problems with cron and caldera wordperfect

1997-01-22 Thread Miro Torrielli
Greets, There seems to be a problem with cron.. it doesn't work.. all the crontabs I have installed don't run, and the system ones don't either. Also, I cannot get caldera wordperfect to run, it almost seg faults.. as does star office for that matter.. any clues? Thanx, Miro -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Unidentified subject!

1996-12-19 Thread Miro Torrielli
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: StarOffice 3.1 segmentation faults I have been trying to install StarOffice 3.1 beta 2 on my debian 1.2 box, but the setup program keeps on producing segmentation faults at the very end of the installation process, and the actual programs (starwriter, s

Re: Realtek RTL8029

1996-12-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
Toens Bueker wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote: > > > I need help on installing this ethernet card, as the drivers don't seem to > > be included. > > I don't know, but I think I installed one today. Is yours a pci-card? Can >

Realtek RTL8029

1996-12-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
I need help on installing this ethernet card, as the drivers don't seem to be included. Thanx Miro -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing RPMs

1996-12-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
Vatiainen Heikki wrote: > > It seems to be in package 'debmake' section 'devel'. There is version 1.95 in > stable and 2.13 in unstable. Haven't used it myself though. > > > I remember hearing that it was possible to install RPM packages in > > debian 1.2 via an "alien" program or something of th

Re: Video card

1996-12-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH wrote: > > Hello, > > I've got a Matrox Mystique video cards which seems not to be > supported by Xfree86. Have anyone information about it ? > > Thanks > > Franck In fact, XFree86 supports only the Millenium car

Installing RPMs

1996-12-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
I remember hearing that it was possible to install RPM packages in debian 1.2 via an "alien" program or something of the sort. Where can I obtain this? Thanx, Miro -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: texbin postinst in unstable fails

1996-09-13 Thread Miro Torrielli
> C'est manfnt.mf. Install mfbasfnt-1.0-3 de "buzz-fixed" et ca ira. > > Amities, Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd > > Merci! Ca marche maintenant. Translation: Thanks, now it works :-) -->> Debian Linux, the choice of a GNU genera

texbin postinst in unstable fails

1996-09-13 Thread Miro Torrielli
I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to retrieve all necessary packages, from stable & unstable. Firstly, I noticed that when installing a large number of packages on the system, the unpacking of some of them fail, complaining that some lib or another is missing. This has already

debian-architecture for kernel,modules

1996-09-11 Thread Miro Torrielli
Could someone, preferably the kernel maintainer, tell me what the debian specific changes are to the kernel and module architecture compared to say, slackware or redhat? Firstly, the debian-kernel-image 2.0.6 provided on the ftp sites is broken, even though in the stable tree. When I install it, it

Boot hangs with 16M ram

1996-09-09 Thread Miro Torrielli
My debian box doesn't seem to be able to boot with 16 megs ram!! Dos and windows works fine, but Linux just hangs after it does partition check. I boot with lilo, using both kernels 2.0.17 & 18. The basic Debian boot disks crash when mounting the ramdisk, dumping register values and informing me o

Java Workshop

1996-09-06 Thread Miro Torrielli
The Java Workshop mini-howto in the latest doc-debian package describes how to setup JW on Linux. However, the latest JW, version 1.0, has just been released, and is slightly different than the old version referred to in the howto. Is the setup procedure the same? I doubt it, because there are som

Emumod & Dosemu 0.63.66

1996-09-06 Thread Miro Torrielli
While on the kernel subject, I'm having problems insmoding the emumod module of dosemu. After a successful compile, emumod won't load, saying: undefined (repeated fifteen or so times) Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.17) don't match your linux-2.0.17 This has also happ

Upgrading to un-debianized kernel

1996-09-05 Thread Miro Torrielli
I recently upgraded to the 2.0.17 kernel, although this problem occured with other non-debian kernels. I now get, on boot, and in my daemon log when use diald and pppd, Can't locate module net-pf-4 """""" -5 The problem is not terminal, but it does bug me. I thought the problem

Dosemu

1996-09-04 Thread Miro Torrielli
Has anyone succeeded in getting the latest versions of Dosemu to work? I can successfully compile, but can't insmod emumodule. Insmod dumps fifteen or so lines saying: x undefined ... Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.7) don't match your linux-2.0.7 What's going on?? Seems as

popclient, procmail, and elm

1996-09-02 Thread Miro Torrielli
I seem to be having problems with using popclient, procmail and elm together. I've set up popclient and procmail correctly, filtering messages well. Elm can read folders produced locally by cron, etc.. However, folders created by popclient + procmail cannot be read by elm. I get "folder corrupt," a

xdm (fwd)

