Problems making a bootable DVD

2017-12-23 Thread Zack Shelby
Thought you might want to know... I recently downloaded the debian-live-9.3.0-i386-gnome.iso image hoping to create a bootable DVD for "test-driving" the new Debian OS. I first tried to use 7Zip to burn the DVD, but the result was not bootable, which is a shame as this would have been the perfec

No Front Panel Audio On Asus ROG Ranger VIII

2016-11-27 Thread Zack
aplay.conf So far, nothing has worked. You can see most of the stats of my system in the link above, but I am running Debian Testing with the 4.8 kernel. Thanks, Zack

Re: Issue installing Debian

2015-09-25 Thread Zack
As I write before, I used the CD 1 to install the system downloaded it from Debian.org via bitTorrent. The procedure is ok, right? El 25/09/2015 a las 21:41, Zack escribió: Yes, I did it. I selected the Debian desktop environment and the standard system utilities (the two options by default

Re: Issue installing Debian

2015-09-25 Thread Zack
Yes, I did it. I selected the Debian desktop environment and the standard system utilities (the two options by default), and of course, the base system. El 25/09/2015 a las 21:34, Noah Duffy escribió: On Fri, Sep 25, 2015, at 01:32 PM, Zack wrote: Hi, guys, how's it going? I got one que

Re: An issue with the Debian installer

2015-09-25 Thread Zack
Come on, guys, I'm serious. I want the system installed on my computer. Should I download again the iso image to retry with a new installer? An alternative. El 25/09/2015 a las 21:21, Brad Rogers escribió: On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:07:34 +0200 Zack wrote: Hello Zack, I do not understan

Re: An issue with the Debian installer

2015-09-25 Thread Zack
I do not understand why the installer do not install the desktop environment (GNOME). El 25/09/2015 a las 20:43, real bas escribió: Hello Zack, I suggest you install mate-desktop (looks like gnome2) instead of gnome3 if you have Debian Jessie. 2015-09-25 13:06 GMT-04:00 Brad Rogers

Issue installing Debian

2015-09-25 Thread Zack
Hi, guys, how's it going? I got one question: I installed the system using the CD 1. Everything was fine (the installation process). But, when the system runs, it shows the command line mode only, not the graphical environment, I mean, not GNOME. What should I do to resolve this issue? As I wrote

An issue with the Debian installer

2015-09-25 Thread Zack
Hi, guys, how's it going? I got one question: I installed the system using the CD 1. Everything was fine (the installation process). But, when the system runs, it shows the command line mode only, not the graphical environment, I mean, not GNOME. What should I do to resolve this issue? As I sa

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2004-05-19 Thread Zack Brown
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Choice of X fonts in Emacs

1999-03-31 Thread Zack Weinberg
I'm using emacs19 with slink (2.1). I use font-lock mode to syntax highlight C. When font-lock wants an italic font, it uses -adobe-courier-medium-i-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1, which looks hideous; this is because -adobe-courier-medium-i-normal only exists as a scalable font. I'd much

Re: getting asp to work

1998-12-12 Thread Zack Brown
> On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Zack Brown wrote: > > > I have had no luck getting 'asp' to work. I connect to my provider using > > ppp, figure out my new dynamic ip number from grepping /var/log/debug, > > create a ~/.asp/debian (my hostname is 'debian') fil

apache: "httpd: cannot determine local host name."

1998-12-12 Thread Zack Brown
w why it should have trouble finding my hostname. It's right there in /etc/hostname. I don't know how to use the 'ServerName' directive, whatever that is. Zack

getting asp to work

1998-12-12 Thread Zack Brown
en I run 'asp debian', nothing happens. It just sits for awhile and then exits. I suppose it's querying the net because I can see my modem lights blinking, but it fails to confirm my ip number. Even if there is another computer with hostname 'debian' out there, asp should at least return their address. Zack

junkbuster recipe for linux today

1998-12-10 Thread Zack Brown
Has anyone figured out a junkbuster recipe for the Linux Today web page? Zack

linux in the workplace

1998-12-10 Thread Zack Brown
insult intended to KDE). Zack

has anyone installed gimp-manual?

1998-12-08 Thread Zack Brown
to a url that definitely has an uncorrupted version? Zack

RE: More dselect wishes

1998-11-29 Thread Zack Brown
ners, and the maintainers decide whether to apply them with patch-brain or not. Bottom line: suggestions can do no harm, and they may help. Zack

unavailable dependencies: libgtop1 and libguile4

1998-11-29 Thread Zack Brown
These packages are needed by some gnome packages, but they don't seem to be available. Zack

upgrading slink cripples dselect/apt (and X) !!!

