On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 02:06:58AM +0200, Marco Mililotti wrote:
> Una domandina sulle distribuzioni (ns. principalmente):
>ma i pacchetti precompilati distribuiti, sono compilati per il
> x386?? Spero di no, ma in caso affermativo, non ci si guadagnerebbe
> molto in prestazioni ricompilandoli
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 03:44:58PM +0200, Andrea Merello wrote:
Hi Andrea,
> Hello World!
>
> When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04
> it says :"Can't open display !!"
> What can I do ? Please Help me
Where are you typing it?
Try running
export DISPLAY=":0"; netscape
I also re
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 10:06:53PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> Somebody already pointed out to me that under the 2.0.36 version Linux
> kernel you can not load two modules for the same parallel port and that
> maybe there is already a printer module installed. Is this so? How do I
> check
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 11:15:33AM +0530, Mohsin_Ahmed wrote:
>
> Hi, I need a Xserver for Trident 9750 AGP, even the
> plain VGA16 or SVGA servers don't work with this card
> on Celetron Intel CPU, 64Mb Ram, Linux/Redhat 5.2 CD.
I have that card. I use the XF86_SVGA server
version 3.3.3 (lower v
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 11:00:26PM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if POP mail boxes could be set to
> automatically bounce messages over a certain size as soon as they arrive at
> the ISP :-)
to avoid downloading long letters you can use the -l option
of fetchmail
-Mic
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:49:52PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the
> time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...?
It may be a serious problem.
What are the first lines of the program 'top' ?
-Michele
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 12:18:04AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote:
> > > I have spent about a week trying to figure out why neither
> > > my Creative Labs SB16 or AWE6
On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 08:38:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Rob Browning writes:
>
> > Presuming that most people won't have lockups, the overall inconvenience
> > might be less this way, particularly if it dramatically cuts the time to
> > run successful tests.
>
> I'm not sure I see why chec
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:06:25PM -, Andrew Holmes wrote:
> I configured my new machine to dual boot DOS and
> NT, but I can start BeOS using loadlin.exe from DOS. I know I can boot the
> linux kernel like this but how do I make it use a file on the DOS filesystem
> for the root filesystem. If
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 11:16:49PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote:
> No big traps that I can think of. I'm actually running NT+Linux on this
> very machine. I prefer copying the Linux boot sector and using the NT boot
> loader. Its nice being able to use the arrow keys and not have to type
> anything as L
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:41:37PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> Hi,
> is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the
> mouse under X?
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
> I have found it for gpm, but I couldn't find mention in the X
> manuals.
man xmodmap
-Michele
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 04:08:27PM -0700, Brett Wuth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My Debian system is getting to have so many packages installed
> that backing it up is becoming difficult. Ideally I'd like to
> only back up the files which I can't restore by re-installing
> the packages.
>
> Does anyone hav
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:22:37AM -0700, Scott J. Geertgens wrote:
>
> I recently posted a message about GCC not being able to compile due to
> dma_intr and/or read_intr errors. After receiving a response here and
> scouring the net I've realized that the problem lies on the drive itself
> (bad
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:28:10PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> Any ideas how to decompress them?
Try using Wine. I managed to decompress self-extracting Windows
archives using it.
-Michele
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:28:28AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be
> able to help me out.
>
> I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come
> with any driver disks or anything like that.
On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:25:49AM +0100, Darko Martic wrote:
> Where can I download it from? I mean for kernel 2.1. I currently have
> 2.0.36, and I can only listen .MID files now.
You can download 2.1 kernels from http://ftp.kernel.org or one its
many mirrors (such as http://ftp.us.kernel.org)
On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 05:35:55PM +0100, Andrea Novara wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm experiencing problems configuring my new awe 64 value ISA PnP card!
> [...]
> Jan 3 04:28:50 gromit kernel: AWE32: not detected
Maybe that you forgot to add support for the wavetable in /etc/isapnp.conf
Do you have
On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 06:39:59PM +0100, Darko Martic wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I have Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound card (SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster PRO and
> Windows Sound System compatible) and I have a problem installing/using it.
> After the Debian installation I manualy installed a newer kernel (from 1.3
>
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:50:21AM -0600, Nils wrote:
> The title pretty much explains this one. But is Mwave at all supported
> in Linux or is it pretty much in vain to install?
It seems to be (partially) supported.
Please read Documentation/sound/mwave from the Linux kernel source
tree.
-Michel
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 05:40:28PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
wrote:
> Hi Debian users,
> after a powerdown, my root partition have the following errors with
> the comand:
> # e2fsck /dev/hda2
> Dec 19 13:33:59 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> Uncorrec
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 09:02:55PM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> It's me again. I have a HP Deskjet 870Cxi. When I try to print to lpr it
> prints off the page. Does anyone know where I can get Deskjet drivers?
