On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Butch Kemper wrote:
> I have a problem booting the Debian Kernel 2.0.25 as it hangs with this on
> the screent:
>
> GSCD: Version 0.4a Oliver Raupach ...
> GSCD: Trying to detect a Goldstar R420 ..
> GSCD: GoldStar Interfac Adapter does not exist or H/W error
> $i
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3
>
> [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/deb/x# dpkg -i xserver-s3_3.2-1.deb
> (Reading database ... 22830 files and directo
Hello,
I am still Debian1.1 - compiling a C++ program, which used to
compile cleanly only a few weeks ago, gives me the following
error message:
/lib/libm.so.5: undefined reference to '__getfpucw'
Do I need to upgrade any libraries ?
Can anybody help me sort this out please ?
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> The configuration file is changed - I think you have to copy
> /usr/lib/keymaps/es.map into /etc/kbd/default.map . I'm surprised the
> package didn't do this for you while upgrading.
Oh, yes, the package have put an /e
I've been experimenting with the commercial Wingz product.
They have a shareware version available at sunsite.unc.edu.
Very nice!
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On Mon, 9 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there any good spreadsheet for Linux (X11) ?
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The configuration file is changed - I think you have to copy
/usr/lib/keymaps/es.map into /etc/kbd/default.map . I'm surprised the
package didn't do this for you while upgrading.
Thanks
Bruce
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Hello.
I had Debian 1.1 updated with many rex packages. I upgraded my kbd package
from kbd_0.91-6.deb to kbd_0.91-12.deb and the following happened:
My /etc/kbd/config
CONSOLE=/dev/tty0
TERM=linux
KEYMAP="es.map"
SOFTFONT="iso01.f16"
disappeared!
And now I
Hi,
seems like problems with the ftp sites recurring...
master.debian.org:/debian/ is empty again.
uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/systems/linux/distributions/debian
is outdated.. the rex/disks-i386 has only 1996-11-28
Seems like only ftp.debian.org is still up and running.
I don't know about th
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, David Morris wrote:
> This is a variation on the theme of moving parts of the directory tree to
> another hard drive that was on this list a while ago.
>
> As I contemplate the move I think it could get very sticky. As I see it this
> is what might happen...
>
> Current
>
For now, please boot your system with the command:
linux reserve=0x340
or
linux cm206=0x350
Where "0x350" is any unused address on your system. I'll have to remove
this from the next kernel. I wanted to see if more than one person hit
this problem, or if it was simply someone with
I have a problem booting the Debian Kernel 2.0.25 as it hangs with this on
the screent:
GSCD: Version 0.4a Oliver Raupach ...
GSCD: Trying to detect a Goldstar R420 ..
GSCD: GoldStar Interfac Adapter does not exist or H/W error
$id: cm206.c,v 0.99.1.1 1996/08/11 10:35:01 david Exp $
I had a similar problem. It turned out that pppd started the negotiation
phase too early when the peer had not finished send all the preliminary
junk. I fixed it by adding a \d (a timeout of about 1 sec) to the last
chat transmit.
hope it works
-alex
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Dave Ewaldz wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) writes:
> I have noticed that since upgrading to the new X server I can't get the
> manual pages for X.
You probably have the MANPATH environment variable set. Unset it.
Guy
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler) writes:
>-> The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is
>-> unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61
>-> (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in
>-> letters as "H", "f" and so on.
Try looking at it with antialiasing
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various
> binaries losing their suid bits.
This is bug 5479 in dpkg. It contains a patch which you can use until
a new version of dpkg fixes it.
Guy
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> Now, that I am nearly finished with switching to Debian and
> going to switch other 15 boxes as well there is one annoying
> thing left:
>-> The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is
>-> unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61
>-> (5/28/1993), due to missing hori
>
> I have X all nicely set up now, but fvwm won't run. I have both fvwm and
> fvwm2
> installed (fvwm version 1.24r-24) and when I try to start fvwm (and several
> other
> graphical programs) I get the message
>
> fvwm: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
>
> I am running X 3.2, and have seve
Try the boot disk set in
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/frozen/disks-i386/1996-12-8 . It has more
disk controllers set up to autoconfigure. You can probably figure out
what SCSI controller you have that way.
