Re: Initial X configuration
Many thanks to Steve Mayer for his speedy help with the mouse. If anyone has an asnwer to my video questions, I'd be grateful. Thanks, Igor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Initial X configuration
Hi, I ma just setting up hamm on a Dell Dimension XPS D333. I am trying to run XF86Setup with the vga16 server. Frustratignly, I cannot figure out how to get the mouse to move. Anyone have an idea as to what port and protocol I should try? While I am at it, the Dell has a Dimension Fire GL 1000 Pro card and I am using an AppleVision 1710 monitor. If anyone has settings handy for the card and the monitor, I'd appreciate a copy. Thanks, Igor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make X fonts Bigger
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Oz Dror wrote: > >. All you need to do is to get the xfstt package, create a /var/ttfonts > > directory, copy the fonts you would like to have into it, add > copy the fonts from where? from windows? from X11? > Do I need a font dir file, if so how do I make it. I believe the /var/ttfonts directory is suplied by the xfstt package. If not, create it yourself. Make a subdirectory with a nice name (like, "winfonts" or whatever) in /var/ttfonts. Put the *.ttf files in this subdirectory. Then the only thing you need to do is start xfstt and let the X server connect to it. Where you get the fonts is another matter. Rip them from Windows, MS Office or any other program that ships with TrueType fonts. Or get yourself one of thse "shareware fonts" CD-ROMs. Or download them from some ftp server. Just be sure not to break the law or any software license. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bind and general network questions.
First off I want to thank you all for all the feedback about X fonts I will try out teh True Type font packages soon. However I know have some bind questions. I have an internal network hidden behind IP Masq called *.atkinson.int and I connect to the outside world with ppp and diald. I also running bind. The gateways address is 192.168.1.5. My questions are this? 1) How do I add the the local machines to bind. Putting them in /etc/hosts need not seam to work. 2) Why doesn't diald kick in when bind tries to connect to the outside word when looking up an ip address. 3) I also have another debain machine at 192.168.1.1. However when that machine leaves the network nothing works right. Why is this? I tried making the gateway machine 192.168.1.1 with no luck. Thanks in advance for any feedback you can give me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File-system on tape
Torsten Hilbrich schrieb am 04 Jun 1998 12:25:49 +0200: > BTW: I read about a tape filesystem in de.comp.os.linux.misc, > unfortunately, I'm unable to find this article and the url right > now. If I find it I will post a followup to this thread. I have found the location http://www.fh-worms.de/~oppersk/tfs-html/tfs.engl.html I didn't visit the page yet, so I don't know if this fs is working. Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xauth cannot find libXmu when starting X
Hello all, When I try to fire up X, using startx or xdm, I receive the following error: xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' The lib file does exist, lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root13 Jun 2 15:27 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 -> libXmu.so.6.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root67856 Jul 17 1997 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 and it is listed in the ldconfig -p list. I looked in the xauth man page, was not able to see anything incredibly useful. I suspect something wrong in /etc, but I am not sure (I accidently used 'tar xvfz' instead of 'tar cvfz' to "create" a new system backup; ended up overwriting a bunch of files with a rather old version. For shame...I have more current backups of /usr, /var, /home and /root, but not of /etc.) When I try to execute xdm or startx, it does not even load XF86Config (or at least it sends not of the usual info to the tty). My .Xauthority file is empty also. Suggestions? Thank you, Jeff Ballin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: library upgrade, required, but conflicts?
Gregory Guthrie wrote: > > I an trying to install a new package (NTFS) which requires libc6; so I got > the libc6 package, and tried to install it. Dselect reports that: > > NTFS depends on libc6, libc6 conflicts with lib5, libc5 is required by >many-many other things, so it wants to uninstall a huge list of things. > > I have seen bunched of discussions on the list about library upgrades, but > ignored them, as I was trying to make my life simple by sticking with the > stable (1.0.31 CD) distribution. I did upgrade to the .30 kernel from the > CDROM. > > Recommendations? > > Thanks, > > Gregory Guthrie >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well, if you want to continue keeping your life simple, you'd better not proceed any further, because upgrading from libc5 to libc6 is not a simple or quick affair (this is the primary difference between 1.3.1 and 2.0). :-) To do what you want requires a library switch. I don't believe you can install libc6 without upgrading the rest of your system to use it, i.e., libc6 can't be a 'secondary' library while allowing libc5 to be the 'primary' one. It can work the other way around though. You can have libc6 as 'primary' and have libc5 for those programs that still need it. If you have the time, you can begin the upgrade with the autoup shell script from debian.org (look for the "Developer's Corner"), and upgrade only essential packages while keeping libc5 on hand for the rest. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X-windows on a Valuepoint
check that your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers look like this: # /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers # # This file should contain entries to start the servers on the # local machine; if you have more than one display (not screen), # you can add entries to the list (one per line). If you also # have some X terminals connected which do not support XDMCP, # you can add them here as well. Each X terminal line should # look like: # XTerminalName:0 foreign # # When adding X servers, please keep the following things in mind: # - For each X server other than :0, the display number must be # on the command line # - This is the place to add the -bpp option to the command line # - If you run multiple X servers, it is wise to add the vtXX # option to each of them, since this is the only sure way of # knowing in advance which X server attaches to which console. # # Example: # :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt9 -bpp 16 # :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt10 -bpp 8 # :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X the last line is particularly important,also,check the location of X,it may be different on your system (i'm using the latest unstable version,but i don't think it will be much different on your system). Alain p.s.also notice that there are 2 Xserver(s) file Xserver (found in /etc/X11/) and Xservers (found in /etc/X11/xdm/) it's the later that you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smail upgrade, machine no longer accepts mail
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > I recently upgraded my smail to the new version (from 'stable', not the > deep frozen stuff) and my machine stopped accepting mail. I think I found > the cause. I found this in /etc/inetd.conf > # smtpstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.smtpd > (will be restored by smail postinst) > Uncommenting this line and rebooting put me back in business. I guess > the smail postinstall script forgot to restore it. OUCH!! inetd will reread /etc/inetd.conf if you send it a HUP signal: #killall -HUP `pidof inetd` You certainly don't need to reboot the machine :) I (and others) had reported this bug to the maintainer some time ago, and just today I got a message saying it had been fixed. Hopefully noone will have to worry about this in future. -Greg Mildenhall( 7~he 7~hought /|ssassin ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smail bug ?????
i did a fresh install of slink last night (& also tonight) and i possibly found a bug in smail,when i did the installation,the smailconfig command used when dselect install thing did not have the same behavior than the one used in a bo installation (i.e.i choosen the no.4 option,local mail delivered only) but it did not ask to which user to send root mail and my /etc/aliases was empty,after the installation,i choosed to download all my e-mail waiting on my isp mail server,the mail downloaded properly but then there where no mail in both 2 account on my computer,i fired up ircii,go to the irc.debian.org server and asked for help,with the help of a very good user,whe both troubleshooted my installation of smail but unfortunately,this hasn't given much result,i ended up downloading exim tonight,it installed right (& asked the right questions ) and i could download mail properly,now my /etc/aliases file look right. Alain p.s.BTW there could be a very real possibility that some mail messages was bounced so excuse me if such messages ended up on this list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
notebook installation
I got an old Compaq LTE lite 4/33 on to which I want to load debian. I do not have a cd rom but will be borrowing a friends external. I tried starting the installation with the rescue disk I have from my desktop installation and it is not booting correctly It just says 'loading root.bin ...boot failed I do not know very very much about notebooks, perhaps the hardware is named differntly. If someone could advise me on how to do an installation on this notebook I would appreciate it. Perhaps once I get it booted I could install via ftp through a null modem. Any way any help is appreciated. Thnks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Man-db and hamm
In my old bo man-db package I was able to select the manual pages I get using the LANG variable. For example, after installing manpages-de and setting LANG=de_DE I was getting the german version if available. In the hamm version of man-db (2.3.10-63) this no longer works. Now it seems that man-db only finds pages beneath de but not beneath de_DE. I'd have to change the MANPATH for each single user or modify the manpath.conf to put the german path before the others making the chance globally regardless how the users LANG variable is set. I didn't make any chance to the old and the new mandb.config file. Does anybody know the reason for this strange behaviour of the new version? Is the newer version of manpages-de package to be accused? BTW: The manual pages beneath de are the man-db ones. The other as installed from the manpages-de packages are stored beneath de_DE. Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File-system on tape
Daniel S Barclay schrieb am Tue, 02 Jun 1998 21:17:11 -0400: > It's an (probably) unnecessary limitation somewhere in the system. > > I was able to make a file system on a floppy tape (with mke2fs, I > believe). When I tried to mount the file system, mount complained > that the tape wasn't a block device. > > Given the mke2fs ran without complaining, it didn't see any problem > with treating the floppy tape as a block device. I would guess that > mke2fs or whatever library or system calls it uses incorrectly > assume that a tape is not a block device. As you wrote above mke2fs is not the problem. Hoever, tape devices are character devices and they don't know a seek command. This is essential for normal filessystem. BTW: I read about a tape filesystem in de.comp.os.linux.misc, unfortunately, I'm unable to find this article and the url right now. If I find it I will post a followup to this thread. Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
library upgrade, required, but conflicts?
