Re: Cheap*Bytes 2.0 CD-ROM
>>>>> "jason" == jason and jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] jason> Imagine my suprise when I came home this evening to find jason> email from Cheapbytes with a fixed script. Someone from jason> Cheapbytes had seen my list post on a usenet mirror, took a jason> look at the script, saw the problem, fixed it and emailed jason> it to me without my ever having contacted Cheapbytes in the jason> first place. jason> Script worked great. jason> So that should answer any questions anyone might have about jason> ordering from Cheapbytes, and put the lie to the folks on jason> some of the newsgroups constantly griping about companies jason> selling $1.99 CDs. When is the last time anyone got an jason> email from Bill Gates saying "I heard you have a jason> problem...here's the fix." I agree wholeheartedly. I simply expressed concern regarding the comment on debian-user -- note that I haven't bought a single CD yet. They mailed me the script, saying "if you decide to buy it, this script should work". That's service! I think there isn't any question left in my mind who I'll deal with to get the CDs. -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond -- Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CoFounder, KMS Group. Student, B. CompEng, Concordia University. PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key.
Re: The last latex2e question.........
>>>>> "King" == King Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
King> On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Benoit Goudreault-Emond wrote:
>> There might be a more straightforward way, but what I usually
>> do is convert the .jpg to Encapsulated Postscript using xv
>> (pbmplus should work as well, but I like xv), use package
>> epsfig and enter
>>
>> \epsfig{file=picture.eps} for a file named "picture.eps"
>>
>> in a figure environment. However, this means you must print
>> the whole document from a .ps file generated by dvips--don't
>> try to use, say,
King> I think that if you bring document up in gostview, you
King> can print or marked pages.
*If* you have either a postscript printer or a magicfilter-like
program installed. Unless ghostview evolved since I last checked it
out (I use gv myself, and I'm still running a half bo/half rex bastard
system).
What I meant was not that you can't print parts of the document--dvips
gives the option. I meant that you can't print the figure if you
don't convert to postscript. Sorry for the confusing choice of words.
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Re: Cross-compile to Windows NT
I'll assume the thing was written in C. Well. Don't expect it to work out of the box. But if it uses only the standard library, you may have luck with the mingw32 stuff at: http://www.d.shuttle.de/isil/cpd/mingw32-cpd.html I haven't tried it myself, as I usually compile from Win95. BUT I've used a similar tool suite (the only difference is that the compiler is egcs, and it is a native version, not a cross-compiler) with some success. If you need to port a full utility, you may have better luck with Cygnus' gnu-win32 tool suite. Take a look at http://www.cygnus.com/ They propose a rather complete POSIX environment under NT. Note that this ain't a cross-compiler; you need to compile from NT. There may be cross compilers using that tool suite for Linux lying around (I think I recall seeing a .deb for that at one point, but I don't know if it's still alive). -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond -- Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CoFounder, KMS Group. Student, B. CompEng, Concordia University. PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: The last latex2e question.........
>>>>> "phillip" == phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
phillip> Hi, Im a little desperade, becasue i have to insert a
phillip> graphic in my latex2e document. I have search the guides,
phillip> but i didnt find something it could help (maybe i look at
phillip> it too quickly..). Its a jpg. I learn, at univ., that i
phillip> should insert it with the folowing command:
phillip> \special{isoscale \figure.jpg ble, bla}
phillip> but i think in the computers of my univ. the command is
phillip> already configure Not here in my home. What sould i
phillip> do to insert a jpeg???
