experiences with /dev/md? (multiple device) drivers ?

1997-03-07 Thread lukas
Hi, Does anybody here have experience with the multiple device drivers under linux? I have a machine with two HD (2.5GB each), connected as hda and hdc, to set up. I'm contemplating whether to use th MD with striping (raid0) to join partitions and to get parallel access to both disks in a transpar

[no subject]

1997-03-07 Thread Donny
Can anyone tell me how to connect a new Debian installation to the Internet? I tried messing around with pppd but can't get it to connect. I'm also getting a "Network is unreachable" message when I try to ping any IP on the LAN. Thanks. Donny

Locate

1997-03-07 Thread Pete Poff
Hi, when I use locate I get an error. This is what I get if I type like locate . Like locate new.stuff. I get locate: /var/lib/locate/locatedb: No suck file or directory. Can anyone tell me why? And is there a command to see how much disk space I have left? Thanks,

Sz Program for Minicom

1997-03-07 Thread Pete Poff
Hi, I don't have the sz program for the minicom program so that I can download with my zmodem. I've looked around on the ftps sites and can't find the sz. Could anyone point me out to where I might be able to find it? Thanks, Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack

How to get module dependencies/configuration correct after kerne rebuild?

1997-03-07 Thread Stan Brown
How do I get the module dependinces/confgiuration straihgt after having built a new kernel where some things that were prviously modules are now in the kernel as non modules? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Auto

Re: Which OSF/Motif ?

1997-03-07 Thread Dan Irvin
-- > From: Larry Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Michael Harnois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Which OSF/Motif ? > Date: Friday, March 07, 1997 3:30 PM > > On Fri, Mar 07, 1997 at 01:33:09PM -0600, Michael Harnois wrote: > > Larry Ayers <[EMAIL PROTE

Base install probelm

1997-03-07 Thread Donny DaLee, ProSoft
Dear Scott and debian-user@lists.debian.org: I recently started trying to install Debian and have been running into problems with the base14 1-4 disks. The disks are read correctly, but when the files are extracting, I get: Segmentation fault Segmentation fault Segmentation fault I've downloade

Re: now what

1997-03-07 Thread Scott Stanley
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, MR DAVID C STEIN wrote: > So I downloaded my debian base sysetem now what do I do?? > > Where do I go??? > > Is xwindows the next thing I need?? This will depend on what you want to do and what do you want your machine to be able to do?? The most obvious options are settin

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread Brad Bell
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On 7 Mar 1997, marsh wrote: > So, is it true that there is nothing newer on the space shuttle and other > spacecraft newer than a 286? did we not all just hear about debian being on the shuttle? whatever it's running on must be newer than a 286... or h

GCC problems

1997-03-07 Thread Stan Brown
I recenty upgraded my Debian system, and now I have a problem with gcc. Here is the error message: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory If I explicity put /usr/lib/gcc inot the PATH things work. What could be wron

Re: pine producing gratuitous folder locks

1997-03-07 Thread Pete Templin
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, David C. Winters wrote: > Today, I started getting running into a problem with Pine 3.94--it began > telling me that every folder I tried accessing was locked. This persisted > even after I rebooted the machine, so I upgraded to Pine 3.95q out of the > 3.95L-7 .deb package.

XFree86 Question.

1997-03-07 Thread Klaus Hergerschiemer
I am having a bit of trouble configuring XFree86 to work with my computer. I have a NEC Ready9618 with an NEC MultiSync XV15+ monitor. The chipset on the video card is an Alliance ProMotion 6422 and it has 1 meg dram. Here's my problem. I can get the display in X to look like ev

Zimmerman case

1997-03-07 Thread Bruce Perens
Bruce: > The government dropped its case against Zimmerman long ago. From: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That is true, but he is still be "pestered" more than you and I would like > to live with. Uh, maybe. He seems to be making money on the issue. Take a look at http://www.pgp.com/pgpcorp/p

now what

1997-03-07 Thread MR DAVID C STEIN
So I downloaded my debian base sysetem now what do I do?? Where do I go??? Is xwindows the next thing I need?? Also someone showed me how to mount a floppy disk mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy How do I unmount it Where is a file that shows me basic unix commands to type at the propmt? p

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread jghasler
Carl Johnson writes: > The system did use the 286 protected mode, so it had full memory > management. You could use more than 64K of memory, but it was a pain > since you had to compile using Intel large model. And I walked 12 miles to school, uphill *both* ways :) I had (still have) an Onyx wit

Re: Which OSF/Motif ?

