Re: Why

> But through Microsoft's efforts. Consider the fate of a video card maker > whose card does not work with Microsofts "generic" driver. Would it be difficult to develop a generic driver similar to Microsoft's? So any video cards compatible with Window's generic driver would work with the Linux on

Re: Mirroring a Server

hi ricardo > Any one can suggest me softwares for mirror a server (Backup) ? lots of backup and mirroring software.. - backup and mirroring is very very different... assuming you want mirroring... mirror.pl - common software... = if you want to copy/

PPP CHAP problem

Hi, I just set up a new connection with pppconfig 2.0.1. >From the responses from the remote server, I see that it wants to authenticate with CHAP and refuses my pap-secrets. Okay, I comment out the "-chap" in the /etc/ppp/options file, but now I'm getting the following, and I'm at my wit's end.

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

Hi, * Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It won't include EPS files, and lays out some files in a broken way Have you already tried epstopdf? > completely unlike LaTeX proper. That never happened to me, and I have not heard from anyone seeing this. It just uses TeX inside... Hmmm. >

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

* Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 08:05 PM 12/6/99 +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote: >> * Eric G Miller writes: >> >>> If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can >>> display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1 >>> fonts. Since A

RE: Why

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Paul McHale wrote: pmchal >This was the true beginning of ms domination. Big blue saw this and tried pmchal >to enter with OS/2. They screwed up and got in bed with ms. A losing pmchal >proposition for many. I believe you either work for ms or are in ms's way. IBM didn't

apt-get upgrade

Hi, I have used apt-get upgrade to successfully upgrade alot of my programs. I keep getting this message that The following programs were held back though. They all have to do with gnome and I really want to upgrade them. Is there a reason for this and how can I fix it. Thanks Rick Rick Knebel [

Re: apt-get question---

>Where does apt-get download the files from? /etc/apt-get/sources.list man apt-get would have told you. TomG > >Tom > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > pgpPFJ4OK0vuH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: mwagno >A lot of people I know have bought their first computer within the mwagno >last year. They'd be hard pressed to install Win98. In fact, I've mwagno >helped my neighbor re-install once, and I think another is on the mwagno >horizon, cuz he's complainin

Re: Why

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: bart >Would it be difficult to develop a generic driver similar to Microsoft's? So bart >any video cards compatible with Window's generic driver would work with bart >the Linux one? I believe that is one of the goals of the X frame buffer driver, reading/w

emacs20 apt-get upgrde problem

I did an apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade, and emacs20 failed: Wrote /etc/emacs20/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc Done install/dpkg-dev: Byte-compiling for emacs20 cp: debian-changelog-mode.el: No such file or directory emacs-install: /usr/l

Re: emacs20 apt-get upgrde problem

Darxus: Me, too. Guess we'll have to wait a few hours for the correction...(sigh!). Eric pgp3hqhYQIxhc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: An open letter to the debian community

Hi! Just some comments after reading the first posting and others. My english is not perfect, nor I reply exactly to this thread. I like Debian/Linux as it is. It is a wonderfull distribution allowing me to get every time when "I" want an update via Internet. (And not when others think I should

Re: NE2500 NIC

Phil Brutsche said: > Hrm... A quick grep through the kernel source indicates that this card > uses the AMD PCnet (aka lance) chipset. The driver is lance.o. What > specific problems are you having with this card? During installation, I haven't been able to come up with a parameter string which

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

At 01:12 AM 12/7/99 +0100, you wrote: >* Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> At 08:05 PM 12/6/99 +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote: >>> * Eric G Miller writes: >>> If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. Tha

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

At 01:08 AM 12/7/99 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, > >* Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It won't include EPS files, and lays out some files in a broken way > >Have you already tried epstopdf? > >> completely unlike LaTeX proper. > >That never happened to me, and I have not heard from anyone

Re: Mule for emacs20

Thanks! Worked like a charm! Marshal From: Jinsong Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mule for emacs20 Date: 06 Dec 1999 11:01:18 -0800 > In emacs20, you don't need mule: it's part of emacs20. However, I'm > not sure if Debian version contains the leim package. You can download > and compile

Re: isapnp problems?

