would be useful:
Debian version
How
Hi,
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, paul wrote:
> In my expirience, this problem is mouse dependant, on one box I have a
> mouse that requires a different protocol under gpm than under X-window but
> the mouse will not auto-switch when X-window starts, so I don't run gpm on
> that box.
It is mouse de
Hi John,
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> Killing gpm (through "gpm -k" and "/etc/init.d/gpm stop") makes the
> mouse work in X and fixes the display problems in the framebuffer.
> Does anyone have any ideas about what could be causing this?
How does your setup in XF86Confi
Hi,
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > At the moment the gpm/X11 problem with PS/2 /dev/psaux mice and an
> > unreliable ppp dialout come to mind.
>
> Hi Kerstin.
>
> I managed to solve the gpm/X11 problem by discovering that the gpm
> install defaults the repeat mode to ms3button
Hi,
question:
Should all problems which arise now be reported to Debian-testing
instead of to the bug list?
At the moment the gpm/X11 problem with PS/2 /dev/psaux mice and an
unreliable ppp dialout come to mind.
Regards,
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Hi,
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Arthur H. Edwards wrote:
> In the XF86Setup session, did you specify a three-button mouse?
I can not remember it did ask for it specifically, but I decided against
Emulate-3-Buttons. I tried now several things in exchanging the entries
in section Pointer and nothing wor
Hi,
I had the "glourious" idea to have at the look at the bug reports and
indeed found a helpful hint.
Somebody reported, that he solved the problem in
a) changing in /etc/X11/XFConfig86 the section Pointer back to
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
and b) in downgrading gpm (deinstall new
Hi,
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > section pointer of XF86Config so that XF86 thinks, I have got a 2
> > button mouse?
> >
> > Since this is a Logitech 3 button mouse. Should I perhaps choose another
> > protocol instead of Microsoft?
>
>
> Not necessarily. Take a look at the man
Hi,
obviously, I was too fast when saying, that the mouse works under X now.
The problem I am facing: The second mouse button does not work. I
cannot cut and paste. Is this perhaps caused by the entry "Microsoft" in
section pointer of XF86Config so that XF86 thinks, I have got a 2
button mouse?
Hi,
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Mark wrote:
> Sorry but I mist the thread of this one!.
It seems, that there are several people around with this problem.
> I also have a gpm / xwindows conflict. I have tried various protocols and
> types of mouse (I tried a serial bus mouse and a ps2 trackman), bu
Hi,
On 6 Jun 2000, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> Are you sure that "MouseSystems" is the correct choice? I always use
> "Microsoft" here.
I put "Microsoft" in there and it worked. Thanks for helping!
But I would anyway like to know, where this "Microsoft" comes from. Is
it mentioned somewhere in the
Hi,
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, John McBride wrote:
> XF86Setup will start working right. Main problem now is that when I log
> in through gdm/helix gnome, there is no wm started -- just a gray
> stipple and a single button 2 menu. sawfish is installed and configured,
> but not launching I guess. Any h
Hi Eric,
On 6 Jun 2000, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>
> Kerstin> Protocol"MouseSystems"
> Kerstin> Device "/dev/gpmdata"
>
> Kerstin> and added the -R option in /etc/gpm.conf.
>
> Kerstin> The mouse is still dead in X11.
>
> Are you sure that "MouseSystems" is the c
Hi,
I have been setting up my xwindow system successfully, if it wasn't for
that conflict between xwindow and gpm. It is the before discussed thing:
Unless gpm is killed before starting x11, the mouse is dead.
Sure, I've got the specific combination of PS/2 and /dev/psaux.
It was mentioned that
Hi.
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> You'll find your videocard in the card-list during x configuration
> (AFAIK) and you only need to know the hsync an vsync of your monitor and
> IIYAMA puts that in the manual that comes with the monitor.
Do I have to install the different servers l
Hi,
concerning telnet:
I want to be able to login with a telnet client via ethernet, but I
don't want anybody else to be able to login via ISDN and ppp. Is it
possible to tell telnetd to serve only those logins coming from the
LAN?