1997-03-07 Thread Larry Ayers
On Fri, Mar 07, 1997 at 01:33:09PM -0600, Michael Harnois wrote: > Larry Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I highly recommend the SWIM Motif from > > http://www.cheapbytes.com. It's worked really well for nearly > > all Motif apps I've tried to compile, and the price is right. > > "Nearl

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread David B. Teague
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, marsh wrote: > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think AT&T System V ever ran > on 286s. Xenix, Minix, and Coherent are the main derivatives I can think > of that ran on 286s. > > - Marsh i Marsh, Hi folks Yes, System V did indeed run on 286s. I ran Microport'

alias?

1997-03-07 Thread Bjoern Starke
Hello, how can i set the following alias "for ever"? alias down="shutdown -h now". And is this a risk for the system-security? Kind regards bjoern

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-03-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Today, RC5. Tomorrow, DES. Next > > week, Phil Zimmerman's a free man. (Oh well, we can dream...) > > The government dropped its case against Zimmerman long ago. > That is true, but he is still be "peste

Re: Which OSF/Motif ?

1997-03-07 Thread Michael Harnois
Larry Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I highly recommend the SWIM Motif from > http://www.cheapbytes.com. It's worked really well for nearly > all Motif apps I've tried to compile, and the price is right. "Nearly" is a little frightening ... what *hasn't* it worked for? -- + Michael D. H

cannot run dpkg anymore

1997-03-07 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Hi, after upgrading (successfully) to libc5_5.4.20 and ld.so_1.8.9, the commands "dpkg -l" and "dpkg -i abc.deb" fail with the error message (i'm citing from memory as my machine is not connected to a network) : dpkg : cannot resolve symbol 'sysinfo'. The command "dpkg --version" works, though.

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes: > Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and > dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken. io was merged into perl and is now obsolete. Remove io and reinstall perl. > bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory. > >

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread Jason Killen
On 7 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Marsh writes: >> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think AT&T System V ever ran >> on 286s. >From what I understand some 6300's, not 7300's, ran SV on 286's. Coherent is nice if you can get a copy. Jason KillenQuesti

Re: X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults

1997-03-07 Thread Jason Killen
I run all my xterms from the fvwm menu or the buttons so my lines look like this ""xterm" Exec exec xterm -fg lightgrey -bg black -sb &" You are correct in saying that .Xdefaults should handle this I'm not sure why it wouldn't, I use .Xdefaults to configure knews. Tell me what you f

pine producing gratuitous folder locks

1997-03-07 Thread David C. Winters
Today, I started getting running into a problem with Pine 3.94--it began telling me that every folder I tried accessing was locked. This persisted even after I rebooted the machine, so I upgraded to Pine 3.95q out of the 3.95L-7 .deb package. This resulted in the same thing--if I try to open a

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
I'm using Infomagics release from December 1996 and I've got the same problem. I found that installing the base perl system seems to work but if you upgrade it (even to the devel packages in Std) it breaks. I've installed the base perl (required) version for now and put a hold on it. I found tha

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Brian Skreeg
>When I do 'dpkg --status perl' and 'dpkg --status perl-base' it prints out the >corresponding lines: >Package: perl >Status: install ok installed >[cut] >Package: perl-base >Status: purge ok not-installed >[cut] Yep that's what I get. It's "perl" I have installed and not "perl-base" . I can't

Re: example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Ronald van Loon ) > > In a message to me, Ted Harding, you wrote: > |"( Re Message From: Lawrence Chim ) > |"> > |"> Can someone provides me an example script that insert a line > |"> of text into a text file. The line should be placed below the > |"> line section[xyz] and abo

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
I think your perl installation is messed up. Here's a small demo what happens with script files that reference a missing interpreter. First I show the shell I'm using but it's pretty much the same thing with bash. Then I show the location of the perl binary, create a small test script and give

sound module

1997-03-07 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Can anyone tell me what is the module that replaces sound.o in the 2.0.27 kernel ?? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambri

Re: X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults

1997-03-07 Thread Dima
[ cc'ed to the list ] >On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jean-Paul LACHARME wrote: > ... >> For example, it has been said that running a color Xterm (which is very conv >enient) needs only to add the line 'Xterm*customization: -color'. OK. So, I c >reated a .Xdefaults file into my home directory with this sing