Well, IRQs are always a headache. But if humans can't do it, do you think computers can do it better? look at /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports to see what your system is taking. (You probably know that already.) Anyways, back to the problem. My first suggestion is to change the following lin

Re: apt-get

On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 07:10:11PM -0600, Nathan York wrote > i tried that and got a new error > > fixed:~# dpkg -P lm-sensors > dpkg: error processing lm-sensors (--purge): > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal. > Errors were encou

potato openssh

Sven Esbjerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >The developers have changed the default configuration for ssh. What is missing >especially is X-forwarding. You will need to enable on a pr. host basis. This >can be done either systemwide in /etc/ssh/ssh_config or in ~/.ssh/config for >the individual user.

source build cluelessness (prc-tools && pppd)

Hello! I have had problems building a number of packages now, and am hoping someone could lend some pointers. I actually got someone to pay me to code on a Win32 project, so am somewhat familiar with programming (or at least I like to pretend), but I have gotten hit again and again while working

Re: NE2500 NIC

Shaul Karl said: > 1) /sbin/isapnp > 2) Donald Becker home page has links to programs to run that will give you > info about installed NIC. Donald's page has a number of ISA card utilities, but they're all tied to specific chipsets. NE2500/Lance is not among them and, of course, trying to use a

Re: Screen vibrates while using mouse or keyboard

Bart, YOu may want to try reducing the numbers for the horizontal or vertical sync. I have been experiencing similar problems with an old Compaq 140 monitor. I also used the parameters specified in the manual at the very beginning, and got the same "vibrations" that you are talking about

Re: Potato Boot message problem

Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I have a pretty stable recent install of potato. There seem to be 2 > > things that I want to know how to eliminate. > > 1. the boot message (menu) that asks if I want to use the default > > network installa

Re: Why

On Mon, 06 Dec, 1999 à 02:49:28PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > "Nate" == aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Nate> i believe the key to linux expansion is pre installed > Nate> machines. users will be very hesitant to change their OS from > Nate> something that works for them, even if it

Re: ADSL

"T.V.Gnanasekaran" wrote: > > i am planning to go for ADSL bellsouth fastacess account. > they are giving an internal pci adsl modem card. > what are the linux compatible adsl cards? --- I am not aware of any ADSL internal modems. I am currently using an Orkit FastI

dosfsck and vat32

Hi. I know for certain that there's a problem with my fat32 partition. The free space reported is much less from what there actually is. I tried running dosfsck on it, and it says "Root directory has zero size". What does that message mean? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

> Randy Edwards writes: > > I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support > > newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the > > dark side? :-) > > I consider them all new Debian users. What are Corel plans for the future of their Debian ventu

Re: apt-get upgrade

Rick Knebel wrote: > > Hi, > I have used apt-get upgrade to successfully upgrade alot of my programs. > I keep getting this message that The following programs were held back though. > They all have to do with gnome and I really want to upgrade them. > Is there a reason for this and how can I fix

Re: source build cluelessness (prc-tools && pppd)

Jonathan Lupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have had problems building a number of packages now, and am hoping ... >Problem 1. prc-tools. >I created a /usr/local/src/prc-tools, and ran dpgk-source to create >the appropriate subdirectory. >I go to the subdirectory and run debian/rules. >This seem

xconsole placement

I have a line in my ~/.fvwm2/init.hook file, + "I" exec xconsole -geometry 480x130+297+434 -bg gainsboro -exitOnFail -dae -notify -file /dev/console These are the permissions, ~$ l /dev/xconsole prw-rw-rw- 1 root adm 1951 Dec 7 00:10 /dev/xconsole| At any rate with this setup,

Re: apt-get upgrade

On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 07:19:55PM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote > Hi, > I have used apt-get upgrade to successfully upgrade alot of my programs. > I keep getting this message that The following programs were held back though. > They all have to do with gnome and I really want to upgrade them. > Is ther

Re: Undo in dselect

> Hi, > > I'm back to debian after a couple of years with Redhat/Mandrake. What > triggered the change was the possibility to upgrade certain packages, > without having a to perform a full reinstall. Anyway, here is my > question: > > How do I safely revert to a previous status. To be specific: I

Short description for the issues discussed by each mailing list?

