xforms replacement

1998-07-09 Thread The Gecko
What is a "Free" graphics/windowing/x library out there? I have a program that's written for xforms that I'd like to port to something that can go in main, not non-free. fltk won't work. I need the beable to plot graphs and fltk doesn't implement the xyplot function group of xforms. Come to thi

Search in Deselect

1998-07-08 Thread The Gecko
It seems that dselect searches just the package names, is this correct? Is there a way to get dselect to search other fields such as the short and/or long descriptions? -- http://benham.net/index.html -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C

Audio/Video Broadcast

1998-07-02 Thread The Gecko
I have a problem, I'm looking for the solution and I'm wondering if Debian has the software packaged to solve it... and if not if someone could point me to the software I would need. I need to broadcast video (say, from a capture card) and audio (ie.. from the microphone) and data (say, a NFS moun

Re: dosemu

1998-06-25 Thread The Gecko
On 24-Jun-98 Ian Stuart wrote: > How on earth do I get dosemu to use my 4Dos dos rather than freedos? dosemu uses a disk image that's been created before hand. To get dosemu to use another *dos than the one it's currently using.. build another/different disk image.. I built my image off of a flo

RE: scsi patch

1998-06-23 Thread The Gecko
On 23-Jun-98 Jesse Goldman wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a patch out yet for the scsi driver for kernel 2.0.34? I've got > an Adaptec with an AIC-786x chipset which had some problems last I > checked. If such a patch exists, where can I find it? Heard there was a pre-release patch for 2.0.35 out...

RE: Using Both IDE and SCSI Controllers

1998-06-05 Thread The Gecko
My system runs an Adaptec 7xxx SCSI controller (and drive), three IDE drives and an IDE CD-Rom... Works... boots off of /dev/hda1 so I had to use LILO to boot anything off of /dev/sda1 On 05-Jun-98 Allan Bart wrote: > I was wondering if any of the users on this group have concurrently > run both

Re: Can't recognize com port

1998-06-01 Thread The Gecko
On 01-Jun-98 Alan D. Post wrote: > which I got out of a book on Linux networking. Previously I was using > /dev/ttyS1 for outgoing connections. Is there any reason to use the cua > devices? /dev/ttyS* is the "latest standard". /dev/cua* isn't really supported any longer. --

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread The Gecko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>>"Gregory" == Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gregory> Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a > Gregory> newsgroup more convenient. Maybe for some, but I avoid news groups. I don't have the time it takes to fire

Re: PGP 262

1998-05-22 Thread The Gecko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 22-May-98 Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > PGP 2.6.2 is not ELF-ready. There's the non-us version as well as the > tarball source and diffs. The truly paranoid will want tarball and the diff > required to make a .deb out of it. 2.6.3 fixes many of the problems

RE: Unknown PCI Ethernet card

1998-05-22 Thread The Gecko
On 22-May-98 Peter Paluch wrote: > in my school I want to install a PCI ethernet card into my Linux server > box. I am not sure about it's type although I've read all manuals to it. > It just says it is a Genius / KYE Corp. Ethernet Card which is NE2000 > compatible, I think it is something like G

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread The Gecko
On 21-May-98 Shaleh wrote: > Check the permissions on the /dev/tty device. This is a LARGE cause of > the "ppp support" error. You can also try making your own kernel. PPP > is installed setuid so unless you changed anything it should be done. > setuid means that the bit is set so that when a

RE: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread The Gecko
Have you looked at /var/log/messages to see that ppp is actually initialized..?? On 21-May-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with > chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to > connect to the modem I created a symbo

Re: PGP 262

1998-05-21 Thread The Gecko
On 21-May-98 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Is there a specific reason that you need to build PGP yourself? It's > available in .deb format at > ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/bo/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-1.deb None, except that when I asked here earlier where to get it.. I was directed to

PGP 262

1998-05-21 Thread The Gecko
Ok.. I'm trying to compile PGPv2.6.2 and I'm getting errors.. something about P_SETP not being defined... where should I find this? -- http://benham.net/index.html -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++> P+++$ L++> E? W+++$ N

Re: Help! Windows95? Anyone?

1998-05-07 Thread The Gecko
On 07-May-98 Liran Zvibel wrote: > Hi. > You should try : > fdisk /MBR > Thi sshould erase the defected MBR, I'm not sure what'd happen to the > filesystems. (I'm sure that it won't work if you have more then one > partition.) > > HTH, > Liran. In Dos6.x, fdisk /MBR would work just fine (regardle

RE: NT-Netzwerk und Drucker

1998-05-07 Thread The Gecko
Finden Sie "samba" und Lesen Sie "Documentation" Darren P.S. Mein Deutsch is schlecht. Ich hoffe, Sie mich verstehen Kann. > Hallo! > > Wie verbinde ich eine Linux-Rechner eigentlich mit einem NT-Netzwerk, so > dass ich die Laufwerke und den Postscript-Drucker nutzen kann, die hier > an eine