I an trying to install a new package (NTFS) which requires libc6; so I got the libc6 package, and tried to install it. Dselect reports that: NTFS depends on libc6, libc6 conflicts with lib5, libc5 is required by many-many other things, so it wants to uninstall a huge list of things. I have seen bunched of discussions on the list about library upgrades, but ignored them, as I was trying to make my life simple by sticking with the stable (1.0.31 CD) distribution. I did upgrade to the .30 kernel from the CDROM. Recommendations? Thanks, Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: comp usa rebates?
I bought a lot of things from Comp USA on rebate and they didn't send me any of them (rebates) until I called them. They told me "their rebate department had some problems." Anyway that means they lost most of the rebates, or at least they lost the ones I sent. So you gotta call them and tell them what rebates you sent...They might also ask you for the copies of receipt...BTW when sending rebates ALWAYS make copies (esp. if you can get em for free like I can :) of the receipts, or ask the store to give you a copy or two - will save you a lot of headaches later on. On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I'm trying to create tar files less than 100Mb to fit on zip disks (by the > >way, my rebate arrived last week, only a year and a half & a class action > suit > >late). > > The above comment reminds me. > > Has anyone besides me bought some memory from comp-usa within the last 6 > months and is STILL waiting for their rebates? I bought some 64mb worth or > dram under several different rebate programs and have still not heard from > the bastards. Is there grounds for a class action here? > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with Linksys Enet Card
Is there a driver available for the Linksys Ether16 ISA card? I thought I could use the NE2000 driver but it fails? If you've made this work in your system, how?? Thanks very much for any help. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: comp usa rebates?
well one day I openned up my mailbox and found a nice surprise, though it took me awhile to realize that this was a rebate I sent off about 8 months ago. I think theres a 1-800 number on the rebate form somewhere...but you already sent that off :) Alex Withers ([EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP fingerprint: 1B1C DBF7 8589 7660 8E36 48FB A519 68AE 7355 0F72 On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The above comment reminds me. > > Has anyone besides me bought some memory from comp-usa within the last 6 > months and is STILL waiting for their rebates? I bought some 64mb worth or > dram under several different rebate programs and have still not heard from > the bastards. Is there grounds for a class action here? > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using SMARTLIST from bo? Please, READ this.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hello.
This message is for users of the Debian smartlist package.
I have detected a little problem which may arise when upgrading smartlist
from bo to hamm. If you are running smartlist_3.1016 from bo, please read
the following before upgrading to hamm.
The problem is very simple: In bo, when a list was created, the script
/var/list/.bin/createlist used HARDlinks to link some files from the list
directory to the .etc directory.
Well, by design, dpkg does not preserve those hardlinks on upgrades.
Instead, they end up being different files.
For example, if, say "foo/rc.request" is a hardlink to ".etc/rc.request"
(created automatically by "createlist") and the file .etc/rc.request is
replaced by a newer one by dpkg, then foo/rc.request and .etc/rc.request
will not be hardlinked anymore.
This is not what one might expect. All lists should "benefit" from
enhancements in the files in .etc.
Therefore it is much better to use symlinks and not hardlinks.
The .bin/createlist in hamm's smartlist already uses symlinks. However,
one may have already lots of created lists with hardlinks to .etc.
I strongly recommend to convert all those hardlinks into symlinks
*before* upgrading to hamm's smartlist.
The "preinst" script for smartlist_3.10.7-5 (just installed in hamm) will
just warn you about this and will let you to break the process by pressing
Control-C. This way, smartlist will not be upgraded until the user is
aware of the problem and has fixed it.
The following script will do the job. I have tested it and works for
me, but use it at your own risk.
*-8<-
#!/bin/sh
filestosymlink="rc.submit rc.init rc.request help.txt subscribe.txt \
unsubscribe.txt archive.txt reject"
cd /var/list
# Note: touching .etc/rc.lock makes incoming mails to be on hold
# temporarily, while we convert hardlinks into symlinks.
# See the smartlist Manual for details.
touch .etc/rc.lock
echo Please wait for 5 seconds.
sleep 5
echo Converting most hardlinks into symlinks...
for a in `ls`; do
if [ -d $a ]; then
cd $a
if [ -d archive ]; then
for b in $filestosymlink; do
if [ -f $b ]; then
inode1=`ls -li ../.etc/$b | awk '{ print $1 }'`
inode2=`ls -li $b | awk '{ print $1 }'`
if [ "$inode1" = "$inode2" ]; then
rm -f $b
ln -s ../.etc/$b
fi
fi
done
fi
cd ..
fi
done
rm -f .etc/rc.lock
echo Done.
*-8<-
Sorry for the inconvenience, etc.
p.s. I have uploaded today bo-unstable releases of procmail and smartlist,
for people using 1.3.1 who want Maildir support in procmail or
confirmation of subscriptions in smartlist (remember to transform
hardlinks into symlinks *first*).
Thanks.
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X-windows on a Valuepoint
I have installed the Debian Linux base OS on my IBM Valuepoint 425SX by downloading files from the Debian site and putting them on floppies (there's no CD drive on the Valuepoint.) Everything went fine. Linux boots and I have been able to download and install numerous packages (man pages etc.) using dselect. My problem is that X-windows doesn't want to run. I installed all the required packages for this, though in no particular order, and let the dselect configuration utility tell me what was missing. In the fullness of time, it stopped asking for any more modules; the ones I clearly remember were xdm, cpp, fvwm95-2, svga-server and xbase. I'm sure there were others. Only Xbase gave me trouble owing to its size. I had to pkzip it and decompress it into a dos partition, mount that, and copy it to a directory structure mirroring the Debian site. In the end, though, it installed fine and took me through a configuration process where I was asked to choose between xdm and xstart as methods for starting X-windows. I chose xdm. Now when I type "xdm" and hit enter, the prompt just returns. I have seen various faq references suggesting that the F7 virtual console might have my X-windows running, but when I Alt-F7 I just see a blinking cursor. I don't really mind doing this all over if it's at all likely to work. I want to change the way I partitioned the drive anyway. I just wonder whether there is some incompatibility in the video that prevents it from working. This is a 1992 era Valuepoint with a Tseng 4000 chip and one megabyte of video memory all on the motherboard. It seems like a svga-class setup so it was the svga Xserver package I installed along with the other stuff. Any thoughts or comments much appreciated. Thanks, Dale Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
smail upgrade, machine no longer accepts mail
I recently upgraded my smail to the new version (from 'stable', not the deep frozen stuff) and my machine stopped accepting mail. I think I found the cause. I found this in /etc/inetd.conf # smtpstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd (will be restored by smail postinst) Uncommenting this line and rebooting put me back in business. I guess the smail postinstall script forgot to restore it. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows Registry Editor for Linux
There was a thread a week or 2 ago where someone asked if there was a registry editor for linux. In that thread I said that I did not know of one but had a file whioch described the registry (written by someone outside of M$ who spent a few sleepless nights reverse engineering it) The next few days after that post I recived numerous responses asking me for the file. I had it at work ..and it was over a long weekend...so I don't think I sent it to everyone who asked for it. Since I am not sure who I gave it to and it is too long to post here... I placed it in my public_html dir on my ISP...so... for anyone who wants it point a browser at http://www.gis.net/~sjc/winreg.txt it is not linked from the web page there at all..I just placed it there now I will be removing this file at some point (lets say I will leave it there at least until monday...no gaurantees beyond that...but it may be there longer) I would like to see someone write a Windows Registry editor for linux (I think it would be cool...not terribly usefull but cool...hmm a linux emergency boot disk with a windows reg editor??) I don't know if there is actually enough info in the file to do it...but there is allot of info (on the Win3.1, win95 AND WinNT registry) as a side note... wine actually works well enough to use regedit for win95 -Steve pgpX2flwCLcUZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: comp usa rebates?