Bruce
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:28:56 +1100 Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
rmit.edu.au) wrote:
> H. I just reinstalled smail and the suid bit was maintained.
> However the X (S3 server) package seems to be missing the suid bit.
> Could be a bug, but the vga16 server has the same. Anyway,
> this is
Thanks! You folks are great. All I had to do was install the module with
the apropriate conf info (io=0x300 irq=10) and it is working great. Next
I'll recompile the kernel to get rid off all those extraneous CD drive
checks...but first, maybe I'd better see if I can mount the smb share with
the
>
> Hello,
>
> we have a small problem using the combination of lpr, lprm on a remote
> machine. A user, who started a printjob with lpr is not allowed to
> remove his own printjob on the other machine. The /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group files are distributed with nis, so both computer use the
> sa
The only problem I had with upgrading debian was the information on how to do
it. Now that I know, I see that it is VERY simple and straightforward, but
maybe, it should be discussed somewhere in the install guide or some such (I
could not find a description on the debian.org web site).
I am extr
I have X all nicely set up now, but fvwm won't run. I have both fvwm and fvwm2
installed (fvwm version 1.24r-24) and when I try to start fvwm (and several
other
graphical programs) I get the message
fvwm: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
I am running X 3.2, and have several 'libX**.so.6' file
Howdy,
I'm trying to install Debian 1.1.4 on a Compaq Prosignia vs which has only a
SCSI-harddisk and CD-ROM (no IDE). However the SCSI-controller is integrated
on the motherboard and I do not have a clue what kind of card this is.
Apparently Linux does not recognize it, but since I don't know
Hello,
we have a small problem using the combination of lpr, lprm on a remote
machine. A user, who started a printjob with lpr is not allowed to
remove his own printjob on the other machine. The /etc/passwd and
/etc/group files are distributed with nis, so both computer use the
same user-id and gr
I think that some questions may be solved here... ;)
FAQ-launcher-URLs: http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
>
> I'm in the same boat. When I use ~.forward all my mail gets sent to
> /var/spool/mail/nobody.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Mark W. Blunier wrote:
>
> > I am unable to get procmail to start up from the ~.fo
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in
> the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US.
> Is this right? Which one should I be using?
1) That is completely right.
2) The i-version since i
Hi,
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> I've tried gv; it looks nice, but for me, it doesn't have scrollbars
> in the file open window, which makes it useless! Version 2.7b5-3.
You don't need scrollbars. You can move up and down right or left of
click and drag of page on display. I find this very useful
Last night, I upgraded 2 machine to 1.2 from 1.1. All went fairly smooth,
with 2 hitches. First, I had to install the 'rex' ld.so, because
dselect/dpkg couldn't resolve the pre-depends on libdl. 2nd, cron
was killed/died, and not started up again. I didn't catch this until
this morning when I dnd't
> > > Ok, to mount an ext2 filesystem:
> > > mount -t ext2 /dev/
> > > From what I see above, your partition should be /dev/hdb1. A typical
> > > mountpoint is /mnt.
> >
> > I tried this, but its results was an error message. :-(
>
> Looks like it's verty f**cked'up then...
> You linux root fs
Hi everybody,
well, I happen to be one of them new Debian Linux users,
you know, with them stupid questions, stuff you've heard
of thousands of times. So please, if this ain't the right
place let me know first, then flame if I insist.
Just got my hands on Infomagic's Linux 6 CD set distrib.
Looke
>
>As root
>add the line "/usr/X11R6/lib" to "/etc/ld.so.conf"
>then run "ldconfig"
>
>> Hi
>> ==
>>
>> I am trying to use mpeg_play to visualize some videos (in mpeg
>> format).
