Hi Alexander, You wrote:
Alexander
Alexander Hi.
Alexander
Alexander I've recompiled the kernel, and added the loop option to
Alexander it, to make possible mounting a filesystem that is in a
Alexander standard file, instead of writing it in a disk before.
Alexander
Alexander When all was
Hi.
Some time ago, I sent a message asking someone what
are the PEX and XIE extensions for X Windows, but don't
received any reply. I don't found the answer in X
documentation, and loading or not these modules doesn't
seem to make difference in X jobs. What's the utility for
them?
Thanks in
Hi.
I've an old Trident 8900D SVGA Video Card, which works
well with X Windows, svgalib and SVGATextMode.
Problem #1:
---
The problem is that this card works only with 8 bpp in X.
The file /usr/doc/X11/README.trident say that the model
8900D can work with 16 bpp, sometimes with the
Hi.
I've recompiled the kernel, and added the loop
option to it, to make possible mounting a filesystem
that is in a standard file, instead of writing it in
a disk before.
When all was working, I tried to mount a file which is
a copy of an msdos diskette, with the proper options
in mount command
Hi.
When I've installed debian 1.2, and was presented to
the first time to dselect, I pressed enter, to use the
default options. The inn package was installed, and
there was no problem for some days.
But when was a light break, and system was off, and I
restarted them, I began to receive many
Hi.
In the file XF86Config, section module, is write
that to use joystick there is the need to load the
module xf86Jstk.so and some other things. It says
also that there is need for a device /dev/joy?, and
there is the need for kernel support for joystick.
I've a joystick port in my IDE card,
Hi.
Since I downloaded Quake, I only run it with the command
xquake. But since yesterday, when I see messages about
xf86quake, I tried this. The first time it said anything
like permission denied, as root do chmod 666 /dev/mem.
I make this, and when I tried to execute xf86quake, a
border appears
Hi.
When I run Maelstrom, all goes ok, but when the ship
appear on the screen, sometimes the program exits,
sometimes it locks (and keyboard locks too).
Some clue to this?
Thanks in advance.
Alexander Gieg
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By: Alexander Gieg
E-mail:
Hi.
I've installed the packages fdos (from bo) and
dosemu (from rex), that are reported to work
together. The installation goes ok, and I can run
the dos emulator, who boots from the FreeDOS disk,
but there is many error messages (something like
Can't find sector 1...).
When the boot stops, I
Hi.
Some days ago, I put a message asking if there is
some documentation about the new XKBD extensions to
X Windows, in place of the older xmodmap.
I don't received any reply. I *really* want to know
how I can configure my keyboard in X, with dead_keys
and all the other good things that there is
I am slowly getting around to a Debian 1.2 installation. I have been
hampered by the failure of 2 brand new Maxtor drives. Both failed during
disk optimization in preparation for backup and partitioning. Apparently a
bad batch of drives. I am now, somewhat apprehensively, ready to try again
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Alexander Gieg wrote:
I've an old Trident 8900D SVGA Video Card, which works
well with X Windows, svgalib and SVGATextMode.
Problem #1:
---
The problem is that this card works only with 8 bpp in X.
The file /usr/doc/X11/README.trident say that the model
8900D
Since I downloaded Quake, I only run it with the command
xquake. But since yesterday, when I see messages about
xf86quake, I tried this. The first time it said anything
like permission denied, as root do chmod 666 /dev/mem.
Note: chmod 666 /dev/mem is a _very_ bad idea unless you are running
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Kendrick Myatt wrote:
Okay...
I have made 3 different sets of diskettes with 3 different machines
and 3 different copies of the .bin files, but I can't get past the base 1
diskette encountering an end of file at about 1.2MB. This is *really*
starting to annoy me
How do you find which package contains a file you need to install?
The dpkg manual page says that dpkg -S searches installed packages.
That has its uses--but it's useless for finding which package you need
to install to get a specific file.
Is there a convenient/standard way to search
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Carnage wrote:
Hello Mailing List!,
I seem to be having a problem linking with the Termcap library
when specifying -ltermcap on the gcc command line.
I would recommend that you change to ncurses (-lncurses) which will move
you into a maintained library. (termcap
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Gith wrote:
Is there any reason I should set the ramdisk size to 0 ?
This is the correct value if you don't want to boot up on a ramdisk.
Luck,
Dwarf
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Daniel Stringfield writes:
A week or two ago, I wrote about an error that I got while compiling.
Well.. I fixed it.
This was with kernel-source 2.0.27
The error was on line 267 of scripts/mkdep.c
It read:
path_array[0].buffer[len] = '\0';(patth_array[0].len = len;
And I changed it to:
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Kendrick Myatt wrote:
Okay...
