flash, shockwave, and quicktime; and web browser incompatibilities

As a science teacher, I built a four machine GNU/Linux network. The biggest headache from the getgo (through all years, in fact of using GNU/Linux exclusively) has been incompatibilities with web sites. It seems to me an immorality for scientists to build web sites on proprietary formats; but t

Galeon opens multiple frames recursively, endlessly

On a sid box, not really up to date (in the middle of a 350MB upgrade over a dialup connection) galeon is recursively opening up windows when started up. I cannot use galeon. Tried under all users on this system: it's a system wide problem. I have reinstalled galeon, with no change. This ha

Sane and HP 4100C usb scanner

This scanner was working until recently. An upgrade to sane and some kernel recompiles have taken place in the interim. I am seeking advice about the sane upgrade, whether it may have broken for me. I had a bit of trouble to set this scanner up on a sid box, quite some time ago. Perhaps over si

Update please on compiler status?

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Install lilo on new disk/new partition

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Copy entire filesystem

epartment LAN. Thanks to list members, six of whom showed strong support within hours of my earlier posting.) Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Sai

Hamm installation --- failure (base14-1 fails crc check)

lmost always. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands

rescue disk fails boot, 486 motherboard

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School Proof-of-concept network

g experience. Alan Davis -- Alan E. DavisMarianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Netscape (plugin or library probs?)

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Re: 2.0.33 is no good for lic6-dev

myself have been compiled by others and made available. I thank the developers. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7o

Xterm ALT key

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Re: sgml authoring ---> SGML Web Page

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mh isn't sending (exim is mta)

give me a clue how to set this up? I think I have had trouble with mh under sendmail as well? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 96950

Compilers Paranoia

I am afeared to install the (rather contorted) mosaic of C and C++ compilers and libs, after reading comments on the list. Wanting to install Deity, however, I find that the new C++ libs are required. Is it safe (and how safe) to install this mosaic? Alan -- "Our loyalties are to the species

Unidentified subject!

I do mail through an ISP. Messages are cached on my machine until I connect via ppp to my ISP. Incoming mail is snarfed off a POP server, until recently by fetchmail. About a month and a half ago, I upgraded smail and fetchmail simultaneously. Since that time, I have consistently not been able t

fvwm2: icons not visible as user, ok as root.

For quite a while, I have not been able to see most icons in fvwm2 (or other windows managers, except afterstep, which keeps icons in a certain directory). As far as I can recall, icons were visible for a brief time when I first installed Debian on this machine in July 1997. I posted about this

2.1.XX kernel compile still not going well---ppp

For well over a year, I have experienced some kind of problem compiling the 2.1.X kernels. The kernel boots well, but ppp support isn't working properly. I've been around and aruond with the lists on this. This has happened on two different machines, through libc5 and libc6 libraries. Both mod

sysvinit and kbd SOLVED.

I have replaced the link and all is now well. > Oh, but that's wrong. You're linking to ../init/.., NOT ../init.d/.. > (note init vs init.d) > Mike. Sorry for wasting bandwidth. Alan Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

sysvinit and kbd questions (continued)

The message I am getting comes from /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, which is called by the kbd.postinst script. if (($linkdst ne "../init.d/$bn") && ($linkdst ne "../init.d/$bn")) { print STDERR "update-rc.d: warning: $fn is not a link to ../init.d/$bn\n"; return 0;

sysvinit and kbd

Trying to avoid a problem discussed on the developers' list, I snarfed the latest sysvinit and kbd off Incoming of a mirror this morning, and installed over what was probably the offending pair. The new packages are: kbd_0.95-6_i386.deb and sysvinit_2.74-2_i386.deb U

Icons in windows managers

For a long time, since two days after I first installed a pre 1.3 debian system, most of the icons in fvwm2 menus stopped working. Until the latest afterstep, only root could get all the icons in afterstep, but the latest afterstep improves this at least to some extent. Is this a permissions is

TIND?

What happened to TIND? It was a favorite tool, until about two months ago, it stopped working---perhaps due to conflict with some new library? Just wondering how such a useful tool just up and disappeared. Alan -- "Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis plane

APC UPS

I have a small APC BackUPS Pro working with debian linux. The genpower debian package is really easy to get working for that unit. Alan Davis -- "Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation

two monitors

I am trying to get an old mda (hercules compatible?) card going together with a Matrox Millenium on an ASUS P55T4P2 motherboard. On my quest, I have found two ways to do this, one of which almost works---a "multimon" kernel patch that has compiled cleanly on 2.0.33. A second approach is called "m

New gs-aladdin package (5.10)---is it broken?

I have a perl script that balks on the new hamm gs-aladdin. Realizing this is a non-free package, is this something familiar? I downgraded to the old 5.03, and it works fine. Alan Davis -- "Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. O

where is t-mouse.el?