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread Carl Johnson
"marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > Craig writes: > > > No Linux will ever work on an xt or a 286. They are missing neccessary > > > bits of hardware called a MMU which protects the memory. A 386SX is > the > > > minimum. > > > >

Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 09:56 AM 3/5/97 +0100, Swen Thuemmler wrote: >> It the nis documentation it says I can + and - users in the passwd file (I >> take it that it should be on the fly and it used to work with debian 0.93 >> in this case...) - however I can't seem to do this. The following two >> lines are in my /et

Re: ?Audio Group?

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Here's the listing of the files in /dev belonging to the audio group: rae:~: 18:06 >find /dev/ -group audio -ls 329580 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 18 23:55 /dev/dsp 329590 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 0 Dec 18 23:55 /dev/mixer 329600 crw-rw 1 root

Re: diald disconnect script

1997-03-07 Thread Brian Mays
Richard Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if anyone could send me a copy of their > /etc/ppp/ppp-disconnect. I'm very happy with my first few days of diald, > but it doesn't seem to be closing cleanly, as I don't have this script > installed. Without a basic script to start fro

Re: X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults

1997-03-07 Thread I Brake for Moths
I'm a little confused by your message, but have you investigated the .hook files that fvwm2 uses for configuration? Rikki On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jean-Paul LACHARME wrote: > Hi, > > I use fvwm2, and it works without real problem. Lots of desktop features are > designed within .fvwm2rc. In other

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Randy Dees
I am getting this same problem - I got it after pointing dselect from 1.2.2 at unstable. My fix is to reinstall from base disks in unstable; but I certainly understand not wanting to do this. I was ready to reinstall my system anyhow - but would like to know the answer too. > When at

Re: SVGATextMode...

1997-03-07 Thread Igor Grobman
Hi, I am the maintainer of SvgaTextMode... On Fri, 7 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > (1) Please could someone confirm that the latest version of SVGATextMode is > 1.4 > (or am I missing something out) Yes. > > (2) I seem to have a problem configuring my SVGATextMode program. For a

PPP and PAP

1997-03-07 Thread Tim Sailer
OK Folks, Here is a working /etc/ppp/options file that I have tested against the linux terminal server at buoy.com, a USR total control rack, and a portmaster PM2er. All you need to d oto start ppp is type 'pppd' as root. I will pretty this up and get it on a web page, along with a scripting login

Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi folks, I asked for help on this problem last week but since having to change addresses suddenly I didn't get any replies (you might have seen them bouncing) so here it is again. My linux box is almost unusable because of this so I look forward to some help on the matter. 1: Due

Re: X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults

1997-03-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jean-Paul LACHARME wrote: > I use fvwm2, and it works without real problem. Lots of desktop features are > designed within .fvwm2rc. In other systems, some X local features are > designed within a .Xdefaults file. I did not find any global template for > .Xdefaults in Debian

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread jghasler
Marsh writes: > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think AT&T System V ever ran > on 286s. You may be correct, but Unix did not start with System V. > Xenix, Minix, and Coherent are the main derivatives I can think of that > ran on 286s. Xenix is real licensed Unix, as is SCO. There w

X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults

1997-03-07 Thread Jean-Paul LACHARME
Hi, I use fvwm2, and it works without real problem. Lots of desktop features are designed within .fvwm2rc. In other systems, some X local features are designed within a .Xdefaults file. I did not find any global template for .Xdefaults in Debian. Nevertheless, I wonder if creating such a file

Re: Matrox Millenium

1997-03-07 Thread Clint Adams
> Does anyone out there know right off hand which chipset to choose when > configuring X for the first time with a Matrox Millenium card? mga2064, but the SVGA server will detect it automatically.

test

1997-03-07 Thread Matthew Tebbens
test

Base14 seg fault (msgId for labeling)

1997-03-07 Thread Donny DaLee, ProSoft
Hello, I recently started trying to install Debian and have been running into problems with the base14 1-4 disks. The disks are read correctly, but when the files are extracting, I get: Segmentation fault Segmentation fault Segmentation fault I've downloaded the base14 files again and created n

SVGATextMode...