There might be a more straightforward way, but what I usually do is
convert the .jpg to Encapsulated Postscript using xv (pbmplus should
work as well, but I like xv), use package epsfig and enter
\epsfig{file=picture.eps} for a file named "picture.eps"
in a figure environment. However, this means you must print the whole
document from a .ps file generated by dvips--don't try to use, say,
dvilj2p, as it knows nothing about postscript specials (I wish it did
like xdvi and called gs to render, but it's too old). That's why I
have a postscript printer. :{)
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Re: Reader / Editor for PDF Format Documents
>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> My System is Hamm, which packages are the Reader or Editor Alex> for PDF Format Documents? Where can I download it? Alex> Thanks & Regards, The latest Ghostscript (v5.x?) can read PDF (with the help of ghostview if you want a convenient interface). It also has a nifty little util that allows converting postscript to PDF. As for editing the PDF file itself -- I'm working with PDF at the office, and the only thing you can edit is SOME (but not all) text. And the editor (Exchange) tends to be overenthusiastic at changing the contents of the file. PDF is essentially read-only once it's generated. However, the .PDF files generated by the ps2pdf converter are pretty good. -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond -- Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CoFounder, KMS Group. Student, B. CompEng, Concordia University. PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Irritating ^H and double characters in documentation
>>>>> "Johann" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> Hallo, Johann> Several documentation files on the 1.3.1 distribution Johann> contains text like this from the Afterstep FAQ: Johann> --- 11.. [snip] Johann> --- Johann> I was trying to read this file with emacs in X11. Those are files that are using troff-like backspace+character sequences to simulate bold and underline. You can probably view those properly through less and more. However, 1- To view it with emacs, use M-x Man-fontify-manpage (you may have to view a manual page first to load the function, but I'm not sure) 2- Filter the file through `col -b'. -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond -- Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CoFounder, KMS Group. Student, B. CompEng, Concordia University. PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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: stm (was Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message))
[snip] > Hmm, I used to have that running with my tseng et4000, but when I went to > my new s3 virge, It died completely... anyway, 80x34 is fine... 80x25 is > just too large... I hate DOS so much... :) > Died how? Don't forget that you absolutely HAVE to load fonts if you use any S3 based card in text mode at high refresh rates (you probably knew that, but one never knows). -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: stm (was Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message))
[A heck of a lot clipped] > > > > I hope that will be of some use to you. > > > > Apparently not... I am beginning to think I need to raise some money for a > new monitor.. :( limits: 30-50 horiz 50-75 Vert > Oh well... Well, you can change the first number on the modeline, I beleive it's the dot clock. Lowering that will allow you to drive the monitor at a lower synch rate. 'Sides, I had a monitor which had about the same specs once, and I ran @ 100x37 but at ~70 Hz, IIRC. You should be able to do the same (hint: you should be able to drive the 100x37 mode at the same frequency you drive your monitor when in 800x600 graphical mode). Unfortunately, I don't know what happened to that particular configuration. Sorry. Again, be darn careful when fooling around with SVGATextMode. Keep one console with "stm 80x25" ready, and your finger on the monitor's off switch. :) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: stm (was Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message))
> As a matter of interest, who is using SVGATextMode with an S3 ViRGE and a > 1024x768 capable monitor? if I try to go above 80x30, the characters on > the left hand side of the screen get all screwy, and sometimes the left of > the screen is cut off at the 10thish column and is repeated from there... > So I use LILO to give me 80x34 :) > > Any Ideas? I am. My own text mode is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My settings: --- snip --- ChipSet "S3" ClockChip "S3Virge" Option "XFAST_DRAM" # The following line might be what you're missing... Option "S3_HSText" option "16color" # You may be missing this as well -- apparently, you must make sure to # load fonts at high frequencies Option "LoadFont" FontProg "/usr/bin/setfont" FontPath "/usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts" # The following font is not in the package -- I grabbed it off sunsite's # console fonts pack. FontSelect "sans-16" 8x16 9x16 8x15 9x15 # The following fonts were kept as default -- I don't use them FontSelect "Cyr_a8x14" 8x14 9x14 8x13 9x13 FontSelect "8x12alt.psf" 8x12 9x12 8x11 9x11 FontSelect "Cyr_a8x8"8x8 9x8 8x7 9x7 FontSelect "Cyr_a8x32" 8x32 9x32 8x31 9x31 FontProg "/usr/bin/setfont -u def.uni" HorizSync 30-66 VertRefresh 50-110 DefaultMode "80x25" "80x25" 28.3640 680 776 800400 412 414 449 font 9x16 # # This is the mode I use. I had to mess with the first, second, fourth # and fifth values to center. I basically tried until I got something # reasonable, so I can't really give some hints besides keep a console # with "stm 80x25" always ready at the prompt, and your finger on the # monitor's power off switch (just in case you give bad settings) # "custom" 55 800 878 922 1042615 615 616 650 font 8x16 --- snip --- I hope that will be of some use to you. -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Wanted: the TUTOR MC68K emulator??