Lately I found myself looking at the various debian mailing lists archives. Since there are quite of a few of them, I wonder if beside the one line description next to its name there is a file containing a short few lines description about the purpose of each mailing list and the issues that are

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:05:21PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > Has anyone gotten Acrobat to work on Potato? > > No, but why not use ghostscript? (eg, gv). > Package: acroread Version: 4.0-1 Do you mean the reader? Seems to work well here. -- System Information Debian Release: potat

Re: need help with gdb

> Is there some online reference for gdb? I consulted a Linux programming book > but it did not help. I tried the command 'gdb licq core' but this got me > nowhere; no 'core' file is created. I have used gdb before but for some > reason, I cannot get it to work. Perhaps I have forgotten how to

Re: An open letter to the debian community

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Godric wrote: > Am I alone in believing the battle is between empowerment and > profit? Not at all alone I think that there are amny, who agree with you. For me as well empowerment is the main issue. > Between an interactive computer operating system, and a > basically non

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 05:05:39PM -0800, Ron Hale-Evans wrote: > > > >That never happened to me, and I have not heard from anyone seeing > >this. It just uses TeX inside... Hmmm. > > Try pdflatex on . > Produces weird output, nothing like wha

Mouse works: is there x ppp config utility under Debian?

Yes, the mouse was switched to IRQ5 and it works now. At about the same time I've discovered what a rich keystroke environment x windows is. I was about to write about the bad keystroke accelerator support in x but that must have been kde because this fmvm2 or whatever rocks from a keystroke sta

64Mb memory problem (only 16Mb is seen by the kernel)

Hai, I have been working with debian 2.1 for almost one year now in a productive environent and I'm real happy with it! (running samba/qpopper/roxen http server/imp (web mail)/sendmail/ and some other stuff). In my new PC at home I have 64Mb of memory but only 16Mb is seen by the kernel. I alr

Fortran, Lapack

How does one compile a Fortran program with Lapack library ??? I tried: # g77 File.for /tmp/ccRuoSL4.o: In function `MAIN__': /tmp/ccRuoSL4.o(.text+0x954): undefined reference to `dsbtrd_' /tmp/ccRuoSL4.o(.text+0x9b2): undefined reference to `dpteqr_' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Of cours

Re: Why

On 6/12/99 Evan Moore wrote: Ever look at the macos installer? it has one of the nicest installers of all. for a newbie it is nicer than ncurses or xwin based linux installers and much nicer than a windows based installer. You can get full blown 24 bit color at full resolution with their install

XWindow werdeiness

Hi all, I installed potato in a machine with SiS 6326 and configured X but there is some problem with fonts pehaps. See a screenshot of the problem at: http://onnet.psi.br/~baptista/test.gif. Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

Shaul Karl writes: > What are Corel plans for the future of their Debian venture? Will they > release updates, Corel-potato, make their release larger etc? I haven't the foggiest idea what their plans are. They are very secretive. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisc

Re: Why

On 6/12/99 aphro wrote: i believe the key to linux expansion is pre installed machines. users will be very hesitant to change their OS from something that works for them, even if it means upgrading from win95 to win98 or nt or win3 to win9x. this isnt something that can be blamed on linux but on

Epson L 1500

Hi all, anyone knows if this printer is supported under Linux? Thanks, Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant Linux Solutions -- http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br Av. Pr

Re: 64Mb memory problem (only 16Mb is seen by the kernel)

MK>In my new PC at home I have 64Mb of memory but only 16Mb MK>is seen by the kernel. I alreadu tried 'append="mem=64Mb" MK>in my lilo.conf file but then my system craches (havy) after MK>several minutes, a reboot will give me a kernel panic MK>at boot time (first time I have seen one!) MK>My Pow

Re: ppp hangups...me to!

I have exactly the same problems on a 2.0.36 kernel (slink - and whatever ppd comes with that) (i.e. regular echo request failures and hangups). I can't stay on line for more than about 10 minutes at a time max. My phone line is good - assuming it's not a pppd bug, what should my ISP be doing?

Re: source build cluelessness (prc-tools && pppd)

On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 10:40:37PM -0500, Jonathan Lupa wrote > Hello! > > I have had problems building a number of packages now, and am hoping > someone could lend some pointers. I actually got someone to pay me to > code on a Win32 project, so am somewhat familiar with programming (or > at leas

Re: Fortran, Lapack

On 07-Dec-1999, Igor Mozetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How does one compile a Fortran program with Lapack library ??? > I tried: > # g77 File.for -llapack You don't need the lib at the start because it is automatically added. # g77 File.for /usr/lib/liblapack.a would probably also work.

Re: Fortran, Lapack

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:42:55AM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: > > How does one compile a Fortran program with Lapack library ??? > I tried: > > # g77 File.for missing library > # g77 -lliblapack File.for wrong switch > # g77 -L/usr/lib -lliblapack File.for wrong switch plus superfluous optio

Unidentified subject!

Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk ?"