I have made 3 different sets of diskettes with 3 different machines
and 3 different copies of the .bin files, but I can't get past the base 1
diskette encountering an end of file at about 1.2MB. This is *really*
starting to annoy me
Daniel S. Barclay writes:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using the InfoMagic CDrom set (Dec 96) to upgrade. Here are some notes:
3) several packages have 2 versions and dselect happily installs both
versions without trying to distinguish between them. And because of the
Martin Konold writes:
Sorry I still do not get the point. Debian 1.1 never seemed to be slow to
me compared to any other distribution. Of course any broken setup you
might get by unstable/partial updates might slow down your machine to any
degree. But this still means that contradictionary to
Hi Daniel, You wrote:
Daniel
Daniel How do you find which package contains a file you need to
Daniel install?
Daniel
Daniel The dpkg manual page says that dpkg -S searches installed
Daniel packages. That has its uses--but it's useless for finding
Daniel which package you need to install to
From: Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daniel How do you find which package contains a file you need to
Daniel install?
...
The file Contents.gz is probably what you are looking for, it is
in the Debian archive in the stable or unstable directories if i am
not mistaken.
Yes. That's
OK, I'm a super newbie at Linux. I have it installed, and tried to set up a
PPP dial up threw an external modem. I think I am correct in using
/dev/ttys2 as my modem on port 3.
When I go to establish a connection it says System lacks PPP kernel
support Either I messed up the install, or I am
I'm calling for help because I really don't have time to solve
this one myself. :)
I need to compile an a.out version of the (modified) login program,
dynamically link against libc4 (obviously.)
To this end, I installed all the gizmos - aout-binutils and aout-gcc.
These programs (gcc and ld)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gregory Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marek Duszynski wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to decide on a motherboard for a dual
PPro PC to run Debian Linux.
Could anybody running (or thinking about running)
such system share their experiance with me and
possibly advice me
find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \;
alternatively you could use:
rm `find . -name TRANS.TBL`
which would have some advantages regarding speed system usage, as rm
wouldn't be called individually for each file, but rather once for all
files.
Benedikt
signoff
---
Benedikt Eric Heinen
A Happy New Year, and oh - yes - Happy Bug Hunting! ;)
due to some problems at iconnect, it took quite a while until I finally
got my Debian 1.2 CD, but - now it's here.
I used that CD to upgrade my system at home (from Debian 1.1.8), and
encountered a few problems here - one of which
Hi.
By accident, I rebooted my box with an msdog partition mounted
manually (i.e. it is not in /etc/fstab). Now, msdog can't access the
partition, and linux says the superblock is corrupt when I try to
mount it with mount -t msdos.
Is there any way to recover from this mistake or should I kiss
GOOD YEAR everyone,
After host plato is halted, I ping it from another host on the
same ethernet. Plato responds with echo replies!
Both hosts are on debian 1.2 .
Maybe something is wrong with shutdown, but except for
ethernet collisions I cannot think of any other consequences.
Ioannis
I am setting up a server in a school network that runs a squid cache
(1.1) with proxy authentication. The server is dual-homed with one
interface on the internet (56K) and functions as a simple firewall. The
server also runs dhcpd, primarily serving out pre-defined IP addresses
based upon
Does someone know of a good set of utilities for doing this? The format
is simple, just like the 1st 2 fields in /etc/passwd. I am actually
using it for a squid proxy authentication file.
Michael
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Now I have someone that wants to install a dual-boot win'95/Linux system,
but the only available hard drive space is on drive E: (a new gig drive).
Can I just set it to a boot disk in the BIOS, repartition the new drive and
pray that it works? Or do i need to install it to the C: drive?
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Changed out my access log for my apache server this morning (once a
month). Moved the current one to .0 and put an empty file in and set all
the chmod's and chown's to their right settings. But when I test it with
lynx or my web browser, nothing is written to the access.log file. I have
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Knight wrote:
OK, I'm a super newbie at Linux. I have it installed, and tried to set up a
PPP dial up threw an external modem. I think I am correct in using
/dev/ttys2 as my modem on port 3.
When I go to establish a connection it says System lacks PPP kernel
support
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alexander Gieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But when was a light break, and system was off, and I
restarted them, I began to receive many messages
like:
--
From: root
To: usenet
Subject: Boot-time Usenet warning on debian
Old .news.daily;
Eric == Eric Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric Now I have someone that wants to install a dual-boot
Eric win'95/Linux system, but the only available hard drive space
Eric is on drive E: (a new gig drive). Can I just set it to a
Eric boot disk in the BIOS, repartition the new
Gary,
FIPS runs under DOS. I have used it to install slackware on two
different platforms. It worked great for me, just make sure you
follow the directions.