I have checked my mail; it was the maintainer of gpm who had set up the install of an earlier package to strip out t-mouse.el from the system---it worked fine until then. It might still be available in the upstream source for gpm. Yes, the package was working ok until it got stripped out. I've

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #141

This should probably be a bug. It was either the emacs or the gpm maintainer who thinks that this file is not needed, and his handiwork managed to clobber the version I had on my machine, that was working before. When I contacted him by email, he hadn't a clue. I also want to find a new copy. A

Re: Gimp doesn't accept text input

I also had this problem. I went to the trouble of compiling from sources, and had the same problem when using the newer gtk+ package. I then recompiled, using the release of gtk+ previous to 971201 (I think 971109), and this feature now works ok. Alan -- "I consider that the golden rule req

The GIMP problems

I can't draw anything in the gimp. Lines don't show up, using the pencil, brush, or other drawing tools. The spline tool does lines, but when I switch over to pencil or brush, etc., the lines disappear. I get some messages, including ** WARNING **: XGetWindowProperty failed This message I got

"upgrading" ncurses packages

I have finally flipped a breaker, and spent the day on up "upgrade" to glibc/libc6. This was forced by my own confusion, as well as that, apparently, of my machine, as to which libraries were to be linked into xtide2.0. After the "upgrade" the package compiled ok. Most of the package updates w

gimp can't load any file.

I ftp'd the debian gimp package from the maintainer's site. I had to install a detailed list of upgrades to be sure it would work. I THINK I installed them all right(!?!). But, while The GIMP runs, it won't load any file. I didn't install any new gimp-data package. I liked the non-free gim

GRASS and libcurses.so.1

Perhaps this is offtopic. Perhaps not. I am trying to get GRASS running on a debian system. My problem isn't unique, but I want to find out if anyone running debian has solved it. The problem I am getting with existing precompiled binaries, is failure to load the curses library libcurses.so.1.

man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.

Monthly, or more often, since installing Bo 1.3 on new system, I have had to re-install man-db, after getting segmentation faults whenever executing man. I don't believe this is related to libc6, as has been reported. It happens at almost random times. Perhaps certain package upgrades have caus

Forwarded msg: [lorenzo@ccda.utovrm.it: Re: Compose key? (Can a windoze keyboard be configured to...)]

[[Lorenzo Catucci asked me to forward this private message to the list.]] [[ --- Alan Davis]] On 5 Oct 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > Can a windoze keyboard be configured, so those three extra keys can do > something interesting? > > Like act as a compose key? a meta key? > Defini

Re: Real Video Coverage of Individual Network Convention

A note of irony: I have realaudio 3.0 and wanted to listen to the conference, which I think starts in a few hours. It is offered in video, not audio; linux binaries are unavailable for the needed realplayer version. At least as far as I can tell. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

fdisk vs cfdisk to partition 3.1G drive

Hello. This is a query more out of curiosity than a need. I just received a 3.1GB Western Digital Caviar EIDE drive. I slapped it on as Master of the second IDE channel of my motherboard, and after a bit of messing around with the BIOS (leaving the configuration in automatic mode, but specifying

Video Card and SVGA and dosemu

I bought a Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM. This is the safe route, I think, as there are some 2MB boards with a slower RAMDAC chip. I guess SVGAlib doesn't support this card, and this is certainly a problem What I am wondering about though is dosemu. I was able to get dosemu (the debian package)

Emacs dumps core after some major upgrades on system

Emacs dumps core, repeatedly. I just replaced the xlib6, installing both xlib6 and xlib6g in hamm. Is this possibly the problem? I have just installed new slang0.99 libraries from hamm, and the newest svgalib1 in hamm. Also, a number of applicatoins that were, mainly dependent upon earlier sla

Emacs core dump SOLVED by downgrading to xlib6-3.3-4 in BO.

Emacs booted up after I downgraded xlib6-3.3-5 (in hamm) to xlib6-3.3-3 (in bo). I didn't have to touch xlib6g. I am unfamiliar with the use of strace, but when I tried it, the core dump occured as a SIGSEGV, right after getting the PID. Apparently emacs_19 has to be recompiled for the new l

SVGA w/ Matrox Millenium ?

Tried DOSEMU debian package. Saw it on the menu of a windows manager (nice feature) and was highly surprized when it booted up. But when I tried to run a small graphics program, I got an out of memory message. Also, it is apparent that the failure of this video card w/ SVGA lib is affecting DO

re: printing to an HP Deskjet 870

It works well to configure using magicfilter, as a laserjet 4. And for color, you can configure another printer as a Deskjet 550c, though it's not convincing---it does work though. There exists a driver for dj 850, though I was unable to get it to compile (incompetence on my part). Does Ghostsc

Forking debian-user?

Certainly as a longstanding kibitzer on this list, it is none of my business. However, I would like nevertheless to point out the following, relevent to recent suggestions that the list splinter into two or more offspring: Over approximately a 12 hour period today, I received debian-user digests c

Re: ide error : {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}

I get a similar message, but each time it's just a nuisance---the reset succeeds and the disk goes on reading. I happens in X or on the console, and only once every couple of days, usually during a long disk access. I have ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard 32 MB Micron 50ns EDO (in 2 16MB simms)

Re: magicfilter & Espon Stylus Color II

There is a lengthy discussion of the Epson Color Stylus II in /usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz. I'm sure it's over my head, but it does seem there has been more support paid to the newer Epsons than to my HP. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 9, Paul Wade wrote > > I got it to work in color on a f

"ALT" key doesn't work in X, affecting emacs especially.