>>
>> The installation with dselect (or with dpkg -i) seems OK, no
>> error messages, but when I try to run
Hi,
I have noticed that since upgrading to the new X server I can't get the
manual pages for X. The pages are in the system and mandb says it is processing
the corresponding directories but I can't read them unless I specifically
read the file I want using
man -l /usr/X11R6/man/man1/XFree86.1x.gz
It seems you NE2000 is not configured, because you are using module.
Add in you '/etc/modules' one line :
ne
to say kerneld to load module ne at boot time
and add in your /etc/conf.modules something like :
ne irq=10 io=0x300
to give parameters to module ne, because MODULE ne can't autoprobe
Now, that I am nearly finished with switching to Debian and
going to switch other 15 boxes as well there is one annoying
thing left:
-> The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is
-> unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61
-> (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in
> > In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various
> > binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail
> > to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail
> > telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid,
> > as it should've been. A few p
> In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various
> binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail
> to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail
> telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid,
> as it should've been. A few people have
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hamish> Which software would be best to handle this? From the name,
> Hamish> suck sounds like just the thing to get the news in, but I'd
> Hamish> guess it won't be interested in batching for UUCP, so I'd need
> Hamish> cnews or inn. I'm r
> Better would be Ghostscript with gv. Since most people have Ghostscript
> already. Ghostview is not setup to view pdf files(have this changed?)
> even through Ghostscript can handle it. But 'gv' on the other hand can
> handle pdf files and it looks much better then Ghostview. This way you
> don'
In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various
binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail
to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail
telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid,
as it should've been. A few people have told me i
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:39:00 -0200 "Alexander Gieg"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > I've attempted to boot with a diskette, and tried to manually mount
> > > the fs, because I know that there is another tables on the partition,
> > > but I don't know the 'mount' program, as the ext2-fs, *so* we
I'm in the same boat. When I use ~.forward all my mail gets sent to
/var/spool/mail/nobody.
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Mark W. Blunier wrote:
> I am unable to get procmail to start up from the ~.forward file.
> I can get procmail to run from the command line,
>
> formail -s procmail < copy_of_an_
Martin> Unless I intentionally remove the
Martin> cron package form this machine, the hard drive will not
Martin> spin down.
There are a few things that could be modified to facilitate spinning
down the disk. Syslogd is compulsive about writing information to the
disk right away just in case the s
At 10:54 PM 12/8/96 -6000, Dave Ewaldz wrote:
>Hi all, I am trying to get ppp version 2.2.0f-18 running on my
>Debian 1.1 system. It is dialing up and logging in fine, but when the
>LCP negotiation phase starts, it seems to loop for a while, then
>timeout. It looks like my ISP is not acking my syst
> "Martin" == Martin Gallant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> I have been running Debian on my laptop for a few months
Martin> now. Good job guys. Unless I intentionally remove the
Martin> cron package form this machine, the hard drive will not
Martin> spin down. What wou
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Mercurial Canid wrote:
> Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk
> and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount
> it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way t
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> >From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in
> the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US.
> Is this right? Which one should I be using?
>
> --
> Daniel String
On 9 Dec 1996, Norman Walsh wrote:
> I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right. It
> seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim vertical
> bar across the far right of the display). This is sporadic behavior,
> sometimes it "snaps" into proper alignment an
From: Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 09 Dec 1996 16:51:19 -0500
I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right.
It seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim
vertical bar across the far right of the display). This is
sporadic behavior,
Hi Daniel,
Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> When I send a message via locally, over my own network, procmail seems to
> process the file, but when mail comes in via 'popclient' from my ISP, it
> doesn't seem to be running the .forward file. Does anyone have this same
> situati
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I advised Joel to look over the licenses of the individual programs in
> non-free, and decide what he could legally include. I don't know if he'll
> have space.
Since there has been discussion of splitting up non-free, how about
creating a 'non-dist' for
Hello,
I just upgraded from Debian 1.1 to pre-1.2. I tought it would
be nice to have packages dwww and info2www so I installed them.
But I just can't get Apache configured the way it could handle
cgi-scripts. I had some problems while installing it, but it
was finally installed without errors and
Actually, it looks as if "contrib" made it onto the CD, but non-free did
not.