Re: XWindow werdeiness

> Hi all, > I installed potato in a machine with SiS 6326 and configured X but there > is some problem with fonts pehaps. > See a screenshot of the problem at: > http://onnet.psi.br/~baptista/test.gif. > Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique You can change the defa

Re: Can't type in X

On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 09:13:19AM -0700, Raphael Clancy wrote: > Here's my sad story. > > To start, I have the worst video card ever... It's based on SiS 530 chipset. > It's built on to the mother board oad uses 8 megs of system memory for > graphics, of course it uses the first 8 megs, so

Re: Why

On 6/12/99 Evan Moore wrote: i have heard of there being probems running linuxppc on new macs, but on the 8600 in runs perfectly (well close to). The buggiest thing that i ran accross was messing in the open firmware (my 8600 had old firmware), yup BrokenFirmware is the greatest blight of the

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

On 12/06/99, Ron Hale-Evans addressed "Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?": > > Thanks for your help. I have ae.sty with slink. I tried it at your > recommendation, but am still getting the ugly Type 3 CM fonts in my PDF file. > > For the record, these are the steps I am taking: > >

re:ADSL modems

>>i am planning to go for ADSL bellsouth fastacess >>account. >>they are giving an internal pci adsl modem card. >>what are the linux compatible adsl cards? >> >I don't think they make ADSL modem cards yet. (My >ADSL modem is>>about as large as a kleenex box.) Bell south IS now using an internal

Re: potato openssh

On 7/12/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not finding docs on this particular problem. In fact, who's tcp_wrappers are killing the connection, mine or the remote hosts' ? Anybody knows what's going on ? this is just a wild shot of speculation but the old non-free ssh needed something like ssh-

Cannot install Sawmill 0.18

I have Sawmill 0.16 and last night tried to apt-get the latest available, 0.18, from this site: deb http://www.rcpt.to/ pending main. However, the install failed because of librep5 problems. Everything went smoothly and was seemingly uneventful until the end. I ran apt-get update, then apt-get ins

Re: Howto sincronize password files?

Phil Brutsche writes: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > I want to use one single source for password for use with Apache, > > qpopper and ftp. > > > > I need a simple and secure solution. > > > > using /etc/passwd with Apache seems not to be very go

Re: Epson L 1500

I didn't see it listed here, http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=Epson&format=full but maybe someone else knows. Just thought I'd make you aware of the link if you didn't know. hth, kent Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > anyone kno

64Mb memory problem (only 16Mb is seen by the kernel)

This is a long shot but did you recently compile your kernel? There is a place where you can select something about 16mb of memory. Maybe a coincidence maybe not. hth. kent Hai, I have been working with debian 2.1 for almost one year now in a productive environent and I'm real happy with it!

Error messages using Iomega ZIP

I use an Iomega ZIP 100 as a backup. I find that I frequently get cryptic error messages of various kinds while copying stuff to it. However, the actual files seem to get copied nevertheless; I'm not sure if they are perfect but as they are pretty well all text files a few minor errors wouldn't mat

Re: Joysticks

Quoting Tom Allard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I just upgraded my Slink kernel from 2.0.34 to 2.2.10 and wanted to play > with the joystick drivers. I've got a M$ Sidewinder (not a 3d pro or > anything, just a plain analog 2-button, 2-axis joystick that plugs into the > game module on the soundca

Re: Joysticks

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I compiled the joystick module and created the js0 device with: > ^^^ > Which? You must compile at least two. In your case, that'd be joystick and > joy-analog. I did have the joy-analog module. My problem was that I hadn't modified my is

RE: Error messages using Iomega ZIP

> I use an Iomega ZIP 100 as a backup. I find that I frequently get > cryptic error messages of various kinds while copying stuff to it. > However, the actual files seem to get copied nevertheless; I'm not sure > if they are perfect but as they are pretty well all text files a few > minor errors w

Re: Short description for the issues discussed by each mailing list?

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: shaulk >description about the purpose of each mailing list and the issues that are shaulk >discussed on it? I find the list names quite self explanitory. if your interested in legal information then go to debian-legal, if your a developer and have mostly q

Re: Mouse works: is there x ppp config utility under Debian?

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Andy Thomas wrote: andyth >Now, is there a ppp configuration utility under x in Debian? I can't find andyth >anything other than pppconfig and with that can't figure out how to get andyth >back to the dns configuration screen for any connection when using that. I've found it

Re: ppp hangups...me to!