The ALT key in X11 isn't working right. I have just installed XFree86, the SVGA server for the Matrox Millenium (4MB WRAM), and I am not sure what I did or didn't do, or could have done to make this key work right. Is it the Keyboard setup in the installation of the Debian system? Is it xterm?

Success installing Debian from CDROM

I was able to successfully install Linux from a bootable CDROM, without a serious hitch. The system is Debian 1.3.0, installed from a two CD set from Paul Wade. I did not have to install MSDOG at all. The installation went almost flawlessly. Debian's installation frontend has been cleaned up

APC/apcd

I am posting regarding the recent thread about APC interface software, in particular apcd. Does your package deal with the APC Back-UPS Pro? I recently purchased one of these, and my explorations have brought to light that this system uses a different language than the APC Back-UPS to talk back a

Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG

I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a new system. I can probably get a copy of MSDOG, but I'd like to avoid this. Eventually it will perhaps be necessary to install Windows 95 or Windows NT and MSDOG, but to begin with, I will install Linux. I expect to be able to create the installation disks

LaTeX to SGML?

I am working on a project for which final output is expected in PageMaker format. I don't have PageMaker, but I am familiar with LaTeX. I saw a reference to an SGML to Lyx package---is there a LaTeX to SGML utility, or, alternately, a way to do this. RTF may be an option, I think. I have not h

Debian CD

Where can I find a list of Debian CDs and sources? Does someone on this list have Debian CD's including hamm? I want to order by COD US Mail, but noone wants to believe we have a US post office here? Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10

Digitizing tablets

Are digitizing tablets supported? Does linux allow the use of a digitizing tablet as a surrogate mouse? What drawing programs make good use of tablets? Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001

Mutt Segmentation Fault at certain messages?

I am using Mutt 0.61, mostly happily. I don't understand why very infrequently, mutt stops loading with a segmentation fault error. In a number of cases, I noted this happens near a message that is a notification or warning of undeliverable mail. Can anyone shed a clue? Alan -- Alan Eugene

DEITY: packages unpacked but not configured

One thing that could be more than an annoyance with dpkg/dselect is that dpkg does not check before unpacking files, and seemingly only after unpacking the files notices the dependencies, etc. Wouldn't it be more intelligent altogether to check first, before unpacking? Alan Davis -- Alan Eu

Printing gif via ghostscript

I need to be able to print gif files, unfortunately. This can be done through ghostscript or the PCL version in an HP870C. Can I ask advice as to what would be the most straightforward way to do this, and economical in terms of system space. There's not much disk space left on this machine. Th

What gives? --- [vonhagen@les01.supelec.fr: Re: exp(x**2)*erfc(x) not correctly plotted]

I did try the procedure mentioned below in gnuplot. An apparent error does happen to me, something similar to what is mentioned in the below. Is this indeed an error in "linux"? If so, traceable to what? Alan Davis -Forwarded message from info-gnuplot mailing list. >> I'm using gnup

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #145

I have been using magicfilter for a while, and have had several good experiences with it. I remembered last night why I had not used apsfilter. I tried to install apsfilter last night, because there is no magicfilter on bo. I got a new printer, and am trying to get it working right, while preser

my debian blunders v.97

Now I've gone and done it. I deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status. So now I can't manipulate anything? Is this a feature? (What can I do?) This hard disk has a manuscript on it that I cannot afford to lose, using LaTeX, and the TeX system is set up just right. I don't have a cdrom or a drive I am t

DEITY TEAM -- A suggestion or request

My needs might be better served if there were an easy way to instruct dpkg to install the binaries on a different filesystem, like a zip disk. There is probably a way to do this easily, but I haven't figured it out. Have to do links by hand? THe config files, and so on, should go in the regular

Children's software for Linux

Is that an oxymoron? Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islan

dftp without dselect?

Is it possible to install packages via dftp without using dselect? Alternately, what is needed to mount an NFS? Thank you. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E

pnelson@nyx.net

I had a problem with this too, in another way. I had tried to install the latest kernel, as there is a patch for both a printer and ZIP drive to share one parallel port. I needed genksyms from a newer package, since kernel 2.1.29 expects a genksysms with a "-k" switch, which earlier ("modules") v

parport patches.

I would like to find out how to get the ZIP drive drivers running that will enable sharing of the parallel port. I have tried to download the parport patches for 2.1.29 from http://www.cyberelk.demon.ac.uk, but cannot get them to patch the kernel sources (original) cleanly. I would be interested

Problem compiling gnuplot pre-3.6, pl.325,328

I have not been able to cleanly compile recent gnuplot beta releases. Mainly, the autoconfigure script "./configure", does not see "-lvga". Now I assume that the svga library is present, since I have installed svgalib1-bin 1.2.10-3 svgalib1-dev 1.2.10-3 svgalib1 1.2.