Bruce
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I think the license should be placed in the archive next to the package
so that it is easy to read.
Regarding InfoMagic, I think this time he only has one CD for Debian,
and thus some stuff like "contrib" and "non-free" might not make it on
to the CD.
Thanks
Bruce
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On Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:38:05 -0200 "Alexander Gieg"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm new to the "Linux Wonderfull World", and surfing the Web,
> I found the Debian page. I downloaded the Debian Linux, installed
> it, and used (+/-) since October, but I've not much experience, and
> a
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> >From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in
> the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US.
> Is this right? Which one should I be using?
>
The US version is legal to use in the US, and ille
Hi all, I am trying to get ppp version 2.2.0f-18 running on my
Debian 1.1 system. It is dialing up and logging in fine, but when the
LCP negotiation phase starts, it seems to loop for a while, then
timeout. It looks like my ISP is not acking my system's config
requests.
My ISP account works fine w
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Paul Christenson wrote:
> There is something that I've been wondering.. Why is everyone so
> fascinated with modules? I acknowledge that they have their uses, but
> how many people really need to UNLOAD a module once it's loaded?
>
> If you need it, compile it into the kernel,
Hello folks...I've got a CD-ROM from IConnect, made ~ the first of July.
It seems to install just fine, but when it reboots, the network doesn't
start up. I've got a NE2000 card, and I think that I configured
everything okay...it works fine when I install from my old .93r6 cd, for
instance. Durin
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Adam Shand wrote:
> >What I would like to see added to non-free (more than stable/unstable) is
> >the copyright files for each package, already unpacked, so the packages
> >don't need to be unpacked to be investigated. This would make it a lot
> >less work determining which pac
I have given the go-ahead for Debian 1.2 to be released. Currently
ftp.debian.org and the mirror at BNL have up-to-date archives. Other
mirrors are catching up, and we'll hold off on the release announcement
until they are in sync. Most critical is that your mirror have the
1996-12-8 boot floppy se
Hi All,
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>
> Lars,
>
> What you need is a copy of the Adobe Acrobat viewer software.
Better would be Ghostscript with gv. Since most people have Ghostscript
already. Ghostview is not setup to view pdf files(have this changed?)
even through Ghostscript can handle it. But
Hello again.
> > I'm new to the "Linux Wonderfull World", and surfing the Web,
> > I found the Debian page. I downloaded the Debian Linux, installed
> > it, and used (+/-) since October, but I've not much experience, and
> > an energy problem caused the system to display this message when the
> >
"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hamish> Which software would be best to handle this? From the name,
Hamish> suck sounds like just the thing to get the news in, but I'd
Hamish> guess it won't be interested in batching for UUCP, so I'd need
Hamish> cnews or inn. I'm reasonably
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Regarding InfoMagic, I think this time he only has one CD for Debian,
> and thus some stuff like "contrib" and "non-free" might not make it on
> to the CD.
>
Hmm, the last InfoMagic Developer's Resource had only room for Debian on
not even a whole disk. I
Okay folks...I've narrowed down my problem to /etc/init.d/network, where
the first attempt to ifconfig eth0 fails, because I have no eth0! I told
the installer that I was connected to the network via ethernet. NT (also
on the system) says taht I have a Novell NE2000 card. What's wrong? do I
hav
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote:
> What I need to know is, is there any magic order I need to do
> everything in? I know the last time I tried to futz with my libraries,
> my whole system *stopped* (because I "rm"ed the old libraries before
> copying in the new ones. I guess "cp" was linke
I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right. It
seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim vertical
bar across the far right of the display). This is sporadic behavior,
sometimes it "snaps" into proper alignment and sometimes it snaps out.
Is this a known b
Linux can mount Windows 95 filesystems. Ther may still be a problem with
NT filesystems, I'm not sure. It can be a client, server, or browse master
for Windows networks. It shares disks and printers. There is very limited
support for executing Windows programs under Linux.
Bruce
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