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Martin Waller wrote: polyto >My phone line is good - assuming it's not a pppd bug, what should my ISP be polyto >doing? How can I convince them it's a problem at their end? Chances are it's not. Chances are its on your end :) What i suggest is you check your INIT string,

Re: potato openssh

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >have you tried adding: >ALL: 127.0.0.1 localhost >to /etc/hosts.allow just for testing? Thanks. Ok, I added 127.0.0.1 to hosts.deny on the remote end and it works now. But doesn't this rather weaken security ? I'd like to share what I've found out s

Re: Fortran, Lapack

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Igor Mozetic wrote: > > How does one compile a Fortran program with Lapack library ??? > I tried: > > # g77 File.for > /tmp/ccRuoSL4.o: In function `MAIN__': > /tmp/ccRuoSL4.o(.text+0x954): undefined reference to `dsbtrd_' > /tmp/ccRuoSL4.o(.text+0x9b2): undefined reference t

Re: Can't type in X

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: wegner >On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 09:13:19AM -0700, Raphael Clancy wrote: wegner >> Here's my sad story. wegner >> wegner >> To start, I have the worst video card ever... It's based on SiS 530 chipset. It's built on to the mother board oad uses 8 megs of

Re: Error messages using Iomega ZIP

Hello, I use an Iomega ZIP 100 as a backup. I find that I frequently get cryptic error messages of various kinds while copying stuff to it. Is anyone else using this same system, and do they find something similar? I use an IOMEGA Zip-100 under linux also. I have not seen any error messag

Re: Why

I agree BIOS is ten no a hundred times better thean OF, half the time with OF you are lucky to get a screen to see what you are doing. Anything was better than that, even bootX, but I wasn't aware of the problems in bootX before. > > I agree there > >are a few bugs in the installation the /dev/cd

Re: Error messages using Iomega ZIP

Quoting Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I use an Iomega ZIP 100 as a backup. I find that I frequently get > cryptic error messages of various kinds while copying stuff to it. > However, the actual files seem to get copied nevertheless; I'm not sure > if they are perfect but as they are pret

apcupsd doesn't shut down?

e | sharemaster | netslave | netmaster ] #UPSCLASS standalone # 19991207/rabe UPSCLASS sharemaster # UPSMODE [ disable | share | net | sharenet ] UPSMODE disable #DEVICE /dev/ DEVICE /dev/ttyS1 #LOCKFILE LOCKFILE /var/lock #ACCESS [ true | false ] Enable Access Support #ACCESS true # 19991207/ra

Re: Error messages using Iomega ZIP

> But I would make one recommendation, in spite of your saying that > minor errors don't matter in text files. I don't put any ordinary > files on zip disks at all. Everything is zipped. That way, you can > type something like for z in /zip/*zip; do unzip -t $z; done > and check they're all ok

command line ftp behind firewall

I was finally able to get netscape to work on my linux box behind the corporate firewall by setting the manual proxy to 10.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 for http and ftp (I actually gave the REAL address). I could not just give the URL address as the machine still doesn't seem to co-exist with the windows networ

zip disk repair script (was Error messages using iomega zip)

Someone wanted the script to repair a scsi zip disk. I sent it but noticed it didn't go to the list. ($%&* exchange). Anyway, here it is for anyone else that might want it. It's crude but it works. jim ===repairzip == #!/bin/sh #

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 07:30:24 +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > The problem seems to be with a compressed or encrypted PDF format, > which xpdf and gv have failed to read. If the problem is encryption, you need "xpdf-i" or "gs-pdfencrypt" (for gv), both of which are available from non-US.debia

Is Corel Off Topic ?

Hi, If I had ingressions of Corel, is it off topic (read, no interest) ? paul -- Paul McHale Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 4912 Effingham Fax:413-215-3232 Dayton, Ohio 45431 --

Re: Is Corel Off Topic ?

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Paul McHale wrote: pmchal >Hi, pmchal > pmchal >If I had ingressions of Corel, is it off topic (read, no interest) ? depends, there has already been quite a bit of discussion on corel..not sure how many corel users there are on the list. i was a beta tester for corel and used

Re: Joysticks

Tom Allard hat gesagt: // Tom Allard wrote: > It works now, but I still can't get it to work with xmame. I've got > the joystick module loaded and working in XFree86, and I can even do > "xsetpointer joystick" and use the joystick instead of the mouse, but xmame > just doesn't see it. My /etc/xm

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

* Jesse Jacobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ah, yes. I've been using ae with pdflatex. I don't remember if that > was a part of Slink's teTeX either. Pdflatex makes a pdf directly Yes, in tetex-extra. > Images also must be included a bit > differently. Not at all!