> HP says they don't have any for Linux. Thanks again!
Please install
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 05:38:48PM -0500, MenTaLguY wrote:
> I'm running 0.98.1 right now, and everything I try with lredir consistently
> fails:
>
> C:\DOSEMU>lredir d: LINUX\FS\dos
> Error f0bc redirecting drive D: to LINUX\FS\DOS
> C:\DOSEMU>lredir d: LINUX\FS\dos\ R
> Error f0c2 redirecting dr
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 03:22:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Then, I thought I'd take a stab at compiling the source code for KDE. BIG
> mistake. Evidently, I don't have all the X includes it needs, and damned if
> it'll tell me what they are - it (./configure) just says they aren't there
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 08:45:07PM +, Rich Hartman wrote:
> bootup, so that I can access my windows files from linux without
> having to "su root" and mount and unmount one at a time?
>
add to your /etc/fstab a line like this
/dev/hda1 /dosvfatdefaults0 1
and th
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 11:16:12PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote:
> Does anyone know how to change the BASIC mouse speed (not the
> acceleration) in X. The 'xset m' only changes the acceleration and
> threshold, but what I want is a faster non-accelerated mouse
> speed. I've tried 'xset m 4 1' which
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:00:32AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | Yes, but does this use my wavetable? I tried this, using the sound
> | banks installed on my Windows partition from the Creative Labs disk,
> | and playing midi files sounds AWEFUL. It
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 04:47:14PM -0600, Dana G Haugli wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB.
> I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the
> HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?
>
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:24:15AM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:10:40PM -0500, Paul McDermott wrote:
>
> alias char-major-14 sb
> alias synth0 opl3
> options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
> options opl3 io=0x388
>
Isn't irq 7 used by the printer port?
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 07:38:23PM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:07:50PM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote:
> > I got a small problem in X: sometimes, when I restart my xserver, mouse
> > stops working, and only reboot fixes it.
> > Any ideas what is it?
> Looks like You have Mou
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 01:43:03PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote:
>
> I just installed dosemu on my system via Debian package (version
> 0.66.7-13). I need to run a dos program, but I cannot even access the
> partition through dosemu.
>
> Thus far, I have tried the following:
>
> - lredir, always f
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 07:36:46PM -0500, The Cookie Man wrote:
> hi yall. i'm just installing debian today and i have no idea really what
> i'm doing with the modules. which ones do i need? which ones do i not
> need? (i.e. the ip modules)
>
Usually kernel modules are automatically loaded by a k
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 05:05:18PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote:
> Now I know that winmodems are generally a hopeless case, but
> is this still true if pnpdump detects it?
I think of yes.
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 04:57:43PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Promail is for filtering mails isnit? Well how do it work?
>
> It takes the /var/spool/mail/user file and prosess it??
No, the mail transport agent (eg. smail, exim) puts your
mail to /var/spool/mail/user unless
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 10:24:12PM -0700, Chip Grandits wrote:
> P.S. Is ADPCM the super-evil microsoft format that no opensource enthusiast
> deigns to support?
> How come I can't find a single Linux app to play ADPCM WAV files?!
I know of two linux applications which are able to play ADPCM
compr
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:06:00AM -0600, Lloyd Burris wrote:
> When ever I hook up to the internet from linux I seem to have trouble
> connecting to websights, ftp, and news servers. Can anyone tell me how
> to tune up Linux for a faster connection. When I am in windows my
> system flys but in li
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 05:55:59PM -0500, James Von Derrau wrote:
> I have recently installed Linux on my machine, and I am having only one
> prblem so far...
>
> I've checked in the FAQ, and How-to's but can't seem to find the answers I
> need.
>
> After I installed Linux and rebooted in dos whe
On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 08:23:47PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Michele writes:
> > It seems that there isn't a place (manpages, howtos, readmes) where these
> > speeds are listed :(, and even worse, my posting about this problem via
> > the debian bug tracking system had no replies
>
> What
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 02:01:55AM +0100, Michele Bini wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:23:31AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> > another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only
> > get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:23:31AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better
> connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard
sorry, what posting do you refer to?
> another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:40:20AM -0600, Lance Arsenault wrote:
> It's a pain to have to pick through 1000 + packages to install. I prefer to
> just
> install all of them without picking through them. Hard disk space is now
> cheep,
> and time is not.
You don't have to pick through 4000+ packa
> Hi guys,
> Sorry for asking the same question again..
> when I use vi in an xterm, and when I reached the EOF, my xterm
> started flicking.
Try to use rxvt, instead of xterm. It flickers much less.
-Michele
> I tried playmidi, and it just did not output any sound at all...
Try to adjust the midi output level using a mixer.
You can also add the AWE 32 support (it should work on a SB32, too).