1997-03-07 Thread C . J . Lawson
Hi, (1) Please could someone confirm that the latest version of SVGATextMode is 1.4 (or am I missing something out) (2) I seem to have a problem configuring my SVGATextMode program. For a start I have a cirrus Logic GP-5446 Card and this in not listed amongs the list of supported cards (XFREE doe

mount CDs ...

1997-03-07 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Jamie Taylor wrote: > > > > > How can I access my floppy and cd-rom drives? > > Also, how can I access my ms-dos partition on my hard drive? > > > I assume you have a base system installed? If you are working from the > install disk

?Audio Group?

1997-03-07 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi == I have a PC with the audio system SoundBlaster + Speakers + Sound Module As superuser I can hear the sound (xpat2, ...) but as normal users no :( Should I change the premissions in /dev/audio or ??? Thank you -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Depart

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
In a message to me, Andreas Tille, you wrote: |"> How well has nfs been implemented on the HP? |"If there is any chance to do it in different ways I'm quite sure that the |"administrator had choosen the bad way. This machine is in a terrible |"state and it seems me that to become a Server for se

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > Two things. If I remember correctly (from your previuos posts) you have > your packages on an nfs-mounted partition; and a troublesome one on an > HP machine at that. There could be many things not related to deselect > or Linux that may be affecting your sy

Re: Which OSF/Motif ?

1997-03-07 Thread Larry Ayers
On Fri, Mar 07, 1997 at 01:11:00PM +, Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2 wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations as to which > versions of Motif are any good and what the prices are. > > Thanks, > > Paul Brown > I highly recommend the SWIM Motif from http://www.cheapbyt

icmp redirect messages

1997-03-07 Thread ljk
Hi, I have a peculiar situation with two machines. On one of them, icmp redirect messages go to the kernel syslog file, on the other the messages go to the console terminal. Yet they both have identical syslog.conf files. If anyone has any ideas, they would be appreciated. Thanks much Lennard

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 7 Mar 1997, marsh wrote: > I'm not > saying that the 286 is not a superneato processor which was quite > impressive (16?, 17? ) years ago, but there is a reason that The Great One > (LT) chose the 386 for his initial experiments. So, is it true that there is nothing newer on the space shuttle

Which OSF/Motif ?

1997-03-07 Thread Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2
Hi, I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations as to which versions of Motif are any good and what the prices are. Thanks, Paul Brown

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Bob Clark
Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > > > It is "leaving" packages that were *not* installed. Things like pakages > > that were present before this instance of deselect. > This is what I read on my screen, but to leave a package which wasn't > installed should take 5-10

Re: Non-existing packages in dselect

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
You have checked the bug listings via www.debian.org or straight http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/debian-bugs/db/6210.html? I noticed this when the tex packages from both stable and unstable were shown at the same time in dselect. This happened after my upgrade from stable to unstable. When

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread marsh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Craig writes: > > No Linux will ever work on an xt or a 286. They are missing neccessary > > bits of hardware called a MMU which protects the memory. A 386SX is the > > minimum. > > The 8088 used in the XT is lacking an MMU, but the 8

Re: capture the screen

1997-03-07 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Ramiro Arenas, you wrote: > > I am using XFree86 and the window manager fwmrc95, > I need to capture the screen to send to some friends, > does anyone know how can i do that? > Install the package xwpick Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http:/

Network card driver for GE2500

1997-03-07 Thread Paulo Ramos
I would like to know if someone has this network card driver. TIA Paulo

Re: Non-existing packages in dselect

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > Yes sir, that's it. I did associate the starnge behaviour with dselect even > though it's dpkg-ftp working under the hood. I forgot to check the bugs this > time but I'm not sure if I would have found it under dpkg-ftp. > > Thanks for clearing this

Re: NT authentication drama

1997-03-07 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bruce wrote: Bruce> Bruce> Isn't this what you want? Bruce> Bruce> Bruce Bruce> Bruce> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Burke) Newsgroups: Bruce> comp.os.linux.announce Subject: Linux - NT authentication Bruce> suite Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 06:03:28 GMT Org

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Thought wrote: > Do you or does anyone else get these errors right after installing Debian? This happens if you compile a new kernel of the same version (2.0.27). Modules are copied to /lib/modules/[version], so existing modules are overwritten if you compiled them again but they aren't deleted.