I will save the names and addresses of all who reply for possible preparation of a legal response (maybe Janet Reno's office). "Russ Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/04/98 02:24:50 PM To: Kenneth Scharf/PD/CoulterUS, debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org cc: Subject: Re: comp usa rebates? I too bought 64 MB of ram from Comp-USA, and also am still waiting for a rebate. Russ Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (405)366-6520 x4237 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: comp usa rebates? > Date: Thursday, June 04, 1998 12:53 PM > > > >I'm trying to create tar files less than 100Mb to fit on zip disks (by the > >way, my rebate arrived last week, only a year and a half & a class action > suit > >late). > > The above comment reminds me. > > Has anyone besides me bought some memory from comp-usa within the last 6 > months and is STILL waiting for their rebates? I bought some 64mb worth or > dram under several different rebate programs and have still not heard from > the bastards. Is there grounds for a class action here? > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Default permissions(was Re: cat's got my lp1)
On 3 Jun, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, wrote: >> I recently chmod / -R 777 my system to try and cure a permission problem I >> was having, I know - major stupid, This might be the problem. > > I think I'd do a reinstall after this - I doubt that it will introduce > permission problems, but security will be .. lacking. > >> My delema is not knowing how to reverse the 777 stuff, or where to fix the >> lpd. > > I'd give up on the first on I think :-( > I think it would be great if perhaps the Contents files that are on the ftp sites would also list the permissions of the files as they are installed. This would at least help those that have permission problems. It won't help for files that are created in setup scripts but it would be better that a complete reinstall. My $0.02. -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: comp usa rebates?
I too bought 64 MB of ram from Comp-USA, and also am still waiting for a rebate. Russ Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (405)366-6520 x4237 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: comp usa rebates? > Date: Thursday, June 04, 1998 12:53 PM > > > >I'm trying to create tar files less than 100Mb to fit on zip disks (by the > >way, my rebate arrived last week, only a year and a half & a class action > suit > >late). > > The above comment reminds me. > > Has anyone besides me bought some memory from comp-usa within the last 6 > months and is STILL waiting for their rebates? I bought some 64mb worth or > dram under several different rebate programs and have still not heard from > the bastards. Is there grounds for a class action here? > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP problem
> Every time I try to connect to my internet provider I am able to establish > the connection, but after like 5-10 seconds prog reports something like: > cannot find ethernet address for system ARP. I have tried everything, but > can't get it to work. Why is it even looking for ethernet address? I > am using PPP over TCP/IP. Can someone please tell me what am I doing > wrong? check in /etc/ppp/options (or something like that,i'm running on slink and it's different than in 1.3.1),there a line marked proxyarp,put a # before this. > I also don't have device driver for Sound Blaster. I tried using MAKEDEV, > but I don't have any docs. Can someone who got his/her SB to work tell me > what to do? > Thx in advance :) run /dev/MAKEDEV update,if you have the sound blaster driver enabled,it will include it in your /dev directory,here an excerpt from the manpage: update Run MAKEDEV in update mode. This reads the list of devices currently available from /proc/devices, and updates all entries in /dev to match the device numbers found there. if you want to know more,run: man MAKEDEV Alain > Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cat's got my lp1
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, wrote: > The only way I can print is with cat > /dev/lp1 > If I use anything other, I get: > Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .setdevice > Operand stack: > --nostringval-- > followed by lots of hex addresses, offsets, names, permissions and more hex > addresses. (I think they are addressses) It's a good idea to list the packages you are using (lpr/lprng/magicfilter/apsfilter). This error is actually from ghostscript. Ghostscript takes a postscript file and translates it into a different format (HP deskjet/epson/X-windows/...). Try configuring the printer (apsconfig?/magicfilterconfig). Then try "lpr file" on a normal text file. Then try more complex files - such as a compressed file. The way to print things on unix is to convert them into postscript and then print the postscript out. If you don't have a postscript printer, then you use ghostscript in the middle. The contents of /etc/printcap and what printer you are using would be helpful too. > I recently chmod / -R 777 my system to try and cure a permission problem I > was having, I know - major stupid, This might be the problem. I think I'd do a reinstall after this - I doubt that it will introduce permission problems, but security will be .. lacking. > My delema is not knowing how to reverse the 777 stuff, or where to fix the > lpd. I'd give up on the first on I think :-( Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
comp usa rebates?
>I'm trying to create tar files less than 100Mb to fit on zip disks (by the >way, my rebate arrived last week, only a year and a half & a class action suit >late). The above comment reminds me. Has anyone besides me bought some memory from comp-usa within the last 6 months and is STILL waiting for their rebates? I bought some 64mb worth or dram under several different rebate programs and have still not heard from the bastards. Is there grounds for a class action here? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar & exclude options
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:40:52AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > As I read the man page and info page, > > tar -zcv -f hawktar980603 . -X News -X www -X Office40 > > should tar the local directory to the new file hawktar980603 save for the > directories News, www, and Office40 according tot he man page -X is the same as --exclude-from so this should not work > however, it cheerfully includes all of these. I get the same results with an > --exclude-from exfiles, where exfiles lists these? am I missing somethign? I dunno...I never really go tit to work right I think you want tar --exclude file --exclude file2 czv ./ (or some variation on that) as I said I never got it to work but..I thought it had something to do with a / and the .. ... it may have been ./* or something -STeve > rick > > -- > These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: INSTALLATION REPORT
Hi, The "hosts" command is in the dnsutils package, which you must not have installed. However, if you were able to contact ftp.debian.org earlier with the same ISP, it's unlikely to be a reverse-dns-lookup problem. Trying to contact the mirror at llug.sep.bnl.gov would be a good test - if you can reach it, I suspect you do have a fevers-dns-lookup problem, if you can't it is something else with your ppp setup. > When I try >qftp ftp.debian.org I get message: Host lookup error. This sounds link a possible bind problem. Do you have your ISP's nameservers set up properly in /etc/resolv.conf? If you're not sure, check /usr/doc/ppp/README.linux.gz for information about /etc/resolv.conf. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPP problem
I've installed Debian 1.3 couple of weeks ago and can't get some things to work or find answer in docs, so maybe someone in here knows the answer... :) Every time I try to connect to my internet provider I am able to establish the connection, but after like 5-10 seconds prog reports something like: cannot find ethernet address for system ARP. I have tried everything, but can't get it to work. Why is it even looking for ethernet address? I am using PPP over TCP/IP. Can someone please tell me what am I doing wrong? I also don't have device driver for Sound Blaster. I tried using MAKEDEV, but I don't have any docs. Can someone who got his/her SB to work tell me what to do? Thx in advance :) Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make X fonts Bigger
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:38:28AM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote: > on the fixed fonts question... > I have the following truetype fixed pitch fonts on nt3.51: thanx for the list of TT fixed fonts...I should have those somewhere > > These all work with emacs on nt...(don't ask, I do the best > I can with company policy being what it is). heh I used emacs for win95 once > There are probably some of these in win95 but I don't use it > and don't know... I haven't read the license to know if you > are free to use them with a non-M$ os even though you may have > bought them with win95 (or whatever). well This was discussed once on here...maybe 2 months ago? You can look at it this way: You have a licence for Win95, under no circumstances does anyone ever install and use the FULL OS (it would be impossible to have every pice of hardware in existance that win95 comes with a driver for on 1 PC would it not?) In this case as long as you have a licence ot use win95...you should be able to use the fonts under linux...because you have a licence for use of the Win95 OS and you are validly using part of that OS. Is this M$s view on the subject? probably not...in fact I would not be surprized to see them argue that it is completly illegal...and a violation of their licence. However...the day that that argument stands up in court (even for Micro$oft) is the day that I will finnaly loose the last shred of respect I have for government and courts (which is hanging on some very thin threads as it is) -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tar & exclude options