> Does anyone know if there exists a debian package that simulates any type > of MC68K assembler?? Specifically the TUTOR software. Any help is > greatly appreciated. Last time I checked, there wasn't any. The people who developed the thing don't seem to distribute the source, and I didn't find ANY Linux version (only Solaris). Still... If you can stand text mode, the DOS version works great under DOSEMU. I used it that way last semester ; worked like a charm (but the way the software is written, it tends to eat all CPU time polling the keyboard... But that's the way DOS taught people to program, I guess). -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: now i've done it (serious help now)
[snip] > i get; > > _X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:errho=2 > > what do i do to get into xwindows? Well, xf86config is not exactly the dream program to configure X. I'd install xserver-vga and xfnt-75 and use XF86Setup instead (it's a graphical config, and yields much cleaner config files IMHO). Try reconfiguring, and try starting X again. If you still can't do it, knowing what your video card is might help us pinpoint the problem. > also, i have booted into dos. running windows provides the blue screen: > Missing Vfat (or something) Can't help here. Best advice I've got: reinstall Windows. That seems to be the only way to solve Windows problem due to the lack of diagnostics and system utilities for that operating environment. > what am i supposed to do about x-windows? i think i will follow all the > suggestions i have had about partitioning, but would ust like to get int > o xwindows first if possible. also, what other experiences have you had > with other distributions such as redhat? For X, follow the above suggestions. Be aware that if you repartition, you'll (obviously) have to redo the whole thing (unless you manage not to touch the Linux parition). As for other distribs, I've only used Slackware, and it was much more of a pain than Debian. But maybe you should ask that on newsgroups or other lists rather than here ; understandably, we all think Debian is great. :) (not that it isn't, of course) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Wow, and some questions
> 1) I am incredibly knowledgable in Win95/NT. will i be able to run both > Operating Systems if i partition my hdd? Yup. My own setup has DOS/Win 3.1, Win95, OS/2 and Debian on the same 1.2 GB drive. Win95 and OS/2 both are pretty minimal setups, though. > 2) how do i install it (just a quick overview, i've read over the > installation a lot, and it is really difficult to understand, for me...) Don't know about the official CD (I installed in the 1.2 days), but even then, it was pretty simple. At the time you had to create 5 installation disks, boot the first one and follow the instructions. Nowadays, I hear all you have to do is boot from the CD (if your bios takes it) or from a single disk you've created. Follow the instructions. If you know how to partition a drive, you're in business. I personally found the Debian install program to be the most straightforward I've seen (kudos to those who wrote it!), as it basically lays down the steps for you. > 3) i'm in! it's AMAZING (i'm assuming), how do i set up communications > for a win95 compatible modem? Now that i have it, can i download a web > browser for it from win95 then open it in linux? or is disk format > totally different? > - if so, what do i do? For the modem, if it's a Winmodem, forget it ; those things require a driver from the manufacturer, and the manufacturer doesn't consider Linux important enough to write a driver for it. In addition, those things are totally braindamaged, i.e., the CPU has to do almost all of the work for the modem. This is totally unacceptable in a multitasking environment, IMHO. If it's merely a PnP modem, you'll need to mess with the jumpers (if available) or isapnptool (if there are no jumpers). I can't help much here ; my own modem has jumpers. If it's external, then you won't have ANY problems of any kind. As for downloading stuff from Win95 for use with Linux, it's easy : Linux can read Win95 partitions (FAT32 requires a kernel patch, though). It can be used (almost) as a normal Linux partition. > 4) What productivity software is available? (word processing etc) Corel Wordperfect, StarOffice, Applixware, etc... Those are the commercial options. I personally prefer free options (student, y'know), so I've used LyX for a while. LyX is pretty friendly and feels like your "regular" word processor. It's still beta, though, and there are some things it can't do unless you know LaTeX already. If you are willing to spend a little extra time learning a quasi programming language, LaTeX yields results that you'd expect from a professional book printer (actually, some books are generated entirely with LaTeX nowadays). It's not wysiwyg, though, and that takes some getting used to. The results are definitely worth it, though. Plus, it's free. I find the single most useful productivity app _ever_ is emacs, the do-it-all text editor. That program alone can save you a lot of time if you use the add-ons supplied for it. I'm currently writing this message in it. :) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AMD K6
> > There are problems with certain runs of the K6 and linux with > > more than 32 MB RAM. It's documented on their web page, along > > with how to return your defective chip for a good one. Since > > you have to send it to them first, I just switched the K6 we > > had into a winders95 box, and it runs happily. > > So if you get a new chip then it shouldn't have any problems? AMD fixed that problem around September, I think. That's when I got mine. Runs like a charm. Performance is quite high compared to my old P90 (but that might be due to the additional 16MB I put in there) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > I am trying to transfer some troff files to straight ascii, but I keep > getting intermixed control characters and extra characters in its attempt > to deal with bold, underscore, and other format issues. > Is there a way to get troff to not do these formatting steps? As an > alternative how can I get sed or some other text manipulator to take > the three character sequence into > simply ? As far as I can tell, the following will do it. sed -e 's/.'$'\b''//g' < troff-file > ascii-file where troff-file is your troff-formatted file, and ascii-file is where you want to put the plain ascii output. The ugly $'\b' in the middle is a way to tell bash you want a backspace character passed. If you don't use bash, you'll have to take a peek at your shell's manual. I tried it with a few manpages, looks good. - -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNHoE8Vqhoy6gYXzFAQGcNQP+PMu/awUzaL7DQcfyBsd1vMI3W4mrSyxP armNSzFXo7+ylralxZY8vUQZ4jc6322Ic3GzAuBKdP8HefzLPA1JQyHYBhI2Owl0 wThOjBNabONdJvnJqCJG5lVpG+kuUtBgoMm9+qTaXFQEXxocdTZH2XuUXHithR7g uwFnxYNNva0= =Sf7M -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: c/c++ to LaTeX?