FIPS should be at sunsite: /pub/???/distributions/slackware/install/FIPS
Gary Gifford wrote:
I am slowly getting around to a Debian
Hi.
Some days ago, I put a message asking if there is
some documentation about the new XKBD extensions to
X Windows, in place of the older xmodmap.
I don't received any reply. I *really* want to know
how I can configure my keyboard in X, with dead_keys
and all the other good things that
I've noticed that the Reply-To field on messages I receive from this
debian-user list contains the text of my e-mail address. Is this for
some spam filter?
My main question is this: Can I mail to debian-user@lists.debian.org
or do I have to mail to the address I see in the Reply-To field?
What's the recommended way to get a minimal resolv.conf file?
I wasn't planning on using bind, but no package other than bind seems to
provide resolv.conf.
Should I just create resolv.conf my hand, or should I get the one from the
bind package for whatever useful defaults (including
Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've started upgrading to Debian 1.2 from Slackware Pro 2.1 (yes, very old).
Given the difference in distributions and other changes in Linux, I feel
quite blind. I don't where everything is and how things work now. Also,
I'm not clear on how
Another newbie-to-recent-changes question:
What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left Control keys under
X windows?
(I used loadkeys to do that for the virtual console. In my old system,
I don't know if I forget some X customization I did, or if my old system
read the virtual console
Michael Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does someone know of a good set of utilities for doing this? The format
is simple, just like the 1st 2 fields in /etc/passwd. I am actually
using it for a squid proxy authentication file.
htpasswd
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
This is propably a point, where one should shout MAINTAINER!
I just installed new modules from 'bo'... modules 2.1.8, hoping that these
would have a new version of the modules...
What it does, is that it removes the entire directory structure of any
previous modules, and
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Bob Clark wrote:
FIPS should be at sunsite: /pub/???/distributions/slackware/install/FIPS
Make sure you get the latest version which should be fips15.zip or later.
The FIPS home page for verifying the most recent version is at
At 12:31 PM 1/1/97 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Knight wrote:
OK, I'm a super newbie at Linux. I have it installed, and tried to set up a
PPP dial up threw an external modem. I think I am correct in using
/dev/ttys2 as my modem on port 3.
When I go to establish a connection
ping response can be handled by network hardware without OS running.
Ioannis Tambouras wrote:
GOOD YEAR everyone,
After host plato is halted, I ping it from another host on the
same ethernet. Plato responds with echo replies!
Both hosts are on debian 1.2 .
Maybe something is wrong with
Hello all.
I'm getting those beloved errors from cfengine on a cron job. What's the
fix to get rid of the errors?
error message:
cfengine:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:23: parse error
cfengine::23: Warning: actionsequence is empty
cfengine::Execution terminated after parsing due to
Ouch! Still same problem.
Tried to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2 (selecting multiple items in
deselect). The install bombed, kernel panic, (probably disk space?).
I had to use the reset switch. Now no boot. The partition containing
only /var (with deb files of course) was corrupted. All
Thanks to those that responded to my problem. It is now fixed. I made
the
embarrassing mistake of having the two serial connectors back to front
on
the board. Windows 95 obviously tries both ports when looking for
hardware,
(mouse, modem). The applications were just looking at the port they were
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Chad Zimmerman wrote:
# ls -l
total 194
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root www-data0 Jan 1 10:00 access.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157626 Jan 1 09:59 access.log.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1331 Dec 20 06:42 access.log.1.gz
Chad,
Does apache do its
Did you turn off power managment in the BIOS?
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Frank Swasey wrote:
I'm trying to install on a Toshiba T2115CS, and it was working fine
yesterday, but today the lcd will not stay turned on very long at all...
I'm really not sure whether this is a hardware problem with the
I'm still fighting with diald to not gnarl the connection over ethernet,
and in the procces, I have managed to make it NEVER touch the ethernet,
so its ok, but now diald doesn't want to dial. which is not ok. is
there anyone out there that is using both a static ethernet network, and
diald?
Changed out my access log for my apache server this morning (once a
month). Moved the current one to .0 and put an empty file in and set all
the chmod's and chown's to their right settings. But when I test it with
lynx or my web browser, nothing is written to the access.log file. I have
It means exactly what it says. Every day (by default at 3:00 AM) the
maintenance script news.daily has to run. This probably hasn't happened
for some reason or the other since a couple of days.
If you fix that, the system will stop sending you mail about it..
I am waiting for my I-Connect
Now I have someone that wants to install a dual-boot win'95/Linux system,
but the only available hard drive space is on drive E: (a new gig drive).
Can I just set it to a boot disk in the BIOS, repartition the new drive and
pray that it works? Or do i need to install it to the C: drive?
You
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