Grr. grrr. and rg. I'm trying to create tar files less than 100Mb to fit on zip disks (by the way, my rebate arrived last week, only a year and a half & a class action suit late). As I read the man page and info page, tar -zcv -f hawktar980603 . -X News -X www -X Office40 should tar the local directory to the new file hawktar980603 save for the directories News, www, and Office40 however, it cheerfully includes all of these. I get the same results with an --exclude-from exfiles, where exfiles lists these? am I missing somethign? rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Project: COPYRIGHT HOWTO. -Reply
On 04-Jun-98 Gregory Dickinson wrote: > The idea of having a copyright lawyer look it over once it is written sound > excellent. I work for a large law firm that has a copyright and IP practice > group, > an I am sure that (since I work in the OS dept. and they all LOVE me :-]) > that I > could talk one of the lawyers in that group into loking over it real > quick-like once > it is finished. While this thread is running, it occurs to me to ask: Has the GPL ever been tested in a court case? If so, what was[were] the outcome[s]? Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 04-Jun-98 Time: 17:07:37 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA problems for Thinkpad
> > I tried to setup a Debian on a ZIP disk connected to an IBM Thinkpad 750 > > with a PCMCIA ethernet credit card adapter. I have installed the latest > > PCMCIA cs, and modules (2.0.29) DEB packages. > > Thats not the latest. I have 2.0.31 and I'm not sure whether that's the > newest or not. What I meant was I have the latest BO packages for my kernel 2.0.29. I had a response from someone that filed a bug report about the packages being built against the wrong kernel. I have since downloaded kernel 2.0.30 source and the latest BO pcmcia packages for that kernel, and I hope that helps. I would go straight for 2.0.33, but there is not a copy of the debian pcmcia packages for this kernel version. HAMM and SLINK have these kernel versions, but require LIBC6. > > > The card manager detects both the 14.4k modem and Ethernet card, but the > > module 8390 has a slew of problems loading (unresolved symbol I believe > > was the error, but I don't have the specific list of errors), and then > > when pcnet_cs modules loads it errors out due to the 8390 modules error. > > > > I went back and loaded net/8390.o (instead of pcmcia/8390.o) and I did > > not get an error and the module loaded okay, but when I loaded pcnet_cs > > I still had two unresolved symbol errors and that module did not load. > > > > I cannot continue my install untill I can mount my CD (via NFS). > > Everything seems to work except these two modules. I even get the > > network link light now, but I cannot bind it to any protocol > > agh! > > Which card you're trying to get working? It is am IBM Credit Card Ethernet Adapter (using 10baseT) which is discovered by the cardmanager, but wen the modules error out, I am left with nothing useable. --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nslookup prompt...
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup > > > home.netscape.com' but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and > > > at the '>' prompt type your query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this > > > way as long as I can remember but no, I haven't logged a bug report.) > > > > Works on my mostly bo machine ( not up to date ). > > > This could be a problem with the latest DEB package that fixes the security > hole in BIND? Perhaps a bug? Really old copies of the dnsutils package for Debian included a version of nslookup that emulated the real one by calling host. The latest versions of bind and of dnsutils contain a proper nslookup command, and have for some time (I think Debian 1.3.x has the proper nslookup) -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to make X fonts Bigger
on the fixed fonts question... I have the following truetype fixed pitch fonts on nt3.51: Courier New Courier New CE Lucida Console r_ansi other misc symbol or line draw char sets... These all work with emacs on nt...(don't ask, I do the best I can with company policy being what it is). There are probably some of these in win95 but I don't use it and don't know... I haven't read the license to know if you are free to use them with a non-M$ os even though you may have bought them with win95 (or whatever). jim -- From: Stephen Carpenter[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 1998 10:48 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:Re: How to make X fonts Bigger <> On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 07:37:19PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > I have xfstt now. Have not tried xfsft. And unfortunately fonts like fixed > don't exist in TT form. Also, netscape can't use fixed width TT fonts with > xfstt at least. I lookind into xfsft a while ago...but decided that packageing xfsft for debian was going to be allot of work and really was more than I wanted to get into. Supposedly it is better than xfstt (then again this is a claim made mostly by the authors of xfsft...) The problem I saw when I looked at it was this... They used xfs as a base and used bothe the source code from xfs and freetype but..they took both of these together, wrote their code and made a diff. This means that to compile xfsft you need to first download the source code for all of X11 (since that is where xfs is) and either "cut out" xfs or use the whole tree...then download freetype source and unpack that... then and only then can you try applying the diff and compiling it. This presents a few problems with versions and things...and the only real advantage I see is that it has all of the functionality of xfs...so there is no need to run 2 font servers. back to xfstt Yes the fixed fonts...I just have not had time to look into it...but I plan to it is on my TODO list...unfortunatly things like "find an apartment" and "go to work" keep getting placed in the front of my TODO queue instead of the back like most things. I should ask before I start...do you know of any "fixed" truetype fonts? I mean are there truetype fonts that when used show up as a fixed width? can you give me some examples that I can test and play around with? (btw another thing on my TODO list is to see if it is feasable to add suport to xfstt for more than 1 simultaneous connection to the server over TCP/IP ...it should be a simple matter of fork()ing around with it ;) -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
oops, the message
oops, here's the message. And it's always the same LBA & Sector
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataREquest Error}
hda: read+o
hda
h
hda: read_int: error=0x40 {uncorrectableError}, LBAsect=3165227, sector=16424
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05, sector 16424
EXT2=-fs error (device 03:05): ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode block -
inode=2114,block=8212
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copying root partition
Hmm, i seem to have a bad spot on the hard disk. A really bad one :( I get a message: I can boot my emergency redhat partition without a problem (other than that it uses fvwm95, gives me a warped display, and the mail doesn't work :). I have another 1G partition unused, and so I plan to transfer my root partition over. I recall this coming up a couple of times, but don't recall where I filed it. Is it ( tar -clOp / ) | (tar -xp --same-owner /mountpoint) ? or would dd be better thanks rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> _4._ Big disclaimer, as we are not lawyers. :-) >This is of course good...and probably necissary (I have often wondered >if such disclaimers are really needed or just the result of peoples misguided >paranoia) It's not *enough* of a disclaimer. It should go on to include that "this is not legal advise". Offer legal advise, and you're held to the standard of a lawyer. That you did it for free is not any type of defense. While I understand tand applaud the ideas and goals, being a lawyer myself, there's no way I'll touch such a project--it's a liablity problem waiting to happen. Generally, and recognise that this is not legal advise, and that I'm probably not licensed in your jurisdiction anywaay, explaining what the law *is* isn't legal advise, and wouldn't (usually) be actionable if incorrect. Explain how to do a specific thing, and you're a lot closer. Apply it to a particular person's situation, and you're all the way on the hooks--the person you explainded it too, for free, and the DA, for practicing without a license. This is reall a job that needs a lawyer with a *big* E&O (malpractice) policy. Not just for the possibility of mistakes, but because it is expensive to be sued when write. I'm not trying to rain on the parade, but a few years of practice has made me rather cautious . . . rick, esq. -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Text to Speech?
Christian Hudon wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, June 02, Marc Lepage wrote
> > What are some good text to speech packages for Linux? Assume only a
> > SoundBlaster for hardware (ie, no dedicated TTS hardware).
>
> If you're using emacs, I saw a few emacsspeak packages fly by on the
> debian-devel-changes mailing-list recently. You might want to look into
> those. They should get installed into unstable soon. If not, just grab them
> from an Incoming mirror.