1996-09-02 Thread Miro Torrielli
Forwarded message: >From mtorr Mon Sep 2 09:20:21 1996 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: mtorr (Miro Torrielli) Subject: xdm To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:20:15 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.

cron

1996-08-27 Thread Miro Torrielli
I would be grateful if anyone can tell me how to get cron to mail me its results daily. Thanx... :-)

Two X questions

1996-08-27 Thread Miro Torrielli
I'm have these two problems lately: 1) My Cirrus Logic GD5434 works fine in 8bpp mode, but produces streaks at 16bpp. Has anyone had the same problem? Is the SVGA XF86 server bugged, my video timings screwed, or my monitor to blame? 2) Ever since I upgraded to the latest xterm-color, I can't get

serial connection

1996-08-26 Thread Miro Torrielli
Ooops, I meant a null-modem connection.

popclient

1996-08-26 Thread Miro Torrielli
Does anyone know how to use procmail with popclient? When configured to use procmail, popclient exits saying that it can't exec a few things. Any hints? :-) Oh, and does anyone know how to establish a serial connection between DOS and a debian box??? Thanx for the help...

A few problems

1996-08-25 Thread Miro Torrielli
I've been having a few problems lately: 1. After I recompiled the kernel, NAS loads fine at boot, but auplay et all tell me that they can't connect to audio server. Can anybody help?? 2. I can't get diald to work. Pppd works fine, but diald disconnects from my ISP as soon as I get connected. I ha

Re: Can't remove sendmail with dselect/dpkg

1996-08-21 Thread Miro Torrielli
y about the mis-understanding ... > > Thanks > > On Sun, 18 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote: > > > John Houwen wrote: > > > > < ascii deleted> > > > Can anyone help with this? > > > > > > > > > > Sounds strange. Anyway, the si

Re: Can't remove sendmail with dselect/dpkg

1996-08-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
John Houwen wrote: > > In my original installation, I incorrectly selected sendmail (among > other things ) to be installed. Upon further investigation, smail > would appear to be the preferred mail transport device. > > However, dselect/dpkg refuses to remove it, or any part of it. > "smail not

Re: Where can I get dpkg-ftp other than the install disks?!

1996-08-17 Thread Miro Torrielli
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > Hi folks. > > I just returned to a pre-1.1 beta PC which has an early verion > of the ELF system. Here's my problem. I want to update it via > dpkg-ftp, but I can't find dpkg-ftp! I presume that it has been > incorporated into the base disks. How to I get it onto

Re: dosemu

1996-08-17 Thread Miro Torrielli
Shaya Potter wrote: > > What video card do you use? > > Shaya > -- > Shaya Potter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I'm currently using a Cirrus Logic GD5434, which works fine with XFree in 8 bit mode, but produces streaks at higher bpp's. Anyway, I'm getting a Matrox soon, a real speedster. Thanx for y

Re: dosemu

1996-08-16 Thread Miro Torrielli
Dale Scheetz wrote: > > I remember seeing this discussed on the list, but I don't remember the > specifics. It has to do with making a copy of your boot disk on the hard > disk and then booting from that. You might check out the HOWTO for > details. > > Luck, > > Dwarf > >

Re: dosemu

1996-08-16 Thread Miro Torrielli
Dale Scheetz wrote: > > Try installing the xcompat package. It probably has the a.out library > dosemu is looking for. > > Luck, > > Dwarf > > -- > > aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 > Flexibl

dosemu

1996-08-15 Thread Miro Torrielli
Congrats on the super distribution guys -- I'm switching forever from Solaris & Win95. They simply can't keep up with the blinding speed at which the unix-linux-net community is developing. The magic ingredient? Free software!! Well, I have installed and set up Debian 1.1.5 via ftp with no probs.

dosemu

1996-08-15 Thread Miro Torrielli
Congrats on the super distribution guys -- I'm switching forever from Solaris & Win95. They simply can't keep up with the blinding speed at which the unix-linux-net community is developing. The magic ingredient? Free software!! Well, I have installed and set up Debian 1.1.5 via ftp with no probs.