Re: Short description for the issues discussed by each mailing list?

* Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > description about the purpose of each mailing list and the issues that are > discussed on it? www.debian.org has a one-line despcription in the Mailing-List section.

Re: Is Corel Off Topic ?

Just to keep it off topic, I also have BeOS 4.5.2 installed (along with Windows & Debian) and it is great! Nice blend of *nix and Mac-land. It only suffers from a lack of drivers and software. Just like Linux a few years ago (there, back on topic). Michael Heyes aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> o

Re: Mouse works: is there x ppp config utility under Debian?

Hello there, you can use either xisp or kppp for ppp in X in Debian ! Regards Khader -- @} Syed Khader ValiDebian 2.2 ( potato ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel 2.2.13 debian-user@lists.d

Quick X questions...

Hi all. Couple of questions regarding XWindows in Debian. I installed and configured xfree86 on my system, and now it boots directly into xwindows instead of the console. What file can I modify so I boot into consoles and run X manually? Also, when I exit x, it brings me back to a graphical lo

Re: Quick X questions...

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Carmine Lucarelli wrote: > > Hi all. Couple of questions regarding XWindows in Debian. I installed and > configured xfree86 on my system, and now it boots directly into xwindows > instead > of the console. What file can I modify so I boot into consoles

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Hi all! I run potato with a logitech wheelmouse (M-C48) attached to /dev/ttyS0. The wheel works just fine in X with most of the aplications not with netscape though. Is there anyway to get the wheel working in netscape? /nisse

Re: Is Corel Off Topic ?

Paul McHale wrote: > If I had ingressions of Corel, is it off topic (read, no interest) ? I don't think so. It is based on debian, after all. A friend and I were having trouble getting a working X setup on his Latitude laptop with a regular slink install, but the Corel installer detected his Neo

Modifing a debian package

Hi, I need to recompile PHP3 with an extra value in the INCLUDE (-I/path/to/include) line. I would like to keed PHP3 in a .deb, how would I go about doing this using the /debian/rules method. Thanks, -Matt- ---+-+ [EMAIL PR

Drivers for ASUS P5A-B???

Are there any drivers for the ASUS P5A-B in the kernel 2.2.12 (or elsewhere?)? The mainboard has the ALi 1542 AGPset and ALi 1543C chips on it. I did notice older chip numbers in the kernel config but was afraid to try those. BTW, I'm running an AMD K6 2/450 CPU on the board. I'm gett

Re: Quick X questions...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Carmine Lucarelli wrote: > Hi all. Couple of questions regarding XWindows in Debian. I installed and > configured xfree86 on my system, and now it boots directly into xwindows > instead > of the console. What file can I modify so I boot i

Re: Drivers for ASUS P5A-B???

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: alemas > I'm getting some PCI bus errors on boot, although everything alemas >seems to work fine (albeit seemingly slowly for such a board). I've alemas >searched news archives across the Net and found no good answers to It would be helpful if you cou

Simultaneous multiple CD burning

Is it possible to start several processes virtually simultaneously? I'm attempting to write four CDs simultaneously, using four Yamaha 6416 CD-RWs attached to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card (reading from an IDE hard disk, though). If I use: cdrdao -d 0,2,0 cd.toc & cdrdao -d 0,3,0 cd.toc & cdrdao -d 0

slink-only system, kernel version ceiling?

At some point in the not-too-distant future I'm going to brave the wild and wooly world of kernel recompilation. (mostly for sound card and at some point a zip drive) If my system is still slink-only is there some kernel version beyond which I should not try to go? (in other words, is slink com

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does anyone know why packages would install right, then when I try to run them nothing happens?

Mozilla warnings

Hi! When I start Mozilla a get the following warning: "Warning: Actions not found: BtnUp, BtnDown XFE_ToolbarItem::setBaseWidget(urlBar)" When Mozilla opens some dialog-boxes the following warnings occur: "Warning: Name: categoryList Class: XmLGrid Attempt to destroy dro

Re: Drivers for ASUS P5A-B???

Here are the relevant (and not so relevant but interesting) lines from a dmesg run, 'phro (and thanks for the reply). If there are any other relevant lines or files, I'll spew those, too. During the kernel config process, I found no driver clearly defined for this chipset (not ALi 15xx, but

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