>
> I Hope that helps,
>
> Christian
I believe Emacspeak only works with hardware, such as DECtalk.
I have compiled Festival myself, to support 16-bit linux16audio (/dev/dsp). It
only supports one audio device, and it appears that the .deb I had used is
compiled to support 8-bit sunaudio (/dev/audio). That has improved the sound.
I also have set up the rb_mbrola voice, which apparently is the best. It
requires the MBROLA synthesizer and one of its voices.
Together, those changes have produced a TTS system which I must say is quite
good. I have heard 3 hardware TTS systems, and this software-only solution is
comparable. I see it trips on a few words ("poison" sometimes throws it for a
total loop, screwing up the entire sentence) but all in all it is adequate.
[I had it read this message, and from "poison" to "adequate" was not read.]
I have installed festival.el into XEmacs. I don't get the menus, but I have
bound the functions to function keys, and so can TTS regions and buffers. I will
investigate into using Emacspeak with Festival. The festival.el package is far
too rudimentary to be used as a screen reader, although it may provide the basis
for creating one.
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Re: How to make X fonts Bigger
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 04:06:38PM +, Christian Zander wrote: > Getting the fonts is up to you.. Have a look at the FAQ or browse the net to > find a LOT of places that supply you with FREE fonts. > Of course you could simply take the fonts from ..\windows\fonts (files like > Verdana.ttf), but looking at that from the license supplied with windows, this > would not be nice (who cares?) > TTF fonts are not supplied with any of the standard X packages, since xfstt is > not, either and the fonts need to be really free so that they can be > distributed > under the GPL. Wanted to mention... as the maintainer for xfstt I "have my eye out" for any really free TT Fonts (public domain, gpl, just basically anything free enough to be added to the xfstt package) i would like to make a package of TTfonts and maybe even include one or two with xfstt itself. The problem is that to go into main they must be free so if anyone out there reading this has any good free tt fonts...or has the ability/desire to make some... please let me know (I just don't have the time right now to go searching around for free fonts...) -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make X fonts Bigger
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 07:37:19PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > I have xfstt now. Have not tried xfsft. And unfortunately fonts like fixed > don't exist in TT form. Also, netscape can't use fixed width TT fonts with > xfstt at least. I lookind into xfsft a while ago...but decided that packageing xfsft for debian was going to be allot of work and really was more than I wanted to get into. Supposedly it is better than xfstt (then again this is a claim made mostly by the authors of xfsft...) The problem I saw when I looked at it was this... They used xfs as a base and used bothe the source code from xfs and freetype but..they took both of these together, wrote their code and made a diff. This means that to compile xfsft you need to first download the source code for all of X11 (since that is where xfs is) and either "cut out" xfs or use the whole tree...then download freetype source and unpack that... then and only then can you try applying the diff and compiling it. This presents a few problems with versions and things...and the only real advantage I see is that it has all of the functionality of xfs...so there is no need to run 2 font servers. back to xfstt Yes the fixed fonts...I just have not had time to look into it...but I plan to it is on my TODO list...unfortunatly things like "find an apartment" and "go to work" keep getting placed in the front of my TODO queue instead of the back like most things. I should ask before I start...do you know of any "fixed" truetype fonts? I mean are there truetype fonts that when used show up as a fixed width? can you give me some examples that I can test and play around with? (btw another thing on my TODO list is to see if it is feasable to add suport to xfstt for more than 1 simultaneous connection to the server over TCP/IP ...it should be a simple matter of fork()ing around with it ;) -Steve pgpcGwyBDrFul.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: modem response problem
I notice now, after a review of hard copy of "The Linux Serial HOWTO" that USR Sportster is listed under the heading (2.5) Unsupported Serial Hardware. That seems to be my problem, is there a preferred internal/external modem for use with linux? G. Kaplan wrote: > I have a 56k/x2 modem which is recognized on a w95 system as com2 port > 0x2f8 irq 3 , > This port does not apper in the dmesg output. > setserial report for ttyS1 shows : uart unknown. > I would like to use minicom (or an equivalent ) to echo to the console > screen values stored in the internal register of the modem; but after > start and initialization of minicom there is no feedback from the > system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nslookup prompt...
> On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup > > home.netscape.com' but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and > > at the '>' prompt type your query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this > > way as long as I can remember but no, I haven't logged a bug report.) > > Works on my mostly bo machine ( not up to date ). This could be a problem with the latest DEB package that fixes the security hole in BIND? Perhaps a bug? --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Silicom Ethernet adapter ?
Hello, Has anyone heard of PCMCIA Silicom Ethernet adapter? I bought one for my laptop but now cannot find any support under Debian? Perhaps there is a known equivalent? Thanks, Frere Roy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make X fonts Bigger
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 04:34:12PM +, Christian Zander wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wed, 03 Jun 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > >Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are > >now? > > > >If not does anyone know who to make netscapes fonts bigger, in areas > >such as > >the message list. > > > >My major complaint about debian is that it doesn't provide any real eazy > >way > >to customize X-Windows. > > > >Thanks. > There is a really easy (Debian) way of adding True Type font support to your X > server. All you need to do is to get the xfstt package, create a /var/ttfonts > directory, copy the fonts you would like to have into it, add > FontPath "unix/:7100" to the "Files" Section of your XF86Config file > (/etc/X11/XF86Config) and start the xfstt just a little before X. I did this > by > modifying the xfs startup script in /etc/init.d (see atachment). If you are running a hamm system, I am the xfstt maintainer and the current version uploaded into unstable already has an init.d script which it automatically installs. You do however still need to add it to the fontpath manually (which makes sense really..since it doesn't come with any fonts it will not run properly even from that script until you actually get some fonts) If you are interested you can get the source and compile it for bo .. but I don't have a bo system and all so I didn't compile it for bo and put it in bo-unstable but...the source version should compile just fine [side note] The /var/ttfonts will be changing soon. The use of this directory was reported as a bug as it violates the filesystem standard... it doens't break anything but I will be changing it as soon as I can find the time and motivation (life is crazy lately) -Steve pgp9rJOyXITkF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to make X fonts Bigger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 04 Jun 1998, Oz Dror wrote: >>. All you need to do is to get the xfstt package, create a /var/ttfonts >> directory, copy the fonts you would like to have into it, add >copy the fonts from where? from windows? from X11? >Do I need a font dir file, if so how do I make it. > > >< >NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California >EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> >PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 >> Getting the fonts is up to you.. Have a look at the FAQ or browse the net to find a LOT of places that supply you with FREE fonts. Of course you could simply take the fonts from ..\windows\fonts (files like Verdana.ttf), but looking at that from the license supplied with windows, this would not be nice (who cares?) TTF fonts are not supplied with any of the standard X packages, since xfstt is not, either and the fonts need to be really free so that they can be distributed under the GPL. - -- Stone's Law: One man's "simple" is another man's "huh?" - -- == Christian Zander * web: ishmael.ml.org/~zander * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNXbG3rtAzGtVrTsdAQGVWgQAqsc6dOv4hW/SnJFLrzJFSq+9YmxBGXM1 Zft4beetZHLJ2UYQYGctuP09vefUsXK7qqUJFXL9e3AJT3ZUky3IpMFFP86d2hLi jeQ7pPlTZI6tJAGEJSM5cW+lke15E+B3JRrKi5ayAnzqaKMcfK8tYuUv+uwXkviH 9Hruikg+jnw= =xafJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best kernel for now?
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: > Hi, > I need to recompile my kernel to add bridging support. (For IPX) > > I'm currently running 2.0.33, it seems to run fine, although I'm wary of > reports of it being rather unstable. > I had 2.0.32, but gpm died after two weeks, restarting gpm didn't work, > but rebooting did. I have no idea if this was a kernel problem, but I > think it happened twice. 2.0.33 has had no such problem. 2.0.33 has been the most stable of the 2.0.x kernels for me so far. > Anyway, I'm considering changing kernels. > > I am running a 386SX/20 machine w/ 8meg of RAM, 100meg IDE HDD. > I use it mostly for Samba, IPMASQ with dial-up line, Mail and news server. > I don't have a CDROM or SCSI hardware on this machine, so I'm not worried > about support for these. > > How are the 2.0.34prethingees like? Very stable? What advantages over > 2.0.33? > > What are the unstable kernels (2.1.x) like? What advantages over the > stable ones? Unless you need something in the 2.1.x kernels that is not in the 2.0.x kernels, I would stick with a 2.0.x kernel. > > TIA, > > Tim. > /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills* Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A.* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.networksplus.net/wpmills/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot problems: PCI device(s) unrecognized..