Re: example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
In a message to me, Ted Harding, you wrote: |"( Re Message From: Lawrence Chim ) |"> |"> Can someone provides me an example script that insert a line |"> of text into a text file. The line should be placed below the |"> line section[xyz] and above the line blahblahblahblah. |" |"awk ' { |" print

tk script to reboot etc from xdm login screen

1997-03-07 Thread Kevin Scott
I've had several requests for this, so a post to the list seemed appropriate. My scripts are based on those posted to this list by Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Monday 7th October 1996 (subject: " Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?"). I've modified them considerably for use at our sit

Re: Procmail

1997-03-07 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote: > \sstanley, "|/home/mustang/grad/sstanley/bin/procmail -f- VERBOSE=on" > > The first \sstanley just makes sure the mail is copied directly to my > inbox before trying to run it through procmail. Otherwise, I think it

Re: SOCKS5 Compilation troubles

1997-03-07 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
> I am trying to compile Socks5 on a Debian Linux box, kernel 2.0.24, but it > fails to succeed. It complains the lack of following files: [...] Are you sure you've done your configuration completely - I compiled socks5 on my system a couple of weeks ago without any problems (and without manuall

Re: capture the screen

1997-03-07 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Ramiro Arenas wrote: > I am using XFree86 and the window manager fwmrc95, > I need to capture the screen to send to some friends, > does anyone know how can i do that? Run xv (non-free Debian section, as far as I remember), press right mouse button, press `Grab' button... Vad

Re: csh

1997-03-07 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: > Hi, > on what ftp site can I get the csh shell and what file name is it > called. For debian, you may get tcsh from any debian mirror in the directory shells (it's, of course, called csh). I'm using (and maintaining) tcsh, but I also have csh for s

Re: example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Lawrence Chim ) > > Can someone provides me an example script that insert a line > of text into a text file. The line should be placed below the > line section[xyz] and above the line blahblahblahblah. awk ' { print $0 ; if ( $0 == "section[xyz]" ) { print "new line of tex

Re: color xterm

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
|"> XTerm*customization: -color |" ^^^ |" |"Interesting. Where did you find information on that resource? (It's |"apparently not in the manual page.) It's a global Intrinsics resource. Maybe it is in the general X server page. It works for other programs too. If you have a pro

Re: 2.0.29 freezing

1997-03-07 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > WARNING/DISCLAIMER: This could cause your hard disk to become > corrupt, make your monitor explode, burn your CPU, etc... etc... > To minimize risks, umount or remount ro all your partitions if > possible (well, you must keep one rw to do the ftp...)

Re: Matrox Millenium

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
There are two things you might want to do. First check http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html for the info about XFree86 Matrox server. This info is made by the authors of the Matrox code in XF86_SVGA server. The second is that you should try XF86Setup which comes with the xserver-vga1

2.0.29 freezing

1997-03-07 Thread Philippe Troin
I'm posting the problem here to see if someone can reproduce it: I found that running simultaneously the serial and floppy driver causes 2.0.29 to freeze badly. To cause the bug: start a ftp session somewhere, and download a file (transmission speed must be high, so get a fast server)

Matrox Millenium

1997-03-07 Thread Thought
Does anyone out there know right off hand which chipset to choose when configuring X for the first time with a Matrox Millenium card?

Imagine 128

1997-03-07 Thread Dark Lord of Sith
I'm running an Imagine 128 video card and I'm having a terrible time finding good graphics setting. If anyone knows good resolution / refresh settings please let me know. The defaults with the 128 server just don't work right. Oh, I run an NEC Multisync monitor so that shouldn't be t

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread Thought
Do you or does anyone else get these errors right after installing Debian? I would imagine that at least for the first day or so most everything would be error free and ready to go, but maybe not? The only thing I can think of that would cause ME to have these errors and nobody else would be that

example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
Firstly, I am not a script expert and I only know how to write a little script file to execute a batch of commands. Can someone provides me an example script that insert a line of text into a text file. The line should be placed below the line section[xyz] and above the line blahblahblahblah. -

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > It is "leaving" packages that were *not* installed. Things like pakages > that were present before this instance of deselect. This is what I read on my screen, but to leave a package which wasn't installed should take 5-10 seconds?? That's the time it takes

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Thought wrote: > Whenever I run /sbin/depmod -a, I get the following errors: > > > and on and on and on for about 100 more lines... What should I do about > that? (Oh, and other than /sbin/depmod -a, I followed all of the steps > you mentioned in the previous reply to the