To collect data for an x window setup, I ran xviddetect. This i
Hi,
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib non-free
> > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/ potato/non-US main
>
> Drop the word '
Hi,
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib non-free
>
> That should be:
>
> deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/..
> or
> deb http://www.debian.org/...
I thought about something like this and did one test in exchanging all
https
Hi,
My /etc/apt/source.list looks like that:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/ potato/non-US main
contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://ft
Hello Eric,
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:33:56PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> >
> > A potato is a specialised starch storage organ of the potato plant,
> > necessary for vegetative reproduction. Starch is the carbohydrate,
Hi,
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote:
> Well, irrelevantly to Debian its a carbohydrate.
Hmm, as a biologist, I cannot leave it like that.
A potato is a specialised starch storage organ of the potato plant,
necessary for vegetative reproduction. Starch is the carbohydrate, but
potato
Hi,
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > packages are required: libz1 and libxpm4. I searched for them in the
> we had this topic already several times on this list ... seems to be quite
> common.
I guess, my problem is caused by the fact that I use dpkg to investigate
dependencie
Hi,
after collecting a heap of files necessary to install X11 (potato), I am
stuck. For xbase-clients and fvwm (why is it called fvwm2 in package
comments, but not listed as fvwm2 as *.deb and in Packages?) those two
packages are required: libz1 and libxpm4. I searched for them in the
Packages f
Hi,
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Alec Smith wrote:
> Be careful though, not all providers use an external "modem". I know that
> here in Ohio, Ameritech uses an internal PCI adapter. As far as I know,
> Linux doesn't support these internal adapters.
And here in Germany, you have to fiddle around to mak
Hi,
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> /var/messages has a "-- MARK --" every 20 minutes; why?
If a problem arises, you can see what time it showed up. E. g. I once
was running an analysis on my Atari TT with Debian 2.0. The analysis
presumably would have taken 9 days, but never got
Hi,
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Steven Burns wrote:
> You and I are in the same boat. I recently became interested in linux
> and am now trying to install Debian GNU/Linux from the CD that came
> with the book, Learning Debian GNU/Linux by Bill McCarty.
> Unfortunately, the installation program on thi
Hi Antonio,
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> What else can the reason be? I have cheked and made sure that I have
> almost every single option embeded in the kernel. Still doing it.
Hmm, what else is necessary? You do have IDE or SCSI support compiled
into the kernel as well as
Hi Antonio,
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:42.
> This is happenning after compiling a new kernel. I can still access the
> system through an old kernel.
In most cases it simply means, that you forgot something really
important wh
Hi,
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Stevenson wrote:
> /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lbin are the apps/libraries that are specific to one
> machine, i.e. an application that is installed but is not part of the debian
> distribution
What about /opt?
Regards,
Kerstin
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Hi,
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > The ppp dial-in is still unreliable. Usually the first attempt fails,
> > [...]
> > What might be the problem? Once the connection is settled, it seems to
> > be stable.
> >
> this might be related to the above problem, as the serial port,
Hi!
What does the message "S30.serial: Permission denied" during bootup
mean?
The ppp dial-in is still unreliable. Usually the first attempt fails,
but sometimes the following attempt does not work either. Communication
with the serial interface seems to work, but sometimes it does not
establis
Hi John,
On 9 Apr 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> Kerstin writes:
> > why does pppconfig save the nameserver entries in a separate file
> > /etc/ppp/resolv and not as reported in /etc/resolv.conf?
>
> When ppp comes up the dynamic-dns script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d copies
> /etc/resolv.conf to a safe pl
Hi to all,
why does pppconfig save the nameserver entries in a separate file
/etc/ppp/resolv and not as reported in /etc/resolv.conf?
Will it cause trouble, I delete the file in /etc/ppp/?
Regards,
Kerstin
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Hi Cris,
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> /hda1 2.5 gig. debian
> /hda2 1.5 gig red hat
> /hda3 115 meg. swap.
>
> i dont have partition magic but i would like to know if it is possible to
> install debian (with booting from hard drive) and then install red hat linux
> on the se
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