This means that the code to recognize the card in the kernel is not there. Everything will still work OK as the driver is there and will load. I used to patch pci.h before compiling a kernel to get rid of this for me. With the latest kernel this has been *fixed*. On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > When I boot, I get: > > > pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f9a20 > > pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf04e0 > > pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0510 > > Probing PCI hardware. > > Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7180). Please read > include/linux/pci.h > > Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7181). Please read > include/linux/pci.h > > Warning : Unknown PCI device (1023:9750). Please read > include/linux/pci.h > > Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7110). Please read > include/linux/pci.h > > Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7111). Please read > include/linux/pci.h > > Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7112). Please read > include/linux/pci.h > > Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7113). Please read > include/linux/pci.h > > Warning : Unknown PCI device (10b7:9050). Please read > include/linux/pci.h > > > > ALl the details from /proc/pci are below. > > > The device is a 3Com 3c905 Ethernet card, which seems to load OK, > > > 3c59x.c:v0.30-all 12/23/96 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 3Com EtherLink III: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of > 32, new value is 255. > > loading device 'eth0'... > > eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xd000, 00:60:08:68:65:9b, IRQ > 11 > > Internal config register is 16302d8, transceivers 0xe040. > > 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface. > > > and runs fine! > > eth0: Initial media type MII. > > eth0: vortex_open() InternalConfig 016302d8. > > eth0: vortex_open() irq 11 media status 8802. > > eth0: Media selection timer tick happened, MII. > > eth0: Media MII is has no indication, 8802. > > eth0: Media selection timer finished, MII. > > > It also looks like my AGP graphics board shows up as PCI, and a few other > bridge devices. It is a new PII motherboard (Asus). > > > AM I ok, or do I need to do something. > > > Thanks for any information or pointers. > > > Gregory Guthrie > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > PCI devices found: > > Bus 0, device 11, function 0: > > Ethernet controller: 3Com Unknown device (rev 0). > > Vendor id=10b7. Device id=9050. > > Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min > Gnt=3.Max Lat=8. > > I/O at 0xd000. > > Bus 0, device 4, function 3: > > Bridge: Intel Unknown device (rev 1). > > Vendor id=8086. Device id=7113. > > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. > > Bus 0, device 4, function 2: > > USB Controller: Intel Unknown device (rev 1). > > Vendor id=8086. Device id=7112. > > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master > Capable. Latency=32. > > I/O at 0xd400. > > Bus 0, device 4, function 1: > > IDE interface: Intel Unknown device (rev 1). > > Vendor id=8086. Device id=7111. > > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. > Latency=32. > > I/O at 0xd800. > > Bus 0, device 4, function 0: > > ISA bridge: Intel Unknown device (rev 1). > > Vendor id=8086. Device id=7110. > > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No > bursts. > > Bus 1, device 1, function 0: > > VGA compatible controller: Trident Unknown device (rev 243). > > Vendor id=1023. Device id=9750. > > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master > Capable. Latency=64. > > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe300. > > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe280. > > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe200. > > Bus 0, device 1, function 0: > > PCI bridge: Intel Unknown device (rev 3). > > Vendor id=8086. Device id=7181. > > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. > Latency=64. Min Gnt=9. > > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40010100. > > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x22a0d0e0. > > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe3d0e200. > > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe3f0e3f0. > > Bus 0, device 0, function 0: > > Host bridge: Intel Unknown device (rev 3). > > Vendor id=8086. Device id=7180. > > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. > Latency=64. > > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe400. > > > > > > Dr. Gregory Guthrie > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 > >Computer Science Department > >College of Science
Re: nslookup prompt...
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup > home.netscape.com' > but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '>' prompt type > your > query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this way as long as I can remember but > no, I > haven't logged a bug report.) Works on my mostly bo machine ( not up to date ). /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills* Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A.* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.networksplus.net/wpmills/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nslookup prompt...
> > > If I simply type 'nslookup' and hit enter to get the ">" and then type > > > in my Linux box spits the information I wanted originally. > > > My resolve.conf has "nameserver 127.0.0.1 ". > > > > I have a running DNS, but when I tried to point the nameserver to > > 127.0.0.1, it also gave me an error message, so I guess using 127.0.0.1 > > wont work. If you another IP address for your linux box, try using that > > instead, and that should work. > > Good suggestion, but alas, it did not work... bummer! I tried using > nameserver to 192.168.1.1, and same problem. This interactive mode is a > drag! > > --Jay It would seem to me, from the replies I have gotten, that this problem is inherent to the Debian package. I did recently upgrade to fix the BIND security problem, and I don't remember this problem before, but it could have been. --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Project: COPYRIGHT HOWTO. -Reply -Reply
Er...make that IS dept (they have VERY different meanings :-]) >>> Gregory Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/04/98 08:16am >>> The idea of having a copyright lawyer look it over once it is written sound excellent. I work for a large law firm that has a copyright and IP practice group, an I am sure that (since I work in the OS dept. and they all LOVE me :-]) that I could talk one of the lawyers in that group into loking over it real quick-like once it is finished. >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/03/98 11:59pm >>> On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > > Hallo all, > > as a lot of us developers have to deal with copyright problems, I would > like to start this (hopefully) littly project. This sounds like an interesting idea. > I would like to write a COPYRIGHT HOWTO, which might be send to > authors of software, which a) do not state what copyright is > associated with their software and b) who do not use a free (enough) > license. > > What should be in there: > > 1. A discussion what is necessary to constitute a Copyright and > License for a program (Do you have to state copyright in every file, > is a COPYRIGHT file in the top directory enough, is a Copyright line > in an LSM file enough, etc.). This all sounds good...and as being associated with debian I understand your focus on free software licenses, and I definitly myself feel that free software licences are far superior. I think what needs to be included is also info about non-free licences. It would be good to see a nice guide...what needs to be spelled out explicitly in a licence? what is assumed true as long as nothing explicitly states otherwise? etc Information on both free and non-free licences is important...it should be usefull for everyone. It woul dbe nice to see some example licences and what they mean, and espcially their pitfalls (like for instance some peopel find they don't like the GPL cuz its not free enough for them) > _4._ Big disclaimer, as we are not lawyers. :-) This is of course good...and probably necissary (I have often wondered if such disclaimers are really needed or just the result of peoples misguided paranoia) I think it woul dbe nice to write it and then find a way to have a copyright lawyer who is willing to help out read it over and give it aquick check for the validity of its statements. I think it is important to stress a licence which is carefully worded such that it allows and dissalows what the author wishes to do so with, and also is not complete overkill (for instance I think the GPL is a good example of overkill) Also I think "Public Domain" should be mentioned...and what it means to place something "in the public domain" (my understanding is that that means a person who writes a piece of software explicitly gives up all rights to it which a copyright would give them) -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth" -- Thomas Edison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Project: COPYRIGHT HOWTO. -Reply
The idea of having a copyright lawyer look it over once it is written sound excellent. I work for a large law firm that has a copyright and IP practice group, an I am sure that (since I work in the OS dept. and they all LOVE me :-]) that I could talk one of the lawyers in that group into loking over it real quick-like once it is finished. >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/03/98 11:59pm >>> On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > > Hallo all, > > as a lot of us developers have to deal with copyright problems, I would > like to start this (hopefully) littly project. This sounds like an interesting idea. > I would like to write a COPYRIGHT HOWTO, which might be send to > authors of software, which a) do not state what copyright is > associated with their software and b) who do not use a free (enough) > license. > > What should be in there: > > 1. A discussion what is necessary to constitute a Copyright and > License for a program (Do you have to state copyright in every file, > is a COPYRIGHT file in the top directory enough, is a Copyright line > in an LSM file enough, etc.). This all sounds good...and as being associated with debian I understand your focus on free software licenses, and I definitly myself feel that free software licences are far superior. I think what needs to be included is also info about non-free licences. It would be good to see a nice guide...what needs to be spelled out explicitly in a licence? what is assumed true as long as nothing explicitly states otherwise? etc Information on both free and non-free licences is important...it should be usefull for everyone. It woul dbe nice to see some example licences and what they mean, and espcially their pitfalls (like for instance some peopel find they don't like the GPL cuz its not free enough for them) > _4._ Big disclaimer, as we are not lawyers. :-) This is of course good...and probably necissary (I have often wondered if such disclaimers are really needed or just the result of peoples misguided paranoia) I think it woul dbe nice to write it and then find a way to have a copyright lawyer who is willing to help out read it over and give it aquick check for the validity of its statements. I think it is important to stress a licence which is carefully worded such that it allows and dissalows what the author wishes to do so with, and also is not complete overkill (for instance I think the GPL is a good example of overkill) Also I think "Public Domain" should be mentioned...and what it means to place something "in the public domain" (my understanding is that that means a person who writes a piece of software explicitly gives up all rights to it which a copyright would give them) -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth" -- Thomas Edison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reentrant libs
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Michael D. Figley wrote: > Does anyone know if/where Debian keeps > > libraries with reentrant version of standard > > functions? Example: random_r(). To the best of my knowledge, all major libraries are compiled with -DREENTRANT, which should have them define the reentrant versions of those functions that provide them. random_r seems to be defined in stdlib.h -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nslookup prompt...