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Kael Rowan - CPTS666 wrote: > 3c59x ether_setup: wrong version or undefined > register_netdev: wrong version or undefined > dev_kfree_skb: wrong version or undefined > dev_alloc_skb: wrong version or undefined > eth_type_trans: wrong version or undefined > netif_rx: wrong ver

Re: capture the screen

1997-03-07 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 07 Mar 1997 00:26:35 GMT Ramiro Arenas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am using XFree86 and the window manager fwmrc95, > I need to capture the screen to send to some friends, > does anyone know how can i do that? Two methods: 1) Basic one. Use xwd and xwud. Read the manpages first. The

Re: XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to > > be slower ? > > > [stuff deleted] > > > > Has anoyone had a similar experience ? > > > I noticed that my C

Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: > William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > : Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and > : libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging > : system, one with and one without X support? > >

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread Thought
Whenever I run /sbin/depmod -a, I get the following errors: *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.27/misc/atixlmouse.o *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.27/misc/busmouse.o *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.27/misc/icn.o *** Unresolved symbols in module /

Q: Will Digital HiNote run Linux

1997-03-07 Thread John Plate
Hi Does anybody knows if the Digital HiNote (laptop) VP 535 can run the Debien Linux? Thanks in advance. John -- John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Procmail

1997-03-07 Thread Scott Stanley
I know this isn't strictly a debian related issue, but since I am trying to sort the mail from this list I had hoped someone might be able to help. I am trying to get procmail set up on an HP workstation (no root access). I have managed to get a .procmailrc file worked out, and I think I am c

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread Scott Stanley
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Kael Rowan - CPTS666 wrote: > I just installed a fresh version of Debian 1.2 on my Pentium 166 with > hardly any modifications to the recommended setup in dselect, (except I > chose to install the kernel source), and I just recompiled the kernel > using it's default options alm

Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread Kael Rowan - CPTS666
I just installed a fresh version of Debian 1.2 on my Pentium 166 with hardly any modifications to the recommended setup in dselect, (except I chose to install the kernel source), and I just recompiled the kernel using it's default options almost exactly (except no SCSI support, etc), and keep getti

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread Scott Stanley
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, William Chow wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: > > > > > Like, dselect is a great and easy tool, but there is no manpage for it... > > Dselect is pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it, but it needs to > be a bit better before I call it a great an

Re: Problem with TERMCAP in Xfree86

1997-03-07 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2 wrote: > > > I've got Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 installed and working and have > > installed XFree86. It is working fine except for when it comes to > > displaying an xterm it says that is cannot find a usable TERMC

capture the screen

1997-03-07 Thread Ramiro Arenas
I am using XFree86 and the window manager fwmrc95, I need to capture the screen to send to some friends, does anyone know how can i do that?

INND

1997-03-07 Thread Solomani
Setting up innd im at the point where i have to convert a news.active file into our loacl active file. The readme says i do this by typing teh following; perl -ne 's/ \d+ \d+ / 00 01 /' >active Assuming that 'active' is the resulting master file INND will use, and active.au is t

Re: XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-07 Thread Paul Seelig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to > be slower ? > [stuff deleted] > > Has anoyone had a similar experience ? > I noticed that my Cirrus Logic 5426-VLB is slower in redrawing the screen and dra

Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-07 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] : Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and : libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging : system, one with and one without X support? There shouldn't be. Which version of vim do you have installe

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IPX/Apple talk tip

1997-03-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
I recall someone mentioning a similar problem to mine. I recomined the kernel and excluded IPX and Appletalk totally, erased their modeles form usr/lib/modules, but kerneld insisted of still trying to load them Anyhow, from a usenet post the fix is: alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off In /etc/

Can linux be my answering machine??

1997-03-07 Thread Jason Killen
Does anyone know if there are any programs that let linux act like an answering machine. Just a thought. Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread Jim
On 5 Mar 1997, David Stein wrote: > Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run > on an xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated. Take a peek at Minix: ftp.cs.vu.nl:/pub/minix www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html I had it running on a 1

Re: Minicom again

1997-03-07 Thread Britton
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: > Hi, > the problem I am having is this. When I try to download, it > gives the message, Press any key to download or Alt-C to quit. I do and > it lagges for about 1-2 minutes, then goes back to the site I was on. I > check to see if the file

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