(you can install the awe-drv, awe-midi awe-netscape and libawe0.4 packages
under debian, and use drvmid in
> On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 08:01:22PM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I had met problem on mounting a Fat32 drive (Win98), I don't know
> > Which kind of fat should I use in the mount command.
> >
> > For normal Fat16, We use:mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /hd1
> >
> The full-resolution coastline archive is 57 Mb. Will it be included? (High
> resolution is 12.6MB). I can see us filling a CD quickly with this. On the
> other hand, if it saves me a 57 MB download, it's very well worth it!
Data such this can be very useful to scientist but the main distributi
> Dear Debian users,
> how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so that I
> can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base system installed)
> to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM) using the FTP or the NFS
> access methods?
ppp / slip links are very slow.
If you
> Hi!
> After my upgrade to HAMM every kind of printing takes forever.
> No matter whether I print via magicfilter or cat a file to /dev/lp1
> my printer prints a line, waits something like 5 seconds, then
> prints the next line.
> Anyone out there who has an idea what happened?
> Do I have to set
> Can apache automatically decompress files ending in ".gz" and send the
> uncompressed stream (along with the correct mime-type) over the HTTP
> connection?
It seems that netscape or lynx are able to recognize a gzipped file
and read it, so I do not think that it would be useful to (g)unzip them
b
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Roy Ayres wrote:
B> Hi,
>
> When I shutdown X (using ctrl-alt-backspace) I get see the usual
> messages
> left on my screen by the xserver. I was just wondering how I get to see
> the full output of the xserver, rather that just the tail end of it.
> thanks
>
> Brian Sheeha
Sorry, I mistyped the speed. It is _exactly_ 57600, or pppd will fall back
to a much more slow speed (28000?). ^
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Michele Bini wrote:
> Maybe you have made the same error I made: to connect to my ISP I
> wrongly specified 38400 as modem speed since it was th
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the letter. However, my modem speed is set to 115000.
pppd is _NOT_ able to use that speed and will fall back to another, much
slower one (28000?) !!! (at least my (Bo) version of pppd, to check
against this look at the output of plog, you
> > I connect to my ISP with Win95 as well (cos there is no NetMeeting on
> > Linux :-(, and it is much more responsive.
> >
Maybe you have made the same error I made: to connect to my ISP I
wrongly specified 38400 as modem speed since it was the only speed I
found in the documentation (manual p
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Georgios Dimitriadis wrote:
> I recently tried to install debian on my laptop, 386sx. I have 5M of free
> RAM and acording to the installation guide it is enough. The problem is
> that when i try to boot from the disk the error message "cant find
> coprossesor or math emulat
The issue 30 of Linux Gazette, July 1998, has an article in which a
user tell the experience he had with an experimental product called
LinuxCad ( http://www.linuxcad.com ).
Ciao
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Michele Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linux programmer
Membro Pluto
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote:
> >On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I
> have
> >> already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file
> >> libforms.so.0.88 is
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote:
>
> Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the "XView" program
> by John Bradley.
>
> When migrating from Debian 1.3 to 2.0, I just backed up the important
> stuff, and did a total reinstall. (Too many upgrade problems posted
> to this ma
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:21:37 -0500, the lone gunman wrote:
>
> >only to the Microsoft programmers. In my mind, it just seems that the
> >more folks there are looking at code, the better the chances of
> >discovering bugs, security concerns, etc.
>
>
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Hersh, Harry wrote:
> Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp
> connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have
> bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an
> endless loop it cannot get out of. The prob
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I have
> already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file
> libforms.so.0.88 is in my /usr/X11R6/libdirectory.
> What is happening? Why cant `DAP' f
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
> Can Linux boot from an extended partition if I use a program such as
> System Commander?
If System Commander is as powerful as LILO, it should be possible.
Ciao
Michele
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 10:59:44PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got (at least) one photo taken while the camera was moving.
>
> Only one? :)
>
> > I'd really like to get rid of the vageness caused by this motion.
>
> Mmmh.
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Michele Bini wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All!
> > >
> > > I just had to run some DO$ software on my Linux B
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> I just had to run some DO$ software on my Linux Box (exactly: the monitor
> for DSP56002EVM evaluation module and DSP56002 assembler). I have decided
> to install the dosemu. To keep my box M$-free I wanted to use the FreeDOS
I experi
The bogomips value you see at booting time depends
only on the kernel, not on the distribution.
Maybe that the bogomips calculation algorithm is changed
from a kernel version to an other.
And remember that the bogomips value is bogus ;)
Michele
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:37:15 PDT , phillip Neumann said:
> Well sorry for this questio, but what is GUS ??
GUS means Gravis UltraSound and is a sound card like the AWE 32. It is
'inclined' to play MOD files.
> I need to load soundbanks and create them too. Im searching for a
> program that can
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