Seams to work fine on RH5.0 mark On 03-Jun-98 Paul Wouters wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > >> > Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into >> > interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think >> > it comes in dns-utils. >> >> Hummm, I will try dig, no problem... but could you explain what you mean by >> "broken". Is it some problem with they way I have created the DNS tables? >> Do >> you suggest in uninstall DNSUTILS and reinstall the package? Seems to be >> an environment problem, not a blip in the nslookup binary itself? Just a >> thought. > > Debian has always had this problem. I never checked into this (I only run > debian on my laptop netmonitoring station). nslookup isn't the "normal bind > one". It doens't depen on how you create your data. It just doesn't seem to > parse command lie parameters, or simple ignores them. > > Paul > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Burgo Systems / Consulting E-Mail: Mark F. Burgo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.surfshop.net/users/mfburgo/pub Date: 04-Jun-98 Time: 08:57:25 This message was sent by XFMail On RedHat Linux 5.0 Burgo Systems / Consulting is happy to preload Linux on your new BS/C System, Factory Direct -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best kernel for now?
On 4 Jun 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: Some silly stuff, since I've now found out that 2.0.34 is out! -Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reentrant libs
Does anyone know if/where Debian keeps libraries with reentrant version of standard functions? Example: random_r(). --Michael Figley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nslookup prompt...
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: smayer> That's funny. I don't have a problem issuing nslookup home.netscape.com smayer> on my latest hamm machine. smayer> smayer> On the other hand, on an up to date bo machine, I get the same problem smayer> you list (the dropping to the nslookup prompt). Upon further smayer> investigation, nslookup is a symlink to nslookup.sh which seems to be a smayer> wrapper to the host program and not a true binary nslookup. smayer> smayer> Sorry if I haven't really been following the thread, but could this be smayer> part of the problem? smayer> smayer> Steve Mayer smayer> [EMAIL PROTECTED] smayer> smayer> smayer> smayer> Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: smayer> > smayer> > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup home.netscape.com' smayer> > but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '>' prompt type your smayer> > query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this way as long as I can remember but no, I smayer> > haven't logged a bug report.) smayer> > smayer> > Jay Barbee wrote: smayer> > smayer> > > > Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into smayer> > > > interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think smayer> > > > it comes in dns-utils. smayer> > > smayer> > > Hummm, I will try dig, no problem... but could you explain what you mean by smayer> > > "broken". Is it some problem with they way I have created the DNS tables? Do smayer> > > you suggest in uninstall DNSUTILS and reinstall the package? Seems to be smayer> > > an environment problem, not a blip in the nslookup binary itself? Just a thought. smayer> > smayer> > -- smayer> > Jens B. Jorgensen smayer> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] smayer> > smayer> > -- It IS working on my machine with Slack linux 2.0.27 Neither is it a symlink Its a binary Has this been changed in newer versions? Or is it a non-Slackware issue? Oommen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP: Unable to boot hamm on IBM Thinkpad
Dear DebianFriends, I have installed many versions of Debian Linux on many Thinkpads. After working for the past 8 months with a 1.3.1 brought to libc6 with many hamm packages I decided to make a clean transition to a hamm system. Thinkpads usually have to use the resc1440tecra.bin disks since it does not boot bzImage kernels properly. Unfortunately this resc1440tecra.bin image (downloaded from ftp.debian.org with a date of 28 May) hangs with a Loading linux .. prompt (just two dots and hangs with the floppy spinning forever). Tried writing with rawrite, with dd, on different floppies and even tried the resc1440.bin file Any help for me ??? Thank you very much in advance. Bob -- Robert Alexander - IBM Italy work e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where can I find some .deb packages ?
Shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using Debian 1.3.1. > Can someone tell me where (on which ftp site) can I find: > 1) A debian installer for netscape 4.05 (communicator) ? > 2) The last Linux Gazzete issues ? Have a look at: http://badger.alaska.net/debian/ HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nslookup prompt...
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: .. sysjyb> If I simply type 'nslookup' and hit enter to get the ">" and then type in sysjyb> my Linux box spits the information I wanted originally. My sysjyb> resolve.conf has "nameserver 127.0.0.1 ". sysjyb> sysjyb> Why can I not simply type 'nslookup ' and get back what I sysjyb> am hunting for? sysjyb> sysjyb> --Jay Barbee resolv.conf has to have each nameservr setting in a separate line AFAIK best of luck Regards, Imagine Technologies Oommen16,Shaffee Mohammed Road Rutland Gate eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chennai 600 006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] INDIA **Please note the change in Tel. #'s -> Voice: 91-44-8211733/734/796 Fax : 91-44-8225341 -> Pls do not include other recipients of mails when u reply, unless necessary -> All FORWARDED mails are send "AS IS" & need not reflect my opinion/ideas -> My opinions are not to be attributed as my company's unless stated so -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[off-topic] Toshiba 780 CDM
Greetings, yesterday I installed Debian (frozen) on my friend's laptop. The machine is a Toshiba 780 CDM, and everything worked out pretty good: we have another debian user :-). The only problem we got is the suspend/resume with X: if he suspend/resume the machine with X on the screen, X is unusable after. Sometimes it doesn't even accept input from the keyborad (that is if he's not on the net he cannot ctrl-alt-backspace X: only hard reboot!). Is a well know bug of X? Is there some fixes? And, is anyone running on the same laptop? I'd like to make him use the internal modem and the camera, but I have no idea how ... graziano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best kernel for now?
Hi, I need to recompile my kernel to add bridging support. (For IPX) I'm currently running 2.0.33, it seems to run fine, although I'm wary of reports of it being rather unstable. I had 2.0.32, but gpm died after two weeks, restarting gpm didn't work, but rebooting did. I have no idea if this was a kernel problem, but I think it happened twice. 2.0.33 has had no such problem. Anyway, I'm considering changing kernels. I am running a 386SX/20 machine w/ 8meg of RAM, 100meg IDE HDD. I use it mostly for Samba, IPMASQ with dial-up line, Mail and news server. I don't have a CDROM or SCSI hardware on this machine, so I'm not worried about support for these. How are the 2.0.34prethingees like? Very stable? What advantages over 2.0.33? What are the unstable kernels (2.1.x) like? What advantages over the stable ones? TIA, Tim. --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make X fonts Bigger
>. All you need to do is to get the xfstt package, create a /var/ttfonts > directory, copy the fonts you would like to have into it, add copy the fonts from where? from windows? from X11? Do I need a font dir file, if so how do I make it. < NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Project: COPYRIGHT HOWTO.