1998-11-29 Thread Zack Brown
error in ~/.xsession-errors I tried using dpkg to install the old packages, but it either refuses to uninstall libstdc++ because so many packages depend upon it, or to install the old version because a version is already installed. Catch 22. Zack

Re: [Perl-AI] distributed intelligence

1998-11-24 Thread Zack Brown
my (foolish) opinion, the issue of memory strikes at the heart of intelligence, and is far, far behind the current state of the art of nn, ga, and fuzzy logic. We don't even have any meaningful models to experiment with. Please correct me. I would love to be wrong. Zack p.s.: I think a glo

Re: Slow mail delivery

1998-11-22 Thread Zack Brown
fetchmail here. I had that problem. But in /etc/init.d/smail change the "-q10m" to "-q10s" and see if that helps. I don't know why the default is a ten minute wait. We should at least get an option during installation. Anyway, good luck. Zack > Paul Serice

Re: Slink broke after upgrade (Thank's it's working!)

1998-11-17 Thread Zack Brown
8a4e2b5603ea16b5a zsh_3.1.2-9.deb Zack

suggestion: transparent .deb files revealing logical structure

1998-11-15 Thread Zack Brown
es you want to see a different level of logical abstraction, or even the individual .deb files themselves. I see a lot of ups but no downs for this idea. Am I missing something? Zack

slink gives errors installing gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb

1998-11-15 Thread Zack Brown
ste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 D02: maintainer_script_new nonexistent postrm `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm' Errors were encountered while processing: gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb Zack

trn trouble on slink

1998-11-15 Thread Zack Brown
When I try to run trn, I get the following error: --- Warning: Couldn't open /etc/news/whoami to determine hostname! Caught an internal error--.newsrc restored --- Zack

more X in slink stuff...

1998-11-15 Thread Zack Brown
xinit: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Aside from the fact that X is broken in slink, is there any way around this? What deb file is the libXmu.so.6 library available? Zack

dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-10 Thread Zack Brown
would really like to search descriptions as well. I hope no one takes offense to these suggestions. I'm just trying to help. Zack

The next step: supercomputer via disparate nodes

1998-11-05 Thread Zack Brown
s of worthy causes, which participants could choose to mirror, to avoid the noise of the discussion groups while still donating their cpu power to the supercomputer. Zack

printing problem [was Re: Problems switching to debian

1998-11-05 Thread Zack Brown
_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT is not set # # Sound # # CONFIG_SOUND is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is not set --- Zack

Re: Print Postscript in draft-mode on Canpn BJ200, today!

1998-11-02 Thread Zack Brown
ght try the effect of, for example, putting {0.5 mul 0.5 add} settransfer at or near the top of the PS file. This should map all colours from 0 (black) to 1 (white) into the range 0.5 to 1 instead. Or experiment with other numbers. Zack > -- > Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Problems switching to debian

1998-11-02 Thread Zack Brown
gt; > around in /etc with no luck. I'm desperate. > > Have you tried running magicfilter? Is the lpr daemon running? I don't have magicfilter, but even catting to the /dev/lp? files don't work. But I do have the daemon running: ps aux includes this line: lp 139

Problems switching to debian

1998-11-01 Thread Zack Brown
urce file, but not if I just use the 'etex' command (even though etex runs and seems to work except for giving errors). In general, switching to Debian has been a really positive experience. I just really need help with (primarily) the printing problem. Zack

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 16:46:45 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >/lib/libc.so -> /lib/libc.so.5 >^^^ >MAY-DAY! MAY-DAY!!! > >/lib/libc.so.5 -> /lib/libc.so.5.4.36 >/lib/libc.so.5.4.36 >/lib/libm.so -> /lib/libm.so.5 >/lib/libm.so.5 -> /lib/libm.so.5.0.9

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 11:39:30 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 14 Jun, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> >> It looks to me as if the gcc drivers aren't doing anything wrong. But >> this is a big fat clue: >> >>>ld: warning: libm.so.6, needed by /usr/

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
It looks to me as if the gcc drivers aren't doing anything wrong. But this is a big fat clue: >ld: warning: libm.so.6, needed by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so, may conflict with lib >m.so.5 >ld: warning: libc.so.6, needed by /lib/libm.so.6, may conflict with libc.so.5 The linker called by gcc/g++ 2.7 i

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 22:51:30 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 13 Jun, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> What do you get if you do this: >> >> gcc -v -o hello hello.c > >This is what I get: > >% gcc -v -o hello hello.c >gcc version 2.7.2.3 [...] > ld -m elf_

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
C vs. C++ aside, there's a real problem here. The symbols __libc_init_first and _environ ought to be defined in libc.so; I'd guess that gcc isn't telling the linker to pull in libc. What do you get if you do this: gcc -v -o hello hello.c [Note I'm not actually on the mailing list, please cc: m