> > Some where I once saw a c/c++ to LaTex tool that would > take as input a source file and produce a .tex file. > > If I remember right it would do some pretty formatting of the > syntax. > > Does any one know what this package might be and where it might > be found? I have looked in a couple of archives and have not > been able to find it. There's lgrind and vgrind, but I found their output unsatisfactory. There's C++2LaTeX, found on CTAN. They're at v1.1. I have a patched version (the plain 1.1 didn't recognize // comments properly), and it yields pretty nice output. However, I haven't debianized it. If anyone is interested, I can try to figure out where the thing is on CTAN so someone can debianize the thing, or I can try doing a quick-and-dirty .deb with debmake. Otherwise, if you're the only one interested, I can send you the patched source or the binary, as you wish. -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Starting out...
> > > > Overall, I'm very satisfied with the upgrade so far. Note that I > > upgraded the whole system unit in one shot (CPU/motherboard/memory). > > Also note that if your motherboard comes with an USB port, make sure > > you can disable it through the BIOS setup program ; Linux seems to > > dislike USBs. > > I have USB on my board. Linux says "Unknown PCI device", but it stills > boots and runs fine. 2.0.30. I must admit the horror story about USBs was hearsay. On the other hand, the guy who told me that was running the 2.1.xx series, so it's possible the experimental PnP support in there caused the problems. I haven't checked myself (shame on me!) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: The Value of TEX
> hello,
>
> I am a newbie to linux and i keep hearing all of these postings to the
> groups about tex. my question is just how long would it take to be
> proficient and is the program really relevant at this period of time?
>
> allan
If you use LyX, which is a front-end to LaTeX, the learning time is
very small, as LyX provides an environment that has the look and feel
of "normal" word processors.
If you use LaTeX only, you can start typing documents pretty quickly
with a good book and/or introduction. I learned base LaTeX in a few
day's time, most of that time taken in figuring out how to print out
the documentation so I could consult it. LaTeX is best used with
emacs, which allows you to type LaTeX documents very quickly by
automating some tasks (like typing \emph{} to get emphasized text).
As for the relevance of TeX and LaTeX, I'd say it's pretty relevant.
The program is being used in most universities for preparation of
papers and such. It has also absolutely no equal when it comes to
typesetting equations. Finally, the results are usually more
beautiful and readable than normal documents out of word processors,
since TeX is a true typesetting system intended for use in typesetting
full books, not just simple documents.
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Re: Starting out...
> Hi folks! > > I've just finished the hardware part of building my very own PC Compatible > (AMD K5-166, Amptron PM8600 motherboard, 32MB RAM, S3 Trio64+ 2MB video > card, Creative Labs SoundBlaster Vibra16 audio, Hitachi 7730 IDE 4X CD-ROM, > Quantum Bigfoot 4.3GB IDE HD, Teac 1.44MB HD, soon to be getting a Seagate > [Conner] 800MB Tape Drive) and am tweaking Windows95 into submission. Item per item: Processor: OK motherboard:No idea, probably fine. video: OK. I've heard of some problems with the latest XFree and the S3 server, though ; you may want to check the mailing list archive. sound card: OK. If it's PnP, you'll need isapnptools to configure, unless your BIOS is smart enough to do it. CD-ROM: OK. Hard drive: OK, but be wary of partitions >2GB (it's not your case right now, but you may want to expand) as some Linux utils still have problems I think (it was the case for cfdisk at one time). Tape drive: No idea, but it should be fine if it's an IDE tape. [snip] > Are there still any pitfalls to using Debian Linux with the K5 chip or any > of the other hardware I mentioned above? Eventually I plan on upgrading to As mentioned, shouldn't be any problems AFAIK. > the K6 chip...I've heard some Linux horror stories about the K6 not I upgraded to a K6 last Wenesday. No problems so far, and I've put some load on the system (compiling the kernel with emacs and netscape loaded, while playing Quake... :), though I'll have to make an effort to really load it (32 MB is HARD to fill!). Interestingly enough, Linux gave a few messages about unknown PCI devices but still kept booting and has been working flawlessly since. However, Win95 refused to boot in anything but safe mode after the motherboard upgrade, and I had to reinstall (the lack of diagnostic messages made it totally impossible for me to troubleshoot the problem). Overall, I'm very satisfied with the upgrade so far. Note that I upgraded the whole system unit in one shot (CPU/motherboard/memory). Also note that if your motherboard comes with an USB port, make sure you can disable it through the BIOS setup program ; Linux seems to dislike USBs. > working. Anyone on this list use PowerBoot to dual boot? I'm gonna need a > *lotta support* from you folks, and I promise when I become a Linux guru I > will help the newbies on this list. No idea about how PowerBoot works. I have, however, used the OS/2 Boot Manager while I was still young and innocent. :) If PowerBoot works in a similar way, it's not too difficult to make Linux work with it. Basically, you must install LILO (Linux's own boot loader) in the Linux partition's boot record (*NOT* the master boot record) and point your boot manager to the Linux partition. The boot manager will find LILO, which will boot Linux. You could also use LILO for the whole drive, which is what I'm doing. However, the interface is a bit plain, and if someone who's not used to it tries to boot the computer, it might confuse the hell out of him/her. Good luck with your installation. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X screen position