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > > Hallo all, > > as a lot of us developers have to deal with copyright problems, I would > like to start this (hopefully) littly project. This sounds like an interesting idea. > I would like to write a COPYRIGHT HOWTO, which might be send to > authors of software, which a) do not state what copyright is > associated with their software and b) who do not use a free (enough) > license. > > What should be in there: > > 1. A discussion what is necessary to constitute a Copyright and > License for a program (Do you have to state copyright in every file, > is a COPYRIGHT file in the top directory enough, is a Copyright line > in an LSM file enough, etc.). This all sounds good...and as being associated with debian I understand your focus on free software licenses, and I definitly myself feel that free software licences are far superior. I think what needs to be included is also info about non-free licences. It would be good to see a nice guide...what needs to be spelled out explicitly in a licence? what is assumed true as long as nothing explicitly states otherwise? etc Information on both free and non-free licences is important...it should be usefull for everyone. It woul dbe nice to see some example licences and what they mean, and espcially their pitfalls (like for instance some peopel find they don't like the GPL cuz its not free enough for them) > _4._ Big disclaimer, as we are not lawyers. :-) This is of course good...and probably necissary (I have often wondered if such disclaimers are really needed or just the result of peoples misguided paranoia) I think it woul dbe nice to write it and then find a way to have a copyright lawyer who is willing to help out read it over and give it aquick check for the validity of its statements. I think it is important to stress a licence which is carefully worded such that it allows and dissalows what the author wishes to do so with, and also is not complete overkill (for instance I think the GPL is a good example of overkill) Also I think "Public Domain" should be mentioned...and what it means to place something "in the public domain" (my understanding is that that means a person who writes a piece of software explicitly gives up all rights to it which a copyright would give them) -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth" -- Thomas Edison pgpDRxMPHJpSr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: auctex not happening
Mark Phillips wrote: > > Hi, > > I've recently upgraded to hamm. The auctex package installed fine, > but it doesn't seem to start up when I use emacs! > > Previously when I loaded a latex document into emacs, it would > automatically go into auctex mode. Now when I do it, it goes into a > non-auctex, tex mode. I can do a M-x latex-mode, but this is a non-auctex > latex mode. Why can't emacs see auctex - what do I have to do to activate > it? I got the same thing. I upgraded to hamm some time ago, and auctex has worked all right until now. Hadn't noticed it before, possibly because classes are over. Anyway, a fix is to put (require 'tex-site) in your .emacs file. I believe this qualifies as a Debian bug (for the auctex package?). Noel -- Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. -- Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #424
> Subject: Re: How do you connect one computer to another > Date: 03 Jun 1998 10:49:02 +0200 > From: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Userslist > > >> "SM" == Shanta McBain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SM> How to I get access to the Win95 tcp/ip > SM> drives from the linux box and vise versa? > > Sorry, but what is a "tcp/ip drive"? Maybe you could explain what you want > to do. If you want to access your linuxbox via the network neighborhood, > you can use samba for this. This will also allow access the other way > round. Martin, Here's what I have going on between my Win95 and Linux boxes. I purchased two VERY inexpensive ethernet cards ($10 for a 10MB ISA and $15 for a 10MB PCI). My two machines are sitting within my home, so I purchased a ethernet crossover cable so I could connect them without using a hub. Next, I used Samba and I connected my Win95 machine to the Linux box using standard net use commands, worked pretty slick. There is a "HOWTO" doc on this at /usr/doc/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.gz that does a good job at explaining what needs to be done. Lastly, I hate to admit it, but one of the first things I did was open the /etc/passwd file within Win95 Notepad and edited it. It changed the mode settings and I could no longer logon to my Linux box. Luckily I had a copy of the original file and just copied it over and things are fine now... Duu. Dean C. Sullinger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crl.com/~deans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
deselect not finding vmlinuz.old
hi Deselect will exit on error that it cannot find the file vmlinuz.old in the base dir. The file shows on a ls. you can mv to a new name. and back but you cant cp it or open it with ae. This effectively stops me from installing most of the packages. what is wrong here and how can I correct it? Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape Mail problem
Matthew Myers wrote: > > When I try to send mail to this list server using netscape mail, it never > gets here. I sent this using pine. I have tried this before and after a > complete Debian re-install and always have the same results. What's the > deal with netscape mail? You need to set up Netscape to use the proper mail servers. Assuming you're using Netscape 4.0x, select Edit|Preferences, click on the little triangle next to Mail and Groups so that it points down, then click on Mail Server. Then enter the values for your username, outgoing and incoming mail server. I use Netscape mail with no problems. In fact, this message was sent using it. Noel -- It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you connect one computer to another
> Sorry, but what is a "tcp/ip drive"? Maybe you could explain what you want > to do. If you want to access your linuxbox via the network neighborhood, > you can use samba for this. This will also allow access the other way > round. Sorry for not knowing the terms of reference for Linux I came from the dos word and we map drive to letters. Yes I do what to access my file directories from each file system.How to I access the simba system I have it installed on my linux box? Thanks Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape in hamm
> I've recently upgraded to hamm, but can't install netscape. Apparently
> it depends on xlib6 which I had to deselect because it conflicted
> with xlib6g. Is there a version of netscape which uses the newer
> library? Or is there a way of installing both?
Yes. Install xlib6 (along with xpm4.7, libg++27, libc5) from "oldlibs"
section of the "hamm".
> I thought that netscape had made the source code freely available, and
> that someone from debian had packaged this up - but I couldn't find it -
> what happened to it, or am I mistaken?
I wouldn't advise using it - still _very_ buggy.
Alex Y.
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Netscape in hamm
I've recently upgraded to hamm, but can't install netscape. Apparently it depends on xlib6 which I had to deselect because it conflicted with xlib6g. Is there a version of netscape which uses the newer library? Or is there a way of installing both? I thought that netscape had made the source code freely available, and that someone from debian had packaged this up - but I couldn't find it - what happened to it, or am I mistaken? Cheers, Mark. __ _\/___\__/___Mark_Phillips___/ \__/_\__/--\__/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ \__/HE___\__/--APTAIN/ \__/_\__/--\__/__/ /__"To be is to do."__I. Kant___/ \__/__\__/___/ /__"To do is to be."__A. Sartre_/ /__"I am."God___/ /__Jesus did.___/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Man => DOS Text
> "Tomas" == Tomas Petersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tomas> Hello, how can I convert man pages to DOS-text so I can
Tomas> print them from my NT. If I just pipe to a file I get a
Tomas> lot of unwanted characters, is there a utiliy for this?
There's a nifty utility called 'col' which was designed just for
that. Try piping the output from 'man' to 'col -b' before saving it,
like:
man man | col -b > man.txt
Of course, 'man col' is somthing you'll want to do. :{)
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Re: HELP needed w/ libtool using compile
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 04:16:57PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > I am trying to install several programs from source that use the libtool > program to compile. The compilation goes through without a hitch, however > the libfoo.so files all say "statically linked" when looked at by ldd. Has > anyone looked into this? What can I give to help debug this? It is a FRESH > 2.0 install (2 hours old). No original bo. I used Dale's pre 2.0 CD. > Install went fine and I have edited nothing but ppp. Look in: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9802/msg01322.html Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Red Hat 5.1
On 3 Jun 98 17:59:02 GMT, Peter S Galbraith) wrote: >So Red Hat 5.1 (their second libc6 version) is out before Debian 2.0... >Not that there's a competition between Debian and Red Hat. Just a >comment... > >(Not that *I'm* doing anything to further Debian progress, so I cannot >complain! I just wonder if that bugs developers a little) Please note that 5.1 is only out because there were serious security problems with 5.0, as well as other quality-control problems in the Red Hat distribution. So, if they had tested the first version properly instead of grabbing for dollars, there wouldn't have been a second. The Debian team have a more responsible attitude, and are waiting until they are much more sure of the product before releasing it. If you don't want to wait, you can always download the "deep freeze" version, and update any changes after the release date. I'd rather have a stable, secure version later than a buggy, insecure version a few weeks earlier. Rob Wilderspin -- "But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep..." --= (send replies to rob@) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