> From: Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Anyone utility to shift the X screen (permanently?) to the right? Take a look at xvidtune. It will allow you to interactively shift the screen and dump the resulting X timing to stdout. You can then paste those settings in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bash Prompt in an XTerm
>From: Travis Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Bash Prompt in an XTerm [snip] >This works fine when I am at the console as a normal user but as root I only >get: > >atheist# Check root's .bash_profile (and possibly .bashrc). It is probably overriding the default prompt. >In XFree86 it gives me: > >bash-2.00$ > >I can live with the way root's prompt as I try to use root very little but I >would like to change the prompt in my XTerms. > >What file would I edit to do this? I tried adding this to my .bash_profile >and looked through the bash man page. I would also like to make these changes >global. How do you start your xterms? Through a window manager menu, I would presume. You may have to add the '-ls' switch to the xterm command line to make it a login shell (though I'm sure this affects the .bash_profile file, I don't know about /etc/profile). --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Suggestion to future debian releases
>Dear listmembers, > >I have just installed Linux (debian) and I was very happy with the >installation "wizard". It sure made it easy to install. > >I would like to suggest something though. Is it possible that in future >realease 'man' be included in the base system? I'll explain why... > >I have installed, using the rescue, drivers and base diskettes the Debian >Linux on my PC. Nevertheless because the driver for my NIC (3C905-TX) is >not current as of 1.3 release, my networking is disabled (I have to get a >patch; that's a all new story... it's been giving me a headache to but >I'll get there eventually). > >As such I can't install any additional packages (I don't have a CD so I >need to install accross the net). > >I have noticed that there are lotza man pages in my basic setup but no >'man' command to read them. :-) > >Well just a suggestion as man does come handy! :-) There might be reasons not to include man on a system. I have a friend who has a very limited Linux box connecting to a server. It can only boot and mount a disk through NFS, and the manpages are on the server. However, I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to put the base manpages in their own, non-base package? Any thoughts about that? --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts
>Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall >a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a >text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that >Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there >such a standard utility or do I have to dig even >deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^> dos2unix (in package sysutils) --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: g++ file doesn't run
>Thanks for the help - it does compile with g++ instead of gcc, but the
>executable produced isn't doing anything. Here's what i'm doing:
>
>//test.c
>#include
>
>main(){
> cout << "Hello there.";
>}
>
>The test file doesn't print out anything when I run it.
Append a \n to your string. Or include iomanip.h and use the "flush"
manipulator.
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Re: Problems after update from debian 1.1.3 to 1.2.8
>I installed debian linux a while ago from a cd, which contained the >files from the release 1.1.3. This one worked great and I just had to >add a kernel-parameter to be able to use my zip-drive. Last week I >wanted to update my system to 1.2.8. I looked into /var/lib/dpkg/status >to find out which packages I had installed (isn't there a easier method >for this) and downloaded the updates. After installing all the packages >"by hand" (dpkg -i -R ) it appeared, that no Xresource seemed to >have any influence. All my settings in eg. the ~/.Xresource file were >ignored. I checked xrdb, which failed with an error message, that it >couldn't launch cpp. I have gcc installed and tried also the cpp package >by itself. No success. Don't think it's a bug. Looks like you didn't put the "allow-user-resources" line in the /etc/X11/config file. >Second thing is that i can't access the audio device (which worked under >1.1.3) anymore. xmix just says that it can't find the mixer device. Kernel problem, maybe? Perhaps the sound module isn't there... --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key.
